Top 15 Cannabis Startup Investors in United Kingdom in July 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cannabis startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cannabis companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Cannabis Startup Investors in United Kingdom in July 2025
Investor | Cannabis United Kingdom investments |
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Maria Raga | 3 |
Christian Angermayer | 3 |
Simplyhealth | 1 |
Measure 8 Venture Partners | 1 |
Sophia Bendz | 1 |
Leafy Tunnel | 1 |
Fiona Pathiraja | 1 |
Salica | 1 |
Michelle Tempest | 1 |
MassMutual Ventures | 1 |
Deepbridge Capital | 1 |
Julien Codorniou | 1 |
Casa Verde Capital | 1 |
Irina Elena Haivas | 1 |
Kindred Capital | 1 |
Maria Raga is the CEO of Depop. Since being promoted to the position in 2016 from VP of Operations, she has presided over every element of the business from finance and engineering to marketing and product. An open and collaborative CEO, Maria is dedicated to her team, which has grown to 150+ employees in 5 offices worldwide in the last threeyears alone. Perhaps most importantly, since she took over as CEO, she has raised close to $100M in funding, which has helped to grow and nurture the community on Depop - now 13 million users. Prior to Depop, Maria held successively roles at Groupon and Privalia. Having graduated from Insead MBA, Maria joined Bain & Company as a consultant. Born in Valencia, Spain, Maria now resides in London with her husband and 2 children. In her spare time, Maria enjoys connecting with Depop’s entrepreneurial Gen-Z constituency and promoting women in the workplace
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Investment focus
- Video, Mobile Apps, Transaction Processing
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United Kingdom, France, Sweden
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- Patient 21 — Patient21 believes that the doctor-patient connection is the cornerstone to good healthcare and that it is their responsibility to remove any impediments to it. They think that the greatest healthcare necessitates cross-specialty collaboration and universal data access. Always with one purpose in mind: to help patients and physicians make betterdecisions.In comparison to today's linked world, healthcare appears to be trapped in the past. It continues to use the same analogue and isolated processes. Patient21 is on a quest to usher healthcare into the twenty-first century. They use data to help doctors give the most personalized treatments possible. And, with the help of their professional network, they are attempting to give a comprehensive perspective of their client's health.
- Fleek — Fleek is a B2B Wholesale Marketplace for second-hand fashion. Our buyers are vintage stores and online resellers; our suppliers are used clothing wholesalers, rag-houses, and donation centres.
- Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
Christian Angermayer - Founder & CEO @ Apeiron Investment Group
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- TRIP — TRIP is the UK's most trusted CBD Oils and CBD Drinks Supplier. Shop the UK's best CBD oils available online with FREE UK Shipping.
- Plasma — Plasma is an operational setting that supports payments, real-world assets, and DeFi, with trustless settlement on Bitcoin.
- Enhanced Games — At Enhanced, we are pioneering a new era in athletic competition that embraces scientific advancements to push the boundaries of human performance.
Simplyhealth is a healthcare center that offers cash plans, dental plans, private medical insurance, and self funded health plans.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Wellness, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States
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- PocDoc — PocDoc is a pioneer in the field of smartphone-based fast disease testing.
- 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.
- Vitrue Health — At Vitrue Health, our mission is to reduce or eliminate the impact that musculoskeletal health issues have on over 40% of the population using cutting edge technology. We believe that the foundation of successful outcomes in musculoskeletal health, at every stage of the pathway, is accurate assessment. Whether it's a desk worker with early stages of neck pain or a patient having a total knee replacement, Vitrue's technology can help.
Measure 8 Venture Partners, LP is an alternative investment vehicle created to capitalize on the emergence of the U.S. and global cannabis industry.
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- Cannabis, Alternative Medicine, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Neatleaf — Sustainable agriculture with optimal yields through data-driven understanding and comprehensive automation for everyone.
- EMMAC Life Sciences — EMMAC is a medical cannabis company that works to join together the latest science and research with cutting-edge cultivation, extraction, and production. It has developed unique supply and distribution partnerships across Europe to establish itself not only as a thought leader at the very forefront of research into the medical benefits of cannabisbut also as a European leader in the production and supply of medical cannabis, hemp, and other derivatives products.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England.
- Bloomwell Group — The Bloomwell Group provides easy access to natural-based medicine and with a patient-centric D2C approach, it mainly focuses on a strong and revolutionizing streamlined customer journey. Bloomwell Group is focusing on the treatment of chronic diseases with significantly fewer side effects than conventional medicine.
Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures
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- Health Care, Software, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
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- mayk — Mayk sounds. Mayk music. Mayk noise. Mayk it... In an app.
- Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
- Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
Leafy Tunnel is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in alternative medicine to address mental health and pain disorders.
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- Health Care, Medical, Cannabis
- Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
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- Lyphe group — Lyphe Clinic - the leading UK medical cannabis clinic. Accessible, affordable, personalised treatment plans treatment with all appointments held online.
- Maya Health — Maya Health is a psychedelic therapy software solution for researchers, providers, and participants. Click to learn more about how Maya can support you.
- Ceretype Neuromedicine — Ceretype Neuromedicine is an AI-based fMRI brain biomarker technology to improve drug discovery and patient care. Based in Cambridge Massachusetts, Ceretype is founded on seminal scientific discoveries made in the laboratory of Emily Stern, David Silbersweig, and Hong Pan at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School (BWH/HMS).
Fiona is Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, an early stage healthtech VC fund based in London and Copenhagen.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Wellness
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, Armenia
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- Unfabled — Menstrual care and wellness products for your cycle. Organic period products in sustainable packaging. Curated brands for skincare, sleep, cravings, cramping, mood swings, and relaxation. For all your self-care needs, we have you covered.
- Bloom Money — Bloom Money is a savings club app designed to help growing communities in migrant communities and use technology to promote community, safety, and convenience.
- Everyman Health — Everyman Health ist Spezialist für Männergesundheit und bietet wissenschaftlich fundierte Lösungen für Männer aller Altersgruppen. In Zusammenarbeit mit unseren Partnern, bieten wir dir ein umfassendes Portfolio von digitalen, medikamentösen und nicht-medikamentösen Therapien für unterschiedliche Männerprobleme.Über unsere Plattform wirst du inwenigen Minuten mit einem Schweizer Facharzt verbunden und erhältst eine persönliche Diagnose und gegebenenfalls ein Rezept.Auf Wunsch wird deine persönliche Behandlung von einer lizenzierten Schweizer Apotheke diskret verpackt und dir kostenlos bis vor die Haustür geliefert.
Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships.
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- Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- HeadBox — HeadBox is a new online marketplace for creative, inspiring and offsite spaces. They are the first platform in the UK to directly link their Guests (corporate and SME bookers) to their Hosts (owners of those creative, inspiring spaces) allowing you to instantly search, book and pay in an easy and seamless way saving time and hassle when planning aSpace experience.
- Merit Incentives — Seamless, API-driven solutions connecting you to a global network of 7,000+ brands, enabling real-time, instant gratification across 155+ countries.
- Bumper — Split the cost of your car repairs and servicing into manageable monthly instalments with 0% interest. Fix it. Split it. Sorted.
Michelle Tempest
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- Health Care, Cannabis, Life Science
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Daye — Daye is setting a new standard in period care and gynae health. We offer period products, vaginal microbiome screenings, and a period pain clinic.
- Medwise.ai — Medwise.ai is the Google for doctors.
MMV is a multistage, global venture capital firm investing in enterprise software, cybersecurity, financial technology, and digital health companies. We help accelerate the growth of the companies we partner with by providing capital, connections and advice.
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- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Singapore
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- XUND — Answer the most important health questions with AI-powered technology from XUND. Medically certified and CE marked.
- CloudSEK — CloudSEK leverages contextual AI to predict and prevent cyber threats. Keep your organisation safe and secure.
- Crux — The ecosystem for developers, tax credit buyers, and financial institutions to transact & manage transferable tax credits.
Deepbridge is a different kind of investment manager. They work closely with financial advisers and investors to design innovative products, ranging from investment in technology growth companies to asset-backed renewable energy projects. They also partner with innovative and committed management teams to help UK based companies realise theirpotential and become successful leading-edge businesses.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore
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- AI-Sight — AI-Sight is a startup that is developing an AI diabetic retinal screening system to deliver WHO-recommended diabetic eye screening services.
- Microplate Dx — Safeguarding against the spread of antimicrobial resistance worldwide.
- GenoMe Diagnostics — GenoME Diagnostics - We are developing a blood test for an earlier and more accurate diagnosis of ovarian cancer.GenoME Diagnostics .
Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United Kingdom, United States
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- Anybuddy — Anybuddy is a sport booking marketplace, leader in racket sport in France
- Jolly — Jolly is a rewards platform for the workplace that incentivizes employee performance. It implements performance-based incentives to increase employees utilization, compliance, referrals, and loyalty.
- Arlequin AI — Unlock actionable insights from complex social data to drive strategic decisions using our AI models.
As both the domestic and international markets continue to evolve and mature, Casa Verde maintains a view that cannabis will be among the most compelling investment themes of our generation.
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- Cannabis, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
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- Growlink — Growlink offers advanced software and hardware solutions to streamline your grow operations. Automate climate, irrigation, and nutrient delivery while gaining valuable insights to boost yields, reduce waste, and ensure consistent quality. Discover how our tools can transform your cultivation process.
- Prelude — Purpose-built to help cannabis dispensaries improve sales, profitability and cash flow by optimizing purchasing and inventory management
- Frontier Risk — Frontier Risk is the first tech-enabled insurance brokerage for the cannabis sector, led by former executives from leading cannabis companies.
Irina Haivas is a Principal. Based in London, she works on sourcing and due diligence of global investment opportunities.Irina focuses on businesses that use advanced technologies such as machine intelligence or robotics and automation, to transform large industries. She also focuses on the intersection of science and technology, including nextgeneration biology, as well as on companies in healthcare.Before joining Atomico, Irina was a growth and PE investor at GHO Capital Partners, where she invested, among others, in enterprise software and AI/ML businesses and focused on the intersection of science, healthcare and technology. Before that, Irina was part of the leadership team of Bain & Co. in Europe and the U.S., where she worked directly both with private equity firms on investment diligence, as well as with corporates on Innovation and Product, Go-to-Market, BD and acquisitions, and organisation scale-up. While at Bain she seconded in an operational role at Medtronic, one of the world’s largest medical engineering companies.Irina is a former surgeon, having studied medicine at Freiburg University in Germany and Iasi Medical University in Romania. She was a surgical fellow at Harvard Medical School before completing an MSc (Dist) in International Health Policy at London School of Economics.Irina speaks Romanian, English, advanced German, and conversational French.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United Kingdom, Estonia, Germany
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- Daye — Daye is setting a new standard in period care and gynae health. We offer period products, vaginal microbiome screenings, and a period pain clinic.
- Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
- LabGenius — Finding the next generation of drugs with machine learning, synthetic biology and laboratory automation
A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund
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- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Cakewalk — Cakewalk enables IT & Security teams to monitor all SaaS apps used by their employees, run compliant access flows, securely on- and offboard people, and be IT audit-ready.
- Latent Labs — Latent Labs is making biology programmable to transform health and sustainability for the benefit of all.We are a frontier AI lab building foundational models that capture the fundamentals of biology. We empower partners with breakthrough generative AI to gain unprecedented control over molecular biology, creating new antibodies, optimizingexisting enzymes, and advancing genetic engineering.Contact us to work with us today.
- Sohar Health — Streamline patient intake and boost revenue with Sohar's real-time insurance verification and eligibility solutions. Automate workflows, reduce claim denials, and improve conversion rates with accurate, fast, and reliable tools. Book a demo today to transform your patient onboarding process.
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