ProVen VCT plc: Interim Management Statement
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ProVen VCT plc
Interim Management Statement
for the three months ended 31 May 2024
ProVen VCT plc (the “Company”) presents an Interim Management Statement for the three-month period ended 31 May 2024. The statement also includes relevant financial information between the end of the period and the date of this announcement.
Performance
| Unaudited | Audited | |||
| Pence | Pence | |||
| Net Asset Value per share (“NAV”) | 65.6 | 65.2 | ||
| Dividends paid to date* | 84.25 | 84.25 | ||
| NAV plus dividends paid to date | 149.85 | 149.45 |
*Dividends paid represent dividends paid since the consolidation of 5p Ordinary Shares into 10p Ordinary Shares in October 2012. Prior to this date, the Company paid dividends totalling 113.95p on the 5p Ordinary Shares.
Dividends paid or declared
On 11 June 2024, the Company announced a proposed final dividend for the year ended 29 February 2024 of 1.75p per share. Having received approval for the final dividend at the Annual General Meeting of the Company on 17 July 2024, this dividend will be paid on 16 August 2024 to Shareholders on the register at 19 July 2024. Payment of this dividend will reduce the NAV per share as shown above to 63.85p pence and increase dividends paid to date to 86.00p per share.
Investment portfolio summary at 31 May 2024
Portfolio summary
| Valuation | |
| Venture capital investments | £’000 |
| Luxury Promise Limited | 10,260 |
| Gorillini NV (t/a Gorilla) | 9,423 |
| MPB Group Limited | 8,820 |
| Infinity Reliance Limited (t/a My 1st Years) | 7,659 |
| Social Value Portal Ltd | 5,781 |
| Picasso Labs, Inc. (t/a CreativeX) | 5,451 |
| Access Systems, Inc. (t/a AccessPay) | 4,730 |
| DeepCrawl Holding Company, Inc. (t/a Lumar) | 4,364 |
| Dash Brands Ltd | 4,163 |
| Moonshot CVE Ltd | 4,123 |
| Other investments | 63,837 |
| Total investments | 128,611 |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 49,878 |
| Other net current assets | 99 |
| Net Assets | 178,588 |
Unquoted investments are valued at fair values established using the International Private Equity and Venture Capital Valuation Guidelines.
Investment activity during the three-month period ended 31 May 2024
Investment additions
Additions
Cost
£’000
| Iceberg Data Lab | 2,474 |
| Gorillini NV (t/a Gorilla) | 1,415 |
| Moonshot CVE Ltd | 910 |
| Dealroom.co B.V. | 299 |
| Total | 5,098 |
Investment disposals
There were no disposals made in the quarter to 31 May 2024.
Investment activity from 1 June 2024 to the date of this announcement
There has been no investment activity for the Company from 1 June 2024 to the date of this announcement.
| Changes to share capital | Ordinary |
| As at 1 March 2024 | 257,704,036 |
| Shares issued during the 3 months to 31 May 2024 | 14,611,284 |
| As at 31 May 2024 | 272,315,320 |
In the period from 1 June 2024 to the date of this announcement, 5,419,294 Ordinary Shares were repurchased and subsequently cancelled. On 3 July 2024, 2,592,761 Ordinary Shares were issued pursuant to the offer for subscription that opened on 16 January 2024 and were allotted at an average price of 67.6p, based on the latest net asset value of 65.2p per Ordinary Share, being the net asset value as at 29 February 2024.