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Top 50 Manufacturing Angel Investors in United Kingdom in December 2024

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

Top 50 Manufacturing Angel Investors in United Kingdom in December 2024

Investor	Manufacturing United Kingdom investments
Nadav Rosenberg	3
Charlie Songhurst	3
Matt Clifford	3
James Nuzzo	3
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman	2
Nicolas Berggruen	2
Francesco Perticarari	2
Kyle Parrish	2
Dr. Zehan Wang	2
William Tunstall-Pedoe	2
Sebastian Picardo	2
Will Smith	1
Mehdi Ghissassi	1
Zeeshaan Shah	1
John Winter	1
Alex Ikonn	1
Christian Deger	1
Bianca Cefalo	1
Alawi Zawawi	1
John McManus	1
Josey McNarma	1
Ben Bilboul	1
Leif Danielsen	1
Damien Byrne	1
James Clinghan	1
Nick Wheeler	1
Ian Merricks	1
Ian Marchant	1
Dominic Christian	1
Andrew Grahame	1
Nilan Peiris	1
Drew Nelson	1
Andrew Nutter	1
Soleio Cuervo	1
Rich Kleiman	1
Paul Robson	1
Toby Hopkinson	1
Javier Rubio	1
Ann Elliott	1
Martin Lamb	1
Lee Sutton	1
Javier Rubio	1
Geoff Haynes	1
Simon Gunning	1
Michael Sweeney	1
Charlie Carroll	1
Simon Segars	1
Sami Mikati	1
Michal Berski	1
Kevin Durant	1

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Nadav leads Taboola’s expansion and operations in Europe and Australia.Prior to joining Taboola, Nadav was a member of the founding team of Groupon UK & IR, taking part in building and managing Groupon’s business in the UK.Before joining Groupon, Nadav worked as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company in London.Nadav isbased in London and holds an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Pharmaceutical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

thymia — Making mental health as objectively measurable as physical health.
Exogene — Exogene is a biotechnology company accelerating the discovery of T-cell-receptor(TCR)-based cancer immunotherapies for solid tumours by combining deep learning and high-throughput TCR-antigen screening. Exogene is building a computational platform to quickly and inexpensively identify new tumour targets shared across cancer patients, as well assafe and effective TCRs against these tumour targets for therapeutic application. Their mission is to develop better TCR-based immunotherapies, faster and at a fraction of the cost.
Loops — With Loops causal insights you can identify your biggest opportunities to maximize your KPIs... try the Loops way

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.
Briefcase — Briefcase is an AI-powered tool for bookkeeping and month-end automation designed specifically for professional services practices.

Matt co-founded EF after being a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Prior to EF Matt spent his time studying at MIT fuelled by an obsession with R, Python and unusual datasets. EF is the best place for Europe’s top technical individuals to meet and build world-changing startups in London.They select purely on the basis of technical talent, so youcan apply before you have a team or an idea. The intensive 6-month programme is designed to give you the best possible support in the first 200 days of your startup’s life.They have created over 40 startups now worth over $300 million. The startups are funded by some prestigious investors including Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Octopus Investments and Y Combinator.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative

James Nuzzo

Investment focus

Security, Software, Manufacturing
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ExactTrak — ExactTrak Embedded command and control of mobile devices, even when they are turned off.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Nicolas Berggruen is the Founder and Chairman of the Berggruen Institute. He attended New York University.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Helm.ai — Explore Helm.ai's AI software for high-end ADAS through Level 4 autonomous vehicles. Helm.ai offers a full suite of full-stack AI software, foundation models, and generative AI development and validation tools for production-bound projects.
Story Protocol — Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos
iLoF — iLoF is a digital health company pioneering a breakthrough AI-platform to accelerate the future of personalized drug discovery and development

Francesco is a computer sicentist and tech startup investor, who built Silicon Roundabout into the largest Tech meetup community in Europe, with the mission of developing tech entrepreneurship and innovation through business connections, specialist recruitment, and venture capital support. Former roles include Software Engineer, Tech Lead and CTO.Currently Founder & Managing Partner @ Silicon Roundabout Ventures (Next-Generation Technology Pre-Seed/Seed UK VC)Prior to Silicon Roundabout, Francesco worked as a C++ software engineer, web developer, and founded the boutique property investment company AGAPE Properties: 1st UK property manager to accept crypto as a payment. He held guest lectures, panels and keynotes at London Fintech Week, London Tech Week, The London Institute of Banking & Finance, ASP (Politecnico di Milano), Birmingham Tech Week and the European GNSS Agency amongst others.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Aegiq — Scalable networking with quantum security and data links. Fibre QKD with optimised deployment costs and satellite QKD for maximum uptime | high-performance quantum photonics and single-photon sources - Aegiq
Valkyrie Industries — Real-time muscle stimulator designed for VR workouts. The wearable contracts your arm muscles through patented electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) technology as you move in the virtual world.
CoGrammar — CoGrammar is an edtech startup that is dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap. We achieve this by integrating human mentorship and code review into the world's leading tech education brands. CoGrammar has also built and scaled its own coding education product - HyperionDev - which supports learners from over 40 countries in changinginto fulfilling tech careers. HyperionDev rebranded to CoGrammar in 2018. We’re growing fast and always on the lookout for talent - visit www.cogrammar.com and apply to make real impact in your career and to #closethegap.

Kyle Parrish is the VP Sales at Mixmax. He attended Santa Clara University.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Metaview — Metaview uplevels the most outcome-defining part of your recruitment process: your interviews.
Linear — Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency.The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team in making progress, not getin the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance were the main things Linear focuses on early on and keep focusing on that.
Parabola — Parabola is your toolkit for faster, smarter work. Automate any manual task you usually do in a spreadsheet.

Former CTO Magic Pony Technologies - acquired by Twitter in 2016.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
Photoroom — Create product and portrait pictures using only your phone. Remove background, change background and showcase products.
Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.

William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng is a British entrepreneur focused on world-changing products powered with Artificial Intelligence and other deep technology. He is based in Cambridge and London UK. He founded the British company Evi (formerly True Knowledge), the AI platform acquired by Amazon and where William, the team and the technology developed byEvi was used to create Alexa. He left in 2016. William is an active angel investor with investments in more than 100 startups. He is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab and a full member of Cambridge Angels.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
Unlikely AI — We are pioneering safe, trustworthy and powerful artificial intelligence

Sebastian Picardo is an active investor and advisor in the global luxury goods sector.As an investor, he has been very active in the fashion, technology and media sectors for over 9 years, investing in companies like Net a porter, Lyst, Farfetch, Business of Fashion and Highsnobiety. He has also been a venture advisor to London-based FelixCapital, a leading Venture Capital firm investing in digital lifestyle start-ups, since 2014.As an advisor, he has helped brands and retailers in areas such as digital marketing, customer experience, omni-channel retailing and innovation, In addition, he has advised companies wanting to enter and market their brands in China mainland.Sebastian was formerly Deputy President of Asia’s iconic luxury department store Lane Crawford. Sebastian joined Lane Crawford in 2012. As a member of the senior management team, he crafted and drove Lane Crawford’s “connected commerce” strategy, underlying the company's focus on omni-channel retail development to deliver a seamless customer experience.Previous to Lane Crawford, Sebastian was with Burberry where he served as Managing Director - Digital Commerce, based in the London headquarters. Prior to this role, he had helped transform and integrate the brand's Spanish operations into the global business as Managing Director - Operations at Burberry Spain. Before joining Burberry, Sebastian had held various senior finance roles at Net-A-Porter, Alexander McQueen and Deloitte.Originally from Argentina, he is a Chartered Accountant, holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a Master’s degree in International Finance. Most recently he attended Harvard Business School, where he successfully completed the Advanced Management Program.Sebastian lived in Buenos Aires, London, Barcelona and Hong Kong. He is fluent in Spanish, English, Italian and has an elementary command of Mandarin.

Investment focus

Fashion, Content, Lifestyle
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Mos — Meet Mos: the way smart students get money for college
UNMADE — Unmade helps fashion and sportswear brands connect demand directly to production - so they become more adaptive, responsive, efficient and responsible.
Freeda Media — The voice of the new generations

Will Smith is an actor, producer and musician, two-time Academy Award® nominee four-time Grammy nominee and winner Will Smith has enjoyed a diverse career encompassing films, television and multiplatinum records.Smith’s vast filmography includes transformative portrayals of true-life icons in “Ali,” “The Pursuit of Happyness” and “Concussion.” Hehas headlined an extraordinary list of films, including “Hitch,” “I am Legend,” “I, Robot,” “Independence Day,” “Men in Black I, II, and III” and “Suicide Squad".Currently, Smith can be seen in Walt Disney Pictures “Aladdin” in the iconic role of the Genie. The movie was directed by Guy Ritchie and has made over $1 billion worldwide since its release on May 24, 2019. Smith will next be seen staring in Ang Lee’s action/thriller, “Gemini Man” out this fall. Next year, he’ll grace the screen once again in the beloved franchise, Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life,” premiering around the world in January 2020, in which he will once again reprise his iconic role as Detective Mike Lowrey opposite Martin Lawrence. Smith will next go into production on Warner Brother’s “King Richard” where he will star in the titular role of Richard Williams, the father of renounced tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.Recently, Smith created the daring Facebook Watch series, “Will Smith’s Bucket List” where he challenges himself to a different item from his bucket list each week, including performing standup comedy with Dave Chappelle, skydiving in Dubai, swimming with sharks, and racing a Formula 1 car in Abu Dhabi. The show was a massive success for the platform. He began his career as a musician selling millions of records worldwide before crossing over into television with the beloved “Fresh Prince of Bel Air.” In 1998 he and partner James Lassiter founded production and management company Overbrook Entertainment, which has produced numerous top film and television projects.In addition to his artistic achievements, Smith is a successful business owner. Along with his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, he launched a new media venture, Westbrook Inc. This is a cross-platform holding company formed to execute the Smith Family’s global content and commerce business strategy. Westbrook Inc. will encompass subsidiary companies including the existing Overbrook Entertainment, Red Table Talk Enterprises and the recently formed Westbrook Studios, Westbrook Media, and Good Goods, the latter an elevated merchandise business. Additionally he and Jada founded the Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation. WJSFF is a nonprofit, philanthropic organization committed to improving lives and investing in organizations and initiatives that empower traditionally overlooked communities.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Portfolio highlights

HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
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Invisible Universe — Invisible Universe is an internet-first animation studio that develops original character IP on social media and web3 platforms. Its mission is to create the next household name animated franchises faster and more economical than traditional models. We believe the next generation of animated franchises will be born on the internet.

Mehdi Ghissassi serves as the Head of Product Management at DeepMind.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
Biolevate — Accelerating Therapeutic Innovation: AI-Enhanced Workflow Automation
Graph Therapeutics — Graph is a precision immunology techbio that leverages perturbation modeling from primary patient cell samples combined with multi-omics data to deliver transformative targeted therapies and biomarkers for immune-driven diseases. Graph believes that due to an incomplete understanding of complex immune-mediated diseases, millions of people are leftwithout adequate treatment options - and AI trained with complex disease data can solve this.

Zeeshaan Shah is the Founder of ONE Group a diversified real estate and venture capital group.

Investment focus

Tea, Wellness, Manufacturing
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DIRTEA — Pure and Potent Super Mushroom Powders, Teas & Coffees that can give you natural energy, better skin and sleep, strengthen your immunity and help you feel calm and focused. Drink as a tea, coffee or easily add to your shake. Non GMO, gluten free & 100% vegan.

John Winter - Board Of Director @ Vantage Power

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vantage Power — Vantage Power design and manufacture retrofit hybrid powertrains for buses, enabling operators to reduce their fuel consumption and emissions at a fraction of the cost of purchasing new hybrid buses. By designing the whole hybrid system - everything between the fuel tank and the wheels - we ensure optimal performance of every component, resultingin higher fuel economy, lower emissions, and greater reliability than other systems.The company's engineering team - drawn from the heavy-duty vehicle, Formula 1 and aerospace industries - is continuously challenged to develop innovative solutions, and this has culminated in a truly unique product offering.

Alex Ikonn is the Co-Founder of Intelligent Change. He previously worked at Luxy Hair as a Co-founder. Alex Ikonn attended York University.

Investment focus

Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
Lunata Beauty —

Co-Founder & CEO of Payworks, sold to Visa. Business Angel and investor in multiple startups.

Investment focus

Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Management
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

tem. — In a few simple steps we can manage your renewable energy needs forever.

Bianca Cefalo is the Co-founder and CEO of Space DOTS Ltd

Investment focus

Aerospace, Space Travel, Nanotechnology
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Space DOTS — The first modular pico-labs for active in-space testing of advanced materials, from LEO to Cis-lunar and Interplanetary orbits.

Alawi Zawawi

Investment focus

Aerospace, Manufacturing
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cranfield Aerospace — We're charting the flightpath to cleaner skies by delivering zero emissions aircraft and propulsion technology. The zero emissions age of aviation starts here!

John McManus is the Marketing Director at HUX.

Investment focus

Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

Josey McNarma

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

All Things Butter — All Things Butter UK

Ben Bilboul - Chief Executive Officer @ Karmarama

Investment focus

Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

Leif Danielsen is the General Partner at Acequia Capital. Leif Danielsen attended Michael G. Foster School of Business.

Investment focus

Robotics, Software, 3D Printing
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

MovieBot — Building for a spatial computing future.
Rivelin Robotics — Rivelin's AI, NetShape®, teaches robots to autonomously cut, grind & polish metal.
Unicorn Biotechnologies — Unicorn Biotechnologies is developing a fully automated manufacturing platform to enable cellular agriculture producers to seamlessly scale products from the lab bench to supermarket shelves. Our full stack platform combines hardware, software and analytics to completely automate cellular agriculture manufacturing, reducing costs and increasingproduct quality. By providing a clear path to scale cellular agriculture from grams to tons, we will improve human and planetary health and drive the transition to animal free agriculture.

Damien Byrne is the Founder at HUX.

Investment focus

Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

James Clinghan is a Managing Director at Trusted Business Partner Ltd.

Investment focus

Construction, Manufacturing, Building Material
Debt Financing
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Premier Roof Systems — We offer design, manufacture, supply & install for Conservatory Roofs, Roof Lanterns, Flat Rooflights, Roof Windows, Windows & Doors. Call us on 0191 455 8866.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Ian launched the Accelerator Academy, and working with 16 exited entrepreneurs as mentors has overseen the graduation of 74 high growth start ups since 2011, helping to prepare the companies to raise over £10m from private investors, seed funds, syndicates and corporates, creating around £85m of value.Ian is now overseeing the expansion of theAcademy initiative into a full service pan European accelerator network with the sector’s most efficient connections to early stage capital, encompassing the Fast Forward Pre-Accelerator Programme.He also works as Managing Partner of White Horse Capital and sits on the investment committees of the Cabinet Office’s £10m Social Incubator Fund, and the Startup Funding Club. Ian acts as corporate ventures lead for TMT Connect and is a board advisor to Dell UK’s Centre for Entrepreneurs, BCS Entrepreneurs Group and The Entrepreneurs’ Network Westminster think tank.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Insurance
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Optalitix — Optalitix's data driven products and expertise allow you to move your models to the cloud and improve underwriting efficiency.
Awen Collective Ltd — Reduce industrial cyber risk, maximise cyber security. Our software reduces cyber risks to energy, water, transportation, manufacturing & defence. We specialise in components of cyber security for industry, including NIS Directive compliance, and OT asset & vulnerability discov

Ian was Chief Executive of SSE, one of the UK’s leading utility companies and Scotland’s largest industrial company for over ten years. He stepped down from that position in the summer of 2013. Ian is now Chairman of Infinis Energy plc, a renewable energy company; Independent Chairman of the oil services company, the John Wood group and NovaInnovation; as well as holding various advisory and non-executive positions in other organisations. Ian is a renowned and innovative leader in the energy industry, and was welcomed to Synaptec’s advisory board in July 2016.

Investment focus

Energy, Information Technology, Information Services
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Piclo — Piclo develop software to make our electricity grids smart, flexible and sustainable.
Interpac — Interpac has developed a new packaging production system the corrugator which does not use steam in the manufacturing process. The Interpac system is a revolutionary process that enables on-demand production which significantly reduces packaging costs and emits 90% less greenhouse gases than conventional processes.
Labrador — Get paid cash to use less energy. Be notified of when you can switch energy suppliers and save. Automatically be on the cheapest deal available to you, always and for free. Plus, we will match your use to net zero sources for free.

Dominic Christian

Investment focus

Commercial, E-Commerce, Industrial
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SaveMoneyCutCarbon — We help businesses and now homeowners take practical steps to be more sustainable, cutting energy & water bills, resulting in reduced carbon emissions.

Andrew Grahame is a Founder at The Cook & The Thief.He attended St Austell College.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Beauty
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jellyfish — We are the industry leaders in the creation of high-performance, multi-language ecommerce content. Learn more about our expertise in Ecommerce Content.
Shopological — Shopological is a website and mobile app focusing on men’s and women’s fashion, beauty, and lifestyle as well as providing access to sales and promotional updates aggregated from more than 1,400 fashion and beauty retailers.Registered members receive personalized email reminders whenever their favorite shops or brands have a sale or promotion,allowing them priority access to sell products.Shopological has received The IBM People's Choice Award 2014 and The RBS EnterprisingU Award 2012. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Nilan Peiris is VP Growth at TransferWise, the international money transfer platform. TransferWise is the low cost and fair way of transferring money internationally. Using peer-to-peer technology and without any hidden fees, it makes sending money abroad up to ten times cheaper compared to using a bank.TransferWise customers send £500mevery month using the platform, and it’s attracted $91m from investors such as world’s largest VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, Sir Richard Branson, Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, the co-founders of PayPal. Prior to TransferWise Nilan was VP Growth at HouseTrip, in charge of scaling the company’s growth in the European market. He’s also worked as Chief Marketing Technology Officer at Holiday Extras, where he was responsible for all areas of technology, marketing and customer acquisition. Nilan also advises a number of early stage startups on growth and getting to traction.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Software
Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

tem. — In a few simple steps we can manage your renewable energy needs forever.
Griffin — Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England.
Chattermill — Chattermill applies cutting edge deep learning to help organizations make sense of their customer experience. The company uses cutting edge artificial intelligence to analyze customer feedback across customer touchpoints for organizations to harness customer insights at scale, boost customer loyalty and brand advocacy. Their approach is differentin its surgical focus on aspects of the Customer Experience relevant to each client.Chattermill enables our teams to take customer insights deeper than ever before and focus on the key factors that make a difference to our users and drive our growth. They combine machine learning with a deep understanding of a company and its customers, seamlessly integrating with any system used to collect feedback.They started Chattermill in 2015 at Entrepreneur First and have worked with amazing founding members including Nutmeg, HelloFresh, and Moo to build a pioneering platform for delivering amazing customer experience at scale.

Drew Nelson

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Semiconductor
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kubos Semiconductors — Kubos Semiconductors is develop and commercialize cubic-GaN for high efficiency, low-cost LEDs using intellectual property.

Andrew Nutter is a Co-Founder at Gama. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yavin — Yavin provides modern point-of-sale solutions for European merchants
Gama — Thanks to cheap, reliable and scalable solar sails, we are redefining deep space access.
EV Biotech — We design and optimise your precision fermentation strains and processes, tailored to your success.

Soleio is cofounder and managing partner of Combine, a design and venture firm in San Francisco. Prior to Combine, Soleio led early product efforts at Dropbox as head of design and at Facebook where he was one of the company's first product designers. He’s invested in and advised early stage startups since 2012.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Consumer
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tldraw — A tiny little drawing app.
Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

Rich Kleiman is the Kevin Durant’s manager, as well as his co-founder and partner in The Durant Company and Thirty Five Media. With the Durant Company, Kleiman oversees Durant’s investment portfolio, including Postmates, Acorns, The Players’ Tribune, JetSmarter, and many others. The duo’s latest venture, Thirty Five Media, is a media production andcreative development company. Their work can be seen on Kevin Durant’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/kevindurant. Previously, Kleiman helped launched Roc Nation Sports, where he served as Vice President of the agency founded by Jay-Z and still works in partnership with the firm. Kleiman started with Roc Nation in 2008 as a music manager representing Solange, Wale, Mark Ronson, & many more. Kleiman has also served as executive producer on HBO’s The Offseason: Kevin Durant and Jay-Z’s Fade To Black.

Investment focus

Sports, Software, Fantasy Sports
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zelus Analytics — Professional sports teams are currently engaged in a billion-dollar arms race to squeeze wins out of data. While early innovations in sports analytics largely relied on simple techniques, many teams are struggling to handle emergent challenges with the complex data sources now dominating the space. At Zelus Analytics, our mission is to address these challenges by building the world's [...]
Catch+Release — Catch&Release is end-to-end content licensing platform that enables brands and advertisers to license content from anywhere on the internet. Streamline the clearance and licensing process within the Content Exchange, a licensing platform where users can organize shots from anywhere on the internet, receive Clearance Ratings to understand whatcontent is licensable, and initiate clearances and licensing at the click of a button. Catch&Release negotiates copyright and model clearances on your behalf, provides indemnification, and keeps track of all documentation, transactions, and license data, so licensing content from the internet is painless, easy, and risk-free.
Skinny Dipped Almonds — We don't Sugar Coat. We SkinnyDip.

Paul Robson believes the Asia Pacific region is the most exciting and dynamic place in the world to do business.As the leader of Adobe Asia Pacific, Paul advises brands on digital transformation, and how they can put customer experience at the centre of everything they do to drive business growth. Paul is passionate about the role technology canplay in delivering amazing experiences, especially in emerging markets where mobile is almost ubiquitous.Prior to joining Adobe, Paul was Vice President and General Manager for HP’s Networking Division across Asia Pacific and Japan. Paul was also the founding director of a successful online start up, Wedding Gifts Direct.Paul is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is on the boards of the Association for Data-Driven Marketing and Advertising (ADMA), Tresillian, the Royal Society for the Welfare of Mothers and Babies, and the Investment Advisory Board of Alchemy Ventures. He is also an active member of the Australian Surf Life Saving Association.Paul holds a Diploma in Market Research, a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing, a Graduate Diploma in International Business and has attended a variety of general management and executive courses at institutions including the Haas School of Business at UC Berkley, INSEAD and the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, 3D Printing, 3D Technology
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Earlywork — The fastest, fairest pathway to begin a career in tech. Earlywork Academy is APAC's first tech sales bootcamp where you only pay if you land a job.
Gravity Sketch — Gravity Sketch is an intuitive 3D design platform for cross-disciplinary teams to create, collaborate, and review in an entirely new way.

Toby Hoppy, Co-founder at All Things Butter.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

All Things Butter — All Things Butter UK

Javier was co-founder and Executive Chairman of Cluster Consulting, until its sale to Diamond Technology Partners in 2000 to create DiamondCluster, where he was the Chairman for Europe and Latin America up until 2003.He was also a co-founder, substantial investor and the Executive Chairman of Nauta Capital, a venture capital fund based inBarcelona with offices in Boston and London and investments in both Europe and the United States. For instance, he led the investment in Social Point, where he is also the Chairman.Javier holds a degree in Telecommunications from the University of Barcelona and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Food and Beverage, Beauty
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VICIO — VICIO is a cloud kitchen operator who sells burgers through their online store. The company's platform provides quality burgers cooked to particular requests, french fries, and various beverages, allowing burger fans to order and enjoy their favorite burgers.
Be Mate — BeMate is a collaborative community in which they connect travelers, hosts unique apartments and hotels.
Pangea — Pangea is a travel store with an innovative and disruptive concept in the tourism sector that brings together countries in one place. Pangea is an omnichannel travel agency that was born with the aim of revolutionizing a sector that until now had not evolved much. Pangea has a reference store in Madrid of more than 1,500 m2 that includes acafeteria, specialized bookshop and thematic selling areas with expert advisors in each destination. This specialized advisory service offered by Pangea, together with its differential product range, has allowed it to exceed the figure of 9 million euros of sales in its first year of life. Pangea has incorporated new investors to replicate the success of its business model with the opening of new stores in different cities and strengthen its online business strategy.Pangea was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Ann Elliott

Investment focus

Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

Martin has more than 25 years’ experience in the compound semiconductor materials industry, holding various senior positions including Managing Director of Wafer Technology Ltd.He was part of the team that effected a management buyout of Wafer Technology in 1994 and in the following six years turned the business profitable and grew salesaggressively, winning the Queen’s Award for Export in 1997. The company was then sold to IQE plc and Martin served on the main board of IQE plc whilst it held listings on the main London Stock Exchange and later on AIM.Since leaving IQE plc Martin has been active as a business angel, investing in twelve early-stage companies in the technology sector. He serves on the Board of several companies within his portfolio, many of which are commercialising novel technologies related to the production or processing of materials.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Semiconductor
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kubos Semiconductors — Kubos Semiconductors is develop and commercialize cubic-GaN for high efficiency, low-cost LEDs using intellectual property.

Lee Sutton is CEO and Founder of myenergi. Lee previously worked at 4eco as a Technical Director.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC)
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nusku — Nusku makes home heating system using heat pump technology.

Javier Rubio

Investment focus

Mobile, Big Data, Shipping
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hanhaa — Real-Time Cargo Tracking and Monitoring Solutions for Supply Chain Solutions Reporting on the condition, location and security of your shipments

Geoff Haynes is the Founder of Inspirit Ventures. He previously worked at SiGe Semiconductor as a Co-Founder and Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Geoff Haynes attended Kingston College.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Semiconductor
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kubos Semiconductors — Kubos Semiconductors is develop and commercialize cubic-GaN for high efficiency, low-cost LEDs using intellectual property.

Simon Gunning is the CEO of Campaign Against Living Miserably.

Investment focus

Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

Michael Sweeney

Investment focus

Medical Device, Health Care, Medical
Series B, Pre-Seed, Series C
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nusku — Nusku makes home heating system using heat pump technology.
Calypso Medical — Calypso Medical Technologies is a Seattle-based, privately held medical device company. The Company's proprietary tumor localization system utilizes miniaturized implanted devices (BeaconÂ® electromagnetic transponders) to continuously, accurately and objectively track the location of tumors for improved accuracy and management of radiationtherapy delivery. The technology is designed for body-wide cancers commonly treated with radiation therapy. The products are FDA 510(k) cleared for use in the prostate and post-operative prostatic bed. The Company has strategic relationships with Varian Medical Systems, Siemens Medical Systems, Elekta Corporation, and Philips Medical.
Realeve — Realeve develops miniaturized neurostimulation devices designed to set a new standard in treating severe headache. It focuses on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of autonomic disorders, particularly severe headache. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Charlie Carroll is Founder at Flat Iron.

Investment focus

Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

Since joining Arm as one of its first employees, Simon has driven technical and business innovations to help transform the company into the leading architect of the most pervasive compute technology the world has ever seen.Simon led the development of early ground-breaking Arm processors – the Arm7 and Arm9 – powering the world’s first digitalmobile phones. He played a key role in developing industry standards, and his engineering work led to him being granted several embedded-systems patents. He became vice president of engineering in 2001, and before being named as Arm CEO in July 2013, he held several other strategy positions including global head of sales. He was personally responsible for expanding the company’s U.S. business and strengthening its leadership and relationships in California’s Silicon Valley, where he still lives with his family.Simon helped steer the company through the 2016 acquisition by SoftBank, and, in June 2017, was elected to serve on the SoftBank board. He also sits on the boards of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESD Alliance), TechWorks and is a non-executive director at Dolby Laboratories, Inc.Simon earned his BEng in electronic engineering from the University of Sussex and an MSc in computer science from the University of Manchester.

Investment focus

Automotive, Electronics, Machine Learning
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Monumo — Monumo is a deeptech engineering company focused on creating the world’s best electric motors. Monumo’s unique combination of simulation, ML, AI and motor design technology allows us to create next generation EV motor systems that are beyond human ability.

Sami Mikati is a Director of Synthace Ltd. Investor and commercial executive with deep experience and network across energy and engineering industries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Life Science
Seed
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CyGenica — CyGenica uses a non-viral, non-toxic platform to develop in vitro and in vivo delivery solutions for drugs, gene editing components, and antibiotics.
Synthace — The Synthace Experiment Platform lets you design powerful experiments, run them in your lab, & gather automatically structured datasets. No code necessary.

Michal Berski is the CEO & Founder of Curlsmith.He Previously worked at L'Oréal as the Senior Manager.

Investment focus

Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

Kevin Durant is a 12-year NBA veteran who plays for the Brooklyn Nets. He is a 2x NBA Champion and Finals MVP; having also won an NBA MVP Award, four NBA scoring titles, two Olympic gold medals, two NBA All-Star Game MVP Awards, and an NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He is also a ten-time NBA All-Star. Off the court, Durant is co-founder andpartner of Thirty Five Ventures. Thirty Five Ventures includes his diverse investment portfolio, including companies such as Postmates, Acorns, Overtime, & Coinbase; the media and creative development arm; and the Kevin Durant Charity Foundation.Projects under the Thirty Five Ventures umbrella include the sports business vertical “The Boardroom,” in partnership with ESPN, which examines the ins and outs of sports business and illuminates the world of sports far beyond what fans ordinarily see. Kevin also served as an executive producer on Fox Sports Films’ “Q Ball,” which premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival in Spring 2019. Upcoming projects include the scripted series “SWAGGER” with Imagine Entertainment and Apple. Last fall also saw the opening of The Durant Center in Suitland, Maryland, the Kevin Durant Charity Foundation’s college pipeline program in conjunction with College Track.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
Plenty — Plenty makes it easy for modern partners to invest and plan for their future together. Effortlessly invest like the 1% and turn your goals and dreams into reality.
Shibuya — Welcome to Shibuya, a platform for high potential short films. We provide creators with a full-stack solution to fund films and shorts, build community, and foster an engaged fanbase. Fans can fund their favorite films, participate in the creative process, and join communities for the films they love most.

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