# Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in United Kingdom in June 2026

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 60
- 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: 44
- 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.

## SFC Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 42
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Discover the UK's leading SEIS Fund, offering tax-efficient investments in innovative startups. Join thousands of savvy investors and raise capital for your business with SFC Capital.

## Fuel Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 40
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

## Anthemis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 39
- 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: 38
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Internet

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

## Force Over Mass Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 35
- 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.

## Speedinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 33
- 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.

## Passion Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 33
- 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

## Salica
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 32
- 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.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 31
- 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.

## Octopus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 29
- 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.

## LocalGlobe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 28
- 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?

## MMC Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 27
- 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.

## 1818 Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. Peter Port, NA - Guernsey, Guernsey
- Relevant deals: 23
- 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.

## Will Brooks
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

## Notion Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

## Will Martin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

## Paul Forster
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.

## AlbionVC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

AlbionVC supports visionary founders and technologies with long-term capital and scale-up know-how. Founded in 1996, it was amongst the first to back leading global success stories such as Booking.com, Egress, Quantexa and Oviva. With £1bn in AUM and over 100 exits successfully realised, it funds venture breakthroughs that drive real outcomes forfounders, investors and society. AlbionVC is the technology investment arm of Albion Capital Group, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. For more information please visit: https://albion.vc/

## Par Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

## Outward VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 20
- 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

## Illuminate Financial
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 20
- 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.

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 19
- 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.

## Charles Delingpole
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

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.

## Index Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- 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.

## Will Neale
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

## Mark Ransford
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Angel Investor

## Development Bank of Wales
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.

## Concept Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Concept Ventures is the UK's largest pre-seed fund. Founded in 2018, the firm has backed over 45+ companies changing how we Work, Play and Learn and focused only at the pre-seed stage.

## Praetura Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Praetura Ventures has been supporting entrepreneurs with more than money since 2011. Click to find out more about how we can help businesses and investors.

## Connect Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London.

## Maven Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Maven is one of the UK's leading private equity and investment firms. We provide essential capital and expertise to help businesses unlock their potential.

## SixThirty
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

At SixThirty, we connect bold early-stage companies in fintech, insurtech, privacy and digital health with corporate institutions to power growth.

## Errol Damelin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 15
- 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.

## Kinled Holding
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

Kinled was founded in 1980 to retain the investment assets of the Aisher family.In 1990, the investment focus shifted to a portfolio of early stage investments applying Kinled’s company development experience alongside the endurance and passion of family owned investments together with the strategic focus of venture capitalists.Since then,Kinled has taken 8 companies to public markets and many more to successful trade sales at significant multiples.

## Oxford Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile

Helping individuals and institutions invest in Venture Capital, Infrastructure and Media companies since 1999.

## Concentric
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Bitcoin

We partner with sector-defining founders across Europe to create new technologies that disrupt the status quo and solve the problems that matter.

## British Business Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 15
- 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.

## Portfolio Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

We invest in UK based tech companies alongside our network of strategic and value-add Angels, Family Offices and VCs.

## Augmentum Fintech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 15
- 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.

## VentureFriends
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce

VentureFriends is a venture capital fund that invests in tech-enabled companies. VentureFriends (VF) is a venture capital fund specialising in seed stage startups. VF seeks to invest in tech-enabled B2C and B2B startups that can develop a sustainable moat over time and have a sweet spot for PropTech, FinTech, Marketplaces, and SaaS. The fundtypically invests between €0.3M - €2.5M and can follow on up to a total of €5 - 10M. VentureFriends invests predominantly in Europe and is founded by ex-entrepreneurs and angel investors, thus having an entrepreneurial and founder-friendly philosophy.

## IQ Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London-based VC firm that invests in ‘deep tech’ companies capable of dominating their respective markets on a global scale. Initial investments at Seed and Series A range from £0.5m to £10m, with capacity for follow-on investment up to £30m through the Growth Fund. The team has achieved over 30 exits including toApple, Huawei, Google and Oracle.

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

## TrueSight Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence

TrueSight Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed deals.

## Seedrs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage

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

## Clocktower Technology Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica-based venture capital business focused exclusively on financial technology.

## The Future Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 14
- 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.

## QVentures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

QVentures sources, screens, and invests in top-tier start-ups from Seed to Series B. Our investors consist of Family Offices, Institutional Investors, UHNWIs, and Cashed-out Entrepreneurs. We look for disruptive companies with a proven product-market fit, set to scale from Seed to Series B. We focus on Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, Consumer Tech,FinTech, AdTech, EdTech, InsurTech and HealthTech and more. We look for quality management teams, large addressable markets, proven traction, sustainable business models, route to scale and quality investors.To apply for investment, please fill out this short form to be reviewed: https://qventures.typeform.com/to/zZPOWf

## Serge Chiaramonte
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology

Serge Chiaramonte

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