Draper Esprit (AIM: GROW, ESM: GRW), the leading public European venture capital firm, today announces that it has significantly increased its equity stake in Perkbox, investing a further $8.6 million. Draper Esprit first invested in Perkbox in 2016 alongside the equity crowdfunding platform, Seedrs, and, including the follow-on investment, has now invested over $12.0 million. Founded in 2015, Perkbox is the digital employee engagement platform that launched in 2015. They have also developed a "Perkbox for customers", a white-label platform which helps businesses acquire, connect with and retain loyal businesses. Forbes recently ranked Perkbox as one of Britain's top 5 startups while they were ranked no.3 in the startups 100 index of the most innovative and fastest growing startups in the UK. The startup has doubled year on year and now has over 165 employees, having opened a new office in Sheffield last February.