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Maven

Maven

Venture Capital

Maven is a private equity house that provides flexible funding for high growth businesses and smaller companies across the UK.

Portfolio

12

companies

AUM

£660M

under management


Portfolio companies

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Sensoteq

Sensoteq designs and manufactures wireless industrial sensors for remote equipment monitoring.

XR Games

XR Games

Leeds-based virtual reality games developer creating immersive titles for major entertainment brands.

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Ideiio

Ideiio provides identity governance and administration software for mid market organisations.

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RwHealth

RwHealth provides an artificial intelligence platform for healthcare providers to model treatment options and improve patient outcomes.

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Flynotes

Flynotes provides a digital healthcare consent platform for medical and dental treatment.

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Gen inCode

Gen inCode provides genetic testing and predictive DNA risk assessment products for healthcare practitioners.

Quorum Cyber

Quorum Cyber

Quorum Cyber provides professional and managed security services to protect organisations against cyber attacks and data breaches.

Hublsoft

Hublsoft

Hublsoft simplifies data analytics and visualisation for corporate decision makers through a scalable software platform.

Filtered Technologies

Filtered Technologies

Filtered Technologies develops artificial intelligence software for corporate learning and development.

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Simul Software

Simul Software builds real time rendering and simulation tools for games and virtual reality.

Symphonic Software

Symphonic Software

Symphonic Software develops identity and access management solutions for complex regulatory needs.

Hive HR

Hive HR

Hive HR provides cloud-based employee engagement software for human resources departments.


Team

Alex Marsh

Alex Marsh

Investment Manager

Alex brings investment management and corporate finance experience from roles at Maven Capital Partners and PwC.

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David Milroy

David Milroy

Partner

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Andy Critchley

Investment Manager

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Gareth Price

Investment Director

Gareth brings investment and portfolio development experience from roles at Maven Capital Partners and the Development Bank of Wales. He previously held corporate finance positions including director at Teathers.

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Stella Panu

Stella Panu

Partner

Stella brings corporate finance and growth capital experience from roles including founding partner at Maven Capital Partners UK LLP. She holds various non-executive chair and director positions across multiple companies.

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Dale Bellis

Dale Bellis

Contact

Dale brings investment and equity sales experience from roles at Cavendish, Cenkos Securities, and Maven Capital Partners.

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RM

Richard Morgan Evans

PR to Maven

BM

Borja Miquel

PR Contact

SJ

Sasha Johnson

PR Contact

AS

Alexander Sleigh

Investment Director

RB

Ryan Bevington

Partner

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Jacob O’Gorman

Media Contact

JT

Jeremy Thompson

GB

Gavin Bell

Investment director

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Alan Robertson

Partner


Recent investments

Other
£3.1M

Maven VCTs lead a fresh financing round to support international expansion and product development at Sensoteq.

"Sensoteq has developed and launched a market leading product, giving clients access to previously unobtainable data that is invaluable in ensuring the health and ongoing performance of key production equipment. We have been hugely impressed by the global reach of the company and demand for the technology, and we are aware that customers greatly value and rely upon the technical expertise and support of the entire Sensoteq team. We look forward to working with Idir and Alan to further grow the business."
— Alan Robertson, Partner
Seed
£2.0M

Maven provided £2m in seed investment to support software development and team expansion at Ideiio.

"Ideiio is an excellent example of a business which can benefit from equity investment through the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund. It has developed an innovative software solution which is tapping into robust demand from businesses across a variety of sectors and geographies. We believe this investment will enable the business to achieve further scale, including in the large US market. The management team have an impressive range of technical expertise and experience within the identity security space and have a clear strategy for taking the business forward."
— Ryan Bevington, Partner
Series A
£6.2M

The Series A round was led by Maven VC and Guinness Asset Management to support post-pandemic healthcare recovery.

"As we continue to accelerate and invest in the ethical use of clinical research data to advance new medicines for patient care, this funding gives us the capital needed to carry out our immediate plans while delivering AI solutions which will help futureproof our NHS."
— Orlando Agrippa, CEO and Founder
Seed
£1.5M

The investment round was led by Maven and backed by ACT Capital Partners to fund team expansion and product development.

"XR Games has achieved a number of great milestones in a short space of time and we are delighted to support the business at such an exciting stage in its growth journey. Immersive technology has huge potential in this industry and Bobby and the team's experience, ambition and delivery in this niche has been instrumental in them developing such an impressive list of global clients and partners already. We look forward to working with the team and existing investors as they embark on a programme of rapid growth."
— Gavin Bell, Investment Director
Series A
£3.4M

Maven Capital Partners co-led the £3.4m round to support the firm in scaling its operations overseas, notably in the US market.

"Gen inCode represents a fantastic opportunity for Maven to support a truly innovative business which is utilising AI and bioinformatics in order to enable medical practitioners to make more proactive, precise and impactful decisions on how they treat their patients. The precision medicine market is an exciting space and webelieve Gen inCode is well positioned to grow, leveraging its advanced genomic technology and the valuable IP it has amassed to date. We look forward to working with the senior management team to fulfil the company’s potential."
— Stella Panu, Partner
Series A
£2.7M

The investment from Maven VCTs and the Scottish Investment Bank will support international expansion and sales growth.

"We are delighted to be leading the investment in Quorum Cyber which is trusted by a diverse range of clients and which we believe is ideally positioned to capitalise on the significant growth within the cyber security space. The senior team at Quorum have built a business with an enviable reputation and culture and we look forward to working with them over the coming years to scale the business."
— David Milroy, Partner
Series A
£2.0M

Maven Vcts has led a £2m Series A round in data analytics provider Hublsoft to support product development and international expansion.

"Hublsoft has developed an innovative proprietary data visualisation product which is addressing a large and growing corporate market and, despite the company still being at a relatively early stage, it has already been successful in attracting an impressive range of blue chip clients with a low churn rate. The market opportunity is significant, and Maven’s investment will enable the business to scaleup and capitalise on the increased demand from brands to utilise big data to make improvements to the retail and wholesale performance of their products. Today’s funding highlights Maven’s ongoing commitment to support fast growing UK businesses."
— Gareth Price, Investment Director
Series A
£2.5M

Maven led the Series A investment to support product innovation and team expansion.

"Corporates have grown tired of yet more platforms and content. They don't need more of these. What they need is to make better use of what they have through expert curation, algorithmic recommendations and intelligently placing this where employees are, in the flow of work. This investment signals a shift in Learning and Development towards consumer-grade technologies and experiences and enables Filtered to lead that charge. And Maven are the ideal investors for us: smart, straightforward and interested in making the future of work a better, happier one."
— Marc Zao-Sanders, CEO & Co-Founder
Seed
£150K

Maven provided the seed investment through the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund to support the creation of a virtual reality streaming prototype.

"It has been a pleasure to with Roderick and the team at Simul. They have extensive knowledge and expertise, which they have used to create yet another impressive product. I look forward to the developments 2019 will bring and I anticipate the success of the market launch."
— Andy Critchley, Investment Manager
£10.4M

Maven led the investment to help scale the Edinburgh-based identity management firm.

"We are delighted to be leading the investment in Symphonic Software. The company operates in a high growth sector driven by significant new regulation. Symphonic is targeting further growth in retail banking and other sectors and is well positioned to expand into new markets. We look forward to working with Derick and his team over the coming years to scale the business and deliver on its growth strategy."
— David Milroy, Partner
Series A
£1.2M

Maven led the Series A round with participation from the North East Development Capital Fund, Growth Capital Ventures, and private backers.

"John has built an impressive senior management team around him and we are delighted to support the business as it enters an exciting new phase of growth."
— Alex Marsh, Investment Manager