Investor Profile: DSW Ventures
- Pre-Seed
- Seed
- Series A
Key Details
Name: James Reston
Investment company name: DSW Ventures
AUM: £15m
No. of Portfolio companies: 16
No. of Portfolio companies in the North of England: 11
Average no. of deals per year: 5 - 6
Team size: 6
Website: https://dsw.vc/
Location(s): Manchester
Name three notable portfolio companies: The Insights Family / 4DBiomaterials / OneUtilityBill
Fund name: DSW Ventures
Investment ticket range: £200k - £1m
Stage: Startup and spinout to pre-series A
Sectors: Agnostic with a focus on SaaS software and data, tech-enabled consumer and business services, and any fundamental technologies
Location: all of UK, focus outside London and the Golden Triangle
Other investment criteria: Seed EIS or EIS qualifying
What do you look for in an investee business?🔗
- Committed and capable founders
- A strong basis in defensible and commercially valuable IP; or
- At least some market engagement with an early product
- Large market opportunity
- Teams who want to work with us and our model
WHY FOUNDERS CHOOSE YOU AS AN INVESTOR? 🔗
We are very approachable, experienced, well networked, and extremely proactive and engaged investors
