Ariadne Capital Limited

Ariadne Capital is an investment and advisory firm that enables corporates who seek new digital revenues and startups who understand digital infrastructure. It specializes in sourcing funding, advising on business development, and exiting growth-stage digital companies. Ariadne Capital also brings its technology insight to corporates, advising them on innovating their business models, and how to work with entrepreneurs and high-growth startups to win in their markets.

14 past transactions

Portcullis Asset Management

Acquisition in 2017
Portcullis Asset Management is an alternative investment fund manager ("AIFM") holding a Category 2 Licence with the Malta Financial Services Authority. The company provides cost effective regulatory solutions to fund managers who wish to optimise fund performance by concentrating on portfolio management, secure in the knowledge that all applicable regulatory obligations are being met by a dedicated team of professionals. It offers its services via both stand-alone fund structures as well as via an umbrella platform to which Portcullis is the appointed AIFM. Additionally, the company also offers capital introductory services to assist with the growth of assets under management and ultimately the long term success of the fund.

Made TV

Venture Round in 2015
Made TV is the largest holder of local TV licenses in the UK, covering more than 11 million people across 5 stations: Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Teesside and Tyne & Wear. Made TV aims to become the premier source of all local information, entertainment and events across the whole of the UK connecting businesses and consumers in a way that is lacking in the UK market. Made TV will be carried with prominent EPG (Electronic Programme Guide) positions on all major platforms including Channel 8 on Freeview and Channel 117 on Sky.

Bloomy Days

Series A in 2015
Bloomy Days is a subscription-based fresh cut flower delivery service with headquarters in Germany. Bloomy Days currently delivers approximately 900 packages of fresh flower bouquets every week to businesses and private individuals. Customers can select the frequency of the delivery (e.g. weekly, bi-monthly, monthly), where Bloomy Days guarantees that flowers are no more than 7 days old. The company hand crops and prepares ready to use bouquets of flowers which are carefully selected from the market. Bloomy Days subscription model allows the company to avoid any inventory costs, ensuring strong cash flow and low capital requirements.

Money Dashboard

Series A in 2015
Money Dashboard is an online personal financial management service allowing users to view their online financial accounts. Money Dashboard lets you see exactly where your money goes by showing all your current accounts, savings accounts and credit cards from whichever institutions you bank with, all together in one secure place. The service was first released in 2010 to help people take control of their finances, and help empower them to make the right financial decisions in life. Money Dashboard is free; all you need is an online account with a UK bank, building society or credit card and access to the Internet. Money Dashboard means you keep an eye on your day-to-day spending, monitor whether you’re earning more than you’re spending, and making efficient use of any credit. It also lets you know if you’re likely to have any spare money left to spend at the end of the month. And for those who want to save, Money Dashboard uses your past spending patterns to predict future outgoings and potential savings so you can budget realistically for the future. Users save time and money, as Money Dashboard harnesses individual User spending patterns to offer less expensive products and services.

Luno

Seed Round in 2014
Luno is a prominent global cryptocurrency company headquartered in London, serving over 2 million customers across 40 countries, including regions like Africa and South East Asia. The company offers a user-friendly platform for buying, selling, and storing various cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. Luno is officially registered in Indonesia, where it operates as the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the country. Its services include currency conversion, digital wallets, and trading analysis tools, aimed at simplifying cryptocurrency transactions for its users. Luno's mission is to enhance the financial system worldwide by making cryptocurrencies accessible and secure.

Jumo Health

Series B in 2014
Jumo Health develops age-appropriate, educational resources for patients and caregivers for use throughout their medical journey. It works with providers, manufacturers, and advocacy groups, to ensure resources are available at the moment of diagnosis, during a treatment regimen, or while participating in a clinical trial. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

GroundMetrics

Series B in 2014
GroundMetrics, Inc is the world leader in the development of land-based EM sensing and is working with oil, gas, mining, and geothermal companies to commercialize a new class of sensor system and methods and to provide advanced survey and monitoring services worldwide. GroundMetrics, Inc. spun-out of QUASAR Federal Systems (QFS) in 2010 with an exclusive license to productize QFS’s novel electromagnetic sensor technology for resource exploration, management and production. This technology offers advanced capabilities for electromagnetic (EM), induced polarization (IP) magnetotelluric (MT), and controlled-source EM (CSEM) surveys in arid regions common in Australia, Canada, Mongolia, Mexico, the Middle East, South America and the United States. Furthermore, it improves the precision, safety and economics of Borehole-to-Surface (BSEM) surveys and is ideal for time-lapse and continuous long-term monitoring applications such as reservoir imaging and monitoring for Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) and Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). GroundMetrics uses its proprietary sensors, noise mitgation methods and focused-azimuth borehole transmitter technology to provide survey and monitoring services directly to energy and mining companies.

Jellyfish

Series A in 2014
Quill has merged with Jellyfish to become their global Ecommerce Content capability, delivering multi-language content solutions that support Jellyfish’s cutting-edge digital transformation services

TextPower

Series A in 2013
TextPower, Inc., was formed by two veteran entrepreneurs with deep experience in the wireless industry. The company's philosophy is different than most everyone else's in the SMS industry - we believe that there is a significant role to be played in the connectivity between people and machines that provides updates, alerts, information and more via messages sent directly to a user's phone triggered by an event or threshold being reached.

Jellyfish

Seed Round in 2013
Quill has merged with Jellyfish to become their global Ecommerce Content capability, delivering multi-language content solutions that support Jellyfish’s cutting-edge digital transformation services

Clickslide

Seed Round in 2013
ClickSlide can instantly create a Graphic User Interface for any API at minimal cost, with minimal effort and without writing code. It also offers a point and click CMS for all APIs with the ability to mashup services in no time. Optimised for all devices and web browsers, ClickSlide will be the most accessible way to create and deliver software.

Klutch

Angel Round in 2013
KLUTCH eliminates the typically painful back-and-forth scheduling process and transforms it into a sleek, elegant, mobile decision-making platform. KLUTCH was designed to get people together in the real world. As a decision-making platform, KLUTCH has reinvented consensus scheduling for mobile devices.

Atlas Powered

Seed Round in 2012
Atlas is a time management and collaboration platform for mobile that centralizes all your calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes making collaboration on mobile shockingly simple - no email required. Currently, Atlas is focusing on the $150B Direct Selling Industry that has more than 92 million independent salespeople worldwide. Founders have deep domain experience and relationships. Atlas is a LaunchpadLA company. Learn more at: http://angel.co/atlas.

Taggstar

Seed Round in 2012
There’s nothing stronger than recommendations, ratings and real sales from others to influence how we shop and buy. We deliver real-time, social proof messages for eCommerce sites, showing online shopping trends as useful, actionable information to improve customer engagement and increase sales. Our real-time messages give consumers the confidence to make better-informed buying decisions. Taggstar's A/B tests statistically prove that customers are up to 12% more likely to buy when their confidence is boosted with product trends and good product reviews. Our real-time product messages are used by Very.co.uk, Littlewoods.com, Jacamo.co.uk, SimpleBe.co.uk, JDWilliams.co.uk, Missguided.co.uk, In The Style, Matalan, TUI UK & Ireland, Hotter, TeletextHolidays.co.uk, Victorian Plumbing and more international eCommerce brands. Taggstar is based in London, and was founded by Fraser Robinson who was formerly Managing Director, Commercial & Media, at lastminute.com.
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