Pentech Ventures considers any opportunity capable of becoming a market leader but are most comfortable being the first venture investor, supporting founders through the early stages of proving product and market fit. Their initial investment is likely to be £500K to £2M, with up to £10M invested over the lifetime of the investment.
Pentech invests in teams focused on category leading software company. Their areas of interest include: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Big Data; Infrastructure such as Blockchain; and verticals that are enabled via the efficient use of AI and new infrastructure approaches, such as FinServ, Health, and Enterprise Transformation. Both B2C and B2B opportunities are considered.
Pentech Ventures has made 64 investments as of 2019. Their most recent investment was on Nov 19, 2019, when Causaly raised $4.8M. Pentech Ventures has had 14 exits. Pentech Ventures's most notable exits include FanDuel, Maxymiser, and SeeWhy. Pentech Ventures has raised a total of £155.8M across 3 funds, their latest being Pentech Fund III. This fund was announced on May 23, 2017 and raised a total of £88M. Pentech Ventures has $16.2M in estimated revenue annually.
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Funded Companies
Nutmeg is a London-based investment management company offering an online portal for managing investments, ISAs and pensions.
Intelligent, distributed & reproducible big data & genomics analysis at scale. Zero onboarding. Zero config.
Floodflash is a London-based company that offers parametric flood insurance solutions. The company was founded in 2017 by Adam Rimmer and Ian Bartholomew.
Causaly is a England-based contract research organization company founded by Yiannis Kiachopoulos.
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