Real estate creditClosed
Billion-pound forward-flow funding capacity
Uncapped institutional funding lines, structured and placed for UK specialist real estate lenders.
Strategic advisory and investment · London
The growth of tomorrow comes from that which is created today.
We advise founders and private company owners on strategy, structure and capital. We invest our own money in selected companies and help them secure funding from others, drawing on experience from trading floors, investment committees, company boardrooms and institutional funding deals.
Counsel and capital from every side of the table.
Advice and capital, under one roof.
We advise. We invest our own capital. And when a deal isn’t the right fit for us, we connect you with the investors and lenders it does suit.
For founders
Test the idea. Then fund it.
A First Look pressure-tests your business the way an investor would. Founders with a strong case can receive investment from High Elm. Where we aren’t the right investor, we introduce you to those who are.
- Advice
- Investment
- Introductions
Counsel and capital that stay with you.
Senior advice on strategy, growth and fundraising for established private companies. When the opportunity is right, High Elm invests alongside you. When it suits other investors better, we make the introductions.
- Advice
- Investment
- Capital raising
Finance from £250k to £100m+.
We arrange the finance. Borrowers get matched to the right lender for the project, and lenders get introduced to new sources of capital.
- Arrangement
- Debt finance
- Funding lines
Billion-poundUK lending capacity, uncapped by design
£250k–£100m+real estate finance per transaction
Two routesto funding: High Elm’s own capital, and its network’s
One pagethe written assessment every founder leaves with
In brief
Counsel from every side of the table.
The greatest idea in the world can be meaningless without a market to use it. Having sat in every seat, from the trading floor to the boardroom, we bridge that gap and help our companies to tread the right path.
Richard McNally, Founder & Managing Director
Track record
Real transactions. Current portfolio.
A selection of the firm’s current deals and portfolio companies, from institutional funding lines to early-stage ventures.
VentureSeed to growth
A 15-company venture portfolio
Companies our founder has backed and helped build from seed onwards, across consumer, fintech, software and data.
Consumer services2017
Logistics-led on-demand garment care
App-based collection and delivery, backed at seed in London and since grown internationally.
Fintech2025
AI-driven credit decisioning for UK lending
A UK venture bringing a proven Asian credit-decisioning platform to British lenders.