Richard Marsh

Chief Portfolio Officer

2022 - Current

Director, Venture Capital Trust

2021

Board director of LSE-listed Molten Ventures VCT Plc (Venture Capital Trust)

Advisory Board Member

2021

Partner, Venture Capital

2010

General Partner (GP) / Managing Partner / Senior Partner roles in various primary and secondary VC funds, EIS and VCT funds within Draper Esprit and related entities.

Investor Director

2018

Apperio is a software company providing legal spend management software. Client organisations achieve full, unified, real-time visibility for all their law firms' billed and unbilled work, 10-20% savings in external expenditure and streamlined administration.

Senior Partner, Venture Capital

2020 - 2023

Appointed as Senior Partner following the acquisition of Encore Ventures LLP by Draper Esprit Plc. Key sector interests: - Enterprise software; B2B SaaS; Enterprise SaaS - Data centric business (exit to Oracle from my own start up) inc. data sharing, data privacy, data exchange and collaboration; data modelling and semantics, data governance, data quality, ++

Investor Director

2014 - 2022

Acquired by NASDAQ-listed NVIDIA. Bright Computing is a software company providing the de facto worldwide standard commercial cluster management technology for supercomputing / high performance computing (HPC), machine learning / artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics applications across any core-to-edge-to-cloud architecture.

Investor Director

2016 - 2021

Exited in a majority investment by BD Capital. SportPursuit is a highly successful membership-based eCommerce business providing 30-70% discounted deals on sporting, outdoor and lifestyle equipment from thousands of leading brands.

Managing Partner, Venture Capital

2015 - 2020

Co-founded and built the DFJ / Draper Esprit EIS funds which are managed by Encore Ventures LLP (now a 100% owned subsidiary undertaking of Draper Esprit Plc).

Investor Director

2011 - 2016

Displaydata is the leading provider of fully graphic Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs). Customers are some of the world's largest retail brands, using Displaydata's technology to deliver enhanced revenue and margins through accurate, instantaneous pricing / promotions delivered seamlessly to the shelf edge.