Top 50 Artificial Intelligence Startup Investors in United Kingdom (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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SFC Capital
VC Fund
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134 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $123k–$2.5M |
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Entrepreneurs First
VC Fund
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88 | United Kingdom, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $54k–$41M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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68 | United States, Singapore, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Seedcamp
VC Fund
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63 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $587k–$30M |
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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61 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$30M |
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Amadeus Capital Partners
VC Fund
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59 | United Kingdom, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $800k–$60M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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56 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2.1M–$43M |
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MMC Ventures
VC Fund
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54 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1.4M–$54M |
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Episode 1
VC Fund
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53 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $951k–$18M |
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IQ Capital
VC Fund
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51 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1.3M–$40M |
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Ascension
VC Fund
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44 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $250k–$10M |
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Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund
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43 | United Kingdom, United States, Philippines | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $991k–$44M |
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SOSV
VC Fund
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40 | United States, China, Canada | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $50k–$5M |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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40 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $411k–$32M |
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
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40 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $197k–$5.7M |
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AlbionVC
VC Fund
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39 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2.4M–$45M |
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AI Seed
VC Fund
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38 | United Kingdom, United States, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $395k–$3.2M |
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
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38 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$18M |
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
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37 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $313k–$24M |
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Charlie Songhurst
Angel
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36 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $500k–$24M |
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Playfair Capital
VC Fund
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34 | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $953k–$19M |
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Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund
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34 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $199k–$7.5M |
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Par Equity
VC Fund
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34 | United Kingdom, United States, Brazil | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $103k–$4.3M |
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Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund
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33 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2.2M–$37M |
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Salica
VC Fund
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33 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Secondary Market, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $645k–$346M |
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Index Ventures
VC Fund
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33 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.4M–$102M |
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Innovate UK
VC Fund
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29 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed | Health Care, Biotechnology, Software | $58k–$3.5M |
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7percent Ventures
VC Fund
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28 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $125k–$7M |
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Portfolio Ventures
VC Fund
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28 | United Kingdom, Japan, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.4M–$12M |
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Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company
VC Fund
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27 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $750k–$37M |
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Concept Ventures
VC Fund
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26 | United Kingdom, United States, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $196k–$19M |
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Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund
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24 | United Kingdom, United States, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $375k–$12M |
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Downing Ventures
VC Fund
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24 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $210k–$14M |
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Seraphim Space
VC Fund
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24 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Aerospace, Software, Information Technology | $70k–$25M |
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Fly Ventures
VC Fund
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23 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $1.5M–$20M |
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Aster
VC Fund
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22 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Energy, Software, Manufacturing | $281k–$27M |
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Frontline Ventures
VC Fund
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22 | United States, United Kingdom, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $405k–$17M |
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund
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22 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $5M–$160M |
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Mercuri
VC Fund
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22 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $225k–$20M |
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Kindred Capital
VC Fund
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22 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.4M–$73M |
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Passion Capital
VC Fund
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22 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $600k–$85M |
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Chris Adelsbach
Angel
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22 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $118k–$19M |
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Anthemis
VC Fund
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21 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $1.3M–$60M |
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Acequia Capital (AceCap)
VC Fund
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21 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $500k–$25M |
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Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund
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21 | United Kingdom, United States, Finland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $1.3M–$168M |
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Praetura Ventures
VC Fund
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21 | United Kingdom, Australia, Germany | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $261k–$7.2M |
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
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21 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $650k–$21M |
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Cur8 Capital
VC Fund
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21 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software | $500k–$19M |
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IP Group
VC Fund
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20 | United Kingdom, United States, Australia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology | $208k–$68M |
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Notion Capital
VC Fund
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19 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.1M–$66M |
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 788
- Round size: Seed $123k–$2M; Pre-Seed $170k–$858k; Venture - Series Unknown $201k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Obsero — Obsero is an AI search intelligence platform and consultancy designed for marketing and communications teams. The platform tracks, measures, and optimizes how brands surface, get cited, and are recommended across Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI search assistants.
- SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
- NEARHUMAN — Nearhuman develops intelligent safety systems for micromobility and other physical-world devices. The company focuses on edge AI and computer vision that run directly on vehicles such as e-scooters and e-bikes to detect hazards, monitor pedestrian proximity, and support real-time decision making. Its flagship product, Scootrr, is an AI-powered safety platform that enables on-device perception, automatic deceleration, and safety analytics without reliance on cloud connectivity. Nearhuman designs its technology to integrate with existing shared micromobility fleets, collaborating with operators, vehicle manufacturers, and research partners. The company also provides dashboards and tools that turn on-vehicle events into route-level safety intelligence for stakeholders such as fleet operators and city authorities. Its work spans hardware vision kits, embedded firmware, perception models, and supporting software for deployment and monitoring.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 485
- Round size: Seed $54k–$6.7M; Pre-Seed $55k–$2.7M; Series A $5.1M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $133M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- ByteAsk — Derisk your AI agents
- Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
- Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2387
- Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 624
- Round size: Seed $658k–$8M; Pre-Seed $587k–$3.5M; Series A $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $220M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Rayon — Built for Speed. Designed for Teams.
- Metaview — Metaview uplevels the most outcome-defining part of your recruitment process: your interviews.
- Solvera AI — Solvera is an AI-native engineering firm on a mission to unleash the potential of every building engineer with AI. It develops advanced proprietary AI systems to help design better buildings, significantly faster, establishing a brand-new standard for MEP engineering.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 443
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5.1M; Series A $4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
- Resolutiion — Resolutiion provides AI-powered software for managing commercial conflict, delivery risk, and business relationship performance. The platform supports organizations with dispute detection, workflow automation, contract monitoring, issue resolution, and operational risk management across customers, suppliers, workforce teams, and commercialpartnerships. Its system uses AI-driven analysis to identify relationship friction, monitor delivery performance, and support structured resolution processes. Resolutiion also provides commercial intelligence tools, reporting, and collaboration features for enterprise delivery and governance management.
- Maven Robotics — Maven Robotics is building the world's leading general purpose AI robots.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 279
- Round size: Seed $800k–$9.2M; Series A $2.6M–$30M; Series B $7.2M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- iPremom — iPremom is a healthcare technology company that develops molecular diagnostic solutions for the early detection and prediction of pregnancy complications, particularly preeclampsia.
- Respiro Diagnostics — Respiro is harnessing insights from the breath to detect lung cancer earlier, non-invasively, and without scans or radiation. Built for use in everyday care settings.
- iPronics — iPronics develops the innovative concepts of general-purpose integrated programmable photonic systems.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 442
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.4M–$22M; Series B $8M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
- Living Optics — Living Optics is commercializing next generation imaging technology which leverages a compact camera system based on breakthroughs in hardware design and software processing.
- Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 261
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $2.9M–$19M; Series B $10M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $129M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Zenithon — Zenithon is building machine learning models to provide a step change in the development and optimization of technology. The company's mission is to keep humanity on the exponential by enabling radically faster and more accurate design and optimization. Their team develops physics grounded machine learning models that make complex simulations dramatically faster, enabling more simulations, more iterations and more ways to explore what is possible.
- ABEX — Algorithmic Best Execution for Digital Assets
- Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 185
- Round size: Seed $951k–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $3.2M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $96M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Veridue — Veridue uses AI to automate M&A due diligence and project finance for renewable energy.
- SimplyCook — SimplyCook offers home recipe kits with easy step-by-step guides to cook restaurant-quality food in less than 20 minutes.SimplyCook boxes contain 4 easy to follow recipes and 4 ingredient kits. Each kit is designed to provide perfect taste-containing ingredient blends devised by professional chefs.
- Mantic — Mantic is a world-class technical team on a mission to solve the next AI grand challenge: predicting global events with superhuman accuracy, and deploying this capability to power radically improved decision-making in business and government.
IQ Capital is a dedicated European deep tech venture capital firm, built on the conviction that frontier technology will underpin the next generation of globally significant companies. We back founders leveraging scientific breakthroughs to build enduring global businesses. We have invested in over 100 of Europe's most ambitious deep tech teams across six funds since 2005.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$13M; Series A $4.7M–$40M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Mindgard — Mindgard is the leading provider of AI Red Teaming solutions.
- Imperagen — Imperagen is a biotechnology research company focused on enzyme engineering, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology.
- Undecimal Bio — Undecimal Bio operates as a platform biotechnology company that develops targeted delivery mechanisms for small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapeutics. The company utilizes a proprietary platform that combines combinatorial chemistry libraries with transformer-based artificial intelligence to discover molecular conjugates capable of guiding genetic medicines to specified cells outside of the liver. This approach aims to circumvent traditional delivery constraints to expand the reach of RNA therapeutics into a broader range of therapeutic areas and human organs.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 326
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $261k–$2.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $790k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $21M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Sprive — Sprive is the free app that helps take years off your mortgage and save you thousands of pounds in interest.
- Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
- Neela Biotech — Transforming organic waste into carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuels through innovative biotechnology and AI.
Parkwalk is a London-based fund management firm. Parkwalk invests in UK technology companies that have IP backing and freedom to operate, generally spun out of UK universities. Their funds seek to generate capital gains for their investors, enhanced by the attractive tax relief provided by EIS. Parkwalk entered this investment sector in 2009, anticipating a wave of tax-efficient incentives launched by the UK Government to stimulate innovative emerging technology companies and thereby help drive economic growth. Parkwalk utilises academic, technology transfer, venture capital and personal networks developed over many years to gain access to the highest calibre deal-flow. In 2017 Parkwalk joined forces with IP Group plc, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company that is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IPO. As at March 2019 the combined group has net assets of £1.2bn.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 338
- Round size: Seed $991k–$4.9M; Series A $1.6M–$14M; Series B $1.8M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- K3 Metrology — K3 Metrology is a specialist metrology company commercialising laser‑based 3D coordinate measurement technology developed at the National Physical Laboratory. The company’s platform is designed to provide high‑accuracy, uncertainty‑aware dimensional data in large‑volume industrial environments, supporting inspection and assembly processes inadvanced manufacturing. Its systems integrate into production workflows where traceable measurements are required across complex geometries and large structures. The technology is applied in sectors such as aerospace, defence, and nuclear, where dimensional integrity and process control are critical.
- MoA Technology — We harness the principles of natural selection to accelerate discovery for better, safer herbicides so farmers can continue to feed the world.
- Quantum Motion — Quantum Motion delivers scalable silicon-based quantum computing using standard semiconductor manufacturing technology.
SOSV offers pre-seed capital and follow-on financial support to startups focusing on deep technology and scientific innovation. Founders utilize purpose-built laboratory facilities and engineering spaces to accelerate product development and testing. The firm facilitates connections between entrepreneurs and a network of investors through structured matchmaking events and technology summits.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3729
- Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.6M; Convertible Note $50k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $306M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
- Simply Good Jars — Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everydayoperations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.
- Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.
Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, and top-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 678
- Round size: Seed $797k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.5M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $372M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
- GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
- Polaron — Polaron connects process, structure, and performance using AI and image data to accelerate how materials are characterised, designed, and manufactured.
Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 210
- Round size: Seed $233k–$4M; Pre-Seed $197k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $477k–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Go Swag — Branded swag people want to keep, designed, sourced, stored and delivered by one team to 180+ countries. Managed programmes, Studio projects and Select.
- Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
- Farmdrive — Farmdrive helps supply chain partners create transparent, effective, and resilient operations from farm to shelf by streamlining data collection and simplifying farm management.
AlbionVC backs Europe’s visionary founders solving the world’s hardest problems. We bring capital, know-how, and a shared ambition to win. With £1 billion in venture funds and convictionled investing across frontier technologies, our track record spans 100+ exits and early support for global champions such as Booking.com, Quantexa, Oviva, Elliptic and tem. From the first concept to global scale, we back founders bold enough to own the future.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 180
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$12M; Series A $3.9M–$19M; Series B $10M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Oshen — Oshen is a technology enterprise that creates miniature autonomous sailboats designed for persistent, wide-area ocean tracking.
- Outerlimit — Outerlimit is an AI security company focused on securing and governing agentic AI systems. Its platform provides visibility into AI agent activity, identity and access controls, risk assessment, and runtime security. The company helps organizations establish security and governance controls for AI agents operating across enterprise environments and manage their access to applications, data, and systems.
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Every year they invest £100,000 each in up to 20 early-stage startups using the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning to build great products and businesses that solve real world problems.In exchange for the investment, they look to receive 5-10% equity. We’re able to lead rounds and help startups raise more through introductionsto their network of angels and VCs.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $395k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $460k–$902k
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kuano — Kuano provides innovative quantum and AI solutions for drug discovery and design. It offers a discovery platform that combines target quantum mapping and AI-led chemistry to enable the faster development of better drug candidates.
- RoboK — VC-backed startup developing software solutions and tools for building and validating AI-based perception. The company's vision is to accelerate the deployment of affordable autonomy solutions for automotive and industrial applications.
- Thingtrax — Realise improved efficiency, quality control, employee safety and productivity by modernising your factories with ThingTrax's AI and IoT
Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0. FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growth journey.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 202
- Round size: Seed $420k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
- Artificial Labs — Artificial is the power between brokers and insurers in the specialty market. Underwriting technology and placement tools to move risk faster, with less in the way.
- Stoa Corporation — Save with Stoa and unlock premium perks upfront. Build better saving habits, protect your deposit, and enjoy real rewards with your Saving Score.
Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 256
- Round size: Seed $674k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $313k–$2M; Series A $4.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $126M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- AI Score — AI Score is the intelligence-led AI governance platform for enterprise. Monitor AI risk, prove compliance and capture value in real time. Book a demo.
- Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
- Affinity Labs — We build software companies with category-defining creators.
Charlie Songhurst is a private investor in technology companies. He previously worked at Microsoft as Head of Corporate Strategy. Charlie attended the University of Oxford.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 260
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5.1M; Series A $2.9M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zeit AI — Zeit AI, founded by former Palantir engineers, generates a structured data base atop your tabular data files which you can query using natural language. For example, you suspect an efficiency in your organisation and you have a bunch of data files, instead of reading through all of them one by one in excel, you explore them in Zeit AI. Theycurrently offer a two-week pilot program where their engineers develop tailored solutions for data challenges involving CSV, Excel, or PDF files.
- Mantic — Mantic is a world-class technical team on a mission to solve the next AI grand challenge: predicting global events with superhuman accuracy, and deploying this capability to power radically improved decision-making in business and government.
- Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
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Browse database — It's Free!Playfair is a generalist fund focused exclusively on pre-seed investments. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with a deliberately high-conviction, low-volume approach: six investments per year from its third $70 million fund, with dedicated time, capital, and resources committed to supporting companies post-investment. Its 78% Series A progression rate is approximately four times the industry average, and its founders have raised more than $3 billion in follow-on capital since 2013. Playfair has backed more than 100 companies, including Thought Machine, Orca AI, Protex AI, StackOne, and Nory.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $953k–$3.7M; Series A $3M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Zerolook — Zerolook provides a flight-shopping API for online travel agencies, airlines, metasearch services, and AI travel applications. Its machine-learning model predicts flight prices and itineraries using historical fare data instead of recomputing every fare combination through a global distribution system or airline system. The API returns predicteditineraries, prices, and confidence scores for exploratory search, while customers route completed bookings through their existing distribution channels. Zerolook supports REST and MCP integrations and provides booking links to external airlines and online travel agencies.
- Fusionality — Fusionality is a Swiss fusion-technology company focused on measurement, control, and data systems for fusion devices.They combine expertise in fusion physics, control engineering, AI/ML, simulation, diagnostics, and real-time software.Their goal is to help fusion companies and research labs operate devices more efficiently and accelerate thedevelopment of commercial fusion energy.
- Affinity Labs — We build software companies with category-defining creators.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 292
- Round size: Seed $331k–$3.1M; Series A $1.7M–$7.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $199k–$4.1M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Corvidae — Corvidae is a software company that provides data analysts, digital marketing, e commerce, and paid media solutions.
- IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems. Deploy, manage, and scale AI-driven, data-rich industrial systems at the edge with our open edge data platform.
- RoslinCT — We are the prefered global partner for cell and gene therapy solutions. With our wealth of expertise and infrastructure, we can support you at every step of your advanced therapy journey.
Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 308
- Round size: Seed $253k–$4.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $103k–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $122M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Fuuse — Fuuse is an electric vehicle charge point management system that enables your chargers to deliver more for you and your drivers.
- PathXL — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
- Skylark Lasers — UniKLasers specialises in single frequency, continuous wave DPSS lasers at mid- to high power. Suitable for Raman, Holography, Interferometry, Microscopy, Metrology, Quantum Technologies, and more
Crane is a London based VC firm investing and building seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep technology businesses across Europe. Our strategy is to support founders in building and executing their go-to-market strategy.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 139
- Round size: Seed $2.9M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $2.2M–$16M; Series A $10M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Expanse — We predict exactly what every job needs before it runs, so your cluster does more real work with the GPUs you already have.
- IMMIX — Immix engages in scaling web3 trading through next-generation technologies.
- Outerlimit — Outerlimit is an AI security company focused on securing and governing agentic AI systems. Its platform provides visibility into AI agent activity, identity and access controls, risk assessment, and runtime security. The company helps organizations establish security and governance controls for AI agents operating across enterprise environments and manage their access to applications, data, and systems.
Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 249
- Round size: Seed $645k–$4.3M; Series A $3.9M–$19M; Secondary Market $60M–$346M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $12M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
- CameraMatics — Digitize fleet management to optimize performance. Onboard sensors, smart cameras, & apps to mitigate risk, manage safety & achieve sustainability goals.
- Modern Milkman — Modern Milkman is a Yorkshire-based milk delivery company.
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1592
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $12M–$102M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $400M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Anrok — Anrok automates sales tax compliance across your financial stack, so you can grow your SaaS business in any market.
- Moleskine — Moleskine develops, distributes, and sells notebooks, diaries, portfolios, purses, writing materials, reading articles, and many other products in Italy and internationally.The company offers paper products such as notebooks, diaries, home and office products, and gifts as well as writing, travelling, and reading collections, including pens,pencils, bags, reading glasses, and book lights. It also offers digital services and products comprising templates and applications for smartphones and tablets; Smart Notebook; and print-on-demand services for the creation of photo-books.Moleskine distributes its products in approximately 105 countries through a network of book, department, specialty, and stationery stores as well as museums; its sales network and websites; and a retail network of 30 directly-operated stores, including 9 in China, 12 in Italy, 2 in the United Kingdom, 2 in France, and 5 in the United States.Moleskine was founded in 1997 and is based in Milan, Italy.
- PanGenetics — PanGenetics B.V. develops monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of immune mediated diseases.PanGenetics is a clinical development company that specializes in taking antibodies from the late research stage through to clinical proof of concept. The company is based in Utrecht, the Netherlands with an office in Cambridge, UK. PanGenetics employsa lean business model with manufacturing and clinical development activities outsourced to specialist providers. Apart from PG110, the other clinical program of PanGenetics is PG102, a CD40 antagonist for treatment of autoimmune diseases which is currently being evaluated in a clinical study in psoriatic arthritis patients
Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation .
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1251
- Round size: Seed $143k–$3.5M; Grant $62k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $58k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neela Biotech — Transforming organic waste into carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuels through innovative biotechnology and AI.
- Stride Health Group — Digital health optimisation company, helping how people understand and optimise their health, fitness and longevity.
- Alchera Technologies — Alchera's AI-powered, cloud-based software platform provides real-time data on the movement of vehicles and pedestrians around cities and major infrastructure
Venture X is our top-notch financial investment firm Webflow Template created for modern VC and investor firms looking for a dark mode website design.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 205
- Round size: Seed $405k–$7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $39M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- cheMastery — Echo handles repetitive tasks with accuracy and precision, allowing your chemists to tackle high-value challenges.
- Vosbor — Vosbor is a digital grain & oilseed trading platform providing a spot and forward market to reconcile trade data & securely share documents.
- Paddington Robotics — Paddington Robotics specializes in implementation of AI, robotics, software and hardware solutions in real life.
We invest in UK based tech companies alongside our network of strategic and value-add Angels, Family Offices and VCs.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Japan, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.4M–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $6.1M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- IMMIX — Immix engages in scaling web3 trading through next-generation technologies.
- Cleavr — Cleavr is the first AI partner that automatically takes your money. which is linked to your ERP, takes care of everything on its own
- Nettle — The AI workspace for Loss Control
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 197
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $750k–$3.5M; Series A $7M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Xylo — Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery.
- Build — The AI-native operating partner for the built world. Build pairs agentic AI with CRE domain experts to accelerate commercial real estate development from concept to completion.
- Honest Mobile — It's time for mobile done right. Explore SIM-only plans that include bills that go down, support in seconds and a shrinking carbon footprint as standard. One of the UK's top-rated mobile networks.
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Browse database — It's Free!Concept Ventures is the UK's largest pre-seed fund. Founded in 2018, the firm has backed over 45+ companies changing how we Work, Play and Learn and focused only at the pre-seed stage.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $196k–$7M; Pre-Seed $600k–$3.4M; Series A $10M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $88M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Apate.AI — Is the next generation of scam prevention and intelligence. We deploy advanced conversational AI bots combined with real-time insights to protect businesses, governments and communities globally.2
- Oshen — Oshen is a technology enterprise that creates miniature autonomous sailboats designed for persistent, wide-area ocean tracking.
- Lightspring — Lightspring is a photonics technology company developing advanced 3D optical interconnection solutions for photonic systems,Its platform enables precise, adaptable connections between chips, fibers, and light sources beyond traditional packaging constraints.This company focuses on scalable photonic integration to accelerate the development of high-performance optical systems.
The Cambridge Angels are a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in internet, software, technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors in the Cambridge (UK) area and throughout the UK. Typical funding requirements that the Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £50,000 to £500,000 - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have received more than £1m in funding from their Members over several funding rounds. Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Seed $446k–$3M; Series A $2M–$9.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $375k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
- Orthofuse — Orthofuse designs and manufacturers advance orthopaedic solutions using 3D printing technology. Their focus is on bringing precision and simplicity to complex surgical procedures, creating implants and systems that fit naturally into a surgeon's workflow while delivering dependable outcomes.
- Singular Photonics — Singular Photonics is a startup that creates SPAD-based image sensors.
The opportunity for institutional investors to access leading UK early stage healthtech businesses
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 167
- Round size: Seed $210k–$4.2M; Series A $3.4M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.4M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- TidalSense — CRiL was formed in April 2013 specifically to develop innovative medical devices to diagnose and manage respiratory conditions. They have been building a platform technology, N-Tidal, based on the measurement and analysis of tidal breathing CO2 throughout the entire breath.
- Qkine — Growth Factors made for stem cells Animal-free We control every step of protein manufacture ensuring all our products are completely animal-free Total transparency Stringent purity and bioactivity testing data for all proteins - know what you are giving your cells Protein innovation Our R&D team
- FundamentalVR — Solutions for knowledge acquisition and skills development for any interactive medium
Seraphim Capital is dedicated to financing the growth of companies operating in the space ecosystem. They are an ambitious team with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences in Venture. Collectively they have over 100 years’ experience, investing in over 180 early and growth stage businesses, returning more than £750 million to their shareholders. They are also fortunate to have one of the world's leading entrepreneurs and experts in Earth Observation on board. They work closely with their portfolio companies and always strive to create meaningful value and endeavour to ensure that the full value of their network and partners is utilised. The backing of leading global corporates in the Space sector and the leading Space related Governmental Agencies in the UK and Europe brings significant value. They are able to leverage their capital, industry leading knowledge and networks, creating an ecosystem that delivers real results for your business. From roots to market, sales and marketing, partnerships, follow-on capital, and M&A they can deliver value creation across the company growth cycle globally.
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- Industry: Aerospace, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 226
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.7M; Pre-Seed $70k–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $250k–$25M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $100M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Skylo — Never lose coverage again - connect your existing NB-IoT devices directly over both cellular and satellite networks seamlessly
- aXenic — aXenic are leaders in optical modulators for satellite and aerospace communications.
- Zenithon — Zenithon is building machine learning models to provide a step change in the development and optimization of technology. The company's mission is to keep humanity on the exponential by enabling radically faster and more accurate design and optimization. Their team develops physics grounded machine learning models that make complex simulations dramatically faster, enabling more simulations, more iterations and more ways to explore what is possible.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$4M; Series A $7.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $85M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Tangent Robotics — Dexterous Robotic Manipulation
- Orbital Industries — Orbital Materials leverages AI to design and deploy advanced materials & climate technologies for the long-term habitability of our planet.
- Reimagine Robotics — Show the robot what to do, correct it where it fails, and adapt it as the process changes.
Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industry sectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase. They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd). Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).
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- Industry: Energy, Software, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 171
- Round size: Series A $1.8M–$20M; Series B $7M–$27M; Venture - Series Unknown $281k–$9.5M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $283M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
- Aether Fuels — Enabling a net zero world through sustainable liquid fuels.
- Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline X is a growth-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 211
- Round size: Seed $796k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $405k–$2.6M; Series A $3.7M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- Snorkel AI — Snorkel AI builds specialized training data, benchmarks, and evaluation environments that help frontier models and agents perform in high-stakes domains.
- Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 471
- Round size: Series A $5M–$32M; Series B $9.3M–$100M; Series C $13M–$160M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $615M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Duvo — Duvo brings your people, AI agents and existing systems together to map, run and improve your processes, with decisions, exceptions and results in one place.
- NewBay — NewBay enables operators and device makers to deliver a lifetime of digital content experiences across any connected device such as mobile, PC, tablets and TV. The NewBay white label software platform powers cloud-based services for storing, sharing, accessing and organizing digital content. NewBay enables customers to monetize a wide range ofbranded services such as social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, notifications and converged messaging. NewBay is delivering highly successful commercial services for operators and device makers worldwide. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon and LG Electronics. NewBay is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator and device maker services. NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, USA; Atlanta, USA; London, UK; Sydney, Australia and Seoul, South Korea. NewBay was founded in 2002. Following acquisition in 2011, NewBay is a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM).
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Mercuri is a London VC fund backing pre-seed and seed media technology and AI startups. Investors in Hugging Face, Fluidstack and Faculty AI
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $878k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $225k–$4M; Series A $4.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $64M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Electric Twin — Ask your audience anything and get research-grade answers in seconds. Electric Twin builds synthetic audiences from your customer data. Up to 96% accurate, validated by LSE.
- Unit 1 Studio — Unit 1 Studio is a digital entertainment production company that creates touring avatar concerts using digital performers and live shows.
- Made With Intent — Convert more customers by being more appropriate. Understand and target customer intent with the segmentation platform for data-led eCommerce teams.
A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M; Series A $7.9M–$33M; Series B $8M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $8M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
- Bios Life — Bios Life is a technology-enabled healthcare company built to empower individuals to proactively manage their cancer risk, redefining personalized cancer screening and survivorship.
- Scarlet — Scarlet certifies software medical devices. We’re Europe's only Notified Body specialised in software and AI, and have crafted a certification process that is built for software, and is thus significantly more efficient.This is how we deliver on our mission to hasten the world’s transition to accessible healthcare: by enabling manufacturersto release their medical software and AI to those who need it without unnecessary delays.We are designated as a UK Approved Body by the MHRA, and an EU Notified Body by the Dutch Ministry of Health and the European Commission.
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Browse database — It's Free!Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators who are applying our experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. We are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe, and we believe that the critical differentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders. We take pride in the calibre and success of all of our founders and teams including but nowhere near limited to GoCardless, Tray.io, Mendeley, Digital Shadows, Adzuna, Smarkets, Ravelin, Tide, Marshmallow, Butternut Box, PolyAI, Lendable and Monzo Bank
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 188
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2.3M–$14M; Series B $5M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $52M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- geoSurge — The platform for brands and agencies to measure, understand, and improve how they're represented inside large language models and AI search.
- Marble — Marble is the first open source transaction monitoring. We automate detection and investigations with unparalleled flexibility and simplicity to allow tech teams to build on top of Marble, while removing manual compliance checks. Built for real-time and scalability, Marble protects against fraud and money laundering leading financial institutions in the EU, UK and over 15 geographies.
- Backbone — AI platform for food & beverage quality teams. Connects standards, audits, supplier data, and customer requirements into one live picture. Automates the admin. Routes the right intelligence to the right person. Faster decisions, fewer blind spots.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 322
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $118k–$1.9M; Series A $4.3M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bourn — Bourn's technology is designed to automate cash flow management, offering SMEs fast access to capital.
- Alfa AI — Alfa AI sources, screens and shortlists candidates so your team only spends time on the people worth meeting.
- Emblematic — The first AI-driven Agentic Automation platform, designed to fully automate and enhance the accuracy of Finance Operations, including Bookkeeping, IFRS/GAAP Compliance, Reconciliations, and more.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 335
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $7.5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $56M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Humanos — Humanos helps companies measure, control and transfer AI risk through continuous Risk Intelligence, unlocking insurance, credit, yield and other financial products.
- Kaiko — Kaiko provides real-time and historical cryptocurrency trade data, order books, and aggregated prices through a cryptocurrency API, downloadable CSV files, and a livestream WebSocket. We cover 100+ crypto exchanges and 35,000+ trading pairs for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins.
- CollectiveX — Collective X is a Women's Health Intelligence platform designed to bridge the historical research and data gap in women's health. It provides evidence-backed, female-specific insights built around female physiology to power the smart health ecosystem, ensuring that digital health products and clinical workflows don't rely on biased data.
We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 422
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.3M; Series A $3.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $2.9M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Trimagnetix — Pioneering advanced magnetic technologies for medical, industrial, and consumer applications.
- Devplan — Devplan finds customer demand in calls, tickets and your CRM, writes specs your agents can build, and tracks every project and risk automatically.
- Applied Atomics, Inc. — Co-located nuclear power plants to unlock the next 1,000 years of advanced industry.
Oxford Science Enterprises is the university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companies taking on challenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 210
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $6.3M–$45M; Series B $9.1M–$168M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $299M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Salience Labs — Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high-throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designedto exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and the University of Münster, Germany.
- OMass Therapeutics — OMass Therapeutics is a drug discovery company exploiting novel mass spectrometry platforms to develop therapeutics against challenging disease targets.
- Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
Praetura Ventures has been supporting entrepreneurs with more than money since 2011. Click to find out more about how we can help businesses and investors.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 167
- Round size: Seed $655k–$4.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $261k–$7.2M
- Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $123M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Tended — Tended creates advanced solutions to change how people work and improve employee safety across high-risk industries. Through a combination of wearable technology and behavioural science, Tended's main focus is to drive positive behavioural change, which has proven benefits on both an individual and organisational level.Tended'ssolutions are currently improving safety across industry-leading companies in sectors including construction, manufacturing, utilities and logistics.
- Holdson — Holdson is an electrochemical polishing machine tool supplier aiming to address the issue of inconsistent surface finishes on additive manufactured components.The technology is producing intellectual property through patents, providing a competitive advantage in the advanced machinery industry.
- PEAK:AIO — PEAK:AIO delivers software-defined storage for AI, enabling fast, scalable data infrastructure and optimized GPU utilization.
firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 221
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5.5M; Series A $6M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Vocca — Voice AI for healthcare: 1,500+ practices, 20+ specialties. Vocca answers every patient call, books into your software and follows up with patients, 24/7.
- StandardX — StandardX is a deep-tech company building the isotope refinery powered by a scalable, compact particle accelerator platform.
- Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.9M; Series A $6.4M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
- Tewke — Tewke is on a mission to change the way people live within their homes, empowering them to automatically save energy and improve their living environment.
- Zeal — Zeal transforms your current card machines, enabling them to unlock powerful insights and deliver seamless loyalty. Zeal integrates with all card machines and is trusted by industry leaders.
IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and create value out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 236
- Round size: Seed $208k–$7.6M; Series A $2.4M–$30M; Series B $7.9M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $50M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Eight19 — Eight19, located in Cambridge, UK, develops and manufactures plastic photovoltaics for energy harvesting, for the internet of things and for off-grid applications. Through the innovative use of industry-standard, high-volume, roll-to-roll processes and solution-based organic photoactive materials, the company has a highly cost-effective route forscaling-up its technology to supply the largest markets. Eight19 is currently producing modules on a small scale for commercial partners with applications in indoor energy harvesting for wireless sensor and controllers, signage and display, and outdoor power for portable electronics. Our plastic PV modules benefit from flexibility, thinness, light-weight and robustness.
- Matter Machine — Matter Machine is an AI-driven materials discovery company that creates technologies that use materials chemistry, machine learning, and automated experimentation to speed up the discovery and optimization of next-generation materials.
- Mach42 — Machine Discovery is a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing new machine learning technology. We leverage proprietary neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations — and we do it with minimal data and 99.9% fidelity.
Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 292
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.1M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $7M–$66M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $130M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Volo Commerce — Volo brings together data and intelligence from all over the commerce ecosystem and uses AI to provide real-time actionable insights.
- Endra — Endra is a purpose-built platform for modern MEP engineering. Generate 3D models and drawings, sync with Revit and enjoy coordinated design workflows.
- Scarlet — Scarlet certifies software medical devices. We’re Europe's only Notified Body specialised in software and AI, and have crafted a certification process that is built for software, and is thus significantly more efficient.This is how we deliver on our mission to hasten the world’s transition to accessible healthcare: by enabling manufacturersto release their medical software and AI to those who need it without unnecessary delays.We are designated as a UK Approved Body by the MHRA, and an EU Notified Body by the Dutch Ministry of Health and the European Commission.
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