Each investor must establish their own qualifying capital and the other applicable conditions. A company-wide total is not a substitute for the individual investment account.
Identify the applicant’s actual contribution
Compare ownership, subscription terms and transfers rather than allocating the entire account balance to one person. If funds belong to another owner or lender, preserve that distinction. The relevant capital amount depends on the qualifying case and filing-date rules, not the enterprise’s preference for a combined presentation.
The lawful-source requirement then follows the money back through the donors, which is why gifted-funds cases are usually longer files than self-funded ones: two sets of tax records, two sets of asset histories, two sets of bank statements. The statute requires engagement in the management of the enterprise, whether through day-to-day managerial control or through policy formulation, and the usual vehicle is a limited partnership interest or a limited liability company membership carrying rights that satisfy that test. In a regional-centre project the economic model can count indirect and induced jobs; in a direct case only the new commercial enterprise's own full-time employees count, so the machine shop must reach ten qualifying positions itself.