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Top 50 Digital Media Angel Investors in United Kingdom in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 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 in May 2025

Investor	Digital Media United Kingdom investments
Colin McInnes	2
Marco Valta	2
Peter Bartlett	2
Paul Walton	2
John Michaelis	2
Matthew Emerson	2
Peter Gabriel	2
Yasin Sebastian Qureshi	2
Robin Knox	2
Matt Jellicoe	2
Nick Robertson	1
Con Gornell	1
Benjamin Yoskovitz	1
Bootstrapped Debt Financing	1
Richard Fearn	1
Joachim Behrendt	1
Des Traynor	1
Volker Hirsch	1
Blake Picquet	1
Dave McClure	1
Arya Bolurfrushan	1
Andrew Rosener	1
Raphaël Varane	1
Aman Bhangu	1
Antoine Nussenbaum	1
Stefano Rosso	1
Bogdan Iarovoi	1
Sam Enrico Williams	1
Andrin Bachmann	1
Karanpal Singh	1
Rupert Loman	1
Adeo Ressi	1
Pascal Cagni	1
Daniel Isenberg	1
Nick Kingsbury	1
Julien Codorniou	1
Doug Scott	1
Federico Pirzio-Biroli	1
Nenad Marovac	1
Mark Sherring	1
Daniel Waterhouse	1
Jesper Søgaard	1
Syed Sheharyar Ali	1
Tom Hulme	1
Cozomo De’Medici	1
John Collison	1
Massimo Prelz Oltramonti	1
David Walter	1
Louis d'Origny	1
Mike Ullmann	1

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Colin McInnes

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 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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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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.

Peter Bartlett

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.

Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.

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 — Handl is an online platform for vehicle & fleet servicing.
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.

John Michaelis

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.

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 — Handl is an online platform for vehicle & fleet servicing.
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Matt Jellicoe

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.

Nick Robertson is a CEO and Co-Founder at ASOS.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bootstrapped Debt Financing

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.

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.

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.

Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
Paper — Paper is an digital canvas designed to help designers create and organize their work.
SimpleStudy — SimpleStudy offers study and revision notes, quizzes, and past exam papers for Leaving Cert & Junior Cert to help Irish students succeed. Join SimpleStudy Ireland now to boost your grades.

Volker Hirsch is the Co-Founder and Director of Blue Beck Limited. He previously worked at Bibblio as a Chairman & Investor. Volker Hirsch attended the University of Hamburg.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, EdTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wonde — Wonde operates a platform that provides schools with the tools to manage their school data. Its solution allows schools to control their school data; approve, decline, and monitor those who integrate with their data; and receive monthly reports and manage the application. The company’s solution also allows developers to view the status of existingintegrations and request access to new school data, as well as school data integration. In addition, it offers reporting tools to the school senior leadership team. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Pi-Top — pi-top is a fast-growing ed-tech company with a unique vision to increase access to coding, robotics and AI through project-based learning.pi-top’s mission is to inspire a generation of makers by giving young people STEAM-related hard skills (e.g. coding and circuitry) and in-demand soft skills (e.g. communication, critical thinking andproblem-solving) that they will need in a rapidly changing world.pi-top’s award-winning hardware and software ecosystem is used around the world thousands of homes, maker spaces and schools, blending physical computing and project-based learning with Computer Science and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) education. With its latest product ecosystem educators and students get to design, code and make anything they can imagine.
The Link App — Curve is the home of diverse, exciting and inspiring theatre in Leicester. Find out more and book tickets here.

Blake Picquet is the co-founder of CUE Audio.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
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.

Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.

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.
AppliedAI — AAICO uses artificial intelligence to solve document, process, and measurable business improvement problems in regulated industries.
Jingle Pay — Join now and get your ZERO fees, forever FREE account.

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.

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!

Raphaël Varane is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Manchester United and the France national team.

Investment focus

Sports, Apps, Soccer
Seed, Funding Round
France, Portugal, United Kingdom

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.

Aman Bhangu is the Founder, Entrepreneur and CEO of Trendy Beat Network. He previously worked at Elance-oDesk as a Web Developer.

Investment focus

Music, Advertising, Digital Media
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Trendy Beat Network — We offer digital music aggregation services including distribution, publishing, licensing to over 200K global clients.

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.

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 — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.

Stefano was born on June 1st, 1979 in Marostica (Vicenza) in North East Italy. After high school in Bassano del Grappa, he left Italy to pursue his studies at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, where he completed a BA in International Trade and Marketing. He began his work experience outside the family company, collaborating with brandslike ZooYork, part of the Ecko Unlimited group. Stefano returned to Italy in 2005 with a new challenge: he began his professional experience at Diesel, working in different areas of the company (from production to marketing), to become eventually Strategic Brand Alliances Director, planning and managing the brand’s collaborations in diverse fields. His latest projects were a limited edition sneakers series with adidas Originals, and the partnership with Ducati.In July 2011, Stefano Rosso has left Diesel for a new position challenge: he is currently Director of Corporate Development for OTB (Only the Brave) Group, the holding which incorporates Diesel, Maison Martin Margiela, Viktor & Rolf, and Staff International (an Italian company manufacturing and distributing licensed prêt-à-porter brands DSquared2, Just Cavalli, Vivienne Westwood and Marc Jacobs Menswear, as well as the group’s own brands Maison Martin Margiela and Viktor&Rolf). Stefano Rosso loves and plays soccer, and he is president of the Bassano soccer team. He loves snowboarding and motorcycling, and he is into contemporary and street art and the whole digital world.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Video, Beauty
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Heat — Discover the new, immersive way to shop designer fashion and high end streetwear for both men and women on HEAT. Off-White, Palm Angels and more may be included in the HEAT mystery box.
CYBR Magazine — Buy issues of CYBR Magazine the futurist magazine curating futurism, technology and techwear.
The Fabricant — A digital fashion house leading the fashion industry towards a new sector of digital-only clothing.

Bogdan Iarovoi is a Managing Partner of SmartHub Investments.

Investment focus

Internet, SaaS, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Snipfeed — Snipfeed is building Shopify but for content creators. The platform allows them to build their storefront directly on top of social and consolidate all the monetization tools they need in one place. Snipfeed lets them monetize their audience in one click through on-demand content, direct interactions, tips, and commerce. On the back-end,Snipfeed's dashboard helps you optimize and grow your business by integrating with all the third-party tools you need as a creator (analytics, financial tools...).
Ondaka — Ondaka makes Industrial Knowledge Accessible for critical infrastructure & heavy industry.
Cattle Care — Cattle Care is a revolutionary dairy management software using your existing parlor cameras and artificial intelligence to save money.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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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.

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 was made for busy modern families. Search vetted nannies for just the days and times you need.

Karanpal Singh is a steel and mining industrialist and the founder of Hunch Ventures which has been investing in multi-stage companies since 2012.As these investments evolved into larger businesses, Hunch evolved into an organized venture fund and has now taken several large bets across multiple sectors. Hunch has been backing visionary foundersin various industries from Air Mobility, Fine Arts, Sustainable Food Supply chains and food security, Ports and Logistics, Healthtech, F&B, Lifestyle Media and several B2B SaaS platforms. It has investments in India, Canada, the US, Tanzania, Singapore, UAE and the United Kingdom and has now pivoted to environmentally conscious and sustainable businesses. Hunch is one of the largest independent aggregators of food-related infrastructure and technologies and has built the platform for global food technology companies to come to India and establish a local presence.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Skylark Drones — Drone data platform by Skylark Drones is used by surveying, volume measurement for construction & inspection teams in infrastructure, mining, solar energy, agriculture & utilities.
The Quorum Club — The Quorum Hyderabad A modern reflection of the city's DNA. Enjoy The Q Hyderabad's members-only lounge for work and relaxation in a cultural metropolis.
Green Frontier Capital — Green Frontier Capital is India's first investment firm that focuses on growth companies which are delivering breakthrough innovation in green industries.

Rupert Loman

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.

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.

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

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).

Investment focus

Hardware, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Formlabs — Formlabs is the largest supplier of professional stereolithography (SLA) and selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printers in the world.
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.

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.

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

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 IPOâ€™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 3iâ€™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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security
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.
Visibly — Visibly developing technology to bring about the change our built environment requires by providing businesses with the tools they need to reduce the industry's skills gap and ensure our infrastructure can meet the needs of the population.

Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Anybuddy — Anybuddy is a sport booking marketplace, leader in racket sport in France
Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
Jolly — Jolly is a rewards platform for the workplace that incentivizes employee performance. It implements performance-based incentives to increase employees utilization, compliance, referrals, and loyalty.

Doug Scott is Founder at Potential.co

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Venture Capital, Non Profit
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 a multidisciplinary team of designers and developers based in Belfast, N. Ireland. They come from different backgrounds and experiences — music, design, code, and fine art — but they all share a common passion for brewing.
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

Nenad Marovac is the Founder and Managing Partner of DN Capital, with over 25 years of experience in technology and media investments. His portfolio includes successful companies like Shazam (sold to Apple), Auto1, GoStudent, and OLX. Prior to founding DN Capital, he was a Partner at Advent International and has been featured on the Midas ListEurope. Nenad is also a co-founder of the DN Capital Foundation, supporting education and mental health initiatives for underprivileged children.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Apps
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!

Mark Sherring

Investment focus

SaaS, Mobile, Collaboration
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Beem — Beem connects employees, forging new lines of communication across the company, transforming the way businesses share knowledge and information. Beem is the first born mobile, 360 degree internal communications platform, flexible, robust, and revolutionary.Beem is the trusted mobile communications platform for organisations, we connectemployees giving everyone a voice within their organisation. We're about making engagement and communication effortless, fun and truly mobile. Internal comms doesn’t have to be dull. In fact, we believe by being vibrant and exciting it can become more effective. Beem allows users to snap photos and share great content within your secure company network. And our mobile directory makes finding the right person with the right skills a breeze. Too much internal platform noise? or got an existing intranet or Enterprise Social Network but experiencing disappointing results? Beem integrates, streamlines and drives engagement to both save and enhance. Deliver the social business benefits your company needs with the first truly consumerised mobile communications platform. We are Beem!

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
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.

Jesper Søgaard - CEO @ Better Collective

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.

Syed Sheharyar Ali, Executive Director and CSO at Treet Group Of Companies.

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 — Truckistan is developing a logistics platform to make shipping faster and cheaper. The company provides real-time tracking, a customer dashboard, account management, and guaranteed transit time, as well as SaaS tools for routing, vehicle loading, and RFID implementation throughout the supply chain.

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.

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.

Cozomo De’Medici

Investment focus

Information Technology, Art, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rekt Brands — Own a Rektguy NFT? You may be eligible to claim free equity in Rekt Brands Inc. Find out more.
Story Protocol — Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos
Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy

John Collison is a President and Co-founder at Stripe. He attended Harvard University.John and his brother Patrick Collison started Stripe in 2010 while John was studying physics at Harvard. Their goal was to make accepting payments online simpler and more inclusive, after learning firsthand how difficult it was. Today, the 100+ person (andgrowing) Stripe team powers online businesses around the world.Before Stripe, John co-founded Auctomatic, which was acquired by Live Current Media in March 2008. Originally from Limerick, Ireland, John lives in San Francisco, California, where Stripe is based.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
Cortex — Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
The Bot Company — The Robot Relations Department of The Bot Company

Massimo Prelz Oltramonti

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.

David Walter is founder of Use Space Manchester, a new co-working hub in Ardwick, Manchester.

Investment focus

Computer, Internet, PC Games
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

Louis d'Origny

Investment focus

Art, Auctions, Education
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SAM Labs — SAM Labs provides everything you need to deliver the most engaging STEAM and Coding learning experience in your classroom with Hardware, Software and curriculum-aligned lesson plans
Cryptograph — Made By Icons. Owned By You.

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.

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!

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