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Investor Profile: DSW Ventures

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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

HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU?🔗

hello@dsw.vc

James Reston

Venture capital investment associate 

@ DSW Ventures

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