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Sturgeon Stories

20 Years of Stories from some of
Sturgeon's clients

How Sarah Whitehead found us,
now Head of Legal

Enterprising Women of the Year 2013

Seonaid talks about her entrepreneurial journey and the birth of Sturgeon Ventures

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A very exciting development – FCA launches Permanent Digital Sandbox

Sturgeon Ventures
July 25, 2023

Sturgeon Ventures recently read that the FCA has launched a permanent Digital Sandbox for those involved in a variety of related themes, including – banking, payments, pensions and wholesale sell and buy-sides.

HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter Annual Review 2022 publication

Sturgeon Ventures
March 22, 2023

Sturgeon Ventures is pleased to share the latest press release from The Women in Finance Charter Annual Review 2022 and proud to say it has been a signatory to the Charter since its inception in July 2016.

The Evolution of Mid-market Sustainability-linked Loans

Sturgeon Ventures
March 14, 2023

Sturgeon Ventures likes to share great articles on important topics for our industry. See below for a recent article from Osborne Clarke on the issues around sustainable ESG performance or specific ESG-linked activities.

Sturgeon Ventures Start-up Consultancy of year year 2023

Start-up Compliance Consultancy Firm of the Year – UK

Sturgeon Ventures
February 19, 2023

Sturgeon Ventures are pleased to announce that they have won the recent Lawyers Worldwide Awards 2023 for Start-up Compliance Consultancy Firm of the Year – UK.

Sturgeon Ventures 25 years . Regulatory Incubator

Sturgeon Ventures celebrates 25 years

Sturgeon Ventures
February 14, 2023

Sturgeon Ventures celebrates 25 years with Seonaid (pronounced Shona) Mackenzie FCSI as the advisor to a Single Family Office investing as a venture catalyst and incubator of private companies.

Regulatory Incubation – Regulatory Hosting is set to boom in the UK in 2023

Sturgeon Ventures
January 11, 2023

Why you might ask? BREXIT is long behind us. The FCA and UK Treasury Review of the Appointed Representative Regime behind us. What if you are looking to set up in London or Berlin from the US or Canada?

FCA Update on Trading Names for FCA Regulated Firms

Sturgeon Ventures
October 25, 2022

An important update that was issued in October 2022 from the FCA on Trading names can be used by FCA Regulated Firms.

Sturgeon Ventures highlights acronyms that may have passed you by in recent months – CTPs

Sturgeon Ventures
August 16, 2022

Critical Third Parties (CTPs) is a term used regularly by Financial Services companies in relation to Outsourcing, continuing from their work on Operational Resilience last year.

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Sturgeon Ventures celebrates 25 years

Sturgeon Ventures celebrates 25 years with Seonaid (pronounced Shona) Mackenzie FCSI as the advisor to a Single Family Office investing as a venture catalyst and incubator of private companies. Sturgeon Ventures became the pioneer of Regulatory Incubation in 2001 having coined the phrase Regulatory Incubator – the service of incubating people as approved persons – with particular focus on individuals in start-up ventures and those moving to the UK from overseas in financial services. Sturgeon then went on to pioneer the use of the Appointed Representative firm in the wholesale market in 2003. The Sturgeon team have always had a hybrid work from home model and to date its management team continues to be 50%+ women. Sturgeon Ventures, who is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK and is an SEC registered Investment Advisor in the USA, incubates companies and individuals in financial services across 4 pillars: investment management long only and alternatives both open and closed ended; Discretionary Portfolio Management (DFM) to Single Managed Accounts and Multi Family Offices, both liquid and illiquid mandates; corporate finance for selling and buying stakes in companies or issuing new shares; and consultancy services for numerous financial services businesses moving from overseas to the UK or newly established UK businesses.