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Top 50 Manufacturing Angel Investors in United Kingdom in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 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 January 2025

Investor	Manufacturing United Kingdom investments
James Nuzzo	3
Matt Clifford	3
Charlie Songhurst	3
Nadav Rosenberg	3
Dr. Zehan Wang	2
William Tunstall-Pedoe	2
Sebastian Picardo	2
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman	2
Nicolas Berggruen	2
Francesco Perticarari	2
Kyle Parrish	2
Bianca Cefalo	1
Alawi Zawawi	1
Udo Jung	1
Professor Lee Empringham	1
Stanislav Molchanov	1
Mehdi Ghissassi	1
Ben Bilboul	1
Leif Danielsen	1
Damien Byrne	1
James Clinghan	1
Nick Wheeler	1
Ian Merricks	1
Ian Marchant	1
Andrew Grahame	1
Soleio Cuervo	1
Paul Robson	1
Geoff Haynes	1
Simon Gunning	1
Michael Sweeney	1
Simon Segars	1
Andrew MacKay	1
Stephen Garland	1
Farhad Farhadi	1
Ahmed Medhat	1
Martin Chavez	1
Hendrik Brandis	1
James Murphy	1
Andy Rankin	1
Kate Rankin	1
Gavin Youll	1
BJ Eastwood	1
Sharaf Yamani	1
Jonathan Warburton	1
Till Becker	1
Aaron Applbaum	1
Jogchum Brinksma	1
Thomas Ackerley	1
David Golding	1
Marcus Watson	1

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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.

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

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 automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice

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

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

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.

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!

Dr. Jung was a senior partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) from 1990 to 2019. He founded and led both the chemical and petrochemical sectors at BCG. He is a proven expert in chemical distribution and chemical circular economy. Since 2019, Dr. Jung has been a senior advisor at BCG. In addition, he is active as an investor and business angelin start-ups with a chemical and life sciences focus.

Investment focus

Chemical, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology
Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.
Greenlyte Carbon Technologies — Greenlyte Carbon Technologies develops and markets an efficient low temperature DAC process that captures CO2 from the air.

Professor Lee is the Professor of Power Conversion Technologies, at the Faculty of Engineering. Lee Empringham is an investor at The Thinking Pod Innovations.

Investment focus

Industrial, Electronics, Renewable Energy
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

The Thinking Pod Innovations — The Thinking Pod Innovations specializes in electronics for industrial automation, automotive energy, and aerospace sectors.

Stanislav Molchanov

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

Bpacks — Bpacks is a circular economy startup that replaces plastic with tree bark. The company has developed the world’s first composite material based on its own innovative formula, which transforms bark into a 100% compostable active packaging material. This material extends product shelf life and possesses antimicrobial properties, providing aneco-friendly alternative to petroleum-based rigid plastics.Founded in 2022, Bpacks manufactures its packaging at an R&D lab in Serbia and is currently piloting a partnership with an FMCG retailer. Bpacks plans to launch in Spain in early 2025 and is preparing to expand commercial operations in North America by 2026.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Andrew MacKay is a angel investor.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Renewable Energy
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Parallel Carbon — Affordable direct air capture technology based on wind, sunshine, and abundant minerals. Carbon removal and reduction, in Parallel.

Steve joined Trustpilot in July 2018 from the global leader in Data and Analytics in energy, chemicals and renewables company Woodmac where he served as EVP & CTO, prior to this Steve has held various SaaS executive, and technical roles from start-up through FTSE100Steve provides a proven track record with more than 20 years in ProductDevelopment, and Data organisations in evolving startups to scale-ups and transforming enterprises into high performing SaaS Data Analytics or Product Led Organizations. Steve continues to evolve and accelerate Trustpilots Product and Technology strategy, with a laser focus on growth whilst ensuring we provide the best experience and value for both our consumers and business driven through innovation and talent. Steve holds a BEng in Software Engineering from Edinburgh Napier University.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Manufacturing, Autonomous Vehicles
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Detected — Detected fills the critical KYB gap in the payments technology stack. Customers can complete Know Your Business requirements within their own CRM via API.
loveelectric — loveelectric is on a mission to halve the cost of motoring

All-round digital and customer focused strategist with experience in responsive web design, application development, marketing business development, leading multi discipline teams and nurturing start-ups. Having followed my passion in User Experience I am a true believer in UCD techniques, that will enhance and simplify a persons day to day task.Having previous designed secure applications for 20 years with the Ministry of Justice, Department for International Trade, Home Office, DEFRA, NHS and the Department of Health. I have also designed applications for RBS, Deutsche Bank, London Stock Exchange Group, worked as the Head of UX at HSBC and served as the Head of UX and Interaction Design for Lloyds Banking Group where I designed their flagship website and managed the strategy for their entire Commercial Banking department (UX, UI and Research). With this background in design, development and security, I will provide additional support and assurance.I have also had the pleasure of being an Investment Trader for a Mid Market Investment firm, both managing Investor's portfolios and making investments on behalf of the firm.Featured in: The Independent - https://www.independent.co.uk/money/spend-save/shoppers-pressured-into-taking-store-card-1962152.html The Evening Standard - https://www.standard.co.uk/business/money/teenagers-scared-of-getting-into-debt-6504457.html The Telegraph - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowing/8171236/Ill-die-in-debt-say-one-in-three.html Daily Mail - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1344068/Rows-money-likely-cause-relationship-splits.html This is Money - https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-1344038/Money-worries-biggest-cause-relationship-break-ups.html

Investment focus

Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Software
Equity Crowdfunding, Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

savvy navvy — savvy navvy app is Google Maps for boats. Charts, tides, weather, and everything you need for sailing and motorboat navigation in one place!
CRUA outdoors — Crua Outdoors has developed a range of unique insulated temperature regulating tents and hammocks. All Crua products are made from top quality materials.
Beans Coffee Club — Beans Coffee Club is a bespoke subscription-based coffee club.

Ahmed Medhat - Research Scientist, Core Data Science @ Meta

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Pylon — Reliable smart energy solutions within the reach of emerging markets.
Grin Gaming — GrinData micro markets software leverages best-in-class high-frequency trading and machine learning to deliver reliable odds pricing on the most markets.
Anarchy — Anarchy builds a cloud platform for AI pioneers to build LLM tools augmented with external interactivity.

Marty Chavez is executive vice president and chief financial officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. He is a member of the Management Committee, Firmwide Capital Committee, Firmwide Risk Committee and Steering Committee on Regulatory Reform. Marty is also a member of the Firmwide Hispanic/Latino Network and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual andTransgender Network.Marty first joined Goldman Sachs in 1993 in the J. Aron Currency and Commodities Division, where he was a senior energy strat until 1997. He returned to the firm as a managing director in Investment Banking Division Strats in 2005, becoming global co-head of Securities Division Strats and then global co-chief operating officer of the Equities Franchise. Prior to assuming his current role, Marty was chief information officer, responsible for the Technology Division and jointly responsible with divisional leadership for the firm’s global strategists. He was named partner in 2006.Prior to first joining the firm, Marty was co-founder and chief technology officer of Quorum Software Systems from 1989 to 1993. From 1997 to 2000, he was global head of energy derivatives at Credit Suisse Financial Products. In 2000, Marty co-founded Kiodex, Inc. and was chairman and chief executive officer until 2004.Marty serves on the Harvard Board of Overseers and is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.Marty earned a PhD in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford University in 1990, an SM in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1985, and an AB, magna cum laude, in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College in 1985.

Investment focus

Health Care, Machine Learning, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Private Equity
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hypervolt — Experience Hypervolt: The Highest Rated EV Charger on TrustPilot. Enhance Your Electric Journey with Powerful Charging, Solar Panel Integration, Real-time Cost Control, and Tariff Integration.
Ochre Bio — Ochre Bio is developing therapies for the biggest liver health challenges.
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Hendrik Brandis is a Co-Founder and Partner of Earlybird. Hendrik's current domain focus is web-enabled services. Hendrik is a Board Member of EVCA (European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association) and past Chairman of the EVCA Venture Capital Platform Council. Hendrik brings together long standing investment, operational andentrepreneurial experience. Hendrik was a Board Member of element 5 AG, where he was a driving force behind the sale to Digital River (NASDAQ:DRIV), dooyoo.de AG (Berlin) which was sold to leguide.com S.A and Dianoema S.p.A., which listed on the Borsa Italiana (Milan: NOE.MI). Hendrik currently serves on the boards of Earlybird portfolio companies B2X Care Solutions GmbH (Munich), carpooling.com GmbH (Munich), Simfy AG (Cologne) and nfon (Munich). Hendrik gained his entrepreneurial experience as a Co-Founder of GMM, a group of private investors focusing on buy-outs of mid-sized companies and gained his operational experience as Project Manager in the Technology Department of Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm (now Daimler-Chrysler Aerospace) focusing on the design and innovative manufacturing processes of composite aircraft structures. Previously, Hendrik was a Partner with McKinsey & Co., in their Munich and Madrid offices where he led McKinsey's small and mid-sized company initiative and participated in creating McKinsey New Venture. Hendrik attended the Technical University of Munich and holds a Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc. equivalent) and Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Aerospace
Series A, Series C, Seed
Germany, France, Finland

Portfolio highlights

terralayr — At terralayr, we're not just offering storage and batteries; we're pioneering a new era of energy flexibility. In a world where renewable energy is on the rise, the need for flexibility in energy storage has never been more crucial. That's where we come in.
Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.
Greenlyte Carbon Technologies — Greenlyte Carbon Technologies develops and markets an efficient low temperature DAC process that captures CO2 from the air.

James Murphy is the Founder/CEO at New Commercial Arts.

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.

Andy Rankin

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.

Kate Rankin

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.

Gavin Youll - CFO @ Nivaura

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

All Things Butter — All Things Butter UK

BJ Eastwood - Fund Manager @ Omega Advisors

Investment focus

Computer, Printing, 3D Printing
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ion Core — Our website is dedicated to the development and common understanding of lithium ion batteries. On this blog you can find many resources which help to educate

Sharaf Yamani - Managing Director @ Windlesham Advisors

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.

Jonathan Warburton

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.

Till Becker - Board Of Director @ Vantage Power

Investment focus

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.

Aaron Applbaum - Partner @ MizMaa Ventures

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Israel, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
Decart — Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models.
Clutch Security — Clutch is a Universal Non-Human Identity Security Platform that offers complete security and control over NHIs across the entire enterprise.

Jogchum Brinksma is the Founder of FLOBAS Ventures.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Chemical Engineering, Energy
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

EV Biotech — We believe that with the current technology society is on the verge of creating a bio-based economy. EV Biotech will evolve the chemical feedstock market by revolutionizing the methods of microbial cell factory strain engineering; hereby shifting the chemical market from petrochemical-based to biological-based chemical production. A revolutionarystep for a more sustainable world.
Immaterial — Facilitating the energy transition with advanced materials.

Thomas Ackerley

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

All Things Butter — All Things Butter UK

David Golding

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.

Marcus Watson

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Audoo — Audoo is a music-technology company revolutionising the landscape for public performance royalty collection through accurate, real-world data.
Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.
Magical Mushroom Company — Magical Mushroom Company harnesses the natural flexibility and strength of mycelium, the material structure of fungi, to grow mushroom packaging

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