10 November 2022

SUPERSEED CAPITAL LIMITED

("SuperSeed" or the "Company")

THIRD QUARTER 2022 RESULTS

SuperSeed, a company established as a Venture Capital fund of funds for early-stage technology investing, announces results for the quarter ending 30 September 2022.

Investment policy

The Company, a registered closed-ended collective investment scheme invests in technology-led innovation, primarily through funds managed by SuperSeed Ventures LLP (the "Manager"). The Company can also invest in funds managed by other investment managers, or into individual companies, either directly or through special purpose vehicles.

Highlights 

·      SuperSeed II LP (the "Fund") closed investments into Garvis and Finteum in Q3.

·      A further investment in Techsembly was agreed in Q3.

·      This takes the total number of investments in the Fund's portfolio to 7.

·      Continued strong Fund portfolio revenue growth in Q3 - recurring revenue increased to 38% quarter-on-quarter. Year-to-date, the average revenue growth has been 12% per-month.

Post-period highlights

·      The Fund's investment in Techsembly closed in early Q4.

·      The next Fund investment in is lined-up to join the portfolio in early Q4.

·      The Fund sees good deal flow as it looks ahead to 2023, with new opportunities coming into the pipeline.

Portfolio commentary

In light of the current market uncertainty, the Manager has worked with Fund portfolio founders to trim their budgets and ensure they have the runway they need. But this has not stopped them from continuing to execute and deliver solid performance for the quarter. Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue (i.e. contracts signed by customers) was up 38% quarter-on-quarter on a like-for-like basis. The Manager keeps looking out for a meaningful slow-down in corporate spending, but fortunately, the Fund's portfolio companies have not seen it yet.

New investment - Garvis

Key information 

Forecasting demand is one of the most critical and challenging aspects of running a successful manufacturing business - whether in FMCG, electronics, fashion or other sectors. Today, forecasting is undertaken by specialist Demand Planners. The tools and processes are error-prone and time-consuming. Demand Planners are highly skilled analytical specialists, but their roles are underserved by technology. The majority of their work takes place in Excel. Garvis solves these challenges by enabling demand forecasters to incorporate more data and deliver better analysis using ground-breaking AI. Unlike competitors, Garvis can be set up and deliver value in just one day, and it is designed to combine the analytical power of software with the nuanced understanding and experience of Demand Planners. The synthesis of technological and human capabilities is why the team describes their offering as "bionic". It offers customers fast, accurate forecasting and planning, allowing businesses to optimise the sourcing, supply, and delivery of their existing product lines.

Investment name                                           Garvis

Industry                                                            AI

Geography                                                       Belgium

Currency of investment                                 GBP

Stage of initial investment                            Seed

Fund's role in initial investment                  Lead

Website                                                            https://www.garvis.ai/

Why did the Fund invest? 

Superior Product - Piet Buyck and Anupam Aishwarya have spent decades in the world of demand forecasting. Their deep subject matter expertise combined with years of working with businesses in this space has meant, from the outset, they have had a strong understanding of their ICP and how to sell to them. They have solved three specific problems better than any competitor: a) fastest implementation time - they can start delivering insights within 24-hours, and the forecasts then become more accurate with time; b) accuracy - their platform produces meaningfully better, more reliable and more accurate forecasts than competition, leading to better business outcomes; and c) usability - whereas other demand forecasting platforms are black box solutions, Garvis makes it easy for demand planners to interrogate the forecast, to tweak parameters and gain confidence in the outputs. 

Strong Traction - Garvis has grown rapidly and consistently since launching commercially in 2021. It has an impressive client list already, including Coca-Cola, J&J, GSK, and Q8. Given the land-and-expand nature of their contracts, there is an opportunity to upsell large enterprise accounts with more product lines once the solution has been implemented.

New investment - Finteum

Key information

Banks have an ever-increasing requirement to hold liquid assets on their books. And they must ensure they never have less than the required cash on hand. Because of this, they are increasingly finding that they have more liquid assets than they need - especially for short periods during the day (say,
3-4 hours at a time). This presents an opportunity for banks to swap their excess liquidity with other banks - if only they could find a way to do so for a few hours at a time. Enter Finteum, a SaaS company that has built a brilliant platform to help them do so. With an intelligent application of blockchain technology, Finteum is breaking new ground in the fintech sector.

Investment name                                            Finteum

Industry                                                             SaaS / Blockchain

Geography                                                        UK

Currency of investment                                  GBP

Stage of initial investment                             Seed

Fund's role in initial investment                    Lead

Website                                                             https://finteum.com/

Why did the Fund invest? 

Founding Team - Brian's extensive liquid asset and treasury experience and Zbi's development expertise means Finteum has both deep knowledge and network. Finteum is aware of banks' regulatory requirements, sales cycles, stakeholders, integration complexities, and appetite for a product that reduces the amount of balance sheet dedicated to intraday liquidity as well as generating new revenue streams.

Early Traction - Despite the early stage of the company, Finteum has already developed relationships with 14 of the world's largest banks, 3 of which are classed as 'founding members' as of July 2022. Several European tier 1 banks are already signed up to join the platform ahead of its launch in 2023 and have also spent a significant budget internally to facilitate Finteum's integration (legal, IT, operations and compliance).

New investment - Techsembly

Key information

Ecommerce has been enabled by several great SaaS platforms - chief among them Shopify. However, firms in the hospitality sector have found Shopify's platform to be entirely inadequate for their needs - especially as they look to sell experiences, vouchers, merchandise and food & beverage delivery on one platform. Enter Techsembly, a SaaS company that has created a beautiful platform focused on high-end hospitality. The company already has Peninsula Hotels, Aman Resorts, Belmond Hotels and Capella on board, with Raffles Hotels and Mandarin Oriental expected to follow shortly.

Investment name                                            Techsembly

Industry                                                             SaaS / eCommerce

Geography                                                        Singapore

Currency of investment                                  GBP

Stage of initial investment                             Seed

Fund's role in initial investment                    Lead

Website                                                              https://techsembly.com/

Why did the Fund invest? 

The opportunity - e-commerce is eating the retail world. Growing globally at around 20% per year since 2015, and now only at around 18% of total global retail sales. Techsembly currently focuses on large premium hotel groups and offers a payments platform that enables additional revenue streams beyond the booking experience e.g. room upgrades, vouchers, products and experiences, where it takes a healthy percentage of proceeds.

Differentiated product - e-commerce as a service is not new. e.g. Shopify, with revenues at USD 3 billion, opened up e-retail for 'Mom-and-Pop' stores all over the world, but due to the nature of its' architecture, is unable to support multi-currency / territory / tenancy installations, which is where Techsembly excels.

Experienced founder - Founder Amy Read has successfully built two businesses in complementary spaces so is not new to the founder experience. She has also built a superior team by bringing the best-fit team members to join her at Techsembly.

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