Top 50 Education VC Funds & Investors in United Kingdom (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Emerge VC
VC Fund
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26 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, EdTech, Software | $33k–$22M |
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
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18 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $3.4M–$21M |
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Ufi Ventures
VC Fund
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15 | United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | EdTech, Education, Software | $377k–$11M |
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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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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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13 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$30M |
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Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, Australia, United States | Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Health Care, Manufacturing | $18k–$3.8M |
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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–$3.4M |
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SFC Capital
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $131k–$2.2M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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11 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $39k–$10M |
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Brighteye Ventures
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, France, Spain | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Education, Software, E-Learning | $541k–$20M |
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Forward Partners
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $42k–$17M |
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Ascension
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Internet | $229k–$5.1M |
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Concept Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $510k–$19M |
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Social Tech Trust
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, The Netherlands | Seed, Grant, Non-Equity Assistance | Health Care, Software, Education | $20k–$4.8M |
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FJ Labs
VC Fund
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9 | United States, Brazil, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1.4M–$68M |
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | United States, Australia, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $500k–$20M |
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $313k–$24M |
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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, Artificial Intelligence | $380k–$19M |
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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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GC Angels
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Fashion, Health Care | $131k–$1.7M |
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Midlands Engine Investment Fund
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Portugal | Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Health Care, Manufacturing | $262k–$2.6M |
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Salica
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Secondary Market, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $1M–$346M |
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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–$23M |
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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–$4M |
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Connect Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $669k–$55M |
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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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Triple Point Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, Health Care | $891k–$16M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $500k–$32M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2.1M–$44M |
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Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $655k–$8.8M |
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Mercia Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Software, Health Care | $777k–$26M |
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NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $327k–$5.7M |
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1818 Venture Capital
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States, Ukraine | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $800k–$25M |
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HSBC UK
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A | Manufacturing, Retail, Transportation | $1.1M–$280M |
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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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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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Symvan Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $148k–$5M |
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Eka Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Logistics | $1.6M–$21M |
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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, Information Technology | $700k–$18M |
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Crowdcube
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, Spain, France | Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Seed | Food and Beverage, FinTech, Financial Services | $112k–$5.2M |
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APX
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $55k–$15M |
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $650k–$30M |
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DN Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $786k–$108M |
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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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Deepbridge Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, Spain, Australia | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $152k–$15M |
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Downing Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Series A, Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $550k–$13M |
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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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Innovate UK
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Biotechnology, Software | $57k–$3.7M |
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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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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, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $53k–$8M; Pre-Seed $33k–$3.2M; Series A $5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- VARM — Varm provides efficient insulation for energy saving and comfort.
- 5U AI — 5U AI gives freight teams an AI workforce that's connected across multiple communication channels to understand, reason and act on data.
- Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.
BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 414
- Round size: Series A $3.9M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.4M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- TMT ID — A leading provider of global mobile and device intelligence. We power leading identity providers, A2P SMS messaging companies and financial organisations.
- Nuada — MOF Technologies take innovative organisations from ideation to commercialisation using our proven MOF development expertise & patented technology.
- Adept Technology Group — Uniting technology, inspiring people
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: 22
- Round size: Seed $377k–$11M; Pre-Seed $467k–$649k; Series A $3.4M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TaskHer — TaskHer connects you with reliable tradeswomen for all your home service needs. Trust TaskHer for quality, equality, and excellence in trades. Get tasks done right with TaskHer.
- Chorus — Everything you need to enhance safety, improve performance, and stay compliant
- Gladys — Discover Gladys, the easiest and cheapest way to find trusted local Carers and Helpers in your community. Get 5* care and support to your door.
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: 40
- Round size: Seed $262k–$2.5M; 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.
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: 367
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.3M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- nPlan — AI that forecasts project outcomes, creates scenarios of the future and helps mitigate risk across single projects and portfolios. Trained on over 750,000 past programmes.
- Stream — Stream is a financial services firm that allows employees to stream their earned wages into their accounts through an instant app. The app allows them to have complete control over when they get paid. It also effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans, and employee stress suffered from short-term, unplanned financial obligations. Thecompany aims to play a key role in reducing the poverty premium and preventing employees from entering cycles of debt caused by overdraft fees, high-interest credit, or payday loans.
- Dataform — Develop and operationalize scalable data transformations pipelines in BigQuery using SQL.
Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 248
- Round size: Seed $360k–$3.3M; Debt Financing $18k–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Wagonex — Car subscription is the new, all-inclusive, flexible alternative to leasing. No large downpayment and a single fixed monthly payment. Just add fuel and go.
- Jehu Group — The Jehu Group is a third generation family owned business with over 80 years of successful trading history.We mange our operations on a day-to-day basis through three trading subsidiaries. Each subsidiary is supported by Jehu Group Limited which provides finance, HR, technical and procurement functions.In all of our markets, we position ourselvesas a dynamic and bespoke alternative to national contractors and house builders and are proud of our strong reputation in the market place.
- Reacta Biotech — Reacta Biotech has been established to develop, manufacture and commercialise oral food challenge materials to pharmaceutical standards of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
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: 126
- Round size: Seed $152k–$2M; Series A $393k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Covatic — We help media companies deliver private-by-design, addressable advertising and marketing without exposing personal data.
- Furbnow — Furbnow - Your companion for home improvements for the future
- Unloq AI — Unloq is a Decision Intelligence Platform that turns your company data and live market signals into governed strategic recommendations. Approved, tracked, measured.
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: 578
- Round size: Seed $131k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $173k–$846k
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Keylr — Services partner for property managers. Book reliable, top-rated professionals for your properties with e-props.
- Furbnow — Furbnow - Your companion for home improvements for the future
- Checkboard — Complete your identity verification and payments without the paperwork. Checkboard handles your ID, open banking, and payments from one app.
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: 2215
- Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
- Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.
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: 208
- Round size: Seed $39k–$2.1M; Series A $295k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% 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.
- Advanced Electric Machines — Our magnet free motors help manufacturers build more sustainable vehicles and products. See how we can help you today.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: 63
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $541k–$2.2M; Series A $3.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $111M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Coachbetter — Football drills for kids, youth and pro teams in one platform. Coachbetter is your digital assistant coach. Manage football trainings, matches, teams and your club.
- sherpa — AI Operating System for External Workforce Management
- NEX Health Intelligence — Intelligent software systems for infection prevention and control. We provide hospitals with everything they need to track, manage, and prevent infections all in one place.
Forward Partners is a venture capital firm in London specialising in technology businesses focused on eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $343k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $42k–$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
- Plyable — AI manufacturing software, composite and metallic molds and parts, composite parts, tools, metallic, engineering, technology, ai
- nSpireMe — nSpireMe helping children supercharge their violin learning with interactive practice apps.
- Patch — Patch helps you choose the best plants for your space, delivers them to your door, and helps you look after them.
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: 240
- Round size: Seed $229k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $379k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $22M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases
- 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.
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
- Tattvam — Tattvam aims to reduce the manual effort required to build custom silicon as global demand for specialised AI processors accelerates.
- 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.
- Connectome Health — Connectome is a cognitive intelligence platform that measures and understands how the brain changes over time using transparent, science-backed data people and organisations can trust.
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, Non-Equity Assistance
- Geography: United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $20k–$4.8M; Grant $65k–$777k
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $675k in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- WeWALK — WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service.
- CO2A Global — Helping NHS, Councils and CEOs reduce carbon impact, save time + money. 0118 324 9580. #Scope3 #netzero #G7 #Cop26 #GreenerNHS #greenplan #BASDA #government #AI
- Xploro — Xploro is a mobile application which uses augmented reality, artificial intelligence and gameplay to improve child health literacy and decrease the stress and anxiety associated with hospitalisation.
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: 1441
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $12M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
- 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.
- Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
Everywhere Ventures is a global pre-seed venture capital fund for founders, by founders. Click to read Everywhere VC, by Everywhere Ventures, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1093
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- Suma Wealth — Meet Charlie, your AI financial coach inside the SUMA app. Get personalized budgeting, savings, and investing advice in English or Spanish.
- Journey Live — Journey is shifting the way modern companies prioritize mental health. Our proactive, inclusive tools engage every employee, every day.
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: 243
- Round size: Seed $670k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $313k–$1.7M; Series A $4.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PANTA — PANTA Index Technology is a pioneering fintech company founded by industry veterans to transform the index creation landscape. Our state-of-the-art, cloud-based SaaS solution empowers financial institutions to build and operate complex, bespoke indices and portfolios with unprecedented scale, speed, and precision.As the only pure-play technologyprovider in this space, we streamline the entire index lifecycle while offering advanced back-testing and simulation capabilities. PANTA aims to democratize index technology, enabling institutions of all sizes to innovate faster and make data-driven investment decisions. We're set to become the operating system for next-generation indexing, driving innovation and efficiency across the rules-based and quantitative investment landscape.
- Vouchsafe — Vouchsafe is a trust and counter-fraud platform that helps financial services replace legacy document checks with safe, easy digital ID acceptance.
- Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0.FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growthjourney.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 181
- Round size: Seed $380k–$4.8M; Series A $3.3M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
- Artificial Labs — Build your future placement and underwriting strategy with Artificial's pioneering technology.
- Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
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: 76
- 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
- Tyred — Tyred is revolutionising micromobility with a service philosophy built in three core pillars: simplicity, convenience, and scalability.
- Interfaze — JigsawStack provides fine-tuned custom models that do the heavy lifting for APIs in every tech stack and helps ship faster.
- Cascade — Cascade is an AI platform that helps engineering, architecture, and construction firms predict upcoming projects and automatically find, score, and write proposals for high‑fit contracts, so they can win more work with less manual effort.
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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: 34
- Round size: Seed $335k–$1.7M; Angel $196k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $131k–$656k
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gaia Learning — Gaia Learning are a special online school dedicated to children with additional needs. We help kids with ADHD, ADD, OCD, PDA and Autism, learn online.
- BreezeMove — We're revolutionising the home-moving process. #PropTech
- Prorizon — Health & sports startup that empowers young athletes to take control over mind and body.
MEIF is an investment firm that operates equity and debt investment towards growth capital. The firm aims to transform the finance landscape for smaller businesses in the Midlands and to realize the region’s potential to achieve economic growth through enterprise. It is a collaboration between the British Business Bank and ten Local EnterprisePartnerships (LEPs) in the West Midlands and East and South East Midlands. MEIF provides over £250m of investment to boost small and medium business (SME) growth in the Midlands.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $327k–$2.6M; Debt Financing $262k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — School of Coding is affiliated with the reputated org, invites you to apply for sept. intake Explore our courses and start your world-class education.
- Chevin Fleet Solutions — Best Fleet Management Software. Gain real-time insights into your fleet, automate processes, and configure the fleet software to suit your business.
Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 217
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $5M–$21M; Secondary Market $60M–$346M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
- CameraMatics — Digitize fleet management to optimize performance. Onboard sensors, smart cameras, & apps to mitigate risk, manage safety & achieve sustainability goals.
- Modern Milkman — Modern Milkman is a Yorkshire-based milk delivery company.
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: 125
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.5M; Series A $3.4M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Meatly — Good Dog Food creates cultivated meat for healthy pets and a healthy planet
- Reformed — Reformed: Arabica coffee and ceremonial matcha, enriched with functionality: collagen or creatine, adaptogens and twenty-one vitamins.
- TrueStart Coffee — TrueStart Coffee offers a range of coffee products, including barista-grade instant coffee and loose coffee bags. The company emphasizes healthy and delicious coffee, sourcing beans and air-roasting them with care.
Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 183
- Round size: Seed $326k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
- 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'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: 163
- Round size: Seed $669k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.7M; Series A $5M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $80M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Nexcade — Nexcade AI agents run freight quoting, tenders, rates, bookings, and reporting with your team, visible and controlled at every step.
- Plain — Plain, a new startup that wants to reinvent support tools. While the customer support space is a competitive industry with big tech companies like Intercom and Zendesk, Plain believes it has a different approach as it focuses on API integrations to make your company’s product and your support platform work hand in hand.
- Citymapper — The ultimate transport app - iPhone / Android / Web
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: 95
- Round size: Seed $796k–$4.2M; Series A $988k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Saf.money — One API to move money across Central America using Bitcoin, stablecoins, and local banking rails.
- Space Ape — Visit Supercell.com and find out more about us and our games.
- Antidote — London-based startup studio for Bitcoin founders
Investment management that activates capital across a range of industries, asset classes and sectors, connecting legacies with growth and businesses with better futures.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $891k–$4M; Series A $4.9M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plend — Fair, ethical loans for a brighter future. Plend powers transparent and affordable financing to empower the UK. Start your journey today.
- Augnet — Augnet brings quality and credibility to the SMS and messaging industry.
- 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.
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: 971
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $5M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
- Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
- Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.
We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 400
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$22M; Series B $8M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $101M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
- Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
- Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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Browse database — It's Free!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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 205
- Round size: Seed $655k–$5.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$8.8M
- Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KubeNet — We are KubeNet - a multi-award winning technology solutions provider based in Glasgow. Whether it's Managed IT, IT Support, Cloud, Connectivity, Voice or Cyber Security, we're by your side as your trusted technology partner.
- HubIsoft Group — A new class of data technology. You drive, decide where you go and how you navigate, explore areas you thought unfathomable, you are in complete control.
- ReadyGo Diagnostics — ReadyGo Diagnostics has invented a novel “Diagnostic Pen”. Low cost, intuitive to use from the raw sample, the ReadyGo Pen will be a game-changer in the newly emerging consumer diagnostics market, offering a yes/no answer in minutes, based on molecular analysis.
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: 83
- Round size: Seed $777k–$11M; Series A $3.8M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Serve First — Serve First is an AI customer experience platform that turns real-time feedback into insights, helping drive smarter business decisions.
- Tozaro — MIP Diagnostics develop and manufacture molecularly imprinted polymers (nanoMIPs) that act as synthetic alternatives to antibodies for IVD and other industries.
- Applied Monitoring — Continuous non-invasive lactate monitoring technology. Lactate sensor for health, elite sports and clinical use.
Mercia Equity Finance is a regional investor that focuses initially on uncovering the hidden value. It uses both of its managed funds and its proprietary capital to invest across four distinct asset classes: venture, private equity, and debt, referred to as their 'Complete Capital Solution’. It aspires to be the first choice for investors,investees, and employees, and, by aspiring to be the first choice, they believe that Mercia will deliver superior returns for business owners, shareholders, and fund investors alike.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $327k–$2.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $606k–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Envoke — The engagement Platform for your Virtual Instrument.
- OceanSaver — OceanSaver provides refillable, plastic-free, plant-based cleaning products.
- Candid Hospitality — Candid Hospitality is an innovative recruitment platform created particularly for the hospitality industry.
1818 Venture Capital is proud to invest in portfolios of tech startups that aim to generate wealth for our investors and do good in the world.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ukraine
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $800k–$5M; Series A $2.7M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kudwa — Kudwa is an AI-powered finance platform that unifies data, automates multi-entity consolidation, and gives leaders a trusted, real-time view of performance.
- Count Finance — Count Finance fintech company that offers all-in-one app for budgeting, automated savings, and smart investing solutions.
- WatchMyCompetitor — WMC is the market leading competitor monitoring tool. Use the latest AI tech and human analysts to monitor competitors and develop strategies.
HSBC UK provides financial products and services and long-term general and industrial credit services.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Retail, Transportation
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 141
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $20M–$187M; Debt Financing $1.1M–$280M
- Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Baltex — We design, manufacture and supply a wide range of high performing technical textiles for a range of high performance markets.
- Europa Capital — Europa Capital is a dedicated real estate investment manager focused on the European markets. They specialise in investment through both equity and debt strategies where we employ their real estate asset management skills and experience to maximise value in all property classes across Europe.
- Cross Keys Homes — We're a commercial business with a social heart, building homes and communities and changing lives. We manage over 11,000 homes.
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–$18M; 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
- 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
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: 123
- Round size: Seed $125k–$3.9M; Angel $393k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
Award-winning EIS & SEIS technology venture capital fund manager
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5M; Pre-Seed $148k–$650k
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Tikos — Tikos #devtools, quickly deploy advanced reasoning over your data. #responsibleAI #trustworthyAI #AIreasoning
- Yotewo — Yotewo is a platform that helps companies find and hire software developers for their projects
- Pimloc — Pimloc's deep learning platform enables private businesses and public organisations to protect sensitive or personal data in video, to maintain safe online environments and to manage video security.
Eka Ventures invests in late Seed/early Series A consumer technology companies that have a positive societal impact. This can be environmental (For example, reducing food waste) or social (For example, delivering elderly care)We are particularly fascinated with two business models: Vertically integrated direct to consumer brands, includingthose that have a logistics aspect to them Market networks We also like companies that power the two business models above We believe in the power of founders to drive this change
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- Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$6.7M; Series A $3.3M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $92M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- OxCan — Enabling curative cancer treatment through early detection
- Axle Energy — Connect distributed energy assets to electricity markets. Cut costs, cut carbon, create revenue via a single API integration.
- DITTO Daily — A New Standard in Menstrual Health. The highest level of clinical trials combined with advanced biotechnology.
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, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.1M; Series A $2.7M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wassist — Launch your AI sales agent on WhatsApp for Shopify in under 60 seconds. Recover 30-50% of abandoned carts and increase conversions by 3x.
- Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.
- Exclaim Robotics — Autonomous mobile robots for the AI data center.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Spain, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 798
- Round size: Seed $452k–$5.2M; Convertible Note $246k–$3.8M; Equity Crowdfunding $112k–$2.9M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.5M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- ROLEY's — ROLEY'S is redefining beer with Super Natural Elixir technology, cutting calories by 35.8% while preserving full flavour and alcohol content. Created for modern, health-conscious consumers, ROLEY'S delivers a premium beer experience without compromise.
- Emerald — Comprehensive in-clinic biomarker testing, GP-reviewed results with past health data integration and personalised action plan. Designed to help you understand your risks earlier and act with medical support.
- When in Rome | B Corp™ — We bring you craft wines made by small, independent producers and sold in convenient, eco-friendly bag-in-boxes at a great price with free delivery.
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: 207
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $55k–$1.4M; Series A $2.1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $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.
- Bloom — Moved to @bloomsocial
- Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.
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: 213
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Intropy AI — Intropy increases distributor profitability by automating inventory and pricing decisions, at scale, across your distribution network.
- Reimagine Robotics — Show the robot what to do, correct it where it fails, and adapt it as the process changes.
- Frontier Health — Frontier Health develops artificial intelligence tools that help healthcare administration teams manage repetitive and high-volume tasks within existing clinical workflows. Its primary product, Juno, functions as an AI coworker that supports care coordination by processing information across multiple patient pathways and software systems. Theplatform is designed to work with a wide range of healthcare applications, enabling organizations to use their current systems while reducing manual administrative work. Frontier Health emphasizes clinical safety, data security, and compliance with healthcare standards, including NHS guidance and information security certifications. The company brings together technology specialists and healthcare professionals with experience working across numerous hospitals to address operational challenges in healthcare delivery.
DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 342
- Round size: Seed $786k–$12M; Series A $4M–$25M; Series B $9M–$108M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $300M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- bonify — Bonify, a Berlin based FinTech-Start-up, enables customers to benefit from their credit scoring and financial data. The company gives customers free and easy access to their credit score and let them upload additional relevant data. Then, it offers tools and personalized recommendations to help optimize the customer’s financial situation.Foundedin 2015 by key executives of McKinsey and Zalando, bonify has received significant funding from internationally leading VCs and successful entrepreneurs.
- unique.ai — Automate personalized experiences to successfully transform your organization.
- Contrast — Contrast is a video engagement platform that provides users with the tools to create, edit, distribute, and analyze videos. Their features include themes, hubspot integration, source tracking and UTM management, an on-demand experience, customizable emails, and reminders.
Join 27,000+ UK angel investors backing top early-stage startups. Explore vetted, tax-efficient SEIS/EIS deals, pitch events, and co-investment opportunities.
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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.
Deepbridge is a different kind of investment manager. They work closely with financial advisers and investors to design innovative products, ranging from investment in technology growth companies to asset-backed renewable energy projects. They also partner with innovative and committed management teams to help UK based companies realise theirpotential and become successful leading-edge businesses.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Spain, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $152k–$2.4M; Series A $2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- upLYFT — upLYFT is working on the next generation of smart wearables to help with musculoskeletal issues related to aging. Also working with pro athletes to help sporting individuals train harder and break records.
- GeneralPractice.AI — GeneralPractice.AI - Infusing Artificial Intelligence into the Fabric of General Practice
- Spotlight Pathology — Spotlight Pathology develops decision support tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to help in the diagnosis of blood cancers.
The opportunity for institutional investors to access leading UK early stage healthtech businesses
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $550k–$4.7M; Series A $3.2M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- TidalSense — CRiL was formed in April 2013 specifically to develop innovative medical devices to diagnose and manage respiratory conditions. They have been building a platform technology, N-Tidal, based on the measurement and analysis of tidal breathing CO2 throughout the entire breath.
- Baby2Body — Nearly 3 million women have used Baby2Body during their fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum journeys. Helping women around the world live healthier and happier with personalized fitness, nutrition, and wellness programs.
- Hummingbird Technologies — Hummingbird Technologies is an artificial intelligence SaaS platform using the latest deep learning and computer vision techniques along with proprietary algorithms to provide actionable intelligence to farmers and agri-businesses at key decision-making times in the growing season. The company analyses remote sensing data to help farmers identifyearly problems in their crops such as crop health, disease risk & detection, weed mapping and yield prediction as well as valuable information such as canopy coverage, plant counting, size and biomass estimation, with the objective of optimising inputs and maximising efficiency. Hummingbird began operating in 2016 and since then has covered in excess of >500,000 hectares of arable crops for farmers and agri-businesses. Their platform is utilised at key decision-making points in the growing season to allow intelligent and specific information to inform chemical or operational input decisions that decrease costs and improve outputs.
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.
Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation .
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 923
- Round size: Seed $349k–$3.7M; Grant $62k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $57k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow
Portfolio highlights
- enee.io — enee.io designs and develops battery monitoring systems that make both users and suppliers of renewable power systems more profitable.
- Open Data Institute — The Open Data Institute will catalyse the evolution of an open data culture to create economic, environmental, and social value. It will unlock supply, generate demand, create and disseminate knowledge to address local and global issues.The Open Data Institute will convene world-class experts to collaborate, incubate, nurture and mentor newideas, and promote innovation. We will enable anyone to learn and engage with open data, and empower our teams to help others through professional coaching and mentoring.Founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, the ODI is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, limited by guarantee company.The ODI has secured £10 million over five years from the UK Government (via the UK innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board), and $750,000 from Omidyar Network, and is working towards long-term sustainability through match funding and direct revenue.With a 5,000 sq ft convening space based in the heart of London's thriving Shoreditch area, and a global remit, we invite everyone intrested in developing Open Data to get in touch.
- Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services — Symbiosis Pharma is a biologics CMO offering rapid access to aseptic fill finish manufacturing slots across vaccines, ATMPs, mAbs & more
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.
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