2017年10月16日

分享這篇文章:英國風險投資公司Draper Esprit在科技投入,科技創業公司的支持者包括Transferwise;第一集投資,投資於Zoopla, Lovefilm和必發。此舉是德雷伯Esprit的更廣泛戰略的一部分投資高達£75 m的頭號種子基金在歐洲未來五年。此外,總部位於倫敦的風險投資公司將繼續投資每年約£100 m的科技公司在係列,B和C +輪。今天的新聞之後播出的英國風投關注潛在的歐洲投資基金的資金凍結後(如果)去年Brexit公投。萊西瑪·Sohoni,聯合創始人、高級合夥人Seedcamp的評論道:“在科技產業有一個關鍵因素的模型,給了我們一個性能優勢。原料是我們的有限合夥人,我們仔細選擇他們。我們努力讓有經驗的天使,頂級風投,活躍的企業和知識淵博的家庭辦公室和基金的基金在桌子上。”德雷伯,我們很高興得到雙重組合——一位頂級風投能夠投資在係列和超越我們的公司和基金的基金業務關係我們可以從中受益。我們很榮幸第一個投資他們的新基金的基金。” Simon Murdoch, managing partner of Episode 1, went on to say: “We’ve known Draper Esprit for many years and are excited to be working with them again. As a leading Seed fund our role is to find and accelerate UK startups helping them to become the sort of rapidly growing businesses that Draper Esprit want to invest in and grow to global success stories.” Simon Cook , CEO at Draper Esprit, which has also backed crowdfunding platforms Seedrs and Crowdcube, added: “By partnering with the best Seed funds, we can help them scale up their series A and B funding rounds more quickly, which in turn will accelerate growth for the most ambitious entrepreneurs. “We have a number of pools of capital to back leading entrepreneurs and to deploy across the different funding life cycles of fast-growing technology companies. External investors both institutional and private can use our evergreen listed venture capital model to access, on a pooled basis, the top Seed funding platforms, screened and picked by our experienced team. This gives them exposure to a very important asset class on a pooled portfolio approach; giving a degree of risk mitigation, with added liquidity and without them having to sift through and pick individual seed funds themselves.” Cook also highlighted the need for UK investors to continue having access to the early-stage investment opportunities post-Brexit. “Having established itself as a leading hub for technology entrepreneurs from all over the world, the UK needs to keep supporting all stages of venture funding. Draper Esprit is building a business of scale, partnering with leading institutional and private investors, to support and benefit from high growth private technology companies across Europe,” he concluded. Interested in finding out more about the latest industry deals? Check out our UK tech investment tracker .