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Top 45 Local Startup Investors in United Kingdom (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in United Kingdom Local startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Kingdom Local startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Paul Forster
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$18M
The FSE Group
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Debt Financing Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $111k–$2.1M
ETF Partners
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, France, Germany Series A, Series B Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology $3.9M–$34M
Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $3.2M–$22M
David Pritchard
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Health Care $524k–$1.9M
Calibrate Management
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $995k–$10M
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $2.1M–$48M
Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, FinTech $380k–$18M
ProFounder
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A iOS, Apps, SaaS
Social Discovery Group
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, China Series A, Seed Internet, Apps, Mobile $1.1M–$23M
Chris Mairs
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, FinTech, Financial Services $334k–$3.7M
Innovation Nest
VC Fund
1 Poland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $25k–$11M
Jonathan Quin
Angel
1 United Kingdom Angel, Seed E-Commerce, CRM, Apps $334k–$22M
Accel
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.6M–$74M
Mercia Fund Managers
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Hungary Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $196k–$14M
Committed Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom Series A Local, Wellness, InsurTech $2.6M–$6.3M
HOWZAT Partners
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS $318k–$11M
Ventech
VC Fund
1 France, Germany, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1.2M–$67M
Paul McGuire
Angel
1 United Kingdom Angel iOS, Local, Events
David Singleton
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A iOS, Local, Events
HardGamma Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Poland, United States Seed, Convertible Note Software, E-Commerce, Education $35k–$1.1M
Playfair Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $700k–$20M
Ben Barokas
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Advertising, Apps, Video $28k–$6.5M
Innovate UK
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $58k–$3.7M
Douglas Scott
Angel
1 United Kingdom Angel iOS, Local, Events
Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $524k–$13M
Nate Macleitch
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed, Angel iOS, Mobile, Android
Forward Partners
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1k–$17M
Nesta Impact Investments
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia Seed, Series A Education, Health Care, SaaS $262k–$10M
Chris Ash
Angel
1 United Kingdom Angel, Seed Marketplace, CRM, SaaS $334k–$382k
Hotspur Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel Mobile, Software, Location Based Services $35k–$1.4M
LocalGlobe
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$33M
Seedrs
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage $39k–$4.6M
Neil Davidson
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed CRM, Local, Security $120k–$334k
Redgate Software
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom Angel iOS, Local, Events
Ballpark Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, China Seed, Angel, Series A Advertising, Mobile, Advertising Platforms $28k–$1.9M
Sarah du Heaume
Angel
1 United Kingdom Angel CRM, Local, E-Commerce
Reece Chowdhry
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $131k–$26M
ustwo
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom Seed Apps, Local, Lifestyle $1M–$3.1M
Brendan Gill
Angel
1 United Kingdom Angel iOS, Local, Events
Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $655k–$25M
Thibaut Rouffineau
Angel
1 United Kingdom Angel iOS, Local, Events
Enterprise M3 Growth Fund
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom Seed E-Commerce, Local, Brewing $884k–$982k
Shohet & Cie
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom News, Local, Events
Edge VC
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Jersey, Denmark Series A, Seed Media and Entertainment, Software, Video $2.6M–$7M
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Paul Forster
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.9M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oraion — Your single source of truth for enterprise data
  • Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
  • Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
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The FSE Group
VC Fund · Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 197
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$2.1M; Debt Financing $111k–$786k
  • Lead/follow: 72% lead, 28% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Alvant — Alvant is an advanced materials technology group specialising in the design, development and production of aluminium composite components for demanding engineering applications.
  • Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
  • TruePlayers — Trueplayers is a computer game development company that specializes in mobile games. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Falmouth, Cornwall.
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ETF Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience. Its funds come from institutional investors, global corporations, and family offices. The firm creates value by investing in and supporting great European companies that deliver Sustainability Through Innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Series A $3.9M–$16M; Series B $5.5M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $303M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • QuantWare — QuantWare designs, develops and fabricates state-of-the-art superconducting Quantum Hardware with excellent specs, and good service.
  • Modo Energy — Energy market data, benchmarking, and projections. All in one place and backed by Modo Energy insights.
  • Dexter Energy Services — Dexter helps asset-backed renewable traders maximize profits through accurate forecasts and price insights, day-ahead to real time.
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 355
  • Round size: Series A $3.2M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.4M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Camino — Camino Leisure Holdings is a Spanish bar and restaurant that serves authentic food and wines.
  • Gymbox — Making sweating enjoyable drives everything Gymbox does. From our unique exercise classes and nightly resident DJs, through to our larger than life personal trainers, at Gymbox there is undeniably a culture of fun.
  • Nuada — MOF Technologies take innovative organisations from ideation to commercialisation using our proven MOF development expertise & patented technology.
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David Pritchard
Angel · Reading, Reading, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

David Pritchard serves as an advisor of Hassle.com. David was Founder and Managing Director of OpenTable Europe. David has enjoyed a 30 year transatlantic career as a senior operating executive in primarily US based software before becoming an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Feedr — Probieren Sie Deutschlands Top Catering Service | EatFirst
  • Allegrow — Allegrow is the #1 inbox placement platform, we're helping more of your emails land in the primary inbox, not spam or unfocused folders.
  • JENA — JENA is building the "Shopify for service professionals", starting with personal care. The company is on a mission to empower Solopreneurs to thrive on their own terms with radically simple business tools. JENA provides Solopreneurs with an Operating System (OS) providing them a full tech-stack: website, AI-powered booking system,payments, CRM, marketing, and e-commerce in one app.
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Calibrate Management
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $995k–$2.3M; Series A $2M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow

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.
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 387
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$13M; Series A $3.2M–$21M; Series B $7.5M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $101M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Turtl — Create personalized interactive content experiences that excite, engage and convert your audience with Turtl's intuitive content software.
  • Sprout.ai
  • Minimum — Take control of your organization's carbon accounting and management with granular, robust and auditable emissions data.
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0.FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growthjourney.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$4.5M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
  • Aibuild — Ai Build is a London based company developing Artificial Intelligence and Robotic technologies for large scale additive manufacturing. We believe additive manufacturing is the core technology for achieving a sustainable environment and a highly efficient on-demand economy.We are a team of creative and enthusiastic people with strong background inthe areas of 3D printing, robotics, computer vision, machine learning, computational design and physics. We are partnering with some of the world’s most innovative companies and investors to bring our disruptive Autonomous Large Scale 3D Printing technology into a wide range of industrial applications. Our purpose is to empower factories of the future to make Manufacturing easy, smart, sustainable and affordable.
  • Artificial Labs — Build your future placement and underwriting strategy with Artificial's pioneering technology.
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ProFounder
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

ProFounder is a crowdfunding platform that enables entrepreneurs to raise investment capital from friends, family, and community members.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • uberlife — uberlife is a real-world location-based socializing app to help people hang out more with their friends, network and new likeminded people around them, wherever they go.Users join the community by signing up with Facebook or Twitter and can also connect their Last.fm account.Users create real world "hangouts" showing where theyare going to be and when and broadcast these directly from the app through Facebook and Twitter to invite whoever is free to "come join". Anyone who joins can also invite their friends by broadcasting the hangout through their own networks.Adding tags to hangouts matches these to local uberlife users' interests too, as well as their Facebook Likes and Last.fm bands, to notify them that a hangout is taking place that they're interested in and to invite them to join.Users can check in to hangouts, post comments and upload photos creating a digital memory capture of the hangout and group photo display. These actions are also (soon to be) broadcast-able directly from the app through Facebook and Twitter that enables a live activity stream before, during and after the hangout.Users can follow other uberlife users that they'd like to hang out with to be notified when that person creates a nearby hangout. Users only become Friends in uberlife IF they are following each other AND they have attended the same hangout i.e. hung out in real life. All users earn a Connector Score when they create hangouts and connect people in real life. When two people join a hangout and then follow each other in uberlife, the "creator" boosts their Connector Score by one.
  • ProFounder — ProFounder is a crowdfunding platform that enables entrepreneurs to raise investment capital from friends, family, and community members.
  • Elemental Machines — The Elemental Machines platform distills a lab full of data onto a single dashboard. Turnkey sensors and real-time data monitoring make setup a breeze and surprises a thing of the past.
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Social Discovery Group
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies. It unites more than 40 brands, an investment fund and a venture studio.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Series A $2M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flure — Flure is a dating app designed to create an open-minded environment for women to meet and converse with like-minded people.
  • My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.
  • Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
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Chris Mairs
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Chris Mairs - Venture Partner @ Entrepreneurs First

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $655k–$3.7M; Angel $334k–$707k; Pre-Seed $900k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
  • Incard — Welcome to the world's first payment solution designed exclusively for e-commerce, entrepreneurs, dropshippers and influencers. Join our waitlist now.
  • Briefcase — Automate your accounting workflows with AI
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Innovation Nest
VC Fund · Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Innovation Nest invest in early stage B2B SaaS startups from Europe and help them grow from local to global using our network of contacts and strong in-house competencies. It strongly believes that the path to growth leads through Silicon Valley and strongly encourage our portfolio startups to set up presence there. The company supports high-techcompanies to grow faster and scale their business globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Poland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2.5M; Series A $4.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2011

Portfolio highlights

  • Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.
  • AI Clearing — AI-powered platform for construction progress tracking and quality control, supporting contractors and asset owners in energy, utilities, infrastructure, and civil construction projects.
  • Meisterwerk — B2B SaaS Operating System for SMB field service and craftsman companies
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Jonathan Quin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Jonathan co-founded World First in January 2004. His career before this included two years as Head of Business Development within the Financial Markets division of RBS. Prior to that he was at Citibank, initially as a trader before moving to the bank's global corporate sales desk. He then looked after the European sales of Citibank'sonline FX trading products. Jonathan holds a law and accountancy degree from the University of Edinburgh.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, CRM, Apps
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$3.2M; Angel $334k–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Basket — Basket lets you keep track of things you want to buy, automatically finding the best prices, saving you time and money. Say hello to your new shopping companion.
  • Hassle.com — Hassle is a free to the consumer, destination web site that puts together buyers and sellers of home based services such as cleaners, tutors, personal trainers, and driving instructors. It enables the consumer to search for a vetted provider, read ratings and reviews, and instantly book and pay for a service. They have started with domesticcleaners, providing real time order fulfilment for busy customers across London.
  • The Mothership — The Mothership brings the power of multichannel marketing and digital-first branding to the best consumer products.
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Accel
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1947
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$11M; Series A $4.5M–$41M; Series B $9.5M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Campfire — Campfire is the AI-native ERP built for high-growth finance teams. Automate reconciliations, close faster, and scale revenue without adding headcount.
  • Altor Networks — HARPATOTO merupakan sebuah portal akses online yang dirancang untuk memudahkan pengguna terhubung ke layanan Toto Macau dengan cepat, stabil, dan aman.
  • Shift Technology — Shift Technology delivers AI-native decision automation and optimization solutions built specifically for the global insurance industry. Addressing several critical processes across the insurance policy lifecycle, Shift helps insurers achieve faster, more accurate claims and policy resolutions. Shift has analyzed billions of insurance transactionsto date and was presented Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 Global Claims Solutions for Insurance Market Leadership Award.
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Mercia Fund Managers
VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Hungary

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Seed $196k–$2M; Series A $2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Sen — Sen's vision is to democratize space using video to inform, educate, inspire and benefit all humanity. Sen's mission is to stream real-time videos from space to billions of people, gathering news and information about Earth and space and making it universally accessible.
  • Gentronix — Gentronix is a contract research organisation (CRO) providing a wide range of screening and safety services, including genetic toxicology screening and regulatory genotoxicity studies.
  • Haystack — Giving techies the tools to uncover, explore and discover the tech landscape with full anonymity - showcasing opportunities that match their interests, values and tech stack.
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Committed Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Committed Capital specialises in investing in and providing corporate finance advice to fast growing companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Local, Wellness, InsurTech
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series A $2.6M–$6.3M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Konsileo — With over 35 years of experience, Konsileo Commercial Insurance Brokers protect businesses and mitigate risks. Contact us on 020 8148 9492
  • Healthera — Your local pharmacy, whenever you need it. Order medicine, treatments and more from over 1,700 pharmacies across the UK.
  • Infogrid — Infogrid Helps Facilities Management And Estate Owners Deliver Truly Smart Buildings. Our Unique IoT Smart Sensors Can Be Installed In Seconds And Provide Automation And Optimization To Save You Time And Money.
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HOWZAT Partners
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $318k–$2.2M; Series A $1.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
  • Quoroom — A single intelligent platform to manage capital raising,equity, debt and employee options
  • Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.
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Ventech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: France, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 195
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.2M; Series A $3.8M–$18M; Series B $5.6M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Botify — Search engines miss about half the content on enterprise websites. Uncover those hidden opportunities with Botify, the leading enterprise SEO platform!
  • Crobox — Crobox's next generation guided selling solution humanizes your product data and discovery experience with product finders and product data enrichment.
  • mediarithmics — A sustainable and privacy-first next-Gen Data Platform to deliver advanced use cases for leading retail, media and broadcast players. We also provide you with the most advanced solutions for a cookieless and compliant future.
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Paul McGuire
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Paul McGuire is the Co-founder & CEO at tru.ID. Serial Entrepreneur – previously founded two leading international transaction platform businesses. Now at JustInvesting, building the online transaction platform for the next-generation of Angel investing – moving venture investing online, to the benefit of Investors, Entrepreneurs and the wholeeconomy. Prior to JustInvesting Paul co-founded Paymo, later acquired by BOKU, and led the company to become one of the leading mobile payments platforms, available in over 50 countries. Prior to Paymo, Paul co-founded mBlox, the world's leading mobile transaction network, where he led the company's sales and marketing organizations, guided the company's expansion into the European market, and led M&A efforts to acquire six companies.Before founding several start-ups in the telecommunications sector, Paul began his career in management consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Local, Events
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
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David Singleton
Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Current positions: Chairman, Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia; Member, Board of Centre for Engineering Leadership and Management, Engineers Australia; Member Standards Australia Strategy Committee; Council Member Swinburne University of Technology and member of Audit and Risk Committee.Former positions: Group Board member andDirector, Arup Group Ltd; Chairman Global Infrastructure, Arup Group; Member Living with Environmental Change Strategy Board UK; CEO and Chairman, Arup Australasia; Chair Buildings Standards Sector Board Standards Australia; Chair and Director Australian Construction Industry Forum; Director Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation; President and Chair Association of Consulting Engineers Australia; Director Association of Consulting Engineers Australia; Chair National Engineering Registration Board; Member Advisory Board, University of Cambridge Program for Sustainability Leadership.Other achievements: OPM Program, Harvard Business School 1996-98; One of Australia's 100 Most Influential Engineers in 2004 to 2007 inclusive; One of five finalists as "CEO of the Year", Equal Opportunity in the Workplace Agency, 2002; Director of RedR Australia Ltd 1998-2001.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Local, Events
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
  • Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
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HardGamma Ventures
VC Fund · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

HardGamma Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in startups that focuses on computing, internet, biotechnology, and more. Early stage VC fund focused on Polish and CEE startups.The Fund invests in projects such as seed and startups in the area of computing, Internet, mobile technologies, the biotechnology sector and physicochemicaltechnologies. HardGamma Ventures invests in strong teams developing projects with global potential - providing funding and support for business planning, marketing, product positioning and other business functions.The HardGamma team is constantly in contact and cooperation with leading competitions and incubator programs in Europe and USA - Seedcamp (UK), The Difference Engine (UK), Springboard (UK), Startup Bootcamp (Denmark), TechStars (United States), and the pan-European incubator program HackFwd (Germany), where the team is responsible for the assessment and certification program for start-ups, and the International Incubator of the University of Maryland (United States).The team of HardGamma is also building a network affiliation with other VC funds in the region to broaden the range of exploration and investment opportunities and to increase international support and business opportunities for the portfolio of projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Poland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 1mind — Finding a therapist is hard, we can help. Get matched to a therapist near you with 1mind.
  • Silverback.ai — The ultimate business intelligence platform for e-commerce marketplaces
  • Proxigroup — Solving the lack of visibility and transparency in asset management.
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Playfair Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Playfair is a sector agnostic fund focused exclusively on pre-seed investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making six investments a year out of its third $70m fund and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Our 78% Series Agraduation rate is ~3x industry average. Playfair has backed 100+ companies since 2013, including Thought Machine, Orca AI, Protex AI, StackOne and Nory.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 139
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.1M; Series A $2.7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wassist — Wassist is a platform for building AI-powered WhatsApp agents that help businesses automate sales, customer support, and marketing directly inside WhatsApp.
  • Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.
  • Passionfruit — Join hundreds of the best startups around the world and use Passionfruit to hire freelance marketing specialists on-demand.
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Ben Barokas
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Ben Barokas is the Founder and CEO of Sourcepoint Technologies, Inc. Ben attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Virginia Tech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, Apps, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Angel $28k–$2.3M; Series A $5M–$6.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
  • Fuisz Video, Inc. — Fuisz turns any video into an interactive experience, allowing the viewer to touch, hover or click on any object to discover new content. This can include product information, innovative branded experiences, direct links to company websites and the ability to buy the item. Fuisz works with the world’s top advertising agencies and global brands suchas Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Victoria’s Secret, Gillette and Target to unlock the video experience, delivering significant increases in engagement that maximize return on digital advertising spend. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica.
  • Traverse Data — Digital Media Solutions, Inc. (DMS) drives better business results through our innovative digital performance advertising solutions.
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Innovate UK
VC Fund · Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation .

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 759
  • Round size: Seed $367k–$3.7M; Grant $62k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $58k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paranimo — Nuvra is a responsive Webflow template for healthcare startups. Customizable, fast, and SEO-optimized to elevate your brand.
  • Greener — Greener uses maths to make it easy for businesses to discover, connect, and collaborate with perfectly suited sustainability partners
  • Open Data Institute — The Open Data Institute will catalyse the evolution of an open data culture to create economic, environmental, and social value. It will unlock supply, generate demand, create and disseminate knowledge to address local and global issues.The Open Data Institute will convene world-class experts to collaborate, incubate, nurture and mentor newideas, and promote innovation. We will enable anyone to learn and engage with open data, and empower our teams to help others through professional coaching and mentoring.Founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, the ODI is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, limited by guarantee company.The ODI has secured £10 million over five years from the UK Government (via the UK innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board), and $750,000 from Omidyar Network, and is working towards long-term sustainability through match funding and direct revenue.With a 5,000 sq ft convening space based in the heart of London's thriving Shoreditch area, and a global remit, we invite everyone intrested in developing Open Data to get in touch.
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Douglas Scott
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Douglas Scott

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Local, Events
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
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Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$3.1M; Series A $2.2M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Netacea — Netacea takes a smarter approach to bot management. Intent Analytics™ powered by machine learning quickly and accurately distinguishes bots from humans to protect websites, mobile apps and APIs from automated threats while prioritising genuine users. Actionable intelligence with data-rich visualisations empowers you to make informed decisions aboutyour traffic. The Netacea approach offers incredible speed, accuracy and transparency, solving the growing problem of credential stuffing and account takeover at scale. The technology is designed to complement existing controls such as WAF rulesets, rate limiting and threat databases to provide a deep analysis of all website visitors, actionable intelligence and real-time threat.The Netacea approach continuously monitors your web traffic to pinpoint the difference in automated bot activity vs genuine visitors, keeping you ahead of evolving bot threats. Choose to automatically block, redirect or challenge automated attacks in real-time, or receive alerts notifying you of potential threats. With access to rich dashboards and data, you can easily identify and stop account takeover attempts early in the attack chain.Learn more at www.netacea.com
  • Semble — The integrated clinical system for managing your patients' medical data and admin tasks.
  • Locate Bio — Locate Bio is a regenerative medicine development company focused on orthobiologics. Locate Bio exists to help surgeons improve the lives of people with debilitating spinal conditions. We are curious about what is possible, but ground all our work in robust scientific evidence. We relentlessly pursue high-value opportunities with clear unmetclinical needs.
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Nate Macleitch
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Nate Macleitch - CEO @ QuickBlox

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Mobile, Android
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
  • QuickBlox — QuickBlox provides instant messaging API that allow chat and calling functionality to be added to any Android, iOS, or Web application.
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Forward Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Forward Partners is a venture capital firm in London specialising in technology businesses focused on eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $343k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $1k–$2M; Series A $2.6M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $76M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Ably Realtime — Realtime that just works. Built to scale, engineered for reliability, and low latency. Power live messaging, chat, dashboards, notifications & collaborative apps.
  • nSpireMe — nSpireMe helping children supercharge their violin learning with interactive practice apps.
  • OutThink — Move from traditional security awareness to adaptive security with the world's first AI-native cybersecurity human risk management platform.
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Nesta Impact Investments
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Nesta Impact Investments backs innovative businesses that focus on creating social and environmental good

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Health Care, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $262k–$2.6M; Series A $466k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $65M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Gaia Learning — Gaia Learning are a special online school dedicated to children with additional needs. We help kids with ADHD, ADD, OCD, PDA and Autism, learn online.
  • Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
  • martee ai — Reduce Wastage, Unlock Revenue, Maximise Profit. Martee ai is the only demand forecasting tool tailored for the food-on-the-go industry.
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Chris Ash
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Ash Gaming / Playtech

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketplace, CRM, SaaS
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $334k–$382k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Avora — Avora AutoML reduces time (to seconds) to discover why business metrics are changing with anomaly detection and root cause analysis.
  • Hassle.com — Hassle is a free to the consumer, destination web site that puts together buyers and sellers of home based services such as cleaners, tutors, personal trainers, and driving instructors. It enables the consumer to search for a vetted provider, read ratings and reviews, and instantly book and pay for a service. They have started with domesticcleaners, providing real time order fulfilment for busy customers across London.
  • Stashbee — Find and book the space you need to affordably park your car or store your things. Or rent out your spare space, from parking spaces to garages.
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Hotspur Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Hotspur Capital is a financial organization.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Location Based Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Femeda — Femeda provides groundbreaking technology for the treatment of urinary incontinence for women worldwide. Get in touch today to find out more.
  • Screach — See Free Offer!No credit card/contract required!Live Sports Offers!See more info See more
  • Greengage Lighting — Poultry lighting and poultry sensors for precision livestock farming, scheme compliance and animal welfare
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 337
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.3M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Dataform — Develop and operationalize scalable data transformations pipelines in BigQuery using SQL.
  • CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
  • Circular — Developers-focused job platform for Software Developers, DevOps, Data Science & more. Sign up now and get access to successful hiring processes in Spain, Remote.
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Seedrs
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 186
  • Round size: Seed $65k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $39k–$505k; Equity Crowdfunding $186k–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow

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.
  • OurPetsLife
  • 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.
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Neil Davidson
Angel · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Neil Davidson - Founder @ Business of Software

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, Local, Security
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $120k–$334k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Apiary — Apiary provides the leading API-First platform designed specifically to help companies accelerate and control the design, development, and documentation of APIs.
  • Hassle.com — Hassle is a free to the consumer, destination web site that puts together buyers and sellers of home based services such as cleaners, tutors, personal trainers, and driving instructors. It enables the consumer to search for a vetted provider, read ratings and reviews, and instantly book and pay for a service. They have started with domesticcleaners, providing real time order fulfilment for busy customers across London.
  • CryptoSeal — CryptoSeal provides Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) as a service.
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Redgate Software
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Solve the complex challenges of database management across the DevOps lifecycle on any database, any platform, anywhere.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Local, Events
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
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Ballpark Ventures
VC Fund · Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Ballpark Ventures is a small, boutique fund investing in early stage technology startups. Their partners are all successful entrepreneurs and at this stage, investing their own money.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, Mobile, Advertising Platforms
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $71k–$1.9M; Angel $28k–$393k; Series A $656k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Silverback.ai — The ultimate business intelligence platform for e-commerce marketplaces
  • Adludio — Adludio is the AI-powered platform that delivers interactive mobile advertising. By using data to design your ad creative, and algorithms to optimize your campaigns, Adludio makes sure you win the battle for brand attention.
  • Pronto Technology — Pronto, we care deeply about the meals we deliver to you. We want them to be very good; for you, the community and the environment. All our healthy meals are freshly cooked from scratch, just like at home - they won’t see the inside of a freezer.
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Sarah du Heaume
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Sarah du Heaume is the Founder of Just Media Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, Local, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hassle.com — Hassle is a free to the consumer, destination web site that puts together buyers and sellers of home based services such as cleaners, tutors, personal trainers, and driving instructors. It enables the consumer to search for a vetted provider, read ratings and reviews, and instantly book and pay for a service. They have started with domesticcleaners, providing real time order fulfilment for busy customers across London.
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Reece Chowdhry
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Reece Lal Chowdhry is based out of London, England and is the Founding Partner of Concept Ventures. Reece previously worked at Ernst & Young as a Management Consultant and Technology Advisory. Reece Lal Chowdhry attended the Durham University. Reece Lal Chowdhry has been awarded as the Seed VC of the Year and Asian Tech Pioneer in their career.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $131k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.4M; Equity Crowdfunding $754k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • zymtrace — AI Infrastructure optimization platform. Zymtrace profiles GPU & CPU workloads with zero instrumentation to cut costs and boost performance
  • Forithmus — Forithmus develops large-scale data infrastructures and foundation model-based artificial intelligence.
  • Reachdesk — Reachdesk enables B2B companies to deliver the moments that matter at scale through data-driven direct mail and gifting. Through Reachdesk companies can deliver gifts and direct mail that build deeper connections with customers, prospects and employees at the click of a button. Our integrations to your tech stack power a clear and quantifiableROI; the direct channel is no longer a guessing game.
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ustwo
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Ustwo is a digital design studio that delivers interaction and user interface design services. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Local, Lifestyle
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hoop — Hoop is an app that helps families across the UK discover things to do with their kids.
  • Curiscope — Inspiring curious kids to develop a love for Science. Their beautifully designed Augmented Reality products allow children to explore the world around them in ways they never thought possible.Their first product. The Virtuali-Tee is an Augmented Reality T-Shirt. Point their free app (on iOS & Android) at the 100% cotton supersoft tee andwatch it bring the Science of Anatomy to life.
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Brendan Gill
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Prior to co-founding OpenSignal in 2010, Brendan spent over 10 years building solutions to help people understand and improve mobile service and experience. In 2007, he was part of the team that launched RepeaterStore, which provides signal boosting solutions to improve wireless cell and data reception in buildings, homes and vehicles. Brendan wasnamed in the Telecoms Business Power100 in 2017. He holds a Physics degree from Oxford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Local, Events
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
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Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 202
  • Round size: Seed $655k–$5.3M; Series A $2.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bright — Bright Network has a range of graduate careers available. Whatever the sector you want to go into Bright Network will help you find your dream job.
  • ProofID — We are identity experts. We manage all aspects of your IAM program, from design and deployment, through to optimisation and ongoing support.
  • Guru Systems — Intelligent technology for the future of heat. Guru Systems provides market-leading hardware and data analytics platforms for heat networks, gas boilers and heat pumps. Our technology improves the performance of these systems for residential developers, heat suppliers, customers and our planet.
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Thibaut Rouffineau
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Thibaut Rouffineau - VP Marketing @ Canonical

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Local, Events
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
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Enterprise M3 Growth Fund
VC Fund · Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

The Enterprise M3 Growth Fund invests in high growth small and medium sized businesses (smes) and can provide up to £200,000 as an equity investment. The investment must be matched by at least an equal amount of private investment, which the FSE Group can work with the company to source.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Local, Brewing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $884k–$982k
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bakedin — Bakedin, a Basingstoke-based baking subscription service, provides premium home baking products featuring exclusive recipes by Michel Roux.The home baking kits are unique: they feature exclusive recipes by Michel Roux, one of the world's finest ever pastry chefs. They include all the dry ingredients bagged separately pre-cut baking paper andeven the tin to bake in giving authentic baking from scratch experience. Their baking kits are extremely popular as gifts and for baking with children as an activity that teaches them real cooking skills with a little less hassle and no waste.Their mug baking mixes use the same top-quality ingredients as their baking kits but enable to bake a brownie, cookie, or cake in a mug in the microwave in less than 2 minutes. They sell them in individual pots as well as in multipacks. These have quickly become their best selling products and have a very broad appeal.Bakedin was founded in 2013 by 3 friends - Joe, Anna, and Elaina - and is based in North Hampshire.
  • Stitched — Made to measure curtains and blinds with Stitched. Choose from 300+ sustainable fabrics, colours and textures to create your perfect look.
  • RazorSecure — RazorSecure provides rail cyber security solutions powered by machine learning, and designed to protect rolling stock, signalling and infrastructure systems
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Shohet & Cie
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

Henry Shohet set up Shohet & Cie in 1991, in Geneva, whose activities are Portfolio Management and Financial Engineering in the interest of Private Groups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Local, Events
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Streetlife — streetlife.com, the local social network, has a simple aim: to help people across Britain make the most of where they live by connecting with nearby residents, groups, organisations and businesses.The streetlife.com team believes that better connected neighbours build stronger communities, and that digital media has a key role to play inbringing together people with busy routines or reduced mobility, to discuss and improve the local issues they care about.The site provides an easy way for locals to share practical information, advice, opinions, skills and resources. People sign up using their postcode, and can start and join conversations with others in their area. Users can customise their settings so they control how much information they receive, the areas they're interested in, and what they share about themselves.Main uses of the site include:- discussing nearby news, crime, planning proposals and public services- finding locals with common interests, organising and attending social groups and events- sharing skills and belonging with neighbours, from hedge-trimmers to spreadsheet skills- recommending and discovering local businesses and tradespeople- promoting, campaigning and volunteering for community projects and local causesstreetlife.com is a privately funded limited company headquartered in Covent Garden, London.Following a successful pilot in the London Borough of Wandsworth, streetlife.com is now available nationwide. The service is free for residents discussing local issues. Find out more and watch a short video narrated by Stephen Fry at www.streetlife.com.
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Edge VC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Local startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Software, Video
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Jersey, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$5.7M; Series A $3M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $115M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Coolabi — Coolabi Group is a independent international media group and rights owner specialising in the creation, development and brand management of children’s and family intellectual property rights.The group, made up of Coolabi and Working Partners, has particular expertise in television, digital and books.The group also creates original seriesfiction for publishers and has created some 100 published series, consisting of over 1,000 books, sold in more than 40 languages. Four of these series, Warriors, Beast Quest, Animal Ark and Rainbow Magic have sold over ten million copies each.Coolabi Group has reached an agreement with Alibaba Pictures Group Limited for the film rights for Warriors. Alibaba Pictures intends to develop Warriors into a world-class fantasy movie which has David Heyman (Harry Potter) as producer. The Warriors book series has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.The group also includes Rights People, the world’s number one licensor of children’s fiction, and The Greenhouse Literary Agency, a specialist transatlantic children’s literary agency.
  • Newsflare — Newsflare is an online video news community and marketplace for user generated video content. Newsflare specialises in covering news that is too breaking, too remote or too local for traditional news organisations.They are all about news. Unlike many other online video sharing sites Newsflare is dedicated to user-generated news content andencourages an ethos of journalistic values. They believe in the power of video to communicate a message and their service is built to make the most of this medium.Their goal is to ensure that all their members get the rewards they deserve. They actively broker your content to news organisations and when your content is sold they share the revenue with you. Their member reward programme ensures that the more you contribute and participate, the more recognition, privileges and financial rewards you are entitled to.
  • Antidote Productions — Antidote Productions is a TV production company with an ethos for smart, populist and distinctive programming.They specialise in talent-based and access-driven programmes working with established names, new up and coming faces and major corporations and institutions.International series and factual formats are a core focus, leveraging ourknowledge of what sells alongside our experience to co-produce for the major UK broadcasters and internationally with the USA, Canada, Australia and Pan Asia.
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Local Investor funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 26 deals from 49 investors.

49
investors
in United Kingdom Local startups
26
deals
in United Kingdom Local startups
$1.4M
median round
in United Kingdom Local startups
37%
lead investors
lead at least one round
27%
Seed
most common funding stage
69/31
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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