Eden Ventures has made five investments in early stage European technology companies, with amounts ranging in size from GBP100,000 to GBP1m.
The new investments are:
Brightpearl: a Cloud-based (SaaS) business solution to manage leads, customers, sales, products, suppliers, website and finances in a single online service for SMEs. Eden has invested alongside Notion Capital and other shareholders include Doug Richards (Dragons Den, Library House, School For StartUps).
DocCom: a Cloud-based (SaaS) platform to manage communication between front-line doctors and other healthcare professionals. Eden has invested alongside Mark Jackson (founder and ex-chief executive of Helphire.com), Jon Craton (founder of Cramer) and Richard Brennan (ex-chief marketing officer for Orange).
Evolved Intelligence: value-added services in the cloud for mobile networks operators. Eden has invested alongside Dave Edwards (founder of Aethos Communications Systems) and former executives of Apertio.
GreenManGaming: an online buying and trading community for games. Eden has invested alongside Creative Capital Fund and angel investors previously from Eidos, BSkyB and Ciao!
Whatafind: an online clearance channel for retailers. Eden has invested alongside angel investors Mark Zaleski and Robert Dighero (both ex-QXL).
Ben Tompkins, general partner at Eden, says: “We’re delighted to announce these new investments which are a further demonstration of the world class potential in early stage European technology businesses. We are equally pleased to be co-investing with some of Europe’s leading angel investors whose importance cannot be overstated. We seek to be good partners with angels and the businesses in which we invest by taking the early risk and providing additional funds under management to support our best investments as they scale.”
Other recent Eden investments include participation in a GBP4m round in New Voice Media, which provides contact centre technology as a service over the internet, alongside Notion Capital and angel investors from MessageLabs and Salesforce.com.
