IPGL

IPGL is a private holding company and family office firm established in 1986 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The company focuses on managing a diverse portfolio of investments across various sectors, reflecting its commitment to long-term growth and value creation. By leveraging its extensive network and industry expertise, IPGL aims to identify and develop opportunities that align with its strategic vision. Its operations are characterized by a careful selection of investments, which encompass both direct investments and partnerships with other firms. The firm is dedicated to maintaining a sustainable approach to its investment strategy while fostering innovation and entrepreneurship.

Christopher Gurth Clothier

Investment Director

12 past transactions

Hepster

Convertible Note in 2022
Hepster is developing digital products and markets for insurance businesses and consumers.

Elvie

Series C in 2021
Elvie is a health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. We are committed to building extraordinary products that improve the health and lives of women everywhere and at all stages of life. Our first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected Kegel trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor via fun, five-minute workouts. Launched in October 2015 to great acclaim, we took the wellness industry by storm! Our street cred includes more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious CES Innovation Award, IDA Design Award and Red Dot Award. As a business, Elvie has been recognized as one of Wired’s ‘hottest start-ups’, named as one of the 15 start-ups “To Watch” by The Sunday Times and both products have been featured in the Oscar Nominee Gift Bags. We recently launched our second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent wearable breast pump, which is making it possible for new mothers to pump anytime, anywhere. Elvie Pump received international praise following its unveiling on the catwalk at London Fashion Week and at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B led by IPGL and supported by Octopus Ventures and Impact Ventures. This represented the largest ever fundraise in femtech. This new round of financing will accelerate Elvie’s research and development efforts, as well as help grow brand awareness and distribution for Elvie Pump and Elvie Trainer across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Headquartered in London, UK with offices also in New York City, the company has received numerous awards and raised more than $52m in investment.

Elvie

Series C in 2021
Elvie is a health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. We are committed to building extraordinary products that improve the health and lives of women everywhere and at all stages of life. Our first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected Kegel trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor via fun, five-minute workouts. Launched in October 2015 to great acclaim, we took the wellness industry by storm! Our street cred includes more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious CES Innovation Award, IDA Design Award and Red Dot Award. As a business, Elvie has been recognized as one of Wired’s ‘hottest start-ups’, named as one of the 15 start-ups “To Watch” by The Sunday Times and both products have been featured in the Oscar Nominee Gift Bags. We recently launched our second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent wearable breast pump, which is making it possible for new mothers to pump anytime, anywhere. Elvie Pump received international praise following its unveiling on the catwalk at London Fashion Week and at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B led by IPGL and supported by Octopus Ventures and Impact Ventures. This represented the largest ever fundraise in femtech. This new round of financing will accelerate Elvie’s research and development efforts, as well as help grow brand awareness and distribution for Elvie Pump and Elvie Trainer across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Headquartered in London, UK with offices also in New York City, the company has received numerous awards and raised more than $52m in investment.

Tradefeedr

Seed Round in 2020
Tradefeedr is a data science and technology company specialising in complex analytical challenges involving vast amounts of structured data. Their cloud-based platform empowers their clients to take on challenging projects and they provide the human resources needed to complete them.

Glasswall

Venture Round in 2020
Glasswall Solutions Ltd. is a cybersecurity company based in London, United Kingdom, with additional offices in the United States. Founded in 2005, it specializes in developing security software that protects organizations and government agencies from document-based cyber threats, including weaponized files and malicious code. Glasswall's unique approach employs a Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) process, which treats all files as untrusted. This process validates, rebuilds, and cleans files against known-good specifications within milliseconds, ensuring that only safe and fully functioning files enter and leave an organization. Their product offerings include email security software, a security API, and tailored solutions for government entities, effectively providing comprehensive protection against sophisticated cyber threats.
Agora Digital Capital Markets Ltd is a fintech company that specializes in providing a software solution designed to digitize the entire life cycle of bond transactions. The agora platform serves as a centralized source of critical bond information, which is digitally signed and accessible to all participants involved in a deal, including issuers, investment banks, custodians, central securities depositories, law firms, and other service providers. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom, the company aims to enhance efficiency and transparency in the debt capital markets by streamlining processes and fostering collaboration among various stakeholders.

Bloc Ventures

Venture Round in 2020
Bloc Ventures Limited is a venture capital entity based in London, specializing in investments in early-stage deep technology companies. The firm focuses on sectors such as cloud computing, connectivity, data science, and security. It typically invests between £0.25 million and £5 million, prioritizing opportunities across Europe. Unlike traditional investment funds, Bloc Ventures operates as a company with a strong emphasis on governance, cost management, and profitability. Founded in 2013, it adopts a collaborative and long-term approach to building value in its portfolio, governed by a board of directors dedicated to fostering growth in the technology sector.

Juvenescence

Series B in 2019
Juvenescence Limited is a British Virgin Islands-based holding company focused on investing in human aging and longevity. The company has raised substantial capital to establish a comprehensive ecosystem aimed at addressing aging, age-related diseases, and regeneration. Juvenescence aims to leverage recent scientific advancements to develop therapeutics that can significantly extend human healthspan and lifespan. The company's approach involves creating and partnering with new ventures that specialize in longevity-related therapies, in-licensing promising compounds from academic and industry sources, and collaborating with leading scientists and research institutions. Their work is grounded in a modern understanding of the biological mechanisms of aging, allowing them to create evidence-based treatments for age-associated diseases. Ultimately, Juvenescence seeks to enhance both lifespan and healthspan by developing therapies that slow the aging process and promote rejuvenation.

Elvie

Series B in 2019
Elvie is a health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. We are committed to building extraordinary products that improve the health and lives of women everywhere and at all stages of life. Our first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected Kegel trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor via fun, five-minute workouts. Launched in October 2015 to great acclaim, we took the wellness industry by storm! Our street cred includes more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious CES Innovation Award, IDA Design Award and Red Dot Award. As a business, Elvie has been recognized as one of Wired’s ‘hottest start-ups’, named as one of the 15 start-ups “To Watch” by The Sunday Times and both products have been featured in the Oscar Nominee Gift Bags. We recently launched our second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent wearable breast pump, which is making it possible for new mothers to pump anytime, anywhere. Elvie Pump received international praise following its unveiling on the catwalk at London Fashion Week and at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B led by IPGL and supported by Octopus Ventures and Impact Ventures. This represented the largest ever fundraise in femtech. This new round of financing will accelerate Elvie’s research and development efforts, as well as help grow brand awareness and distribution for Elvie Pump and Elvie Trainer across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Headquartered in London, UK with offices also in New York City, the company has received numerous awards and raised more than $52m in investment.

Glasswall

Corporate Round in 2018
Glasswall Solutions Ltd. is a cybersecurity company based in London, United Kingdom, with additional offices in the United States. Founded in 2005, it specializes in developing security software that protects organizations and government agencies from document-based cyber threats, including weaponized files and malicious code. Glasswall's unique approach employs a Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) process, which treats all files as untrusted. This process validates, rebuilds, and cleans files against known-good specifications within milliseconds, ensuring that only safe and fully functioning files enter and leave an organization. Their product offerings include email security software, a security API, and tailored solutions for government entities, effectively providing comprehensive protection against sophisticated cyber threats.

Singlife

Series A in 2017
Singapore Life provides digital life insurance services. Singapore Life offers high net worth universal life solutions for those that prefer Singapore and the Singapore regulatory environment as a destination for their wealth and protection needs. It also offers protection solutions made available both digitally and through financial advisers to the retail segment, revolutionising how easy insurance can be. The Company incorporates multiple InsurTech solutions to improve the customer experience. Singapore Life represents the next generation of life insurance where customers are empowered through a simplified insurance purchase process.

Money Gaming

Series A in 2004
The first Real Money Skill Gaming concept and online product. Having originally been constructed around chance based games, a new hype began when MoneyGaming developed the concept of Skill-based Gaming and quickly became one of the top 20 Gaming sites worldwide. Due to the various changes in government legislation across the globe, MoneyGaming's niche product provided opportunities for established players in the Online Gaming industry to add a new and 'legitimate' tier to their product suite. MoneyGaming's product offering also provided a larger range of more widely known games, which helped greatly with the acquisition of new and untouched players, as well as the loyalty and retention of the current players. Skill Gaming is now an established sector within the Online Gaming industry. The MoneyGaming Network, provided co-branded and revenue shared versions of the platform for well known brands such as FHM, The Mirror, Orange UK, among others.
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