Draper Esprit plc (GRWXF)

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Draper Esprit plc

20 Garrick Street
London WC2E 9BT
United Kingdom
44 20 7931 8800
https://www.moltenventures.com

Sector(s): Financial Services
Industry: Asset Management
Full-time employees: 58

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. Martin Michael Arthur Davis	CEO & Non-Independent Executive Director	1.46M	N/A	1962
Mr. Stuart Malcolm Chapman	Co-Founder & Director	1M	N/A	1970
Mr. Benjamin David Wilkinson	CFO & Non-Independent Executive Director	975.8k	18.84k	1980
Ms. Paula Darlison	Group Administration Manager	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ben Robson	General Counsel & Compliance Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Oliver Pink	Head of Communications	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. James Clark	Marketing Director	N/A	N/A	N/A
Cherylene Chikomo	Human Resource Manager	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Nicholas Gwyn Brisbourne	Senior Partner	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Jonathan Freuchet-Sibilia	Partner & Head of Secondaries and Fund of Funds	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of 31 December 2023, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

Molten Ventures Plc, formerly known as Draper Esprit 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, start-ups, 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, consumer technology, enterprise technology, SaaS, fintech, deep-tech, digital health & wellness and healthcare sectors, prop tech, software, hardware, medical technology, and life sciences sectors. It invests in companies based in Europe, United states, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, 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. Molten Ventures Plc was founded in 1984 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional offices in Dublin, Ireland.

Corporate governance

Draper Esprit plc’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 29 April 2024 is 7. The pillar scores are Audit: 1; Board: 10; Shareholder rights: 1; Compensation: 1.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.