Bloomsbury Information Capital Information

Bloomsbury Information Capital (BIC) is a recently established corporate investor in early-stage AI, information and data businesses. It works in close cooperation with other Group companies: Bloomsbury Natural Capital and Bloomsbury Minerals Economics, and with Associate company Metal Price Analytics.Peter Hollands is Chairman, Simon Benney is Managing Director and Barbara Sotowicz Non-Executive Director. Investments will normally be made at Seed Capital and Series A stages. BIC will generally take 3%-5% of shares in an initial investment, which might be raised to 10%-25% in subsequent funding rounds. Projects with pre-money values between £2.5M-£15M are the main targets. BIC will focus on AI, information and data businesses mainly in mining and metals, energy transition, decarbonisation, forestry and regenerative agriculture, but will also be involved in other sectors, as opportunities arise. BIC’s first two investments are minority shareholdings in Minviro, headquarted in the UK and offices in Australia and China and Mutinex, headquartered in Australia with an office in the US. Minviro provides software and consultancy that helps minimise the environmental footprint of mines and metallurgical facilities. Mutinex provides leading edge, AI based software to measure return on investment in marketing and propose actions to optimise returns from the marketing mix.Elsewhere in the Group, parent company Bloomsbury Minerals Economics is invested in Skarn Associates of the UK (research on mine-by-mine ESG), while sister company Bloomsbury Natural Capital has investments in Xilva of Switzerland (forestry FinTech) and Cascadia Seaweed of British Columbia (seaweed cultivation and processing to agricultural bio-stimulants and methane-reducing cattle feed). Associate company Metal Price Analytics is a software (SaaS) company in price modelling for metals and mining equities.