Draper Esprit PLC Announcement re: CAPITAL MARKETS DAY (3735X)

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RNS Number : 3735X

Draper Esprit PLC

21 February 2017

Draper Esprit plc

("Draper Esprit" or "the Group")

CAPITAL MARKETS DAY

Draper Esprit (AIM: GROW, ESM: GRW), a leading venture capital firm involved in the creation, funding and development of high-growth digital technology businesses, is today hosting its annual Capital Markets day. As part of the event senior executive management from a number of portfolio companies will be giving updates on their respective company strategies. The day will also be an opportunity for portfolio company management to network. No new material information or update on trading will be provided as part of the event.

Companies presenting include long standing portfolio companies: TrustPilot, (a global, multi-language review community); Graze (an online and offline retailer and manufacturer of healthier snacks, operating in the UK and the USA); and Sport Pursuit (a UK-based sport specific e-commerce website where members receive access to sales from brand partners targeting the technical sportswear and outdoor clothing and equipment space).

There will also be presentations from new and recent additions to the portfolio including: Clavis (the leading eCommerce insights company); Realeyes (a machine learning technology that measures emotions); Graphcore (a machine intelligence semiconductor company); LifeSum (a leading health tracking mobile app company); Pushdoctor (an on-demand healthcare mobile app company); and Perkbox (an employee benefits and engagement platform mobile app company).

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Enquiries

 
Draper Esprit plc 
 Simon Cook (Chief Executive 
 Officer) 
 Ben Wilkinson (Chief Financial 
 Officer)                         [phone] 
Numis Securities 
 Nominated Adviser & Joint 
 Broker 
 Alex Ham 
 Garri Jones 
 Richard Thomas 
 Paul Gillam 
 Jamie Loughborough               [phone] 
Goodbody Stockbrokers 
 ESM Adviser & Joint Broker 
 Don Harrington 
 Linda Hickey 
 Charlotte Craigie                [phone] 
Belvedere Communications 
 (PR) 
 John West 
 Kim van Beeck                    [phone] 
 

Notes to Editors

Draper Esprit (www.draperesprit.com) was founded in 2006, and is one of the largest and most active VC firms in Europe, helping entrepreneurs to build global ground-breaking technology companies through hands-on board level support, internationalisation and commercialisation activities and investment.

In 2016, with the support of new institutional investors and existing shareholders, Draper Esprit transformed into a listed PLC model (LSE: GROW.L, ESM GRW.I) to take a longer term, multi-stage, patient capital approach. In recent years, Draper Esprit's exits have generated more than $4.0 billion in combined enterprise value.

Draper Esprit is the exclusive Western European member of the Silicon Valley-based Draper Global Network, with offices around the world and portfolio companies including Baidu, Skype, Space X, Tesla and other world leading companies.

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