Top 10 Mobile Advertising Angel Investors in United Kingdom in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Mobile advertising startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile advertising companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Mobile Advertising Angel Investors in United Kingdom in May 2025

Investor	Mobile Advertising United Kingdom investments
Richard Fearn	4
James Fong	2
Jon Claydon	2
Tjaart van der Waalt	2
Touker Suleyman	1
Scott Button	1
Keith Willey	1
Damon Reeve	1
Kevin Chong	1
Hesham Zreik	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

James Fong has been the CEO of Oriental Dreamworks. James joined Amazon in 2012 and is responsible for leading its Merchant Services and Advertising businesses, including “Selling on Amazon”, “Fulfillment by Amazon”, “Global Selling” and “Advertise on Amazon”.Prior to joining Amazon, James was a Managing Director of China Tongyin, a boutiquemerchant bank in Greater China, responsible for its TMT practice; a Managing Director of Strategic Investments at NBA China, responsible for its arena, internet and league investments and business development efforts; a General Manager at Microsoft China, responsible for sales and marketing for 17 provinces and 32 cities; and the Managing Director of Microsoft’s $165 million China equity investment fund.James holds an undergraduate degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Retail, Marketing, Advertising
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.

Jon Claydon

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, App Marketing
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Zumo — Digital assets platform engineered with a focus on compliance and sustainability. Get in touch to learn more.
Be Nosy — Nosy is wearable tech with data play that helps you breathe purified air anywhere at any time. Our state of the art patented technology developed by former Dyson engineers is more effective at protecting you from pollution, viruses and allergens than any other solution in the market. While our particles and breathing sensor technology will help youknow exactly what is going into your body.
Togather — Create your event on Togather, the UK's most trusted events booking platform, choose from our roster of over 1,500 of the best and most passionate creators...

Tjaart van der Walt is the Co-founder & Director at Tyme. He attended Stellenbosch University.

Investment focus

Retail, Marketing, Advertising
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.

Touker Suleyman is a multi-millionaire Turkish Cypriot fashion retail entrepreneur and investor. In 2001, his company Low Profile Group purchased UK shirt maker Hawes & Curtis, and in 2008 he purchased UK fashion label Ghost. More recently, he has invested in a number of start-up companies including Bikesoup and Huxley & Cox.

Investment focus

CRM, Digital Media, Advertising Platforms
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
Peachy Lean — Peachylean, is an Irish based athleisure business providing stylish, high quality, supportive, high waisted gym leggings. We want to support strong women who like to look good while working out in the gym.
Tiny Explorers — Discover Tiny Explorers' eco-friendly baby equipment rental across the UK Convenient, sustainable & hassle-free solutions for busy families!

Scott Button is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Unruly. Scott has 15 years’ experience in madtech. Before founding Unruly in 2006, Scott was a Chief Executive Officer of Connextra, a venture-backed UK ad serving firm, which he led to trade sale in 2005. Scott holds an M.A. from Cambridge and a B.Phil. from Oxford, both inPhilosophy, and was named an E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012.

Investment focus

Advertising, Mobile Advertising, Advertising Platforms
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Adludio — Adludio is the AI-powered platform that delivers interactive mobile advertising. By using data to design your ad creative, and algorithms to optimize your campaigns, Adludio makes sure you win the battle for brand attention.

Keith is an associate professor of strategic and international management and entrepreneurship at London Business School as well as a senior lecturer at University College London. He also holds various non-executive directorships and advisory roles. His career has spanned academia, consulting, investing and hands-on operational roles withinindustry and the venture capital world.

Investment focus

Software, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
NumberEight — Empower your targeting and curation with NumberEight's smart, privacy-first data. Designed for publishers, ad platforms and agencies to drive performance across podcasting, mobile and CTV.
Connected — Connected is a startup that offers affordable connecting humans, unleashing a new wave of IoT-based business models and contributing to bridge the digital gap.

Damon Reeve works as a CEO Of The Ozone Project. He is a former CEO at Authenticated Digital and Hereford Technologies respectively. He has 10 years of experience in the Internet and advertising industries across Europe, the United States, and Australia.Before launching Unanimis, Damon ran his own brand and interactive marketing consultancyafter being Head of Marketing for Excite UK. Damon is also a co-founder of OpenX and remains on the Board as a non-executive Director.