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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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The Semi-Liquid Fund

Re-inventing venture

After years of development, we have structured a new set of funds that incorporate innovative secondaries-by-design features. Venture Capital investors are no longer subject to extremely long lock-up periods. Our funds enable pockets of liquidity and auction-style approaches by facilitating the exchange of underlying positions, all while remaining private under a proprietary walled-garden architecture. To the common eye, investing in our funds is no different from any other Venture Capital fund. Upon closer inspection of the inner workings, our investors discover a fund that is simple yet deconstructed for enhanced exchangeability.

Unravelling the Contractual Complexities

We are no longer bound by an intricate web of contractual agreements between the investor, the fund manager, the custodian, the payment agent, and the administrator.

By deconstructing the components into independent elements, we enable the LP, the GP, or both to take profits and pass on their positions without repercussions on the handling of carried interest, management fees, and other governance elements.

Secondaries by Design

Shortened Duration

Pension Fund Compatible

All our Funds embed secondaries by design, removing all friction impeding liquidity. Governance is captured and managed on a tradeable managed certificate.

Benefit from access to additional exit opportunities earlier in the life of the investment with the upcoming liquidity ventures of Floww and London Stock Exchange Group.

Force Over Mass can dynamically manage positions on behalf of its investors. Select your asset allocation composition, let us dynamically manage your portfolio, and adjust your positions to any desired risk-return metrics.

Key Benefits

Higher Returns, Lower Risk

Our unique structure reduces the liquidity premium by shortening the expected duration of the investment.

More Processing Power, Faster Decisions

We have completely automated every aspect of Venture Capital. With the help of infrastructure player Floww (same Founder), we review thousands of additional companies a year without the need to increase human capital.

How It Works

Structure

We have financially-engineered an entirely new structure from the ground up, enabling us to deconstruct the traditional fund. We created a tradeable instrument in which we capture all investor rights on a certificate, including the right to data access. With our private market depositary receipt, each certificate represents a share of the underlying asset that can be globally traded.

The certificates are held in custody by Floww Trust Company Limited (FTCL) on the BNY Mellon Custody Platform and are governed by the FCA and the JFSC.

Trading

The certificate can be exchanged with the original (untradeable) certificate at any point in time, with all tax benefits, such as EIS, retained.

FOM funds are built on Floww’s financial infrastructure, enabling direct access to Floww's upcoming secondary market facility and London Stock Exchange’s upcoming ITV (Intermittent Trading facility).