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Top 50 Hospitality Angel Investors in United Kingdom in May 2025

Last updated: May 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 May 2025

Investor	Hospitality United Kingdom investments
Lord Rumi Verjee	3
Michael Bristow	3
Lorenz Bogaert	3
Jeremy Yap	2
Ricardo Schaefer	2
Tony Jamous	2
Rupert Loman	2
Paul Forster	2
Chris Lee	2
Brad Bao	2
Matthias Hilpert	2
Lorenzo Franzi	2
Andrew Weisz	2
Eddie Jordan	1
Jon Oringer	1
Conrad Whelan	1
Mark McDermott	1
Andrej Henkler	1
Marcus Wareing	1
Li Fan	1
Mark Hyman	1
Mark Ferguson	1
Gareth Williams	1
Nelson Peltz	1
Frederic Halley	1
Edward Gazelle	1
Will Brooks	1
Anthony Danon	1
Alex Macdonald	1
Nick Telson-Sillett	1
Chris Slater	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Jon Oringer	1
Karen Hanton	1
Will Martin	1
Dan Cobley	1
Jon Oringer	1
Michael Birch	1
Henry Rouquairol	1
Andy Phillipps	1
Tim Ferriss	1
Phillip Chambers	1
Philip Green	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
David Clarke	1
Maximilian Bittner	1
Eric Nadalin	1
Simon Murphy	1
Richard Flint	1
Oli Farago	1

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 — Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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.

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.

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

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, Messaging
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
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.

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

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.
compri — Automate all your Procurement activities with AI
Weaver.build — Weaver.build is a contractor marketplace for home renovations

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.

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

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 — Open-source LLM fine-tuning for Llama 4, Phi 4, Gemma 3, Mistral and more! Beginner friendly. Get faster with Unsloth.

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 Academy — 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.

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 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

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

Portfolio highlights

Keyban — Build interoperable customer experience based on Keyban infrastructure
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.

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

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, India, France

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 — Open-source LLM fine-tuning for Llama 4, Phi 4, Gemma 3, Mistral and more! Beginner friendly. Get faster with Unsloth.

Karen Hanton MBE, was the founder and Chairman of Toptable, a restaurant booking company. In 2010, Toptable was sold to OpenTable for $55m.Karen has also founded the IT staffing firm Mortimer Spinks. After selling Mortimer Spinks, she bought and staffed a restaurant business in Fulham, which in 1998 inspired her to found Toptable. Karen wasappointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.

Investment focus

Events, E-Commerce, Music
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DICE — DICE was founded in London in 2014, DICE helps fans discover and buy tickets to live shows and streams all over the world. Available in the UK, US, France, Italy, Spain, India and Australia, and accessible to fans globally through its live stream offering, DICE is on a mission to get people out more.
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.
Hire Space — The best venues for hire in the UK and beyond. Find undiscovered venues and book online at the UK's highest rated venue platform. Premium Hire Space 360 solution available for corporate bookers.

Will Martin - Founder and 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.

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, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pockla — Supercharging creatives with content strategy and creation.
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.

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 — Open-source LLM fine-tuning for Llama 4, Phi 4, Gemma 3, Mistral and more! Beginner friendly. Get faster with Unsloth.

Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo and Birthday Alarm. Birch was raised in North London, England, went to Imperial College, London in Central London (where he met Xochi, his wife), then worked in West London. After finally deciding that he had done London, Michael moved to San Francisco in 2002.Michael and Xochi Birch sold Bebo to AOL inMarch 2008 for USD 850 million. Their combined 70% stake yielded a profit of $595 million from the deal. In June 2008, Michael invested in, and joined the board of MyStore.com along with Julian Lennon and Gordon Crawford. He is also an investor in Goodreads, a book oriented social network.Having worked in a number of not-so-exciting computer related jobs, he relished the chance to set up an Internet based family business with his wife, Xochi and brother, Paul. Remembering birthdays was never his strong point, much to his embarrassment, so what could be better than something he could use himself. Michael was responsible for developing the original Birthday Alarm website back in 2001, but is no longer involved in its development.

Investment focus

Apps, Social Media, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Keyo — Keyo is an end-to-end solution that offers apartment rentals. Now, Keyo has blossomed into a full-scale software-as-a-service for landlords, targeting small-to-medium-sized renters with 20 to 5,000 units. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.
HolidayFox — HolidayFox is a platform to discover and book family staycations. From a fun filled day out with the kids through to a whole holiday, HolidayFox has it all. Get suggestions, find, build and book your perfect package all in one place
Whatifi — Whatifi turns passive viewers into active players who control what happens next.

Henry Rouquairol

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Bippit — Bippit is a financial support system for employees, which provides them with a 1-1 financial coach, powerful tools, and practical resources.Research has shown that 3/4 staff members have financial concerns that directly affect them at work, but only 1/10 have been able to speak to an expert about them. This has a huge impact onbusinesses, as 15% of payroll cost can be lost from reduced productivity, presenteeism, and an increase in staff turnover, due to the financial worries of their workforce.Bippit makes professional financial support completely free for employees, whenever and wherever they need it, and is backed by early stage investors in Monzo, Freetrade, and Calm.
roamad — Uniting the global campervan and motorhome community with the most resourceful all-in-one camping tool. Book a campsite, find places to park for the day or night, public facilities and more.
Statusphere — Scale UGC in a fraction of the time. Our micro-influencer marketing platform's first-party matchmaking and fulfillment tech helps brands get content faster.

Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Communities, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
Wevat — Wevat makes it easy for tourists to get tax back on shopping in Europe.
Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.

Tim Ferriss is a startup angel investor, American author, entrepreneur, and public speaker. He has written many self-help books, including The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef.In 2001, Ferriss founded BrainQUICKEN, an online nutritional supplements company. He is also a guest lecturer at Princeton University, where he hasspoken on high-tech entrepreneurship since 2003 in the electrical engineering and ORFE departments. He is on the advisory board of DonorsChoose.org.As an angel investor, Ferriss has invested or advised in startups such as StumbleUpon, Posterous, Evernote, DailyBurn, Shopify, Reputation Defender, Trippy, Foodzie, Badongo, TaskRabbit, RescueTime, and SimpleGeo.

Investment focus

Wellness, Fitness, Marketplace
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mentava — Our mission is to give options to kids whose learning needs aren't being met. Our first product teaches preschoolers to read.
Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
AG1 — Athletic Greens is proudly manufactured in New Zealand, using a TGA-registered facility with standards far in excess of cGMP and FDA guidelines. It is made clean and green. Athletic Greens was formulated by research doctorates and nutritionists with a 60 years' combined experimental and clinical experience.

Phillip Chambers is the GM, Peakon Employee Voice at Workday. He attended University of Manchester.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Human Resources
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Marts — Marts is an integrated platform that enhances the capacities of IT departments by eliminating these inefficiencies. Put unconnected systems and intimidating spreadsheets behind. IT asset management, support services, and procurement are all integrated into one platform by Marts.
Strise — Strise is signaling a new era of enterprise software and organizational change, transforming how companies work and empowering individual growth through knowledge. We believe in the AI-enabled financial institution without data silos where users and data are working together to solve even the most complex business problems.
Cello — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel. Cello is the easiest way to add a P2P referral program to any SaaS product in hours.

Phil studied finance and accounting at Salford University and went on to qualify as a management accountant shortly after. He has worked for various retail, FMCG and tech companies over the last 20 years, with 8 years spent working for Amazon, where he held various finance roles and learned about scaling a business. His most recent role wasleading finance for Amazon’s European Operations, before joining Deliveroo in 2016 as CFO, helping scale the organization rapidly. Although his favorite job ever was investing in bars in Germany and Austria. Outside work Phil has 4 children, is engaged with a number of European based Start-ups and small enterprises covering various industries such as VR/AR, Media, Security, Software, and e-commerce.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kouo — Kouo is an emotional intelligence platform using neural imaging sensors to monitor emotional states.
Ordo — Ordo allows you to receive payments, in real time, for a single flat fee of 20p, no matter the amount. Free trial. No commitment. No contract. No equipment.
Reach Industries — Reach Industries focuses on developing cutting-edge products for companies. Reach Industries was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Bristol, UK.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, Denmark, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Glaut — Glaut is an AI-native customer survey platform that conducts in-depth, AI-moderated interviews with customers at scale.
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).
Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.

Max is part of the executive team of Lazada.com, a leading regional online department store founded by Rocket Internet in Southeast Asia. As CEO, Max is responsible for the performance of all 5 operating countries as well as overseeing regional buying.Max started his career at Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking division in London. Followinghis MBA, he joined McKinsey & Company in Germany. Over these 4 years at the firm, Max worked largely with Media and Retail clients as a consultant. During his time at McKinsey, he also joined the private equity firm 3i plc for 6 months on a secondment.Max initially joined Rocket Internet in Germany as a regional partner before taking on the role of CEO at Lazada.Max holds a bachelor degree of economics and history from University College London and a MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management in Chicago

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Logistics, Marketplace
Series A, Seed, Series C
Singapore, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Lummo — Lummo empower entrepreneurs and brands in SEA to accelerate their growth and to serve their customers by giving them the best technology.
Reebelo — Reebelo is APAC’s leading marketplace for pre-loved tech devices. Our vision is to reduce e-waste by building the circular economy for refurbished electronics. While doing so, we enable consumers to save up to 70% on their favorite brands and flexibly rent devices instead of buying them. Reebelo is based in Singapore with additional offices inAustralia, New Zeland & Malaysia. Get in touch if you want to be part of a high-growth, disruptive team working to make a positive impact!
Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.

Eric Nadalin has entrepreneurship experiences in both the payments and telecoms spaces for over 20+ years. He cofounded Nexmo and worked as a CTO managing product and engineering teams. The company was acquired by Vonage in May 2016. During the dotcom era, he was based in San Francisco and cofounded iPIN, which was later on acquired by Valista andwas integrated with major mobile operators around the globe. Eric holds several patents in telecommunication, a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Computer Science from Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Cledara — Manage, control and automate your Company's cloud software so that you can scale your operational processes, comply with regulations and save money.
Northflank — Northflank is the comprehensive developer platform designed for scale. Seamlessly deploy and release any project on our cloud or in yours.
Oyster — Hire, pay, manage, and take care of your globally distributed team with confidence. Try Oyster for free today!

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.

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