# Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in United Kingdom in June 2026

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Seedcamp
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

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.

## Outward VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Outward VC empower start-ups seeking to be the most important fintech companies in the world

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## LocalGlobe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

## Force Over Mass Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0.FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growthjourney.

## Passion Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators who are applying our experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. We are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe, and we believe that the criticaldifferentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders. We take pride in the calibre and success of all of our founders and teams including but nowhere near limited to GoCardless, Tray.io, Mendeley, Digital Shadows, Adzuna, Smarkets, Ravelin, Tide, Marshmallow, Butternut Box, PolyAI, Lendable and Monzo Bank

## GoBeyond
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Medical, Software

GoBeyond is a FinTech company transforming angel investing into a new scalable asset class for small and large, novice to experienced investors. It offers a unique deal platform, portfolio tools, syndication/pooling, due diligence, investment monitoring services, training and certified deal leaders.Its clients are individuals, familyoffices, professional groups and corporations. It is active in the EU, Switzerland and the US. GoBeyond also offers educational training modules for angel investors in 11 categories.

## Speedinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more.
From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster.
Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together.
Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

## Octopus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

## Errol Damelin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

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.

## Forward Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Forward Partners is a venture capital firm in London specialising in technology businesses focused on eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI early-stage startups.

## Frontline Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline X is a growth-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion.

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## MMC Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

MMC is a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high-growth UK companies. Investing in technology companies at Seed and Series A.

## Northzone
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital firm operating across Europe and the US. Since 1996, it has backed more than 250 companies, including Spotify, Klarna, Spring Health, and Black Forest Labs.

## Salica
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships.

## 54 Collective
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

## Index Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

## Techstars Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Techstars helps founders succeed. Through our global accelerators, we invest in early-stage startups led by founders building a better future for everyone.

## ACE & Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

ACE offers three core investment strategies across the stages of private investment: Secondaries, Buyout, and Venture. Our portfolio construction guidelines ensure that our investors access the necessary customization to achieve their risk and return requirements.ACE aims to drive returns by managing risks and strategically adjusting investmentexposure to the stage of a company’s development. We strongly believe that diversification and sizing of investments according to the risk profile are the most effective approaches to investing private capital.ACE’s specialized investment teams provide the support to create long-term and sustainable investment results.

## Illuminate Financial
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Illuminate Financial is a venture capital firm dedicated to enterprise fintech and B2B software companies building technology solutions for financial services.

## Triple Point Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Investment management that activates capital across a range of industries, asset classes and sectors, connecting legacies with growth and businesses with better futures.

## Mosaic Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Finance

We back founders who are reimagining the world. We invest $1-10m early, in those building daring adventures in Europe.

## 1818 Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. Peter Port, NA - Guernsey, Guernsey
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

1818 Venture Capital is proud to invest in portfolios of tech startups that aim to generate wealth for our investors and do good in the world.

## Tera Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

Tera Ventures is an international investment firm based in Estonia.

## Kindred Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund

## JamJar Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage

We love, help & invest in early-stage consumer brands.

## British Business Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Venture Capital

Discover British Business Investment, the commercial arm of British Business Bank that provides alternative support to SME through market partners.

## The Future Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Convertible Note, Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

The Future Fund is provides government loans to UK-based companies ranging from £125,000 to £5 million.

## Tekton Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech

We partner with visionary founders and investors worldwide, offering capital, network, and expertise needed to turn groundbreaking ideas into market leading companies.

## Nesta Impact Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Health Care, Internet

We provide financial, knowledge and network capital to innovative enterprises that are changing the world for good.

## Seedrs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech

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

## Downing Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

The opportunity for institutional investors to access leading UK early stage healthtech businesses

## Endeavour Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

Endeavour Ventures Ltd raises money for growth businesses from HNW and Sophisticated investors. We have directly sourced >£150m for portfolio companies directly from individuals typically looking for EIS opportunities.We make very few investments each year and work hard to create successful outcomes. We tend to make thematic investments intofast growth markets, always seeking the most experienced management teams and the most scalable models. Our opportunities are often driven by regulatory or technological change. We are amongst the few growth EIS investors able to demonstrate a successful 12 year track record.We typically seek board representation and consider ourselves to be key partners in the enterprise.We differentiate ourselves from a VC or angel investor group, in that we make fewer investments each year. We try to ensure that our companies are fully funded. We are not driven purely by brokerage fees on funds raised. Our model has no management fee and depends upon achieving exits.Specialties: Finding investors for scalable fast growth businesses that do not yet qualify for institutional investment, but have potential to become the global businesses of tomorrow.Due diligence of market opportunities and management teams.Valuation and structuring of deals.Sourcing of investment.Strategic partnerships.Portfolio highlights: 1. Aim-listed Blue Prism Group plc, into which we invested initially in 2006. In 2017 it topped £1bn market cap, making it our first “Unicorn”, before falling back just below that level. 2. Ebury Partners, which we invested in in 2012. 45% of the company was sold to Santander for £375m in 2019.Endeavour Ventures Limited is Authorised and Regulated by the FSA, as required by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, and is entered in the FSA Register with Firm Reference Number 431709 (see www.fsa.gov.uk for details).Endeavour Ventures Limited is a private limited company registered in England and Wales with company number 05244123. The registered office is 9-13 St Andrew Street, London EC4A 3AF.The recipients of our investment opportunities must either be certified as high net worth individuals or sophisticated investors as defined in our client criteria.

## Augmentum Fintech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Augmentum Fintech is Europe's leading publicly listed fintech fund. They invest in high-growth, unquoted fintech businesses in verticals including digital banking, asset and wealth management and financial services infrastructure.Europe's leading publicly listed fintech fund, Augmentum launched on the main market of the London StockExchange in early 2018, allowing their businesses to have access to flexible funding and support, unrestricted by conventional fund timelines.An investment in Augmentum enables investors to gain exposure to a focused portfolio of fast-growing and/or high potential private FinTech businesses based predominantly in the UK and wider Europe to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns for shareholders.

## Gresham House Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, E-Commerce

Gresham House Ventures is a growth equity investor, working with exceptional entrepreneurs and investing in high growth businesses.

## NVM Private Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

NVM Private Equity Limited is an independently-owned firm of venture capital managers with over 20 years experience of investing in UK businesses. They manage five investment funds, four of which are Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and their funds under management exceed £175 million.They are a long-established investor focused on the UK regions,primarily targeting small management buy-outs and growth investment in businesses that are led by high quality incumbent management teams.They have a wide range of skills, interests and backgrounds. That means they bring a thorough and rounded approach to the investment process. They live and work in the UK regions, so are entrenched within their local business communities.

## Goldman Sachs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series C, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.

## Barclays Corporate Banking
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Barclays PLC is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide. It is engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management with an extensive international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia.The company offers current accounts, savingsproducts, Woolwich-branded mortgages, unsecured loans, general insurance, and banking and money transmission services to small- and medium-sized businesses; investment and insurance products; business lending services; bank assurance solutions; and retail, credit and debit card, and corporate services. It also offers international payments services for consumer and business customers, including credit cards and consumer lending services; investment banking services comprising strategic advisory, financing, and risk management services to large corporate, government, and institutional clients; integrated corporate banking solutions, including cash management, lending, and trade financing services to corporate and financial institutions as well as multinationals; and a range of wealth and investment management services such as international and private banking, investment management, fiduciary, and brokerage services.With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs more than 147,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests, and protects money of more than 48 million customers and clients worldwide.The company was formerly known as Barclays Bank Limited and changed its name to Barclays PLC in January 1985. It was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

## Will Brooks
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

## Anthemis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

digitally native finance

## Ascension
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Internet

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

## FPI
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services

25 year history, completed over 450,000 sq.m. of different areas and manages assets of over EUR 100 million.

## Moneta VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Moneta is a venture capital firm that invests in Data Science Technology startups and operates 2 parallel funds: Seed and Growth. Moneta specializes in Fintech, Insuretech and Financial-related AI and is supporing its ventures across all stages of their capital development. Moneta is backed by world leading financial institutions in USA, Africa andAsia.

## Launch Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

## Charlotte Street Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

First money in for UK software startups.


## Dawn Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

We are a family of investors, entrepreneurs, strategists and operational specialists, drawn together by our passion for helping B2B founders build category-defining companies.

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

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.

## Will Martin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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