Alias of Serviceable Available Market
Scale refers to increasing revenue quicker than costs. Companies can scale in several ways. For example, a business may try to find market gaps or adopt new technologies.
A secondary sale occurs when an existing stockholder sells their existing shares to a third party (rather than new shares being issued).
Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, or “SEIS”, is a government scheme offering tax-efficient benefits to investors. It offers investors better benefits than EIS, but is limited to £500K of investment per company.
See also: Enterprise Investment SchemeSeed Investment, or Seed Funding, is the funds raised at the beginning of a business's journey to get enough money to develop an idea for a new product or idea.
Alias of Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme
SEIS1 is a compliance form statement that investors send to HMRC to allow them to claim SEIS tax relief.
SEIS3 is a certificate for investors containing vital information about their investment in a business with the SEIS scheme.
Series A funding is a start-up business's initial venture capital-raising round.
Series B funding is a secondary material fundraising stage for businesses that have already been through a Series A round.
Series funding refers to the different stages of raising finance from venture capitalists or private equity investors for a start-up, after seed investments.
Serviceable Available Market, SAM, is the market part that a business can get.
See also: SOM TAMServiceable Obtainable Market, SOM, is a metric that provides a realistic indicator of what part of the market a company can realistically get in 3 to 5 years.
See also: SAM TAMThe SH01 is a legal form that UK companies must submit to Companies House when they issue new shares.
The SH02 is a form companies file with Companies House to notify them that a share sub-division or consolidation has occurred.
See also: Share splitAlias of Social Investment Tax Relief
Alias of Serviceable Obtainable Market
A Special Purpose Vehicle, or “SPV”, is a company created for a specific purpose. For example, it could hold a trading group’s intellectual property rights, or an office premises. Providers include Odin and Vauban.
Alias of Special Purpose Vehicle
A company owned and/or controlled by another company. The company that owns the subsidiary is called a holding, or parent, company.
Sweat equity is the non-monetary contribution business stakeholders put into the business.
A syndicate is a group of people or organisations that comes together to execute a project or for business purposes.
Social Investment Tax Relief, or “SITR”, is the UK government's tax relief scheme designed to encourage investors to support social enterprises. SITR also supports social enterprises in getting new funding sources. Social enterprises eligible include charities and community businesses.