Marchmont Ventures
Marchmont Estate, Greenlaw, Scottish Borders, TD10 6YL, United Kingdom
Overview
Marchmont Ventures is a venture capital firm. They have a dedication to investments that support creativity in business, arts, crafts, heritage protection & land management for the long term. This is an umbrella brand for a range of activities that include: digital investments, purpose driven partnerships, charitable enterprise, projects to make property better, farm & environment management.
- Total investments
- 5
- Lead investments
- 3
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 2
Sector focus
- Financial Services
- Impact Investing
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Motorway
Participated · Series B · Jun 2021
Motorway is a UK-based digital marketplace that eliminates traditional middlemen by linking private car owners directly with over 7,500 vetted car dealers. The platform matches each seller with the dealer most willing to buy, enabling owners to secure offers online—often within 24 hours—and arranging free home collection of the vehicle. Dealers, in turn, gain a streamlined channel to source quality stock at scale and speed. Motorway’s value proposition centers on simplicity, speed, and price transparency, positioning it as one of the leading used-car marketplaces in the UK. The company plans to deepen its dealer partnerships, broaden marketplace reach and continue investing in product innovation and customer experience. Management has articulated a goal of scaling efficiently toward sustainable profitability, with recently secured growth capital earmarked to fund these initiatives. To date, the platform’s key operating metric is its expansive dealer network, which stands at 7,500+ verified partners.
- Float
Led · Seed · Jan 2020
Float provides a cash flow forecasting and budgeting solution used by small to medium-sized businesses and accounting firms. Led by co-founder and CEO Colin Hewitt, the service integrates with Xero, QuickBooks Online and FreeAgent and includes a "what-if scenarios" tool to model the financial impact of decisions. It is used by thousands of businesses worldwide to view real-time cash status and support reporting, decision making and planning. In 2019 the company launched a partnership program as a value-add service for accounting firms. Float recently completed a £1.5m seed funding round to support growth. The company plans to use the funds to open a new office in Australia, continue enhancing its partnership program and further develop its forecasting solution, and is planning 12 new hires across Sydney, global sales, product development and marketing.
- GetAgent
Participated · Equity · Mar 2019
GetAgent is a four‑year‑old proptech firm that provides consumers with estate agent comparison rankings based on sales performance, time taken to sell, and price achieved relative to the original asking price. The site also supplies estate agents with leads that are paid for only if the introductions convert into sales. The company describes its technology as agent‑agnostic while publicly criticizing some online and hybrid agents. GetAgent positions the recent funding as an endorsement for traditional estate agents amid difficulties for online/hybrid competitors. The firm highlights that traditional agents retain a large share of the market and uses its data to benchmark agent performance.