Draper Esprit

Summary

Draper Esprit is the famous VC, which was founded in 2006. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Social Media, Machine Learning. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Revolut, Graphcore, Trustpilot. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The average startup value when the investment from Draper Esprit is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Draper Esprit works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Draper Esprit, startups are often financed by Index Ventures, Atlas Venture, Amadeus Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Index Ventures, Foundation Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Amadeus Capital Partners, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Future Fifty.

This organization was formed by Simon Cook, Stuart Chapman, Tim Draper. Besides them, we counted 13 critical employees of this fund in our database.