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Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in United Kingdom (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Ascension
VC Fund
34 United Kingdom, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Internet $229k–$4.1M
Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
25 United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $39k–$9.7M
Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
21 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $338k–$4.3M
Seedrs
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Portugal Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
QVentures
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.9M–$46M
Mercuri
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning $70k–$20M
Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
14 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Index Ventures
VC Fund
12 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Edition Capital
VC Fund
12 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Events, Restaurants
Forward Partners
VC Fund
12 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Pembroke VCT
VC Fund
12 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A Fashion, E-Commerce, Software $1.9M–$16M
SFC Capital
VC Fund
12 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $158k–$2.2M
The FSE Group
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Debt Financing Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $65k–$2.1M
Cambridge Innovation Capital
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
24 Haymarket
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Series A, Private Equity Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Avonmore Developments
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, Japan, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Apps $396k–$65M
Beringea
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, United States, France Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Seedcamp
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, SaaS
Downing Ventures
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Angels Den
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, United States, Finland Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, United States, Japan Grant, Seed Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
The Future Fund
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Convertible Note, Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Midven
VC Fund
9 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Salica
VC Fund
9 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Secondary Market Software, Health Care, Information Technology $700k–$18M
United Ventures
VC Fund
9 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $274k–$18M
Wayra
VC Fund
9 Spain, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $145k–$15M
Hotspur Capital
VC Fund
9 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel Software, Location Based Services, Mobile
Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
GMG Ventures
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Supernode Global
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment $1.5M–$5M
Newable Private Investing
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
MMC Ventures
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom, United States, France Series A, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Jenson Funding Partners
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Marketplace, Artificial Intelligence
LocalGlobe
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$30M
Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $183k–$3.5M
Kindred Capital
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $1.5M–$73M
Playfair Capital
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $700k–$20M
SAATCHiNVEST
VC Fund
7 United Kingdom, United States, Peru Seed, Series A Apps, Software, E-Commerce
Northzone
VC Fund
7 United States, Sweden, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, FinTech, Information Technology $2.4M–$95M
Venrex
VC Fund
7 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
Guinness Ventures
VC Fund
7 United Kingdom, Japan, Australia Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Health Care, Software $3.5M–$16M
Amadeus Capital Partners
VC Fund
7 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Series B, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $800k–$43M
Edge VC
VC Fund
7 United Kingdom, Jersey, Denmark Series A, Seed Media and Entertainment, Video, Software $2.6M–$7M
7percent Ventures
VC Fund
7 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $125k–$7M
Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
7 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $650k–$30M
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
7 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $4.5M–$99M
Creative UK
VC Fund
7 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Debt Financing, Seed Media and Entertainment, Film Production, Software $123k–$1.7M
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Ascension
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 34 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 209
  • Round size: Seed $229k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $445k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $22M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Sprive — Sprive is the free app that helps take years off your mortgage and save you thousands of pounds in interest.
  • GEEIQ — GEEIQ is the intelligence platform brands use to plan, activate and measure marketing in virtual worlds like Roblox, Fortnite and ZEPETO.
  • Farmdrive — Farmdrive helps supply chain partners create transparent, effective, and resilient operations from farm to shelf by streamlining data collection and simplifying farm management.
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund · Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom · 25 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 189
  • Round size: Seed $39k–$1.8M; Series A $851k–$9.7M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • H2CHP — H2CHP's Free Piston Engine Technology enables your transition to green energy with the reliability & confidence of fuel flexibility.
  • NunaBio — NunaBio operates as a privately-owned specialist DNA development company. NunaBio engaged in CRO (Contract Research Organizations) and CDMO (Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation) activities.
  • Moralbox
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 21 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 220
  • Round size: Seed $851k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $338k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Odore — We work with leading brands building targeted digital sampling campaigns. Expert campaign support team & rapid global fulfilment network.
  • Yavrio — Yavrio links your bank accounts to your finance system using Open Banking. Gain centralized access, real-time insights, and secure transactions with 14,000+ banks in 20 countries.
  • Spendkey — Spendkey's intelligent spend analytics solution helps businesses transform raw spend data into actionable insights to enable better business decisions, optimise costs and maximise savings
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Seedrs
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 18 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 172
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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!
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QVentures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 15 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 15 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 357
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$11M; Series A $3M–$21M; Series B $7.5M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $101M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • CertiVox — CertiVox solutions deliver simple, powerful information security to all things Internet (mainframes, too!), protecting business and individual privacy through the cloud and at rest. CertiVox was founded in 2009 to provide technology and services based on a simple belief: that everyone deserves the right to secure their information exchangessimply and easily. CertiVox's leading-edge encryption, key management and identity management solutions are currently in use at hundreds of the world’s leading corporations and used by individuals across the globe to protect their privacy.The companies passion is to create and share unique, cutting-edge cryptographic innovations for enterprise cloud computing and all things Internet. CertiVox are the only company in the global market today that has the technology in place to arm businesses and individuals with easy-to-use certificateless security solutions for any device and platform.Whether you are a business that wants to safeguard your company’s intellectual property, an ISV or SaaS provider that needs to embed cryptography and key management into your application, or an individual who wants to preserve the privacy of your personal data, CertiVox gives you the power to secure your information for all things Internet.CertiVox’s leading-edge solutions – including MIRACL (Multiprecision Integer and Rational Arithmetic C/C++ Library) Cryptographic SDK, on-demand encryption Key Management Service (KMS) and Identity Management Service (IDMS) – enable cloud service providers, independent software vendors (ISVs), communication providers, and smart device and semiconductor manufacturers to secure their voice and data communication solutions with ease.The PrivateSky Secure Information Exchange Service (SIX) gives individuals, businesses and their partners and customers easy-to-use tools to quickly encrypt email, files and documents without complex infrastructure or user burden. Compliance with mandatory encryption and privacy statues has never been easier.The bottom line: CertiVox's revolutionary certificateless cryptography, identity and key management solutions have taken the hassle out of Internet security, making it easy to securely exchange your information in any form, any time.
  • Mojo — Join 600,000+ men worldwide using AI-powered coaches to build a performance mindset and take back control of their love lives.
  • Phlux Technology — We develop, manufacture and supply innovative communication and vision components
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Mercuri
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 15 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $917k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $70k–$2.4M; Series A $4.8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $62M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Electric Twin — We create AI-powered synthetic audiences that instantly simulate how real people will respond to your products, messages, and campaigns - giving you access to instant insights.
  • Wonder Studios — Producing world-class original content
  • Made With Intent — Convert more customers by being more appropriate. Understand and target customer intent with the segmentation platform for data-led eCommerce teams.
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 14 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 151
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 12 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups, 49 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 923
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
  • Jump — Jump takes the hassle out of being a freelancer. We accompany hundreds of freelancers in their daily lives by securing their adventure. Relax, we take care of everything.
  • Harmonic — Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations.
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Edition Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

Investment, advice and expertise for the entertainment and leisure industry

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Events, Restaurants
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Forward Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Pembroke VCT
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$6.7M; Series A $3.6M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaizan — Kaizan is a Client Intelligence Platform for Client Success teams to retain and grow revenue
  • PEAK:AIO — PEAK:AIO delivers software-defined storage for AI, enabling fast, scalable data infrastructure and optimized GPU utilization.
  • Serve First — Serve First is an AI customer experience platform that turns real-time feedback into insights, helping drive smarter business decisions.
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SFC Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

Discover the UK's leading SEIS Fund, offering tax-efficient investments in innovative startups. Join thousands of savvy investors and raise capital for your business with SFC Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 332
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $158k–$840k
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Elaitra — Elaitra’s breast cancer platform includes a Generative LLM for voice-based patient engagement, and a unique AI reading tool that helps doctors read 3D X-Rays. Operating in USA & UK. FDA 510(k) and UK regulator approved.
  • Sages — Biodegradeable, non-polluting, low-impact and vibrant dyes extracted from food waste.
  • WeFindFlats — Live and work anywhere, without housing worries.
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The FSE Group
VC Fund · Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 172
  • Round size: Seed $327k–$2.1M; Debt Financing $65k–$549k
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • MyPeople
  • Luxury Cottages — Find a luxury holiday cottage to rent in the UK. Our handpicked holiday homes at Luxury Cottages are carefully selected by our luxury travel experts.
  • Torsion Information Security — Torsion integrates with your existing collaboration systems, working with business users to monitor and control access as business circumstances evolve.
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Cambridge Innovation Capital
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
  • Microbiotica — Microbiotica is a developer of human microbiome therapeutics intended to discover and develop live bacterial therapeutics and biomarkers. The company's therapeutics identify gut bacteria linked to phenotype with unprecedented precision, enabling researchers to phenotype before testing of candidate bacteria in advanced human in vitro and invivo models.
  • 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. .
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Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
  • 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.
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24 Haymarket
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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!
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups, 28 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 257
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • FluoRok — By employing our patented technology, we can produce fluorochemicals without the production of toxic and highly dangerous hydrofluoric acid
  • Kubus — Trusted by government andmulti-nationals locally and abroad. Want to know more about how Kubus can help your organisation?
  • ER Productions — ER Productions is an innovative laser and SFX specialist providing cutting edge laser and special effects products and choreography to some of the largest shows on earth
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Avonmore Developments
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Japan, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $396k–$2.4M; Series A $1.8M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Koala — Travel insurance as it should be. No exclusions. No proofs. No forms. Offer the insurance your customers deserve!
  • Yaso — 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 — Enhance wastewater network management with ManholeMetrics' real-time level monitoring and predictive alerts. Efficient, low-cost solutions for utilities worldwide.
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Beringea
VC Fund · Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States · 10 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 158
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MOTH: — MOTH: is a beverages company that provides ready-to-drink cocktail for family and friends.
  • Gorilla — We empower Energy Retailers in pricing, forecasting and reporting with data-driven solutions in boosting speed and flexibility.
  • ATLAS Space Operations — ATLAS Space Operations provides Secure Space Access Anytime, Anywhere. Ground Software as a Service on a global federated network.
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Seedcamp
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups, 32 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 308
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Downing Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

The opportunity for institutional investors to access leading UK early stage healthtech businesses

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Angels Den
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 10 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups, 24 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 224
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MiAlgae — MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company that aims to revolutionize the £340 billion global livestock feed industry by producing microalgal products – through the remediation of wastewater – as nutrient supplements for fishmeal in livestock feeds. Their microalgal products are high in omegas and proteins, both of which are required forthe production of many livestock feeds, especially in the aquaculture sector.Their production methodology uses circular economy to reduce the operating costs involved in the production of microalgae and as such allows them to compete with other supplements currently on the market.
  • Solasta Bio — Solasta Bio develops environment-friendly products that meet a global need for new and effective crop protection.
  • ILC Therapeutics — ILC Therapeutics Ltd is an early-stage biotechnology company focused on modulating the Innate Immune System through the development of novel peptide therapeutics for the treatment of Covid-19, Cancer, Atopic Dermatitis, and Psoriasis.
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The Future Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Convertible Note, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
  • OneDome — Find, buy or sell property in one place with OneDome. Property search, mortgages, conveyancing and estate agents, we cover every step of the property journey.
  • Unwasted — Toto Macau Hari Ini Dan Togel Macau Pools Memberikan Keluaran Macau Tercepat Dari Live Draw Macau Pools Di Data Macau Hari Ini Diambil Dari Live Draw Macau Pools.
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Midven
VC Fund · Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom · 9 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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Salica
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 189
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$4.4M; Series A $5M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Abound — Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans. It aims to expand access to low-cost personal credit by using the UK’s new Open Banking standard to analyze consumers’ historical bank statement data. Open Banking data allows us to build a granular view of customers’ financial circumstances, properlyunderstand their affordability, and place less reliance on credit reference agency scores.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
  • Semble — The integrated clinical system for managing your patients' medical data and admin tasks.
  • Trade Ledger — Business lending technology for next-generation working capital that is customer centric, API-first, cloud-native and allows lenders to launch new products in 90 days.
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United Ventures
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 9 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $176M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Entando — The open source, cloud-native Application Composition Platform, Entando Platform simplifies app lifecycle, following composable architecture.
  • Wallife — Wallife is an InsurTech company that helps in eliminating improper use of biometric data. The company protects against new risks originating from technological and scientific progress in the areas of genetics, biometrics, and biohacking. Wallife was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Roma, Lazio, Italy.
  • Everli — Scegli il supermercato, fai la spesa online e ricevila a casa all'ora che preferisci. Risparmia tempo ed evita code e borse pesanti con Everli.
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Wayra
VC Fund · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 9 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 240
  • Round size: Seed $145k–$2.6M; Series A $2.5M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gamium — Gamium is a Web3 and Metaverse technology company building the truly Decentralized Social Metaverse.
  • MetaSoccer — MetaSoccer is a decentralized football metaverse where you can create your own club and generate income while you run it.
  • Smart Protection — Protect your revenue by eliminating threats and infringements. Gain full visibility of what is happening with your brand online.
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Hotspur Capital
VC Fund · 9 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

Hotspur Capital is a financial organization.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Location Based Services, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Femeda — Femeda provides groundbreaking technology for the treatment of urinary incontinence for women worldwide. Get in touch today to find out more.
  • Screach — See Free Offer!No credit card/contract required!Live Sports Offers!See more info See more
  • Greengage Lighting — Poultry lighting and poultry sensors for precision livestock farming, scheme compliance and animal welfare
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Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 206
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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GMG Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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Supernode Global
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

An early-stage venture capital fund investing in Consumer and B2B technologies that meaningfully enhance our personal and professional lives.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $38M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
  • Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.
  • Flowstep — Flowstep is a copilot that helps you create better designs, 10x faster. Just type and get user flows, high-fidelity UI, JTBD and more.
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Newable Private Investing
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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MMC Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 176
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
  • Simpler — Offer a fast & simple checkout with Simpler. Integrate all major payment options, save on fees & sell more. Get it now!
  • Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
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Jenson Funding Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketplace, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • Yond — Yond is taking a risk by integrating social commerce into the core of the travel booking process, with the goal of completely changing the travel industry.
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 325
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Pixaera — Scalable standardized learning simulations that work straight out of the box and outperform anything in the safety market. Simulations are playable on PC/ Wireless VR/soon mobile and are deployed via an integrated LMS that helps manage and measure users.
  • Wefarm — Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables farmers to share information via SMS. The company allows small-scale farmers to connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas, and spread innovation. Utilizing the latest machine learning technology, Wefarm’s service works both online and over SMS.Since its founding in 2015,Wefarm has been named one of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies by FastCompany and has won Google’s Impact Challenge Award, TechCrunch’s Europas-Tech for Good Award, and the European Union Commission’s Ideas from Europe prize, among others. The company is headquartered in London with a field presence in Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar-es-Salaam.
  • 7bridges — The smart logistics platform that uses A.I technology to transform your logistics for scalable, sustainable and profitable business growth.
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 149
  • Round size: Seed $183k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $410k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neurolabs — Neurolabs helps puts an end to out-of-stocks using a powerful combination of computer vision and synthetic data, improving customer experience and increasing revenue.
  • BrainWaveBank — BrainWaveBank has developed a first-in-class wearable electroencephalography (EEG) device to conveniently and non-invasively measure the mechanisms that underpin neurological disorders and therapies. Our platform can securely gather, store and analyse data from many thousands of users, building neurocognitive profiles of individuals and populationsor demographic groups. This easy-to-scale and distributable approach will help clinical professionals to transform our understanding of brain health and develop the next generation of treatments.BrainWaveBank was founded in January 2015 and has offices in Belfast , Northern Ireland and Dublin, Ireland.
  • Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
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Kindred Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$16M; Series A $7.9M–$33M; Series B $13M–$73M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hofy — Use Hofy's equipment management platform to remotely supply, manage and maintain subscription workstations, while staying compliant.
  • RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
  • Paddle — The revenue engine powering payments for n8n, Letterboxd & AdGuard. One platform that handles subscription billing, payments and compliance.
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Playfair Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

Playfair is a sector agnostic fund focused exclusively on pre-seed investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making six investments a year out of its third $70m fund and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Our 78% Series Agraduation rate is ~3x industry average. Playfair has backed 100+ companies since 2013, including Thought Machine, Orca AI, Protex AI, StackOne and Nory.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.1M; Series A $2.7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nory — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
  • Cauldron — Cauldron aim is to create a Worldbuilding is the art form that is foundational to everything at Cauldron. We want people to truly feel they can not only escape into our worlds, but through the advances of Web3, be a part of them.
  • Passionfruit — Join hundreds of the best startups around the world and use Passionfruit to hire freelance marketing specialists on-demand.
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SAATCHiNVEST
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Peru

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Northzone
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital firm operating across Europe and the US. Since 1996, it has backed more than 250 companies, including Spotify, Klarna, Spring Health, and Black Forest Labs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 314
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$15M; Series A $4M–$36M; Series B $6.7M–$95M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.2B in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Sqore — Smart Recruitment - Automate the process between your job ad and the first interview.Increase screening efficiencyEfficiently screen your candidates based on their skills and motivation - automagically - regardless of number of candidates.Deepen candidate engagementEngage today’s generation of candidates through rewarding experiencesand allow them to get insights into your company before the interview.Lower your hiring costsWe don't charge per candidate. Evaluate 100,000 candidates at the same cost as 100 - no need to limit yourself in the search for new talent.
  • Labster — Labster empowers educators to reimagine their science courses with immersive online simulations. Request a demo to discover how Labster engages students, trains lab skills, and accelerates learning.
  • Katana — Katana gives thousands of manufacturers a live look at their business with visual, intuitive, and easy-to-use ERP software.
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Venrex
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GoJoe — Ditch the step challenge apps and employee engagement platforms and boost inclusivity and engagement with GoJoe.The employee engagement and wellbeing app that people actually use.
  • OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
  • StructureFlow — StructureFlow is the innovative visual modeling platform for professional services, transforming how stakeholders think and communicate.
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Guinness Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Guinness Ventures specialise in Series A funding, supporting UK-based scale-up companies in the areas of enterprise technology, consumer brands and health innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Japan, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$16M; Series B $4.5M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JAAQ — JAAQ helps organisations deliver trusted mental health support through governed content, guided journeys and measurable engagement.
  • Yaso — 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
  • Cerca Magnetics — Cerca Magnetics provides the world's most advanced functional brain scanner, an integrated lightweight, ergonomic, and wearable technology that will provide an unrivaled view of human brain function in both health and sickness.
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Amadeus Capital Partners
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

Amadeus Capital Partners, Venture Capital For Technology Companies. We Back Entreprenuers To Win. Contact Our Experienced Team Of Investors Today

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 230
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$9.2M; Series A $2.6M–$27M; Series B $6.8M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Tenzo — Tenzo is a restaurant analytics and AI forecasting platform for restaurants, pubs and cafes. Tenzo makes running restaurants easy with full data visibility.
  • Xampla — Xampla's natural plant polymer technology is the innovative technology powering materials to change the world with plastic-free replacements and more.
  • Nu Quantum — Nu Quantum has been pioneering quantum networking technology since 2018. Our market-leading expertise is uniquely positioned to deliver a distributed quantum...
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Edge VC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

We are specialist investors in exceptional creative teams and emerging technologies. We invest £1m-5m in creative technology companies in the UK and Northern Europe. We have over £120m in AUM, and backed by the UK's British Business Bank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Video, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Jersey, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$5.7M; Series A $3M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $115M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Newsflare — Newsflare is an online video news community and marketplace for user generated video content. Newsflare specialises in covering news that is too breaking, too remote or too local for traditional news organisations.They are all about news. Unlike many other online video sharing sites Newsflare is dedicated to user-generated news content andencourages an ethos of journalistic values. They believe in the power of video to communicate a message and their service is built to make the most of this medium.Their goal is to ensure that all their members get the rewards they deserve. They actively broker your content to news organisations and when your content is sold they share the revenue with you. Their member reward programme ensures that the more you contribute and participate, the more recognition, privileges and financial rewards you are entitled to.
  • Antidote Productions — Antidote Productions is a TV production company with an ethos for smart, populist and distinctive programming.They specialise in talent-based and access-driven programmes working with established names, new up and coming faces and major corporations and institutions.International series and factual formats are a core focus, leveraging ourknowledge of what sells alongside our experience to co-produce for the major UK broadcasters and internationally with the USA, Canada, Australia and Pan Asia.
  • OTHERWORLD — OTHERWORLD is a virtual island paradise in the cloud, home to VR’s best experiences across entertainment, arts, education and wellness, reached through unique, multi-sensory ‘immersion pods’ in its growing network of city centre venues.Since opening its first site in Shoreditch, East London in 2019, over 50,000 people have experienced OTHERWORLD,including celebrities Adele, Skepta, Jonathan Ross, KSI and Fnatic. The team have won plaudits at the FRAME Awards 2020 and a nomination for the VR Awards 2020.
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7percent Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

Venture X is our top-notch financial investment firm Webflow Template created for modern VC and investor firms looking for a dark mode website design.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 169
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $39M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • cheMastery — Echo handles repetitive tasks with accuracy and precision, allowing your chemists to tackle high-value challenges.
  • Tipple — Scale into other countries quicker with better margins direct to consumers with Tipple.
  • Amali Systems — Nuclear
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 186
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5.5M; Series A $6.8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Klu.ai — Klu.ai is a generative AI platform that simplifies the process of designing, deploying, and optimizing AI applications.The company integrates major large language models (LLMs) such as Anthropic Claude, Azure OpenAI, GPT-4, and over 15 other models, enabling rapid prompt/model experimentation, data gathering, and user feedback. The platformoffers features like Klu Actions for content generation, business operations workflows, content analysis, and summarization, as well as optimization techniques for A/B testing and fine-tuning support for models like OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4. Klu.ai is committed to data privacy and security, providing data obfuscation and redaction features to protect sensitive information.Klu.ai is founded by Stephen M. Walker II in 2022 and is located in San Francisco, California.
  • Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
  • Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 377
  • Round size: Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $9.3M–$85M; Series C $12M–$99M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $615M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • 32Co — Collaborate on treatments with the UK's top orthodontists using advanced aligner materials.
  • GoCardless — GoCardless is the global leader in recurring payments. GoCardless' global payments network and technology platform take the pain out of getting paid for businesses with recurring revenue. More than 40,000 businesses worldwide, from multinational corporations to SMBs, transact through GoCardless each month, and the business processes $10bn ofpayments each year. GoCardless now has four offices in the UK, France, Australia, and Germany.
  • Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
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Creative UK
VC Fund · Bristol, Bristol, City of, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Film Production, Software
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $131k–$1.7M; Debt Financing $123k–$848k
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grid Finder — Search over 1000 sim racing leagues on F1 24, iRacing, ACC, Assetto Corsa, Gran Turismo on PC, XBOX and PlayStation.
  • Arcus Studio — Arcus Studio is a 2D animation studio that creates broadcast animation, promotional videos, video installations, inhouse original content and develops new IP.They’ve enjoyed producing work for the likes of CBBC and E4, partnered with local and national agencies and brought outdoor events to life with spectacular animation based artinstallations.So if you’re after any sort of animated content, be it for Tv, the internet, music videos, games, apps or projections on the moon, or if you’d just like to learn more about us and what they do, then please get in touch.
  • MySalesCoach — MySalesCoach offers Despite overwhelming evidence that sales coaching has the greatest impact on rep development and success, managers typically devote less than 5% of their time to coaching a team that craves and deserves coaching to reach their full potential.
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