Downing Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Cardiff, United Kingdom. The firm is a venture capital division of Downing LLP, and seeks to invest in the healthcare, business services, education, manufacturing, e-commerce, marketing, and data analytics sectors.
They focus on technology-based companies at Seed to Series A and beyond. Their level of investment typically ranges from £500,000 to £5 million and they regularly co-invest in larger syndicates.
Downing Ventures look for entrepreneurs with the ability to execute as well as dream. Large (potential) addressable markets. Distinct product or service advantages. Limited adoption risk for customers.
Downing Ventures' investments include Trouva, Funding Xchange, FundamentalVR, E-Fundamentals, Hummingbird Technologies and Invizius.
Their exited investments include Twizoo, Destiny Pharma and Happiour.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Memgraph is an in-memory Cypher-compatible graph database.
An e-commerce stationery company. It was founded in 2015 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
Cornelis Networks, Inc. is a Wayne, Pennsylvania-based company.
FundamentalVR is a London-based company founded by Richard Vincent.