MMC VC – Venture Capital
Types/sectors – Advertising, E-Commerce, Mobile Stages of investing – Seed, Early Stage, Later Stage, and Private Equity History – Founded in 2000 Fund value – £110 million Founders and partners – Bruce Macfarlane, Alan Morgan Notable investments, and value – MUBI $15M Series D,Opal Labs $8M Series A,Gousto $8.3M Series A Headquarters – London, United…
Read moreMidven Venture Capital – VC
Types/sectors – Software, Games, Health Care Stages of investing – Seed, Early Stage, Later Stage, and Private Equity History – Started in 1990 when six Midlands based entrepreneurs established the business.The Company went through a management buy-out in October 2007, when the investment team acquired the business from the original founders. Fund value – £230m…
Read moreMercia Fund – Venture Capital – VC
Types/sectors – Biotechnology, Software, Trading Stages of investing – Seed and Private Equity History – Founded in 2010, after a buyout of WM Enterprise Founders and partners – Mark Payton,Mike Hayes,Tim Hazell,Stuart Palmer,Peter Dicks Notable investments, and value – Crowd Reactive Ltd$1.5M Seed,Kwanji£450k Seed,Friendly Score$375k Seed Headquarters – Henley In Arden
Read moreM8 Capital – Venture Capital – VC
Types/sectors – Mobile, Software, Security Stages of investing -Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage Venture, and Private Equity History – founded in 2010 Founders and partners – Joseph Kim, Laurent Souviron Notable investments, and value – Noom ₩2.8B Venture,Evernote $85M Secondary Market,Aylus Networks $16M Series D Headquarters – London, United Kingdom
Read moreDFJ Esprit Venture Capital – VC
Types/sectors – Semiconductors, Software, Hardware + Software Stages of investing – Venture Capital that does Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage Venture, Private Equity, and Debt Financing Investments History – founded Draper Associates in 1985, which led to funds branded Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), and led the development of a network of US affiliate funds…
Read moreSimon Murdoch – Episode 1 – VC
Simon Murdoch – Episode 1 – VC Simon Templar (is his real name the ITV version of James Bond ) commonly called The Saint: Later in life he moved onto be James Bond and became an international superstar. As he got more and more famous he changed his Southern English accent to the one he…
Read moreLawrence Barclay – DN Capital – VC
Lawrence Barclay – DN Capital – VC The son of a banker, obviously:)Laurence was once a great cyclists and as such his family sponsored the bikes of London: You can see Lawrence’s dad above looking after the bikes. Lawrence had quite a few bikes at home and his dad was always looking after, but over…
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