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Octopus Apollo VCT plc is a venture capital trust specializing in development and expansion investments in smaller unquoted companies. The fund invests in small and medium sized companies in the United Kingdom. It typically invests in companies with debt investment values between £1 million ($1.64 million) and £2 million ($3.29 million). The fund primarily invests in the form of a secured loan using various unquoted investment instruments, including ordinary and preference shares, loan stocks, and convertible securities. It seeks to hold its investments from three to seven years. The fund primarily seeks to exit its investments through trade sale. It seeks to appoint either a director or a formal observer to the board of each investee company. It held uninvested funds in cash and money market funds. The fund seeks to make maximum investment of £1 million ($1.64 million) in a fiscal year in one company and generally no more than 15 percent of the fund's assets, at cost, will be invested in the same company.