Top 40 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Isle of Man in January 2025

Investor	Media (entertainment) Isle of Man investments
Stuart Gardner	1
Animoca Brands	1
Force Over Mass Capital	1
Tom James	1
Avalanche VC	1
Animoca Brands	1
Will Neale	1
TKX Capital	1
Chris Adelsbach	1
KuCoin	1
Wendy O	1
Chris Adelsbach	1
Stuart Gardner	1
Charles Delingpole	1
ZBS CAPITAL	1
Force Over Mass Capital	1
AU21 Capital	1
Anti Fund	1
Dreamboat Capital	1
Avalanche VC	1
James Isilay	1
Shima Capital	1
Will Neale	1
Genblock Capital	1
KuCoin	1
Magnus Capital	1
Polygon	1
Genblock Capital	1
Polygon	1
Anti Fund	1
Magnus Capital	1
Tom James	1
Dreamboat Capital	1
Shima Capital	1
TKX Capital	1
ZBS CAPITAL	1
Charles Delingpole	1
Wendy O	1
AU21 Capital	1
James Isilay	1

Stuart Gardner

Investment focus

Funding Platform, Financial Services, Customer Service
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

Fundably — Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan | Access £1k-£2m
MONET — Embedded finance for agencies and B2B platforms. Frictionless access to white-labelling B2B credit, global payments and new revenue streams. Offer white-label invoice finance to your network, driving growth for you and your suppliers.
Connect4 — The client-centric platform for you and your team. Consistently deliver outstanding client meetings. Every single time.

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
Bounty Bay — Bounty Bay is a social commerce company.
Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.

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

Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
Apaleo — Transform your hospitality business with an open platform. Easily connect 3rd party applications to build a best-in-class tech stack for your hotel
SentientSports — SentientSports is revolutionising the sports industry by unlocking the full potential of AI in sporting organisations.

Tom James - Advisor @ OneLogin

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cargofy — Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts.
seedata.io — Honeypots, but better! Seedata.io provides cloud-native deception technology to improve threat detection with AI-driven honeypots.
MONET — Embedded finance for agencies and B2B platforms. Frictionless access to white-labelling B2B credit, global payments and new revenue streams. Offer white-label invoice finance to your network, driving growth for you and your suppliers.

Investing early behind massive trends.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Education
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

CyberNut — The CyberNut missions are deep-rooted in a profound understanding of education and technology.
Ednition — Our product, RosterStream, makes rostering awesome. Edtech rostering as a service platform.
Feature — The future of storytelling has arrived. Join us.

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration
Nodepay — Nodepay is a network infrastructure that offers decentralized bandwidth for AI training.
Universal Health Token — Universal Health Token (UHT) is a gamified healthcare platform developed by GOQii's Web3 business unit to promote the gamification of preventive healthcare using blockchain technology.

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Italy, Japan

Portfolio highlights

qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
SAPI — SAPI provides capital access to payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.

TKX Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Online Games
Seed
Mexico, Portugal, Australia

Portfolio highlights

OpenEx — OpenEx is a cutting-edge, user-focused exchange that seeks to transform the cryptocurrency market. We offer a platform that is user-friendly for beginners and emphasizes user empowerment and freedom while ensuring honest transactions and individualized services.
GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
Galactic Holdings — Galactic Holdings offers a series of digital finance products.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.

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Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

AutoLayer — All LRTfi. One Interface.
Obscuro Labs — Ten, a decentralized Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup protocol designed to hyper-scale, encrypt and prevent negative MEV on Ethereum
E Money Network — E Money Network is a modular Real-World Asset (RWA) blockchain technology designed with compliance at its core.

Wendy O - Marketing and Community Growth @ MonetaryUnit

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment
Seed
Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

Bloktopia — Bloktopia is the virtual reality metaverse that will allow users to Learn, Earn, Play, and Create and provides a central hub for everything cryptocurrency

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.

Stuart Gardner

Investment focus

Funding Platform, Financial Services, Customer Service
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

Fundably — Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan | Access £1k-£2m
MONET — Embedded finance for agencies and B2B platforms. Frictionless access to white-labelling B2B credit, global payments and new revenue streams. Offer white-label invoice finance to your network, driving growth for you and your suppliers.
Connect4 — The client-centric platform for you and your team. Consistently deliver outstanding client meetings. Every single time.

Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.
Juniper — Juniper is a reproductive healthcare insurance provider.

ZBS Capital - distinguished crypto venture fund, backed by major media resources including CryptoDiffer.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
Covalent — Covalent provides a unified API bringing visibility to billions of blockchain data points.

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.

A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

A-World — A-world is a super metaverse card tower defense battle game based on BNB CHAIN.
Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

Betr — At betr, It provides tools to support responsible play and give you control over your gambling. It encourage you to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within your personal limits.
W Labs — W is a line of men's personal care products that are intended to work harder and smell amazing. W's better-for-you goods are made to last, especially when you need them most. The company was founded to provide men the confidence to succeed in all that they set their minds to.
Heading Health — Heading Health is a technology-enabled mental health platform improving access to high-quality and affordable care. Heading delivers personalized treatment solutions that leverage evidence-based therapeutics and technologies such as Spravato, transcranial magnetic stimulation, telepsychiatry, and intramuscular ketamine.

Dreamboat Capital is a Blockchain Venture company that connects good projects to the community or cryptocurrency investors in Indonesia.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round
Spain, Panama, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Outer Ring — Embark on an epic journey through galaxies. Explore, combat and forge your own legend.
Infinity Arena — The place to connect players who love tactical card games or have passionate about collecting valuable and rare NFT cards.
Ancient Kingdom — Ancient Kingdom is the first ancient martial arts game on the blockchain platform, pioneering the realization of real-time games on the blockchain platform.

Investing early behind massive trends.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Education
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

CyberNut — The CyberNut missions are deep-rooted in a profound understanding of education and technology.
Feature — The future of storytelling has arrived. Join us.
Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.

James Isilay - CEO @ Cognism

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Switzerland, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

viso.ai — The end-to-end computer vision infrastructure to train, develop, deploy and operate computer vision at scale.
viso.ai — The end-to-end computer vision infrastructure to train, develop, deploy and operate computer vision at scale.
Hyperbound — Scale sales training by simulating AI role-plays for cold calls, warm calls, discovery calls, & more. Customize AI buyers for your ICP. Close your skill gaps.

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
Ava Protocol — Ava Protocol is an event-driven EigenLayer AVS that seamlessly automates cross-chain transactions for DeFi, NFTs, games, and more.
Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Italy, Japan

Portfolio highlights

qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.

Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

OX.FUN — Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and trending altcoin derivatives on the most FUN exchange around. Join OX.FUN today and earn up to 200% yield. Moo.
AINN Layer2 — A Bitcoin Layer2 Solution Built On AI-Driven Modular Architecture
Sanctum — Sanctum offers the ability to launch millions of new LSTs utilizing solana.

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Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

AutoLayer — All LRTfi. One Interface.
Obscuro Labs — Ten, a decentralized Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup protocol designed to hyper-scale, encrypt and prevent negative MEV on Ethereum
E Money Network — E Money Network is a modular Real-World Asset (RWA) blockchain technology designed with compliance at its core.

Magnus Capital is a crypto investment firm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
Singapore, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spicenet — Spicenet is the permissionless shared liquidity layer for unstoppable trading applications, delivering high performance, capital-efficiency and deep liquidity
YeagerAI — YeagerAI is a pioneering AI research lab focused on developing technology that promotes sovereignty, transparency, and decentralization.
Obscuro Labs — Ten, a decentralized Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup protocol designed to hyper-scale, encrypt and prevent negative MEV on Ethereum

Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Grant
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
Kratos Gamer Network (KGeN) — Discover KGeN, where gaming meets the future. Dive into a world of cutting-edge technology and immersive experiences, designed for the next generation of gamers. Join us and redefine the way you play
Moonveil Entertainment — Moonveil Entertainment is a web3 game studio that uses cutting-edge technology to create authentic gaming experiences.

Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

OX.FUN — Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and trending altcoin derivatives on the most FUN exchange around. Join OX.FUN today and earn up to 200% yield. Moo.
AINN Layer2 — A Bitcoin Layer2 Solution Built On AI-Driven Modular Architecture
Sanctum — Sanctum offers the ability to launch millions of new LSTs utilizing solana.

Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Grant
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

IDA — IDA is the leading provider of digital asset solutions, allowing trust, transparency, and speed in payments and commerce. By leveraging blockchain technology, IDA opens up a more connected and inclusive global economy.
Quantlytica — Quantlytica is the creator of an AI-powered multi-chain liquidity distribution system meant to optimize liquidity strategies. The company's platform uses machine learning and statistical models to do horizontal assessments of returns, liquidity risks, and safety across DeFi projects.
Fabric Cryptography — Fabric develops a custom cryptography hardware to accelerate cryptography algorithms. The chips, whose components exclusively serve cryptographic purposes, are based on Verifiable Processing Units (VPUs) which incorporate features of GPUs and ASICs to improve the speed and cost of advanced cryptographic workloads.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

Betr — At betr, It provides tools to support responsible play and give you control over your gambling. It encourage you to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within your personal limits.
W Labs — W is a line of men's personal care products that are intended to work harder and smell amazing. W's better-for-you goods are made to last, especially when you need them most. The company was founded to provide men the confidence to succeed in all that they set their minds to.
Heading Health — Heading Health is a technology-enabled mental health platform improving access to high-quality and affordable care. Heading delivers personalized treatment solutions that leverage evidence-based therapeutics and technologies such as Spravato, transcranial magnetic stimulation, telepsychiatry, and intramuscular ketamine.

Magnus Capital is a crypto investment firm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
Singapore, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rivalz Network — Rivalz is creating The first AI Intel Layer, powered by a DePIN-based RollApp on Dymension using Celestia/EigenDA.
YeagerAI — YeagerAI is a pioneering AI research lab focused on developing technology that promotes sovereignty, transparency, and decentralization.
Obscuro Labs — Ten, a decentralized Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup protocol designed to hyper-scale, encrypt and prevent negative MEV on Ethereum

Tom James - Advisor @ OneLogin

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cargofy — Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts.
seedata.io — Seedata.io is a cybersecurity deception-technology platform to help businesses identify previously undetected data leakage incidents, significantly reducing incident costs. It identifies previously undetected data leakage incidents. The company using a combination of deception technology and threat intelligence to help businesses detect databreaches faster. They enable detection without compromising real data by using decoys or traps to trick cybercriminals into stealing or interacting with fake data.Seedata.io was founded by Enrico Faccioli and Matt Holland in 2021.
MONET — Embedded finance for agencies and B2B platforms. Frictionless access to white-labelling B2B credit, global payments and new revenue streams. Offer white-label invoice finance to your network, driving growth for you and your suppliers.

Dreamboat Capital is a Blockchain Venture company that connects good projects to the community or cryptocurrency investors in Indonesia.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round
Spain, Panama, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Outer Ring — Embark on an epic journey through galaxies. Explore, combat and forge your own legend.
Infinity Arena — The place to connect players who love tactical card games or have passionate about collecting valuable and rare NFT cards.
Ancient Kingdom — Ancient Kingdom is the first ancient martial arts game on the blockchain platform, pioneering the realization of real-time games on the blockchain platform.

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
Ava Protocol — Ava Protocol is an event-driven EigenLayer AVS that seamlessly enables private autonomous transactions for numerous use cases, such as DeFi, NFTs, and games.
Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.

TKX Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Online Games
Seed
Mexico, Portugal, Australia

Portfolio highlights

OpenEx — OpenEx is a cutting-edge, user-focused exchange that seeks to transform the cryptocurrency market. We offer a platform that is user-friendly for beginners and emphasizes user empowerment and freedom while ensuring honest transactions and individualized services.
GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
Galactic Holdings — Galactic Holdings offers a series of digital finance products.

ZBS Capital - distinguished crypto venture fund, backed by major media resources including CryptoDiffer.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized

Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
Juniper — Juniper is a reproductive healthcare insurance provider.

Wendy O - Marketing and Community Growth @ MonetaryUnit

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment
Seed
Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

Bloktopia — Bloktopia is the virtual reality metaverse that will allow users to Learn, Earn, Play, and Create and provides a central hub for everything cryptocurrency

A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
The Unfettered — The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game.
Cryption Network — Cryption Network is crypto company. Its can swap, farm, Invest and predict with cryption's unique and user-friendly DeFi 2.0 products. Bringing mass adoption to DeFi. PolyDEX is cryption's flagship product, which is completely gasless, instant, cross-chain AMM DEX with yield farming.

James Isilay - CEO @ Cognism

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Switzerland, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

viso.ai — The end-to-end computer vision infrastructure to train, develop, deploy and operate computer vision at scale.
viso.ai — The end-to-end computer vision infrastructure to train, develop, deploy and operate computer vision at scale.
Hyperbound — Scale sales training by simulating AI role-plays for cold calls, warm calls, discovery calls, & more. Customize AI buyers for your ICP. Close your skill gaps.