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RG1 1LX

Backing ambitious businesses across Reading, Oxford, and the South of England

Reading and the wider Thames Valley region is rated among the top five performing innovation economies in the UK and is home to many of the countries key growth sectors including information and communications technology (ICT), biopharma and biotech, defence and cybernetics, and software.

Since establishing an office here our Reading based investment team have backed a number of high growth businesses across many of these sectors, including leading manufacturer of airborne signals intelligence (SIGINT) systems, Horizon Technologies, big data analytics specialist, Cardinality, global AI e-commerce platform, RevLifter and climate technology company, Manufacture 2030.

Businesses we've supported

Data analytics

Niche Manufacturing

Climate Technology

AdTech

Niche Manufacturing

AdTech

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Businesses we've supported

£6 million
Transaction size

The sale of ProspectSoft represents a good return for our investors. The business has performed well in recent years through continued investment in the product, optimising the strategy and the hard work and dedication of the management team.

Tom Purkis, Partner at Maven

£2.5 million
Transaction size

This investment from Maven is a key milestone for us. Having proved our platform’s scalability, artificial intelligence and machine learning technology across a number of leading Tier-1 Mobile Operators in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, this funding will support our growth into other vertical markets.

Steve Preston, CEO at Cardinality

£3.3 million
Transaction size

We are delighted to welcome Maven into the RevLifter fold. Knowing we have their belief is an amazing validation of our vision. We will be using the investment to capitalise on our leadership position in this market and continue our rapid expansion into new markets.

Simon Bird, CEO at RevLifter

£5 million
Transaction size

Solutions such as M2030's are playing a critical role in helping manufacturers become more resource efficient and minimise their environmental impact. The investment in M2030 represents an excellent opportunity for Maven to enter a rapidly developing market at an early stage and back a business that has already demonstrated good commercial traction.

Luke Matthews, Investment Director at Maven

£3.5 million
Transaction size

Nano has achieved impressive growth to date in the challenging and fragmented European marketplace, through an innovative and successful intent targeting platform, and is already working with a number of leading international brands. We look forward to working with the team in expanding the Nano platform.

Luke Matthews, Investment Director at Maven

£2.85 million
Transaction size

We are thrilled to announce this additional funding for Plyable and to be partnering with a highly experienced investment firm such as Maven as we start our next chapter of growth. We are excited to deploy the capital to the company’s ongoing technological development and expansion of our ecosystem, particularly in Europe and North America.

Martin Oughton, CEO at Plyable

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