Eden Ventures

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Eden Ventures is a venture capital firm based in London, United Kingdom that invests in technology companies in the telecommunications software, enterprise software, SaaS, digital media, e-commerce, internet, social media, games and mobile sectors. [1] [2] It was founded in 2002. [2]

Venture capital start-up investment

Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth. Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity, or an ownership stake, in the companies they invest in. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support will become successful. Because startups face high uncertainty, VC investments do have high rates of failure. The start-ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are usually from the high technology industries, such as information technology (IT), clean technology or biotechnology.

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Companies

Eden Ventures has invested in cloud-based business management platform company Brightpearl, [3] content and links suggestion plugin company Zemanta, [4] [5] online pawnbroker Borro. [6] review platform provider Reevoo, [7] website creation company BaseKit, [8] among other companies. [9]

Pawnbroker individual or business that offers loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral

A pawnbroker is an individual or business that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral. The items having been pawned to the broker are themselves called pledges or pawns, or simply the collateral. While many items can be pawned, pawnshops typically accept jewelry, musical instruments, home audio equipment, computers, video game systems, televisions, cameras, power tools, firearms, and other relatively valuable items as collateral.

Media coverage

Eden Ventures was covered on TechCrunch as an example of a venture capital firm that had taken to doing early stage investments, thereby showing that venture capital was still relevant for early-stage investment despite the rise of the Super Angels. [10] Another TechCrunch article listed Eden Ventures as one of 11 venture capital firms holding joint office hours in London, alongside Passion Capital, Index Ventures, Accel Partners and Balderton Capital. [11]

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Index Ventures

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security. Since its founding in 1996, the firm has invested in a number of companies and raised approximately $5.6 billion.

References

  1. ↑ "Eden Ventures" . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Eden Ventures". CrunchBase . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  3. ↑ O'Hear, Steve (May 25, 2011). "Brightpearl scores further $5m from Notion and Eden for its cloud-based solution for SMEs". TechCrunch . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  4. ↑ Wauters, Robin (November 18, 2010). "Zemanta Raises $3 Million From Union Square, Eden, To Help You "Blog Smarter"". TechCrunch . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  5. ↑ Wauters, Robin (September 15, 2008). "London-based Zemanta raises more seed funding overseas (update: the amount is $700,000)". The Next Web. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  6. ↑ O'Hear, Steve (April 4, 2011). "Online pawn broker Borro raises £7.5m led by Augmentum Capital". TechCrunch . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  7. ↑ Nicole, Kristen (March 19, 2008). "Reevoo Gets More Money, Launches French Site". Mashable . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  8. ↑ Davies, Sally (January 14, 2014). "Web hosting groups seek to fight off competition". Financial Times . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Portfolio". Eden Ventures. Archived from the original on February 2, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  10. ↑ Butcher, Mike (September 9, 2010). "Eden Ventures gets on the Super Angel train". TechCrunch . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  11. ↑ O'Hear, Steve (October 22, 2012). "London VC Love-In: Index, Balderton, Eden, Passion Capital & Others Holding Joint Office Hours This Week". TechCrunch . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
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