Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Angel Investors in United Kingdom in April 2025

Investor	Agriculture (agtech) United Kingdom investments
David Rowan	3
David Rowan	3
Omid Ashtari	2
Michael Pennington	2
Vera Baker	2
Will Brooks	2
Ian Hogarth	2
Nick Boyle	2
Michael Pennington	2
Ian Hogarth	2
Nick Boyle	2
Will Brooks	2
Vera Baker	2
Omid Ashtari	2
Renaud Visage	1
Sake Bosch	1
Konstantin von Unger	1
Darren Shapland	1
Clément Buyse	1
Jeff Dean	1
Gregory Bernstein	1
Niklas Zennström	1
Cory Levy	1
Renaud Visage	1
Charlie Songhurst	1
Felix Schaal	1
Darren Shapland	1
Bryan Meehan	1
Richard Salvage	1
Felix Schaal	1
Karl Wills	1
Adam Solehova	1
Rick Bernstein	1
Gregory Bernstein	1
Jude Gomila	1
Alex Macdonald	1
Alvaro Martinez Barrio	1
Sake Bosch	1
Josh Browder	1
Jude Gomila	1
Cory Levy	1
Charlie Songhurst	1
Brendan Robinson	1
Josh Browder	1
Jonathan McKay	1
Will Martin	1
Sameer Singh	1
Dan Magnuszewski	1
Taz Patel	1
Taavet Hinrikus	1

David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the David Rowan is Editor of the WIRED UK, the technology and trends magazine covering online brands, gadgets and the culture that surrounds them. David has reported on technology for The Times and Channel 4 News, the latter requiring him to illustrate the newiPod Video from the set of a porn shoot. He's also written for The Sunday Times and Telegraph Magazines, and edited the Guardian's on-line content. David has curated an exhibition of British creative talent at the Government's Cabinet Forum conference. He has also addressed the TEDs, and frequently contributes on Newsnight and the Today programme. He also writes a monthly column for GQ. David is in touch with many of the world's leading trend-setters and spotters. In presentations he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why 'social commerce' is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change your market in the next decade - and what you should be doing now to protect yourself.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
Rhizocore Technologies — We develop high-performance strains of locally-sourced mycorrhizal fungi to improve tree growth, tree health and tree resiliency. We offer a sustainable solution to increase forest yields whilst improving the ability of trees to sequester carbon.

David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the David Rowan is Editor of the WIRED UK, the technology and trends magazine covering online brands, gadgets and the culture that surrounds them. David has reported on technology for The Times and Channel 4 News, the latter requiring him to illustrate the newiPod Video from the set of a porn shoot. He's also written for The Sunday Times and Telegraph Magazines, and edited the Guardian's on-line content. David has curated an exhibition of British creative talent at the Government's Cabinet Forum conference. He has also addressed the TEDs, and frequently contributes on Newsnight and the Today programme. He also writes a monthly column for GQ. David is in touch with many of the world's leading trend-setters and spotters. In presentations he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why 'social commerce' is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change your market in the next decade - and what you should be doing now to protect yourself.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
Rhizocore Technologies — We develop high-performance strains of locally-sourced mycorrhizal fungi to improve tree growth, tree health and tree resiliency. We offer a sustainable solution to increase forest yields whilst improving the ability of trees to sequester carbon.

Omid Ashtari has held operational roles at Google (business development, strategic partnerships), Foursquare (MD Europe), Citymapper (President), and Streetbees (COO). Currently he is an angel investor and advisor to early stag startups. He serves as the business advisor to the Mayor of London. He blogs on www.startuppragmatism.blog andwww.thefullspectrum.blog

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Sloyd — 3D modeling has never been easier. Select a generator, tweak it, done. Generate with realtime in the Sloyd Webapp or SDK.
Anterior — Lead your plan into the future.
Ctrl Alt — Access the world of alternative assets in a simple, transparent and secure way. Sign up to Ctrl Alt and start your alternative investment journey with us today.

One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B. Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
FUEL — Where everlasting fanbases are built
Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor

Vera Baker is an Angel Investor for Atomico, and an Investment Advisor to The Jua Fund, an early-stage, Pan-African, Venture Capital Fund that invests the first check into exceptional founders at the pre-seed and seed stage. Additionally, she works directly with budding startups as a Director at the Founders Institute Paris Chapter and a mentor tounderrepresented founders at the Colors Accelerator in Paris and the Unconventional Accelerator in the Nordics.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, B2B, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
Adon Health — Adon Health is to create a future where innovation, compassion, accessibility, and high-quality medicine revolutionize men's healthcare.
Juniper — Juniper is a reproductive healthcare insurance provider.

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
Fabric — One home for everything. A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. All your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links, and files automatically gathered into one self-organizing home. Never forget anything again.

In 2010, Nick founded Lightsource Renewable Energy, then just a six-person start-up, which quickly grew over 5 years to become Europe’s largest solar developer and operator and a recognised global leader. In his role as Group CEO, Nick’s dynamic leadership and vision has driven the company to tremendous success and in December 2017, Lightsourceannounced a strategic partnership with BP which has committed aggressively to accelerate the low carbon transition. The company has rebranded to Lightsource BP in affirmation of this powerhouse commitment which is set to shape the future of global energy delivery. Nick previously sat at Board and Senior Director level in a number of leading retail financial service companies. Throughout his career, Nick has always been recognised for his entrepreneurial skill and success in pairing retail financial products with low-risk, predictable investments.

Investment focus

Biofuel, Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Better Origin — At Better Origin, our mission is to fix the broken food chain by converting waste into high-value insect products.
Better Origin — At Better Origin, our mission is to fix the broken food chain by converting waste into high-value insect products.

One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B. Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
FUEL — Where everlasting fanbases are built
Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor

Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
Fabric — One home for your digital world. Your second brain. A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. All your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links, and files in one calm, minimal app. No organizing required. Never forget anything again.

In 2010, Nick founded Lightsource Renewable Energy, then just a six-person start-up, which quickly grew over 5 years to become Europe’s largest solar developer and operator and a recognised global leader. In his role as Group CEO, Nick’s dynamic leadership and vision has driven the company to tremendous success and in December 2017, Lightsourceannounced a strategic partnership with BP which has committed aggressively to accelerate the low carbon transition. The company has rebranded to Lightsource BP in affirmation of this powerhouse commitment which is set to shape the future of global energy delivery. Nick previously sat at Board and Senior Director level in a number of leading retail financial service companies. Throughout his career, Nick has always been recognised for his entrepreneurial skill and success in pairing retail financial products with low-risk, predictable investments.

Investment focus

Biofuel, Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Better Origin — At Better Origin, our mission is to fix the broken food chain by converting waste into high-value insect products.
Better Origin — At Better Origin, our mission is to fix the broken food chain by converting waste into high-value insect products.

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Vera Baker is an Angel Investor for Atomico, and an Investment Advisor to The Jua Fund, an early-stage, Pan-African, Venture Capital Fund that invests the first check into exceptional founders at the pre-seed and seed stage. Additionally, she works directly with budding startups as a Director at the Founders Institute Paris Chapter and a mentor tounderrepresented founders at the Colors Accelerator in Paris and the Unconventional Accelerator in the Nordics.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, B2B, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
Adon Health — Adon Health is to create a future where innovation, compassion, accessibility, and high-quality medicine revolutionize men's healthcare.
Juniper — Juniper is a reproductive healthcare insurance provider.

Omid Ashtari has held operational roles at Google (business development, strategic partnerships), Foursquare (MD Europe), Citymapper (President), and Streetbees (COO). Currently he is an angel investor and advisor to early stag startups. He serves as the business advisor to the Mayor of London. He blogs on www.startuppragmatism.blog andwww.thefullspectrum.blog

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Sloyd — 3D modeling has never been easier. Select a generator, tweak it, done. Generate with realtime in the Sloyd Webapp or SDK.
Anterior — Lead your plan into the future.
Ctrl Alt — Access the world of alternative assets in a simple, transparent and secure way. Sign up to Ctrl Alt and start your alternative investment journey with us today.

Building the world's largest event technnology company with Eventbrite (NYSE: EB).Helping start-ups scale with seed fund Point Nine Capital.Angel investing in bold and ambitious European and U.S. start-ups. Sample from 40+ portfolio companies: - Sqreen (exited to Datadog) - Meero ($290M in funding) - Algolia ($184M) - Alkemics ($54M) -Builder ($29M) - Verve ($28M) - Fox Intelligence (€18M)

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
finres — finres is a science-based firm that uses artificial intelligence, big data, and research to increase food system resilience in the face of climate change by making investment decision-making robust and quick, as well as providing a comprehensive algorithmic solution for recognizing and assessing climate risks in order to prioritize adaptationefforts.
Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.

Sake Bosch is a Founder and Managing Partner of Prime Ventures since 1999. Sake brings over 25 years of experience in marketing and sales and venture capital to Prime. Prior to founding Prime in 1999, Sake was a Senior Principal at Holland Venture and was responsible for managing investments in technology companies. Sake was involved in many ofthe Holland Venture technology investments including Applicare Medical Imaging (acquired by GE Medical Systems), BWise (acquired by Nasdaq), SQL Systems (acquired by Datastream) and Freecom (acquired by Mitsubishi Kagaku Media). Before joining Holland Venture in 1994, Sake worked as an Independent Corporate Finance Consultant focusing primarily on early stage companies. Prior to this position Sake was a Sales Executive at Securitas Group. Sake started his career in 1989 as a Strategic Market Analyst at VNU. Sake serves on the board of directors of Civolution, 4C, Dealerdirect, Digital Origin, Greetz, Forcare, SaaSPlaza, SlimPay and Takeaway.com. Previous investments include: 3mensio Medical Imaging (acquired by Esaoto), eBuddy (acquired by Booking.com), Global Collect (acquired by General Atlantic), MarketXS (acquired by Markit), Nedstat (acquired by comScore Inc.), Tridion (acquired by SDL) and Watermark (acquired by Qurius). Sake holds an M.Sc. degree in Business Administration as well as a B.A. degree in Management Science and Industrial Engineering.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Series B
The Netherlands, France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Fairbrics — Fairbrics is developing the first synthetic fiber with a net positive impact on climate change and capable of meeting the demand of the market.
FononTech — FononTech specializes in impulse printing.It is used to print small electronic circuits for electronic devices.
Mermade Seafoods — Mermade is a pioneering cellular aquaculture company, bringing a novel approach and mindset for the production of cell based seafood.

Konstantin von Unger is a an experienced investor in technology companies and an independent Board member. He serves as the Vice Chairman of the Shareholders' Committee at Henkel AG and as the Chairman of the supervisory board at the Henkel Family Office. Konstantin attended London Business School and Brown University.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

Valdera — Valdera is the sourcing and procurement platform that makes it easy to buy or sell chemicals, ingredients, and raw materials. We partner with segment leaders, ranging from the world's largest CPG manufacturers to household names in the beauty industry.
NobleAI — We build AI tools that lower the cost of R&D and accelerate science, discovery, and invention.
Arda Therapeutics — Arda Therapeutics is a biotechnology company taking aim at chronic diseases and aging by eliminating the pathogenic cells that drive these conditions. Their approach starts by using single-cell data to identify pathogenic cells and specific markers to target them. They then design therapies to eliminate these - and only these - cells.Arda wasfounded in 2021 in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA.

Darren is Chairman of Poundland Group plc and was appointed Chairman of Maplin Electronics Limited in August 2014, Chairman of Topps Tiles Plc in March 2015 and Chairman of Notonthehighstreet.com in June 2015. He retired from his position as a Non Executive Director and as Chairman of the Audit Committee of Ladbrokes Plc on 24 September 2015.Between 2012 and 2013 he was Chief Executive Officer of Carpetright Plc. Prior to that, Mr Shapland was J Sainsbury plc Chief Financial Officer from 2005 to 2010 and Group Development Director from 2010 to 2011. He was also Chairman of Sainsbury’s Bank. Previously, Mr Shapland was Group Finance Director of Carpetright plc between 2002 and 2005, Finance Director of Superdrug Stores plc between 2000 and 2002 and held a variety of positions with the Burton Group and Arcadia.

Investment focus

SaaS, Public Relations, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oja — Oja.app is available for sale at $6,990. It is a great fit for a fitness brand and gyms,a Health & Wellness business,a shopping website, e-commerce or retail brand,a Tech Startup,a Food Delivery & Meal Kit Brand
Breedr — Save 200+ hours per year with livestock & beef cattle management software and finish 5 months earlier and trade directly, plus loads more, on Breedr.
Signal AI — Make sense of the outside world with External Intelligence

Clément Buyse

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Sales
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pelico — Pelico is a data management platform that assists operational teams in achieving predictable results. It empowers factory teams to build resilient operations to manage daily volatility and deliver products on time, at cost. Its factory operations management system enables teams to continuously anticipate parts shortages, act fast with AI-assistedrecommendations, and collaborate across teams on the implementation of corrective actions.
Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
Humanlinker — Humanlinker is a cutting-edge AI guided technology for revenue generation teams

Jeff Dean joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Senior Fellow in Google's Research Group, where he leads the Google Brain team, Google's deep learning research team in Mountain View, working on systems for speech recognition, computer vision, language understanding, and various predictive tasks. He has co-designed /implemented five generations of Google's crawling, indexing, and query serving systems, and co-designed / implemented major pieces of Google's initial advertising and AdSense for Content systems. He is also a codesigner and coimplementor of Google's distributed computing infrastructure, including the MapReduce, BigTable and Spanner systems, protocol buffers, LevelDB, and TensorFlow, a popular open-source system for machine learning.Jeff received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1996. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Mark Weiser Award and the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Japan, Australia

Portfolio highlights

OpenInfer — OpenInfer develops an AI inference engine for edge applications
Workhelix — Workhelix is a developer of workforce management platform to assist with business management.
Yutori — Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own.

Gregory Bernstein is the Gregory Bernstein Venture Lead at EQT Ventures . He attended Georgetown University.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Industrial Manufacturing, Biotechnology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Germany, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Verkor — Verkor is a battery cell manufacturer whose goal is to increase the production of low-carbon batteries to fulfill the growing demand for electric vehicles. The company focuses on the development of low-carbon batteries with a carbon footprint that is many times smaller than standard batteries. This reduces the logistics footprint, includingemissions, and provides businesses with batteries that are very inexpensive and use carbon-free electricity.
Biomicrogels Group — Biomicrogels Group is the developer and patent holder for biomicrogels - a unique substance produced from agricultural waste such as sugar beet, apple, sunflower pomace - capable of addressing the global environmental and climate change problems.The company's biomicrogel-based solutions add value in produced water treatment, cutting fluidseparation, vegetable oil extraction, cleaning of oil spills at sea and on land.We also manufacture a range of environmentally friendly household cleaning products under own brand, WONDERLAB.
Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.

Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo. Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
Neoplants — The first generation of bioengineered to fight air pollution. We call them neoplants.
Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.

Cory Levy is the Founder Advisor of Humaning.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Omen AI — Coming Soon....
Friend — Friend creates a toy companion that promotes self-esteem through meaningful discussions.
Slingshot AI — Slingshot is an AI research company driven by our mission to exponentially increase global access to mental healthcare.We’re developing technology to help humans feel and perform better, be more connected, and adapt to the future in a time where the demand for mental health support far exceeds providers by 10,000:1, and the large-scale changesahead are unprecedented.By leveraging AI to delve deep into human psychology, we expect to learn something about human nature that no humans have before, in order to help people change their minds.Based in NYC and London, our cross-disciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and broader mental health experts is dedicated to building tools that empower individuals to take on any challenge that arises.

Building the world's largest event technnology company with Eventbrite (NYSE: EB).Helping start-ups scale with seed fund Point Nine Capital.Angel investing in bold and ambitious European and U.S. start-ups. Sample from 40+ portfolio companies: - Sqreen (exited to Datadog) - Meero ($290M in funding) - Algolia ($184M) - Alkemics ($54M) -Builder ($29M) - Verve ($28M) - Fox Intelligence (€18M)

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
finres — Finres empowers decision-making for climate resilience, leveraging machine learning to enhance agricultural sustainability and adaptation strategies.
Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

FlyMy.AI — Real-time AI cloud
Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice

Felix Schaal is an engineer and angel investor based out of Europe.He co-founded the German direct marketing company Felix has been also the chairman of the advisory board ofPrior to starting his entrepreneurial career, Felix has worked at His investments include Berlin-based startups such as Felix is also an active supporter of non profit organizations, e.g.

Investment focus

Health Care, Fitness, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Feedr — Probieren Sie Deutschlands Top Catering Service | EatFirst
HealthUnlocked — We are the world's largest online support network. Ask questions. Get answers. Talk to others who've been there before. #UnlockYourHealth
Circle Medical — Circle Medical is an online medical clinic that provides a better primary care experience. Book a telehealth appointment with one of our doctors today!

Darren is Chairman of Poundland Group plc and was appointed Chairman of Maplin Electronics Limited in August 2014, Chairman of Topps Tiles Plc in March 2015 and Chairman of Notonthehighstreet.com in June 2015. He retired from his position as a Non Executive Director and as Chairman of the Audit Committee of Ladbrokes Plc on 24 September 2015.Between 2012 and 2013 he was Chief Executive Officer of Carpetright Plc. Prior to that, Mr Shapland was J Sainsbury plc Chief Financial Officer from 2005 to 2010 and Group Development Director from 2010 to 2011. He was also Chairman of Sainsbury’s Bank. Previously, Mr Shapland was Group Finance Director of Carpetright plc between 2002 and 2005, Finance Director of Superdrug Stores plc between 2000 and 2002 and held a variety of positions with the Burton Group and Arcadia.

Investment focus

SaaS, Public Relations, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oja — Oja.app is available for sale at $12,000. It is a great fit for a fitness brand and gyms,a Health & Wellness business,a shopping website, e-commerce or retail brand,a Tech Startup,a Food Delivery & Meal Kit Brand
Breedr — Save 200+ hours per year with livestock & beef cattle management software and finish 5 months earlier and trade directly, plus loads more, on Breedr.
Signal AI — Make sense of the outside world with External Intelligence

Bryan Meehan CEO at Blue Bottle Coffee. Previously, I co-founded Nude Skincare (acquired by LVMH) and Fresh & Wild in London (acquired by Whole Foods).I'm an advocate of socially responsible investing and co-founded Greenmont Capital, a venture firm focused on investing in people who are primarily interested in creating environmentallyfriendly products. Investments include IZZE soda line and Mary's Gone Crackers. I get very excited about great founders and have recently invested in Slack, Hampton Creek, and of course, Blue Bottle Coffee where I spend most of my time working with James Freeman and the Blue Bottle team. I'm also a very active real estate investor.I grew up in Dublin. Since, I've lived in London, Boston and San Francisco. I love music, hiking, travel, art, organic food and coffee. I'm on the Board of Trustees at De Young and Legion of Honor museums in San Francisco. I hate GMOs and campaigning hard to have food properly labelled.

Investment focus

Packaging Services, Farming, Waste Management
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
Woola — A sustainable alternative to bubble wrap: protective e-commerce packaging made of leftover wool. Lightweight. Compostable. Customisable.
8B Education Investments — 8B African Education Investments helps African students succeed at global universities with tools, resources, and world-class support to master every step of their educational journey.

Richard Salvage

Investment focus

CRM, Farming, Agriculture
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bionema — Bionema is a leading biopesticide product testing and technology development company, specialising in chemical-free, organic crop protection. Research is focused on the development of natural products to protect crops from insect damage, reducing the use of synthetic pesticides, enhancing food security and increasing crop yields. Bionema suppliesspecialist bio-control products to the horticulture, turf and amenity and forestry sectors, providing training aimed at increasing the product efficacy.

Felix Schaal is an engineer and angel investor based out of Europe.He co-founded the German direct marketing company Felix has been also the chairman of the advisory board ofPrior to starting his entrepreneurial career, Felix has worked at His investments include Berlin-based startups such as Felix is also an active supporter of non profit organizations, e.g.

Investment focus

Health Care, Fitness, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Feedr — Probieren Sie Deutschlands Top Catering Service | EatFirst
HealthUnlocked — We are the world's largest online support network. Ask questions. Get answers. Talk to others who've been there before. #UnlockYourHealth
Circle Medical — Circle Medical is an online medical clinic that provides a better primary care experience. Book a telehealth appointment with one of our doctors today!

Originally at MetaPack in 2000, Karl returned in November 2009 to take on the role as COO and CIO responsible for MetaPack’s Product Development, Support, Infrastructure and Carrier Integration. Karl is now responsible for handling MetaPack's legal activity and ensuring best practice is brought into all parts of the MetaPack operation toensure exceptional performance for our customers. In between the MetaPack roles, he worked for Abacus Billing as CEO before its sale to Mind CTI, successfully managing the company turnaround at Solution 1 as COO and interim CEO where he focused on improving their delivery function as well as their IT infrastructure.Prior to joining MetaPack that he has held roles such as Senior Supply Chain Director for EMI Records (based in The Netherlands), IT Director for EMI Operations and IT Director EMI France as well as a number of other UK and European IT and Logistics roles. This provides Karl with over 30 years experience in general management and the IT, logistics and warehouse industry.

Investment focus

CRM, Farming, Agriculture
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bionema — Bionema is a leading biopesticide product testing and technology development company, specialising in chemical-free, organic crop protection. Research is focused on the development of natural products to protect crops from insect damage, reducing the use of synthetic pesticides, enhancing food security and increasing crop yields. Bionema suppliesspecialist bio-control products to the horticulture, turf and amenity and forestry sectors, providing training aimed at increasing the product efficacy.

Started in 2011 as a real estate broker. Today a real-estate investor & owner of several companies, from construction to renewable energy

Investment focus

SaaS, AgTech, Big Data
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GEIA.AI — Experience the future of indoor farming with GEIA.AI's precision farming automation system. Optimize yields, conserve resources, and achieve sustainable farming with our advanced technology and data-driven insights.

Rick Bernstein is the Chief Commercial Officer for MedNet responsible for the development of the commercial infrastructure and strategy for MedNet, a healthcare technology company specializing in eClinical solutions for the global life sciences industry. Rick is currently leading the development of an optimized sales, business development, anddistribution strategy to drive aggressive growth across key market segments, including CROs and pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology sponsors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, AgTech, Farming
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
Phytoform Labs — Phytoform Labs is improving crops to make agriculture more sustainable and nutritious

Gregory Bernstein is the Gregory Bernstein Venture Lead at EQT Ventures . He attended Georgetown University.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Industrial Manufacturing, Biotechnology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Germany, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Verkor — Verkor is a battery cell manufacturer whose goal is to increase the production of low-carbon batteries to fulfill the growing demand for electric vehicles. The company focuses on the development of low-carbon batteries with a carbon footprint that is many times smaller than standard batteries. This reduces the logistics footprint, includingemissions, and provides businesses with batteries that are very inexpensive and use carbon-free electricity.
Biomicrogels Group — Biomicrogels Group is the developer and patent holder for biomicrogels - a unique substance produced from agricultural waste such as sugar beet, apple, sunflower pomace - capable of addressing the global environmental and climate change problems.The company's biomicrogel-based solutions add value in produced water treatment, cutting fluidseparation, vegetable oil extraction, cleaning of oil spills at sea and on land.We also manufacture a range of environmentally friendly household cleaning products under own brand, WONDERLAB.
Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.

Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
HockeyStack — HockeyStack enables marketing teams to drive pipeline efficiently and sales teams to close deals faster with modern attribution, holistic buyer journeys, and account insights.
Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!

Alex Macdonald is the Co-Founder and CEO of sequel - an investment platform on a mission to help athletes build a legacy for their families and the world. He previously Co-Founded Velocity Black, raised more than $40m in funding, and which was successfully exited to US Bank Capital One in 2023. He is a serial angel investor having invested in 50early stage startups and funds.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Kalder — Kalder is a unified web3 brand loyalty platform for brands and creators to drive meaningful engagement, onboard new users, and reward superfan communities.
Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
Fundably — Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan | Access £1k-£2m

Alvaro Martinez Barrio is aCTO at Pixelgen Technologies, Life Sciences & Technology Advisor, and Investor.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Biotechnology
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Multus — Key ingredients for the affordable scale-up of cellular agriculture

Sake Bosch is a Founder and Managing Partner of Prime Ventures since 1999. Sake brings over 25 years of experience in marketing and sales and venture capital to Prime. Prior to founding Prime in 1999, Sake was a Senior Principal at Holland Venture and was responsible for managing investments in technology companies. Sake was involved in many ofthe Holland Venture technology investments including Applicare Medical Imaging (acquired by GE Medical Systems), BWise (acquired by Nasdaq), SQL Systems (acquired by Datastream) and Freecom (acquired by Mitsubishi Kagaku Media). Before joining Holland Venture in 1994, Sake worked as an Independent Corporate Finance Consultant focusing primarily on early stage companies. Prior to this position Sake was a Sales Executive at Securitas Group. Sake started his career in 1989 as a Strategic Market Analyst at VNU. Sake serves on the board of directors of Civolution, 4C, Dealerdirect, Digital Origin, Greetz, Forcare, SaaSPlaza, SlimPay and Takeaway.com. Previous investments include: 3mensio Medical Imaging (acquired by Esaoto), eBuddy (acquired by Booking.com), Global Collect (acquired by General Atlantic), MarketXS (acquired by Markit), Nedstat (acquired by comScore Inc.), Tridion (acquired by SDL) and Watermark (acquired by Qurius). Sake holds an M.Sc. degree in Business Administration as well as a B.A. degree in Management Science and Industrial Engineering.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Series B
The Netherlands, France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Faircraft — A sustainable, lab-grown alternative to animal leather.
FononTech — FononTech specializes in impulse printing.It is used to print small electronic circuits for electronic devices.
Mermade Seafoods — Mermade is a pioneering cellular aquaculture company, bringing a novel approach and mindset for the production of cell based seafood.

Josh Browder

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Internet
Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
CropSafe — Simplified insights & financing using satellite data to help you make more profitable decisions on the farm
TreeCard — Treecard - the wooden debit card that plants trees. Sign up now to reforest the planet every day.

Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
HockeyStack — HockeyStack enables marketing teams to drive pipeline efficiently and sales teams to close deals faster with modern attribution, holistic buyer journeys, and account insights.
Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!

Cory Levy is the Founder Advisor of Humaning.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Lingopal — SaaS API Layer for translation
Omen AI — Harness the power of Ai and proprietary sensing to prevent equipment failures.
Butler — Streamline your workflow with AI-powered summaries, contextual chat, a native meeting bot and more, all in one place.

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
StackOne — Accelerate your SaaS growth with our unified API solution for HRIS, ATS, and CRM. Say "yes" to customers, build advanced integrations quickly, and experienced the best data privacy controls in the market.
Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.

Brendan qualified at the University of Pretoria (Onderstepoort) in South Africa in 1983 and has worked in small animal practice for the past 20 years. He has attended numerous congresses worldwide and many further education courses including a two-year course in veterinary radiology.Brendan developed the Village Vet Group from a two-person onenurse practice in Belsize Park in 1988 to the current 30 site group across North London, Hertfordshire and Cambridge. Brendan set up the Village Vet Group to provide the best veterinary care with vets who continue to further their qualifications, to maintain a strong academic culture, excellent modern equipment and well trained qualified nurses, in clean hygienic facilities, and to provide excellent service to the local community.Brendan is married with four children, three dogs – a Golden Retriever called Buddy and two Yorkshire Terriers, Truly and Madley – and a British Blue cat called Sky.

Investment focus

Animal Feed, Food and Beverage
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Omni — Omni provides Healthy Vegan Dog Food in the UK, made by vets to be a nutritionally complete meal for your dog. Feed your dog all the goodness of plants backed by science.

Josh Browder

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Internet
Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
CropSafe — Simplified insights & financing using satellite data to help you make more profitable decisions on the farm
TreeCard — Treecard - the wooden debit card that plants trees. Sign up now to reforest the planet every day.

Jonathan McKay

Investment focus

SaaS, Legal, Legal Tech
Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Breedr — Save 200+ hours per year with livestock & beef cattle management software and finish 5 months earlier and trade directly, plus loads more, on Breedr.
CrowdJustice — CrowdJustice allows communities to band together to access the courts to protect their communal assets – like their local hospital – or shared values – like human rights. CrowdJustice pages are optimized to collect as many pledges as possible. Millions of pounds have already been raised through CrowdJustice to fund various kinds of legal action.

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Network Effects Investor, Venture Partner @ Speedinvest, Instructor @ Reforge, Atomico Angel

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Homefans — Discover top-rated sports tours and activities at your destination with Homefans. Go beyond the game and explore with locals for a unique sports travel experience.
Konfetti — konfetti is building the leading platform for local workshops and events by empowering workshop providers with customized SaaS solutions
HomeCooks — HomeCooks delivers chef-crafted meals from the UK's top independent cooks right to your door. Browse our weekly menus of authentic global cuisines, from spicy Asian delights to comforting home-cooked classics. With quick reheating, you can enjoy restaurant-quality meals anytime at home.

Dan Magnuszewski - Cofounder & CTO @ ACV

Investment focus

FinTech, B2B, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Flox — FLOX technology transforms the way poultry farmers manage their sheds and flocks. Learn more.
Oko — Oko is an email-based, end-to-end solution that automates the flow of documentation between supply chain parties. Our platform tracks intermodal shipping and documents, without the need for Excel or manual updates. We add visibility to your business processes and ensure compliance right from your inbox.
Fret Zealot — Fret Zealot is a LED accessory for a guitar that shows where to put the fingers to play anything.Fret Zealot allows anyone to learn quickly and intuitively without the constant distraction of looking at books, videos, or sheet music to find out where to put their fingers. Anyone can concentrate on technique and findingtheir style right from thestart.

Taz Patel is a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits over the past decade who continues to support the startup ecosystem via mentorship, advisory and investing. Most recently, Taz co-founded Captiv8, an Influencer marketplace and SaaS platform funded by Social Capital, Liquid 2, Visionnaire, Jason Calacanis, Cyan Banister and strategic Angels.Before this, Taz was the Chief Revenue Officer of Republic Project, a startup funded by Google Ventures and later acquired by DG Sizmek in 2013. Before that, Taz led monetization efforts at Showyou App funded by True Ventures that was acquired by Vevo in 2015. His knowledge in social marketing, mobile/video advertising, and SaaS/Marketplace businesses is a personal passion that stems from early sales leadership roles at Interclick and BlueLithium, both of which were acquired by Yahoo! for $270 Million in 2011 and $300 Million in 2007. A Chicago native, Taz studied at the University of California, Berkeley and currently lives with his wife, son and dog in San Francisco.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CloudAdmin.io — CloudAdmin is a cost-optimization platform that helps executives save money in hidden cloud instance buying options.
Ampleforth — Forth is the governance token used to control the Ampleforth Protocol and DAO. See a list of exchanges supporting FORTH
Marigold Health — Marigold Health is an anonymous social network where people with mental health and substance use conditions support each other.

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.