Molten Ventures Share Discussion Threads

[steve3sandal] 10/10/2017 19:00

Happy with their activity, I am topping up for a 35 yo Daughter's SIPP, feels appropriate.

[rambutan2] 10/10/2017 18:31

Investments update:

Draper Esprit (AIM: GROW, ESM: GRW), a leading venture capital firm investing in and developing high growth digital technology businesses, announces that funds managed by the Group have recently committed GBP17 million into three exciting new European based digital technology businesses: Ieso Digital Health; Insurtech Company Premfina; and Verve, the world's leading word-of-mouth sales software for live entertainment.

In aggregate, these companies have recently completed fundraising rounds totaling over $75 million

In the four month period to 30 September 2017, following the GBP100 million raise in June, Draper Esprit has invested a total of GBP26.5 million from the plc and a further GBP12.0 million from across the Group, into new and existing portfolio companies including Graphcore, Perkbox, Trustpilot, Pushdoctor.

[rambutan2] 04/10/2017 17:20

Looks an interesting investment:

London, UK: PremFina Ltd, a UK-based company that increases access to insurance by providing financing options for the purchase of insurance premiums, today announced US$36 million in equity funding and a debt facility. Rakuten Capital, the investment arm of Japan’s Rakuten, a global leader in e-commerce and fintech services and the main global partner of FC Barcelona and the UK’s Draper Esprit Plc led the financing, and were joined by global investors Thomvest Ventures, Emery Capital, Rubicon Venture Capital, Talis Capital and the company’s founder.

[rambutan2] 29/7/2017 19:28

Annual report to browse through:

[rambutan2] 08/7/2017 01:51

That sounds sensible steve3.

Y/e results must be due. Might give the share price a bit of upward momentum.

[steve3sandal] 07/7/2017 18:27

Topping up time then following the share price fall to 325p. Guess they have just found base camp around placing level and nothing more untoward than that. Just a few, won't go mad, into the patient drawer.

[rambutan2] 07/7/2017 17:54

They start shipping at the end of this year:

[steve3sandal] 02/6/2017 20:39

Very disappointed that there are was no Private Sharehoder subscription on offer here. I would have liked to top up at 324p like the newbies. I wonder if Institutions have possibly been selling down from 350p whilst able to buy back at 324p. Disapplication of pre emotion rights always seems to end this way...for PIs ...dilution of my assets. I intend to get even...I will vote against and top up below 324p ....hopefully.

[pugugly] 10/5/2017 11:17

Got a spare £1000 odd and time spare on 17th June go listen


Vishal Gulati
Healthtech Venture Capitalist
Draper Esprit

Vishal Gulati is one of Europe’s leading digital healthcare investors and brings over a decade of investing experience across the healthcare spectrum including diagnostics, devices and biotechnology and also advises global pharmaceutical and healthcare companies on digital health strategy. Dr Gulati is currently a Venture Partner at Draper Esprit, a venture capital fund listed on the London Stock Exchange (L:GROW) and Chairman of the Digital Health Forum. His current portfolio and board positions include Horizon Discovery plc, PushDr, Fluidic Analytics, Frameshift, LifeSum, Mimi, MyRecovery and Omixy.

In over a decade of investment experience he has managed a successful portfolio of healthcare companies including Napo Pharmaceuticals (USA), Glenmark (India), Renovo Group (UK) Phagenesis (UK) Psynova Neurotech, Bioscale and Enigma Diagnostics. Prior to being a venture capitalist, Dr Gulati trained as a physician at the Nuffield Department of Medicine (Oxford) and Department of Medicine (St Mary’s Hospital, London) and worked at Atlas Venture, The Wellcome Trust and Radiant Capital.

[rambutan2] 01/5/2017 18:24

Well worth a listen to the CEO of Graphcore (from 2mins to 10mins):



A reminder:

[rambutan2] 12/4/2017 02:42

Y/e update and possible capital raise:

[rambutan2] 25/3/2017 00:44

Looks a bit of a coup for GROW:

[steve3sandal] 21/2/2017 07:22

Thank you for posting rambutan2. I'm a happy holder and I might have a look at the crowdfunding if I can understand the revenue model.

[rambutan2] 21/2/2017 03:15

Invests £5m:

[rambutan2] 21/1/2017 19:04

Various pieces on Brian Caulfield, head honcho in Ireland:

[rambutan2] 21/1/2017 18:42

Upped stake in TrustPilot:





And more from Ireland:

[rambutan2] 31/12/2016 03:54

Dec 15:
Draper Esprit (AIM: GROW, ESM: GRW), a leading venture capital firm involved in the creation, funding and development of high-growth digital technology businesses, today announces that it has acquired a significant minority stake in Clavis Insight ('Clavis'), the leading eCommerce insights company, for £8 million.

Following the investment Brian Caulfield, Managing Director of Draper Esprit, will join the Board of Clavis.

Clavis Insight is the established global industry leader of digital shelf analysis, insights and analytics enabling manufacturers to track and optimise their online channel presence and performance.

The company has offices in Dublin, London, Shanghai and Boston, USA and is a strategic partner to hundreds of the world's largest manufacturers and brands in CPG/FMCG, Beverages, Consumer Health care, Nutrition, Electronics, Toy and Business to Business industries. Their clients include nine of the top ten such as: Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Kimberly Clark Corporation and Nestlé. Their solutions provide comprehensive insights across desktop, mobile web and mobile app platforms to the leading online retailers in over 30 countries.

Simon Cook, CEO Draper Esprit commented:

"One of the reasons we listed Draper Esprit was to make larger scale investments. The Clavis investment is a great example of this. It is a fast-growing company with global reach and founded in Ireland. We are really pleased to be working with the Clavis management team to help them navigate their next phase of growth and development."

[rambutan2] 29/11/2016 01:53

Interims out, nav 352p including £54m cash:



And accompanying presentation:

[rambutan2] 24/11/2016 18:37

24/11: Simon Cook, CEO Draper Esprit commented: "We have acquired a stake in a leading VCT manager in the UK, who share our core investment philosophy and we are delighted to be working with the experienced Elderstreet team. We can now offer to investors access to high growth technology companies through a range of vehicles from EIS funds, to VCTs and an ISA qualifying listed evergreen patient capital vehicle with combined assets of over GBP350m. Draper Esprit is now firmly on the map as one of the major European managers of technology venture capital and growth capital with a long history of successful acquisitions such as 3i's European VC portfolio, Prelude Investment Trust, Top Technology fund and Cazenove's VC fund."

[rambutan2] 11/11/2016 03:42

Announced last month and noteworthy due to the mammoth size, but also, with regard to GROW, the fact that it will be based in London:

[rambutan2] 10/11/2016 02:41

GROW very busy recently, both exits and investments. I think Datahug was held at £2.8m, if so then this adds approx £2m to nav:

DUBLIN, IRELAND- (November 8, 2016)- Draper Esprit (“the Company”), a leading venture capital firm involved in the creation, funding and development of high-growth digital technology businesses, announces that NASDAQ listed Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ: CALD), a global leader in cloud-based sales, marketing, learning and customer experience solutions, has acquired portfolio company, Datahug for a total consideration of $13 million cash.

The deal values Draper Esprit’s total stake in Datahug at $6 million. The investment in Datahug was held across a number of vehicles managed by the Company. Datahug, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland is a SaaS predictive forecasting and sales analytics company.

[rambutan2] 10/11/2016 02:34

24 Oct: Perkbox was recently listed no. 2 in the Startups 100 Index for being one of the most innovative emerging ventures in the country.

Simon Cook, CEO, Draper Esprit, comments: “We are excited to be leading this growth round in Perkbox alongside a great angel group and the crowd. Employee motivation is a fundamental issue for today‘s best companies, small and large, and the Perkbox digital platform is the best we have seen. Perkbox sits alongside other investments we have made in the customer satisfaction space, such as Trustpilot and Conversocial, while its growing focus on employee well being exists with companies such as Graze, Push Doctor and Lifesum.“

[rambutan2] 08/11/2016 03:24

Talk with Brian Caulfield, partner:

[rambutan2] 03/11/2016 03:07

As it happens, James Walker, boss of Resolver, was on Radio 4's Money Box yesterday talking about dispute resolution.



31/10/16: Resolver.co.uk – the free and independent website dedicated to making it easier for consumers to make complaints or raise issues with brands, companies and organisations to get redress or money back – has secured a funding round of £2.8 million.

By the end of 2016, the UK’s key resolution website for complaints expects to have helped resolve issues worth £100m+ for consumers and businesses. The site is projected to reach one million visitors a month by March 2017.

Consistently rated 5* by users, many contact the site with their success stories showing how they’ve got back hundreds of pounds using a process that takes just a few minutes. Some have reported receiving thousands of pounds owed to them.

And in its first institutional investment round, parent company Resolving Limited has now secured funding from Draper Esprit and Imperial Innovations to allow it to double its team and invest in new technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.