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Molten Ventures

Molten Ventures (formerly Draper Esprit) is a European venture capital firm that has spent twenty years backing founders and innovators driving Europe's technology transformation. It invests capital alongside experience, energy, and partnership to help visionary technology companies scale, serving high-growth startups and scale-ups across Europe.

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Molten Ventures is a publicly listed venture capital firm focused on backing visionary founders building Europe's technology future. Beyond providing capital, the firm offers portfolio companies experience, energy, and partnership to help them scale faster and go further. Its portfolio includes companies that have collectively reached more than 50 million customers, crossed the $200m ARR mark, sold more than 7 million devices, and achieved notable public market outcomes including IPOs at market caps of £1bn and nearly £9bn. The firm operates seed funds, evaluates new investment opportunities and pitch decks from founders, maintains an investor portal for its shareholders, and publishes sustainability reporting covering responsible investment and portfolio engagement practices.

Technology & Skills

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FLYING PROBE TEST

ACTIVE DIRECTORY

PROBLEM SOLVING

MACHINE LEARNING

POST-SILICON VALIDATION

POST-SILICON TESTING

COMPONENT ENGINEERING

DATA ENGINEERING

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

PLATFORM OPERATIONS

SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT

FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT

POWER INTEGRITY

CHAIN OF CUSTODY

PRODUCT ENGINEERING

MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION

HARDWARE BRING-UP

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION

TEST COMPRESSION

CLOUD ARCHITECTURE

FAILURE ANALYSIS

SCAN BASED TESTING

RELIABILITY VALIDATION

SILICON BRING-UP

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

HARDWARE TROUBLESHOOTING

DESKTOP SUPPORT

TEST DEVELOPMENT

CLOUD COMPUTING

DATA VISUALIZATION

CHARACTERIZATION

SIGNAL INTEGRITY

PCBA MANUFACTURING

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

USER ADMINISTRATION

PCB MANUFACTURING

EXPERIMENT DESIGN

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

SERVER PLATFORMS

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE

STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT

DESIGN VERIFICATION

TESTER PATTERN DEBUGGING

OUT-OF-BAND NETWORKS

BASEBOARD MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER

MEMORY CONTROLLER

TEST ENGINEERING

SILICON PROCESS

ROOT-CAUSE ANALYSIS

OPERATIONAL SECURITY

TENSOR PARALLELISM

APACHE SUPERSET

HARDWARE VALIDATION

REGRESSION ANALYSIS

PRIVACY GOVERNANCE

COMPONENT SOURCING

QUALITY COMPLIANCE

IN-CIRCUIT TEST

VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT

PIPELINE PARALLELISM

CLUSTER ARCHITECTURE

SYSTEM-LEVEL DEBUG

INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-CODE

SUPPLIER DUE DILIGENCE

DATACENTRE MANAGEMENT

COST-OPTIMIZATION

MEMORY MARGINING

PERFORMANCE TESTING

TECHNICAL WRITING

ANALYTICAL THINKING

HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

SYSTEM SERVICES

INFRASTRUCTURE DEPLOYMENT

PHYSICAL DESIGN

PHY CHARACTERIZATION

FISHBONE METHODOLOGY

SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING

OPERATING SYSTEMS

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS

HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

WORKLOAD ORCHESTRATION

GATE-LEVEL SIMULATION

COMPILER DEVELOPMENT

TIMING ANALYSIS

REGRESSION TESTING

SOC ARCHITECTURE

DESIGN FOR TEST

PROBABILITY THEORY

CLOCK GENERATOR

MANUFACTURING TEST

YIELD-OPTIMIZATION

STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL

DISTRIBUTED TRAINING

COMPONENT SELECTION

CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION

PHYSICAL ACCESS CONTROL

AI PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE

TRACE INFRASTRUCTURE

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

VERSION CONTROL

DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

NETWORK SEGMENTATION

DATA SUBJECT REQUESTS

CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION

INCIDENT INVESTIGATION

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

FAILURE ISOLATION

NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

SILICON CHARACTERIZATION

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

MEMORY BANDWIDTH

MICROCONTROLLER

RELIABILITY ENGINEERING

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

VALIDATION AUTOMATION

RACK MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER

ASYNCHRONOUS EXECUTION

FUNCTIONAL TESTING

HARDWARE SECURITY

COHERENCY PROTOCOL

HYPOTHESIS TESTING

HARDWARE EFFICIENCY

DATA PROTECTION

TRAINING ALGORITHM

RETENTION SCHEDULE

POWER MANAGEMENT

SECURITY POLICY

TEAM LEADERSHIP

QUALITY OPTIMIZATION

RISK ASSESSMENT