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Top 50 Digital Media Angel Investors in United Kingdom

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Digital media startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Digital media companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Digital Media Angel Investors in United Kingdom

Investor Digital Media United Kingdom investments
Paul Walton 2
Yasin Sebastian Qureshi 2
Robin Knox 2
Matt Jellicoe 2
Marco Valta 2
Colin McInnes 2
Peter Bartlett 2
Matthew Emerson 2
John Michaelis 2
Peter Gabriel 2
Mark Sherring 1
Michel Combes 1
Mike Ullmann 1
Doug Scott 1
Massimo Prelz Oltramonti 1
Raphaël Varane 1
Bootstrapped Debt Financing 1
Federico Pirzio-Biroli 1
Joachim Behrendt 1
Benjamin Yoskovitz 1
Peter Briger 1
Con Gornell 1
Sam Enrico Williams 1
Nick Kingsbury 1
Tom Hulme 1
Dmitry Shurygin 1
Andrew Rosener 1
Adeo Ressi 1
Dave McClure 1
Jesper Søgaard 1
Michael Pierce 1
Megan Kaspar 1
Antoine Nussenbaum 1
Arya Bolurfrushan 1
Richard Fearn 1
Syed Sheharyar Ali 1
Nick Robertson 1
Bill Holroyd 1
Nenad Marovac 1
Blake Picquet 1
Robert (Rob) Reeg 1
Daniel Waterhouse 1
Des Traynor 1
Rupert Loman 1
Pascal Cagni 1
Luc De Vos 1
Daniel Isenberg 1
Cozomo De’Medici 1
Andrin Bachmann 1
Giles Phelps 1
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Paul Walton Angel · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Social Network
  • Pre-Seed, 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.
  • Handl — We deliver car care services to you. Order from professional valets, oil, adblue, washer and care services and subscribe to monthly services to save money.
  • Just Venue — Just Venue is an online platform that aims to socialise event space booking, by connecting event hosts and organisers with space owners and managers. Just Venue aims to connect event hosts and organisers with venue owners and managers.The website has taken inspiration from other community platforms like AirBnB, Uber and TaskRabbit.
Yasin Sebastian Qureshi Angel
Yasin Sebastian Qureshi is the Co-Founder of KlickOwn and the Founder and former CEO of Varengold Bank. At the age of 29 he was the youngest person ever in Germany to obtain a license to run an investment bank. He is also the founder and former CEO of The NAGA Group AG www.naga.com as well as the founder of AQUA Digital Rising www.aquarising.com.He is an entrepreneur, investor and film producer born in Germany and based in London. His investments range from finance, to Internet and media.
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Haglit — The first artificial intelligence-powered sales assistant for Ecommerce
  • Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
Robin Knox Angel · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Social Network
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Canada, 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.
  • Handl — We deliver car care services to you. Order from professional valets, oil, adblue, washer and care services and subscribe to monthly services to save money.
  • My Probate Partner — The better way to navigate probate in Scotland. Avoid large probate solicitor bills by completing your application with our 5-star fixed-price support service. Designed to make sure you get Scottish probate 100% right.
Matt Jellicoe Angel
Matt Jellicoe
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Digital Media
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
Marco Valta Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 12 years experience in the tech/web industry. As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso, Relativity, Monthly.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • MIRA BEAUTY™ — KASIRJUDI Situs Togel Online Pasaran Hk,Sgp,Cambodia Dan Toto Macau Lengkap dengan Prediksi Togel Online Hari ini
  • SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
  • Salty. — Salty Dot, Inc. is the Embedded Insurance® technology company. Salty removes existing consumer impediments to buying the right policy and having the proper coverage. The company’s platform is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables carriers and distribution partners to offer a customized policy to insure a product orservice in real-time during the purchase process. Salty uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze unique data sources about the buyer and the purchase. It then sorts through multiple carriers to seamlessly offer the right insurance. Salty is licensed in all 50 states. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wearesalty.com.
Colin McInnes Angel
Colin McInnes
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Digital Media
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
Peter Bartlett Angel
Peter Bartlett
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Digital Media
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
Matthew Emerson Angel
Matthew Emerson
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Investment focus
  • Video, Training, Education
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Fluence — Training in psychedelic integration and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. International workshops, conferences, and consultation related to and mental health, MDMA, Psilocybin, ketamine, Ayahuasca, and other compounds.
  • NextUp — Stream incredible stand-up comedy. Watch over 80 exclusive shows (and counting) from great names you'll know with loads for you to discover. All with a 30 day free trial and no contract. 'The Netflix of UK Stand-Up' - Engadget.
John Michaelis Angel
John Michaelis
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Digital Media
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
Peter Gabriel Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Peter is clearly way more than a global music legend. He divides his time and energy between his music, humanitarian projects, business investments and his family.He became an investor and advisor to The Filter in 2006 and brings with him a clear vision of a need for smart filters to help us make sense of a world with too many choices. Workingwith Peter is inspiring – his passion and creativity help drive and motivate the team.
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Investment focus
  • Music, TV, Supply Chain Management
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Belgium, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Tumelo — Tumelo is an impact-focused financial technology firm. Our mission is to enable retail investors and pension members to create and benefit from a more sustainable investment system. We do this by partnering with investment and pension providers, enabling them to provide their customers with transparency over the companies they own and ashareholder voice on issues they care about, such as gender equality or climate change. Our solution is white-label software delivered via APIs and/or a user dashboard. Our software integrates with existing investment platforms improving customer engagement, acquisition and retention for providers.
  • Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
  • Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
Mark Sherring Angel
Mark Sherring
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Mobile, Collaboration
  • Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
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Michel Combes Angel
Michel Combes was the Chief Executive Officer of Assystem.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Coupons, Big Data
  • Seed, Series D
  • France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Swile — Swile got its start by disrupting the incumbent meal voucher market in France. Their all-in-one smartcard groups together all employee benefits such as meal vouchers, gift vouchers, and mobility benefits. Swile also aims to reinvent life at work and create a better work culture for all employees with their super app. Features include praises, eventcreation, collections and P2P payments between colleagues. They also offer employee engagement surveys and insight analytics. It was founded in 2018 by Loïc Soubeyrand and is based in Paris, France.
  • Shopcade — Mantra: Shopcade is leading the convergence of content and commerce, so consumers can keep up with latest news and shop related items all in one place. What we are: Shopcade is a tech platform that specializes in promoting the trendiest products, showcasing the latest content features and engaging socially with consumers. Shopcade not only actsas a publisher and marketplace, but we also drive user engagement with personalised content that helps to boost both brand awareness and sales conversion based on customers' preferences. Shopcade has been acquired by Lagardere Active in January 2017 and no longer operates on a stand-alone basis. From a tech standpoint, we are passionate about data marketing performance and partner with platforms on projects such as for example: DEV OPS - backend optimisations, performance analysis, and troubleshooting - cloud infrastructure and agile dev best practicesMOBILE - mobile API design / specificationsSOCIAL & PERSONALISATION - Provide ability for users to create, share, and buy from wish lists - Provide email and/or push notifications - Implement sharing widgets - Enable Instagram tag matching - Run Facebook campaigns for retailersSEO Boost impressions and improve click through rate by - product tagging with microformat - sitemap creation & auto-updating - Page load optimisationsANALYTICS - User acquisition tracking and performance reports - A/B testing - Google Tag manager to allow marketing team to better make use of retargeting - Monitor click behavior and improve click through rate of campaign landing pages
Mike Ullmann Angel · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Michael Ullmann has been involved in more than 40 different entrepreneurial businesses in various capacities; always as a shareholder. His main focus has been on turnarounds in the bakery business and engineering. He has served as chairman of the board for more than a dozen companies. He is currently chairman of Prodigy, an educational debtprovider and an investor in H2O, a business in water management and Black Mountain Insulation, a company providing environmentally friendly house insulation; the first two have INSEAD CEO’s and the third has been primary financed via an INSEAD network.Michael was an affiliate professor in entrepreneurship at INSEAD from 1987-2005 where he helped the Entrepreneurship Department develop into one of the most vital and popular departments in the school. Michael has backed many of his former students in their own business ventures and continues to be a mentor to several companies. He has written many cases and articles on Entrepreneurship.He has an MA from St Catherine’s College, Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD. He has been a fellow of St Catherine’s since 2004. Apart from his main hobby and passion, business, Michael enjoys games of skill and chance, along with outdoor pursuits such as shooting, sailing, skiing and golf.
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Investment focus
  • Banking, FinTech, Lending
  • Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Salaryo — Instant financing for small businesses
  • Captive Media — Captive Media is the world's only urinal gaming system. Fitted above an existing urinal, it creates an interactive game that men find funny, cool, weird - but always engaging. There's a different game for every month, from "Peenalty Shootout" to "Wee The People", all controlled by which direction you aim ... enjoy!
Doug Scott Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Doug Scott is Founder at Potential.co
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Investment focus
  • Advertising, B2B, Event Promotion
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Campus — Live courses with top professors.
  • Ricochet.ai — Deep learning tools for sales development teams
  • Citruslabs — Citruslabs provides a simple and affordable way to prove your products actually work. We offer clinical trials for dietary supplements, skincare & cosmetic products, health foods, medical devices, pet products, CBD products, and biotech companies. It has never been easier to create research-backed product claims.
Massimo Prelz Oltramonti Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Massimo Prelz Oltramonti
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Digital Media
  • Seed, Series A
  • Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
  • Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
Raphaël Varane Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Raphaël Varane is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Manchester United and the France national team.
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Investment focus
  • Sports, Soccer, Big Data
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • France, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • Kinvent — KINVENT is actively involved in the fields of physical rehabilitation and sports biomechanics producing innovative measuring and training devices for the facilitation of every day and athletic movements. Our strengths at KINVENT is that we can think and produce solutions to any challenge of sports biomechanics and physical rehabilitation.Triangular force plates for visual feedback balance training, sensors for continuous 3D kinematic analysis in the water, force sensors for kite surf, accelerometers for rowing and sailing, are some of our on demand products. If you are looking for excellence in hardware and software solutions for your work... work with us.Our KFORCE solution is a range of torque measuring instruments for human strength, balance and motion. This system consists of six instruments with high-precision measuring equipment, which concentrate all the know-how of K-INVENT. The display of the data recorded by the device sensors is transcribed by the KFORCE software, installed on any iOS or Android terminal. This accessory capable of reading and re-transcribing the information given by all dynamometers of the entire range is usable on smartphones or tablets with Android and IOS operating system
  • ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
  • Docent — Docent is the first AI-powered mobile application to offer a fully-personalized experience for discovering, accessing and collecting contemporary masterpieces.
Bootstrapped Debt Financing Angel
Bootstrapped Debt Financing
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Kornem Energy — Kornem Energy provides energy intelligence and mobile-fuel delivery and diesel delivery on demand for the needs of today, tomorrow, and our future.We are eliminating the traditional fuel supply chain infrastructure using IOT & a compact terminal-to-car logistics aggregation, through service, automation and mobility.This enables us todeliver fuel directly to the customers who can request fuel delivery wherever they are, through our mobile app, while bridging the gap between feedstock aggregation, quality-assurance and end-user accessibility.No more expensive real estate, no more extensive supply chain. Just #FuelToYou
  • SymbaSync — SymbaSync™ helps organizations maximize return on employee investment by providing Human Resources Software to source, qualify, and engage employees to populate project teams. SymbaSync’s tools increase employee satisfaction improving employee ownership, engagement, and retention. SymbaSync provides a company with a complete overview of up-to-dateemployee skills, interests, and workplace preferences.
  • Tactii — We do rapid prototyping on machine learning and analytics for small companies. Our main focus is to bring down the budget for small companies and startups who want to explore things in Machine Learning. Affordable Machine Learning for startups and small companies. We are partnering up with various startups and small companies.
Federico Pirzio-Biroli Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.
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Investment focus
  • Non Profit, Software, Venture Capital
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Bibblio — Conversion optimization, powered by AI. Increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences, for stronger site metrics and ROI.
  • Brewbot — Brewbot is dedicated to the wonderful world of beer and beerbrewing
  • Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future
Joachim Behrendt Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Scorp — "User generated viral video machine " is the definition for Scorp Ads. We convert the power of word of mouth into short selfie-videos. Scorp seeds the message and motivates users to join the conversation on brands' topic with positive association or hype about the brand.Viewers like to consume content that they are interestedin. In Scorp there are wide range of videos that is not just only about comedy or music but also about news, politics, sports, movies&TV shows, celebrities, books-art, food, fashion-beauty and relationships that are created as selfie 15 second videos. Scorp shows users 100s of videos, opinions or approaches on a single topic. The format enables users to discover different point of views.
  • Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
  • Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
Benjamin Yoskovitz Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Founding Partner at Highline BETA, a startup co-creation and venture development company. Ben is an entrepreneur, product lead, angel investor. He co-authored Lean Analytics.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Reedsy — Reedsy allows authors to find and work with the best publishing professionals: from developmental editors to book cover designers, publicists and translators.
  • Breather — Breather is an app and a provider of space-as-a-service, with a growing network of private workspaces built for productivity. It enables businesses to access flexible workspace by the hour, day, or month. Every space is designed to be comfortable, private, and productive, with plug-and-play technology that ensures that can get to work as soon asthe arrival.Founded by CEO Julien Smith in 2012, the company has grown to include hundreds of locations in 10 major across the globe including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London.
  • CareGuide — We believe good people deserve the best care. Connect with housekeepers, nannies, pet sitters, and elder \ care providers with ease. Trusted and secure.
Peter Briger Angel · New York, New York, United States
Briger is a principal and Co-Chairman of the board of directors of Fortress. He has served as a member of the board of directors of Fortress since November 2006 and was elected Co-Chairman in August 2009. Briger has been a member of the Management Committee of Fortress since March 2002. Briger is responsible for the Credit and Real Estatebusiness at Fortress. Prior to joining Fortress in March 2002, Briger spent fifteen years at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he became a partner in 1996. Briger serves on the board of Tipping Point, a non-profit organization serving low income families in San Francisco. Briger also serves on the board of Caliber Schools, a network of charter schools committed to preparing students for success in competitive four-year colleges and beyond.Briger received a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
  • Analytics, Toys, Communities
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Biproxi — Streamline and shorten commercial real estate transaction cycles with access to better data, front-loaded deal information & streamlined communication. Join our verified community.
  • SafeGraph — SafeGraph curates the highest quality and most up-to-date Places data to help organizations understand dynamically changing market trends, power informative mapping applications, and analyze consumer behavior.
  • Windfall — Modern Wealth Intelligence | Engage affluent households with actionable data you can trust
Con Gornell Angel
Con is an investor, advisor and consultant for a broad portfolio of entertainment, tech and cultural organisations. He was Executive Vice President, Marketing (EMEA) at Warner Bros. Pictures until 2018 and has previously worked for BBH, Grey and Mediacom.
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Investment focus
  • Art, News, Travel
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cryptograph — Made By Icons. Owned By You.
  • Culture Trip — Culture Trip is a travel e-commerce brand with content at its core. The company offers a unique proposition in the market because in one single platform, customers can get inspired to explore the world, and also discover and book travel products. Through its website and app - used by millions of visitors every month - Culture Trip’s globalcommunity of travel experts and local insiders share travel content and recommendations, together with curated collections of places to stay, hotels, things to do and experiences that can be booked online. In addition, in 2021 the company launched its TRIPS by Culture Trip — unique small-group adventures, curated by travel experts and led by Local Insiders. Culture Trip was founded in London in 2011. It now has a team of around two hundred members of in-house staff. This group of technology, travel and media professionals operates out of branches in London, New York, and Tel Aviv. On top of that, Culture Trip has a worldwide network of local content creators and insiders – writers, filmmakers, photographers, and creatives – in hundreds of locations across the world.
Sam Enrico Williams Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr. Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • NFT Metadata Editor — Edit and customize the metadata of your NFTs. Connect your wallet, select the NFT, and this tool will allow you to modify the metadata, charging a fee for the service.
  • NFT Exhibition Space — Showcase your NFT collection in a virtual exhibition. Connect your wallet, select the NFTs, and this tool will create a virtual exhibition space for your collection.
  • Crypto Wealth Manager — Connect your wallet, input your holdings and financial goals, and this tool will provide portfolio management features and recommendations.
Nick Kingsbury Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Nick Kingsbury has 30 years experience in business, of which 12 was in the role of CEO for two software companies, and 7 was as Sector Partner for the international venture capital company 3i.Nick is an experienced international software entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He started his career with one of the leading UK software houses beforefounding his own company, Software Support Limited, in the mid 1980s which grew to become a leading systems integration company for Workflow applications. In 1996 this business merged with Staffware plc which then IPO’d on the London market. With Staffware Nick was Senior VP for International Business Development and Marketing. In 1999 Nick joined the international venture capitalist, 3i plc, for which he was Sector Partner for the software and internet sector. 3i invested over $500m in 150 software companies across Europe, the US and Asia, of which Nick was personally involved in many. His role was to develop 3i’s investment strategy and to advise on new investments. He also worked with existing investee companies with their strategic development, notably through partnership with the leading IT players worldwide. He served on the board of three 3i companies, Propero, the virtualisation company, sold to VMWare, Metastorm, the leading Business Process Management company (as observer) and the security software company Chronicle Solutions where he was also interim CEO.Nick left 3i in 2007 and now advises a number of companies on their corporate and funding strategies. He currently serves on the boards of several private and public companies. See engagements for more information.Kingsbury Ventures has access to a network of specialist associates covering media, electronics and other industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United Kingdom, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • BlackCurve — We help eCommerce businesses make pricing decisions
  • Pickr — Pickr is an on-demand staffing platform for people and businesses to connect and work together, without having to use a traditional recruitment agency.Pickr realised a while ago that whether it’s a late-shift in a restaurant, fulfillment for a week or ongoing admin, when great people and great businesses get together, magic happens – all we haveto do is make connecting that much easier.The majority of businesses and people connect within minutes so things get done and people get paid quicker than anywhere else; and with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Pickr is the easiest way for people to earn more when & where it suits them.
  • Tailored.to — Tailored is a personal shopping assistant making tedious product search history.We've organised the entire web's wisdom about products. We know what every product is best for.Users tailor products to their own needs by answering a few insightful questions about the category.They receive the best three products for theirpersonal needs. Test us at www.tailored.to.We make money by powering 100% personalised (and GDPR compliant) advertising to them on behalf of brands.Publishers can host Tailored in relevant editorial to receive a share of this new advertising revenue.Learn more http://marketing.tailored.to/ Revenue comes from advertising, brand partnerships and product sales. This is shared with our host publishers.We've huge interaction rates when Tailored is added to lifestyle content. A significant percentage of readers are tailoring products to their own needs (thereby sharing their personal buying needs so that we can automatically serve personalised retargeted advertising). Tailored is scalable across product categories, publishers and geographies. We can be added to any content. Get in touch! martin@tailored.to
Tom Hulme Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Tom Hulme is a General Partner and Head of Europe at GV and was a CEO and Founder at Magnom Corporation. Tom attended Harvard Business School and Bristol University.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Smol — laundry capsules. posted.
  • Kinnu — Kinnu is a learning engine that allows to explore new concepts and master any field of study. Kinnu allows to choose from an ever-expanding list of themes such as artificial intelligence, modern art, intermittent fasting, psychology, philosophy, history, and scientific breakthroughs.
  • Immersive Gamebox — Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team Adventures in the world's smartest room. Our GameBox Adventure pods combine projection mapping, touch screen, motion tracking and surround sound technologies to create an entirely new form of digital group entertainment.
Dmitry Shurygin Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Dmitry Shurygin is the VP Operations of NFWare. He attended Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Analytics, Food Delivery
  • Convertible Note, Angel, Seed
  • United States, Russian Federation, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Particle.One — Particle AI captures and processes structured and unstructured data for commodity market participants, translating data into actionable intelligence.
  • Eat Mubarak — Eat Mubarak is Pakistan's fastest-growing, SaaS-based, digital food ordering and delivery platform. Currently operational in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad & Hyderabad with more than 3,000 restaurants on-board.Eat Mubarak provides strategic services to partner restaurants, enabling them to concentrate on coreactivities, such as: Omni channel ordering solutions: Facebook, App, and Website- White-label app / website solutions - POS integration solutions - Fulfillment solutions with nationwide coverage
  • Via.Delivery — Powering pureplay e-commerce to deliver at a fraction of the cost of traditional carriers
Andrew Rosener Angel · Panama City, Panama, Panama
Andrew Rosener currently works as the Founder and CEO for Media Options. He Previously worked at Spearfishing.com as the Chief Spearo. Andrew Rosener attended the University of Rhode Island - College of Business in 1999.
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Investment focus
  • Art, Auctions, Internet
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cryptograph — Made By Icons. Owned By You.
  • Unstoppable Domains — Make your crypto currency payments simple and build decentralized websites. Purchase your Web3 domains today!
Adeo Ressi Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
Adeo Ressi is CEO of the Founder Institute (http://FI.co), a pre-seed startup accelerator that operates in nearly 200 cities worldwide. Adeo has founded or run ten technology businesses, and he has developed a number of innovations that help startup companies. He is passionate about mentoring Founders, space exploration and inspiringpeople to achieve their greatness.
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Investment focus
  • News, AgTech, Aerospace
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Tech.eu — The premier source of European technology news, data, research, analysis and in-depth market intelligence.
  • INTERSTELLAR LAB — autonomous modules for crop cultivation on Earth and life-support in Space
Dave McClure Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
  • Tribal — Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs whohave built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.
  • Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
Jesper Søgaard Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Jesper Søgaard - CEO @ Better Collective
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Investment focus
  • Casino, Gaming, Mobile
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Soply — Buy the domain name Soply.com and launch your business with a premium domain and a high quality logo.
  • TrunkBird — TrunkBird is a web and mobile application that enables users to ship products to any place they prefer. Travelers and commuters in trains, buses, and planes are paid their travel charges in return for dropping goods at their destinations.TrunkBird was founded by Rune Hugo N. Pedersen, Daniel Nyvang Mariussen, and Nikita Kudinov in 2014 and isbased in Berlin, Germany.
  • Boom Entertainment — Boom Entertainment creates world-class products for the online gaming era. That includes slot machine games, innovative sportsbook products and free to play sports applications. We work with media companies, pro sports leagues, retail brands, and casinos.
Michael Pierce Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Michael Pierce joined Raw Milk as Chief Executive Officer in 2020. Michael is a well respected investor in Los Angeles. As an entrepreneur he Co-Founded Pierce Williams Entertainment and Zero Gravity Management and he produced and financed 10 feature films with combined revenues over $200m, including the Oscar nominated film The Cooler.Hisinvestment interests have evolved over the last 15 years. His roots lie in his oil & gas and real estate business in Canada but his keen eye for returns moved his focus to public market equities in the late 2000s. His returns on technology related stocks surpassed his other investments and he shifted his focus to this area and early stage venture as an investor.In 2011 Michael was a founding Partner of venture capital firm, WPSChallenger. Most recently, Michael has gotten closer to the source of innovation by backing technology founders directly as a Angel/Super Angel investor in LA. His diverse and entrepreneurial background give him a distinctive perspective on new businesses and a unique ability to identify and back talented, exceptional founders.Michael has a BA in International Relations from The University of Western Ontario and an LLB from University College London. Michael currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two young kids.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Wauwaa — Find your domain name at HugeDomains. Start using this domain right away.
  • Cargomatic — Cargomatic solves local freight with a marketplace of more than 22,000 professional drivers. We meet the needs of every supply chain.
  • Hello Giggles — HelloGiggles: a Positive Community for Women
Megan Kaspar Angel
Megan Kaspar is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Magnetic. She previously worked at MKE as a Managing Partner. Megan Kaspar attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Investment focus
  • Publishing, Marketplace, Digital Media
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Croatia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • CYBR Magazine — Buy issues of CYBR Magazine the futurist magazine curating futurism, technology and techwear.
  • Tribute Brand — 51K Followers, 2 Following, 227 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from TRIBUTE BRAND (@tribute_brand)
  • Trustless Media — A new kind of production hub where ideas people care about actually come to life.
Antoine Nussenbaum Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Antoine is a Partner and member of the founding team of Felix Capital. He currently sits on the boards of TravelPerk, Papier, Frichti, Heetch and Urban Massage.He previously was a Partner at Atlas Global, a private equity fund originally part of GLG Partners. Prior to Felix Capital he has worked closely with various early-stage digital startupsincluding Mirakl, Reedsy, 31Dover, Pave.com and actively helped them launch their businesses. He has also been involved since inception with Huckletree, a fast growing coworking operator dedicated to the European digital community which was started by his wife. Antoine moved to London in 2006 when he joined ABN AMRO as an M&A investment banker. Prior to this he was based in Paris and was part of the founding team of NT Valley, a software business aim at retailers. He started his career as a brand and intangible asset valuation consultant at Sorgem Evaluation.A graduate of ESCP European Business School and University Paris Dauphine, Antoine is fluent in English, French and Spanish.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, News
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Reedsy — Reedsy allows authors to find and work with the best publishing professionals: from developmental editors to book cover designers, publicists and translators.
  • TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
  • Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about our WFM solution.
Arya Bolurfrushan Angel · New York, New York, United States
Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Education
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Oliv — Oliv.com is a career marketplace based in Dubai, made for the youth of the Middle East. We connect students and graduates to employers for internships, part-time & graduate jobs. Launched in 2013, we set out to tackle a huge problem - a 30% youth unemployment rate in the MENA region. Oliv helps university students and graduates launch theircareers. And we're pretty good at it.Today, Oliv is home to thousands of students and graduates where their ambitions are aligned to opportunity. More than 1,000 businesses from startups to Fortune 500s use Oliv to hire top emerging talent to maintain a healthy talent pipeline and grow their business for the future.Our goal is to make launching careers simple, personal and rewarding. That's Oliv.
  • The Applied AI Company (AAICO) — AAICO is a leading AI technology company with a team of renowned Silicon Valley-based engineers, applied AI experts, and seasoned entrepreneurs.
  • Jingle Pay — Join now and get your ZERO fees, forever FREE account.
Richard Fearn Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
  • Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
  • Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.
Syed Sheharyar Ali Angel
Syed Sheharyar Ali, Executive Director and CSO at Treet Group Of Companies.
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Travel
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Pakistan, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
  • YUGO.pk — Best travel company in Pakistan. Access guaranteed lowest prices on domestic and international flights, visa assistance, hotel booking, and 24x7 customer support.
  • Truckistan — How we do it
Nick Robertson Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Nick Robertson is a CEO and Co-Founder at ASOS.
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, Privacy, Consumer
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Nez — nez is a hyper local marketing channel for the eating and drinking out of home sector. With the use of mobile application, nez connects operators with their core audience of local office and retail workers.
  • people.io — Our #1 trending app unifies data from across your life, helping to give you control over the access, use and value of your personal data. Get started today and realise the value of your data.
  • AFC Wimbledon — AFC Wimbledon is a continuation of the former Wimbledon Football Club, which no longer exists after the franchising of its league place to Milton Keynes. The team won the FA Cup in 1988 and notably rose “from the dead” in 2002. Now it is looking to come back home to Plough Lane.
Bill Holroyd Angel · Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Charles William Holroyd CBE DL is a British investor and philanthropist.
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Investment focus
  • Rental, Retail, Fashion
  • Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • By Rotation — Rent over 25000+ designer fashion items online from our free app. Discover luxury designer dresses, clothing, bags and accessories from your trending favorite brands.
  • By Gamers For Gamers — Made up entirely of gamers, we are a team that is dedicated to bringing you the best PC gaming and tech content possible.
Nenad Marovac Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Nenad Marovac has more than 25 years of venture capital and private equity investment experience in the technology and media sectors.Nenad is the Founder and Managing Partner of DN Capital. Prior to DN Capital, Nenad was a Partner at Advent International in London, where he focused on TMT investments.Nenad focuses on investments inmarketplaces, software as a service (SAAS), fintech, consumer mobile applications and digital health companies. Amongst his select investments are Shazam Entertainment (sold to Apple), Auto1 (largest online marketplace for used cars), Apsmart (acquired by Thomson Reuters), Datanomic (acquired by Oracle), Endeca, (acquired by Oracle), Eve Sleep (IPO London), Happn, Hometogo, Hostmaker, Joblift, Mister Spex, Performance Horizon Group, Purplebricks (IPO London), Tbricks (acquired by Orc) and Quandoo (acquired by Recruit Holding). Nenad is also the Chair of Invest Europe and an active member of YPO in London and Berlin.Nenad received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Shopping
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Germany, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Reedsy — Reedsy allows authors to find and work with the best publishing professionals: from developmental editors to book cover designers, publicists and translators.
  • Annelutfen.com — Annelutfen is a full price online shop for baby products (0-12) in Turkey. Annelutfen offers the widest selection (18.000 SKUs), fast delivery (1-3 days), and best in class user experience.
  • Numa — Numa offers rooms & apartments in Europe's coolest neighbourhoods. See how simple travel can be. Sign up for exclusive discount. Book now!
Blake Picquet Angel · Kailua, Hawaii, United States
Blake Picquet is the co-founder of CUE Audio.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Payments, Software
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Edge — Founded in 2018, Edge is an influencer marketing platform that brings smart solutions to influencer campaigns with the power of accurate data. The data-driven influencer platform enables users to see metrics such as reach, impressions, and engagement of all your influencers and their content across Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook.Edge allows youto master influencer campaign reporting by choosing from preset reporting dashboards and customise them to suit your reporting needs. Only Edge allows you to create bespoke reports. The fastest, smartest, easiest influencer management platform.
Robert (Rob) Reeg Angel · St Louis, Missouri, United States
Robert (Rob) Reeg
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Payments, Software
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Edge — Founded in 2018, Edge is an influencer marketing platform that brings smart solutions to influencer campaigns with the power of accurate data. The data-driven influencer platform enables users to see metrics such as reach, impressions, and engagement of all your influencers and their content across Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook.Edge allows youto master influencer campaign reporting by choosing from preset reporting dashboards and customise them to suit your reporting needs. Only Edge allows you to create bespoke reports. The fastest, smartest, easiest influencer management platform.
Daniel Waterhouse Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Daniel joined Balderton as a General Partner in 2013 and he currently sits on the boards of Revolut, ROLI, Lovecrafts, TrademarkNow, Tictail, Thread, and Workable and also works with Instabridge and Curious.AI.Prior to Balderton, Daniel spent 5 years as a partner at Wellington Partners and invested in a number of fast-growing companiesincluding EyeEm, Hailo, YPlan, Bookatable (also a Balderton portfolio company, sold to Michelin), SumAll, Readmill (sold to Dropbox) and Qype (sold to Yelp).Before Wellington, Daniel was a sector partner at 3i where he worked on all of their venture and private equity investments in the internet sector in North America and Europe.And before that, he was at Yahoo! for six years from 1999, covering strategic development and M&A across the European region. He has a PhD and MA in applied mathematics from Oxford University and a Chartered Diploma in Accounting and Finance.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Mapfit — Mapfit was sunset in October 2018. Please see these 16 Google Places API alternatives.
  • Unaric — Our mission is to help Salesforce customers maximise their investment on the Salesforce platform through an integrated suite of applications. Explore our application suites across Revenue Operations, Service Operations and System Administration.
  • Kama — Kama offers sexual wellness practices that improve how you experience love, sex, and intimacy. Available on the iOS App Store.
Des Traynor Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Des is the Co-Founder of Intercom, the platform for all customer interaction needs from marketing to support to product development. Previously he worked as User Experience Lead at web app development agency Contrast, and he was a Co-Founder of popular social networking search engine Bigulo.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Qase — Qase is a modern test management platform for manual & automated QA testing & reporting that helps your team deliver a higher quality product, faster.
  • Siro — Siro is a sales coaching platform that specializes in sales managers. Siro assists sales managers in providing precise feedback to field sales staff on live client conversations while also saving time in reporting.
  • SimpleStudy — SimpleStudy is an exam prep platform for Junior Cycle & Leaving Cert students. With exam papers, revision notes, quizzes, timed questions and essays, SimpleStudy is the study platform for Students in Ireland.
Rupert Loman Angel · Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Rupert Loman
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Investment focus
  • Digital Entertainment, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Alter — Alter is an open source, cross-platform SDK consisting of a real-time 3D avatar system and motion capture built from scratch for web3 interoperability and the open metaverse.
  • Carter — Carter is a startup working on conversational AI to help game developers make computerized gaming characters.
  • OTHERWORLD — OTHERWORLD is a virtual island paradise in the cloud, home to VR’s best experiences across entertainment, arts, education and wellness, reached through unique, multi-sensory ‘immersion pods’ in its growing network of city centre venues.Since opening its first site in Shoreditch, East London in 2019, over 50,000 people have experienced OTHERWORLD,including celebrities Adele, Skepta, Jonathan Ross, KSI and Fnatic. The team have won plaudits at the FRAME Awards 2020 and a nomination for the VR Awards 2020.
Pascal Cagni Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Pascal Cagni was born on October 28, 1961 and is a specialist in the European digital economy. He advises and invests in startups and contributes to their international development and expansion.Recruited by Steve Jobs in the early 2000s as General Manager and Vice President of Apple Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA), he led a regionof 130 countries for 12 years in which revenues grew from $1.2 billion to over $37 billion. After starting his career as a consultant at Booz & Co, he joined Compaq Computers, established Software Publishing France (SPC), and then led Packard Bell NEC as the number one home PC manufacturer in Europe.Pascal Cagni holds a Master’s Degree in Business Law and is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques (IEP) in Paris. He also holds an MBA from the HEC Group and is a graduate of the Executive Program of Stanford University (EPGC).
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Investment focus
  • Hardware, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Formlabs — Formlabs develops the Form 3+ and Form 3L Low Force Stereolithography (LFS) and Fuse 1+ selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printers for professionals.
  • GIROPTIC — OpenFrame empowers real estate agents to easily create beautiful video tours in minutes using an elegant app and a unique 360 camera.
  • HCVC — HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm backing hardtech companies worldwide. Beyond its fund, HCVC supports hardtech founders through Hardware Club, a selective global community of 500+ startups with dedicated resources, partnerships and events.
Luc De Vos Angel · Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
Luc De Vos is the non-executive director at Hybrid Software Group PLC. Luc De Vos attended KU Leuven.
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Investment focus
  • Analytics, Consulting, B2B
  • Seed, Series A, Private Equity
  • Belgium, Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Finactum — Finactum delivers company data for Belgium in a freemium business model. The offering is to provide 'rich' factual data and as such be a tool for company competitive intelligence, m&a market research or lead generation. The company aims to be(come) a data Intelligence Service Provider (web 3.0).
  • Husky Marketing Planner — Marketing planning & marketing calendar tool for marketing teams. Makes the complete marketing planning clear on one central digital platform.
  • DataStories International — DataStories a Partners in Performance Company, is an end-to-end prescriptive analytics provider for your operations. Real-time optimisation for better quality, yield and energy efficiency.
Daniel Isenberg Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dan Isenberg (@danisen) is founding executive director of the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project, Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School. From 1981-7 and 2005-9 Dan was a professor at the Harvard Business School, and in the interim (1987-2005) was an entrepreneur and venturecapitalist in Israel. Dan authored Worthless Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value(Harvard Business Review Press 2013), published over 30 online and print articles on entrepreneurship in the Harvard Business Review, and has been featured in the Economist, Forbes, NPR, Bloomberg, Quartz, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, etc. Dan has been a pioneer in the concept and development of entrepreneurship ecosystems, and he launched and directs Manizales-Mas and Scale Up Milwaukee. Between 2009-2013 Dan was active in the World Economic Forum and conducted Forum events in Davos, Africa, Europe, and China. In 2012 Mikhail Gorbachev awarded Dan the Pio Manzu Award for "Innovations in Economic Development." At Babson Executive Education, Dan created and directs the 3-day program, Driving Economic Growth Through Entrepreneurship Ecosystems. He holds the Ph.D. degree in social psychology from Harvard University, received under the mentorship of Robert Freed Bales. He lives in Boston and in his home town of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and has 4 grown children. Dan enjoys salsa dancing (On2), jazz, collecting wine, and not-catching-fish (at which he excels); nevertheless, he is most excited about spending time with his kids (one of whom is an entrepreneur) and his granddaughter, helping his angel investments grow, and being continually surprised by what entrepreneurs around the world can accomplish. Dan is currently publishing two books of children's stories.
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Retail
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
  • Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
  • Sunbit — Hear the stories of customers and merchants Sunbit has helped with its pay-over-time technology for everyday needs.
  • Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI
Cozomo De’Medici Angel
Cozomo De’Medici
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Art, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Mirage — Mirage is developing the foundational AR infrastructure and artist tooling that will allow creators to create and curate their own decentralized trans digital reality that bridges our physical and digital worlds.
  • Exchange Art — Before the blockchain, digital art had been unable to accrue value due to the “copy and paste” problem that plagued digital work.The blockchain enables digital asset ownership through a publicly distributed immutable ledger that can track the provenance.The results have been explosive over the past 2 years. From 2021 to 2022, the digital artmarket exploded from a few million in sales to over 4.45 billion in volume.Exchange provides a home to creators of digital art worldwide. With users from over 150 countries we have been able to put more than $8.5M back in the hands of the creators. Together, we help change lives by giving creators the tools they need to create, manage, facilitate commerce and grow their audience.Join us in powering the creator economy in the digital world - are you ready?
  • Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy
Andrin Bachmann Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Andrin brings his entrepreneurial spirit and investment experience to Piton. He was a co-founder of Glocalnet, which became Sweden's 3rd largest consumer telecom service provider and was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange before being acquired by Telenor. Following this, he was a partner at M/C Venture Partners - one of the leadingprivate equity investors in the US telecom services space. He was also one of two principals establishing an investment company that became QXL Ricardo PLC's largest shareholder in 2005, and was instrumental in the transformation of QXL leading to its sale to Naspers for around $1.9 billion.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
  • Seed, Series B, Series C
  • United Kingdom, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Bibulu — Connect with 5-star sitters and dog walkers near you who offer dog boarding, dog walking, house sitting, or doggy day care. Book and pay securely.
  • Dala — Your workplace has the answer. Just ask Dala for it.
  • Koru Kids — Koru Kids is a building better childcare services, starting with nanny sharing in London. The team behind Koru Kids has a background in childcare (their own and other people's), healthcare and tech startups. Their company name is Koru Kids, company number is 10047637, and their HQ is 110 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2LS. 'Koru Kids'is a registered trademark (UK00003153316). They are registered with the Information Commissioners' Office (registration number ZA181818), and also affiliated with the Financial Conduct Authority's Innovation Hub. They are grateful for the ongoing support (financial and moral!) of Camden Council.
Giles Phelps Angel
Giles Phelps
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Education, Recruiting
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Digital Profile — Our vision is to establish the world’s best community for tech & devs to share, learn, and build their skills & careers. Built on our values of control, privacy & transparency
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