Top 50 Machine Learning Startup Investors in United Kingdom (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Entrepreneurs First
VC Fund
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47 | United Kingdom, United States, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $54k–$41M |
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SFC Capital
VC Fund
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38 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $126k–$2M |
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Amadeus Capital Partners
VC Fund
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32 | United Kingdom, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $900k–$56M |
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IQ Capital
VC Fund
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28 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1.3M–$40M |
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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28 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$33M |
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Episode 1
VC Fund
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26 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1M–$18M |
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MMC Ventures
VC Fund
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26 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1.4M–$54M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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25 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2.1M–$43M |
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Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund
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25 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2.9M–$37M |
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Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund
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21 | United Kingdom, United States, Philippines | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $991k–$45M |
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
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20 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $241k–$18M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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19 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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AI Seed
VC Fund
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19 | United Kingdom, United States, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $395k–$3.2M |
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Playfair Capital
VC Fund
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17 | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $953k–$19M |
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Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund
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16 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $244k–$7.5M |
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Downing Ventures
VC Fund
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16 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $501k–$14M |
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Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund
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16 | United Kingdom, United States, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $193k–$9.5M |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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16 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $411k–$33M |
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
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15 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $197k–$4M |
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Charlie Songhurst
Angel
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15 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $500k–$8M |
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Ascension
VC Fund
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15 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Internet | $229k–$4.1M |
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AlbionVC
VC Fund
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15 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $2.4M–$19M |
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Anthemis
VC Fund
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14 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $1.3M–$60M |
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Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund
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14 | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland | Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Biotechnology, Software, Health Care | $119k–$8.4M |
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $650k–$30M |
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Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, Australia, United States | Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Manufacturing | $19k–$5.4M |
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Beringea
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, E-Commerce, Analytics | $2.3M–$25M |
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Wayra
VC Fund
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12 | Spain, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $54k–$16M |
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Pentech Ventures
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Analytics | $1.3M–$60M |
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Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $750k–$37M |
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Seraphim Space
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Series A | Aerospace, Software, Information Technology | $1.4M–$30M |
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Will Brooks
Angel
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11 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $501k–$30M |
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Expon Capital
VC Fund
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11 | Luxembourg, France, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $527k–$102M |
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Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Finland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Software | $1.3M–$168M |
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Will Martin
Angel
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $650k–$11M |
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Passion Capital
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $573k–$85M |
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Par Equity
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Brazil | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $113k–$4.3M |
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Portfolio Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, Japan, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.4M–$12M |
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Credo Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $385k–$19M |
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Foresight Group
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Private Equity, Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $648k–$9.4M |
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Creator Fund
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology | $444k–$17M |
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SuperSeed Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, Sweden, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $764k–$14M |
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Mercuri
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $225k–$20M |
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Chris Adelsbach
Angel
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $118k–$19M |
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Kindred Capital
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $1.4M–$73M |
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BACKED VC
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Blockchain, Biotechnology | $1.9M–$59M |
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Forward Partners
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $42k–$17M |
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NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $327k–$5.7M |
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence | $4.5M–$160M |
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Newable Private Investing
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $196k–$5.2M |
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 478
- Round size: Seed $54k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $55k–$2.7M; Series A $5.1M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $133M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
- Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
- HelmGuard AI — HelmGuard develops an AI-driven trust infrastructure platform for security, compliance, and third-party risk management. The company provides an operational risk infrastructure layer that centralizes fragmented security, compliance, and vendor data into a structured repository. Its platform coordinates autonomous, domain-specific AI agents thatperform continuous data indexing, compliance mapping, automated vendor assessments, and real-time security tracking. HelmGuard includes a risk operating system, a zero-knowledge verification engine for selective disclosure and cryptographic-style proofs, and persona-specific risk intelligence reporting. These capabilities support first-party, third-party, and customer-facing workflows across sectors such as financial services, SaaS, and healthcare. The platform is used by security, risk, and compliance teams to maintain continuous oversight of internal controls, vendor posture, and regulatory obligations while generating tailored, natural-language reports for business stakeholders.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 754
- Round size: Seed $126k–$2M; Pre-Seed $170k–$858k
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- FlairMakers — FlairMakers provides a digital talent platform connecting hospitality businesses with vetted freelance professionals.
- Pure Capture Innovations — Pure Capture Innovations develop the next generation of sustainable adsorbents to solve the emerging PFAS crisis, removing 'forever chemicals' contaminating our water and affecting public health
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 273
- Round size: Seed $900k–$9.2M; Series A $2.6M–$30M; Series B $7.2M–$56M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- iPremom — iPremom is a healthcare technology company that develops molecular diagnostic solutions for the early detection and prediction of pregnancy complications, particularly preeclampsia.
- Slamcore — Positioning, mapping and perception | State-of-the-art visual SLAM turns sensor data into actionable, spatial understanding for your vehicles.
- Respiro Diagnostics — Respiro is harnessing insights from the breath to detect lung cancer earlier, non-invasively, and without scans or radiation. Built for use in everyday care settings.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 213
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $4.7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- RevEng — RevEng.AI is a cyber security and artificial intelligence company that helps organizations understand their cyber security supply chain. RevEng.ai identifies fundamental components of closed-source program binaries and generates real-valued vector embeddings for each component.
- Mindgard — Mindgard is the leading provider of AI Red Teaming solutions.
- Imperagen — Imperagen is a biotechnology research company focused on enzyme engineering, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology.
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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: 434
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5.1M; Series A $4.2M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- nPlan — AI that forecasts project outcomes, creates scenarios of the future and helps mitigate risk across single projects and portfolios. Trained on over 750,000 past programmes.
- Stream — Stream is a financial services firm that allows employees to stream their earned wages into their accounts through an instant app. The app allows them to have complete control over when they get paid. It also effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans, and employee stress suffered from short-term, unplanned financial obligations. Thecompany aims to play a key role in reducing the poverty premium and preventing employees from entering cycles of debt caused by overdraft fees, high-interest credit, or payday loans.
- 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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 173
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $5.1M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $96M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- RevEng — RevEng.AI is a cyber security and artificial intelligence company that helps organizations understand their cyber security supply chain. RevEng.ai identifies fundamental components of closed-source program binaries and generates real-valued vector embeddings for each component.
- sable bio — We provide comprehensive, quantified, and flexible Target Safety Intelligence to assist toxicologists, informaticians, and drug discovery scientists in delivering safe and effective new treatments.
- SimplyCook — SimplyCook offers home recipe kits with easy step-by-step guides to cook restaurant-quality food in less than 20 minutes.SimplyCook boxes contain 4 easy to follow recipes and 4 ingredient kits. Each kit is designed to provide perfect taste-containing ingredient blends devised by professional chefs.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 258
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.8M; Series A $2.9M–$19M; Series B $10M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $129M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- ABEX — Algorithmic Best Execution for digital assets driven by an ultra low latency, high frequency, agency trading engine and enhanced by deep quantitative research.
- sable bio — We provide comprehensive, quantified, and flexible Target Safety Intelligence to assist toxicologists, informaticians, and drug discovery scientists in delivering safe and effective new treatments.
- Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
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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: 432
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$13M; Series A $3.8M–$22M; Series B $7.5M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- Round size: Seed $2.9M–$8.8M; Series A $10M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Nopan — We help large merchants, fintechs, and PSPs turn account and wallet payment methods into measurable revenue drivers.
- Aseon Labs — Robotic pitstops for self driving cars. A depot in a box for charging, cleaning & inspecting AVs directly in operating zones. Backed by @ycombinator
- OLIX — OLIX designs and manufactures optical processors that use light-based circuits to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads. The company develops Optical Tensor Processing Units that execute matrix and tensor operations for training and running inference on large-scale machine learning models. Its hardware aims to increase performance and reducepower consumption relative to conventional electronic accelerators by processing data in the optical domain. Flux Computing focuses on infrastructure for generative AI and advanced neural networks, targeting data centers and organizations that require intensive model computation. The product stack centers on custom optical chips integrated with supporting electronics, control software, and tools that link into existing AI frameworks. Sales and partnerships primarily address customers building large AI clusters, research environments, and emerging applications that benefit from high-throughput, low-energy computation.
Parkwalk is a London-based fund management firm. Parkwalk invests in UK technology companies that have IP backing and freedom to operate, generally spun out of UK universities. Their funds seek to generate capital gains for their investors, enhanced by the attractive tax relief provided by EIS. Parkwalk entered this investment sector in 2009,anticipating a wave of tax-efficient incentives launched by the UK Government to stimulate innovative emerging technology companies and thereby help drive economic growth.Parkwalk utilises academic, technology transfer, venture capital and personal networks developed over many years to gain access to the highest calibre deal-flow. In 2017 Parkwalk joined forces with IP Group plc, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company that is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IPO. As at March 2019 the combined group has net assets of £1.2bn.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 325
- Round size: Seed $991k–$4.9M; Series A $1.6M–$14M; Series B $2.2M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
- K3 Metrology — K3 Metrology is a specialist metrology company commercialising laser‑based 3D coordinate measurement technology developed at the National Physical Laboratory. The company’s platform is designed to provide high‑accuracy, uncertainty‑aware dimensional data in large‑volume industrial environments, supporting inspection and assembly processes inadvanced manufacturing. Its systems integrate into production workflows where traceable measurements are required across complex geometries and large structures. The technology is applied in sectors such as aerospace, defence, and nuclear, where dimensional integrity and process control are critical.
- MoA Technology — We harness the principles of natural selection to accelerate discovery for better, safer herbicides so farmers can continue to feed the world.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 197
- Round size: Seed $420k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $241k–$2.4M; Series A $3.1M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% 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 — Build your future placement and underwriting strategy with Artificial's pioneering technology.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2377
- Round size: Seed $158k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$590k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
- Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
- Neighbourhood — Neighbourhood transform unused spaces in restaurants, hotels and residences, into local hubs for co-working, creating and collaborating.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $395k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $460k–$902k
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kuano — Kuano provides innovative quantum and AI solutions for drug discovery and design. It offers a discovery platform that combines target quantum mapping and AI-led chemistry to enable the faster development of better drug candidates.
- RoboK — VC-backed startup developing software solutions and tools for building and validating AI-based perception. The company's vision is to accelerate the deployment of affordable autonomy solutions for automotive and industrial applications.
- Thingtrax — Realise improved efficiency, quality control, employee safety and productivity by modernising your factories with ThingTrax's AI and IoT
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.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 276
- Round size: Seed $331k–$3.1M; Series A $1.7M–$7.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $244k–$4.1M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
- IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems. Deploy, manage, and scale AI-driven, data-rich industrial systems at the edge with our open edge data platform.
- Administrate — Manage instructor-led training with Administrate. Plan, schedule, communicate, resolve issues, and report on training operations from one platform.
The opportunity for institutional investors to access leading UK early stage healthtech businesses
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 154
- Round size: Seed $501k–$4.2M; Series A $3.4M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.4M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- TidalSense — CRiL was formed in April 2013 specifically to develop innovative medical devices to diagnose and manage respiratory conditions. They have been building a platform technology, N-Tidal, based on the measurement and analysis of tidal breathing CO2 throughout the entire breath.
- Qkine — Growth Factors made for stem cells Animal-free We control every step of protein manufacture ensuring all our products are completely animal-free Total transparency Stringent purity and bioactivity testing data for all proteins - know what you are giving your cells Protein innovation Our R&D team
- FundamentalVR — Solutions for knowledge acquisition and skills development for any interactive medium
The Cambridge Angels are a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in internet, software, technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors in the Cambridge (UK) area and throughout the UK.Typical funding requirements thatthe Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £50,000 to £500,000 - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have received more than £1m in funding from their Members over several funding rounds.Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 142
- Round size: Seed $382k–$3M; Pre-Seed $193k–$1.2M; Series A $2M–$9.5M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
- Orthofuse — Orthofuse designs and manufacturers advance orthopaedic solutions using 3D printing technology. Their focus is on bringing precision and simplicity to complex surgical procedures, creating implants and systems that fit naturally into a surgeon's workflow while delivering dependable outcomes.
- Singular Photonics — Singular Photonics is a startup that creates SPAD-based image sensors.
Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 668
- Round size: Seed $798k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $372M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
- GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
- Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 206
- Round size: Seed $233k–$4M; Pre-Seed $197k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Go Swag — Branded gifts for people you work with
- Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
- Foresight — Foresight turns regulatory change into confident action. Compliance-critical teams see every change that affects their products across chemicals, sustainability, product safety, ESG, and HSE, with the evidence to act.
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 253
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zeit AI — Zeit AI, founded by former Palantir engineers, generates a structured data base atop your tabular data files which you can query using natural language. For example, you suspect an efficiency in your organisation and you have a bunch of data files, instead of reading through all of them one by one in excel, you explore them in Zeit AI. Theycurrently offer a two-week pilot program where their engineers develop tailored solutions for data challenges involving CSV, Excel, or PDF files.
- Uncovr — Surgical video is the biggest dark data in medicine. We turn it into operative reports, billing codes, and clinical intelligence automatically
- Structured AI — Construction AI QA/QC software that automatically reviews drawing packages and catches errors, code issues, and coordination clashes before they reach the field.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 318
- Round size: Seed $229k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $261k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $21M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases
- Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
- Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
AlbionVC supports visionary founders and technologies with long-term capital and scale-up know-how. Founded in 1996, it was amongst the first to back leading global success stories such as Booking.com, Egress, Quantexa and Oviva. With £1bn in AUM and over 100 exits successfully realised, it funds venture breakthroughs that drive real outcomes forfounders, investors and society. AlbionVC is the technology investment arm of Albion Capital Group, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. For more information please visit: https://albion.vc/
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 179
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$12M; Series A $3.9M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
- Oshen — Oshen is a technology enterprise that creates miniature autonomous sailboats designed for persistent, wide-area ocean tracking.
- Gravitee — Open Source API Management Platform - Gravitee
digitally native finance
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 325
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $7.5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $56M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Kaiko — Kaiko provides real-time and historical cryptocurrency trade data, order books, and aggregated prices through a cryptocurrency API, downloadable CSV files, and a livestream WebSocket. We cover 100+ crypto exchanges and 35,000+ trading pairs for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins.
- PayPerks — PayPerks operates education and rewards solutions with our partners to improve the financial capability, financial health, and overall lives of millions of Americans.
- Monax — Monax offers a platform that leverages blockchain technology and offers a contract lifecycle management tool that permits consumers to easily procure lawyer-tested agreements and stay in full control of their business contracts as well as provides permission ledgers and smart contracts, enabling the finance, insurance, and construction sectors todevelop, customize, sell and reproduce legal products.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 395
- Round size: Seed $387k–$4.3M; Grant $119k–$4.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $726k–$8.4M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kenoteq — Discover Kenoteq, pioneering the sustainable construction revolution with our innovative, ultra low-carbon building materials.
- QuickBlock — QUICKBLOCK delivers training environments, deployable infrastructure and force protection solutions for defence and security organisations worldwide.
- Singular Photonics — Singular Photonics is a startup that creates SPAD-based image sensors.
firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.
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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: 217
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Intropy AI — Intropy increases distributor profitability by automating inventory and pricing decisions, at scale, across your distribution network.
- Neno Technology — Neno is a financial technology company that helps entrepreneurs start, manage, and scale their businesses without the administrative burden. The platform automates Dutch BV (private limited company) registration, business banking, corporate card issuance, invoicing, bookkeeping, payroll, and tax filing combining them into a single, streamlinedworkflow. Rather than juggling separate providers for each of these functions, founders get one integrated system paired with dedicated, personal accounting support. Neno's goal is to eliminate the hours founders typically lose to financial paperwork and follow-ups each month, letting them focus on growing their business instead of managing back-office operations.
- Reimagine Robotics — Show the robot what to do, correct it where it fails, and adapt it as the process changes.
Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 288
- Round size: Seed $327k–$3M; Debt Financing $19k–$3.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $350k–$5.4M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- nisien.ai — Nisien.ai uses industry-leading AI for the detection, defence and resolution of online harm, for better online safety and digital wellbeing.
- Design and Supply — Design and Supply are specialist manufacturers and suppliers of Industrial Steel Doors and Architectural Products.
- Outlook Expeditions — Ready. For Life.
Beringea is an international investor in high growth US & UK businesses. With expertise in multiple sectors we are at the forefront of emerging trends.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 173
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$10M; Series B $4.2M–$25M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.7M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $51M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Peerius — Deliver targeted messaging, personalized offers, and recommend the most relevant content for your users.
- Skills Matter — Skills Matter is a global community of technologists interacting, sharing knowledge, inspiring and improving each other. It's where software professionals go to get inspired, connect with peers and learn about new technologies; and where tech experts go to share their knowledge, build their personal brands and grow their audiences.With100,000+ members from 126 countries, Skills Matter is one of the world's largest communities of software professionals. These community members connect on our platform and participate in expert-led talks, conferences, meetups and workshops advancing the state of software engineering globally.
- Big Data Partnership — Big Data Partnership helps organisations across all industries become more data driven through data science and the adoption of new generation big data technologies rapidly and at low risk.Companies are generating data at a faster rate than ever before and are continuing to outpace the growth of storage capacity. A significant proportion of thedriving force behind this explosive growth is in form of unstructured data which has been created from relatively new sources including social networks, mobile content, and machine data, all of which create massive complex data sets. In an information society where data is now the new currency, we firmly believe that making sense of this data in an economically viable way will drive new revenue streams and give our clients competitive advantage that were never before possible using traditional data warehouse and business intelligence solutions. We help you Discover why and how to become data driven; we work with you to Develop and prove the value of this approach; we Deliver cost effective solutions which exploit faster and more scalable technology. We reduce risk by Training your staff in the necessary new skills and by providing Support.Their consultants are fully certified industry experts, and have worked extensively with Big Data technologies and toolsets including Hadoop and its ecosystem, Cassandra, Couchbase, Storm, Spark, Elasticsearch and others to provide scalable and reliable data solutions.
Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 436
- Round size: Seed $54k–$2.6M; Series A $2.5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
- LetsData — LetsData is an AI-power radar against disinformation. LetsData provides real-time media and social media monitoring in over 50 countries, empowering state agencies, businesses, and civil societies to proactively navigate risks and seize opportunities in the face of disinformation.
- Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Exchange (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services. Quantum-safe product and services, Quantum-safe roadmap and quantum-safe solutions implementation.
Pentech Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on finding category defining software companies. Their passion is helping founders develop their startup into an internationally successful organisation. They have done this multiple times, partnering with leading VCs, corporations and investment banks along the way. They consider any opportunitycapable of becoming a market leader but are most comfortable being the first venture investor, supporting founders through the early stages of proving product and market fit. Their initial investment is likely to be £500K to £2M, with up to £10M invested over the lifetime of the investment.They invest in founders who are ambitious to build a global company, have the passion and ability to attract the best team and who are focused on the data and understand the key drivers in proving and building their business. They support the founders they invest in to develop and grow with their business.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Series A $1.3M–$17M; Series B $3.7M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $114M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- nPlan — AI that forecasts project outcomes, creates scenarios of the future and helps mitigate risk across single projects and portfolios. Trained on over 750,000 past programmes.
- Causaly — Causaly is the fastest way to find evidence, explore hidden connections and make new predictions in biomedical science
- Deep Render — Deep Render Ltd. is a spin-out from the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. We are a London based AI start-up that is developing the next generation of media compression algorithms. Our proprietary and patented technology is at the forefront of machine learning research. Furthermore, our Biological Image Compression results arestate-of-the-art, providing at least a 50% efficiency gain over the previous standards
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 196
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $750k–$3.5M; Series A $7M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AUDIOGEN — Generate your sounds with AI. Create an infinite world of sounds - sound effects, samples, and music, instantly. Get Started Free.
- Xylo — Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery.
- Build — The AI-native operating partner for the built world. Build pairs agentic AI with CRE domain experts to accelerate commercial real estate development from concept to completion.
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Browse database — It's Free!Seraphim Capital is dedicated to financing the growth of companies operating in the space ecosystem. They are an ambitious team with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences in Venture. Collectively they have over 100 years’ experience, investing in over 180 early and growth stage businesses, returning more than £750 million to theirshareholders.They are also fortunate to have one of the world's leading entrepreneurs and experts in Earth Observation on board. They work closely with their portfolio companies and always strive to create meaningful value and endeavour to ensure that the full value of their network and partners is utilised.The backing of leading global corporates in the Space sector and the leading Space related Governmental Agencies in the UK and Europe brings significant value. They are able to leverage their capital, industry leading knowledge and networks, creating an ecosystem that delivers real results for your business. From roots to market, sales and marketing, partnerships, follow-on capital, and M&A they can deliver value creation across the company growth cycle globally.
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- Industry: Aerospace, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 222
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.5M; Series A $2.6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $100M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- aXenic — aXenic are leaders in optical modulators for satellite and aerospace communications.
- Hubble Network — Connect a Bluetooth device to a global satellite network, delivering affordable, low-power tracking and monitoring for diverse industrial and commercial applications.
- Zeno Power — Clean, plug-and-play power, anywhere in the universe.
Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $501k–$3.5M; Series A $2.2M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.3M–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Global investor in big ideas with the potential for positive impact & exponential growth
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Luxembourg, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $527k–$5M; Series A $2.2M–$34M; Series B $17M–$102M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Deelan — Save time and resources by training your team with Deelan's AI-native LMS. All-in-one platform for training performance of your teams, employees, partners, and customers. Create learning, grow skills and measure results in minutes.
- nexten.io — nexten.io is the leading subscription-free recruitment platform, connecting thousands of selected developers open to on site, remote or freelance opportunities with CTOs of the best tech companies across Europe.
- Service — Service gets you paid when your flight is delayed or cancelled.
Oxford Science Enterprises is the university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companies taking onchallenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 205
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $6.3M–$45M; Series B $9.1M–$168M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $299M in 2022
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- MCatalysis — Manufacturing drop-in liquid commodities from distributed hydrocarbon feedstocks below commodity cost with small modular refining.
- Caudal Energy — Porpoise Power develops a tidal energy system using oscillating hydrofoil technology inspired by dolphin swimming mechanics.
- Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $874k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $650k–$3.7M; Series A $2.3M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators who are applying our experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. We are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe, and we believe that the criticaldifferentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders. We take pride in the calibre and success of all of our founders and teams including but nowhere near limited to GoCardless, Tray.io, Mendeley, Digital Shadows, Adzuna, Smarkets, Ravelin, Tide, Marshmallow, Butternut Box, PolyAI, Lendable and Monzo Bank
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 186
- Round size: Seed $573k–$6.5M; Series A $2.3M–$14M; Series B $5M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $52M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
- Backbone — AI platform for food & beverage quality teams. Connects standards, audits, supplier data, and customer requirements into one live picture. Automates the admin. Routes the right intelligence to the right person. Faster decisions, fewer blind spots.
- Opensignal — Opensignal is the leading global provider of independent insights into network experience and market performance.
Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 278
- Round size: Seed $416k–$4.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $113k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $122M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Fuuse — Fuuse is an electric vehicle charge point management system that enables your chargers to deliver more for you and your drivers.
- PathXL — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
- Skylark Lasers — UniKLasers specialises in single frequency, continuous wave DPSS lasers at mid- to high power. Suitable for Raman, Holography, Interferometry, Microscopy, Metrology, Quantum Technologies, and more
We invest in UK based tech companies alongside our network of strategic and value-add Angels, Family Offices and VCs.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Japan, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.4M–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $6.1M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Paypercut — Paypercut is a fintech startup that allows small and mid-scaled merchants to offer Buy Now, Pay Later at checkout via a single integration.
- Prolo — Prolo is an AI powered procurement experts for construction. Streamline material orders, get market-tested pricing from 185+ brands, and protect your margins.
- Infrawatch — Detect early. Multi-source infrastructure intelligence, delivered in real time, detections, context, and signals you can act on.
We partner with outstanding technology founders from Central and Eastern Europe to help them realize their global ambitions.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Seed $965k–$7M; Pre-Seed $385k–$4M; Series A $2M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $88M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
- Fabrica AI — Fabrica AI offers a revolutionary platform for faster robot development, using custom hardware designs and learned optimal control to increase efficiency while minimizing complexity and cost. With a vision for a future where robot development takes days, not years.
- Delta Green — Aggregating household assets in large controllable block of flexibility.
Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 221
- Round size: Seed $648k–$9.4M; Private Equity $2.1M–$8.3M
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $120M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Vertal — Vertal is a food waste recycling company
- Welding Engineers — Welding Engineers has been in business since 1966 and is a major independent door company specialising in the manufacture, installation, repair and maintenance of all types of Industrial Doors and Shutters, Steel Fabrication, Lift Gates and Shutters, Industrial Roofing and Structural Glazing.
- Industrial Engineering Plastics — Industrial Engineering Plastics delivers specialist thermoplastic fabrication, DW154-compliant ductwork, machining, and plastics distribution
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $444k–$4.5M; Series A $11M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $41M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Caudal Energy — Porpoise Power develops a tidal energy system using oscillating hydrofoil technology inspired by dolphin swimming mechanics.
- Quantum Diamonds — Bringing diamond-based quantum technology around the globe, empowering the next quantum leap.
- Entelo Bio — Precision Medicine
London-based VC backing pre-seed and seed-stage technical founders bringing AI to manufacturing, logistics, construction, defence, energy, and infrastructure.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $764k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$3.9M; Series A $5M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $42M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- All3 — All3 uses AI and robotics to design, manufacture, and assemble buildings through a unified system. The company provides an end-to-end system that combines AI-driven architectural design, robotic off-site manufacturing, and automated on-site assembly for residential and commercial structures. Its platform enables customized building components to beproduced and assembled with software-controlled workflows, reducing reliance on manual processes and fragmented supply chains.All3 also offers vertically integrated services that cover planning, engineering, fabrication, and construction delivery, allowing developers to manage projects within a single system. Its technology supports complex building designs and constrained urban sites by adapting production and assembly processes to specific project requirements.
- SOLVE — SOLVE have developed novel transient flow techniques that extend the capabilities of current approaches. SOLVE’s products leverage technology for the efficient collection of data from chemical reactions, as well as predictive computational models tuned based on the collected data. Both the data by itself, as well as the models, are used to informthe reaction conditions and solvent mixtures applied to manufacture chemical compounds at different scales of production.
- Bench — Automating technical Hardware Documentation for Engineering Companies
Mercuri is a London VC fund backing pre-seed and seed media technology and AI startups. Investors in Hugging Face, Fluidstack and Faculty AI
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $878k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $225k–$4M; Series A $4.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $64M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Mozart AI — Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries.
- Electric Twin — Ask your audience anything and get research-grade answers in seconds. Electric Twin builds synthetic audiences from your customer data. Up to 96% accurate, validated by LSE.
- Made With Intent — Convert more customers by being more appropriate. Understand and target customer intent with the segmentation platform for data-led eCommerce teams.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 321
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $118k–$1.9M; Series A $4.3M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bourn — Bourn's technology is designed to automate cash flow management, offering SMEs fast access to capital.
- Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
- Emblematic — The first AI-driven Agentic Automation platform, designed to fully automate and enhance the accuracy of Finance Operations, including Bookkeeping, IFRS/GAAP Compliance, Reconciliations, and more.
A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M; Series A $7.9M–$33M; Series B $8M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $8M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- ZML — ZML is a production inference stack, purpose-built to decouple AI workloads from proprietary hardware.
- Bios Life — Bios Life is a technology-enabled healthcare company built to empower individuals to proactively manage their cancer risk, redefining personalized cancer screening and survivorship.
- Fractile — Fractile is designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at 1/10th the cost.
BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders, at Seed, in Europe. We provide founders with an extensive support system to catalyse their development as a company operators and leaders. Through our Founder Experience Platform and energetic portfolio community we help entrepreneurs across all areas of a startup:from talent management to business development, further fundraising and international expansion.Founded in 2015 by partners Andre de Haes and Alex Brunicki, we invest across sectors including BioTech, Entertainment, Financial Services, Industry 4.0 and more. Investments to date include Hutch, Pollen, Thought Machine, LabGenius, THIS, Enterprise Alumni, and many more.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 121
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$9.6M; Series A $7M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $100M in 2025
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- Ruka — We celebrate Black women and create hair products designed with real textures in mind.
- GingerControl — GingerControl is the AI audit layer for global trade spend. It re-reasons every duty decision, reconciles purchase orders to entries, and audits freight charges in customs value, then recovers the leakage, in every market you trade in.
- Round Finance — On the verge of excellence.
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: 108
- Round size: Seed $343k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $42k–$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
- Plyable — AI manufacturing software, composite and metallic molds and parts, composite parts, tools, metallic, engineering, technology, ai
- nSpireMe — nSpireMe helping children supercharge their violin learning with interactive practice apps.
- Patch — Patch helps you choose the best plants for your space, delivers them to your door, and helps you look after them.
Mercia Equity Finance is a regional investor that focuses initially on uncovering the hidden value. It uses both of its managed funds and its proprietary capital to invest across four distinct asset classes: venture, private equity, and debt, referred to as their 'Complete Capital Solution’. It aspires to be the first choice for investors,investees, and employees, and, by aspiring to be the first choice, they believe that Mercia will deliver superior returns for business owners, shareholders, and fund investors alike.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $327k–$2.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $606k–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Envoke — The engagement Platform for your Virtual Instrument.
- OceanSaver — OceanSaver provides refillable, plastic-free, plant-based cleaning products.
- Candid Hospitality — Candid Hospitality is an innovative recruitment platform created particularly for the hospitality industry.
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 446
- Round size: Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $9.3M–$100M; Series C $13M–$160M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $615M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- NewBay — NewBay enables operators and device makers to deliver a lifetime of digital content experiences across any connected device such as mobile, PC, tablets and TV. The NewBay white label software platform powers cloud-based services for storing, sharing, accessing and organizing digital content. NewBay enables customers to monetize a wide range ofbranded services such as social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, notifications and converged messaging. NewBay is delivering highly successful commercial services for operators and device makers worldwide. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon and LG Electronics. NewBay is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator and device maker services. NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, USA; Atlanta, USA; London, UK; Sydney, Australia and Seoul, South Korea. NewBay was founded in 2002. Following acquisition in 2011, NewBay is a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM).
- GitGuardian — GitGuardian provides a platform for detecting and managing sensitive digital credentials and machine identities within software development environments. The company’s solutions scan source code repositories, cloud infrastructure configurations, and other development tools to identify exposed secrets such as API keys, security tokens, andcertificates that could be inadvertently committed. Its offerings include internal monitoring tools that help organizations observe secrets within private codebases and public monitoring capabilities to uncover leaks that occur in publicly accessible repositories. GitGuardian also supports governance over non‑human identities by maintaining inventories of machine accounts and associated credentials while offering contextual insights and workflows to assist security teams in prioritizing and addressing potential risks. The platform integrates with a variety of developer and security tools to bring visibility into hidden credentials across a technology stack and to support collaborative remediation activities. GitGuardian delivers automated detection paired with incident tracking features that assist in classifying exposures and guiding corrective actions throughout the software development lifecycle. The company’s technology targets security, DevOps, and compliance functions that aim to strengthen credential hygiene and reduce chances of unauthorized access within organizational systems.
- Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
Newable: Helping over 20,000 businesses thrive annually with tailored financial products, advice, and flexible workspace solution
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Seed $196k–$3.1M; Series A $1.3M–$5.2M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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- Delta g — Delta g Limited is a quantum technology and gravity gradiometry company. A spin-out from the University of Birmingham our technology has applications in industries as varied as civil engineering, infrastructure, defence, rail, navigation and resource exploration. Experts from science, engineering an
- Weldfast — Weldfast is a manufacturer and supplier of welding consumables, abrasives, chemicals, premium gas equipment, and safety products.
- EarSwitch — Empowering new ways to control and connect with the world through in-ear biometric switch and sensor technology
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