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Welcome to Praetura Ventures

Praetura Capital was the first of the Praetura Businesses we look to back all provide access to recurring,
companies to be incorporated in 2011. We high margin, revenue streams and the opportunity for
completed our first investment, the acquisition and operational leverage once scaled. We are prepared to back
these inherently scalable business models early and we
listing of Inspired Energy plc, in November of that
believe that by making an early investment in a business, we
year. Since then we have grown steadily and have
are truly able to work with driven management teams at the
made a further 24 investments on behalf of our
foundational stages of a business and support them in growing
high net worth client base, investing c. £100m into
successful ventures.
start ups or early stage businesses.
We are also seeking to create an innovative, engaged and
We have evolved the group extensively to include investment,
collaborative investment ‘club’ of like-minded entrepreneurial
debt and lending businesses and are now a diversified funding
investors - the Venture Partner Program. The program is aimed
provider to SMEs. Praetura Ventures was recently established
at experienced, connected and successful individuals who
within the Group with the ambition to become the leading
have a desire to add value and potentially provide mentorship,
venture capital business in the North West of England.
advice, introductions and investment to the next generation of
entrepreneurs.
We have built a highly experienced and reputable team within
Praetura Ventures who bring with them in excess of 250 years
The program will operate in an open and inclusive manner in
of sector experience. We will be executing a differentiated
which communication between Venture Partners and Praetura
strategy, investing predominantly outside of London and
will be encouraged and where Venture Partners are treated
providing a solution to the identified funding gap in the North
as integral parts of the Praetura network. We will share
West. This funding gap has also been identified and is being
investment opportunities, deal-flow and access to exciting
addressed by the implementation of Government initiatives
businesses with our Venture Partners and will, in return, ask for
to improve infrastructure and investment within the region;
help, introductions and advice in respect of pipeline deals and
Praetura is ideally positioned to benefit.
portfolio companies.
By providing genuine, unconstrained, venture capital to early
We hope that you will consider adding your expertise to the
stage businesses, we have the opportunity to realise significant
program and becoming part of the Praetura Venture Partner
returns for investors. We recognise the value in developing
Program.
a genuine partnership with our portfolio companies, working
with them to overcome the myriad of issues that a young
business will inevitably face. We believe that this strong
partnership built on trust and transparency, alongside our
supportive approach to investment, allows us to maximise
returns for our investors.

Mike Fletcher David Foreman
Praetura Group CEO Praetura Ventures MD