28th Jan 2026 15:50
ProVen VCT plc: Interim Management StatementProVen VCT plc
Interim Management Statement
for the nine months ended 30 November 2025
ProVen VCT plc (the “Company”) presents an Interim Management Statement for the nine-month period ended 30 November 2025. The statement also includes relevant financial information between the end of the period and the date of this announcement.
Performance
| Unaudited | Unaudited | Unaudited | Audited | |
| 30 Nov | 31 Aug | 31 May | 28 Feb | |
| 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | 2025 | |
| Pence | Pence | Pence | Pence | |
| Net Asset Value per share (“NAV”) | 62.9 | 62.6 | 63.4 | 62.9 |
| Dividends paid to date* | 89.25 | 89.25 | 87.5 | 87.5 |
| Total Return (NAV plus dividends paid since 10p Share consolidation) | 152.15 | 151.85 | 150.9 | 150.4 |
*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 declaredOn 12 November 2025, the Company announced a Interim dividend for the year ended 28 February 2026 of 1.5p per share. This dividend will be paid on 30 January 2026 to Shareholders on the register at 9 January 2026. Payment of this dividend will reduce the NAV per share as shown above to 61.4p pence and increase dividends paid to date to 90.75p per share.
Investment portfolio summary at 30 November 2025
| Cost | Valuation | |
| Venture capital investments | £'000 | £'000 |
| MPB Group Limited | 1,684 | 13,223 |
| Gorillini NV (t/a Gorilla) | 4,624 | 10,300 |
| Luxury Promise Limited | 5,680 | 7,591 |
| Social Value Portal Ltd | 2,590 | 7,438 |
| Infinity Reliance Limited (t/a My 1st Years) | 4,731 | 7,310 |
| Farmer J Limited | 4,813 | 7,235 |
| Picasso Labs, Inc. (t/a CreativeX) | 2,729 | 6,157 |
| Access Systems, Inc. (t/a AccessPay) | 3,737 | 5,563 |
| Dash Brands Ltd | 2,718 | 5,440 |
| Litta App Limited | 1,797 | 4,320 |
| Other venture capital investments | 86,294 | 63,761 |
| Total venture capital investments | 121,397 | 138,338 |
| Cash at bank and in hand | 40,151 | |
| Other net current assets | 211 | |
| Net assets | 178,700 |
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 30 November 2025
Investment additions
| Cost | |
| Venture capital investments | £’000 |
| DeepCrawl Holding Company, Inc. (t/a Lumar) | 66 |
| Total | 66 |
Investment disposals
There were no disposals made in the quarter to 30 November 2025.
Investment activity from 1 December 2025 to the date of this announcement
There has been no investment activity for the Company from 1 December 2025 to the date of this announcement.
Changes to share capital
| Ordinary Shares of 10p each | |
| As at 1 September 2025 | 281,796,044 |
| Shares bought back during the 3 months to 30 November 2025 | (3,228,836) |
| Shares issued during the 3 months to 30 November 2025 | 5,740,551 |
| As at 30 November 2025 | 284,307,759 |
In the period from 1 December 2025 to the date of this announcement, 3,919,700 Ordinary Shares were issued on 19 December 2025 pursuant to the offer for subscription that opened on 17 November 2025 and were allotted at an average price of 64.42p, based on the net asset value of 62.6p per Ordinary Share, being the net asset value as at 31 August 2025.
Offer for SubscriptionProVen VCT plc and ProVen Growth and Income VCT plc (the “Companies”) announced on 17 November 2025 that they had published a Prospectus (comprising Securities Note, Registration Document and Summary) in respect of a combined offer for subscription to raise up to £30,000,000 (up to £15,000,000 for each Company) by way of an issue of new ordinary shares in the Companies, with an over-allotment facility of up to a further £10,000,000 (up to £5,000,000 for each Company).
Material eventsOther than the matters described above, there were no material events during the period from 1 September 2025 to 30 November 2025 or in the period from 1 December 2025 to the date of this announcement.
Further informationFurther information regarding the Company can be found on the Company's website: www.proveninvestments.co.uk or by contacting Beringea, the Investment Manager at [email protected] or by telephone 020 7845 7820.
Beringea LLPCompany SecretaryTelephone 020 7845 7820-End
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