Top 50 Education VC Funds & Investors in United Kingdom (June 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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25 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, EdTech, E-Learning | $1k–$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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12 | United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, EdTech, Software | $433k–$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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Brighteye Ventures
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, France, Spain | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Education, Software, E-Learning | $549k–$20M |
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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 | $338k–$20M |
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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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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $39k–$9.7M |
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Social Tech Trust
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom | Seed, Grant | Health Care, Software, Education | $20k–$655k |
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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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Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, Australia, United States | Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $18k–$3.7M |
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Forward Partners
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $343k–$17M |
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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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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $350k–$18M |
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Series A, Private Equity | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $3.2M–$22M |
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FJ Labs
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Brazil, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1.4M–$65M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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7 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $104k–$29M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1.9M–$48M |
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Salica
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Secondary Market | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $700k–$21M |
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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 | $1.2M–$20M |
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $183k–$3.5M |
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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–$2.6M |
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Ascension
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Internet | $229k–$4.1M |
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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–$33M |
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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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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, Pre-Seed, Series A | Logistics, Health Care, Software | $1.7M–$20M |
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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–$17M |
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NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $327k–$14M |
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Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $655k–$25M |
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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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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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SFC Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $162k–$2.2M |
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Triple Point Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $1.2M–$16M |
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Playfair Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $700k–$20M |
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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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QVentures
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $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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Angel Academe
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Health Care, Software | $346k–$2M |
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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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Beaubridge
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | EdTech, Artificial Intelligence, Retail | $502k–$12M |
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Foresight Group
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Private Equity, Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Health Care | $655k–$8.5M |
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Firstminute Capital
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $650k–$30M |
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MEIF Proof-of-Concept & Early Stage 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
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Series A, Seed | Biotechnology, Software, Health Care | |
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Beringea
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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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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: 75
- Round size: Seed $53k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1k–$1.4M; Series A $5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively 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: Education, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $589k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $433k–$655k; Series A $3.3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AutonoMe — Supporting people with Learning Disabilities and Autism with employment and independent living skills
- Chorus — Everything you need to enhance safety, improve performance, and stay compliant
- Data Literacy Academy — Enterprise Data Literacy programmes. Live, online and in-person classes delivered by industry data leaders. Enable a data-driven workforce 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: 121
- 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
- Eyoto — The future of eyecare technology, advanced tele-optometry solutions for the global optical industry. Creators of the world's first remote digital slit lamp.
- Online Poundshop — Online Poundshop is an online-only, 24 hour, single priced retailer.Since launch in February 2014, Poundshop.com has created a new online shopping solution for customers keen to take advantage of pound shop savings. The huge range of everyday household essentials including cleaning products, batteries, toiletries, kitchen items, snacks, treatsand toys is now available with the convenience of home delivery. We are based in Exeter, Devon.In October 2014, the managerial and marketing teams of the UK’s 2 premier online single price retailers, Poundshop.com and Hereforapound.com joined forces. More exciting plans are only a few clicks away starting with our brand new look website and bigger than ever range of pound shop favourites!
- Halo X Ray Technologies — HALO X-ray Technologies - next generation X-ray diffraction technology for the aviation security, medical and process control markets.
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: 55
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $549k–$1.6M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $111M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Gyver — Recruiting platform for skilled blue collars
- Shakers — We are Shakers and we are redefining the future of work. We connect companies and talent with a perfect match between personal and professional life through technology and methodology. We want to achieve a lifestyle in which work is synonymous with happiness so that you can work where, how and when you want. And thus be more productive and havebetter results in the projects in which you collaborate. Sounds good to you? You already have DNA Shakers, follow us !!
- Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
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: 224
- Round size: Seed $670k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $338k–$1.7M; Series A $4.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HiiKER — Find 1000s of the best backpacking and hiking adventures, with reviews, photos, and great places to stay.
- Research Grid (R.grid) — Research Grid (R.grid) automates the entire clinical trial back-office by accelerating timelines and cutting admin delays. Get faster and more successful trials today.
- Spendkey — Spendkey's intelligent spend analytics solution helps businesses transform raw spend data into actionable insights to enable better business decisions, optimise costs and maximise savings
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: 332
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- uLesson — uLesson has built the technology to deploy curriculum-relevant content via smartphones, that allows learners to use the product without concern for internet limitations and costs. uLesson’s mobile offering rests on three pillars: academics, media & technology and curriculum content is delivered via streaming and SD cards.
- Wefarm — Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables farmers to share information via SMS. The company allows small-scale farmers to connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas, and spread innovation. Utilizing the latest machine learning technology, Wefarm’s service works both online and over SMS.Since its founding in 2015,Wefarm has been named one of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies by FastCompany and has won Google’s Impact Challenge Award, TechCrunch’s Europas-Tech for Good Award, and the European Union Commission’s Ideas from Europe prize, among others. The company is headquartered in London with a field presence in Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar-es-Salaam.
- Papercup — Next-gen AI Dubbing service that automates video translation. Create new voices in other languages for your video content at scale and increase your ROI.
Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 190
- Round size: Seed $39k–$1.8M; Series A $851k–$9.7M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% 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.
- CellRev — high expertise in the designing and testing of self-assembling peptides providing different benefits when culturing adherent cells in vitro.
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: 66
- Round size: Seed $20k–$200k; Grant $65k–$655k
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% 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.
- RightsDD — RightsDD is an award winning startup. Use RightsDD's platform to assess and monitor suppliers for slavery risk. Train employees with RightsDD's online and in-person anti-slavery courses. Benefit from specialist consulting.
- Beam — Help us support people into stable jobs and homes
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
- Huboo — Introducing eCommerce order fulfilment the easy way: we take your stock, store it, pick, pack and deliver it for you automatically.
- Glowb — Glowb offers solar energy and battery solutions.
- greenworkx — Green jobs are the future of work. We have numerous training and job opportunities that connect talent with like-minded green employers. From the retrofit industry to renewable energy, we're on a mission to make the world greener with your help, one job at a time.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 221
- Round size: Seed $327k–$3.7M; Debt Financing $18k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Tourhub — tourhub - We collect tours from hundreds of suppliers around the world and provide an easy way for you to search and find those that are of interest.
- Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets
- Hope Macy — Hope Macy is the decisioning and origination layer that modern consumer lenders build on.
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
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $343k–$3.9M; 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
- OutThink — Move from traditional security awareness to adaptive security with the world's first AI-native cybersecurity human risk management platform.
- Patch — Patch helps you choose the best plants for your space, delivers them to your door, and helps you look after them.
- OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.
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: 113
- Round size: Seed $510k–$7M; Pre-Seed $600k–$3.1M; Series A $10M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $65M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- ARGO AI — Solving the risk equation in the world of commercial insurance. Made in London. For the World.
- Tract — Tract is to build a venture-backed company to address Britain’s housing crisis by improving the planning permission process.
- 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.
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: 164
- Round size: Seed $350k–$4.2M; 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
- 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.
- MONET — Embedded finance for agencies and B2B platforms. Frictionless access to white-labelling B2B credit, global payments and new revenue streams. Offer white-label invoice finance to your network, driving growth for you and your suppliers.
- Adclear — Instant approvals for financial promotions. Real-time marketing. Zero bottlenecks. Transform manual compliance into automated confidence. Scale your marketing operations while reducing risk. Adclear empowers your team to move fast and stay compliant.
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, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Private Equity
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 309
- Round size: Series A $3.2M–$21M; Private Equity $6.5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Evolution Aqua — Evolution Aqua is a designer, manufacturer and supplier of a wide range of water filtration products and associated equipment, primarily focused on the aquatics industry for both indoor and outdoor fish care.
- Eleven Sports Media —
- Snipple Animation Studios — Snipple are specialists in animated television and sports entertainment. We are one of the largest animation partners to Disney and Warner Brothers. We develop original IP and we have unique partnerships with sports teams, growing the fans of the future.
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: 897
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $4.4M–$30M; Series B $12M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Fresha — Find the best salons and spa in your area with Fresha salon booking software. Book now!
- 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.
- POC Pharma — POC Pharma is a SaaS company helping the stakeholders in the Pharmacy Channel to digitally manage their go to market strategy.
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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: 1197
- Round size: Seed $196k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $104k–$1.1M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% 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.
- RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.
- One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.
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, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 368
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$13M; Series A $3M–$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
- Wazoku — Wazoku - Where Innovation Works Wazoku
- Mojo — Join 600,000+ men worldwide using AI-powered coaches to build a performance mindset and take back control of their love lives.
- Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives
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, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 195
- Round size: Seed $700k–$4.4M; Series A $5M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Navro — Access the best payments infrastructure around the world, all through a single platform.
- Semble — The integrated clinical system for managing your patients' medical data and admin tasks.
- Trade Ledger — Business lending technology for next-generation working capital that is customer centric, API-first, cloud-native and allows lenders to launch new products in 90 days.
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: 113
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Series A $3.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Yoto — The screen-free audio platform. Play music, stories and more with our audio player that children control with physical cards. Welcome to Audiotime®
- XOXO Soda — XOXO Soda is a plant-based drink with prebiotic fiber that is low in sugar and calories.
- Marleybones — Marleybones dog dining offers farm-fresh, and deliciously healthy food tailored for your dog and delivered to your doorstep. Try it now!
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 153
- Round size: Seed $183k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $410k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Biomage — Cellenics is a single cell data analysis software. It starts with a 10X Chromium count matrix produced by Cell Ranger. Unlike Loupe, the Cellenics platform is an end-to-end tool, which allows you to perform single cell RNA-seq data processing, multiple sample data integration, visualisation, differe
- Heysummit — Build beautiful virtual events, conferences, courses, and more to engage with your audience and grow your community through events-based marketing.
- BrainWaveBank — BrainWaveBank has developed a first-in-class wearable electroencephalography (EEG) device to conveniently and non-invasively measure the mechanisms that underpin neurological disorders and therapies. Our platform can securely gather, store and analyse data from many thousands of users, building neurocognitive profiles of individuals and populationsor demographic groups. This easy-to-scale and distributable approach will help clinical professionals to transform our understanding of brain health and develop the next generation of treatments.BrainWaveBank was founded in January 2015 and has offices in Belfast , Northern Ireland and Dublin, Ireland.
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: 122
- Round size: Seed $327k–$2.6M; Debt Financing $262k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% 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
- Silverback Gym Wear — Shop Silverback Gymwear the home of men's & women's gym clothes designed for strongman & bodybuilding. Exclusive artist designs & supreme quality gym clothing.
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: 212
- Round size: Seed $229k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $445k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $22M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Vidsy — Vidsy is the creative technology platform that helps global brands and agencies create high-performing video ads. Connect with our global network of creators and streamline your content creation process.
- Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
- ComplyStream — ComplyStream enables faster and smarter FinCrime alert resolution by unifying your fragmented data, communication and workflows in a single AI-native platform.
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: 824
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
- Clever Care Health Plan Inc. — Clever Care delivers culturally sensitive Medicare options in Southern California that honor and represent the cultural values of the communities we serve. Health and wellness, centered around you.
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.
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: 84
- Round size: Seed $152k–$2.6M; Series A $2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% 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: Logistics, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$6.7M; Series A $3.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $92M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Paired — Paired is your guide to improve your relationship via fun daily questions, couple quizzes, couple games and relationship advice. Try the Paired couples app free now.
- DITTO Daily — DITTO Daily created the Cycle Supplement to holistically address the physical and mental challenges that come with the menstrual cycle.
- 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.
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: 71
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$17M; Series A $3.8M–$17M
- 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
- Xperiome — Match research-ready members to clinical and real-world studies, faster and smarter than ever before through data-driven insights into the rare disease experience.
- AIRMO — Airmo is a space tech company that offers an independent data source that locates, quantifies, and tracks carbon dioxide and methane emissions through a small satellite constellation.
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: 88
- Round size: Seed $327k–$2.9M; Series A $982k–$14M
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pivigo — Pivigo is a leading AI-as-a-Service platform specialising in services to help companies of all sizes and data maturity adopt AI.
- 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.
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: 193
- Round size: Seed $655k–$5.2M; Series A $2.6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kani — Kani Reporting and Reconciliation is a set of tools to help you report and reconcile transactions and movement of funds. By integrating directly with your processor Kani quickly and accurately provides the clarity you need; whether it’s a QMR, QOC, Settlement Report, or even a Custom Reconciliation, Kani contextualises and gives you full controlover your data.
- 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.
- Chorus Intelligence — Trusted suppliers of digital investigation software that enables our customers to confidently turn data into intelligence and evidence.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- Round size: Seed $669k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$3.9M; Series A $5M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $80M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- ONE FIIT — Fiit offers a real-time performance feedback and live leader boards that allows users to challenge their friends from around the world.
- Torg — Torg puts the largest base of suppliers in F&B at the fingertips of buyers with an intuitive SaaS to simplify sourcing.
- MedAll — MedAll is a training platform for healthcare professionals and students: a 'virtual medical school'. MedAll enables healthcare organisations to deliver and store their training courses, conferences and teaching sessions in one place - and to share that training with the healthcare community internationally.
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.
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: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 377
- Round size: Seed $164k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $162k–$812k
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Elaitra — Elaitra’s breast cancer platform includes a Generative LLM for voice-based patient engagement, and a unique AI reading tool that helps doctors read 3D X-Rays. Operating in USA & UK. FDA 510(k) and UK regulator approved.
- Sages — Biodegradeable, non-polluting, low-impact and vibrant dyes extracted from food waste.
- WeFindFlats — Live and work anywhere, without housing worries.
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
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.7M; Series A $4.8M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Konfir — Konfir is a B2B SaaS platform that provides instant employment and income verifications for UK-based workers.
- Nory — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
- 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.
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, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.1M; Series A $2.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nory — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
- Protex AI — Protex AI develops an AI-powered proactive health and safety technology that enables an injury-free industrial workplace. The company allows EHS teams to adopt proactive safety cultures and in doing so realize an injury-free workplace.
- Passionfruit — Join hundreds of the best startups around the world and use Passionfruit to hire freelance marketing specialists on-demand.
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.
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–$589k
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Molymem — Molymem develops next-generation ceramic ultrafiltration and nanofiltration membranes, powered by a proprietary 2D coating technology that delivers unmatched
- TheNextLevel — Boost engagement & conversions by turning your Shopify store into a mobile app. Customize, connect, and sell globally with The Next Level platform.
- 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.
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, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $125k–$3.9M; Angel $393k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CareerPaths — career mentorship website that links users with skilled industry professionals in Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Investment Banking for invaluable career assistance.
- Astronome AI — Astronome AI is a company that provides streamlined IT management for SMEs, powered by AI.
- 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.
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: 58
- Round size: Seed $346k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% 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.
- Inicio AI — Inicio delivers an AI affordability assessment, the only FCA regulated business using AI to process consumer affordability data.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: 181
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $55k–$1.3M; Series A $5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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: 166
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $5M–$46M; Series B $8.5M–$168M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $327M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Pepgen — PepGen empowers nucleic acid therapeutics to go the distance. PepGen's ambition is to unlock the potential of nucleic acid therapeutics by leveraging the drug delivery capabilities of their innovative product engine. PepGen's initial focus is on the application of this technology to the efficacious delivery of antisense oligonucleotides,and they are advancing novel conjugate therapeutics to the clinic.
- Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
- Quantum Motion — Quantum Motion delivers scalable silicon-based quantum computing using standard semiconductor manufacturing technology.
Beaubridge is an independently-owned and managed private equity investment firm that invests funds on behalf of institutions, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. It focuses on small to medium-sized companies and property development opportunities and has built a strong reputation for success. It has invested in 17 different companiesand opportunities since 2005 in a wide variety of sectors including financial services, health, communications, property, and retail opportunities.
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- Industry: EdTech, Artificial Intelligence, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $502k–$1.4M; Series A $1.6M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Florismart — Florismart helps you find local florists across the United Kingdom to fulfil your floral needs: from gift bouquets to funeral flowers and from wedding flowers to flower workshops.
- OBRIZUM Group Ltd. — Changing the future of eLearning with OBRIZUM, using Ai to create Automated, Adaptive, and Analytic eLearning.
- Obrizum — Changing the future of eLearning with OBRIZUM, using Ai to create Automated, Adaptive, and Analytic eLearning.
Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 191
- Round size: Seed $655k–$5.2M; Private Equity $2.1M–$8.5M
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ruleguard — Ruleguard is an regulatory technology platform for financial sector firms that helps you manage and evidence compliance across your organisation. Features include automated horizon scanning, rules mapping, SMCR compliance, third party oversight tools, breach management and regulatory checklists.
- Biotherapy Services — Biotherapy Services is a specialist pharmaceutical biotech company. We use state-of-the-art technology and patented proprietary processes, working to GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) pharmaceutical manufacturing standards, to produce a range of clinically safe and effective autologous biotherapies for a broad range of clinical conditions.
- Industrial Engineering Plastics — Industrial Engineering Plastics delivers specialist thermoplastic fabrication for demanding industrial applications.
firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 188
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5.5M; Series A $6.8M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Klu.ai — Klu.ai is a generative AI platform that simplifies the process of designing, deploying, and optimizing AI applications.The company integrates major large language models (LLMs) such as Anthropic Claude, Azure OpenAI, GPT-4, and over 15 other models, enabling rapid prompt/model experimentation, data gathering, and user feedback. The platformoffers features like Klu Actions for content generation, business operations workflows, content analysis, and summarization, as well as optimization techniques for A/B testing and fine-tuning support for models like OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4. Klu.ai is committed to data privacy and security, providing data obfuscation and redaction features to protect sensitive information.Klu.ai is founded by Stephen M. Walker II in 2022 and is located in San Francisco, California.
- Layla AI — Layla operates as a travel discovery platform.
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
MEIF Proof-of-Concept & Early Stage Fund
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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
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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