Check out our interview with ME+EM founder, Clare Hornby. The successful womenswear brand founder and mother of two talks about where she gets her inspiration from for her collections, how she incorporates family life into the brand and what it’s been like to work with Pembroke over the years.


14/04/2022
Pembroke VCT invests further £2m into OnePlan
Following initial investment into the innovative event management platform last year Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on backing early-stage businesses with exceptional founders and management teams, has invested a further £2m into OnePlan, the collaborative, real-time event management platform, as part of a £4.1m investment round. The new funding comes as OnePlan […]

28/03/2022
Pembroke VCT exits modern luxury fashion brand ME+EM achieving a 16x return on investment
-Third successful exit in just over a year- Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on backing early-stage businesses with exceptional founders and management teams, has sold its investment in ME+EM – the British direct-to-consumer fashion brand – achieving a return of 16x its original investment. ME+EM is Pembroke’s third successful exit in the space […]

16/03/2022
March newsletter 2022
Please view the full newsletter here. Pembroke VCT is now a £180 million fund with a maturing portfolio of over 40 growth-stage companies. In the 12 months to December 2021, we are proud to have increased our total return from 127.2p to 148.3p per share, as well increased our NAV by +10.1p to 123.3p per […]

10/03/2022
Pembroke VCT invests £500k into children’s book and multimedia brand Annie Mals
Educational publishing equipping children to deal with contemporary issues Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on backing early-stage businesses with exceptional founders and management teams, has invested £500k into Annie Mals, a children’s education brand launching its maiden offering, a series of books devised to give children confidence to engage with contemporary issues, such […]

07/03/2022
Pembroke VCT invests £3m into surgical software company Cydar Medical
Pembroke VCT invests £3m into surgical software company Cydar Medical The ‘sat nav’ for endovascular surgeons Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on backing early-stage businesses with exceptional founders and management teams, has made an initial investment of £3 million into Cydar Medical (“Cydar”), the surgical augmented intelligence company using software to revolutionise every […]

21/01/2022
Pembroke VCT portfolio company United Fitness Brands acquires triyoga
Deal adds a fourth brand to fitness and wellbeing ‘supergroup’ Pembroke VCT, the venture capital trust focused on backing early-stage businesses with exceptional founders and management teams, is pleased to announce that portfolio company United Fitness Brands (‘UFB’) has further expanded its health and wellbeing ‘supergroup’ with the addition of triyoga – which joins existing […]

02/12/2021
December Newsletter 2021
View the full newsletter here. We are delighted to share the December newsletter with you. Pembroke VCT is now a £160 million fund with a maturing portfolio of over 40 growth-stage companies. Since September 2020, we have returned £26.3 million to shareholders; this includes £16.5 million of dividends (14 pence per share) and £9.8 million of […]

19/11/2021
Half-yearly Report for the six months ended 30 September 2021
The Directors are pleased to attach the Company’s Half-yearly Report for the six months ended 30 September 2021. Click on, or paste the following link into your web browser, to view the associated PDF document. https://pembrokevct.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Pembroke-Interim-RA-2021.pdf The Half-yearly Report may also be downloaded from the Company’s website at https://pembrokevct.com/current-offer/ For further information, please contact: Andrew Wolfson […]