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Top 50 Music Startup Investors in United Kingdom in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Music startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Music companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Music Startup Investors in United Kingdom in April 2025

Investor	Music United Kingdom investments
Northstar Ventures	9
Hotspur Capital	6
Ascension	5
Playfair Capital	4
SFC Capital	3
Index Ventures	3
Andrew Scott	3
Cambridge Innovation Capital	3
Universal Music Group	3
Armilar Venture Partners	3
Andrew Gault	3
Peter Gabriel	3
Octopus Ventures	3
Lorenz Bogaert	2
Acton Capital	2
Sony Music Entertainment	2
David Cummings	2
Warner Music Group	2
ESRG Investments	2
Pentech Ventures	2
TAG	2
John Taysom	2
John Michaelis	2
Parkwalk Advisors	2
Global Founders Capital	2
Colin McInnes	2
Creative England	2
Yasin Sebastian Qureshi	2
Velocity Capital Advisors	2
Matt Jellicoe	2
Emerge	2
White Star Capital	2
WndrCo	2
Metaplanet	2
The FSE Group	2
Windcrest Partners	2
Balderton Capital	2
FirstMark	2
Peter Bartlett	2
Ojjeh Family Fund	2
Designer Fund	1
Gavin Wood	1
Miroma Ventures	1
Ewald Hesse	1
Vespa Capital	1
Angel Investment Network	1
DN Capital	1
Eden Ventures	1
Queen Mary University of London	1
Paul . McGuinness	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

VRAI — First and foremost, they are a content creation company specialising in virtual reality production. They are visual storytellers embracing this new medium as a way of creating immersive, engaging content.Their pioneering methodology takes elements from our diverse background. We use techniques from narrative cinema, from visual effects, fromexhibition design, from gaming, from brand management and combine them in new exciting ways to help you tell your story.
MySalesCoach — MySalesCoach offers Despite overwhelming evidence that sales coaching has the greatest impact on rep development and success, managers typically devote less than 5% of their time to coaching a team that craves and deserves coaching to reach their full potential.
Lithium Salvage — Waste Lithium-ion Battery Recycling - A significant breakthrough in the recycling of ultra-high-value materials within waste Lithium-ion batteries.

Hotspur Capital is a financial organization.

Investment focus

Software, Location Based Services, Mobile
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

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 — Poultry lighting and poultry sensors for precision livestock farming, scheme compliance and animal welfare

Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders.Run by an experienced and diverse team of successful entrepreneurs, we have been relentlessly dedicated to finding the UK’s best Seed-stage startups since 2014.Ascension benefits from the active industry connections essential forthe sourcing and development of deal-flow and due diligence. The team has co-invested with the UK’s leading angels and VCs, key to securing follow-on funding as the portfolio businesses move to their next stage of growth.We believe in building an inclusive, community driven brand that can benefit the wider UK tech ecosystem and strive to work with conviction, integrity, humour, and humility.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

MiAlgae — MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company that aims to revolutionize the £340 billion global livestock feed industry by producing microalgal products – through the remediation of wastewater – as nutrient supplements for fishmeal in livestock feeds. Their microalgal products are high in omegas and proteins, both of which are required forthe production of many livestock feeds, especially in the aquaculture sector.Their production methodology uses circular economy to reduce the operating costs involved in the production of microalgae and as such allows them to compete with other supplements currently on the market.
Concert Bio — Concert Bio helps businesses manage their microbiome. We combine monitoring with analytics to develop interventions that improve the microbiome that matters to you. Our pilot program for CEA growers is currently live and accepting partners, see website for details.
Liquid Acquire — Liquid Acquire provides AI solutions for mergers and acquisitions.

Playfair is a generalist VC fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Refute — Refute identifies and addresses misinformation on behalf of there businesses.
Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.
NetFabric — NetFabric is developing a next-gen network observability platform

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Recfindr — Recfindr is a startup building a recruitment management system.
Implement AI — Implement AI provides managed AI agent solutions and teams of virtual workers via its AI Agent Platform, offering SMEs cost-effective, enterprise-grade solutions to amplify human potential, optimise productivity, and drive growth.
CareLoop Health — CareLoop, an innovation emerging from the University of Manchester, furnishes patients with digital support resources while simultaneously providing healthcare professionals with the means to monitor and track patient symptoms.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Taktile — Taktile's no-code platform enables you to easily build automated decision flows and iterate on them in a data-driven way leveraging backtests and A/B testing.
Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
Dorsia — Dorsia is a members-only platform that offers reservations at in-demand restaurants in major cities. The platform utilizes technology to enhance experiences for both operators and members, ensuring smooth booking without stress. Dorsia operates in various cities, including Miami, Los Angeles, Dubai, and San Francisco, making it a versatile choicefor food enthusiasts.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Magdrive — A revolutionary plasma thruster for the new space age
Juggle Jobs — We help professionals work flexibly
Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Forefront RF — Forefront RF tunable duplexer aims to expand the accessibility and global market reach of all mobile devices by simplifying RFFE design.
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 — TRIMTECH Therapeutics is a biotech organization that treats neurodegenerative illnesses by using targeted protein degradation (TPD).

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.

Investment focus

Music, Mobile, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PIAS — [PIAS] is a family of independent record labels. We champion and support artists from around the world across an unrivalled international network run by passionate music lovers.
VenewLive — VenewLive is a live performance streaming platform delivering on-stage magic to global music fans virtually.
R.e.m. Beauty — R e m beauty is established to provide the resources which need to bring most vivid, unlimited, and creative aspirations to reality.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rows — Combine the power of a spreadsheet with built-in integrations from your business apps. Automate workflows and build tools that make work simpler.
Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.
Cintoo — Cintoo is essential for BIM to bridge the gap between your physical and virtual worlds.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Augmented Reality
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Juggle Jobs — We help professionals work flexibly
Banked — A Banking Platform for Young People that engenders healthy financial habits and rewards healthy activity.All built around a contactless payment and activity tracking smartwatch.Financial Institutions coupled with Wearable Devices “should” own the Internet of Things, .yet they are too large, unwieldy and slow moving to capitalise on thisadvantage. Banked will be the key indexer of the user in a network of connected things.
Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.

Peter 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.

Investment focus

Music, TV, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Belgium, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tumelo — Tumelo is an impact-focused financial technology firm. Our mission is to enable retail investors and pension members to create and benefit from a more sustainable investment system. We do this by partnering with investment and pension providers, enabling them to provide their customers with transparency over the companies they own and ashareholder voice on issues they care about, such as gender equality or climate change. Our solution is white-label software delivered via APIs and/or a user dashboard. Our software integrates with existing investment platforms improving customer engagement, acquisition and retention for providers.
Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Amplience — The shopping experience platform for generating, creating and delivering content with context
Orbex Space — Founded in 2015, Orbex is Europe’s leading private launch services company, focused entirely on supporting the needs of the small satellite industry.Orbex has developed one of the most advanced, low carbon, high performance micro-launch vehicles in the world. They launch customer satellites into polar and sun-synchronous low Earth orbits from aunique, modern launch location in the heart of the European continent.They offer a flexible core launch service and a wide suite of supporting services that make life easier for customers. Their European location means shorter supply lines, easier communications and reduced operational costs. Their advanced launch vehicle means higher reliability, more flexible mission profiles and a regular, scheduled launch service.
ThreatMark — ThreatMark is the future of trust in the digital world. The company was founded with a vision of bringing trust to interactions across all digital channels through profound cyber security know-how and latest advancements in AI & Data Analytics. ThreatMark processes a comprehensive set of data inputs to continuously validate user’s identity& their intentions while protecting the user’s most valuable assets.At ThreatMark, we make sure that the entire digital journey (onboarding, authentication, account management, transactions…) is trusted and safe for both end-users and businesses. Major banks use ThreatMark’s deep behavioral profiling engine to analyze vast numbers of user specific data & behavioral traits to precisely identify legitimate users and deny fraudsters in real-time. For banks and their users, ThreatMark enables seamless digital experience that does not require additional authentication nor rely on simple transaction monitoring. ThreatMark goes beyond the industry standards to validate more than 25 million users and over 1 billion logins and transactions yearly.ThreatMark is shifting the paradigm in the digital world with advanced solutions complemented by a dedicated team of fraud specialists & cybersecurity experts working in our Security Operations Center (SOC), who vigilantly watch for new malicious activities throughout the digital landscape. Among various honors and industry recognition, ThreatMark has been recognized by Gartner as a Representative Vendor for the Online Fraud Detection area in its 2020 Market guide, named Deloitte’s Top Technology Fast 50 for CE; won 2019 AI Award – Company of the Year; and was awarded EY Entrepreneur of The Year for 2019.

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).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Belgium, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

FixForm — At FixForm, we aim to keep spaces and buildings in good, safe and clean condition. Our platform allows everybody to report problems with just the snap of a picture. Simplify your maintenance today and become part of the FixForm community.
Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.

Since 1999, Acton Capital invests in tech-enabled business models to create value for the long run. We support world-class teams on their way to market leadership.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Klaus — Klaus is a conversation review tool that improves customer service quality by making internal feedback easy and systematic. It also integrates with your help desk, good for improving the quality of answers and on-boarding new agents. They also connect to your favorite help desk solution and saves time on fumbling around with spreadsheets and comingup with the review system.Klaus is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
Henchman — Effortlessly find the clauses you’re looking for by applying our AI to your existing contracts.
ECO Group — Eco is a supplier of consumer products. They create structures for increased growth and profitability within the group companies.

Sony Music is a United States music corporation owned and operated by Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony Corporation. It is a global music company with a roster of current artists that includes both local and international superstars, as well as a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordingsin history.

Investment focus

Music, Digital Media, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Fave — Fave is a social platform dedicated to superfans enabling them to create immersive video content, connect and bond with like-minded fans, compete in fun challenges, exchange both physical and virtual goods in a fan-driven marketplace, and rack up points throughout it all to prove their top fan status, gain recognition in the fandom, and earnexclusive rewards around the artists and creators they love. They also partner with the creators to finally allow them to monetize their fans' activity directly.
Vermillio — Vermillio empowers creators to generate digital content that can be owned and verified on blockchain, enabling AI-generated images to be properly attributed
Turne Soluções Artísticas — The Turne business model combines the functionality of a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform with a marketplace, focusing on meeting the needs of musicians in managing their concert schedules and generating new revenue streams. Here's a more detailed description:1. SaaS - Concert Management Turne offers a digital tool that allows musiciansand bands to manage all aspects related to organizing and planning their live performances. This includes:Schedule Management: The platform centralizes all information about dates, times, and venues, making it easier to control the performance calendar. The schedule can be synced with other devices and apps.Logistics Organization: Musicians can manage details such as hiring auxiliary services (sound technicians, transportation, etc.), planning travel and stage setup, as well as receiving automated reminders about deadlines and specific needs for each show.Contracts and Payments: The platform also facilitates the generation and signing of contracts, and it allows users to manage payments through integration with digital payment systems. This reduces bureaucracy and provides better financial control.2. Marketplace - Expanding Revenue Streams In addition to being a management tool, Turne stands out by acting as a marketplace, directly connecting musicians to new gig opportunities, partners, and products. The main components of this part of the model include:Gig Opportunities: The marketplace serves as a digital showcase where event promoters, venues, bars, and other organizers can find and book musicians directly through the platform. This creates a continuous source of new opportunities for registered artists.3. Monetization Turne monetizes through two main streams:SaaS Subscription: Musicians pay a monthly or annual subscription to use the concert management platform, with different service levels and premium features available depending on the selected plan. The subscription model ensures recurring revenue.4. Benefits for Musicians Information Centralization: The SaaS allows musicians to keep all essential data for their live career organized in one place, saving time and reducing errors.New Revenue Opportunities: The marketplace increases visibility and business possibilities, enabling musicians to diversify their income streams beyond traditional shows.Scalability: Turne enables musicians of all levels, from beginners to established artists, to find opportunities for growth.This hybrid business model, combining SaaS and marketplace, allows Turne to create a comprehensive and robust platform, capable of offering practical management solutions while fostering new business opportunities and increasing revenue generation for musicians.

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.

Investment focus

Music, Internet, Software
Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hadean — Synthetic Environments that provide cutting edge training, real-time situational understanding and predictive intelligence for Governments, National Security and Commercial Enterprises
Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.
Focal Point Positioning — Next-gen positioning software for automotive, wearables and smartphones. Enhanced accuracy, integrity and sensitivity for GNSS receivers.

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

Investment focus

Music, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

GMM Music — GMM Music unlocks the value of Thailand's music economy.
Dancing Bear — Dancing Bear runs a music company that focuses in recorded music, music publishing, artist services, and vinyl records. The company's services include music creation, music label management, and vinyl record publication.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Music, Video, Gaming
Seed
United Kingdom

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.

Pentech Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on finding category defining software companies. Their passion is helping founders develop their startup into an internationally successful organisation. They have done this multiple times, partnering with leading VCs, corporations and investment banks along the way. They consider any opportunitycapable of becoming a market leader but are most comfortable being the first venture investor, supporting founders through the early stages of proving product and market fit. Their initial investment is likely to be £500K to £2M, with up to £10M invested over the lifetime of the investment.They invest in founders who are ambitious to build a global company, have the passion and ability to attract the best team and who are focused on the data and understand the key drivers in proving and building their business. They support the founders they invest in to develop and grow with their business.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Analytics
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

FloodFlash — Finding commercial flood insurance can be tough. Control your costs and your recovery with new rapid-payout flood insurance.
PrimaryBid — PrimaryBid builds technology that connects companies with their retail investor communities. We power smart retail inclusion in global capital markets.
Vauban — Vauban is a tech company reshaping the world of private investing. The platform makes it easier, faster, and more cost-effective for anyone to co-invest in private companies. With Vauban, you can easily create your Syndicate online, start sharing your deal flow and let your network co-invest with you in startups. Vauban has automated the SPV &funds setup process.

TAG Group is an award-winning global, independent event and corporate travel management company

Investment focus

SaaS, Audio, Music
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

IRIS Audio Technologies — IRIS Listen Well is bringing back living sound and enabling the world to Listen Well.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

LGN — LGN's edge AI management software puts you in complete technical and financial control of your edge AI systems.
Tenyks — Tenyks gives Computer Vision Engineers the insights to build more reliable models faster! Collaborate to identify and fix dataset issues. Improve data quality. Boost model performance. No more wondering in the dark.
Worldr — Valarian | Innovating for the new era of digital sovereignty

John Michaelis

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Digital Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Diffblue — Diffblue Cover uses next generation autonomous AI to automate unit testing so that Java development teams can build better applications faster
illumion — Illumion develops high-throughput optical tools to accelerate battery material development
Brainomix — Since launching as a spin-out from the University of Oxford in 2010, Brainomix has developed award-winning, AI-powered imaging biomarkers, assisting physicians across the world to make better life-saving decisions. Brainomix seminal product, e-Stroke is a collection of tools that use state-of-the-art AI algorithms to support doctors by providingreal-time interpretation of brain scans to help guide treatment and transfer decisions for stroke patients, allowing more patients to get the right treatment, in the right place, at the right time.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Distru — Seed-to-Sale Cannabis ERP that helps operators manage their inventory, orders and customers from a single interface, while staying compliant with Metrc.
Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
Scribe Health AI — HIPAA-compliant clinical documentation tool that seamlessly integrates with 50+ EMR systems including Epic, Cerner & Athena . Automates SOAP notes and medical coding while ensuring data security. Perfect for healthcare providers seeking efficient, compliant documentation workflows

Colin McInnes

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Digital Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.

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

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom

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.

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.

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Haglit — The first artificial intelligence-powered sales assistant for Ecommerce
Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.

.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.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Swoop — Quick access to business finance. Get matched with tailored funding across loans, equity finance, & grants, & cut business costs in one fell swoop.
Biscuit Tin — Biscuit Tin is a digital legacy vault, securely holding valuable life information including account details, documents, post-life wishes, memories and more.
Journee — We'll match you with an exciting trip and take care of everything. One 15 minute form. That's all we need. Go on a trip as adventurous as you.

Matt Jellicoe

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Digital Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.

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.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Popp AI — Popp helps brands boost customer lifetime value + unlock community-led growth by transforming customer advocacy into a community sport.
Popp — Joinpopp provides AI-driven solutions to automate recruitment tasks, including application screening and candidate conversations. The platform integrates seamlessly with ATS/CRM systems, enhancing efficiency in the hiring process. Joinpopp also offers features for creating personalized messages, streamlining communication with potentialcandidates.
LearnWise AI — Transform your institution's student support with AI. Cut support costs by 50%, provide 24/7 assistance, and integrate with 400+ EdTech tools. Trusted by leading universities.

Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
Lockchain.ai — AI-powered risk management for digital assets.
Flare — We enable companies to prevent cyber attacks before they become costly data breaches.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Genmo — Genmo trains the world's best open video generation models. Create incredible videos with AI at Genmo
Airfold — Airfold automatically analyzes all your customer-facing calls and emails so you know for sure what drives or kills your pipeline.
Town — The complete tax solution for small businesses like yours

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Pyka — We believe that electrification and automation will make aviation safer, more affordable, and more accessible than has ever been possible in human history.
OneSkin — It's time to redefine how we think about skin health. Explore how we use aging & longevity science principles for products that'll leave your skin feeling healthier.
Qminder — Set up Qminder queue management software in minutes. Real-time reports on customer service & employee performance. Cloud-based. Wireless. Free Support.

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. Finance East Limited delivers funding for businesses based in the East of England region.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Wilder Sensing — Wilder Sensing analyses audio and other data sources to produce actionable insights into the status and trends of biodiversity on your site.
Cybaverse — Cybaverse is a CREST accredited Managed Security Service Provider: Penetration Testing, Monitoring Detection and Response, Cyber Essentials.
Green Power Solutions — Green Power Solutions is a progressive business committed to providing innovative, environmentally friendly energy solutions. Green Power Solutions maintains our technology satisfies current demands while creating a more environmentally friendly future. With real-time monitoring, sophisticated analytics, and seamless integration, our flagshipproduct, the 3MS platform, is revolutionizing off-grid asset management and providing genuinely green, potent solutions to companies all over the world.

Windcrest Partners is a venture capital firm that offers private equity investment services to firms in the energy, network, games, healthcare administration, and internet technology industries. It was founded in 1967 and is based in New York.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wyng — Wyng helps innovative brands launch engaging digital experiences to grow their audience, collect zero-party data, and drive sales.
Festicket — Lyte is a technology platform that enables venues & event owners to take control of their ticketing experience.
GoodData — GoodData is a leading composable data and analytics platform. Build, embed, and scale analytics on demand, with zero vendor lock-in.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Taktile — Taktile's no-code platform enables you to easily build automated decision flows and iterate on them in a data-driven way leveraging backtests and A/B testing.
Grand Games — Grand Games is shaping the future of gaming by creating genre-defining games played by millions worldwide.
Lindus Health — Lindus Health. From recruitment to delivery, we accelerate clinical trials. Our mission is to make health research accessible for everyone, everywhere.

FirstMark is an early-stage venture capital firm in New York City. We back and accelerate founders making their mark on the world.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Synthesia — Create AI videos by simply typing in text. Make engaging videos for e-learning, customer onboarding, etc. No need for actors, cameras or audio equipment.
Pickle — Pickle is a rental marketplace that aims to monetize the billions of underutilized assets sitting in consumers closets and brand inventory. Our users can easily tap into shared closets within their community through flexible and/or on-demand delivery options (i.e. UberEats style door-to-door delivery). Our goal is to provide affordable andconvenient access to quality items exactly when our users need them.
Firsthand — Protect, control, & deploy your content across conversational campaigns that are powered by custom AI agents, and distributed anywhere your consumers are.

Peter Bartlett

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Digital Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.

Ojjeh Family Fund is the family investment fund founded by the Oijeh Family.

Investment focus

SaaS, Audio, Music
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

IRIS Audio Technologies — IRIS Listen Well is bringing back living sound and enabling the world to Listen Well.

We invest in leaders and empower them to improve the world with design.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Capitol — Capitol uses the power of AI & Design to make better, faster decisions with data.
Superframe — Simplifying Salesforce chaos. Streamline permissions, predict issues, and get quick answers with our chatbot to improve your company's RevOps.
Evergreen Renewables — Ever.green is a marketplace for high-impact RECs and low-risk tax credits that accelerate the transition to renewable energy. We work with buyers of all size and directly with project developers building new projects.

Gavin Wood was the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of the Ethereum Project. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol, author of its formal specification, and is the creator and author of the first functional Ethereum implementation. Gavin Wood designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, anddesigned and implemented the Whisper protocol. He has pushed “state-of-the-art” in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-founded several technology startups.Gavin Wood has presented to numerous audiences around the world, from keynotes at regional technology conferences, to musings on the future of legal systems at Harvard. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York. His new initiative is the Polkadot protocol, which will connect public and private blockchains so that they can inter-operate. This ambitious project could make it frictionless for corporations that wish to work in private blockchains to connect with public blockchains.Gavin is founder and current director of Parity Technologies Ltd. He has pushed the state-of-the-art in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-founded several technology startups, including Grid Singularity and Ethereum. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol and author of its formal specification, he created and wrote the first functional Ethereum implementation, designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Blockchain, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Japan, France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
Redpill AI — Redpill's objective is to make the best AI resources accessible to everyone. The platform functions as a permissionless LLM router network, providing seamless integration across several AI models.
Minimize Influence — Social Marketing

Miroma Ventures is the investment arm of The Miroma Group, predominantly focusing on investing in venture and growth stage consumer brands and media platforms. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs and deliver marketing solutions to accelerate growth and drive long-term value for the business.

Investment focus

Advertising, Apps, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Bruvi — Bruvi is a breakthrough single-serve coffee system, with patent pending technology and proprietary, eco-friendly B-Pods®. Bruvi brews filter coffee, true espresso and Americanos, as well as the first cold brew from a single-serve brewer. Bruvi will offer sustainably sourced craft coffee from house brands and from some of the most popular third waveroasters.
New Stance — New Stance is a full service influencer talent marketing and partnership activation agency in London specialising in the Sports & Entertainment sectors.
ROAM — ROAM is a global community for the next generation adventurer.

Ewald Hesse

Investment focus

Information Technology, Blockchain, Music
Seed, Funding Round
Austria, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Odyssey — An open-source 3D content platform that is designed to redefine the virtual space as well as our physical world.
Music Protocol | Web3 Music Association — Marketplace of Nfts managed by Public Pressure
Kivu Technologies GmbH — Established in Austria in 2016, Kivu is a talented multidisciplinary team of engineers, developers, data scientists, analysts and security professionals. Founded by a passion to drive change through innovation, we believe we can make the world a better, safer place. We believe our world is increasingly connected, an exponentially expanding network.Existing technologies are inadequate to handle massive networks. Understanding networks and the connected relationships within these networks is vital to tackle the most challenging problems of our time. At Kivu, we design and build technology to help save lives and enhance human security.

Vespa Capital private equity investment technology pharmaceutical healthcare sustainability MBO recapitalisation partnership growth mid-market

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Consulting
Private Equity, Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Eserv — Eserv is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that revolutionises how customers design, build, operate and maintain complex industrial assets through our digital twin technology AS-TEG™.
Right Legal Group — Right Legal Group is a well-established law firm that specialises in tailor-made Wills, Probate and Estate Planning services regulated by the SRA.
Digital Technology Advisory Group — Digital Technology Advisory Group provides marketing strategy consulting and tech-enabled communications solutions.

The UK Angel Investment Network connects business entrepreneurs with Angel Investors. Find an Investor for your business, or access a network of investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Denmark, India

Portfolio highlights

PF Nexus — Renewable energy and infrastructure marketplace, Reduce origination costs, increase deal flow, International and emerging market specialists, $30bn+ projects.
Here We Flo — Fiercely natural and sustainable period care, sensitive bladder and sexual wellness care - so you can feel crazy confident in life's messiest moments. Only natural, never harmful, always adorable. B Corp Certified.
Aura Life — Aura Funerals is a digital end-of-life planning and funeral service.

DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cognigy — Automate customer and employee services through Conversational AI implementation across any organization with Cognigy. Book demo or try free now!
Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it

Eden Ventures invests in technology companies in the telecommunications software, enterprise software, digital media, e-commerce, internet and mobile sectors in the UK and Ireland.At Eden, they address the funding gap between business angels and later stage venture capitalists, providing investment appropriate for the needs of an investee companyand its stage of development. As a seed investor they are prepared to 'take the early risk' but they also have enough capacity in their funds to support their companies to significant exits. They have helped their entrepreneurs attract world-class investors such as Bessemer, Canaan Partners, Highland, Index, Intel Capital, Matrix, Ribbit Capital, TCV and Union Square Ventures into follow-on rounds.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Unlockd — Maximize the return on your NFTs with cross-chain, instant loans while keeping their utility.
Insomnia Labs — Breathing life into ideas that take root. Creativity is limited only by technology. At IN:SOMNIA labs, We build technologies that enhance creativity.
Bright Star Studios — Publisher of Ember Sword. We build zero-friction next-gen social MMOs that empower gamers through open player-centric-economies based on digital collectibles.

Queen Mary University of London is an established university in London's vibrant East End committed to high-quality teaching and research; offering both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Software
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RoEx — RoEx provides online mixing services using artificial intelligence. We have an easy to use web platform and a lightning fast API to cover all your audio production needs i.e. music, podcast and video. No need for mastering.

Paul McGuinness is the founder of Principle Management Limited.

Investment focus

TV, DRM, Apps
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ROXi — British music streaming company Magic Media Works Limited (trading as ROXi) is backed by Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams, bringing friends and family together to enjoy free unlimited music video streaming, exclusive music video channels, karaoke, music games and more. ROXi’s free TV Music App is available from launch on Sky Q, Fire TV, Android TVand Google TV including compatible Sony Bravia, Panasonic, Philips, Toshiba, TCL, HiSense and Shield Smart TVs and set-top boxes with Samsung TV and others coming soon. ROXi is also available as a Console with Microphone Controller for use with any TV. ROXi is backed by all the major and leading independent record labels with all the original music videos and over 70 million music releases.

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