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QVentures Founders Deck

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QVentures is a Venture Capital firm which supports best in
class entreprepreneurs with access to funding, either
directly through our fund or through our vetted pool of high
calibre investors.

We source, screen and invest in top-tier start-ups from


Pre-Seed to Series C. Our investors consist of Family
Offices, Institutional Investors, UHNWIs, and Cashed-out
Entrepreneurs.
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Why
QVentures?
Best in class: award winning, 6 year track record having
worked on over 115 successful fundraises,

A highly experienced team of 12 VC and fundraising


professionals.

QVentures represents more than £33bn in investable assets


from our Family Office, UHNWIs, Institutional and Exited
Entrepreneur Clients.

Differentiated Pool of Capital in increases competitive


tension and reduces time taken to raise.

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We look for disruptive companies with proven product
market fit, set scale from Pre-Seed to Series C
A Selection of our Portfolio Companies:
We invest broadly

Manufacturing
across the UK’s tech
Autonomous

EdTech
FinTech
Series A CLN Series A CLN Series A sectors.
£14m Raised £2.5m Raised £1.5m Raised
Atomico Led Round IQ Capital Led Round DMG Led Round
Sectors we have
invested include:
Fintech NeoBank

Fintech, Healthcare
and EdTech.

HealthTech
Series C Series C Series E

FinTech
£3m Raised £2m Raised £2m Raised
Investec Led Round Tencent Led Round Y Combinator Led Round
7 Year Track Record
Electric Vehicle
+ 115 Startups
Retail Tech

Charging

AdTech
4X Return in 5 Years Series B See full portfolio at
17X Return in 3 £4.3m Raised by QV
£100m acquisition by www.qventures.co
Years Impulse VC Led Round
EDF Energy
Acquired by Emplifi
*Companies that are changing industries by bringing efficiencies and new ways of consumption and could come to dominate these sectors 5
Team of 12 Investment Professionals
With over 30 years of Venture Capital Experience to support you and advise you on Venture Capital Investments.

Brian Hatton, Venture Partner


10 years in VC, 15 years in Financial Services

Alex Cochand, Head of Origination


6 years in VC, previously at Downing Ventures

Harveer Bharaj, Principal - Portfolio Manager


6 years in VC

Fergus Dunn, Associate - Origination


3 years in VC, previously at British Business Bank

Nadia Al-Nasser, Analyst - Origination


Robert Walsh, Managing Partner 1 year in VC
10 years in VC, 20 years in Investment Banking
Caitlin Traynor, Head of Marketing
Andrea Acerbi, Principal - Head of Capital Raising 5 years in Marketing
6 years in VC Capital Raising, previously at Method I.A.
Maria Aranda, Events and Operations Assistant
Michaela Jandova, Senior Associate - Distribution 1 year in Events
3 years in VC, previously at Midven & Startup Bootcamp
Jasmine Ali, Head of Operations
Samuel Kad-Bay, Analyst - Distribution 15 years in Operations
2 years in Financial Services, previously at Folionet Financial LLC
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Track Record
“QVentures is a phenomenal fundraising partner and helped us secure
Highlights: £8.5m in equity funding, above our initial £5m target, from 14 Family
Offices during the COVID-19 crisis.

- Theo Saville, Founder of CloudNC


7 Year Track Record, 115 funded rounds.

"QVentures not only connected us to their incredible network of angels,


Family Office average ticket size £750k. family offices and funds, they were dynamic when Coronavirus crashed
the market and we needed to change approach. Robert and Andrea
advised and supported us through this journey, closing funding through a
HNW average ticket size £125k. market shock. I'll definitely be working with them again.”
Allocate £1-2M per year to our SEIS Fund.
- Sam O’Connor, Founder of Coconut

During the pandemic we raised capital "I'd happily recommend QVentures. Their approach was professional
for 77% of the businesses we took from the outset, their strategy thoughtful and realistic and they were
able to connect us to the right investors at the right time."
out to the market.
- Michael Wallace, Founder, Oxford Medical Simulations

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A Few Examples
Series A
CLN* 20% Discount £80m Cap.
£20m Round (£8.5m raised by QV)
Autonomous Manufacturing

CloudNC has developed world-first AI software that automates and removes all skilled human
roles in Precision Factories ($168B market), while also multiplying the yield of the machinery.
The result is the potential for a >50x increase in gross profit per machine, in a rapidly scalable
and highly defensible full-stack business model.

Noteworthy Points

- Full machining autonomy achieved and proven commercially - an unmatched


world-first with no near-term competitors.
Bringing the software to market has required 4.5 years of deep-tech research with a team of
74, with $24.9M invested to date almost exclusively in software development.
From Atomico on CloudNCs board is Siraj Khaliq, the partner behind Graphcore (now
valued at >$2Bn), Lilium (now valued at >$1Bn), Memphis Meats ($181M in funding) and
Scandit ($123M in funding). Siraj is an ex-operator, having co-founded and exited The
Climate Corporation for $1.1Bn in 2013.
Tier 1 executive team which includes; Rami Saab MBA MSci, ex-head of BD & Ops Fetchr &
later MD, whilst the team grew from 17 to 4000+ & $1Bn+ Valuation, and Andy Cheadle
PHd, FBCS, CITP, Ex-Executive Director of Engineering at McLaren Applied Technologies &
Chief Engineer at BAE Systems.

Current Investors

Lead Investor

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A Few Examples
Series C
Equity, Pre-Money Valuation £60m
£40m Round (£2m raised by QV)
Congenica is
Congenica’s world-leading software analyses genomic data 20x faster than industry averages building a future
HealthTech B2B SaaS

and provides a 30% higher analytical yield while reducing costs by up to 95%.

Congenica’s mission is to make personalised medicine a routine part of healthcare by the


where clinical
development of sophisticated software and data systems designed to interpret complex genomics is fully
genomic data. Congenica has a deep heritage in the characterisation and diagnosis of rare
disease and is now applying its core technology to other important clinical questions such as integrated into
supporting cancer therapeutic decisions.
healthcare.
Noteworthy Points

- £2m Revenue in 2019 and exclusive provider to NHS Genomic Medicine Service.
- 350 Million Rare Disease sufferers, 50% are children, 30% don't see the age of 5.
- The leading solution for hard to diagnose rare and inherited diseases founded and
developed by clinical leaders from the Sanger Institute and UK NHS Great Ormond St.
Hospital with planned market expansion post series C.
- Round co-led by Tencent and Legal & General alongside existing investors CIC,
Parkwalk, Downing and new participants Xeraya, Puhua and IDO.

Current Investors

Co-lead Investor Co-lead Investor

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A Few Examples
Series A
Equity, Pre-Money Valuation £32.8m
£6m Round (£2m raised by QV)
EdTech B2B SaaS

Kortext is the UK’s leading B2B2C Digital Learning Platform that aims to solve a key problem in
Higher Education (HE) - discovery and access to over 1m key digital textbooks from over 1,450
publishers in one easy to use content and learning platform.

Academics then get content usage analytics returned to them measuring student engagement.
With all students now having to study remotely and away from campus and library this is a key
way of universities continuing to reach out to their students and ensure they continue to be The UK’s leading digital
engaged with their studies and leading up to year-end exams.
textbook platform
Noteworthy Points

- £7.2m revenue forecasted for 2019 / 20, year-end in June, with £14m projected for
- 2020/21.
120+ UK universities use Kortext Platform for accessing digital textbooks and
other learning materials, multi-year contracts that aim to move from modules to the
- whole institution.
Plans for international expansion in the Middle East, ASEAN and Australia/NZ,
including government partnerships (Egypt) and potential launch support from dmg's
(Daily Mail Group) portfolio company, Hobsons, to enter the US market in due course.

Current Investors

Lead Investor

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A Few Examples
Series A
CLN* 25% Discount
£10m Round (£2m raised by QV)
FinTech

BMLL is an award-winning data science company providing financial institutions access to


their unique data lake & AI / machine learning analytics libraries. Their platform can reduce
alpha generation lead time by up to 95%, whilst saving institutions significant money on data
engineering and storage.

“We ran an internal exercise to size building what you [BMLL] have built, and the full build is
close to $100m, then you add the annual running costs” - CIO Global Investment Bank

Noteworthy Points

- $120k MRR, 85 % Gross Margin and 320 % ARR growth over the last 18 months
- Clients include Goldman Sachs, LSE, Citi, Credit Suisse, Six Swiss & Schroders
- Cambridge University spinout and Bank of England FinTech Accelerator graduate
- Round led by IQ Capital (Bloomsbury AI, Grapeshot, ThoughtMachine, Privitar,
Funderbeam)

Current Investors

Lead Investor

* Convertible Loan Note

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Our Services Each offering provides founders with
access to a Pitch event with 30
targeted investors (~£6Bn in assets).
We offer three core types of support:

Syndication Retained Advisor QVentures SEIS Fund


(£0.5m - £1m allocation) (£1-10m allocation) (£80k – £150k ticket size)
Seed+ to Series A Series A to Series C Pre-Seed

We support founders who have We work with businesses who The QVentures Pre-Seed Fund
secured a lead investor to raise would like to raise larger sums of invests in early-stage technology
additional capital into their round. money over the course of 3-6 companies based in the United
Through providing a managed months. This is typically with Kingdom at seed or earlier stage.
service and access to an untapped Series A+ companies who are The fund invests directly into
pool of capital we enable them to either looking for support to 10-20 high growth technology
close out their total round secure a lead investor or later businesses annually and focuses
quicker with high impact stage deals who are looking for on Marketplace, Enterprise SaaS,
investors and less demand on sizable top ups to their rounds. and Consumer Tech companies.
their business.

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We introduce relevant, sophisticated and credible investors
153 Family Offices | 254 Institutional Investors | 667 UHWNI

Total Investable Assets of £61Bn* Average Investable Assets £461m* Investing Tickets Size of £250k - £10m
Italian Single FO English Single FO Indian Single FO UAE Single FO
£750m Investable Assets £1.5Bn Investable Assets £800m Investable Assets £1.7Bn Investable Assets
Source: Financial Services / Paper Industry Source: Retail / Real Estate Source: Commodities Source: Industrial / Automotive

Notable Transactions: Notable Transactions: Notable Transactions: Notable Transactions:


Palantir | Monzo | ANYbotics | BMLL The Hut Group | TVSquared Kortext | Heroes Kazoo | Joby Air | Atom Bank
Sector Focus: Cyber / Fintech / Robotics Sector Focus: Consumer / B2B Saas Sector Focus: EdTech / MedTech / Data Sector Focus: Marketplaces / Fintech
£50-100m to be deployed in Venture £100m to be deployed in Venture £80m to be deployed in Venture £200m to be deployed in Venture

Sophisticated Patient Capital. Bringing network, business interests and knowhow to the table.
No fund economics and timelines to deliver returns - just friendly capital partnering with you and your existing shareholders for the long term
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We introduce relevant, sophisticated and credible investors
153 Family Offices | 254 Institutional Investors | 667 UHWNI

Total Investable Assets of £50.8Bn* Average Fund Size £200m* Investing Tickets Size of £500k - £20m

Venture Funds | Corporate VC’s | EIS & VCT Funds

113 54 83
European Venture Funds Corporate VC Funds EIS & VCT Funds

Our Relationships can help get in front of Institutional Investors in an efficient process.
Save time knocking on doors and using your current cap table to be introduced to investors.
We will introduce you to relevant Fund Managers actively looking to deploy capital in your industry.

* Note these are based on information provided by the clients and are an approximations as asset values can increase or decrease
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We introduce relevant, sophisticated and credible investors
153 Family Offices | 254 Institutional Investors | 667 UHWNI

Total Investable Assets of £34Bn* Average Investable Assets £51m* Investing Tickets Size of £100k - £5m

Exited Asset Management Entrepreneur CEO of Tier 1 Bank & Inheritance Real Estate Entrepreneur Exited Tech Entrepreneur
£231m Investable Assets £87m Investable Assets £171m Investable Assets £131m Investable Assets

Notable Notable Transactions: Notable Transactions:


Transactions: Airbnb | Sector Focus: DeepTech / B2B Saas Atom Bank | iZettle Ebury | BlueVine
Klarna Sector Focus: £16m to be deployed in Venture Sector Focus: AdTech | PropTech | FinTech Sector Focus: Fintech | B2B SaaS
Tech £27m to be deployed in Venture £40m to be deployed in Venture
£52m to be deployed in Venture

Experienced, Sophisticated, Friendly Capital on your CapTable.


A pool of capital and of talent for advisory roles and building a credible board of directors.

All investors we introduce are vetted to reduce the risk of challenging or troublesome investors

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Value-Add Investors
Strategic Support Board Positions

QVentures investors have often been asked to


join the boards of companies we have supported
Family Office investment - facilitated strategic
due the value they are able to provide through
introductions to academic institutions.
their network and their experiences.

HNW investor owns market leading SME insurance


business, provided strategic value to the business.

Family Office investment made strategic


introductions to hedge funds, helping the business In addition to Patient Capital, our
expand customer base. investors are in the position to
offer significant strategic
support to companies.
QVentures introduced business to multi-billion
dollar high-street retail founders.
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In the News
In 2021, QVentures was featured in 70 notable press mentions with projected media impressions of 15.8m.

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Get in Touch

Alex Cochand Fergus Dunn Nadia Al-Nasser

Head of Origination Associate, Origination Analyst, Origination

alex@qventures.co fergus@qventures.co nadia@qventures.co

+44 7891 903974 +44 7341 947282 +44 7786 935845

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