Get 250+ investors tailored to your startup

Invest in your industry and stage
Emails & contact info included
Excel and CSV export
Automatically

Trusted by 3,000+ startups

Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in United Kingdom

Last updated: Sep 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in United Kingdom

Investor	Artificial intelligence United Kingdom investments
Chris Adelsbach	14
Will Martin	14
Will Brooks	14
Charlie Songhurst	11
William Tunstall-Pedoe	10
Nadav Rosenberg	7
Serge Chiaramonte	6
Paul Forster	6
Theo Osborne	6
Jonathan Milner	5
Patrick Pichette	5
Simon Murdoch	4
Rob Dobson	4
John Taysom	4
Alan Morgan	4
Gareth Williams	4
Svetozar Georgiev	4
Stuart Marks	4
Mandeep Singh	4
Stefano Bernardi	3
Wouter Born	3
Sir Terry Leahy	3
Chris Mairs	3
Jon Claydon	3
Tom Blomfield	3
Malek Meslemani	3
Alex Macdonald	3
Mark Bamforth	3
Dr. Zehan Wang	3
Reece Chowdhry	3
Niklas Zennström	3
Mark Cuban	3
Charles Morgan	3
Taavet Hinrikus	3
Graham Clempson	3
Peder Nielsen	3
Christopher North	2
John Spearman	2
Charles Allard jr	2
Max Jennings	2
Ed Parkinson	2
Jon Craton	2
Michael Pennington	2
Arjun Purkayastha	2
Isaac Applbaum	2
Philipp Mohr	2
Adam Sadiq	2
Federico Pirzio-Biroli	2
Hugh Grant	2
Dan Cobley	2

Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.

Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.

Investor list

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.

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.

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.

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

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.
Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.
Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.

William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng is a British entrepreneur focused on world-changing products powered with Artificial Intelligence and other deep technology. He is based in Cambridge and London UK. He founded the British company Evi (formerly True Knowledge), the AI platform acquired by Amazon and where William, the team and the technology developed byEvi was used to create Alexa. He left in 2016. William is an active angel investor with investments in more than 100 startups. He is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab and a full member of Cambridge Angels.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ai Build — Ai Build is a London based company developing Artificial Intelligence and Robotic technologies for large scale additive manufacturing. We believe additive manufacturing is the core technology for achieving a sustainable environment and a highly efficient on-demand economy.We are a team of creative and enthusiastic people with strong background inthe areas of 3D printing, robotics, computer vision, machine learning, computational design and physics. We are partnering with some of the world’s most innovative companies and investors to bring our disruptive Autonomous Large Scale 3D Printing technology into a wide range of industrial applications. Our purpose is to empower factories of the future to make Manufacturing easy, smart, sustainable and affordable.
Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
Unlikely AI — We are pioneering safe, trustworthy and powerful artificial intelligence

Nadav leads Taboola’s expansion and operations in Europe and Australia.Prior to joining Taboola, Nadav was a member of the founding team of Groupon UK & IR, taking part in building and managing Groupon’s business in the UK.Before joining Groupon, Nadav worked as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company in London.Nadav isbased in London and holds an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Pharmaceutical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

thymia — Making mental health as objectively measurable as physical health.
Exogene — Exogene is a biotechnology company accelerating the discovery of T-cell-receptor(TCR)-based cancer immunotherapies for solid tumours by combining deep learning and high-throughput TCR-antigen screening. Exogene is building a computational platform to quickly and inexpensively identify new tumour targets shared across cancer patients, as well assafe and effective TCRs against these tumour targets for therapeutic application. Their mission is to develop better TCR-based immunotherapies, faster and at a fraction of the cost.
Loops — With Loops causal insights you can identify your biggest opportunities to maximize your KPIs... try the Loops way

Serge Chiaramonte

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Trezy — Trezy is smart & simple software the helps you manage your business with real-time finance insights & automated cash-flow forecasting.
qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.

Paul Forster

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Rollstack — Rollstack is a tool that helps you create stunning and high-quality charts in minutes, embed data, and automate the creation of data-driven decks and docs - all within your favorite tools (Google Suite, Notion, Powerpoint)
Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
Triple — The best payment data enrichment solution. Our API includes fraud detection, transaction enrichment, categorization, subscriptions, and carbon footprint.

Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

The Dots — Professional networking for the new world of work. Get advice. Meet collaborators. Find jobs. Upskill at events.
Nova Credit — Nova Credit is a credit infrastructure and analytics company that enables businesses to grow responsibly by harnessing alternative credit data.
Platform Science — Experience the power to choose what drives your fleet. Platform Science delivers telematics and fleet management tools on a platform built for transportation.

Having worked in the life sciences industry for over ten years as an academic researcher, Jonathan identified the market opportunity for supplying high quality antibodies to support protein interaction studies and, in 1998, founded Abcam with David Cleevely and Professor Tony Kouzarides. Jonathan is a Non-Executive Director of Horizon DiscoveryGroup plc, The Evolution Education Trust, GeoSpock Ltd and Sydicate Room Group Ltd. He is also Chairman of Axol Bioscience Ltd, PhoreMost Ltd, Repositive Limited, Definigen Limited and Cambridge Allergy Ltd. Jonathan holds an executive director position at Meltwind Limited, being a designated member of Meltwind Advisory LLP. Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur and investor and is passionate about supporting UK life science and high-tech start-ups. He has provided considerable investment and support to over 30 companies and has assisted three AIM IPOs.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
Mogrify — Mogrify is pioneering a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapy and transforming the development of ex vivo cell therapy.
Relation Therapeutics — Relation uses machine learning to develop drugs for pressing unmet need.

Patrick Pichette currently Board Member at LightSpeed and Twitter. He is a former Google's chief financial officer, where he started in June of 2008. He has nearly 20 years of experience in financial operations and management in the telecommunications sector, including seven years at Bell Canada, which he joined in 2001 as executive vicepresident of planning and performance management.During his time at Bell Canada, he held various executive positions, including CFO from 2002 until the end of 2003, and was instrumental in the management of the most extensive communications network in Canada and its ongoing migration to a new national IP-based infrastructure.Prior to joining Bell Canada, Patrick was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a lead member of McKinsey's North American Telecom Practice. He also served as vice president and chief financial officer of Call-Net Enterprises, a Canadian telecommunications company.Patrick earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from UniversitA© du Quebec A MontrA©al. He holds a master's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He also serves on the board of Engineers Without Borders (Canada).

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mobai — Provider of attack detection, image manipulation detection and authentication. Strong and successful research team on biometrics.
Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.

Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Analytics
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
Peek Home — Peek Home provides sketch plans, prices and planning advice for people who are puzzled by the process of creating their perfect home. All we need is your house number & postcode - no home visit needed.
Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.

Rob founded Actix (actix.com) in 1991 and as CEO (1991-2005) grew it to over $50m revenue by 2005. More than 90% of the world’s mobile phone customers have their networks optimized by Actix software and Rob has worked with many of the world’s leading mobile operators and infrastructure vendors. In 2005 he sold a majority stake in the company toPE firm Summit Partners at a $100+m valuation. He has invested in a further 30+ startups and has had five very successful exits (he's not counting failures as they come with the territory). Rob is chairman of Robotical (robotical.io) and DevicePilot.com. He's also the founding chairman of Singletrack.com and a supporter of the unique orchestra SouthbankSinfonia.co.uk. As an inveterate tinkerer in software and hardware, he's fascinated by IoT, 3D printing and the maker movement (as you can probably see from his personal website (robdobson.com). Rob is a Fellow of the IET and has a 1st class honours degree in Electronic Engineering.

Investment focus

Software, Business Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
DevicePilot — DevicePilot Service Monitoring for connected devices provides a single pane of glass for Product, Operations and Customer Support teams, driving up customer satisfaction and growth, while reducing operational costs.
Connect4 — The client-centric platform for you and your team. Consistently deliver outstanding client meetings. Every single time.

John Taysom started the Reuters Venture Capital Fund in Palo Alto in 1995 making 82 investments in internet and web infrastructure and services including Verisign, UltraDNS, Digimarc, ZeroKnowledge and Intertrust. He was a member of the Board of Digimarc pre and post its Nasdaq IPO, a Board member at Intertrust and a Board member at TIBCO throughits Nasdaq IPO. To date, seventeen of his investments have achieved an IPO.John acquired the Fund in an MBO in 2002. Now London-based with a seed portfolio of thirty US and UK start-ups; one has achieved an IPO and several have been acquired by Experian, Linkedin, Tesco, BMC and others.In 2011 and 2012 John took a Fellowship at Harvard to work on privacy issues and holds EU and US patents on a method of improving privacy online. For 2015 John is a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy and a Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, at UCL. He is a member of the Board of the Web Science Trust; chairs Performance Horizon, a fast growing UK startup; is a Governor at Hurstpierpoint College; and runs a small farm in Devon.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

LGN — LGN's edge AI management software puts you in complete technical and financial control of your edge AI systems.
Tenyks — Tenyks gives Computer Vision Engineers the insights to build more reliable models faster! Collaborate to identify and fix dataset issues. Improve data quality. Boost model performance. No more wondering in the dark.
Worldr — Valarian | Innovating for the new era of digital sovereignty

Alan co-founded MMC Ventures in 2000. As an active business angel investor he saw the opportunity for a more structured strategic and due diligence approach to venture investing. Alan is a member of the Investment Committee and leads MMC's financial services focus. He has lead responsibility for Small World.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

9fin — 9fin is a leading provider of debt market intelligence and offers everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one AI-powered platform
Connectd — Online platform underpinned by smart matching technology directly connecting the UK’s leading Founders, Investors & NAMs.
Froots — Froots.io is an online wealth manager that helps people to afford things that are considered for the lucky few. Whether one aspires an early retirement or a top education for their children, froots helps them to achieve their long-term financial objectives by tailoring a goal based .

Gareth Williams co-founded Skyscanner Limited in 2001 and has been its CEO through to 2018. Chairman to Jan 2020. We spent $6m of primary capital raised through to $1.8bn sale to Trip.com. Now ‘funemployed’ and learning.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Hungary, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wordsmith AI — Best in class legal ai for legal teams. Wordsmith is used by some of the best companies in the world. Powerful products include legal ai chatbot, legal ai document generation and a whole tool kit of ai for legal documents.
Ember — Travel by electric bus between Edinburgh, Dundee, Perth, Kinross and more. Brand-new buses, affordable fares and real-time tracking.
Maison Sport — Book ski lessons online with highly qualified ski instructors. Ski & snowboard lessons & ski school in Morzine, Meribel, Val Thorens, Courchevel, Avoriaz, Tignes, Val d'Isere, Zermatt, Verbier & more

Svetozar Georgiev is the Chairman of the Board at BESCO. He attended American University in Bulgaria, Truman State University, and Technology School Electronic Systems (TUES), both associated with Technical University-Sofia.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Payhawk — Get 100% real-time visibility & control on operational spend and cut manual work by 50% with a spend management platform designed with financial teams in mind.
Reloyalty — We turn every bank card in Europe into a loyalty card. Reloyalty is a fully automated and personalised loyalty platform on top of card payments leveraging Open Banking / PSD2. We enable users to connect existing bank cards to Reloyalty and unlock 10-50% in reward value from their every day shopping. Participating retailers and banks can getaccess to data about their most valuable customers based on purchasing patterns and launch loyalty campaigns with measurable ROI.Reloyalty was founded with the goal of helping businesses identify their most passionate customers and helping those people get treated as such. They believe that the their relationship with the places where they shop, eat and meet with people are more than transactional.
Icanpreneur — The first Accelerator-as-a-Software that guides tech entrepreneurs from idea to product/market fit without relying on luck

Stuart Marks is a successful entrepreneur who has built and sold four businesses over the past 25 years. They have spanned several sectors including CRM, location-based services and digital media. Every company applied innovation to challenge existing business models.Stuart has worked with a diverse and international customer-base includingSainsbury’s, British Airways, Unilever, Vodafone, BMW and various government agencies across the world. His previous company, ITIS Holdings plc, was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was Europe’s leading provider of real-time traffic information and connected car technology.The first company to commercialize crowdsourced data from GPS devices and mobile phone networks, Stuart sold the firm in 2011 to Washington-based INRIX before going on to establish L Marks to invest in the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

Investment focus

Software, Information Services, Information Technology
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Urbix — Urbix is producing a management dashboard for municipalities to manage their data and processes to ensure that decisions are made based on hard evidence which is readily available in an easy to understand format.
WeFiFo — WeFiFo launched in 2016 and is a multi-award-winning platform that enables enthusiastic home cooks, Supper Club hosts and professional chefs to share their food with paying guests. WeFiFo is Airbnb for the kitchen table but offers much more than just a marketplace. Designed to encourage and empower talented cooks to monetise their kitchen skills,WeFiFo offers a sophisticated infrastructure allowing hosts to up-skill and earn a transformative income with flexible working hours and rewards. WeFiFo also supports professional chefs who don't want the risk of a bricks and mortar restaurant but want to feed a new audience. Anyone can sign up and join in, hosts are not pre-screened or curated, but ratings and reviews help guests choose between the multitude of events on offer – from novice cooks to award winning chefs at the top of their game. They are the online destination to discover exciting experiential dining near you and their platform promotes, insures and inspires cooks and chefs of all abilities to take the next step on their food journey while keeping hosts and guests safe every step of the way.
Orbital Witness — Instant property insight - Liberation for everyone involved in property transactions.

Founder and former CEO at Trouva (backed by Index Ventures & exited to LON:MADE). He is now an Angel Investor & Advisor, and a Board Member at Amnesty International. He was previously an investor at BC Partners, one of Europe’s largest Private Equity funds, investors in Intelsat, Foxtons (where Mandeep was on the board), and Chewy. Prior tothat he was a strategy consultant at OC&C and graduated in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge. He set up his first startup in his bedroom as a teenage coder.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
Galileo AI — Galileo AI creates delightful, editable UI designs from a simple text description. It empowers you to design faster than ever.
Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.

Stefano Bernardi is the Investment Director, Climate at Fondazione ENEA Tech.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Italy, France, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Freatic — Building the monetization layer for your alpha
Eden Bio — Eden Bio is a biotech using machine learning to guide the genetic engineering of microorganism strain optimisation, improving protein yield.
CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration

Wouter Born is a Founder at Born Capital. He attended IESE Business School.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Pynk — Pynk is the Multi-Award Winning London Fintech that rewards you for making predictions on assets like Gold, NASDAQ and Bitcoin. Free sign up, start today!
Hurree — Hurree makes data analysis straightforward with our one-click setup and simple interface, ensuring your analytics are easy to understand and act on without needing specialist expertise.
Skopos.AI — Lupasafe offers immediate and continuous complete insight into cyber security risks on people, process and IT.

Sir Terry Leahy joined Cheshunt, England-based Tesco in 1979 and held marketing positions at the retailer before becoming commercial director of fresh foods in 1986 and a member of the board in 1990. Leahy was appointed Chief Executive of Tesco plc in March 1997.Leahy received a Knighthood for services to food retailing in the 2002 New YearHonours. He was voted as Britain’s Most Admired Leader (2005 and 2006) by Management Today, recognized by the Wall Street Journal and CNBC as European Business Leader of the Year (2005), and named European Businessman of the Year by Fortune (2004). A Guardian Unlimited Politics panel found him to be the most influential non-elected person in Britain in 2007.Leahy is a Director on the Liverpool Vision Regeneration Board and a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council.In 2010 he received the Daily Telegraph’s Award for a Decade of Excellence in Business, a Lifetime Achievement award from Director Magazine, and was voted Business Person of the Year by the Sunday Times.Sir Terry Leahy retired from Tesco in March 2011.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sirenum — Sirenum is a cloud-based platform for managing the staff lifecycle for agencies, recruiters and organisations who rely on staff for operational purposes.Sirenum is built on a highly agile technology platform, which allows us to connect with other service providers for functions not yet in the system. This trick allows us to deliver features thatthey would not otherwise have, if a client requires these features up front. Once significant demand for a particular feature becomes apparent, they may decide develop that feature in house, replacing the outside vendor and retaining additional profits.Sirenum is geared towards employers who operate complex workforces of shift workers. Sirenum is particularly suited to the Staffing, Railway, Aviation, Construction, Hospitality, Healthcare, Home care, Deliveries, Logistics and Transportation. Operators in these sectors typically have hundreds or thousands of employees.
SYNALOGiK — Synalogik helps organisations improve efficiency and slash costs through automated data aggregation when multiple data sources are required.
Uptime | Knowledge Hacks — Thousands of life lessons extracted from the world's best books, courses, documentaries, and podcasts - packed into 5 minute Knowledge Hacks.

Chris Mairs - Venture Partner @ Entrepreneur First

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
Quantly — LLM-enabled financial research at the speed of thought.
Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.

Jon Claydon

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, App Marketing
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Zumo — Digital assets platform engineered with a focus on compliance and sustainability. Get in touch to learn more.
Be Nosy — Nosy is wearable tech with data play that helps you breathe purified air anywhere at any time. Our state of the art patented technology developed by former Dyson engineers is more effective at protecting you from pollution, viruses and allergens than any other solution in the market. While our particles and breathing sensor technology will help youknow exactly what is going into your body.
Togather — Create your event on Togather, the UK's most trusted events booking platform, choose from our roster of over 1,500 of the best and most passionate creators...

Tom Blomfield is the CEO of Monzo, a new kind of bank, designed for smartphones. Tom previously founded GoCardless, a fintech startup that has gone on to raise $25m. In 2013, he was nominated as one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the European Commission. He gives talks regularly about the future of banking and fintech.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Happl — Happl provides benefits that enable employees to choose what's right for them and tools for managers to support their teams, whilst taking care of the admin.
Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
Gradient Labs — An autonomous customer operations agent that simulates human agents, only faster and better.

Malek Meslemani is the Chief Executive at Ancora Investment Limited. Malek Meslemani attended CentraleSupélec.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Tunisia, United States

Portfolio highlights

GoMyCode — GoMyCode is changing the education market by training talents in a dynamic belnded environement on digital skills and connects them with tech opportunities around the world. Based on 4 Main Aspects: - Data based Assessment - Data based matching - Business Analytics - Learning Platform - Content EditorGoMyCode provides digital Skills Training forthe Future of Work. In 4 Different fields: - DATA - DEVELOPMENT - DESIGN - DIGITAL MARKETING
Islacare — Isla is a powerful all-in-one remote healthcare solution, empowering patients and clinical teams to streamline care delivery.
Wise Systems — Wise Systems provides the best in fleet management software for last-mile delivery optimization. Schedule a demo of our software today.

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

Harriet — Efficient, cost effective AI for HR that improves the employee experience. Get time back to focus on what counts and let Harriet do the rest | Harriet
Fundably — Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan | Access £1k-£2m
Atman Labs — Hi, welcome to Atman Labs. We're an applied AI R&D and product company in London building software to emulate human expertise across multiple commercial domains.

Mark Bamforth is the Operating Partner at Ampersand Capital Partners.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dxcover — Dxcover are a world leader in liquid biopsy and artificial intelligence for early detection of cancers and other diseases to improve survival and quality of life.
PneumoWave — Empowering Intervention and Prevention for Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression
Thymmune Therapeutics — Thymmune Therapeutics is developing a machine learning-driven thymic cell engineering platform to restore normal immune function in aging and disease.

Former CTO Magic Pony Technologies - acquired by Twitter in 2016.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
Photoroom — Create product and portrait pictures using only your phone. Remove background, change background and showcase products.
Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.

Reece is the Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures - an early-stage SEIS/EIS VC fund investing in technology companies primarily focused on Fintech, Enterprise and Gaming. He was awarded “Top 5 Asian Tech Investors” 2018 (KPMG & Diversity UK) and is the youngest-ever investor to profiled by The Sunday Times. Reece is a frequent keynote andpanel speaker at prominent industry events such as StartupGrind Europe and Fintech Live. Reece holds a BA in International Business from Durham University and is a Chartered Management Consultant (ACMA, CGMA) having started his career as a Management Consultant at EY.Reece invests personally in all of RLC Ventures' investments.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
Condense — Live-streamed volumetric video into game engines
Crowd Data Systems — Crowd Data Systems (CDS) offers a new approach to treasury management. CDS has developed an ‘app by app’ Treasury Management System which is built upon cloud infrastructure, offering everything from cash to exposure management in modular parts.

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.

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bot-It — Online automation for everyone. Let Bot-It automatically complete your online tasks.
Allstar — Allstar is a gaming company that believes every gamer can become a content creator, with the right tools. The company is driven by its mission is to make the everyday gamer the star of their greatest esports moments through technology that enables them to effortlessly create, discover, and share their own professional quality esports highlights.
Glove Wrap — Glove Wrap is a latex-free, thermoplastic elastomer band with the precise thickness, width, and length required to break in and shape your complete baseball glove while making the ideal pocket. Wrapping your glove with Glove Wrap applies pressure to the glove, reshaping it for easy use.

Charles Morgan

Investment focus

Medical, Robotics, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Qvin — The first and only healthcare service to scientifically prove menstrual blood can test for relevant health information, just like a traditional lab blood test.
SKY ENGINE AI — About Sky EngineSky Engine is an advanced data science technology and research company that develops innovative software solutions to improve computer vision. The company markets the Sky Engine deep learning platform, which is the next-generation of self-learning AI system for image and video analysis applications. The company was founded as aresearch and scientific spin-off in UK.About Sky Engine PlatformThe Sky Engine evolutionary AI platform for the deep learning in virtual reality is designed to overcome the complex object recognition challenges of modern machine/computer vision. It represents the future of self-learning in artificial intelligence technology, supporting efficient and cost effective workflows. Many image recognition tasks require acquisition of large amounts of data and manual data labelling. Sky Engine is designed to replace that. Sky Engine efficiently drives self-learning processes and offers advanced features for object discrimination, workflow automation and adaptive deep learning. Sky Engine is designed for tomorrow’s requirements in advanced analytics and decision support enabling AI business transformation.About Sky Engine client solutionsSky Engine creates flexible and innovative AI vision solutions tailored to customer needs and supports a wide range of industries, providing systems for a variety of data science needs, ensuring business partners get greater value from existing equipment.

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 — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

Graham Clempson has over 30 years of experience in the Private Equity and Credit Markets, from the development of the European Leveraged Finance and High Yield Markets and as a principal in many of the largest Complex Secondary Private Equity Transactions over the past decade.In partnership with Coller Capital, Graham is Chairman of 3 PrivateEquity Funds in the UK, US and France, and serves as an Advisory Board member to MidOcean Partners (US) and Pearl Diver Capital (UK).Prior to founding Quartic Capital, Graham was Co-Founder and European Managing Partner of MidOcean Partners, and DB Capital Partners, and CEO of Morgan Grenfell Private Equity, following roles as Co-head of European Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust Company.Graham is Chairman of Pilotlight (www.pilotlight.org.uk) , a business mentoring Charity in the UK. He has an MA in Law from Oxford University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Services, Retail Technology
Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Link Big — Nadav Raviv Portfolio: UXR, UI/UXD, PD.
Fixtuur — DigitalBridge is a Visual Commerce platform that provides retailers and brands with a new way to showcase their products to customers through real-time 3D and Augmented Reality.
Headstart — Diverse candidates are often systematically excluded when it comes to campus recruiting and high-volume hiring. Headstart diversity recruiting software breaks this cycle of exclusion and levels the playing field for all candidates by removing bias from recruiting processes. When it comes to diversity, we are all in.

Peder Nielsen - Member of the Global Advisors Network @ Global Bio Fund

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Machine Learning
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bactobio — At Bactobio, our mission is to create a safer and greener world by harvesting valuable metabolites from biological dark matter.

Chris is a Managing Partner at L Catterton, the world's leading consumer growth investor with US$20B assets under management, where he co-leads the Growth Fund. He focuses on growth-stage consumer technology businesses in the US, Europe, and the UK. The L Catterton team previously scaled today's consumer tech leaders (Amazon, Shopify,Lazada, Shutterfly, Peloton, Vroom, Better Mortgage, ClassPass, and more) and brings their experience to support entrepreneurs building tomorrow's leading companies. He is also an active angel investor and serves on the boards of several non-profits in arts and education. Previously, Chris led Shutterfly, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFLY) as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors from May 2016 through the sale to Apollo Global Management in 2019. Under his leadership, over the three years from 2015 to 2018, Shutterfly doubled revenues to $2 billion, doubled free cash flow, and increased operating income ten-fold.Prior to joining Shutterfly, Chris served as Managing Director of Amazon UK and co-led Amazon across Europe for six years, after leading Amazon’s UK Media businesses for four years. Amazon UK grew to almost $10 billion in GAAP revenue over this 10-year period, a 14-fold increase. Before joining Amazon, he worked in publishing as Global Managing Director of Phaidon Press, as Chief Operating Officer of HarperCollins Canada, and as Vice President & General Manager of Electronic Publishing for HarperCollins Publishers. He began his career as a management consultant with the media & entertainment practice of Booz Allen & Hamilton.In addition to his operating roles, Chris serves in leadership roles in several not-for-profit organizations. He is a director of Character Lab, a non-profit dedicated to advancing the science and practice of character development in order to help children thrive; a member of the Board of Visitors of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; a member of the Collections Committee and Director's Circle of the Harvard University Art Museums; and President of the American Friends of the Royal Collection. He and his wife also actively support the Domaine de Chantilly, the Wallace Collection, and the Attingham Trust. Chris is an active angel investor, having made more than 40 investments in early-stage companies. He enjoys mentoring, working with a number of technology entrepreneurs and serving as a Strategic Advisor to Forto.Chris earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard College and a master’s degree in Philosophy from New York University. Chris and his wife have three young children and divide their time between London and France. Born and raised in New York, Chris is a dual US/British national.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, B2B
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fabrikatör - Virtual Head of Operations — Forecast, plan and execute your inventory operations with Fabrikator. Free up capital, buy less, sell more and grow faster. Start your 14 days free trial now!
Unlikely AI — We are pioneering safe, trustworthy and powerful artificial intelligence
Floodlight — Track finances, make smarter decisions, and increase revenue. Think business accounts, cards, payments and cashback, all-in-one.

John Spearman - Founder & Former Chief Executive @ Classic FM

Investment focus

TV, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Neyber — Join Neyber today to help improve financial wellbeing and happiness in the workplace. Financial education, affordable loans, and savings and investments paid from your salary.
Techspert — Connect to the world's leading experts and access high-quality precise knowledge fast. Easy scheduling. Dedicated project managers.
Ampersand Health — We are a social purpose company founded by doctors and patients to improve the health and happiness of people with long term inflammatory conditions.

Charles Allard jr

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Computer Vision
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Delvify — Our advanced AI solutions help forward-thinking people like you increase online sales, deliver your products on-trend, on-time, and at-cost to scale your business.

Max Jennings is the Co-Founder at Console.

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, Photography
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Picfair — A new standard for online images. Upload your pics, name your price - an open-to-all image licensing marketplace. Picfair has thousands of images uploaded by photographers in 44 countries around the world, all available to license within a few clicks.
Console — A free weekly email digest of the best tools for developers.

Ed Parkinson

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Life Science
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets

Jon Craton has over 24 years experience of the telecoms industry in general and Operations Support Systems in particular. In 1996 he founded Cramer Systems and was a senior executive with the company until its sale to Amdocs in 2006 for $425 million. Since then Jon has been an angel investor, working in the technology sector. Jon is extensivelyinvolved with PowerOasis – he is a non-executive director of the company and one its largest investors. He brings to PowerOasis a wealth of experience in managing rapid growth whilst maintaining very high standards of customer satisfaction.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zynstra — Zynstra is transforming edge computing at the retail edge. Its Intelligent Infrastructure is specifically designed and built for the retail edge, not the datacenter. It leverages intelligent automation to transform the way thousands of distributed sites are managed. By choosing Zynstra, the retail edge becomes the source of your competitiveadvantage in an era where superior customer experience is not only a great-to-have, but a must-have. You establish a lasting platform where new innovative apps and services are tested and launched to delight consumers at the retail edge, all while driving down operational costs and better managing risk, With its DNA deeply rooted in edge software products, Zynstra provides purpose-built edge infrastructure for the world’s largest, most distributed, innovation-driven enterprises. Zynstra is a strategic partner of HPE in delivering intelligence infrastructure – under the HPE Proliant Easy Connect brand – and is based in the United Kingdom.
SwiftKey — SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people. It upgrades smartphone keyboards to make typing faster, by utilizing artificial intelligence to learn from each user in order to autocorrect and predict their next word. The SwiftKey Keyboard for Android supports more than 80 languages.SwiftKey wasfounded by Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Rosa Biotech — Rosa Biotech is redefining biosensing. We are addressing intractable challenges in early disease diagnosis and industrial biotechnology.

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

Arjun Purkayastha is a purpose driven leader with extensive global experience managing diverse businesses and multi-cultural teams at FTSE Top 10 and Fortune 100 companies - Reckitt and P&G. He has a strong track record of building outperforming teams, iconic brands & innovative business models across 60+ countries having lived & workedin the UK, Singapore, South Korea.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hypd Marketing Technologies Pvt Ltd — Shop from your favourite Creator's recommendations directly from their store! | #ItsAFullTimeJob | #getHYPD
Go Zero — Go Zero is an innovative ice cream company dedicated to provide deliciousness without guilt.
XYXX Apparels — XYXX Apparels, which runs an eponymous innerwear brand. Misfits organization owns teams that compete in League of Legends, CounterStrike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, as well as participating in the game Super Smash Bros.

Isaac Applbaum joined MizMaa Ventures Limited as Founder and Partner in 2016.Isaac Applbaum is a founding General Partner of Opus Capital, a billion dollar early stage venture fund, .focusing his efforts on finding Israeli-based investments for the firm. Previously, Isaac was a Partner and Managing Director for Israel at Lightspeed Venture Partnersan early stage venture capital firm with over two billion dollars under management.Prior to joining Lightspeed, Mr. Applbaum was the founder and CEO of Concorde Solutions Inc. (CSI). In 1998 Mr. Applbaum sold CSI to Bank of America becoming a Senior Vice President at the bank with responsibility for running the bank’s E-ventures group and an advisor to the strategic investments group.Before founding Concorde Solutions, Mr. Applbaum was responsible for running US operations for Advanced Technology International, a large Israeli software development company.Mr. Applbaum currently serves as a Senior Advisor for Philanthropy to the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat. Mr. Applbaum is President of the Board of the California Israel Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of The Western Wall Heritage Foundation, is on the board of directors of: The Koret Israel Economic Development Funds, the Shalem Institute, the Modern Bank and is on the National Council of AIPAC. Mr. Applbaum is a member of the Young Presidents Organization.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Popsa — Popsa won the Software category and was placed 3rd overall in Deloitte’s list of the 50 fastest growing companies in the UK in 2020 (in-between Bulb and Revolut), and was also awarded a place as a "one to watch" in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100.In an increasingly digital world, it's all too easy to lose your photos to the cloudor to the depths of your camera roll, never to be seen again.So we decided to do something about it.Popsa launched in 2016 to bring your memories to life by printing them in beautiful, physical products that you can hold.However, instead of making you spend hours designing your product (like Snapfish or Photobox), we do the hard work for you in minutes.Our vision is to send you regular bundles of photos in the post without you having to think about it. Little presents to yourself. A monthly subscription to your memories.We're developing technology to make it happen:• Machine learning to curate your most sentimental photos. • Bespoke algorithms to automatically design beautiful layouts. • The fastest delivery from the best printers in the world.Customers will sign up and every month they'll unwrap a new collection of memories to keep for years to come.
Ringil — Ringil is a digital platform for the management of freight logistics and transportation.
Buying Show — Buying Show born in 2015 from fashion industry professionals who, after working for more than 20 years in the fashion industry, were frustrated by the slow and sometimes old-fashioned nature of the industry. They believe that through technology, they can help fashion industry professionals speed up sales cycles, shorten lead times, find customersand extend the buying seasons for collections, even with small teams.

Philipp Mohr - ... @ Apple

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Built AI — No more missed opportunities. Reliable investment analysis and unparalleled data insights in minutes, not days.
Syndi Health — Meet Syndi Health: an all-in-one platform for aggregating, recommending, and paying for digital health services - amplifying your employee wellbeing support with 0% admin.

Adam Sadiq is Co-Founder and CEO of New World Group and Co-Founder of Luxury Promise

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Marketplace, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Skrap — Skrap is an on-demand mobile marketplace for skip hire and other waste collection services.
InstaDeep — InstaDeep delivers AI-powered decision-making systems for the Enterprise. With expertise in both machine intelligence research and concrete business deployments, we provide a competitive advantage to our customers in an AI-first world.
Luxury Promise — Buy and sell Hermes, Louis Vuitton & Chanel designer handbags.

Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.

Investment focus

Non Profit, Software, Venture Capital
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Bibblio — Conversion optimization, powered by AI. Increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences, for stronger site metrics and ROI.
Brewbot — Brewbot is dedicated to the wonderful world of beer and beerbrewing
Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future

Hugh Grant is President and Chief Executive Officer at Monsanto.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Machine Learning
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bactobio — At Bactobio, our mission is to create a safer and greener world by harvesting valuable metabolites from biological dark matter.

Dan Cobley is the Managing Partner of Blenheim Chalcot. He previously worked at Santander UK as a Strategic Advisor to the Board. Dan Cobley attended the University of Cambridge.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Happl — Happl provides benefits that enable employees to choose what's right for them and tools for managers to support their teams, whilst taking care of the admin.
Mettle — Science backed and evidence based mental fitness toolkit built for men
Slinger — Slinger is a hospitality recruitment tool that connects vetted hospitality workers with some of London's best food and drink businesses. Sign up today!

Investors by industry

Google

Artificial intelligence

Media (entertainment)