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

Last updated: Jan 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 January 2025

Investor	Music United Kingdom investments
Northstar Ventures	9
Hotspur Capital	6
Ascension	5
Playfair Capital	4
Index Ventures	3
Octopus Ventures	3
Armilar Venture Partners	3
Cambridge Innovation Capital	3
SFC Capital	3
Universal Music Group	3
Windcrest Partners	2
ESRG Investments	2
White Star Capital	2
Ojjeh Family Fund	2
FirstMark	2
Creative England	2
Balderton Capital	2
WndrCo	2
Sony Music Entertainment	2
Metaplanet	2
Acton Capital	2
The FSE Group	2
Velocity Capital Advisors	2
Pentech Ventures	2
Warner Music Group	2
Parkwalk Advisors	2
Emerge	2
Global Founders Capital	2
TAG	2
YuanMing Capital	1
East Coast Angels	1
VGC Partners	1
Key Capital Partners	1
Rockpool Investments	1
YOLO Leisure and Technology	1
Andurance Ventures	1
Lumia Capital	1
Disclosure	1
Endeavour Ventures	1
Miroma Ventures	1
Vespa Capital	1
Eden Ventures	1
Scytale Ventures	1
Plum Ventures	1
Mercuri	1
Method Music	1
AXM Venture Capital	1
Finance Yorkshire	1
Queen Mary University of London	1
Evolution Media	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, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

FAT32 — FAT32 is at the forefront of compliance automation, transforming the way businesses satisfy regulatory requirements.
onHand — The volunteering and climate impact platform for businesses and individuals. Help your local communities and have global impact.
Positive Support For You — Positive Support For You is a social enterprise dedicated to empowering adults with learning disabilities, providing tailored support to help them achieve greater independence, confidence, and inclusion in society.

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.
Linq — The safest way to send intimate content
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.

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.
NetFabric — NetFabric is developing a next-gen network observability platform
Passionfruit — Join hundreds of the best startups around the world and use Passionfruit to hire freelance marketing specialists on-demand.

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

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.
Albert Invent — 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com
Sublime Security — Sublime lets you write, run, and share rules to block phishing attacks, hunt for threats, and more.

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

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.
Forefront RF — Forefront RF tunable duplexer aims to expand the accessibility and global market reach of all mobile devices by simplifying RFFE design.

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.

Cambridge Innovation Capital backs life sciences and technology companies with an affiliation to Cambridge, Europe’s capital for innovation. As a preferred investor for the University of Cambridge, they have unparalleled access to investment opportunities in the ecosystem.Since our inception in 2013, they have raised £275 million to invest indisruptive, deep-tech businesses in sectors including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, quantum technologies, autonomous systems, therapeutics, medtech/diagnostics, digital health, and genomics/proteomics.

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.
Microbiotica — Microbiotica is a developer of human microbiome therapeutics intended to discover and develop live bacterial therapeutics and biomarkers. The company's therapeutics identify gut bacteria linked to phenotype with unprecedented precision, enabling researchers to phenotype before testing of candidate bacteria in advanced human in vitro and invivo models.
T-Therapeutics — T-Therapeutics is a expertise in mouse genome engineering, deep expertise in biopharmaceutical drug development, single cell genomics, machine-learning and structural biology, anchored in a culture of creativity and collaboration. .

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

Vulse — Vulse is a B2B content creation platform that combines bespoke post ideas and a unique scoring system to help you produce relevant, timely, and shareable content.
Amped PCR — Explore Amped PCR's advanced DNA amplification solutions for precise molecular diagnostics. Trusted by food safety authorities and biotech companies. Learn more
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.

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.

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.

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.
Petfolk — Petfolk's world-class animal hospitals & pet care centers offer virtual, in-person & urgent veterinary care with a pet-parent-focused approach. Learn more!
Autoverse Studios — Autoverse Studios offers Auto Legends, a competitive social auto racing game, focusing on car culture and player engagement, offering a multi-platform experience for real-time tuning and customization.

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.

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

Roon — Your Trusted Guide for Health Conditions. Today we are focused on GBM, ALS, Dementia, and Fertility and Family Building.
Dynamo — Dynamo is a media platform focusing on business journalism.
Aspect Build — Discover Aspect Build's innovative platform for monorepos, designed to streamline your development workflows, accelerate build times, and boost project efficiency.

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.

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

Lawhive — LawHive provides local UK solicitors for half the cost of a law firm. Connect with licensed solicitors online. Use any computer or smartphone.
Agave Games — Agave Games is a mobile games publishing company and provides unique experiences
Grand Games — Grand Games is shaping the future of gaming by creating genre-defining games played by millions worldwide.

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
Gumloop — The no-code platform to build and host AI-powered business automations.
Orby AI — It's like having an efficiency expert scanning the enterprise, identifying repetitive tasks and then automatically generating the related automation scripts

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

Komi — KOMI is the ultimate toolkit for creators, empowering creators around the world to drive engagement, win brand deals, and build their community. Unlock your commercial potential today.
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.
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.

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.

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.

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 is a nature technology business that uses artificial intelligence to quantify biodiversity changes.
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.

.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 — If you passed away tomorrow would your family know where to find your end of life wishes or important documents? Biscuit Tin can help!
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.

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.

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
Ikarovec — Ikarovec is developing novel gene therapies to treat major ophthalmic indications.
illumion — Illumion develops high-throughput optical tools to accelerate battery material development

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.

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

Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

VGC invests in innovative media, tech and consumer brands that move the world forward. We Back You.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Setmixer — Setmixer - recording all performances
RETìníZE — RETìníZE is an AR, VR, multi-screen installations, and software development.
Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.

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.

Rockpool Investments helps individuals invest in UK private companies in a tax-efficient way. It gives investors direct access to opportunities without the constraints of a fund. Investment opportunities often feature attractive tax breaks, most particularly through the Enterprise Investment Scheme ('EIS'). Its founding partners haveplayed key roles in the investment of more than £500m in more than 150 UK private companies – with 3i plc, Bridgepoint and two prominent businesses in the private investor sector.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Lifestyle
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

2i Testing — Since our inception in 2005, we have developed into a mature quality assurance and software testing consultancy, employing approximately 100 staff across the UK.
Communicate Technology — We are IT, telecoms and cyber security specialists, keeping over 500 businesses and 50,000 users connected and secure across the UK.
Oxford Online Pharmacy — Oxford Online Pharmacy is a online pharmaceutical.

YOLO Leisure and Technology plc aims to focus on opportunities in the travel, technology and leisure sectors.

Investment focus

TV, DRM, Apps
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TVPlayer — TVPlayer is home to the most popular TV channels and premium quality on-demand programmes, exclusive to TVPlayer. Watch over 40 live channels and thousands of hours of bingeable science, nature, travel, history and sports documentaries, contract-free and anywhere you like.
ROXi — British music streaming company Magic Media Works Limited (trading as ROXi) is backed by Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams, bringing friends and family together to enjoy free unlimited music video streaming, exclusive music video channels, karaoke, music games and more. ROXi’s free TV Music App is available from launch on Sky Q, Fire TV, Android TVand Google TV including compatible Sony Bravia, Panasonic, Philips, Toshiba, TCL, HiSense and Shield Smart TVs and set-top boxes with Samsung TV and others coming soon. ROXi is also available as a Console with Microphone Controller for use with any TV. ROXi is backed by all the major and leading independent record labels with all the original music videos and over 70 million music releases.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

Lumia is an expansion-stage VC firm partnering with forward-thinking US and European innovators expanding internationally for breakout growth. Lumia employs a hands-on strategy, working closely with management teams by pairing Silicon Valley insights and contacts with global knowledge sharing and relationships to propel companies throughexpansion-stage challenges and opportunities.It prefers to invest in internet and software companies with a focus on SaaS, mobile, cloud computing, infrastructure, and big data. It typically invests between $3 million and $30 million in companies with greater than $10 million annualized net sales. Lumia also invests in select early stage opportunities via its "Telescope" program. The company focuses on investing in primary and secondary transactions and in common and preferred shares. Lumia Capital was founded by Martin Gedalin in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Marketplace
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Auna — Auna engages in health care and wellness services.
Kitopi — Kitopi is a managed cloud kitchen platform that partners with restaurants to grow their business and expand their delivery reach.
Naked Labs — Naked Labs is a Silicon Valley-based startup focused on3D scanning, computer vision, and human-centered design. It uses infrared light to capture a 3D body model, which is visualized on the Naked app. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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

Endeavour Ventures Ltd raises money for growth businesses from HNW and Sophisticated investors. We have directly sourced >£150m for portfolio companies directly from individuals typically looking for EIS opportunities.We make very few investments each year and work hard to create successful outcomes. We tend to make thematic investments intofast growth markets, always seeking the most experienced management teams and the most scalable models. Our opportunities are often driven by regulatory or technological change. We are amongst the few growth EIS investors able to demonstrate a successful 12 year track record.We typically seek board representation and consider ourselves to be key partners in the enterprise.We differentiate ourselves from a VC or angel investor group, in that we make fewer investments each year. We try to ensure that our companies are fully funded. We are not driven purely by brokerage fees on funds raised. Our model has no management fee and depends upon achieving exits.Specialties: Finding investors for scalable fast growth businesses that do not yet qualify for institutional investment, but have potential to become the global businesses of tomorrow.Due diligence of market opportunities and management teams.Valuation and structuring of deals.Sourcing of investment.Strategic partnerships.Portfolio highlights: 1. Aim-listed Blue Prism Group plc, into which we invested initially in 2006. In 2017 it topped £1bn market cap, making it our first “Unicorn”, before falling back just below that level. 2. Ebury Partners, which we invested in in 2012. 45% of the company was sold to Santander for £375m in 2019.Endeavour Ventures Limited is Authorised and Regulated by the FSA, as required by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, and is entered in the FSA Register with Firm Reference Number 431709 (see www.fsa.gov.uk for details).Endeavour Ventures Limited is a private limited company registered in England and Wales with company number 05244123. The registered office is 9-13 St Andrew Street, London EC4A 3AF.The recipients of our investment opportunities must either be certified as high net worth individuals or sophisticated investors as defined in our client criteria.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Agridex — Agridex offers a blockchain-based supply chain platform for the digital agriculture industry.
The Padel Club — The Padel Club is a chain of racket sport center that offers equipment and space for playing padel.
VirtualSignature — VirtualSignature provides cloud-based digital transaction management systems.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Plum Ventures is a venture capital company that aims to encourage young people to become entrepreneurs. It specializes ins providing seed and early-stage investments in the technology, new media, and telecommunications industry. The firm was founded in May 2014 and is based in Changzhou, China.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Huimaiche — Huimaiche is a company that provides full-chain solutions for new retail in the automotive industry. It is an Internet-based high-tech company that combines online system development, brand management, full-brand automobile sales, aftermarket integration, and new retail in life.
Jingyu Sake — Jingyu Sake is a sake brewing provider that specializes on the research, development, and application of strains and rice grinding technologies, with a commitment to the resuscitation of Chinese sake brands.
Titanium Robotics Technology — Titanium Robotics Technology specializing in the development and production of advanced robot hardware and solutions. It focuses on customized services, R&D, and production of robot hardware, aiming to create high-performance, industry standard products, develops lightweight, collaborative robots, humanoid robots, and exoskeletons, leading thesupply chain towards lightweight, miniaturization, and ease of use.

London based Venture Capital fund leading pre-seed and seed stage funding rounds for UK companies at the intersection of the media and entertainment technology sectors

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ittybit — Ittybit is a API that enables users to handle rich media in applications. It provides developers with basic techniques for uploading, storing, transforming, and extracting data from video, music, and image files.
Human Native AI — A platform to control and compensate creative works used to train AI.
Made With Intent — Convert more customers by being more appropriate. Understand and target customer intent with the segmentation platform for data-led eCommerce teams.

Method Music is a music company.

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

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Software
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

Evolution Media is a multi-stage investment firm that partners with passionate entrepreneurs who are building the next generation of technology, content, lifestyle, media, and sports businesses.

Investment focus

Software, News, Music
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Mux — From startups to the World Cup, modern software teams use Mux products to stream billions of minutes of video every day.
Tonal — An entire smart gym in your home, Tonal revolutionizes fitness and strength training with patented resistance digital weight, machine learning, and expert personalization.
Clutch — Coverage of Entertainment, Social Media Business and Industry, Esports News, and Gaming Culture

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