Top 50 Education VC Funds & Investors in United Kingdom (July 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, E-Learning | $33k–$33M |
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Nesta Impact Investments
VC Fund
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14 | United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia | Seed, Series A | Education, Health Care, SaaS | $262k–$10M |
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Ufi Ventures
VC Fund
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13 | United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | EdTech, Education, Software | $377k–$10M |
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Midven
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $152k–$2M |
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Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, Australia, United States | Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $18k–$4.1M |
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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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SFC Capital
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $127k–$2M |
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$33M |
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $320k–$20M |
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Social Tech Trust
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom | Seed, Grant | Health Care, Software, Education | $20k–$1.7M |
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $39k–$10M |
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Concept Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $510k–$19M |
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Forward Partners
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $1k–$17M |
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $380k–$18M |
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Ada Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $507k–$6.8M |
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $3.2M–$22M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $2.1M–$48M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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8 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $108k–$28M |
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FJ Labs
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Brazil, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1.4M–$65M |
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Salica
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Secondary Market | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $700k–$21M |
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $100k–$3.9M |
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JamJar Investments
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage | $1.1M–$20M |
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Ascension
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Internet | $229k–$4.5M |
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Mercia Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Software, Health Care | $1M–$26M |
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Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $655k–$25M |
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Initial Capital
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States, Finland | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Mobile, Software | $796k–$12M |
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Midlands Engine Investment Fund
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States, Portugal | Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Health Care, Manufacturing | $262k–$2.7M |
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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 | $637k–$32M |
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NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $327k–$14M |
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Angels Den
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Finland | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Mobile, Software | $33k–$763k |
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GC Angels
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Fashion, Health Care | $131k–$1.8M |
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Triple Point Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $851k–$16M |
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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 | $98k–$5M |
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Connect Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $669k–$55M |
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Ananda Impact Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, United Kingdom, Finland | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | $1.6M–$18M |
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Deepbridge Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $152k–$15M |
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Eka Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Logistics, Software | $1.6M–$20M |
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Playfair Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $700k–$19M |
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QVentures
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $125k–$3.9M |
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DN Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $300k–$60M |
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MEIF Proof-of-Concept & Early Stage Fund
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Computer | $327k–$8.8M |
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Calculus Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Series A, Seed | Biotechnology, Software, Health Care | |
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Beringea
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Analytics | |
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True.
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail | |
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Seedcamp
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, SaaS | |
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Downing Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $327k–$7M |
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Angel Academe
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Health Care, Software | $346k–$2.8M |
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APX
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $55k–$15M |
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Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Finland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Software | $1.3M–$168M |
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Emerge is a $70m pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best edtech and future of work founders and executives. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders re-designing the future of learning and work.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $53k–$8M; Pre-Seed $33k–$3.2M; Series A $5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Edurino — Edurino is an e-learning platform that introduces digital learning responsibly and playfully for children aged 4-8+.
- MyEdSpace — MyEdSpace offers high-quality online courses created by experts with tailored resources for KS2 (Year 5/6), KS3 (Year 7-8), GCSE, and A-level students.
- Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.
Nesta Impact Investments backs innovative businesses that focus on creating social and environmental good
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- Industry: Education, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $262k–$2.6M; Series A $466k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $65M 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.
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: 20
- Round size: Seed $377k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $433k–$617k; Series A $3.3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Assemble You — Increase your learning and development skills with our podcast-style Power Skills audio learning. Unlock your potential with innovative training in multiple languages. Build a better you and embark on an exciting journey of self-improvement today!
Midven is a specialist venture capital company providing investment to fast growing small and medium sized enterprises ("SMEs"), run by an energetic, experienced and hands-on team of investment managers.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $152k–$1.7M; Series A $393k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Saicho — Saicho is a brand specializing in non-alcoholic, 0.0% ABV sparkling teas. The company focuses on crafting meticulously made, single origin teas sourced from various regions around the world. Their beverages are designed for discerning palates and are positioned as a sophisticated alternative to alcoholic drinks, making them suitable for pairingwith fine dining experiences.
- IDenteq — IDenteq provides software solutions for utility companies facing issues like non-notification, tenancy changes, and fraud. It offers a SaaS platform that enhances data management and security for energy suppliers. Identeq serves as an alternative to traditional credit reference agencies.
- Inicio AI — Inicio delivers an AI affordability assessment, the only FCA regulated business using AI to process consumer affordability data.
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, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 237
- Round size: Seed $360k–$3.3M; Debt Financing $18k–$4.1M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- IQ Endoscopes — Fully Disposable Endoscopes for General Medical Use. A successful initial investment funding round completed, we are seeking future funding to take the IQ Scope to market.
- 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.
- Bond Digital Health — Bond Digital Health is a technology company developing end-to-end digital connectivity for the point-of-care diagnostics market. Developed by founders Ian Bond and Dave Taylor and originally designed as a patient self-management tool, Bond’s digital technology was remodeled to meet the needs of a client - a world-renowned innovator in point-of-carediagnostics and the lateral flow industry. The client required a digital platform consisting of a patient-facing mobile app and cloud data management for their new quantitative diagnostic test for chronic lung disease. They shared their experiences of working with us with a collaborator company who quickly commissioned Bond to develop a similar product for chronic wound care. Others in the lateral flow industry recognised that an affordable, compliant and scalable solution was available highlighting a huge unmet need in an expanding market. Bond is working in strategic partnerships with key industry leaders to create the next generation of digitally connected lateral flow diagnostics that provide an elevated user experience and enhanced real-time decision-making through the power of data aggregation and data analytics.Our regulatory strategy ensures that the solutions we create are secure, reliable and compliant with regulatory standards, making us a trusted partner to leaders in human health, animal health and agri-food globally.In Bond Digital Health we believe that collaborative working is the only way to tackle some of the major health challenges the world is nowadays facing. Our technology brings the life sciences industry closer together to create solutions that improve the lives of millions.Let’s make a difference together!
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: 60
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $541k–$1.6M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $111M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Gyver — Recruiting platform for skilled blue collars
- 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.
- NEX Health Intelligence —
Discover the UK's leading SEIS Fund, offering tax-efficient investments in innovative startups. Join thousands of savvy investors and raise capital for your business with SFC Capital.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 488
- Round size: Seed $127k–$2M; Pre-Seed $164k–$839k
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Sages — Biodegradeable, non-polluting, low-impact and vibrant dyes extracted from food waste.
- Traknova — Traknova provides an AI-powered fleet management platform that helps companies track, manage, and protect vehicles and mobile assets. The platform offers real-time GPS tracking, live monitoring, and telematics data to give operators constant visibility over fleet movements and status. Users can access an intuitive dashboard with historical tripinformation, engine status, and alerts for events such as geofence breaches or unauthorized use. Traknova also supports integrated hardware, including tracking devices and online cameras, to strengthen asset security and streamline recovery when issues arise. The system is designed for fleets across industries, such as service businesses and vehicle rental operators, that need clearer scheduling, better time management, and improved operational control. By consolidating these tools into one platform, Traknova enables data-led fleet planning and day-to-day decision-making.
- GNOSIS Health — Gnosis Health is a digital healthcare platform specializing in artificial intelligence and wearable technology for chronic disease management.
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: 337
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.3M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Dataform — Develop and operationalize scalable data transformations pipelines in BigQuery using SQL.
- CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
- Circular — Developers-focused job platform for Software Developers, DevOps, Data Science & more. Sign up now and get access to successful hiring processes in Spain, Remote.
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: 233
- Round size: Seed $851k–$4M; Pre-Seed $320k–$1.7M; Series A $4.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vouchsafe — Vouchsafe is a trust and counter-fraud platform that helps financial services replace legacy document checks with safe, easy digital ID acceptance.
- StudioSpace — The top Agency Marketplace, providing over 100 kinds of digital & marketing services to the world's leading brands. No subscription fees. No lock in contracts.
- Materials Market — Materials Market seeks to improve efficiency in the building materials supply industry by connecting customers with the most appropriate suppliers to fulfil their needs.
Social Tech Trust is a UK's leading dedicated investor of socially motivated tech.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Education
- Stage:Seed, Grant
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $20k–$1.7M; Grant $65k–$655k
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $675k in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Feebris — AI-guided tools that support carers to capture and share precise health measurements enabling more effective care for vulnerable patients.
- Beam — Help us support people into stable jobs and homes
- 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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 199
- Round size: Seed $39k–$2.2M; Series A $851k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- H2CHP — H2CHP's Free Piston Engine Technology enables your transition to green energy with the reliability & confidence of fuel flexibility.
- NunaBio — NunaBio operates as a privately-owned specialist DNA development company. NunaBio engaged in CRO (Contract Research Organizations) and CDMO (Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation) activities.
- MySalesCoach — MySalesCoach offers Despite overwhelming evidence that sales coaching has the greatest impact on rep development and success, managers typically devote less than 5% of their time to coaching a team that craves and deserves coaching to reach their full potential.
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, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 115
- Round size: Seed $510k–$7M; Pre-Seed $600k–$3.4M; Series A $10M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $65M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Dex — Dex is a SaaS company that offers an AI assistant to act as user's personal talent agent and scan the tech market for next opportunity.
- TruePlayers — Trueplayers is a computer game development company that specializes in mobile games. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Falmouth, Cornwall.
- Myles Wellbeing — Ensure your employees are happy and healthy by giving them the right wellbeing incentives. Whether your team walk, run, cycle or anything else, Myles is an inclusive platform that rewards improvement.
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: 104
- Round size: Seed $343k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $1k–$2M; Series A $2.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $76M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Ably Realtime — Realtime that just works. Built to scale, engineered for reliability, and low latency. Power live messaging, chat, dashboards, notifications & collaborative apps.
- nSpireMe — nSpireMe helping children supercharge their violin learning with interactive practice apps.
- OutThink — Move from traditional security awareness to adaptive security with the world's first AI-native cybersecurity human risk management platform.
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, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Round size: Seed $380k–$4.5M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% 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.
- Aibuild — Ai Build is a London based company developing Artificial Intelligence and Robotic technologies for large scale additive manufacturing. We believe additive manufacturing is the core technology for achieving a sustainable environment and a highly efficient on-demand economy.We are a team of creative and enthusiastic people with strong background inthe areas of 3D printing, robotics, computer vision, machine learning, computational design and physics. We are partnering with some of the world’s most innovative companies and investors to bring our disruptive Autonomous Large Scale 3D Printing technology into a wide range of industrial applications. Our purpose is to empower factories of the future to make Manufacturing easy, smart, sustainable and affordable.
- Artificial Labs — Build your future placement and underwriting strategy with Artificial's pioneering technology.
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: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.8M; Pre-Seed $507k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Alcolase — Alcolase is a danish startup who develops the world's first enzyme system breaking down alcohol in the stomach (before it enters the blood).
- FINDS — FINDS is a unique, video marketplace app for fashion. We are a female-led team that believes that an online fashion marketplace should be just as dynamic and inspiring as a thrift market IRL. We are on a mission to create a fashion resale community that offers a fun, interactive place for people who love to buy, sell & express their uniqueitems and style - together.It's simple to start selling. List your products in your shop, set a fixed price and choose to add them to a live stream to show your items from every angle. It's easy to buy, explore and discover items, styles, people and personalities you'll love.
- Interfaze — JigsawStack provides fine-tuned custom models that do the heavy lifting for APIs in every tech stack and helps ship faster.
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, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 353
- Round size: Series A $3.2M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.4M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Gymbox — Making sweating enjoyable drives everything Gymbox does. From our unique exercise classes and nightly resident DJs, through to our larger than life personal trainers, at Gymbox there is undeniably a culture of fun.
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- Purity Brewing Co — Purity Brewing Company is an award winning craft brewery established in 2005.When Purity Brewing Company set out the mission was simple: brew great beer without prejudice, with a conscience and with a consistency and an attention to detail, which is second to none.Based on a working farm in the heart of the beautiful Warwickshire countryside,Purity are committed to brewing beer with a conscience. Their brewery practices are designed to be environmentally friendly and in some cases in the case of their wetland system, environmentally enriching.
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, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 387
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$13M; Series A $3.2M–$21M; Series B $7.5M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $101M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Turtl — Create personalized interactive content experiences that excite, engage and convert your audience with Turtl's intuitive content software.
- Sprout.ai —
- Minimum — Take control of your organization's carbon accounting and management with granular, robust and auditable emissions data.
Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1818
- Round size: Seed $186k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $108k–$750k; Series A $4.6M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Sapyen — We take the fear out of infertility for men. Test for it at home, without stepping out to the hospital and get personalised health recommendations to improve sperm health and increase your chances of conceiving.
- Visoid — Render your 3D models with ease! Quick and easy rendering software for architects, powered by AI. Try Visoid for free!
- One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.
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, Brazil, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1119
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $11M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Lastro — Lastro is an all-in-one real estate management platform with integrated payments that simplifies managing rental properties. It helps landlords streamline workflows by organizing lease contract information in a cloud-based system, automating rent charging processes, monitoring tenant obligations and generating customized reports.
- Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
- Double — Double combines a dedicated human assistant and the best software to help you achieve what matters most.
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, Series A, Secondary Market
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 204
- Round size: Seed $700k–$5M; Series A $5M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- SURI (Sustainable Rituals) — A world-class clean that doesn’t cost our planet. SURI is the new, sustainable electric toothbrush. Delivering an effective clean with innovative plant-based materials.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 162
- Round size: Seed $249k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gigged.AI — Fill skill gaps using our on-demand talent network. Get AI-powered, real-time visibility over your employee and agent capabilities to power internal mobility.
- Product Guru — Although there has been a significant change of pace in the technology used within the retail sector, the process of finding the products that drive the market has really remained at a stand-still. With more and more small, specialist suppliers driving innovation in the sector, it has been harder than ever for buyers to be able to consider alloptions.
- Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
We love, help & invest in early-stage consumer brands.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 120
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.5M; Series A $3.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% 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
- 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.
- SURI (Sustainable Rituals) — A world-class clean that doesn’t cost our planet. SURI is the new, sustainable electric toothbrush. Delivering an effective clean with innovative plant-based materials.
Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 217
- Round size: Seed $229k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $445k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $22M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
- GEEIQ — GEEIQ is the intelligence platform brands use to plan, activate and measure marketing in virtual worlds like Roblox, Fortnite and ZEPETO.
- ReBorn® Homewares — ReBorn purpose is to transform the sustainability of the global homewares industry. We are committed to creating the most stylish and planet-friendly homewares, and driving collective change in the UK and beyond .Our five key principles are: 1.Recycling Waste 2.Local production 3.Circular Design 4.Stylish Solutions 5.Collaborative Power
Venture capital investment for ambitious businesses. We invest into vibrant early-stage and scaleup businesses across the UK.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3.8M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Go Swag — Branded gifts for people you work with
- OneUp Sales — OneUp Sales is a sales management & motivation platform built for inside sales teams. The platform makes use of sales activity data from any source to drive gamified competitions, real-time TV leaderboards, and streamlined reporting for managers.
- High Temperature Material Systems — High Temperature Material Systems mission is to revolutionise the high temperature composite materials market, through continuous innovation. Our vision is that in the future, designers of high-temperature products will choose HTMS CMCs as their go-to material of choice, due to their performance-to-weight benefits and superior functionality.
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, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 202
- Round size: Seed $655k–$5.3M; Series A $2.2M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bright — Bright Network has a range of graduate careers available. Whatever the sector you want to go into Bright Network will help you find your dream job.
- ProofID — We are identity experts. We manage all aspects of your IAM program, from design and deployment, through to optimisation and ongoing support.
- Guru Systems — Intelligent technology for the future of heat. Guru Systems provides market-leading hardware and data analytics platforms for heat networks, gas boilers and heat pumps. Our technology improves the performance of these systems for residential developers, heat suppliers, customers and our planet.
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
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $796k–$4.2M; Series A $988k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Supercell — Visit Supercell.com and find out more about us and our games.
- Antidote — London-based startup studio for Bitcoin founders
- BetterDoctor — Our provider network software solutions & services provide unmatched tools & insights for you. Discover how you can measure, manage, monitor & model.
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: 126
- Round size: Seed $327k–$2.7M; Debt Financing $262k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WELL Training — We deliver state of the art training solutions to national and international clients, transforming futures and delivering business growth through UK Apprenticeship and Commercial Training programmes.
- Utility Stream — As business energy brokers, USL was founded with one key mission, simplify business energy for all of our clients & help create a more sustainable world
- School of Coding — Join the UK's leading coding and computer science education provider. Empower your future with STEM, AI, and Cyber Security courses for all ages.
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: 842
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Finbits — Fintech company formed by co-founders with digital product background. The startup is solving major financial problems faced by entrepreneurs in LatAm: time wasted with non-core activities and difficult access to financial products. Finbits is developing an all-in-one finance solution for LatAm SMB. This new solution saves 80% of back-office costsand allows users access to financial products. This new financial OS integrates bank accounts, payment means, third-party ERP, and accounting software already available in the ecosystem. The new platform leverages modern technology and a data driven architecture to provide intelligent insights and financial products.
- Musa — Musa is a smart city solution providing a platform that efficiently connects waste generators, haulers, and recyclers. Our mission is to guarantee that all waste becomes raw material directed to a productive chain of reuse. This is what connects us, a world without waste where everything can be reused. We want to transform the waste managementindustry by leveraging technology and developing new business models ensuring economic, social, and environmental impact.
- Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
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, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $327k–$2.7M; Series A $982k–$14M
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SatSense — The resolution of our technology allows us to offer ground movement data at a property level.
- Salesfire — Salesfire's industry-leading, all-in-one CRO solution can Boost your conversion rate and maximise revenue across your website. Book a consultation now.
- Envoke — The engagement Platform for your Virtual Instrument.
Join 21,000+ investors backing the top 4% of UK startups. Access vetted, tax-efficient (SEIS/EIS) investment opportunities and exclusive pitch events.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $33k–$763k; Angel $79k–$354k
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
- OnCare — Home care software | care management system
- SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.
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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: 32
- Round size: Seed $327k–$1.8M; Angel $196k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $131k–$656k
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mission C — Mission C provides well-being and dietary supplement products such as beauty care, athletics, and rehabilitation solutions.
- BreezeMove — BreezeMove is a software firm that provides property management, consulting, home buying, and selling solutions.
- Prorizon — Prorizon is to pioneer a new era in mental health through the development of objective measurements and tracking ,paralleling advancements in physical health, to empower individuals with proactive and preventative health solutions.
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: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $851k–$4M; Series A $4.8M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Augnet — Augnet brings quality and credibility to the SMS and messaging industry.
- Kafoodle — Kafoodle is an award-winning food tech company on a mission to improve health globally by connecting people with the food they need.Kafoodle launched in 2016 with a cloud-based B2B SaaS platform to help Hospitality clients digitise their recipes and menus to comply with new EU food allergen information legislation. Additional functionality wasreleased enabling clients to analyse the nutritional make-up of their food, and communicate digitally with end customers.In Jan 2018, following an Innovate UK funded project, Kafoodle launched targeted Healthcare modules aimed at helping care homes and hospitals optimise patient and resident nutrition, by enabling them to provide food offerings based on allergies, preferences, dietary requirements and health conditions.Today Kafoodle is an integrated suite of easy-to-use food allergen and nutrition management solutions for commercial caterers, with sector-specific features and benefits for Healthcare, Food Retail, Contract Catering and Education clients.
- 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.
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: 49
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5M; Pre-Seed $98k–$650k
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Tikos — Build Trustworthy AI- we have a responsibility Everyone building and deploying AI systems has a responsibility to respect the people affected by them.Earning public trust is a joint effort and pre-requisite to wide-spread, long-term adoption where the benefits of this technology will compound for the good of us all.Tikos is proud to be workingin this important endeavor developing innovative tools and solutions that help build trust in artificial intelligence through explainability, fairness, transparency and accountability.
- 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.
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, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 159
- Round size: Seed $669k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.7M; Series A $5M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $80M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Clearword — Clearword unlocks fundamentally new ways for organizations to communicate and collaborate, using tools they already use. Collaborative Agendas, Automatic Meeting Minutes in a Searchable Library.
- Ourspace — Meet Ourspace— the collaborative team design canvas. Created by former Hotjar, Spendesk and Glovo execs, Ourspace takes a 360 approach to team design to help functional leaders better organize the people they have and the ones they need. With the dynamic nature of business and people, it’s been historically difficult for tech leaders to make smartreactive and proactive team design decisions with people-data stored across Miro boards, HR tools and outdated documents. Ourspace is the first purpose-built software designed specifically for tech leaders to equip them to build and rebuild their teams by bringing together people, projects, and priorities into one contextual place.
- Citymapper — The ultimate transport app - iPhone / Android / Web
We are the home for entrepreneurs with a big vision who want to create something less ordinary. Something that matters. For all of us.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$17M; Series A $3.8M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $121M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- DrDoctor — We envision a remote-first healthcare system which meets demand without sacrificing care quality, delivered via our Patient Engagement Platform
- Decade Energy — Decade Energy is the energy infrastructure and optimization partner for transport operators and depot managers who want to electrify their fleets.
- Entelo Bio — Precision Medicine
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, Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $152k–$2.6M; Series A $2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 72% lead, 28% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- HeadBox — HeadBox connects corporate event planners with 100,000+ unique, inspiring, iconic, and creative spaces worldwide for meetings and events.
- Touch Biometrix — Welcome at Touch Biometrix. Find out more about The Future of Fingerprint Biometrics!
- Spotlight Pathology — Spotlight Pathology develops decision support tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to help in the diagnosis of blood cancers.
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, Logistics, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$8.9M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$6.7M; Series A $3.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $92M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- OxCan — Enabling curative cancer treatment through early detection
- 01Health — 01Health is a health tech building an AI-powered clinical infrastructure platform for specialist healthcare delivery.
- DITTO Daily — DITTO Daily created the Cycle Supplement to holistically address the physical and mental challenges that come with the menstrual cycle.
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, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 138
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.1M; Series A $2.7M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- auryx — Turning audible sound into health insights using AI
- Wassist — Wassist is a platform for building AI-powered WhatsApp agents that help businesses automate sales, customer support, and marketing directly inside WhatsApp.
- Passionfruit — Join hundreds of the best startups around the world and use Passionfruit to hire freelance marketing specialists on-demand.
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
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $125k–$3.9M; Angel $393k–$2.6M
- 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.
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: 278
- Round size: Seed $300k–$9M; Series A $3.1M–$25M; Series B $8.6M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Quandoo — In 8 years, Quandoo has expanded into 11 countries and has seated more than 200 million diners in 18,000+ restaurants. Quandoo’s technology-enabled marketplace equips both restaurants and diners with innovative products to elevate dining out as we know it. Headquartered in Berlin, with international footprints in Austria, Switzerland, Italy,Turkey, the UK, Hong Kong, Finland, Singapore, Australia and the Netherlands; the founders’ vision is to grow Quandoo into the world’s leading marketplace for dining out experiences. Quandoo is a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings, and with its sister companies HotPepper and AirRegi, forms the world’s largest restaurant marketing and software company. Quandoo currently employs more than 370 people from 50 countries.
- unique.ai — Automate personalized experiences to successfully transform your organization.
- Happeo — Happeo is the easy-to-launch intranet that helps you keep verified company knowledge centralized, relevant and searchable by connecting to the tools your teams already use.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Computer
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $327k–$8.8M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- StaffCircle — Automated HR and performance management platform, integrating internal communications and HR processes across multiple channels. Watch a demo today!
- CorrosionRADAR — CorrosionRADAR is a revolutionary patented sensing technology enabling the early detection, monitoring and prediction of hidden corrosion such as Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI)
At Calculus Capital they are specialists in creating and managing tax efficient private equity funds for the individual. Funds that are ideal for today's market - offering generous tax benefits, and significant growth potential within a sensible risk profile.They look to make £2-5 million investments in established companies with provenmanagement teams and a successful product or service. Their entrepreneurial flair, combined with their experience and sound commercial judgement has resulted in a diversified investment portfolio and an impressive track record. In June 2013 Calculus Capital was top ranked in the prestigious Martin Churchill Tax Efficient Review for the 6th year in a row. The Government has recently shown its support for EIS funds, by maintaining the five generous tax benefits and widening the scope of EIS investments. These changes benefit Calculus Capital's rigorous and proven strategy. As a result they are experiencing their strongest pipeline of prospective investments yet.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
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- Total investments: 66
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- WorkL — Discover tools and insights to boost workplace happiness. For individuals and businesses, WorkL supports job satisfaction and employee engagement.
- Invizius — Invizius is developing products to help patients on dialysis, cardiopulmonary bypass, ECMO and on other extra-corporeal treatments, to feel better, and suffer fewer complications.
- Optalitix — Optalitix's data driven products and expertise allow you to move your models to the cloud and improve underwriting efficiency.
Beringea is an international investor in high growth US & UK businesses. With expertise in multiple sectors we are at the forefront of emerging trends.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 159
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- VRAI — First and foremost, they are a content creation company specialising in virtual reality production. They are visual storytellers embracing this new medium as a way of creating immersive, engaging content.Their pioneering methodology takes elements from our diverse background. We use techniques from narrative cinema, from visual effects, fromexhibition design, from gaming, from brand management and combine them in new exciting ways to help you tell your story.
- MOTH: — MOTH: is a beverages company that provides ready-to-drink cocktail for family and friends.
- ATLAS Space Operations — ATLAS Space Operations provides Secure Space Access Anytime, Anywhere. Ground Software as a Service on a global federated network.
A unique model for investing, innovating & growing
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Fable — Fable Home dinnerware brings people together for love, laughter, and storytelling by delivering gorgeous cutlery, tableware, and glassware at affordable prices.
- Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
- Awe Inspired — We believe in fine jewelry as a vehicle for empowerment. Shop our collection of goddess necklaces, coin necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and more.
Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 308
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
- Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
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, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Lead/follow: no public data
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 — A strategic partner helping med-device leaders solve the Competency @ Scale Gap todrive commercial success.
Speak with our Entrepreneurship and Investment teams, 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:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 208
- Round size: Seed $327k–$3.1M; Series A $1.6M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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.
- Pneumagen — Pneumagen focuses on developing glycan targeted carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs) as a new universal therapeutic modality for the treatment of respiratory tract infections (RTIs) and cancer. Founded in 2016, the Company is a spin-out from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and has access to world-class scientific expertise and capabilitiesin glycobiology.
We're a fast-growing and award-winning angel network. We invest in female founders and introduce more women to angel investing.
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- Industry: SaaS, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $346k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
- LabCycle — LabCycle is the world's first company to recycle hazardous plastic waste from laboratories (service) as well as the first to create 100% recycled laboratory consumables (product). Working with public and private labs, we are driving the circular economy of lab plastics to reduce the 5.5m tonnes of lab waste annually. A few highlights of ourprogress to date: • Proven impact - saving 90% of CO2 emissions & 93% energy compared to current alternatives: incineration and autoclave (LCA available upon request).• Technological validation creating the world's first 100% circular lab consumables including petri dishes, test tubes and more.• Secured commercial contracts with the NHS, several private companies and also universities. We are raising £1.5m to scale our patent pending technology to serve our growing demand after over 150+ organic expressions of interests following our feature in BBC news. The funding will establish the first automated decontamination system of our network, recycling over 350 tonnes annually, saving over 1000+ tonnes of carbon.
- Zonova —
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: 191
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $55k–$1.5M; Series A $5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $61M 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.
- Spike Technologies — Spike is an API for all fitness and health data from wearables & loT devices designed for digital health app developer.
- Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.
Oxford Science Enterprises is the university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companies taking onchallenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 177
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $6.3M–$46M; Series B $13M–$168M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $327M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- AlveoGene — Transforming Rare Respiratory Disease Outcomes Using Inhaled Gene Therapy
- Salience Labs — Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high-throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designedto exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and the University of Münster, Germany.
- Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
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