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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
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