Top 50 Music Startup Investors in United Kingdom in May 2026
Top 50 Music Startup Investors in United Kingdom in May 2026
| Investor | Music United Kingdom investments |
|---|---|
| Northstar Ventures | 9 |
| Hotspur Capital | 6 |
| Ascension | 5 |
| Playfair Capital | 4 |
| Andrew Scott | 3 |
| Octopus Ventures | 3 |
| Andrew Gault | 3 |
| Balderton Capital | 3 |
| Armilar Venture Partners | 3 |
| SFC Capital | 3 |
| Index Ventures | 3 |
| Universal Music Group | 3 |
| Cambridge Innovation Capital | 3 |
| Peter Gabriel | 3 |
| TAG | 2 |
| Windcrest Partners | 2 |
| Ojjeh Family Fund | 2 |
| Metaplanet | 2 |
| Peter Bartlett | 2 |
| Velocity Capital Advisors | 2 |
| John Taysom | 2 |
| Colin McInnes | 2 |
| Matt Jellicoe | 2 |
| Acton Capital | 2 |
| WndrCo | 2 |
| Warner Music Group | 2 |
| ESRG Investments | 2 |
| Emerge VC | 2 |
| Parkwalk Advisors | 2 |
| Creative England | 2 |
| The FSE Group | 2 |
| Sony Music Entertainment | 2 |
| John Michaelis | 2 |
| Pentech Ventures | 2 |
| Lorenz Bogaert | 2 |
| FirstMark | 2 |
| Nidobirds Ventures | 2 |
| Yasin Sebastian Qureshi | 2 |
| Global Founders Capital | 2 |
| David Cummings | 2 |
| White Star Capital | 2 |
| Stefan Glänzer | 2 |
| Lumia Capital | 1 |
| Rianta Capital | 1 |
| Midven | 1 |
| Scytale Ventures | 1 |
| Speedinvest | 1 |
| GPOS Investments | 1 |
| Rockpool Investments LLP | 1 |
| Oli Farago | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!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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- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia
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- Nanovery — Founded by scientists specialised in Nanotechnology, Medicinal Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence, we are on a mission to enable early detection of cancer through a rapid and affordable blood test Backed by academics at top universities, clinicians, industrial leaders, and Entrepreneur First.
- AI Hay — AI Hay develops an AI-driven answer engine that allows users to access information through a question-and-answer format. The company combines hyperlocal, culturally nuanced knowledge discovery engines with social loops to enhance community validation and perspectives. It utilizes in-house specialized large-language models, retrieval-augmentedgeneration (RAG), and social features to build a knowledge discovery platform that serves the community.
- Magnitude Biosciences — Magnitude Biosciences is a biotechnology firm combine experience in ageing research, the nematode C. elegans and automation.
Hotspur Capital is a financial organization.
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- Mobile, Software, Location Based Services
- 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
Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.
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- Software, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Sprive — Sprive is the free app that helps take years off your mortgage and save you thousands of pounds in interest.
- ReBorn® Homewares — ReBorn purpose is to transform the sustainability of the global homewares industry. We are committed to creating the most stylish and planet-friendly homewares, and driving collective change in the UK and beyond .Our five key principles are: 1.Recycling Waste 2.Local production 3.Circular Design 4.Stylish Solutions 5.Collaborative Power
- Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.
Playfair is a sector agnostic fund focused exclusively on pre-seed investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making six investments a year out of its third $70m fund and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Our 78% Series Agraduation rate is ~3x industry average. Playfair has backed 100+ companies since 2013, including Thought Machine, Orca AI, Protex AI, StackOne and Nory.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Belidor — Belidor Helps preconstruction teams win more bids with AI bid leveling and bid management tools.
- Cauldron — Cauldron aim is to create a Worldbuilding is the art form that is foundational to everything at Cauldron. We want people to truly feel they can not only escape into our worlds, but through the advances of Web3, be a part of them.
- Recycleye — Recycleye offers ground-breaking AI robotics for innovative waste and materials management. See how automation can optimise your operations.
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
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- Breeze — Cargo insurance reinvented.
- 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.
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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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Baselime — Use logs, metrics, distributed tracing and wide-events to detect, diagnose and resolve issues before they impact your users.
- OLIX — OLIX designs and manufactures optical processors that use light-based circuits to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads. The company develops Optical Tensor Processing Units that execute matrix and tensor operations for training and running inference on large-scale machine learning models. Its hardware aims to increase performance and reducepower consumption relative to conventional electronic accelerators by processing data in the optical domain. Flux Computing focuses on infrastructure for generative AI and advanced neural networks, targeting data centers and organizations that require intensive model computation. The product stack centers on custom optical chips integrated with supporting electronics, control software, and tools that link into existing AI frameworks. Sales and partnerships primarily address customers building large AI clusters, research environments, and emerging applications that benefit from high-throughput, low-energy computation.
- Connectome Health — Connectome is a cognitive intelligence platform that measures and understands how the brain changes over time using transparent, science-backed data people and organisations can trust.
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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- 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.
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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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
- Dash0 — Dash0 is modern OpenTelemetry Native Observability, built on CNCF Open Standards such as PromQL, Perses and OTLP with full cost control
- Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Portugal, United States, United Kingdom
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- Cintoo — Cintoo is essential for BIM to bridge the gap between your physical and virtual worlds.
- Automaise — Radically improve your customer care operations by focusing where the volume is and helping your agents do a better job.
- Sword Health — Sword delivers AI Care with clinical oversight to prevent pain, support recovery, and promote whole-body health. Trusted by employers and health plans.
Discover the UK's leading SEIS Fund, offering tax-efficient investments in innovative startups. Join thousands of savvy investors and raise capital for your business with SFC Capital.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
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- ZERØTEC — ZERØTEC is an pattern design and nesting software platform for fashion designers and manufacturers
- Sages — Biodegradeable, non-polluting, low-impact and vibrant dyes extracted from food waste.
- Srotas Health — Join thousands of patients, researchers, and healthcare organizations advancing medical breakthroughs. Streamline clinical trials with our cutting-edge platform.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Trouva — Trouva, launched in September 2015, is the marketplace for bricks and mortar independent shops, selling unique homeware and lifestyle products from hundreds of shops and boutiques. Trouva bridges online and offline in retail to offer click and collect, 1-hour delivery, and worldwide shipping in a single seamless platform.Trouva is one of the mostexciting e-commerce start-ups in Europe, backed by amazing VC and Angel Investors whose successes include Secret Escapes, Net-A-Porter, and Farfetch (BGF Ventures, Octopus Investments, C4 Ventures, Index Ventures & LocalGlobe).
- Funding Circle — When Funding Circle was founded, they could see that businesses weren’t being given the finance to grow, while investors were making poor returns. They had a simple idea — let them support each other.By lending directly to businesses through Funding Circle, investors can now earn attractive returns to better provide for their future. Businessesget fast, easy access to funding to grow, create jobs, support local communities and drive the economy forward. They believe it’s better for everyone.
- Raisin — Raisin is a savings and investment marketplace that connects retail customers with banks looking to expand deposit reach. The company's goal is to provide savers the best interest rates. The company gives access to exclusive savings products from all over Europe. Raisin assures a smooth investment process and the simple management ofinvestments with all of the partner banks via one single platform.Raisin was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Raisin DS was formed by a merger of the FinTech companies Deposit Solutions and Raisin in June 2021.
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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- Music, Video, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom
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- Jelli — Create audio campaigns within minutes and easily secure premium inventory. Our suite of cloud-based demand-side and supply-side platforms reach over 245 million monthly listeners and serve billions of ad impressions per year. Schedule a demo today to see how you can strengthen your audio strategy with Jelli.
- Pex — The most advanced Music Recognition Technology (MRT) for fraud prevention, commercial licensing, black box royalties, and AI song detection.
- VULCUN — Vulcun offers the largest prize pools in Fantasy eSports today, allowing gamers to support their favorite pro players and win hundreds of thousands in real money each season. The service is trusted by dozens of Pro players such as Voyboy, Imaqtpie, MandatoryCloud, Westrice and others.
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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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
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- Immutrin — Immutrin is a biotechnology company developing next‑generation antibody therapies designed to clear systemic amyloid deposits and reverse amyloidosis, this company lead asset targets ATTR cardiomyopathy, a severe and progressive form of amyloidosis, and its antibody represents a potential best‑in‑class treatment engineered to selectively andspecifically remove established amyloid fibrils.
- Sortera Bio — Sortera Bio operates as a biotechnology company. Sortera is committed to providing revolutionary solutions in biologics discovery.
- T-Therapeutics — T-Therapeutics is a expertise in mouse genome engineering, deep expertise in biopharmaceutical drug development, single cell genomics, machine-learning and structural biology, anchored in a culture of creativity and collaboration. .
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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- Music, TV, Video
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Belgium, United States
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- 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.
TAG Group is an award-winning global, independent event and corporate travel management company
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- SaaS, Audio, Music
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- IRIS Audio Technologies — IRIS Listen Well is bringing back living sound and enabling the world to Listen Well.
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.
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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom
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- Wyng — Wyng helps innovative brands launch engaging digital experiences to grow their audience, collect zero-party data, and drive sales.
- Festicket — Discover amazing music festivals and artists around the world | Join us now.
- GoodData — GoodData is a leading composable data and analytics platform. Build, embed, and scale analytics on demand, with zero vendor lock-in.
Ojjeh Family Fund is the family investment fund founded by the Oijeh Family.
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- SaaS, Audio, Music
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- IRIS Audio Technologies — IRIS Listen Well is bringing back living sound and enabling the world to Listen Well.
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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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Estonia
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- Vok Bikes — We build heavy-duty cargo bikes and rent them out to on-demand delivery companies and their couriers — no surprises, no extra fees. Currently active in Tallinn and Vilnius and expanding to London and Berlin Q4 2021.
- Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
- Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.
Peter Bartlett
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- Audio, Music, Digital Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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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.
.co.com is a global domain name extension providing businesses, organizations and individuals with short, memorable and recognizable .co.com domain names through a worldwide distribution network of registrars and resellers.
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- Mobile, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Swoop — Quick access to business funding. 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.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
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- 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
Colin McInnes
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- Audio, Music, Digital Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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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.
Matt Jellicoe
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- Audio, Music, Digital Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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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.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Germany, Canada, United Kingdom
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- remberg — The remberg software helps industrial companies become digital champions in customer & field service for their machines and equipment, moving from reactive and analog to proactive and digital, thereby eliminating paper chaos and preparing them for the age of the Internet of Things (IoT).
- Stotles — Get instant access to public sector tenders and activities. Monitor early buying signals tailored to your business. Connect with key stakeholders in just a few clicks.
- Metalshub — Metalshub is one of the pioneers of digital transformation in the metals industry. The software start-up was founded in 2016 in Düsseldorf by Dr. Sebastian Kreft and Dr. Frank Jackel with the mission to connect companies in the industry with a digital platform. Digital supply chains can help reduce costs and CO2 emissions. More than 1,100 companiesare already using Metalshub, including more than 200 foundries and steel mills that have digitised their purchasing processes with Metalshub. Since the launch of the platform in 2017, more than 750 Million USD in trading volume was concluded through Metalshub.
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Placer.ai — Make smarter real estate decisions and close more deals with Placer.ai's location intelligence and foot traffic insights.
- Airfold — Airfold automatically analyzes all your customer-facing calls and emails so you know for sure what drives or kills your pipeline.
- Wrapbook — Meet the unified platform for film, TV, and commercial production payroll, accounting, and cost-tracking. Wrapbook offers automated timecards, compliance, budget management, and much more.
Warner Music Group is a major music company with interests in recorded music, music publishing and artist services
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- Music, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- 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.
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- Music, Video, Gaming
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- 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.
Emerge is a $70m pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best edtech and future of work founders and executives. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders re-designing the future of learning and work.
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- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- 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.
- Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.
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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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Philippines
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- 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.
- Ceryx Medical — Ceryx Medical Ltd are the revolutionary business behind a unique bioelectronic technology that could change the way diseases such as heart failure are treated.
- Enhanc3D Genomics — Enhanc3D Genomics is a spinout company from Babraham Institute.
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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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- 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 — Award-winning porting and co-development game studio for hire
FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Seed, Debt Financing, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
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- Sendr — Sendr uses AI to enhance sales outreach with personalized messages and data-driven tools for higher buyer engagement.
- TruePlayers — Trueplayers is a computer game development company that specializes in mobile games. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Falmouth, Cornwall.
- Grace & Green — Grace & Green fight for access, inclusivity, and education, dismantling barriers to essential care. Because dignity shouldn't come with a price.
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.
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- Music, Software, Digital Media
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Japan
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- SymphoMe — SymphoMe is an innovative music education platform designed to revolutionise the way music is taught and learned. Utilising advanced AI-driven multimodal music teaching technology, SymphoMe provides a personalised, engaging, and effective learning experience for music students and teachers alike.
- Vermillio — Protect your IP and combat deepfakes with TraceID by Vermillio. Ensure safe licensing and secure your content in the age of AI.
- Turne Solucoes Artisticas — 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.
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- Audio, Music, Digital Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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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.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
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- 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.
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Belgium, United Kingdom, United States
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- Axe — AI phone agents that handle millions of calls. Build and manage voice, email, and chat agents.
- 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.
FirstMark is an early-stage venture capital firm in New York City. We back and accelerate founders making their mark on the world.
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- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- OpenGamma — Join the leading firms using OpenGamma's derivatives margin analytics to improve their capital efficiency.
- EvolutionIQ — EvolutionIQ is the leading insurance claims guidance platform, providing faster recoveries and smarter decisions for carriers
- 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.
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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- Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany
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- 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.
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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- Audio, Music, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United Kingdom
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- 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.
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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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Era Software — Lightstep is the easiest way for developers and SREs to understand complex systems.
- Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
- Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.
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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- Music, Internet, Software
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- 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.
Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Seyna — Seyna Seyna provides an insurance creation, management and distribution platform for brokers to protect their customers.
- FINN — At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated.
- MyEdSpace — MyEdSpace offers high-quality online courses created by experts with tailored resources for KS2 (Year 5/6), KS3 (Year 7-8), GCSE, and A-level students.
Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
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- Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
- HEY HOLY — We’re transforming pet care — with a breed-specific health concept instead of one-size-fits-all, with longevity at its core
- Mozart AI — Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries.
Lumia is an expansion-stage VC firm partnering with forward-thinking US and European innovators expanding internationally for breakout growth. Lumia employs a hands-on strategy, working closely with management teams by pairing Silicon Valley insights and contacts with global knowledge sharing and relationships to propel companies throughexpansion-stage challenges and opportunities.It prefers to invest in internet and software companies with a focus on SaaS, mobile, cloud computing, infrastructure, and big data. It typically invests between $3 million and $30 million in companies with greater than $10 million annualized net sales. Lumia also invests in select early stage opportunities via its "Telescope" program. The company focuses on investing in primary and secondary transactions and in common and preferred shares. Lumia Capital was founded by Martin Gedalin in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco.
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- Software, Mobile, Marketplace
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
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- Auna — Auna engages in health care and wellness services.
- Kitopi — Kitopi is a managed cloud kitchen platform that partners with restaurants to grow their business and expand their delivery reach.
- Naked Labs — Naked Labs is a Silicon Valley-based startup focused on3D scanning, computer vision, and human-centered design. It uses infrared light to capture a 3D body model, which is visualized on the Naked app. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
Rianta Capital, a Swiss venture capital firm, provides investment advice and management support to trust funds and investment companies.
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- Agriculture, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, United Kingdom, Germany
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- GROUNDED — All natural, dairy free, plant based protein m*lkshakes without the cr*p. Made using fair trade, organic cocoa powder and creamy coconut milk. No nasties. Nothing artificial. Just real ingredients straight from the ground and 20g of pure plant protein.
- VenueScanner — VenueScanner is a two-sided marketplace. A venue search and booking platform for event organisers looking for space for anything from a meeting to a yoga session or party. A digital marketing tool for Venue Hosts to market their under-utilised space. they are solving the pain event organisers experience in discovering and booking venues online andthe high costs involved in hiring space when >50% venue space sits unused. Venues can list themselves in 5 minutes and organisers can discover new venues (14k on the platform) favourite, enquire and book. An Airbnb style messaging hub allows members to communicate directly. No intermediaries. Benjy & Rebecca have 20 yrs experience in e-commerce & digital marketing and are applying this mindset to matching supply and demand and making the events industry more consumer centric and digital.
- Something & Nothing — Our Premium Sodas are made with the highest quality natural juices, extracts and botanicals for elevated refreshment.
Midven is a specialist venture capital company providing investment to fast growing small and medium sized enterprises ("SMEs"), run by an energetic, experienced and hands-on team of investment managers.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Israel
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- MetCloud — METCLOUD is a next generation, cyber security & cloud platform provider. Contact our team today for pioneering cyber security solutions!
- When in Rome — We bring you craft wines made by small, independent producers and sold in convenient, eco-friendly bag-in-boxes at a great price with free delivery.
- Medmin Group Limited — Medmin is building a group of healthcare businesses that will transform private medical treatment for the uninsured and the clinicians that treat them. We are developing a network of clinics across the UK, grouping clinicians together into branded, condition focussed clinics that patients can easily identify online. The clinics will provide care toour "Get Well Soon" patients and also undertake work for insured and self-pay patients requiring other procedures and treatments.
We are a team of investment management experts, blockchain technology experts and entrepreneurs who share a vision about the impact of blockchain technology and accompanied Web3 technologies.
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- Blockchain, Information Technology, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Japan, Canada
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- fruitlab — fruitlab is a community platform for the billions of people in the world that enjoy smiling or gaming or smiling and gaming.
- Centrifuge — Centrifuge is an open, decentralized operating system to connect the global financial supply chain. It allows participants to transact on a global network while maintaining ownership of their data, including their validated company details, their reputation, business relationships, and subsequent transactions. The company's team built multiplecompanies together over the last 18 years and they still enjoy working as a group. Together, they created software that transacts billions of dollars each day and is used by 97 out of the Fortune 100. With the help of their world-class investors, advisors, partners, and team they started Centrifuge to go on building real software, solving real business problems.
- Music Protocol | Web3 Music Association — Marketplace of Nfts managed by Public Pressure
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
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- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
- remberg — The remberg software helps industrial companies become digital champions in customer & field service for their machines and equipment, moving from reactive and analog to proactive and digital, thereby eliminating paper chaos and preparing them for the age of the Internet of Things (IoT).
- Riverse — The impact monetization platform enabling European green-techs finance their growth by valorizing their impact
GPOS Investments is a premier family office focused on advancing fast-growth fintech startups and prime real estate ventures. The firm aims to identify and support innovative solutions and transformative opportunities. Leveraging deep industry expertise and an extensive network, GPOS Investments delivers exceptional value and fosters sustainablegrowth.
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- Apps, Music, Hospitality
- Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Ryft — Butlr is the fastest growing ordering platform for bars, pubs and music venues. One app across all venues removing queues.
Rockpool Investments helps individuals invest in UK private companies in a tax-efficient way. It gives investors direct access to opportunities without the constraints of a fund. Investment opportunities often feature attractive tax breaks, most particularly through the Enterprise Investment Scheme ('EIS'). Its founding partners haveplayed key roles in the investment of more than £500m in more than 150 UK private companies – with 3i plc, Bridgepoint and two prominent businesses in the private investor sector.
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- Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Lifestyle
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Isle of Man
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- Mmadigital — We have recently rebranded as Blume. You will shortly be redirected to our new website.
- Rosetta Brands — Connecting Brands Exclusively with Amazon. Rosetta Brands is a B2B Ecomm-as-a-service company specializing in Amazon, providing an easy way for businesses to work with the largest online retailer.
- Realise Energy Services — Realise Energy Services is a locally based UK mid-wind service and maintenance company with a large portfolio of wind turbines that we currently support.
Oli Farago Founder & CEO at Coyote Software. He attended Culford School during 1996-2002.
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- Real Estate, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, South Africa
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- Maroo — The smartest way to pay for your wedding
- HyperionDev — Accelerate your career with a online coding bootcamp. Learn to code in just 3 - 6 months.
- The Smart Container Company — The Smart Container Company is the team behind KegTracker and BeverEDGE, a first-to-market IoT device and platform that instantly turns kegs into SMART containers. Our technology tracks real-time location, volume, temperature, and motion for each keg and delivers actionable insights that enable transparency and zero.
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