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Pentech

Venture Capital

Pentech is a venture capital investor backing category leading software companies.

Portfolio

8

companies


Portfolio companies

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FloodFlash

FloodFlash provides parametric flood insurance that pays out rapidly through connected sensors.

Cognitive Credit

Cognitive Credit

Cognitive Credit develops analytics software and data tools for corporate credit markets.

Vauban

Vauban

Vauban builds digital infrastructure and network services for the alternative investment industry.

Monolith AI

Monolith AI

Monolith AI builds artificial intelligence software that helps engineers optimise product development workflows.

Causaly

Causaly

Causaly builds a biomedical knowledge platform that helps researchers navigate scientific data.

nPlan

nPlan

nPlan uses machine learning to forecast construction project outcomes.

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PrimaryBid

A fintech platform providing retail investors with fair access to public markets.

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Deep Render

Deep Render develops advanced image compression software based on human visual processing.


Team

EA

Eddie Anderson

partner

Craig Anderson

Craig Anderson

Partner

Craig is a partner at Pentech. He brings extensive non-executive director experience from multiple companies.


Recent investments

Series A
$15.0M

Buoyant Ventures led the Series A round to fund international expansion and close the flood protection gap.

"This investment is an endorsement of our parametric cover and how we’re using it to solve real-world issues. The group of investors for the round couldn’t be better tailored to supporting our efforts in solving the issues around underinsurance in the face of climate change."
— Adam Rimmer, CEO
Series A
£6.0M

Fitch Ventures led the Series A round to support the company as it expands its team and enters the US market.

"We are thrilled to be adding the resources and expertise of Fitch Group and XTX to the Cognitive Credit mission. Every day we strive to push the boundaries of what technology can do for credit investors, and we see huge opportunities to collaborate with our new strategic partners in this area. We have received phenomenal feedback from clients over the past year, and with this capital raise and near-term additions to the team, we couldn’t be more excited about our global expansion and further product roll-out in 2022."
— Robert Slater, CEO and Founder
Seed
£4.7M

The funding round was co-led by Pentech and Outward to support infrastructure development and team expansion.

"When raising capital, VCs are obliged to undertake a countless number of time-consuming, long-winded and expensive processes. This deter many prospective managers from raising a fund, and therefore prevent many founders from getting funded."
— Rémy Astié, Co-CEO
Series A
£8.5M

Insight Partners led the £8.5m Series A round to support growth and technological advancement at Monolith AI.

"Deriving insight from data for decision-making is a complex but necessary challenge for engineering organisations. Engineers understand the data, they are embedded in the business and have the intuitions necessary to know why to process and model data. Democratising Al, by empowering engineers to be self- sufficient in building and deploying Al solutions, helps engineering organisations drive digital transformation more efficiently than other currently available solutions."
— Richard Ahlfeld, CEO and founder
Series A
£13

The funding round was led by GV and will be used to expand the company assurance platform and launch insurance products.

"At a time of ongoing uncertainty, our goal is to provide confidence in a sector notorious for struggling to stick to deadlines or budgets. By using some of the most powerful machine learning capabilities in the world to analyse what worked and what didn’t in past projects, we can help our customers work out what’s going to derail their own initiatives, and stop problems happening before they even appear."
— Dev Amratia, CEO
Series B
£38.4M

London Stock Exchange Group and other major backers join Series B round to support international growth and technology development.

"The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the effectiveness of the public markets, with companies recapitalising quickly and efficiently. Our technology has allowed thousands of retail investors to participate on equal terms with institutional investors, unlocking a large and important source of liquidity and long-term share ownership for corporate issuers. The response from Boards and their advisers to our solution has been excellent: they recognise our digital solution for retail inclusion brings together both good governance and best execution."
— Anand Sambasivan, CEO and co-founder
Seed
£1.6M

The London startup secured backing from Pentech and Speedinvest to drive the development of its neural image compression software.

"As humans, our eyes have evolved to care about certain colours and properties of the natural world. It helped us survive as hunters and gathers. We are more sensitive to the colour green as it represents fertile areas with food and water; we notice the slightest of movements in still scenes, as this helps us flee from sneaking predators."
— Arsalan Zafar, Co-Founder
Series A
£7.0M

Pentech and Outward VC led the Series A round, which will fund sales growth and IT development.

"We are on a mission to democratise public equity offerings. Everyday investors are a vital part of the stock market and yet unable to buy discounted share deals – a longstanding imbalance in the public markets. This is true whether it is a government selling down its holding in a large company or a quoted company is raising growth capital. Our online platform addresses this challenge, giving small investors the same access as traditionally afforded to large institutional investors. We are grateful for the backing of our lead investors as well as our other institutional and angel investors. With their support we are confident of executing our vision quickly and efficiently."
— Anand Sambasivan, CEO and co-founder
Seed
£1.9M

Pentech Ventures led the round with participation from Stanford Angels of the UK, Ascension Ventures and Charlie Songhurst.

"Our goal is to accelerate product development, from race cars to spaceships and everything in between. We believe that traditional engineering will soon change dramatically. Our dream is to work alongside engineers to enable them to bring exponential growth to product development. We are building the world’s first AI Platform for Engineers – we like to describe it as the J.A.R.V.I.S. in Iron Man."
— Richard Ahlfeld, CEO and founder