Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in United Kingdom in April 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Finance startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in United Kingdom in April 2025
Investor | Finance United Kingdom investments |
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Chris Adelsbach | 14 |
Errol Damelin | 7 |
Charlie Songhurst | 6 |
Will Brooks | 4 |
Will Martin | 4 |
Taavet Hinrikus | 4 |
Giuliano Stiglitz | 3 |
Will Neale | 3 |
Paul Forster | 3 |
Theo Osborne | 3 |
Matt Robinson | 3 |
Ian Hogarth | 3 |
Christian Faes | 3 |
Ed Wray | 3 |
Tinie Tempah | 3 |
Jonathan Weiner | 2 |
Michael Bristow | 2 |
Dan Cobley | 2 |
Mark Newton-Jones | 2 |
Baris Aksoy | 2 |
Freddy Kelly | 2 |
Babs Ogundeyi | 2 |
Sir Alex Ferguson | 2 |
Laurent Le Moal | 2 |
Henry Ritchotte | 2 |
Ben Holmes | 2 |
Alan Howard | 2 |
Jason Njoku | 2 |
Andreas Mihalovits | 2 |
Ricky Knox | 2 |
Matteo Gamba | 2 |
Niklas Zennström | 2 |
Marek Kiisa | 2 |
Charles Delingpole | 2 |
Juan Lobato | 2 |
Max Levchin | 2 |
Danny Jatania | 2 |
Jon Moulton | 2 |
Andrew Slater | 1 |
Nigel Waterson | 1 |
Bahman Asadi | 1 |
Tobin Jones | 1 |
Cato Sælid | 1 |
Neer Nagda | 1 |
Martin Brailsford | 1 |
Hippolyte Genet | 1 |
Bart Homan | 1 |
Paul Townsend | 1 |
Nafiseh Vahabi | 1 |
Scot Chisholm | 1 |
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
- WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
- Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.
Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal.
Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
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Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
- Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
- Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
Giuliano Stiglitz is CEO, founder and Co-owner of Latam Digital Ventures, a holding company that he created together with the Himedia Group, focused on acquiring and creating high growth and profitable digital media and ad tech businesses in the US Hispanic and LATAM Markets.Prior to that, he was CEO of Orange Advertising Americas, one of thelargest companies at US Hispanic and LATAM, focused on ad networks which he successfully transformed into Primia.Digital.Giuliano Stiglitz is also an angel investor, having invested in several tech and digital media start-ups. He is also a speaker at some of the most important events, such as Adtech, IAB, DMEXCO.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Organic, Messaging
- Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- LiveNinja — Business communication solutions from net2phone streamline workflows, effortlessly collaborate, and build customer relationships that last.
- Eco Market — Eco Market enables sellers of ethical and eco products to easily create a shop to sell their products in our online marketplace. Since the site launched in October 2010 it has attracted hundreds of eco sellers selling over 7,000 unique products from across the world ranging from Fairtrade coffee, to handmade natural soap, to up-cycled tshirts.The website also simplifies the often complicated process of shopping ethically by explaining what each products ethical credentials and certificates mean. Shoppers can also learn more about each seller by interact with sellers reading interviews and interacting with them via the site's own social network and video system, where they can learn more about the story and people behind the products they buy.Our goal as a company is not only to give (often small one man band) sellers a platform to sell products but also to give consumers all the tools and information they need to demystify ethical shopping, and to create open debates about key issues that will help shape our planet.
Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Italy, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
- SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.
Paul Forster
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
- Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
- Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- The Dots — Professional networking for the new world of work. Get advice. Meet collaborators. Find jobs. Upskill at events.
- Nova Credit — Nova Credit is a credit infrastructure and analytics company that enables businesses to grow responsibly by harnessing alternative credit data.
- Platform Science — Experience the power to choose what drives your fleet. Platform Science delivers telematics and fleet management tools on a platform built for transportation.
Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Malga — Malga is an online payment platform that offers fraud protection and payment split services.
- Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
- Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
- Fabric — One home for your digital world. Your second brain. A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. All your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links, and files in one calm, minimal app. No organizing required. Never forget anything again.
Christian Faes was previously co-founder and CEO of LendInvest, which is a technology driven mortgage lender and a leading Fintech company. The company has over £3.5 billion of Funds Under Management, and is one of the largest non-bank mortgage lenders in the UK.
Now building Faes & Co.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
- Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
- Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Mr. Edward Wray, Ed is a Co-Founder of Betfair Australia Pty Ltd. Mr. Wray co-founded The Sporting Exchange Limited (Alternate Name: Betfair Limited) in May 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Betfair, he spent eight years at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a Vice President in the debt capital markets and derivatives area. He servesas the Chairman at Betfair. He has been Non-executive Chairman of The Sporting Exchange Limited since 2006. He served as the Chairman of Betfair Limited since 2006. He served as Non-Executive Chairman of Betfair Group PLC from March 17, 2008 to March 6, 2012. He has been a Director at Sporting Exchange since August 1998. Mr. Wray has been a Director of Betfair Group PLC since August 20, 1999. He serves as a Non Executive Director of Funding Circle Ltd. He served as a Director at Betfair since 1999.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Hole19 — Download Hole19's free Golf App with GPS, Scorecard and Rangefinder for iOS and Android. Plus connect with your golf buddies. Now ready for watch
- Netwealth — Netwealth uses cutting-edge technology and an expert team to provide a cost-effective wealth management service. See how we can help manage your investments.
- SmartUp.io — SmartUp is the ultimate platform for peer-to-peer knowledge creation, sharing and exchange.Conceived and developed by a seasoned team of founders and investors behind Founders Forum, Spotify, Siri, lastminute.com and others, SmartUp now hosts more than 150,000 members and is used around the world by startup founders, companies, innovators,business schools and curious entrepreneurs.SmartUp’s intuitive learning system provides communities engaging and fun ways to contribute and consume bite-sized pieces of knowledge and insight. Its powerful platform unlocks your community’s real knowledge to help every member unleash their potential.
Tinie shot to prominence with his chart-topping album 'Disc-Overy' which featured the #1s 'Pass Out' & 'Written In the Stars'. 2 x BRITs, a MOBO and an Ivor Novello followed. His 2nd album 'Demonstration' featured collaborators such as Dizzee Rascal, Emeli Sandé & Laura Mvula. In 2015, Tinie returnedwith 'Not Letting Go' and a feature on KDA's 'Turn The Music Louder'. Both topped the charts to give him 7 UK #1s - the most by any artist this decade.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Art, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
Jonathan Weiner is the Founder of HumanX. He previously worked at FastPay as a Board Member. Jonathan Weiner attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 200,000 trade shows and conferences
- Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.
- OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Michael Bristow is the CEO & Co-Founder of CP Capital. He previously worked at Peer-to-Peer Finance Association as a Board Member. Michael Bristow attended London Business School.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Belgium, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- RENTUU — Rentuu has been featured for the last 3 years in a row in the UK's Top 100 UK Start-Ups List, and operates a global, fast-growing, cloud-based technology platform and franchise network for the multi-billion pound sterling equipment hire industry. We’re a venture capital backed technology start-up backed by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (founder ofeasyJet) and other institutional investors with the exclusive rights to the easyHire brand in a number of countries, including the UK, EU, Switzerland, South Africa, and Dubai to facilitate equipment rental for construction and party equipment.
- Howsy — Howsy is a real estate management platform that provides repairs management and renewal services for landlords and tenants. Howsy. A new concept designed to shake up the way of renting works for good. Its on a mission to create a simple, intuitive and fairly priced experience that’s powered by new ideas and brilliant technology.
- CrowdProperty — CrowdProperty is a specialist property project lending platform used to facilitate short-term loans. It is a profitable fintech lending innovator that matches demand that property professionals undertaking property projects and supply that is retail investors of capital for value-creating property projects that enable clients to get a better dealfor the borrowers, lenders, the under-supplied housing environment, and increased spend in the economy.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Dan Cobley is the Managing Partner of Blenheim Chalcot. He previously worked at Santander UK as a Strategic Advisor to the Board. Dan Cobley attended the University of Cambridge.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Pockla — POCKLA is a London-based content strategy and marketing agency. Powered by our proprietary AI technology, we take an audience-first approach to levelling up organic content and paid ads for social-first brands.Our vision is to help brands market like the world's best content creators. We do that by helping brands find an authentic internetvoice, and engage on topics that actually matter to their audience.POCKLA acts as an extension of your team. Combining the expertise of world class content strategists, paid media and organic experts, designers, technology and growth specialists. Find out how we can help your business today.
- Yavrio — Yavrio links your bank accounts to your finance system using Open Banking. Gain centralized access, real-time insights, and secure transactions with 14,000+ banks in 20 countries.
- Jove Insurance — Jove provides business and protection insurance to contractors, freelancers and SMEs, powered by tech and driven by social good.
Mark Newton-Jones is the CEO and Director at Mothercare.
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Finance
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Pockit — Open a prepaid account in 3 minutes online or in-app, get your contactless prepaid card in 2 working days with no credit check.
Baris is a General Partner at AV8 Ventures. He joined AV8 from Google, where he served as the Head of Global Strategic Business Development in Media & Entertainment industry vertical, covering AI and infrastructure technologies.Prior to Google, Baris was the CFO at Anvato and led the acquisition by Google. Earlier, Baris was an investor atIntel Capital, covering global consumer and enterprise investments. While there, he invested in companies like Yume (IPO), OpenFeint (acq by Gree), Crowdstar (acq by Glu), Sense Networks (acq by YellowPages), and Caring.com (acq by Bankrate), many of which were acquired or went public during his time there. As a product manager and engineer, he held leadership positions at Calix and Alcatel.He received his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his B.S. in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Neol — Neol is a decentralized and tokenized cohort-based learning and on-demand talent platform, powered by a curated global creative community.
- Insly — Low-code, modular insurance software to help MGAs and insurers deliver better products, service, and profitability at scale, across the insurance lifecycle.
- Woven — Woven Calendar - The most powerful calendaring and scheduling app
Freddy Kelly is the CEO and co-founder of Credit Kudos, the consumer-first, transparent consumer credit bureau. Credit Kudos uses Open Banking to allow lenders to accurately measure consumer risk, increasing acceptances whilst reducing default rate. Freddy has a background in Computer Science and Machine Learning. Prior to founding the company,Freddy was first engineer at cloud-computing startup, Bitnami (YC W13) and A16z-backed transaction analytics platform, TXN.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
- Tuza — Find the right card machine for your business, with good rates and the best features. Search the top providers in minutes, including Worldpay, Barclaycard, Tyl and Teya.
Cofounder and CEO of Kuda
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- 24SEVEN — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.
Born in Govan, Glasgow in 1941, Sir Alex Ferguson retired as manager of Manchester United in May 2013 following a period of over 26 years at the helm. Over the course of a management career that lasted 39 years, he won 49 major trophies, making him the most successful manager in the history of British football.He made his name with Aberdeen,who became the first club to consistently break the Old Firm dominance of the Scottish game, winning 9 domestic trophies over a 6 year period. But it was victory over Real Madrid in the European Cup-Winners Cup Final in 1983 that brought him to national attention.Following his move to Manchester United in 1986, he set about restructuring the club and his first trophy in 1990 opened the floodgates. In 2001 he became the first manager to win three championships in a row since the league began in 1888, a feat he repeated in 2009.Admired for placing his emphasis on attacking football, with homegrown talent at the heart of his teams, he bowed out as league champion following his 1,500th game in charge of Manchester United. In 2012, Harvard Business School wrote the case study “Sir Alex Ferguson: Managing Manchester United” before appointing him as a Fellow to the Executive Education Programme.Following his retirement in 2013 he took up the positions of both Director and Global Ambassador with Manchester United and was also appointed Coaching Ambassador by UEFA. In the same year he released "My Autobiography" which became the UK's quickest selling non-fiction book since records began. This work was a follow-up to his first best-selling memoir, "Managing My Life", which appeared in 1999.His new book ‘Leading’, written with Sir Michael Moritz, details the key skills and philosophies he used to deliver success both on and off the field and will be released in September 2015.
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Pockit — Open a prepaid account in 3 minutes online or in-app, get your contactless prepaid card in 2 working days with no credit check.
Founding Partner of ViewPoint ventures.WE ARE FOUNDERS TOOViewPoint Ventures is a first time fund founded by two partners who have 40 years of Fintech experience between them. As founders, we understand the pressures on you as a founder. And our interests are fully aligned.WE INVEST BASED ON VIEWPOINTSSuccessful Fintech start-ups willcapture opportunities created by fundamental shifts in the industry. We love exchanging points of view with founders - but also with executives of incumbents - to arrive at distinctive perspectives on the exact opportunities and the best way to capture these.WE LOVE DISRUPTION ROOTED IN TECHNOLOGYWe like to see true technology-led innovation and disruption. Too many fintech start-ups are 'simply' re-skinning or re-packaging the same underlying business or product. This is great V1.0 disruption . Yet, we are more interested in V2.0 and look forward to exploring ideas and concepts with you.WE BRIDGE THE WORLD OF ATTACKERS AND INCUMBENTSWe have extensive experience with attackers as well as incumbents. This gives us a unique appreciation for what exactly new companies are disruption inside the financial services establishment. Many fintech companies will end up being acquired by incumbents, so our understanding of where new disruptive companies might 'fit' in these incumbents will be invaluable, if only to create option value.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Monese — Monese is a digital banking alternative that provides mobile-only, multi-currency accounts in 31 countries across the European Economic Area, for those who are underserved by the traditional banking system. It was launched in 2015 by Norris Koppel, after his first-hand experience of the hassle involved with opening a bank account in a new country.With a fully-featured and fully localized banking experience (both its apps and its customer service are available in 14 languages), Monese allows people and businesses to spend and save like locals across Europe. Its proprietary “Know Your Customer” technology can validate a customer’s identity in real-time, allowing accounts to be opened in a matter of minutes, from a mobile app.
- Remitly — Remitly is a mobile payment service that enables consumers to conveniently make person-to-person international money transfers from the United States. Its online service is disrupting the $588 billion a year industry by using the latest technology and mobile devices to eliminate unnecessary forms, codes, agents, extra time, and fees tied to thetraditional money transfer process.As a licensed money transmitter, Remitly currently operates in 49 states and Washington, D.C., and spends millions of dollars to thousands of customers each month. Remitly is backed by Stripes Group, DFJ, Vulcan Capital, QED, Trilogy Equity Partners, DN Capital, Founders Co-Op, Bezos Expeditions, and TomorrowVentures.
- Vybe — Vybe is a provider of a digital platform used to develop a payment card for Gen Z. It helps in instant transfers, receives instant notification of each expense, and manages expenses securely that enable teenagers to manage their pocket money, pay with their smartphone and get cashback on a lot of transactions.It was founded in 2019, in Paris,France.
Mr. Henry Ritchotte has been a Member of Management Board at Deutsche Bank AG since June 1, 2012 and serves as its the Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Ritchotte serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Global Markets Division Worldwide at Deutsche Securities Inc. He served as Head of Global Markets of Deutsche Securities Inc. Mr. Ritchotte joinedDeutsche Bank in 1995 in hedge fund coverage and has played an important role in the development of Deutsche Bank's global markets business. Mr. Ritchotte has held a variety of senior management positions including global head of hedge fund sales and head of sales for Asia. He served as Joint Chief Operating Officer of Global Markets Division at Deutsche Bank AG since 2008.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Arkera — Arkera helps companies increase revenues by empowering anyone to make exciting investment decisions they never imagined. Using our extensive financial expertise and Artificial Intelligence, we connect real world events to unique investment stories.
- Neyber — Join Neyber today to help improve financial wellbeing and happiness in the workplace. Financial education, affordable loans, and savings and investments paid from your salary.
- Luther Systems — Luther Systems platform empowers enterprises to automate and run their processes at speed and scale.
Ben is a Partner at Index Ventures, having joined the London office in 2002. Ben focuses on the software and internet sectors and has been actively involved with many of the firm's consumer and media investments. He currently sits on the boards of Astley Clarke, Grey Area Labs, iZettle, Just-Eat, King.com, Mind Candy, Notonthehighstreet,Rebtel, Secret Escapes, Shapeways, Stardoll and Twoo. He was previously a Director of Panther Express and Playfish (Electronic Arts).Prior to joining Index Ventures, he worked at the NewMedia Spark investment fund, before becoming Vice President at EO plc, a Spark portfolio company in the consumer financial services sector. Previously he spent four years at OC&C Strategy Consultants, advising firms in the retail and IT sectors.He has a Masters degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Viker — Viker is a mobile studio that designs, develops and publishes mobile and computer games for OS and Android systems.
- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- MyJam — All the food you love in one place.
Alan Howard is a British billionaire hedge fund manager and co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management.
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- Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
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- NVG8 — Navigate is a data ecosystem where people around the world contribute data that is used to build new applications like Navigate Maps.
- Atmos Labs — When is a game more than a game? Welcome to Planet Atmos: a universe of next-generation gaming experiences blending action, customization, storytelling, community, and digital ownership.
- ScienceMagic.Studios — A digital assets venture studio
Jason Njoku is Founder and CEO of Iroko, the home of Nollywood content. He has pioneered the African digital content market by bringing Nollywood (Nigerian cinema) to a global audience, and in the process has raised over $40m in investment from international VCs, including Tiger Global, Kinnevik, RISE Capital and Canal+.Launched in 2010, IROKOhas aggregated the world's largest online Nollywood content catalogue and is one of Africa’s largest internet TV providers, with a dedicated mobile app, IROKOtv, as well as ROK TV channels on Sky in the UK and DStv across Africa.In 2013, Njoku was crowned as the CNBC Africa West Africa Young Business Leader and in 2014, he was recognized as one of Fast Company's Top 1000 most Creative People in Business.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States
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- Kyshi — Unlocking Boundless Possibilities in Payments and Revenue
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Dost — Dost automates the process of incoming supplier invoices to help CFOs and Finance Managers of mid-size and large companies with a high volume of invoices to improve efficiency, accuracy in data entry and reduce time when processing incoming invoices by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent process automation (IPA).
- CheKin — Chekin has developed a framework that covers everything related to guest registration on touristic accommodations. Chekin has made it extremely easy to register guests for third-party software providers (startups, travel companies, Hospitality software and so on..), in two aspects, 1. It helps with all the local touristic regulations across theEuropean Union and 2. With a set of APIs that facilitates all the guest registration process. Chekin is the premier supplier of trusted software solutions for digitalizing the check-in and check-out (and all the key legal points to take into consideration in between). We provide a stack of optimized, ready-to-run software solutions, and support for implementation on travel tech companies. Further, Chekin rapidly updates applications according to regional law changes to ensure optimal results. Chekin integration model is to be embedded into the partner solution, this native integration provides a better experience for the end users, a trusted tool for the hotelier, and lower their cost due to the guest data collection process.
- GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.
Ricky is a serial investor and entrepreuner. He has built five technology disruptors in fintech and telecoms, each of which also does a bit of good for the world.Before Tandem he founded Azimo and Small World, two remittance businesses, and is managing partner of Hexagon Partners, a private equity firm. He built Tandem to be a digital bank thathelps improve customers' lives with money. Ricky has a first class degree from Bristol University and an MBA from INSEAD.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
- Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.
- Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
Matteo leads the product teams taking care of Payments & Fraud at Wayfair, one of the top e-commerce retailers selling furniture and home goods in North America and Europe. Before Wayfair, he led the product function for the growth teams at (Transfer)Wise.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Series A
- United Kingdom, Italy, Estonia
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- Kroo — B-Social is a financial technology company that develops innovative services for a new generation of customers.It aims to make personal and social finances move at the speed of life. The fintech company builds an app that intuitively connects personal finances with their customers' social world, making it easy for them and their friends tobuy, track, and shares the experiences that bring them closer.Nazim Valimahomed and Tim Brown formed the company in 2016 in London, England.
- GuestReady — Premium Airbnb Management Service for your vacation rental. Maximise your revenues and become a Superhost with GuestReady's 5* property management service.
- Chip — Get the best savings rates brought to you and smash your savings goals automatically with Chip. Join over 400,000 savers today. We're building the best savings accounts in the world for you, with you.
Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo. Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.
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- Software, Internet, Apps
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland
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- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- Neoplants — The first generation of bioengineered to fight air pollution. We call them neoplants.
- Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.
Marek Kiisa is the co-founder and Managing Partner at NordicNinja VC, and the co-founder and partner at Superangel.io. He has made 15 private angel investments and created several companies, like Astrec Baltic, Pilvio.io and Kood/Johvi coding school. He has his Master Degree on Machine Design from KTH Stockholm and he is a Kauffman FellowClass 19.
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- Software, Transportation, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Estonia, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Monese — Monese is a digital banking alternative that provides mobile-only, multi-currency accounts in 31 countries across the European Economic Area, for those who are underserved by the traditional banking system. It was launched in 2015 by Norris Koppel, after his first-hand experience of the hassle involved with opening a bank account in a new country.With a fully-featured and fully localized banking experience (both its apps and its customer service are available in 14 languages), Monese allows people and businesses to spend and save like locals across Europe. Its proprietary “Know Your Customer” technology can validate a customer’s identity in real-time, allowing accounts to be opened in a matter of minutes, from a mobile app.
- Wwwash — Download wwwash app. Car wash - hardware and software to connect every car wash to cloud. wwwash.
- Warren.io — Warren platform equips partnering providers with a white labelled self-service portal for easy access to infrastructure and managed services.
Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
- Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
- Juniper — Juniper is a reproductive healthcare insurance provider.
Juan Lobato is a tech entrepreneur based in London. He is the co-founder and co-CEO of Ebury, one of European fastest growing fintechs. Furthermore, he is an investor in over a dozen tech companies across the UK, Europe, and the US
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- Finance, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ebury — Ebury UK | The Latest Fintech & Finance Solutions
- Vertice — The SaaS purchasing platform that gives finance leaders cost control, efficiency and flexibility.
- Floodlight — Track finances, make smarter decisions, and increase revenue. Think business accounts, cards, payments and cashback, all-in-one.
Max Levchin is the Founder and CEO of Affirm. He previously worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an Advisory Board Member. Max Levchin attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Bland AI — Transform your enterprise communication with Bland AI. Automate inbound and outbound phone calls using AI that sounds human. Perfect for sales, customer support, and operations with customizable voices and seamless integrations.
- CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
- Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
Danny Jatania
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- Banking, FinTech, Finance
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Pockit — Open a prepaid account in 3 minutes online or in-app, get your contactless prepaid card in 2 working days with no credit check.
Jon Moulton is a British venture capitalist. He is the founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Better Capital, and is the former managing partner of the private equity firm Alchemy Partners.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Cyprus, Luxembourg
Portfolio highlights
- Pockit — Open a prepaid account in 3 minutes online or in-app, get your contactless prepaid card in 2 working days with no credit check.
- Hometree — Keep yourself warm with Hometree, and try our no price hike promise. Compare our different boiler & home cover plans to see how you can save.
- Hellas Direct — Hellas Direct is a digital-first, full-stack insurance company, empowered by cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence. The Cyprus-based company is backed by a roster of leading investors, including Portag3, IFC (a member of the World Bank), Endeavor Catalyst, former Goldman Sachs economist Lord O’Neill and private equity veteran JonMoulton. Modelling itself on Amazon, Hellas Direct aims to disrupt the insurance value chain by adopting an extreme focus on operational excellence.
Andrew Slater
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Investment focus
- Finance, Blockchain, Retirement
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Signai OpenPensions & Signai OpenIncome — Income Security For Life - providing income security throughout the working and retirement years of adults, children and vulnerable.
Nigel Waterson
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Investment focus
- Finance, Blockchain, Retirement
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Signai OpenPensions & Signai OpenIncome — Income Security For Life - providing income security throughout the working and retirement years of adults, children and vulnerable.
Bahman Asadi
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Investment focus
- Finance, Blockchain, Retirement
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Signai OpenPensions & Signai OpenIncome — Income Security For Life - providing income security throughout the working and retirement years of adults, children and vulnerable.
Tobin Jones
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Gregfins — Gregfins app offers a complete financial experience combining all your finances in one app, making it simple and easy to take control.Today there is an overwhelming number of financial services and apps, targeting different purposes. As a result this everyday life is very complicated and overwhelming.Gregfins integrates with banks, merchants,currencies, payment cards, lending services, business accounts, trading accounts, insurance services and BNPL’s.We empower our user's financial experience by consolidating all of their finances.Join us now: https://gregfins.co.uk/use-app
Cato Saelid is an Oslo and Monaco based angel investor, originally from Oslo, Norway.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Content, Finance
- Seed, Series B
- Norway, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Seedcamp — Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.
- PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.
- Secret Cinema —
Neer Nagda is an Investment Team @ IPGL.
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- Finance, Lending, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
Martin Brailsford is a Founder of Internet Fusion Group.
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- Finance, Internet of Things
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Viable — Finance technology that connects cash with inventory, marketing, sales and operations.
Hippolyte Genet
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- Banking, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States
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- Hitmarker —
- what3words — Every 3 metre square has a unique 3 word address.
- Motif — Unleashing the promise of plant-based foods
Bart Homan has over 25 years experience in Investment / Private Banking and alternative investments. He spent 11 years at Morgan Stanley; mainly in Investment Banking and the remainder in Private Banking. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Bart worked in Investment Banking for Lazard and Prudential-Bache. Bart joined EFP in 2002.
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- Finance, Brand Marketing
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- The Sandpit — Applying the Private Equity model to start-up acceleration.
Co-founder of Envoy (sold to WorldPay).Paul has over 20 years’ experience in mainstream banking with Warburgs and Bank of New York, plus 15 years in electronic payments with Earthport plc, Neteller, Envoy and Worldpay. Before co-founding Vitesse, Paul was Founder and COO of Envoy Services Ltd. He is also an angel investor.
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- Payments, Financial Services, Banking
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Curve — Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015.
- Griffin — Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England.
- Veridu — Veridu provides Identity solutions for a global internet economy.Veridu brings trust to online business with services to quickly, reliably and efficiently verify the identity of users globally in order to eliminate fraud and unwanted behavior. Online business wants to be global. Any transaction hinges on identity and current identitysolutions are standing in the way. Veridu is changing that with comprehensive global ID solutions.
Nafiseh Vahabi
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Investment focus
- Finance, Blockchain, Retirement
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Signai OpenPensions & Signai OpenIncome — Income Security For Life - providing income security throughout the working and retirement years of adults, children and vulnerable.
Scot is the CEO & Co-Founder of Classy, a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising tools for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate global social impact. When one of the largest cancer organizations refused to accept the money he raised during a pub crawl held to honor his mom, a two-time breast cancersurvivor, Scot was inspired to start Classy to make it easier for anyone to support a cause that’s meaningful to them—and just as easy for organizations to make purposeful and lasting connections with their supporters.Since 2011, fundraising on the Classy platform has doubled each year—resulting in thousands of nonprofits collectively raising over half a billion dollars. Classy partners with organizations of all sizes, from the fastest-growing nonprofits such as Team Rubicon and Malala Fund, to some of the world’s largest social organizations, such as Acumen Fund, Oxfam, and Shriners Hospitals for Children. Based in San Diego, CA, Classy has raised $53 million to-date in growth capital and is backed by prominent technology investors including JMI Equity, Mithril, Salesforce Ventures, and Bullpen Capital.Classy was selected by Fast Company as one of "The World's Most Innovative Companies in Social Good," and recognized on the "100 Brilliant Companies" list by Entrepreneur Magazine. Most recently, Scot was recognized by Glassdoor as a Highest Rated CEO in 2017.Outside of Classy, Scot is an active advisor and angel investor, investing out of a fund called Mixture that includes investments in Change.org, inDinero, Casetext and FanDuel. He’s also part of the founding investor group and on the Board of Directors at San Francisco City Football Club, the country’s first social enterprise semi-professional soccer club. Previously he served for four years on the founding Board of Directors at Team Rubicon, a veteran-led disaster relief nonprofit. Prior to Classy, Scot was a Senior Consultant and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at Booz Allen Hamilton. Scot earned a B.S in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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- Software, Music, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom
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- Javelin — Javelin is the all-in-one software platform that helps innovators understand their customer segments, validate new products, and iterate to product/market fit.
- Reaction — Easy, affordable options for you to obtain the domain you want. Safe and secure shopping.
- popexpert — Popular Product Experts
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