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Molten Ventures

Molten Ventures

Venture Capital

Molten Ventures is a European venture capital firm that invests in high growth technology companies and supports entrepreneurs with patient capital and international networks.

Portfolio

16

companies


Portfolio companies

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SatVu

SatVu captures high-resolution thermal imaging from space to monitor global environmental and economic activity.

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IMU Biosciences

IMU Biosciences builds a proprietary artificial intelligence platform for deep immune profiling and precision medicine.

Oliva

Oliva

Oliva offers specialised mental health and wellbeing support for employees through an on-demand healthtech platform.

Satellite Vu

Satellite Vu

Satellite Vu provides high-resolution thermal imaging from space to monitor global energy efficiency and economic activity.

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Zaptic

Zaptic provides a frontline operations platform for global manufacturing companies.

Riverlane

Riverlane

Riverlane builds quantum error correction technology to remove hardware errors.

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Evonetix

Evonetix builds semiconductor technology platforms for desktop DNA synthesis.

BeZero Carbon

BeZero Carbon

BeZero Carbon operates a ratings agency that evaluates carbon offset projects.

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Worldr

Worldr builds zero trust data sovereignty architecture for enterprise communication platforms.

Hadean

Hadean

Hadean provides distributed spatial computing infrastructure for the metaverse and digital twins.

Paragraf

Paragraf

Paragraf manufactures scalable graphene-based electronic devices.

causaLens

causaLens

causaLens develops Causal AI technology that enables systems to reason alongside humans.

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Gardin

Gardin develops optical phenotyping hardware and analytics software to optimise food production.

Thought Machine

Thought Machine

Thought Machine develops cloud native core banking technology for financial institutions.

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Crowdcube

Crowdcube operates an equity crowdfunding platform connecting private companies with investors.

Ieso Digital Health

Ieso Digital Health

Digital mental healthcare provider developing AI enabled therapeutics.


Team

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Edel Coen

Investor

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Oliver Pink

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Christoph Hornung

Investment Director

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Vinoth Jayakumar

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David Cummings

Venture Partner

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Leonora Ross-Skinner

Investor

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Nelly Markova

Principal

SC

Stuart Chapman

chief portfolio officer

GC

George Chalmers

Head of Climate-tech

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Inga Deakin

Principal


Recent investments

£10.0M

The funding round forms part of a wider £20m financing package to accelerate the deployment of the HotSat constellation.

"With the invaluable new support from Adara Ventures, alongside the continued backing of our existing investor network, we’re accelerating our mission to deliver unparalleled thermal insights that empower industries and governments to take decisive climate action. The launch of HotSat-2 and HotSat-3 will bring us closer to a net-zero future by providing the data needed to address the most pressing environmental and energy challenges of our time."
— Anthony Baker, CEO & Co-founder
Series A
£11.5M

The financing round was led by Molten Ventures with backing from LifeX Ventures and private individuals.

"With our technology, we’re building the world’s largest immune data assets across health and disease, which allows us to perform analyses with a level of depth and granularity that was previously unthinkable. This systems-level approach to understanding immune function enables us to look at the bigger picture rather than just focusing on individual disease-associated parameters. Our goal is to revolutionise precision medicine, improving its effectiveness, reducing failure rates in clinical trials, and making these therapies more viable in the long run."
— Adam Laing, CEO and Co-founder
£4.3M

The investment round was led by Molten Ventures with backing from Stride VC and Alumni Ventures.

"From the very beginning, our vision for Oliva has been clear: to be Europe’s most comprehensive and clinically validated workplace mental health platform. Companies working with Oliva get more than a platform – they get a full-scale partnership for their employee mental health strategy. And for employees – they don’t get short changed by a system powered by bots. We offer evidence-led, human-centric support strategies that are tailored to their individual needs."
— Javier Suarez, Co-founder and CEO
Series A
£12.7M

The round was led by Molten Ventures to fund commercialisation ahead of the company's first satellite launch.

"We’re leading SatelliteVu’s funding round as it prepares for its June launch. Their unique technology tackles key climate issues, and we’re impressed with their commercial progress. Their $160m in early commitments is a stellar model of pre-launch sales for deep-tech companies, which other climate-tech firms could emulate."
— George Chalmers, Head of Climate-tech
Series B
£15.0M

Molten Ventures led the Series B round with participation from Altair and existing investors to accelerate the development of Deltaflow.OS.

"Solving quantum error correction – one of the defining scientific challenges of our times – will enable quantum computers to accurately simulate the true complexity of nature. Armed with useful quantum computers, humans will enter the Quantum Age, where we go from slow trial and error to solve complex problems to an era of rapid design using quantum computers. We haven’t even begun to imagine the many ways such technology will positively transform our world."
— Steve Brierley, Founder & CEO
Series B
£20.0M

The oversubscribed round included backing from Molten Ventures, Morningside, DCVC, Cambridge Consultants, Civilization Ventures and Providence.

"This substantial investment round demonstrates continued confidence in the progress of our technical development and its potential to revolutionise the accessibility of gene synthesis. Evonetix is in a very exciting phase, having recently opened our early access program. This investment will support us as we execute on our commercial strategy to put benchtop gene synthesis in the hands of users."
— Colin McCracken, Chief Executive Officer
Series B
£42.6M

The funding round was led by Quantum Energy Partners with participation from corporate and existing investors to support global expansion.

"We have a once in a generation opportunity to build environmental and ecological restoration into the heart of the economic model. Starting with carbon, effective ecosystem markets have huge potential to accelerate the Net Zero transition and generate economic prosperity. Developing the information infrastructure that allows these markets to take off is fundamental to their growth. The raise will ensure we can continue to invest in our ratings, risk and analytics tools to make this vision a reality."
— Tommy Ricketts, CEO
Seed
£9.7M

The seed round was led by Molten Ventures with participation from several specialist funds and angel investors.

"Data sovereignty has never been more important. The increase in cyberattacks, data localisation requirements, and scrutiny from regulators mean that it is no longer enough to blindly trust that collaboration platforms are keeping business communications secure and compliant. Companies rightfully want control of their data to protect themselves against operational, reputational and regulatory risk. This has not only fuelled demand for our zero trust architecture for Microsoft Teams, but we are also being challenged to apply this solution across an organisation’s entire software environment. This funding will be critical to helping us further this mission and scale to meet the demand."
— Max Buchan, CEO
Series A
£27.0M

Molten Ventures led the Series A round with participation from Epic Games and several other backers to support metaverse scalability.

"The company’s technology complements Epic’s Unreal Engine by enabling massive amounts of concurrent users and unlocking new tools for creators and developers. We are pleased to contribute to Hadean’s growth and look forward to continuing to work together to lay the foundation for the metaverse."
— Marc Petit, VP, of Epic’s Unreal Engine Ecosystem
Series B
£45.0M

The Series B round was led by New Science Ventures to support international growth and manufacturing expansion.

"Our increasing desire for continually improving electronic device performance paired with the absolute necessity to reduce our power requirements, and hence carbon footprints, demands new technology solutions – next generation materials will be at the heart of this. At Paragraf we are proud to be leading the way, bringing the first 2D material, graphene, into the electronic product supply chain, through our first products, allowing its transformational, game changing properties and benefits to be harnessed."
— Simon Thomas, CEO
Series A
£33.5M

The oversubscribed round was co-led by Dorilton Ventures and Molten Ventures to support headcount growth.

"Our vision is to create a world in which humans can trust machines with the greatest challenges in the economy, society, and healthcare. Our customers are seeing transformative results with our no-code platform and we now have the resources to bring our platform to everyone."
— Darko Matovski, CEO and co-founder
Seed
£8.2M

The seed round was led by Molten Ventures to fund international growth and sensor manufacturing.

"At Gardin, we set out on a mission to develop cutting edge enabling technology for the future of food sustainability. Today’s announcement of Molten Ventures as the lead investor of our seed round marks an important step on that journey. We always put a huge emphasis on focused partnerships who share our ambition and we found exactly that when we met the team at Molten."
— Sumanta Talukdar, CEO
Series C
£150M

Nyca Partners led the Series C round, which values the business at over $1bn and includes backing from several major global banks.

"We are delighted to have earned the support of our new and existing investors as we continue to move the world’s leading banks into the cloud. We set out to eradicate legacy technology from the industry and ensure that all banks deployed on Vault can succeed and deliver on their ambitions. These new funds will accelerate the delivery of Vault into banks around the world who wish to implement their future vision of financial services."
— Paul Taylor, Founder
Series C
£10.0M

Circle led the Series C financing to support the crowdfunding platform's expansion across Europe.

"Combining Circle’s strategic investment with our decade of knowledge and experience of capital raising in Europe, Crowdcube is extremely well positioned to capitalise on our first-mover advantage into Europe’s high growth investment market. Capital raising and private company investing have never been so exciting,"
— Darren Westlake, CEO and Co-Founder
Series B
£39.0M

Morningside led the Series B financing to support regulatory approvals and market entry for clinical software treatments.

"At ieso, we’re looking to transform global mental health by unlocking the power of clinical data to develop AI-enabled digital therapeutics. Our experience delivering outstanding mental health care within the NHS ideally places us for starting to tackle this challenge. A new generation of clinically-validated digital mental health care products could ultimately improve millions of lives. But we cannot do this alone, and look forward to working with our patients, clinicians, investors, as well as existing and future partners, to better serve those who require mental health support."
— Nigel Pitchford, CEO