Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in United Kingdom in May 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Big data startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Big data companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in United Kingdom in May 2025
Investor | Big Data United Kingdom investments |
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Alex Zubillaga | 3 |
Jonathan Milner | 3 |
John Taysom | 3 |
Will Brooks | 3 |
Jaan Tallinn | 3 |
Will Martin | 3 |
Dave Bailey | 2 |
Alice Bentinck | 2 |
Sir Terry Leahy | 2 |
Bonamy Grimes | 2 |
Gareth Williams | 2 |
Matt Clifford | 2 |
Ben Wynne-Simmons | 2 |
Harry Briggs | 2 |
Deborah Quazzo | 2 |
David Gammon | 2 |
William Christopher Currie | 2 |
Iain McDonald | 2 |
Bob Willet | 2 |
Charlie Songhurst | 2 |
Wendy Tan White | 2 |
Darrin Disley | 2 |
Stefan Glänzer | 2 |
David Braben | 2 |
Paolo Rubatto | 1 |
Joanne Wilson | 1 |
Angelia Muller | 1 |
Collis Ta'eed | 1 |
Mike Ryan | 1 |
Paul Heydon | 1 |
Javier Rubio | 1 |
David Castle | 1 |
Timothy Abbott | 1 |
Thomas Glocer | 1 |
Lisa Stone | 1 |
Liad Agmon | 1 |
Tom Vorisek | 1 |
Declan Kelly | 1 |
Biz Stone | 1 |
Rob Dobson | 1 |
Jenny Ervine | 1 |
William Bush | 1 |
Adam Solehova | 1 |
Dorothy Chou | 1 |
Jason McGibbon | 1 |
Thor Bjorgolfsson | 1 |
Javier Rubio | 1 |
Stuart Marks | 1 |
David Lau-Kee | 1 |
Charles Zedlewski | 1 |
Alex Zubillaga is the founder of 14W, a New York-based, venture capital firm focused on consumer Mobile, Web, E-commerce, CPG, and Media.Previously, Alex was Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group (WMG). Prior to WMG, Alex founded Net Uno, a leading Venezuelan cable television and broadbandoperator where he served as CEO and Chairman.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Apps, Music
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
- Qapital — Qapital is an award-winning app designed to let you save, invest, and spend with any goal in mind.
- Opal — Protect your focus time. Schedule your days, block distracting apps and focus fully, on your iPhone, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browser. Try Opal for Free!
Having worked in the life sciences industry for over ten years as an academic researcher, Jonathan identified the market opportunity for supplying high quality antibodies to support protein interaction studies and, in 1998, founded Abcam with David Cleevely and Professor Tony Kouzarides. Jonathan is a Non-Executive Director of Horizon DiscoveryGroup plc, The Evolution Education Trust, GeoSpock Ltd and Sydicate Room Group Ltd. He is also Chairman of Axol Bioscience Ltd, PhoreMost Ltd, Repositive Limited, Definigen Limited and Cambridge Allergy Ltd. Jonathan holds an executive director position at Meltwind Limited, being a designated member of Meltwind Advisory LLP. Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur and investor and is passionate about supporting UK life science and high-tech start-ups. He has provided considerable investment and support to over 30 companies and has assisted three AIM IPOs.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Quibim — Leading radiomics company pioneering quantitative imaging biomarkers and medical applications in precision medicine.
- 52 North Health — At 52 North we are developing fully-integrated clinical, AI and medical-device based systems.
- Exciting Instruments — Exciting Instruments Limited is a joint company founded in Sheffield that combines the software prowess of Bulldozer Limited with Dr. Timothy Craggs' knowledge of single molecules. Through the use of cloud connectivity and real-time data visualisation, we are a genuine science and software partnership on a mission to assist you in streamliningthe procedure for creating discoveries in biophysics, life sciences, drug discovery, and medical diagnostics.
John Taysom started the Reuters Venture Capital Fund in Palo Alto in 1995 making 82 investments in internet and web infrastructure and services including Verisign, UltraDNS, Digimarc, ZeroKnowledge and Intertrust. He was a member of the Board of Digimarc pre and post its Nasdaq IPO, a Board member at Intertrust and a Board member at TIBCO throughits Nasdaq IPO. To date, seventeen of his investments have achieved an IPO.John acquired the Fund in an MBO in 2002. Now London-based with a seed portfolio of thirty US and UK start-ups; one has achieved an IPO and several have been acquired by Experian, Linkedin, Tesco, BMC and others.In 2011 and 2012 John took a Fellowship at Harvard to work on privacy issues and holds EU and US patents on a method of improving privacy online. For 2015 John is a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy and a Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, at UCL. He is a member of the Board of the Web Science Trust; chairs Performance Horizon, a fast growing UK startup; is a Governor at Hurstpierpoint College; and runs a small farm in Devon.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- LGN — LGN's edge AI management software puts you in complete technical and financial control of your edge AI systems.
- Tenyks — Tenyks gives Computer Vision Engineers the insights to build more reliable models faster! Collaborate to identify and fix dataset issues. Improve data quality. Boost model performance. No more wondering in the dark.
- Worldr — Valarian | Innovating for the new era of digital sovereignty
Will Brooks - Founder & 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.
Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
- Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
- TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.
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.
Dave Bailey is CEO of The Founder Coach, an organisation that supports venture-backed founders around the world. Dave runs several programs for startup and scale-up CEOs, and works one-on-one with a limited number of CEOs as executive coach and mentor. Dave is editor-in-chief of The Founder Coach blog, and hosts The Founder Coach Podcast, mentorsat Techstars in London, and angel invests in areas of his domain knowledge.Previously, Dave co-founded three VC-backed businesses including Delivery Hero, Ezlearn and Spotnight. Dave studied Mathematical Sciences at Oxford University, before going on to Stanford Graduate School of Business and Singularity University.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Events
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- TEOOH — TEOOH is a platform for hosting Virtual Events. From panel discussions to business conferences, anyone can host or attend virtual events in just a few clicks. Our aim is to become the easiest and most powerful way to engage global audiences, by allowing communities across the world to attend events and interact as they would do in the physicalworld, without the hassle of travelling or finding a venue.For more information, please visit www.teooh.com.
- Inside.com — Inside.com is the only source you'll need for daily roundups and analysis of the latest news and trends in the world of business, tech, and venture capital. Inside Network of Newsletters are designed for the up-and-coming entrepreneur and creator, as well as for the C-Suite executive looking to keep finger on the pulse of what's happeningin the industry. With curated news stories, topic deep dives, and founder interviews, you'll find that Inside is the one news source you'll need to stay in-touch, ahead of game, and inspired to be at least 1% better everyday. Subscribing to Inside is free, try it today at Inside.com
- Thread — Discover the service that only recommends clothes in your style, size and budget. All online and completely free.
Alice Bentinck is co-founder of Entrepreneur First, the early stage investor that builds deep tech companies from scratch. EF invests in individuals with computer science and engineering backgrounds and has built more than 100 companies. Their portfolio includes exits such as Magic Pony Technology to Twitter for a reported $150m and Represent toCustom Inc for close to $100m. Alice set up Code First: Girls, a not-for-profit that helps young women explore careers in technology, including teaching them to code for free. She is also on the Imperial College Computer Science Industrial Liaison Board and was made an MBE in 2016.
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Investment focus
- Software, Big Data, Child Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
- Koru Kids — Koru Kids was made for busy modern families. Search vetted nannies for just the days and times you need.
- DevicePilot — DevicePilot Service Monitoring for connected devices provides a single pane of glass for Product, Operations and Customer Support teams, driving up customer satisfaction and growth, while reducing operational costs.
Sir Terry Leahy joined Cheshunt, England-based Tesco in 1979 and held marketing positions at the retailer before becoming commercial director of fresh foods in 1986 and a member of the board in 1990. Leahy was appointed Chief Executive of Tesco plc in March 1997.Leahy received a Knighthood for services to food retailing in the 2002 New YearHonours. He was voted as Britain’s Most Admired Leader (2005 and 2006) by Management Today, recognized by the Wall Street Journal and CNBC as European Business Leader of the Year (2005), and named European Businessman of the Year by Fortune (2004). A Guardian Unlimited Politics panel found him to be the most influential non-elected person in Britain in 2007.Leahy is a Director on the Liverpool Vision Regeneration Board and a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council.In 2010 he received the Daily Telegraph’s Award for a Decade of Excellence in Business, a Lifetime Achievement award from Director Magazine, and was voted Business Person of the Year by the Sunday Times.Sir Terry Leahy retired from Tesco in March 2011.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
- SYNALOGiK — Synalogik helps organisations improve efficiency and slash costs through automated data aggregation when multiple data sources are required.
- BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.
Co-Founder at Skyscanner
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Investment focus
- Apps, Big Data, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Decidz — Decidz is a free app which takes the stress out of making plans and helps you turn your ideas into actions. If you have ever been frustrated by trying to find a date everyone is free or struggled to find something to do which everyone can agree on then decidz is the app for you. Launched in 2015, Decidz is based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- DevicePilot — DevicePilot Service Monitoring for connected devices provides a single pane of glass for Product, Operations and Customer Support teams, driving up customer satisfaction and growth, while reducing operational costs.
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, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Hungary, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wordsmith AI — Wordsmith offers the best AI tools for legal teams, including AI-powered contract review, document generation, and legal chatbots. Trusted by top companies, Wordsmith helps lawyers streamline workflows, speed up legal processes, and increase productivity.
- Ember — Travel by electric bus between Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Stirling, Kinross, Fort William, Edinburgh Airport and more. Brand-new buses, affordable fares and real-time tracking.
- Maison Sport — Book ski lessons online with highly qualified ski instructors. Ski & snowboard lessons & ski school in Morzine, Meribel, Val Thorens, Courchevel, Avoriaz, Tignes, Val d'Isere, Zermatt, Verbier & more
Matt co-founded EF after being a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Prior to EF Matt spent his time studying at MIT fuelled by an obsession with R, Python and unusual datasets. EF is the best place for Europe’s top technical individuals to meet and build world-changing startups in London.They select purely on the basis of technical talent, so youcan apply before you have a team or an idea. The intensive 6-month programme is designed to give you the best possible support in the first 200 days of your startup’s life.They have created over 40 startups now worth over $300 million. The startups are funded by some prestigious investors including Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Octopus Investments and Y Combinator.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
- Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
- Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
An investor, engineer and entrepreneur.Ben is a Managing Director at Coral Reef. He works with and invests in tech entrepreneurs, startups and growth companies. He also works on a number of social impact and art projects such as TradeRelief, Root Matter and Exhibition Collective. Prior to this Ben held investment director roles at 3i Group plcand Barclays Private Equity where he managed investments, exits and sat on the board of 10 companies. In 2008 Ben helped set up and now manages TradeRelief - a charity investing in social enterprises in developing countries.Ben holds a 1st class Masters in Engineering Science from Oxford University, an Investment Management Certificate from the CFA, and obtained a Chartered Accountancy qualification from ICAS
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Apps, Casual Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Vidsy — Vidsy is the creative technology platform that helps global brands and agencies create high-performing video ads. Connect with our global network of creators and streamline your content creation process.
- Fliplet — Create custom apps using Fliplet's app editor. Chances are Fliplet has already built 90% of your app. Features include no-code / low-code CMS, mobile/desktop/tablet support, data management, security, analytics and more.
- SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.
Harry is a partner at OMERS Ventures, previously at Balderton Capital & BGF Ventures- and the youngest investor in the inaugural Forbes "Midas List Europe", thanks to investments such as The Hut Group, GoCardless, Touch Surgery and Revolut. Prior to Balderton, Harry co-founded Firefly Tonics, a healthy energy drink brand that sells inover 30 countries, sold to Private Equity in 2012. Harry started his career at McKinsey & Co., the strategy consultancy, in London and New York.
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Investment focus
- Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- SeedLegals — Grow faster with SeedLegals. Unlimited expert support included. Trusted by 60,000+ startups and investors.
- LVNDR Health — Get ready for sexual healthcare with you at the centre
Deborah Quazzo is a Managing Partner at GSV Ventures and a Co-founder at ASU+GSV Summit. She was a Founder and Managing Partner at GSV Advisors. He attended Princeton University and Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Unmudl — Unmudl is the Skills-to-Jobs™ Marketplace, connects learners and employers via a coast-to-coast network of leading community colleges. Through Unmudl, learners easily access courses and short-term credential programs that lead to jobs. These jobs pay family-supporting wages and contribute directly to the country's economic growth and recovery.Employers use the Unmudl marketplace to source diverse talent directly from courses and programs.
- Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
- Daybreak Health — Daybreak partners with youth, families, and schools to create personalized, easily accessible, and affordable mental health programs.
David Gammon 17 years investment banking experience. He founded Rockspring in 2002 and is a Cambridge Angel.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, SaaS, Legal
- Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Pekama — Pekama helps companies leverage big data to manage their intellectual property. Within 30 seconds, companies can access their existing IP and build their own IP dashboard. This allows them to make data-driven, informed, decision and build a sensible strategy.
- Privitar — Informatica is an Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader that brings data to life by empowering businesses to realize the transformative power of their most critical assets.
- Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
Bill is the founder of the William Currie Group, which specializes in investments in the retail, e-
commerce and tech sectors. Previously Bill was a top-ranked, multi award-winning retail analyst for Barclays (BZW), Hoare Govett and Charterhouse Securities, where he was Joint Managing Director. Current directorships include Eagle Eye Group PLC,Metapack Ltd, and LTS Group. Key past investments have included ASOS, QXL, The Hut Group, Zooplus, Caffé Nero and Anatwine
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sirenum — Sirenum is a cloud-based platform for managing the staff lifecycle for agencies, recruiters and organisations who rely on staff for operational purposes.Sirenum is built on a highly agile technology platform, which allows us to connect with other service providers for functions not yet in the system. This trick allows us to deliver features thatthey would not otherwise have, if a client requires these features up front. Once significant demand for a particular feature becomes apparent, they may decide develop that feature in house, replacing the outside vendor and retaining additional profits.Sirenum is geared towards employers who operate complex workforces of shift workers. Sirenum is particularly suited to the Staffing, Railway, Aviation, Construction, Hospitality, Healthcare, Home care, Deliveries, Logistics and Transportation. Operators in these sectors typically have hundreds or thousands of employees.
- SYNALOGiK — Synalogik helps organisations improve efficiency and slash costs through automated data aggregation when multiple data sources are required.
- Uptime — Thousands of life lessons extracted from the world's best books, courses, documentaries, and podcasts - packed into 5 minute Knowledge Hacks.
Iain McDonald - Founder @ Belerion Capital
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Big Data
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- WorkAngel — They are changing people's perception of how to do employee engagement and improve staff retention in the mobile age.They offer a way for global enterprises to fast track their mobile presence internally to bring the company’s internal digital experience in line with what is expected by their employees. Featuring cross-platformcommunication & collaboration tools, a social recognition platform and online and in-store discounts & deals to offer personalised employee benefits & rewards relevant to the individual.
- Purple — Purple’s solution allows businesses to monitor their physical spaces and actively promote their brand, while providing valuable insights into customer behavior within venues.With over 20 million users across 83 countries, Purple works with a range of brands and venues, including Legoland, Jaguar, United Wireless Arena, City of York, TUI,Centurylink, Pizza Express, British Land, Merlin Entertainments Group and the Indiana Pacers.It has a global agreement in place with Westcon Comstor, in addition to an active reseller base of over 950 in 80 countries. Purple employs over 100 full time staff and currently has offices in the UK, US, Spain, Australia, Singapore and Chile, with more offices planned.Purple is experiencing growth in multiple sectors, including hospitality, where people have time to spend online; in retail, where footfall tracking is essential; in healthcare, offering transparency around service and communication; and in entire cities moving towards the Internet of Things.Purple divides its offering into two specific segments; WiFi Solutions and Location Services. Free and Enhanced licenses are available for both WiFi Solutions and Location Services.As a brief product summary:Purple WiFi is the well-established guest WiFi, analytics, and marketing product. Key features include: Splash Pages - Create branded splash pages with our drag and drop editorEmail & SMS - Send emails & SMS based on demographics and behaviorReviews - Connect review platforms and send feedback requestsContent FilteringBandwidth ManagementReporting and InsightsPurple Location is a location based services product that works to actually pinpoint devices within physical spaces. Key features include: Proximity Marketing - Zone Flow, Journey ManagementHeatmappingMoving Venues - For Public TransportWiBeacons - Location HardwarePress contacts:Lloyd Gofton lloyd@liberatemedia.com+44 (0)7919 353 484
- Secret Sales — Summer Sale - Shop up to 75% off Superdry, ASOS, Gucci, Tom Ford & more for men, women & kids.
Bob Willet
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Big Data, B2B
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- WorkAngel — They are changing people's perception of how to do employee engagement and improve staff retention in the mobile age.They offer a way for global enterprises to fast track their mobile presence internally to bring the company’s internal digital experience in line with what is expected by their employees. Featuring cross-platformcommunication & collaboration tools, a social recognition platform and online and in-store discounts & deals to offer personalised employee benefits & rewards relevant to the individual.
- Purple — Purple’s solution allows businesses to monitor their physical spaces and actively promote their brand, while providing valuable insights into customer behavior within venues.With over 20 million users across 83 countries, Purple works with a range of brands and venues, including Legoland, Jaguar, United Wireless Arena, City of York, TUI,Centurylink, Pizza Express, British Land, Merlin Entertainments Group and the Indiana Pacers.It has a global agreement in place with Westcon Comstor, in addition to an active reseller base of over 950 in 80 countries. Purple employs over 100 full time staff and currently has offices in the UK, US, Spain, Australia, Singapore and Chile, with more offices planned.Purple is experiencing growth in multiple sectors, including hospitality, where people have time to spend online; in retail, where footfall tracking is essential; in healthcare, offering transparency around service and communication; and in entire cities moving towards the Internet of Things.Purple divides its offering into two specific segments; WiFi Solutions and Location Services. Free and Enhanced licenses are available for both WiFi Solutions and Location Services.As a brief product summary:Purple WiFi is the well-established guest WiFi, analytics, and marketing product. Key features include: Splash Pages - Create branded splash pages with our drag and drop editorEmail & SMS - Send emails & SMS based on demographics and behaviorReviews - Connect review platforms and send feedback requestsContent FilteringBandwidth ManagementReporting and InsightsPurple Location is a location based services product that works to actually pinpoint devices within physical spaces. Key features include: Proximity Marketing - Zone Flow, Journey ManagementHeatmappingMoving Venues - For Public TransportWiBeacons - Location HardwarePress contacts:Lloyd Gofton lloyd@liberatemedia.com+44 (0)7919 353 484
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
- Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome. No awkward meeting bots - just beautiful notes for you and your team, every single time.
- Dex — Dex is a SaaS company that offers an AI assistant to act as user's personal talent agent and scan the tech market for next opportunity.
- Grouphug — Generates memes from the archive of group WhatsApp chats
Wendy Tan White is the Chief Executive Officer of Intrinsic. She Previously worked at X, the moonshot factory as the Vice President, Moonshots at Alphabet, X.Wendy Tan White attended Imperial College London.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Multiverse — We provide equitable access to economic opportunity, for everyone.
- Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
- DevicePilot — DevicePilot Service Monitoring for connected devices provides a single pane of glass for Product, Operations and Customer Support teams, driving up customer satisfaction and growth, while reducing operational costs.
Darrin Disley is the CEO, Director & Investor at Mogrify. He attended University of Cambridge.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Big Data
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- bit.bio — Bit.bio specializes in the fields of coding and biology that determine the identity of every human cell. Their mission is coding cells for health. To do so, we apply the principles of computation to biology. Bit.bio's current focus is to develop a scalable technology platform capable of producing consistent batches of every human cell. Thishas the potential to unlock a new generation of medicine: it will enable research and drug discovery to move on from inappropriate models and work with the cells that actually are affected by the human disease. A scalable platform of consistent cells will also be the basis for a new generation of cell and tissue therapies. To achieve our goals, we have assembled a team of pioneers in stem cells, cellular reprogramming, mathematical modeling, and cell therapy. Collaboration is at the heart of bit.bio. We are empirical, highly ambitious, and driven by a common purpose.
- Mogrify — Mogrify is pioneering a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapy and transforming the development of ex vivo cell therapy.
- Desktop Genetics — Desktop Genetics is an international biotechnology company established in 2012 to help researchers discover and treat the root genetic causes of human disease. Today, Desktop Genetics is a recognised leader in genome editing technology, staffed by dedicated team of genome editing experts, bioinformaticians and data scientists, driven by thereal-world impact of CRISPR technology.They have invested four years developing their core technology, DESKGEN AI, trained on the largest database of genome editing data in the world. DESKGEN AI powers their flagship DESKGEN CRISPR Library product range, which enables the work of their pharma, biotech and academic customers working in drug discovery and functional genomics. Desktop Genetics' tools and technologies are used by over 1800 organisations all over the world, and their projects contribute directly to several key partnerships to bring CRISPR into the clinic. The company has received awards from Fast Company, Kairos 50 and SxSW Interactive.
Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Auro — Auro is a mobile fitness-tech solution providing you with a personal trainer in your ear. We believe that fitness is at its effective best, when it is personalized, engaging, and accessible anytime. We break down the barriers to exercise by providing millions of people all over the world access to a personal trainer along with the best of contentthat boutique studio fitness has to offer.We’re creating a truly motivating, connected fitness experience that keeps people coming back for more by combining world class instructors, killer playlists and data science led personalisation.Our mission is to transform lives by making fitness experiences awesome, accessible and affordable.
- HEY HOLY — We’re transforming pet care — with a breed-specific health concept instead of one-size-fits-all, with longevity at its core
- ClickClickDrive — ClickClickDrive is a developer of a search engine designed for users to find driving schools.The company's platform helps users to find information on different driving schools, find evaluations/recommendations published by driving students and also offers an easy-to-use theory application to help them prepare for the exam, enabling usersto choose the best driving school for them.
David Braben Chairman at Frontier Developments.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Crowdfunding, Trading Platform
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
Paolo Rubatto is Managing Director of Start Capital. His background is mainly entrepreneurial, advising startups from the consumer internet to the life sciences sector in their business development strategies as well as in their fundraising. He holds an MBA from London Business School.
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- Software, Big Data, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.
- Coindirect — BVNK is a next-generation payments platform. We're making payments as accessible and resilient as the internet.
- Kosmik — Kosmik is a visual collaboration platform. Kosmik is based around a zooming user interface where you can store and edit any type of data. Kosmik is the first "dSaaS" (decentralized Software as a Service), relying on a custom designed peer-to-peer database, maximizing user privacy, offering offline first comfort and end to end encryption.
Joanne Wilson has had many careers. She started out in retail, eventually moving to the wholesale arena. She then transitioned to the media side of the technology world, before once again reinventing herself as an investor. She is currently an active angel investor with a portfolio of over 90 companies such as Food52, Sweeten, Vengo, Nestio, Phinand Phebes, Makers Row, Clutter, and Union Station. She has been involved in numerous real estate transactions from beginning to end and continues to make investments in that world. She is also an investor in a few restaurants in the New York area. In addition to these endeavors, Joanne has been involved in various education projects and served as chairperson at Hot Bread Kitchen, non-profit committed to increasing access to the culinary industry for woman and minority entrepreneurs. She also sits on the board of The Highline. Joanne has maintained her very popular blog, www.gothamgal.com for over 11 years and has recently take her talents to the airwaves on her podcast, ""Positively Gotham Gal"". She loves to bake, cook, throw a good party, travel, read, collect art, do the crossword and stay on top of what's happening around the globe and in NYC.Her most successful venture is being married to her best friend, Fred and raising their three kids- Jessica, Emily and Josh
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- E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Poland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.
- Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.
- Porter Road Butcher — Pasture-raised beef, pork, lamb, and chicken delivered straight to your door. Free of antibiotics, hormones, and GMOs. All of our beef is dry aged for 14 days! Shop better meat per piece or per month with Butcher's Choice Subscription Boxes at Porter Road.
Angie is the CEO and co-founder of Attunement AI. Prior to founding Attunement AI, Angie was a partnership lead at Stripe and NVIDIA
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- B2B, Health Care, Advanced Materials
- Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Magic — Get whatever you want on demand with no hassle, through SMS. Send us a text message, and we'll get you anything you want, tip included. We'll order what you need from the appropriate service (e.g. DoorDash, Instacart, Postmates, etc.), and deal with them so you just automatically get what you want, like magic...
- LOOMIA — Loomia makes soft circuit circuit systems ( e-textile systems) that be used in a wide range of soft goods. We serve customers in medical wearable, automotive interiors and outdoor apparel and accessories
- LVNDR Health — Get ready for sexual healthcare with you at the centre
Collis Ta'eed grew up in Papua New Guinea. He moved to Australia to attend university and later worked as a web designer, selling Flash stock on the side. His experience selling stock inspired him to co-found Envato with his wife, Cyan Ta'eed, and best friend, Jun Rung. Collis has served as Envato's CEO since the company'sfounding in 2006.
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- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Email
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United Kingdom
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- Refilled — Refilled is an eco-friendly company that offers smart drink dispenser vending machines to eliminate single-use plastic bottles.
- YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne
- Bloom Impact Investing — Bloom Impact Investing provides an investment platform to investors wanting to make a difference to the environment. Join us to access clean energy and cleantech investment portfolios that your future self will thank you for.
Mike Ryan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bullet Point Network. He has almost 30 years of investment, capital markets and management experience. Mike is an active private investor, entrepreneur and board member. Prior to founding Bullet Point Network, he served as head of public equity and absolute return at the Harvard endowment, partner and co-headof global equity products at Goldman Sachs and head of global securities at Credit Suisse. Since 2009, Mike has been the CIO of MDR Capital, his family office, and was the co-founder of JAI Capital Management, a concentrated fundamental long-short equity strategy. At Harvard, Mike was responsible for $18 billion in assets across a range of direct investments and external manager allocations. He also served as a member of Harvard’s investment committee and executive team. At Credit Suisse, Mike was responsible for research, sales, trading and proprietary investments in global fixed income and equities. He was a member of the management committee and the extended executive board. At Goldman Sachs, Mike held numerous leadership positions and worked in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. After becoming a partner in 1998, Mike ran Asian capital markets, global equity derivatives and global equity products. He was a member of the partnership committee as well as the Asian management committee. Mike has served as a director, committee chair or board chair on numerous corporate and non-profit boards. Mike currently serves on the board of 5x5 Telecom, Scholarship America, Management Leadership for Tomorrow and Staten Island ACHIEVE. He graduated summa cum laude from from Yale University with a B.A. in economics, and was an Academic All-American in basketball.
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- SaaS, Big Data, Analytics
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Yumpingo — Yumpingo's customer experience management empowers hospitality teams to make high-impact decisions with unique clarity & confidence. Book your demo!
I have 30+ years as a founder, operator, investor, board member and advisor. I have founded/co-founded multiple companies and have dealt with cofounder issues directly. I have invested in individual companies that have achieved $2b in revenue, $1b in profit, $30b in valuation. Plus on the other side of the spectrum, I have seen lots ofdifferent poor behaviour by some investors, founders and lawyers. My value add is:
- the ability to quickly filter out the wrong people.
- fundraising
- strategy
- focus
- making tough decisions
- cashflow planningCurrently investing directly in startups (mainly tech) at all stages and in funds (most asset classes) as an LP globally. I invested early in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity Software (NYSE:U), Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), Gameclub (acquired by Take-Two Interactive), Doppio Games (acquired by Fortis). Previously, I cofounded a seed VC firm & was an investment banker at various firms. I have both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.If you message me with a pitch deck link for your company or fund then do not send me a docsend link or anything requesting an email and or password as I will ignore it. And make sure you detail the team background, why it’s the best team and why you will win.I’m also open to board positions for companies in Europe and North America. Owner of https://www.heathfieldestatenewforest.co.uk/
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Tellie — Create a free website/link-in-bio to market your art, release new music, increase your followers, sell merchandise, and share your portfolio/resume/EPK. Token Gate all.
- Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
- Glean AI — Glean AI is the only Accounts Payable solution that combines smart automation with spend intelligence and powers Finance teams to drive material savings.
Javier Rubio
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- Mobile, Big Data, Shipping
- Seed, Funding Round
- Spain, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Hanhaa — Real-Time Cargo Tracking and Monitoring Solutions for Supply Chain Visibility Reporting on the condition, location and security of your shipments
- Flax & Kale — Flax & Kale, Eat better> Be Happier> Live Longer. Welcome to the fascinating world of tasty, healthy and sustainable food. Flexiterian restaurants in Barcelona and Madrid. Reserve your table or place an order online and enjoy a diet based on 80% vegetable origin and 20% blue fish. Because eating healthy doesn't have to be boring.
David Castle
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Investment focus
- Cyber Security, Software, Content
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Barac — Ozone Webflow template highly suitable for creating websites for startups, apps, softwares, SaaS and technology business.
- Simudyne — Our enterprise simulation software is used by financial institutions to quickly and efficiently simulate future scenarios in a safe, virtual environment.
- Polly Portfolio —
Timothy Abbott - Founder & CEO @ Zulip
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- Analytics, SaaS, Ride Sharing
- Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Smarking — Real-time, centralized, parking data for your key metrics: occupancy, revenue, transactions, YoY performance, the parking industry benchmark, and more. #1 business intelligence platform for parking operators, real estate owners, and municipalities. Powering 2,500 locations across North America.
- Apptimize — Learn how forward-thinking product teams fuel data-driven growth through Apptimize's Mobile A/B Testing and Release Management platform.
- Expii — Expii is a free personalized learning website with thousands of math and science lessons, providing diverse ways to learn each topic, through interactive explanations and video.
Tom Glocer joined BlueVoyant as Executive Chairman and Founder in 2017.
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- Software, FinTech, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Superlegal — Superlegal, the world's #1 contract automation platform, is the fastest, easiest and most cost effective way to negotiate and close deals.
- Cradle — Engineer Better Proteins Faster. AI for modern protein engineering teams.
- Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
Lisa Stone
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Investment focus
- Education, SaaS, Big Data
- Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SAM Labs — SAM Labs provides everything you need to deliver the most engaging STEAM and Coding learning experience in your classroom with Hardware, Software and curriculum-aligned lesson plans
- Arbor Education — Arbor helps schools tranform the way they work, saving teachers time and improving student outcomes. The company has two products, a Management Information System to automate school workflows, saving teachers time, and benchmarking analytics to identify areas of concern and reduce time to intervention.
Liad Agmon joined Dynamic Yield Liad as CEO in 2012.Agmon is a serial entrepreneur with rich experience as a startup founder and as a Fortune 500 executive. He founded information security vendor Onigma (acquired by McAfee) and social search company Delver (acquired by Sears Holdings). Following Delver’s acquisition, Liad served as a VP of NewServices at Sears Holdings and on the board of its Home Electronics and Outlets business units. Liad served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Bessemer Venture Partners and taught at the Entrepreneurship MBA program in Tel-Aviv University and at the Zell Program of IDC Herzliya. He holds a BA Cum Laude from Tel-Aviv University in Computer Sciences and Film Studies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
- Seed, Series B
- Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ConWize — ConWize is an innovative cloud-based cost estimating & bidding software with powerful features including cost analysis & predictive analytics.
- SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.
- Wenrix — Wenrix is the next generation of airfare optimization that generates new revenue streams on air volume, for online travel agencies, travel management companies, and retailers. Wenrix provides an AI-powered price and conversion optimization platform to double travel agencies' margins on flight bookings and shopper conversion.
Founder Esalen Ventures, LLC which has made more than 75 private/angel investments from pre-seed to mezzanine stages and is an LP in 8 PE Funds. Tom is also an International Fine Art Dealer with a focus on paintings of 20th century American, European and Asian artists.Prior to his current roles, Tom was an experienced executive with over 20years in cross-disciplined leadership roles in Advertising-General, Digital and Mobile, Ad Tech, Emerging Media, Technology and Early Stage Venture. Co-Founder FCB Sports Marketing, FCB/SF, IDG, Flycast (IPO), McGrath Rentcorp (IPO) and Ad Infuse (acq by Velti).
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Wave Sports + Entertainment — Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company building brands, original content, talent, and products for the next generation of digital super fans.
- Quiver — Quiver is a retail tech company that delivers e-commerce orders. Quiver was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in London.
- Hammock — Hammock gives landlords full control over their property finances. We provide real-time monitoring of all payments, made and received, bookkeeping and property tax statements, all in one place.
Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp.
Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.
- Tactic — Generate new customer insights using AI from web, internal, and 3rd party data in a few clicks.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
Biz Stone is the Co-founder and CEO of Jelly Industries, Inc. He previously worked at The Obvious Corporation as a Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer. Biz Stone attended Northeastern University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Messaging, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
- Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
- Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury
Rob founded Actix (actix.com) in 1991 and as CEO (1991-2005) grew it to over $50m revenue by 2005. More than 90% of the world’s mobile phone customers have their networks optimized by Actix software and Rob has worked with many of the world’s leading mobile operators and infrastructure vendors. In 2005 he sold a majority stake in the company toPE firm Summit Partners at a $100+m valuation. He has invested in a further 30+ startups and has had five very successful exits (he's not counting failures as they come with the territory). Rob is chairman of Robotical (robotical.io) and DevicePilot.com. He's also the founding chairman of Singletrack.com and a supporter of the unique orchestra SouthbankSinfonia.co.uk. As an inveterate tinkerer in software and hardware, he's fascinated by IoT, 3D printing and the maker movement (as you can probably see from his personal website (robdobson.com). Rob is a Fellow of the IET and has a 1st class honours degree in Electronic Engineering.
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Investment focus
- Software, Business Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
- DevicePilot — DevicePilot Service Monitoring for connected devices provides a single pane of glass for Product, Operations and Customer Support teams, driving up customer satisfaction and growth, while reducing operational costs.
- Connect4 — The client-centric platform for you and your team. Consistently deliver outstanding client meetings. Every single time.
Jenny Ervine
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FutureMatch — We enable organisations to make smarter sourcing and hire decisions through using analytics, machine learning and AI. MyPAM -> Measure and Analyse Talent Using analytics –> Predict & Improve Recruitment Processes with AI and ML = Achieve Right Talent, Right Fit for the Right Roles with ML and AI
William R. Bush is Vice Chairman And General Counsel at Bdt Capital Partners Llc and has been affiliated with Bdt Capital Partners Llc since April-2009. Bdt Capital Partners Llc is an investment advisor that manages 11.4 BN dollars in regulatory AUM and has 50 employees, of which 35 perform investment advisory functions. The managers'slatest filing has disclosed 292MM in positions, which represents 3% of the manager's regulatory AUM.
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- Big Data, Analytics, Business Intelligence
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Klood — Klood: The SaaS Growth Agency is a HubSpot Diamond Solutions Partner. Experts in digital marketing and creating strategic Gameplans for Inbound success.
Started in 2011 as a real estate broker. Today a real-estate investor & owner of several companies, from construction to renewable energy
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Investment focus
- SaaS, AgTech, Big Data
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- GEIA.AI — Experience the future of indoor farming with GEIA.AI's precision farming automation system. Optimize yields, conserve resources, and achieve sustainable farming with our advanced technology and data-driven insights.
Dorothy Chou is the Head of Public Affairs at DeepMind.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CuspAI — CuspAI is a revolutionary AI startup that is developing a platform for next-generation materials to address global sustainability and renewable energy concerns. CuspAI uses cutting-edge generative AI, deep learning, and molecular simulation to accelerate the material design process. Their platform works similarly to a search engine for materials,allowing users to request certain properties for new materials on demand.
- Finster AI — This is Finster, the tool for investment analysts that reads, cites and presents data for rapid decision-making. From the minds of JP Morgan, DeepMind and beyond, this is how to get ahead of the pack in delivering investment insights.
- Maiven — We make climate policy simple, so you can act with confidence.
Jason McGibbon is a Non-Executive Director of Fable Data
and The Scottish National Investment Bank.
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Investment focus
- B2C, Big Data, Analytics
- Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- onefourzero — Global specialists in Digital Diligence, we help Private Equity firms, Brands and Government departments understand consumer perception, digital demand, sales & marketing effectiveness and commercial trends.Through high volume observational data insights and strategy, we help you make informed investment decisions, understand opportunitiesand risks, forecast growth and hit tough KPIs.We bring together data sourced from the latest technology, sector experience and thought leadership to deliver reporting, strategy and consultation within Private Equity, Finance, Healthcare, Service Industries, FMCG and Travel sectors worldwide.Sister agency to GK Strategy.
Thor Bjorgolfsson - Entrepreneur, Businessman and Adventure Capitalist Thor Bjorgolfsson, Iceland’s first and only current billionaire, is an investor and business innovator who is not afraid of risk. He has been an entrepreneur since childhood, making his first deal at the age of 10, when he purchased a stack of vintage Marvel comics withborrowed money.In 2004, he founded Novator Partners, an alternative investment firm. He has strategically developed the company to allow it to maintain maximum flexibility as well as to facilitate investments in both strategic (buy and hold) and financial (buy and exit) opportunities.With Novator, Thor leverages private equity as well as macro investments and manages assets across a variety of sectors and geographic locations. He is an active investor in emerging economies including Central and Eastern Europe as well as Latin America.Novator Partners has been a major player in telecom businesses. Thor is a stakeholder in a Polish telecom company called Play, which went public in 2017. In addition, he holds shares in WOM, a Chilean telecommunications firm.Bjorgolfsson’s first fortune was made in post-soviet Russia. At a time when others perceived Russia to be tumultuous, he saw an underserved market that presented an exciting opportunity to invest in great ideas and businesses. He co-founded and developed Bravo Brewery, which produced beer and alcopops. Bravo became one of Russia’s premier brewing companies, particularly through its popular Botchkarov beer brand. Thor sold the business in 2002 to Heineken for $100 million.With the sale of Bravo, he was able to diversify his holdings by reinvesting in new ventures, focusing on telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, and banks. In a few years, he was able to turn that $100 million into a net worth of over $2.1 billion.A year after being featured on the 2007 cover of Forbes Magazine, Iceland went nearly bankrupt overnight and Thor found himself at the epicenter of the financial crisis. As a major shareholder in Landsbanki with personal guarantees of 350m euro, he refused to declare bankruptcy and eventually succeeded in paying off all of it. He then went on to invest in new businesses, re-establishing himself and being featured on the Forbes list of billionaires once again.During this time of rejuvenation, he wrote Billions to Bust and Back: How I Made, Lost and Rebuilt a Fortune, And What I Learned on the Way (2014). In the book, he shares his perspective of what it was like to be at the center of the storm and how he made it back to financial success. He proposes that the greatest strength an entrepreneur can possess is a positive attitude.The 52-year-old Thor was educated in the United States where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree from New York University. In 2005, he was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In spite of his intense schedule, Thor enjoys sharing his experience and business insight, making him a sought-after speaker. A multilingual Icelandic citizen, Thor spends most of his time in London, living with his wife and three children. Thor's personal passion is his collection of six motorcycles, which he rides whenever time permits.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, TV, TV Production
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Olvin — Olvin helps reactive real-world businesses get ahead of the curve and become proactive through the use of its AI powered, predictive analytics platform. Harnessing billions of real world data points, from events and precise location, through to weather and points of interest, Olvin's advanced neural network identifies patterns. Through theuse of both probabilistic and deterministic scoring, Olvin's AI provides actionable insights to brands, retailers and businesses to give them an unparalleled opportunity to delight their customers, identify opportunities and get ahead of potential threats.
- DNEG — We are DNEG, one of the world's leading visual effects and animation studios for feature film and television, honoured with the Academy Award six times
- atai Life Sciences — We are a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing new mental health treatments to transform patient outcomes.
Javier was co-founder and Executive Chairman of Cluster Consulting, until its sale to Diamond Technology Partners in 2000 to create DiamondCluster, where he was the Chairman for Europe and Latin America up until 2003.He was also a co-founder, substantial investor and the Executive Chairman of Nauta Capital, a venture capital fund based inBarcelona with offices in Boston and London and investments in both Europe and the United States. For instance, he led the investment in Social Point, where he is also the Chairman.Javier holds a degree in Telecommunications from the University of Barcelona and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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- Mobile Apps, Food and Beverage, Beauty
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Spain, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- VICIO — VICIO is a cloud kitchen operator who sells burgers through their online store. The company's platform provides quality burgers cooked to particular requests, french fries, and various beverages, allowing burger fans to order and enjoy their favorite burgers.
- Be Mate — BeMate is a collaborative community in which they connect travelers, hosts unique apartments and hotels.
- Pangea — Pangea is a travel store with an innovative and disruptive concept in the tourism sector that brings together countries in one place. Pangea is an omnichannel travel agency that was born with the aim of revolutionizing a sector that until now had not evolved much. Pangea has a reference store in Madrid of more than 1,500 m2 that includes acafeteria, specialized bookshop and thematic selling areas with expert advisors in each destination. This specialized advisory service offered by Pangea, together with its differential product range, has allowed it to exceed the figure of 9 million euros of sales in its first year of life. Pangea has incorporated new investors to replicate the success of its business model with the opening of new stores in different cities and strengthen its online business strategy.Pangea was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Stuart Marks is a successful entrepreneur who has built and sold four businesses over the past 25 years. They have spanned several sectors including CRM, location-based services and digital media. Every company applied innovation to challenge existing business models.Stuart has worked with a diverse and international customer-base includingSainsbury’s, British Airways, Unilever, Vodafone, BMW and various government agencies across the world. His previous company, ITIS Holdings plc, was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was Europe’s leading provider of real-time traffic information and connected car technology.The first company to commercialize crowdsourced data from GPS devices and mobile phone networks, Stuart sold the firm in 2011 to Washington-based INRIX before going on to establish L Marks to invest in the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
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- Software, Information Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States
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- Urbix — Urbix is producing a management dashboard for municipalities to manage their data and processes to ensure that decisions are made based on hard evidence which is readily available in an easy to understand format.
- WeFiFo — WeFiFo launched in 2016 and is a multi-award-winning platform that enables enthusiastic home cooks, Supper Club hosts and professional chefs to share their food with paying guests. WeFiFo is Airbnb for the kitchen table but offers much more than just a marketplace. Designed to encourage and empower talented cooks to monetise their kitchen skills,WeFiFo offers a sophisticated infrastructure allowing hosts to up-skill and earn a transformative income with flexible working hours and rewards. WeFiFo also supports professional chefs who don't want the risk of a bricks and mortar restaurant but want to feed a new audience. Anyone can sign up and join in, hosts are not pre-screened or curated, but ratings and reviews help guests choose between the multitude of events on offer – from novice cooks to award winning chefs at the top of their game. They are the online destination to discover exciting experiential dining near you and their platform promotes, insures and inspires cooks and chefs of all abilities to take the next step on their food journey while keeping hosts and guests safe every step of the way.
- Orbital Witness — Instant property insight - Liberation for everyone involved in property transactions.
DLK is a co-founder and General Partner of LVP. He has over 25 years experience in the games industry,Previously, he was the founder, President & CEO at Criterion Software Group, including RenderWare & Criterion Games. Before Criterion, DLK co-founded Canon Research Europe, and headed multi-million dollar R&D in computer graphics,image processing & UX. David holds degrees in Mathematical Statistics & Operations Research and a PhD inComputer Science.
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- Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom, Spain, Finland
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- BrightSun — BrightSun is a U.K.-based startup that helps venture capital and private equity investors decide which startups to invest in. it is plugged into a variety of data sources, including CapitalIQ, CrunchBase, AngelList, Appstores, Alexa rankings, company head counts on LinkedIn, press articles, and sites that the government use to track privatecompanies, like CompanyHouse. The company’s tools enable investors to source deals and track dozens of companies at any given time. BrightSun was founded in 2013.
- Bunch — Bunch is your your place to talk, share and play together
- Coda Platform — Coda Platform is a publishing platform to enable free-to-play and casual mobile games to go to market.
Charles is a business and product leader with 20 years of experience building, advising and investing in category-defining platform companies.Most recently Charles served as Chief Operating Officer at Temporal Technologies, the leader in durable execution systems where he built and led all the company’s go-to-market and product functions whilecreating the category and launching the commercial product. In less than 3 years Temporal grew its users, customers, revenues and value by 20-100 times.Prior to Temporal Technologies, Charles spent nearly 10 years building Cloudera first as the product leader and subsequently as general manager for Cloudera’s 3 high growth business units. As the longest serving member of the leadership team, Charles helped Cloudera grow from a pre-product startup with less than $10 million in funding to a multi-product public company with nearly $800 million in ARR.
Charles has advised or invested in other notable platform companies and investors including Airbyte, Baseten, Huggingface, Streamsets and Y Combinator.Charles has an undergraduate degree from Carleton College and a master’s from MIT and lives in San Francisco.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Cyprus, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Konvu — Learn more about Konvu: building the future of application security.
- Baseten — Baseten is the ML Application Builder for data science teams. Ship full-stack apps in minutes. No frontend, backend, or infrastructure knowledge required.
- Metronome — Metronome helps software companies launch, iterate, and scale their usage-based business models, with billing infrastructure that works at any size and stage.
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