### Our Mission. Our mission is to mitigate the risks of investing in startups and make it more accessible to experienced and first-time investors alike; to give fledgling businesses with world-changing ideas the support they need to succeed and to truly capture the return potential of the UK startup market. ### What do we do? We’re a venture capital firm that uses data and diversification to maximise return potential. To do this we created the [Access EIS fund](/invest): a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in startups that co-invests with the business angels we’ve identified as the top performing in the UK to gain access to the most promising investment opportunities. Access then builds a portfolio large enough to capture the annual growth in the UK startup market. ### Our data. We spent two years indexing and analysing the UK’s startup and scale-up market using data from Companies House and other sources. Our findings uncovered that the market as a whole consistently grows at around 28%, but that there are a subset of investors whose returns far exceed the market. You can read the full description of our data analysis and how it led to the creation of Access in [our whitepaper](https://files.syndicateroom.com/fund-docs/Access-EIS-white-paper.pdf).

### The super angels. Our research on the UK startup market and its investors identified a group of angel investors who consistently outperformed the market. As a group these angels, who we have dubbed the “super angels”, averaged 42% year on year portfolio growth, not including any tax reliefs they may have received from EIS, demonstrating an ability to consistently invest in companies with high potential. You can [read more about our super angels here](/invest/angel-investors).