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Top 50 Music Startup Investors in United Kingdom (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in United Kingdom Music startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Kingdom Music startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Ascension
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Internet $250k–$4.5M
Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
9 United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $39k–$10M
Mercuri
VC Fund
6 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning $225k–$20M
Hotspur Capital
VC Fund
6 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel Mobile, Software, Location Based Services $35k–$2.5M
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2.2M–$44M
SFC Capital
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $127k–$2M
Chris Barrett
Angel
4 United Kingdom Seed, Angel Apps, PaaS, Music $39k–$241k
Entrepreneurs First
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $55k–$30M
Russell Sheffield
Angel
4 United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Convertible Note Apps, PaaS, Music $191k–$241k
Playfair Capital
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $953k–$19M
John Taysom
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology $191k–$4.3M
Peter Gabriel
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Belgium, United States Seed, Series A Music, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.3M–$22M
Andrew Gault
Angel
3 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Virtual Reality $120k–$22M
Nikhil Shah
Angel
3 United Kingdom, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Music, Apps, Renewable Energy $1.1M–$14M
Index Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1.5M–$102M
WndrCo
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $2M–$100M
1745 Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising $1.3M–$30M
7percent Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $125k–$7M
GMG Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning $225k–$20M
Armilar Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 Portugal, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $520k–$17M
Hiventures
VC Fund
3 Hungary, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $18k–$2.9M
Andrew Scott
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $125k–$7M
The FSE Group
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Debt Financing Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $106k–$2.3M
Evolution Equity Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Cyber Security, Software, Security $2.5M–$75M
Abbey Road Studios
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, Japan, Finland Seed, Pre-Seed Music, Software, Audio $250k–$650k
Cambridge Innovation Capital
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $2.5M–$73M
Universal Music Group
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Thailand Seed, Series A Music, Media and Entertainment, Video $500k–$67M
LocalGlobe
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$30M
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $4.5M–$150M
Metaplanet
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Estonia Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care $2.5M–$62M
Lorenz Bogaert
Angel
2 Belgium, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $120k–$5.7M
Colin McInnes
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Audio, Music, Digital Media
Matt Jellicoe
Angel
2 United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed Audio, Music, InsurTech
ESRG Investments
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom Seed Music, Video, Gaming $65k–$458k
Emma Blackburn
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Audio, Music
Tom Adeyoola
Angel
2 United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed Apps, Audio, Music $133k–$1.4M
Marla Shapiro
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Audio, Music
Edward Zimmerman
Angel
2 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Mobile, FinTech, E-Commerce $93k–$9.3M
Creative England
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, SaaS, Mobile $40k–$897k
a16z Scout Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $250k–$8.5M
Toby Moore
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Apps, SaaS $472k–$1.5M
JamJar Investments
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage $1.2M–$20M
Stefan Glänzer
Angel
2 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Social Media $197k–$16M
Emerge VC
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Education, EdTech, Software $33k–$22M
Velocity Capital Advisors
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, FinTech, Software $54k–$9.3M
Warner Music Group
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Corporate Round, Pre-Seed Music, Digital Entertainment, Software $30k–$11M
Robert Swann
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Music, Internet, Software
Sky UK
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series B, Series A Software, Digital Media, TV $6.8M–$90M
Sands Capital Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Series B, Series A, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $6M–$220M
David Cummings
Angel
2 United Kingdom Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A Music, Internet, Software
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Ascension
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 313
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $261k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $21M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases
  • Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
  • Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund · Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom · 9 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 215
  • Round size: Seed $39k–$2.1M; Series A $295k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $208k–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • H2CHP — H2CHP's Free Piston Engine Technology enables your transition to green energy with the reliability & confidence of fuel flexibility.
  • NunaBio — NunaBio operates as a privately-owned specialist DNA development company. NunaBio engaged in CRO (Contract Research Organizations) and CDMO (Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation) activities.
  • Advanced Electric Machines — Our magnet free motors help manufacturers build more sustainable vehicles and products. See how we can help you today.
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Mercuri
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Mercuri is a London VC fund backing pre-seed and seed media technology and AI startups. Investors in Hugging Face, Fluidstack and Faculty AI

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $878k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $225k–$4M; Series A $4.8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $64M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Mozart AI — 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.
  • Electric Twin — Ask your audience anything and get research-grade answers in seconds. Electric Twin builds synthetic audiences from your customer data. Up to 96% accurate, validated by LSE.
  • Made With Intent — Convert more customers by being more appropriate. Understand and target customer intent with the segmentation platform for data-led eCommerce teams.
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Hotspur Capital
VC Fund · 6 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Hotspur Capital is a financial organization.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$1.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $208k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Femeda — Femeda provides groundbreaking technology for the treatment of urinary incontinence for women worldwide. Get in touch today to find out more.
  • Screach — See Free Offer!No credit card/contract required!Live Sports Offers!See more info See more
  • Greengage Lighting — Greengage was founded in 2008 and is based on site at the Roslin Institute Edinburgh University. Their presence at the universities campus for veterinary studies, demonstrates their focus on delivering innovative and applicable technologies to the agricultural sector. They work for farmers improving the overall well-being and productivity of theirlivestock.
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 426
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$13M; Series A $3.3M–$22M; Series B $8M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
  • Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
  • Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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SFC Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Music startups, 56 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 725
  • Round size: Seed $127k–$2M; Pre-Seed $170k–$846k
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Keylr — Services partner for property managers. Book reliable, top-rated professionals for your properties with e-props.
  • Furbnow — Furbnow - Your companion for home improvements for the future
  • FlairMakers — FlairMakers provides a digital talent platform connecting hospitality businesses with vetted freelance professionals.
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Chris Barrett
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Chris Barrett

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, PaaS, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Angel $39k–$241k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trackd — Trackd® is the Award-Winning Social Music Universe uniting both Music Lovers and Artists around the world. Trackd allows artists to make recurring revenues from their music. Available on the App Store or Web.FOR THE MUSIC LOVER Enjoy totally free music – ad-free – music from a world of professional, independent and emerging Artists. CreatePlaylists, Like, Follow and engage socially with Artists like never before.FOR THE ARTISTS Calling all Musicians, Lyricists, DJ’s, Producers and Rappers from all genres worldwide – import, record, collaborate and share your musical ideas and lyrics anywhere - all from within one app.Trackd - Share the love of the global language.
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Entrepreneurs First
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

We turn exceptional individuals into funded founders. We back you first, then give you a bridge to Silicon Valley.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 447
  • Round size: Seed $567k–$6.7M; Pre-Seed $55k–$2.9M; Series A $5.1M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $133M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
  • EverSettled — Navigate the probate process with confidence. We provide a free checklist, guidance, and support to help families find clarity in the chaos of loss.
  • Peripheral Labs — Peripheral Labs provides technology for live media and spatial intelligence.
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Russell Sheffield
Angel · 4 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, PaaS, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Angel $191k–$241k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trackd — Trackd® is the Award-Winning Social Music Universe uniting both Music Lovers and Artists around the world. Trackd allows artists to make recurring revenues from their music. Available on the App Store or Web.FOR THE MUSIC LOVER Enjoy totally free music – ad-free – music from a world of professional, independent and emerging Artists. CreatePlaylists, Like, Follow and engage socially with Artists like never before.FOR THE ARTISTS Calling all Musicians, Lyricists, DJ’s, Producers and Rappers from all genres worldwide – import, record, collaborate and share your musical ideas and lyrics anywhere - all from within one app.Trackd - Share the love of the global language.
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Playfair Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Music startups, 12 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 153
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $953k–$3.1M; Series A $3M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Navifare — Navifare is an AI-powered travel price optimization and metasearch platform that focuses on flight, hotel, and car rental price comparison. The platform analyzes flight offers users already found and searches for lower fares from online travel agencies and airlines. Users can upload screenshots, paste flight details, or use a Chrome extension thatoverlays a “Find Better Fare” button on major booking sites. Navifare exposes its price discovery capabilities via a web app, a REST API, and an MCP server for integration into AI assistants. It redirects users to partner sites to complete bookings and does not handle payments directly.
  • Zerolook — Zerolook provides a flight-shopping API for online travel agencies, airlines, metasearch services, and AI travel applications. Its machine-learning model predicts flight prices and itineraries using historical fare data instead of recomputing every fare combination through a global distribution system or airline system. The API returns predicteditineraries, prices, and confidence scores for exploratory search, while customers route completed bookings through their existing distribution channels. Zerolook supports REST and MCP integrations and provides booking links to external airlines and online travel agencies.
  • Exclaim Robotics — Autonomous mobile robots for the AI data center.
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John Taysom
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.3M; Angel $191k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $196k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • Corintis — Corintis develops cooling technologies for high performance semiconductors.
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Peter Gabriel
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

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

  • Industry: Music, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Belgium, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$3.5M; Series A $5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

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.
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Andrew Gault
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$4.7M; Series A $10M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mindstone — Save content from anywhere, boost motivation, and learn in no time! Building better learning habits starts right here, with Mindstone.
  • Juggle Jobs — Find your dream remote job from the best companies in the UK, hand-picked by our trusted experts at WFH Jobs.
  • 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.
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Nikhil Shah
Angel · Harrow, Harrow, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

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

  • Industry: Music, Apps, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.4M; Series A $13M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
  • SPOKE — Music and lyricism-led mindfulness, aimed at helping the world's most creative minds feel at ease.
  • Wax Poetics — Rare memorabilia. Timeless stories. Since 2001.
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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1505
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $12M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $400M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Anrok — Anrok automates sales tax compliance across your financial stack, so you can grow your SaaS business in any market.
  • OpenX — OpenX has the largest independent ad exchange network for publishers and demand partners, while maintaining the highest quality marketplace standards. Learn more.
  • StorSimple — Learn how to migrate a StorSimple 8100 or 8600 appliance to Azure File Sync.
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WndrCo
VC Fund · Beverly Hills, California, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Founded in 2016 by Sujay Jaswa and Jeffrey Katzenberg, WndrCo is a holding company and multi-stage technology investment firm re-envisioning how people live and work. WndrCo invests in the future of work, consumer technology, cybersecurity, and developer infrastructure.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 212
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $8M–$66M; Series B $23M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $460M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Writer — WRITER is the enterprise AI agent platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies, built to help teams execute and scale on-brand, compliant work.
  • Genera — Genera is an autonomous AI platform that helps businesses plan, manage, and automate their operations. It provides tools for business planning, task tracking, content management, people management, connections, insights, and development.
  • Truthsystems — Truth Systems offers real-time compliance agents that prevent human error by embedding behavioral guardrails into AI interactions.
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1745 Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Part of media company Bertelsmann, BDMI initially invests $100k to $4m in seed and early stage digital media startups in online video, nextgen publishing and pubtech/adtech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 216
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Series A $3.2M–$20M; Series B $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $63M in 2006

Portfolio highlights

  • Mojiva — Mojiva Inc. is the parent company of the Mojiva, the mobile ad network and the Mocean Mobile, the mobile ad serving platform. It is led by a team of advertising and media veterans from Google, DoubleClick, Yahoo, Nokia and AdMob, with more than 100 years of collective experience in mobile marketing and technology.Mojiva, Inc. provides productsand solutions that not only fuel the mobile advertising marketplace by bringing mobile ad buyers together with mobile content sellers, but that also solve unique challenges in the mobile marketing space. Solutions include tools to market your products and services to mobile users, monetize your mobile content, enable your global ad sales team to capitalize on an expanded media mix, control your inventory, or mobilize the brands your agency is working with.
  • Sensity AI — Sensity AI thanks to an all-in-one approach can guarantee the best deepfake detection software capabilities currently available in the marketplace
  • Fractional AI — AI transformation. Powered by engineering excellence.
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7percent Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 203
  • Round size: Seed $405k–$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.
  • Vosbor — Vosbor is a digital grain & oilseed trading platform providing a spot and forward market to reconcile trade data & securely share documents.
  • Paddington Robotics — Paddington Robotics specializes in implementation of AI, robotics, software and hardware solutions in real life.
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GMG Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $225k–$2M; Series A $4.8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $57M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Chatterbox — A corporate language learning platform that uniquely offers active practice alongside algorithmically matched native language coaches who share their students' professional backgrounds and interests. On the app, engineers are learning Arabic from engineers and aid workers are learning French from medical doctors and achieving industry toppingcourse completion rates. Chatterbox language coaches are professionals who have become forcibly displaced and are currently undervalued in the labour market. Co-founded by a former refugee and Y Combinator alum, Chatterbox is backed by BGV, All Turtles and WeWork.
  • Papercup — Next-gen AI Dubbing service that automates video translation. Create new voices in other languages for your video content at scale and increase your ROI.
  • Signal AI — Explore Signal AI's reputation management and risk intelligence solutions. Signal AI provides companies with actionable insights designed to navigate enterprise risk, strengthen reputation, and fuel growth.
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Armilar Venture Partners
VC Fund · Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Armilar Venture Partners is Portugal's leading venture capitalist. An independent VC with a 20-year-old history, a high-performance track record and an international footprint, Armilar is a deep-tech investor in ICT, HealthTech and CleanTech.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $520k–$3.9M; Series A $4M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $138M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Airflows — Airflows is a platform offering private AI solutions for back-office operations, enabling the creation of applications, workflows, and agent assistants from documents, rules, and approvals while maintaining full control, auditability, and integration with existing systems like ERP, ECM, and BPM.
  • Neuraspace — Focus on fewer alerts with more time to manoeuver, with a scalable AI/ML solution from Neuraspace
  • DOJO AI — The only tool you need to grow your Brand.
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Hiventures
VC Fund · Budapest, Budapest, Hungary · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

As one of the largest and most active venture capital fund partners in Central and Eastern Europe our mission is to create new ways of equity funding for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises with high growth potential as well as more traditional businesses for the purpose of establishing a sustainable and competitive SME and enterpriseecosystem both in Hungary and in the region

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 706
  • Round size: Seed $118k–$925k; Pre-Seed $18k–$138k; Series A $163k–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $493M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • iBar Experience Kft. — iBar provides an AI  inventory app that integrates into restaurant management software. They offer products and services for pizzerias, bars, discos, hotels, and restaurants.
  • SURVIOT Monitoring Kft. — SURVIOT provides smart movement and deformation monitoring solution for civil engineering projects such as bridge, tunnel and dam constructions, quarries, slope stability inspections by monitoring geotechnical and environmental parameters. SURVIOT supports operators and constructors to comply with professional regulations by digitizing labourintensive, manual monitoring processes with automated data collection, processing and analysis. The SURVIOT platform is constantly evolving by adding new sensors and features.
  • Linkio - Ecommerce Integration Portal — Integrate wholesalers into your online store easier then ever
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Andrew Scott
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $405k–$7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Juggle Jobs — Find your dream remote job from the best companies in the UK, hand-picked by our trusted experts at WFH Jobs.
  • 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.
  • Paddington Robotics — Paddington Robotics specializes in implementation of AI, robotics, software and hardware solutions in real life.
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The FSE Group
VC Fund · Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 220
  • Round size: Seed $312k–$2.3M; Debt Financing $106k–$862k
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
  • Amino —
  • Double-Barrelled Brewery — Double-Barrelled Brewery is a business that specialises in brewing a variety of craft beers,
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Evolution Equity Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Evolution Equity Partners is an international venture capital investor leveraging deep sector expertise to help exceptional entrepreneurs develop market-leading companies. The firm has a focus on cyber-security, enterprise software and consumer related opportunities and brings significant resources to portfolio companies seeking to expand ininternational markets. Evolution Equity Partners has invested in well-known companies including AVG Technologies, OpenDNS, Carbon Black, Onapsis, Security Scorecard, Cognitive Security, DF Labs, 60K Group and others. The firm purchases both primary and secondary shares investing in high growth businesses across multiple stages, primarily in North America, Europe and Israel. Visit us at www.evolutionequity.com or follow us on Twitter at @EvolutionEquity

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cyber Security, Software, Security
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$17M; Series A $5.5M–$50M; Series B $12M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.1B in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Backline AI — Backline AI agents automatically deploy trustworthy code and configuration changes at scale, freeing your team from impossible backlogs.
  • QIZ Security — We turn cryptographic chaos into clarity. QIZ gives you visibility, context, and a path to quantum-safe cryptography.
  • Skyfire Systems — Payments and Identity for AI Agents https://t.co/KvM1AGHjTY
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Abbey Road Studios
VC Fund · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Software, Audio
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Japan, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$650k
  • Lead/follow: 91% lead, 9% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MyPart — MyPart is an AI-powered song search and matching platform with products that serve both songwriters and creative industry executives.
  • AI Music — AI Music is at the forefront of exploring how artificial intelligence can change and adapt music. Quite simply, we believe music should be accessible and contextually relevant for both its creators and its listeners. With our Infinite Music Engine and other proprietary technology, we deliver bespoke solutions for marketers, publishers, fitnessprofessionals, creative agencies and many more. Music that adapts to your heartbeat, audio advertising that matches listener context, universal licenses across formats... All of this is possible, and more, thanks to our cutting-edge research and scalable in-house development.
  • Broomx Technologies — Broomx Technologies is the projected VR company creating the most advanced tools to enjoy virtual reality in real spaces. Founded in 2014 in the heart of Barcelona Technological Hub, they develop propietary solutions in the fields of Software, Hardware and Cloud Services. Their team is a mix of designers/creative minds,developers/engineers and communication/marketing/business development specialists. Broomx Founders and Directors, Serrano Brothers, have melt different disciplines with their passion for disruptive solutions and advanced technologies, always with the human factor and user experience in mind.
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Cambridge Innovation Capital
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

As a team, we have a passion for science and its potential to drive change. Through our expertise and our position in one of the country's most powerful science and technology ecosystems, we're able to identify and support the most promising entrepreneurs in knowledge intensive businesses and help them achieve their vision.With our financial backing and expert guidance, we're excited to enable the pioneers in life sciences and deep tech to create world-leading companies whose unique ideas bring financial success and global impact.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$31M; Series A $2.6M–$73M; Series B $7.1M–$61M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $332M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Immutrin — Immutrin is a biotechnology company developing next‑generation antibody therapies designed to clear systemic amyloid deposits and reverse amyloidosis, this company lead asset targets ATTR cardiomyopathy, a severe and progressive form of amyloidosis, and its antibody represents a potential best‑in‑class treatment engineered to selectively andspecifically remove established amyloid fibrils.
  • Trent AI — Trent AI creates AI applications and agent security management software. It aids in risk assessment and mitigation in systems utilizing autonomous or semi-autonomous software agents. The company's technology monitors agent activity across APIs, tools, and workflows. It continuously assesses security posture via iterative scanning andcontextual understanding of system architectures.
  • TRIMTECH Therapeutics — Transformative treatments for CNS and inflammatory disorders by selectively destroying disease-causing protein aggregates
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Universal Music Group
VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Universal Music Group offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide. It discovers and develops songwriters, and owns and administers copyrights to musical compositions for use in recordings, public performances, and related uses such as films and advertisements; and sells artist and music branded products through multiplesales points including online, fashion retail, and live performances worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Media and Entertainment, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Thailand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$7M; Series A $3.7M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stability AI — AI for Humanity. Stability AI is a solution studio dedicated to innovating ideas. By using collective intelligence principles and augmented technology we design and implement feasible solutions to seemingly intractable problems.
  • What the Duck — What the Duck (WTD) is an independent record company focused on nurturing enthusiastic, creative musicians in an open setting that promotes their freedom and distinctiveness.
  • Solution One Holding Co. — Solution One Holding Co.,Ltd. provides digital content distribution and YouTube channel management services.
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 422
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.3M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • nPlan — AI that forecasts project outcomes, creates scenarios of the future and helps mitigate risk across single projects and portfolios. Trained on over 750,000 past programmes.
  • Stream — Stream is a financial services firm that allows employees to stream their earned wages into their accounts through an instant app. The app allows them to have complete control over when they get paid. It also effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans, and employee stress suffered from short-term, unplanned financial obligations. Thecompany aims to play a key role in reducing the poverty premium and preventing employees from entering cycles of debt caused by overdraft fees, high-interest credit, or payday loans.
  • microagi — Accelerating embodied AGI
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 434
  • Round size: Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $9.3M–$100M; Series C $13M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $615M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • NewBay — NewBay enables operators and device makers to deliver a lifetime of digital content experiences across any connected device such as mobile, PC, tablets and TV. The NewBay white label software platform powers cloud-based services for storing, sharing, accessing and organizing digital content. NewBay enables customers to monetize a wide range ofbranded services such as social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, notifications and converged messaging. NewBay is delivering highly successful commercial services for operators and device makers worldwide. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon and LG Electronics. NewBay is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator and device maker services. NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, USA; Atlanta, USA; London, UK; Sydney, Australia and Seoul, South Korea. NewBay was founded in 2002. Following acquisition in 2011, NewBay is a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM).
  • Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
  • GitGuardian — GitGuardian provides a platform for detecting and managing sensitive digital credentials and machine identities within software development environments. The company’s solutions scan source code repositories, cloud infrastructure configurations, and other development tools to identify exposed secrets such as API keys, security tokens, andcertificates that could be inadvertently committed. Its offerings include internal monitoring tools that help organizations observe secrets within private codebases and public monitoring capabilities to uncover leaks that occur in publicly accessible repositories. GitGuardian also supports governance over non‑human identities by maintaining inventories of machine accounts and associated credentials while offering contextual insights and workflows to assist security teams in prioritizing and addressing potential risks. The platform integrates with a variety of developer and security tools to bring visibility into hidden credentials across a technology stack and to support collaborative remediation activities. GitGuardian delivers automated detection paired with incident tracking features that assist in classifying exposures and guiding corrective actions throughout the software development lifecycle. The company’s technology targets security, DevOps, and compliance functions that aim to strengthen credential hygiene and reduce chances of unauthorized access within organizational systems.
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Metaplanet
VC Fund · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

an early-stage investment firm making long-term bets on contrarians and leveraging the knowledge and network across sectors. We back mission-driven founders working on positively disruptive deep technologies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$13M; Series A $5.9M–$40M; Series B $23M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kopra Bio — Cancer immunotherapy that turns cancer cells into biofactories minting their own destruction.
  • Inherent — Recursively self-improving to discover new knowledge.
  • Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.
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Lorenz Bogaert
Angel · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups, 7 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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Belgium, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $445k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.7M; Series A $3.8M–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LineWise — LineWise, a Y Combinator-backed startup, helps manufacturers maximize production uptime. We use AI to diagnose machine failures, accelerate troubleshooting
  • Feedelity — The #1 feedback management platform. Centralize guest feedback from Google, Tripadvisor, social media, email, Uber Eats, Deliveroo and more, and see what your guests really think.
  • Maurice & Nora — Maurice & Nora regelt vertrouwde hulp aan huis door zorgvuldig gescreende studenten. Van boodschappen en kinderopvang tot begeleiding, tuinhulp en gezelschap.
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Colin McInnes
Angel · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Colin McInnes

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Audio, Music, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Saarey — The world's largest online collection of South Asian classical music, with ustads and pandits exclusively performing rare renditions in khayal, dhurpad, thumri and more.
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Matt Jellicoe
Angel · Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Matt Jellicoe

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Audio, Music, InsurTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Saarey — The world's largest online collection of South Asian classical music, with ustads and pandits exclusively performing rare renditions in khayal, dhurpad, thumri and more.
  • SmartResilience — SmartResilience turns climate risk data into live operational capability for asset-heavy organisations. Covers IFRS S2, TCFD, CSRD, ASRS and UK SRS.
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ESRG Investments
VC Fund · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

ESRG Investments specializes in a vast range of financial services. The group is able to offer independent and integrated cross border financial structuring. It plans and implements concepts for institutional clients and investors that require tailor-made solutions reflecting their specific requirements. ESRG specializes in mutual funds based intax neutral jurisdictions, UK taxation, UK pension administration, film bridge financing, property, land development, sports and leisure, and media.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Video, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $65k–$458k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • amBX — amBX lighting control software creates smart lighting for commercial buildings. Our SmartCore system allows remote building management for emergency lighting control, lighting building integration and vertical farming connectivity.
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Emma Blackburn
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Emma Blackburn brings over 20 years experience leading finance teams both in the US and UK. Graduating from Stanford University with a Bachelors degree in Economics and Masters degree in Industrial Engineering, Emma worked in Audit and M&A for Ernst and Young, before moving in-house first at EQE International and then at Siebel Systems. Emmaestablished and administered all financial systems for international subsidiaries during the explosive growth period of Siebel Systems, “the fastest growing company in the United States (Fortune Magazine, 1999)”.Emma has held the CFO position at a number of start-up and scale-up UK technology companies. She is an active angel investor with a strong passion for both impact investing and investing in female founded companies. Outside of work, Emma is an avid traveler and boater, having renovated and cruised a barge around Europe, on which she now resides.Emma leads finance as CFO at Ascension Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Audio, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SPOKE — Music and lyricism-led mindfulness, aimed at helping the world's most creative minds feel at ease.
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Tom Adeyoola
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Tom Adeyoola is Founder of Metail Limited until Chief Executive Officer.Tom Adeyoola spent more than ten years in various senior strategy and product development roles helping start-ups to devise and implement new business models and products. His career has spanned new media from Sportal to 3 and most recently Inspired Gaming Group where he servedas Head of Gaming. Tom Adeyoola is an Economics graduate from Cambridge.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Audio, Music
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $133k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ruka — We celebrate Black women and create hair products designed with real textures in mind.
  • SPOKE — Music and lyricism-led mindfulness, aimed at helping the world's most creative minds feel at ease.
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Marla Shapiro
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Marla Shapiro is a Founder of HERmesa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Audio, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SPOKE — Music and lyricism-led mindfulness, aimed at helping the world's most creative minds feel at ease.
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Edward Zimmerman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Ed is a venture lawyer and co-founded and Chairs the Tech Group at Lowenstein Sandler LLP, a leading law firm. During his more than 20 years at Lowenstein Sander, he has represented hundreds of start-ups, growth companies and venture funds. He has angel invested in roughly 50 companies and invested as an LP in more than a dozen families of venturefunds. Ed has taught VC to MBA students at Columbia Business School for 8 years, has published more than 60 columns on venture/tech (and sometimes wine or music) on the ACCELERATORS page of the WSJ and founded and runs www.VentureCrush.com which includes FIRSTGROWTHVC and AngelVineVC.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$7M; Pre-Seed $93k–$2.4M; Series A $5.5M–$9.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Guava — Launching soon. Join the waitlist and be one of the first to receive access.
  • SPOKE — Music and lyricism-led mindfulness, aimed at helping the world's most creative minds feel at ease.
  • WellCapped — WellCapped allows customers to discover emerging long-tail brands. Its first focus is on hyper-consumers who purchase and rent high-quality, lace-front wigs. They make data-driven decisions to select inventory, and provide a netflix-esque suggestion list of emerging long-tail brands to their users.
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Creative England
VC Fund · Bristol, Bristol, City of, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$897k; Venture - Series Unknown $279k–$646k
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $29M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Covatic — We help media companies deliver private-by-design, addressable advertising and marketing without exposing personal data.
  • V9 Group — V9 Group is a group of technology and payment experts.We're problem solvers. We identify markets with issues and using our thinking and experience…we challenge, innovate and disrupt them. Two sectors we've been focusing on are retail and payments. And we have developed products that are not only disrupting these sectors... they’rerevolutionising them.
  • Huey Games — Huey Games is a Ga me developer providing smart porting service for various consoles.
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a16z Scout Fund
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $525k–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OpenCode — Marble AI tutor helps you learn full stack, PyTorch, React, and any technology. Interactive projects with personalized guidance that adapts to your skill level.
  • NOFire AI — NOFire's mission is to shift reliability left and help engineering teams understand and operate complex systems. Built by the team behind Elastic, Mattermost Cloud and creators of urunc sandbox CNCF project. We’re a team of SREs , AI researchers, and systems engineers.
  • Grata Health — Grata is an AI-enabled addiction treatment platform that pairs a virtual clinic (MAT, therapy, peer support) with software to triage, schedule, and support patients in under a minute. The patient app delivers continuous recovery touchpoints, and the EHR automates provider workflows and risk monitoring to improve retention and lower cost of care.
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Toby Moore
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Toby has spent the last 12 years in lead technical roles, designing and building products from start-up to successful global businesses across a number of sectors, most recently in gaming and entertainment, and is currently CTO and Co-Founder of Space Ape Games, an award-winning mobile gaming studio based in the heart of London. Prior toco-founding Space Ape Games, Toby was CTO at Mind Candy for over six years, leading the company’s technical and product teams from pre-revenue to success with over 80 million registered users for the company’s hero brand, Moshi Monsters. He was a key member of the award winning management team that grew the business from 16 to over 180 employees across multiple locations.Before Mind Candy, Toby worked across a range of industries in dual product / engineering roles, predominately in small teams focused on bringing innovations in application and web development to large established companies. Toby regularly shares his years of experience with other start-ups and entrepreneurs and is a mentor at Seedcamp as well as running his own CTO mentoring group. Toby studied Software Engineering with AI and specialises in agile product development processes, high calibre team recruitment and development, scalable internet architectures, analytical product management, team leadership, innovation and strategy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $472k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SPOKE — Music and lyricism-led mindfulness, aimed at helping the world's most creative minds feel at ease.
  • Multiply — Multiply helps financial advice firms scale efficiently with AI-powered automation. Streamline annual reviews, onboarding, and retirement planning. Book a demo today.
  • Kiroku — Blazingly fast, comprehensive clinical records for dentists, automated by AI
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JamJar Investments
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

We love, help & invest in early-stage consumer brands.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Series A $3.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Meatly — Good Dog Food creates cultivated meat for healthy pets and a healthy planet
  • Reformed — Reformed: Arabica coffee and ceremonial matcha, enriched with functionality: collagen or creatine, adaptogens and twenty-one vitamins.
  • TrueStart Coffee — TrueStart Coffee offers a range of coffee products, including barista-grade instant coffee and loose coffee bags. The company emphasizes healthy and delicious coffee, sourcing beans and air-roasting them with care.
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Stefan Glänzer
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $584k–$3.2M; Angel $197k–$1M; Series A $2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
  • HEY HOLY — HEY HOLY is redefining dog nutrition with the world’s first breed-specific dog food sold in a subscription. We believe every dog deserves food tailored to their unique health needs – because a German Shepherd isn’t a Chihuahua.Backed by science and crafted with only high-quality ingredients, HEY HOLY supports better digestion, fewer intolerances,and healthier, longer lives for dogs. Thousands of owners have already made the switch, choosing HEY HOLY to give their dogs personalized care and optimal health outcomes.
  • Mozart AI — 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.
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Emerge VC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Emerge is a $70m pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best edtech and future of work founders and executives. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders re-designing the future of learning and work.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $53k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $33k–$3.2M; Series A $5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $73M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • VARM — Varm provides efficient insulation for energy saving and comfort.
  • 5U AI — 5U AI gives freight teams an AI workforce that's connected across multiple communication channels to understand, reason and act on data.
  • Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.
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Velocity Capital Advisors
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

.co.com is a global domain name extension providing businesses, organizations and individuals with short, memorable and recognizable .co.com domain names through a worldwide distribution network of registrars and resellers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $201k–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $54k–$332k; Venture - Series Unknown $6M–$9.3M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lucida AI — Enhance your employees' language skills with our AI-powered tool, tailored to your company regulations using end-to-end encryption.
  • Payr — The sexy way to pay your rent. Pay your rent by card!
  • GingerControl — GingerControl is the AI audit layer for global trade spend. It re-reasons every duty decision, reconciles purchase orders to entries, and audits freight charges in customs value, then recovers the leakage, in every market you trade in.
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Warner Music Group
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Warner Music Group is a major music company with interests in recorded music, music publishing and artist services

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Digital Entertainment, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $30k–$1.1M; Corporate Round $4M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TuStreams — TuStreams allows artists to maintain complete ownership of their intellectual property while delivering music to all major streaming providers. TuStreams streamlines the financial side of music and helps artists at every stage with its clear royalties tracking, real-time statistics, and automated collaborator payouts.
  • Stability AI — AI for Humanity. Stability AI is a solution studio dedicated to innovating ideas. By using collective intelligence principles and augmented technology we design and implement feasible solutions to seemingly intractable problems.
  • SKILLBOXES (INDIA) PVT. LTD — SkillBox is an Art Community Platform that is constantly evolving – always conscious of the needs of artists and arts-related businesses.
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Robert Swann
Angel · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

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

  • Industry: Music, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Myrtle Software — Deploy machine learning models that run in microseconds with low latency AI inference from myrtle.ai.
  • 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.
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Sky UK
VC Fund · Isleworth, Hounslow, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Sky is Europe’s leading Entertainment Company, serving 22 million customers across satellite, OTT and broadband in five countries: Italy, Germany, Austria, the UK and Ireland. Sky offers the best and broadest range of content, deliver market-leading customer service and use innovative new technology to give customers a better TV experience,whenever and wherever they choose.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Digital Media, TV
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Series A $6.8M–$45M; Series B $15M–$90M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bad Wolf — High-end global TV based in S Wales+Los Angeles. Producers of @bbcdoctorwho @darkmaterials @ADiscoveryOfWTV #Industry #IHateSuzie #TheNightOf #RedEye #DopeGirls
  • Loopster — Download Loopster iPhone/iPad video editing app to create social media, education, and professional presentation videos. Shoot, edit, carve, splice, add text comments, slow-motion effect, etc. with Loopster video editing app.
  • 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.
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Sands Capital Ventures
VC Fund · Arlington, Virginia, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

Every aspect of the Sands Capital culture is geared toward delivering strong results for our clients.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 205
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$50M; Series B $12M–$108M; Series C $20M–$220M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1.1B in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Base Power — Base provides a battery-powered home energy service so you can enjoy power without interruption and save money. Now available in select regions of Texas.
  • CompScience — Kinetic Eye's ground-breaking technology allows for detection of risk within hours rather than days. Protecting your bottom-line and more importantly, your employees.
  • K2 Space — By breaking the historic correlation between mass and cost, the K2 Space satellite bus offers the capabilities of large satellites at the price point of small satellites. A multi-orbit spacecraft for use across commercial, scientific and defense missions.
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David Cummings
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Music startups

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

  • Industry: Music, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

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 — FocalPoint's software enables reliable GNSS in urban environments, mitigating multipath and enabling advanced vehicle autonomy.
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Music Investor funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 355 deals from 553 investors.

553
investors
in United Kingdom Music startups
355
deals
in United Kingdom Music startups
$1.1M
median round
in United Kingdom Music startups
33%
lead investors
lead at least one round
31%
Seed
most common funding stage
67/33
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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