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Top 50 Hospitality Angel Investors in United Kingdom in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Hospitality startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hospitality companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Hospitality Angel Investors in United Kingdom in February 2025

Investor	Hospitality United Kingdom investments
Lorenz Bogaert	3
Michael Bristow	3
Paul Forster	2
Rupert Loman	2
Tony Jamous	2
Chris Lee	2
Brad Bao	2
Andrew Weisz	2
Jeremy Yap	2
Lord Rumi Verjee	2
Matthias Hilpert	2
Ricardo Schaefer	2
Lorenzo Franzi	2
Dan Cobley	1
Simon Murphy	1
Richard Flint	1
Oli Farago	1
Somdutta Singh	1
Ben Westwood	1
Paul McKenna	1
Paul Birch	1
Andrew Gale	1
Sri Pangulur	1
Jerry Murdock	1
Eddie Jordan	1
Jon Oringer	1
Conrad Whelan	1
Tom Blomfield	1
Mark McDermott	1
Andrej Henkler	1
Marcus Wareing	1
Li Fan	1
Mark Gordon	1
Mark Hyman	1
Mark Ferguson	1
Gareth Williams	1
Nelson Peltz	1
Frederic Halley	1
Edward Gazelle	1
Will Brooks	1
Rémi Tuyaerts	1
Anthony Danon	1
Alex Macdonald	1
Nick Telson-Sillett	1
Chris Slater	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Richard Ng	1
Edward Lando	1
Jon Oringer	1
Demetrios Zoppos	1

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Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FixForm — At FixForm, we aim to keep spaces and buildings in good, safe and clean condition. Our platform allows everybody to report problems with just the snap of a picture. Simplify your maintenance today and become part of the FixForm community.
Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.

Michael Bristow is the CEO & Co-Founder of CP Capital. He previously worked at Peer-to-Peer Finance Association as a Board Member. Michael Bristow attended London Business School.

Investment focus

Real Estate, SaaS, Software
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Belgium, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

RENTUU — Rentuu has been featured for the last 3 years in a row in the UK's Top 100 UK Start-Ups List, and operates a global, fast-growing, cloud-based technology platform and franchise network for the multi-billion pound sterling equipment hire industry. We’re a venture capital backed technology start-up backed by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (founder ofeasyJet) and other institutional investors with the exclusive rights to the easyHire brand in a number of countries, including the UK, EU, Switzerland, South Africa, and Dubai to facilitate equipment rental for construction and party equipment.
Howsy — Howsy is a real estate management platform that provides repairs management and renewal services for landlords and tenants. Howsy. A new concept designed to shake up the way of renting works for good. Its on a mission to create a simple, intuitive and fairly priced experience that’s powered by new ideas and brilliant technology.
CrowdProperty — CrowdProperty is a specialist property project lending platform used to facilitate short-term loans. It is a profitable fintech lending innovator that matches demand that property professionals undertaking property projects and supply that is retail investors of capital for value-creating property projects that enable clients to get a better dealfor the borrowers, lenders, the under-supplied housing environment, and increased spend in the economy.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Paul Forster

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier

Rupert Loman

Investment focus

Digital Entertainment, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Alter — Alter is an open source, cross-platform SDK consisting of a real-time 3D avatar system and motion capture built from scratch for web3 interoperability and the open metaverse.
Carter — Carter is a startup working on conversational AI to help game developers make computerized gaming characters.
OTHERWORLD — OTHERWORLD is a virtual island paradise in the cloud, home to VR’s best experiences across entertainment, arts, education and wellness, reached through unique, multi-sensory ‘immersion pods’ in its growing network of city centre venues.Since opening its first site in Shoreditch, East London in 2019, over 50,000 people have experienced OTHERWORLD,including celebrities Adele, Skepta, Jonathan Ross, KSI and Fnatic. The team have won plaudits at the FRAME Awards 2020 and a nomination for the VR Awards 2020.

Tony Jamous is the CEO and Co-Founder of Oyster. He previously worked at Nexmo as a President.Tony Jamous attended IMD.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Developer APIs
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Cercli — The single platform for MENA companies to hire, manage and pay your global workforce
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.

Chris Lee is an investor at Facemoji. The Attended University of Nottingham.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Digital Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Carter — Carter is a startup working on conversational AI to help game developers make computerized gaming characters.
Sidequest — Sidequest is a community driven app store for virtual reality.
GodmodeHQ — GodmodeHQ is the sales AI agent that grows your business while you sleep. The workflows of lead search, intent data, sequences and campaigns are all integrated end-to-end so you can have a go-to-market teammate who brings you opportunities on autopilot.

Brad Bao is a Co-Founder and Chairman at Lime (formerly LimeBike), the global leader in micromobility. Prior to Lime, he cofounded Kinzon Capital, a cross-border fund that investing in early-stage technology companies in both US and China, focusing on mobile and internet-related investments. Prior to that, Brad established Tencent'sinternational footprint, led its internationalization over the course of 8 years, served as GM for Tencent America, and VP-BD for Tencent Games. Brad holds MBA degree from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
Shackle — Shackle is an app uses by hotels to provides and maintain hassel free hospitality services in a digital way to guests and travelers.
Titan — Aware Healthcare is the first network of therapists who use treatment based on science and data shared by patients to deliver truly personalized mental health care.

Andrew Weisz - Partner @ Weisz Investments

Investment focus

Software, Education, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sidequest — Sidequest is a community driven app store for virtual reality.
Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.
Guardian Angel — Death is tough enough. We're here to make it that little bit easier. By making planning for and through death simpler. So you can focus on what really matters.

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable Web3 future

Lord Rumi Verjee is the Founder of Domino’s UK & The Rumi Foundation.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Hospitality, Restaurants
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Slerp — Reduce your reliance on marketplaces with the all-in-one online ordering system for restaurants. Advanced web&app ordering, loyalty and more.

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Workbounce — Workbounce is the co-pilot for customer-facing team connecting tools like Google Drive, Notion, Slack with intelligent search and analytics.
Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

Ricardo Schaefer - Partner @ Target Global

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Jefa — Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution.Jefa's goal is to empower women to live without limits or obstacles. Jefa does this by giving its clients access to fair, affordable, and secure financialservices through a mobile account.
Komment — Komment automates software documentation with pipelines that plug into familiar developer workflows in your existing infrastructure. Get well-structured, sophisticated, reliable docs with zero reliance on third-parties.
Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.

Lorenzo is Co-Founder & Managing Director of ZipJet. ZipJet is an urban pick-up & delivery service for laundry & dry cleaning in London and Berlin. Previously, Lorenzo worked with McKinsey & Company as a consultant. Prior to McKinsey, he worked with Voice.ee a micro polling start up. Lorenzo started-off his professional career at JPMorgan in London. Lorenzo holds an MBA from INSEAD and Msc in Finance from the University of Maastricht.

Investment focus

SEM, Apps, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.
Weaver.build — Weaver.build is a contractor marketplace for home renovations
Skillvue — Analizza tutte le competenze dei tuoi candidati in pochi click. Skillvue ti aiuta ad analizzare in modo rapido ed efficace le competenze dei tuoi candidati, semplificando la fase di pre-screening.

Dan Cobley is the Managing Partner of Blenheim Chalcot. He previously worked at Santander UK as a Strategic Advisor to the Board. Dan Cobley attended the University of Cambridge.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Happl — Happl provides benefits that enable employees to choose what's right for them and tools for managers to support their teams, whilst taking care of the admin.
Yavrio — Yavrio links your bank accounts to your finance system using Open Banking. Gain centralized access, real-time insights, and secure transactions with 14,000+ banks in 20 countries.
Jove Insurance — Jove provides business and protection insurance to contractors, freelancers and SMEs, powered by tech and driven by social good.

Simon Murphy Entrepreneur & Investor

Investment focus

Retail, Consumer Goods, Events
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Pieter Pot — Verpakkingsvrij boodschappen doen bij online supermarkt Pieter Pot. Makkelijk aan huis geleverd in herbruikbare statiegeldpotten. Pot leeg? Dan vullen we hem opnieuw. Met onze verpakkingsvrije bezorgdienst verminderen we de hoeveelheid afval en CO2. Waarom zou je nog verpakkingen kopen?
Seat Unique — Seat Unique is an online marketplace to buy official hospitality packages and VIP tickets to live sports, music, and cultural events.
The Smart Container Company — The Smart Container Company is the team behind KegTracker and BeverEDGE, a first-to-market IoT device and platform that instantly turns kegs into SMART containers. Our technology tracks real-time location, volume, temperature, and motion for each keg and delivers actionable insights that enable transparency and zero.

Richard Flint

Investment focus

Events, Mobile, Ticketing
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SonicJobs — Apply to your dream position with just one click, with the magic of AI. Sign up with SonicJobs today!
GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.
Seat Unique — Seat Unique is an online marketplace to buy official hospitality packages and VIP tickets to live sports, music, and cultural events.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Somdutta Singh is the Founder and CEO of Assiduus Global. She attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wriggle — A web and app marketplace helping people discover and transact at handpicked local food & drink establishments.
Bold Care — Bold Care is a digital men’s health and wellness startup that offers free sexologist consultations and discreet delivery of holistic sexual wellness kits. It offers personalised treatment plans with prescription medicines and natural supplements. With unlimited post-consultation follow-ups, the startup helps find permanent solutions for men’swellness issues.
Assiduus — We are a trusted Global E-commerce partner and accelerator, a unified platform helping to Build and Scale E-commerce Brands Globally. Reach us Now!

Ben Westwood is the Founding Partner & CEO of Hoxton Circle. He previously worked at Argyll Scott as a Director London & UK.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Hospitality, Staffing Agency
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Slinger — Slinger is a hospitality recruitment tool that connects vetted hospitality workers with some of London's best food and drink businesses. Sign up today!

Paul McKenna

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Hospitality
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ambl — Ambl - The first-ever platform matching diners and drinkers with real-time availability. Read our guides and find last-minute reservations now.

Paul Birch resides in central London, England. He graduated from University (Imperial College) many years ago - but now believes the University of Life has much more to offer than traditional education.Paul's background is systems analysis. He has loved the Internet since the first day he went online back in 1996. He's been surfingthe Internet ever since and has applied many surfing discoveries to BirthdayAlarm. He also enjoy's travelling and helps run Adventura Singles Holidays.Paul has fun everyday, by helping bring a little extra joy to people's lives through the Birthday Alarm service. Formerly himself a 'bad boy' at remembering birthdays - he is of course now excellent!

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Shutl — Shutl is a technology startup that offers convenient fulfillment services by connecting online retailers with local same-day couriers.The company solves fulfillment for retailers and shoppers by enabling immediate or convenient delivery of online purchases. Its platform creates a marketplace from the capacity of local courier firms and usesretail partners’ local stocks to fulfill purchases. It integrates with all major dispatch software and retailers’ existing technologies.Shutl operates in more than 50 towns across the United Kingdom with a virtual fleet of thousands of couriers who complete 10,000 deliveries every day.Shutl was founded in December 2009 by
ONBORD —
Housebites — Create tasty, inspiring and healthy meals at home. We'll send you all the ingredients, recipes and expert tips. Release your inner chef!

Andrew Gale is the founder of Longbrook Ventures.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Hospitality, Real Estate
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Just Move In — Just Move In makes home moving easy. We help you save time, hassle & money on your move by allowing you to easily manage the admin. You can set up utilities, find great deals on broadband, arrange removals & insurance and more.
Slinger — Slinger is a hospitality recruitment tool that connects vetted hospitality workers with some of London's best food and drink businesses. Sign up today!

Sri oversees sales and business development at Trace Data. Sri brings over 15 years of experience as a VC, investment banker and entrepreneur. Sri Pangulur is Head of Business at Trace Data. Prior to joining Trace Data, Sri was an early sales leader at Cloudflare and Sociable Labs. Before being an operator, Sri worked in the venture capital andinvestment banking industries at TeleSoft Partners and Lehman Brothers. Sri is also an active venture capital investor, investing in seed stage to growth stage companies. Sri graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Finance from Case Western Reserve University.

Investment focus

Software, Computer, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Upsie — Upsie is a mobile app that provides an easier and better way to protect your stuff. You get the same warranties and coverage offered by other companies but at an affordable price. No annoying sales pitch. No big price markups. All warranty pricing and coverage options are right there in the app. Even your receipts are photographed and stored! Youcan purchase coverage, start a claim or even scan a barcode while shopping to see what warranties are available for that item.
Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.
AtomicJar — Integration testing made easier for developers

Jerry Murdock co-founded Insight Venture Partners in 1995, and today serves as a special adviser to the firm. He has spent his career investing in, and building, technology companies that change and positively impact businesses and social practices. Jerry had a defining role in Insight's investment strategy and success, and was primarilyresponsible for the development of many of the Firm's portfolio investments.Since 1999, eight of Jerry's investments have achieved successful IPOs on NASDAQ, several with market capitalizations in excess of a billion dollars. These include: Twitter (TWTR) Callwave (CALL, now Fuzebox), Click Commerce (CKCM ); Convergent Group (CVGP acquired by Schlumberger Ltd); DivX Inc (DVIX was subsequently acquired by Sonic Solutions (SNIC)); Illuminet (ILUM, acquired by VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN)); Quest Software (QSFT) and SeeBeyond Technology Corporation (SBYN).In January 2013 Jerry invested in Nest series C. He also invested in Snapchat in December 2013 series C, Serverless, Inc series B in July 2016, Influxdata series B August 2016.Jerry is passionate about public service, using his network and capabilities to impact causes he believes in. In particular, Jerry plays a leading role as a member of the Board of Trustees at:The Aspen Institute whose mission is to foster values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues. The Santa Fe Institute which is a multi-disciplinary research and education center focused on understanding complex adaptive systems as a critical component in addressing key environmental, technological, biological, economic, and political challenges.Jerry is a co-founder, along with John Doerr, of For the Forest, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the health of forests, with particular emphasis on promoting the long-term sustainability of Western forests by providing research, management, expertise and related resources.Jerry Murdock graduated with a degree in Political Science from San Diego State University and subsequently worked at the Georgetown Center for Strategic & International Studies (now known as CSIS).

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile
Series B, Series C, Seed
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MetaMap — Metamaps are customisable trust workflows that empower service providers to reach more customers.
Slingshot AI — Transforming the mental health landscape through groundbreaking AI research
Product Science — Product Science increases product metrics for mobile applications and helps apps work faster by providing insights into key performance issues that impact user experience.

Eddie Jordan is OBE, former Formula 1 team boss, and entrepreneur.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bryleos — Bryleos is a clinical-stage therapeutics company. It uses the strength of a systems approach to directly address the burden of expensive chronic illnesses. Bryleos has created an oral formulation of NAD+ that is patent-pending and has the ability to support each cell's optimal function using cutting-edge technology.
Guestia — Guestia is the partner of choice for many brands, rights holders and agencies.
Apex Rides — 8,824 Followers, 1,333 Following, 441 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Apex (@apexrides)

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Conrad Whelan

Investment focus

Marketplace, Internet, Information Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Boxhub — Buy new & used shipping containers with Boxhub. We make buying a shipping & storage containers easy - get it delivered right to your door. Shop today!
Nana — Nana is a vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, today focused on Appliance Repair. We work with some of the 35 million people who will lose their jobs by 2030 to tech automation, teaching them trade skills, building their experience through our mentorship program, and connecting them to good jobs on our marketplace. Byperfecting this pipeline and teaching life skills to a new generation of tradespeople, we are accelerating the retooling of America’s workforce and creating millions of economic opportunities.
Shackle — Shackle is an app uses by hotels to provides and maintain hassel free hospitality services in a digital way to guests and travelers.

Tom Blomfield is the CEO of Monzo, a new kind of bank, designed for smartphones. Tom previously founded GoCardless, a fintech startup that has gone on to raise $25m. In 2013, he was nominated as one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the European Commission. He gives talks regularly about the future of banking and fintech.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

1Bstories — Helping publishers and brands increase engagement and conversions using AI. Mobile, vertical, 60 second video formats made in an instant. Tell your story today!
Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.
Arcane Intelligence — The AI Copilot for modern Marketers. Arcane accelerates and automates mundane tasks. Join the waitlist today.

CEO at ScreenCloud. Co-Founder of Digital Product Studio Codegent. Out of Codegent we Co-Founded startups Tepilo and ScreenCloud. We also own Digital Agency Thin Martian.

Investment focus

Software, Hospitality, Mobile Apps
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

growyze — Stock management app for food and drink stock control. With barcode scanning, product ordering and invoice reconciliation, for simple inventory management.

Andrej Henkler is the Founder & CEO at Leblon Capital and Owner of Blue Sky Entertainment B.V.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Logistics
Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.
how.fm — Training software for better onboarding processes and digital store floor management. Train staff with no effort and language barriers.
Gordian Biotechnology — Gordian has created the first in vivo therapeutic screening platform to radically improve drug development for complex diseases of aging.

Marcus Wareing

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Hospitality
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ambl — Ambl - The first-ever platform matching diners and drinkers with real-time availability. Read our guides and find last-minute reservations now.
Three-Sixty Aquaculture — Three-Sixty Aquaculture is at the forefront of this breakthrough technology, producing the most sustainable seafood.

Li Fan is the Chief Technology Officer at Circle. She attended University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GitStart — YC backed tech startup which helps teams scale engineering velocity through its unique Pull Requests as a Service platform and delivers world class code quality so customers can ship faster.
Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
Shackle — Shackle is an app uses by hotels to provides and maintain hassel free hospitality services in a digital way to guests and travelers.

Mark Gordon

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Hospitality
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ambl — Ambl - The first-ever platform matching diners and drinkers with real-time availability. Read our guides and find last-minute reservations now.

Mark Hyman

Investment focus

Health Care, Fitness, Medical
Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hu Kitchen — Hu snacks are paleo, dairy-free, gluten-free and soy-free. Simple ingredients, unbeatable taste.
HumanCo — HumanCo is a mission-driven private holding company that invests in and builds brands focused on healthier living and sustainability.
Truemed — TrueMed is a mechanism for payments that enables health + wellness businesses to accept HSA/FSA funds. TrueMed deployments are straightforward (official Shopify payments app/code snippets) and set up in under 30 minutes without requiring any engineering on the part of the business.

Son of Alex Ferguson, the former manager of the Manchester United football club.

Investment focus

Coupons, Fitness, Wellness
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CityHawk — CityHawkDine Better. Starting Now.What is CityHawk?In short, it’s a foodie’s best friend.Have you ever been ‘caught short’ not knowing where to go for some great food? Are you fed up of scouring review sites and apps looking at reviews that all sound the same?CityHawk is for you. It’s really simple to use - open the app, chose arestaurant and then click ‘book’. Every restaurant we show has guaranteed real-time availability and best of all you can be sure that you’ll have a great dining experience.
Hussle — Gym membership with total flexibility. Gym passes to no contract gym memberships that you can use in thousands of gyms across the UK. Gym and swim wherever you want to. Stop and start whenever you like.

Gareth Williams co-founded Skyscanner Limited in 2001 and has been its CEO through to 2018. Chairman to Jan 2020. We spent $6m of primary capital raised through to $1.8bn sale to Trip.com. Now ‘funemployed’ and learning.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Hungary, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wordsmith AI — Wordsmith offers the best AI tools for legal teams, including AI-powered contract review, document generation, and legal chatbots. Trusted by top companies, Wordsmith helps lawyers streamline workflows, speed up legal processes, and increase productivity.
Ember — Travel by electric bus between Edinburgh, Dundee, Perth, Kinross and more. Brand-new buses, affordable fares and real-time tracking.
Maison Sport — Book ski lessons online with highly qualified ski instructors. Ski & snowboard lessons & ski school in Morzine, Meribel, Val Thorens, Courchevel, Avoriaz, Tignes, Val d'Isere, Zermatt, Verbier & more

Nelson Peltz is the Chief Executive Officer & Founding Partner at Trian Partners.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, TV
Series A, Post-IPO Equity
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Comcast — Comcast Corporation is a global media and technology company with two primary businesses, Comcast Cable and NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is one of the nation’s largest video, high-speed internet, and phone providers to residential customers under the XFINITY brand, and also provides these services to businesses. It also provides wireless andsecurity and automation services to residential customers under the XFINITY brand.NBCUniversal operates news, entertainment, and sports cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, television production operations, television station groups, Universal Pictures, and Universal Parks and Resorts.
Hu Kitchen — Hu snacks are paleo, dairy-free, gluten-free and soy-free. Simple ingredients, unbeatable taste.
Two Robbers Hard Seltzer — Two Robbers Hard Seltzer offers a range of hard seltzers, including watermelon and cucumber, orange and pineapple with ginger flavors.

Frederic is an investor focusing on early-stage technology companies in Europe. Some of his area of interests include Retailtech, Saas, AI and traveltech. He has a long experience working with technology companies as an operator, an advisor or a Non-Executive Director (NED) / Board Member.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Retail
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mimbi — Mimbi provides brands and agencies with a platform that allows them to better measure & optimize the impact of retail media campaigns
NectarGo — NectarGo creates local food logistics to benefit communities by stabilizing the food supply. Their products include fruits and vegetables, dairy products, savory and sweet groceries, bakery products, butcher, delicatessen, caterer, and drinks. The company's contact mode is at its physical address.
Kamino Retail — Ultimate Retail Media Monetization Platform that has been designed for Retailers to unlock their true potential and set up their own private marketplace. The 1st independent and interoperable Retail Media Monetization platform.

Edward Gazelle is the co-founder of Propoly.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2C
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Propoly — Choose Propoly for an effortless property transaction. Tenancy progression software that keeps letting agents compliant & reduces admin.
YourWelcome — Use YourWelcome tablets to transact and interact with your guests during their stay. Improve their guest experience and increase your revenue at once.
Fleksy — The Fleksy Software Keyboard Development Kit (SDK) enables companies to overcome the challenge of building a top-notch typing experience on both iOS and Android. Your company can then focus on its area of expertise & value-add for a simple monthly licensing fee.

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Technology Executive passionate about incentivising people using technology.

Investment focus

Finance, Leisure, Hospitality
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pembroke VCT — Pembroke VCT PLC is a venture capital trust specializing in investments in any stage of business development. Their focus is on companies in the health and fitness, hospitality, apparel, and accessories, and media and technology sectors.
OTHERWORLD — OTHERWORLD is a virtual island paradise in the cloud, home to VR’s best experiences across entertainment, arts, education and wellness, reached through unique, multi-sensory ‘immersion pods’ in its growing network of city centre venues.Since opening its first site in Shoreditch, East London in 2019, over 50,000 people have experienced OTHERWORLD,including celebrities Adele, Skepta, Jonathan Ross, KSI and Fnatic. The team have won plaudits at the FRAME Awards 2020 and a nomination for the VR Awards 2020.

Anthony caught the entrepreneurial bug while working at a Fintech startup in the Enterprise SaaS cashflow management space. He joined Anthemis in June 2014, where he collected a range of experiences in his first year – from M&A in the payments space to innovation consulting for banks and portfolio support in the VC environment. During thefollowing years at Anthemis, Anthony focused on sourcing, evaluating and executing seed and series A fintech investments, primarily in European companies such as TrueLayer and Tide. Anthony supported startups in areas ranging from milestone planning and strategy, to business development and follow-on capital support. He isalso an active part of Seedcamp’s Investment Forum and a mentor to some of their portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Apps, Construction, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Estonia, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.
TaxScouts — TaxScouts is a tax preparation platform that makes tax planning easier. It allows drawing up of personal income tax online by certified accountants and its tax bot helps users to understand their personal income tax situation and suggests ways to reduce their tax bill.Founded by Mart Abramov, Kaupo Kõrv, and Daniel Karger in 2017, TaxScouts isheadquartered in London, England.
Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.

Alex Macdonald is the Co-Founder and CEO of sequel - an investment platform on a mission to help athletes build a legacy for their families and the world. He previously Co-Founded Velocity Black, raised more than $40m in funding, and which was successfully exited to US Bank Capital One in 2023. He is a serial angel investor having invested in 50early stage startups and funds.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kalder — Kalder is a unified web3 brand loyalty platform for brands and creators to drive meaningful engagement, onboard new users, and reward superfan communities.
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.
Fundably — Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan | Access £1k-£2m

Exited Founder of DesignMyNight (Acquired 2019), Co-Founder trumpet, Founder of Venture Arm Horseplay Ventures, Angel Investor in 55+ Startups and Podcaster

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.
sequel — A community of the world's best athletes investing in the world's best startups, advancing humanity.
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

Chris Slater

Investment focus

Hospitality, Information Technology
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Breakroom — Breakroom is a crowdsourced data platform for hourly and shift workers.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Richard Ng is a co-founder and CTO of Greenworkx.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Hospitality, Staffing Agency
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Slinger — Slinger is a hospitality recruitment tool that connects vetted hospitality workers with some of London's best food and drink businesses. Sign up today!

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.

Zoppos is a London-based Cypriot entrepreneur and early stage tech business leader. Before founding onefinestay in 2009,he was founding CEO of GradFutures, a web community site and co-founder of GF-X, the leading airfreight trading platform, which raised £50m and was acquired by Descartes. Previously, Zoppos was a consultant at McKinsey & Co.where he specialised in e-commerce, and was an associate at the World Bank. He earned his MA with First Class Honours in Economics from Robinson College, Cambridge, and his MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Zoppos is currently launching Klevio, a start-up in the “Internet of Things” area and will walk us through the path of turning an idea into a business.

Investment focus

Internet of Things, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Switchd — Switchd automates the process of switching energy tariff. You sign up once and our custom algorithm checks the market every day. We then switch you securely and hassle free so you can relax and save.
Impala — Our vision is to make every trip perfect. By building a future in which travel is seamless. Impala connects room sellers and hotels, instantly. We empower you to build, innovate and sell. We are the infrastructure that enables sellers to build better products, faster. Unlike bed-banks or affiliate schemes, you can get started in 30 seconds. OurBooking API is a mega-channel that attracts more bookings for hotels without having to pay integration fees or police rate parity.
Weaver.build — Weaver.build is a contractor marketplace for home renovations

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