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Top 50 Impact Angel Investors in United Kingdom

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Impact startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Impact companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Impact Angel Investors in United Kingdom

Investor	Impact United Kingdom investments
Paul Forster	5
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman	4
Biz Stone	4
Jon Moulton	4
Stanley Fink	3
Michael Pennington	3
Giuliano Stiglitz	3
Nigel Wray	3
Naruhisa Nakagawa	2
Serge Chiaramonte	2
Magnus Rausing	2
Mike Lee	2
Nick Boyle	2
Richard Brooke	2
Dawn Marriott-Sims	2
Jesper Lindhardt	2
Matt Cooper	2
Holly Branson	2
Stefano Martinetto	2
Alexander Edward Chesterman	2
Jon Reynolds	2
Ian Nolan	2
Curt Hopkins	2
Shubhrendu Koche	2
Giles Brook	2
Preben Damgaard	2
Sam Branson	2
Brett Akker	2
Nick Wheeler	1
Aaron Applbaum	1
Ilkka Paananen	1
Chris Eyre	1
Philip Walsh	1
Stijn Christiaens	1
Jeffrey Goh	1
Rahul Munjal	1
Greg Jackson	1
Harry Seekings	1
Peter Wood	1
Martin Olczyk	1
Marc Benioff	1
Ian Hogarth	1
David Helgason	1
Anthony Gutman	1
Yishan Wong	1
Alexandro Sances	1
Marcus Watson	1
Niklas Zennström	1
Adam Sadiq	1
Richard Branson	1

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Paul Forster

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Enzai — Enzai's AI governance platform allows you to build and deploy AI with confidence. Measure your progress in AI responsibility, and get actionable steps with our 3-minute maturity assessment.
Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
Triple — The best payment data enrichment solution. Our API includes fraud detection, transaction enrichment, categorization, subscriptions, and carbon footprint.

Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe / -Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger) - Equity Markets - Real Estate - FX - Commodity - Bonds - Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT - Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories: - Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint - Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi - D2C / B2C - Food & Beverages - Pharma - Media & Entertainment

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Agnikul — Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Log 9 Materials — The spirit of innovation remains the cornerstone of every mission here at Log9. We have failed numerous times in this mission of ours, only to learn from them
Toffee Ride - Learning App for Classes I - IV — Toffee Ride is a learning App that is singularly focused on helping your child develop a thorough understanding of fundamental concepts.

Biz Stone is the Co-founder and CEO of Jelly Industries, Inc. He previously worked at The Obvious Corporation as a Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer. Biz Stone attended Northeastern University.

Investment focus

Software, Messaging, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury

Jon Moulton is a British venture capitalist. He is the founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Better Capital, and is the former managing partner of the private equity firm Alchemy Partners.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Cyprus, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Pockit — Open a prepaid account in 3 minutes online or in-app, get your contactless prepaid card in 2 working days with no credit check.
Hometree — Keep yourself warm with Hometree, and try our no price hike promise. Compare our different boiler & home cover plans to see how you can save.
Hellas Direct — Hellas Direct is a digital-first, full-stack insurance company, empowered by cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence. The Cyprus-based company is backed by a roster of leading investors, including Portag3, IFC (a member of the World Bank), Endeavor Catalyst, former Goldman Sachs economist Lord O’Neill and private equity veteran JonMoulton. Modelling itself on Amazon, Hellas Direct aims to disrupt the insurance value chain by adopting an extreme focus on operational excellence.

Lord Stanley Fink is a non-executive director and investor in British Pearl. He is a senior, well-known and accomplished financial services professional, with a long and diverse track record in, among others, the managed futures, brokerage and hedge fund industries.He was born in 1957 and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity Hall,Cambridge graduating with a degree in Law. He then qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982 and worked at Mars and Citibank NA before joining Man Group plc in 1987, stepping down as Deputy Chairman of the Group in July 2008 after an illustrious career spanning 21 years including a successful period as Group CEO.Currently he is Chairman of ISAM Europe LLP, a hedge fund with offices in London, Florida and Cayman. He also is a non-executive director of Marex Spectron and Chairman of Zenith Hygiene Group plc.Lord Fink is a committed philanthropist whose focus is health, education and the environment. His roles include being a Trustee of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), a Trustee of the Mayor’s Fund for London and Co-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He was Chairman of the highly successful campaign by the Evelina London Hospital's Appeal to raise £10 million to assist in equipping the new hospital in 2005. He is also Chair Emeritus of the Board of Governors of Burlington Danes Academy which he sponsored through ARK. He was raised to the Peerage in 2011.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bud — Bud uses Open Banking to help financial companies to access and make sense of messy financial data.
mmi Analytics — Make better-informed brand communications decisions on a local, global and campaign level. Talk to us about how you can increase your beauty brand sales.
Blackbullion — Learning platform for students who want to get in control of their money

One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B. Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
FUEL — Where everlasting fanbases are built
Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor

Giuliano Stiglitz is CEO, founder and Co-owner of Latam Digital Ventures, a holding company that he created together with the Himedia Group, focused on acquiring and creating high growth and profitable digital media and ad tech businesses in the US Hispanic and LATAM Markets.Prior to that, he was CEO of Orange Advertising Americas, one of thelargest companies at US Hispanic and LATAM, focused on ad networks which he successfully transformed into Primia.Digital.Giuliano Stiglitz is also an angel investor, having invested in several tech and digital media start-ups. He is also a speaker at some of the most important events, such as Adtech, IAB, DMEXCO.

Investment focus

Finance, Organic, Messaging
Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LiveNinja — Business communication solutions from net2phone streamline workflows, effortlessly collaborate, and build customer relationships that last.
Eco Market — Eco Market enables sellers of ethical and eco products to easily create a shop to sell their products in our online marketplace. Since the site launched in October 2010 it has attracted hundreds of eco sellers selling over 7,000 unique products from across the world ranging from Fairtrade coffee, to handmade natural soap, to up-cycled tshirts.The website also simplifies the often complicated process of shopping ethically by explaining what each products ethical credentials and certificates mean. Shoppers can also learn more about each seller by interact with sellers reading interviews and interacting with them via the site's own social network and video system, where they can learn more about the story and people behind the products they buy.Our goal as a company is not only to give (often small one man band) sellers a platform to sell products but also to give consumers all the tools and information they need to demystify ethical shopping, and to create open debates about key issues that will help shape our planet.

Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino's Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors.Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community.Nigel still calls the area home, too - having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Glassette — Discover and collect beautiful, curated homeware from the best brands in the UK. Shop thoughtfully, live joyfully.
Get A Drip — All of our Drips and Booster Shots are administered by our medical staff, consisting of GMC registered Doctors and NMC registered Nurses.
Stubben Edge — Financial services for a new generation. Sign up free to sell better financial products, cheaper, faster and to more people with Flightdeck

Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting
Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zeigo — Zeigo by Schneider Electric provides sustainability software that is built to simplify and accelerate carbon reduction, lighting the path toward a carbon-free future.
Ecolectro — Ecolectro is solving the biggest challenges in making Green Hydrogen. Our alkaline ion-exchange membranes and polymers make clean fuel and decarbonize industry.
Sniffer Robotics — Comprehensive methane emissions detection and quantification, advanced imagery and analytics; Sniffer Robotics provides advanced solutions that benefit the environment.

Serge Chiaramonte

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Trezy — Trezy is smart & simple software the helps you manage your business with real-time finance insights & automated cash-flow forecasting.
qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.

Magnus Rausing

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Lick — Lick | Paints, Wallpapers and Supplies. Your Room, Covered
By Rotation — Rent over 25000+ designer fashion items online from our free app. Discover luxury designer dresses, clothing, bags and accessories from your trending favorite brands.
Anch.ai — Anch.AI is an Ethical AI Governance platform that helps you comply with EU regulations and avoid risks and penalties when developing and using AI as part of your business.

Mike Lee is Co-Founder of MyFitnessPal, the leading free resource helping people improve their health. Prior to founding MyFitnessPal, Mike co-founded NextC, a venture-funded startup focused on building online communities. During his 20 year tenure in the technology industry, Mike has held leadership positions at several other top start-upsin Silicon Valley, including Palm, Handspring, Beyond.com and Regis McKenna. Mike graduated summa cum laude from Princeton with a B.A. in Economics.

Investment focus

Fitness, Software, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sock Finance — Sock is a mobile finance app that helps people build wealth in the world of digital currency. We provide an instant, trustworthy, and low-cost way to send money, invest, and earn with crypto anywhere in the world while maintaining self-custody.
Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
Sunnyside — Cutback Coach is a developer of an alcohol tracking app to help people build healthier habits around their drinking. It offers a custom plan based on current drinking habits and goals, then set a daily reminder via text message that help users set the limit of their drinking habit.

In 2010, Nick founded Lightsource Renewable Energy, then just a six-person start-up, which quickly grew over 5 years to become Europe’s largest solar developer and operator and a recognised global leader. In his role as Group CEO, Nick’s dynamic leadership and vision has driven the company to tremendous success and in December 2017, Lightsourceannounced a strategic partnership with BP which has committed aggressively to accelerate the low carbon transition. The company has rebranded to Lightsource BP in affirmation of this powerhouse commitment which is set to shape the future of global energy delivery. Nick previously sat at Board and Senior Director level in a number of leading retail financial service companies. Throughout his career, Nick has always been recognised for his entrepreneurial skill and success in pairing retail financial products with low-risk, predictable investments.

Investment focus

Biofuel, Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Better Origin — At Better Origin, our mission is to fix the broken food chain by converting waste into high-value insect products.
Better Origin — At Better Origin, our mission is to fix the broken food chain by converting waste into high-value insect products.

Richard Brooke

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Social Impact, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.

Dawn Marriott-Sims is an Operating Partner at HgCapital and the Executive Chair of Kinapse, an Hg backed business, providing Life Science services.Before joining HgCapital, Dawn was a Board Member and the Joint COO of Capita plc, a FTSE 100 company during her time of office. She was responsible for 6 of the 11 operating divisions and also led GroupIT, Group HR and Group Talent, who delivered services to the 75,000 employees. She is a Board member for the Institute of Collaborative Working, the driving force behind ISO 44001.

Investment focus

InsurTech, Insurance, Smart Home
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hometree — Keep yourself warm with Hometree, and try our no price hike promise. Compare our different boiler & home cover plans to see how you can save.

Passionate SaaS Startup and Growth CxO & Board Executive I BUILD WINNING STARTUPS TO SCALE AND BEYOND - Passionate and engaged SaaS growth phase leader and general manager with strong track record - Commercial at heart, driven by ambitions, with a calm yet fighting mindset and the desire to learn from failures and courage to win - Driver insuccessful execution of growing business, go-to-market strategies, venture capital funding, globalization, US and Europe entries - Growing performance by strong hiring, motivating individuals and leaders with empowerment, result focus and respect across cultures and functions

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Apps, Software
Funding Round
Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Too Good To Go — The app that lets customers rescue unsold food from shops and restaurants to save it from going to waste. Try it today.
Too Good To Go Denmark — Too Good To Go fights food waste primarily through our app.

Matt Cooper is Chairman of Octopus. Before joining Octopus, Matt was Principal Managing Director of Capital One Bank (Europe) where he led the team guiding strategy and operations. He helped the UK arm grow from a start-up to a business employing more than 2,000 people and generating over £275 million in revenue.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.
Clerkenwell Health — Clerkenwell Health addresses the growing unmet demand for effective mental health treatments.
Juniper — Juniper is the radically accessible new way to offer your whole team reproductive health cover. Simple, affordable and built for every body.

Holly Branson Chief Purpose and Vision Officer at Virgin.

Investment focus

CleanTech, Logistics, Transportation
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oxwash — Powered by Vanish, Oxwash provides on-demand laundry and eco-friendly dry cleaning services, creating a simple and sustainable laundry service for all.
Papaya — Papaya offers platform to source, run and manage your electric vehicles.

Stefano Martinetto is CEO at tomorrow ltd.

Investment focus

Fashion, Mobile Apps, Social Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ubooker — Global online booking platform for the fashion industry where top brands book talent directly

Alex Chesterman is the founder and CEO of Cazoo. He was the Founder & CEO of ZPG Plc, a FTSE-250 listed company. Previously Alex co-founded Lovefilm, Europe's leading digital movie rental business, which was successfully sold to Amazon. Alex is also one of the UK's most active tech angel investors having backed dozens of early stagedigital startups and was awarded an OBE for services to services to digital entrepreneurship in 2016.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Lick — Lick | Paints, Wallpapers and Supplies. Your Room, Covered
Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.

Jon Reynolds is the Co-Founder and CEO at SwiftKey. He attended University of Cambridge during 2004 - 2007.

Investment focus

FinTech, Food Delivery, Supply Chain Management
Series A, Seed, Series C
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Onfido — Onfido digitally proves a user’s real identity using AI technology, by verifying their photo ID and comparing it to their facial biometrics. It means users and businesses can verify their online identities anywhere and anytime, without compromising on experience, inclusion, privacy or security. Onfido powers over 1,500 fintech, banking, andmarketplace clients globally—helping them onboard more users while reducing risk. Identity underpins all transactions, and over the coming years, access to everything will be based on every user's ability to easily and securely prove their legal identity. This will change how we think of access—everything from opening a bank account to self-checking-in to a hotel, and ultimately voting.
Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
Hinge Health — We are the leading digital clinic for back, joint, and muscle pain. Explore how our online care solutions go beyond traditional physical therapy to provide lasting pain relief.

Ian began his 3i career in 1987, and in March of this year, was promoted to Managing Partner, with the role of Chief Investment Officer for the Group. He is the Groupâ€™s first appointment to this role, in which he has functional responsibilities for the Groupâ€™s investment strategy, and for the quality, consistency and improvement of itsinvestment processes within and across each business line.Ian has been closely involved with many of the Groupâ€™s notable investment successes, including Thomson Directories, Pets at Home, Telecity, Betapharm and Enterprise.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Energy Efficiency
Series A, Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Switchee — Specifically designed for social housing providers, Switchee exists to improve the quality of life for people living in rented homes.
Hometree — Keep yourself warm with Hometree, and try our no price hike promise. Compare our different boiler & home cover plans to see how you can save.
ZigZag Global — ZigZag Global is a software platform to help retailers manage returns globally. It grades retailers returned products and offers consolidation, refurbishment, local redistribution, recycling, destruction, and reselling stock internationally on a revenue share basis.The ZigZag network connects over 200 local warehouses in 130 countries socustomers can get faster refunds. E-commerce consumers return items back to retailers via an intelligent returns portal. Returns take less than one minute, and customers send tracked returns by post, locker or courier from over 300,000 locations.Goods are sent back to a local warehouse and then ZigZag can scan, grade, consolidate or refurbish products to get them back into the supply chain more quickly. Customers can be refunded in just 24 hours, and goods can then be returned, destroyed, donated or re-fulfilled to a new order or resold via marketplaces.ZigZag won the 2017 ShopTalk Startup award along with a 25,000 Euro prize. It also won the 2017 Sustainability Award in Milan, 2017 Innovation Award at IRX, StartUps 100 Winner 2017. 2016 Global award at the World Retail Congress in Dubai for innovation and were shortlisted for Innovation of the Year by Retail Week at the Tech and EComm Awards, Mark of Excellence - Disruptor of the Year 2016 - Supply Chain Awards, Winner at London Technology Week – GetInTheRing.ZigZag was founded in 2014 by Al Gerrie and Laurence Guy. and is headquartered in London, England, UK.

Tech CEO, Chairman and venture builder in sustainable tech, fintech and the future of work.

Investment focus

SaaS, Fitness, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Keia Ltd — From acupuncture to yoga, browse, compare and book on the world's most extensive wellness platform from the comfort of your phone, tablet or laptop.
Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.

Shubhrendu Koche

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sports, eSports
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.
BazaarNXT — B2B Marketplace for Packaging Materials, Manufacturing & Distribution

Giles Brook

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Snack Food, Retail
Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Freja — Award-winning bone broths from Freja Foods. Responsibly sourced and conveniently packaged, Freja bone broth is available online and via leading retailers.
BEPPS Snacks — BEPPS Snacks are chickpea snacks with black-eyed pea inclusions that pack a flavourful punch.
Fearne & Rosie — Hello! Berry nice to meet you. Our mum says it's really important that we eat the berry best food. So we squish together natural ingredients to make tasty, fruity jams, honeys and spreads. MORE FRUIT, LESS SUGAR Just for you! Love, Fearne and Rosie x

Preben Damgaard - Director @ Axcess A/S

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Paperflow — Paperflow is a company that developed a cloud-based system that, using artificial intelligence, scans and handles vouchers such as receipts or invoices so that the manual posting is done automatically.
Configit —
Too Good To Go — The app that lets customers rescue unsold food from shops and restaurants to save it from going to waste. Try it today.

Sam Branson Co-founder at HiddenLight Productions.

Investment focus

CleanTech, Laundry and Dry-cleaning
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oxwash — Powered by Vanish, Oxwash provides on-demand laundry and eco-friendly dry cleaning services, creating a simple and sustainable laundry service for all.

Brett Akker is a Non-Executive Director at Much Better Adventures.

Investment focus

Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fy! — Fy is an e-commerce company that builds a mobile marketplace to shop online. It uses a combination of social content, machine learning, and a deep understanding of its products and suppliers to create a personalized experience for each shopper using the site and app. Fy was launched in 2017 driven by a mission to make the world of designdiscoverable, affordable, and instantly accessible through social commerce.
Chargifi — Chargifi empowers synchronous work, orchestrating people and spaces to get the best work done, wherever, whenever and with whoever they choose. We enable the realtime and dynamic orchestration of people and spaces so companies can adopt flexible working at scale. Where, when and who work is done with is now fully intentional, and this is at theheart of workplace experience.
Much Better Adventures — Join like-minded people on an active, small group, tour.

Nicholas Charles Tyrwhitt Wheeler (born 20 January 1965 in Ludlow, Shropshire) is an English businessman. He attempted a number of different businesses, including a photography venture and a Christmas tree delivery service. In 1986 he established the Charles Tyrwhitt company and shirt brand, which he owns.Wheeler grew up in Ludlow and waseducated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Eton College, and the University of Bristol, where he studied geography. His first job was as a management consultant for Bain & Company. In November 1986, he set up Charles Tyrwhitt, now a well-known shirt brand in the United Kingdom. The business is a Limited Liability Partnership. It has grown to be the UK’s largest mail-order shirt business, and also has several brick and mortar locations (as of October 2014, 17 in the United Kingdom, 5 in the United States, and one in France). In 2008, he was a regional judge for the Entrepreneur Challenge in the UK.Wheeler is married with four children to Chrissie Rucker, founder of The White Company. In 2015, their collective wealth was estimated at £330 million by the Sunday Times Rich List. Together they live in Buckinghamshire and also own a chalet in Klosters, Switzerland named Haus Alpina.

Investment focus

Retail, E-Commerce, Fashion
Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CUDONI — Buy and sell preloved designer clothing, bags, shoes & accessories at Sign of the Times. Current season authentic pre-owned luxury fashion at sale prices.
Papier — Papier offers customizable stationery such as wedding cards, notebooks, planners, and notecards. Founded in London in 2015, Papier's aim is to inspire people to connect with each other in a more thoughtful way and more often. As digital messages proliferate in their lives, receiving something beautifully made through the letterbox isappreciated now more than ever before - Papier makes this simple and easy to do.At their core, is a love of art and design, words, and of course, paper. Their carefully curated collection of designs, married with quality printing and premium paper, stands us apart from other online card and invitation sites.
Cornerstone — Cornerstone is a regular delivery service of razor blades and shaving supplies for men. Its service include German-engineered razors and British-blended skincare products. Cornerstone was founded in January 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Aaron Applbaum - Partner @ MizMaa Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
Prograd — ProGrad develops a credit risk assessment platform to connect financial institutions with third-level students looking for funding. Its platform includes Artificial Intelligence in credit scoring to lend responsibly to young customers with thin credit files based on future earning potential.The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered inLondon, England.
Flox — Manage and share development environments with all the frameworks and libraries you need, then publish artifacts anywhere. Harness the power of Nix.

Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
Riot — Meet Riot, the all-in-one platform that drives better protection for your team.
SLAY — SLAY is a social gaming company.

Managing Director, Legacy Venture

Investment focus

Payments, Software, Education
Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tab — The Guide helps travellers find your business and book direct. Payments by Tab helps you easily charge guest credit and debit cards in advance and in-person.
Degreed — Degreed is the upskilling platform that connects learning, talent development, and internal mobility opportunities in one place. Learn More!
GiveMeTap — The GiveMeTap bottles are the world's most giving water bottles. Every bottle you buy gives 5 years of clean water to a person in Africa & you get free water.

Philip Walsh

Investment focus

Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Environmental Engineering
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Circular Refining and Products Company — Hydrogen & Ammonia for industry and logisitics

Stan leads Collibra’s Data Office and is responsible for overall data strategy, data infrastructure and translating internal learnings into value for our customers and partners. He is also Collibra’s product evangelist and drives future innovation. Previously, Stan launched various departments within Collibra including Product, Presales, Postsales,Partnerships, Marketplace, and Research and Education. Prior to cofounding Collibra, he was a senior researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he focused on application-oriented research in semantics. Stan holds a Master of Science degree in Information Technology, a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Postgraduate in Industrial Corporate Governance from Europese Hogeschool Brussel. He is a sought-after expert resource, industry speaker and author on the topic of Data Intelligence.

Investment focus

Software, Data Integration, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Spain, France, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Kestra Technologies — Kestra is an infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform, creating, running, scheduling, and monitoring millions of complex pipelines.
Opna — Opna is a financing platform for climate projects that remove carbon and protect natural ecosystems. Opna offers data, proprietary risk assessments, and efficient capital structures, helping companies to translate net-zero committed capital from financial institutions, and corporates into direct financing across a project's lifecycle.
Rita Data — Collect, view and control your data. Smoothly, and in total privacy.

Jeffrey Goh

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Social Impact, Sustainability
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.

Rahul Munjal - Chairman & Managing Director @ Hero Future Energies

Investment focus

FinTech, InsurTech, Renewable Energy
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.

Greg Jackson is the Founder and CEO at Octopus Energy.

Investment focus

Software, CleanTech, GreenTech
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Altruistiq — Altruistiq is a decision-making environment for business sustainability teams.

Harry Seekings is a Senior Executive in infrastructure investment management.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Internet of Things
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CEPRO — Local renewables are fast becoming the most affordable way to supply energy, providing a unique opportunity to regenerate neighbourhoods, create long-term economic value and build climate resilience. Get in touch now: hello@cepro.co.uk

Peter Wood is the Founder of SPWOne.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pikl — Specialist insurance for hosts and owners participating in the sharing economy. Find out more about our products!
Moneyhub — Moneyhub is a data and payments fintech that provides open banking, open finance, and open data solutions.
Loma — Boost resale profits with our AI-powered pricing tool and breakthrough aggregation technology. Pin down and track the value of your stock in the resale market and chart out a path to profitability.

- MD at Techstars (Berlin/Amsterdam/Turin) - Founding member, CFO/COO of Cunesoft (acquired by Phlexglobal) - Founder of GeeXstar, Asia's first tech-focused investment banking boutique - Founder of Clappifieds.de <http://clappifieds.de/>, a classifieds marketplace for Apple products - Mentor at TechGrind,Thailand’s first tech incubator, investing in promising startups across SEA – Founder of HonMed, a network for independent emergency doctors in Germany – Founder of a CoWorking space

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Italy, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Voltaage — Take your fleet operations to the next level. Our comprehensive fleet management solution is perfect for sustainable fleets of all sizes. Discover now!
Voovo — Empower your learning today! Instantly generate flashcards from anatomy diagrams, textbooks, and notes using AI, text recognition algorithms and Voovo's unique features.
PowerMarket — A platform for turn-key solar life cycle management.

Marc Benioff is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Salesforce. Marc Benioff attended the University of Southern California.

Investment focus

Software, IT, Other
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

KresusLabs — Kresus allows users to connect to their bank accounts and view their transactions, balances, and budgets.It supports a wide range of banks and financial institutions also allows users to categorize their expenses and view insights into their spending habits and uses end-to-end encryption to protect users
Artera — Enable Cancer Therapy Personalization with Artificial Intelligence
Mammoth — Mammoth is Mastodon for the rest of us

Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
The Garden — The Garden is an online media company.
Condense — Live-streamed volumetric video into game engines

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
TreesPlease Games — TreesPlease Games develops various computer and online games. The company is headquartered in London.
Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.

Anthony Gutman - Managing Director @ Goldman Sachs

Investment focus

Payments, Analytics, InsurTech
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TruRating — Real People. Trusted Feedback. Say goodbye to dry analytics, low survey response rates and cart abandonment. Say hello to Trurating.
Hometree — Keep yourself warm with Hometree, and try our no price hike promise. Compare our different boiler & home cover plans to see how you can save.

Yishan Wong - Co-founder and Director @ Sunfire offices

Investment focus

Software, Science/Engineering, Financial
Seed, Series B, Convertible Note
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hgen — Hgen provides affordable green hydrogen for deep decarbonization.
Heimdal — Heimdal is on a mission to decarbonize the world. Every year the world emits 40 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. Using our process we permanently capture and store carbon dioxide from the sky while producing clean drinking water. We are harnessing cheap renewable electricity and the sea to undo past and future emissions of CO2.
Proper — Proper provides expert property management bookkeeping for property managers, asset managers, and anyone in the world of property.

A highly driven Senior Director and Executive with +25 Y in Management and Consulting experience, within the Telecommunication, Insurtech, Mobility, Telematics, and Space sectors and in Digitalization, IT, IoT, and Big Data areas.Always interested in the scouting of new technologies (ie: blockchain, AI, VR/AR/MR, ...) Active Mentor ofTechItalia:LAb Acceleration Program

Investment focus

Transportation, Manufacturing, Automotive
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, Italy, Canada

Portfolio highlights

MacRebur — > The Macrebur website
Next Industries — Next Industries designs and manufactures high accuracy data acquisition loggers, gateways and sensors provided with IoT solution technology.
Insurance & Mobility Solutions — IMS is a vehicle and driving data business, delivering enterprise solutions to over 350 customers including insurers, mobility operators and governments.

Marcus Watson

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Audoo — Audoo is a music-technology company revolutionising the landscape for public performance royalty collection through accurate, real-world data.
Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.
Magical Mushroom Company — Magical Mushroom Companny harnesses the natural flexibility and strength of mycelium, the material structure of fungi, to grow mushroom packaging

Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo. Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
Neoplants — The first generation of bioengineered to fight air pollution. We call them neoplants.
Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.

Adam Sadiq is Co-Founder and CEO of New World Group. He attended the University of Glasgow.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Marketplace, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Skrap — Skrap is an on-demand mobile marketplace for skip hire and other waste collection services.
InstaDeep — InstaDeep delivers AI-powered decision-making systems for the Enterprise. With expertise in both machine intelligence research and concrete business deployments, we provide a competitive advantage to our customers in an AI-first world.
Luxury Promise — Buy and sell Hermes, Louis Vuitton & Chanel designer handbags.

Sir Richard Branson is the current Founder of the Virgin Group and Owner and Founder of Virgin Limited Edition. He previously worked at OneWeb as a Board Member. Sir Richard Branson attended Bishopsgate School.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
Waterplan — Waterplan is a SaaS platform for companies to manage water availability in their facilities.
Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.

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