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Molten Ventures PLC

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Molten Ventures PLC

  • Price (GBX)469.80
  • Today's Change9.40 / 2.04%
  • Shares traded586.92k
  • 1 Year change42.80%
  • Beta2.2569
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About the company

Molten Ventures plc is a United Kingdom-based venture capital firm investing in and developing disruptive, high-growth technology companies. The Company invests across four sectors, such as Enterprise & SaaS; Artificial intelligence (AI), Deeptech & Hardware; Consumer Technology; and Digital Health. Its core portfolio companies include Revolut, Coachhub, Ledger, Aiven, Aircall, ThoughtMachine, Form3, ICEYE, RavenPack, FintechOS, HiveMQ, Schuttflix, ISAR AeroSpace, Freetrade, Riverlane, N26, Simscale, Deciphex, OneData, SalesAPE, Sightline, RenewRisk, Modo, and others. The Company's subsidiaries include Esprit Capital Partners LLP, Molten Ventures (Nominee) Limited, Elderstreet Holdings Limited, Molten Ventures (Ireland) Limited, Grow Trustees Limited, Molten Ventures Advisors Ltd, Molten Ventures Holdings Limited, Forward Partners Group Limited, and others.

  • Revenue in GBP (TTM)137.10m
  • Net income in GBP111.20m
  • Incorporated2015
  • Employees62.00
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Profile

Management group(s)Elderstreet Investments Limited
AIC sectorGrowth Capital
ISINGB00BY7QYJ50
Launch date15 Jun 2016
Share typeOrdinary Share
StructureInvestment Trust
Base currencyGBP

Objective

To generate capital growth for Shareholders by the creation, funding, incubation and development of high growth technology businesses. The Group intends to meet its investment objective by: (i) providing early-stage businesses with initial smaller rounds of seed and series A primary investments, co-investments and commitments to third-party seed funds; (ii) making larger series B+ and later series C+ primary investments and coinvestments for scaling technology companies; and (iii) undertaking secondary transactions.

Managed by

Alan George Duncan, Bindi Karia, David Cummings, Michael Jackson

Management & contract fees

Esprit Capital receives an annual management fee as agreed with Molten, currently based on up to a 2% priority profit share of capital calls (net of realisation costs) from relevant subsidiary undertakings.

Peer analysis

CompanyRevenue (TTM)Net income (TTM)Market capEmployeesMarket Cap /
Employees
Pacific Horizon Investment Trust PLC48.09m43.55m730.07m0.00730.07m0.00
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Molten Ventures PLC137.10m111.20m805.55m62.00805.55m62.00
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Data as of Feb 06 2026. Currency figures normalised to Molten Ventures PLC's reporting currency: UK Pound GBX

Institutional shareholders

49.51%Per cent of shares held by top holders
HolderShares% Held
Goldman Sachs Asset Management Internationalas of 01 Jan 202614.03m7.98%
National Treasury Management Agency (Invt Mgmt)as of 09 Jun 202514.00m7.97%
Liontrust Investment Partners LLPas of 09 Jun 20259.28m5.28%
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd.as of 03 Dec 20259.09m5.17%
Baillie Gifford & Co.as of 22 Oct 20258.87m5.05%
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership Ltd.as of 09 Jun 20258.71m4.95%
Canaccord Genuity Wealth Ltd.as of 09 Jun 20257.62m4.33%
The Vanguard Group, Inc.as of 13 Mar 20245.52m3.14%
Carne Global Fund Managers (Ireland) Ltd.as of 14 Jan 20265.21m2.96%
Legal & General Investment Management Ltd.as of 06 Mar 20244.70m2.67%
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