Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in United Kingdom in May 2026
Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in United Kingdom in May 2026
| Investor | Artificial intelligence United Kingdom investments |
|---|---|
| Chris Adelsbach | 18 |
| Charlie Songhurst | 14 |
| Will Brooks | 13 |
| Will Martin | 13 |
| William Tunstall-Pedoe | 10 |
| Mandeep Singh | 9 |
| Paul Forster | 8 |
| Jonathan Milner | 8 |
| Nadav Rosenberg | 7 |
| Serge Chiaramonte | 6 |
| Simon Murdoch | 6 |
| Theo Osborne | 6 |
| Alan Morgan | 6 |
| Patrick Pichette | 5 |
| John Taysom | 5 |
| Wouter Born | 4 |
| Stuart Marks | 4 |
| Mark Ransford | 4 |
| Svetozar Georgiev | 4 |
| Mehdi Ghissassi | 4 |
| Gareth Williams | 4 |
| Chris Mairs | 4 |
| Niklas Zennström | 4 |
| Rob Dobson | 4 |
| Taavet Hinrikus | 3 |
| Reece Chowdhry | 3 |
| Warrick Shanly | 3 |
| Malek Meslemani | 3 |
| Mati Staniszewski | 3 |
| Stephen Whitworth | 3 |
| Aidan Gomez | 3 |
| Sir Terry Leahy | 3 |
| Jon Claydon | 3 |
| Stefan Glänzer | 3 |
| Tom Blomfield | 3 |
| Mark Bamforth | 3 |
| Jeremy Yap | 3 |
| Mark Cuban | 3 |
| Dorothy Chou | 3 |
| Graham Clempson | 3 |
| Peder Nielsen | 3 |
| Amir Nooriala | 3 |
| Charles Morgan | 3 |
| Alex Macdonald | 3 |
| Stefano Bernardi | 3 |
| Jeff Dean | 3 |
| Dan Cobley | 3 |
| Anirudh Pai | 2 |
| Andy Phillipps | 2 |
| John Hegarty | 2 |
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Find investors — It's Free!Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Bourn — Bourn's technology is designed to automate cash flow management, offering SMEs fast access to capital.
- Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
- Embed — The regulated Payments Platform unifying crypto and fiat rails. Fung has launched early beta. Sign up to secure your spot.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Nexcade — Bringing intelligent automation to Freight Forwarding. Nexcade builds agents that meet forwarders where they work today- cutting through noise, accelerating descisions, and helping teams win more business.
- Forgent AI — Forgent uses AI agents to draft tender proposals, find opportunities and coordinate teams.
- Interface — Interface is an AI-native Document Management System for High Hazard Industries.
Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
- Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Loadsure — Loadsure is a spot freight cargo insurance company.
- Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.
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.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Checkstep — Checkstep is the trusted AI content moderation software that helps global platforms detect harmful content, enforce policies, and stay compliant at scale. Combine powerful automation with human expertise to deliver safe, relevant, and compliant digital experiences.
- LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
- Unlikely AI — Controllable, auditable and hallucination-free AI solutions.
Mandeep Singh is an Angel investor at multiple firms. He previously was the founding CEO at Trouva. Mandeep Singh studied Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Droidrun — Droidrun is a cutting-edge software development company that specializes in creating innovative solutions enabling AI agents to seamlessly access and control smartphone applications. By leveraging advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, their software facilitates smooth interactions between AI systems and mobile devices,empowering agents to autonomously navigate, operate, and optimize a wide range of apps on both Android and iOS platforms.
- Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
- Newly — Newly is the easiest way to build and ship cross-platform mobile apps — no senior engineering team required.Our mission is to empower a new generation of builders to launch high-quality native mobile apps without getting blocked by code, complexity, or cost.We’re building the first truly accessible mobile app development tool — combining thespeed of no-code with the power of real code when you need it — and opening the door for the estimated 99.5% of people who currently can’t build mobile apps on their own.Newly is used by early-stage founders, junior developers, designers, and product teams who want to ship faster and smarter.
Paul Forster
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
- Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
- Bounti — Bounti helps organizations steer, enable, and scale their frontline employees, combining training, quality control, communication, and operations execution into one intuitive app. With Bounti, companies can maintain consistent quality and operations, streamline training and reach their entire workforce in more than 100 languages.
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.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Nuclera — Nuclera makes biology accessible through desktop enzymatic protein and gene synthesis. Nuclera has since grown to fifty-seven employees across two continents as the Company delivers on its founders’ vision to make biology accessible to everyone through desktop bioprinting. With desktop bioprinting, researchers and scientists will be empowered totake control of biology through streamlined access to a next-day supply of proteins and genes.
- 52 North Health — At 52 North we are developing fully-integrated clinical, AI and medical-device based systems.
- Constructive Bio — We place non-canonical amino acids at precise positions in proteins and peptides to create therapeutics with new properties, then manufacture them through fermentation.
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.
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- Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Qantev — Qantev is the leading AI claims platform for health & life insurance, enabling insurers to automate claims operations, reduce leakage, improve loss ratios, enhance data quality, and elevate customer experience.
- thymia — We use video games based on Neuropsychology alongside analyses of video and speech to make mental health assessments smart, starting with depression.Our online platform empowers clinicians so they can assess depression faster, more accurately and objectively. Our multi-modal depression recognition and tracking system allows us to find the righttreatment in weeks instead of years and we make the entire process enjoyable for the patient.
- 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.
Serge Chiaramonte
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Tranched — Introducing real-time on-chain securitisation. Fintech Lenders and Professional Investors can now launch an institutional-grade transaction up to 90% faster than before.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Finance
- 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.
- MoveWise — Best casino sites UK ranked by reliability, game variety, bonus terms, and payout performance to help players choose with confidence.
- Area4 Labs — Hearby is your gateway to local live events.
Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.
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- 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.
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.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom, Austria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zango — Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight.
- 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 .
- Silas Insurtech — Streamlining manually intensive and laborious Insurance Underwriting processes within Commercial and Specialty Lines.
Patrick Pichette is based out of London, England, and is the Partner of Inovia Capital and also Board Member of Cohere. Patrick Pichette previously worked at Twitter as a Board of Directors. Patrick Pichette attended the University of Oxford.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kaedim — AI-powered 3D asset creation service delivering fast, production-ready 3D assets. Scale 3D pipelines without hiring, accelerate 3D game art production, and reduce 3D asset costs by up to 90%.
- Apheris — Superior drug discovery models through federated data networks
- made of air — Made of Air is a carbon-negative materials company. They take low-value wood waste and transform it into high-value, carbon-negative thermoplastics. These thermoplastics can be formed with all traditional heat-forming methods and used for a wide variety of applications, turning manufactured goods into engineered carbon sinks.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- 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
Wouter Born is the GP at Born Capital and co-founder of CXO Software (Exit 2018). He has more than 20 years of experience in the CFOTech software industry. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and an MBA from IESE Business School.
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- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
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!
- Skopos.AI — Lupasafe offers immediate and continuous complete insight into cyber security risks on people, process and IT.
- CXO Software — CXO Software delivers Mobile and Web-based Management Reporting with Financial Intelligence to the CFO office.
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.
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- 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.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Briefcase — Automate your accounting workflows with AI
- Silas Insurtech — Streamlining manually intensive and laborious Insurance Underwriting processes within Commercial and Specialty Lines.
- Low Observable Technology — Low Observable Technology delivers solutions in digital asset trading infrastructure, specializing in market making and liquidity provision. The firm also develops stealth technologies for defense applications, focusing on electronic countermeasures and low observability systems critical to undetectable aircraft missions.
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.
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- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Greece
Portfolio highlights
- Payhawk — Payhawk is a spending software that simplifies expenses, payments, and card spending for growing businesses. The company's platform enables financial officers and business owners to manage the entire spending lifecycle end-to-end. It collects and analyzes receipts, invoices, and card transactions to help stay in control of the budget with nopaperwork for the employees. With its paperless corporate card linked to an automated expense management, Payhawk provides a product on top of existing banks.Payhawk was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England.
- 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 — Icanpreneur is an AI co-founder platform that helps validate ideas, products, and growth opportunities, then turns customer insights into buyer personas, go-to-market strategy, and launch-ready assets.
Mehdi Ghissassi serves as the Head of Product Management at DeepMind.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Qevlar AI — SOARs are limited and complex to manage. Level-up your SOC with 100% autonomous alert investigation. No playbook required.
- Forgent AI — Forgent uses AI agents to draft tender proposals, find opportunities and coordinate teams.
- ai-coustics — ai|coustics is pioneering innovative audio algorithms based on AI and Deep Learning models and fundamentally improving the capabilities of Speech Audio Enhancement in digital communication and media content.
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.
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- Software, Apps, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Hungary, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Swurf — The work surfing platform. Making it easy for venues to welcome a new community of remote workers.
- Wordsmith AI — Complete AI platform for legal teams. Streamline contract reviews, drafting, and legal workflows with seamless integrations.
- Flock Mobility — A dedicated fleet of electric vehicles which perform a host of shared transport functions through a single platform.
Chris Mairs - Venture Partner @ Entrepreneurs First
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- nMachine — A Low-Code solution for creating extraordinary Day 2 Operations platforms - called nMachines - for your existing Kubernetes-based applications, that can be shared inside and outside your organization.
- Incard — Welcome to the world's first payment solution designed exclusively for e-commerce, entrepreneurs, dropshippers and influencers. Join our waitlist now.
- Tuza — Find the right card machine for your business, with good rates and the best features. Search the top providers in minutes, including Worldpay, Barclaycard, Tyl and Teya.
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.
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- Apps, FinTech, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Audos — Where everyday entrepreneurs build small AI companies
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.
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.
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- 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.
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.
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- 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.
Reece Lal Chowdhry is based out of London, England and is the Founding Partner of Concept Ventures. Reece previously worked at Ernst & Young as a Management Consultant and Technology Advisory. Reece Lal Chowdhry attended the Durham University. Reece Lal Chowdhry has been awarded as the Seed VC of the Year and Asian Tech Pioneer in their career.
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- Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Hub 85 — Automated EUC & spreadsheet discovery to accelerate remediation, improve governance, analyse manual processes & data lineage across the enterprise.
- 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.
Warrick Shanly
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Aspora — Aspora help users bank seamlessly across countries, invest in diverse assets, access credit and insurance services.
- Ionworks — Ionworks is a Software Development firm offering simulation software used by battery and automotive companies.
- Foundry — Foundry is a platform that helps the business to build, evaluate, and improve AI agents that can automate customer support, sales, and more.
Malek Meslemani is the Chief Executive at Ancora Investment Limited. Malek Meslemani attended CentraleSupélec.
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- 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
- Isla Health — Scale clinical capacity with Isla Health. The digital pathway & remote patient monitoring platform trusted by 30+ NHS Trusts.
- Wise Systems — Wise Systems provides the best in fleet management software for last-mile delivery optimization. Schedule a demo of our software today.
Mati Staniszewski is the Co-Founder of ElevenLabs.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- 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.
- SalesPatriot — We deploy AI into supply chains that the West depends on.
- Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.
Stephen Whitworth is a Co-Founder and CEO at incident.io. Stephen previously worked at Monzo Bank as a Staff Engineer. He attended Queen Mary University of London.
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- Marketing, Email Marketing, Personalization
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Userled — Userled is a no-code interface and AI-powered platform that automates the distribution of personalizing marketing experiences across all ad and email platforms, empowering revenue teams with person-level engagement insights without cookies. Customers can deploy multiple personalized campaigns across all their target platforms from email, Linkedin,Meta, and more.
- Dex — Dex is a SaaS company that offers an AI assistant to act as user's personal talent agent and scan the tech market for next opportunity.
- Archestra.AI — Enterprise MCP platform with security guardrails, compliance controls, and a curated catalog of 900+ evaluated Model Context Protocol servers for AI agents.
Aidan Gomez is based out of Toronto, Ontario and is the co-founder & CEO at Cohere. Aidan Gomez attended the University of Oxford.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
- Helical — The full power of DNA & (m)RNA Bio Foundation Models in one open-core platform. Accelerate Drug Discovery with AI.
- Borderless AI — Borderless AI is an Employer of Record (EOR) & PEO platform simplifying global payroll management & team hiring to empower your growth worldwide. Book a demo now!
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.
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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
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- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
- SYNALOGiK — Synalogik helps organisations improve efficiency and slash costs through automated data aggregation when multiple data sources are required.
- BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
Jon Claydon
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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Canada
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- Zumo — Zumo is a revolutionary new way for people and businesses to interact with money. When we say revolutionary, we mean it. Zumo’s not elitist. It’s not exclusive. It’s not only for the one percent. Zumo is smart money for everyone.Zumo allows you to buy, send and store crypto simply and securely. Zumo lets you exchange crypto seamlessly withtraditional currency and pay for goods and services anywhere with our Convertible Debit Card.ZumoPay is a safe and easy way for brands to accept payments in crypto currency, with lower transaction fees than traditional payment solutions.ZumoKit is our Wallet as a Service, Software Development Kit (SDK), giving you the ability to setup and manage your own cryptocurrency payments infrastructure.
- 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...
Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
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- Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
- HEY HOLY — We’re transforming pet care — with a breed-specific health concept instead of one-size-fits-all, with longevity at its core
- Mozart AI — Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries.
Tom Blomfield is based out of San Francisco, California and is currently works as a Group Partner for Y Combinator. Tom previously worked at Monzo Bank as a President. Tom Blomfield attended the University of Oxford.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- 1Bstories — Helping publishers and brands increase engagement and conversions using AI. Mobile, vertical, 60 second video formats made in an instant. Tell your story today!
- Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.
- Gradient Labs — Our AI agent resolves complex customer service queries end-to-end. Delivering quality, efficiency and compliance at every step.
Mark Bamforth is the Operating Partner at Ampersand Capital Partners.
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- Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
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- 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 — PneumoWave is developing real-time monitoring solutions to allow patients with respiratory conditions and their doctors to track their respiratory rates and performance out of hospital, at home and at work. Combining proprietary sensor technology and an innovative AI driven digital therapeutic software platform, PneumoWave's technologyenables doctors to rationalise medication use, identify early signs of deterioration, reduce or shorten hospital admissions and reduce face to face appointments.
- Thymmune Therapeutics — Thymmune Therapeutics is developing a machine learning-driven thymic cell engineering platform to restore normal immune function in aging and disease.
Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across North America and Europe.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Snaplet — Snaplet gives developers production-accurate data and preview databases they can code against, so they can focus on shipping. Ditch the seed script forever!
- Dust — Break down knowledge silos and amplify team performance with data-augmented, customizable and secure AI agents. Deploy in minutes, no coding required.
- Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable digital future
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.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- TransCrypts — We all have that file box where we throw all our important documents. Our goal at TransCrypts is to make that box digital and have all the documents secured through the blockchain. We currently offer industry leading privacy and security standards on our file storage and sharing platform and have solutions for individuals all the way to enterprises.
- Clipbook — Clipbook is an AI-powered research and analysis platform designed for public relations, communications, and public affairs teams. It monitors over 1 million sources including news, social media, policy documents, broadcasts, podcasts, and newsletters to deliver actionable media intelligence.
- The Renatural — Get rollercoaster proof wig security while protecting your hairline.
Dorothy Chou is the Head of Public Affairs at DeepMind.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States
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- Fertifa — Fertifa is an innovative employer benefit solution making fertility care more accessible and affordable.The company works with employers to offer a valuable employee benefit which bridges the gap between an employer and their employees when dealing with the sensitivity and privacy of employees’ reproductive issues. It also offers guidance andadvice, next-generation fertility treatment, and access to a range of holistic services for the best chance of success. The company was founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom.
- Juniver — Science-based recovery program for eating disorders. Free yourself from urges, strengthen your decision-making, and get back to living your life.
- Automated Architecture — A global ecosystem of automated micro-factories, to deliver sustainable, affordable and beautiful architecture to millions of people.
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.
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- Software, Retail Technology, Information Services
- Angel, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States
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- 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 — Pack your pipeline with potential. Screen thousands of candidates instantly and improve DEI. 90% applicant completion rate.
Peder Nielsen - Member of the Global Advisors Network @ Global Bio Fund
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- Biotechnology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
- United Kingdom
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- Bactobio — At Bactobio, our mission is to create a safer and greener world by harvesting valuable metabolites from biological dark matter.
Amir is the COO of OakNorth, Europe’s highest-valued fintech firm focused on unlocking the potential in customised lending to SMEs globally. Prior to joining OakNorth, he was an Ops and Tech MD at BGC, he has also worked at Barclays Investment Bank, Accenture and Cisco Systems.
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- Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany
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- Sylvi — Sylvi.ai is an AI-powered language learning platform designed to help users achieve fluency through natural, conversational practice.
- Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
- ComplyStream — ComplyStream enables faster and smarter FinCrime alert resolution by unifying your fragmented data, communication and workflows in a single AI-native platform.
Charles Morgan
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- Medical, Robotics, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
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- 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 — SKY ENGINE AI revolutionizes computer vision with synthetic data and deep learning solutions. Unlock scalable, efficient, and cost-effective AI training.
Alex Macdonald is the Co-Founder and CEO Sequel. He previously Co-Founded Velocity Black. He attended The University of Manchester.
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- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, France
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- 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 builds distributed AI platforms that scale globally. Research-driven intelligent systems for healthcare, education, and enterprise operations worldwide
- Aurora — The Operating System for High Performance Living
Stefano Bernardi is the Investment Director, Climate at Fondazione ENEA Tech.
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- Software, Biotechnology, CleanTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, United Kingdom, France
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- Eden Bio — Eden Bio is a biotech using machine learning to guide the genetic engineering of microorganism strain optimisation, improving protein yield.
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
- Kresko Labs — Join the Quest for accessible wealth with Kresko, a synthetic asset protocol. Explore innovative possibilities now.
Jeff Dean is the Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research. He joined Google in 1999 and has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technical foundations. He currently focuses on advancing AI and deep learning research across Google’s research teams.He co-founded and led the Google Brain team, helping drive innovations indeep learning for speech recognition, computer vision, natural language understanding, and a wide range of predictive applications. Over the years, he has co-designed and implemented several generations of Google's core systems, including its web search infrastructure, crawling and indexing pipelines, and advertising technologies such as AdSense for Content.He is also a key contributor to Google's distributed computing infrastructure, having co-designed and implemented systems like MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, Protocol Buffers, LevelDB, and TensorFlow—one of the most widely used open-source machine learning platforms.Jeff Dean earned his 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 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences and the Mark Weiser Award.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Japan
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- RunSybil — RunSybil is an AI-driven offensive security platform that continuously evaluates applications and infrastructure for vulnerabilities. Leveraging cutting-edge AI techniques, it autonomously identifies and exploits real-world security flaws through sophisticated penetration testing. By automating hacker-like intuition, RunSybil delivers proactivedefense capabilities, empowering organizations to strengthen the security of modern applications.
- Meshcapade — Foundation models that teach AI to see, understand, and move.
- Supermemory — Supermemory offers a platform for organizing and retrieving saved knowledge through a combination of memory APIs, semantic search, and integrated tools. It enables users and developers to import content from documents, bookmarks, and external services, and then query that content using natural language. Supermemory supports workflows like building“second brain” systems, intelligent agents, and knowledge bases by connecting context across documents. It provides permission controls and integration with large language models to allow applications to maintain stateful, evolving memory. Supermemory also addresses use-cases in research, content writing, support systems, and enterprise knowledge management.
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.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
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- Pockla — Securely share your AI generated creations with Pockla. The platform built for creators, developers, and innovators.
- Yavrio — Yavrio links your bank accounts to your finance system using Open Banking. Gain centralized access, real-time insights, and secure transactions with 14,000+ banks in 20 countries.
- Jove Insurance — Jove provides business and protection insurance to contractors, freelancers and SMEs, powered by tech and driven by social good.
Anirudh Pai is a partner at Dragonfly.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom
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- KAIKAKU — We are the butterfly effect of food and beverage (F&B). Revolutionizing the industry to redefining possibilities with in-house robotics and AI.
- Prophetic — Prophetic AI is a non-invasive neurotech company that offers neural devices to help people stabilize and induce lucid dreaming.
- Praxis — We are Praxis: a global community of creatives and technologists working to build the city of the future.
Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.
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- Software, Travel, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Finland, Germany
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- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- Layla — The world's best ai travel planner, now in your pocket. Plan tailored itineraries, find epic road trips, book flights & hotels. Previously Roam Around.
- Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.
John Hegarty is one of the world’s most awarded and respected admen. Over six decades he has been at the forefront of the creative advertising industry from the early days of Saatchi and Saatchi to Bartle Bogle Hegarty, the global company he runs today.In 1982 he founded Bartle Bogle Hegarty with partners John Bartle and Nigel Bogle. The agencyswiftly became one of the most talked about and awarded advertising agencies in the world. BBH has won every Agency of the Year accolade and every creative award possible and has been at the forefront of the industry for twenty nine years.John has been responsible for campaigns for Levi’s such as the ground breaking commercial starring an unknown model called Nick Kamen who stripped off down to his boxer shorts in a launderette. He introduced the British to the phrase 'Vorsprung Durch Technik' for Audi and picked a young model/actor called Brad Pitt to star in a commercial for Levi’s. He pioneered the importance of music in commercials which has earned BBH nine number 1 hits. John also oversaw the first viral phenomenon to hit the headlines, the furry yellow puppet Flat Eric for Levi’s, who kicked Eminem off the number 1 singles slot in 1999.BBH now has offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Mumbai and John oversees the creative output of all these offices. This unique global structure also contributed to the company winning the Queen’s Award for Export Achievement twice, in 1996 and 1997.John has won golds at every industry awards including D&AD, Cannes and British Television. He has been given the D&AD President's Award for outstanding achievement and was admitted to the US One Show Advertising Hall of Fame. He has also been voted as one of the most influential people in fashion thanks to his work with Levi’s.In 2006, he was awarded honorary doctorates from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and Middlesex University and sits on the Board of Trustees of the Design Museum.
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- E-Commerce, Mobile, CRM
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom
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- 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.
- The Dots — Professional networking for the new world of work. Get advice. Meet collaborators. Find jobs. Upskill at events.
- Simba Sleep — One Mattress. Five Layers of Comfort. Tailored to Suit All. Bringing together experience & technology so that your mattress gives you the best night's sleep.
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