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DFJ Esprit invests in Graze

I’m pleased to finally be able to let you all know that a week or two ago we invested in graze – an ecommerce company that delivers healthy eating by post. 

We think that Graze is a hot company because they are in at the beginning of what promises to be [...]

Lies, damm lies and venture statistics

The opaque world of venture capital isn’t helping itself with the way stats are being presented at the moment.  The EVCA (European Venture Capital Association) released data last week which is a little confusing in the way it categorises different types of private equity and venture capital investment.

As a result the FT this [...]

Beating the drum

I’m pleased to say that Esprit won the Venture Capitalist of the Year Award at the UK Technology Innovation and Growth conference earlier this week.

Thanks to everyone who has helped us on the way.

Congrats also to Kennet for winning the Deal of the Year award for the sale of Cramer [...]

Euro venture returns to lead the asset class?

According to data just out from the European Venture Capital Association Euro venture returns are looking like they might soon be category leading.  By Euro I mean UK and Europe. 

I posted back in October about how European Venture is starting to hold its own.  In that post I cited a Silicon Valley Bank study which showed that our top funds are [...]

FMCG ad spend yet to come to the web – 2007 the year?

The strength of the internet advertising market is well documented (The Internet Advertising Bureau puts the UK online ad market at just shy of £1bn for H106 and growing at 40%).  It is rare to see a large market with this sort of growth, and the good news is that it has still [...]