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Keeping a door open for entrepreneurs
How do we address concerns about the closing of Britain’s doors post-Brexit to the wealth of overseas entrepreneurial talent? Not all of those with a great idea and the drive to move it forward have the university degree required for a conventio...
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Investee success and involvement beyond the headlines
You might not immediately equate luxury car brand Maserati with entrepreneurial spirit and innovation, but the century old company is the result of creative thinking and successful execution. The founding Maserati brothers were hard-working innovator...
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Outplay: A real grower
Outplay, the UK’s largest independent mobile developer and Oxford Capital investee company, list of accolades is almost as impressive as its growth rate. So, it’s fitting that it has just been named in London Stock Exchange’s ‘1000 Companies ...
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Why we invested in Wrisk
We’ve recently announced our newest investment, Wrisk, a great insurtech startup we backed this summer, leading a £3.0m super seed round. I’m super excited that we’ve had the opportunity to back the Wrisk founders Niall & Darius as they se...
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Planting seeds with Hometree
A boiler installation company might not sound like an obvious target for venture capital investment. But we believe Hometree is well-positioned to exploit the way the energy market is changing. There are big changes ahead for the UK energy markets...
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On the money: Our investment in Curve
We are very excited to announce our participation in Curve’s Series A round. Curve is building a money hub that uses an all-cards-in-one Curve MasterCard to enable users to spend from all their accounts, and a mobile app to manage their money in on...
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Taking the temperature on digital health investments in Europe, as Push Doctor announce their £20m funding round
We are delighted to announce that our portfolio company Push Doctor has raised a £20m Series B funding round, led by new investor Accelerated Digital Ventures, Draper Esprit, Oxford Capital and Seventure. We first invested in Push Doctor in late 201...
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Picking winners? How our team weighs up investment opportunities
Tom Bradley joined Oxford Capital in 2015 and is responsible for investing the funds raised by the firm’s Growth EIS. What does he look for in an entrepreneur and their business, before taking the decision to back them? This blog is aimed at qua...
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2017 - Looking into the tech crystal ball
Along with Christmas jumpers and tinsel, December also brings with it an inbox influx of industry predictions for the coming year. We have sifted through some of the best and come up with our favourite predictions for 2017. TakeawAI This year wil...
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Why we invested in Red Sift
We produce huge amounts of data — not just in aggregate on networks synonymous with big data like Google or Facebook — but as siloed users as well. Just have a look at your inbox: Hundreds of messages a day, sent and received, deliverable...
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The Next Generation of Transportation
At the end of May, I spent two days at the Connected Car Forum in Monaco. Arranged by Cassandra Harris and her team at VentureSpring, the conference attracted some of the industry’s most knowledgeable experts from companies including McLaren Applie...
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The perfect investment completion?
Before a Venture Capital investment completes, both sides of the transaction have to get through a lot paperwork. Rachel Guest explains how the right approach can make for a smooth completion process. There is no such thing as a perfect completion...
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Four reasons we like property tech
At Oxford Capital, we are a UK-focused early stage investor. We like to focus on the UK because we are a relatively small team of 8, but also because we believe in the UK's potential as an ecosystem for nurturing and building great tech businesses. ...
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Building a portfolio: high potential and early growth
At Oxford Capital, we talk about making two types of investment: High Potential and Early Growth. In each of these areas there are common characteristics that we seek – obvious examples would be the strength of the team, the quality of the produ...
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Making sense of gaming metrics: 3 key points
Hot on the heels of Boris Johnson’s in-minecraft launch of London’s own gaming fund, it’s a great time to be a player in the UK gaming industry. At Oxford Capital, we’ve made 2 gaming investments (Outplay and Kobojo) and continue to be excite...
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Import.io: Investing in the future of data
In January 2016 Oxford Capital announced its investment in Import.io. This company has created a software platform (SaaS, or Software as a Service) that can collate vast quantities of unstructured data from across the internet, and turn it into datas...
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Slush 2015 - Never a better time to be a European entrepreneur
On the strength of this year's Slush conference, one of Europe's biggest tech investment events, it's clearly an exciting time for European entrepreneurs to be raising money. Welcome the dark. Embrace the cold. So implored the organisers of Slush....
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Dublin web summit shows a startup scene in rude health
Web Summit is one of Europe's biggest gatherings of startup internet businesses and investors interested in backing them. Will Orde from Oxford Capital spent three days at the summit and couldn't help being struck by the vibrancy of the early stage s...
Read moreThree stats that can show if an ecommerce company is going places
What do we look for in an eCommerce company? A great team, differentiated technology and some fledgling revenues are all important factors. But there are also a number of Key Performance Indicators that we find particularly revealing for companies in...
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Digital Media. Continued relevance for investors?
The Venture Capital industry's interest in digital media has cooled off recently. But there are still good reasons to be interested in the sector. Digital media, encompassing advertising and marketing technologies ('adtech' and 'martech'), has lon...
Read moreMobile gaming. Under-invested. Under-valued?
The proliferation of mobile phone usage and the move to 'freemium' gaming business models has created opportunities for tech investors. As many market commentators have observed, we are in the latest wave of a computing revolution that really star...
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£1 billion raised by Oxford investors to invest in technology businesses
Oxford’s entrepreneurs and innovators have never had it so good. For the first time, in over two decades, there is a wall of capital of over £1 billion available to fund great ideas and emerging businesses within the Oxford cluster. According t...
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State of the tech market - two sides of the same coin
Are we in a new tech bubble, or are things different this time? Is the US tech sector signalling the peak of the market and the coming of the next crash? Has the $50bn valuation of Uber caused the first reverberations that will hit the US tech mar...
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European unicorns - more common than you might think...
A new report shows that Europe has produced 40 $1bn companies since 2000, nearly half of which were British businesses. The chances are that you have actually seen several unicorns. In fact, you probably encounter them on a daily basis. When Ailee...
Read moreCrystal Ball 2015 - tech predictions for the year ahead
Each January, technology journalists and industry commentators are keen to share their predictions for the year ahead. What will be the big tech trends and developments in 2015? Here is our round-up of the best of the pundits’ guesses. 1. Smart ...
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Rise of the wearables?
The tumbling cost of hardware development and manufacture is helping start-ups enter the wearable technology market in droves, and rapid growth is expected. But there are still other technological limitations for the wearables sector to overcome. ...
Read moreEuropean VC is alive and well
The general perception of the European VC landscape is often held to be that of a distant poor relation to the freneticism, ambition and volume of the US West Coast. Fig 1. The Finnish PM takes the stage at Slush 2014 for the first day opening a...
Read moreWill you love your Apple Watch, or keep it in a drawer?
The noise surrounding ‘wearable technology’ has built to a crescendo with the announcement of the Apple Watch, due to hit the shelves in early 2015. But will this be the moment that wearable technology finally hits the mainstream, or will most co...
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Ready, set, wait...
A friend in a large PE house recently told me they listed one of their portfolio companies, "in just six weeks". Such boasts are frequent in the private equity world when stock markets are buoyant. But the claim hides the huge amount of hard work nee...
Read moreA new dawn for video advertising?
MirriAd has announced a partnership with VEVO, an online music video channel that accounts for half of YouTube’s traffic. The deal represents the first step in a potential quantum leap for online digital advertising. Last year Google invested a ...
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Tapes make a comeback
Why Big Data is increasing demand for an ageing technology. We’ve blogged before about Big Data and the Cloud, and it is well known that both markets are growing at an astonishing rate. The darlings of the sectors tend to be the software deve...
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Budget 2014 - how it affects EIS investments
How will changes introduced in this year's Budget affect investments like the Oxford Capital Infrastructure EIS? IMPORTANT UPDATE TO THIS BLOG POST: The Finance Bill 2014 came into force on 17th July 2014. The Oxford Capital Infrastructure EIS no ...
Read moreTop 6 predictions for 2014
As ever at this time of year, many journalists, industry commentators and other pundits have been busily writing their predictions for the year ahead. Here are six predictions that caught our eye. Impact investing grows up. Impact investing (inve...
Read moreThe future of venture capital in Europe?
This year’s Slush conference, held in Helsinki, brought some of Europe’s most promising start-ups together with technology giants including Spotify, Alibaba and Rovio. Oxford Capital attended the event, which highlighted the opportunities and ...
Read moreThe growth potential for Cloud Computing
Following our investment in Abiquo, a Cloud management software developer, this month we examine the continued growth and investment potential of the Cloud industry. The Cloud Computing market includes many innovative, fast-growing businesses, eac...
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