Draper Esprit hires investment director in London

Hornung will focus on consumer internet, financial services and online marketplaces.

He joins from Next Sports Rights, a digital platform managing fan data in the sports and entertainment industry, where he was the CEO for more than five and a half years.

Prior to that, he was an investment manager for SevenVentures for just over a year. He also spent nearly two years as a co-founder and managing director at Rocket Internet, a European incubator and investment company in Berlin.

Draper Esprit develops and invests in high-growth technology companies. It is a shareholder in companies including Trustpilot, UiPath, Transferwise and Graphcore.

The VC recently led a £83m funding round for banking technology company Thought Machine.

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