Cass Entrepreneurship Fund makes first investment
May 20, 2010
The Cass Entrepreneurship Fund, a new £10m investment fund providing finance for start-up and early stage companies across the Cass Business School community, has made its first investment in corporate reputation analysis firm Alva.
- The funding round of £675,000 was led by Cass alongside a group of angel investors
- These included Charles Lewington, Managing Director of hanover and Andrew Vickerman, the former Global Head of Communications and External Relations at Rio Tinto Plc
- The Cass Entrepreneurship Fund forms part of the Peter Cullum Centre for Entrepreneurship
- Alva is a company that specialises in analysing corporate reputation and reputational risk, founded by Cass MBA alumni Alberto Lopez-Valenzuela and Richard Fleming
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