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Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in United Kingdom

Last updated: Sep 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds 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 Startup Investors in United Kingdom

Investor	Automotive United Kingdom investments
Parkwalk Advisors	8
Equity Gap	7
Scottish Investment Bank	7
Downing Ventures	5
Worth Capital	5
Disruptive Capital Finance	5
Par Equity	5
Amadeus Capital Partners	5
Business Growth Fund	5
Passion Capital	5
MMC Ventures	5
Concept Ventures	4
Scottish Enterprise	4
Aviva Ventures	4
APX	4
Maven Capital Partners	4
Low Carbon Innovation Fund	4
LocalGlobe	3
Dig Ventures	3
Anthemis	3
Development Bank of Wales	3
Alba Equity	3
Endeavour Ventures	3
Concept Ventures	3
Highland Capital Partners	3
AI Seed	3
SIS Ventures	3
Alexander Edward Chesterman	3
Forward Partners	3
Force Over Mass Capital	3
Porton Group	3
Beringea	3
ETF Partners	3
NVM Private Equity	3
Midven	3
David Murray-Hundley	3
Will Brooks	2
Joe Falter	2
Navid Hadzaad	2
Shell Ventures	2
Shan Drummond	2
Ned Cranborne	2
Google Ventures	2
Venrex	2
QVentures	2
Saturn Partners	2
James Hind	2
PICO Venture Partners	2
Holiday Extras	2
Samos Investments	2

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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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
OW Smell Made Digital — OW Smell Made Digital offers software and hardware solutions for controlling smell.
Cambridge Electric Cement — Cambridge Electric Cement is a sustainable cement start-up. Its breakthrough process co-recycles steel and cement to produce a low carbon, circular cement product that offers very low emissions[1], circular, and scalable alternative to existing cement production.

Equity Gap is a group of private individuals set up to invest in and support emerging and growing businesses based in Scotland

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mirna — Mirna is a veterinary diagnostics company that specializes in the development of veterinary disease testing technology.
Shot Scope — The official Shot Scope website. Golf watches, range finders and performance tracking that help lower your score and handicap. Buy direct online today!
Vector Photonics — Vector Photonics is a spin-out company from the University of Glasgow and is based in Glasgow, Scotland, one of the UK and world’s Optical and Photonics centres of excellence.

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Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
Administrate — Manage 100% of enterprise training operations with configurable training management software, designed to scale with your organization.

The opportunity for institutional investors to access leading UK early stage healthtech businesses

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

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 — A strategic partner helping med-device leaders solve the Competency @ Scale Gap todrive commercial success.

Tax Efficient Investments with the Start-up Series SEIS & EIS Fund. Our approach unearths compelling investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Bangladesh, United States

Portfolio highlights

FC Labs — Our wearable neurotechnology and AI-powered platform empower anyone to improve their brain fitness to unlock better health, wellbeing and performance.
Metacarpal — Metacarpal design upper-limb prosthetics without compromise. We aim to make the most robust, functional hand prosthesis that people love wearing because it works so effectively and looks so beautiful. Be proud to show your artificial side!
Fox Robotics — Fox Robotics, is a start-up, located in Camberley, an innovator in robotics technology. They solve fundamental in-premises logistics problems across multiple areas such light manufacturing, aerospace, health agriculture and retail, etc . Their easy-to-use robotics solutions boost business productivity and substantially reduce cybersecurity andhealth-and-safety risks for customers.They understand that robotics will play an important role in society, at many levels and across all industries. Robots need to adapt to human environments by the use of advanced AI, sensors, control algorithms and strong security. Their products and solutions sit at the heart of key business processes and have an important role to play in the successful businesses of the future.

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Investment focus

Fuel, Life Science, Recreational Vehicles
Funding Round, Grant, Series A
United Kingdom, Brazil, Australia

Portfolio highlights

REG — Onboarding and lifecycle solutions for regulated businesses. In a regulated world with ever increasing challenges we're transforming how businesses meet, connect and start trading in a faster, smarter and safer ecosystem.
Roomer — Roomer is the peer-to-peer marketplace for hotel rooms. Traveling soon? Use Roomer to book your hotel room at a great price from someone who can't use theirs.
Tantalum Corporation — Tantalum Corporation is a company within the Connected Car and Telematics industry. The company services develop driver analysis and driver identification technologies utilized by OEM automotive manufacturers, fleet operators and insurance companies which aggregates data from various sources, enhances it with external data and with output from itsmodels, uses the results to develop unique and valuable insights for the end user, both about the vehicle and how it is driven. It also offers a plug-and-play device designed to reduce vehicle fleet running costs by providing data on fuel consumption and wastage.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Computer
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Cyacomb — Cyacomb has created a ground-breaking digital forensic tool helping law enforcement, cloud companies and social media to fight against harmful online content.
iGii — Integrated Graphene enable better products with a revolutionary design for manufacture process producing the world's highest quality pure 3D Graphene Foam, Gii.
Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT) — NPT is a cleantech company that has developed a revolutionary process technology called REFNOVA. REFNOVA allows customers to converts non-food plant residues into sustainable products such as biochar, activated carbon, biofuel, biopolymers and biochemicals. Our products help customers replace fossil based products and enable decarbonisation.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sitehop — Sitehop is a technology company creating innovative solutions for cyber-security and networking. Sitehop utilizes its custom FPGA solutions to optimize and accelerate cloud/telco networks.
Riverlane — Riverlane's mission is to make quantum computing useful far sooner than previously imaginable, starting an era of human progress as significant as the industrial and digital revolutions.
Secondmind — Helping automotive engineers design better cars, faster.

BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

NanoSyrinx — NanoSyrinx is an award-winning, discovery stage biotechnology company based in the UK. We are using synthetic biology approaches to develop protein nanosyringes as a completely novel modality for intracellular delivery of protein and peptide biologic drugs.
Twenty7Tec — We partner with businesses of all size who share our ambition to simplify, streamline and digitise financial services.
Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030

Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators applying their experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. They are Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero.They have been personally involved in the largest European technology exits of the past decade,including the biggest exits of the year for 4 of the past 10 years by market value (Ricardo.de acquired by QXL, Skype purchased by Ebay, Last.fm acquired by CBS, and QXL/Tradus acquired by Naspers) and want to be involved in many more.They believe that the critical differentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders.They are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe. As an example of this, White Bear Yard is their own hub for activities, ambitions and energy and where have fun in the process.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

PolyAI — The world's only customer-led conversational platform for enterprise.
CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
SAPI — SAPI provides capital access to payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.

MMC is a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high-growth UK companies. Investing in technology companies at Seed and Series A.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
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
Eatron Technologies — Intelligent Software Platform for Battery Management System & Intelligent Motion Control - Eatron Technologies

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Haz — Track and unlock the resale value of your stuff
Gendo — Gendo is a browser based platform that provides beautiful CGI. It accelerates design image production 100x with AI and ML, eliminating technical hurdles for designers using innovative browser-based tools."
Jigcar — Jigcar is an AI-driven automotive logistics platform enabling multi-site dealer groups to sell more cars, reduce operational costs and delight customers.

Scotland's business advice, support and funding agency. Explore our products and services to find the right support for your business and apply online today.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Chromacity — Chromacity manufacture the next generation of ultrafast lasers. Discover our fixed wavelength femtosecond lasers and picosecond OPOs.
Metacarpal — Metacarpal design upper-limb prosthetics without compromise. We aim to make the most robust, functional hand prosthesis that people love wearing because it works so effectively and looks so beautiful. Be proud to show your artificial side!
Shot Scope — The official Shot Scope website. Golf watches, range finders and performance tracking that help lower your score and handicap. Buy direct online today!

Innovation is central to our strategy and our ambition to deliver great outcomes for our customers.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Insurance
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Scan.com — Use scan.com to find the best medical imaging centers near you Find an MRI scan, CT scan, X-ray Scan, or other diagnostic imaging scan with scan.com.
Rendesco — We help achieve sustainability goals by providing clean energy technology solutions including ground source heat pumps and geothermal heat network systems.
HealthKey — HealthKey is a platform that connects employers and insurers with health providers.

APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Spike Technologies — November 30, 2022 - Spike technology, REST API end-points, and Cloud architecture are designed with data privacy and security at heart. We process billions of
Eleos — Get income protection insurance online with Eleos. All policies include 24x7 Virtual GP, gym discounts and other benefits.
DC Connected — Mobility Enhancement Platform

Maven is one of the UK's leading private equity and investment firms. We provide essential capital and expertise to help businesses unlock their potential.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Carcinotech — Carcinotech has pioneered the development of assay-ready, 3D-bioprinted tumours derived from patient biopsies for oncology drug development.
Metrion Biosciences — Metrion Biosciences is a Contract Research Organization (CRO) that is located in the world renowned Cambridge biocluster.
McKenzie Intelligence Services Ltd — We deliver actionable intelligence on a global scale, empowering informed decision making for insurance and commercial clients across the world

Low Carbon Innovation Fund is a venture capital fund, providing equity finance for SME’s based wholly or partially in the East of England.The Fund is supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). It uses £20.5M from the ERDF which will be matched with over £30M private sector investment – generating a total of over £50M ofinvestment in the East of England. So far the Fund has invested over £8.5M alongside £26M private co-investment in 26 investments.Turquoise International manages the Fund on behalf of the Adapt Low Carbon Group at the University of East Anglia (UEA). The Fund builds on the region's world class low carbon economy and is the largest European Regional Development Fund-funded project in the region. The Low Carbon Innovation Fund was launched in September 2010 and will run until December 2015.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Adaptavate — Adaptavate is leading the carbon change in the construction industry
weekly.shop — Weekly.Shop is a shopping basket for groceries and supplies products in refillable containers, which collects, washes, and reuses.Weekly.Shop is a couriering order by electric vehicles to customers in the surrounding areas
Archipelago Technology — Archipelago's patented rotating drum inkjet technology facilitates high-speed, controllable coating of substrates using paints and adhesives.

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
Userled — Userled is a no-code interface and AI-powered platform that automates the distribution of personalizing marketing experiences across all ad and email platforms, empowering revenue teams with person-level engagement insights without cookies. Customers can deploy multiple personalized campaigns across all their target platforms from email, Linkedin,Meta, and more.
Gradient Labs — An autonomous customer operations agent that simulates human agents, only faster and better.

Dig Started provides portfolios with access to an unparalleled portfolio success model, focused on clearing the hurdles of early company building and more. Dig Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage fund investing in B2B SaaS and cloud infrastructure companies in Europe, Israel, and the US.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Talsec — Talsec mobile app protection designed to prevent reverse engineering and tampering attacks on Android, iOS and Flutter apps. Let applications defend themselves.
Swarmia — Build better software faster with insights that power your whole engineering organization. Get started with a demo or a free 14-day trial.
Userled — Userled is a no-code interface and AI-powered platform that automates the distribution of personalizing marketing experiences across all ad and email platforms, empowering revenue teams with person-level engagement insights without cookies. Customers can deploy multiple personalized campaigns across all their target platforms from email, Linkedin,Meta, and more.

digitally native finance

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

HubiFi — SaaS Financial Automation & Analysis for High Transaction Businesses
District Cover — District Cover takes a data-driven approach to understanding city-based businesses' risk profiles and creates tailored insurance policies for small businesses. We exist to ensure brokers and small businesses can rely on consistent access to insurance solutions that empower continued growth. Our proprietary, non-admitted commercial insuranceproduct provides a new solution as existing options become harder to get, less relevant, and more expensive.
Provable Markets — Our cloud-native ATS, Aurora, offers the only regulated access point to the DTCC SFT Clearing Service

Development Bank of Wales is formed in 2001 by the Welsh Assembly Government. Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

PlantSea — PlantSea manufactures and develops sustainable products using seaweed and aquaculture materials. It offers bioplastics items as biodegradable alternatives. PlantSea is based in Gaerwen, England.
Awen Oncology — Delivering first-in-class therapeutics that target novel, undrugged cancer-specific factors, offering new hope for patients around the world.
Mallows Beverages — Welcome to our family-owned BRCGS A* bottling company nestled in the heart of South Wales, where history and innovation converge. Founded by a father and son team, our legacy is rooted in the rich heritage of the Rhondda Valley's coal mining past.

Alba Equity is an investment syndicate which makes investments into businesses with high growth potential.

Investment focus

Oil and Gas, Energy, Food Processing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Itza — Itza offers digital learning media and technology business focused on teens.
PneumoWave — Empowering Intervention and Prevention for Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression
Leap Automation — Leap Automation provides food producers with end-of-line automation and machine vision systems. It reduces the dependency on manual labour for repetitive tasks.

Endeavour Ventures Ltd raises money for growth businesses from HNW and Sophisticated investors. We have directly sourced >£150m for portfolio companies directly from individuals typically looking for EIS opportunities.We make very few investments each year and work hard to create successful outcomes. We tend to make thematic investments intofast growth markets, always seeking the most experienced management teams and the most scalable models. Our opportunities are often driven by regulatory or technological change. We are amongst the few growth EIS investors able to demonstrate a successful 12 year track record.We typically seek board representation and consider ourselves to be key partners in the enterprise.We differentiate ourselves from a VC or angel investor group, in that we make fewer investments each year. We try to ensure that our companies are fully funded. We are not driven purely by brokerage fees on funds raised. Our model has no management fee and depends upon achieving exits.Specialties: Finding investors for scalable fast growth businesses that do not yet qualify for institutional investment, but have potential to become the global businesses of tomorrow.Due diligence of market opportunities and management teams.Valuation and structuring of deals.Sourcing of investment.Strategic partnerships.Portfolio highlights: 1. Aim-listed Blue Prism Group plc, into which we invested initially in 2006. In 2017 it topped £1bn market cap, making it our first “Unicorn”, before falling back just below that level. 2. Ebury Partners, which we invested in in 2012. 45% of the company was sold to Santander for £375m in 2019.Endeavour Ventures Limited is Authorised and Regulated by the FSA, as required by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, and is entered in the FSA Register with Firm Reference Number 431709 (see www.fsa.gov.uk for details).Endeavour Ventures Limited is a private limited company registered in England and Wales with company number 05244123. The registered office is 9-13 St Andrew Street, London EC4A 3AF.The recipients of our investment opportunities must either be certified as high net worth individuals or sophisticated investors as defined in our client criteria.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Agridex — Agridex offers a blockchain-based supply chain platform for the digital agriculture industry.
The Padel Club — The Padel Club is a chain of racket sport center that offers equipment and space for playing padel.
VirtualSignature — Verify ID, sign documents and validate signatures Our SmartConnect ID verification, eSignature authentication, KYC and AML checks help to confirm that the p ...

Early-stage VC Firm based in London, investing in UK technology startups & SaaS companies through our award-winning pre-seed funds.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Harriet — Efficient, cost effective AI for HR that improves the employee experience. Get time back to focus on what counts and let Harriet do the rest | Harriet
Klarytee — Klarytee is a SaaS platform that builds security into sensitive content to enable granular control wherever the data goes
JustParent — Parental leave insurance for businesses

Founded in 1988, Highland Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm focused on putting the entrepreneur first.With offices in Silicon Valley, Boston and Shanghai, Highland has raised over $3 billion in committed capital and invested in more than 225 companies, resulting in category-defining businesses across consumer and enterprisetechnology.Investments include 2U, Ask Jeeves, Bromium, Gigamon, Leap Motion, LevelUp, Lycos, MapQuest, Nebula, QD Vision, Qihoo 360, Quattro Wireless, RentJuice, Rent the Runway, Starent Networks, Sybase, Violin Memory, VistaPrint and WePay.Highland also serves as a mentor for future entrepreneurs through Summer@Highland, a program that provides students and university-affiliated startups with the environment and resources to take their initiative to the next level.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

Podimo — Podimoa is an open podcast platform that offers a subscription service for creators. Founded in 2019, Podimo is a podcast and short-form audio platform which offers personalized recommendations to listeners, while offering creators a share of revenue via premium subscriptions. Co-founded by Morten Strunge, Nikolaj Koppel, Andreas Sachse, EvaLægdsgaard, and Sverre Dueholm, Podimo is hoping to capitalize on the rise in consumption in podcasts.
Transcend — Transcend offers data governance solutions that help companies achieve privacy compliance through powerful data mapping and data discovery, automated data subject requests, and simple cookie consent, all with industry leading security.
Eko Health — At Eko every digital stethoscope from Eko comes with smart disease detection capabilities to help healthcare professionals confidently identify and diagnose heart and lung disease during physical exams.

AI Seed is an award-winning specialist AI fund offering the opportunity to invest in a diversified portfolio of institutional-grade AI startups normally only accessible to deep tech venture capital investors.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Sweden

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 — A Cambridge University spin-out building cost-effective 3D sensing software technology
Thingtrax — Realise improved efficiency, quality control, employee safety and productivity by modernising your factories with ThingTrax's AI and IoT

SIS Ventures has been created with the overall aim of supporting and growing high impact organisations through access to mission-aligned investment. SIS Ventures has a goal of becoming the go to investor and partner for social entrepreneurs. The fund will offer conventional financial returns alongside social and/or environmental returns byinvesting either equity or debt into purpose driven companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nebu~Flow — Nebu~Flow develops the next generation of nebulisers to enable the delivery of life changing treatments.
Metacarpal — Metacarpal design upper-limb prosthetics without compromise. We aim to make the most robust, functional hand prosthesis that people love wearing because it works so effectively and looks so beautiful. Be proud to show your artificial side!
Nami Surgical — Nami Surgical provides robotic surgery technology solutions to enhance patient care while giving surgeons intuitive, high-performance moveable instruments.

Alex Chesterman is the founder and CEO of Cazoo. He was the Founder & CEO of ZPG Plc, a FTSE-250 listed company. Previously Alex co-founded Lovefilm, Europe's leading digital movie rental business, which was successfully sold to Amazon. Alex is also one of the UK's most active tech angel investors having backed dozens of early stagedigital startups and was awarded an OBE for services to services to digital entrepreneurship in 2016.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Lick — Lick | Paints, Wallpapers and Supplies. Your Room, Covered
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.

Forward Partners is a venture capital firm in London specialising in technology businesses focused on eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ctrl Alt — Access the world of alternative assets in a simple, transparent and secure way. Sign up to Ctrl Alt and start your alternative investment journey with us today.
OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe safeguards critical infrastructure with AIoT devices, enhancing asset health and security while reducing cloud data transfers.
OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe safeguards critical infrastructure with AIoT devices, enhancing asset health and security while reducing cloud data transfers.

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 growthjourney.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

CUR8 — CUR8 is committed to establishing a global market for carbon reduction. Carbon removal methods include increased rock weathering, direct air capture, forests, construction, soil, biomass, oceans, and new technologies.
Artificial Labs — Powering the next generation of commercial insurer.
SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.

Porton Group is a venture capital firm that offers private equity investments to firms in the military technology industry. It was founded in 2000 by Harvey Boulter and is based in Dubai.

Investment focus

Electronics, Manufacturing, Automotive
Funding Round, Seed, Series C
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ACAL Energy — ACAL Energy is a developer of Fuel Cell systems, modules and consumable chemicals for a range of uses including stationary, residential and automotive applications requiring larger than 1 kW of power. Its innovative designs will deliver substantial cost savings in Fuel Cell systems and performance improvements in PEM ('Proton ExchangeMembrane') that will accelerate the adoption of PEM Fuel Cell technologies in key markets.
Microvisk Technologies — Microvisk Technologies is a UK based company developing Micro Electro Mechanical Sensors for the international medical market.
Warwick Acoustics Ltd — Warwick Acoustics is a UK-based technology company specialising in the development of HighRes Audio solutions for the automotive and headphone markets based on its patented High Precision Electrostatic Laminate technology (HPELs). Their ultra thin, lightweight HPELs deliver audiophile performance across a bandwidth several octaves greater thantraditional moving coil speakers in a form factor that is less than one quarter the weight, and one tenth of the thickness. In addition, HPELs offer designers unparalleled flexibility to shaped and form a speaker to individual design requirements.

Beringea is an international investor in high growth US & UK businesses. With expertise in multiple sectors we are at the forefront of emerging trends.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

AccessPay — AccessPay develops and offers cloud-based payment and cash management solutions. The company’s cloud-based service provides ease of integration with any ERP, TMS, or other back-end systems. It also enables the straight-through processing of domestic and international payments via BACS, FPS, CHAPS, and SWIFT. By connecting an organization’s backoffice systems with its banks and providing a consolidated view of all banking relationships, AccessPay gives corporate enterprises real-time visibility of all cash balances and offers a detailed analysis, which helps financial professionals maximize the use of working capital. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Gorilla — We empower Energy Retailers in pricing, forecasting and reporting with data-driven solutions in boosting speed and flexibility.
Iceberg Data Lab — Iceberg Data Lab is a fintech firm that develops assessment tools and provides environmental data solutions to financial institutions.

ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience. Its funds come from institutional investors, global corporations, and family offices. The firm creates value by investing in and supporting great European companies that deliver Sustainability Through Innovation.

Investment focus

Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United Kingdom, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
shipzero — Measure, analyze, and reduce carbon emissions from your transport activities. shipzero is the smart data platform to enable effective actions towards zero transport emissions.
Riverlane — Riverlane's mission is to make quantum computing useful far sooner than previously imaginable, starting an era of human progress as significant as the industrial and digital revolutions.

NVM Private Equity Limited is an independently-owned firm of venture capital managers with over 20 years experience of investing in UK businesses. They manage five investment funds, four of which are Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and their funds under management exceed Â£175 million.They are a long-established investor focused on the UK regions,primarily targeting small management buy-outs and growth investment in businesses that are led by high quality incumbent management teams.They have a wide range of skills, interests and backgrounds. That means they bring a thorough and rounded approach to the investment process. They live and work in the UK regions, so are entrenched within their local business communities.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vegetarian Express — With over 35 years of experience and 1200+ plant-based ingredients in our larder, from cutting-edge plant-based meat alternatives to rare and hard-to-find.
The Climbing Hangar — Rock climbing London with added Hangar community spirit.
YorkTest — YorkTest is an award-winning food intolerance & allergy testing company, optimising health and wellbeing with our range of health tests. Order online...

I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Lexverify — Lexverify uses artificial intelligence to detect potential legal and compliance concerns in communications. It assists businesses in proactively avoiding legal and regulatory concerns by harnessing the power of AI. Their objective is to make technological communication a benefit rather than a problem.
Nylahs Naturals — Shop our award-winning all-natural hair care products, designed to redefine the haircare standard for afro-textured hair.
Strolll — Strolll Neurotechnology

David Murray-Hundley aka The Grumpy Entrepreneur™ is a technology geek and entrepreneur at heart.CEO and Co Founder of Pario Ventures. www.parioventures.com . I invest alongside the majority of Pario Ventures investments. David was inspired by the movie “War Games” at the age of 8 and commercially released his first game for the BBC Micro atjust 11 years old.David went on to study Artificial Intelligence when people thought it was just about Terminator and in his early 20s was part of the team that delivered the worlds first Web Ecommerce B2B platform with Barclays and Chase Manhatten.For the rest of his 20s David helped develop the first smart card readers for Credit Cards with Dione and was part of the founding team for Commerce One in Silicon Valley who became the top stock on Nasdaq (Ecommerce) during the dotcom boom at $22bn valuation.Also built the Internets first Automotive Market Place Exchange for General Motors forming part of Covisint. He was bankrupt by the time he was 30. “A good thing”, he says and later went on to build and be part of building a number of companies and has had a number of exits in recent years as well as Reid Hoffman awarding David Linkedin European Business Leader Of The Year.David is a company chairman, director, advisor and mentor. He invests in and works with a number of startups and scaling companies not just in technology. Technology key focus is Consumer Fintech, E-Commerce, Artificial Inteligence and Automotive and Motorsport Technology Also, following in the footsteps of his one of his inspirations, John Harvey-Jones, he spends a lot of time troubleshooting businesses.

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.

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Joe Falter is the founder of Zapp.

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Software
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sourcerie — Make bolder & faster decisions with an always-on connection to your customers
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.

Navid Hadzaad is a co-founder at Zapp.

Investment focus

B2B, Apps, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed
United States, Denmark, Germany

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.
Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
Amaranthine — We connect, support and invest in the world's top technologists.

Shell Ventures invests in companies to speed up development and deployment of new technologies which complement our business.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Cartken — Launch your robot fleet with us. The AI powering our robots makes them the safest and most reliable in the market today.
Sunswap — Sunswap is developing zero-emission transport refrigeration products to reduce noise and air pollution in our cities. Our mission is to replace the dirty diesel engines currently in use in the cold chain with our electric Transport Refrigeration Units (TRU).
FreshBus — Spread the Green

Shan Drummond is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK.

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

Ned Cranborne is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK.

Investment focus

SaaS, Social, Analytics
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ometria — Ometria’s mission is to build the brain that powers all communication between retailers and their customers. Ometria helps clients leverage data to build detailed customer profiles, and make sure that all messages they send are always relevant, leading to higher engagement and increased revenues.Ometria was founded by four serial entrepreneurs,with combined experience in e-commerce, computer science, mathematics, and SaaS, has been invested in by London’s most prominent entrepreneurs and investors, and is used by top retailers in the UK, Europe, and across the world.
Car Throttle — The internet's car community

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

StatusPro — StatusPro is a sports technology company that combines data with augmented and virtual reality to provide a suite of training and gaming products.
FlutterFlow — FlutterFlow is an online app builder that lets users easily build native apps. Build fully functional apps with Firebase integration, API support, animations, and more. Export your code or even easier deploy directly to the app stores!
Granata Bio — Granata Bio is a biopharma company focused on women's health and infertility. Our mission and focus is to create access for fertility patients by introducing new therapeutic solutions.

Venrex Investment Management is a UK-based venture capital firm that backs creative Founders to launch and build innovative businesses.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

HUG — Discover new artists, and access creator-friendly Web3 education. Earn rewards for celebrating and curating your favorite artists!
Digital Village — An online platform that brings a professional network of digital specialists together to build teams, products and solve business technology problems.
Digital village — Digital Village is a technology platform that enables the creation of 3D immersive virtual worlds as a way to empower creative expression.

QVentures sources, screens, and invests in top-tier start-ups from Seed to Series B. Our investors consist of Family Offices, Institutional Investors, UHNWIs, and Cashed-out Entrepreneurs. We look for disruptive companies with a proven product-market fit, set to scale from Seed to Series B. We focus on Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, Consumer Tech,FinTech, AdTech, EdTech, InsurTech and HealthTech and more. We look for quality management teams, large addressable markets, proven traction, sustainable business models, route to scale and quality investors.To apply for investment, please fill out this short form to be reviewed: https://qventures.typeform.com/to/zZPOWf

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

sqcdp — We work with manufacturing clients to make paper systems redundant, introducing smart, efficient systems to capture production data through your teams.
PORTAIRE — Bring your team together and simplify your work from product discovery to procurement.
PROSPECT 100 — PROSPECT 100 is building the digital space for co-creation, democratizing the creative industries

Saturn Partners works side-by-side with innovators to build groundbreaking companies. This Boston venture capital firm provides VC funding for seed and early-stage technology companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Third Pole — The Third Pole™ core technology is an innovative clean, tankless inhaled Nitric Oxide (NO) proven equivalent to marketed tank-gas in the lab. Nitric oxide saves hypoxic newborns, but is available only in a limited number of countries, for those who can afford it, by physicians who have access to the product. We intend to make NO availableworldwide.
Yieldstreet — Yieldstreet is an alternative investment platform focused on generating income streams for investors. Get exclusive access to private market investments.
Areteia Therapeutics — Areteia Therapeutics is a biotechnology company committed to putting asthma patients in better control of their disease. The company was spun out of Pennsylvania-based Knopp, which published results from its phase 2 clinical trial last year that showed its oral drug candidate could reduce the count of blood eosinophil, which is an indication ofimproving lung function and is found in several asthma-related treatments.

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!

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.

Pico Venture Partners invests in visionary Israeli entrepreneurs building future-defining technologies. We seek the leaders who are relentless in their quest to disrupt existing markets, industries, business processes, and consumer experiences.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Israel, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sepio — Sepio provides full asset visibility. Sepio's Asset Risk Management sees, assesses and mitigates risk for all known and shadow IT assets.
Zero Networks — We make microsegmentation the easiest & most effective way to protect your company. Enable MFA network solution anywhere to block ransomware & advanced attacks.
Salvador Technologies — Salvador Technologies provides the world's fastest recovery from cyber-attacks and software/hardware malfunctions. Our innovative solution ensures the continuous operation of critical workstations and servers, eliminating downtime. Back to work in 30 seconds based on offline air-gapped sotrage.

Book all your airport & travel extras including; airport parking, airport hotels, airport lounge passes, travel insurance, car hire, airport transfers & more.

Investment focus

B2B, Apps, Education
Series A
United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Midrive — At Midrive, they want to make first-time driving better for everyone. The old way of doing things is broken. 53% of learners fail their first test. Of those who pass, 1 in 5 crash in the first 6 months. That’s unacceptable.Their technology helps learners find top-rated instructors and access pay-as-you-go insurance, so they can pass-first timeand ultimately become safer drivers.Since launch, over 300,000 young people in the UK have used their apps, data and tech to gain their independence. They growing quickly and are now available in over 100 towns and cities in the UK, expanding to a new one each week. Recently they were named #19 in the Startup 100, the annual ranking of the most game-changing and exciting new businesses launched in the last three years. They were also named 'Digital Business of the Year' by the Federation of Small Businesses in 2017.
transferz — Transferz operates a global B2B marketplace for ground transportation that believes in the long-term success of all stakeholders. The company runs a global marketplace for ground transportation, mostly to and from airports, so that each travel firm can provide customers with a trustworthy taxi service at a reasonable cost.

Samos Investments is a private equity investor with a focus on high-growth European businesses.Samos invests across a range of sectors including digital media, e-commerce, retail, financial services, energy and natural resources.Samos takes a proactive approach with its portfolio companies, working alongside many of the US and Europe’s topventure funds, family offices and private investors.The Samos Partners are also active angel/seed investors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Kenya, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Jude — Hey, we're Jude. A healthcare start-up on a mission is to bring bladder care into the mainstream.
VIEVE — Shop award-winning and high-performance makeup by expert MUA Jamie Genevieve; bestselling primer, brushes, lip glosses, eyeshadows & more. Vegan & cruelty free.
Lantum — Lantum is an end to end staffing platform enabling healthcare organisations to operate.Clinics use Lantum to manage their freelance physicians and also to find new ones via a marketplace of high quality vetted physicians. Lantum allows clinics to perform compliance checks on physicians as well as rate them and pay them fast.Lantum alsoprovides a toolkit for freelance physicians enabling them to manage their working lives and do their taxes and send The idea came to CEO and founder Melissa Morris while working at Mckinsey in the Healthcare Practice. She since left and went to work for NHS London to get a better idea of what healthcare organisations need.

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