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Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in United Kingdom

Last updated: Jul 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Media (entertainment) startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in United Kingdom

Investor	Media (entertainment) United Kingdom investments
Ascension	31
Northstar Ventures	25
Seedrs	18
Fuel Ventures	16
QVentures	15
Force Over Mass Capital	14
Index Ventures	12
Octopus Ventures	12
Edition Capital	12
Forward Partners	12
The FSE Group	11
Cambridge Innovation Capital	11
Cambridge Angels group	11
24 Haymarket	11
Business Growth Fund	10
Downing Ventures	10
Avonmore Developments	10
Angels Den	10
Beringea	10
Seedcamp	10
Scottish Enterprise	10
The Future Fund	10
United Ventures	9
Hotspur Capital	9
Midven	9
Jenson Funding Partners	8
MMC Ventures	8
SFC Capital	8
Mercuri	8
Wayra	8
Newable Private Investing	8
Pembroke VCT	8
GMG Ventures	8
Notion Capital	7
Salica	7
Kindred Capital	7
SAATCHiNVEST	7
Venrex	7
Mobeus Equity Partners	7
LocalGlobe	7
Playfair Capital	7
Supernode Global	7
Scottish Investment Bank	7
Techstart Ventures	7
Kelvin Capital	6
Richard Fearn	6
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund	6
BACKED VC	6
Creative England	6
Balderton Capital	6

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Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders.Run by an experienced and diverse team of successful entrepreneurs, we have been relentlessly dedicated to finding the UK’s best Seed-stage startups since 2014.Ascension benefits from the active industry connections essential forthe sourcing and development of deal-flow and due diligence. The team has co-invested with the UK’s leading angels and VCs, key to securing follow-on funding as the portfolio businesses move to their next stage of growth.We believe in building an inclusive, community driven brand that can benefit the wider UK tech ecosystem and strive to work with conviction, integrity, humour, and humility.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Heatio — Heatio provides affordable renewable energy to homeowners.
Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
Nebu~Flow — Nebu~Flow develops the next generation of nebulisers to enable the delivery of life changing treatments.

Northstar Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in innovative solutions to help solve the most pressing societal issues we have today. Our ticket sizes range from £100k to £500k into early stage tech companies. We provide added value in leveraging our network of university partners, funders, non-executive directors and talent to supporteach investment.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Lightox — Lightox has developed a unique range of molecular tools for use in imaging, therapeutics and assay development. These unique probes are smaller than any other commercially available fluorescent product. They offer the option of using our technologies as freely-moving probes that readily incorporate into cells or with a range of flexible linkers togive specificity to your unique applications and research needs.
DayaTani — DayaTani supplies farmers with comprehensive services to increase their productivity.
Circadacare — Circadacare helps elderly people and people with dementia live independently for longer with an integrated circadian lighting and home health monitoring system.

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Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
Signature Brew — Signature Brew is a music bar and brewery that aims to bring people together. They provide beer, booze, and live music for their patrons, which enables them to bring the community together through the power of good beer, music, and memories.
SRSLY Low Carb — SRSLYLowCarb is a home for healthy, Keto and Low Carb friendly foods. Perfect for diabetic-friendly diets. Elevate your health journey with us!

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Lunio — Drive performance marketing efficiency by cutting out invalid traffic across all paid marketing channels. Reach more users with the same ad spend.
Eleos — Get income protection insurance online with Eleos. All policies include 24x7 Virtual GP, gym discounts and other benefits.
StudioSpace — StudioSpace provides brands with on-demand access to the world’s best specialist digital and marketing services. Our platform users benefit from a single umbrella contract to access all of our agencies, enabling maximum choice without complexity in procurement or onboarding delays.

QVentures sources, screens, and invests in top-tier start-ups from Seed to Series B. Our investors consist of Family Offices, Institutional Investors, UHNWIs, and Cashed-out Entrepreneurs. We look for disruptive companies with a proven product-market fit, set to scale from Seed to Series B. We focus on Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, Consumer Tech,FinTech, AdTech, EdTech, InsurTech and HealthTech and more. We look for quality management teams, large addressable markets, proven traction, sustainable business models, route to scale and quality investors.To apply for investment, please fill out this short form to be reviewed: https://qventures.typeform.com/to/zZPOWf

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

sqcdp — We work with manufacturing clients to make paper systems redundant, introducing smart, efficient systems to capture production data through your teams.
PORTAIRE — Bring your team together and simplify your work from product discovery to procurement.
PROSPECT 100 — PROSPECT 100 is building the digital space for co-creation, democratizing the creative industries

Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0.FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growthjourney.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

CUR8 — CUR8 is committed to establishing a global market for carbon reduction. Carbon removal methods include increased rock weathering, direct air capture, forests, construction, soil, biomass, oceans, and new technologies.
Artificial Labs — Powering the next generation of commercial insurer.
SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Rohlik — Rohlik is an innovative grocery delivery startup that offers a 90-minute same-day delivery service. Since its inception, Rohlik has been growing and is on track to EUR 300 mil. revenues in 2020. Rohlík was founded in 2014 by Marek Sacha and Tomas Cupr and is headquartered in Karlín, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
Wordsmith AI — Best in class legal ai for in house legal teams. Wordsmith is used by some of the best companies in the world. Powerful products include legal ai chatbot, legal ai document generation and a whole tool kit of ai for legal documents.
Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
Swiipr Technologies — Restore passenger and staff confidence with contactless solutions post Covid 19/ SARS by embracing Swiipr’s mobile and web technology solutions for issuing; Welfare for disruption, compensation, crisis, staff, operational expenses and more! Automate and streamline operations. Reduce paper and plastic consumption. Reduce human touch points andgo contactless

Investment, advice and expertise for the entertainment and leisure industry

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Events, Restaurants
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Farmer J — Farmer J serves honest food, that rolls with the seasons, is mindfully sourced, is bursting with flavour and most importantly, is scratch cooked on-site.
Pentire Drinks — Made from unique plants native to the Cornish coastline, Pentire is a new botanical non-alcoholic spirit drink. A gin style drink that harnesses the power, beauty and immense flavour of plants, without the after effects. Buy online now.
Lean Kitchen Network — Lean Kitchen Network is a developer of a virtual kitchen network.

Forward Partners is a venture capital firm in London specialising in technology businesses focused on eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ctrl Alt — Access the world of alternative assets in a simple, transparent and secure way. Sign up to Ctrl Alt and start your alternative investment journey with us today.
OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe safeguards critical infrastructure with AIoT devices, enhancing asset health and security while reducing cloud data transfers.
OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe safeguards critical infrastructure with AIoT devices, enhancing asset health and security while reducing cloud data transfers.

FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Finance East Limited delivers funding for businesses based in the East of England region.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Amutri — Visually communicate design and engineering with high quality 3D experiences that are instantly useful.
Neuronostics — At Neuronostics we are reimagining the way neurological conditions are diagnosed, treated, and monitored with the power of mathematical modelling
Signapse — Using artificial intelligence to build automatic sign language translation with a photo-realistic synthetic signer. Built on world-leading research and solving challenging technical problems that have a genuine social good.

Cambridge Innovation Capital backs life sciences and technology companies with an affiliation to Cambridge, Europe’s capital for innovation. As a preferred investor for the University of Cambridge, they have unparalleled access to investment opportunities in the ecosystem.Since our inception in 2013, they have raised £275 million to invest indisruptive, deep-tech businesses in sectors including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, quantum technologies, autonomous systems, therapeutics, medtech/diagnostics, digital health, and genomics/proteomics.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Riverlane — Riverlane's mission is to make quantum computing useful far sooner than previously imaginable, starting an era of human progress as significant as the industrial and digital revolutions.
T-Therapeutics — T-Therapeutics is a expertise in mouse genome engineering, deep expertise in biopharmaceutical drug development, single cell genomics, machine-learning and structural biology, anchored in a culture of creativity and collaboration. .
Complement Therapeutics — Turning powerful new Complement System insights into innovative treatments Developing the next generation of complement medicines [chevron-down] Turning powerful new Complement System insights into innovative treatments Developing the next generation of complement medicines [chevron-down] Geographic atrophy (late dry age-related macular degeneration) is a chronic eye condition that affects millions - and for which there is

The Cambridge Angels are a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in internet, software, technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors in the Cambridge (UK) area and throughout the UK.Typical funding requirements thatthe Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £50,000 to £500,000 - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have received more than £1m in funding from their Members over several funding rounds.Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

BugBiome — Reinventing Pest Control. Protecting People, Animals, and the Planet
Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases
Monument Therapeutics — Monument Therapeutics is a biotechnology company intended to develop drugs to treat serious diseases of the central nervous system.

24Haymarket is an investment network which included several highly-experienced private equity and venture capital investors, seasoned entrepreneurs, and senior operators. Investing up to £5 million in growth companies in the UK and Europe. They invested their own capital in direct alignment with entrepreneurs and actively support their growthagenda and join the board of the companies in which they invest. Since inception in 2011, 24Haymarket has invested in more than 50 high-growth businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

myGwork — The global recruitment & networking hub for LGBTQ+ professionals. Find jobs in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender friendly organisations. Grow your LGBTQ+ professional network. Read the latest LGBTQ+ professional news.
Previsico — Previsico is a spinOut company from Loughborough University specialising in modelling flooding in real-time, using weather predictions to make street-level flood nowcasts and forecasts. The company's mission is to be the leading global provider of cutting-edge flood prediction that saves lives and livelihoods.Its FloodMap Live producesround the clock street-level flood risk predictions and analytics. Uniquely, these are continuously modelled and updated using a combination of different weather forecasts. This allows the company to map the likelihood of short and long-term surface water events in real-time to the street level.
Huq Industries — The leading monitoring platform for footfall, dwell, catchment and traffic flows valued by government, retail and real-estate. Used by 50+ councils!

BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tevalis — Tevalis specialises in electronic point of sale systems in the hospitality, leisure and gaming sectors. Tevalis offers fully integrated EPOS hardware and software systems, designed to handle the demanding pressures of the hospitality industry.
Eventmaster — EventMaster is a ticketing platform. It also provides vital technology support to various national sports organizations.
NewGen — NewGen is a social-first creative and creator agency that stands at the intersection of culture, creators and community.

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Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

TidalSense — CRiL was formed in April 2013 specifically to develop innovative medical devices to diagnose and manage respiratory conditions. They have been building a platform technology, N-Tidal, based on the measurement and analysis of tidal breathing CO2 throughout the entire breath.
Qkine — Growth Factors made for stem cells Animal-free We control every step of protein manufacture ensuring all our products are completely animal-free Total transparency Stringent purity and bioactivity testing data for all proteins - know what you are giving your cells Protein innovation Our R&D team
FundamentalVR — A strategic partner helping med-device leaders solve the Competency @ Scale Gap todrive commercial success.

Avonmore Developments is the family office of Simon and Michael Blakey that focuses on investments into seed and early-stage businesses, primarily in the UK and Europe. Avonmore has been operating since 2000 and has invested in over 40 different businesses in over 80 funding rounds. Michael Blakey now runs Singapore-based seed fund Cocoon Capital(www.cocooncap.com) that invests in early stage businesses across SE Asia. Simon Blakey is a member of Cambridge Angels, Chairs the Investment Committee of Playfair Capital (www.playfaircapital.com) and is on the investment committee of the Angel CoFund (www.acfinvestors.com/angel-cofund/)Avonmore's approach to deals is hands-on: mobilising other angel investors, working actively with entrepreneurs post-deal, and coordinating further funding rounds.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Advertising
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Kuai Commerce — Kuai Commerce is a next-generation solution for ambitious brands looking to sell directly to Chinese Gen Z consumers through the power of social commerce. Our tech-enabled services provide market entry and brand acceleration options for emerging category-leaders who otherwise would find the complexity of China prohibitively challenging
ManholeMetrics — We are a multi-award winning sensor and analytics start-up on a mission to stop flooding and bring wastewater into the 21st Century.
AeroCloud — AeroCloud is revolutionizing airport management delivering modular, scalable airport operations solutions based on leading-edge technology.

Angels Den is an angel-led investment platform that connects fast-growing companies with experienced investors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
OnCare — Home care software | care management system
SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.

Beringea is an international investor in high growth US & UK businesses. With expertise in multiple sectors we are at the forefront of emerging trends.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

AccessPay — AccessPay develops and offers cloud-based payment and cash management solutions. The company’s cloud-based service provides ease of integration with any ERP, TMS, or other back-end systems. It also enables the straight-through processing of domestic and international payments via BACS, FPS, CHAPS, and SWIFT. By connecting an organization’s backoffice systems with its banks and providing a consolidated view of all banking relationships, AccessPay gives corporate enterprises real-time visibility of all cash balances and offers a detailed analysis, which helps financial professionals maximize the use of working capital. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Gorilla — We empower Energy Retailers in pricing, forecasting and reporting with data-driven solutions in boosting speed and flexibility.
Iceberg Data Lab — Iceberg Data Lab is a fintech firm that develops assessment tools and provides environmental data solutions to financial institutions.

Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

Scotland's business advice, support and funding agency. Explore our products and services to find the right support for your business and apply online today.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Mirna — Mirna is a veterinary diagnostics company that specializes in the development of veterinary disease testing technology.
Aurora Avionics — Accelerating launch-vehicle development with flexible and modular avionics platforms.
Vector Photonics — Vector Photonics is a spin-out company from the University of Glasgow and is based in Glasgow, Scotland, one of the UK and world’s Optical and Photonics centres of excellence.

The Future Fund is provides government loans to UK-based companies ranging from £125,000 to £5 million.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Funding Round, Convertible Note, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Auddy — The Problem: Millions of series. Endless producers. Advertising £s to be located. An audience to build. Many platforms. How does a creator navigate this fragmented but large ecosystem? Creators do not have the resources to bring business and analytical skills to their podcast. Or the ability to properly market or develop an audience.Auddy solvesthe creator’s problem through the combination of editorial input, data insights and analytics, marketing and promotional services and sales. In so doing, it also rewards the creator by paying a significant royalty rate.
Unwasted — Unwasted offers a sustainable alternative to virgin wood-based panels using waste cardboard, with the mission to produce sustainable materials that can be remade indefinitely without harm to the environment.
SteadyPay — SteadyPay exists to improve the financial wellness of all gig economy workers. Our service enables gig economy workers to enjoy consistent income even when they work inconsistent hours (due to such factors as reduced shifts, fewer bookings, time of sick and holidays). Using the SteadyPay mobile app, customers securely link to their bank, we thenwork out the customer's average income and monitor for when income drops below that average. When this happens we provide a top-up, advancing money to the customer's bank to bring their income back up to average. No interest is charged on the top-up; we are a subscription credit service. By smoothing out income we enable gig economy workers to budget with confidence for everyday essentials, and in turn reduce the need to turn to high-cost credit solutions that trigger debt spirals.

We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

D-Orbit — End-to-end services for the New Space industry, including platform engineering, launch and deployment, and decommissioning.
Avaneidi — Discover Avaneidi's enterprise storage solutions. Designed in Italy with a 'security by design' approach for unparalleled security and reliability.
Futura — Futura provides personalized learning using data driven approach and modular classes that adapt to student's Individual needs.

Hotspur Capital is a financial organization.

Investment focus

Software, Location Based Services, Mobile
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Femeda — Femeda provides groundbreaking technology for the treatment of urinary incontinence for women worldwide. Get in touch today to find out more.
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Greengage Lighting — Poultry lighting and poultry sensors for precision livestock farming, scheme compliance and animal welfare

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Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Lexverify — Lexverify uses artificial intelligence to detect potential legal and compliance concerns in communications. It assists businesses in proactively avoiding legal and regulatory concerns by harnessing the power of AI. Their objective is to make technological communication a benefit rather than a problem.
Nylahs Naturals — Shop our award-winning all-natural hair care products, designed to redefine the haircare standard for afro-textured hair.
Strolll — Strolll Neurotechnology

Invest in Jenson EIS & SEIS Funds whilst supporting Growth Capital schemes accessing a diverse Portfolio, which is deploying this tax year.

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tesel — Tesel has a big ambition to get all ESG services and companies hanging out in the same place. We connect businesses who understand that ESG is essential to commercial success, not just a box to be ticked, and we bring them together in our marketplace.
RezKit — RezKit is a travel booking systems helps shopkeepers and online retailers can operate efficiently and profitably thanks to a wide variety of instruments at their disposal.
Swoperz — Welcome to Swoperz, JOIN THE SWOPPING REVOLUTION

MMC is a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high-growth UK companies. Investing in technology companies at Seed and Series A.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
Eatron Technologies — Intelligent Software Platform for Battery Management System & Intelligent Motion Control - Eatron Technologies

SFC Capital, the UK's most active seed investor (PitchBook, 2020), provides capital and support to British startups. By combining its Angel Network and Seed Funds, SFC has created a unique model that allows investors to get exposure to SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, either directly or through a diversified portfolio curated and managedby SFC’s expert team. In 2020, SFC received a £10m allocation from Business Investments as part of the Regional Angels Programme in support of SFC's mission to back promising early-stage companies from every corner of the UK.SFC Capital is an Appointed Representative of SFC Capital Partners Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 736184).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lemon — Lemon helps you manage your SaaS subscriptions for free, and save money by discovering wasted spend.
Unibloom World — Unify targets with operational projects, make scenario simulations with cost impact in real time, compare new ideas, optimise actions and turn it into actionable projects with clear financial, regulations and business impact. Release burden from Sustainability Teams!
Blue Skies Space — Blue Skies Space provides access to space science data from low-cost space missions.

London based Venture Capital fund leading pre-seed and seed stage funding rounds for UK companies at the intersection of the media and entertainment technology sectors

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ittybit — Ittybit is a API that enables users to handle rich media in applications. It provides developers with basic techniques for uploading, storing, transforming, and extracting data from video, music, and image files.
Human Native AI — A platform to control and compensate creative works used to train AI.
Made With Intent — Convert more customers by being more appropriate. Understand and target customer intent with the segmentation platform for data-led eCommerce teams.

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
Remuner — The AI-powered variable compensation platform that helps you align your company and employee goals by automating all aspects of incentive plans.
Depasify — The all in one platform for dealing with digital assets. Reduce costs and time to market in a secure way.

Newable: Helping over 20,000 businesses thrive annually with tailored financial products, advice, and flexible workspace solution

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Delta g — Delta g Limited is a quantum technology and gravity gradiometry company. A spin-out from the University of Birmingham our technology has applications in industries as varied as civil engineering, infrastructure, defence, rail, navigation and resource exploration. Experts from science, engineering an
Weldfast — Weldfast is a manufacturer and supplier of welding consumables, abrasives, chemicals, premium gas equipment, and safety products.
EarSwitch — Empowering new ways to control and connect with the world through in-ear biometric switch and sensor technology

Pembroke VCT PLC is a venture capital trust specializing in investments in any stage of business development. Their focus is on companies in the health and fitness, hospitality, apparel, and accessories, and media and technology sectors.

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Ro&Zo — Your go to brand for the latest fashion pieces for the eco-conscious woman. Shop statement dresses & tops in versatile silhouettes. #roandzowomen. Shop now.
Pembroke VCT — Pembroke VCT PLC is a venture capital trust specializing in investments in any stage of business development. Their focus is on companies in the health and fitness, hospitality, apparel, and accessories, and media and technology sectors.
Cydar Medical — Cydar has developed computer vision software that produces real-time automated 3D overlays during X-ray guided procedures, allowing clinicians to concentrate on the patient and not on adjusting displays. High-performance overlay updates are enabled by our unique use of cloud supercomputing.

London based Venture Capital Fund Manager investing in UK seed stage companies at the intersection of media and technology

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Chatterbox — A corporate language learning platform that uniquely offers active practice alongside algorithmically matched native language coaches who share their students' professional backgrounds and interests. On the app, engineers are learning Arabic from engineers and aid workers are learning French from medical doctors and achieving industry toppingcourse completion rates. Chatterbox language coaches are professionals who have become forcibly displaced and are currently undervalued in the labour market. Co-founded by a former refugee and Y Combinator alum, Chatterbox is backed by BGV, All Turtles and WeWork.
Papercup — Next-gen AI Dubbing service that automates video translation. Create new voices in other languages for your video content at scale and increase your ROI.
Signal AI — Make sense of the outside world with External Intelligence

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TechWolf — TechWolf uses AI to bring you an automated, continuous and objective view on the workforce skills you have, the skills you need and the gap in between.
Caeli Wind — Caeli Wind is a cloud-based intelligent platform that identifies wind potential areas and enables marketing.
Harbor Lab — Designed to streamline the port cost management processes and optimize operational efficiency for cargo operations and husbandry services by leveraging technology and automation.

Hambro Perks partner with founders and entrepreneurs to support growth businesses at all stages of investment cycle. Hambro Perks has specialised and dedicated investment teams, working across a number of funds. In addition to their flagship Venture, EIS and co-investment funds, Hambro Perks offers a number of specialist differentiated investmentstrategies, including Hambro Perks Environmental Technology, Special Situations, and Access, which invests in venture secondaries.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

SUPERHOG — SUPERHOG is a digital trust platform with embedded insurance
My Emissions — London tech start-up for companies to measure food product emissions and report their total Scope 3 emissions from food. They've assessed 15,000+ food products, are the carbon labelling partner of Just Eat Takeaway.com, and aim to standardize UK emissions reporting with Defra. Founders Matthew and Nathan made Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2024.
SURI (Sustainable Rituals) — A world-class clean that doesn’t cost our planet. SURI is the new, sustainable electric toothbrush. Delivering an effective clean with innovative plant-based materials.

A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
LabGenius — Finding the next generation of drugs with machine learning, synthetic biology and laboratory automation
Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives

SAATCHiNVEST is a venture capital and investment firm. The Firm makes seed and early stage investments in startup companies within the technology sector.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Peru

Portfolio highlights

unrd — unrd is creating a new genre of entertainment by combining Hollywood quality plots with mobile storytelling techniques.
Dataseat — Dataseat provides app and game marketers with the tools they need for programmatic success in the privacy-centric ad landscape.
Touchcast — Touchcast is revolutionizing how video is being used to connect, communicate, and collaborate to improve people's lives. It is a leading Virtual Experience company and a pioneer in the use of Mixed Reality and AI. Touchcast offers an integrated solution that helps enterprises communicate and collaborate effectively and move employees,partners, and customers to take action.

Venrex Investment Management is a UK-based venture capital firm that backs creative Founders to launch and build innovative businesses.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Waymap — Waymap provides the world’s only navigation app that guides both indoors and outdoors. Waymap is a high-technology business that was founded to address the navigation needs of visually impaired persons. Their vision is to provide an inclusive navigation app, driven by cutting-edge technology.
Niyyah — The goal of Niyyah is to give consumers a guided approach to comprehending the Quran in a way that is understandable, significant, and useful. With its short material, tailored suggestions, and gamified elements like leaderboards and prizes, it fits in easily with its users' everyday routines and gives them insight into the Quran'steachings and practical application of faith.
StructureFlow — StructureFlow is the innovative visual modeling platform for professional services, transforming how stakeholders think and communicate.

Mobeus is a leading equity investor in UK-based SMEs. We partner with talented and determined management teams of businesses with strong growth potential.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Retail
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Intralink — Your international expansion made fast, easy and cost effective
Lace Partners — LACE Partners are a leading HR and Payroll transformation consultancy. We're able to support organisations with strategy through to execution.
Ellis Recruitment Group — Ellis Recruitment Group provides specialist IT staff to enterprises across the world. Through our four brands, we provide an unparalled recruitment service.

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
CuspAI — CuspAI is a revolutionary AI startup that is developing a platform for next-generation materials to address global sustainability and renewable energy concerns. CuspAI uses cutting-edge generative AI, deep learning, and molecular simulation to accelerate the material design process. Their platform works similarly to a search engine for materials,allowing users to request certain properties for new materials on demand.
Human Native AI — A platform to control and compensate creative works used to train AI.

Playfair is a generalist VC fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Orca AI — Orca AI innovates the marine navigation sphere, providing an intelligent technological solution for collision avoidance in maritime transport.
Nory AI — All of your restaurant operations managed in one platform, powered by AI. Tools that fuel better decision making and fatter profit margins.
Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases

Community + Capital for early-stage startups shaping the future of how we learn, work, play, and communicate in the digital content ecosystem.

Investment focus

Software, Media and Entertainment, Virtual Reality
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
Magma — Welcome to Magma. A space that unlocks creativity for all. A collaborative art platform that brings artists, teams and communities together to innovate, collaborate and express themselves. Want to join the ride?
Magma — Welcome to Magma. A space that unlocks creativity for all. A collaborative art platform that brings artists, teams and communities together to innovate, collaborate and express themselves. Want to join the ride?

Speak with our Entrepreneurship Team, who can help you find sources of finance, engage with funders and secure investment to grow your business.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
Administrate — Manage 100% of enterprise training operations with configurable training management software, designed to scale with your organization.

Techstart Ventures is a leading investor of seed capital across Scotland and Northern Ireland. they are a trusted partner to ambitious founders on their journey to success.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
Sensoteq — We specialise in wireless sensor solutions for remote machine health monitoring. Sensoteq's technology enables predictive maintenance of industrial applications, preventing costly downtime and increasing efficiency.
Continuum Industries — Continuum Industries is a developer of Optioneer, the leading software for linear infrastructure optioneering.

We invest venture capital in to globally ambitious companies which have the potential to deliver a significant return to our investors

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

novosound — Novosound is an award winning Scottish sensors company utilising thin-film processes to eliminate conventional limitations in ultrasound sensors.
Snappy Shopper — Order your favourite products from your local convenience store, for delivery from as little as 30 minutes with Snappy Shopper. Your every day essentials are only a click away - order your grocery delivery online or through our app.
Sofant Technologies — Sofant is developing a low cost RF MEMS technology that solves power consumption and heat problems in high frequency phased array antenna systems.

Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) is an initiative launched by the government-owned British Business Bank.It is a key part of the government’s ‘Northern Powerhouse’ vision, which aims to end the historic North / South divide and create economic prosperity in the North of England on par with London and the South East.Thegovernment firmly believes that SMEs form the foundation of the region’s future growth. NPIF therefore aims to nurture regional entrepreneurship by providing investment and support for small and medium businesses between 2016 and 2021. NPIF's funding will support new and growing SMEs, create jobs and encourage and attract additional private sector investment.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ulemco — ULEMCo are pioneers of dual fuel technology enabling commercial vehicles to convert the fuel they run on to include Hydrogen - 0151 525 0540
Cellerate — Cellerate is a pioneer in the development and manufacturing of advanced automated solutions for battery research and technology scaling. They specialize in developing engineering solutions that improve the quality, performance, and endurance of energy storage systems, thereby promoting a more sustainable future. Our cutting-edge portfolio includessystems for automated material handling, tailored cell assembly, and industrial processing.
Robinvalley — Here in Robin Valley we pride ourselves on Eco-friendly handmade jewellery because it never goes out of style. Our sustainable and playful jewellery collections, from animals to plants, art music to science, daily life to fantasy. No matter what hobbies or interests we have something for you.

BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders at Seed in Europe. Welcome to Different.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Lopay — Lopay gives you more control, more flexibility, and instant access to the money you earn.
0G Labs — The First Modular AI Chain
Smart Transactions — Smart Transactions is a protocol designed to execute transactions.

We are here for those who dare to imagine: imagine a fairer, more prosperous world, achieved through the power of creativity.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Covatic — We help media companies deliver private-by-design, addressable advertising and marketing without exposing personal data.
V9 Group — V9 Group is a group of technology and payment experts.We're problem solvers. We identify markets with issues and using our thinking and experience…we challenge, innovate and disrupt them. Two sectors we've been focusing on are retail and payments. And we have developed products that are not only disrupting these sectors... they’rerevolutionising them.
Huey Games — Huey Games is a Ga me developer providing smart porting service for various consoles.

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
Payflows — Payflows is a fintech company focused on treasury management program for businesses.
Tinybird — Tinybird helps data teams build real-time Data Products at scale through SQL-based API endpoints. It ingests millions of rows per second and serves low latency, high concurrency analytical queries over any amount of data.

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