Company Profile

Molten Ventures Plc, formerly known as Draper Esprit plc, is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in directly investing as well as investing in other funds. In direct investments, the firm invests in any stage in the lifecycle of a business from seed, early stage, later stage, later venture, and series A stage, mature, growth capital, pre-IPO investments, IPO or acquisition, late stage, start-ups, cross-stage investments, buyouts, PIPES, and also makes direct and secondary investments in portfolio companies. It also seeks to buy entire funds from other tech investors. The firm primarily invests in companies from pre-revenue stage upwards. It primarily invests in technology-oriented business. The firm typically invests in digital technology, digital health and wellness, AI, cloud, enterprise, consumer, utilities, communication equipment, financial technology, infrastructure services, commerce, enterprise and data, systems and semiconductors, commercial digital lending, consumer digital lending, online trading systems, internet, telecommunications equipment, mobile, media, renewable energy, consumer technology, enterprise software, education services, consumer electronics, home furnishings, homebuilding, household appliances, housewares and specialties, retail, apparel and luxury goods, enterprise technology, SaaS, deep-tech, health care technology, digital health and wellness and healthcare sectors, software, hardware, medical technology, and life sciences sectors. It invests in companies based in Europe, United states, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Portugal, France, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, and United Kingdom. The firm seeks to invest between £2 million ($2.27 million) and £50 million ($56.87 million). It invests 30 percent of its corpus in very early stage companies with up to $5 million in revenues. The firm seeks to make minority and majority investments. Molten Ventures Plc was founded in 1984 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Dublin, Ireland.