A
Alan Duncan
Venture Partner
All funds
ai robotics
crypto
hybrid
Analyst signals
Portfolio activity and matriculation
Metrics use all recorded activity through 21 Jul 2026 across series a, series c, unknown. Later-round outcomes are capped at the period end.
66.7%companies with a later round · 2/3
231481.73×median round-size step-up · n=2
Not availablemedian valuation step-up · n=0
0%recorded-solo rate · 0 solo / 4 syndicated
Finance · 1 companies
These are activity signals, not fund-return metrics. Round capital is the full disclosed financing amount, not this fund's check size. “Recorded solo” means only one investor is present in the source data and is a lead signal, not verified lead status; syndicated rounds are a co-investor or follower signal. IRR, TVPI, DPI, ownership, exits, and market beta cannot be calculated from the available records.
People
Team
A
Andrew Zimmermann
Chief Financial Officer
B
Bakhrom Ibragimov
Partner - Head of Molten East
B
Ben Wilkinson
Chief Executive Officer
B
Brian Caulfield
Venture Partner
C
Ceyda Sabanci Dinçer
Associate
D
David Cummings
Venture Partner
F
Franco Danesi
Senior Partner
G
George Chalmers
Partner
G
Greg Paterson
Associate
I
Inga Deakin
Partner
L
Luke Smith
Head of Early Investing
M
Malcolm Ferguson
Partner - Secondaries
M
Michael Dimelow
Corporate Advisor
N
Nelly Markova
Partner - Molten East
N
Nick Sando
Partner - Secondaries
N
Nicola McClafferty
Partner
N
Nikhil Punwaney
Investment Manager
O
Ozan Sonmez
Partner - Molten East
P
Phoebe Kitchen
Principal
R
Richard Marsh
Chief Portfolio Officer
S
Steven Mendel
Partner - Secondaries
S
Stuart Chapman
Director
Portfolio
Investments
Full financing histories for portfolio companies. Highlighted rounds are those where Molten Ventures (ex Draper Esprit) is recorded as an investor.
Hadean
Uncategorized
Hadean is a UK defence technology company providing AI, simulation, intelligence, and command-and-control software. Its products support defence organizations and militaries with training, mission rehearsal, wargaming, mission planning, targeting, and air-defence decision-making.
Ledger
Uncategorized
Ledger helps you keep your digital assets safe using certified hardware wallets and management software that protect against online threats.
Series C10 Jun, 2021$380T round
Series B18 Jan, 2018$75T round
Series A30 Mar, 2017$7T round
Grant1 Sep, 2015$1.9T round
SettleMint
Finance
SettleMint provides a Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform (DALP) that enables regulated institutions to issue, manage compliance for, custody, settle, and service tokenized assets. Its clients include banks and financial institutions, market infrastructure providers and custodians, and sovereign entities and regulators moving tokenized assets from pilots to production.