Led · Equity · Dec 2023

Ellis Recruitment is a specialist IT recruitment consultancy that serves the global enterprise resource planning (ERP) market. The firm provides recruitment services focused on ERP-related roles. The article classifies the company under Business Services and TMT and lists its geography as UK & Ireland. Mobeus has invested £10m in Ellis Recruitment Group. No revenue, user numbers, or future plans were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Series B · Sep 2021

MyTutor operates an online tutoring platform that connects carefully vetted subject experts from the UK’s top universities with students for one-to-one and group tuition. It has a base of 20,000 tutors, has supported over 1,000 secondary schools, hundreds of thousands of parents, and delivered over 2 million lessons. The company supported 30,000 students through the National Tuition Programme in the last academic year and was named a provider for the programme for a second year. Parent and school feedback is strong: 96% of parents and 85% of school leaders reported improved grades and greater confidence among students. MyTutor’s mission is to provide life-changing tuition for all, supporting disadvantaged students via its schools programme while also offering private tuition to parents. The recently announced funding will be used to build out the platform, improve lesson engagement, further develop group tuition, and expand internationally. MyTutor is a UK-based edtech company that provides online interactive one-to-one tuition for secondary school-aged pupils. Co-founded in 2013 by Bertie Hubbard, James Grant and Robert Grabiner, it matches pupils with subject experts from top UK universities who are personally interviewed. The company has grown to a team of 50 and its network has facilitated over 1 million bookings, with 100,000 families using the service. MyTutor raised around €4.4 million in the reported round, bringing total funding to about €15.6 million. The new capital will be used to further develop and increase availability of the platform to meet surging demand after COVID-19, which the company says more than doubled since school closures began. MyTutor is also participating in an Education Endowment Foundation online tuition pilot to support 1,000 disadvantaged pupils as schools reopen, and management expects continued structural demand for online tuition beyond the pandemic. MyTutor operates an online platform that connects school pupils with handpicked, high-performing university students for one-to-one tuition in an interactive lesson space. The company was founded in 2013 by Bertie Hubbard (CEO) and Robert Grabiner (COO), with James Grant (CCO) joining in 2015. In June 2018 MyTutor completed a Series B financing to support growth. The company said it will use the funds to increase marketing efforts, further develop the platform and expand the team. As part of the round MyTutor added Anne-Marie Huby (co‑founder of JustGiving) as a non-executive director. Amit Hindocha of Mobeus led the deal and joined the board. MyTutor operates an online marketplace that matches school pupils seeking private one-on-one tuition with high-performing university students who earn income by tutoring. The company was founded in 2013 by Bertie Hubbard (CEO), Robert Grabiner (COO) and James Grant (CCO). It has developed a presence in the schools market and partnered with over 70 UK schools and universities. MyTutor intends to use the new funds to scale its presence in the private tutoring market and further expand into the school and university markets. The platform’s core product is its tutor-student matching and delivery of one-on-one tuition via its digital service. The company’s current financial position includes a recent £3m funding round to support these growth plans.

Led · Equity · Jun 2021

Legatics provides a legal transaction management platform that enables deal teams to collaborate and close deals in an interactive online environment. The system has been used by around 1,500 companies and has been procured by more than half of the top global banking and finance law firms. Matters have been hosted on the platform in approximately 50 countries. The company is led by founder and CEO Anthony Seale and Chief Commercial Officer Daniel Porus. Legatics raised £3m in funding and intends to use the proceeds to double the size of its team over the next 18 months and further develop its technology. Planned product work focuses on delivering new features and expanding use cases across a wider range of practice areas for new and existing customers.

Participated · Series D · Apr 2021

Founded in 2011, MPB operates a technology-driven marketplace that inspects, prices, and resells used camera bodies, lenses, filters and accessories with trained camera experts and a six-month warranty. The platform recirculates roughly 300,000 items of kit globally each year and serves both hobbyists and professional visual storytellers. MPB describes its model as circular and aims to make kit more accessible, affordable, and sustainable. The company has established locations in the UK, US and Germany and has grown through multiple prior rounds of venture and private equity funding. Proceeds from the latest round will be used to develop new products and technology and to accelerate US and European expansion and operations. MPB positions these investments as enabling it to bring more kit to more people while growing profitably. MPB operates a data-driven, curated marketplace that vets and prices second-hand photo and film gear, enabling users to instantly sell for cash or trade in a single transaction. The platform automates vetting and uses transparent pricing based on supply and demand to ensure accurate listings. MPB has built a community of more than 135k active users and is active in the UK, USA and Germany. The company plans to blur the lines between ownership and rental while expanding its international footprint. The fresh capital will be used to extend infrastructure, invest in engineering and further automate platform processes. MPB intends to open an operational centre in Brooklyn and a German site as part of its international expansion. mpb.com operates an online marketplace that facilitates the secondary market for cameras, interchangeable lenses and other photographic and filmmaking equipment. Its proprietary technology manages the end-to-end experience, automating the creation of listings for more than 4,000 product types and dynamically updating prices based on supply and demand. The platform facilitates buying, selling and trading and currently handles more than 6,000 transactions per month. Launched in 2011 and led by CEO Matt Barker, the company has a team of 90 and offices in Brighton and New York. It is on track to generate £22 million in turnover this year with year-on-year growth above 60%. The company will use the £5m funding to scale up operations in the US and Germany. MPB operates a marketplace that lets photographers and videographers buy and sell high-end used photo and video equipment through a single platform. Led by CEO Matt Barker, the company offers both buy and sell services and processes listings end-to-end. In the most recent financial year it processed 25,000 products totaling £8.4 million and is generating in excess of £2m of quotes every month in the UK. MPB employs around 40 people in its UK office and will be opening a New York office in July. The company plans to use the new funding to expand the platform and launch into the US and Germany.

Led · Series A · Feb 2021

Viva develops AI sensors that gather anonymized data on how different street users move, detect near misses, and measure flows and congestion to inform transport decisions. Its sensors detect nine transport modes and have been deployed more than 3,500 times across seven countries, accumulating about 20 billion road user counts. The product is used to help authorities prioritize infrastructure projects and make roads safer and more sustainable. Viva emphasizes privacy-by-design and says its system is GDPR-compliant. The company is expanding into North America, starting with sensor installations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens and a safety data analysis project with the New York City Department of Transportation. It is also broadening its product portfolio toward real-time systems (such as traffic signals) and targeted solutions for road safety, sustainable transport, and network optimization. Vivacity Labs builds AI-based traffic sensors and a traffic signal system that provide anonymous, real-time insight into road networks, infrastructure and how citizens use the city. Its products are designed to reduce congestion and encourage sustainable transport modes such as cycling and buses. The company works with government, regional bodies and local councils and has deployments and pilots with Transport for Greater Manchester, the Greater Cambridge Partnership and Cambridgeshire County Council. Transport for Greater Manchester is installing the traffic light system across 20 junctions this year. Vivacity plans to expand commercially into the Nordics, Benelux and Australia this year. The company also intends to double headcount and recruit across R&D/software development, sales and marketing and operations while keeping its manufacturing centre in Bletchley, Milton Keynes.