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Top 50 Music Startup Investors in United Kingdom in May 2025

Last updated: May 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 May 2025

Investor	Music United Kingdom investments
Northstar Ventures	9
Hotspur Capital	6
Ascension	5
Playfair Capital	4
SFC Capital	3
Andrew Scott	3
Armilar Venture Partners	3
Andrew Gault	3
Peter Gabriel	3
Index Ventures	3
Octopus Ventures	3
Universal Music Group	3
Cambridge Innovation Capital	3
Parkwalk Advisors	2
Global Founders Capital	2
David Cummings	2
Warner Music Group	2
Nidobirds Ventures	2
ESRG Investments	2
Metaplanet	2
Pentech Ventures	2
TAG	2
The FSE Group	2
Windcrest Partners	2
Balderton Capital	2
FirstMark	2
Peter Bartlett	2
Ojjeh Family Fund	2
Lorenz Bogaert	2
Velocity Capital Advisors	2
John Taysom	2
Colin McInnes	2
Sony Music Entertainment	2
Creative England	2
Matt Jellicoe	2
Emerge	2
White Star Capital	2
WndrCo	2
Yasin Sebastian Qureshi	2
Acton Capital	2
John Michaelis	2
Mustafa Suleyman	1
Low Carbon Innovation Fund	1
Northzone	1
Cherubic Ventures	1
Social Tech Trust	1
TCG	1
Neel Sachdev	1
Key Capital	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.
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.
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.

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, FinTech, Financial Services
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.
Capably AI — Capably empowers professionals to automate complex tasks with AI in minutes, regardless of their level of technical expertise. Operating autonomously in the background, Capably acts as an extension of the teams it supports, driving greater productivity and efficiency. Anyone in the company can use Capably to automate back-office tasks like dataentry and processing, generate insights and reports, manage projects, and more—all while the organisation maintains complete control and visibility over how and when employees delegate work to AI.
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 building a next-generation network observability platform that seamlessly combines all network data sources and provides real-time responses to any network question.

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

Returnal — Supercharge your sustainability journey with our buy-back tech. We invite you to own products through their 2nd and 3rd lifecycles through our buy-back model. Find out more today...
UNA Watch — UNA Watch is a wearable tech startup that develops modular and repairable GPS sports watches. The company's flagship product is designed to provide accurate tracking for activities such as running, cycling, and hiking, featuring dual-frequency GPS, an altimeter, accelerometer, advanced heart rate sensor, and a 10-day battery life. The watchemploys a modular design, allowing users to easily replace or upgrade components, thereby promoting sustainability and reducing electronic waste. Additionally, it utilizes USB-C charging to minimize the need for proprietary cables.
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.

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

Juggle Jobs — We help professionals work flexibly
Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.
Biological Black Box — A groundbreaking new field of science using real neurons for computing. Train the most complex AI models better, faster, and cheaper using 500 million years of biology.

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.

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

Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.

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.
Zendo Energy — Zendo Energy is dedicated to the mission of decarbonising computing power. The company aims to empower data centres to become smarter, more efficient, and prepared for the increasing future demand of computing by leveraging advanced software solutions. Their platform utilizes real-time analytics and predictive tools to optimise energy consumption,reduce emissions, and integrate renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, thereby supporting the transition to sustainable digital infrastructure. This mission addresses the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of data centres amid the exponential growth of AI and computing workloads globally

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.

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 — Transformative treatments for CNS and inflammatory disorders by selectively destroying disease-causing protein aggregates

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

Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
Rabbit — At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL!
Scribe Health AI — The #1 Free AI Medical Scribe & Progress Note Taker. Integrated to your EMR. HIPAA Compliant AI Scribe. Save 2 hours everyday. Reduce Burnout by 80%. No credit card signup.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

mo:re GmbH — Mo:re is building the new gold standard for organoid-based drug development by offering a lab platform that industrialises cell culture workflows.
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.
Aura — Aura exists to celebrate what's most important in life. Let's think about life together, and plan a funeral that truly reflects those you love.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
SportsPro — SportsPro manufactures its Pro sportswear training apparel and team wear and offers innovative conceptual ideas to local sports teams, including junior teams, athletes, sports clubs, parents, and supporters.
New Motion Labs — New Motion Labs is a driven collection of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs, dedicated to developing and licensing revolutionary designs for Mechanical Engineering. Nearly every mechanical component will contain a gear, belt or roller-chain drive. They all have one thing in common. They transfer power on one side of the tooth, and we referto this as ‘single engagement.’From the roller chain drives on bikes and e-bikes, to belt drives on conveyors and gear drives in transmissions. This method of engagement leads to shortcomings for each technology.Our first technology, DUAL ENGAGEMENT™ is a revolutionary method of transferring power on both sides of the sprocket tooth, leading to many advantages over roller-chains, increasing efficiency, strength and lifetime at smaller weights and sizes.Our technology enables a more efficient, more sustainable world, with smaller, lighter products with greater lifetimes.

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

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
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.
Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.

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.

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.

.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.

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

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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 — Vermillio empowers creators to generate digital content that can be owned and verified on blockchain, enabling AI-generated images to be properly attributed
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.

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

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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 — Huey Games is a Ga me developer providing smart porting service for various consoles.

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

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.

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.

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.

Mustafa Suleyman is a founder, venture investor and technology entrepreneur. As the CEO and co-founder of Inflection AI and a venture partner at Greylock Partners, Mustafa brings years of experience as an entrepreneur and expert in artificial intelligence. Prior to co-founding Inflection AI, he co-founded DeepMind, a leading AI company acquired byGoogle in 2014.Mustafa was the VP of AI Products & AI Policy at Google starting in 2019. He is a member of the Board of The Economist, a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and is a recipient of the annual Silicon Valley Visionary Award.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Co:Helm — The generative AI platform for payer organizations. It's time to unlock your clinical workforce.
Seek AI — Seek AI modernizes business analytics with generative AI-powered database queries.
ElevenLabs — Rated the best text to speech (TTS) software online. Create premium AI voices for free and generate text-to-speech voiceovers in minutes with our character AI voice generator. Use free text to speech AI to convert text to mp3 in 29 languages with 100+ voices.

Low Carbon Innovation Fund is a venture capital fund, providing equity finance for SME’s based wholly or partially in the East of England.The Fund is supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). It uses £20.5M from the ERDF which will be matched with over £30M private sector investment – generating a total of over £50M ofinvestment in the East of England. So far the Fund has invested over £8.5M alongside £26M private co-investment in 26 investments.Turquoise International manages the Fund on behalf of the Adapt Low Carbon Group at the University of East Anglia (UEA). The Fund builds on the region's world class low carbon economy and is the largest European Regional Development Fund-funded project in the region. The Low Carbon Innovation Fund was launched in September 2010 and will run until December 2015.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Adaptavate — Our purpose is to help the construction industry adapt to change, by mainstreaming the production, manufacturing and availability of world leading low carbon building materials.
weekly.shop — Zero waste, sustainable groceries with no single use plastic and no throwaway packaging. All in one place and easy to use. Our products are in specially designed ZEROWARE containers. Shop fresh fruit and vegetables, eggs and dairy, fruit juices, meat and fish, bread, dry goods, home and personal care products.
Archipelago Technology — Archipelago's patented rotating drum inkjet technology facilitates high-speed, controllable coating of substrates using paints and adhesives.

Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CuspAI — CuspAI is a revolutionary AI startup that is developing a platform for next-generation materials to address global sustainability and renewable energy concerns. CuspAI uses cutting-edge generative AI, deep learning, and molecular simulation to accelerate the material design process. Their platform works similarly to a search engine for materials,allowing users to request certain properties for new materials on demand.
Faircado — Stop wasting time and money - faircado helps you find the best pre-owned deals for your wallet and the planet.
Tandem Health — Focus on providing care, while Tandem helps you easily write medical notes directly after the patient consultation.

Cherubic Ventures is an early stage focused venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and Greater China.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, China, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

iKala — iKala's mission is to enable AI competencies of our enterprise customers, to increase their customer acquisition capability and customer lifetime value.
Anzen — Exclusive access to high-quality private credit deals with consistent returns
Inference.ai — Inference.ai is an IT company that provides artificial intelligence solutions and manufactures GPUs.

Social Tech Trust is a UK's leading dedicated investor of socially motivated tech.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Education
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TapSOS — TapSOS is an app for a non-verbal method of contacting the emergency services. It will promote inclusivity and help transform the delivery of emergency services.
RightsDD — RightsDD is an award winning startup. Use RightsDD's platform to assess and monitor suppliers for slavery risk. Train employees with RightsDD's online and in-person anti-slavery courses. Benefit from specialist consulting.
Carers Trust — Carers Trust is a major charity for, with and about carers.

TCG is an independent media company. Their focus is on majority and minority investments in growing consumer businesses. Our portfolio includes digital media, commerce, marketplaces, sports, gaming, consumer finance, and health and wellness brands and platforms.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sphere — Better cross-border payments through beautiful interfaces for businesses to buy, sell, send and manage stablecoins.
Medallion — Medallion is homebase for artists.
Unrivaled Sports — Unrivaled Sports manages a diverse portfolio of youth sports properties in Baseball, Softball, Football, and Action Sports. The company focuses on providing world-class experiences and development opportunities for young athletes.

Neel Sachdev is a partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Neel represents financial sponsors and their affiliates on the financing of multi-jurisdictional leveraged buyouts and other complex financing transactions in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Neel advises on a wide range of complex financing transactions includingsponsor led leveraged financings, asset backed lending and securitisations, commercial paper and capital markets deals and derivatives.

Investment focus

Music, Internet, Social Media
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tunepics — Tunepics lets you share your favourite pictures with any song and capture the emotion behind each moment.• Be a part of connecting the world through music and emotion • Share music that you love with every picture that you post• Tunepics on Apple Watch makes sure you never miss a moment• Add your emotion and see how you make other peoplefeel whether they are dancing, happy or heartbroken • Discover new music through your friends and their moments

We are a venture incubator that wants to exploit the extraordinary human capital of the new digital entrepreneurship. From design to ready-to-market, up looking for new partners and capital, we create value along the entire continuum of mentoring: direct investment , skills qualified and specialized network support the growth of new businesses oftomorrow. With our deal flow , we are able to select innovative ideas with high potential with a business model that minimizes the investment risk and guarantee the success on the market.

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, United States, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Pixies — Pixies is a Startup that design solutions for Autonomous Cities and a more sustainable future of our planet. Merging Urban Design, Robotics and AI, we believe that urban spaces can now become able to take care of themselves.
Alokino Gelato — Alokino Gelato produces plant-based and preservative-less artisanal ice creams.
Wopta Assicurazioni — Wopta Assicurazioni is the first Italian phygital insurtech which, thanks to a digital platform and a network of tied specialist throughout the country, was created to protect artisans, SMEs and freelances from everyday risks.

IDEO is a global design and innovation consultancy firm. Some of their clients include Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, Microsoft , Nokia , Intel, Eli Lilly, Samsung , and Steelcase.

Investment focus

Health Care, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LifeScore — LifeScore is the generative music platform embracing AI for the benefit of artists. We provide high quality, endlessly varying, commercializable streams of music that respond to listener input.
Curve Health — Curve Health is senior care without walls. It is a platform that's reduced patient transfers from Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) to Emergency Departments by 50%+, Curve advances connected senior care by bridging the silos that hinder healthcare delivery today; enabling physicians to remotely care for patients in SNFs, at home, in ambulancesor wherever they may be. Curve combines telemedicine, a health information exchange, predictive analytics, and smart billing into a single platform, resulting in higher quality care + significant return on investment while ensuring the most seamless patient experience.
DeSo Foundation — DeSo is a layer -1 blockchain designed to build and scale decentralized social apps to 1 Billion users. Take back ownership of your content and social graph with web3 versions of Twitter and LinkedIn.

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