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Top 50 Education Angel Investors in United Kingdom in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Education startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Education Angel Investors in United Kingdom in December 2024

Investor	Education United Kingdom investments
Andrew Weisz	6
Chris Bruce	4
Nick Telson-Sillett	4
Simon Franks	4
Michael Whitfield	4
Theo Osborne	4
Paul Heydon	4
Gregory O’Shea	3
Reece Chowdhry	3
Volker Hirsch	3
Deborah Quazzo	3
Alexander Edward Chesterman	3
Paul Forster	3
Stephanie Davis	3
Taavet Hinrikus	3
Josh Patterson	3
Alwin Magimay	2
Andy Murray	2
Husayn Kassai	2
Will Martin	2
Claire Davenport	2
Alex Yee	2
Wendy Tan White	2
Andrew McGill	2
Craig Pines	2
Jonathan Seaton	2
Renaud Visage	2
Ken Baumann	2
Will Brooks	2
Beth Potter	2
Nick Hungerford	2
Charlie Songhurst	2
Bart Swanson	2
Jason Weeks	2
Peter Hinssen	2
John Lloyd	2
Peter Roberts	2
Ed Wray	2
Lisa Stone	2
Stephan Thoma	2
Charles Wiles	2
Chris Adelsbach	2
Bernie Sinniah	2
Biz Stone	2
Ashley Cooper	2
Alister Jordan	2
Anil D. Aggarwal	2
Murat Abdrakhmanov	2
Jonathan Goodwin	2
Sir Terry Leahy	2

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Andrew Weisz - Partner @ Weisz Investments

Investment focus

Software, Education, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sidequest — SideQuest is the early access layer for Virtual Reality Get access to the latest Oculus Quest Games Oculus App Lab games lots of free apps on applab and sideload
Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.
Guardian Angel — Death is tough enough. We're here to make it that little bit easier. By making planning for and through death simpler. So you can focus on what really matters.

Chris was a benefit consultant when he co-founded Thomsons. His role spans every aspect of the business, from engaging with clients to the development of DarwinTM software. This means he is in close contact with HR and benefit specialists globally, understanding the changing benefit landscape.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Internet, Human Resources
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Unmind — Unmind is a workplace mental health platform. We empower employees to measure, understand, and improve their mental wellbeing.
HowNow — HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.
HR DataHub — HR DataHub operates as an HR data benchmarking platform for organizations to tackle issues that are right at the top of the boardroom agenda.

Exited Founder of DesignMyNight (Acquired 2019), Co-Founder trumpet, Founder of Venture Arm Horseplay Ventures, Angel Investor in 55+ Startups and Podcaster

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.
sequel — A community of the world's best athletes investing in the world's best startups, advancing humanity.
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

Simon Franks is the founder and managing partner of Redbus Ventures and Chairman of the Franks Family Foundation. (www.thefff.org)

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
Oto Health — Take back control of your tinnitus with Oto, the app built by doctors that teaches you how to stop noticing the ringing using clinically proven techniques. Includes CBT, targeted mindfulness, and relaxation. 86% users experience benefits after just 1 month.
Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday

Michael Whitfield - Chairman @ hundo.careers

Investment focus

Recruiting, Enterprise Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Unmind — Unmind is a workplace mental health platform. We empower employees to measure, understand, and improve their mental wellbeing.
Involve.ai — involve.ai helps you prevent churn, grow revenue, and deliver amazing customer outcomes.
HR DataHub — HR DataHub operates as an HR data benchmarking platform for organizations to tackle issues that are right at the top of the boardroom agenda.

Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

The Dots — Professional networking for the new world of work. Get advice. Meet collaborators. Find jobs. Upskill at events.
Nova Credit — Nova Credit is a credit infrastructure and analytics company that enables businesses to grow responsibly by harnessing alternative credit data.
Platform Science — Experience the power to choose what drives your fleet. Platform Science delivers telematics and fleet management tools on a platform built for transportation.

I have 30+ years as a founder, operator, investor, board member and advisor. I have founded/co-founded multiple companies and have dealt with cofounder issues directly. I have invested in individual companies that have achieved $2b in revenue, $1b in profit, $30b in valuation. Plus on the other side of the spectrum, I have seen lots ofdifferent poor behaviour by some investors, founders and lawyers. My value add is: - the ability to quickly filter out the wrong people. - fundraising - strategy - focus - making tough decisions - cashflow planningCurrently investing directly in startups (mainly tech) at all stages and in funds (most asset classes) as an LP globally. I invested early in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity Software (NYSE:U), Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), Gameclub (acquired by Take-Two Interactive), Doppio Games (acquired by Fortis). Previously, I cofounded a seed VC firm & was an investment banker at various firms. I have both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.If you message me with a pitch deck link for your company or fund then do not send me a docsend link or anything requesting an email and or password as I will ignore it. And make sure you detail the team background, why it’s the best team and why you will win.I’m also open to board positions for companies in Europe and North America. Owner of https://www.heathfieldestatenewforest.co.uk/

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Tellie — Create a free website/link-in-bio to market your art, release new music, increase your followers, sell merchandise, and share your portfolio/resume/EPK. Token Gate all.
Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
Glean AI — Glean AI is the only Accounts Payable solution that combines smart automation with spend intelligence and powers Finance teams to drive material savings.

Gregory O’Shea

Investment focus

Sports, Fitness, Training
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Runna — Runna is your personalized running coach. With tailored training plans, world-class coaching and an in-app community to help you achieve your goals, whether you're training for a faster 5k or your first marathon. Download Runna today.

Reece is the Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures - an early-stage SEIS/EIS VC fund investing in technology companies primarily focused on Fintech, Enterprise and Gaming. He was awarded “Top 5 Asian Tech Investors” 2018 (KPMG & Diversity UK) and is the youngest-ever investor to profiled by The Sunday Times. Reece is a frequent keynote andpanel speaker at prominent industry events such as StartupGrind Europe and Fintech Live. Reece holds a BA in International Business from Durham University and is a Chartered Management Consultant (ACMA, CGMA) having started his career as a Management Consultant at EY.Reece invests personally in all of RLC Ventures' investments.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
Condense — Live-streamed volumetric video into game engines
Crowd Data Systems — Crowd Data Systems (CDS) offers a new approach to treasury management. CDS has developed an ‘app by app’ Treasury Management System which is built upon cloud infrastructure, offering everything from cash to exposure management in modular parts.

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 — The Link App is a smart, fully-featured platform that reinvents client experience across professional services. The company drives businesses forward through on-demand and secure communications between legal professionals and their clients and this is achieved through improving the firm’s client relationships with secure messaging, case tracking,and document sharing. It tackles the stigma that technology damages personal customer service with an app that enables customer experience.The Link App was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Deborah Quazzo is a Managing Partner at GSV Ventures and a Co-founder at ASU+GSV Summit. She was a Founder and Managing Partner at GSV Advisors. He attended Princeton University and Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Unmudl — Unmudl is the Skills-to-Jobs™ Marketplace, connects learners and employers via a coast-to-coast network of leading community colleges. Through Unmudl, learners easily access courses and short-term credential programs that lead to jobs. These jobs pay family-supporting wages and contribute directly to the country's economic growth and recovery.Employers use the Unmudl marketplace to source diverse talent directly from courses and programs.
Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
Daybreak Health — Daybreak partners with youth, families, and schools to create personalized, easily accessible, and affordable mental health programs.

Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Zefir — Zefir aims to expand the realm of possibilities for millions of European homeowners. We make home-selling simpler, faster and more certain by buying the property directly from you. Selling a home is now just a few clicks away.
Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.

Paul Forster

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier

Stephanie Davis

Investment focus

Sports, Fitness, Training
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Runna — Runna is your personalized running coach. With tailored training plans, world-class coaching and an in-app community to help you achieve your goals, whether you're training for a faster 5k or your first marathon. Download Runna today.

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

Josh Patterson

Investment focus

Sports, Fitness, Training
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Runna — Runna is your personalized running coach. With tailored training plans, world-class coaching and an in-app community to help you achieve your goals, whether you're training for a faster 5k or your first marathon. Download Runna today.

Alwin Magimay

Investment focus

Internet, Education, E-Learning
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HowNow — HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.

Former Tennis star; angel investor; business man

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Education
Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HowNow — HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.
ZoomDoc —
GoodBox — Welcome to the future of fundraising with GoodBox. Charity contactless technology made to maximise your fundraising & help you embrace contactless giving.

Husayn Kassai is the Quench.ai CEO and Founder. Former CEO and Co-Founder at identity unicorn Onfido. He is a World Economic Forum "Tech Pioneer", Forbes Contributor & “30 Under 30” and has a BA in Economics and Management, Oxford University.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Social Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

quester — quester is the ultimate platform to share & discuss resources. Imagine Discord meets Google Bookmarks, but with the ability to create your own playlists of any online content and gamified libraries with others who share your passions!

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Claire Davenport

Investment focus

Corporate Training, EdTech, Events
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Learnerbly — Transform the way your People learn - give them access to a marketplace of learning resources specific to their needs and curated from 200+ providers.
Code First Girls — Code First Girls is on a mission to transform tech. We work with various partners to teach women to code for free; join the 200,000+ women we have taught so far!

Alex Yee is a Olympic Triathlete.

Investment focus

Sports, Fitness, Training
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Runna — Runna is your personalized running coach. With tailored training plans, world-class coaching and an in-app community to help you achieve your goals, whether you're training for a faster 5k or your first marathon. Download Runna today.

Wendy Tan White is the Chief Executive Officer of Intrinsic. She Previously worked at X, the moonshot factory as the Vice President, Moonshots at Alphabet, X.Wendy Tan White attended Imperial College London.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Multiverse — We provide equitable access to economic opportunity, for everyone.
Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
DevicePilot — DevicePilot Service Monitoring for connected devices provides a single pane of glass for Product, Operations and Customer Support teams, driving up customer satisfaction and growth, while reducing operational costs.

Andrew is currently Non-Executive Director of ASX-listed Countplus Limited and Non-Executive Chairman of PM Capital. Previously he was Managing Director and CEO of ASX-listed Treasury Group Ltd and before that Andrew co-founded the leading Australian private equity firm Crescent Capital Partners.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Software
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Howamigoing — OUR WHY We want people to live their best lives. We believe people grow more when in teams. We believe great teams are built on constructive feedback. At work. At home.OUR HOW We’re using technology + design + psychology to break down crucial communication barriers between people: We want to create a safe-space where people can feelcomfortable asking uncomfortable questions and giving uncomfortable answers.OUR WHAT We’ve developed a beautifully designed, UX-led platform that helps employees and employers manage goal setting, 360-degree feedback, manager check-ins, pulse surveys and personal note keeping all year round.This saves time, money and anxiety while providing a safe, confidential portal for employees to proactively gather year-round advice from their colleagues.

Craig’s leadership of Amerigo builds on more than a decade of experience driving growth and innovation in education. Prior to Amerigo, Craig was President & CEO of Deltak, a pioneering provider of online education services for leading American universities. In 2014, after leading the sale of Deltak to John Wiley & Sons, he became a ManagingDirector in Wiley’s Corporate Development group, identifying and executing acquisitions and strategic partnerships. Craig is passionate about building a dynamic and cohesive team culture that drives successful outcomes for Amerigo's students. He received a B.S. in Finance from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Higher Education
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FourthRev — FourthRev is working to bridge the digital skills gap by connecting leading companies and universities to enable the delivery of up-to-date, industry relevant programs, ranging from micro-credentials through to degree courses. We do this by co-creating content and curriculum with leading technology companies, such as AWS, Salesforce and Tableau,which is delivered to learners by our university partners, either as stand-alone courses or as part of existing offerings. FourthRev then connects learners to employers in our partners ecosystems.

Jonathan Seaton is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Twinkl.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bippit — Bippit is a financial support system for employees, which provides them with a 1-1 financial coach, powerful tools, and practical resources.Research has shown that 3/4 staff members have financial concerns that directly affect them at work, but only 1/10 have been able to speak to an expert about them. This has a huge impact onbusinesses, as 15% of payroll cost can be lost from reduced productivity, presenteeism, and an increase in staff turnover, due to the financial worries of their workforce.Bippit makes professional financial support completely free for employees, whenever and wherever they need it, and is backed by early stage investors in Monzo, Freetrade, and Calm.
Wally Health — Unlimited dental cleanings and whitening for $199/year
Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.

Building the world's largest event technnology company with Eventbrite (NYSE: EB).Helping start-ups scale with seed fund Point Nine Capital.Angel investing in bold and ambitious European and U.S. start-ups. Sample from 40+ portfolio companies: - Sqreen (exited to Datadog) - Meero ($290M in funding) - Algolia ($184M) - Alkemics ($54M) -Builder ($29M) - Verve ($28M) - Fox Intelligence (€18M)

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.
finres — Finres empowers decision-making for climate resilience, leveraging machine learning to enhance agricultural sustainability and adaptation strategies.
Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.

Ken Baumann is the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors at SWEETSPOT. Ken was a star of ABC Family's Secret Life of the American Teenager which concluded its fifth and final season last summer. While working fulltime, he also founded a non-profit publishing company (Sator Press) that discovers innovative and challengingliterature. Ken's first two novels and a nonfiction book about the video game EarthBound were published last year. Ken is a seed investor in Memrise, an online learning platform combining art with science to provide game-like learning experiences. Passionate about learning and literature, Ken is currently a freshman at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ken also donates his time to Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles raising funds for pediatric IBD.

Investment focus

EdTech, Software, Education
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Memrise — Learn a language as it's used now. Immerse yourself in lessons that feature videos of native speakers, so you start speaking real life language, fast.

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Beth Potter is a individual investor.

Investment focus

Sports, Fitness, Training
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Runna — Runna is your personalized running coach. With tailored training plans, world-class coaching and an in-app community to help you achieve your goals, whether you're training for a faster 5k or your first marathon. Download Runna today.

Nick is the founding CEO of Nutmeg. Following a business degree at Exeter University, Nick worked at Barclays in the areas of product, banking and wealth management. Nick was a Divisional Director at Brewin Dolphin and has an MBA from Stanford University in the United States. Nick's industry and investment views are respected globally and hefrequently appears on Bloomberg, CNBC and BBC and has been quoted in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and many international publications. Nick has been a guest lecturer at academic institutions including Harvard, Stanford and London Business School and has represented UKTI around the world, promoting the benefits of doing business in Britain.

Investment focus

SaaS, EdTech, Finance
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Zen Educate — Zen Educate is a simple, streamlined platform for teachers and teaching assistants to find work in schools without expensive agency fees.
Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.
Multiply — Multiply is working with the Financial Conduct Authority's Advice Unit to get fully regulated and become one of the first automated financial advice solutions. They use encryption to ensure your information is fully secure, and they will never share or sell your data.Traditional financial advisors are too expensive for most people, and theyusually only help clients with upwards of £100,000 in the bank. This means there are millions of people in the UK who want to make better financial decisions but don’t know how. They think this is a big problem. It’s even got a name - the advice gap - and they are determined to close it, by making financial advice available to everyone.Multiply creates free financial plans to help you decide what to do with your money. All you have to do is create an account on their website, answer a few questions about your current situation and what you want for your future, and their smart technology will do the rest. What you’ll get is a list of recommendations across savings, pensions, investments, insurance, and more. It’s a fast, secure, easy way to get impartial guidance on how to make your money work for you, and it’s absolutely free to use.

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.
Briefcase — Briefcase is an AI-powered tool for bookkeeping and month-end automation designed specifically for professional services practices.

Bart helps companies scale globally and has been active in the technology sector for more than fifteen years as an entrepreneur, mentor, and executive. Previously he was the Chairman of Summly (sold to Yahoo), COO at Badoo, an MD International at GSI Commerce (sold to eBay), a GM at Amazon.com (helping lead the international expansion from1998-2001), and was an MD at EMI Music Europe. Bart received an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, was a Fellow at the Lauder Institute, and has a BA in History from the University of Southern California.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Certn — Thousands of companies worldwide rely on Certn's integrated background screening to secure the right people with an 80% reduced time to hire.
Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
Part3 — Part3 simplifies construction administration for architects and engineers. Leverage AI to collaborate on submittals, RFIs, changes, field reporting & more.

Jason is CEO of vendorable.com, one of Australia’s fastest growing real-estate tech companies. He is also an investor in and advisor to Qwilr.com, as well as Realla (recently exited to CoStar). Previously Jason was Director and Head of Business Development at mining engineering company Vicon Services, which was sold to EnerMech in 2013 for A$30m.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Software
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Howamigoing — OUR WHY We want people to live their best lives. We believe people grow more when in teams. We believe great teams are built on constructive feedback. At work. At home.OUR HOW We’re using technology + design + psychology to break down crucial communication barriers between people: We want to create a safe-space where people can feelcomfortable asking uncomfortable questions and giving uncomfortable answers.OUR WHAT We’ve developed a beautifully designed, UX-led platform that helps employees and employers manage goal setting, 360-degree feedback, manager check-ins, pulse surveys and personal note keeping all year round.This saves time, money and anxiety while providing a safe, confidential portal for employees to proactively gather year-round advice from their colleagues.

Peter Hinssen is the Co-Founder and Partner at Nexxworks.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, EBooks
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
Sparkcentral — Consumers today engage with brands and companies on social channels by sending tweets and messages stating their customer service needs openly and publicly. Many companies choose to respond to these consumers via the same channels in order to address their concerns. The Sparkcentral Platform helps customer support teams manage large volumes ofsocial inquiries in a streamlined and efficient manner. The platform pulls in the messages from these social channels and presents them to customer care teams via a secure agent console that automatically assigns the messages to the first available agent. Sparkcentral’s client roster includes Delta Air Lines, Emirates, Netflix, Nordstrom, Dropbox, Uber, and T-Mobile.The company’s client portfolio includes Formerly known as TwitSpark, Sparkcentral was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Rita Data — Collect, view and control your data. Smoothly, and in total privacy.

John Lloyd

Investment focus

Health Care, Education, Wellness
Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Thrive — Thrive Mental Wellbeing - Mental Health Services
Easy Peasy — Get EasyPeasy parenting tips and activities, personalised for you and your 0-5 year old, from our playful community of parents and experts.
Elemental Software — Elemental is a digital platform that connects patients health and social care professionals and community health & wellness providers.Health Professionals are able to generate digital social prescriptions for citizens with chronic health risks such as depression, social isolation, type 2 diabetes and obesity, connecting them with qualityassured providers who deliver community based interventions across the domains of exercise, diet/nutrition, social support and mental health.The software is designed as a multi-tenanted cloud service and so can be implemented rapidly. It is highly parameterised and can be customised to suit an individual organisation's functional requirements without compromising its technological core.

Peter is a serial entrepreneur with a distinguished career in the leisure industry. Earlier ventures include the formation of Langdale Group Plc which sold for £29m in 1989 to Scottish & Newcastle. He set up nightclub company Luminar, which completed a successful IPO in 1998, food/pub chain Countrystyle Inns which sold in 1995 for an IRRof 35% and a Venture Capital Fund with Lazard Ventures. In 2000 Peter founded Golden Tulip Hotels, a budget hotel group, sold to Whitbread in 2008. In 2015 Peter was named a winner in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards and overall winner for the North of England.Peter is now involved with helping young entrepreneurs to develop their businesses.

Investment focus

Fitness, Training, Wellness
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Another Round — Achieve your fitness goals with Another Round remote personal training. Train anywhere, anytime. In-app personalised workouts. First 14 days free.
Narwhal Media Group — From lead generation & web design to SEO, our Digital Agency combines our dynamic skill sets to achieve targeted results and grow businesses.

Mr. Edward Wray, Ed is a Co-Founder of Betfair Australia Pty Ltd. Mr. Wray co-founded The Sporting Exchange Limited (Alternate Name: Betfair Limited) in May 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Betfair, he spent eight years at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a Vice President in the debt capital markets and derivatives area. He servesas the Chairman at Betfair. He has been Non-executive Chairman of The Sporting Exchange Limited since 2006. He served as the Chairman of Betfair Limited since 2006. He served as Non-Executive Chairman of Betfair Group PLC from March 17, 2008 to March 6, 2012. He has been a Director at Sporting Exchange since August 1998. Mr. Wray has been a Director of Betfair Group PLC since August 20, 1999. He serves as a Non Executive Director of Funding Circle Ltd. He served as a Director at Betfair since 1999.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Hole19 — Download Hole19's free Golf App with GPS, Scorecard and Rangefinder for iOS and Android. Plus connect with your golf buddies. Now ready for watch
Netwealth — Netwealth uses cutting-edge technology and an expert team to provide a cost-effective wealth management service. See how we can help manage your investments.
SmartUp.io — SmartUp is the ultimate platform for peer-to-peer knowledge creation, sharing and exchange.Conceived and developed by a seasoned team of founders and investors behind Founders Forum, Spotify, Siri, lastminute.com and others, SmartUp now hosts more than 150,000 members and is used around the world by startup founders, companies, innovators,business schools and curious entrepreneurs.SmartUp’s intuitive learning system provides communities engaging and fun ways to contribute and consume bite-sized pieces of knowledge and insight. Its powerful platform unlocks your community’s real knowledge to help every member unleash their potential.

Lisa Stone

Investment focus

Education, SaaS, Big Data
Series A, Funding Round
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
Arbor Education — Arbor helps schools tranform the way they work, saving teachers time and improving student outcomes. The company has two products, a Management Information System to automate school workflows, saving teachers time, and benchmarking analytics to identify areas of concern and reduce time to intervention.

Stephan Thoma

Investment focus

EdTech, E-Learning, Corporate Training
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Learnerbly — Transform the way your People learn - give them access to a marketplace of learning resources specific to their needs and curated from 200+ providers.

Charles is the co-CEO and Co-Founder of Zzish, one of Europe's leading education technology growth ventures.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Software
Angel, Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Perkbox — Harmonise your employee benefits and rewards globally. Provide benefits, support wellbeing and create a culture of recognition to boost employee engagement.
Of Course Learning — OfCourse is a curated marketplace for personal development, where genuine industry experts and upload and host short, video led courses in their area of expertise. These courses provide the entry point for someone learning about topics ranging from health and wellbeing to starting your own business. All courses are provided on demand so studentscan learn at their own pace, and they can interact with fellow students and teachers throughout the course. With an extensive library of over 1,000 online courses, students can master skills, whilst experts can reach new audiences and monetise their knowledge.
EZ Education (creators of DoodleMaths) — EZ Education have created DoodleMaths, an adaptive-learning application that rapidly accelerates children's learning in maths.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.

Bernie Sinniah

Investment focus

Internet, Education, E-Learning
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HowNow — HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.
SenzAgro (Pvt) Ltd —

Biz Stone is the Co-founder and CEO of Jelly Industries, Inc. He previously worked at The Obvious Corporation as a Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer. Biz Stone attended Northeastern University.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Messaging
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury

Ashley Cooper - Chairman @ Properr

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Education
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Properr — The Klaviyo email marketing agency, powering aggressive and sustainable growth for ambitious D2C brands. We leverage the power of Email Marketing, SMS, Push & Direct Mail, to unlock unwavering loyalty for global eCommerce brands.
2B Enterprising — 2B Enterprising offers an enterprise education program for primary schools that aims to inspire next generation and foster an entrepreneurial mindset.
Coincover — Cryptocurrency insurance-backed technology to make cryptocurrency safe for individuals and businesses to hold and use.

Alister is currently Chief Executive of Coles Express, Coles Online and Corporate Affairs Coles Group. Before his current post at Australia’s second-largest food retailer, he was Chief of Staff to the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Software
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Howamigoing — OUR WHY We want people to live their best lives. We believe people grow more when in teams. We believe great teams are built on constructive feedback. At work. At home.OUR HOW We’re using technology + design + psychology to break down crucial communication barriers between people: We want to create a safe-space where people can feelcomfortable asking uncomfortable questions and giving uncomfortable answers.OUR WHAT We’ve developed a beautifully designed, UX-led platform that helps employees and employers manage goal setting, 360-degree feedback, manager check-ins, pulse surveys and personal note keeping all year round.This saves time, money and anxiety while providing a safe, confidential portal for employees to proactively gather year-round advice from their colleagues.

Anil D. Aggarwal is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Personatech. He previously worked at Fintech Meetup as a Founder, Chairman and CEO. Anil D. Aggarwal attended Albright College.

Investment focus

Information Services, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sydecar — Sydecar is a deal execution platform for venture investors. We handle back-office operations for emerging venture investors, automating banking, compliance, contracts, and reporting so that customers can focus on making deals and building relationships.
Multiverse — We provide equitable access to economic opportunity, for everyone.
Edisen — Introducing modern financial tools to engage customers, increase conversions, and take customer relationships to the next level.

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Beksar — Beksar offers A flexible reporting system for business of the company from its initial days.
GoDays — AI-driven Continuous passive and active analytical tool, preventing burnout of employees. Continuous well-being based on passive collaboration data, sentiment analytics.
PLATMA — PLATMA is a workspace for developing low/no-code solutions with ready-made constructors that reduce the need for large resources and decrease time to market

Jonathan Goodwin is the Founder, Partner & Head of Merchant Banking of Alvarium & he attended University of Nottingham.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BridgeU — BridgeU offers world-class university and careers guidance for global secondary schools. Empower your students. Inform your guidance strategy. Improve outcomes.
Farmdrop — The UK's first fully certified organic supermarket, Planet Organic offers 1000s of products for delivery across the UK. From food and drink to health and beauty, we think carefully about everything we sell so you don't have to.
MyTutor — MyTutor provides secondary school learners with online access to over 7,000 Russell Group university students, reducing the time, hassle and cost of finding a subject expert locally.Lessons take place in their innovative online lesson space, which allows parents to substitute expensive tutors coming to their house, for live, one-to-one sessionswith young, bright and successful undergraduates. If the pupil forgets something, every session is recorded, so they can play it back after.They also partner with schools and universities to provide larger contracts for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. School teachers stay up-to-date with the programme through a personalised online dashboard.The company has grown at 3x YoY for the last three years, with 200,000+ bookings and applications from 50,000 tutors. At the same time quality has been maintained, with 70,000+ 5* reviews and every tutor personally interviewed.MyTutor was founded by Robert Grabiner, Bertie Hubbard and James Grant.

Sir Terry Leahy joined Cheshunt, England-based Tesco in 1979 and held marketing positions at the retailer before becoming commercial director of fresh foods in 1986 and a member of the board in 1990. Leahy was appointed Chief Executive of Tesco plc in March 1997.Leahy received a Knighthood for services to food retailing in the 2002 New YearHonours. He was voted as Britain’s Most Admired Leader (2005 and 2006) by Management Today, recognized by the Wall Street Journal and CNBC as European Business Leader of the Year (2005), and named European Businessman of the Year by Fortune (2004). A Guardian Unlimited Politics panel found him to be the most influential non-elected person in Britain in 2007.Leahy is a Director on the Liverpool Vision Regeneration Board and a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council.In 2010 he received the Daily Telegraph’s Award for a Decade of Excellence in Business, a Lifetime Achievement award from Director Magazine, and was voted Business Person of the Year by the Sunday Times.Sir Terry Leahy retired from Tesco in March 2011.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
SYNALOGiK — Synalogik helps organisations improve efficiency and slash costs through automated data aggregation when multiple data sources are required.
Uptime | Knowledge Hacks — Thousands of life lessons extracted from the world's best books, courses, documentaries, and podcasts - packed into 5 minute Knowledge Hacks.

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