Top 50 Media (Entertainment) VC Funds & Investors in United Kingdom (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Ascension
VC Fund
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34 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Internet | $229k–$4.1M |
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
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25 | United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | |
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
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21 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $338k–$4.3M |
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Seedrs
VC Fund
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18 | United Kingdom, United States, Estonia | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage | $39k–$5M |
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QVentures
VC Fund
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15 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Mercuri
VC Fund
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15 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $70k–$20M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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15 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1.9M–$46M |
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
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14 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $350k–$18M |
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Forward Partners
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $343k–$17M |
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Pembroke VCT
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A | Fashion, E-Commerce, Software | $1.9M–$16M |
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Index Ventures
VC Fund
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12 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | |
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Edition Capital
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Events, Restaurants | |
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SFC Capital
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $158k–$2.2M |
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24 Haymarket
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | |
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The FSE Group
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $65k–$2.1M |
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Cambridge Innovation Capital
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics | |
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Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Estonia | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | |
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Series A, Private Equity | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | |
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Seedcamp
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, SaaS | |
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Beringea
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Analytics | |
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Avonmore Developments
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, Japan, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Apps | $396k–$65M |
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Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Japan | Seed, Grant | Biotechnology, Software, Health Care | $104k–$4.1M |
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Angels Den
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Finland | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Mobile, Software | $33k–$763k |
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The Future Fund
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Convertible Note, Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | |
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Downing Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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Wayra
VC Fund
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9 | Spain, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $145k–$15M |
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Salica
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Secondary Market | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $700k–$18M |
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Midven
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $152k–$2M |
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United Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $274k–$18M |
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Hotspur Capital
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Angel | Software, Location Based Services, Mobile | |
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Newable Private Investing
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | |
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $183k–$3.5M |
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Supernode Global
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment | $1.5M–$5M |
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Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $327k–$7M |
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Kindred Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $1.5M–$73M |
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GMG Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software | |
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Playfair Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $700k–$20M |
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Jenson Funding Partners
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, Switzerland | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Marketplace, Information Technology | $96k–$1.1M |
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$30M |
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MMC Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Series A, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | |
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $650k–$30M |
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7percent Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $125k–$7M |
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence | $4.5M–$99M |
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Venrex
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet | $425k–$13M |
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Edge VC
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, Jersey, Denmark | Series A, Seed | Media and Entertainment, Video, Software | $2.6M–$7M |
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Northzone
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Sweden, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $2.4M–$95M |
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Amadeus Capital Partners
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Spain | Series B, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $800k–$43M |
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Creative UK
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Spain | Debt Financing, Seed | Media and Entertainment, Film Production, Software | $123k–$1.7M |
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Guinness Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, Japan, Australia | Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Health Care, Software | $3.5M–$16M |
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Notion Capital
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | |
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 159
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Lightox — Lightox has developed a unique range of molecular tools for use in imaging, therapeutics and assay development. These unique probes are smaller than any other commercially available fluorescent product. They offer the option of using our technologies as freely-moving probes that readily incorporate into cells or with a range of flexible linkers togive specificity to your unique applications and research needs.
- DayaTani — DayaTani supplies farmers with comprehensive services to increase their productivity.
- Circadacare — Circadacare helps elderly people and people with dementia live independently for longer with an integrated circadian lighting and home health monitoring system.
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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- 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
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 183
- Round size: Seed $65k–$2M; Pre-Seed $39k–$505k; Equity Crowdfunding $154k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
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.
- Residently — Simplifying the rental process: from finding the perfect pad to furnishing and sourcing expert local home services, all at the tap of a button.
- OurPetsLife —
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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- 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
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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- 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.
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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- 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
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 163
- Round size: Seed $350k–$4.5M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Aibuild — Ai Build is a London based company developing Artificial Intelligence and Robotic technologies for large scale additive manufacturing. We believe additive manufacturing is the core technology for achieving a sustainable environment and a highly efficient on-demand economy.We are a team of creative and enthusiastic people with strong background inthe areas of 3D printing, robotics, computer vision, machine learning, computational design and physics. We are partnering with some of the world’s most innovative companies and investors to bring our disruptive Autonomous Large Scale 3D Printing technology into a wide range of industrial applications. Our purpose is to empower factories of the future to make Manufacturing easy, smart, sustainable and affordable.
- Converge — Pioneering sustainable construction with smart concrete sensors, predictive AI, and real-time monitoring. Build faster, safer, and greener.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $343k–$3.9M; Series A $2.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $76M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- OutThink — Move from traditional security awareness to adaptive security with the world's first AI-native cybersecurity human risk management platform.
- Patch — Patch helps you choose the best plants for your space, delivers them to your door, and helps you look after them.
- OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.
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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- 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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- 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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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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!
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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- 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.
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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- 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. .
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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- 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.
BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
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- 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
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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- 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
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- 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.
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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- 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
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Grant
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 287
- Round size: Seed $318k–$3.4M; Grant $104k–$4.1M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 1inhaler — 1inhaler operates as a developer of drug delivery device.
- Kaly — KALY is like an intriguing group based on the description, it appears to be a collective of individuals with diverse interests and passions—innovators, sailors, and nature enthusiasts—coming together with a shared mission of exploration and discovery.
- Sofant Technologies — Sofant is developing a low cost RF MEMS technology that solves power consumption and heat problems in high frequency phased array antenna systems.
Join 21,000+ investors backing the top 4% of UK startups. Access vetted, tax-efficient (SEIS/EIS) investment opportunities and exclusive pitch events.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $33k–$763k; Angel $79k–$354k
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
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.
The Future Fund is provides government loans to UK-based companies ranging from £125,000 to £5 million.
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- 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.
The opportunity for institutional investors to access leading UK early stage healthtech businesses
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
Midven is a specialist venture capital company providing investment to fast growing small and medium sized enterprises ("SMEs"), run by an energetic, experienced and hands-on team of investment managers.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 120
- Round size: Seed $152k–$1.7M; Series A $393k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Eyoto — The future of eyecare technology, advanced tele-optometry solutions for the global optical industry. Creators of the world's first remote digital slit lamp.
- Online Poundshop — Online Poundshop is an online-only, 24 hour, single priced retailer.Since launch in February 2014, Poundshop.com has created a new online shopping solution for customers keen to take advantage of pound shop savings. The huge range of everyday household essentials including cleaning products, batteries, toiletries, kitchen items, snacks, treatsand toys is now available with the convenience of home delivery. We are based in Exeter, Devon.In October 2014, the managerial and marketing teams of the UK’s 2 premier online single price retailers, Poundshop.com and Hereforapound.com joined forces. More exciting plans are only a few clicks away starting with our brand new look website and bigger than ever range of pound shop favourites!
- Halo X Ray Technologies — HALO X-ray Technologies - next generation X-ray diffraction technology for the aviation security, medical and process control markets.
We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.
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- 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.
Hotspur Capital is a financial organization.
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- Industry: Software, Location Based Services, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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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- 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
Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.
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- 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.
An early-stage venture capital fund investing in Consumer and B2B technologies that meaningfully enhance our personal and professional lives.
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- 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.
Speak with our Entrepreneurship and Investment teams, who can help you find sources of finance, engage with funders and secure investment to grow your business.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 208
- Round size: Seed $327k–$3.1M; Series A $1.6M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
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- 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. Deploy, manage, and scale AI-driven, data-rich industrial systems at the edge with our open edge data platform.
- Administrate — Administrate is a comprehensive, configurable training management platform that helps organizations streamline enterprise learning and development. Organize, deliver, plan, automate, analyze, and scale your training program effectively -- all through one system. Deliver multi-modality learner experiences, maximize training resources, anddemonstrate business results with insight-rich reporting. Hundreds of organizations serving millions of learners choose Administrate to manage their training program.
A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund
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- 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
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- 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.
London based Venture Capital Fund Manager investing in UK seed stage companies at the intersection of media and technology
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- 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
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- 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
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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- 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.
Jenson Funding Partners LLP (Jenson) was founded in 2012 by Paul Jenkinson and Sarah Barber from Jenson Solutions Ltd., a network of finance directors who continue to provide support to the investee companies. Since 2012, they have launched five SEIS and four EIS funds. They are now in the 10th tranche and have invested £16 million in 100entrepreneurial UK businesses that have typically launched their product or service and are typically close to or past revenue. In addition, they have supported 20 follow-on funding rounds, all at a premium to the initial launch cost. They have recently become FCA-authorized and have split our SEIS and EIS funds into two separate funds, retaining the same ethos and strategy across both evergreen funds.
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- Industry: Software, Marketplace, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $96k–$952k; Pre-Seed $196k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Delega — Delega is a true multi-bank tool that finally enables corporates to manage signatory rights in an easy and uncomplicated way.
- 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.
- SphereTrax — SphereTrax is a carefully curated gallery of high end soundtracks and songs, a cutting edge label and an innovative marketplace. Disrupting and revolutionising the way music is placed, synced and licensed in feature films, TV, trailers, commercials, games, VR, AR and XR formats.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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- 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.
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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- 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
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- 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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- 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.
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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- 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
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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- 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.
Venrex Investment Management is a UK-based venture capital firm that backs creative Founders to launch and build innovative businesses.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 149
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $425k–$3M; Series A $6M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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.
- Pockla — Securely share your AI generated creations with Pockla. The platform built for creators, developers, and innovators.
- Workflow — A minimalist collaboration platform for creative teams. Manage tasks, get AI reviews, and share work, all in one place.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
Amadeus Capital Partners, Venture Capital For Technology Companies. We Back Entreprenuers To Win. Contact Our Experienced Team Of Investors Today
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- 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...
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 217
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- TechWolf — TechWolf uses AI to bring you an automated, continuous and objective view on the workforce skills you have, the skills you need and the gap in between.
- Ferovinum — We are a technology enabled supply chain financing partner for the wine and spirit industries. Our platform funds wine producers, whisky distillers, bottlers and merchants.
- LegalFly — The most powerful contract review & drafting experience ever made. LegalFly brings the power of Legal AI into the hands of your legal teams.
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