Limelight Capital · Services for equity
We back companies with work, not cheques.
We place our team on your company the way a fund places money: research, strategy, brand and engineering, in return for a stake.
Why work, not cheques
Early on, the work is what’s scarce.
Knowing it’s worth building. A brand people trust. A product that ships. That’s what most young companies are short of, and it’s exactly what we do every day. So that’s what we put in.
01ValidateResearch the product and the market before anything is built.
02PositionThe idea worth standing for, and a brand to carry it.
03BuildProduct design and the code to ship it.
04ReachThe campaigns that bring the first customers in.
Who we back
People with a unique perspective on a problem worth solving.
A problem worth solvingReal people have it, and it costs them something today.
A perspective others don’t haveYou see the problem from somewhere most people can’t.
The commitment to see it throughYou’re in it for the long run, and so are we.
For founders
How it works.
- 01ApplyTell us what you’re building, and why you’re the one to build it.
- 02We meetWe get to know you and the problem, and test the idea together.
- 03We agreeIf we believe in it, we agree the work we’ll do and the stake it’s worth.
- 04We do the workOur team works on your company, stage by stage, alongside you.
For funds and foundations
Endow a cohort.
Fund the work for the companies you back. We do the research, the brand and the engineering on your behalf, and report at every stage.
You fund a cohortA set number of companies, for a set period.
→We agree the companiesChosen together, for the outcomes you’re funding.
→We do the workOur team on each company, stage by stage.
→We reportAt every stage, on the work and what it moved.