Financial Controller at Mercia Ventures
Check size: Mercia Ventures does not publish a single standard check-size range across its managed funds.
Ben Carless is listed in a Financial Controller capacity at Mercia Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as shared organizational context.
This is not presented as a direct investor role. Use Mercia Ventures's official fundraising channel and address an investment-team member; the firm's published pitch context is: Show team quality, technology or product differentiation, commercial evidence, UK footprint, capital milestones and the specialist support needed.
Strong management teams, differentiated intellectual property or products, evidence of customer demand and the potential to build significant UK companies.
No formal pass list is public. Companies outside the mandate of Mercia's managed funds or without a venture-scale UK growth case may be less aligned.