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Top 50 Food and Beverage VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Food and beverage startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Food and Beverage VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in January 2026

Investor	Food and Beverage United Kingdom investments
SFC Capital	16
JamJar Investments	16
Equity Gap	14
Worth Capital	12
Angels Den	12
The FSE Group	11
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund	10
Piper Private Equity	10
Fuel Ventures	9
Mustard Seed	9
Par Equity	8
Maven Capital Partners	8
Seedrs	8
Veg Capital	8
Development Bank of Wales	7
Seedcamp	7
Green Angel Ventures	7
Scottish Enterprise	7
Seraphim Space	6
Venrex	6
Edition Capital	6
Bosch Ventures	6
Balderton Capital	6
LocalGlobe	6
Btomorrow Ventures	5
Crowdcube	5
Whiterock Finance	5
QVentures	5
Northstar Ventures	5
Newable Private Investing	5
IW Capital	5
Business Growth Fund	5
Octopus Ventures	5
Blue Horizon Corporation	5
Five Seasons Ventures	5
Scottish Investment Bank	5
Manta Ray Ventures	5
True.	5
SOSV	5
NVM Private Equity	5
Kelvin Capital	4
Index Ventures	4
HV Capital	4
Beringea	4
NPIF - FW Capital Debt Finance	4
7percent Ventures	4
TrueSight Ventures	4
EIT Food	4
Episode 1	4
Acequia Capital (AceCap)	4

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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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TILKI — TILKI is an AI-powered game creation platform that democratizes video game development by enabling all creators to build immersive games without coding.
ZERØTEC — ZERØTEC is an pattern design and nesting software platform for fashion designers and manufacturers
Sages — Biodegradeable, non-polluting, low-impact and vibrant dyes extracted from food waste.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Yepoda — Yepoda is a DTC K-Beauty brand developing sustainable & natural beauty products based on the latest trends & innovations from South Korea.
Meatly — Good Dog Food creates cultivated meat for healthy pets and a healthy planet
With Nothing Underneath — WNU is all about simplicity - paired back, laid back, timeless, effortless shirts - just like the woman who wears them. Our shirts are not about trends or fleeting style moments, but about a wardrobe essential in which to live a life.

Equity Gap is a group of private individuals set up to invest in and support emerging and growing businesses based in Scotland

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MiAlgae — MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company that aims to revolutionize the £340 billion global livestock feed industry by producing microalgal products – through the remediation of wastewater – as nutrient supplements for fishmeal in livestock feeds. Their microalgal products are high in omegas and proteins, both of which are required forthe production of many livestock feeds, especially in the aquaculture sector.Their production methodology uses circular economy to reduce the operating costs involved in the production of microalgae and as such allows them to compete with other supplements currently on the market.
ZOEX — ZOEX is the world's first commercially viable, reliable and modular wave energy converter system. Discover today.
Bettii Pod — Bettii Pod is a pioneering FemTech start-up that creates a one-of-a-kind menstruation cup and disc washer for use in public restroom stalls.Bettii Pod's primary product, the menstrual cup/disc washer, is a step forward in normalizing discussions about menstruation and increasing availability to eco-friendly menstrual choices.

Tax Efficient Investments with the Start-up Series SEIS & EIS Fund. Our approach unearths compelling investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Bangladesh, United States

Portfolio highlights

FC Labs — Brainfit uses wearable technology to measure brain fitness as easily as your physical.
Metacarpal — Metacarpal design upper-limb prosthetics without compromise. We aim to make the most robust, functional hand prosthesis that people love wearing because it works so effectively and looks so beautiful. Be proud to show your artificial side!
Fox Robotics — Fox Robotics, is a start-up, located in Camberley, an innovator in robotics technology. They solve fundamental in-premises logistics problems across multiple areas such light manufacturing, aerospace, health agriculture and retail, etc . Their easy-to-use robotics solutions boost business productivity and substantially reduce cybersecurity andhealth-and-safety risks for customers.They understand that robotics will play an important role in society, at many levels and across all industries. Robots need to adapt to human environments by the use of advanced AI, sensors, control algorithms and strong security. Their products and solutions sit at the heart of key business processes and have an important role to play in the successful businesses of the future.

Angels Den is an angel-led investment platform that connects fast-growing companies with experienced investors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
OnCare — Home care software | care management system
SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.

FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Seed, Debt Financing, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sendr — Sendr uses AI to enhance sales outreach with personalized messages and data-driven tools for higher buyer engagement.
Quintex — We provide energy saving and grease management solutions for industrial kitchens, over 8,000 systems installed in the UK and Europe in a variety of sectors.
Grace & Green — Grace & Green fight for access, inclusivity, and education, dismantling barriers to essential care. Because dignity shouldn't come with a price.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) is an initiative launched by the government-owned British Business Bank.It is a key part of the government’s ‘Northern Powerhouse’ vision, which aims to end the historic North / South divide and create economic prosperity in the North of England on par with London and the South East.Thegovernment firmly believes that SMEs form the foundation of the region’s future growth. NPIF therefore aims to nurture regional entrepreneurship by providing investment and support for small and medium businesses between 2016 and 2021. NPIF's funding will support new and growing SMEs, create jobs and encourage and attract additional private sector investment.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Think 360 — We deliver AI-powered software for terminals, ports, warehouses and engineering operations boosting efficiency with automation and reporting,
CCI Photonics — CCI Photonics specialises in medical instruments and supplies, as well as conducting biotechnology research and development.
Patisserie Lane — Patisserie Lane will provide coffee, tea, and pastries in the heart of Farnworth hamlet.

We are the investment partner of choice for ambitious founders. Founded by entrepreneurs, we are a team of brand experts who have grown over 40 global brands.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Fashion
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Omlet — Award-winning modern Chicken Coops, Dog Crates, stylish Hamster Cages, outdoor Cat Enclosures & easy-to-clean Rabbit Hutches. Shop online now.
Wild Nutrition — Wild Nutrition are natural supplements made using the highest-quality ingredients.
Martin Randall Travel — Martin Randall Travel is a travel agency that specializes in cultural tours and music festivals.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Research Grid (R.grid) — Research Grid (R.grid) automates the entire clinical trial back-office by accelerating timelines and cutting admin delays. Get faster and more successful trials today.
PayControl — PayControl is the control layer for enterprise payment management — modular, provider-agnostic infrastructure designed for scale, with native support for digital assets.
Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.

Mustard Seed enables the creation and evolution of world-class businesses that generate positive and sustainable outcomes. They believe that solving big social and environmental problems drives commercial success in the long run. They seek scalable solutions to gaps currently left unfilled by government and industry in the areas of economicinclusion, education, environmental sustainability, health, and family and community.Mustard Seed invests in and incubates socially and environmentally impactful start-ups. They connect a dynamic and influential network of global members with exceptional entrepreneurial talent across the world. They also develop bespoke impact measurement frameworks and support established companies to align profit and impact through tailored strategies and effective deployment of their resources.Mustard Seed was co-founded by Alex Pitt and Henry Wigan, first classmates at the London School of Economics and later colleagues at Goldman Sachs. In 2013 Henry and Alex observed a rising appetite for socially-minded entrepreneurship among the world’s most talented graduates. They also observed a critical lack of capital to adequately meet this need. They started Mustard Seed to bridge the gap.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Tiney — Tiney are on a mission to reimagine at-home childcare & unlock the potential of every child. For parents, this means easy access to an exceptional and affordable childcare community that’s built around busy modern lives. For children, this means high quality and thoughtful play-based learning in safe settings that goes beyond nationalrequirements for early education. For childcare providers, this means allowing them to focus on the children in their care, relieving the burden of running a small business and ensuring maximum job satisfaction.
Loctax — Complete oversight of global tax compliance obligations and risks in a single platform built for in-house tax teams.
FINDS — FINDS is a unique, video marketplace app for fashion. We are a female-led team that believes that an online fashion marketplace should be just as dynamic and inspiring as a thrift market IRL. We are on a mission to create a fashion resale community that offers a fun, interactive place for people who love to buy, sell & express their uniqueitems and style - together.It's simple to start selling. List your products in your shop, set a fixed price and choose to add them to a live stream to show your items from every angle. It's easy to buy, explore and discover items, styles, people and personalities you'll love.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

CSignum — Revolutionising underwater communications with electromagnetic technology for seamless data integration between surface & submerged devices.
Partful — Make sure customers get the right parts first time, every time with digital 3D parts catalogue software and digital work instructions.
Watercycle Technologies — Watercycle Technologies specialized in the development of high-yield, low-cost mineral extraction, and water treatment systems. Its core technology, capable of treating highly concentrated water, is an end-to-end solution encompassing mineral extraction, concentration, and crystallization.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Power Roll — Power Roll has reinvented solar to generate energy anywhere and everywhere, using any surface.
hedgehog lab — hedgehog lab is a global leader in digital consultancy, known for being the 'masters of our craft'. Let's digitally craft a better world.
Powerphotonic — Leaders in wafer-scale freeform optics

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
Fantacycling — The first fantasy cycling app that allows fans to challenge each other during all the races of the year. Create your league and challenge your friends by creating the best team. Will you be the best?
The Cookaway — The Cookaway offers an exciting range of world cuisine menus put together by our expert chefs and available to buy as a recipe box.

Veg Capital provides Angel, Seed, and Series A capital to companies striving to replace the use of animals in the food system. All profits go to charity.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Sweden, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Super Vegan — Loja de chocolates veganos
SHICKEN Foods — Plant-based chicken manufacturer
The Pack — Nutritionally complete vegan dog food. Grain-free & developed with food scientists & animal nutritionists, try our delicious vegan dog food now.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Biomonde — Back to basics with a modern twist. Live larvae can be used to clean non-healing or infected wounds in a gentle, non-invasive sealed bag.
Ceryx Medical — Ceryx Medical Ltd are the revolutionary business behind a unique bioelectronic technology that could change the way diseases such as heart failure are treated.
ADC Biotechnology — Temukan prediksi Macau 4D 5D akurat di situs kami! Dapatkan bocoran togel toto Prediksi Macau Hari ini, dirumuskan oleh master prediktor. Bandingkan analisa Anda dan manfaatkan prediksi kami untuk meningkatkan peluang kemenangan Anda. Bergabunglah dengan kami untuk meraih JP impian. Salam JP

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

Green Angel Syndicate is the only UK angel investment syndicate specialising in the fight against Climate Change and Global Warming.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zedify — Zero emission first and last mile deliveries in cities.
Descycle — Descycle e-waste recycling clean technology
Lineat Composites — We introduce a new aligned fibre material format that forms the basis of high-performance sustainable composite materials.

Scotland's business advice, support and funding agency. Explore our products and services to find the right support for your business and apply online today.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Swurf — The work surfing platform. Making it easy for venues to welcome a new community of remote workers.
Gigged.AI — Fill skill gaps using our on-demand talent network. Get AI-powered, real-time visibility over your employee and agent capabilities to power internal mobility.
Bright Ascension — Bright Ascension offers mission ready software in space and on the ground. Our integrated software is perfect for any satellite mission.

Seraphim Capital is dedicated to financing the growth of companies operating in the space ecosystem. They are an ambitious team with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences in Venture. Collectively they have over 100 years’ experience, investing in over 180 early and growth stage businesses, returning more than £750 million to theirshareholders.They are also fortunate to have one of the world's leading entrepreneurs and experts in Earth Observation on board. They work closely with their portfolio companies and always strive to create meaningful value and endeavour to ensure that the full value of their network and partners is utilised.The backing of leading global corporates in the Space sector and the leading Space related Governmental Agencies in the UK and Europe brings significant value. They are able to leverage their capital, industry leading knowledge and networks, creating an ecosystem that delivers real results for your business. From roots to market, sales and marketing, partnerships, follow-on capital, and M&A they can deliver value creation across the company growth cycle globally.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

ICEYE — Gain access to timely and reliable SAR imaging from the world's leading New Space SAR satellite constellation.
ODIN Space — ODIN Space provides mission-critical intelligence for the entire Space sector,
SatVu — SatVu captures high resolution thermal data from space for a safer and more sustainable Earth.

Venrex Investment Management is a UK-based venture capital firm that backs creative Founders to launch and build innovative businesses.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Pockla — Securely share your AI generated creations with Pockla. The platform built for creators, developers, and innovators.
Midnite — Bet on Football, Horse Racing, Slot games, Live Dealer, and much more. Play your way and get rewards like no other. Unlock huge promos, boosts, and free spins. Easily deposit and instantly withdraw your winnings. Join today and claim your welcome offer.
Quantum Light — The world of Quantum Pigments

Investment, advice and expertise for the entertainment and leisure industry

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Events, Restaurants
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Farmer J — Farmer J serves honest food, that rolls with the seasons, is mindfully sourced, is bursting with flavour and most importantly, is scratch cooked on-site.
Pentire Drinks — Made from unique plants native to the Cornish coastline, Pentire is a new botanical non-alcoholic spirit drink. A gin style drink that harnesses the power, beauty and immense flavour of plants, without the after effects. Buy online now.
Lean Kitchen Network — Lean Kitchen Network is a developer of a virtual kitchen network.

Invented for life: we want our products to spark enthusiasm, improve quality of life, and help conserve natural resources.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Corvic AI — Corvic AI is pioneering a new era of Data-Centric AI Cognitive Infrastructure by transforming raw enterprise data into AI-ready intelligence.
Astronomer — Astronomer’s mission is to help organizations realize the potential of Apache Airflow. Building on the foundation of Astronomer Cloud, the market-leading Airflow as a Service offering, Astronomer is developing new standards of scale, performance, and reliability and leading the way to enterprise-grade Airflow.
iPronics — Discover the power of lossless optical switches for low latency and flexible AI architectures. Increase density and reduce power consumption with our innovative technology.

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Lyst — Lyst is a global fashion search platform used by 70 million shoppers every year. Offering over 4 million fashion products from 11,000 of the world’s leading fashion brands and stores, Lyst brings together the widest inventory in luxury and contemporary fashion online. The company has raised $60 million to date, and is backed by range of all-starinvestors including 14W (Moda Operandi, Reformation), Accel Partners (Facebook, Spotify), Balderton (Yoox Net-A-Porter Group), Draper Esprit, part of the Draper Venture Network (Hotmail, Skype), and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and Tory Burch.
Depop — Designer. Preloved. Vintage. Streetwear. Sneakers. Whatever your style. Find it on Depop.
VOI Technology — VOI is a micro-mobility startup that provides electric scooters for last-mile transportation. Douglas Stark, Filip Lindvall, and Fredrik Hjelm founded it in 2018. Its headquarters is located in Stockholm in Sweden.VOI Technology is aiming to create a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable,sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Wefarm — Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables farmers to share information via SMS. The company allows small-scale farmers to connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas, and spread innovation. Utilizing the latest machine learning technology, Wefarm’s service works both online and over SMS.Since its founding in 2015,Wefarm has been named one of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies by FastCompany and has won Google’s Impact Challenge Award, TechCrunch’s Europas-Tech for Good Award, and the European Union Commission’s Ideas from Europe prize, among others. The company is headquartered in London with a field presence in Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar-es-Salaam.
Model ML — Automate financial grunt work with precision. Model ML helps top finance firms move faster with AI that understands deals, models, and pitch decks.
venn — Venn creates a new way of urban neighboring by managing homes, creating shared spaces, supporting hyperlocal business initiatives and services, programs events, and facilitating community engagement – all on a neighborhood-wide level. Operating by the motto, “If they build it, they will stay,” venn’s platform encourages urbanites to become activecreators and participants in the development of their community and enables developing neighborhoods to become as vibrant and desirable as the downtown core. Founded in 2016 by people raised in the Big City and in cooperative communities, venn is a new movement of neighboring that impacts tens of thousands of people in three cities (Tel Aviv, Brooklyn, and Berlin) with +75 employees

Btomorrow Ventures (BTV) is the corporate venturing unit of BAT. BAT is building A Better Tomorrow by reducing the health impact of its business by transforming into a truly consumer-centric multi-category CPG company. We are dedicated to partnering with ambitious and passionate entrepreneurs to realise their vision by providing a platform toenhance innovation and accelerate growth.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Food and Beverage
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Tru — Obsessively formulated by fusing flavor with function, each of our tasty innovations perform when you need it most. From the time you wake up until the second your head hits the pillow, we elevate every moment one sip at a time.
Awake Chocolate — AWAKE Chocolate combines delicious milk chocolate.
PHILTER Labs — Philter Labs presents an innovative smoke filter for E-Cig, Vape Pen, & CBD Pen. Filters smoke from entering shared space while you still enjoy the experience.

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced investor, we make it simple to buy and sell shares in Europe's most exciting high-growth businesses.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Financial Services, FinTech
Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Seed
United Kingdom, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mintos — Mintos is a platform that provides retail investors with an accessible way to build wealth through loan-based investments. Through their platform retail investors can invest in a diversified way in income-producing assets to build wealth in the long term. They implement environmental, social, and employee matters, respect for human rights,anti‐corruption, and anti‐bribery matters within their remuneration policy practices and other internal company documents.
Vancubic — Vancubic is a company that specializes in developing innovative modular products for van conversions, enabling easy and efficient customization for individuals and businesses.
Emerald — Take control of your long-term health with Emerald. Get continuous GP support, in-depth screenings, wearable data integration, and a personalised plan to prevent disease and boost longevity.

Growth Loan Fund Invest NI and NILGOSC.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Retail, Manufacturing
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

RE-KKUR — Building a Brighter Future.
Titanic Distillers — Titanic Distillers produces Irish whiskey and hosts events in Belfast.
Cumulus Neuroscience — Cumulus Neuroscience has created a next-generation integrated physiological and digital biomarker platform.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Meysey — Increase your company's resilience to fraud with Meysey today. We seamlessly plug into Xero to perform vital checks and governance across your commercial eco-system.
Renewabl — Renewabl is the platform that allows companies to meet their decarbonisation targets quickly and efficiently by matching renewable energy certificates directly from hydro, wind and solar on a 24/7-hour basis.
Astronome AI — Astronome AI is a company that provides streamlined IT management for SMEs, powered by AI.

Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Nanovery — Founded by scientists specialised in Nanotechnology, Medicinal Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence, we are on a mission to enable early detection of cancer through a rapid and affordable blood test Backed by academics at top universities, clinicians, industrial leaders, and Entrepreneur First.
AI Hay — AI Hay develops an AI-driven answer engine that allows users to access information through a question-and-answer format. The company combines hyperlocal, culturally nuanced knowledge discovery engines with social loops to enhance community validation and perspectives. It utilizes in-house specialized large-language models, retrieval-augmentedgeneration (RAG), and social features to build a knowledge discovery platform that serves the community.
Magnitude Biosciences — Magnitude Biosciences is a biotechnology firm combine experience in ageing research, the nematode C. elegans and automation.

Newable: Helping over 20,000 businesses thrive annually with tailored financial products, advice, and flexible workspace solution

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Delta g — Delta g Limited is a quantum technology and gravity gradiometry company. A spin-out from the University of Birmingham our technology has applications in industries as varied as civil engineering, infrastructure, defence, rail, navigation and resource exploration. Experts from science, engineering an
Weldfast — Weldfast is a manufacturer and supplier of welding consumables, abrasives, chemicals, premium gas equipment, and safety products.
EarSwitch — Empowering new ways to control and connect with the world through in-ear biometric switch and sensor technology

Support high-growth UK businesses and benefit from bespoke investment opportunities designed to offer long-term growth potential and significant tax relief through the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS).

Investment focus

Restaurants, Health Care, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Reconome — Reconome is revolutionising IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) by giving surplus technology a second life while powering digital inclusion, reducing e-waste, and
MAGIC AI — The home fitness system that uses AI technology to give you hyper-personalised training on demand on a beautifully designed mirror.
Globavista — Globavista provides products to monitor the tracking and telemetry feeds from vessels.

BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jola — Jola provides broadband, ethernet leased lines, hosted telephony, ISDN replacement, calls & lines and Mobile SIMs to UK SMEs via Partners.
Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
T-Therapeutics — T-Therapeutics is a expertise in mouse genome engineering, deep expertise in biopharmaceutical drug development, single cell genomics, machine-learning and structural biology, anchored in a culture of creativity and collaboration. .

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Baselime — Use logs, metrics, distributed tracing and wide-events to detect, diagnose and resolve issues before they impact your users.
Rekord — The AI-native platform to design, scale and monitor intelligent decision flows across underwriting, onboarding, compliance and fraud.
Zendo Energy — Zendo Energy is dedicated to the mission of decarbonising computing power. The company aims to empower data centres to become smarter, more efficient, and prepared for the increasing future demand of computing by leveraging advanced software solutions. Their platform utilizes real-time analytics and predictive tools to optimise energy consumption,reduce emissions, and integrate renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, thereby supporting the transition to sustainable digital infrastructure. This mission addresses the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of data centres amid the exponential growth of AI and computing workloads globally

Blue Horizon is accelerating the transition to a sustainable food system that delivers outstanding returns for the planet and people.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

WOW EARN — Discover WOW EARN, the all-in-one Web3 app with crypto mining, multi-chain wallet, staking NFTs, and marketplace dApps. Join the global Web3 community today.
EV Biotech — We design and optimise your precision fermentation strains and processes, tailored to your success.
foodforecast — AI supported solution to reduce food waste.

Investing in tomorrow's leading consumer brands, today.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Processing
Series A, Series B, Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

KoRo — KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.
ARTAH — We create science-backed systems for real, lasting change. Our award-winning supplements and nutrition programmes blend cutting edge science with high-quality, natural ingredients to help you see and feel visible changes.
Spacegoods — Spacegoods | The Next Generation Wellness Brand We create all-in-one mushroom & adaptogen blends that help you unlock your very best self - tastes great, super potent, made in England - try for yourself today...

Speak with our Entrepreneurship and Investment teams, who can help you find sources of finance, engage with funders and secure investment to grow your business.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
Administrate — Administrate is a comprehensive, configurable training management platform that helps organizations streamline enterprise learning and development. Organize, deliver, plan, automate, analyze, and scale your training program effectively -- all through one system. Deliver multi-modality learner experiences, maximize training resources, anddemonstrate business results with insight-rich reporting. Hundreds of organizations serving millions of learners choose Administrate to manage their training program.

Manta Ray Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund backing mission-driven founders that provides flexible and patient capital, leveraging time, resources, and networks resources and networks as far as possible to support its portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Aqtual — Clinically-Actionable Insights From Circulating DNA In Blood
Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives
Bettani — Climax Foods is a data science company innovating the future of food. It has developed sophisticated machine intelligence tools to unlock smarter paths from plants to products, creating a new generation of plant-based foods that will out-compete animal-based predecessors.Together, a team of top data and food scientists from around the globe areintelligently harnessing the vast biodiversity of the plant kingdom to create the pinnacle of flavor, texture, and nutrition — at a price point for everyone.Climax Foods was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States.

A unique model for investing, innovating & growing

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Fable — Fable Home dinnerware brings people together for love, laughter, and storytelling by delivering gorgeous cutlery, tableware, and glassware at affordable prices.
Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
Awe Inspired — We believe in fine jewelry as a vehicle for empowerment. Shop our collection of goddess necklaces, coin necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and more.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

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 Â£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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vegetarian Express — With over 35 years of experience and 1200+ plant-based ingredients in our larder, from cutting-edge plant-based meat alternatives to rare and hard-to-find.
The Climbing Hangar — Rock climbing London with added Hangar community spirit.
YorkTest — YorkTest is an award-winning food intolerance & allergy testing company, optimising health and wellbeing with our range of health tests. Order online...

We invest venture capital in to globally ambitious companies which have the potential to deliver a significant return to our investors

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

novosound — Novosound is an award winning Scottish sensors company utilising thin-film processes to eliminate conventional limitations in ultrasound sensors.
Chromacity — Chromacity manufacture the next generation of ultrafast lasers. Discover our fixed wavelength femtosecond lasers and picosecond OPOs.
Biotangents — Biotangents develops veterinary diagnostic tests to detect infectious diseases in livestock (bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD), mastitis, bovine respiratory disease (BRD), brucellosis) using our highly adaptable molecular diagnostic technology, Moduleic Sensing.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

BIT ODD — Gaming company building games filled with wonder, weirdness and delight
Dream Games — Join Dream Games and explore a vibrant universe of characters and puzzles. Discover why millions of players worldwide love our mobile games. Visit us to learn more about our games, company culture, and career opportunities.
Acutus Medical — Acutus Medical develops medical technologies to treat complex cardiac arrhythmia. The company's platform displays the heart’s true activation pattern, turning the chaos of a complex arrhythmia into a clear vision for electrophysiologists.Acutus Medical is a privately funded company founded in 2011 and based in Carlsbad, California. Itsproducts are co-developed in the U.S. and Europe with an exceptional team of medical scientists, biomedical engineers, and other professionals.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

n8n — n8n is a free and source-available workflow automation tool
Tzafon — Tzafon's vision is to broaden the lightcone of awareness by pushing the boundaries of machine intelligence, striving to extend the frontier of what intelligent systems can perceive, understand, and contribute.
Yapily — Scalable and reliable open banking infrastructure that is built to power the next wave of innovation. Connect to thousands of banks within minutes and access financial data and payment infrastructure via our secure open banking API.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

MOTH: — MOTH: is a beverages company that provides ready-to-drink cocktail for family and friends.
Gorilla — We empower Energy Retailers in pricing, forecasting and reporting with data-driven solutions in boosting speed and flexibility.
ATLAS Space Operations — ATLAS Space Operations provides Secure Space Access Anytime, Anywhere. Ground Software as a Service on a global federated network.

NPIF - FW Capital Debt Finance is a fund managed by FW Capital and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund . NPIF is an initiative launched by the government-owned British Business Bank and supported by the European Regional Development Fund and European Investment Bank. As a key part of the government’s ‘Northern Powerhouse’ vision, whichaims to create economic prosperity in the North of England, NPIF provides commercial finance to support small and medium sized businesses in the region.FW Capital manages both the £92.8m Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund for the North West and the £69.4m Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund for Tees Valley and Cumbria.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Construction, Health Care
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

BioGrad — BioGrad is a provider of educational and research support services in the medical and scientific fields. It offers a range of programs including skills bootcamps, diplomas, and talks aimed at enhancing medical research and career opportunities in medicine. Operating from Liverpool Science Park, BioGrad Education provides a unique setting for itscourses. The BioGrad group includes divisions such as BioGrad education, BioGrad biobank, BioGrad prenatal, and BioGrad diagnostics, catering to various aspects of medical and scientific education and research. The company also engages with schools through its partner school program, offering bursaries and specialized talks to integrate medical and scientific learning into school curriculums.
Host & Stay — Luxury holiday homes and apartments located across the UK, from North Yorkshire to Northumberland, to Liverpool
Inside Contracts — Inside Contracts Group provides services within floor preparation, floor finishes, interior design and cleaning across multiple sectors.

Venture X is our top-notch financial investment firm Webflow Template created for modern VC and investor firms looking for a dark mode website design.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Amali Systems — Nuclear
Perceptive Space — Perceptive Space is developing an AI-powered space weather platform that delivers predictions and decision intelligence to ensure safe and reliable operations in challenging space environments. By providing hyperlocal space weather forecasts and asset-specific insights into space weather impacts, Perceptive Space aims to help satellite operatorsand launch providers extend mission lifetimes and reduce operational downtimes and service interruptions.
Modern Intelligence — Modern Intelligence is a technology company using proprietary advances in information and complexity theory to build one AI for defense. The company's hierarchical approach provides a dramatic scaling advantage over classical neural networks, naturally enabling very high accuracy on few-shot learning for novel problems, and in many cases, theability to solve previously-unsolvable problems.Modern Intelligence was founded in 2020 and is based in San Jose, CA.

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Querio — Querio is an AI native Business Intelligence platform that meets everyone at their technical level. From fully automated queries and visualizations, to co-pilot jupyter notebooks.
Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
Applied Computing — Applied Computing delivers industrial AI to the energy industry including oil and gas, refineries, and petrochemical plants, helping critical operations harness 100% of their data and optimise in real time for safer, faster, higher-performing decisions

EIT Food is a European Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), which was set up to transform our food ecosystem. By connecting consumers with businesses, start-ups, researchers and students from around Europe, EIT Food supports innovative and economically sustainable initiatives which improve our health, our access to quality food, and our environment

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Fyteko — For a more sustainable agriculture
Ficosterra — fertilizers and bio-fertilizers, 100% vegetable and ecological, with algae and microorganisms that favor the maximum development of crops and plants.
PFx Biotech — PFx Biotech transforms food through bioinnovation by creating sustainable and nutritional alternative protein solutions.

We build relationships early, make decisions quickly, but engage with you for the long term. Our focus is getting B2B software companies at Pre-Seed and Seed to a successful Series A.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

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.
RevEng — The AI powered binary analysis platform for reverse engineering and malware analysis.
Project B — Project B provides Operations System for Employee Financial Data.

We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Tracelight — Tracelight is the leading AI assistant for financial modelling in Excel. Build models, automate workflows, format at scale, and check for errors - we are the AI for analysts.
Hyperdrives — Discover Hyperdrives, a deep-tech engineering company providing electric drive systems designed to set a new benchmark for performance-to-cost.
Windup Minds — Stay: Forever Home is a heartwarming virtual pet game where you meet Ember, a magical companion bringing joy, adventure, and connection. Discover her emerging world, uncover hidden treats, and build your forever home together!

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