Top 50 EdTech VC Funds & Investors in United Kingdom (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Emerge VC
VC Fund
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26 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, EdTech, Software | $33k–$22M |
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
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25 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $3.4M–$22M |
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SFC Capital
VC Fund
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21 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $123k–$2.5M |
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Nesta Impact Investments
VC Fund
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19 | United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Education, Health Care, SaaS | $262k–$10M |
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
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17 | United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $46k–$10M |
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Ascension
VC Fund
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15 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $236k–$10M |
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Ufi Ventures
VC Fund
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15 | United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | EdTech, Education, Software | $5k–$10M |
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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14 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$30M |
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Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund
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13 | United Kingdom, Australia, United States | Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Manufacturing | $19k–$5.5M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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12 | United States, Singapore, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Future Planet Capital
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $157k–$8.9M |
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Social Tech Trust
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, Ireland, Israel | Seed, Grant, Non-Equity Assistance | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $20k–$4.8M |
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Brighteye Ventures
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, France, Spain | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Education, Software, E-Learning | $541k–$20M |
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Forward Partners
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $54k–$17M |
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Foresight Group
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $648k–$8.3M |
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Salica
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Secondary Market, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $645k–$346M |
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Concept Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $196k–$19M |
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Ada Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $507k–$41M |
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FJ Labs
VC Fund
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9 | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1.2M–$65M |
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $313k–$24M |
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | United States, United Kingdom, Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $250k–$20M |
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$18M |
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Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $199k–$7.5M |
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Downing Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $210k–$14M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2.1M–$43M |
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Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Private Equity | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $648k–$15M |
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $197k–$5.7M |
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1818 Venture Capital
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Bahrain | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $655k–$25M |
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Connect Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Financial Services | $798k–$55M |
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
VC Fund
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7 | United States, India, Israel | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2M–$125M |
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GC Angels
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Fashion, Health Care | $131k–$1.7M |
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Midlands Engine Investment Fund
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Portugal | Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Health Care, Manufacturing | $250k–$2.7M |
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JamJar Investments
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care | $1.2M–$20M |
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Seedrs
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, FinTech | $44k–$3.4M |
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Entrepreneurs First
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $54k–$41M |
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Eka Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Logistics | $1.6M–$21M |
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QVentures
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $125k–$4.3M |
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Redbus Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States, Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, E-Commerce, Software | $323k–$23M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $575k–$30M |
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Triple Point Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, Health Care | $891k–$16M |
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Mercia Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, Hungary, Singapore | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $1M–$26M |
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Crowdcube
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, Spain, France | Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Seed | Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software | $108k–$4.9M |
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DN Capital
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $1M–$82M |
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NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $326k–$14M |
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Innovate UK
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed | Health Care, Biotechnology, Software | $58k–$3.5M |
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Initial Capital
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States, Finland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Mobile, Software | $575k–$12M |
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Playfair Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $953k–$19M |
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APX
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $55k–$15M |
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Symvan Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $148k–$5M |
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Deepbridge Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, Spain, Australia | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $152k–$15M |
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Emerge is a $75M pre-seed fund for human capital development: consumer learning, careers and AI diffusion at work. First cheques of $500k to $2.5M, UK and Europe.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Round size: Seed $53k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $33k–$3.2M; Series A $5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $73M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- VARM — Varm provides efficient insulation for energy saving and comfort.
- 5U AI — 5U AI gives freight teams an AI workforce that's connected across multiple communication channels to understand, reason and act on data.
- Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.
BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 605
- Round size: Series A $4.1M–$21M; Private Equity $6.4M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $97M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Citrus-Lime — Support notifications from the CitrusLime team. Please note that we don't see tweets sent to this account
- Boost Juice Bars UK — Boost Juice Bars UK offer a range of smoothies and freshly squeezed juice products.
- Thames Card Technology —
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 777
- Round size: Seed $123k–$2M; Pre-Seed $170k–$858k; Venture - Series Unknown $201k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
- Anemo Labs — We develop highly selective polymer-based sensors to detect gas VOCs in the ppb range, in real-time. We combine custom hardware with Machine Learning to characterize smells
- INTELLIGENT MASS SPEC SOLUTIONS — Intelligent Mass Spec Solutions develops urine-based mass spectrometry and machine learning diagnostics for adrenal cancer.
Nesta Impact Investments backs innovative businesses that focus on creating social and environmental good
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- Industry: Education, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $262k–$2.5M; Series A $520k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $407k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Gaia Learning — Gaia Learning are a special online school dedicated to children with additional needs. We help kids with ADHD, ADD, OCD, PDA and Autism, learn online.
- Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
- martee ai — Reduce Wastage, Unlock Revenue, Maximise Profit. Martee ai is the only demand forecasting tool tailored for the food-on-the-go industry.
Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 270
- Round size: Seed $46k–$1.6M; Series A $295k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $261k–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- OneClickComply — Automate SOC 2, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, and 10+ frameworks. OneClickFix remediates 1,000+ controls automatically. Trusted by 30+ organisations.
- Land Digital — Land Digital is a tech, web design, web creation, content marketing, digital marketing, SEO, and mobile application agency.
- Magnitude Biosciences — Magnitude Biosciences is a biotechnology firm combine experience in ageing research, the nematode C. elegans and automation.
Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 325
- Round size: Seed $236k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $261k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $790k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $21M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Sprive — Sprive is the free app that helps take years off your mortgage and save you thousands of pounds in interest.
- Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
- Honest Mobile — It's time for mobile done right. Explore SIM-only plans that include bills that go down, support in seconds and a shrinking carbon footprint as standard. One of the UK's top-rated mobile networks.
The UK’s specialist investor in VocTech ventures, investing between £150k and £1m in seed-stage companies that are building digital technologies to give people and businesses the skills needed for work, now and in the future.
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $5k–$2M; Pre-Seed $467k–$649k; Series A $3.4M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TaskHer — TaskHer connects you with reliable tradeswomen for all your home service needs. Trust TaskHer for quality, equality, and excellence in trades. Get tasks done right with TaskHer.
- Chorus — Everything you need to enhance safety, improve performance, and stay compliant
- Gladys — Discover Gladys, the easiest and cheapest way to find trusted local Carers and Helpers in your community. Get 5* care and support to your door.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 440
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5.1M; Series A $4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Phase0 — Payment platform for construction projects
- Resolutiion — Resolutiion provides AI-powered software for managing commercial conflict, delivery risk, and business relationship performance. The platform supports organizations with dispute detection, workflow automation, contract monitoring, issue resolution, and operational risk management across customers, suppliers, workforce teams, and commercialpartnerships. Its system uses AI-driven analysis to identify relationship friction, monitor delivery performance, and support structured resolution processes. Resolutiion also provides commercial intelligence tools, reporting, and collaboration features for enterprise delivery and governance management.
- Maven Robotics — Maven Robotics is building the world's leading general purpose AI robots.
Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 294
- Round size: Seed $279k–$3M; Debt Financing $19k–$3.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $383k–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- nisien.ai — Nisien.ai uses industry-leading AI for the detection, defence and resolution of online harm, for better online safety and digital wellbeing.
- Design and Supply — Design and Supply are specialist manufacturers and suppliers of Industrial Steel Doors and Architectural Products.
- MeOmics Technology — MeOmics Technology is a biotech company with a focus on improving the diagnosis and treatment of mental health illnesses. The company operates in the manufacturing industry and has a team of 9 employees. The team includes experts in Neuronal Cell Biology and Neuropsychopharmacology. The company's mission is to leverage technology to enhancethe understanding and treatment of mental health conditions.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2382
- Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
- myluigi.ai — Luigi is an AI-Powered Full-Stack Game Growth-as-a-Service platform designed to help mobile game studios scale user acquisition, engagement and lifetime value without adding headcount. Its dual-engine architecture automates and operates everything from ad campaign creation and real-time creative optimization to personalized in-game offers and LTVforecasting—delivered through a single, easy-to-integrate and unified dashboard. With a flexible per-title pricing model and powerful machine-learning insights, Luigi empowers mid-sized and indie developers to reduce CPI, boost retention and chart a clear path toward sustainable growth and seven-figure ARR.
- RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $157k–$1.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $249k–$8.9M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $49M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Furbnow — Furbnow - Your companion for home improvements for the future
- Unloq AI — Unloq is a Decision Intelligence Platform that turns your company data and live market signals into governed strategic recommendations. Approved, tracked, measured.
- Strolll — Strolll Neurotechnology
Social Tech Trust is a UK's leading dedicated investor of socially motivated tech.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Non-Equity Assistance
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $20k–$4.8M; Grant $65k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $656k in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- WeWALK — WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service.
- CO2A Global — Helping NHS, Councils and CEOs reduce carbon impact, save time + money. 0118 324 9580. #Scope3 #netzero #G7 #Cop26 #GreenerNHS #greenplan #BASDA #government #AI
- Xploro — Xploro is a mobile application which uses augmented reality, artificial intelligence and gameplay to improve child health literacy and decrease the stress and anxiety associated with hospitalisation.
Brighteye Ventures is the first and largest vertical EdTech Venture Capital firm in Europe. If you are an entrepreneur using technology to reinvent learning and education, we want to hear from you!
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- Industry: Education, Software, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $541k–$2.2M; Series A $3.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $117M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Coachbetter — Football drills for kids, youth and pro teams in one platform. Coachbetter is your digital assistant coach. Manage football trainings, matches, teams and your club.
- sherpa — AI Operating System for External Workforce Management
- NEX Health Intelligence — Intelligent software systems for infection prevention and control. We provide hospitals with everything they need to track, manage, and prevent infections all in one place.
Forward Partners is a venture capital firm in London specialising in technology businesses focused on eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $390k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $54k–$2M; Series A $3.3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $75M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Ably Realtime — Ably is the realtime platform built for scale and reliability. Power live chat, messaging, collaborative apps, and AI experiences that never drop.
- OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.
- OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.
Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 230
- Round size: Seed $648k–$7.3M; Private Equity $2.1M–$8.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $979k–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $120M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Vertal — Vertal is a food waste recycling company
- Welding Engineers — Welding Engineers has been in business since 1966 and is a major independent door company specialising in the manufacture, installation, repair and maintenance of all types of Industrial Doors and Shutters, Steel Fabrication, Lift Gates and Shutters, Industrial Roofing and Structural Glazing.
- Industrial Engineering Plastics — Industrial Engineering Plastics delivers specialist thermoplastic fabrication, DW154-compliant ductwork, machining, and plastics distribution
Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 249
- Round size: Seed $645k–$4.3M; Series A $3.9M–$19M; Secondary Market $60M–$346M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $12M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
- CameraMatics — Digitize fleet management to optimize performance. Onboard sensors, smart cameras, & apps to mitigate risk, manage safety & achieve sustainability goals.
- Modern Milkman — Modern Milkman is a Yorkshire-based milk delivery company.
Concept Ventures is the UK's largest pre-seed fund. Founded in 2018, the firm has backed over 45+ companies changing how we Work, Play and Learn and focused only at the pre-seed stage.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $196k–$7M; Pre-Seed $600k–$3.4M; Series A $10M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $88M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Apate.AI — Is the next generation of scam prevention and intelligence. We deploy advanced conversational AI bots combined with real-time insights to protect businesses, governments and communities globally.2
- Oshen — Oshen is a technology enterprise that creates miniature autonomous sailboats designed for persistent, wide-area ocean tracking.
- Lightspring — Lightspring is a photonics technology company developing advanced 3D optical interconnection solutions for photonic systems.
Ada Ventures is a pre-seed inclusive venture capital firm that invests in the best, not just the best-connected. They find and fund the Ada Lovelaces of today. Backing European founders building businesses for a better human future. They invest £250K - £1M in technology companies across climate equity, economic empowerment and healthy ageing. Adainvests in purpose-led founders building for markets that are large, untapped and growing. Their approach drives outperformance, which they call Inclusive Alpha®.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8M; Pre-Seed $507k–$1.5M; Series A $10M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $81M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- InTouchNow — InTouchNow provides outsourced multi-channel answering services.
- Interfaze — JigsawStack provides fine-tuned custom models that do the heavy lifting for APIs in every tech stack and helps ship faster.
- AcouBatt — AcouBatt uses acoustic sensors and AI to monitor internal battery activity.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1792
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.3M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $10M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
- Mainstay — System of intelligence for residential real estate.
- Odyssey — Discover how Odyssey Energy Solutions unblocks bottlenecks in DRE project development. Access diverse financing, procure equipment efficiently, and remotely monitor system performance. Join over 2000 renewable energy companies that use Odyssey to scale. Get in touch today.
Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 255
- Round size: Seed $674k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $313k–$1.7M; Series A $4.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $126M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- AI Score — AI Score empowers organisations to harness AI safely
- Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
- Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
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Browse database — It's Free!Everywhere Ventures is a global pre-seed venture capital fund for founders, by founders. Click to read Everywhere VC, by Everywhere Ventures, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1304
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $4.4M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- Noise — Noise makes finding UGC creators easy. Work smarter with personalized AI guidance to make your next UGC creator campaign go viral.
- Axo Longevity — Axo Longevity offers membership-based biomarker testing and digital health plans for preventive wellness and longevity optimization.
Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0.FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growthjourney.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 202
- Round size: Seed $420k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
- Artificial Labs — Artificial connects brokers and insurers across the specialty market. Underwriting technology and placement tools to move risk faster, with less in the way.
- Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
Speak with our team, who can help you find sources of finance, engage with funders and secure investment to grow your business.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 287
- Round size: Seed $331k–$3.1M; Series A $1.7M–$7.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $199k–$4.1M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
- IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems. Deploy, manage, and scale AI-driven, data-rich industrial systems at the edge with our open edge data platform.
- Administrate — Manage instructor-led training with Administrate. Plan, schedule, communicate, resolve issues, and report on training operations from one platform.
The opportunity for institutional investors to access leading UK early stage healthtech businesses
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 167
- Round size: Seed $210k–$4.2M; Series A $3.4M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.4M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- TidalSense — CRiL was formed in April 2013 specifically to develop innovative medical devices to diagnose and manage respiratory conditions. They have been building a platform technology, N-Tidal, based on the measurement and analysis of tidal breathing CO2 throughout the entire breath.
- Qkine — Growth Factors made for stem cells Animal-free We control every step of protein manufacture ensuring all our products are completely animal-free Total transparency Stringent purity and bioactivity testing data for all proteins - know what you are giving your cells Protein innovation Our R&D team
- FundamentalVR — Solutions for knowledge acquisition and skills development for any interactive medium
We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 440
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.8M–$22M; Series B $8M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
- Metris Energy — The AI-native operating system for renewable energy.
- Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Maven is one of the UK's leading private equity and investment firms. We provide essential capital and expertise to help businesses unlock their potential.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 227
- Round size: Seed $783k–$5M; Private Equity $981k–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $648k–$8.3M
- Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- KubeNet — We are KubeNet - a multi-award winning technology solutions provider based in Glasgow. Whether it's Managed IT, IT Support, Cloud, Connectivity, Voice or Cyber Security, we're by your side as your trusted technology partner.
- Tixserve — Secure, Trackable, Interactive Digital Tickets for Live Events
- ReadyGo Diagnostics — ReadyGo Diagnostics has invented a novel “Diagnostic Pen”. Low cost, intuitive to use from the raw sample, the ReadyGo Pen will be a game-changer in the newly emerging consumer diagnostics market, offering a yes/no answer in minutes, based on molecular analysis.
Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 209
- Round size: Seed $233k–$4M; Pre-Seed $197k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $477k–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Go Swag — Branded gifts for people you work with
- Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
- Foresight — Foresight turns regulatory change into confident action. Compliance-critical teams see every change that affects their products across chemicals, sustainability, product safety, ESG, and HSE, with the evidence to act.
1818 Venture Capital is proud to invest in portfolios of tech startups that aim to generate wealth for our investors and do good in the world.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Bahrain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $655k–$5M; Series A $2.7M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Count Finance — Count Finance fintech company that offers all-in-one app for budgeting, automated savings, and smart investing solutions.
- Tanami Capital — Tanami Capital is an investment management firm that specializes in asset management, advisory, and financial services.
- WatchMyCompetitor — WMC is the market leading competitor monitoring tool. Use the latest AI tech and human analysts to monitor competitors and develop strategies.
We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 166
- Round size: Seed $798k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $5M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $80M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Dessn — Dessn is an AI app that enables designers & product managers to contribute to product building without coding.
- Embedd — Chips modelled as digital twins. Software, tests and simulations generated for any target.
- Nexcade — Nexcade AI agents run freight quoting, tenders, rates, bookings, and reporting with your team, visible and controlled at every step.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2426
- Round size: Seed $2M–$26M; Series A $7M–$85M; Series B $15M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $600M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Tennr — Tennr is a custom AI assistant that accelerates research, answers complex questions, and generates custom reports.
- Whizzo — Whizzo specializes in materials science-driven manufacturing of engineered fashion and technical textiles. Our expertise lies in creating and executing innovative textile blends tailored for applications across automotive, agriculture, medical textiles, and engineered fashion.
- ElevenLabs — Create lifelike speech with our AI voice generator and voice agents platform. Access 5,000+ voices in 70+ languages with secure APIs and SDKs.
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Browse database — It's Free!The Growth Company’s two Angel services, Co-Angel Investment Service and North West Business Angels have recently merged creating a more cohesive offer, enabling increased access to early stage equity funding. The service now known as GC Angels, supports businesses seeking access to angel investment, ranging from £25,000 up to £2m. Developed by GCas the next evolution of its successful Co Angel Investment Service, GC Angels forms part of the GM Combined Authority's response to supporting the early stage investment market, and integrates with the range of wider GC business finance and business support services. It will incorporate the network offer (NWBA); the fee-bearing advisory service (Co Angel) alongside the new GM Co-Investment Fund, providing an innovative, single solution equity funding service.
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- Industry: Software, Fashion, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $327k–$1.7M; Angel $193k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $131k–$656k
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gaia Learning — Gaia Learning are a special online school dedicated to children with additional needs. We help kids with ADHD, ADD, OCD, PDA and Autism, learn online.
- BreezeMove — We're revolutionising the home-moving process. #PropTech
- Prorizon — Health & sports startup that empowers young athletes to take control over mind and body.
MEIF is an investment firm that operates equity and debt investment towards growth capital. The firm aims to transform the finance landscape for smaller businesses in the Midlands and to realize the region’s potential to achieve economic growth through enterprise. It is a collaboration between the British Business Bank and ten Local EnterprisePartnerships (LEPs) in the West Midlands and East and South East Midlands. MEIF provides over £250m of investment to boost small and medium business (SME) growth in the Midlands.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Round size: Seed $327k–$2.7M; Debt Financing $250k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Doughnotts — Doughnotts is a coffee and doughnut shop.
- School of Coding — School of Coding is affiliated with the reputated org, invites you to apply for sept. intake Explore our courses and start your world-class education.
- Halo X Ray Technologies — HALO X-ray Technologies - next generation X-ray diffraction technology for the aviation security, medical and process control markets.
We love, help & invest in early-stage consumer brands.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Series A $3.9M–$20M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$9.2M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Meatly — Good Dog Food creates cultivated meat for healthy pets and a healthy planet
- Reformed — Reformed: Arabica coffee and ceremonial matcha, enriched with functionality: collagen or creatine, adaptogens and twenty-one vitamins.
- TrueStart Coffee — TrueStart Coffee offers a range of coffee products, including barista-grade instant coffee and loose coffee bags. The company emphasizes healthy and delicious coffee, sourcing beans and air-roasting them with care.
Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 312
- Round size: Seed $45k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $44k–$488k; Equity Crowdfunding $125k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
- LANDBAY — Your dedicated Landbay intermediary page for specialist buy-to-let mortgages. Partner with a lender who gives you direct decisions with a flexible approach and a full online application process.
- OurPetsLife — At OurPetsLife, our mission is to empower pet owners with innovative, reliable, and accessible Pet products trusted by the professionals. From dog food, supplements for pets, shampoo, pet treats, dental care & much more.
We turn exceptional individuals into funded founders. We back you first, then give you a bridge to Silicon Valley.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 485
- Round size: Seed $54k–$6.7M; Pre-Seed $55k–$2.7M; Series A $5.1M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $133M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- ByteAsk — Derisk your AI agents
- Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
- Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
Eka Ventures invests in late Seed/early Series A consumer technology companies that have a positive societal impact. This can be environmental (For example, reducing food waste) or social (For example, delivering elderly care)We are particularly fascinated with two business models: Vertically integrated direct to consumer brands, includingthose that have a logistics aspect to them Market networks We also like companies that power the two business models above We believe in the power of founders to drive this change
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- Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$6.7M; Series A $3.3M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $107M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- OxCan — Enabling curative cancer treatment through early detection
- Medly AI — Medly AI is a multilingual tutor that uses AI, theory of mind, and reinforcement learning technology to supercharge students' abilities. With Medly AI, students can engage in conversational learning, practice past exam questions, and get immediate marking and feedback. Medly AI also works with teachers to enhance the classroom, so thatstudents can have more personalized, inclusive learning experiences, and teachers can focus on what they do best - teaching.It was founded in 2023 in London, England, United Kingdom.
- DITTO Daily — Clinically studied supplement for premenstrual warriors, bad periods, peri support and neurodivergent cycles. Brought to you by a team of neuroscientists, nutrition scientists and gynaecologists.
QVentures sources, screens, and invests in top-tier start-ups from Seed to Series B. Our investors consist of Family Offices, Institutional Investors, UHNWIs, and Cashed-out Entrepreneurs. We look for disruptive companies with a proven product-market fit, set to scale from Seed to Series B. We focus on Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, Consumer Tech,FinTech, AdTech, EdTech, InsurTech and HealthTech and more. We look for quality management teams, large addressable markets, proven traction, sustainable business models, route to scale and quality investors.To apply for investment, please fill out this short form to be reviewed: https://qventures.typeform.com/to/zZPOWf
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $125k–$4.3M; Angel $426k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $250k–$761k
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Astronome AI — Astronome AI is a company that provides streamlined IT management for SMEs, powered by AI.
- Electric Sheep — Electric Sheep offers an AI-powered agentic video editor and VFX platform, streamlining content creation and post-production. Generate, edit, and enhance videos with advanced AI tools for filmmakers and creators.
- NeuWave Technologies — NeuWave Technologies delivers environmental analysis for floating offshore wind farm development and operational management.
Redbus Group is a UK based investment group that invests in early stage ventures and funds or acquires businesses that require restructuring. Redbus Group came into existence as an offshoot of Redbus Film Distribution which was founded in 1997 as a film distribution company. Redbus Film Distribution had rapidly established itself as one of thelargest and most profitable film distributors in the UK. In late 2000 it was sold to Helkon Media AG.Redbus through its subsidiary Filmgroup was the first company in Europe to successfully develop technology to compress and stream moving images over the internet. Between 2000 and 2004 Redbus was the UK's fastest growing company with a compound annual growth rate in-excess of 280%. In 2005 Redbus sold its production and distribution operations to Lionsgate Inc and sold its stake in Lovefilm of which it was co-founder, to Amazon in 2010.Employing an entrepreneurial and disciplined approach, Redbus, either with partners or alone looks for opportunities to leverage off its capital, market knowledge and management resources.
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- Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 153
- Round size: Seed $586k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $323k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SOLVE — SOLVE have developed novel transient flow techniques that extend the capabilities of current approaches. SOLVE’s products leverage technology for the efficient collection of data from chemical reactions, as well as predictive computational models tuned based on the collected data. Both the data by itself, as well as the models, are used to informthe reaction conditions and solvent mixtures applied to manufacture chemical compounds at different scales of production.
- Tolemy Bio — The AI-native virtual cell platform for therapeutic development and manufacture.
- Nila Elder Care — Nila acquires independent UK homecare agencies and runs them on our AI platform. Families get care they can count on; owners get a fair exit and a team that's looked after.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1119
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $575k–$5M; Series A $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Benford — Benford is a modern, licensed audit firm that provides technology-driven statutory audit services using its custom software, AuditOS.
- Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
- sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
Investment management that activates capital across a range of industries, asset classes and sectors, connecting legacies with growth and businesses with better futures.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $891k–$4M; Series A $4.9M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Plend — Fair, ethical loans for a brighter future. Plend powers transparent and affordable financing to empower the UK. Start your journey today.
- Ayan — At Ayan, we offer Halal, ethical and transparent car financing solutions across the UKOur financing model is built on fairness and clarity. No interest, no hidden costs, and no confusing terms- just Shariah-compliant finance tailored to real needs. We’re committed to supporting individuals and businesses with solutions that align with theirprinciples.As we continue to grow across the UK, our mission remains simple: to provide accessible, ethical financial options that help our customers secure the vehicles they need- while staying true to their values.Credit is subject to status and affordability checks.Ayan Capital 1 Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN: 1021505)
- The Electric Car Scheme — Salary sacrifice lets employees pay for an electric car from their gross salary before tax. It's basically the Cycle to Work scheme but for electric cars.
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Browse database — It's Free!Venture capital investment for ambitious businesses. We invest into vibrant early-stage and scaleup businesses across the UK.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Hungary, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$26M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ambrey Baker — Ambrey Baker delivers consultancy, capital projects and hard facilities management for food, cold chain and regulated industrial sectors.
- Tozaro — MIP Diagnostics develop and manufacture molecularly imprinted polymers (nanoMIPs) that act as synthetic alternatives to antibodies for IVD and other industries.
- Applied Monitoring — Continuous non-invasive lactate monitoring technology. Lactate sensor for health, elite sports and clinical use.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced investor, we make it simple to buy and sell shares in Europe's most exciting high-growth businesses.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Spain, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1052
- Round size: Seed $376k–$4.9M; Convertible Note $246k–$3.8M; Equity Crowdfunding $108k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $8.3M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- ROLEY's — ROLEY’S is a beverage company that produces vitamin-enriched lager. Its drinks are formulated with B-vitamins such as B3, B5, B6, and B9 and contain minimal sugar and carbohydrates. The company aims to offer an alternative beer option that aligns with modern nutrition and wellness preferences.
- Emerald — Comprehensive in-clinic biomarker testing, GP-reviewed results with past health data integration and personalised action plan. Designed to help you understand your risks earlier and act with medical support.
- When in Rome | B Corp™ — We bring you craft wines made by small, independent producers and sold in convenient, eco-friendly bag-in-boxes at a great price with free delivery.
DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 451
- Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $4.5M–$25M; Series B $10M–$82M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Gaussion — Gaussion is revolutionising batteries by utilising magneto-electrochemistry.
- unique.ai — Automate personalized experiences to successfully transform your organization.
- sherpa — AI Operating System for External Workforce Management
Mercia Equity Finance is a regional investor that focuses initially on uncovering the hidden value. It uses both of its managed funds and its proprietary capital to invest across four distinct asset classes: venture, private equity, and debt, referred to as their 'Complete Capital Solution’. It aspires to be the first choice for investors,investees, and employees, and, by aspiring to be the first choice, they believe that Mercia will deliver superior returns for business owners, shareholders, and fund investors alike.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $326k–$2.7M; Series A $980k–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $656k–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Envoke — The engagement Platform for your Virtual Instrument.
- Inovus Medical — Inovus Medical builds surgical simulators and Totum, a data-driven training platform trusted by leading clinicians worldwide.
- Candid Hospitality — Candid Hospitality is an innovative recruitment platform created particularly for the hospitality industry.
Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation .
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1242
- Round size: Seed $143k–$3.5M; Grant $62k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $58k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
- 52 North Health — At 52 North we are developing fully-integrated clinical, AI and medical-device based systems.
- Productive Machines — Productive Machines Chatter-free Milling Software Optimization Service for every Machine Shop. Apply our recommended spindle speeds and feed rates to your specific machine settings and make the best part, faster, right first time.
Initial Capital is an investor in seed and early-stage technology companies with a focus on games, consumer services & technology enablers.
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $796k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $575k–$1.3M; Series A $1M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Saf.money — One API to move money across Central America using Bitcoin, stablecoins, and local banking rails.
- Space Ape — Visit Supercell.com and find out more about us and our games.
- Antidote — London-based startup studio for Bitcoin founders
Playfair is a sector agnostic fund focused exclusively on pre-seed investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making six investments a year out of its third $70m fund and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Our 78% Series Agraduation rate is ~3x industry average. Playfair has backed 100+ companies since 2013, including Thought Machine, Orca AI, Protex AI, StackOne and Nory.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 155
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $953k–$3.7M; Series A $3M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Navifare — Navifare is an AI-powered travel price optimization and metasearch platform that focuses on flight, hotel, and car rental price comparison. The platform analyzes flight offers users already found and searches for lower fares from online travel agencies and airlines. Users can upload screenshots, paste flight details, or use a Chrome extension thatoverlays a “Find Better Fare” button on major booking sites. Navifare exposes its price discovery capabilities via a web app, a REST API, and an MCP server for integration into AI assistants. It redirects users to partner sites to complete bookings and does not handle payments directly.
- Zerolook — Zerolook provides a flight-shopping API for online travel agencies, airlines, metasearch services, and AI travel applications. Its machine-learning model predicts flight prices and itineraries using historical fare data instead of recomputing every fare combination through a global distribution system or airline system. The API returns predicteditineraries, prices, and confidence scores for exploratory search, while customers route completed bookings through their existing distribution channels. Zerolook supports REST and MCP integrations and provides booking links to external airlines and online travel agencies.
- Fusionality — Fusionality is a Swiss fusion-technology company focused on measurement, control, and data systems for fusion devices.They combine expertise in fusion physics, control engineering, AI/ML, simulation, diagnostics, and real-time software.Their goal is to help fusion companies and research labs operate devices more efficiently and accelerate thedevelopment of commercial fusion energy.
APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 211
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $55k–$1.4M; Series A $2.1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $67M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- VisioLab — Instantly scan products for self-checkout, using the iPad camera - no barcodes needed. Designed for speed, simplicity and human centricity.
- Bloom — Moved to @bloomsocial
- Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.
Award-winning EIS & SEIS technology venture capital fund manager
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5M; Pre-Seed $148k–$650k
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Tikos — Tikos #devtools, quickly deploy advanced reasoning over your data. #responsibleAI #trustworthyAI #AIreasoning
- Yotewo — Yotewo is a platform that helps companies find and hire software developers for their projects
- Pimloc — Pimloc's deep learning platform enables private businesses and public organisations to protect sensitive or personal data in video, to maintain safe online environments and to manage video security.
Deepbridge is a different kind of investment manager. They work closely with financial advisers and investors to design innovative products, ranging from investment in technology growth companies to asset-backed renewable energy projects. They also partner with innovative and committed management teams to help UK based companies realise theirpotential and become successful leading-edge businesses.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Spain, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $152k–$2.4M; Series A $2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- upLYFT — upLYFT is working on the next generation of smart wearables to help with musculoskeletal issues related to aging. Also working with pro athletes to help sporting individuals train harder and break records.
- GeneralPractice.AI — GeneralPractice.AI - Infusing Artificial Intelligence into the Fabric of General Practice
- Spotlight Pathology — Spotlight Pathology develops decision support tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to help in the diagnosis of blood cancers.
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