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First sale and leaseback transaction undertaken, ultimately raising more than £2.5bn

Ingenious Ventures launches first Private Equity fund in partnership with UBS, investing in companies across the music, television, live events and video games sectors including festival producers Cream and 19 Entertainment, producers of Pop Idol and American Idol

Inside Track Productions launches a brand new business model allowing investors to participate in the production and exploitation of major independent and studio films, ultimately raising more than £370m

Ingenious advises Robbie Williams on ground-breaking 360 EMI deal

Ingenious becomes proud sponsor of the Young Vic Theatre Company

Ingenious advises on sale of 19 Entertainment, producer of Pop Idol and American Idol, to US content company CKX for £100m

Ingenious Film Partners launches, raising almost £700m

Ingenious Broadcasting launches, producing and developing high quality television content

Ingenious VCTs back artists in the music industry

Launch of Ingenious Media Active Capital, a £150m listed media fund, to invest in progressive, growth media companies such as Taste of London and Top Gear Live

£1.5bn raised through Ingenious Film Partners 2, producing films with 20th Century Fox, NBC Universal, New Line/Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, Walden Media and a number of independent producers

Launch of Ingenious Games, a fully-integrated, diversified games business designed for individual investors, raising more than £50m

Big Screen Productions launches allowing UK companies to invest in the production of major studio films, ultimately raising £865m

Ingenious VCTs back new London-based music festivals, Field Day and Rewind

Ingenious backs Avatar, the highest ever grossing film at the box office at $2.8bn

Support and sponsorship of the National Film and Television School begins

Shelley Media launches, ultimately raising £420m into companies developing and producing independent film and television programmes

Ingenious and Fox Searchlight launch venture to produce and distribute British films

Ingenious-backed Love Supreme Jazz Festival is launched, receiving rave reviews including five stars from the Guardian newspaper

Ingenious-backed Life of Pi grosses over £600m and wins 4 Academy Awards®

Ingenious sells investment in Cream to Live Nation

Ingenious-backed The Fall airs and becomes BBC2’s highest rated new drama

Ingenious Infrastructure closes its third renewable energy fund bringing cumulative capital deployment to £86m in UK solar, wind and AD projects

Launch of Ingenious Estate Planning to deliver investment income from asset-backed lending

Golden Square Energy joint venture is formed with AG Renewables, building a portfolio of solar and wind assets valued at over £220m

Ingenious-backed AMY becomes the UK’s highest grossing documentary of all time

Ingenious acquires 35% of Whizz Kid Entertainment, television producer and creator of BAFTA winning Ex on the Beach

Ingenious enters into new real estate joint venture to develop residential property

Ingenious-backed Golden Square Energy enters joint venture with Solas Éireann to develop 100MW of solar PV in Ireland

Ingenious-backed Carol and Brooklyn between them achieve 6 Golden Globe, 15 BAFTA and 9 Academy Awards® nominations

Ingenious Infrastructure signs joint venture with specialist AD operator, committed to developing a £100m pipeline of AD projects

Equity stake is acquired in newly opened Bridge Theatre, the first London theatre to be built in 80 years

Ingenious Real Estate completes its two biggest deals to date: £32m for the redevelopment of the Honey Monster site in Southall and £18m to develop a luxury waterside development in Bristol

Launch of Ingenious Infrastructure Ventures fund investing in companies harnessing new solutions in renewable energy generation, low carbon transportation, resource efficiency and infrastructure construction

Launch of new initiative to partner with leading businesses in Asia

Ingenious joint venture completes development of 130MW solar project in Western Australia and exits to Chinese-owned Risen Energy

Ingenious sells investment in Whizz Kid Entertainment to eOne

Launch of Education Advisory Board

Ingenious enters into new residential real estate joint venture with Titan Property Developments

Ingenious-backed Mindful Education wins Start-Up Learning Provider of the Year at the 2018 Learning Awards

Renée Zellweger wins all major awards for Best Actress for her performance as the eponymous singer Judy Garland in Ingenious-backed Judy, including the Academy Award and BAFTA

Ingenious Infrastructure successfully develops and exits three CNG stations in the UK

Mindful Education’s Level 2 Accounting course is awarded Study Resource of the Year at the PQ Awards

Ingenious-backed Mindful Education awarded EdTech Company of the Year at the UK Business Tech Awards and Best Use of Technology in Learning award at the TJ Awards

Ingenious reacts quickly to the global pandemic to protect investors’ interests and support investee companies to operate safely in line with government guidelines

Three Ingenious-backed films feature in the top 5 independent films released in the US, with Ingenious-backed Unhinged being the first major film to be released in US cinemas as they reopened during the recovery from the pandemic

Ingenious-backed Mindful Education included in prestigious EdTech 50 for the second time

£22m is fully deployed by Infrastructure Ventures EIS into the infrastructure of tomorrow

Ingenious Real Estate becomes the first alternative investor to join the UK Green Building Council, a charity committed to a more sustainable built environment

Ingenious strikes new finance facility to support further growth of Ingenious Real Estate

Ingenious Infrastructure supports one of the UK’s largest tomato growing greenhouses with carbon capture and energy efficiency services

Ingenious Infrastructure exits its Irish solar development, 130MW of installed solar capacity to Neoen, a renewable energy company headquartered in France

Ingenious Real Estate back the UK’s largest sustainable residential development,  the Climate Innovation District in Leeds

Ingenious-backed Mindful Education wins three awards: EdTech Company of the Year at the Global Business Tech Awards 2021, the Design, Content Creation and Video category at the Learning Excellence Awards and Best Study Resource at the PQ Magazine awards