Matt Pennycard
Partner, Ada Ventures at BVCA | Private Equity & Venture Capital Association
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BVCA | Private Equity & Venture Capital Association
Matt Penneycard isn’t your typical VC. After graduating from Durham University with a law degree and realising that he didn’t want to be a lawyer, Matt interned with a VC fund in the US, before joining Octopus Investments as one of their first hires in 2002.
Apart from a brief stint in private equity and leveraged buyouts (“I didn’t enjoy it, I wasn’t very good at it. I pretty quickly found my way back to smaller companies and earlier stage deals”), Matt has worked with early stage startups ever since, and is currently heading up Downing Ventures, the department of Downing that invests in early stage tech startups in the UK.
We caught up with Matt to chat about early stage startups, the current state of the UK and US investment scenes and finding the right level of work-life balance…
WHAT I DO
Seed stage investments, into passionate mission-driven founders looking to address global problems with technology
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Consumer Internet Enterprise Software Mobile
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