John Marsden

John Robert Marsden is the founder of Innvotec Limited, a London-based investment boutique associated with venture capital and corporate finance since 1989. Innvotec describes itself as an FCA-regulated asset-management, venture-capital, private-equity and corporate-finance boutique, with nearly 40 years of experience investing in venture capital and private equity.

Marsden’s LinkedIn profile states that he has spent 35 years in early-stage venture capital and lists Innvotec Limited in London as his current experience. Innvotec’s own team page lists “John” as “Founder,” while MarketScreener identifies John Marsden as the founder of Innvotec Ltd. and records his former role as a non-executive director / board member of Scout7 Ltd., a football scouting, recruitment and player-administration software company.

Companies House identifies him as John Robert Marsden, British, born April 1951, resident in England. It records him as an active director of Innvotec Limited, appointed on 6 February 2026, and also as an active director of Kerdos Ventures Limited and Innvotec Investments Limited.

• Innvotec describes its current investment posture as sector-agnostic but focused on “accelerating disruptive innovations and trends” across the UK, North America, Middle East and Asia.
• The firm highlights fintech, cleantech, healthtech, consumertech and digital transformation as portfolio categories.
• Innvotec says it aims to be a long-term value-adding partner to “the next generation of multi-sector ESG companies.”
• Innvotec’s managed funds invested under EIS and SEIS schemes between 2014 and 2021 in emerging UK-based companies.
• The firm’s current managed-fund focus is on limited partnerships, “typically addressing the raising of commitment to invest in a single target company.”
• Innvotec says it is selective, emphasizing “fewer, better relationships with carefully selected investors who share their vision and values.”
• Corporate-finance support includes fundraising, secondary sales, refinancings, M&A, collaborative-partner identification and business development for portfolio companies and clients.