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Top 15 Mobile Advertising Angel Investors in United Kingdom in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 15 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 15 Mobile Advertising Angel Investors in United Kingdom in January 2026

Investor	Mobile Advertising United Kingdom investments
Richard Fearn	4
James Fong	2
Jon Claydon	2
Tjaart van der Waalt	2
Bashar Hamood	1
Scott Button	1
Tim Chen	1
Keith Willey	1
James Hilton	1
Ionut Ciobotaru	1
Touker Suleyman	1
Damon Reeve	1
Hesham Zreik	1
Kevin Chong	1
Ben Wynne-Simmons	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.
MV.Health — MysteryVibe offers the most advanced & award winning smart sex toys for men, women & couples that elevates their sexual health and wellbeing.
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 — Zumo is a revolutionary new way for people and businesses to interact with money. When we say revolutionary, we mean it. Zumo’s not elitist. It’s not exclusive. It’s not only for the one percent. Zumo is smart money for everyone.Zumo allows you to buy, send and store crypto simply and securely. Zumo lets you exchange crypto seamlessly withtraditional currency and pay for goods and services anywhere with our Convertible Debit Card.ZumoPay is a safe and easy way for brands to accept payments in crypto currency, with lower transaction fees than traditional payment solutions.ZumoKit is our Wallet as a Service, Software Development Kit (SDK), giving you the ability to setup and manage your own cryptocurrency payments infrastructure.
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.

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.

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.

Tim Chen

Investment focus

Gaming, Retail, Sports
Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NI0 — NIO mission is to through hard work and healthful choices, you can overcome the distractions of the daily grind and outperform the competition. NIO Training is the next level wellness sports tape system that moves beyond prevention and elevates athletic achievement and nutrition.
Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.

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

Rise Art — Discover, own and collect contemporary art from exciting artists from around the world. Explore our online art gallery with artwork for sale that has been expertly vetted by our curators. Buy or rent art online with confidence with free art advisory.
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.
Urban Roosters — Urban Roosters is the original rap streaming platform. The RAP unlike other types of music, has always had a competitive spirit. What they do in Urban Roosters is to bring this competitions to internet, letting our users compete with rappers all over the world, trespassing the physical as an entertainment platform for the rap lovers.

James Hilton is the Founder & Global CEO at M&C Saatchi Performance. He previously worked at Weight Watchers Online as Marketing Director.

Investment focus

Apps, App Marketing, Business Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

OpenWeb — It's time to save online conversations
Appsumer — Grow app advertising revenue with cross-channel optimization. Get actionable insights from our UA-focused platform.
Swytch — Work mobile numbers on personal phones. Swytch offers businesses the ability to provide work mobile numbers on their team’s personal phone. Everyone can now use multiple mobile numbers from one device. Visit our website: www.swytch.com

Ionut Ciobotaru

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, TV, Audio
Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Olyzon — Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors.
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.

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.
Mood Bears — Mood Bears provides comfort, connection, and care through designed bears, each symbolizing an emotion or mood to promote mental health.
Tiny Explorers — Discover Tiny Explorers' eco-friendly baby equipment rental across the UK Convenient, sustainable & hassle-free solutions for busy families!

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.

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.

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

ToyFlix — Toyflix is a pioneering subscription-based toy rental platform transforming India’s US$2 billion toy industry by making premium.
LocationBit — it is a community-driven global location encyclopedia designed to tackle the fragmented and inaccessible nature of local knowledge in 2025.
Kyamaganda Community Development Organisation — it is a community-based nonprofit organization founded to restore hope and dignity among vulnerable children, youth, and families in Uganda.

Kevin Chong - Co-Founder & General Partner @ Outward VC

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Ometria — The customer data and experience platform for retail
OnePulse — Create effective online surveys for market research to help gather audience insights & make data-driven decisions with ease. Try our online survey tool today.
Autologyx — Autologyx combines powerful workflow automation with a simple, intuitive workspace so you can deliver and automate legal and compliance work.

An investor, engineer and entrepreneur.Ben is a Managing Director at Coral Reef. He works with and invests in tech entrepreneurs, startups and growth companies. He also works on a number of social impact and art projects such as TradeRelief, Root Matter and Exhibition Collective. Prior to this Ben held investment director roles at 3i Group plcand Barclays Private Equity where he managed investments, exits and sat on the board of 10 companies. In 2008 Ben helped set up and now manages TradeRelief - a charity investing in social enterprises in developing countries.Ben holds a 1st class Masters in Engineering Science from Oxford University, an Investment Management Certificate from the CFA, and obtained a Chartered Accountancy qualification from ICAS

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, Casual Games
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vidsy — Vidsy is the creative technology platform that helps global brands and agencies create high-performing video ads. Connect with our global network of creators and streamline your content creation process.
Fliplet — Create custom apps using Fliplet's app editor. Chances are Fliplet has already built 90% of your app. Features include no-code / low-code CMS, mobile/desktop/tablet support, data management, security, analytics and more.
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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