The requirement to have at least £50,000 in investment funds to apply for an Innovator visa has been removed as at 13 April 2023.
The information below is for legacy purposes only.
Applicants must prove where they got their funding from.
There are limited circumstances in which an applicant need not evidence investment funds such as:
- the business is already established and has been endorsed as part of an earlier innovator visa; or
- the innovator has changed their business and already agreed it with their endorsing body.
Applicants can form a team with other Innovator visa applicants, but they cannot share the same investment funds, each team member must have £50,000 available for investment, e.g. a team of 2 Innovator applicants must show £100,000 in funds available to invest.