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Top 50 Hospitality VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in January 2026

Investor	Hospitality United Kingdom investments
Equity Gap	11
Par Equity	7
Speedinvest	7
Eight Roads Ventures	5
Seedrs	5
SFC Capital	5
Maven Capital Partners	5
Kindred Capital	4
Smedvig Ventures	4
Imbiba	4
Capnamic	4
24 Haymarket	4
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund	3
Pitchdrive	3
Venrex	3
Index Ventures	3
Techstart Ventures	3
Business Growth Fund	3
Fuel Ventures	3
Praetura Ventures	3
Angel Invest	3
Foresight Group	3
TrueSight Ventures	3
Episode 1	3
Jigsaw VC	3
Pente Capital	2
Underline Ventures	2
PROfounders Capital	2
Edge VC	2
COREangels Lisbon	2
Lakestar	2
Piper Private Equity	2
Northzone	2
LDC	2
Horizon 2020	2
Scottish Enterprise	2
Kima Ventures	2
Active Partners	2
Notion Capital	2
Novator	2
NVM Private Equity	2
Wren Capital	2
Frontline Ventures	2
Aldea Ventures	2
F-Prime	2
Calibrate Management	2
Antler	2
Startupist Ventures	2
Midven	2
Martlet Capital	2

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage venture capital funds, with more than €1.2bn in AuM and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Our dedicated sector-focused teams (Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech, Health & Bio, Marketplaces & Consumer Tech, SaaS & Infra) are the first to fundEMEA's most innovative pre-Seed and Seed tech startups. Our in-house operational experts and global network of industry leaders support our portfolio companies with growth, people (HR), market expansion, and more throughout every stage of their journeys. Bitpanda, GoStudent, Wayflyer, Open, CoachHub, Schüttflix, TourRadar, Adverity, and TWAICE are among our portfolio of 400+ companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vocca — Vocca manages your patient calls, bookings, and reminders 24/7 so your team spends less time on admin and more time on care. Tailored to all specialties. Trusted by thousands.
Finary — Finary is a platform that allows everybody to better track and manage their wealth.
Runware — Runware provides lightning-fast text-to-image and image-to-image generation speeds—0.3 seconds for SD 1.5 and 0.9 seconds for SDXL, all through one powerful API.

Eight Roads has a 50+ year history of investing and partners with game-changing technology and healthcare companies, supporting them as they scale to become global leaders.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Amenitiz — The all-in-one hotel management platform for independent hotels. Streamline operations, maximize occupancy, and control your business.
StashAway — StashAway is a MAS-licensed investment platform in Singapore that's designed for portfolio and wealth management for all at low fees.
ABK Biomedical — At ABK biomedical, we are focused on developing novel Y90 radioembolization treatment options for patients with hypervascular liver tumors

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hofy — Use Hofy's equipment management platform to remotely supply, manage and maintain subscription workstations, while staying compliant.
Mojo — Join 600,000+ men worldwide using AI-powered coaches to build a performance mindset and take back control of their love lives.
Sohar Health — Streamline patient intake and boost revenue with Sohar's real-time insurance verification and eligibility solutions. Automate workflows, reduce claim denials, and improve conversion rates with accurate, fast, and reliable tools. Book a demo today to transform your patient onboarding process.

Venture Capital firm based in London. We help enable business funding though capital investment. In turn, that funds and drives business growth as exceptional speed. Visit our site to find out how our proven model of business investment can help your start up.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Chatlyn — Automated, AI-enhancend guest engagement, where your clients are most comfortable.
MarketLeap — Breaking E-commerce Barriers with Software. MarketLeap is managing all the complexities of selling and growing on marketplaces worldwide.
Glint Solar — Enabling developers to identify and analyze the best solar sites

Investors in leisure, entertainment & lifestyle growth brands.

Investment focus

Hospitality, Restaurants, Family
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

F1 Arcade — F1 Arcade UK offers a best-in-class, full-motion racing simulator experience. Experience the thrill of F1 at our state of the art venues today.
Little Houses Group — Creating a family of clubs that parents and children will love. Little Houses will be a new kind of family club. Open to both members and pay-and-play guests.
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.

Capnamic is a Venture Capital firm supporting ambitious founders in the German-speaking regions. Our focus is on the early stages, from (Pre-)Seed to Series A.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Ordio — Ordio vereinfacht Schichtplanung, Zeiterfassung, Urlaubsplanung und Aufgabenverwaltung in einer Plattform die Teams entlastet und Prozesse beschleunigt.
Tanso — Tanso aims at making sustainability accounting as integrated, transparent, and verifiable as financial accounting. Tanso Technologies enables industrial companies to become part of the solution to a lower-carbon economy.
Buena — Home ist die einfachste, sicherste und profitabelste Art und Weise Wohnungen zu vermieten.

24Haymarket is an investment network which included several highly-experienced private equity and venture capital investors, seasoned entrepreneurs, and senior operators. Investing up to £5 million in growth companies in the UK and Europe. They invested their own capital in direct alignment with entrepreneurs and actively support their growthagenda and join the board of the companies in which they invest. Since inception in 2011, 24Haymarket has invested in more than 50 high-growth businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Angoka — ANGOKA is an IoT security company focused on protecting M2M communications for Smart Cities and Mobility. Headquartered in Belfast, with offices in London and The Hague, ANGOKA offers solutions that protect devices’ identities. With an increase of inherently insecure networks coming online with the boom of IoT, ANGOKA’s solutions safeguard criticalmachine-to-machine communication integrity and data provenance, creating trusted connections, even in untrustworthy networks.ANGOKA is the only cybersecurity company to win a place on Zenzic’s CAM Scale-Up Programme, delivered in partnership with Plug and Play. ANGOKA was also the first NI start-up to be selected for NCSC’s Cyber Accelerator, who reviewed and assessed ANGOKA’s technology. ANGOKA is also an alumnus of Seraphim Space Camp, Yes!Delft and TechNation Cyber 2.0. Finally, ANGOKA has been awarded several Innovate UK R&D projects, which focus on securing quantum communications (led by BT) and two drone projects.
CyberOwl — CyberOwl develops an innovative early warning system for attacks through real-time monitoring of high-value targets for malicious behavior. The technology, based on research shortlisted for the Lloyd’s Science of Risk Prize 2015, is aimed at addressing the challenges of increasingly anonymous and persistent threats to rapidly-expanding globalnetworks, particularly in the wake of Smart Cities and the Internet of Things. The system raises early warning on network assets for possible undesirable activity, by applying a Bayesian-based framework to systematically analyze indicators associated with early stages of such activity. This approach dramatically reduces the processing overheads of monitoring. The benefits to the security operation include scalability to networks exceeding 1 billion devices, providing earlier visibility of risk and improving prioritization and decision-making in deploying countermeasures. CyberOwl is developing its minimum viable product and is looking for two or three strategic industry design partners for validation, verification, and further development. The ideal design partner would provide access to real-world security problems in a large network, high-volume data environment.CyberOwl was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in London, England.
Kelda Technology — Kelda Technology is a British clean tech business that develops water-in-air shower products that halve water usage and water heating costs through patented shower technology. Kelda Technology has adapted cutting edge automotive and aerospace technology to produce a revolutionary “water-in-air” shower system that halves water use without any lossin performance. Water is broken into droplets to form a comfortable spray which is accelerated using a globally patented jet-type nozzle. Not only does it halve water costs, but also halves associated heating costs.The Kelda shower system holds appeal for a wide range of sectors, including gym and leisure, hotels and accommodation providers, healthcare, and maritime – all industries where water efficiency is key. The product has completed in-market validation and commercial trials, is in manufacture and the company has already signed installation deals with some of the largest leisure operators in the UK and Latin America.Kelda Technology was recently chosen as one of the top 30 cleantech companies in the world at the New Energy Start-Up awards 2016 and was this week shortlisted by the UK Business Angels Association for Best Investment in a Disruptive Tech Business.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Pitchdrive is a pre-seed investor run by experienced tech entrepreneurs backing founders during their crazy startup ride. Buckle up.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

introw — We help B2B sales, marketing & partnership teams to unlock warm referral leads in their partner ecosystem through AI. Allowing them to discover & co-sell on these leads from within their sales tools.
Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
DataPad — Say hello to the World's easiest metric tracking tool. Track everything in one place. Enable your entire team. Build data culture. All with no code, no development.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

RETìníZE — RETìníZE is an AR, VR, multi-screen installations, and software development.
Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
Liquid Acquire — Liquid Acquire provides AI solutions for mergers and acquisitions.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Peak — Accelerating AI adoption in retail and manufacturing, driving growth through inventory optimisation, AI-driven pricing, and more.
OBT Live — OBT Live helps brands in media, sport, retail and leisure drive sales and increase brand loyalty among consumers through AI.
Patchwork — NHS workforce solution for managing rotas, bank shifts, and staffing. Trusted by 200+ organisations. Built by healthcare professionals.

Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active angel funds

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Peec AI — Peec AI helps marketing teams analyze brand performance across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. Track visibility, benchmark competitors, and optimize AI search presence.
Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.
symmetrical.ai — Symmetrical is the only payroll service & fully integrated HR platform designed for modern People Teams.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ruleguard — Ruleguard is an regulatory technology platform for financial sector firms that helps you manage and evidence compliance across your organisation. Features include automated horizon scanning, rules mapping, SMCR compliance, third party oversight tools, breach management and regulatory checklists.
Fresh Car Valeting — Highly experienced professional mobile car body repairs, valeting and detailing auto repair services operating all over the UK. A complete mobile car care service, we can clean your car anywhere that you can park it.
Oxford Space Systems — Oxford Space Systems is a multi-award-winning, record-breaking venture capital backed, space tech business that's developing a new generation of deployable antennas and space structures for the global satellite industry. Using both innovative design techniques such as origami and novel proprietary materials developed by the company, OSS'structures are lighter, less complex and lower cost than alternatives in commercial demand. Founded in late 2013, OSS set a record for the space sector with it's AstroTube Boom: the fastest development of a new product from concept to successful deployment on orbit in under 30 months. Today, the 18 strong and growing OSS team is a diverse mix of international graduates and experienced space industry professionals, with over 100 years of combined space sector experience. OSS investors include a small syndicate of UK venture capital funds together US based investors, Space Angels. Oxford Space Systems has successfully completed a number of UK government supported co-developments with leading European satellite builders as well straight commercial contracts in both Asia and the US. As part of its planned expansion, OSS move into its own custom facility at the Harwell Space Cluster in August 2018, giving it the largest clean room at the cluster. The facility will meet required security standards to undertake UK government defense & security contracts. .

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

eMoov — Sell or let your property with online estate agent Emoov
Scurri — Scurri is next generation delivery management software that puts retailers back in control. Explore our delivery management software today.
ThirdEye — ThirdEye is building the world’s first real-time CCTV powered AI assistant to put in the hands of public space workers. Our context aware alert systems detect relevant events in CCTV streams and deliver notifications to staff members in real-time while our analytics tools make data-driven decision making available to brick-and-mortar retailers. Wekeep our clients productive and competitive in an ever evolving market.

Jigsaw VC website

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lawhive — LawHive provides local UK solicitors for half the cost of a law firm. Connect with licensed solicitors online. Use any computer or smartphone.
Goodstack — Goodstack is a SaaS and fintech platform for managing charitable donations.
Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.

At Pente, we invest in entrepreneurs and operators who aim to build great businesses. The teams we partner with are true builders, whether they work with wireframes, code, physical products or ideas.We see the emergence of a kinder and more sustainable world, powered by a new generation of businesses. A world where life's luxuries areredefined as design being the central determinator of quality. We are working with the most promising founders and businesses to catalyze change with radical, empathetic visions for a better future.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, Austria

Portfolio highlights

WatchHouse — Cosy, unique coffee spots & eateries in London. We make great coffee and exceptional food within beautifully bespoke environments tailored around our local community. It is as simple as that. | Never worry about running out of coffee supplies again. The Modern Coffee experience from the comfort of your own home.
Pentire Drinks — Made from unique plants native to the Cornish coastline, Pentire is a new botanical non-alcoholic spirit drink. A gin style drink that harnesses the power, beauty and immense flavour of plants, without the after effects. Buy online now.
Mytos — The Infrastructure for Cell Manufacturing

Underline Ventures partners at the earliest stages with Eastern European founders building high-growth startups with global ambitions. Underline Ventures invest at the seed stage (pre-seed, seed, late seed) along with other investors, which we can also help you find. Our average cheque is €500k.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed
Romania, Serbia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Turneo — Inspire travelers to browse and book all of their holiday activities, directly on your website
UVIONIX — Uvionix deploys Autonomous Flying Robots (AFRs) to monitor and report live data, ensuring a comprehensive view of operations, workflow efficiency, and near 100% inventory level accuracy. The system creates live digital twins of warehouse spaces, meticulously tracking each material movement. Delivering precise, unbiased data, and being immune to human error, the platform drastically enhances material planning, reduces stock losses, and lowers labor costs.
Bible Chat — Bible Chat is the best Christian AI app that lets you talk to the Bible, ask faith questions, request prayers, and study Scripture. Try now for free!

We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Abacum — Our FP&A software automates data integration, eases collaboration & drives rapid insights into your financial health. See why Typeform, Ebury & Cabify trust us.
Capalo AI — We maximize the value of your energy storage systems. Now and in the future.
Engine Labs — AI powered IDE in the browser. Engine provides a complete solution for full stack development. Complete access to your codebase & infrastructure. Build with words and code.

We are specialist investors in exceptional creative teams and emerging technologies. We invest £1m-5m in creative technology companies in the UK and Northern Europe. We have over £120m in AUM, and backed by the UK's British Business Bank.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Video, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, Jersey, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Springpod — Gain virtual work experience with top employers and try university courses before you apply on Springpod. Enhance your CV and Personal Statement online for free
Edit Cloud — Edit Cloud is an editing platform that offers virtual editing suites.
SKY ENGINE AI — SKY ENGINE AI revolutionizes computer vision with synthetic data and deep learning solutions. Unlock scalable, efficient, and cost-effective AI training.

COREangels Boston is a group of operators and entrepreneurs investing at the angel stage in startups which have low capital costs and are either special situations or unicorns-in-waiting.

Investment focus

Hospitality, Information Technology
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DOJO AI — Dojo AI is pioneering the Marketing Operating System (MOS) category, providing challenger brands with enterprise-grade marketing infrastructure. Its proprietary technology combines real-time market intelligence, specialized AI agents, and automated workflow orchestration in one unified platform.The Dojo MOS enables marketing teams to run theirentire operation - from market research and strategy to content creation and campaign execution - through a single, intelligent system. The platform features a proprietary graph engine for real-time market intelligence, marketing-specific language models, and autonomous AI agents trained for specialized marketing tasks.Built for challenger brands looking to compete more effectively, Dojo eliminates the need for multiple point solutions and reduces dependency on external agencies. The platform continuously learns and optimizes, providing companies with compounding advantages as they scale their marketing operations.
Hotel Manager — Hotel Manager is the platform for delivering modern experiences to guests, wherever they are. Launch and build your hotel app in no time and manage your growth easily. All in one platform with zero technical knowledge required.

Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb. Since raising the first fund in 2013, Lakestar manages an aggregated volume of over EUR 1bn across three early-stage funds, and more recently a growth fund. The company has expandedand broadened its portfolio and holds investments in the likes of Opendoor, Oscar, GetYourGuide, Glovo, Sender, Eigen, Five, Revolut, and Hometogo to name a few. Lakestar has a presence in Berlin, Zurich, and London.Lakestar helps companies to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Faktus — Le partenaire financier de vos chantiers publics. Le financement de BFR rapide et accessible pour les entreprises du bâtiment
Auterion — The ecosystem of software-defined drones, payloads, and apps within a single easy to use platform.At Auterion we care about providing enterprise and government with an ecosystem of software-defined drones, payloads, and third party applications within a single easy to use platform based on open-source standards.We’re leaders in an open-sourcemovement bigger than ourselves that works together to meet the needs of enterprises, government, and drone manufacturers. We believe in openness, partnership, engineering excellence, and empowering the drone industry.With offices in California and R&D in Switzerland, we’ve raised $25M in venture-backed funding. Today, our software platforms powers the drones of some of the leaders in the industry, including General Electric (GE) Aviation, Quantum Systems, Freefly Systems, Avy, and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Fuse Games — Based in Istanbul, Fuse Games’ vision is to build mobile games that are loved by wide and diverse player groups. Founded by a team that has strong gaming, growth and execution background, Fuse Games’ initial focus is on developing a MOBA game that includes strong meta elements and innovative ways to create a sense of ownership.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Clarium — Clarium is transforming healthcare by empowering providers with an AI-powered platform with intelligent workflow automation and actionable insights.
Topline Pro — Receive a optimized website built for you in 24hrs with online tools to grow your service business. Take your business to the next level.
GovDash — Realize allows users to link brokerage accounts, view real-time account data, and place trades from any app. We currently support over 90 million accounts at the largest retail brokerages in the US.We're revenue-generating and backed by top investors like Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Soma Capital, Olive Tree Capitaland more.

For over 40 years, LDC has been the trusted investment partner for ambitious management teams. We invest in a diverse range of businesses across every region and sector of the UK economy.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Private Equity, Funding Round, Secondary Market
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

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Precise TV — Precise.TV helps you deliver brand safe, targeted YouTube advertising campaigns complete with actionable data analytics to drive performance for your brand.
HSL Compliance — HSL Compliance offers water hygiene and tank replacement, water quality testing, city and guilds training & fire risk assessments services.
LendingMetrics — Delivering cutting-edge financial technology and innovative solutions including the multi-award-winning Auto Decision Platform (ADP). ISO-accredited credit reference agency licensed and regulated by the FCA.

The EU framework programme for research and innovation

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NovaMea — NovaMea is a cleantech startup that designs and commercializes electrochemical systems for energy storage and conversion.Its purpose is to create technology, services, and products for the storage and conversion of energy using electrochemical processes, as well as to produce, store, sell, and distribute these products and their components.
Perciv AI — Perciv provides artificial intelligence (AI)-based software solutions to unlock the latent possibilities of radars and allow resilient and economical autonomous systems with Lidar-like performance even in severe weather circumstances.
Neuron Soundware — Neuron Soundware uses Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in combination with the analysis of sound and other physical parameters.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kalent — Search. Match. Engage. At scale. From your ATS to our 500M+ profiles — Kalent is your AI recruiter.
Plakar — Plakar is an open-source backup and restore platform built for modern infrastructure, AI workflows, and high-compliance environments.Designed to replace legacy backup systems with something leaner, smarter, and more developer-friendly, Plakar lets teams protect, version, and instantly recover their data — across local systems, S3-compatibleobject storage, Kubernetes, and more.Plakar turns every backup into a self-contained, immutable unit that carries its own structure, metadata, and encryption. It supports end-to-end deduplication, instant recovery, and granular restores, making backup storage reusable for AI training, data audits, and reproducibility.Plakar is especially relevant for teams working in fast-moving or regulated industries — such as AI, finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity — where data integrity, traceability, and rollback capabilities are mission-critical.Founded in 2024 and based in Paris, Plakar is backed by Seedcamp, HelloWorld, IrregularExpression, Galion.exe, Kima Ventures, OPRTRS, Purple, Motier Ventures, Pareto, and several leading angels including executives from Datadog, Docker, Voodoo, Sqreen, and Logmatic.io.
Alta Ares — Alta Ares is a data integration surveillance service provider that utilizes drone imaging.

Active Partners is a consumer-focused investment firm that partners with visionary founders to build the iconic brands of tomorrow.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ARTAH — We create science-backed systems for real, lasting change. Our award-winning supplements and nutrition programmes blend cutting edge science with high-quality, natural ingredients to help you see and feel visible changes.
Lovetovisit — Discover & book tickets for days out & things to do near you. Discounts & deals, no membership fees! Attractions, theatres, zoos, theme parks, aquariums & more
Coopah Running — Try Coopah free. Cancel anytime. Personalised running plans to help you smash your race goals.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Miru Labs — Miru Labs offers tailored solutions to spot, rank, and halt crypto threats for enterprises and retail users.
Orus — L'assurance professionnelle que vous attendiez. Plus juste, rapide, simple et humaine. Souscrivez en 5 minutes et recevez votre attestation sous 48 heures.
Zango — Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight.

Novator is an alternative investment firm founded and led by the international investor and entrepreneur Thor Bjorgolfsson.Novator's investment portfolio is focused around following sectors: Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy. In addition, Novator operates a Private Equity Fund and a Credit Opportunities Fund.Novator focuses on developing strong management teams in each of its portfolio companies. While granting them the autonomy to create value, Novator maintains a supervisory role, principally through representation on the Boards of its investee companies. Novator differentiates itself from many other private equity companies in concentrating on complex situations, either by virtue of their structure or their cross-border nature. To create value, Novator undertakes the restructuring or "de-risking" of investment opportunities through re-financing, combining acquired assets with existing businesses, through sale to strategic or financial buyers, or through flotation. Novator's investment portfolio is focused around four main sectors:Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Online Games
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Numan — Convenient care, tailored to you. Offering treatments for weight loss, diagnostics, erectile dysfunction, hair loss, and more.
Nord Security — Nord Security is the leader in the field of online privacy and security. Our security tools have earned praise from respected experts and tech outlets.
Steel City Interactive — Steel City Interactive develops gaming.

NVM Private Equity Limited is an independently-owned firm of venture capital managers with over 20 years experience of investing in UK businesses. They manage five investment funds, four of which are Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and their funds under management exceed Â£175 million.They are a long-established investor focused on the UK regions,primarily targeting small management buy-outs and growth investment in businesses that are led by high quality incumbent management teams.They have a wide range of skills, interests and backgrounds. That means they bring a thorough and rounded approach to the investment process. They live and work in the UK regions, so are entrenched within their local business communities.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Wren is an angel investor in science, engineering and software. They founded Wren in 2011 and have invested in 50 companies so far.Wren is well known in the early stage investment community and has co-invested with a wide range of both angel and institutional investors. From software and semiconductors to genome editing, and from medical devicesto satellites, they are interested in sectors where technical ingenuity and hard work can produce long term value. They look for people with a deep understanding of their markets. The founders they invest in are smart and they get things done.Wren typically invests £50,000 to £200,000 per funding round. Difficult problems take time to solve, so they are patient with their investments. Their aim is to get deals done and they take a pragmatic approach to doing so.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
MitoRx Therapeutics — Developing revolutionary mitochondrial-protective therapeutics which reverse mitochondrial dysfunction to arrest decline in muscular dystrophy and neurodegeneration. MitoRx Therapeutics' first-in-class first-in-target platform has potential to arrest the progression of some of the most challenging diseases.
Monument Therapeutics — Monument Therapeutics is a biotechnology company intended to develop drugs to treat serious diseases of the central nervous system.

Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline X is a growth-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bird.i — Discover Zonda's complete homebuilding data solutions: Enterprise, Research & Advisory consulting services. Unlock the data trusted by leading builders.
Cellbyte — AI Agents for Pricing and Market Access Teams in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
WiseBee Hive — WiseBee is building the future of autonomous cybersecurity. Powered by AI agents, WiseBee helps companies monitor their attack surface, assess third-party risk, and fix vulnerabilities - automatically. Designed for mid-market and fintech organizations, WiseBee replaces fragmented tools with a unified, intelligent security platform that saves teamstime, reduces costs, and improves security outcomes.

Aldea is a venture capital platform based in Barcelona, investing in next generation technology leaders across Europe

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Yaba — Yaba buy, finance and support the growth of businesses based on Amazon FBA.
Savana — Electronic Health Records reuse, with Clinical Natural Language Processing.
Toqio — Toqio is a development and orchestration platform where you can build, configure, and launch corporate embedded finance solutions for merchant networks.

F-Prime Capital is a global venture capital firm investing in healthcare and technology, with a heritage that spans four decades.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

iRiva Medical — iRiva Medical is developing novel neuromodulation therapies to address unmet therapeutic requirements in large patient populations.
K36 Therapeutics — K36 Therapeutics mission to translate epigenetic modulation of oncogenic pathways into first-in-class small molecule therapies.
Canary Technologies — Use Canary to securely conduct contactless check-in and process credit card authorizations, contracts, and amenities online. Canary is the only PCI Level-1 Compliant solution for hotel authorizations. Schedule a demo today, and see how we can help your properties reduce chargebacks, save time, and improve the guest experience.

Calibrate is focused on long-duration capital investments. Our firm belief is that having a longer timeline for investing will generate superior returns. We do not believe in short term solutions.Our ethos is to operate with integrity and to add value across the spectrum of the investment cycle.Our mission is to provide the means to support,sustain, and enhance stakeholder value; to generate an environment aligned with value creation.Our business is founded upon our core values and a measured approach to risk management as our name suggests.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

KisanHub — KisanHub Agri-Food Supply Chain Software helps Producer Groups to transform their supply chain and improve margins with greater visibility and data driven insights. With all your supply and procurement data together in one convenient dashboard, you can better predict supply and make the most of demand. Choose from a suite of software modules thatwork seamlessly to provide fast access to crop progress, weather information, satellite imagery, stock levels and delivery schedules.
Staff Heroes — Staff Heroes is the #1 On Demand Booking Platform for Temporary Staff, providing quality vetted workers to over 1000 Hospitality, Event and Venue businesses in London and transforming the traditional agency industry.Staff Heroes removes the middleman giving Businesses control and transparency with as much or little control as they wish.Businesses have the option to view Worker profiles and ratings allowing the creation of favourite pools of workers. Vice versa workers are able to rate Businesses based on their experience.Staff Heroes works with many large businesses such as Four Seasons, Hilton, BBC, ISS, Servest, Virgin Atlantic, Youngs, Aramark, Delaware North as well as with over 1'200 SMEs who have signed up to the platform since launch.Staff Heroes empowers Heroes (workers), allowing them to have control of where and when they work and creating a more democratic working environment with reward and gamification to incentivise loyalty.Staff Heroes was founded by Laurent Gibb in December 2015; and is headquartered in London, England.
Funding Xchange — Funding Xchange is transforming and connecting the SME funding eco-system through digital eligibility and affordability assessment tools. Funding Xchange built its leading technology platform by connecting businesses with more than 70 funders to access indicative offers in 3 minutes and money in businesses’ bank accounts in 10 minutes.Funding Xchange’s Marketplace provides access to finance where businesses are engaging with their finance. Using its API-led technology, Funding Xchange is embedding its Marketplace in the largest Price Comparison Websites like MoneySuperMarket, delivering custom marketplaces to banks like NatWest and Monzo, integrating finance solutions in advisory platforms like Enterprise Nation and finance available within accounting software and payment providers own eco-system. Through FXE Technologies, the business white-labels its intelligent SME lending tools for banks, funders and brokers. Clients are able to deploy white-labelled, digitally-led customer journeys and market-facing intermediary portals, transforming operating costs and increasing look-to-book ratios while also empowering active portfolio risk management.The tools are powered by real-time access to validated transactional data and leverage insights into risk analytics and underwriting across a broad spectrum of SME funding solutions. The eligibility and affordability tools deliver the benefits of digital transformation without the risk of complex and costly technology projects. Funding Xchange was founded in 2014 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Rovers — Global Agricultural IP Company
Vern — Made with love in Sydney
Whisper — Whisper offers next-gen, real-time threat intelligence by leveraging a vast semantic graph built from 45 billion interconnected data points.

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Investment focus

FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance
Seed
Poland, Colombia, United Kingdom

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SATIM — SATIM provides insights based on satellite radar data acquired regardless of weather and day/night time. Using developed software and algorithms SATIM can solve the problem of optimal information extraction from complex SAR imagery.
Figuro — Figuro is reshaping the brokerage channel for insurance companies in LATAM by transforming how insurance is bought, sold and designed. That means no more photocopies, no printed forms, no waiting for hours or days to get a quote or a policy. Today, more than 60% of insurance sales in the region are made through a channel that hasn't changed in50 years, that relies mostly on human activity, paper or Excel -for the innovators-. We are more effective and efficient than any other traditional broker in the market for individuals and families.
Hotel Manager — Hotel Manager is the platform for delivering modern experiences to guests, wherever they are. Launch and build your hotel app in no time and manage your growth easily. All in one platform with zero technical knowledge required.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Eyoto — The future of eyecare technology, advanced tele-optometry solutions for the global optical industry. Creators of the world's first remote digital slit lamp.
Online Poundshop — Online Poundshop is an online-only, 24 hour, single priced retailer.Since launch in February 2014, Poundshop.com has created a new online shopping solution for customers keen to take advantage of pound shop savings. The huge range of everyday household essentials including cleaning products, batteries, toiletries, kitchen items, snacks, treatsand toys is now available with the convenience of home delivery. We are based in Exeter, Devon.In October 2014, the managerial and marketing teams of the UK’s 2 premier online single price retailers, Poundshop.com and Hereforapound.com joined forces. More exciting plans are only a few clicks away starting with our brand new look website and bigger than ever range of pound shop favourites!
Halo X Ray Technologies — HALO X-ray Technologies - next generation X-ray diffraction technology for the aviation security, medical and process control markets.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Xampla — Xampla's natural plant polymer technology is the innovative technology powering materials to change the world with plastic-free replacements and more.
Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.

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