Lepe Partners
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Lepe Partners is an independent merchant bank focused on the media, internet and consumer sectors. They combine corporate finance advisory and principal investment practices dedicated to unlocking growth for their clients and investors. Lepe Capital is the investment arm of Lepe Partners, established in 2013 to provide growth equity to early- / mid-stage companies focused on media and digital opportunities. Lepe Partners is a proud partner of Founders Forum through Lepe's founder, Jonathan Goodwin (LongAcre, The Wireless Group, Lepe Partners, PROfounders Capital). Set up in 2005 by Brent Hoberman (lastminute.com, made.com, PROfounders Capital) and Jonathan Goodwin, Founders Forum is a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
Last updated:
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Industries Lepe Partners invests in
Stages Lepe Partners invests in
Countries Lepe Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series B
- $6.3M–$25M
- Series C
- $26M–$34M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 5 (38%)
- Internet 3 (23%)
- Mobile 2 (15%)
- Retail 2 (15%)
- Travel 2 (15%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (31%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (23%)
- Series C 2 (15%)
- Seed 1 (8%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
Country
- United Kingdom 7 (54%)
- United States 3 (23%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Felipe Tunnell
Associate
|
Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jonathan Goodwin
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travelers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,000+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 2,000 suppliers for accommodation andtravel packages. | $10.5M / Series D / Nov 12, 2018 | ||
| LiveLike is a next-gen OTT sports technology company delivering the live sports experience to fans on any platform solving the linear live sports streaming paradigm. The company's white-label platform integrates the latest innovations in VR, AR, and MR to revolutionize sports viewing around the world. It also allows broadcasters to streamregular or interactive content to their end-users under their own brand on mobile and VR.LiveLike key clients and events include Fox Sports VR, French Open, UEFA Champions League, Manchester City, BT, France Television, Sky Germany, NASCAR, Super Bowl LI, Huawei, and many more.LiveLike reinvents the user experience around four pillars: social, interactivity, content, and immersive. | $9.6M / Series B / Feb 16, 2018 | ||
| Coniq is the Total Customer Engagement Company for growth minded shopping malls, outlets, and retail brands. Our platform, IQ, provides a faster, economical and simpler way to generate revenue by understanding, anticipating and engaging customers through unique and personalised experiences in real-time across multiple channels. The Coniq platformpowers over £1 billion in sales annually for its customers, with more than 20 million consumers shopping from 1,800 brands in 24 countries worldwide. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 29, 2018 | ||
| CreativeLive is the world’s largest live streaming education website. Anyone can use CreativeLive to take free live online classes taught by the world's most inspiring instructors and purchase classes to take them on-demand. CreativeLive’s instructors include New York Times bestselling authors, Pulitzer Prize winners, Emmy nominateddirectors, and award-winning professionals in the disciplines of photography, design, craft, business & more. CreativeLive has paid out millions of dollars to instructors.More than ten million students have used CreativeLive since the company’s inception, with 3 billion minutes of video consumed. The company was founded in April 2010 by world-renowned photographer, director and artist Chase Jarvis and entrepreneur Craig Swanson and has been profitable since day one. The company is led by CEO Chase Jarvis, backed by Greylock Partners and has locations in Seattle and San Francisco. | $25.3M / Series B / May 17, 2017 | ||
| Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travelers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,000+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 2,000 suppliers for accommodation andtravel packages. | $6.3M / Series B / Jun 30, 2016 | ||
| Masabi is the global leader in transport mobile ticketing and payments. The company’s award-winning JustRide platform is a cloud-based, deployment-proven, end-to-end mobile ticketing and fare collection system. It consists of services for ticket purchase, display and inspection, together with back-end infrastructure for secure payments, ticketmanagement, customer service, reporting and real-time analytics. Masabi’s technology signals the end of ticket lines, lost tickets and fumbling for cash by allowing passengers to quickly and securely buy and display tickets on their mobile phones.Masabi’s scalable cloud-based technology is operational with over 25 transport agencies and operators round the world, including: Virgin Trains, Arriva, Abellio, Thames Clippers, Boston’s MBTA, LA’s Metrolink, Transport for Athens, NICE Bus New York and launching with New York’s MTA in 2016. The company has offices in New York, Boston and London. | $12M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 07, 2015 | ||
| Paddle8 is the premier online collecting destination, presenting auctions of extraordinary art, design, jewelry, watches, and collectibles. Using innovative technology, Paddle8 has streamlined the collecting experience by combining the trust and taste of an auction house with efficient operational solutions and a global reach. Paddle8 focuseson inventory priced between $1,000 and $100,000, all of which is vetted by expert specialists. In short, Paddle8 fills the white space between uncredentialized online marketplace and the traditional brick-and-mortar auction houses. In addition, Paddle8 makes it simple for individual collectors to easily and swiftly sell works from their collections via Paddle8's iPhone app, which allows for anyone to submit a work and receive a complimentary auction estimate within five business days. Paddle8 has also partnered with over 350 non-profit organizations worldwide to present benefit auctions to our global community of 500,000 collectors, helping each organization expand its fundraising results. Founded in 2011, Paddle8 has over 100 employees worldwide, with teams in New York, L.A., and London. Paddle8 is funded by the investors behind Uber, Vimeo, Buzzfeed, Paperless Post, Warby Parker, and Bonobos, among others, as well as art-world insiders including artist Damien Hirst, art dealer Jay Jopling, and the Mellon family.In May 2016, Paddle8 joined forces with Auctionata, a leading European platform for livestream auctions, to create the global leader in online art, collectibles and vintage luxury and the destination of choice for the 21st century collector. With nearly 800,000 registered users, the united company is one of the top 10 auction houses worldwide outside of China and a dominant player for art and luxury collectibles in the most important markets globally. | $34M / Series C / Oct 28, 2015 | ||
| Beryl sell their micromobilty operating system to leading transport operators (Eg. London’s Santander Cycles) and operate their own bike, e-bike and e-scooter systems. Currently in 6 UK cities, with an exclusive contract for New York, they typically operate under exclusive, funded and long-term contracts. Beryl designed and built theirmicromobility system in-house (on-bike IoT, proprietary backend operating technology stack, on-street operations etc) which allows them to tailor their offering to a city's needs and become their fully-integrated, long-term, micromobility partner, as well as partnering with other technology operators to sell their technology and platform in markets they are not yet in.Beryl was founded in 2012 by Emily Brooke, with the purpose of building a better world by getting more people in cities on bikes. They have a range of consumer cycling products and were first known for their Laserlight safety innovation; a front bike light with a green laser projecting the symbol of a cyclist ahead of the bike. This was later adopted by all of the 12,000 Santander Cycles in London, after which Beryl went on to provide the London Bike Share Scheme with all on-bike technology and supporting asset tracking software. Beryl are the only micromobility company that is a certified BCorp. | $1.7M / Seed / Nov 01, 2014 | ||
| Treatwell is the booking platform for beauty and wellbeing treatments on the Benelux with over 2500 spa's, salons and studios in 60 cities, amongst others Amsterdam, Cologne, Antwerp, Düsseldorf, Rotterdam and Berlin. Offices in Amsterdam and Berlin. Treatwell is part of the Wahanda Group, Europe’s leading marketplace for beauty and wellbeingservices.They are a marketing driven technology company, serving consumers for more convenience, and partners for better business performance. They provide consumers a superior online experience when searching for, comparing and booking treatments, while they bring new and more loyal customers to salons and thus increase their revenues. | $26M / Series C / Oct 10, 2014 | ||
| Boat International Media Ltd is a media group serving the superyacht industry. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 13, 2014 | ||
| See all 13 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Lepe Partners invest in?
Lepe Partners invests primarily in E-Commerce, Internet and Mobile startups, most often at Series B and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Lepe Partners invest in?
Lepe Partners typically joins rounds of $6.3M–$25M at Series B and $26M–$34M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Lepe Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Lepe Partners took part in.
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Who are the partners at Lepe Partners?
The team at Lepe Partners includes Felipe Tunnell (Associate) and Jonathan Goodwin (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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