Draper Esprit

Draper Esprit is a venture capital firms in Europe, developing and investing in disruptive, high-growth technology companies. They believe the best entrepreneurs in Europe are capable of building the global businesses of the future. The company fuels its growth with long-term capital, access to international networks, and decades of experience building businesses. They back ambitious teams including Revolut, Trustpilot, Graze, Ledger, Transferwise, and Graphcore. In order to provide entrepreneurs with a more flexible approach to funding and to back them for longer, they re-invented the traditional venture capital by ourselves going public in 2016.

Brian Caulfield

Venture Partner

Edel Coen

Associate

Simon Cook

Founding Partner

David Cummings

Venture Partner

Martin Davis

CEO

Jonathan Freuchet-Sibilia

Partner and Head of Secondaries and Fund of Funds

Vinoth Jayakumar

Partner

Diana Krantz

Associate

Richard Marsh

Senior Partner

Nicola McClafferty

Partner

Jonathan Sibilia

Partner. Head of Fund of Funds and Secondaries

Ben Wilkinson

CFO

234 past transactions

Graphcore

Series B in 2017
Graphcore Limited, a hardware systems company develops intelligent processing units. It offers IPU-Accelerator cards, which can be plugged into a server to accelerate machine-learning applications; and IPU-Appliance products that provide enhanced performance to deliver inference systems supporting various users or provide faster training. Graphcore Limited was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Bristol, United Kingdom with additional locations in Palo Alto, California; London, United Kingdom; Oslo, Norway; and Beijing, China.

CrateDB

Private Placement in 2018
CRATE Technology GmbH provides an open source distributed SQL database. It offers a distributed SQL query engine that lets users to use the same syntax that already exists in their applications or integrations and execute queries; handles transactional and analytical needs in one single database; supports web, mobile, and IoT applications; and repairs node failures, and container disappearance or re-appearance, as well as writes or reads from any container in the cluster. The company’s solutions are used in applications in Big Data analytics, full text search, geospatial queries, and aggregation across large datasets. It serves its customers in Austria and internationally. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Dornbirn, Austria with additional offices in San Francisco, California; and Berlin, Germany.

Perkbox

Secondary Market in 2017
Perkbox is a cloud-based HR technology platform designed to help improve staff engagement and interaction between management and teams. It offers a suite of products including a platform with access to best in class perks and services and a reward and recognition function. It serves companies of all sizes from SMEs to FTSEs with names such as OpenTable, Wasabi, Hawksmoor, Rentalcars and Levi Strauss & Co. and has 500,000+ users. Based in London and with offices in Sheffield, Perkbox also owns London-based Loyalty Bay, a platform for the automated delivery of digital rewards. Perkbox has raised over £11.0 million in funding from investors such as Alex Chesterman, founder of LoveFilm & Zoopla, Sherry Coutu, former advisory board member at Linkedin, as well as the leading European venture capital firm Draper Esprit.

Back Office Technology Ltd

Private Placement in 2018
Back Office Technology Ltd, doing business as Form3 Financial Cloud, develops and operates a cloud-based platform for complete processing of payments for licensed payment providers. The company's clients include regulated financial institutions, including banks, non-bank financial institutions, and financial technology companies. Back Office Technology Ltd was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Pod Point

Series C in 2017
At POD Point, we believe that travel shouldn’t damage the earth. We think that if everyone were driving zero emissions vehicles, the impact that travel has on our planet globally and locally would be significantly reduced. That’s why we’re building a network of electric vehicle chargepoints across the UK and Europe at places drivers park like their homes, workplaces and destinations they visit like gyms or supermarkets. On average an electric vehicle starts charging on our network every 42 seconds.

Video Island

Debt Financing in 2005
Video Island Entertainment offers a home entertainment subscription service in the DVD rental market.

Conversocial

Series A in 2014
Conversocial (UK) Ltd develops Conversocial, a social media management software that support and resolve at scale on social and mobile channels. It also provides CROWDS, a community social resolution on Twitter. Its client services include strategy development and consulting, execution, monitoring, and ongoing refinement; implementation and enablement; and insights and optimization services. The company serves telecoms, transport and travel, hospitality and leisure, retail, utilities, and finance. Conversocial (UK) Ltd was formerly known as Iplatform Ltd and changed its name to Conversocial (UK) Ltd in July 2011. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Conversocial

Series A in 2011
Conversocial (UK) Ltd develops Conversocial, a social media management software that support and resolve at scale on social and mobile channels. It also provides CROWDS, a community social resolution on Twitter. Its client services include strategy development and consulting, execution, monitoring, and ongoing refinement; implementation and enablement; and insights and optimization services. The company serves telecoms, transport and travel, hospitality and leisure, retail, utilities, and finance. Conversocial (UK) Ltd was formerly known as Iplatform Ltd and changed its name to Conversocial (UK) Ltd in July 2011. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Fluidic Analytics

Series B in 2016
Fluidic Analytics Limited designs, develops, and manufactures equipment for the characterization of proteins in laboratory, medical, and consumer applications. The company provides Fluidity One, a product that enables in-solution sizing and quantification of native protein. The company also offers Fluidity One-W, a product that enables high sensitivity in-solution analysis of protein size and protein interaction kinetics. Its products are used for applications, including protein quality, interactions, aggregation, and sizing. The company serves scientists, clinics, and healthcare providers. Fluidic Analytics Limited was founded in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Bitbar

Venture Round in 2013
Bitbar Technologies Ltd. develops cloud-based mobile application testing solution. It offers mobile application testing; codeless application test automation; and other professional services, such as systems development, testing, consulting, and training. The company offers a customizable application testing infrastructure, deployed as a private mobile device cloud or an on premise mobile device lab for large organizations. The company caters to technology, financial services, gaming, retail and e-commerce, and media industries. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland. As of August 29, 2019, Bitbar Technologies Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of SmartBear Software Inc.

Bitbar

Series A in 2015
Bitbar Technologies Ltd. develops cloud-based mobile application testing solution. It offers mobile application testing; codeless application test automation; and other professional services, such as systems development, testing, consulting, and training. The company offers a customizable application testing infrastructure, deployed as a private mobile device cloud or an on premise mobile device lab for large organizations. The company caters to technology, financial services, gaming, retail and e-commerce, and media industries. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland. As of August 29, 2019, Bitbar Technologies Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of SmartBear Software Inc.

CXignited

Series D in 2010
CXignited sets the new standard for Customer Experience (CX) igniting product, people and brand passion. Through its progressive ShopCX Cloud Platform, CXignited streams shop floor and Unified Commerce information intelligence through RFID/Beacons/IoT. With a Real-time Local Positioning System (RLPS), CXignited drives product digitalization, localization, personalization and authentication across the Omni-channel for luxury retailers and global brands.

M-Files

Series A in 2013
M-Files Inc. designs and develops a document management platform that enables businesses to find, share, and secure documents and information. The platform features include check out/in, no folder, office integration, document templates, workflows, scan and OCR, repository sensor, security, and e-sign. he company also offers system integrations services and acts as Integrator for tools such as SAP, MS office, and Salesforce. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Plano, Texas. M-Files Inc. operates as a subsidiary of M-Files Corporation.

Sweepr

Private Placement in 2019
Sweepr Technologies Limited designs and develops a software platform to understand and diagnose problems of homeowners. The company uses artificial intelligence, voice assistance, and behavioral psychology to provide support services to homeowners. Sweepr Technologies Limited was founded in 2017 and is based in Celbridge, Ireland.

PremFina

Venture Round in 2017
PremFina Limited develops policy management software for insurance brokers. It offers PremFina SaaS, a white-label software to manage insurance policies; and PremFina Cash, a software to manage insurance policies and offer premium payment financing to clients. Its products help insurance brokers to control communications with their customers and making decisions through real time access to data. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in London, United Kingdom. PremFina Limited operates as a subsidiary of IXL Holdings Limited.

Aveillant

Venture Round in 2014
Aveillant Ltd develops and commercializes holographic radar systems. It offers wind farm mitigation and surveillance products. The company’s products are used in high-speed trajectory measurement, aerial target discrimination, ship protection, maritime and coastal surveillance, and border and force protection applications, as well as to know the problems caused by wind turbines that cause to air traffic control radar. Aveillant Ltd was founded in 2011 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. As of November 28, 2017, Aveillant Ltd operates as a subsidiary of Thales S.A.

Droplet Computing

Seed Round in 2018
Droplet Computing is redefining application delivery with its patent-pending, award winning application container technology. Enabling applications to be delivered on any device by decoupling your applications from the OS for online and offline use, delivering significant business value by providing costs savings, increasing user productivity and so much more...

Aircall

Private Placement in 2018
Aircall, Inc. provides software for startups, and small and medium businesses for phone support. It offers Aircall, a SaaS application that allows companies to set up and manage phone support online. Aircall, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Telarus Inc . The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Paris, France.

Endomag

Series D in 2020
Endomag is a medical technology company devoted to improving the global standard of cancer care. The company's Sentimag probe, Magseed marker, and Magtrac node marker are already in use by many of the world’s leading physicians and cancer centers. Endomag's goal is to help women with breast cancer avoid surgery when it isn’t needed, and experience better outcomes when it is. As of 2019, the company has already helped 70,000+ women around the world access more precise and less invasive breast cancer care. Founded in 2007 as a spin-out from the University of Houston and the University College London (UCL), Endomag continues to develop its unique clinical platform from its headquarters in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The company sells its products through a network of distributors in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australasia.

Revolut

Series C in 2018
Revolut Limited develops a mobile application that allows users to exchange currencies at interbank rates, send money through social networks, and spend with a multi-currency card. The company, through its subsidiary, provides phone, medical insurance, and travel insurance. Revolut Limited was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

DisplayLink

Venture Round in 2012
DisplayLink develops hardware and software solutions to enable easy connectivity between monitors, virtual reality HMDs and computing devices over standard interfaces such as USB, Ethernet, and wireless networks. DisplayLink’s enterprise technology increases productivity and ease-of-use in the multi-display workspace and is deployed to millions of users through globally branded PC products. DisplayLink’s XR solution enables a fully immersive, cable-free experience for virtual reality users.

Cazoo

Private Placement in 2020
Cazoo is a developer of an online used car marketplace designed to transform the way people buy, finance, or rent used cars. The platform enables customers to purchase a used car online and have it delivered to their door and provides a free 90-day warranty and roadside assistance, enabling the customers to embrace the simplicity of the online convenience, free delivery, and 7-day money-back guarantee. Alexander Edward Chesterman founded the company in London, England in 2018.

Freetrade

Private Placement in 2019
Freetrade is a brokerage application that offers free share dealing services. They believe investing should be accessible to everyone that's why they aims to make it accessible to everyone. Its app received Best Share Trading Platform at the British Bank Awards 2019. Freetrade was started in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

SportPursuit

Series B in 2014
SportPursuit is the UKs first sport-specific flash sales website featuring top quality sports products and services from the world's best brands. During their 7 days flash sales, members receive exclusive access to sales at up to 70% off RRP in a fun, content rich, personalised environment. SportPursuit works very closely with its brand partners to help enhance their brand image through push marketing to their large targeted member base of sports enthusiasts, encouraging brand engagement and trial.

PrimaryBid

Series C in 2022
Primarybid Limited operates an online investment platform that allows private investors to gain access to placings, fund raisings, and IPOs of AIM-listed companies. The company’s platform allows private investors to opportunistically bid for new shares in AIM companies on their own terms. It also provides PrimaryBid, an application that offers the private investor access to equity placings. Primarybid Limited has strategic partnerships with Shore Capital Group; finnCap; and Arden. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

ZBD Displays

Venture Round in 2005
ZBD is a leader in the design and supply of the next generation of electronic shelf edge labelling (ESL) - epaper for retail - and associated software solutions for the retail industry. The company blends strategic vision and commercial focus with world-class scientific, engineering and manufacturing expertise.

PrimaryBid

Private Placement in 2020
Primarybid Limited operates an online investment platform that allows private investors to gain access to placings, fund raisings, and IPOs of AIM-listed companies. The company’s platform allows private investors to opportunistically bid for new shares in AIM companies on their own terms. It also provides PrimaryBid, an application that offers the private investor access to equity placings. Primarybid Limited has strategic partnerships with Shore Capital Group; finnCap; and Arden. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

evonetix

Series B in 2023
evonetix is a new spin-out company that is currently incubating in the centre of the world-renowned Cambridge cluster of high-tech and life science organisations. We are seeking to develop and commercialise a new approach to the synthesis of DNA to facilitate the fast-emerging and exciting field of synthetic biology. By employing novel techniques we are able to advance DNA synthesis to levels never before seen. Our engineering team has decades of experience developing high integrity automated systems. Our high calibre team brings together expertise from across the scientific and engineering disciplines.

Kaptivo

Venture Round in 2018
Kaptivo uses AI to make visual collaboration easier and more efficient. With Kaptivo, remote meetings now include live-streamed whiteboard content, with augmented capabilities including automatic note-taking. With Kaptivo, remote meetings now include live-streamed whiteboard content, with augmented capabilities including automatic note-taking. Businesses and schools use Kaptivo in conjunction with Zoom, Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, Slack and other collaboration tools to improve productivity while keeping content secure.

Doutissima

Seed Round in 2014
The Doutissima.com.br is a website specially dedicated to the Brazilian public, with the goal of informing, caring, alert and give tips about health, beauty and wellness.

Riverlane

Series A in 2021
Riverlane is the most advanced quantum computing software developer

Decibel

Private Placement in 2019
Decibel reveals exactly how users behave on websites and apps, making it easy for enterprise businesses to quantify and improve the customer experience at every digital touchpoint. Decibel is powered by machine learning, their award-winning technology processes hundreds of revolutionary behavioral metrics – from mouse movements and device rotations, to pop-ups and errors – capturing an accurate picture of every user’s on-page experience. The world’s largest brands – including Lego, General Motors, British Airways, and AllState Insurance – use Decibel to pinpoint opportunities to improve the customer experience and collaborate across their organizations to put the customer first.

Netronome

Venture Round in 2012
Netronome offers server networking and coprocessor platforms, including silicon accelerators, SmartNICs, and software. It enables customers to increase the efficiency and security of their modern data center infrastructure. Netronome's solutions enable innovation at lower cost and power through domain-specific, open and efficient programming models and the ability to offload network and security processing. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Back Office Technology Ltd

Private Placement in 2020
Back Office Technology Ltd, doing business as Form3 Financial Cloud, develops and operates a cloud-based platform for complete processing of payments for licensed payment providers. The company's clients include regulated financial institutions, including banks, non-bank financial institutions, and financial technology companies. Back Office Technology Ltd was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Freetrade

Series A in 2019
Freetrade is a brokerage application that offers free share dealing services. They believe investing should be accessible to everyone that's why they aims to make it accessible to everyone. Its app received Best Share Trading Platform at the British Bank Awards 2019. Freetrade was started in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

CrateDB

Seed Round in 2015
CRATE Technology GmbH provides an open source distributed SQL database. It offers a distributed SQL query engine that lets users to use the same syntax that already exists in their applications or integrations and execute queries; handles transactional and analytical needs in one single database; supports web, mobile, and IoT applications; and repairs node failures, and container disappearance or re-appearance, as well as writes or reads from any container in the cluster. The company’s solutions are used in applications in Big Data analytics, full text search, geospatial queries, and aggregation across large datasets. It serves its customers in Austria and internationally. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Dornbirn, Austria with additional offices in San Francisco, California; and Berlin, Germany.

Aircall

Private Placement in 2020
Aircall, Inc. provides software for startups, and small and medium businesses for phone support. It offers Aircall, a SaaS application that allows companies to set up and manage phone support online. Aircall, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Telarus Inc . The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Paris, France.

PrimaryBid

Series B in 2020
Primarybid Limited operates an online investment platform that allows private investors to gain access to placings, fund raisings, and IPOs of AIM-listed companies. The company’s platform allows private investors to opportunistically bid for new shares in AIM companies on their own terms. It also provides PrimaryBid, an application that offers the private investor access to equity placings. Primarybid Limited has strategic partnerships with Shore Capital Group; finnCap; and Arden. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

SportPursuit

Series C in 2015
SportPursuit is the UKs first sport-specific flash sales website featuring top quality sports products and services from the world's best brands. During their 7 days flash sales, members receive exclusive access to sales at up to 70% off RRP in a fun, content rich, personalised environment. SportPursuit works very closely with its brand partners to help enhance their brand image through push marketing to their large targeted member base of sports enthusiasts, encouraging brand engagement and trial.

Teads

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Teads, founded in 2011, is the inventor of outstream video advertising and the leading native video advertising marketplace. Publishers work with Teads to create new video inventory, monetizing it through programmatic buying, their own sales force, or third parties including Teads Demand. Teads pioneers advertising experiences that respect the user, creating unprecedented levels of premium inventory which previously didn’t exist. Teads has a team of over 600 employees, 100 of which are in the innovation team, across 27 global offices. In May 2017, Teads became part of the Altice Group, a convergent global leader in telecom, content, media, entertainment and advertising.

Polatis

Venture Round in 2009
Polatis is a provider of optical switching technology. Founded in 2005 as the merger of leading optical technology companies from Cambridge Massachusetts and Cambridge UK, Polatis combined products, technologies and resources to create new solutions for modern fiber-based networks.

Polatis

Venture Round in 2012
Polatis is a provider of optical switching technology. Founded in 2005 as the merger of leading optical technology companies from Cambridge Massachusetts and Cambridge UK, Polatis combined products, technologies and resources to create new solutions for modern fiber-based networks.

Thought Machine

Series B in 2020
Thought Machine Group Limited develops and provides Vault, a cloud native core banking platform which runs data in real time within the system automating data analytics and regulatory reporting. Its platform provides services, such as smart contracts, databases, data analytics, workflows, banking operations website, customer application programming interface (API), website ,and mobile application, customer data management, and integrations. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Kaptivo

Venture Round in 2017
Kaptivo uses AI to make visual collaboration easier and more efficient. With Kaptivo, remote meetings now include live-streamed whiteboard content, with augmented capabilities including automatic note-taking. With Kaptivo, remote meetings now include live-streamed whiteboard content, with augmented capabilities including automatic note-taking. Businesses and schools use Kaptivo in conjunction with Zoom, Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, Slack and other collaboration tools to improve productivity while keeping content secure.

Perkbox

Venture Round in 2019
Perkbox is a cloud-based HR technology platform designed to help improve staff engagement and interaction between management and teams. It offers a suite of products including a platform with access to best in class perks and services and a reward and recognition function. It serves companies of all sizes from SMEs to FTSEs with names such as OpenTable, Wasabi, Hawksmoor, Rentalcars and Levi Strauss & Co. and has 500,000+ users. Based in London and with offices in Sheffield, Perkbox also owns London-based Loyalty Bay, a platform for the automated delivery of digital rewards. Perkbox has raised over £11.0 million in funding from investors such as Alex Chesterman, founder of LoveFilm & Zoopla, Sherry Coutu, former advisory board member at Linkedin, as well as the leading European venture capital firm Draper Esprit.

ICEYE

Private Placement in 2020
ICEYE Oy provides real-time access to imagery through optical imaging technology. It enables users to monitor illegal fishing, oil spills, storm damage, and forest growth; monitor crops growth, storm damages, and pest movements; map other planets for resources and ensure exploration safety; monitor flood damage, receive real-time mapping for aid activities, and conduct maritine search and rescue; and monitor port or storage activity, monitor sea ice and icebergs, track pirate vessels, and view highway activity. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

Lifesum

Series B in 2016
Lifesum is a Swedish digital health startup with the vision to make people healthier and happier by using applied psychology and technology. Founded in 2013 with headquarters in central Stockholm, the company is growing fast and was selected by Wired UK as one of Stockholm's 10 hottest startups.

Decibel

Series B in 2020
Decibel reveals exactly how users behave on websites and apps, making it easy for enterprise businesses to quantify and improve the customer experience at every digital touchpoint. Decibel is powered by machine learning, their award-winning technology processes hundreds of revolutionary behavioral metrics – from mouse movements and device rotations, to pop-ups and errors – capturing an accurate picture of every user’s on-page experience. The world’s largest brands – including Lego, General Motors, British Airways, and AllState Insurance – use Decibel to pinpoint opportunities to improve the customer experience and collaborate across their organizations to put the customer first.

AllPlants

Series B in 2021
AllPlants operates as UK's vegan meal delivery service. All their packaging is 100% recyclable, partly compostable, and mostly reusable. They’re creating delicious dinners to inspire more plant-based living, so people + planet thrive together. To start that journey, They’re delivering their hand-prepared meals to doorsteps UK-wide.

RhodeCode

Series A in 2014
RhodeCode is an enterprise source code management platform. It applies unified user control, permissions, code reviews, and tool integration across Mercurial, Git, and Subversion repositories. Large and growing software teams all over the world use RhodeCode to collaborate in a secure, behind-the-firewall environment. RhodeCode Community Edition is free and open source, developed in collaboration with the community. It has a rich of set of features for repository management and code collaboration that work across Git, Mercurial, and SVN repositories. It also comes with a set of APIs to create your own extensions and applications based on your existing ecosystem. RhodeCode Enterprise Edition is purpose-built to meet the needs of the enterprise environment. It adds enterprise-valued features such as common enterprise authentication, breakthrough prevention, and ready-made integration with existing enterprise tools. It also comes with premium technical support and application monitoring. RhodeCode was Founded in 2010 by Marcin Kuzminski. Initially as OpenSource project it grew with stable user base. It was addopted by the biggest and most secure companies in the World. Their company has offices in Berlin and Silicon Valley; just like their user base, the team is a multi-cultural bunch too.

Endomag

Series C in 2018
Endomag is a medical technology company devoted to improving the global standard of cancer care. The company's Sentimag probe, Magseed marker, and Magtrac node marker are already in use by many of the world’s leading physicians and cancer centers. Endomag's goal is to help women with breast cancer avoid surgery when it isn’t needed, and experience better outcomes when it is. As of 2019, the company has already helped 70,000+ women around the world access more precise and less invasive breast cancer care. Founded in 2007 as a spin-out from the University of Houston and the University College London (UCL), Endomag continues to develop its unique clinical platform from its headquarters in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The company sells its products through a network of distributors in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australasia.

Perkbox

Private Placement in 2019
Perkbox is a cloud-based HR technology platform designed to help improve staff engagement and interaction between management and teams. It offers a suite of products including a platform with access to best in class perks and services and a reward and recognition function. It serves companies of all sizes from SMEs to FTSEs with names such as OpenTable, Wasabi, Hawksmoor, Rentalcars and Levi Strauss & Co. and has 500,000+ users. Based in London and with offices in Sheffield, Perkbox also owns London-based Loyalty Bay, a platform for the automated delivery of digital rewards. Perkbox has raised over £11.0 million in funding from investors such as Alex Chesterman, founder of LoveFilm & Zoopla, Sherry Coutu, former advisory board member at Linkedin, as well as the leading European venture capital firm Draper Esprit.

Trustpilot

Venture Round in 2017
Trustpilot is the world’s most powerful review platform - free and open to all. With more than 58 million reviews of over 270,000 domains, Trustpilot gives people a place to share and discover reviews of businesses, and we give every company the tools to turn consumer feedback into business results. Our mission is to bring people and businesses closer together to create ever-improving experiences for everyone. Trustpilot reviews are seen more than 3 billion times each month by consumers worldwide. With offices in Copenhagen, London, New York, Denver, Berlin, Melbourne and Vilnius, Trustpilot's 700 employees represent more than 40 different nationalities. For more information, visit https://www.trustpilot.com/

Lyst

Series B in 2014
Lyst is a global fashion search platform used by 70 million shoppers every year. Offering over 4 million fashion products from 11,000 of the world’s leading fashion brands and stores, Lyst brings together the widest inventory in luxury and contemporary fashion online. The company has raised $60 million to date, and is backed by range of all-star investors including 14W (Moda Operandi, Reformation), Accel Partners (Facebook, Spotify), Balderton (Yoox Net-A-Porter Group), Draper Esprit, part of the Draper Venture Network (Hotmail, Skype), and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and Tory Burch.

Graphcore

Private Placement in 2018
Graphcore Limited, a hardware systems company develops intelligent processing units. It offers IPU-Accelerator cards, which can be plugged into a server to accelerate machine-learning applications; and IPU-Appliance products that provide enhanced performance to deliver inference systems supporting various users or provide faster training. Graphcore Limited was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Bristol, United Kingdom with additional locations in Palo Alto, California; London, United Kingdom; Oslo, Norway; and Beijing, China.

Polatis

Venture Round in 2005
Polatis is a provider of optical switching technology. Founded in 2005 as the merger of leading optical technology companies from Cambridge Massachusetts and Cambridge UK, Polatis combined products, technologies and resources to create new solutions for modern fiber-based networks.

Unbound

Seed Round in 2013
Unbound is an award-winning online crowd-funded publisher that allows authors to pitch their book ideas directly to readers. If readers like a book idea they can pledge to support a book. Once a book reaches enough supporters to make it financially viable, the author can go ahead and write the book, which is then edited, typeset, printed and distributed by Unbound. The books bear the names of all the subscribers that enabled the book to happen.

HiveMQ

Series A in 2022
HiveMQ helps companies connect devices to the Internet. They make it possible to move data from device to cloud in a secure, reliable and scalable manner. Over 100 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, rely on their product in production for mission critical use cases like connected cars, logistics, Industry 4.0 and connected IoT products.

Trustpilot

Series D in 2015
Trustpilot is the world’s most powerful review platform - free and open to all. With more than 58 million reviews of over 270,000 domains, Trustpilot gives people a place to share and discover reviews of businesses, and we give every company the tools to turn consumer feedback into business results. Our mission is to bring people and businesses closer together to create ever-improving experiences for everyone. Trustpilot reviews are seen more than 3 billion times each month by consumers worldwide. With offices in Copenhagen, London, New York, Denver, Berlin, Melbourne and Vilnius, Trustpilot's 700 employees represent more than 40 different nationalities. For more information, visit https://www.trustpilot.com/

StrikeAd

Series A in 2013
StrikeAd UK Limited provides programmatic advertising across multiple devices. Its platform lets its clients to plan, build, and evaluate campaigns; and provides intuitive dashboard, advanced targeting, media planning tools, advanced optimization, campaign setup, and real-time reporting. The company offers precise targeting, transparency, optimization, engagement, and sales services. StrikeAd UK Limited was founded in 2010 and is based in London, United Kingdom with locations in New York, New York; and Singapore.

Form3

Series B in 2018
Form3 delivers cloud-based connectivity, payment processing, clearing and settlement services. It is a fully managed payment technology service combining a powerful AWS cloud processing platform, multiple-scheme payment gateways and a fully managed 24x7 service model. Form3's powerful micro-services architecture and API's provide a single point of simple access to the full universe of payment schemes. Its clients include a wide range of regulated financial institutions, including leading banks, non-bank financial institutions, and fintech companies (payment institutions, e-money providers, and pre-paid card providers). Form3 was founded in 2016 and is based in London, England.

RedKite Financial Markets

Series A in 2011
Redkite Financial Markets was established in 2009 to equip financial institutions with the tools and knowledge to better monitor their trading activities in today's complex market environment.

Freetrade

Debt Financing in 2022
Freetrade is a brokerage application that offers free share dealing services. They believe investing should be accessible to everyone that's why they aims to make it accessible to everyone. Its app received Best Share Trading Platform at the British Bank Awards 2019. Freetrade was started in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

SatVu

Series A in 2021
Satellite Vu will monitor the temperature of every building on the planet in near real time to determine valuable insights into economic activity, energy efficiency and carbon footprint. ​We are passionate about supporting decision making around the world related to: the Energy industry, investors monitoring economic activity, sustainable finance. Natural Disaster responders, building operators & Plastics Cleanup.

Curio

Series A in 2020
Curio Labs Limited develops a software application that enables users to listen to news articles from various publications. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

evonetix

Series A in 2018
evonetix is a new spin-out company that is currently incubating in the centre of the world-renowned Cambridge cluster of high-tech and life science organisations. We are seeking to develop and commercialise a new approach to the synthesis of DNA to facilitate the fast-emerging and exciting field of synthetic biology. By employing novel techniques we are able to advance DNA synthesis to levels never before seen. Our engineering team has decades of experience developing high integrity automated systems. Our high calibre team brings together expertise from across the scientific and engineering disciplines.

Cervest

Series A in 2021
Cervest Limited develops AI powered machine learning platform that forecasts risks and opportunities for sustainable growth. The company’s platform is used to translate the complex data that exists related to Earth Science AI and climate, and generate results via machine learning. It serves customers in food and beverage, and insurance industries, as well as governments. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Conversocial

Series A in 2013
Conversocial (UK) Ltd develops Conversocial, a social media management software that support and resolve at scale on social and mobile channels. It also provides CROWDS, a community social resolution on Twitter. Its client services include strategy development and consulting, execution, monitoring, and ongoing refinement; implementation and enablement; and insights and optimization services. The company serves telecoms, transport and travel, hospitality and leisure, retail, utilities, and finance. Conversocial (UK) Ltd was formerly known as Iplatform Ltd and changed its name to Conversocial (UK) Ltd in July 2011. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Crowdcube

Private Placement in 2018
Crowdcube Limited operates an investment crowd funding platform for raising business finance. The company's clientele include Affresol Ltd, Stakis Daycare Nurseries Ltd, Sweetly Stevia Ltd, OVIVO Mobile Communications Limited, Quantock Brewery Limited, and J R Gaunt & Son (London) Limited. Crowdcube Limited platform allows entrepreneurs to rise funding from their own network of friends, family, customers and strangers. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Exeter, United Kingdom with additional office in London, United Kingdom.

Hadean

Venture Round in 2019
Hadean Supercomputing Ltd. develops an application platform that enables developers to run algorithms using existing tool chain. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Push Dr Limited

Private Placement in 2020
Push Dr Limited provides online doctor consultation services. Its platform allows users to book an appointment; and allows general practitioners to provide diagnoses, recommend treatment, and prescribe medication through a video consultation for common medical conditions, including skin conditions, mental health, joint pain, eye problems, ear problems, sexual health, stomach and digestive problems, allergies, pregnancy-related conditions, headaches and migraines, bites and stings, and hair loss, as well as cold, flu, and respiratory tract infections. The company also provides referral letters, prescriptions, sick notes, medical records, family health advice, smoking medication, and mobile application. Push Dr Limited was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Manchester, United Kingdom with an additional office in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Paragraf

Series B in 2022
Paragraf Ltd. is a graphene technology development company that focuses on the production of two-dimensional materials. The company develops graphene-based electronic devices; green energy generation devices, such as solar PV cells; and sensors. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Somersham, United Kingdom.

Resolver

Series A in 2016
Resolver is a unique, independent online resolution service. We offer one place and one process to connect consumers directly to the people who can resolve their customer service issues. Our system is focused on communication and fair, efficient resolution. We help consumers get their voices heard effectively, so businesses get their issues resolved more efficiently. This way, the consumer is happy with the outcome and the business retains the customer. The Resolver platform offers fully online, end-to-end arbitration and dispute resolution, providing a fast and cost-efficient way to resolve disputes between two third parties. For businesses, Resolver offers value-added services, providing an enhanced issue-resolution process and real-time consumer feedback insight at every touchpoint using advanced AI programming systems.

XMOS

Series A in 2006
XMOS Limited provides voice and music processing and control ICs to audio companies worldwide. The company offers voice controller solutions for designers to prototype their voice capture applications, including array microphones, smart microphones, and virtual digital assistants applications; multi-channel audio connectivity products; multicore microcontrollers, including voice and audio processors; and xTIMEcomposer tools, a C/C++ based software development environment that delivers real-time performance with validation. The company also provides support services. It sells its products through a network of distributors and sales representatives. XMOS Limited was founded in 2005 and is based in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Endomagnetics Ltd.

Private Placement in 2018
Endomagnetics Ltd. develops a clinical platform that uses magnetic fields to power diagnostic and therapeutic devices. The company offers Sentimag, an instrument for ultrasensitive detection in pre-and post-incision use for a range of hospitals and clinics; Sienna, a tracer that produces a transient magnetic response; Magseed to guide surgeons using Sentimag during a breast lumpectomy; Magtrace, a non-radioactive dual-tracer for lymphatic mapping in patients with breast cancer undergoing a mastectomy; and Siennova, a therapeutic hyperthermia system used as an adjuvant to chemo- and radiotherapy. It sells its products through a network of distributors in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australasia. Endomagnetics Ltd. was founded in 2007 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Metalysis

Private Placement in 2018
Metalysis Limited manufactures metals and alloys. It offers titanium, tantalum, and other high value metals. The company also provides powder metallurgy and additives. In addition, it offers analytical services. Metalysis Limited was formerly known as FFC Ltd. and changed its name to Metalysis Limited in June 2003. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Rotherham, United Kingdom.

Resolver

Venture Round in 2017
Resolver is a unique, independent online resolution service. We offer one place and one process to connect consumers directly to the people who can resolve their customer service issues. Our system is focused on communication and fair, efficient resolution. We help consumers get their voices heard effectively, so businesses get their issues resolved more efficiently. This way, the consumer is happy with the outcome and the business retains the customer. The Resolver platform offers fully online, end-to-end arbitration and dispute resolution, providing a fast and cost-efficient way to resolve disputes between two third parties. For businesses, Resolver offers value-added services, providing an enhanced issue-resolution process and real-time consumer feedback insight at every touchpoint using advanced AI programming systems.

CrateDB

Venture Round in 2021
CRATE Technology GmbH provides an open source distributed SQL database. It offers a distributed SQL query engine that lets users to use the same syntax that already exists in their applications or integrations and execute queries; handles transactional and analytical needs in one single database; supports web, mobile, and IoT applications; and repairs node failures, and container disappearance or re-appearance, as well as writes or reads from any container in the cluster. The company’s solutions are used in applications in Big Data analytics, full text search, geospatial queries, and aggregation across large datasets. It serves its customers in Austria and internationally. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Dornbirn, Austria with additional offices in San Francisco, California; and Berlin, Germany.

FintechOS

Series B in 2021
FintechOS SRL develops artificial intelligence enabled platform for financial institutions. The company offers technology for digital transformation on disruptive, open-cloud, Omni-channel orchestration platform. The company offers FintechOS Innovation Core applications on platform, including Digital Experience Portal, Digital Customer 360, Digital Product Factory, Digital Identity Management, Digital Robo Designer, and Digital Document Management. It also offers FintechOS Academy for e-learning methods and inquiry based teaching. FintechOS SRL was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Bucharest, Romania.

Tribold

Series B in 2007
Tribold is the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Product Management (EPM) software specifically developed for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). Tribold EPM™ is a single, integrated suite of Enterprise Product Management applications that empowers CSPs to put products at the heart of their business. Tribold EPM™ is based on a Centralized Product & Service Catalog (CPC) and a Product & Service Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Dramatic improvements in product management performance enable CSPs to drive increased profit by reducing time to market, decreased cost to market, increased quality of the product management process and increased ability to support product and service innovation. Today, Tribold EPM manages over US$64b of products and services for our customers. Headquartered in London, and with offices in North America and Asia, Tribold was founded in 2003 and is privately held.

ieso

Series B in 2021
Ieso Digital Health Ltd. provides online evidence-based mental health therapy. The company’s online talking therapy service provides an environment for patients dealing with common mental health conditions, such as anxiety, bereavement, child and family, depression, eating disorders, managing anger, managing pain, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic, phobias, post-traumatic stress, relationships, sexual difficulties, sleep, stress management, substance misuse, and terminal illness. It also provides services for people with chronic physical health problems, medically unexplained symptoms, and mild learning disability/cognitive impairment. The company provides one-to-one therapy using an online service that enables patients to meet their accredited therapist in a virtual environment at a time and location that is convenient for them. It serves health providers, including the NHS; private individuals; and businesses. Ieso Digital Health Ltd. was formerly known as PsychologyOnline.co.uk Limited and changed its name to Ieso Digital Health Ltd. in January 2015. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Swavesey, United Kingdom.

Kiadis Pharma

Venture Round in 2012
Kiadis Pharma is a biopharmaceutical company focused on complications and limitations of hematopoietic stem cell transplants in blood cancer patients. The company has three blood cancer products in clinical development that offer novel treatment options for terminally ill cancer patients addressing high-unmet medical needs. Kiadis Pharma is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Gardin

Seed Round in 2021
Gardin develops optical phenotyping technology and analytics to optimise food production.

GreenPeak Technologies

Venture Round in 2006
GreenPeak Technologies BV, a fabless semiconductor/system company, develops ultra-low power wireless data communication controller chips for smart home applications and consumer electronics. It provides communication controller semiconductor products and software technologies for smart home data communications; a range of IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee silicon solutions; and Senior Lifestyle sensor and cloud based intelligent system technology to enable children and their elderly parents to privately and securely share lifestyle information. The company also offers integration, support, and training services. It markets and sells its products to OEMs and ODMs in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin-America. GreenPeak Technologies BV has a strategic partnership with Sensara. GreenPeak Technologies BV was formerly known as Xanadu Wireless BV and changed its name to GreenPeak Technologies BV in 2007. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Utrecht, the Netherlands with additional offices in Belgium, China, France, the United States, Japan, and Korea. As of April 29, 2016, GreenPeak Technologies BV operates as a subsidiary of Qorvo, Inc.

CrateDB

Seed Round in 2014
CRATE Technology GmbH provides an open source distributed SQL database. It offers a distributed SQL query engine that lets users to use the same syntax that already exists in their applications or integrations and execute queries; handles transactional and analytical needs in one single database; supports web, mobile, and IoT applications; and repairs node failures, and container disappearance or re-appearance, as well as writes or reads from any container in the cluster. The company’s solutions are used in applications in Big Data analytics, full text search, geospatial queries, and aggregation across large datasets. It serves its customers in Austria and internationally. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Dornbirn, Austria with additional offices in San Francisco, California; and Berlin, Germany.

Perkbox

Series B in 2016
Perkbox is a cloud-based HR technology platform designed to help improve staff engagement and interaction between management and teams. It offers a suite of products including a platform with access to best in class perks and services and a reward and recognition function. It serves companies of all sizes from SMEs to FTSEs with names such as OpenTable, Wasabi, Hawksmoor, Rentalcars and Levi Strauss & Co. and has 500,000+ users. Based in London and with offices in Sheffield, Perkbox also owns London-based Loyalty Bay, a platform for the automated delivery of digital rewards. Perkbox has raised over £11.0 million in funding from investors such as Alex Chesterman, founder of LoveFilm & Zoopla, Sherry Coutu, former advisory board member at Linkedin, as well as the leading European venture capital firm Draper Esprit.

Graze

Venture Round in 2009
Graze is a UK based company that delivers natural foods, particularly fruits and vegetables, to residential homes or workplaces daily.

Neul

Venture Round in 2011
Neul, a Cambridge, UK-based company that develops wireless network technology to enable the use of TV “white space” spectrum.

ICEYE

Series B in 2018
ICEYE Oy provides real-time access to imagery through optical imaging technology. It enables users to monitor illegal fishing, oil spills, storm damage, and forest growth; monitor crops growth, storm damages, and pest movements; map other planets for resources and ensure exploration safety; monitor flood damage, receive real-time mapping for aid activities, and conduct maritine search and rescue; and monitor port or storage activity, monitor sea ice and icebergs, track pirate vessels, and view highway activity. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

CoachHub

Series C in 2022
coachhub GmbH operates a digital learning and cloud coaching platform. The company offers bi-weekly personal video coaching sessions with top business coaches and personalized micro-learning nuggets added by the coach. It serves automotive, consumer goods, energy, fashion and lifestyle, financial services, industrial goods, media and entertainment, retail, technology, travel and hospitality, consulting and services, environment and sustainability, pharma and health, and real estate and construction industries. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

causaLens

Series A in 2022
causaLens Ltd. develops and offers an application software using predictive technology. The company's product CLPU (causaLens Predictive Unit) use the process of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and time series data to clean data in real time and adapt to changing world. Its product is used in energy, asset management, food production, insurance, oil and gas, healthcare, and transport and logistics industries. causaLens Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Ledger

Series B in 2018
Ledger develops security and infrastructure solutions for cryptocurrencies as well as blockchain applications for individuals and companies, by leveraging a distinctive, proprietary technology. Launched in 2014, Ledger has designed an acclaimed line of hardware security devices quickly placing the company as a global leader on the market with 1,000,000 units sold in more than 165 countries. For enterprises and corporations, Ledger introduced the Vault: a fully managed SaaS solution addressing the need to safeguard a very large amount of multiple cryptocurrencies while mitigating both IT and physical assault threats. The company is also active on the industrial IoT market, leveraging its secure hardware technology to interface sensors and machines to smart contracts or blockchain based assets. Ledger is headquartered in Paris, has a production facility in Vierzon (France) and offices in San Francisco.

SimScale

Series C in 2021
SimScale is a web platform that allows engineers to simulate and analyze the physical behavior of their products with a standard web browser, helping engineers to develop their products faster, easier and better. By providing instant access to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element analysis (FEA), SimScale has moved high-fidelity physics simulation technology from a complex and cost-prohibitive desktop application only available to experts in large companies to a user-friendly web application accessible to any designer and engineer in the world. SimScale was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Datahug

Series A in 2013
Datahug provides next-generation sales software that applies data science to a sales team's existing workflow to increase efficiency, improve predictability and drive revenue. With Datahug, deal activity is automatically entered into a company's CRM and analyzed with machine learning algorithms. The results are used to provide useful insights for every member of the sales team. Sales reps see prescriptive steps to close their deals based on the patterns of successful deals in the past. Sales managers get real-time insight on the state of the deals in their pipeline. And Sales VPs improve their forecast accuracy to 95%. Overall, organizations using Datahug improve their close rates by an average of 21%.

ICEYE

Private Placement in 2018
ICEYE Oy provides real-time access to imagery through optical imaging technology. It enables users to monitor illegal fishing, oil spills, storm damage, and forest growth; monitor crops growth, storm damages, and pest movements; map other planets for resources and ensure exploration safety; monitor flood damage, receive real-time mapping for aid activities, and conduct maritine search and rescue; and monitor port or storage activity, monitor sea ice and icebergs, track pirate vessels, and view highway activity. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

Netronome

Series E in 2013
Netronome offers server networking and coprocessor platforms, including silicon accelerators, SmartNICs, and software. It enables customers to increase the efficiency and security of their modern data center infrastructure. Netronome's solutions enable innovation at lower cost and power through domain-specific, open and efficient programming models and the ability to offload network and security processing. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Lyst

Series A in 2012
Lyst is a global fashion search platform used by 70 million shoppers every year. Offering over 4 million fashion products from 11,000 of the world’s leading fashion brands and stores, Lyst brings together the widest inventory in luxury and contemporary fashion online. The company has raised $60 million to date, and is backed by range of all-star investors including 14W (Moda Operandi, Reformation), Accel Partners (Facebook, Spotify), Balderton (Yoox Net-A-Porter Group), Draper Esprit, part of the Draper Venture Network (Hotmail, Skype), and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and Tory Burch.

ZBD Displays

Venture Round in 2006
ZBD is a leader in the design and supply of the next generation of electronic shelf edge labelling (ESL) - epaper for retail - and associated software solutions for the retail industry. The company blends strategic vision and commercial focus with world-class scientific, engineering and manufacturing expertise.

IndyKite

Seed Round in 2022
IndyKite is a cloud identity platform built to secure and manage human & non-person (IoT) identities and their data.