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Hakluyt Capital

London, United Kingdom · San Francisco, California, USA

hakluytcapital.com

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Hakluyt Capital is the growth-stage technology investing business operated by Hakluyt Capital Limited, UK company09643506, distinct from the wider Hakluyt & Company strategic-advisory business. The legal company was incorporated June17,2015 as AGHOCO1320Limited and renamed Hakluyt Cyber Limited before taking its current name February11,2022. The investing initiative itself was created in2022 and publicly launched inMarch2023; the founding-year field records the legal corporation rather than implying a2015venture strategy. Its current own disclosure identifies it as an appointed representative of FCA-regulated Laven Advisors LLP, not independently authorised simply from that relationship. The firm co-invests alongside venture and growth managers in high-growth technology companies, historically targeting SeriesB toD. Its portfolio spans AI threat intelligence, AI healthcare workflow and care coordination, supply-chain analytics, autonomous drone delivery and enterprise software. It uses the wider Hakluyt network to support market entry, customer and adviser introductions and regulatory context. Strategic advisory engagements or introductions are not themselves equity investments. The current directory publishes six operating investment/operations people and two investment-committee members. Its separate current advisory-board directory publishes Adam Bain, Somesh Dash and Mamoon Hamid as external advisers. Matt Clifford is recorded only as confirmed in theJune2024inaugural board announcement; continuation is unverified because the current list omits him. Co-founder Varun Chandra’s chairman role is explicitly former after the manager’s July2024departure announcement. No adviser is assigned a personal check solely from these affiliations. Its first fund, Hakluyt Capital I LP, reached final close inJune2024 above its USD50M fundraising target; the exact final corpus and closing day are not disclosed in the primary closing announcement or fund counsel’s account. A March27,2024 SEC amendment reported USD28.525M sold at that filing snapshot, not the eventual global final corpus. The fund is a separate UK partnership founded2022, with Hakluyt Capital I GP LLP and Hakluyt Capital GP Limited identified as GP/designated-member entities. No separate bare legal shells or invented allocations are added. Genuine portrait gaps remain for current external adviser Adam Bain and historical founder Varun Chandra.

Founded: 2015
Type: Venture capital

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Hakluyt Capital I LP——
UK venture-capital limited partnership formed2022, SEC CIK1947018. GP Hakluyt Capital I GP LLP; designated member Hakluyt Capital GP Limited. Manager and fund counsel confirm final close inJune2024 above USD50M target. Exact final closing corpus/day undisclosed, so amount/date fields NULL. SEC March27,2024 sold28.525M is an interim filing snapshot and not represented as the final close or an additional fund. InitialSECfirstsaleAugust31,2022 is not substituted for finalclosingday.