Finance Wales

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Finance Wales plc

Type	Public limited company
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Cardiff, Wales, UK
Key people	Ian Johnson – Chairman Sian Lloyd Jones - Chief Executive
Industry	Financial services
Employees	100 (approximate)
Parent	Welsh Assembly Government (formerly WDA)
Subsidiaries	xénos
Website	www.financewales.co.uk www.xenos.co.uk

Finance Wales is a public limited company that provides commercial funding solutions to SMEs in Wales. The company specialises in early stage funding, growth capital, expansion and acquisition, succession planning, MBOs and MBIs. The company manages funds of over £100m and works with both private and public sector organisations including banks and private investors on larger, syndicated deals.

Finance Wales has offices throughout Wales, with headquarters in Cardiff.

[edit] xénos

xénos, Wales' business angel network is a subsidiary of Finance Wales plc. It provides Welsh businesses the opportunity to network with private investors. Since its formation in 1997, xénos has facilitated more than £2.1m of investments in the Welsh economy.[1]

[edit] Investments

Finance Wales has invested £75m in more than 1600 Welsh SMEs. Some notable deals the company has been involved in include: howies[2], Enfis[3], Inetec[4], Trace[5] and the Bluestone[6] development in Pembrokeshire.