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Top 25 ESports Startup Investors in United Kingdom

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 25 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Esports startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Esports companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 ESports Startup Investors in United Kingdom

Investor	eSports United Kingdom investments
Sam Enrico Williams	17
Tamar Capital	1
Mercia Fund Managers	1
Ascension	1
Paul Walton	1
Beringea	1
Santander UK	1
Marubeni	1
White Buffalo Capital	1
LVL1 Group	1
YFM Equity Partners	1
Joi Ito	1
GFR Fund	1
Christian Edler	1
Coventry University Enterprise	1
FOV Ventures	1
Andreas Mihalovits	1
Joi Ito	1
Palm Drive Capital	1
Animoca Brands	1
Robin Knox	1
Seedrs	1
Eleven Ventures	1
Unbound	1
JHD	1

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Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr. Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NFT Metadata Editor — Edit and customize the metadata of your NFTs. Connect your wallet, select the NFT, and this tool will allow you to modify the metadata, charging a fee for the service.
NFT Exhibition Space — Showcase your NFT collection in a virtual exhibition. Connect your wallet, select the NFTs, and this tool will create a virtual exhibition space for your collection.
Crypto Wealth Manager — Connect your wallet, input your holdings and financial goals, and this tool will provide portfolio management features and recommendations.

Tamar Capital (TC) integrates risk management, cash management, asset management, and financial planning. The company is quite active and has large interests in a number of industries, including FMCG, manufacturing, and real estate. It is present throughout the Middle East, the GCC, the UK, and the US. It also maintains a diverse portfolio ofassets and enterprises, making use of the family office's expertise where appropriate to generate long-term value. It is also becoming more involved in impact investment.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Fnatic — Fnatic is the world's leading esports organisation, with a winning legacy of 17 years and counting in over 28 different titles.
Zeit Medical — Our breakthrough AI and cutting edge bioelectronics provide peace of mind to those affected by neurological injury and empower physicians to diagnose and treat with precision
H3X Technologies — Ultra high power density integrated motor drives for electric aircraft.

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

CanSense — CanSense is a developer of an inexpensive and scalable blood test intended for early diagnosis of bowel cancer.
Workbuzz — Issue employee engagement surveys with WorkBuzz - a fast, simple, and flexible platform with expert consultancy. Try it now!
Centuro Global — Centuro Global helps you go global.We help startups, scaleups & corporates enter new markets around the world. All your international expansion needs are serviced from one platform, whether you need legal support, tax & accounting, HR, opening a bank account or finding office space, we can assist across the board.Our innovativeplatform, Centuro Connect, contains blueprints on how to do business in over 150 countries, provides live chat advice, and access to local experts around the world. Instead of losing time undertaking Google searches for relevant information and identifying trusted, cost-effective service providers, find all your solutions through Centuro Connect.Come to us for services including; Legal, Immigration, Intellectual Property, Scaling & Expansion, New Market Entry, Tax & Accounting and much more.Receive advice, find service providers, investors and like minded individuals, and seamlessly grow your business.Book a free consultation with us: www.centuroglobal.com

Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders.Run by an experienced and diverse team of successful entrepreneurs, we have been relentlessly dedicated to finding the UK’s best Seed-stage startups since 2014.Ascension benefits from the active industry connections essential forthe sourcing and development of deal-flow and due diligence. The team has co-invested with the UK’s leading angels and VCs, key to securing follow-on funding as the portfolio businesses move to their next stage of growth.We believe in building an inclusive, community driven brand that can benefit the wider UK tech ecosystem and strive to work with conviction, integrity, humour, and humility.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
ManholeMetrics — We are a multi-award winning sensor and analytics start-up on a mission to stop flooding and bring wastewater into the 21st Century.
SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.

Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Network
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
Handl — We deliver car care services to you. Order from professional valets, oil, adblue, washer and care services and subscribe to monthly services to save money.
Just Venue — Just Venue is an online platform that aims to socialise event space booking, by connecting event hosts and organisers with space owners and managers. Just Venue aims to connect event hosts and organisers with venue owners and managers.The website has taken inspiration from other community platforms like AirBnB, Uber and TaskRabbit.

Beringea is an international investor in high growth US & UK businesses. With expertise in multiple sectors we are at the forefront of emerging trends.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Evios — At EVIOS, we're on a mission to make Electric Vehicle (EV) charging as simple and smart as possible. By creating truly intuitive products that allow EV drivers to charge their vehicles at home and work, we are changing the game in the industry as it enters mass market.
Dentologie — With convenient dentist office locations throughout Chicago, Dentologie is here to provide a stress-free dental experience. Book your visit today!
Commonplace — Commonplace is an online citizen engagement platform. We help you to engage with more community members, collect their ideas and make better places.

Santander UK plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides personal financial products and services, and corporate and commercial banking services in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company’s Retail Banking segment offers residential mortgage and personal loans, savings and current accounts, and credit cards, as well as a range ofinsurance policies. This segment serves personal banking customers and small businesses through a network of branches and ATMs, as well as through telephonye-commerce, and intermediary channels. Its Corporate Banking segment provides various banking products and services, including loans, bank accounts, deposits, treasury services, invoice discounting...

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Fashion, Information Technology
Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tactus Group — The company has also developed its own brand of virtual reality (VR) equipment and accessories; the Tactus Pique VR camera which allows consumers to use mobile technology to create and view VR footage as well as produce a unique VR experience with immersive video. In addition, through a joint venture Tactus holds the exclusive European licence forFlexwarm, an innovative in-built heating technology for clothing, sleeping bags and muscle warmers which are controlled via a smart device.
Zenobe Energy — Discover Zenobe. Our vision: enable the transition to zero-carbon, non-polluting power and transport systems through the innovative use of battery storage.
Statera Energy — Statera Energy is a company that generates, transmissions, and distributes electric energy.

Marubeni is involved in the handling of products and provision of services in a broad range of sectors. These areas encompass importing and exporting, as well as transactions in the Japanese market, related to food, textiles, materials, pulp and paper, chemicals, energy, metals, and mineral resources, transportation machinery, and includes offshoretrading.

Investment focus

Internet, Energy, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Japan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LineVision — LineVision is accelerating the net zero grid by equipping our utility partners with unique monitoring and analytics that improve the capacity, resilience, and safety of the grid.
Willbox — Willbox is an international logistics company providing an international logistics digital platform for shippers and logistics companies. The company's platform "Giho" connects shippers and logistics companies (transportation, packaging, warehousing, customs clearance, etc.) with a direct contract. It visualizes the three elements of[lead time, money, and safety], which have been regarded as a black box, and supports comparative examination and decision making. Willbox digitizes the packing technique of wooden boxes and steel, mandatory for international logistics, and incorporated them into their system. Their mission is to solve the logistics issues focusing on the large cargo of industrial products.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa.
Cirba Solutions — Where to recycle end-of-life batteries? Cirba Solutions is the leader in EV and end-to-end battery recycling and meets all recycling needs. Start Recycling Now!

Find us on the old frontier, discovering the new.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Series B, Series A, Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Heliogen — Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company unlocking the power of sunlight to replace fossil fuels.
Medly Pharmacy — Free Same-day Prescription Delivery to Wherever You Are. Welcome To The Future of Pharmacy. Join For Free. CALL OR TEXT 718-782-7539.
Motif — Unleashing the promise of plant-based foods

LVL1 Group is a private investment management firm, operating across different asset classes and geographies. We were founded with entrepreneurial spirit at our core, with a natural passion for venture investing, working closely with founders to forge meaningful strategic relationships and helping them to succeed. We are not bound by mandates andinvestment periods, which allows us to be flexible and opportunistic. We look for companies that aim to make a strong global impact, particularly in Online Travel, Gaming, eSports, Content and Community Platforms.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Resq — At ResQ, we're obsessed with simplifying the repairs and maintenance experience so you can focus on doing what you love. Talk to a ResQ Expert today!
Appetito — Buy all your groceries and household essentials from your online supermarket. Order from the comfort of your home at your finger tips.
Jiffy Grocery — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services

YFM Equity Partners is an independent private equity business owned by its senior management and investment team. They invest up to £10 million of equity through offices in Leeds, London, Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Workbuzz — Give your Everyday Heroes a voice with employee engagement surveys. Our flexible and simple survey platform reaches all employees, wherever they are. Book a demo now!
GEEIQ — GEEIQ enables businesses of every shape and size to navigate and engage the metaverse. Our platform helps identify opportunities and create data-led virtual strategies in Web3, gaming and virtual environments.
Psychology Tools — Psychology Tools publishes evidence-based resources to improve your therapy and save you time. Download CBT worksheets.

Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

KLKTN — KLKTN is a curated music, manga and art NFT platform connecting creators with fans through special experiences. The platform allows fans to access special edition digital art and behind-the-scenes moments of artists' creative process. In collaboration with top creators and artists and powered by blockchain technology, KLKTN is takingartist-fan engagement and the best of creative experiential culture into the digital world. Artworks are available as a limited supply of authenticated digital products or NFTs, for purchase via credit card, with a fixed cost per item. KLKTN's co-founders are Jeff Miyahara, Chief Creative Officer and a renowned record producer and songwriter who has produced over 260 international artists; Fabiano Soriani, Chief Technology Officer and former lead blockchain engineer for Dapper Labs; and Daisuke Iwase, Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Business School graduate, former World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a digital pioneer known for co-founding Lifenet, a disruptive fintech venture, which he took to IPO. Built on the Flow blockchain to achieve affordable and environmentally-sustainable minting, KLKTN leaves more for artists, fans, and the planet.
Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
Shibuya — Welcome to Shibuya, a platform for high potential short films. We provide creators with a full-stack solution to fund films and shorts, build community, and foster an engaged fanbase. Fans can fund their favorite films, participate in the creative process, and join communities for the films they love most.

GFR Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups that are disrupting the consumer entertainment industry. GFR Fund is managed by GREE VR Capital, an affiliate of GREE Inc., a global leader in the mobile gaming industry.With over a decade of experience driving innovators in multi-platform entertainment,we see emerging technologies such as VR, AR, AI, Video Streaming and Blockchain as powerful tools that will propel the entertainment industry into a new generation of consumable content. We are looking for talented entrepreneurs who share our passion and values to help realize their vision and expand their businesses globally.

Investment focus

Software, Video Games, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Digs — Digs is an easy-to-use collaboration software solution for professionals in residential home building that provides more efficient file storage, collaboration, and homeowner handoff for home construction projects. Try Digs for free today!
Stan — Stan has built a platform that allows esports fans to collect, play and trade digital collectibles such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their favorite esports players and content creators, through which they can win physical and virtual world perks and rewards such as getting a chance to meet their favorite players.
Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.

Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cloover — Cloover provides a flexible financing solution that allows you to rent renewable technologies and make savings from day 1, completely risk and worry free!
Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
Visual Layer — Visual Layer is a Tel Aviv based startup providing visual data management platform that scales to billion images and videos.

Coventry University Enterprises Limited (CUE Ltd), a subsidiary of Coventry University Group

Investment focus

Drones, Sports, eSports
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

IUDRO — to University Drone Racing

FOV Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
Roro — Roro is a new mobile gaming studio that creates imaginative play experiences using Unreal Engine. Roro is a small, nimble company with a clear vision wanting to expand with more craftspeople who can help build the future.
GEEIQ — GEEIQ enables businesses of every shape and size to navigate and engage the metaverse. Our platform helps identify opportunities and create data-led virtual strategies in Web3, gaming and virtual environments.

Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Xceed — Go out and live the best night events, parties & festivals at top clubs, bars and restaurants from around the world. Guest lists, tickets & VIP bottle service.
Tuvalum — Make used bikes great again! Tuvalum is the largets and most trusted site in pre-loved bikes. Every used bike is carefully certified by our expert mechanics. Our mission is to transform the bicycle industry for a more sustainable future through digitization and a great customer experience. Get the bike you really need for your goals and needs, allthe bikes are supremely certified by expert mechanics.
Qoala — Qoala, founded in 2019, is a browser extension that finds and applies discount codes on online stores and provides its users with cashback, creating a more reliable purchase funnel for more than its 3000 affiliated stores and ensuring its customers will take advantage of the best available deals while shopping online.

Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

KLKTN — KLKTN is a curated music, manga and art NFT platform connecting creators with fans through special experiences. The platform allows fans to access special edition digital art and behind-the-scenes moments of artists' creative process. In collaboration with top creators and artists and powered by blockchain technology, KLKTN is takingartist-fan engagement and the best of creative experiential culture into the digital world. Artworks are available as a limited supply of authenticated digital products or NFTs, for purchase via credit card, with a fixed cost per item. KLKTN's co-founders are Jeff Miyahara, Chief Creative Officer and a renowned record producer and songwriter who has produced over 260 international artists; Fabiano Soriani, Chief Technology Officer and former lead blockchain engineer for Dapper Labs; and Daisuke Iwase, Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Business School graduate, former World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a digital pioneer known for co-founding Lifenet, a disruptive fintech venture, which he took to IPO. Built on the Flow blockchain to achieve affordable and environmentally-sustainable minting, KLKTN leaves more for artists, fans, and the planet.
Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
Shibuya — Welcome to Shibuya, a platform for high potential short films. We provide creators with a full-stack solution to fund films and shorts, build community, and foster an engaged fanbase. Fans can fund their favorite films, participate in the creative process, and join communities for the films they love most.

We are an NYC-based venture capital fund built on the belief that innovators are everywhere.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Colombia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Louisa AI — AI sales enablement for finance and consulting firms by connecting their expertise and relationships with real-time intel
Popularium — At Popularium, we believe that successful games are built by world-class developers who know what great looks like.

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
0G Labs — 0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues.
Burnt — Creators of XION, The Blockchain Built To Make Crypto Human.

Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Network
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
Handl — We deliver car care services to you. Order from professional valets, oil, adblue, washer and care services and subscribe to monthly services to save money.
My Probate Partner — The better way to navigate probate in Scotland. Avoid large probate solicitor bills by completing your application with our 5-star fixed-price support service. Designed to make sure you get Scottish probate 100% right.

Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
Signature Brew — Signature Brew is a music bar and brewery that aims to bring people together. They provide beer, booze, and live music for their patrons, which enables them to bring the community together through the power of good beer, music, and memories.
SRSLY Low Carb — Award Winning. Consumer brand of choice. Real food that's Keto and Low Carb friendly. The home of the Seriously Low Carb Loaf, the Seriously Low Carb Pizza and now lots of other products too.

We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NOLD — NOLD provides a platform that users may locate an exceptional and one-of-a-kind, an outfit with a past that can tell a new tale and take them on a trip. The company was based in Bulgaria.
Eilla AI — AI Platform to Power the M&A, VC and PE Deal Workflow.
Cognitiwe — Our AI for retail and manufacturing products offers solutions in stock management, retail shrinkage, quality and health & safety monitoring.

Unbound is a crowdfunding publisher that gives people the tools, support and freedom to bring their ideas to life.

Investment focus

eSports, PC Games, Automotive
Series D, Funding Round
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CARS24 — Buy and Sell Used Cars Online at Cars24. Cars24.com offers home inspection to sell your car and provides 100% verified second-hand customer cars at best price with Easy Finance and RC Transfer.
Fnatic — Fnatic is the world's leading esports organisation, with a winning legacy of 17 years and counting in over 28 different titles.