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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in United Kingdom in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hardware startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in United Kingdom in December 2024

Investor	Hardware United Kingdom investments
Par Equity	42
Scottish Investment Bank	42
Parkwalk Advisors	41
Scottish Enterprise	34
Cambridge Angels group	32
Seraphim Space	31
Amadeus Capital Partners	29
Techstart Ventures	29
Ascension	27
Development Bank of Wales	26
Foresight Group	25
Newable Private Investing	25
Oxford Capital	25
MMC Ventures	24
Octopus Ventures	24
IQ Capital	24
Midven	23
The FSE Group	23
LocalGlobe	23
Mercia Fund Managers	22
7percent Ventures	22
Business Growth Fund	22
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund	21
IP Group	20
Speedinvest	19
Kelvin Capital	19
Northstar Ventures	19
Seedrs	18
Maven Capital Partners	18
SFC Capital	18
Equity Gap	18
SOSV	17
Force Over Mass Capital	17
Mercia Asset Management PLC	16
Martlet Capital	16
Accel	15
Angels Den	15
Deepbridge Capital	15
Episode 1	15
YFM Equity Partners	14
BOOST&Co	14
Oxford Science Enterprises	14
NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance	13
Salica	13
Kindred Capital	13
Downing Ventures	13
Firstminute Capital	13
Blackfinch Ventures	12
Cur8 Capital	12
Aster	12

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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, Computer
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Artus — Artus is a revolutionary heating and air conditioning product. Applications include residential, commercial and high-precision environments.
iGii — Integrated Graphene enable better products with a revolutionary design for manufacture process producing the world's highest quality pure 3D Graphene Foam, Gii.
Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT) — NPT is a cleantech company that has developed a revolutionary process technology called REFNOVA. REFNOVA allows customers to converts non-food plant residues into sustainable products such as biochar, activated carbon, biofuel, biopolymers and biochemicals. Our products help customers replace fossil based products and enable decarbonisation.

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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 — Manage 100% of enterprise training operations with configurable training management software, designed to scale with your organization.

Parkwalk is a London-based fund management firm. Parkwalk invests in UK technology companies that have IP backing and freedom to operate, generally spun out of UK universities. Their funds seek to generate capital gains for their investors, enhanced by the attractive tax relief provided by EIS. Parkwalk entered this investment sector in 2009,anticipating a wave of tax-efficient incentives launched by the UK Government to stimulate innovative emerging technology companies and thereby help drive economic growth.Parkwalk utilises academic, technology transfer, venture capital and personal networks developed over many years to gain access to the highest calibre deal-flow. In 2017 Parkwalk joined forces with IP Group plc, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company that is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IPO. As at March 2019 the combined group has net assets of £1.2bn.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Diffblue — Diffblue Cover uses next generation autonomous AI to automate unit testing so that Java development teams can build better applications faster
Evoralis — Utilise Our Innovative Enzymes to Efficiently Recycle Plastics Into High-Quality Raw Materials
Ikarovec — Ikarovec is developing novel gene therapies to treat major ophthalmic indications.

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Investment focus

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

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.
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.
Solasta Bio — Solasta Bio develops environment-friendly products that meet a global need for new and effective crop protection.

The Cambridge Angels are a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in internet, software, technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors in the Cambridge (UK) area and throughout the UK.Typical funding requirements thatthe Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £50,000 to £500,000 - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have received more than £1m in funding from their Members over several funding rounds.Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases
Monument Therapeutics — Monument Therapeutics is a biotechnology company intended to develop drugs to treat serious diseases of the central nervous system.

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

Portfolio highlights

D-Orbit — End-to-end services for the New Space industry, including platform engineering, launch and deployment, and decommissioning.
CarbonLaces — Automated Smart Energy Verifications for asset owners enabling regenerative finance.
SatVu — SatVu captures high resolution thermal data from space for a safer and more sustainable Earth.

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Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series B, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

PhoreMost — PhoreMost is a new-model drug discovery company based in Cambridge, UK: Using its core expertise to open up new ‘druggable’ target space and working with a global network of co-invested academic and industrial collaboration partners, we aim to bring a wide array of novel ‘targeted’ therapies more efficiently to market and pass these cost savingsonto patients.
Riverlane — Riverlane's mission is to make quantum computing useful far sooner than previously imaginable, starting an era of human progress as significant as the industrial and digital revolutions.
qomodo — Intelligent IOT Embedded Security. We protect commercial or industrial IOT devices from the threats of the internet. Driven by leading intelligence and machine learning, our anomaly detection allows us to protect even the simplest IOT devices.

Techstart Ventures is a leading investor of seed capital across Scotland and Northern Ireland. they are a trusted partner to ambitious founders on their journey to success.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Needi — Needi is a retail company with an e-commerce platform specializing in gift shops. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Manchester, United Kingdom.
INQDATA — INQDATA are a cloud-based data solutions provider who tranform the way financial institutions access and manage their market data. Our seamless integration makes it as easy as possible for clients to access the data they want, when they want it - all in their technology and tooling of choice.
Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.

Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders.Run by an experienced and diverse team of successful entrepreneurs, we have been relentlessly dedicated to finding the UK’s best Seed-stage startups since 2014.Ascension benefits from the active industry connections essential forthe sourcing and development of deal-flow and due diligence. The team has co-invested with the UK’s leading angels and VCs, key to securing follow-on funding as the portfolio businesses move to their next stage of growth.We believe in building an inclusive, community driven brand that can benefit the wider UK tech ecosystem and strive to work with conviction, integrity, humour, and humility.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Italy

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.
Linq — The safest way to send intimate content
Concert Bio — Concert Bio helps businesses manage their microbiome. We combine monitoring with analytics to develop interventions that improve the microbiome that matters to you. Our pilot program for CEA growers is currently live and accepting partners, see website for details.

Development Bank of Wales is formed in 2001 by the Welsh Assembly Government. 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

Menna — Be smarter about money and grow faster with Menna. Take control of your business finances today!
Lineat Composites — We introduce a new aligned fibre material format that forms the basis of high-performance sustainable composite materials.
Llusern Scientific — Llusern specialises in rapid and affordable near-patient and POC molecular diagnostics developed to detect bacterial and viral infections.

Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Jersey

Portfolio highlights

TES Group — TES are engineering experts specialising in critical infrastructure. We provide specialist services to water & power industries worldwide.
Scorebuddy — All in one quality assurance call center software with automated tools for agent performance management, AI analytics and integrations. Try it free now!
Quality Food Products — Quality Food Products is a meat processing company that distributes meat products to various locations.

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ittybit — Ittybit is a API that enables users to handle rich media in applications. It provides developers with basic techniques for uploading, storing, transforming, and extracting data from video, music, and image files.
HealthKey — HealthKey is a platform that connects employers and insurers with health providers.
Noggin HQ — The next generation of credit referencing is coming. Look busy.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

PocDoc — PocDoc is a pioneer in the field of smartphone-based fast disease testing.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
Tangible — Tangible empowers hardware companies with sustainable asset-based lending solutions. Our platform streamlines debt funding, compliance automation, and financial product design, enabling efficient capital mobilization and comprehensive reporting for a greener future. Scale your business with Twist.

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

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
Cambri — Cambri is concept testing software that helps global brands accelerate their innovation process.
Forefront RF — Forefront RF tunable duplexer aims to expand the accessibility and global market reach of all mobile devices by simplifying RFFE design.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Molyon — Molyon is creating the next-generation energy storage system: the lithium-sulfer battery. Molyon offers long-life lithium-sulfur batteries that have twice the energy density of existing lithium-ion batteries on the market.
Vsim Technology — Experience the power of next-generation physics simulations with Vsim. Our cutting-edge technology provides realistic and accurate simulations for various industries.
BMLL Technologies — BMLL Technologies Ltd. operates cloud based technology platform that offers machine learning and inference framework for common limit order book problems.

Midven is a specialist venture capital company providing investment to fast growing small and medium sized enterprises ("SMEs"), run by an energetic, experienced and hands-on team of investment managers.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Lexverify — Lexverify uses artificial intelligence to detect potential legal and compliance concerns in communications. It assists businesses in proactively avoiding legal and regulatory concerns by harnessing the power of AI. Their objective is to make technological communication a benefit rather than a problem.
Nylahs Naturals — Shop our award-winning all-natural hair care products, designed to redefine the haircare standard for afro-textured hair.
Strolll — Strolll Neurotechnology

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. Finance East Limited delivers funding for businesses based in the East of England region.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Signapse — Using artificial intelligence to build automatic sign language translation with a photo-realistic synthetic signer. Built on world-leading research and solving challenging technical problems that have a genuine social good.
Cybaverse — Cybaverse is a CREST accredited Managed Security Service Provider: Penetration Testing, Monitoring Detection and Response, Cyber Essentials.
Green Power Solutions — Green Power Solutions is a progressive business committed to providing innovative, environmentally friendly energy solutions. Green Power Solutions maintains our technology satisfies current demands while creating a more environmentally friendly future. With real-time monitoring, sophisticated analytics, and seamless integration, our flagshipproduct, the 3MS platform, is revolutionizing off-grid asset management and providing genuinely green, potent solutions to companies all over the world.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
Keel — Keel is a London-based startup offering modern businesses a much-needed third choice between off-the-shelf and no-code tools. Keel has developed a powerful programmable operations platform which offers all the benefits of bespoke tooling without the need to build from scratch.Keel was founded in 2022 by Benoit Machefer, Tom Frew and Jon Bretman,who directly experienced the frustration of being underserved by off-the-shelf software when scaling the fastest growing online pharmacy in Europe to over $130m revenue. The company represents a compelling vision of a future without legacy ERP, where ops teams and engineers work more closely together building bespoke tools on the robust and secure Keel platform.
Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kuano — Kuano provides innovative quantum and AI solutions for drug discovery and design. It offers a discovery platform that combines target quantum mapping and AI-led chemistry to enable the faster development of better drug candidates.
MGISS — Independently advising on the smarter use of Geospatial data, technology and the digital transformation of field operations.
Workbuzz — Give your Everyday Heroes a voice with employee surveys. Our flexible and simple survey platform reaches all employees, wherever they are. Book a demo now!

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

Vaire — Vaire is a new kind of near-zero energy computing company.
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.
ZeroTier — ZeroTier is the best global networking solution and overlay for IoT infrastructure, SD-WAN, VPN, and remote access.

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

Sulmara — Innovation for a sustainable energy future | Sulmara
Recite Me — Recite Me is an Accessibility Software & Solutions provider - helping to create WCAG compliant websites and inclusive experiences online for disabled people.
Miracle Design & Play — Miracle Design & Play specializes in designing and installing playgrounds for children.

UKI2S, formally the Rainbow Seed Fund, is an investment fund backed by the government, providing seed funding to science & technology start-ups and SMEs

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ikarovec — Ikarovec is developing novel gene therapies to treat major ophthalmic indications.
Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets
iFast Diagnostics — iFAST is addressing the Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing market, reducing the spread of antimicrobial resistance.

IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and createvalue out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Diffblue — Diffblue Cover uses next generation autonomous AI to automate unit testing so that Java development teams can build better applications faster
Microbiotica — Microbiotica is a developer of human microbiome therapeutics intended to discover and develop live bacterial therapeutics and biomarkers. The company's therapeutics identify gut bacteria linked to phenotype with unprecedented precision, enabling researchers to phenotype before testing of candidate bacteria in advanced human in vitro and invivo models.
MISSION Therapeutics — Deubiquitylating enzymes: multiple drug opportunities across therapeutic areas

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tranched — Introducing real-time on-chain securitisation. Fintech Lenders and Professional Investors can now launch an institutional-grade transaction up to 90% faster than before.
Firsty — Firsty offers access to messaging, email, and online calling, as well as a basic global data connection, for free.
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

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

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.
Sofant Technologies — Sofant is developing a low cost RF MEMS technology that solves power consumption and heat problems in high frequency phased array antenna systems.

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, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

FAT32 — FAT32 is at the forefront of compliance automation, transforming the way businesses satisfy regulatory requirements.
Lightox — Lightox has developed a unique range of molecular tools for use in imaging, therapeutics and assay development. These unique probes are smaller than any other commercially available fluorescent product. They offer the option of using our technologies as freely-moving probes that readily incorporate into cells or with a range of flexible linkers togive specificity to your unique applications and research needs.
Positive Support For You — Positive Support For You is a social enterprise dedicated to empowering adults with learning disabilities, providing tailored support to help them achieve greater independence, confidence, and inclusion in society.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
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.
Signature Brew — Signature Brew is a music bar and brewery that aims to bring people together. They provide beer, booze, and live music for their patrons, which enables them to bring the community together through the power of good beer, music, and memories.
SRSLY Low Carb — SRSLYLowCarb is a home for healthy, Keto and Low Carb friendly foods. Perfect for diabetic-friendly diets. Elevate your health journey with us!

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, Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Connected Data — Connected Data | Data Enabled Debt Management
Corporate Modelling — OPX is our award-winning business optimisation software which will transform your business and improve your productivity.
Jackson Stapleton Accountants — Jackson Stapleton Accountants is a forward-thinking accounting firm that give the best service possible while remaining true to the profession's values.

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

LaennecAI — Empowering people to take control of their health
MAGIC AI — The home fitness system that uses AI technology to give you hyper-personalised training on demand on a beautifully designed mirror.
Chiron Health AI — Chiron supports people with self-managing their chronic conditions.

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

Mirna — Mirna is a veterinary diagnostics company that specializes in the development of veterinary disease testing technology.
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.
Shot Scope — The official Shot Scope website. Golf watches, range finders and performance tracking that help lower your score and handicap. Buy direct online today!

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
Apaleo — Transform your hospitality business with an open platform. Easily connect 3rd party applications to build a best-in-class tech stack for your hotel
SentientSports — SentientSports is revolutionising the sports industry by unlocking the full potential of AI in sporting organisations.

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Camena Bioscience — Camena Bioscience is a synthetic biology company that develops tools to engineer new synthetic biology applications. It has engineered new nucleic acid synthesis technology which improves the quality and speed of synthesis. Its multi-enzymatic technology takes one approach to DNA, RNA, and XNA synthesis, offering increased accuracy over existingPhosphoramidite synthesis technology.Camena Bioscience was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge.
Axis Spine Technologies — Axis Spine Technologies is building an expert team to develop highly differentiated products that provide meaningful improvements in patient care.
Send — Streamline the underwriting process with Send's innovative commercial insurance platform. Our underwriting workbench is designed to automate time-consuming manual tasks so you can focus more on data-driven underwriting.

Martlet Capital is an early-stage investor based in Cambridge, providing patient capital to deep technology and life science startups with high growth potential. Investing in the future.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Xampla — Xampla: Drop-in replacements for single-use plastic, eliminating plastic pollution. Biodegrade quickly & safely. Named world's most promising cleantech co.
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
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

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Cyera — Cyera provides organizations with data reality for cloud data security. Cyera was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in San Mateo, USA.
Taito.ai — We automate employee performance enablement with AI, letting your people drive their growth and development, instead of just analyzing it.
Blip — Digital communication solutions from Take Blip provide smarter contacts with your customers. See what the chatbots can do!

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.

Deepbridge is a different kind of investment manager. They work closely with financial advisers and investors to design innovative products, ranging from investment in technology growth companies to asset-backed renewable energy projects. They also partner with innovative and committed management teams to help UK based companies realise theirpotential and become successful leading-edge businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AI-Sight — AI-Sight is a startup that is developing an AI diabetic retinal screening system to deliver WHO-recommended diabetic eye screening services.
Microplate Dx — Safeguarding against the spread of antimicrobial resistance worldwide.
GenoMe Diagnostics — GenoME Diagnostics - We are developing a blood test for an earlier and more accurate diagnosis of ovarian cancer.GenoME Diagnostics .

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

Carwow — Carwow brings you the best offers from thousands of trusted partners so you can buy or sell your car in just a few clicks. No haggling and no fees.
Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
Viable — Finance technology that connects cash with inventory, marketing, sales and operations.

YFM Equity Partners is an independent private equity business owned by its senior management and investment team. They invest up to £10 million of equity through offices in Leeds, London, Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield.

Investment focus

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

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Xapien — Xapien delivers automated insight reports on companies and individuals in minutes, so you can make informed business decisions quickly and with confidence.
GEEIQ — GEEIQ: The platform, experts and insights to fuel your success in virtual worlds & gaming. From Roblox and ZEPETO to Minecraft and Fortnite.
Psychology Tools — Psychology Tools publishes evidence-based resources to improve your therapy and save you time. Download CBT worksheets.

BOOST&Co offers term loans, venture debt and invoice financing for innovative, fast-growing SMEs. Looking for funding? Get in touch today

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Telecommunications
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Malta

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Swyft — Swyft is the future of furniture. 100 day returns. Free 24 hour delivery. 15 year frame guarantee & stain resistant fabrics. Swyft makes beautiful living easy.
Airbox Fulfilment — Brand focused fulfilment for e-commerce businesses. Airbox are one of UK's largest 3PLs with best in class service offering.
Communicate Technology — We are IT, telecoms and cyber security specialists, keeping over 500 businesses and 50,000 users connected and secure across the UK.

Oxford Science Enterprises is the university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companies taking onchallenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

natcap — We support the world's leading companies to prioritise, measure and act on nature impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities.
FluoRok — By employing our patented technology, we can produce fluorochemicals without the production of toxic and highly dangerous hydrofluoric acid
Iota Sciences — Discover automated single-cell handling tools and related services to accelerate your route to breakthrough discoveries in cell biology

Mercia Equity Finance is a regional investor that focuses initially on uncovering the hidden value. It uses both of its managed funds and its proprietary capital to invest across four distinct asset classes: venture, private equity, and debt, referred to as their 'Complete Capital Solution’. It aspires to be the first choice for investors,investees, and employees, and, by aspiring to be the first choice, they believe that Mercia will deliver superior returns for business owners, shareholders, and fund investors alike.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Suiso — Suiso is developing a breakthrough microwave-driven pyrolysis process which generates Hydrogen by decarbonising Natural/Bio Gas. Ventured backed and based in Sheffield UK, Suiso is a winner of the BEIS Low Carbon H2 Supply scheme. It plans to deliver shipping container sized Hydrogen generators, with a capacity to provide of up to 1,000kg ofHydrogen daily. A competitive benchmarking exercise, in the BEIS study, has confirmed that Suiso will have the lowest cost of H2 in a number of key H2 applications and lower Carbon emissions than grid powered electrolysis. By producing Hydrogen at the point of use, Suiso eliminates the expensive distribution costs incurred by large scale centralised H2 producers, one of the primary obstacles to the widespread adoption of Hydrogen. Suiso’s process reduces CO2 emissions by 97%+ versus steam methane reforming, utilizes 80% less energy than electrolysis and has very low equipment capital costs making it one of the most affordable Hydrogen production technologies. Suiso captures the Carbon in the Natural/Bio-Gas in the form of solid Carbon Black which has significant commercial value in the production of tyres, batteries, inks, other applications.
Salesfire — Salesfire's industry-leading, all-in-one CRO solution can Boost your conversion rate and maximise revenue across your website. Book a consultation now.
Mindtech — Mindtech are developing solutions around AI and visual processing. Mindtech aim is to enable complete solutions for anyone who needs intelligent visual processing. We focus on the solution, using whatever technology is required to solve the real world problem, not for example, using AI for AI’s sake, but employing machine learning as part of anoverall system, as appropriate. We focus on the provision of tools and datasets for training AI systems

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Theremia — AI-driven platform to design drug derivatives with improved efficacy and tolerability across diverse demographics.
Neuphonic — Neuphonic is developing the best ultra low latency text-to-speech system to enable the most lifelike and responsive discussions with AI conceivable. We are transforming AI engagement by rethinking what it means to have a voice. We're building a future in which interacting with AI feels natural and seamless, AI can act to make people'slives easier, and people will look at their phones less and communicate more.
Popcorn AI — Popcorn is the smartest AI assistant to power your business. It helps you chat with customers, answer questions, sell products and collect payments.

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

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Inversion — Inversion Space is a privately held company driven to change how humanity utilizes space. Its builds affordable, high cadence return vehicle for the commercial and defense industries.
Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.
Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TidalSense — CRiL was formed in April 2013 specifically to develop innovative medical devices to diagnose and manage respiratory conditions. They have been building a platform technology, N-Tidal, based on the measurement and analysis of tidal breathing CO2 throughout the entire breath.
Qkine — Growth Factors made for stem cells Animal-free We control every step of protein manufacture ensuring all our products are completely animal-free Total transparency Stringent purity and bioactivity testing data for all proteins - know what you are giving your cells Protein innovation Our R&D team
FundamentalVR — A strategic partner helping med-device leaders solve the Competency @ Scale Gap todrive commercial success.

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Lupa Pets — Lupa connects pet parents with pet service providers. Building the world’s first solution which integrates E2E, offering cutting-edge Practice Management Software, an online booking platform comprehensive of all service providers, and a market-leading Gen-AI vet assistant.
ClaimSorted — ClaimSorted is a modern claims TPA providing a 5-star claims experience while also reducing operational and indemnity costs through our industry-leading claims team and advanced automation
Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.

We're passionate about supporting the UK's most talented founders of high growth technology businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Odore — We work with leading brands building targeted digital sampling campaigns. Expert campaign support team & rapid global fulfilment network.
Martech3D — 3D product marketing & sales platform for B2B companies. 3D Virtual Showrooms, 3D Interactive Product Demos, 3D AR Product Viewer, 3D Product Configurators.
Tangle.io — Tangle enables organizations to build enterprise applications in hours with reusable components, no code drag and drop tools, secure architecture and complete code extensibility when needed.

Invest in High-Growth Startups

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

HealthKey — HealthKey is a platform that connects employers and insurers with health providers.
Neuphonic — Neuphonic is developing the best ultra low latency text-to-speech system to enable the most lifelike and responsive discussions with AI conceivable. We are transforming AI engagement by rethinking what it means to have a voice. We're building a future in which interacting with AI feels natural and seamless, AI can act to make people'slives easier, and people will look at their phones less and communicate more.
ThinkSono — ThinkSono is a company at the cutting edge of medicine and technology.

Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Manufacturing
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
LevelTen Energy — LevelTen Energy provides transaction infrastructure for buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers in the renewable energy economy.

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