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Top 30 eSports VC Funds & Investors in United Kingdom (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in United Kingdom eSports startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Kingdom eSports startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Creative UK
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Debt Financing, Seed, Non-Equity Assistance Media and Entertainment, Film Production, Software $132k–$1.6M
FOV Ventures
VC Fund
2 Finland, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Gaming, 3D Technology $333k–$37M
YFM Equity Partners
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Belgium Private Equity, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $3M–$10M
Unbound
VC Fund
2 India, United Kingdom Series A, Series D, Venture - Series Unknown eSports, PC Games, Automotive
LVL1 Group
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $500k–$46M
Beringea
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Software, E-Commerce, Analytics $2.3M–$25M
Palm Drive Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Colombia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $500k–$27M
Ascension
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $236k–$10M
White Buffalo Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Seed Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Health Care $15M–$226M
Marubeni
VC Fund
1 United States, Japan, Singapore Series B, Series C, Corporate Round Energy, Software, Manufacturing $5M–$500M
Black Green Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Cayman Islands Seed Apps, E-Commerce, B2B $1.3M–$2.3M
Meridian Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Seychelles, Spain Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance $1.6M–$21M
Accelerate Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A iOS, Gaming, Android
National Basketball Association
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Grant, Series A, Seed Software, SaaS, Fitness $10k–$48M
Galaxy Interactive
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Series B Gaming, Blockchain, Software $1.4M–$150M
JRJ Group
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States Private Equity, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Gaming, Information Technology $24M–$24M
The New Frontiers (TNF)
VC Fund
1 Switzerland, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Private Equity Software, FinTech, Blockchain $1M–$65M
Adelpha
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Mauritius, Luxembourg Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $326k–$3.5M
Westerly Winds
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Sweden Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Gaming, FinTech, eSports $8M–$52M
Heartwood Partners (previously known as Capital Partners)
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Private Equity Manufacturing, B2B, Web3 $400k–$7M
BlackPine
VC Fund
1 Hong Kong, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series C Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech $1.5M–$483M
GFR Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Australia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming $1M–$20M
Coventry University Enterprise
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom Pre-Seed Drones, Sports, eSports
JHD
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown eSports, PC Games, Video Games
Seedrs
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, FinTech $44k–$3.4M
Mercia Fund Managers
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Hungary Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $250k–$14M
Eleven Ventures
VC Fund
1 Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $28k–$2.3M
Haymarket
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, eSports, Blockchain
Santander UK
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Israel, Portugal Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Post-IPO Debt Manufacturing, Food and Beverage, Renewable Energy $2M–$1.8B
Animoca Brands
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $100k–$40M
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Creative UK
VC Fund · Bristol, Bristol, City of, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

We are here for those who dare to imagine: imagine a fairer, more prosperous world, achieved through the power of creativity.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Film Production, Software
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Non-Equity Assistance
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $132k–$1.6M; Debt Financing $179k–$697k
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Covatic — We help media companies deliver private-by-design, addressable advertising and marketing without exposing personal data.
  • Moralbox — Moralbox provides a web-based training and compliance management platform.
  • JECO — Join JECO's waitlist to access smart tools that cut dev costs, reduce energy use, and optimise performance. No experts needed. Build cleaner, faster software.
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FOV Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Gaming, 3D Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Finland, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$11M; Pre-Seed $333k–$4.2M; Series A $8.2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $22M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
  • Spogen.ai — A machinery knowledge platform built on a next-generation CCMS. One knowledge layer for documentation, AI assistants, and dealer access.
  • IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
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YFM Equity Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$10M; Private Equity $3M–$8.6M
  • Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $115M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • DynaRisk — DynaRisk is a cyber security company. DynaRisk combines personal risk factors with external data and algorithms to determine an individual’s level of risk online.
  • GEEIQ — GEEIQ helps brands decide if, where and how to show up in gaming: audience data, partner and platform comparisons, and measurement your stakeholders trust.
  • New Net Technologies — A complete change & configuration Management solution for every configurable item within your IT estate
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Unbound
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, PC Games, Automotive
  • Stage:Series A, Series D, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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.
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LVL1 Group
VC Fund · Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus · 2 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $603k–$10M; Series A $2M–$39M; Convertible Note $500k–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GRACIA.AI — Reconstruct the real world in 4D with Gracia's proprietary pipelines built for sports, VFX and Physical AI.
  • Native Commerce — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services
  • Native Commerce — A unified e-commerce platform combining CMS, OMS, WMS, Delivery & Logistics to help modern retailers operate, scale & deliver great e-commerce experiences.
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Beringea
VC Fund · Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 175
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$10M; Series B $4.8M–$25M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.5M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $51M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Lumar (formerly Deepcrawl) — Deepcrawl is now Lumar. We empower businesses to realize their websites’ full commercial potential with a robust website intelligence platform and professional services partnerships. Lumar helps businesses see their websites’ technical foundations in a new light — so brands can easily identify and implement the website changes that will have themost impact on their digital-driven growth. The technical health of a website plays a major role in both search engine visibility and user experience — key influences on any business’s brand awareness, customer satisfaction, and sales.
  • Simplestream — We are Simplestream, an award-winning and best-in-class provider of next-generation TV solutions to some of the biggest players in the broadcast, sport, and media industry.
  • Skills Matter — Skills Matter is a global community of technologists interacting, sharing knowledge, inspiring and improving each other. It's where software professionals go to get inspired, connect with peers and learn about new technologies; and where tech experts go to share their knowledge, build their personal brands and grow their audiences.With100,000+ members from 126 countries, Skills Matter is one of the world's largest communities of software professionals. These community members connect on our platform and participate in expert-led talks, conferences, meetups and workshops advancing the state of software engineering globally.
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Palm Drive Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups, 25 in the past 12 months

Venture capital firm backing generational founders at pre-seed and seed. New York and San Francisco.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 237
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $7M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $75M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Clipto.AI — Clipto.AI develops on-device multimodal AI software focused on video, audio, and image content. The platform provides digital asset management, AI transcription, speaker and face recognition, and description-based search to organize and locate media. Clipto.AI supports creators, podcasters, video teams, and enterprises that work with large medialibraries. Its tools assist with media organization, content repurposing, and streamlined editing workflows while keeping processing on user-controlled devices.
  • Mara — autonomous horde of the free world
  • Beglaubigt.de — https://t.co/BCWk4L679n ist die erste Plattform zur Digitalisierung des Notariats in Europa.
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Ascension
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 325
  • Round size: Seed $236k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $261k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $790k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $21M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Sprive — Sprive is the free app that helps take years off your mortgage and save you thousands of pounds in interest.
  • Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
  • Honest Mobile — It's time for mobile done right. Explore SIM-only plans that include bills that go down, support in seconds and a shrinking carbon footprint as standard. One of the UK's top-rated mobile networks.
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White Buffalo Capital
VC Fund · Jackson, Wyoming, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

Find us on the old frontier, discovering the new.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Series A $15M–$26M; Series B $91M–$226M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 — Bingung cari situs slot gampang maxwin? ALEXISTOGEL adalah agen situs slot shopee server Asia paling gacor dan terpercaya dengan info bocoran RTP tertinggi hari ini. Daftar sekarang dan nikmati sensasi jp terbesar di server paling stabil!
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Marubeni
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Corporate Round
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Series B $5M–$83M; Series C $6.9M–$500M; Corporate Round $26M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AND Global — AND Global builds and operates fintech companies across Asia.
  • 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.
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Black Green Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

Black Green Capital are a London-based advisory company with a Venture Capital arm. Whether its web applications or social media developments, M2M devices or eco-systems through to Internet connected consumer devices and telco networks, their expertise and experience combined with strong capital structure makes them uniquely well placed to offeradvice and investment. From deploying new management teams to execute a turnaround through to providing the funding and mentoring to enable existing management to deliver to plan, Black Green Capital have the resources and experience to deliver tangible results.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, E-Commerce, B2B
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Cayman Islands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FLOWN — Work silently alongside others in virtual body doubling sessions that boost focus and accountability. Especially effective for those with ADHD.
  • Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
  • TILT — Tilt is a live auction app where you can bid on clothing, sneakers and rare collectibles in real time. Join live stream auctions across the UK and Europe. Download on iOS and Android.
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Meridian Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

We are focusing on projects in early and growth stages, helping entrepreneurs develop world-class projects on blockchain technology

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Seychelles, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NFTPad — What is NFTPAD.FI NFT gaming. art. DeFi.NFTPad has been founded to aid the growth of the NFT Industry and Ecosystem in a safe and sustainable way. NFTPad allows users to mint NFTs in minutes, auction them or raise liquidity so that they may be traded on AMMs such as PancakeSwap and Uniswap. Launchpad for Blockchain
  • DROP — DROP is an entertainment service intended to give a new shape to the music industry. They are defining the future of music ownership, distribution, and publishing via NFT standards, decentralized governance, and automated finance, providing audio creators with a new shape and sustainable future with their innovations.
  • Cryptomeda — Own a valuable NFT card collection and start earning profit now! Find out more.
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Accelerate Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

Faster Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on the technology and sports industries. Accelerate Ventures provides funds, assists, and quickens the expansion of start-ups in these fields.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Gaming, Android
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Betmate — Betmate lets you bet on the Fantasy Football game you know and love with a few tweaks. Build your team today and compete in fantasy contests based on real fixtures!
  • CAMB.AI — Camb.ai is AI-driven video content localization platform built for content creators and media producers. Join 100s of video first companies who use Camb.ai to dub videos into 100+ languages. All while preserving the original speaker voices (AI voice cloning)
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National Basketball Association
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America, and is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world.The NBA is a global sports and media business built around three professional sports leagues: the National Basketball Association, theWomen’s National Basketball Association and the NBA G League. The league has established a major international presence with games and programming in 215 countries and territories in 49 languages, and NBA merchandise for sale in more than 125,000 stores in 100 countries on 6 continents. NBA rosters at the start of the 2016-17 season featured a record 113 international players from 41 countries and territories. NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, NBA App and NBA LEAGUE PASS. The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than 1.3 billion likes and followers globally across all league, team, and player platforms. Through NBA Cares, the league addresses important social issues by working with internationally recognized youth-serving organizations that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Fitness
  • Stage:Grant, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Grant $10k–$50k; Series A $5M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Afriskaut — Afriskaut offers football stakeholders a robust scouting tool to enhance their recruitment decisions for players in Africa. Afriskaut is a product of NaemoSports.
  • Springbok Analytics — Springbok Analytics, our AI-powered software platform transforms MRIs into three-dimensional analyses of muscle to enable true precision
  • Evergent Technologies, Inc. — Evergent powers subscription billing, CRM, payments, and churn management for streaming, telco, sports, and pay-TV businesses across 180+ countries.
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Galaxy Interactive
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

Play the Future. Galaxy Interactive is a leading sector-focused VC investing in interactive entertainment, at the intersection of content, social, finance and technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8M; Series A $6M–$46M; Series B $9M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $89M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Row64 — Row64 delivers real-time operational intelligence for assets in motion, so you can detect and act on problems the moment they happen, before they cost you.
  • Last Energy — Last Energy develops and delivers micro modular nuclear power plants designed to provide decarbonized, reliable energy through a full-service delivery model that spans design, construction, and operations. The company offers factory-produced modular plants, like its 20 MWe PWR-20 units, that can be deployed rapidly to serve energy-intensiveindustrial customers and utilities with baseload electricity and heat. Its services include long-term power purchase agreements that eliminate upfront capital for customers while enabling flexible siting and minimal resource requirements. Last Energy’s solutions support both behind-the-meter applications for industries and grid-scale energy projects for broader power delivery. The company integrates established reactor technology with its delivery process to help clients access consistent, carbon-free energy.
  • Commonwealth Fusion Systems — The fastest path to clean, limitless fusion energy.
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JRJ Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

JRJ Group is a private equity investment firm with a core focus on the financial services sectorThe company is a growth-oriented investor and provides capital, deep operational expertise and expert strategic guidance to its portfolio companies. JRJ Group invests across the spectrum of the financial services sector and opportunistically inselect other industries, particularly focused on mid-sized European-headquartered businesses, providing strong growth potential.The financial services industry is hugely diverse, with a range of business models operating across myriad sub-sectors, serving a variety of customer types, and together comprising one of the largest areas of global economic activity. Within this context, JRJ Group employs an intensive research-oriented approach to the identification and analysis of compelling investable trends, and of those companies best positioned to exploit these trends.Growth and value creation are achieved through application of an active management approach. This is facilitated by JRJ Group’s unparalleled access to top calibre human capital across the global financial services industry, as well as its ability to leverage an extensive network of top-level contacts within financial institutions, governments, regulators, and other financial industry decision-makers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Gaming, Information Technology
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Private Equity $24M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Demica — Demica is a rapidly growing Fintech providing working capital solutions to large corporates and banks with a broad range of receivables, inventory and payables finance products. The company focuses on multinational clients all over the world, across industries and sectors, requiring facilities of US$50mn to US$750mn+.
  • exceL eSports — exceL eSports is a gaming organisation serving to enable its players to compete at the highest level in global eSports.
  • EXCEL ESPORTS — EXCEL ESPORTS is a competitive gaming culture brand that uses its platform to have a positive impact on the gaming and esports community. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Joel and Kieran Holmes-Darby and is headquartered in London.
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The New Frontiers (TNF)
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

We act as a catalystfor innovation and industry disruptiontowards building a smarter world. TNF is an international investment firm that acts as a catalyst for innovation and industry disruption towards building a smarter world. TNF takes a long-term approach to creating value through venture capital, private equity investments and private financing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: Switzerland, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.2M; Series A $12M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CSX Carbon — Cutting-edge natural capital management. By using high quality data analysis to measure carbon, we enable landowners to receive a fair return on their natural assets and allow businesses to independently verify their climate actions.
  • Equip Sport — Gain access to the fastest growing network of rental lockers worldwide. Equip gives you instant access to SUP and sports rental anywhere, anytime.
  • Metaphysiks — Metaphysiks is a groundbreaking immersive technology company combining world leading neuroscience and robotics to create multisensory experiences.
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Adelpha
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

Adelpha is a female-led corporate advisor and private investment network. We specialise in fast-growth UK companies that are tech-enabled, female-led and have a positive social impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Mauritius, Luxembourg

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $326k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $2.1M–$3.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.5M–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Konfir — Konfir is a B2B SaaS platform that provides instant employment and income verifications for UK-based workers.
  • SKNUPS — Digital Fashion Collectibles Platform
  • Ozo Innovations — Ozo Innovations is shaping a more sustainable future through smarter, safer hygiene solutions for food manucturing and facilities management.
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Westerly Winds
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

Westerly Winds was launched to address the challenges that many entrepreneurs face when building companies and specialised asset management businesses in their formative years. We back and invest in dynamic visionary founders and companies that have the potential to become an integral part of the ‘new economy’. Working as partners with theexecutive teams on a round the clock basis, we assist with financing, business development, stakeholder management and business strategy activities, thus adding muscle to some of the business’ critical functions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, FinTech, eSports
  • Stage:Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Series B $8M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $5.9M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Aquabyte — Aquabyte builds machine learning products for aquaculture (fish) farms.Aquabyte was founded in 2017 to bring machine learning and computer vision technologies to the aquaculture industry. Our diverse team of machine learning experts, entrepreneurs, and aquaculture biologists are hyperfocused on delivering solutions with a real-world impact.Real-time sea lice counting, biomass monitoring, and appetite detection are just a few of the many applications that will eventually be possible with the Aquabyte system. We have offices in San Francisco and Norway.Aquabyte surpasses modern farm monitoring products with our machine learning platform and smart camera system. Our solution offers easy installation, continuous monitoring, and multiple applications.Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing sectors of food production on the planet, offering a meaningful solution to global food deficits. Aquabyte’s mission is to use machine learning to make fish farms more efficient, sustainable, and profitable.
  • CoFi — CoFi automates and modernizes the construction payment process for residential, commercial, and SBA lenders.
  • Frameplay — Promote your brand to highly desirable video gaming audiences with our easy to use, self-service platform. With Frameplay, you can deploy targeted and personalized Intrinsic Virtual Ads into the video game genre of your choice and receive a wealth of data analytics in return.
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Heartwood Partners (previously known as Capital Partners)
VC Fund · Norwalk, Connecticut, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

Heartwood Partners is a private equity investment firm that provides solutions for business owners, intermediaries, and executives. It is focused on helping management teams build businesses by combining strategic planning with a conservative capital structure. Heartwood Partners was founded in 1982 and is based in Norwalk, Connecticut.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, B2B, Web3
  • Stage:Seed, Private Equity
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $433M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Allentown — Allentown supplies animal housing, vivarium design, and engineering analysis. Their products include canine housing, rabbit housing, ferret housing, rack washer cabinets, washer tunnel washers, and refurbished equipment. They also provide design and layout, installation, training, and unparalleled post occupancy service.
  • Norlee Group — Norlee Group provides electrical and communication solutions and also supports the growth of companies organically and through acquisition.
  • Royal Products — For over 80 years, Royal Products has been helping manufacturers optimize their CNC machine tools for increased productivity & profitability.
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BlackPine
VC Fund · Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

BlackPine is a private investment company based in Hong Kong. We focus on advancing humanity by partnering with visionaries in transformative fields that will bring joy and advanced quality of life for all.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Hong Kong, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $5M–$483M; Series C $20M–$104M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Terminal 3 — Trusted identity & security for an agentic future.
  • Neutral Trade — Quant Strategies Marketplace backed by @yzilabs @incubator @drwtrading | Official Links: https://t.co/LducMMG0ly
  • Fireplace — its not gambling if u know ur gonna win
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GFR Fund
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $610k in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • GEEIQ — GEEIQ helps brands decide if, where and how to show up in gaming: audience data, partner and platform comparisons, and measurement your stakeholders trust.
  • CityLegends — A home for urban sports & culture partners of CityLegends. Making the lines.
  • Final Boss Sour — The final boss of sour candy
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Coventry University Enterprise
VC Fund · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Drones, Sports, eSports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IUDRO — to University Drone Racing
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JHD
VC Fund · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, PC Games, Video Games
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Seedrs
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 312
  • Round size: Seed $45k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $44k–$488k; Equity Crowdfunding $125k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow

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.
  • LANDBAY — Your dedicated Landbay intermediary page for specialist buy-to-let mortgages. Partner with a lender who gives you direct decisions with a flexible approach and a full online application process.
  • OurPetsLife — At OurPetsLife, our mission is to empower pet owners with innovative, reliable, and accessible Pet products trusted by the professionals. From dog food, supplements for pets, shampoo, pet treats, dental care & much more.
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Mercia Fund Managers
VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Hungary

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2.1M; Series A $1.3M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $394k–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Ben — Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalise benefits and reward.Our secret? Marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee Mastercards and financial infrastructure. That’s how Ben instantly adds employee choice to your existing benefits, unlocks access to hundreds of additional options through Ben Card, all whilesaving you time and money.
  • Distil.ai — Distil.ai is a software platform that helps businesses to understand their customers’ behavior and identify buying signals.
  • MRC Engineering — MRC Engineering Providing a different option to the UK Rail Industry for Telecoms Design. Nationally renowned design specialists who provide extraordinary ...
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Eleven Ventures
VC Fund · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 195
  • Round size: Seed $28k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $55k–$1.1M; Convertible Note $28k–$120k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $68M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Flataway.ai — Flataway - the home of subscription living. Live & work from anywhere in a trusted proffessionally managed accomodation.
  • nFuse.ai — nFuse scales your B2B sales with AI. Up to 30% revenue uplift, $1 per order processing cost, live in 30 days. No new apps, no behavior change.
  • Blue Longevity — Expert care for a healthier, longer life. Opening soon Athens | Istanbul | Sofia
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Haymarket
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

Haymarket is a media and information company that creates award-winning specialist content for international audiences.The company has 72 market-leading brands in 20 offices across six countries connecting people and communities across print, digital, mobile, and live media.Although Haymarket’s portfolio is diverse, its philosophy isthe same across borders and markets: deliver brand experiences that truly meet the needs of audiences and clients.Haymarket was founded on January 1, 1957 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, eSports, Blockchain
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GEEIQ — GEEIQ helps brands decide if, where and how to show up in gaming: audience data, partner and platform comparisons, and measurement your stakeholders trust.
  • Playe — Enabling brands and agencies to seamlessly work with the global creative gig economy, to create tailored content of any kind, wherever they need it.
  • Garden Connect — Garden Connect is a marketing company that offers web development, EPoS integration, SEO & social media advertising for the garden industry.
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Santander UK
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups

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...

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Food and Beverage, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Israel, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $14M–$1.8B; Debt Financing $4.5M–$406M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • DataVita — Scotland's only Uptime Institute Tier III certified co-location facility. Secure, energy-efficient data centre and connectivity services for businesses across the UK.
  • Red Engine — Red Engine is a Hospitality Company
  • Econergy Renewable Energy — Econergy to create, own, and manage utility-scale renewable energy projects, guided by in-depth knowledge of the industry, regulations, and technology at each crucial stage, from creation to supply
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Animoca Brands
VC Fund · Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in United Kingdom eSports startups, 27 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 519
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $100k–$5M; Series A $5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Superlogic — OneOf is the mass-consumer Web3 company connecting the next 100M non-crypto-native fans to iconic brands, artists, and athletes. OneOf technology enables global brands and enterprises to reimagine commerce, loyalty and engagement, allowing consumers to seamlessly collect or trade digital assets with no prior crypto expertise. Deeply committed to a sustainable and inclusive blockchain future, minting digital assets on OneOf's platform uses up to 2 million times less energy than previous generation proof-of-work networks, and costs up to 99% less in gas fees. A leader in diversity, over 80% of the collections curated by OneOf come from minority or female creators.
  • PERPTools — PERPTools combines crypto perpetual trading with activity points and risk-free market predictions.
  • Slinky Network — Slinky Network provides an on-chain marketplace and payment protocol that connects AI agents and applications with third-party APIs. The company offers the SlinkyLayer platform, which wraps developer endpoints as discoverable skills and exposes them through an x402 pay-per-execution interface. Each API call triggers a non-custodial on-chainmicropayment, settling in the same request loop using networks such as Base and BNB Chain. Developers set prices, earn a defined revenue share, and receive instant payouts to their wallets without subscriptions or custodial holds. AI agents authenticate via wallet signatures, enabling autonomous, machine-to-machine access and payment without traditional logins or credit cards. The platform also records call ratings on-chain to provide portable, verifiable reputation for services.
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eSports VC funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 40 deals from 51 investors.

51
investors
in United Kingdom eSports startups
40
deals
in United Kingdom eSports startups
$803k
median round
in United Kingdom eSports startups
31%
lead investors
lead at least one round
30%
Seed
most common funding stage

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