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Top 15 ESports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) 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 15 ESports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in January 2026

Investor	eSports United Kingdom investments
Beringea	1
Unbound	1
JHD	1
Coventry University Enterprise	1
White Buffalo Capital	1
Palm Drive Capital	1
Santander UK	1
Marubeni	1
Ascension	1
FOV Ventures	1
LVL1 Group	1
Eleven Ventures	1
Seedrs	1
GFR Fund	1
YFM Equity Partners	1

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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, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

VRAI — First and foremost, they are a content creation company specialising in virtual reality production. They are visual storytellers embracing this new medium as a way of creating immersive, engaging content.Their pioneering methodology takes elements from our diverse background. We use techniques from narrative cinema, from visual effects, fromexhibition design, from gaming, from brand management and combine them in new exciting ways to help you tell your story.
InvestNext — Create sharable offering pages, collect digital signatures, and pay your investors automatically.
Limitless Travel — Limitless Travel provides holidays, tours, accommodation, and travel for people living with disability.

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 A, Series D, Funding Round
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CARS24 — Buy & sell used cars, get car loans, check new car info with CARS24. Explore services like paying challan, car scrapping, maintenance, driver hire, and more.
Fnatic — Fnatic is the world's leading esports organisation, with a winning legacy of 17 years and counting in over 28 different titles.

JHD

Investment focus

eSports, PC Games, Video Games
Funding Round
United Kingdom

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.

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

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

We’ve partnered with entrepreneurs globally who have created technology firms with over one trillion dollars of combined market cap to help you grow your business.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aurelian — Aurelian is an AI platform designed to automate routes, triage, and resolve non-emergency police calls.
Zania — Autonomous AI agents for Security Risk and Compliance
Luminal — Luminal provides a machine learning compiler and serverless cloud platform that automates PyTorch model optimization and deployment.

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

E-Commerce, Renewable Energy, Drones
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TagEnergy — TagEnergy generates and trades competitive, clean power to accelerate the energy transition.
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 C
United States, Japan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AND Global — AND Global is a Financial Technology as a Services company that provides everything that a modern digital bank needs and more. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Central Region, Singapore.
Altilium Clean Technology — Sustainable, low carbon battery materials. Altilium is a UK-based clean technology group supporting the transformation of the global energy sector from fossil-based to zero-carbon.
Green Rubber — Vinod Sekhar’s team has already resolved the issue.Willis released a announcement and said,Having resolved the issue, I will keep maintain a shareholding place in the company and I wish the company, the directors and my other traders the very best for future decades.The recycle place will take advantage of the procedure that Vinod Sekhar’s dad hasdesigned known as De-Link to make “green rubbers”. The De-Link procedure will devulcanise old and used car tires then revulcanise them and turn them into different new rubberized items such as automobile car tires and shoes bottoms.Datuk Vinod B. Sekhar is the President and Chief Executive of The Petra Group, the Malaysian-based technology conglomerate with interests ranging from rubber recycling, biofuels and biotechnology to financial software.

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, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Sprive — Sprive is the free app that helps take years off your mortgage and save you thousands of pounds in interest.
Capably AI — Capably empowers professionals to automate complex tasks with AI in minutes, regardless of their level of technical expertise. Operating autonomously in the background, Capably acts as an extension of the teams it supports, driving greater productivity and efficiency. Anyone in the company can use Capably to automate back-office tasks like dataentry and processing, generate insights and reports, manage projects, and more—all while the organisation maintains complete control and visibility over how and when employees delegate work to AI.
Liquid Acquire — Liquid Acquire provides AI solutions for mergers and acquisitions.

FOV Ventures invests in early-stage European companies across Spatial Computing, AI, 3D, and Robotics.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, 3D Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.
Spogen.ai — spogen.ai delivers real-time AI-powered guidance to boost uptime, cut downtime, and drive efficiency for OEMs, dealers, and maintenance teams.
IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.

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

Appetito — Buy all your groceries and household essentials from your online supermarket. Order from the comfort of your home at your finger tips.
GRACIA.AI — AI-powered ultra-photorealistic volumetric videos for VR, MR and more
Cloud Retail — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services

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

LAM'ON — LAM'ON OOD was created with the intention of creating a product that would be recyclable or compostable, improve environmental and human health safety, and readily replace the existing petroleum-based plastic solutions.
Bitloops — Bitloops is an AI-powered application development platform that enables organizations to develop, maintain, and operate complex web applications with ease. It helps you easily modify system designs, deploy applications to production, and manage changes, new features, and products. The platform enables teams to innovate quickly and grow the productor business without compromising the product's usability, extendability, or maintainability. Bitloops makes it simpler than ever to create high-quality software utilizing best practices and techniques like DDD, BDD, TDD, hexagonal architecture, clean architecture, ports and adapters, CQRS, and event sourcing suitable for extending legacy systems as well as new initiatives.
Outfindo — Making bikes & e-bikes buying easy

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
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.
Fantacycling — The first fantasy cycling app that allows fans to challenge each other during all the races of the year. Create your league and challenge your friends by creating the best team. Will you be the best?
The Cookaway — The Cookaway offers an exciting range of world cuisine menus put together by our expert chefs and available to buy as a recipe box.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Qloud Games — Qloud Games is an independent game studio developing Loftia.
Final Boss Sour — Final Boss Sour is a gaming-themed snack brand offering a healthier alternative to traditional sour treats. Inspired by retro gaming aesthetics, our snacks deliver bold flavors and a fun experience for gamers of all ages.

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

Fuuse — Fuuse is an electric vehicle charge point management system that enables your chargers to deliver more for you and your drivers.
Biorelate — The most advanced data curation in biopharma
Unbiased — Unbiased connects millions of people with professional advice. With a mission to deliver the perfect adviser match with zero stress, it has developed the UK’s most powerful search tools for connecting consumers with the widest available choice of advisers. To date the site has connected over 10 million people with professional advice.The sitelists over 24,000 IFAs, financial advisers, mortgage advisers and accountants, and between them Unbiased’s advisers manage at least £14 billion worth of assets. Consumers searching on Unbiased can refine their search by area of expertise, gender, payment options, advice areas, level of wealth, qualifications, accreditations and more. Alternatively, they can be matched automatically with the best local adviser, usually within 48 hours and often within 6.The Unbiased site also maintains a constant stream of consumer-focused content, alongside innovative tools, a live ask-an-adviser forum and a comprehensive range of money management information.Unbiased's headquarters form part of London’s expanding Tech City, the biggest tech cluster in Europe.

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