Albion Technology & General VCT PLC : Interim Management Statement

Albion Technology & General VCT PLC
Interim Management Statement
LEI code: 213800TKJUY376H3KN16

Introduction
I present Albion Technology & General VCT PLC (the “Company”)’s interim management statement for the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 March 2023.

Performance
The Company’s unaudited net asset value (NAV) as at 31 March 2023 was £140.4 million or 78.59 pence per share (excluding treasury shares), an increase of 5.67 pence per share (7.8%) since 31 December 2022.

On 2 March 2023, a NAV update was announced, following Quantexa undergoing an external fundraising process at a significantly higher valuation than was included in the Company’s NAV. This external fundraising round has now completed and was announced by Quantexa on 4 April 2023, raising $129 million. The NAV at 31 March 2023 has increased by 1.04 pence per share (1.34%) compared to the 2 March 2023 NAV update.

Albion VCTs’ Top Up Offers
A prospectus Top Up Offer of new Ordinary shares was launched on 10 October 2022. The Board announced on 18 January 2023 that, following strong demand for the Company’s shares, it had elected to exercise its over-allotment facility, taking the total Offer to £15.5 million. The Offer was fully subscribed and closed to further applications on 22 March 2023.

During the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 March 2023, the Company issued the following shares under the Albion VCTs’ Top Up Offers:

Date	Number of shares issued	Issue price per share	Net consideration received £’000
31 March 2023	12,395,704	79.60 pence	9,621

Portfolio
The following investments have been made during the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 March 2023:

Further investments	£’000	Activity
Proveca	254	Reformulation of medicines for children
Seldon Technologies	103	Enabling enterprises to deploy Machine Learning models in production
Brytlyt	19	A GPU database software provider
Symetrica	12	A designer and manufacturer of radiation detection equipment
Total further investments	799

Top ten holdings as at 31 March 2023:

Investment	Carrying value £’000	% of net asset value	Activity
Quantexa	28,341	20.6	Network analytics platform to detect financial crime
Radnor House School (TopCo)	6,043	4.4	Independent school for children aged 2-18
Proveca	5,099	3.7	Reformulation of medicines for children
Chonais River Hydro	4,403	3.2	Owner and operator of a 2 MW hydro-power scheme in the Scottish Highlands
Oviva	4,082	3.0	A technology enabled service business in medical nutritional therapy (MNT)
The Evewell Group	3,498	2.5	Operator of women’s health centres focusing on fertility
Cantab Research (T/A Speechmatics)	3,411	2.5	Provider of low footprint automated speech recognition which can be deployed in the cloud, on premise or on device
Egress Software Technologies	2,899	2.1	Encrypted email & file transfer service provider
Runa Network (previously WeGift)	2,692	2.0	Cloud platform and infrastructure that enables corporates to issue digital incentives and payouts
Gharagain River Hydro	2,570	1.9	Owner and operator of a 1 MW hydro-power scheme in the Scottish Highlands

A full breakdown of the Company’s portfolio can be found on the Company’s webpage on the Manager’s website at www.albion.capital/funds/AATG.

Share buy-backs
During the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 March 2023, the Company did not buy back any shares.

It remains the Board’s policy to buy back shares in the market, subject to the overall constraint that such purchases are in the Company’s interest, including the maintenance of sufficient resources for investment in existing and new portfolio companies and the continued payment of dividends to shareholders.

It is the Board’s intention for buy-backs to be at around a 5% discount to net asset value, so far as market conditions and liquidity permit.

Board composition
I am retiring from the Board today following the Annual General Meeting, having served as a Director of the Company for nine years, with my first seven years as Chairman of the Audit & Risk Committee and the last two years as Chairman of the Company. Clive Richardson, who has been on the Board since 1 June 2022, will succeed me as Chairman of the Board.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all my existing and former board colleagues and our Manager, Albion Capital, for their contributions to the Company towards the progress made in the last nine years by the Company.

The Board continues to have a well experienced complement of Directors and is well advanced in succession planning. I wish the Company, and those associated with it, well in the future.

Material events and transactions after the period end
After the period end, the Company issued the following new Ordinary shares of nominal value 1 penny per share under the Albion VCTs’ Prospectus Top Up Offers 2022/23:

Date	Number of shares issued	Issue price per share	Net consideration received £’000
14 April 2023	558,086	78.80 to 79.60 pence	433

There have been no other material events or transactions after the period end to the date of this announcement.

Further information
Further information regarding historic and current financial performance and other useful shareholder information can be found on the Company’s webpage on the Manager’s website at www.albion.capital/funds/AATG.

Robin Archibald, Chairman
6 June 2023

For further information please contact:
Vikash Hansrani
Operations Partner
Albion Capital Group LLP
Telephone: [phone]