Laurence Garrett

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General Partner at Highland Europe @ Wirepas
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Greater Cambridge Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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About Laurence Garrett

I have a passion to help build superb businesses and to make great shareholder returns in the European Venture Growth market. I specifically focus on the information and communication technology market.I have been making investments since 1994 and my track record includes Spot.io (sold to Netapp), NewVoiceMedia (sold to Vonage), SocialPoint (sold to TakeTwo), CSR plc (IPO on LSE) UbiNetics, Trigenix (sold to Qualcomm), Adaytum (sold to Cognos), STNC (sold to Microsoft), Marlborough Stirling (IPO on LSE), Ezurio (sold to Laird), TTPCom (IPO on LSE), Insensys (sold to Moog) and Select Software (IPO on NASDAQ). As an independent I was fortunate enough to join the BlueGnome team as an NXD which was ultimately acquired by Illumina. I wish all the investments worked out as well as those above but the reality is there are some poor ones too!Specialties: Technology investing

Laurence Garrett's Current Company Details
Wirepas

Wirepas

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General Partner at Highland Europe
Laurence Garrett Work Experience Details
  • Wirepas
    Non Executive Director
    Wirepas Oct 2023 - Present
    Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Fi
  • Highland Europe
    General Partner
    Highland Europe Sep 2010 - Present
    London, London, Gb
    Highland Europe is a growth investor dedicated to backing fast growing technology companies that have capital efficiency in mind. As one of the founding partners of our firm, I am fortunate enough to work with a superb growing team and we have made some great investments. It's an awesome role and a true privilege to be a part of this fascinating industry which has absorbed my life for over 25 years.
  • Hyperexponential
    Non Executive Director
    Hyperexponential May 2021 - Present
    London, England, Gb
    Delighted to be working with Amrit and his talented team at hx post our investment. hx's Renew platform is the leading platform for actuaries to rapidly build models to price and adapt for the specialty insurance market.
  • Modulr
    Non Executive Director Of Modulr
    Modulr May 2020 - Present
    London, England, Gb
    Modulr is a leading digital provider for commercial and wholesale transaction banking.
  • Featurespace Limited
    Non Executive Director
    Featurespace Limited Aug 2017 - Present
    FeatureSpace is the worlds leading adaptive behavioural analytics technology for fraud and risk management. Delighted to have joined the Company as part of Highland Europe's investment to help with USA expansion and the terrific growth the business is experiencing.
  • Lovecrafts
    Non Executive Director
    Lovecrafts Sep 2015 - Present
    London, Gb
    Visit any site in the LoveCrafts family and you’ll see a world designed for makers. We’re dedicated to creating a place where makers’ projects are celebrated, advice is shared and it’s easy to buy supplies for your selected craft.Our technology delivers a unique combination of social network, digital marketplace, online media and e-commerce to deliver everything a maker needs.
  • Starleaf
    Non Executive Director
    Starleaf May 2017 - Jan 2022
    Watford, Gb
    Delighted to have joined the awesome board of Starleaf. In my opinion, Starleaf has the worlds best unified communication cloud bar none. If you don't believe me - please try it. Works with Polycom, LifeSize, Cisco, Skypeforbusiness, etc etc.
  • Condeco
    Non Executive Director
    Condeco Jun 2016 - Aug 2021
    Condeco is the market leader for the intelligent work place market, providing scheduling solutions for meeting rooms and flexible work space. We completed an investment in 2016 and successfully exited the business to TomaBravo
  • Spotinst
    Non Executive Director
    Spotinst Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
    SpotInst ensures your cloud applications and work flows run on the lowest cost to compute solution. The company orchestrates and automates all your work flows on the cloud infrastructure platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP etc. The team successfully sold the business to NetApp in 2020. Great return for its investors and great move for the team.
  • Intersec Group
    Non Executive Director
    Intersec Group Nov 2014 - May 2020
    Puteaux, Fr
    Intersec is a leader in Big Data collection and analytics. Its software solutions allow mobile operators to design, capture and monetize their network data. Interec's award-winning products are designed to efficiently implement loyalty & retention, value creation and cost optimization strategies for CSPs. Technologically, Intersec's software solution allows for real time analytics and decisions to be taken by the CIO and CMO's of its customers. I am delighted to work with the founders on international expansion and on going growth of the business.
  • Newvoicemedia
    Non Executive Director
    Newvoicemedia Jan 2013 - Nov 2018
    Holmdel, New Jersey, Us
    The worlds leading cloud based contact solution with a great management team and group of investors. I left the board when NVM was successfully acquired by Vonage for $350m. A great journey to be part of and many thanks to the entire team at NVM.
  • Social Point
    Non Executive Director
    Social Point Jul 2014 - 2017
    Barcelona, Es
    Delighted to have been on the board of SocialPoint - one of the worlds leading social games developers. Awesome founders, great executive team, super investors and wonderful product - a perfect place to work. The Company was acquired by TakeTwo Interactive Inc on 31st Jan 2017. Great exit for all parties.
  • Cambridge Enterprise Ltd
    Investment Committee Member
    Cambridge Enterprise Ltd Sep 2008 - May 2015
    I am a member of the Cambridge Enterprise Investment Committee that assess investment opportunities seeking funding from one of Cambridge University's managed funds.
  • Bluegnome Ltd
    Nxd
    Bluegnome Ltd Aug 2010 - Sep 2012
    BlueGnome is a leading diagnostics company for the detection of copy number variation in the human genome. BlueGnome's application areas include analysis to dramatically improve the success rates for IVF treatment, identification of genetic disease, investigation of haematological malignancies, and aneuploidy screening of single cells. Its a fabulous business run by a fabulous executive team. I worked on the board with the team on strategy, improving operations, business model, acquisitions, recruitment, and exit planning. In Sept 2012 we successfully sold BlueGnome to Illumina Inc - the market leader for genetic sequencing technology. Illumina is a perfect partner to take BlueGnome and its great team forward. A real pleasure and honour to work with this business.
  • Magma Global Ltd
    Consultant To The Board
    Magma Global Ltd Apr 2010 - Sep 2010
    Portsmouth, Hampshire, Gb
    Helped this superb management team and company raise €6m. Great result and a pleasure working with them.
  • Bailey Fisher
    Chairman
    Bailey Fisher Aug 2009 - Sep 2010
    Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb
    Bailey Fisher is a search and select firm dedicated to the technology market. The company has a tremendous track record of success and reputation for completing its assignments successfully. I joined as Chairman having worked with the team since February 2009 because I like the people and can see ways to help the business to continue its growth.
  • Taptu
    Non Executive Director
    Taptu 2006 - Jul 2008
  • 3I
    Partner
    3I 1994 - Jul 2008
    I was a Partner of the 3i Venture Group running the 3i Cambridge office and the electronic and semiconductor sector for 3i. I was one of the 5 European members of the 3i leadership team. In my last 3 months at 3i I moved across to the Growth Capital partnership were I was head of Technology for Europe.
  • Cambridge Semiconductor
    Non Executive Director
    Cambridge Semiconductor 2005 - 2008
  • Ubinetics
    Nxd
    Ubinetics 2005 - 2008
  • The Cambridge Network
    Non Exec Director
    The Cambridge Network 2001 - 2006
    Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb
  • Trigenix
    Non Exec Director
    Trigenix 2000 - 2005
  • Csr
    Non Executive Director
    Csr 2000 - Feb 2004
    Cambridge, England, Gb
    Non executive director of CSR.
  • Touche Ross
    Senior Auditor
    Touche Ross Sep 1988 - Aug 1994
    Us
    Audit and corporate finance work

Laurence Garrett Skills

Venture Capital Start Ups Strategy Business Strategy Mergers And Acquisitions Corporate Development Entrepreneurship Ipo Private Equity Mergers Management Angel Investing Leadership Investments Mobile Devices Due Diligence Venture Financing M&a Experience Financial Accounting Enterprise Software Technology

Laurence Garrett Education Details

  • The University Of Sheffield
    The University Of Sheffield
    Accounting And Computer Science

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