Venrex

Venrex

Investment Management

Early-stage investors supporting exceptional founders.

About us

Venrex is an early-stage venture capital fund manager primarily backing technology-enabled businesses in consumer industries. We were the earliest stage backers of Charlotte Tilbury, Revolut, 365Scores, Orlebar Brown, Opus Energy and Maven Clinic, and early investors in Rippling, Just Eat, Notonthehighstreet.com, Mumsnet and ME+EM. Founded in 2002, we have offices in London and New York If you are looking for investment, we’d love to hear from you. Please send us a message, in text format, telling us about (i) you, (ii) your business, and (iii) why it will succeed. Please do not send any attachments. Unfortunately, due to high volume of contacts, we’re unable to respond to every application.

Website
http://www.venrex.partners/
Industry
Investment Management
Company size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
London
Type
Partnership
Founded
2002

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    Principal at Venrex | Ex-Amazon and Ex-P&G

    Very excited to share the launch of Venrex's beauty fund in partnership with the British Beauty Council. Thanks to The Business of Fashion for covering (https://lnkd.in/dDWemdxA). This fund will focus on early-stage businesses (both b2c and b2b) operating in the beauty/beauty-related sectors and will invest between £100K - £1M per business. We spent yesterday at the British Beauty Week Trade Hub, meeting a number of amazing founders (thanks to all who came to see us). If you are building a business in beauty, please get in touch – we’d love to meet you. Huge thanks from me, Mark & Lilac Watt to Millie Kendall O.B.E.,Grace Warn & Gemma Bellman for their partnership. Great to see you yesterday Alexis Granite, MD Ian Pearson Sophie Carbonari MD Loretta De Feo James Dashwood Chase Danielle Clementina Close Ciara O'Shea Luke Hersheson Charlotte Polley, Jessica Fox & many more.

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    Investment Associate at Venrex

    🚨 Only 1 day left to apply for Focal, powered by HSBC Innovation Banking🚨 🚨 Applications for Focal’s W24 demo day are open to startups raising in the next 6 months. It takes 7 minutes to apply on their website: https://www.gofocal.vc/ , and even those who don’t make it to demo day can get introductions to over 250 leading VC fund partners, including Venrex. Last demo day alone, applicants received over 1600 introductions from investors; it's one of the highest leverage activities you can do for your fundraise. #focal #startup #fundraising #vc #demoday

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    Great to see two of our fantastic portfolio companies and their founders collaborating!

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    Milking the Mother of All Movements 🐮 To celebrate World Breastfeeding Week this week, we want to shout out to another female-founded company: our friends and fellow scientists over at BoobyBiome who are doing incredible work to translate cutting edge breast milk research into solutions to improve infant health. But they need your help! Hertility's CEO and Founder Dr Helen O'Neill has already donated her breastmilk to further boobybiome's research. So this is a call to urge you to move out from the ovulation station and check into the lactation station by donating your breastmilk (or sharing this with any of your milking friends!)  🍼 It's super simple to do.  🍼 They'll come and collect it from your house and compensate for your time.  🍼 You'll contribute to groundbreaking research, helping boobybiome transform infant health. If you're not breastfeeding, give their page a follow to support their milk mission! Find out more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eE3YfkqX Dr. Sioned Fôn Jones

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    We are very excited to welcome Love to visit to the Venrex portfolio. Looking forward to seeing this team grow as they build out the platform! 

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    4,274 followers

    If you’re reader of Times Business Times Enterprise Network newspaper, you might already have seen our BIG NEWS over your morning coffee… In an exclusive today, The Times has published it’s interview with our two co-founders Georgia Aubrey and Alice Aubrey, announcing the multi-million pound investment that means we can continue our mission to transform the domestic travel industry. And we can do it at pace. The round was led by Venrex and Redrice Ventures and joined by Active Partners & Velocity Capital. And for us…it’s a game-changer. Our CEO, Fed Pereira, said: “Having such well-respected investors on board as we double down on our mission to scale domestic tourism in the UK and internationally is a wonderful endorsement of what we’ve built to date and will provide the fuel needed to realise our ambitions over the coming years.” This investment will be used to scale operations in the UK and further the platform’s expansion - we're aiming to double growth and inventory year-on-year for the next three years. The funding will also be used to enhance the platform’s AI capabilities to further optimise the user experience. But what drives us, what gets us jumping out of bed every day, is the opportunity to make a real and lasting impact on our industry. To sell more tickets for the fantastic, and unbelievably resilient, attractions and events we work with by making it simple... really simple... to discover and book the best things to do in the UK.  Special thanks to people that helped with this raise: Martyn Davies at HCR Law, Tom Fleming, Lilac Watt, Tom March, Gabbie Swycher, Andrew Sutcliffe, Anna Sweetman, Billy Fox, Thomas Lindup, Rajeev Saxena Joseph Harris, Patrik Öqvist, Michael Blakeley Mishcon de Reya LLP, & PTM Law Huge thanks to Richard Tyler for the article. Also to Amy Mace and Crest Public Relations for support in releasing the news, and Matt Radcliffe for the always excellent photography. #thetimes #timesenterprise #investment #raise #vcs #founders #femalefounders #tourismindustry #domestictourism #techstartup

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    Huge congrats to Revolut, our portfolio company, on receiving their UK banking license!

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    1,131,424 followers

    Revolut is now authorised with restrictions as a UK Bank 🚀 At Revolut, we serve 45 million customers worldwide, with 9+ million of our customers in the UK. As we strive to deliver faster, better, smarter products and services, we’re pleased to announce that today we’ve been authorised with restrictions as a UK Bank. This is an important step towards launching our bank to customers in the UK. ➕ What’s next for Revolut in the UK? We’ve now entered a “mobilisation” period, a common regulatory stage for many new banks. During this period, we’ll complete the setup of our banking processes before starting to operate as a bank in the UK. ➕ What does this mean for our UK customers? Until we complete our work building the best possible banking experience for our customers, we will continue operating as usual. Our current customers will be able to keep using their existing Revolut account as always, with no changes to any of our products. New customers can continue opening e-money accounts with us, as well. And of course, customers’ money will continue to be safeguarded in the same way they always have been with us. Stay tuned — as soon as our setup is complete and we’re ready to launch our UK bank, we’ll make sure to reach out to customers. We’ll then explain what the next steps in the process will be for existing Revolut accounts to become UK bank accounts. For more information and FAQs, please see our blog: https://lnkd.in/dM3KXqV6 We look forward to this next stage of our journey and would like to say a big thank you to all of our customers who continue to support Revolut.

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    Venture Investor @ Venrex | Investment Management, VC

    We are excited to share that we have invested in GoJoe, an innovative app focused on social and health fitness. And welcome Phil Steele and Will Turner to the Venrex portfolio. We're very excited to support the GoJoe team on the next step of their journey. Throughout the investment process, we've been very impressed by the founding team and are eager to see how they continue to develop and expand the GoJoe product. We are thrilled to be collaborating with an elite group of investors and athletes, including Redrice Ventures Hellen's Rock Capital Alistair Brownlee MBE

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    Vinterior teams with Channel 4 Ventures in £3million partnership 📺 🛋 The media for equity deal will enable Vinterior to tap into significant audiences for popular Channel 4 shows featuring home improvement, such as Grand Designs. “We've had great success from above-the-line advertising in London over the last year and I can't wait to take Vinterior to TV in the Autumn. It will allow us to increase our awareness and position Vinterior as the destination for buying and selling pre-loved, quality furniture.” - Sandrine Zhang Ferron, Vinterior Founder and CEO. See you in your living rooms in September 👀 👋

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    The top 7 resources available free online for early-stage founders. These have been collected throughout years in the VC industry. We hope they save you time. If you think we’ve missed any, message Josie Buck and we'll update the list. 1️⃣ 20 lectures on how to start a startup from speakers who’ve been involved in the creation of unicorns coordinated by Y Combinatorhttps://lnkd.in/gASMYnsJ 2️⃣ Early pitch decks from 29 unicorns from CB Insightshttps://lnkd.in/dVtm6qj 3️⃣ A guide to scaling teams in high-growth businesses based on an analysis of 210 companies by Index Ventureshttps://lnkd.in/dy7su-Ph 4️⃣ A UK fund finder helping founders identify relevant early-stage (pre-seed to series A) investors from Concept Ventureshttps://lnkd.in/ez322KtU 5️⃣ A summary of key metrics for B2C metrics and B2B metrics startups from the founder of Monzo bank on behalf of Y Combinatorhttps://lnkd.in/gRrdu6sW & https://lnkd.in/eaBkRMW6 6️⃣ A guide to the cap table and different investment instruments from Capdesk from Cartahttps://lnkd.in/e338V8ct 7️⃣ A guide to raising capital from Crunchbase – we don’t agree with everything in here but there are good tips for talking to investors and building a pitch deck ➡https://lnkd.in/e64yBr6r

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    Congratulations to Tim Follett and the StructureFlow team on the Series A milestone. Venrex led the seed financing round in October of 2022 and have witnessed their technology transform critical workflows across the legal industry and beyond. We are excited to partner with FINTOP Capital on this next phase of growth. Onwards!

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    Partner at FINTOP Capital

    Thrilled to welcome StructureFlow to the FINTOP Capital portfolio. StructureFlow supercharges the way business professionals work with complex information. The market-leading software combines powerful diagramming and collaboration tools to build data-driven structure charts, steps plans, process maps, and timelines - creating clarity from complexity. With participation from Venrex, FINTOP Capital led this Series A investment. As I join the Board of Directors, I look forward to working alongside CEO Tim Follett and his impressive team. More via https://brev.is/ZRF5I

    • Thrilled to welcome StructureFlow to the FINTOP Capital portfolio.

StructureFlow supercharges the way business professionals work with complex information. The market-leading software combines powerful diagramming and collaboration tools to build data-driven structure charts, steps plans, process maps, and timelines - creating clarity from complexity. 

With participation from Venrex, FINTOP Capital led this Series A investment.  As I join the Board of Directors, I look forward to working alongside CEO Tim Follett and his impressive team. 

More via 
https://brev.is/ZRF5I

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