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Molten Ventures Plc, formerly known as Draper Esprit plc, is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in any stage in the lifecycle of a business from seed, mid venture, middle market, early stage, later venture, emerging growth, incubation, and series A stage, mature, growth capital to pre-IPO investments, IPO acquisition, late stage, start-ups, cross-stage investments, buyouts, PIPES, and also makes direct and secondary investments in portfolio companies. It also seeks to buy entire funds from other tech investors. The firm primarily invests in companies from pre-revenue stage upwards. It primarily invests in technology-oriented business. The firm typically invests in digital technology, consumer, utilities, communication equipment, infrastructure services, commerce, enterprise and data, systems and semiconductors, commercial digital lending, consumer digital lending, financial technology, internet, mobile, media, telecom, renewable energy, consumer technology, enterprise software, interactive home entertainment, retail, textiles, apparel and luxury goods, enterprise technology, SaaS, fintech, deep-tech, health care technology, digital health & wellness and healthcare sectors, prop tech, software, hardware, medical technology, and life sciences sectors. It invests in companies based in Europe, United states, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Portugal, France, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, and United Kingdom. The firm seeks to invest between £2 million ($2.54 million) and £50 million ($63.56 million). It invests 30 percent of its corpus in very early stage companies with up to $5 million in revenues. The firm seeks to make minority and majority investments. Molten Ventures Plc was founded in 1984 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Dublin, Ireland.