Top 50 Machine Learning Startup Investors in United Kingdom (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Amadeus Capital Partners
VC Fund
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28 | United Kingdom, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $900k–$60M |
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SFC Capital
VC Fund
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25 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $131k–$2.2M |
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IQ Capital
VC Fund
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25 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1.3M–$40M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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23 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2.1M–$44M |
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MMC Ventures
VC Fund
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22 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1.4M–$54M |
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Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund
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21 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2.8M–$39M |
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Entrepreneurs First
VC Fund
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20 | United Kingdom, United States, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $55k–$45M |
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Episode 1
VC Fund
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20 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1M–$20M |
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AI Seed
VC Fund
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19 | United Kingdom, United States, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $393k–$3.2M |
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Playfair Capital
VC Fund
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17 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $700k–$18M |
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Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund
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16 | United Kingdom, United States, Philippines | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $1.2M–$45M |
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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16 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$30M |
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
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16 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $380k–$19M |
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AlbionVC
VC Fund
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16 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $2.2M–$19M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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15 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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15 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $713k–$33M |
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Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund
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14 | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland | Grant, Seed | Biotechnology, Software, Health Care | $119k–$4.3M |
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Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund
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14 | United Kingdom, United States, Estonia | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $382k–$9.5M |
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
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14 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $100k–$4M |
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Downing Ventures
VC Fund
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13 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Series A, Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $550k–$13M |
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Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund
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13 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $327k–$7.5M |
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Anthemis
VC Fund
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12 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $1.3M–$75M |
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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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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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Wayra
VC Fund
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11 | Spain, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $103k–$16M |
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Beringea
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Analytics | $2.3M–$26M |
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Ascension
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Internet | $229k–$5.1M |
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Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, Australia, United States | Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Health Care, Manufacturing | $18k–$3.8M |
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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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Par Equity
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Brazil | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $220k–$14M |
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Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $809k–$170M |
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Will Brooks
Angel
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10 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $524k–$30M |
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Will Martin
Angel
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $856k–$11M |
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Seraphim Space
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Series A | Aerospace, Software, Information Technology | $917k–$30M |
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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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $371k–$19M |
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Illuminate Financial
VC Fund
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9 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $3.5M–$51M |
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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 | $655k–$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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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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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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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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XTX Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Series A, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $2M–$60M |
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BACKED VC
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Blockchain, Biotechnology | $2M–$59M |
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Passion Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $573k–$85M |
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Chris Adelsbach
Angel
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $120k–$19M |
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Salica
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Secondary Market, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $1M–$346M |
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Expon Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Luxembourg, France, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $635k–$102M |
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Kindred Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $1.5M–$73M |
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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 | $5M–$150M |
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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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 243
- Round size: Seed $900k–$9.2M; Series A $2.6M–$30M; Series B $6.8M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Slamcore — Positioning, mapping and perception | State-of-the-art visual SLAM turns sensor data into actionable, spatial understanding for your vehicles.
- Unifyr — IDC MarketScape Leader 2025. AI-native PRM platform for partner onboarding, enablement, deal registration, and through-channel marketing.
- 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: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 579
- Round size: Seed $131k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $173k–$846k
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Keylr — Services partner for property managers. Book reliable, top-rated professionals for your properties with e-props.
- Furbnow — Furbnow - Your companion for home improvements for the future
- 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.
IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London-based VC firm that invests in ‘deep tech’ companies capable of dominating their respective markets on a global scale. Initial investments at Seed and Series A range from £0.5m to £10m, with capacity for follow-on investment up to £30m through the Growth Fund. The team has achieved over 30 exits including toApple, Huawei, Google and Oracle.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 205
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $4.5M–$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.
- Dataswyft — Infrastructure for Decentralized Data Storage, Mobility and Interoperability
- Imperagen — Imperagen is a biotechnology research company focused on enzyme engineering, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology.
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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: 400
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$22M; Series B $8M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $101M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
- 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.
- 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.
MMC is a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high-growth UK companies. Investing in technology companies at Seed and Series A.
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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: 244
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.8M; Series A $2.4M–$19M; Series B $6M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $124M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Gardin — We believe in a world in which everyone has the right to access high quality, nutritious food that is good for you and for our planet. Our environmental issues are real, something, somewhere needs to change. Gardin promises to create the step-change required by deploying its technology.
- ABEX — Algorithmic Best Execution for digital assets driven by an ultra low latency, high frequency, agency trading engine and enhanced by deep quantitative research.
- 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
Crane is a London based VC firm investing and building seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep technology businesses across Europe. Our strategy is to support founders in building and executing their go-to-market strategy.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$8.8M; Series A $8M–$39M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% 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.
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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: 283
- Round size: Seed $724k–$7M; Pre-Seed $55k–$3.1M; Series A $6M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Juno Bio — Disrupted vaginal microbiomes can cause everything from recurrent infections to infertility. Get your comprehensive vaginal microbiome test and find out where you stand.
- Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
- EverSettled — Navigate the probate process with confidence. We provide a free checklist, guidance, and support to help families find clarity in the chaos of loss.
We build relationships early, make decisions quickly, but engage with you for the long term. Our focus is getting B2B software companies at Pre-Seed and Seed to a successful Series A.
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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: 147
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $5.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- SwiftShift — We are America's only Care Team Managed home health company empowering nurses and aides with control and autonomy over their home care efforts, instead of treating them like robots who work shift to shift.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $393k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $445k–$809k
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% 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, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.1M; Series A $2.7M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wassist — Launch your AI sales agent on WhatsApp for Shopify in under 60 seconds. Recover 30-50% of abandoned carts and increase conversions by 3x.
- Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.
- Exclaim Robotics — Autonomous mobile robots for the AI data center.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: 289
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.8M; Series A $1.6M–$15M; Series B $2M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
- Psyomics — Technology to support better mental health assessment - accelerating patients to the right care pathway, first time.
- MoA Technology — We harness the principles of natural selection to accelerate discovery for better, safer herbicides so farmers can continue to feed the world.
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: 367
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.3M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% 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.
- Dataform — Develop and operationalize scalable data transformations pipelines in BigQuery using SQL.
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
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 181
- Round size: Seed $380k–$4.8M; Series A $3.3M–$19M
- 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 — Build your future placement and underwriting strategy with Artificial's pioneering technology.
- Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
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: 175
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$12M; Series A $3.9M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- uMotif — uMotif provides the most modern eCOA/ePRO and eConsent platform designed to power clinical and real-world research.
- Hussle — Gym membership with total flexibility. Gym passes to no contract gym memberships that you can use in thousands of gyms across the UK. Gym and swim wherever you want to. Stop and start whenever you like.
- Gravitee — Open Source API Management Platform - Gravitee
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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: 2216
- Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Praktiki — Praktiki is building the "Decision Layer" for medicine.While medical knowledge doubles every 73 days, frontline clinicians struggle to translate guidelines into practice. Current AI search tools excel at surfacing public data from clinical trials, but fail to capture "how" experts apply that evidence in real-world scenarios.Praktiki fills this gap. We utilise an AI Agentic Creator Engine to capture tacit specialist reasoning and fuse it with public evidence. This feeds a proprietary Expert Knowledge Graph that powers: 1) Microlearning: Case-based modules created 10x faster and which are 170% more effective than traditional education 2) AI Expert Guidance: Real-time decision support synthesising evidence with expert implementation strategies.2025 Traction - our MVP proved that solving the expertise gap drives high engagement: - Registered >10% of UK GPs - 60,000+ modules completed with an 85% completion rate - 51% month-over-month growth - Market-leading NPS of 83We are building a compounding data moat to expand beyond education into clinical intelligence and healthcare data solutions.
- Mast — Mast is the cloud-native, fully configurable loan origination platform empowering lenders to process applications faster and smarter. We make lending better, smoother and faster.
- 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.
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: 603
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $713k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M 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!
- Facility — Flexkeeping is a Hotel Operations Platform designed to help teams automate and collaborate like never before.
- Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 386
- Round size: Seed $381k–$4.3M; Grant $119k–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- QuickBlock — QUICKBLOCK delivers training environments, deployable infrastructure and force protection solutions for defence and security organisations worldwide.
- Cirrus Logic — Cirrus Logic, Inc. is a premier supplier of high-precision analog and digital signal processing components for audio and energy markets.Founded in 1984, Cirrus Logic excels at developing complex chip designs where feature integration and innovation is a premium. Cirrus Logic has more than 1,000 patents that are key to our more than 700 productsserving more than 2,500 end customers globally, through both direct and distributor-based channel sales.
- Incremental Group — Incremental Group provides software consultancy and analytics services to clients in oil and gas, financial services, and the public sector.
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
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 138
- Round size: Seed $382k–$3M; Series A $2M–$9.5M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
- MNS — Transforming global healthcare with self-administered microneedle vaccine patches. Safe, efficient, and accessible- bringing vaccinations to homes worldwide.
- 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.
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: 183
- Round size: Seed $326k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Product Guru — Although there has been a significant change of pace in the technology used within the retail sector, the process of finding the products that drive the market has really remained at a stand-still. With more and more small, specialist suppliers driving innovation in the sector, it has been harder than ever for buyers to be able to consider alloptions.
- Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $550k–$4.7M; Series A $3.2M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% 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.
- Baby2Body — Nearly 3 million women have used Baby2Body during their fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum journeys. Helping women around the world live healthier and happier with personalized fitness, nutrition, and wellness programs.
- Hummingbird Technologies — Hummingbird Technologies is an artificial intelligence SaaS platform using the latest deep learning and computer vision techniques along with proprietary algorithms to provide actionable intelligence to farmers and agri-businesses at key decision-making times in the growing season. The company analyses remote sensing data to help farmers identifyearly problems in their crops such as crop health, disease risk & detection, weed mapping and yield prediction as well as valuable information such as canopy coverage, plant counting, size and biomass estimation, with the objective of optimising inputs and maximising efficiency. Hummingbird began operating in 2016 and since then has covered in excess of >500,000 hectares of arable crops for farmers and agri-businesses. Their platform is utilised at key decision-making points in the growing season to allow intelligent and specific information to inform chemical or operational input decisions that decrease costs and improve outputs.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 216
- Round size: Seed $327k–$3.1M; Series A $1.6M–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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.
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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: 279
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.3M; Series A $4M–$25M; Series B $10M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Tremor — Tremor designs, builds & manages SmartMarkets utilize state-of-art auction technologies & optimization techniques.
- 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 is a contract lifecycle management platform which allows consumers to easily procure lawyer-tested agreements and stay in full control of their business contracts. Harnessing a unique combination of active agreements, blockchain technology, and a business process modeling engine, the platform is designed to move business legal obligationsinto the networked world.Monax was founded in 2014 and is based in Edinburgh, UK.
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: 80
- Round size: Series A $1.3M–$17M; Series B $3.7M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $119M 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
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: 213
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Intropy AI — Intropy increases distributor profitability by automating inventory and pricing decisions, at scale, across your distribution network.
- Reimagine Robotics — Show the robot what to do, correct it where it fails, and adapt it as the process changes.
- Frontier Health — Frontier Health develops artificial intelligence tools that help healthcare administration teams manage repetitive and high-volume tasks within existing clinical workflows. Its primary product, Juno, functions as an AI coworker that supports care coordination by processing information across multiple patient pathways and software systems. Theplatform is designed to work with a wide range of healthcare applications, enabling organizations to use their current systems while reducing manual administrative work. Frontier Health emphasizes clinical safety, data security, and compliance with healthcare standards, including NHS guidance and information security certifications. The company brings together technology specialists and healthcare professionals with experience working across numerous hospitals to address operational challenges in healthcare delivery.
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: 254
- Round size: Seed $103k–$3.5M; Series A $2.5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
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.
- YBVR — YBVR provides high-quality video VR streaming experiences: Immersive, interactive, and enriched, Live, and VoD.
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
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 171
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$11M; Series B $4.1M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Peerius — Deliver targeted messaging, personalized offers, and recommend the most relevant content for your users.
- Simplestream — We are Simplestream, an award-winning and best-in-class provider of next-generation TV solutions to some of the biggest players in the broadcast, sport, and media industry.
- 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.
Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 240
- Round size: Seed $229k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $379k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $22M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases
- Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
- GEEIQ — GEEIQ is the intelligence platform brands use to plan, activate and measure marketing in virtual worlds like Roblox, Fortnite and ZEPETO.
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
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 248
- Round size: Seed $360k–$3.3M; Debt Financing $18k–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Wagonex — Car subscription is the new, all-inclusive, flexible alternative to leasing. No large downpayment and a single fixed monthly payment. Just add fuel and go.
- Jehu Group — The Jehu Group is a third generation family owned business with over 80 years of successful trading history.We mange our operations on a day-to-day basis through three trading subsidiaries. Each subsidiary is supported by Jehu Group Limited which provides finance, HR, technical and procurement functions.In all of our markets, we position ourselvesas a dynamic and bespoke alternative to national contractors and house builders and are proud of our strong reputation in the market place.
- Reacta Biotech — Reacta Biotech has been established to develop, manufacture and commercialise oral food challenge materials to pharmaceutical standards of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
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
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.
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, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 202
- Round size: Series A $2.6M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $220k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- PathXL — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
- TriVirum — We are TriVirum, Inc., an early stage medical device company using leading edge semiconductor and signal processing technology to build new, innovative medical devices.
- Trivium — We are an Edtech that promotes Microsoft academic programs to schools and universities around the world. We inspire educators, students, and IT professionals through Microsoft Education tools and Microsoft Role-Based Certification. We offer professional development programs for educators and IT professionals.
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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: 185
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $809k–$3.5M; Series A $7M–$170M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% 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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $524k–$3.1M; Series A $2.2M–$30M
- 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.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Seed $856k–$5.5M; Series A $2.2M–$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.
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: 188
- Round size: Seed $917k–$9.7M; Series A $2.6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- aXenic — aXenic are leaders in optical modulators for satellite and aerospace communications.
- Adaptive insurance — Adaptive insurance, which begins with parametric insurance, seeks to transform how companies develop financial resilience in the face of weather-related and climate-related events. By combining our cutting-edge coverages, real-time climate data, and AI-driven technology, we think we can support them and show business consumers the benefits ofparametric insurance.
- Zeno Power — Clean, plug-and-play power, anywhere in the universe.
We partner with outstanding technology founders from Central and Eastern Europe to help them realize their global ambitions.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
Investor stats
- Total investments: 164
- Round size: Seed $800k–$7M; Pre-Seed $371k–$4M; Series A $2M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
- IP Fabric — Automated Networks Assurance Platform fully maps complete network infrastructure, providing hyper-converged visibility and a single point of truth for global networks, provides advanced visualization for troubleshooting issues, and simulates network behavior to infer deviation from policy or infer risks which could cause an outage in the future.
- Contentyze — Contentyze develops a content generation platform, integrating cutting edge deep learning research with commercial applications in marketing, media and e-commerce.
Illuminate Financial is a venture capital firm dedicated to enterprise fintech and B2B software companies building technology solutions for financial services.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $3.8M–$8M; Series A $3.5M–$29M; Series B $15M–$51M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $235M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Straiker — Security for agentic AI applications built from the ground up with fine-tuned models to protect and secure every layer of your agentic AI stack.
- Karta — The premium US charge card for the world's borderless people.
- bunch — Bunch is a financial technology company that provides software and operational infrastructure for private market fund management. Its platform supports the full fund lifecycle, including investor onboarding, fund administration, accounting, compliance, reporting, and transaction management for venture capital, private equity, and other alternativeinvestment structures. The company combines proprietary software with integrated operational services to help asset managers and investors manage funds and special purpose vehicles through a centralized system. Bunch also offers tools designed to improve data management and automate workflows across fund operations and regulatory processes. The platform is used by asset managers and investors across multiple European jurisdictions to manage investment structures and administrative activities.
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: 206
- Round size: Seed $655k–$9.4M; Private Equity $2.1M–$8.3M
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Roma Finance — At Roma Finance, we pride ourselves on offering a borrower first experience for those in property investment and development.
- AcroSoft — OnBase is a content services platform for managing content, processes and cases. It unites all your critical systems and information.
- Envair Technology — Your single source provider of next generation isolators, fume cupboards, downflow booths, biosafety cabinets and other clean air systems.
We invest in founders building business on the frontier of what is possible. Creator Fund believes...
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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 still investing — raised $20M in 2022
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 Venture Capital fund leading pre-seed and seed stage funding rounds for UK companies at the intersection of the media and entertainment technology sectors
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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: 86
- Round size: Seed $917k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $225k–$4M; Series A $4.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $62M 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 — We create AI-powered synthetic audiences that instantly simulate how real people will respond to your products, messages, and campaigns - giving you access to instant insights.
- Made With Intent — Convert more customers by being more appropriate. Understand and target customer intent with the segmentation platform for data-led eCommerce teams.
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
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- 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
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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
XTX Ventures is the venture capital arm of XTX Markets. XTX Markets is a leading, innovation-driven algorithmic trading firm.XTX Ventures focuses on early stage startups (Seed to Series A) applying machine learning and leverages XTX Markets’ deep expertise in ML and financial technology to help grow and enhance those businesses. We are geographyand industry agnostic.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7.6M; Series A $6M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Jenesys AI — Meet Jack, your AI-powered bookkeeping agent, automates line-item extraction, GL coding, and bank reconciliation with real-time insights.
- Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases
- Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.
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: 118
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.7M; Series A $5.5M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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: 180
- Round size: Seed $573k–$6.5M; Series A $2.3M–$14M; Series B $6.3M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
- Secondmind — Helping automotive engineers design better cars, faster.
- Opensignal — Opensignal is the leading global provider of independent insights into network experience and market performance.
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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: 265
- Round size: Seed $120k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.3M; Series A $4.4M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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.
Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 217
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $5M–$21M; Secondary Market $60M–$346M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
- CameraMatics — Digitize fleet management to optimize performance. Onboard sensors, smart cameras, & apps to mitigate risk, manage safety & achieve sustainability goals.
- Modern Milkman — Modern Milkman is a Yorkshire-based milk delivery company.
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: 77
- Round size: Seed $635k–$5M; Series A $2.8M–$24M; Series B $17M–$102M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- OpenExo — Solve for 10X with an Exponential Community - Learn, navigate and transform with on demand experts.
- nexten.io — nexten.io is the ideal platform for Tech profiles and Developers looking for Remote IT Jobs or IT Jobs in France. Create your Anonymous Profile in minutes; after accepting their requests, CTOs and team leaders of the best tech companies will send opportunities for your next dream job!
- Service — Service gets you paid when your flight is delayed or cancelled.
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: 118
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$18M; Series A $7.9M–$35M; Series B $13M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BEIT — Beit designs and implements an algorithm for solving a relevant NP-complete class of problems using Quantum Computers, getting speedups better than quadratic, guaranteed by theory. Beit focuses on Hamiltonian cycle problem. NP-complete problems are abstractions relevant for many real world problems encountered in logistics, manufacturing, andwarehousing at scale.Beit is headquartered in Kraków, Poland.
- Paddle — Increase revenue, reduce risk and reduce cost with Paddle, the payment solution powering global revenue for n8n, Letterboxd & AdGuard. One platform that handles billing, tax and compliance.
- how.fm — Training software for better onboarding processes and digital store floor management. Train staff with no effort and language barriers.
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: 405
- Round size: Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $9.6M–$100M; Series C $15M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $615M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
- Writer — WRITER is the enterprise AI agent platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies, built to help teams execute and scale on-brand, compliant work.
- Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
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.
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