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Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in United Kingdom in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 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 January 2026

Investor	Finance United Kingdom investments
Chris Adelsbach	14
Errol Damelin	7
Charlie Songhurst	6
Will Martin	4
Will Brooks	4
Ian Hogarth	3
Ed Wray	3
Matt Robinson	3
Giuliano Stiglitz	3
Christian Faes	3
Tinie Tempah	3
Theo Osborne	3
Will Neale	3
Niklas Zennström	3
Taavet Hinrikus	3
Paul Forster	3
Dan Cobley	2
Baris Aksoy	2
Laurent Le Moal	2
Freddy Kelly	2
Ben Holmes	2
Matteo Gamba	2
Jason Njoku	2
Babs Ogundeyi	2
Jon Moulton	2
Ricky Knox	2
Alan Howard	2
Max Levchin	2
Andreas Mihalovits	2
Keith Grose	2
Sir Alex Ferguson	2
Juan Lobato	2
Charles Delingpole	2
Placeholder Placeholder	2
Jari Ovaskainen	2
Rick Haythornthwaite	2
Jonathan Weiner	2
Henry Ritchotte	2
Mark Newton-Jones	2
Danny Jatania	2
Michael Bristow	2
Paul Daniel	1
Raj Parekh	1
Sir Sajid Javid	1
Paul Townsend	1
Scot Chisholm	1
Christopher North	1
Adam French	1
Christopher Bissonnette	1
Oli Farago	1

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Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Bourn — Bourn's technology is designed to automate cash flow management, offering SMEs fast access to capital.
Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
Embed — The regulated Payments Platform unifying crypto and fiat rails. Fung has launched early beta. Sign up to secure your spot.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Skrap — Skrap is an on-demand mobile marketplace for skip hire and other waste collection services.
Forgent AI — Forgent uses AI agents to draft tender proposals, find opportunities and coordinate teams.
Hyphen SCS — Building India's Biggest warehousing & Fulfilment Platform

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Loadsure — Loadsure is a spot freight cargo insurance company.
Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

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 — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.

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.

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.

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.

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 provides expert investment management and tailored wealth planning solutions, helping you confidently achieve your financial goals.
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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Malga — Malga is an online payment platform that offers fraud protection and payment split services.
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.
Malga — Instant access to multiple payment providers with a single integration

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Knoma — Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning. The business is tackling the digital skills gap as the global economy shifts into the fourth industrial revolution. We help people looking to future proof their career or move into new areas of work by reducing the barrier of payment and removing the pain point of sourcingtechnical courses.The business is built upon the firm belief in the importance of lifelong education to drive improvements in our customers’ future prosperity. We believe education should be accessed in a short, but frequent manner; at a lower price point and a focus on gaining technical, digital and data skill-sets. All users can gain access up to £10,000, where the cost of a course can be spread over 12 months with flexible repayments. The product is completely free to all end users with no interest or fees applicable. Knoma works with leading coding and tech schools. We are a fun and driven team, ready to make an impact!
Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

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.

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.

Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.

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.

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

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.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Apps, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Audos — Where everyday entrepreneurs build small AI companies
Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.

Taavet Hinrikus is based out of London, England and is the Partner of Plural Platform and Board Member of CoMind. Taavet previously worked at Wise as a Chairman and Co-founder. Taavet Hinrikus attended INSEAD.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Juro — Juro is an all-in-one contract automation platform that helps legal and business users to agree & manage contracts in one unified workspace.
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.
Skeleton Technologies — Skeleton Technologies is the global leader in ultracapacitor & supercapacitor energy storage and helps companies in automotive, transportation, grid, and industry to save energy.

Paul Forster

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

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pockla — Securely share your AI generated creations with Pockla. The platform built for creators, developers, and innovators.
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.

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.

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 — The low-risk insurance software partner for MGAs and insurers. Fast setup, AI-powered and real results for MGAs and insurers.
Woven — Woven Calendar - The most powerful calendaring and scheduling app

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.

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 — Send money online faster and more securely with Remitly, and discover our great exchange rates and low money transfer fees.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
Supersocial — Supersocial is an indie games studio focused on creating insanely fun games for the metaverse, starting with Roblox.
SEQUENTIAL — 5,971 Followers, 1,054 Following, 268 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sequential Skin (@sequential.skin)

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Series A
United Kingdom, Italy, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

Cofounder and CEO of Kuda

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Alan Howard is a British billionaire hedge fund manager and co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ualá — Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS.
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

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Motoreto — Motoreto is a used car and accessories marketplace. They explain the information and details of the used car and provide offers from dealers and payment options. Motoreto University is a Motoreto program designed to train specialized sales profiles in the international automotive industry.
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.
Drimer Creators — Drimer gives creators the opportunity to build and grow their revenues. Creators can take advantage of a set of tools created to increase revenues and create a brand.

Keith Grose is currently non-executive director for Zero Hash and an active angel/advisor for early stage startups. He previously led Europe and international expansion for Plaid, and served as COO at SequenceHQ (backed by a16z). He is currently based in London and spent a decade in the SF Bay Area at Google and Bain. Keith Grose attended theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cerve — The Cerve platform establishes a personalised, 2-way and automated communication between wholesalers and B2B buyers online — delivering bespoke and dynamic product catalogues, pricing, delivery terms and deals to each and every buyer on any platform and device.As an end-to-end platform, Cerve provides wholesalers with a full set of productsincluding an AI infrastructure, an ordering platform, a sales app and a wholesaler platform.
MarvelX — Transform Your Operations With Trusted AI Agents. MarvelX AI Agents take care of repetitive, high-stakes workflows so your team can focus on the exceptions, not the routine. Built for insurance and beyond.
Stellar Fusion — Stellar Fusion is at the forefront of transforming the equities market by modernizing investor relations and equity analysis. Our platform provides advanced tools and real-time insights, enabling seamless interaction between IR teams, analysts, and financial data.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Ascendx Cloud — Supercharge Salesforce with connected apps that streamline sales, automate data, and drive enterprise-scale growth - Salesforce Solutions By Ascendx
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.
Isembard — Isembard has experience from the military, government, large enterprises, and a successfully exited technology business.

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Investment focus

Software, Transportation, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
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 is a complete self-service cloud platform for regional infrastructure service providers. Functionally rich, technologically modern and architecturally reliable turnkey commercialisation solution packaged as a service and driven by your success to compete in the global landscape.

Jari Ovaskainen - Business Development Director @ Modulight

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet of Things, PC Games
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Invstr — Invstr is an award-winning investment app that helps you invest smarter. Invstr gives you the confidence, knowledge and expertise to start investing to build your wealth. Unlike other investing apps, Invstr is committed to educating you before you even make your first trade. Because we believe that investing isn’t just about buying and sellingstocks. It’s about understanding the markets and making more informed investing decisions before risking real money. Invstr lets aspiring investors learn and practice with Fantasy Finance, a virtual portfolio management game. Get smart with our huge wealth of educational resources, including an in-app investing course, daily podcasts, and live news and updates. When you’re ready, invest from just $5 with our commission-free brokerage and banking platform. Track and improve your performance with Stats, and get personalized investment picks with Portfolio Builder. It’s everything you need to invest confidently and take charge of your financial future today. Invstr also boasts a huge community of over 800,000 members. The social aspect of the app makes it unique in that our members can share updates and post to their feeds, send group or private messages, create private leagues to compete against friends and socialize all within the app, forming the first active investing community of its kind. Invstr was founded in 2013 by Kerim Derhalli, who created Invstr after seeing first-hand how a lack of knowledge and confidence bars individuals from starting to invest.
CREAL — CREAL makes Hi-Fi light-field projector for smart eyewear which ultimately everyone will use everyday for everything from cooking to neurosurgery.
Kizy Tracking — Kizy Tracking provides global supply chain visibility with real-time IoT data. Benefit from small size, long autonomy, low cost. Start tracking now!

Rick has a wealth of knowledge in the energy industry. Rick has significant board experience, both as an executive and non-executive. He led the rescue of Invensys from 2001 to 2005 and the defence, turnaround and subsequent sale of Blue Circle Industries from 1997 to 2001. He spent his early career in various corporate, upstream and leadershippositions in BP from 1978 to 1995, including exploration and production roles in the North Sea, Alaska, France and Venezuela before moving to Premier Oil as commercial director from 1995 to 1997. He has served on the boards of Network Rail as chairman and Cookson, Lafarge, ICI and Land Securities as non-executive director

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Social Network
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Invstr — Invstr is an award-winning investment app that helps you invest smarter. Invstr gives you the confidence, knowledge and expertise to start investing to build your wealth. Unlike other investing apps, Invstr is committed to educating you before you even make your first trade. Because we believe that investing isn’t just about buying and sellingstocks. It’s about understanding the markets and making more informed investing decisions before risking real money. Invstr lets aspiring investors learn and practice with Fantasy Finance, a virtual portfolio management game. Get smart with our huge wealth of educational resources, including an in-app investing course, daily podcasts, and live news and updates. When you’re ready, invest from just $5 with our commission-free brokerage and banking platform. Track and improve your performance with Stats, and get personalized investment picks with Portfolio Builder. It’s everything you need to invest confidently and take charge of your financial future today. Invstr also boasts a huge community of over 800,000 members. The social aspect of the app makes it unique in that our members can share updates and post to their feeds, send group or private messages, create private leagues to compete against friends and socialize all within the app, forming the first active investing community of its kind. Invstr was founded in 2013 by Kerim Derhalli, who created Invstr after seeing first-hand how a lack of knowledge and confidence bars individuals from starting to invest.
BatFast —

Jonathan Weiner is the Founder of HumanX. He previously worked at FastPay as a Board Member. Jonathan Weiner attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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 250,000 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

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.

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.

Mark Newton-Jones is the CEO and Director at Mothercare.

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.

Danny Jatania

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.

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.

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.

Paul Daniel

Investment focus

Finance, Brand Marketing
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

The Sandpit — Applying the Private Equity model to start-up acceleration.

Raj Parekh is the Co-founder and CEO of Portal Labs.

Investment focus

Finance, Ethereum, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Braid — Braid offers innovative software solutions that empower banks to capture new business beyond their local branches. By transforming your bank into a digital payment bank, our technology helps in driving revenue growth, attracting new customers, and adapting to the growing fintech competition. Unlock your bank's potential with Braid.
Clave — One click onboarding to future of finance

Sir Sajid Javid

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Payments, Financial Services, Banking
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Music, Finance
Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

Chris is a Managing Partner at L Catterton, the world's leading consumer growth investor with US$20B assets under management, where he co-leads the Growth Fund. He focuses on growth-stage consumer technology businesses in the US, Europe, and the UK. The L Catterton team previously scaled today's consumer tech leaders (Amazon, Shopify,Lazada, Shutterfly, Peloton, Vroom, Better Mortgage, ClassPass, and more) and brings their experience to support entrepreneurs building tomorrow's leading companies. He is also an active angel investor and serves on the boards of several non-profits in arts and education. Previously, Chris led Shutterfly, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFLY) as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors from May 2016 through the sale to Apollo Global Management in 2019. Under his leadership, over the three years from 2015 to 2018, Shutterfly doubled revenues to $2 billion, doubled free cash flow, and increased operating income ten-fold.Prior to joining Shutterfly, Chris served as Managing Director of Amazon UK and co-led Amazon across Europe for six years, after leading Amazon’s UK Media businesses for four years. Amazon UK grew to almost $10 billion in GAAP revenue over this 10-year period, a 14-fold increase. Before joining Amazon, he worked in publishing as Global Managing Director of Phaidon Press, as Chief Operating Officer of HarperCollins Canada, and as Vice President & General Manager of Electronic Publishing for HarperCollins Publishers. He began his career as a management consultant with the media & entertainment practice of Booz Allen & Hamilton.In addition to his operating roles, Chris serves in leadership roles in several not-for-profit organizations. He is a director of Character Lab, a non-profit dedicated to advancing the science and practice of character development in order to help children thrive; a member of the Board of Visitors of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; a member of the Collections Committee and Director's Circle of the Harvard University Art Museums; and President of the American Friends of the Royal Collection. He and his wife also actively support the Domaine de Chantilly, the Wallace Collection, and the Attingham Trust. Chris is an active angel investor, having made more than 40 investments in early-stage companies. He enjoys mentoring, working with a number of technology entrepreneurs and serving as a Strategic Advisor to Forto.Chris earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard College and a master’s degree in Philosophy from New York University. Chris and his wife have three young children and divide their time between London and France. Born and raised in New York, Chris is a dual US/British national.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, B2B
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fabrikatör - Virtual Head of Operations — Forecast, plan and execute your inventory operations with Fabrikator. Free up capital, buy less, sell more and grow faster. Start your 14 days free trial now!
Unlikely AI — We are pioneering safe, trustworthy and powerful artificial intelligence
Floodlight — Track finances, make smarter decisions, and increase revenue. Think business accounts, cards, payments and cashback, all-in-one.

Partner at Houghton Street Ventures | Co-founder at Scalable Capital | Investing in and supporting early-stage businesses founded by LSE student and alumni entrepreneurs globally.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Raylo — Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.
Mono — Mono is on its way to become the 'bankingless bank' of Latin American SMBs, starting with Colombia.
Finance Unlocked — Finance Unlocked is the world’s first comprehensive, on-demand video-delivered learning platform built specifically for finance professionals. It was created purely because of an industry-wide problem, which is that the tools used to deliver education to finance professionals have not changed in the last twenty years.

Christopher Bissonnette is the President at Pallasite Ventures. Whether it’s as a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer disease therapies, or as an executive in control of investment portfolios and commercial real estate, Christopher has taken an analytical approach throughout his career. This varied experience has given him valuable insightinto Chicago’s most desirable locations for advertisers and a deep understanding of the complex leasing and permitting restrictions involved. As co-founder and CFO of GreenSigns Chicago, Christopher helps ensure that our advertisers and landlords receive the best possible value. As an avid biker and hiker, he helps ensure a high-energy level throughout the GreenSigns’ office.

Investment focus

Enterprise Software, Video, Mobile
Seed
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ViralGains — Optimize your ad performance with ViralGains. Collect zero-party data from interactive ads to understand consumer preferences and deliver customized messaging, boosting brand trust, engagement and sales.
TradingView — Where the world charts, chats, and trades markets. We're a supercharged super-charting platform and social network for traders and investors. Free to sign up.
Hack Capital Ventures — Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently.

Oli Farago Founder & CEO at Coyote Software. He attended Culford School during 1996-2002.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Maroo — The smartest way to pay for your wedding
HyperionDev — Accelerate your career with a online coding bootcamp. Learn to code in just 3 - 6 months.
The Smart Container Company — The Smart Container Company is the team behind KegTracker and BeverEDGE, a first-to-market IoT device and platform that instantly turns kegs into SMART containers. Our technology tracks real-time location, volume, temperature, and motion for each keg and delivers actionable insights that enable transparency and zero.

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