UK Insights

CEO Ben Wilkinson and CFO Andrew Zimmerman get down to brass tacks. Who is Molten, what do we stand for, who do we support and why should you invest in us.

This year’s Investor Day felt like a real shift—one that reinforced Molten’s position as a leading European venture capital firm, backing the next generation of transformative technology companies.

Key takeaways from Molten's Investor Day 2024 including summaries of our team's presentations and the full videos are also available to watch within the article.

We spoke to Tom Farrand, Director of Product at portfolio company causaLens. Together we spoke about its latest product – decisionOS – the benefits it will bring to customers, the challenges it meets, and the future of AI with causality at its core.

At Molten’s 2023 Investor Day, we brought together some of the best and brightest of our portfolio to showcase their growth journeys. As the keynote speaker, our CEO Martin Davis gave a candid precis of the numbers, the state of play in the market and a reminder of how Molten invests.

In the second part of our Corporate-Startup panel roundup, we gathered founders and CEOs from our startup ecosystem and corporate innovation leaders for an intimate and informal discussion. We asked the group for some real honesty about some of the difficulties the corporates and startups faced working together: “Tell the truth: what annoys you about each other?”

Molten launched its Fund of Funds model to bring more capital to the European seed and early-stage ecosystem. Five years on, we see it as part of our role in that ecosystem to ensure that the grassroots are properly served.

Culture plays such a fundamental part in the sustainability of an organisation. However, the values that underpin that culture may not be codified, so it’s important to make sure they are understood by all its employees.