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Draper Esprit plc

("Draper Esprit" or the "Company")

Result of general meeting and completion of placing

Draper Esprit (AIM: GROW, Euronext Growth: GRW), a leading venture capital firm investing in and developing high growth digital technology businesses across Europe, is pleased to announce that at the General Meeting held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed.

Accordingly, and as set out in the announcement dated 02 October 2020, the Company now has the requisite authority to complete the Placing to raise gross proceeds of £110 million.

Application has been made for 19,819,820 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and Euronext Growth and it is expected that Admission will occur on 21 October 2020. Following Admission, the Company will have 139,027,779 Ordinary Shares in issue with each share carrying the right to one vote.

The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. The above figure of 139,027,779 may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company.

Defined terms used in this announcement have the same meaning as those within the Company's announcement on 01 October 2020.

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