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What Has Gone Well?


               Inspired                                EC3                                PIB                                 Sorted
               16x Money                               20x Money                          3x Money                            Valuation Increase of 18x


               Praetura provided pre-IPO funding and then   Praetura co-founded the business with   Praetura co-founded the business   Praetura led the initial funding round in
               floated the business at 3p in November 2011.    £600k investment in 2014.  In 2017, the   in 2013.  In 2015, the business was   2012, including buying the co-founder’s
               7 years and 12 acquisitions later, the business   business undertook an MBO backed   acquired by Carlyle Private Equity to   stake, and have since led in excess
               had a share price of 21p and has returned   by Santander and BP Marsh (specialist   form the platform for a buy and build   of £20m of funding, with valuations
               Praetura’s investment in dividends alone.  insurance PE fund) at £20m valuation.    roll-up in commercial lines insurance.     increasing from £2m to £36m.





               What Have We Learned?


               Top Quartile Performers:                                                     Bottom Quartile Performers






                                                                     They operate                                                Business
                  3x - 20x         The business     We invested     in niche sectors             <1x            Incomplete     models that are   Low margin
                                     model is       early, as lead                                             management
                   return*         highly scalable    investor       of attractive              Return            teams        difficult to scale   markets
                                                                       markets                                                   efficiently











                *Past returns are not indicative of future returns                                                                                                                              ** Assumed Sale Occurred in November 2018, in line with EIS Fund policies which state that Listed securities are to be distributed to investors after 7 years
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