Ariadne Capital

Ariadne Capital provides investment and advice for seed-stage digital companies in Europe and the UK.

Ariadne Capital provides investment and advice for seed-stage digital companies in Europe and the UK. It specializes in sourcing funding, advising on business development, and exiting growth-stage digital companies. Ariadne Capital also brings its technology insight to corporates, advising them on innovating their business models, and how to work with entrepreneurs and high-growth start-ups to win in their markets. Ariadne retains close links with the start-up community via its entrepreneur network, Entrepreneur Country (www.entrepreneurcountry.com). Ariadne's core services include: * Venture Capital: Ariadne Capital’s Venture Capital fund invests in digital businesses, with an average seed investment of £250k–£500k. Recent investments include Quill, Clickslide and Taggstar. * Corporate Finance, fund raising and M&A: Ariadne Capital also sources funding, advises on business development and exits growth stage digital companies across the UK, Europe and US. Recent activity includes the sale of BeatThatQuote to Google — Google's first scale acquisition in the UK. * Corporate Advisory: Ariadne Capital works with corporates and entrepreneurial businesses to facilitate winning relationships; to help corporates secure market-leading innovation through new business models and technology, and entrepreneurial businesses reach scale through the corporate's distribution channels. * Entrepreneur Country: Ariadne Capital's Entrepreneur Country is a 133,000 strong community that provides entrepreneurs and small business owners with the information and support they need to run and grow strong, successful and profitable businesses. This information is provided via multiple platforms such as the website, twice-weekly newsletters and large events at external venues across the UK Ariadne Capital pioneered a new model for the financing of entrepreneurship - entrepreneurs backing entrepreneurs. Ariadne Capital was founded by Julie Meyer in 2000, with the backing of 57 founding investors, including the founders of leading internet and technology companies — WorldPay, Hotmail, Betfair, SES Astra and many more; these investors are committed to helping the next generation of entrepreneurs build world-leading companies out of Europe. Ariadne works with game-changers and companies at the heart of new ecosystems, and has advised Barclays, British Telecom, Carphone Warehouse, CISCO, EMAP, IBM, Monitise, Orange, Paddy Power PLC, Sage Group PLC, Skype, Zopa Limited.