Top 30 Local VC Funds & Investors in United Kingdom (October 2026)
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SFC Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $123k–$2.5M |
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Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $576k–$13M |
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Seedrs
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, FinTech | $44k–$3.4M |
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ETF Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, France, Germany | Series A, Series B | Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology | $3.9M–$33M |
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The FSE Group
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $106k–$5.4M |
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Social Discovery Group
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, China | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Apps, Internet, Mobile | $500k–$15M |
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Calibrate Management
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Finance, Financial Services | $689k–$10M |
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Committed Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Local, EdTech | $2.6M–$6.3M |
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Shohet & Cie
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom | Venture - Series Unknown | News, Local, Events | |
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $3.4M–$22M |
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ustwo
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed | Apps, Product Design, Art | $367k–$3.2M |
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Edge VC
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Jersey, Denmark | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Media and Entertainment, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$8M |
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Ballpark Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, China | Seed, Angel, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, Software | $28k–$1.9M |
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Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Private Equity | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $648k–$15M |
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Innovate UK
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed | Health Care, Biotechnology, Software | $58k–$3.5M |
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Playfair Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $953k–$19M |
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HardGamma Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Poland, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Education | $35k–$1.4M |
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ProFounder
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | iOS, Apps, SaaS | |
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Ventech
VC Fund
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1 | France, Germany, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.3M–$67M |
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Forward Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $54k–$17M |
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Nesta Impact Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia | Seed, Series A | Education, Health Care, SaaS | $262k–$10M |
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Mercia Fund Managers
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Hungary | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $250k–$14M |
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$18M |
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Innovation Nest
VC Fund
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1 | Poland, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $40k–$10M |
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HOWZAT Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Travel, E-Commerce, Software | $318k–$11M |
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Accel
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.3M–$75M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2.1M–$43M |
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Redgate Software
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United Kingdom | Angel, Corporate Round | iOS, Local, Events | |
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$30M |
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Hotspur Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel | Mobile, Software, Location Based Services | $35k–$2.5M |
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Discover the UK's leading SEIS Fund, offering tax-efficient investments in innovative startups. Join thousands of savvy investors and raise capital for your business with SFC Capital.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 777
- Round size: Seed $123k–$2M; Pre-Seed $170k–$858k; Venture - Series Unknown $201k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
- Anemo Labs — We develop highly selective polymer-based sensors to detect gas VOCs in the ppb range, in real-time. We combine custom hardware with Machine Learning to characterize smells
- INTELLIGENT MASS SPEC SOLUTIONS — Intelligent Mass Spec Solutions develops urine-based mass spectrometry and machine learning diagnostics for adrenal cancer.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $576k–$3.2M; Series A $2.2M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $659k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $38M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- StratoBayes — Automated stratigraphic correlation with quantified uncertainty, built on Bayesian statistical inference.
- Camena Bioscience — Camena Bioscience is a synthetic biology company that develops tools to engineer new synthetic biology applications. It has engineered new nucleic acid synthesis technology which improves the quality and speed of synthesis. Its multi-enzymatic technology takes one approach to DNA, RNA, and XNA synthesis, offering increased accuracy over existingPhosphoramidite synthesis technology.Camena Bioscience was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge.
- Warwick Acoustics Ltd — Warwick Acoustics is a UK-based technology company specialising in the development of HighRes Audio solutions for the automotive and headphone markets based on its patented High Precision Electrostatic Laminate technology (HPELs). Their ultra thin, lightweight HPELs deliver audiophile performance across a bandwidth several octaves greater thantraditional moving coil speakers in a form factor that is less than one quarter the weight, and one tenth of the thickness. In addition, HPELs offer designers unparalleled flexibility to shaped and form a speaker to individual design requirements.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 312
- Round size: Seed $45k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $44k–$488k; Equity Crowdfunding $125k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% 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.
- LANDBAY — Your dedicated Landbay intermediary page for specialist buy-to-let mortgages. Partner with a lender who gives you direct decisions with a flexible approach and a full online application process.
- OurPetsLife — At OurPetsLife, our mission is to empower pet owners with innovative, reliable, and accessible Pet products trusted by the professionals. From dog food, supplements for pets, shampoo, pet treats, dental care & much more.
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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- Industry: Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Round size: Series A $3.9M–$16M; Series B $5.9M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $309M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- QuantWare — QuantWare designs, develops and fabricates state-of-the-art superconducting Quantum Hardware with excellent specs, and good service.
- Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
- Amber Electric — Join the smart energy revolution. Amber Electric is a new way to buy electricity. Unlike traditional retailers, we pass through the real-time wholesale price, helping you save money and use more renewable power.
The FSE Group provides growth finance and support for ambitious UK businesses, helping SMEs start, scale and succeed through tailored funding solutions.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 277
- Round size: Seed $294k–$2.3M; Debt Financing $106k–$696k; Venture - Series Unknown $485k–$5.4M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
- SageTech — Integrating simply, seamlessly and universally into existing anaesthetic equipment, the practical solution is supported by an easy to use, fully managed...
- Amino —
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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- Industry: Apps, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Series A $3.5M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Finance, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $689k–$2.4M; Series A $2.1M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Staff Heroes — Staff Heroes is the leading temp staffing platform revolutionising flexible work in London. Register free to start using our temp staffing platform today
- 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.
- Crossflow - The Working Capital Marketplace — At Crossflow we believe that our tech and AI can change working cap finance market #workingcapital #finance #cashflow #ai # fintech #treasurymanagement
Committed Capital specialises in investing in and providing corporate finance advice to fast growing companies.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Local, EdTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Series A $2.6M–$6.3M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% 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.
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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- Industry: News, Local, Events
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- 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.
BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 605
- Round size: Series A $4.1M–$21M; Private Equity $6.4M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $97M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Citrus-Lime — Support notifications from the CitrusLime team. Please note that we don't see tweets sent to this account
- Boost Juice Bars UK — Boost Juice Bars UK offer a range of smoothies and freshly squeezed juice products.
- Thames Card Technology —
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- Industry: Apps, Product Design, Art
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $367k–$3.2M
- 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.
- 1 Second Everyday — A modern day visual diary on iOS and Android.
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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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Jersey, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$5.7M; Series A $3M–$7M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $114M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Tenzo — Tenzo is a restaurant analytics and AI forecasting platform for restaurants, pubs and cafes. Tenzo makes running restaurants easy with full data visibility.
- 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.
- Pimloc — Pimloc's deep learning platform enables private businesses and public organisations to protect sensitive or personal data in video, to maintain safe online environments and to manage video security.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $71k–$1.9M; Angel $28k–$393k; Series A $656k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lingvist — Lingvist is an innovative language learning platform that uses artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning algorithms to make the learning process faster and more efficient.Lingvist is a subscription service for language learning, accessible via three platforms (web, iOS, and Android) worldwide.Lingvist waslaunched in 2013 and is operated from Tallinn, Estonia.
- Sendbird — Sendbird is the omnichannel AI agent platform enterprises choose to elevate customer experience, by initiating autonomous support & sales conversations, keeping humans in the loop for complex inquiries, and re-engaging customers with proactive business messages. Combining omnichannel AI and a battle-tested, award-winning communication APIs,Sendbird enables businesses to build AI agents and meaningful customer connections at scale. Trusted by 4,000+ leading apps—including DoorDash, Match Group, Noom, and Yahoo Sports—Sendbird powers over 7 billion conversations every month, offering exceptional reliability, security, and compliance that meet enterprise-level demands.Headquartered in California, Sendbird is backed by ICONIQ, SoftBank, Tiger Global, Y Combinator, and other reputable investors.
- GeoSpock — GeoSpock DB is the SQL powered high performance analytics database for connected device data. Unlock IoT, smart city and mobility use cases at any data scale.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 227
- Round size: Seed $783k–$5M; Private Equity $981k–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $648k–$8.3M
- Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- KubeNet — We are KubeNet - a multi-award winning technology solutions provider based in Glasgow. Whether it's Managed IT, IT Support, Cloud, Connectivity, Voice or Cyber Security, we're by your side as your trusted technology partner.
- Tixserve — Secure, Trackable, Interactive Digital Tickets for Live Events
- ReadyGo Diagnostics — ReadyGo Diagnostics has invented a novel “Diagnostic Pen”. Low cost, intuitive to use from the raw sample, the ReadyGo Pen will be a game-changer in the newly emerging consumer diagnostics market, offering a yes/no answer in minutes, based on molecular analysis.
Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation .
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1242
- Round size: Seed $143k–$3.5M; Grant $62k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $58k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
- 52 North Health — At 52 North we are developing fully-integrated clinical, AI and medical-device based systems.
- Productive Machines — Productive Machines Chatter-free Milling Software Optimization Service for every Machine Shop. Apply our recommended spindle speeds and feed rates to your specific machine settings and make the best part, faster, right first time.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 155
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $953k–$3.7M; Series A $3M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Navifare — Navifare is an AI-powered travel price optimization and metasearch platform that focuses on flight, hotel, and car rental price comparison. The platform analyzes flight offers users already found and searches for lower fares from online travel agencies and airlines. Users can upload screenshots, paste flight details, or use a Chrome extension thatoverlays a “Find Better Fare” button on major booking sites. Navifare exposes its price discovery capabilities via a web app, a REST API, and an MCP server for integration into AI assistants. It redirects users to partner sites to complete bookings and does not handle payments directly.
- Zerolook — Zerolook provides a flight-shopping API for online travel agencies, airlines, metasearch services, and AI travel applications. Its machine-learning model predicts flight prices and itineraries using historical fare data instead of recomputing every fare combination through a global distribution system or airline system. The API returns predicteditineraries, prices, and confidence scores for exploratory search, while customers route completed bookings through their existing distribution channels. Zerolook supports REST and MCP integrations and provides booking links to external airlines and online travel agencies.
- Fusionality — Fusionality is a Swiss fusion-technology company focused on measurement, control, and data systems for fusion devices.They combine expertise in fusion physics, control engineering, AI/ML, simulation, diagnostics, and real-time software.Their goal is to help fusion companies and research labs operate devices more efficiently and accelerate thedevelopment of commercial fusion energy.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Poland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $35k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 1mind — Finding a therapist is hard, we can help. Get matched to a therapist near you with 1mind.
- Codility — The #1 online coding test & interview platform for enterprises. Assess technical talent with valid skill-based assessments and interviews.
- Proxigroup — Solving the lack of visibility and transparency in asset management.
ProFounder is a crowdfunding platform that enables entrepreneurs to raise investment capital from friends, family, and community members.
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- 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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: France, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 217
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.6M; Series A $3.9M–$14M; Series B $5.6M–$67M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $207M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- amber — info@amberoad.aiambeRoad is developing an intelligent enterprise search engine to help employees to find all relevant documents easily and quickly by integrating all company internal data sources into one search engine. Our solution allows access to all company-wide files from anywhere. Even if you don't exactly know what you are lookingfor, our cutting-edge AI will know because of a range of features implemented in our software.No need to tag documents manually, all in milliseconds - only one search request away.
- Credoxys — Credoxys develops organic electronic materials for OLED displays, OLED lighting, organic photovoltaics, and sensors. Its portfolio includes dopants and transport materials designed to influence charge transport, optical transmission, power consumption, and energy generation in organic electronic devices. The company also develops materials forscale-up and customer-specific applications.
- ENGO Eyewear — engo3 is a next generation heads up display built for endurance athletes. Instant, frictionless, hands free access to performance metrics with long battery life and an ultra lightweight form factor. Unlock your data, and experience an entirely new way to train and compete
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $390k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $54k–$2M; Series A $3.3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $75M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Ably Realtime — Ably is the realtime platform built for scale and reliability. Power live chat, messaging, collaborative apps, and AI experiences that never drop.
- OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.
- OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Hungary
Investor stats
- Total investments: 148
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2.1M; Series A $1.3M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $394k–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- Ben — Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalise benefits and reward.Our secret? Marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee Mastercards and financial infrastructure. That’s how Ben instantly adds employee choice to your existing benefits, unlocks access to hundreds of additional options through Ben Card, all whilesaving you time and money.
- Distil.ai — Distil.ai is a software platform that helps businesses to understand their customers’ behavior and identify buying signals.
- MRC Engineering — MRC Engineering Providing a different option to the UK Rail Industry for Telecoms Design. Nationally renowned design specialists who provide extraordinary ...
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 202
- Round size: Seed $420k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% 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.
- Artificial Labs — Artificial connects brokers and insurers across the specialty market. Underwriting technology and placement tools to move risk faster, with less in the way.
- Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Poland, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $40k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$776k; Series A $4.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M 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 — Meisterwerk provides a SaaS operating system for SMB field service and craftsman companies. They offer services that include operational planning, mobile time tracking, digital forms, information exchange, and their own workflows. Meisterwerk helps to communicate between the office and the workforce.
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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- Industry: Travel, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $318k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$9.8M
- 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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2492
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $4.3M–$40M; Series B $10M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $750M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Vectra AI — Vectra AI, the cybersecurity AI company that protects modern networks from modern attacks.
- MobStac — Developer of a cloud-based mobile marketing platform designed to connect the digital and physical worlds through the use of innovative technology. The company's platform is based on the principals of proximity marketing and engage customers in a personalized, context-aware way that leverages indoor location and proximity, enabling businessesand brands to leverage BLE beacon technology to deliver context-rich experiences to their end users.
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 440
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.8M–$22M; Series B $8M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
- Metris Energy — The AI-native operating system for renewable energy.
- Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Founded in 1999, Red Gate Software produces ingeniously simple tools used by more than 500,000 IT professionals worldwide. The company currently specializes in SQL Server and .NET tools. Red Gate has been chosen as one of The Sunday Times (UK) 100 best small companies to work for in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.
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- Industry: iOS, Local, Events
- Stage:Angel, Corporate Round
- Geography: Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% 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.
- Octopus Deploy — Deploy software to multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments with Octopus Deploy, the continuous deployment software. Save 2000 hours per rollout, ensure reliable deployments, and automate routine tasks.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 440
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5.1M; Series A $4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Phase0 — Payment platform for construction projects
- Resolutiion — Resolutiion provides AI-powered software for managing commercial conflict, delivery risk, and business relationship performance. The platform supports organizations with dispute detection, workflow automation, contract monitoring, issue resolution, and operational risk management across customers, suppliers, workforce teams, and commercialpartnerships. Its system uses AI-driven analysis to identify relationship friction, monitor delivery performance, and support structured resolution processes. Resolutiion also provides commercial intelligence tools, reporting, and collaboration features for enterprise delivery and governance management.
- Maven Robotics — Maven Robotics is building the world's leading general purpose AI robots.
Hotspur Capital is a financial organization.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Location Based Services
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $35k–$1.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $208k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
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- Femeda — Femeda provides groundbreaking technology for the treatment of urinary incontinence for women worldwide. Get in touch today to find out more.
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- Greengage Lighting — Greengage was founded in 2008 and is based on site at the Roslin Institute Edinburgh University. Their presence at the universities campus for veterinary studies, demonstrates their focus on delivering innovative and applicable technologies to the agricultural sector. They work for farmers improving the overall well-being and productivity of theirlivestock.
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