Don’t invest unless you’re prepared to lose all the money you invest. You are unlikely to be protected if something goes wrong. Take 2 minutes to learn more.

Key Risks

FCA Mandatory Risk Warning & Risk Summary

Risk Warning

Don’t invest unless you’re prepared to lose all your money invested. This is a high-risk investment. You could lose all the money you invest and are unlikely to be protected if something goes wrong. Take 2 minutes to learn more.

Risk Summary

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Due to the potential for losses, this investment is considered to be high risk.

What are the key risks?

You could lose all the money you invest
Investments made by Force Over Mass’s EIS Fund will be in shares in early-stage businesses. Investors in these shares often lose 100% of the money they invested, as many early-stage businesses fail.

You are unlikely to be protected if something goes wrong
Protection from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), in relation to claims against failed regulated firms, does not cover poor investment performance. Try the FSCS investment protection checker here.

Protection from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) does not cover poor investment performance. If you have a complaint against an FCA-regulated firm, FOS may be able to consider it.Learn more about FOS protection here

You won’t get your money back quickly
Even if the businesses the Fund invests your money in are successful, it may take several years to get your money back.

The most likely way to get your money back is if the businesses invested in by the Fund are bought by another business or list their shares on an exchange such as the London Stock Exchange. These events are not common.

Early-stage businesses very rarely pay you back through dividends. You should not expect to get your money back this way.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Putting all your money into a single business or type of investment is risky. Spreading your money across different investments makes you less dependent on any one to do well.

A good rule of thumb is not to invest more than 10% of your money in high-risk investments. Find out more here.

The value of your investment can be reduced
The percentage of each investee company that the Fund owns will decrease if the business issues more shares. This could mean that the value of your investment in each investee company reduces, depending on how much the business grows. Most early-stage businesses issue multiple rounds of shares.

These new shares could have additional rights that your shares don’t have, such as the right to receive a fixed dividend, which could further reduce your chances of getting a return on your investment.

Tax advantages not guaranteed
Whilst it is the Fund’s intention to invest in companies qualifying under EIS legislation, Force Over Mass Capital LLP cannot guarantee that all investments will qualify for EIS relief (or IHT relief) or, indeed, if they do initially, that they will continue to do so throughout the life of the investment.

The tax advantages of investing through the Fund are therefore not guaranteed. The tax treatment depends on the individual circumstances of each investor and may be subject to change in the future.

If you are interested in learning more about how to protect yourself, visit the FCA’s website.

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We support exceptional founders throughout their scaling journey, leveraging funding expertise and global relationships. We back contrarians, because we are contrarians.

Over the past decade, FOM has invested in over 150 world-class teams building legendary products. We are a group of operators, founders, and technologists utilizing our networks and expertise to support the next generation of exceptional founders.

How we are different

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Having collectively scaled and managed multiple teams across various verticals, including product, sales, engineering, and strategy, we are uniquely positioned to offer entrepreneurs expert practical support where needed.

Our work has enabled us to build a strong community of friends, colleagues and fellow tech enthusiasts. Our value lies in the balance between a human-centric and technology-driven approach to investing, whether that’s leveraging our unique dataset and platform to access to key company insights, or providing referrals to some of our friendly funds. We are here to support our founders.

In collaboration with Floww and the London Stock Exchange Group, FOM invests through a distinctive custody and legal framework. This approach substantially diminishes the friction and costs linked to primary and secondary transactions while crucially preserving full control for the founder and/or investor.

The journey to success can be unpredictable, which is why our new FOM funds concentrate on alleviating the liquidity constraints that presently prevail in the market.

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To ensure we capture the key elements of your pitch, we use Floww to digest all pitch material. Don’t worry, everything that you share remains completely private and sets you up in the best possible light while being reviewed by our team. Please submit your pitch here.

If there's a match, you can expect to meet with multiple team members as part of our due diligence process. We don’t like wasting time – we have a concise, informative, and transparent process from the get-go.

Once you become part of the FOM family, we are committed to providing as much support as you need. This may include strategic guidance on effectively scaling your product team or an introduction to one of our friendly funds down the road.

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