Draper Esprit plc - GROW

Draper Esprit plc, formerly known as Ingleby (1994) plc, is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in any stage in the lifecycle of a business from seed and series A stage, growth capital to pre-IPO investments, late stage, cross-stage investments, buyouts, PIPES, and also makes direct and secondary investments in portfolio companies. It also seeks to buy entire funds from other tech investors. The firm primarily invests in companies from pre-revenue stage upwards. It primarily invests in technology oriented business. The firm typically invests in digital technology, consumer, commerce, enterprise and data, systems and semiconductors, financial technology, internet, mobile, media, telecom, and healthcare sectors, software, hardware, medical technology, and life sciences sectors. It invests in companies based in Europe, Ireland, and United Kingdom. The firm seeks to invest between $0.02 million and ?10 million ($10.88 million) in rounds up to ?1 million ($1.09 million) and ?30 million ($32.63 million). It invests 30 percent of its corpus in very early stage companies with less than $5 million in revenues. The firm seeks to make minority and majority investments. Draper Esprit plc was founded in 1984 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Cambridge, United Kingdom; Dublin, Ireland; Helsinki, Finland; and Paris, France.