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Top 50 Music VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in April 2025

Investor	Music United Kingdom investments
Northstar Ventures	9
Hotspur Capital	6
Ascension	5
Playfair Capital	4
SFC Capital	3
Index Ventures	3
Cambridge Innovation Capital	3
Universal Music Group	3
Armilar Venture Partners	3
Octopus Ventures	3
Metaplanet	2
The FSE Group	2
White Star Capital	2
Ojjeh Family Fund	2
Velocity Capital Advisors	2
Pentech Ventures	2
Balderton Capital	2
Windcrest Partners	2
ESRG Investments	2
TAG	2
FirstMark	2
WndrCo	2
Parkwalk Advisors	2
Creative England	2
Global Founders Capital	2
Acton Capital	2
Warner Music Group	2
Emerge	2
Sony Music Entertainment	2
Finance Yorkshire	1
AXM Venture Capital	1
Designer Fund	1
ProFounder	1
LDC	1
TCG	1
HSBC Bank	1
Notion Capital	1
Cherubic Ventures	1
YuanMing Capital	1
East Coast Angels	1
Key Capital Partners	1
Andurance Ventures	1
Disclosure	1
Miroma Ventures	1
Vespa Capital	1
Scytale Ventures	1
Puma Private Equity	1
Rianta Capital	1
Max Capital	1
MMC Ventures	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Hotspur Capital is a financial organization.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Femeda — Femeda provides groundbreaking technology for the treatment of urinary incontinence for women worldwide. Get in touch today to find out more.
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Greengage Lighting — Poultry lighting and poultry sensors for precision livestock farming, scheme compliance and animal welfare

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Forefront RF — Forefront RF tunable duplexer aims to expand the accessibility and global market reach of all mobile devices by simplifying RFFE design.
Salience Labs — Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high-throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designedto exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and the University of Münster, Germany.
TRIMTECH Therapeutics — TRIMTECH Therapeutics is a biotech organization that treats neurodegenerative illnesses by using targeted protein degradation (TPD).

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

.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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Finance Yorkshire is an investments company that provides seedcorn, loan and equity linked investments. At the start of 2017, Finance Yorkshire received funds from the Sheffield and Leeds City Regions to invest until the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) was operational. NPIF was launched in February 2017. Please click here for detailsFinance Yorkshire provides seedcorn, loan and equity linked investments, specifically to help small and medium sized businesses meet the gaps in the market for the funding they need for growth and development. Finance Yorkshire has been developed as a European JEREMIE* initiative and is capitalised by grants from UK Government, European Regional Development Fund and finance from the European Investment Bank. (*JEREMIE stands for Joint European Resources for Micro to medium Enterprises)Finance Yorkshire is supported by the Regional Growth Fund (RGF). The RGF has supported eligible projects and programmes raising private sector investment to create economic growth and lasting employment. It has invested £2.7 billion to help businesses in England to grow; and is expected to create or safeguard over 557,000 jobs by the mid 2020s.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ProvePiracy — ProvePrivacy helps organisations demonstrate data protection compliance under UK Data Protection legislation through a single integrated platform.
Proton Group — Formed in 1971, Proton is an independent quality led manufacturing company with the philosophy of high quality at our core, supplying innovative, technologically advanced chemical hygiene solutions. P...
Music Factory Entertainment Group — Music Factory Entertainment Group is a music and media company that works in the music, events, and education sectors.

AXM Venture Capital is a venture capital firm focused on seed, startup, and early-stage companies.It focuses on businesses operating across a broad range of activities; from television production through to software development; social networking tools and e-commerce; design to advance digital hardware innovation; and includes advertising andmarketing communication companies, electronic publishing, computer games developers, and broader information and communication technology industries.AXM currently manages two investment funds, The Creative Capital Fund (£6.5 million) operating throughout London, and The Northwest Fund 4 Digital and Creatives (£15 million).

Investment focus

Mobile, Music, Robotics
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rormix — Rormix - Music Worth WatchingRormix is a centralised platform for users to discover curated music videos from independent and emerging artists.With Rormix, you can watch music videos, search for music based on your unique taste, and discover new emerging artists for free. Access a vast catalogue of new undiscovered artists from around theworld.What separates Rormix from other apps is an exclusive focus on unsigned bands and artists, providing a platform for those that don’t have any other legitimate visual space besides VEVO, YouTube and Myspace. Instead of passing through the videos blindly, users can enter an artist that they already love and Rormix will suggest those that bring a similar sound or style.Featured in Mashable, Forbes, Wired, BBC, TNW, The Sunday Times and more...
RealityMine — RealityMine enables many of the world’s largest market research and media organisations to monitor real consumers on multiple devices, across all major platforms, revealing unique insights from real life consumer behaviour. The firm’s RealityMeter can be deployed across Android, iOS and desktop platforms, and is deployed by leading panel owners andresearch clients across five continents. RealityMine is headquartered in Manchester, England, with offices in London and Sydney.
Connect Childcare — The UK's most trusted Nursery Management Software. A complete package for efficient nursery management, used by thousands of successful childcare providers.

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

Investment focus

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

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Sock Finance — Sock is a mobile finance app that helps people build wealth in the world of digital currency. We provide an instant, trustworthy, and low-cost way to send money, invest, and earn with crypto anywhere in the world while maintaining self-custody.
Bezi — Bezi is a collaborative 3D design tool.
Era Finance — Era is a financial management platform driven by AI that makes asset management more accessible.

ProFounder is a crowdfunding platform that enables entrepreneurs to raise investment capital from friends, family, and community members.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

uberlife — uberlife is a real-world location-based socializing app to help people hang out more with their friends, network and new likeminded people around them, wherever they go.Users join the community by signing up with Facebook or Twitter and can also connect their Last.fm account.Users create real world "hangouts" showing where theyare going to be and when and broadcast these directly from the app through Facebook and Twitter to invite whoever is free to "come join". Anyone who joins can also invite their friends by broadcasting the hangout through their own networks.Adding tags to hangouts matches these to local uberlife users' interests too, as well as their Facebook Likes and Last.fm bands, to notify them that a hangout is taking place that they're interested in and to invite them to join.Users can check in to hangouts, post comments and upload photos creating a digital memory capture of the hangout and group photo display. These actions are also (soon to be) broadcast-able directly from the app through Facebook and Twitter that enables a live activity stream before, during and after the hangout.Users can follow other uberlife users that they'd like to hang out with to be notified when that person creates a nearby hangout. Users only become Friends in uberlife IF they are following each other AND they have attended the same hangout i.e. hung out in real life. All users earn a Connector Score when they create hangouts and connect people in real life. When two people join a hangout and then follow each other in uberlife, the "creator" boosts their Connector Score by one.
ProFounder — ProFounder is a crowdfunding platform that enables entrepreneurs to raise investment capital from friends, family, and community members.
Elemental Machines — The Elemental Machines platform distills a lab full of data onto a single dashboard. Turnkey sensors and real-time data monitoring make setup a breeze and surprises a thing of the past.

For over 40 years, LDC has been the trusted investment partner for ambitious management teams. We invest in a diverse range of businesses across every region and sector of the UK economy.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Private Equity, Funding Round, Secondary Market
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

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Waterscan — Whether you're striving for water neutrality as a business, looking to safeguard supply chains through collaboration, embrace catchment management or share
Message Direct Limited — Message Direct is the longest established and highest rated UK call answering service. Our reputation for quality has been forged over the past 27 years serving thousands of businesses.
Integrated Doorset Solutions — Integrated Doorsets is a single source supplier of performance doorsets and architectural ironmongery solutions providing high quality products ideally suited to the health, education, commercial, leisure, office fit out and high end residential markets.

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

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Judo Bio — Judo Bio is pioneering oligonucleotide medicines delivered to the kidney, opening the way for new treatments for systemic and renal diseases.
audiochuck — audiochuck is a media company that creates and produces content.
Men In Blazers — Men In Blazers is a soccer-focused media company that covers sports events, leagues, and TV shows.

HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, serves millions of customers through its three Global Businesses.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Real Estate, Finance
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

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Auramet — Innovation | Ingenuity | Involvement
Lightsource bp — Lightsource bp is a global solar leader working with utilities, businesses, local communities and governments to help meet the demand for sustainable energy.
Impact Healthcare Reit — Impact Healthcare REIT is a real estate company. They offer healthcare real estate assets, in particular residential care homes, and lease them to care home operators.

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TechWolf — TechWolf uses AI to bring you an automated, continuous and objective view on the workforce skills you have, the skills you need and the gap in between.
Caeli Wind — Caeli Wind is a cloud-based intelligent platform that identifies wind potential areas and enables marketing.
Harbor Lab — Designed to streamline the port cost management processes and optimize operational efficiency for cargo operations and husbandry services by leveraging technology and automation.

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

Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
Bot Auto — Bot Auto develops and operates autonomous trucks for middle-mile freight.
Anzen — USDz is a stablecoin backed by a diversified RWA portfolio, allowing holders to mitigate volatility and earn rewards through all market cycles

YuanMing Capital is a healthcare specialty fund focusing on China-US cross border investments with offices in Beijing and New York City. The investment team has rich industry experience and a successful investment track record. The fund invests in therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics as well as healthcare service companies based in USand/or China. We seek to bring capital and strategic resources to the future leaders of the industry.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
Series A, Series B, Private Equity
China, United States, United Kingdom

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CF PharmTech — CF PharmTech was founded in 2007, it is a fully independent, dynamic, integrated, specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and manufacturing of products for the treatments of asthma, COPD and allergic rhinitis for the global market. Its mission is to develop high-quality and affordable medicine to help patients achieve effectivemanagement care for their respiratory diseases. The headquarters is located in the lakeside of the Caohu District of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, with many very convenient transportation options available. It only takes thirty minutes by train to Shanghai and four hours by train to Beijing.
Fengzhi Medical — Fengzhi Medical is committed to offering patients novel technology and platform solutions in the field of peripheral vascular intervention.
CANbridge Pharmaceuticals — CANbridge Pharmaceuticals is a bio-pharmaceutical company accelerating development and commercialization of specialty healthcare products for serious and critical medical conditions in China and North Asia (Korea and Taiwan). CANbridge develops partnerships with Western bio-pharmaceutical companies with clinical-stage pharmaceutical, medical deviceor diagnostic products that are either unavailable in China/North Asia or address medical needs that are underserved in the region. CANbridge also licenses or obtains exclusive rights to commercialize drug and device products that are approved in their home markets for commercialization in China and North Asia.

The eCoast Angel Network was formed in July 2000 by a group of like-minded investors from the Portsmouth NH area. Our members come from diverse backgrounds but have a unified purpose: To support economic development, principally in the eCoast region To foster entrepreneurial spirit To identify investment opportunities

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Personalization, Baby
Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

IndigoBoom — Sell your music online.Global Digital Music Distribution to all the biggest digital stores and streaming services
Cricket's Circle — Cricket's Circle is a retail company that offers a shoppable solution for mothers. It uses personalized content and data The company specializes in the fields of content, E-commerce, and personalization. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Rockets of Awesome — Rockets of Awesome is a direct-to-consumer kids' apparel brand, designing and selling over-the-top clothes. Rockets of Awesome is reinventing the way parents shop for kids by leveraging technology, data, brand, personalization, and exceptional merchandise.

Key Capital Partners (KCP) is focused on the equity gap, making equity investments of between £2 million and £10 million in profitable, growing companies. They will invest across all sectors and in all types of later-stage transactions.

Investment focus

Facilities Support Services, Recruiting, Manufacturing
Private Equity, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SJA Group — SJA Group operates as a support services & facilities company.
Smarter Services — Smarter Services is a facilities management company offering services across the estate, student, build-to-rent and healthcare sectors.
Jellyfish Pictures — Founded in 2001, Jellyfish Pictures is a BAFTA, Emmy and Annie award winning global Animation and Visual Effects (VFX) studio.

Andurance Ventures is an independent technology venture capital firm based in London, founded by Nicolas Granatino and Pierre Andurand. Andurance Ventures is focused on digital media, content management and knowledge economy enabler start-ups in the converging consumer and enterprise ecosystems.

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Video Streaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, France, Canada

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Neolithe — Néolithe transforms non-recyclable waste into mineral aggregates.
Massa — The decentralized and scaled blockchain
Novaquark — Dual Universe is a single-shard sandbox MMO focusing on emergent gameplay, and developed by Novaquark for PC.You believe in a future where games will become more than games, but rather places where meaningful adventures and learning will take place. They believe that these collective online experiences will fill more and more of their free time,becoming more and more real. They believe that fun is the future of work.

Disclosure is an electronic music band.

Investment focus

Music, Software, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bronze — Bronze is a unique, music technology which allows users to use AI as a tool for creation. Bronze can create fluid, performative and contextualised versions of songs which are playable in all the same environments as current music. Bronze adapts and augments audio beyond the studio and is better suited to applications like AR, VR, short form socialmedia and gaming than “static” music.Bronze is already being used by some of the world’s most influential artists; Sigur Rós created their “Route One” album (10 million streams) using Bronze, highly influential artist/producer Jai Paul (Drake, Beyonce) created an ever-changing, infinite version of “Jasmine” https://jaipaul.bronze.ai/ and Philippe Parreno opened the lobby at Museum of Modern Art in NYC with 3-year installation powered by Bronze. In December 2020 Arca (Kanye West, Bjork, Frank Ocean) released 100 unique Bronze-generated versions of her song “Riquiquí” onto all Digital Streaming Platforms. We also just worked with Microsoft on the Xbox X launch, we have a live project with Google and approaches for the automatic generation of short-form audio have been made by Samsung and Tik Tok.We previously raised £300K seed funding to build the prototype, we’re now raising a further £300K at a £3.5M valuation to finish the C++ software and make Bronze available for anyone to use. £100K is pledged, the opportunity is for £200K remaining for 5.351% of the Company

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

Investment focus

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

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Bruvi — Bruvi is a breakthrough single-serve coffee system, with patent pending technology and proprietary, eco-friendly B-Pods®. Bruvi brews filter coffee, true espresso and Americanos, as well as the first cold brew from a single-serve brewer. Bruvi will offer sustainably sourced craft coffee from house brands and from some of the most popular third waveroasters.
New Stance — New Stance is a full service influencer talent marketing and partnership activation agency in London specialising in the Sports & Entertainment sectors.
ROAM — Explore courses and classes in outdoor sports, nutrition, fitness, yoga, and more. Learn beginner to pro-level skills from the experts.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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 the platform for tokenized real-world assets, providing the infrastructure and ecosystem to tokenize, manage, and invest into RWAs.
Music Protocol | Web3 Music Association — Marketplace of Nfts managed by Public Pressure

We invest in businesses, providing capital, expertise & partnership to drive transformational change and enable scalable growth. Learn more.

Investment focus

Consulting, Software, Internet of Things
Series A, Private Equity, Seed
United Kingdom, Ireland

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Thingtrax — Realise improved efficiency, quality control, employee safety and productivity by modernising your factories with ThingTrax's AI and IoT
TravelLocal — Authentic tailor-made holidays crafted by trusted local experts worldwide. After all, who knows a country better than the people who actually live there?
IRIS Audio Technologies — IRIS Listen Well is bringing back living sound and enabling the world to Listen Well.

Rianta Capital, a Swiss venture capital firm, provides investment advice and management support to trust funds and investment companies.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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. Soda: Yuzu, Cucumber, Hibiscus & Rose

Max Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on investing in the TMT, consumer Internet, and intelligent hardware fields.

Investment focus

CRM, E-Learning, Business Intelligence
Series B, Seed, Series A
China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Muniao — Muniao is an online booking platform for short-term rental.
Huoxingren Julebu — Huoxingren Julebu is a STEAM education and training provider company.
Orange Interaction — Orange Interaction provides internet catering solutions and integrates multiple business systems such as CRM, marketing, BI and e-commerce.

MMC is a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high-growth UK companies. Our mission is to be involved in the creation of the global industry-leading companies of tomorrow.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

PocDoc — PocDoc is a pioneer in the field of smartphone-based fast disease testing.
APEXX — The APEXX payment gateway consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.
measurable.energy — Machine Learning and hardware platform to eliminate wasted energy and GHG emissions in buildings

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