About Eden Ventures
The Eden Ventures team is a mix of successful entrepreneurs and investment professionals. Our blend of knowledge, experience and skill covers business strategy, sales and marketing, finance and operations, M & A transactions and institutional fund management.
In 2007, the European Technology Forum named Eden Ventures as Early Stage Venture Capital Fund of the Year and the sale of Cramer Systems (a pre-Eden investment) to Amdocs as Deal of the Year. The sale of Cramer was also heralded as Exit of the Year 2007 by Investor AllStars.
Get in touch with us at: info@edenventures.co.uk or on +44 1225 472950.
Our success stories
Although Eden One is still a young fund (raised December 2004), we have already had one significant exit:
Our seed investment track record
Some of the companies we developed before creating Eden:
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Cramer Systems
Eden’s David Embleton and Mark Farmer were instrumental in the founding, development and growth of Cramer Systems, widely acknowledged as the world leader in telecoms service and network inventory software. Cramer’s products reduce the operating costs of fixed and wireless networks. The company was acquired by business and operational support systems specialist, Amdocs in 2006 for $425m. The transaction won the European Technology Forum’s Deal of the Year Award for 2007 and the Investor AllStars’ Exit of the Year Award for 2007.
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OD2
On Demand Distribution Limited (OD2) is Europe’s no. 1 supplier of white label music platforms and business-to-business digital media distribution. It was founded in 1999 by Eden’s Charles Grimsdale. Today, OD2 powers the digital music services of many major online brands. It was acquired by digital media company Loudeye in 2004, which was subsequently acquired by Nokia in 2006.
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Exony
Exony provides interaction management software for customer service operations (virtual contact centres) in a wide range of industries across Europe and North America, including communications & technology, financial services, retail, transport & logistics and government departments. Customers include BT, Vodafone, Microsoft, Cisco, Cable & Wireless, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Marks & Spencer and the Home Office. Eden professionals were seed investors in Exony.
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CreditCall
Pioneers of the cash-free world, CreditCall specialises in the processing of credit and debit card payments. Its principal areas are: processing card payments at unattended machines or over the internet and developing card payments software (such as Chip & PIN and the magnetic stripe). Customers include train operators Virgin and First Great Western. It is the only UK provider of credit and debit card facilities for pay & display parking. Initially a seed investor, Eden’s Charles Grimsdale also served as Interim Chairman.
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