# Top 20 ESports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in June 2026

## JHD
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: eSports, PC Games, Video Games

JHD

## Coventry University Enterprise
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Drones, Sports, eSports

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

## Palm Drive Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Accelerate Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: iOS, Gaming, Android

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.

## Black Green Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Banking

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.

## Unbound
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series D
- Focus: eSports, PC Games, Automotive

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

## FOV Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Gaming, 3D Technology

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

## LVL1 Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Apps

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.

## Eleven Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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

## Seedrs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage

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

## YFM Equity Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology

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.

## Mercia Fund Managers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

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

## Animoca Brands
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

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.

## Ascension
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Internet

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

## Marubeni
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Energy, Internet, Renewable 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.

## Santander UK
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Logistics

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...

## GFR Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Information Technology

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.

## Beringea
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics

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

## Tamar Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Information Technology

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.

## Creative UK
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bristol, Bristol, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Film Production, Software

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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