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Downing

Downing

Venture Capital

Downing is an investment manager that has raised over £1.7bn across sectors ranging from renewable energy to technology.


Recent investments

Series A
£5.0M

The investment round was led by AlbionVC, with participation from Downing Ventures and Unilever Ventures.

"There is an opportunity for brands to transform their customer service by leveraging the power of the crowd. Creating a customer community which engages and rewards customers for helping other customers is the future – it is better, faster and cheaper. However, executing this at scale needs a rare combination of tech savvy and deep domain expertise – which Team Limitless have in spades from the previous business they built. We are proud to support Roger and Megan achieve their exciting vision."
— Robert Whitby-Smith, Partner
Series B
£5.0M

The funding round was led by Downing Ventures with participation from existing investors BGF and Beringea.

"At Firefly, our ambition is to supercharge the school experience, so every student can reach their potential. This investment will enable us to move more quickly towards empowering teachers, students and parents, adding to the hundreds of thousands using the tool every day."
— Simon Hay, Co-founder
Series B
£6.5M

The video management platform raised the Series B capital from Downing Ventures, Guinness Asset Management, and Cambridge Innovation Capital.

"This funding is clear recognition of the value our partners and prospects see in the platform. We have a world class roster of clients across the sports, media and enterprise sectors and have a healthy pipeline going into 2019. We look forward to accelerating our global operations and are thrilled to be working with new investors to continue shaping the future of video management."
— Charlie Horrell, CEO
£6.5M

Beringea led the investment alongside Downing Ventures and returning backers.

"These are exciting times for Exonar. To receive significant backing from Beringea and Downing Ventures reinforces our belief that the Exonar platform has a significant role to play in enterprise-level data discovery and management. We have a clear vision for future development and the investment will enable us to further enhance our product, enabling our customers to meet current and future data demands such as GDPR and CCPA swiftly, simply and at scale."
— Adrian Barrett, CEO and Founder
Series B
£6.5M

Downing Ventures led the Series B round with participation from Guinness Asset Management and Cambridge Innovation Capital.

"This funding is clear recognition of the value our partners and prospects see in the platform. We have a world class roster of clients across the sports, media and enterprise sectors and have a healthy pipeline going into 2019. We look forward to accelerating our global operations and are thrilled to be working with new investors to continue shaping the future of video management."
— Charlie Horrell, CEO