Top 50 Automotive Angel Investors in United Kingdom in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Automotive startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Automotive Angel Investors in United Kingdom in January 2025
Investor | Automotive United Kingdom investments |
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Alexander Edward Chesterman | 3 |
David Murray-Hundley | 3 |
Joe Falter | 2 |
Simon Murdoch | 2 |
William Shu | 2 |
James Hind | 2 |
Navid Hadzaad | 2 |
Will Martin | 2 |
Jon McNeill | 2 |
Will Brooks | 2 |
Richard Fearn | 2 |
Ned Cranborne | 2 |
Shan Drummond | 2 |
Damien Lane | 1 |
Simon Lambert | 1 |
Marc Blumenthal | 1 |
Pete Hutton | 1 |
Theo Osborne | 1 |
Alex Watts | 1 |
Jonathan Guthrie | 1 |
Will Neale | 1 |
Gareth Williams | 1 |
Frederick Achom | 1 |
Gigi Levy Weiss | 1 |
Duncan Jennings | 1 |
Alan Rutledge | 1 |
Hank Vigil | 1 |
Dominic Collins | 1 |
Adrien Cohen | 1 |
Jason Ballard | 1 |
Richard Branson | 1 |
Robert E. Diamond Jr. | 1 |
Tino Nombro | 1 |
Julien Codorniou | 1 |
Charlie Songhurst | 1 |
Rahmyn Kress | 1 |
Errol Damelin | 1 |
Julia Stent | 1 |
Mike Allen | 1 |
Eamon Tuhami | 1 |
Adrian Lloyd | 1 |
Harry Dixon | 1 |
Ricardo Schaefer | 1 |
Alex Macdonald | 1 |
Tim Scholes | 1 |
Peter Read | 1 |
Christian Woolfenden | 1 |
Andrew Weisz | 1 |
Michael Crow | 1 |
Vip Amin | 1 |
Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Zefir — Zefir aims to expand the realm of possibilities for millions of European homeowners. We make home-selling simpler, faster and more certain by buying the property directly from you. Selling a home is now just a few clicks away.
- Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
- Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.
David Murray-Hundley is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pario Ventures. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Automotive, Financial Services
- Equity Crowdfunding, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Yayzy — Your free carbon footprint calculator. Learn about your impact. Fund the best climate solutions. Plant trees. Fight climate change.
- LANDBAY — Your dedicated Landbay intermediary page for specialist buy-to-let mortgages. Partner with a lender who gives you direct decisions with a flexible approach and a full online application process.
- Riversimple — Riversimple is a new kind of business, designed from scratch to pursue our purpose: the systematic elimination of the environmental impact of personal transport. Our aim is mobility at zero cost to the planet. We’ve designed a radically new car (the Rasa) which emits nothing but a tiny amount of water and will do the equivalent of c250 mpg.Charging takes 3 minutes, and the range is 300 miles. We’re building a fundamentally new form of business system that aligns our interests with our customers’ and the environment’s. There’s no trade off between profit and purpose. We love what we’re doing and we hope you will too. We’re actively seeking commercial partners and employees. We’re always interested to hear from like-minded pioneering people and companies. We are excited to be coming to our first pilot market in the UK this year.
Joe Falter is the founder of Zapp.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Beauty, Software
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Analytics
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Peek Home — Peek Home provides sketch plans, prices and planning advice for people who are puzzled by the process of creating their perfect home. All we need is your house number & postcode - no home visit needed.
- Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
- Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.
Will Shu founded Deliveroo in London in 2013, alongside his childhood friend Greg Orlowski.As the company’s first rider and CEO, Will has overseen the company grow at a phenomenal speed.Headquartered in London, with over 2,500 employees, Deliveroo now operates in over 500 towns and cities in 14 different markets across the globe. The companywith over 80,000 restaurants and takeaways across the globe, while 130,000 individuals across all its markets made a delivery in 2018, helping make Deliveroo the best food delivery experience in the world. The company is considered a tech unicorn and is currently valued at over £1.5 billion.Will still enjoys regularly delivering food orders on his bike. Before Deliveroo, Will previously worked in finance as an analyst with SAC Capital, ESO Capital and Morgan Stanley in New York and London.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Software, Automotive
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Bonnet — Bonnet is the easy way to charge your EV on the go. Access more than 3000 public chargers around the world. It's the must-have app for electric vehicle drivers everywhere.
James is the big boss of carwow, so it's hardly a surprise that cars are one of his biggest passions.He studied Finance but was put off a city career after just 2 months of trying one.
He's very competitive, especially when it comes to ping pong at the office. He invented the rule that if anyone loses a game 11-0 they have to buy donutsfor the entire team!
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Health Care
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MindLabs — Live sleep and meditation classes for your mind. Led by experts. Backed by neuroscience. Now available to download on the App Store.
- Screenloop — Screenloop is the hiring intelligence platform that allows you to source candidates, analyse interviews, and automate the reference process.
- Rightcharge — Rightcharge provides a charge point and EV-friendly energy tariff comparison service for drivers to find the right charge point and energy tariff for their home or business charging needs. The tool lets users review different EV-friendly energy tariffs, home EV chargers, and installation prices from a network of over 50 vetted companies.
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Jon McNeill serves as chief operating officer at Lyft. He previously held a top role at Tesla, where he was president of Global Sales & Service, overseeing all of the company’s showroom and customer-facing interactions.Jon has founded eight companies, led teams creating more than 4,000 jobs. He co-founded Enservio in 2006, a leading SaaS(software as a service) platform for insurers, employing over 400 people. Jon co-founded Sterling Collision Centers in 1997 and grew the company from a single store to a 60-store national chain of auto body repair centers focused on turnaround time and customer service.Jon McNeill's experience as an entrepreneur earned him a reputation as both an innovator and operational leader. He has scaled businesses in the automotive, software and retail industries. He is the 2012 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and in 2013 he was named "Most Admired CEO" in the midsize company category in Boston by the Boston Business Journal. In 2002, Fast Company magazine named him one of the 10 most innovative CEOs in the country.
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Investment focus
- InsurTech, Insurance, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Hatz AI — Hatz AI provides a partner-focused platform for MSPs and resellers to offer AI-as-a-Service, unlocking new business opportunities. Our solution supports MSPs in adopting AI internally and guiding AI adoption for their clients, featuring a secure multi-tenant AI platform, a no-code AI workflows, and Adel, an AI phone agent.
- Bonnet — Bonnet is the easy way to charge your EV on the go. Access more than 3000 public chargers around the world. It's the must-have app for electric vehicle drivers everywhere.
- Reserv — We are a premier claims platform, born from state-of-the-art data intelligence and talent management technology.
Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.
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Investment focus
- Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
- Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
- Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.
Ned Cranborne is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Social, Analytics
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ometria — Create unforgettable customer experiences on every channel, powered by AI. Meet Ometria: the CDXP tailor-made for retail brands.
- Car Throttle — The internet's car community
Shan Drummond is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Social, Analytics
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ometria — Create unforgettable customer experiences on every channel, powered by AI. Meet Ometria: the CDXP tailor-made for retail brands.
- Car Throttle — The internet's car community
Damien Lane has spent the last 20 years investing in private companies, both in Private Equity where he was a partner with Electra Partners, then at Octopus Ventures where he was a senior member of the investment team. Having made a number of angel investments, Damien co-founded Episode 1 with Simon and Adrian in 2012. While at Episode 1,Damien has led investments in Carwow, Scurri, Touch Surgery, Attest and Zipcube and loves working with early stage teams of entrepreneurs; helping them develop their early stage startup into a fast growth enterprises capable of raising more funding from later stage investors. When he is not trying to help businesses to implement an optimal approach to growth, Damien can mostly be found running around Hampstead Heath or the Coastal paths of Great Britain. Having trained obsessively to run a 2:52 Marathon in 2015, he is now trying to dip below 2:50, in the spirit of continuous improvement. Damien has an MBA from Cambridge University and a Masters degree in PE from Oxford University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- 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.
- Surgery Hero — We combine expert human care, individually-tailored content and cutting edge tech to empower people to take control of their health so they can conquer their surgery.
- Surgery Hero — We combine expert human care, individually-tailored content and cutting edge tech to empower people to take control of their health so they can conquer their surgery.
Simon Lambert is Chief Technical Officer at Wahanda, a health, beauty and wellness marketplace offering a list of global spas, health, beauty and wellness options. He is Former CTO at moo.com.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Marketplace, Information Services
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Vira Health — Vira is a digital health company focused on improving long-term health for women. We do this by addressing female-specific conditions and improving the collection and use of female data in healthcare.
- Much Better Adventures — Join like-minded people on an award-winning adventure. Unique and flexible small group adventures without the logistical headache, helping wild places thrive one adventure at a time.
- Technology Will Save Us — They are on a mission to spark the creative imagination of young people using hands on technology. Their award winning make-it-yourself kits and digital tools help kids (and the adults that love them) to make, play, code and invent using technology.They started small, around their kitchen table, and have now built a company of 28 passionatedesigners, educators, engineers and problems solvers – obsessed with inspiring kids and empowering parents to become creators of technology. They have 6 different make it yourself kits and hundreds of digital tools and projects to support kids in learning through play.They have sparked the imaginations of kids in over 87 countries around the world. They work closely with children to design their kits, engaging in large scale research projects before beginning on design & manufacture.
Marc Blumenthal is the CEO of Intelladon, a Tampa-based producer of advanced electronic courseware and learning management solutions.He was one of the original founders and still a key investor in Tribridge Software. Marc was founder and former CEO of Progressive Business Solutions, which he grew from start-up mode to a leading computer systemsintegrator producing nearly $20-million in corporate revenue, before selling to ePartners. Prior to establishing Progressive, Marc worked in IBM’s National Accounts Division. Marc currently serves on the Board of the Tampa Bay Technology Forum and Metropolitan Ministries.He has his BS in Management Information Systems from the University of South Florida.
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Investment focus
- Leisure, Software, Automotive
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- E-Car Club — E-Car is the UK’s first entirely electric pay-per-use car club, designed to provide community members with the convenience and flexibility of a full-sized private car without the high cost of owning one. And all with the lowest emissions in the market today!
- Pocket Network — Pocket provides RPC access to Ethereum, Polygon, and a dozen more blockchain networks. Everything from testnets to mainnets to any open-source interface.
Pete was appointed EVP and President of Product Groups in January 2014. He is responsible for the development and delivery of ARM’s main business lines including ARM processors, Mali graphics processors and Artisan Physical IP. Before this role he was general manager of the media processing division. Pete joined ARM in 2008 and has also held vicepresident positions within the processor and media processing divisions. Prior to ARM, Pete ran corporate engineering for Wolfson Microelectronic, he was also general manager for processors at ARC International and a group director for Cadence Design Systems.
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Investment focus
- Battery, Software, Automotive
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Breathe Battery Technologies — Breathe Battery Technologies is a research-led technology company developing advanced battery management algorithms
Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- The Dots — Professional networking for the new world of work. Get advice. Meet collaborators. Find jobs. Upskill at events.
- Nova Credit — Nova Credit is a credit infrastructure and analytics company that enables businesses to grow responsibly by harnessing alternative credit data.
- Platform Science — Experience the power to choose what drives your fleet. Platform Science delivers telematics and fleet management tools on a platform built for transportation.
Alex Watts, founder of Lettingweb.com and Kingsford Estates.
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Investment focus
- Automotive, Service Industry
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fresh Car Valeting — Highly experienced professional mobile car body repairs, valeting and detailing auto repair services operating all over the UK. A complete mobile car care service, we can clean your car anywhere that you can park it.
Jonathan Guthrie
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Investment focus
- Automotive, Service Industry
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fresh Car Valeting — Highly experienced professional mobile car body repairs, valeting and detailing auto repair services operating all over the UK. A complete mobile car care service, we can clean your car anywhere that you can park it.
Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Japan, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
- Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
- Kuai Commerce — Kuai Commerce is a next-generation solution for ambitious brands looking to sell directly to Chinese Gen Z consumers through the power of social commerce. Our tech-enabled services provide market entry and brand acceleration options for emerging category-leaders who otherwise would find the complexity of China prohibitively challenging
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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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- 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.
- Pommelhorse — We develop technology that makes digital communication more Human - We're a vision digital signal processing technology startup
- Maison Sport — Maison Sport has been created by 3 ski instructors, Olly, Nick and Aaron - all of them share a great passion for skiing and the mountains!“At Maison Sport we are making it simple to book Ski and Snowboard instructors online. Our aim is to seamlessly connect people looking for lessons with their ideal instructor, whilst making it easy forinstructors to market themselves, so they can continue to do what they love.Currently in France, our plan is to expand across the rest of the globe, helping the best instructors impart their passion for skiing and snowboarding on likeminded customers.”
Frederick "Freddie" Achom is a British Nigerian businessman, he lives between Paris, New York and London. He is the co-founder and chairman of the Rosemont Group Capital Partners, a private investment group with a portfolio of companies with interests in digital technology, financial services and renewable technology. Achom has over 20years of experiences within the private equity and investment sector.He is the non executive Chairman of Vivid Technologies and also director and shareholder of Mumbai stock exchange listed renewable energy and micropower provider, Communication Power Engineering Company (CPEC). Achom is also well known for his more high profile ventures in the entertainment sector, as owner of Private members clubs Crystal, Jalouse and The Scotch of St James. In 2013 and 2015 he was recognised in the JP Morgan-sponsored power list, as one of the UK’s 100 most influential Britons of African and Caribbean heritage, for his achievements in business. Achom was also listed as one of the 1000 most influential Londoners by the Evening Standard news and media corporation in 2010 and again in 2011. In 2017 he was awarded CEO of the year, in the Venture Capital Seed Investment category, by The European CEO organisation.
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, Parking
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- AppyParking — Decarbonising cities from the kerb up. Best-in-class Kerbside Data, APIs and Smart Parking Solutions for Local Authorities and Businesses. Get in Touch.
- JustGo —
Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kama — Kama offers sexual wellness practices that improve how you experience love, sex, and intimacy. Available on the iOS App Store.
- BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
- Diagnostic Robotics — Diagnostic Robotic develops a signal-agnostic artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. It allows to build powerful predictive analytics models that will solve a world-wide challenge, strained health budgets, and workforces. Diagnostic Robotic was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Duncan Jennings is the Investor and Board Member at Motorway.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Software, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Motorway — With so many ways to sell your car, it can be overwhelming. At Motorway, we’re focused on building the best way. Our vision is to build a better car market for everyone.Transparent and straightforward in all that we do, our smart technology matches our customers’ cars with a nationwide network of verified dealers.This enables those dealers tobuy vehicles direct from private sellers using our fully-online sales platform, with hundreds of cars successfully sold every day.Reducing time and effort on all sides, we help everyone get the right deal quickly. It all, just, works.In our first 4 years, we've helped over 2.5 million car owners value and sell their car. We've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun.
- Otta — Only matches tailored to your preferences. Only the most exciting, innovative and fast-moving companies.
- Console — A free weekly email digest of the best tools for developers.
Alan Rutledge
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
- FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
- SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
Hank Vigil serves as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Partnerships of Microsoft Corp. He was Senior Director of Strategy Planning and Business Development for the Digital Television Group at Microsoft, responsible for the development of Microsoft’s digital TV strategy.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
- Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
- Masters — Train mind and body on the Masters app with full workout programs designed and run by the world's best athletes. Join today and start training like a pro.
Dominic Collins is the CEO and Co-Founder at Darabase. Dominic attended Durham University.
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Investment focus
- Legal, FinTech, Finance
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FinanceAcar — FinanceAcar is an online, finance comparison website that allows its users to compare car finance and leasing deals. It enables users to select a vehicle of their choice and compare prices across different products, receive quotations or apply online for funds, and get the vehicle delivered to their doorstep. The website offers car financeinformation and prices for more than 11,000 different vehicles. It also provides comparison of business car leasing and contract purchase products. Users of the website are required to be UK residents and 18 years of age or older.
Adrien Cohen is the President and Co-Founder of Tractable. He attended HEC Paris and Tsinghua University.
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Investment focus
- Battery, Automotive, Energy Storage
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Breathe Battery Technologies — Breathe Battery Technologies is a research-led technology company developing advanced battery management algorithms
Jason Ballard - MD at NCPS @ AppyWay
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, Parking
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- AppyParking — Decarbonising cities from the kerb up. Best-in-class Kerbside Data, APIs and Smart Parking Solutions for Local Authorities and Businesses. Get in Touch.
Sir Richard Branson is the current Founder of the Virgin Group and Owner and Founder of Virgin Limited Edition. He previously worked at OneWeb as a Board Member. Sir Richard Branson attended Bishopsgate School.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- auticon — auticon is the first German company to exclusively employ autistic people as software testers and offer their services (Software-Tests) on the free market. This innovative approach gives the client the advantage of special high-quality workmanship.
- Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
- Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
Robert E. Diamond Jr. - Non-Executive Director @ Yocuda
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Big Data, InsurTech
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cazana — Cazoo Data Services technology checks vehicle data across the UK and worldwide to help our automotive clients get insights into individual vehicles and worldwide trends.
Tino Nombro - Chief Executive Officer & Founder @ Ambergreen Internet Marketing
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Investment focus
- Automotive, Service Industry
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fresh Car Valeting — Highly experienced professional mobile car body repairs, valeting and detailing auto repair services operating all over the UK. A complete mobile car care service, we can clean your car anywhere that you can park it.
Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
- Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
- Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.
- Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice
Rahmyn Kress is the Chief Digital Officer of Henkel. His focus is to accelerate Henkel’s digital activities across all business units across the company. He has more than 25 years of experience in developing and implementing digital strategies. Prior to joining Henkel, he has been with Accenture since 2010, where he held several executive rolesfrom being the CEO & President of an Accenture digital subsidiary, Managing Director, Telecom, Media & Technology and most recently as Managing Director of Accenture Ventures in Europe. Prior to this, he was the Senior Vice President of Physical and Digital Operations at Universal Music Group.
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- Leasing, Software, Analytics
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom
Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal.
Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Israel
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- Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Ms.Julia Stent is Commercial Director at Top10.
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- Automotive
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Rightcharge — Rightcharge provides a charge point and EV-friendly energy tariff comparison service for drivers to find the right charge point and energy tariff for their home or business charging needs. The tool lets users review different EV-friendly energy tariffs, home EV chargers, and installation prices from a network of over 50 vetted companies.
Mike Allen is the Head of Research at Zeus Capital.
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- Automotive
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Rightcharge — Choose your perfect electric car charger and connect with the right installer.
Eamon Tuhami is the Founder of X8IQ. Eamon attended London Guildhall University.
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- Rental, Software, Automotive
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
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- Glisser — Virtual events embedded right inside your own website. Live digital engagement experiences that deliver real results Ecosystem Embeddable Integration-Enabled Monetization Opportunities Organizer Experience Simple for Planners Simple for Speakers World-Class Support Audience Experience Customizable Feature-Rich Hybrid-Ready Simple for Audiences Core Platform Data Insights No Hidden Costs Scalable Secure See all Benefits
- Voltric — Voltric provides a subscription service for electric vehicles on a 12 or 24 month plans.
- Finalrentals — Save up to 40% on rental cars! Compare, choose, and book affordable car rental deals for the perfect vacation ride with Finalrentals.
Adrian Lloyd is a Partner at Episode 1, an early stage Venture Capital fund focusing on software enabled businesses with the beginnings of customer traction.Adrian has had a career as a management consultant and entrepreneur, with a gap at Stanford Business School in 2008-10 where he earned his MBA.He focuses on customer-centric product andbusiness design as an investor and you can read more of his thoughts at http://www.episode1.com/news-and-blog/blogAdrian has been investing in software businesses since 2008.
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- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
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- Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
- Jump — Launched in late 2018 after 2 years of R&D supported by competitive grant funding from the UK & NL Government, Jump is a people analytics platform that gives everyone a chance to succeed. By understanding what makes people unique and linking this to business outcomes, Jump gives more personalised job recommendations to professionals, inturn attracting much better job applications to businesses. Win:win for both!Jump is backed by outstanding investors whose successes include Revolut, CarWow, GoodLord, Magic Pony and many others. Jump collaborates with Imperial College and other top UK Universities in the development of the data science and algorithms behind Jump.Looking for new career options or just a change of scenery? Sign up and receive personalised job matches - absolutely and always for free - at https://app.jump.work/jobsLooking to transform your talent attraction using people analytics? Drop me a note and we can chat!
- Kayenta — Digital prime broker to hedge funds. Kayenta builds cutting edge treasury infrastructure for hedge funds to connect to the roads and rails of the funding markets.
Harry Dixon, technical director at Rentalcars.com.
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- Apps, Rental, Travel
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Stressfreecarrental.com — Stressfreecarrental.com provides price comparison and booking platform for car hire and airport transfers.
Ricardo Schaefer - Partner @ Target Global
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Nigeria
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- Jefa — Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution.Jefa's goal is to empower women to live without limits or obstacles. Jefa does this by giving its clients access to fair, affordable, and secure financialservices through a mobile account.
- Komment — Komment automates software documentation with pipelines that plug into familiar developer workflows in your existing infrastructure. Get well-structured, sophisticated, reliable docs with zero reliance on third-parties.
- Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
Alex Macdonald is the Co-Founder and CEO of sequel - an investment platform on a mission to help athletes build a legacy for their families and the world. He previously Co-Founded Velocity Black, raised more than $40m in funding, and which was successfully exited to US Bank Capital One in 2023. He is a serial angel investor having invested in 50early stage startups and funds.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, France
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- Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
- Harriet — Efficient, cost effective AI for HR that improves the employee experience. Get time back to focus on what counts and let Harriet do the rest | Harriet
- Fundably — Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan | Access £1k-£2m
Tim Scholes
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- Automotive, Service Industry
- Angel
- United Kingdom
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- Moneyshake — Moneyshake is the new, hassle-free solution to finding your ideal lease car. Their journey cuts through the clutter to secure the very best deal for you. They're shaking up the car lease market. At Moneyshake, you can find your ideal lease car in just a few clicks.
Peter is a partner at Vitruvian; a venture partner at BlueYard and LocalGlobe; an advisor to Entrepreneur First, Future Positive Capital, and StrongMinds; and a Trustee of Frazzled Cafe, Doteveryone, and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. He is an angel investor/advisor in over 100 tech startups
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- Software, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series E, Series F
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Qapital — Qapital is an award-winning app designed to let you save, invest, and spend with any goal in mind.
- Snap.hr — Sign up to Snap.hr now to get headhunted by 500+ other tech companies
- Car Throttle — The internet's car community
Christian Woolfenden - Managing Director @ Photobox
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- InsurTech, Insurance, Automotive
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Brolly — Brolly, a London-based start-up that specializes in flexible, personalized insurance products for the digital generation. Brolly offers a Policy Management platform that enabled customers to consolidate all of their insurance policies into a single dashboard, and a fully-digital contents insurance available on iOS and Android, enabling customers tocover their belongings straight from their smartphones.
- GetAgent — Find the best estate agent to sell your home, in just a few clicks. We show you how they perform and how much they charge.
- Subdial Watches — Whether you're buying or selling we've got you covered. Sell smarter with Subdial. Quick, simple & transparent.
Andrew Weisz - Partner @ Weisz Investments
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- Software, Education, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
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- Sidequest — Welcome to SideQuest the ultimate VR discovery platform and home to VRs greatest hits indie gems sideloadonly and earlyaccess VR contentand much more SideQuest is also packed with tools and tips to help you get the most out of your VR headset Install the SideQuest app for the best experience
- Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.
- Guardian Angel — Death is tough enough. We're here to make it that little bit easier. By making planning for and through death simpler. So you can focus on what really matters.
Michael Crow, NatWest Group’s Director of Public Policy.
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- Automotive, Service Industry
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
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- Fresh Car Valeting — Highly experienced professional mobile car body repairs, valeting and detailing auto repair services operating all over the UK. A complete mobile car care service, we can clean your car anywhere that you can park it.
Vip Amin
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- Energy, Software, Automotive
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Electric Miles — We are powering the future of energy management through EV smart charging solution and software. Download the app today.
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