Top 50 Music Startup Investors in United Kingdom (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
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13 | United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $46k–$10M |
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Ascension
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $250k–$10M |
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Mercuri
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $225k–$20M |
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Hotspur Capital
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel | Mobile, Software, Location Based Services | $35k–$2.5M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2.1M–$43M |
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SFC Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $123k–$2.5M |
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Russell Sheffield
Angel
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5 | United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Convertible Note | Apps, PaaS, Music | $440–$241k |
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Chris Barrett
Angel
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4 | United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Apps, PaaS, Music | $39k–$241k |
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Entrepreneurs First
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $54k–$41M |
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $5M–$160M |
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Playfair Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $953k–$19M |
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Abbey Road Studios
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, Japan, Finland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Music, Software, Audio | $250k–$650k |
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7percent Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $125k–$7M |
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John Taysom
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology | $191k–$4.3M |
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Armilar Venture Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Portugal, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $520k–$17M |
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Peter Gabriel
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, Belgium, United States | Seed, Series A | Music, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $1.3M–$22M |
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1745 Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising | $1M–$30M |
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Andrew Scott
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $125k–$7M |
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Hiventures
VC Fund
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3 | Hungary, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $18k–$2.9M |
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GMG Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $225k–$20M |
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Nikhil Shah
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Music, Apps, Renewable Energy | $1.1M–$14M |
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The FSE Group
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $106k–$5.4M |
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Andrew Gaule
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom | Seed | Apps, PaaS, Music | $440–$129k |
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Wayra
VC Fund
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3 | Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil | Seed, Grant, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $40k–$2.4M |
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Evolution Equity Partners
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Cyber Security, Software, Security | $2.5M–$75M |
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$30M |
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Index Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.4M–$102M |
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Cambridge Innovation Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical | $2M–$73M |
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ESRG Investments
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom | Seed | Software, Music, Video | $67k–$719k |
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WndrCo
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2M–$100M |
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Universal Music Group
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Thailand | Seed, Series A | Music, Media and Entertainment, Video | $500k–$67M |
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Andrew Gault
Angel
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Virtual Reality | $120k–$22M |
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John Michaelis
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Audio, Music, Digital Media | |
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Yasin Sebastian Qureshi
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Audio, Music, Software | $100k–$301k |
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Nidobirds Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Biotechnology, SaaS | $683k–$2.5M |
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Metaplanet
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care | $2.5M–$62M |
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Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Philippines | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $991k–$44M |
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Toby Moore
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Apps, SaaS | $472k–$1.5M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $575k–$30M |
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Ojjeh Family Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Audio, Music | |
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Emma Blackburn
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Audio, Music | |
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David Cummings
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A | Music, Internet, Software | |
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JamJar Investments
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care | $1.2M–$175M |
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Robert Swann
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Music, Internet, Software | |
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Sands Capital Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Series A, Series B, Series C | Health Care, Biotechnology, Software | $7M–$220M |
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Emerge VC
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, EdTech, Software | $33k–$22M |
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Creative England
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, SaaS, Mobile | $40k–$954k |
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Marla Shapiro
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Audio, Music | |
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Tom Adeyoola
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Apps, Audio, Music | $133k–$1.4M |
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Lorenz Bogaert
Angel
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2 | Belgium, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $120k–$5.7M |
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Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 279
- Round size: Seed $46k–$1.4M; Series A $295k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $261k–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- OneClickComply — OneClickComply automates ISO 27001, SOC 2, Cyber Essentials and 240+ standards: evidence from 13,000+ tools, one-click fixes and an in-house audit team.
- Land Digital — Land Digital is a tech, web design, web creation, content marketing, digital marketing, SEO, and mobile application agency.
- Magnitude Biosciences — Magnitude Biosciences is a biotechnology firm combine experience in ageing research, the nematode C. elegans and automation.
Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 326
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $261k–$2.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $790k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $21M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Sprive — Sprive is the free app that helps take years off your mortgage and save you thousands of pounds in interest.
- Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
- Neela Biotech — Transforming organic waste into carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuels through innovative biotechnology and AI.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- 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
- 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.
- Unit 1 Studio — Unit 1 Studio is a digital entertainment production company that creates touring avatar concerts using digital performers and live shows.
- Made With Intent — Convert more customers by being more appropriate. Understand and target customer intent with the segmentation platform for data-led eCommerce teams.
Hotspur Capital is a financial organization.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Location Based Services
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- 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.
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- 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.
We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 442
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.4M–$22M; Series B $8M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Living Optics — Living Optics is commercializing next generation imaging technology which leverages a compact camera system based on breakthroughs in hardware design and software processing.
- 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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 783
- Round size: Seed $123k–$2M; Pre-Seed $170k–$858k; Venture - Series Unknown $201k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Obsero — Obsero is an AI search intelligence platform and consultancy designed for marketing and communications teams. The platform tracks, measures, and optimizes how brands surface, get cited, and are recommended across Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI search assistants.
- SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
- NEARHUMAN — Nearhuman develops intelligent safety systems for micromobility and other physical-world devices. The company focuses on edge AI and computer vision that run directly on vehicles such as e-scooters and e-bikes to detect hazards, monitor pedestrian proximity, and support real-time decision making. Its flagship product, Scootrr, is an AI-powered safety platform that enables on-device perception, automatic deceleration, and safety analytics without reliance on cloud connectivity. Nearhuman designs its technology to integrate with existing shared micromobility fleets, collaborating with operators, vehicle manufacturers, and research partners. The company also provides dashboards and tools that turn on-vehicle events into route-level safety intelligence for stakeholders such as fleet operators and city authorities. Its work spans hardware vision kits, embedded firmware, perception models, and supporting software for deployment and monitoring.
Investment focus
- Industry: Apps, PaaS, Music
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $440–$109k; Angel $191k–$241k
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% 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.
Chris Barrett
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- 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.
We turn exceptional individuals into funded founders. We back you first, then give you a bridge to Silicon Valley.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 485
- Round size: Seed $54k–$6.7M; Pre-Seed $55k–$2.7M; Series A $5.1M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $133M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- ByteAsk — Derisk your AI agents
- Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
- Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 471
- Round size: Series A $5M–$32M; Series B $9.3M–$100M; Series C $13M–$160M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $615M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Duvo — Duvo brings your people, AI agents and existing systems together to map, run and improve your processes, with decisions, exceptions and results in one place.
- 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).
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Browse database — It's Free!Playfair is a generalist fund focused exclusively on pre-seed investments. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with a deliberately high-conviction, low-volume approach: six investments per year from its third $70 million fund, with dedicated time, capital, and resources committed to supporting companies post-investment. Its 78% Series A progression rate is approximately four times the industry average, and its founders have raised more than $3 billion in follow-on capital since 2013. Playfair has backed more than 100 companies, including Thought Machine, Orca AI, Protex AI, StackOne, and Nory.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $953k–$3.7M; Series A $3M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Fusionality — Fusionality is a Swiss fusion-technology company focused on measurement, control, and data systems for fusion devices.They combine expertise in fusion physics, control engineering, AI/ML, simulation, diagnostics, and real-time software.Their goal is to help fusion companies and research labs operate devices more efficiently and accelerate thedevelopment of commercial fusion energy.
- Affinity Labs — We build software companies with category-defining creators.
Investment focus
- Industry: Music, Software, Audio
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Japan, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $250k–$650k
- Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% 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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 205
- 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.
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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- 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 $234k–$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.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Seed $520k–$3.9M; Series A $4M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $138M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- FRANK — FRANK provides an AI assistant software platform designed to automate routine, administrative back-office tasks for insurance agents and brokerages. The platform integrates directly with client communication channels (such as email and WhatsApp) and insurer portals to handle document processing, task execution, and fast quoting.
- Neuraspace — Focus on fewer alerts with more time to manoeuver, with a scalable AI/ML solution from Neuraspace
- Usawa Care — Usawa is a free digital pediatrician clinic in Portugal. Talk to pediatricians via WhatsApp and get guidance for your child's health.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 221
- Round size: Seed $1M–$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 all-in-one, forensic-grade, deepfake detection solution guarantees the best results in the marketplace for analyzing synthetic media.
- Ocular AI — Encoding Human Expertise into Machines
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Hungary, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 708
- Round size: Seed $118k–$935k; 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 equips bridges, tunnels and buildings with automated sensors and software, giving engineers real-time, reliable data on structural health.
- Linkio - Ecommerce Integration Portal — Integrate wholesalers into your online store easier then ever
London based Venture Capital Fund Manager investing in UK seed stage companies at the intersection of media and technology
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, 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 — Signal AI delivers AI-powered reputation management and enterprise risk intelligence. Get real-time media monitoring, sentiment analysis, and actionable insights to protect your brand and navigate global risks.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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 — Collect memorabilia from the world's leading artists, DJs, producers and collectors. Discover the deepest music stories.
The FSE Group provides growth finance and support for ambitious UK businesses, helping SMEs start, scale and succeed through tailored funding solutions.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 279
- Round size: Seed $294k–$2.6M; Debt Financing $106k–$633k; Venture - Series Unknown $485k–$5.4M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% 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 —
- Alchera Technologies — Alchera's AI-powered, cloud-based software platform provides real-time data on the movement of vehicles and pedestrians around cities and major infrastructure
Director @ CirculOil
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- Industry: Apps, PaaS, Music
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $440–$129k
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela. Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with driven entrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 568
- Round size: Seed $48k–$2.4M; Grant $40k–$387k; Venture - Series Unknown $50k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
- Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
- Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Establishment (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services.
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 in international 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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- Industry: Cyber Security, Software, Security
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 158
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$17M; Series A $5.5M–$50M; Series B $12M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.1B in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cyera — Cyera provides a data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform combines data security posture management, data loss prevention, access governance, and AI security capabilities to help organizations understand wherecritical data resides, who can access it, and how it is being used. Cyera uses automated data discovery and classification to identify sensitive information and assess potential security risks across enterprise systems. Its platform also supports monitoring of human and AI interactions with data, enabling organizations to investigate access activity, manage permissions, and address security issues. Through integrations with existing technology environments, Cyera helps security teams maintain visibility into data assets and implement controls to reduce data-related risk.
- Island — Meet Island, the Enterprise Browser that gives you control over SaaS governance, visibility and productivity. Secure your critical data and apps with Island.
- Aurachain — Aurachain is the execution layer where regulated institutions turn obligations, risk signals, and fraud alerts into governed, audited action. Banks, credit unions, insurers and other highly regulated institutions use the platform to run their core regulated processes. AI sits inside the work and a full audit trail around it. Aurachain is also the platform behind Fraud.Watch, a collaborative fraud intelligence network that lets financial institutions move from isolated detection to coordinated defense. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, with the United States as its primary commercial and operating hub, Aurachain serves clients across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 442
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5.1M; Series A $4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
- Resolutiion — Resolutiion provides AI-powered software for managing commercial conflict, delivery risk, and business relationship performance. The platform supports organizations with dispute detection, workflow automation, contract monitoring, issue resolution, and operational risk management across customers, suppliers, workforce teams, and commercialpartnerships. Its system uses AI-driven analysis to identify relationship friction, monitor delivery performance, and support structured resolution processes. Resolutiion also provides commercial intelligence tools, reporting, and collaboration features for enterprise delivery and governance management.
- Maven Robotics — Maven Robotics is building the world's leading general purpose AI robots.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1591
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $12M–$102M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $400M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Moleskine — Moleskine develops, distributes, and sells notebooks, diaries, portfolios, purses, writing materials, reading articles, and many other products in Italy and internationally.The company offers paper products such as notebooks, diaries, home and office products, and gifts as well as writing, travelling, and reading collections, including pens,pencils, bags, reading glasses, and book lights. It also offers digital services and products comprising templates and applications for smartphones and tablets; Smart Notebook; and print-on-demand services for the creation of photo-books.Moleskine distributes its products in approximately 105 countries through a network of book, department, specialty, and stationery stores as well as museums; its sales network and websites; and a retail network of 30 directly-operated stores, including 9 in China, 12 in Italy, 2 in the United Kingdom, 2 in France, and 5 in the United States.Moleskine was founded in 1997 and is based in Milan, Italy.
- PanGenetics — PanGenetics B.V. develops monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of immune mediated diseases.PanGenetics is a clinical development company that specializes in taking antibodies from the late research stage through to clinical proof of concept. The company is based in Utrecht, the Netherlands with an office in Cambridge, UK. PanGenetics employsa lean business model with manufacturing and clinical development activities outsourced to specialist providers. Apart from PG110, the other clinical program of PanGenetics is PG102, a CD40 antagonist for treatment of autoimmune diseases which is currently being evaluated in a clinical study in psoriatic arthritis patients
- Milestone Systems — See and know more with video technology. Milestone offers award-winning XProtect video management software, Arcules VSaaS, and BriefCam analytics.
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Seed $2M–$31M; Series A $2.6M–$73M; Series B $8.2M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $332M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Trent AI — The agentic AI security platform that works like an AI security engineer, finding the real risk in your code, cloud, and AI agents and verifying every fix.
- Salience Labs — Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high-throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designedto exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and the University of Münster, Germany.
- TRIMTECH Therapeutics — Transformative treatments for CNS and inflammatory disorders by selectively destroying disease-causing protein aggregates
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 in tax neutral jurisdictions, UK taxation, UK pension administration, film bridge financing, property, land development, sports and leisure, and media.
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- Industry: Software, Music, Video
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $67k–$719k
- 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.
- DF2020 Limited — Df2020 have identified a huge, transformative opportunity – the digitisation of regulation, which currently costs the world in excess of USD 5 trillion a year to administer. The current state of regulations across every country is based upon paper-based documents, which are interpreted by each public and private organization, resulting with highadministration costs, whilst cultivating many types of risks because of the variety of interpretations. An Australian in-depth study (Unleashing Productivity), by Deloitte, estimated that it costs AUD 94bn to administer and comply with Australian federal, state, and local government rules. This equates to circa 6% of Australia’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product). The equivalent annual cost of regulation to the UK economy is GDP 170bn, for the USA economy the cost is USD 1,286bn, and for the world economy the cost is USD 5,236bn. After extensive research and development, we can now digitise rule-based knowledge such as regulations and procedures. Our approach from the outset, has been to develop a universal and unifying language with embedded methods to transcend from the monologue to the dialogue of rule-based knowledge traditionally found in paper-based documents or equivalent. This quest has been about the shift of treating rule-based knowledge as an intangible to a tangible, working and measurable asset. Our journey has transversed across public and private sectors to ensure our approach was universal in the way it could codify increasing complexity, whilst masking this complexity from the human interaction. Just as importantly, we have automatically generated an audit trail of the human interaction for safeguarding people and organisations. The biggest value comes from the standardisation of dialogue-data, which enables continuous intelligence, benchmarks, patterns and predictions to be delivered in an accurate and timely manner for learnings at the edge. Our technology covers: RegTech, White-box Algorithms, Dialogue-Step Orchestration (contextual data input, image, picture, pickup codes, adaptive cars); Digital Agents (stateless software services similar in concept to Agent-Based Models), Azure Cloud, SaaS, new form of Big Data (one dimensional dialogue-strings), Compliance Automation, Analytics, APIs, Progressive Web Apps, access from multiple channels, and AI/ML.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 213
- 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
- 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.
- Harvey — Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider.
- Aura — Aura protects your identity, finances and sensitive data. All plans include a $1M insurance policy that covers eligible losses. Try Aura 14-days free.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Music, Media and Entertainment, Video
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Thailand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $500k–$7M; Series A $3.7M–$67M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Virtual Reality
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, 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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- Industry: Audio, Music, Digital Media
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Audio, Music, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Pre-Seed $100k–$301k
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Haglit — The first artificial intelligence-powered sales assistant for Ecommerce
- 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.
Nidobirds Ventures is an investment management company that forges long-term relationships with founders, investors and service partners is based on equity participation, joint projects and exchange of resources.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $683k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- mo:re GmbH — We offer standardized tissue cultures and protocols to better predict drug responses and investigate disease models.
- COLIPI — For climate protection, we valorize CO2 to oils, through a unique proprietary biotechnological approach.With industry's lowest CO2 footprint, our decarbonized oils enable corporates reaching Net Zero Goals (GHG scope 3).The currently developed biotechnological platform is robust. As carbon source it uses industrial off gas directlycontaining O2, CO2 & others or organic industrial side streams. Our oils are chemically equivalent to vegetable oils. They consist of triglyceride with the bulk of fatty acids being palmitic acid (C16:0), stearic acid (C18:0), oleic acid (C18:1), & linoleic acid (C18:2) whereat the profile is modifiable.
- ScreenIn3D — ScreenIn3D utilizes the latest advances in microfluidics and 3D culture to develop a unique microfluidic screening platform for precision medicine.
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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- 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.
Parkwalk is a London-based fund management firm. Parkwalk invests in UK technology companies that have IP backing and freedom to operate, generally spun out of UK universities. Their funds seek to generate capital gains for their investors, enhanced by the attractive tax relief provided by EIS. Parkwalk entered this investment sector in 2009, anticipating a wave of tax-efficient incentives launched by the UK Government to stimulate innovative emerging technology companies and thereby help drive economic growth. Parkwalk utilises academic, technology transfer, venture capital and personal networks developed over many years to gain access to the highest calibre deal-flow. In 2017 Parkwalk joined forces with IP Group plc, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company that is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IPO. As at March 2019 the combined group has net assets of £1.2bn.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 338
- Round size: Seed $991k–$4.9M; Series A $1.6M–$14M; Series B $1.8M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- K3 Metrology — K3 Metrology is a specialist metrology company commercialising laser‑based 3D coordinate measurement technology developed at the National Physical Laboratory. The company’s platform is designed to provide high‑accuracy, uncertainty‑aware dimensional data in large‑volume industrial environments, supporting inspection and assembly processes inadvanced manufacturing. Its systems integrate into production workflows where traceable measurements are required across complex geometries and large structures. The technology is applied in sectors such as aerospace, defence, and nuclear, where dimensional integrity and process control are critical.
- MoA Technology — We harness the principles of natural selection to accelerate discovery for better, safer herbicides so farmers can continue to feed the world.
- Quantum Motion — Quantum Motion delivers scalable silicon-based quantum computing using standard semiconductor manufacturing technology.
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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- 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
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1121
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $575k–$5M; Series A $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Benford — Benford is a modern, licensed audit firm that provides technology-driven statutory audit services using its custom software, AuditOS.
- Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
- sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
Ojjeh Family Fund is the family investment fund founded by the Oijeh Family.
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- Industry: SaaS, Audio, Music
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IRIS Audio Technologies — IRIS Listen Well is bringing back living sound and enabling the world to Listen Well.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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.
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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- 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.
We love, help & invest in early-stage consumer brands.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Series A $3.9M–$20M; Series B $4.4M–$175M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Sava Technology — SAVA is reinventing health monitoring with a novel biosensing platform enabling real-time, affordable, and painless molecular monitoring.
- 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.
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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- 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.
Every aspect of the Sands Capital culture is geared toward delivering strong results for our clients.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Series A $7M–$50M; Series B $12M–$108M; Series C $20M–$220M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% 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.
- Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
- Aventra Defense Systems — Aventra Defense Systems operates as a defense technology start-up, that develops low-cost glide and guidance systems.
Emerge is a $75M pre-seed fund for human capital development: consumer learning, careers and AI diffusion at work. First cheques of $500k to $2.5M, UK and Europe.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Round size: Seed $41k–$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.
We are here for those who dare to imagine: imagine a fairer, more prosperous world, achieved through the power of creativity.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $40k–$897k; Venture - Series Unknown $279k–$954k
- 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.
- Huey Games — Huey Games is a Ga me developer providing smart porting service for various consoles.
- Land Digital — Land Digital is a tech, web design, web creation, content marketing, digital marketing, SEO, and mobile application agency.
Marla Shapiro is a Founder of HERmesa.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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 captures how physical things are made, from the first design to the final assembly, and turns it into training data for frontier AI and robotics models.
- 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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