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Top 50 Music Angel Investors in United Kingdom in July 2025

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Music startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Music companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Music Angel Investors in United Kingdom in July 2025

Investor Music United Kingdom investments
Andrew Scott 3
Andrew Gault 3
Peter Gabriel 3
Matt Jellicoe 2
Colin McInnes 2
John Taysom 2
John Michaelis 2
Peter Bartlett 2
David Cummings 2
Lorenz Bogaert 2
Yasin Sebastian Qureshi 2
Stefan Glänzer 2
Alexander Armstrong 1
Joi Ito 1
Sir Hossein Yassaie 1
Richard Flint 1
Chris Meehan 1
Aman Bhangu 1
Jimmy Napes 1
Simon Murdoch 1
Sam Enrico Williams 1
Oleg Malskyy 1
Brett Akker 1
Toby Brzoznowski 1
Gavin Wood 1
Faruk Eczacıbaşı 1
Charlie Songhurst 1
Duncan Jennings 1
Arnaud Massenet 1
Andreas Mihalovits 1
Mehmet Ecevit 1
Andy McLoughlin 1
Nigel Wray 1
Eric Archambeau 1
Oli Farago 1
Mark Gretton 1
Daniel Isenberg 1
Andy Phillipps 1
Nikhil Shah 1
Mick Hagen 1
Robert Swann 1
Jorg Mohaupt 1
Karen Chiftalaryan 1
Syed Sheharyar Ali 1
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan 1
Adam Clayton 1
Nick Mason 1
Bernard Kantor 1
Mustafa Suleyman 1
Roger Taylor 1
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Andrew Scott Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Andrew J Scott, Founding Partner – based in London & San Francisco. 20 years in technology, founder of 6 startups; investor since 2014.As founder launched the world’s first location based social network (Playtxt 2001; patented), online digital news archive (BritishPathe.com, 2002), trust graph/recommendation engine using machine learning(Rummble, 2007; patented). In-between did strategy consulting for VCs and Corporates including Astra Zeneca, AT&T and Alcatel Lucent.Andrew is also co-founder of ICE, a non-profit global network of tech founders and investors, established in 2009.Specialisms include: D2C, social & market networks, B2B SaaS and quantum computing.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Juggle Jobs — We help professionals work flexibly
  • Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.
  • Biological Black Box — A groundbreaking new field of science using real neurons for computing. Train the most complex AI models better, faster, and cheaper using 500 million years of biology.
Andrew Gault Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Andrew Gault is tech startup founder with 20 years in technology; investor since 2012Ex-CTO with 14 patents issued & 28 filed. Started life at the European Space Agency, then co-founded GAIKAI in 2008 raising $45m from Benchmark, NEA and Intel; exiting to Sony for $380m. A Scotsman living on the West Coast since 2008, Andrew has an extensiveSilicon Valley network.Specialisms include: AR/VR, robotics, video tech/computer imaging and gaming.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Augmented Reality
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Juggle Jobs — We help professionals work flexibly
  • Banked — A Banking Platform for Young People that engenders healthy financial habits and rewards healthy activity.All built around a contactless payment and activity tracking smartwatch.Financial Institutions coupled with Wearable Devices “should” own the Internet of Things, .yet they are too large, unwieldy and slow moving to capitalise on thisadvantage. Banked will be the key indexer of the user in a network of connected things.
  • Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.
Peter Gabriel Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Peter is clearly way more than a global music legend. He divides his time and energy between his music, humanitarian projects, business investments and his family.He became an investor and advisor to The Filter in 2006 and brings with him a clear vision of a need for smart filters to help us make sense of a world with too many choices. Workingwith Peter is inspiring – his passion and creativity help drive and motivate the team.
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Investment focus
  • Music, TV, Supply Chain Management
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Belgium, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Tumelo — Tumelo is an impact-focused financial technology firm. Our mission is to enable retail investors and pension members to create and benefit from a more sustainable investment system. We do this by partnering with investment and pension providers, enabling them to provide their customers with transparency over the companies they own and ashareholder voice on issues they care about, such as gender equality or climate change. Our solution is white-label software delivered via APIs and/or a user dashboard. Our software integrates with existing investment platforms improving customer engagement, acquisition and retention for providers.
  • Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
  • Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
Matt Jellicoe Angel
Matt Jellicoe
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Digital Media
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
Colin McInnes Angel
Colin McInnes
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Digital Media
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
John Taysom Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
John Taysom started the Reuters Venture Capital Fund in Palo Alto in 1995 making 82 investments in internet and web infrastructure and services including Verisign, UltraDNS, Digimarc, ZeroKnowledge and Intertrust. He was a member of the Board of Digimarc pre and post its Nasdaq IPO, a Board member at Intertrust and a Board member at TIBCO throughits Nasdaq IPO. To date, seventeen of his investments have achieved an IPO.John acquired the Fund in an MBO in 2002. Now London-based with a seed portfolio of thirty US and UK start-ups; one has achieved an IPO and several have been acquired by Experian, Linkedin, Tesco, BMC and others.In 2011 and 2012 John took a Fellowship at Harvard to work on privacy issues and holds EU and US patents on a method of improving privacy online. For 2015 John is a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy and a Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, at UCL. He is a member of the Board of the Web Science Trust; chairs Performance Horizon, a fast growing UK startup; is a Governor at Hurstpierpoint College; and runs a small farm in Devon.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • LGN — LGN's edge AI management software puts you in complete technical and financial control of your edge AI systems.
  • Tenyks — Tenyks gives Computer Vision Engineers the insights to build more reliable models faster! Collaborate to identify and fix dataset issues. Improve data quality. Boost model performance. No more wondering in the dark.
  • Worldr — Valarian | Innovating for the new era of digital sovereignty
John Michaelis Angel
John Michaelis
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Digital Media
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
Peter Bartlett Angel
Peter Bartlett
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Digital Media
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
David Cummings Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
David has worked for IMI Plc, Lazard and KPMG.His early career at IMI Titanium was as a research and development metallurgist developing superconductors and titanium alloys. From 1986-2002, David worked at Lazard, where he became a Partner and the Managing Director running the TMT group in London. While there he gained a wide variety ofexperience in Corporate Finance, M&A, debt restructuring and equity capital markets based on over a decade of transactions in the TMT sectors. From 2004-2011, David was a Senior Director of KPMG Corporate Finance focusing on Business development and relationship building with medium to large corporations in the Telecom and Technology sectors.David is an active investor in early stage private technology companies and is a member of Cambridge Angels. His current portfolio consisting of 14 companies includes: Truphone , We7 , Grapeshot, Trigger (WebMynd), Ionscope, Centrix and Arachnys.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Internet, Software
  • Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Hadean — Synthetic Environments that provide cutting edge training, real-time situational understanding and predictive intelligence for Governments, National Security and Commercial Enterprises
  • Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.
  • Focal Point Positioning — Next-gen positioning software for automotive, wearables and smartphones. Enhanced accuracy, integrity and sensitivity for GNSS receivers.
Lorenz Bogaert Angel · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo).
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Belgium, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • FixForm — At FixForm, we aim to keep spaces and buildings in good, safe and clean condition. Our platform allows everybody to report problems with just the snap of a picture. Simplify your maintenance today and become part of the FixForm community.
  • Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
  • Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
Yasin Sebastian Qureshi Angel
Yasin Sebastian Qureshi is the Co-Founder of KlickOwn and the Founder and former CEO of Varengold Bank. At the age of 29 he was the youngest person ever in Germany to obtain a license to run an investment bank. He is also the founder and former CEO of The NAGA Group AG www.naga.com as well as the founder of AQUA Digital Rising www.aquarising.com.He is an entrepreneur, investor and film producer born in Germany and based in London. His investments range from finance, to Internet and media.
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Haglit — The first artificial intelligence-powered sales assistant for Ecommerce
  • Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
Stefan Glänzer Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • HEY HOLY — We’re transforming pet care — with a breed-specific health concept instead of one-size-fits-all, with longevity at its core
  • Arthos — Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries.
  • ClickClickDrive — ClickClickDrive is a developer of a search engine designed for users to find driving schools.The company's platform helps users to find information on different driving schools, find evaluations/recommendations published by driving students and also offers an easy-to-use theory application to help them prepare for the exam, enabling usersto choose the best driving school for them.
Alexander Armstrong Angel
Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong is a comedian actor.
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Investment focus
  • TV, DRM, Apps
  • Funding Round
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ROXi — British music streaming company Magic Media Works Limited (trading as ROXi) is backed by Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams, bringing friends and family together to enjoy free unlimited music video streaming, exclusive music video channels, karaoke, music games and more. ROXi’s free TV Music App is available from launch on Sky Q, Fire TV, Android TVand Google TV including compatible Sony Bravia, Panasonic, Philips, Toshiba, TCL, HiSense and Shield Smart TVs and set-top boxes with Samsung TV and others coming soon. ROXi is also available as a Console with Microphone Controller for use with any TV. ROXi is backed by all the major and leading independent record labels with all the original music videos and over 70 million music releases.
Joi Ito Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
  • Butlr — Butlr protects people's health and well-being during the coronavirus pandemic with a low-cost thermal imaging system that captures people’s behavior in indoor and outdoor environments. Butlr’s proprietary hardware pairs with advanced AI to gain insight into people’s movements in physical space, providing actionable intelligence to assistedliving, homes, and public spaces, all while safeguarding privacy. Butlr is a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab. Butlr’s sensor network captures human dynamics through state-of-art sensory monitoring and AI, understanding users’ needs to achieve a seamless automation experience, preventing risk, and monitoring health. Responsive architecture is a vision of a future where the built environment is as customizable as a streaming music podcast, based on simple, intelligent architectural objects. The natural world is in a constant state of flux; combinations of moisture, breeze and temperature change continuously. When we are inside our buildings, however, our environment loses its dynamism, and we’re forced to constantly tweak the conditions to achieve optimal comfort. Responsive architecture uses intelligent objects to mirror the processes of the natural world, creating environments and “microclimates” that are suited to individuals or small groups based on the heat signature of their bodies. Today the team at Butlr uses small, low-cost sensors to track the motions and body heat of Each person has a biometric heat signature as unique as a fingerprint. The Butlr sensors recognize an individual’s heat signature, and can modify room temperature and lighting for ideal comfort. Unlike cameras that track and record faces, the Butlr system relies on a heat signature, which is unique, but cannot be used to trace your identity. Starting from home applications, the future vision for responsive architecture is to empower cities with networks of heat sensors that can make cities responsive, predicting and responding to vehicle flows, pedestrian density, and weather conditions on the fly. Using thermal data provides many news layers of interaction not possible with cameras.
  • Shibuya — Shibuya is a platform for creators and studios of web-3 content.
Sir Hossein Yassaie Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Sir Hossein Yassaie
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, EdTech
  • Series A
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Yoto — Yoto Player plays audiobook stories, music, activities, sound effects, radio and podcasts for children. A safe and secure way for children to explore amazing audio with kids in control. Welcome to Audiotime.
Richard Flint Angel
Richard Flint
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Investment focus
  • Events, Mobile, Ticketing
  • Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • SonicJobs — Apply to your dream position with just one click, with the magic of AI. Sign up with SonicJobs today!
  • GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.
  • Seat Unique — Seat Unique is an online marketplace to buy official hospitality packages and VIP tickets to live sports, music, and cultural events.
Chris Meehan Angel
Chris Meehan joined Sentric Music as Founder & CEO in 2005.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.
Aman Bhangu Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Aman Bhangu is the Founder, Entrepreneur and CEO of Trendy Beat Network. He previously worked at Elance-oDesk as a Web Developer.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Advertising, Digital Media
  • Angel
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Trendy Beat Network — We offer digital music aggregation services including distribution, publishing, licensing to over 200K global clients.
Jimmy Napes Angel
Jimmy Napes
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Investment focus
  • Music, Software, Machine Learning
  • Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Bronze — Bronze is a unique, music technology which allows users to use AI as a tool for creation. Bronze can create fluid, performative and contextualised versions of songs which are playable in all the same environments as current music. Bronze adapts and augments audio beyond the studio and is better suited to applications like AR, VR, short form socialmedia and gaming than “static” music.Bronze is already being used by some of the world’s most influential artists; Sigur Rós created their “Route One” album (10 million streams) using Bronze, highly influential artist/producer Jai Paul (Drake, Beyonce) created an ever-changing, infinite version of “Jasmine” https://jaipaul.bronze.ai/ and Philippe Parreno opened the lobby at Museum of Modern Art in NYC with 3-year installation powered by Bronze. In December 2020 Arca (Kanye West, Bjork, Frank Ocean) released 100 unique Bronze-generated versions of her song “Riquiquí” onto all Digital Streaming Platforms. We also just worked with Microsoft on the Xbox X launch, we have a live project with Google and approaches for the automatic generation of short-form audio have been made by Samsung and Tik Tok.We previously raised £300K seed funding to build the prototype, we’re now raising a further £300K at a £3.5M valuation to finish the C++ software and make Bronze available for anyone to use. £100K is pledged, the opportunity is for £200K remaining for 5.351% of the Company
Simon Murdoch Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Analytics
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Sylvi — Sylvi.ai is an AI-powered language learning platform designed to help users achieve fluency through natural, conversational practice.
  • Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
  • Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.
Sam Enrico Williams Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr. Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
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Oleg Malskyy Angel · Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
Oleg Malskyy
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Investment focus
  • Music, Events, Music Streaming
  • Angel
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Show4me — Show4me Music Interaction Network is an all-in-one system for DIY musicians, artists signed to labels and their fans as well as for record labels, concert promoters and other music industry professionals. The network gives essential tools for direct artist and fan interaction and music monetization, such as: • Annual subscription• Concertcrowdfunding • Music crowdfunding• Music sales All tools are combined on a single music-related network to give artists a decent reward and genuine appreciation for their art. The annual subscription model itself opens space for artists to make up to 300 times higher income compared to music streaming. And by applying a powerful combination of all toolkits, musicians can organize concerts and shows, sell music without financial risks and losses as well as build and manage successful music careers; fans can take part in the creative process of music creation of their favorite artists; and record labels and concert promoters can use Show4me to promote their artists. Show4me is the project of the UK-based company Wefuture Ltd. It has started and operated since 2015 as a concert crowdfunding platform until the board has decided to expand it into a complete music interaction network to open broader opportunities for the musicians. The goal of Show4me is to level the playing field for musicians and give the opportunity to get a fair reward for their art by building a close relationship with their fans through Show4me direct interaction model. With Show4me, every artist gets equal chances to get noticed, gain fame and recognition and make a true life-long living as a full-time musician.
Brett Akker Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Brett Akker is a Non-Executive Director at Much Better Adventures.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Fy! — Fy is an e-commerce company that builds a mobile marketplace to shop online. It uses a combination of social content, machine learning, and a deep understanding of its products and suppliers to create a personalized experience for each shopper using the site and app. Fy was launched in 2017 driven by a mission to make the world of designdiscoverable, affordable, and instantly accessible through social commerce.
  • Chargifi — Chargifi empowers synchronous work, orchestrating people and spaces to get the best work done, wherever, whenever and with whoever they choose. We enable the realtime and dynamic orchestration of people and spaces so companies can adopt flexible working at scale. Where, when and who work is done with is now fully intentional, and this is at theheart of workplace experience.
  • Much Better Adventures — Do wild things! Join 200+ solo-friendly, expert-led, outdoor adventures with Much Better Adventures.
Toby Brzoznowski Angel · Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Toby is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of LLamasoft. Over the last decade, he has helped bring supply chain design into the corporate mainstream as a key business process and competitive weapon, and has positioned LLamasoft as the leading global supply chain design technology provider. Toby is a frequent presenter and panelist atsupply chain and logistics leadership forums, has been named a ‘Pro to Know’ and has authored dozens of articles on the growing importance of supply chain design as a key competitive weapon. Toby has over 20 years of experience in building and growing technology businesses, primarily focused on process improvement and analytics. His expertise has been used to launch new technologies into mainstream use at global Fortune 500 businesses. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
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Investment focus
  • Enterprise Software, SaaS, Audio
  • Series A, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • BitLyft — We help you maintain visibility and remediate threats to give you the preemptive advantage and confidence to solve IT's toughest cybersecurity challenges.
  • ClimateAI — Build climate resilience with accurate insights and actionable recommendations that will give you a competitive edge.
  • IRIS Audio Technologies — IRIS Listen Well is bringing back living sound and enabling the world to Listen Well.
Gavin Wood Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Gavin Wood was the Chief Technology Officer and co-­founder of the Ethereum Project. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol, author of its formal specification, and is the creator and author of the first functional Ethereum implementation. Gavin Wood designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, anddesigned and implemented the Whisper protocol. He has pushed “state-of­-the-art” in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co­-founded several technology start­ups.Gavin Wood has presented to numerous audiences around the world, from keynotes at regional technology conferences, to musings on the future of legal systems at Harvard. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York. His new initiative is the Polkadot protocol, which will connect public and private blockchains so that they can inter-operate. This ambitious project could make it frictionless for corporations that wish to work in private blockchains to connect with public blockchains.Gavin is founder and current director of Parity Technologies Ltd. He has pushed the state­-of­-the-­art in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-­founded several technology start­ups, including Grid Singularity and Ethereum. He is the co-­designer of the Ethereum Protocol and author of its formal specification, he created and wrote the first functional Ethereum implementation, designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Blockchain, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
  • Redpill AI — Redpill's objective is to make the best AI resources accessible to everyone. The platform functions as a permissionless LLM router network, providing seamless integration across several AI models.
  • Minimize Influence — Social Marketing
Faruk Eczacıbaşı Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Faruk Eczacıbaşı - Deputy Vice President of Eczacıbaşı @ KWORKS Koç University Entrepreneurship Research Center
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Investment focus
  • iOS, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Deplike — Everyone can make music!
  • Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
  • Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.
Charlie Songhurst Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • FlyMy.AI — Real-time AI cloud
  • Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
  • Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice
Duncan Jennings Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Duncan Jennings is the Investor and Board Member at Motorway.
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Investment focus
  • Marketplace, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Motorway — With so many ways to sell your car, it can be overwhelming. At Motorway, we’re focused on building the best way. Our vision is to build a better car market for everyone.Transparent and straightforward in all that we do, our smart technology matches our customers’ cars with a nationwide network of verified dealers.This enables those dealers tobuy vehicles direct from private sellers using our fully-online sales platform, with hundreds of cars successfully sold every day.Reducing time and effort on all sides, we help everyone get the right deal quickly. It all, just, works.In our first 4 years, we've helped over 2.5 million car owners value and sell their car. We've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun.
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Arnaud Massenet Angel
Arnaud Massenet
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Investment focus
  • B2B, Brand Marketing, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • FROW — Made in London, we’re on a mission to change the way music creators and their communities connect through unique experiences and monetisation of content. Unrestricted in genre, FROW is an independent live streaming platform for innovative music. We are blurring the lines between music, live events and technology.
  • Olvin — Olvin helps reactive real-world businesses get ahead of the curve and become proactive through the use of its AI powered, predictive analytics platform. Harnessing billions of real world data points, from events and precise location, through to weather and points of interest, Olvin's advanced neural network identifies patterns. Through theuse of both probabilistic and deterministic scoring, Olvin's AI provides actionable insights to brands, retailers and businesses to give them an unparalleled opportunity to delight their customers, identify opportunities and get ahead of potential threats.
  • Dai — Eco-friendly performance fabrics meet elegant tailoring and timeless design. "Versatile, luxe workwear and sustainability at its core" - The Independent. Dai is performance womenswear for women, everyday, everywhere.
Andreas Mihalovits Angel · Marbella, Andalucia, Spain · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Seidat — Seidat is an online presentation application for sales teams. Get better sales flow, enhance your co-operation concept and make every meeting a success.
  • Skarbe — AI-powered sales assistant for non-salespeople. Skarbe captures every email and meeting, suggests what to do next, and keeps deals on track.
  • Drimer Creators — Drimer gives creators the opportunity to build and grow their revenues. Creators can take advantage of a set of tools created to increase revenues and create a brand.
Mehmet Ecevit Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Mehmet E. is the Co-founder & CEO at Layer.
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Investment focus
  • iOS, Music, Mobile
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Deplike — Everyone can make music!
Andy McLoughlin Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Andy McLoughlin OBE is a Managing Partner at Uncork Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • TipTop — TipTop is a crypto startup.
  • Revel — Revel is a community where women build meaningful connections, accelerate personal growth, and have candid conversations with the support of like-minded women.
  • Wander — Book luxury vacation home rentals with inspiring views, hotel-grade amenities, modern workstations, top-tier cleaning and 24/7 concierge service.
Nigel Wray Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino's Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors.Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community.Nigel still calls the area home, too - having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Get A Drip — Get A Drip offers IV drips, booster shots and Longevity therapies. IV Drips are administered by medical staff, GMC registered Doctors and NMC registered Nurses.
  • Stubben Edge — We make it easy for anyone from a broker to a retailer to access the best products, earn better commissions, and grow their businesses.
  • Tonic Health — Tonic Health is leading a nutrition movement. The 1 million strong community that subscribes to all-natural, high-impact vitamin drinks and gummies to fuel your energy, mood and immunity without the junk. Try our tonic effervescent vitamins drinks, no added sugar gummies, or max strength drinks.
Eric Archambeau Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Eric Archambeau is a Senior Advisor at technology companies. Eric joined Wellington as a General Partner in early 2005 focusing on Digital Media, Software, Cleantech and Electronics.From 2000 to 2002, he was at Benchmark Capital where he lead and co-lead a number of deals including Betfair, Orchestria, Xignal and Activiti (now Alfresco), as well as pioneering an active Entrepreneur in Residence programme in London. Eric joined Benchmark from Atlas Venture where, in Silicon Valley, he worked with companies including Tsqware (acquired by Globespan) and Obongo (acquired by AOL).Before 1999, Eric was a serial entrepreneur. First in 1993, as co-founder and CEO of RightPoint, a provider of marketing automation enterprise software (acquired by e.piphany), then, in 1998, as founding CEO of Trading Dynamics (acquired by Ariba). Eric was also a founding board member of eGroups, acquired by Yahoo! in 2000. In the 1980s he worked in the semiconductor and EDA industry in Silicon Valley, most notably with VLSI Technology Inc.Eric is one of the founders of Social-Impact, a professional development programme helping social entrepreneurs worldwide to increase their social impact and reach their full potential. He also lectured at INSEAD where he founded the Social Entrepreneurship department.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Music
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, France, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
  • Stockeld Dreamery — We set off with a first vision: to create a cheese that is superior in taste and nutrition, constantly striving to use our planet’s resources wisely, accessible to all yet one of the top preferred cheeses by chefs and restaurants. Simply put, the world’s most ambitious cheese.
  • SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
Oli Farago Angel
Oli Farago Founder & CEO at Coyote Software. He attended Culford School during 1996-2002.
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Investment focus
  • Real Estate, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Maroo — The smartest way to pay for your wedding
  • HyperionDev — Accelerate your career with a online coding bootcamp. Learn to code in just 3 - 6 months.
  • The Smart Container Company — The Smart Container Company is the team behind KegTracker and BeverEDGE, a first-to-market IoT device and platform that instantly turns kegs into SMART containers. Our technology tracks real-time location, volume, temperature, and motion for each keg and delivers actionable insights that enable transparency and zero.
Mark Gretton Angel
Mark Gretton
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Investment focus
  • TV, Electronics, Intellectual Property
  • Series A, Series B, Series E
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • mParticle — mParticle by Rokt is the choice for multi-channel consumer brands who want to deliver intelligent and adaptive customer experiences in the moments that matter, across any screen or device.
  • ROXi — British music streaming company Magic Media Works Limited (trading as ROXi) is backed by Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams, bringing friends and family together to enjoy free unlimited music video streaming, exclusive music video channels, karaoke, music games and more. ROXi’s free TV Music App is available from launch on Sky Q, Fire TV, Android TVand Google TV including compatible Sony Bravia, Panasonic, Philips, Toshiba, TCL, HiSense and Shield Smart TVs and set-top boxes with Samsung TV and others coming soon. ROXi is also available as a Console with Microphone Controller for use with any TV. ROXi is backed by all the major and leading independent record labels with all the original music videos and over 70 million music releases.
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Daniel Isenberg Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dan Isenberg (@danisen) is founding executive director of the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project, Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School. From 1981-7 and 2005-9 Dan was a professor at the Harvard Business School, and in the interim (1987-2005) was an entrepreneur and venturecapitalist in Israel. Dan authored Worthless Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value(Harvard Business Review Press 2013), published over 30 online and print articles on entrepreneurship in the Harvard Business Review, and has been featured in the Economist, Forbes, NPR, Bloomberg, Quartz, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, etc. Dan has been a pioneer in the concept and development of entrepreneurship ecosystems, and he launched and directs Manizales-Mas and Scale Up Milwaukee. Between 2009-2013 Dan was active in the World Economic Forum and conducted Forum events in Davos, Africa, Europe, and China. In 2012 Mikhail Gorbachev awarded Dan the Pio Manzu Award for "Innovations in Economic Development." At Babson Executive Education, Dan created and directs the 3-day program, Driving Economic Growth Through Entrepreneurship Ecosystems. He holds the Ph.D. degree in social psychology from Harvard University, received under the mentorship of Robert Freed Bales. He lives in Boston and in his home town of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and has 4 grown children. Dan enjoys salsa dancing (On2), jazz, collecting wine, and not-catching-fish (at which he excels); nevertheless, he is most excited about spending time with his kids (one of whom is an entrepreneur) and his granddaughter, helping his angel investments grow, and being continually surprised by what entrepreneurs around the world can accomplish. Dan is currently publishing two books of children's stories.
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Retail
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
  • Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
  • Sunbit — Hear the stories of customers and merchants Sunbit has helped with its pay-over-time technology for everyday needs.
  • Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI
Andy Phillipps Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Travel, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Finland, Germany
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.
  • Layla — The world's best ai travel planner, now in your pocket. Plan tailored itineraries, find epic road trips, book flights & hotels. Previously Roam Around.
  • Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.
Nikhil Shah Angel · Harrow, Harrow, United Kingdom
I am a creative, tech and social impact entrepreneur.I am Cofounder of Mixcloud -- the global community for audio culture -- where I worked with an amazing team of people to grow the company from a couple of guys in a warehouse in NW London to the world's biggest community of DJs and music curators, reaching 20 million people a month.It's been an exciting ride and I've learned a lot about building teams, products, communities/users, partnerships and business models. We continue to remain focused on building the world's leading sustainable and fair ecosystem for audio creators.I am now a board advisor to Mixcloud and an angel investor/advisor in a number of tech and consumer businesses. I am also advising and supporting charities and social impact projects, including being a trustee for the brilliant dance charity East London Dance, and an advisor to the great empowerment and anti racism organisation You Make It. I also enjoy DJing and I run an electronic music record label/clubnight MakeMusic.
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Investment focus
  • Art, Music, Coworking
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Field — Field is a renewable energy company aiming to accelerate the build-out of renewable infrastructure needed to reach net zero.
  • SPOKE — Music and lyricism-led mindfulness, aimed at helping the world's most creative minds feel at ease.
  • Virmati Energy — Virmati Energy is a Renewables & Environment Company.
Mick Hagen Angel
Mick Hagen is the Founder and Chairman of Hifi Finance. He previously worked at Cluster Capital as the Founder. He attended Princeton University.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Information Services
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Weav — Weav Music is a Brooklyn-based company that has created a new format that relies on two pieces of software - Weav Mixer for creating tracks and Weav Player that can be embedded in any third party app.
  • MyCrypto — Securely manage ALL of your crypto accounts with MyCrypto. Swap, send, and buy crypto with your favorite wallets like Ledger, Metamask, and Trezor.
  • Origin — Origin is a fully front to back electronic issuance platform for the global debt capital markets, bringing together dealers, issuers, and market infrastructure institutions from around the world.
Robert Swann Angel
Robert is an entrepreneur specialising in early stage technology companies.He is the Chairman of Audio Analytic Ltd, and a board member of Undo Software Ltd,Knowledge Transmission Ltd, Myrtle Software and Movidius Ltd. Robert is also a board member of the Cambridge Angels and the Greater Cambridgeshire and Greater Peterborough LocalEnterprise Partnership (GCGP LEP).Robert was one of the two co-founders of innovative Cambridge semiconductor company Alphamosaic (acquired by Broadcom) and Executive Chairman of Green Parrot Pictures Ltd (acquired by Google in 2011).Robert graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in Electrical and Information Sciences and gained a PhD in video processing at Cambridge University Engineering Department. He has also published more than 15 patents. He lives in Cambridge.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Myrtle Software — Our expertise in compressing recurrent neural networks allows us to do more at the edge today. Re-configurable to future-proof your designs for whatever AI may come tomorrow.
  • Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.
Jorg Mohaupt Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Jörg was appointed to the Board when Access Industries acquired the Company in 2007. Jörg is responsible for the media/online and telecom businesses at Access Industries, which he joined in May 2007. He was previously a Managing Director of Providence Equity Partners. Jörg has been active in the media and communications space since 1992. Hehas, as an investor, been involved with several businesses dealing with sports rights (RGE Group, Digiturk), internet services (Bibit NV, Adyen, Speedera Networks) and content delivery (Casema NV, Comhem AB). Jörg’s current board positions include Tory Burch LLC, Rebate Networks GmbH, AINMT Holdings AB, RGE Group Limited, Icon UK Distribution Holdings Limited and Mendeley Research Networks. Prior board positions include Digiturk, Casema NV, Comhem AB, Bibit BV, VersaTel Telecom NV and Speedera Networks Inc.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Mobile Apps, Art
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Penfold — Our flexible, simple and powerful pension is designed to get you to your saving goals and stay with you for life, whichever direction it takes you.
  • Tracklib — Tracklib is the only service where anyone can legally clear samples from real music. From Isaac Hayes to Mozart, we got it.
  • Aura - Museum Genius — MEET AURA - THE MUSEUM GENIUS With Aura, you can explore Britain's leading museums and galleries, design your own journey, and listen to professionally produced audio stories of artworks and exhibits. THEMED ROUTES: For those with limited time You can personalise your way through the museums with cover with our themed routes. Whether you areshort on time, or you are interested in a specific theme, our themed routes will help find the must-see exhibits in your favourite museums. AUDIO STORIES WITH OFFLINE PLAYBACK We are partnering with high-profile museum curators, academics and skilled storytellers with distinct areas of expertise to create short and detailed audio stories of the must-see highlights of the museums. As Aura allows you to download audio content, you don't need an internet connection to listen during your visit. INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLANS Through our innovative technology, we provide interactive floor plans of the museums so you can enjoy your visit with time-efficiency, practicality, and ease. Simply search for a destination point and our indoor navigation system will help you get there easily. KEYPAD FOR EASY ACCESS If the museum is offering a traditional audio guide system, you will see signs next to exhibits with numbers on them. You can use our keypad at these museums. Simply use the keypad function to dial the number of the exhibit and we will take you directly to that exhibit's page on Aura.
Karen Chiftalaryan Angel · Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
CEO at SHOW4ME.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Events, Music Streaming
  • Angel
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Show4me — Show4me Music Interaction Network is an all-in-one system for DIY musicians, artists signed to labels and their fans as well as for record labels, concert promoters and other music industry professionals. The network gives essential tools for direct artist and fan interaction and music monetization, such as: • Annual subscription• Concertcrowdfunding • Music crowdfunding• Music sales All tools are combined on a single music-related network to give artists a decent reward and genuine appreciation for their art. The annual subscription model itself opens space for artists to make up to 300 times higher income compared to music streaming. And by applying a powerful combination of all toolkits, musicians can organize concerts and shows, sell music without financial risks and losses as well as build and manage successful music careers; fans can take part in the creative process of music creation of their favorite artists; and record labels and concert promoters can use Show4me to promote their artists. Show4me is the project of the UK-based company Wefuture Ltd. It has started and operated since 2015 as a concert crowdfunding platform until the board has decided to expand it into a complete music interaction network to open broader opportunities for the musicians. The goal of Show4me is to level the playing field for musicians and give the opportunity to get a fair reward for their art by building a close relationship with their fans through Show4me direct interaction model. With Show4me, every artist gets equal chances to get noticed, gain fame and recognition and make a true life-long living as a full-time musician.
Syed Sheharyar Ali Angel
Syed Sheharyar Ali, Executive Director and CSO at Treet Group Of Companies.
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Music, Travel
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Pakistan, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
  • YUGO.pk — Best travel company in Pakistan. Access guaranteed lowest prices on domestic and international flights, visa assistance, hotel booking, and 24x7 customer support.
  • Truckistan — Truckistan is developing a logistics platform to make shipping faster and cheaper. The company provides real-time tracking, a customer dashboard, account management, and guaranteed transit time, as well as SaaS tools for routing, vehicle loading, and RFID implementation throughout the supply chain.
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan Angel · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
A winner of the 2015 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for in the media category, Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of WatchMojo, one of the most successful producers of premium video content.The company's catalog of 10,000 videos on pop culture and infotainment and are seen 300 million times each monthby nearly 50 million consumers. With 7 billion all-time views and 13 million subscribers on YouTube, WatchMojo operates the tenth largest YouTube channel of all time. A finance graduate from one of the top colleges in the nation, Ashkan started his career as in-house finance analyst at one of the original meta-search engines on the Web, Mamma. From there he worked in the online publishing industry where he headed up advertising sales for AskMen. After its sale to News Corp., he launched WatchMojo, which to this day has never raised financing and is profitable since 2011.He left News Corp. and established Mojo Supreme in 2006 as an incubator which spawned multiple projects, including WatchMojo.com, which took off and today counts media companies and marketers as clients. A prolific writer, he has written thousands of articles on business, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, pop culture, travel and much more. His articles have been published on MSN, AOL, Yahoo!, MediaPost, PaidContent, GigaOm and Tech Crunch and he and has been quoted in Forbes, the BBC, Business Week, CNET, etc. He is the author of Course to Success: Everything You Need to Succeed Beyond School, The Confessions of Alexander the Great: 33 Lessons in Greatness, and the 10-Year Overnight Success: An Entrepreneur's Manifesto - How WatchMojo Built the Most Successful Media Brand on YouTube.He holds a degree in Commerce, lives in Montreal and is married with two children.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Music, Video
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • WALO — Meet WALO, the app and card that helps you teach your teens the value of money while easily managing allowances and tasks
  • Thrillz — Connect with celebrities via personalised video messages and live experiences in a few clicks.
Adam Clayton Angel
Adam Clayton is an Irish musician who is the bass guitarist of the rock band U2.
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Investment focus
  • TV, DRM, Apps
  • Funding Round
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ROXi — British music streaming company Magic Media Works Limited (trading as ROXi) is backed by Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams, bringing friends and family together to enjoy free unlimited music video streaming, exclusive music video channels, karaoke, music games and more. ROXi’s free TV Music App is available from launch on Sky Q, Fire TV, Android TVand Google TV including compatible Sony Bravia, Panasonic, Philips, Toshiba, TCL, HiSense and Shield Smart TVs and set-top boxes with Samsung TV and others coming soon. ROXi is also available as a Console with Microphone Controller for use with any TV. ROXi is backed by all the major and leading independent record labels with all the original music videos and over 70 million music releases.
Nick Mason Angel
Nicholas Berkeley Mason, CBE is an English drummer and founder member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Social Media, B2B
  • Series A, Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • LICKD — Music licensing for video Creators on YouTube & Facebook. Making music available for everyone to use, without compromise.
  • Lightful — Lightful helps nonprofits and charities develop the skills, tools and confidence to build trust and gain support online
  • Disciple — Bring your people, memberships, and content together in your own fully-branded and private community platform.
Bernard Kantor Angel
Bernard Kantor
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Investment focus
  • Art, Music, Coworking
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • The Qube — The Qube is a space, resource and network designed specifically for creatives by creatives – a home for inspired creators to prosper. Members share access to 30 purpose-built studios across music, podcast, video & photography. The Qube's 16,000 SQFT flagship West London site opened February 2020.
Mustafa Suleyman Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Mustafa Suleyman is a founder, venture investor and technology entrepreneur. As the CEO and co-founder of Inflection AI and a venture partner at Greylock Partners, Mustafa brings years of experience as an entrepreneur and expert in artificial intelligence. Prior to co-founding Inflection AI, he co-founded DeepMind, a leading AI company acquired byGoogle in 2014.Mustafa was the VP of AI Products & AI Policy at Google starting in 2019. He is a member of the Board of The Economist, a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and is a recipient of the annual Silicon Valley Visionary Award.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Anterior — Lead your plan into the future.
  • Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.
  • Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
Roger Taylor Angel · Palma, Islas Baleares, Spain
Roger Taylor is responsible for the growth and expansion throughout SMS's European region. Roger is committed to the strategic relationships with all of SMS's existing and prospective channel partners, ITO's, and long-standing direct clients. Under his leadership, Olympic Support (acquired by SMS in 2013) has become a leadingprovider of enterprise IT asset services in the UK and throughout the European region.Roger has more than 25 years of experience in the IT services industry. He founded Olympic Support in 1988 (at the age of 22), supplying Unix servers and enterprise storage solutions as a VAR for HP, HDS, Cisco, Fujitsu Siemens, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems and STK. His success has been a product of his ability to spot emerging technologies, understand market dynamics, and listen to clients' needs, while maintaining a long-term commitment to his operations.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Audio, Music
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • IRIS Audio Technologies — IRIS Listen Well is bringing back living sound and enabling the world to Listen Well.
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