Top 35 Crowdfunding Angel Investors in United Kingdom in November 2024
A list of 35 angel investors that invest in Crowdfunding startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Crowdfunding companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.Top 35 Crowdfunding Angel Investors in United Kingdom in November 2024
Investor | Crowdfunding United Kingdom investments |
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Ed Wray | 3 |
Jaan Tallinn | 3 |
Stanley Fink | 2 |
David Braben | 2 |
David Gammon | 1 |
Annika Small | 1 |
William Tunstall-Pedoe | 1 |
James Sherwin-Smith | 1 |
Jeffrey Thomas | 1 |
Vishal Amin | 1 |
Michael Bristow | 1 |
Andrew Cocker | 1 |
Gabriel Jarrosson | 1 |
Will Neale | 1 |
Kaidi Ruusalepp | 1 |
Jaewoong Lee | 1 |
Doug Scott | 1 |
Soo Hoon Hauw | 1 |
Marcus Mosen | 1 |
Jon Moulton | 1 |
Steve Thomson | 1 |
Dario Franchitti | 1 |
Matteo Gamba | 1 |
Amit Sharma | 1 |
Tim Draper | 1 |
Reece Chowdhry | 1 |
Doug Monro | 1 |
Christian Faes | 1 |
Marcus Exall | 1 |
Nick Mason | 1 |
Matt Wilkins | 1 |
Paul Willmott | 1 |
Nicolas Berggruen | 1 |
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman | 1 |
Erik Nygard | 1 |
Mr. Edward Wray, Ed is a Co-Founder of Betfair Australia Pty Ltd. Mr. Wray co-founded The Sporting Exchange Limited (Alternate Name: Betfair Limited) in May 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Betfair, he spent eight years at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a Vice President in the debt capital markets and derivatives area. He servesas the Chairman at Betfair. He has been Non-executive Chairman of The Sporting Exchange Limited since 2006. He served as the Chairman of Betfair Limited since 2006. He served as Non-Executive Chairman of Betfair Group PLC from March 17, 2008 to March 6, 2012. He has been a Director at Sporting Exchange since August 1998. Mr. Wray has been a Director of Betfair Group PLC since August 20, 1999. He serves as a Non Executive Director of Funding Circle Ltd. He served as a Director at Betfair since 1999.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Hole19 — Download Hole19's free Golf App with GPS, Scorecard and Rangefinder for iOS and Android. Plus connect with your golf buddies. Now ready for watch
- Netwealth — Netwealth uses cutting-edge technology and an expert team to provide a cost-effective wealth management service. See how we can help manage your investments.
- SmartUp.io — SmartUp is the ultimate platform for peer-to-peer knowledge creation, sharing and exchange.Conceived and developed by a seasoned team of founders and investors behind Founders Forum, Spotify, Siri, lastminute.com and others, SmartUp now hosts more than 150,000 members and is used around the world by startup founders, companies, innovators,business schools and curious entrepreneurs.SmartUp’s intuitive learning system provides communities engaging and fun ways to contribute and consume bite-sized pieces of knowledge and insight. Its powerful platform unlocks your community’s real knowledge to help every member unleash their potential.
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.
Lord Stanley Fink is a non-executive director and investor in British Pearl. He is a senior, well-known and accomplished financial services professional, with a long and diverse track record in, among others, the managed futures, brokerage and hedge fund industries.He was born in 1957 and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity Hall,Cambridge graduating with a degree in Law. He then qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982 and worked at Mars and Citibank NA before joining Man Group plc in 1987, stepping down as Deputy Chairman of the Group in July 2008 after an illustrious career spanning 21 years including a successful period as Group CEO.Currently he is Chairman of ISAM Europe LLP, a hedge fund with offices in London, Florida and Cayman. He also is a non-executive director of Marex Spectron and Chairman of Zenith Hygiene Group plc.Lord Fink is a committed philanthropist whose focus is health, education and the environment. His roles include being a Trustee of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), a Trustee of the Mayor’s Fund for London and Co-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He was Chairman of the highly successful campaign by the Evelina London Hospital's Appeal to raise £10 million to assist in equipping the new hospital in 2005. He is also Chair Emeritus of the Board of Governors of Burlington Danes Academy which he sponsored through ARK. He was raised to the Peerage in 2011.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- mmi Analytics — Make better-informed brand communications decisions on a local, global and campaign level. Talk to us about how you can increase your beauty brand sales.
- Blackbullion — Blackbullion is the all in one student money space where you can build your money management skills, gain financial confidence and apply for student funding.
- CharitableBookings.com — CharitableBookings.com is an online platform that gives back to charity on the users behalf for free, while users earn deals on hotels and travel, and gain access to lifestyle privileges. Based in London, UK, but offering global travel, hospitality and lifestyle deals to its users. So far the startup has raised investment of over £5m, with keyinvestors including Lord Stanley Fink, former CEO of Man Group plc. https://charitablebookings.com/
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.
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.
Annika Small is the Co-founder and Associate of CAST.
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Investment focus
- Charity, Crowdfunding, Social Media
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lightful — Lightful helps nonprofits and charities develop the skills, tools and confidence to build trust and gain support online
William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng is a British entrepreneur focused on world-changing products powered with Artificial Intelligence and other deep technology. He is based in Cambridge and London UK. He founded the British company Evi (formerly True Knowledge), the AI platform acquired by Amazon and where William, the team and the technology developed byEvi was used to create Alexa. He left in 2016. William is an active angel investor with investments in more than 100 startups. He is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab and a full member of Cambridge Angels.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
- LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
- Unlikely AI — We are pioneering safe, trustworthy and powerful artificial intelligence
James Sherwin-Smith is the Founder at Fintech & Payments Club.
Engineer by education, Consultant by experience, Entrepreneur at heart.
Equally at home in a startup or large corporate, I specialise in the application of technology within Financial Services businesses - aka Fintech & Payments.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Energy
- Equity Crowdfunding, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- AllPlants — Enjoy healthy, chef-made vegan food packed with flavour & plant power. Ready from your freezer in minutes. Join the tribe fuelling their days with delicious plants and enjoy 15% off your first 3 orders.
- Crowdcube — Whether you're a beginner or an experienced investor, we make it simple to buy and sell shares in Europe's most exciting high-growth businesses.
- Powervault — Powervault is a new home electricity storage product which helps all households use energy more efficiently. It can store and supply solar energy or cheap electricity, and provide emergency power during black outs.
Jeffrey Thomas is a Co-Founder of Digital Reef. He attended University of East London.
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Investment focus
- Charity, Crowdfunding, Social Media
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lightful — Lightful helps nonprofits and charities develop the skills, tools and confidence to build trust and gain support online
Vishal Amin
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Feedr — Probieren Sie Deutschlands Top Catering Service | EatFirst
- Propio — Get quality language services solutions with Propio Language Services. Expert translation, interpretation, and localization services.
- Abacus Insights — Abacus insights builds best-in-class healthcare platforms for our customers. Similarly we are committed to building our company upon a strong foundation of values, which guides our every day choices, actions, and interactions. Apply to join our product, engineering, security and architecture teams.
Michael Bristow is the CEO & Co-Founder of CP Capital. He previously worked at Peer-to-Peer Finance Association as a Board Member. Michael Bristow attended London Business School.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Belgium, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- RENTUU — Rentuu has been featured for the last 3 years in a row in the UK's Top 100 UK Start-Ups List, and operates a global, fast-growing, cloud-based technology platform and franchise network for the multi-billion pound sterling equipment hire industry. We’re a venture capital backed technology start-up backed by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (founder ofeasyJet) and other institutional investors with the exclusive rights to the easyHire brand in a number of countries, including the UK, EU, Switzerland, South Africa, and Dubai to facilitate equipment rental for construction and party equipment.
- Howsy — Howsy is a real estate management platform that provides repairs management and renewal services for landlords and tenants. Howsy. A new concept designed to shake up the way of renting works for good. Its on a mission to create a simple, intuitive and fairly priced experience that’s powered by new ideas and brilliant technology.
- CrowdProperty — CrowdProperty is a specialist property project lending platform used to facilitate short-term loans. It is a profitable fintech lending innovator that matches demand that property professionals undertaking property projects and supply that is retail investors of capital for value-creating property projects that enable clients to get a better dealfor the borrowers, lenders, the under-supplied housing environment, and increased spend in the economy.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Andrew Cocker
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.
Gabriel Jarrosson created his first website at 13, then sold his first startup at 25.
Serial entrepreneur and investor in more than 100 startups with 15 exits, he has since founded Leonis Investissement, a private club that offers its members the opportunity to invest in fast-growing startups in Silicon Valley that they would not have access toalone. He has invested more than $30M through this club.
He is the creator of the YouTube channel "Leonis Investissement", the most followed in France on this theme.
Since 2023, he has also manages Lobster Capital, a $10M investment fund that invests in Silicon Valley startups.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, India
Portfolio highlights
- 54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
- Apprente — Learn New Stuff Every Day
- Jeeves Inc. — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.
Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Italy, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
- SAPI — SAPI provides capital access to payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.
Founder and CEO of Funderbeam, the global funding and trading platform of private companies built on blockchain. Funderbeam combines three stages of investor journey into one: startup analytics, investing, and trading on the secondary market. Powered by blockchain technology, the marketplace delivers capital to growth companies and on-demandliquidity to investors worldwide. Member of Startup Europe Advisory Board at European Commission. Kaidi is a former CEO of Nasdaq Tallinn Stock Exchange and of the Central Securities Depository. Co-Founder of Estonian Service Industry Association. The first IT lawyer in Estonia, she co-author of the Estonian Digital Signatures Act of 2000 -- landmark legislation that enables secure digital identities and, in turn, the country’s booming electronic economy. Kaidi was named as an Entrepreneur of a Year in 2018 by the Playmakers Technology Award and as a Person of a Year in 2016 by the Estonian IT and Telecommunication Association. Co-author of #Foundership Playbook and mentor of various girls and women in tech initiatives.
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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.
Jaewoong Lee is the founder of Daum Communications Corp. which is one of the leading Internet portal service companies in Asia. He also served as CEO of Lycos Inc., which was acquired by Daum in 2004 and also served as CEO of Daum for 12 years since he founded the company in 1995. He is currently a partner at "sopoong" which is asocial venture incubating company focusing on social ventures. Jaewoong also founded and served as CEO of Daum Foundation which is a non-profit focusing on solving media divide problems. He is an entrepreneur interested in social ventures and internet/media industry and he has served as board member of various internet/media companies and non-profits. Jaewoong holds B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science from Yonsei University. He is also one of Young Global Leader from World Economic Forum.
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Investment focus
- News, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Vietnam, South Korea, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Byline — BYLINE is a London-based crowdfunding journalism startup that enables journalists and bloggers to directly reach their readers. Writers can contribute regularly to a particular topic and stand the chance of getting paid per article or per month while interacting with their readers through Supporter’s Café and offer them special rewards to encouragepayment. Byline was founded by Seung Yoon Lee and Daniel Tudor in January 2007 and is based in London, England.
- Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
- Cohost AI — Cohost Club is a community of professional co-hosts and busy hosts. Thousands of co-hosts around the world can help manage your properties and short term rental business. Download our app and start renting today
Doug Scott
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.
Soo Hoon has close to 30 years of corporate and regulatory experience in the local and international insurance industry. She specializes in strategic, operational and change management issues, with a special interest in talent development and capacity building.Prior to joining iGlobe in 2008, she was Senior Managing Director at Great EasternLife Assurance, responsible for business strategies of the established markets of Singapore and Malaysia. From 2000-2005, Soo Hoon was Executive Director of the Insurance Supervision Department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), responsible for overseeing the liberalization of the insurance industry. She was also active as a former member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS).
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Investment focus
- Insurance, Crowdfunding, Personal Finance
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Inzura — Inzura provides Digital Insurance products and services to the Insurance industry enabling Insurance Companies and Brokers to offer innovative digital insurance products to their policyholders and prospects.Inzura's customer engagement Apps and cloud-based services cover the major personal insurance lines. They provide state of the artDriver Profiling Telematics, Connected Home solutions and Fitness & Well-Being human telematics.Working with Inzura, their customers gain speed to market enabled by their white label Smartphone Apps that engage users with easy to use products and services. They help Insurers improve customer service, which drives higher customer retention, they also help them to reduce fraud and reduce costs in the claims process.Their product portfolio includes; insurance policy administration mobile apps, insurance telematics (UBI / PAYG) / PHYG / MAYD), user-friendly Smartphone camera photograph analysis, data analytics and back-end server infrastructure. End users benefit from time saving and safety features built into the apps, as well as delivering new services utilising insurance telematics and driving linked rewards.
Marcus Mosen
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Supply Chain Management
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Turkey, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Yolda — Logistic operations still largely run on paper. It is almost impossible to track the vast majority of loads, receive delivery documents or measure how successful the operation is. Yolda.com is changing this with a strategic operating model that combines advanced tech and data analytics, logistics infrastructure, and hands-on supply chain expertise.Yolda.com combines the quality of cargo transportation with the diversity of haulier and the integrated service model of 3PL companies and offers a high-quality logistics experience by focusing on its customers. Yolda.com’s marketplace solution encompasses many local forwarders and logistics companies, enabling SMEs and corporate enterprises to receive an instant quote for multiple shipment requests on a single platform. Companies can also track their shipments via Yolda.com's intelligent control panel and measure their logistics operations performance with detailed reporting services.
- Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
- Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.
Jon Moulton is a British venture capitalist. He is the founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Better Capital, and is the former managing partner of the private equity firm Alchemy Partners.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Cyprus, Luxembourg
Portfolio highlights
- Pockit — Open a prepaid account in 3 minutes online or in-app, get your contactless prepaid card in 2 working days with no credit check.
- Hometree — Keep yourself warm with Hometree, and try our no price hike promise. Compare our different boiler & home cover plans to see how you can save.
- Hellas Direct — Hellas Direct is a digital-first, full-stack insurance company, empowered by cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence. The Cyprus-based company is backed by a roster of leading investors, including Portag3, IFC (a member of the World Bank), Endeavor Catalyst, former Goldman Sachs economist Lord O’Neill and private equity veteran JonMoulton. Modelling itself on Amazon, Hellas Direct aims to disrupt the insurance value chain by adopting an extreme focus on operational excellence.
Steve Thomson
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.
Dario Franchitti
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Investment focus
- Charity, Crowdfunding, Social Media
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lightful — Lightful helps nonprofits and charities develop the skills, tools and confidence to build trust and gain support online
Matteo leads the product teams taking care of Payments & Fraud at Wayfair, one of the top e-commerce retailers selling furniture and home goods in North America and Europe. Before Wayfair, he led the product function for the growth teams at (Transfer)Wise.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Series A
- United Kingdom, Italy, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Kroo — B-Social is a financial technology company that develops innovative services for a new generation of customers.It aims to make personal and social finances move at the speed of life. The fintech company builds an app that intuitively connects personal finances with their customers' social world, making it easy for them and their friends tobuy, track, and shares the experiences that bring them closer.Nazim Valimahomed and Tim Brown formed the company in 2016 in London, England.
- GuestReady — Premium Airbnb Management Service for your vacation rental. Maximise your revenues and become a Superhost with GuestReady's 5* property management service.
- Chip — Get the best savings rates brought to you and smash your savings goals automatically with Chip. Join over 400,000 savers today. We're building the best savings accounts in the world for you, with you.
Amit Sharma is the Founder and General Partner of Black Jays Investments. He attended London Business School.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- OffLimits — Offensively delicious cereal. Nothing Artificial.
- Package Free — At Package Free Shop we sell sustainable, green, eco friendly, plastic free products to help you live a zero waste, minimalist, and low impact lifestyle.
- Penelope — Penelope | The retirement platform for small business
Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- EtherMail — EtherMail is the Web 3.0 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication.
- Arkam Intelligence — See intelligence on the addresses, entities, individuals, and assets most important to you.
- SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
Reece is the Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures - an early-stage SEIS/EIS VC fund investing in technology companies primarily focused on Fintech, Enterprise and Gaming. He was awarded “Top 5 Asian Tech Investors” 2018 (KPMG & Diversity UK) and is the youngest-ever investor to profiled by The Sunday Times. Reece is a frequent keynote andpanel speaker at prominent industry events such as StartupGrind Europe and Fintech Live. Reece holds a BA in International Business from Durham University and is a Chartered Management Consultant (ACMA, CGMA) having started his career as a Management Consultant at EY.Reece invests personally in all of RLC Ventures' investments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
- Condense — Live-streamed volumetric video into game engines
- Crowd Data Systems — Crowd Data Systems (CDS) offers a new approach to treasury management. CDS has developed an ‘app by app’ Treasury Management System which is built upon cloud infrastructure, offering everything from cash to exposure management in modular parts.
Doug was most recently COO of property portal Zoopla. From 2008 he led the growth of the team from 5 to 75 people and the site to number 2 in UK property with 5M visitors a month, organically and through acquisitions. Previously he was MD of Gumtree.com, the UK's largest classified ads site, where he built the team and business through a fungrowth ramp after acquisition by eBay in 2005.Prior to Gumtree, Doug worked for eBay UK, Bain & Company, Unilever and also as an entrepreneur. Doug has a BA in English from Cambridge, an MBA from Kellogg, and hates to admit he is a qualified accountant.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Legal, Clean Energy
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- Screenloop — Screenloop is the hiring intelligence platform that allows you to source candidates, analyse interviews, and automate the reference process.
- Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.
Christian Faes was previously co-founder and CEO of LendInvest, which is a technology driven mortgage lender and a leading Fintech company. The company has over £3.5 billion of Funds Under Management, and is one of the largest non-bank mortgage lenders in the UK.
Now building Faes & Co.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
- Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
- Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Marcus is Vice President Marketing at Student.com. The focus of his role is to build traffic, enquiry and booking volume opportunities across channels and markets by leading a team of marketing professionals to build the the most trusted brand in the market.Marcus has been in marketing for 22 years with a focus on digital marketing for the last18 years. He founded and grew his own digital ad agency, Blue Barracuda, until its sale to DraftFCB in 2011, where he continued as Digital Director for 3 years. He is an adviser to and investor in various start-ups, as well as an active supporter of causes Projects for All and The Rainmaker Foundation.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Software
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Charlie — Charlie is built by serial startup founders to solve their most pressing need – more time. Designed so that it’s easy to use and simple to manage, Charlie automates the administrative headaches of running a company so you can focus on building real value.
- Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.
Nicholas Berkeley Mason, CBE is an English drummer and founder member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Social Media, B2B
- Series A, Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- LICKD — Music licensing for video Creators on YouTube & Facebook. Making music available for everyone to use, without compromise.
- Lightful — Lightful helps nonprofits and charities develop the skills, tools and confidence to build trust and gain support online
- Disciple — Disciple | Create your own community platform. No coding required
Matt Wilkins is the Advisor at Clim8 Invest.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.
Paul Willmott
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.
Nicolas Berggruen is the Founder and Chairman of the Berggruen Institute. He attended New York University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Helm.ai — Explore Helm.ai's AI software for high-end ADAS through Level 4 autonomous vehicles. Helm.ai offers a full suite of full-stack AI software, foundation models, and generative AI development and validation tools for production-bound projects.
- Story Protocol — Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos
- iLoF — iLoF is a digital health company pioneering a breakthrough AI-platform to accelerate the future of personalized drug discovery and development
Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe /
-Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger)
- Equity Markets
- Real Estate
- FX
- Commodity
- Bonds
- Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT
- Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories:
- Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint
- Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi
- D2C / B2C
- Food & Beverages
- Pharma
- Media & Entertainment
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Agnikul — Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
- Log 9 Materials — The spirit of innovation remains the cornerstone of every mission here at Log9. We have failed numerous times in this mission of ours, only to learn from them
- Toffee Ride - Learning App for Classes I - IV — Toffee Ride is a learning App that is singularly focused on helping your child develop a thorough understanding of fundamental concepts.
Erik is the Founder and CEO at Kofa.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.
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