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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in United Kingdom in December 2024

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Payments startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in United Kingdom in December 2024

Investor Payments United Kingdom investments
Chris Adelsbach 12
Alexander Edward Chesterman 8
Paul Forster 7
Charles Delingpole 7
Taavet Hinrikus 7
Errol Damelin 7
Will Neale 6
Simon Franks 6
Mark Ransford 6
Sam Enrico Williams 6
Svetozar Georgiev 5
Vassil Terziev 5
David Rutter 4
Matt Robinson 4
Perry Blacher 4
Ian Hogarth 3
Andreas Mihalovits 3
Yoyo Chang 3
Chris Mairs 3
Andrew Mullinger 3
Tom Vorisek 3
François Derbaix 3
Michael Bristow 3
Paul Townsend 3
Edward Gazelle 3
Michael Pennington 2
Serge Chiaramonte 2
Nadav Ben-Chanoch 2
Cyrus Jilla 2
Theo Osborne 2
Kevin Chong 2
Phil McGriskin 2
Marek Fodor 2
Tom Hulme 2
Alan Morgan 2
Eamon Jubbawy 2
Janis Krums 2
Gerri Kodres 2
Mandeep Singh 2
Carlo Gualandri 2
Peter Jackson 2
Carlos Blanco 2
Damien Lane 2
Ed Wray 2
Ricky Knox 2
Max Levchin 2
Greg Kidd 2
Steve Rotheram 2
Adam Knight 2
Alexander Pack 2
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Chris Adelsbach Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
  • Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
  • Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.
Alexander Edward Chesterman Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Zefir — Zefir aims to expand the realm of possibilities for millions of European homeowners. We make home-selling simpler, faster and more certain by buying the property directly from you. Selling a home is now just a few clicks away.
  • Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
  • Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.
Paul Forster Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Paul Forster
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
  • Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
  • Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
Charles Delingpole Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
  • Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
  • Juniper — Juniper is a reproductive healthcare insurance provider.
Taavet Hinrikus Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
  • Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
  • Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
Errol Damelin Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
  • Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
  • OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Will Neale Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Italy, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
  • SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.
Simon Franks Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Simon Franks is the founder and managing partner of Redbus Ventures and Chairman of the Franks Family Foundation. (www.thefff.org)
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Payments, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
  • Oto Health — Take back control of your tinnitus with Oto, the app built by doctors that teaches you how to stop noticing the ringing using clinically proven techniques. Includes CBT, targeted mindfulness, and relaxation. 86% users experience benefits after just 1 month.
  • Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
Mark Ransford Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Angel Investor
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, France, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
  • Aria — Aria is a fintech startup that allows companies to pay their freelancers. The company provides a response that is both innovative and concrete to a strong economic challenge that weakens talent and affects the competitiveness of companies. Aria was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.
  • Briefcase — Briefcase is an AI-powered tool for bookkeeping and month-end automation designed specifically for professional services practices.
Sam Enrico Williams Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr. Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
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Svetozar Georgiev Angel · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
Svetozar Georgiev is the Chairman of the Board at BESCO. He attended American University in Bulgaria, Truman State University, and Technology School Electronic Systems (TUES), both associated with Technical University-Sofia.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom, Bulgaria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Payhawk — Get 100% real-time visibility & control on operational spend and cut manual work by 50% with a spend management platform designed with financial teams in mind.
  • Reloyalty — We turn every bank card in Europe into a loyalty card. Reloyalty is a fully automated and personalised loyalty platform on top of card payments leveraging Open Banking / PSD2. We enable users to connect existing bank cards to Reloyalty and unlock 10-50% in reward value from their every day shopping. Participating retailers and banks can getaccess to data about their most valuable customers based on purchasing patterns and launch loyalty campaigns with measurable ROI.Reloyalty was founded with the goal of helping businesses identify their most passionate customers and helping those people get treated as such. They believe that the their relationship with the places where they shop, eat and meet with people are more than transactional.
  • Icanpreneur — The first Accelerator-as-a-Software that guides tech entrepreneurs from idea to product/market fit without relying on luck
Vassil Terziev Angel · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
Vassil is responsible for overseeing Telerik’s strategic direction and enabling its rapid growth as a global provider of enterprise-class software and services. As a co-founder of Telerik, Vassil was instrumental in growing the sales, support and business development units of the company and establishing the fanatical dedication to customerservice. Vassil’s vision and dedication has helped Telerik keep its slogan to “Deliver more than expected” and enjoy a solid track record of growing revenues and profitability in the ever changing developer tools marketplace.Vassil earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration at the American University in Bulgaria and has served in various roles in companies from real estate, investment and high-tech industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Bulgaria, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Payhawk — Get 100% real-time visibility & control on operational spend and cut manual work by 50% with a spend management platform designed with financial teams in mind.
  • Reloyalty — We turn every bank card in Europe into a loyalty card. Reloyalty is a fully automated and personalised loyalty platform on top of card payments leveraging Open Banking / PSD2. We enable users to connect existing bank cards to Reloyalty and unlock 10-50% in reward value from their every day shopping. Participating retailers and banks can getaccess to data about their most valuable customers based on purchasing patterns and launch loyalty campaigns with measurable ROI.Reloyalty was founded with the goal of helping businesses identify their most passionate customers and helping those people get treated as such. They believe that the their relationship with the places where they shop, eat and meet with people are more than transactional.
  • UPPER — Upper enables start-ups, businesses, and organizations to find and hire quality tech talent to work full-time, part-time, or hourly
David Rutter Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
David founded R3 in 2015 and in his role of Chief Executive Officer is responsible for the strategic direction of R3.With over 30 years of experience leading some of Wall Street’s top institutions, David is a longtime creative thought leader in financial markets and innovation, and has played a significant role in the adoption of electronictrading in the global OTC derivatives industry.David served for ten years as the CEO of Electronic Broking at ICAP Plc, the world’s largest interdealer broker, where he led the BrokerTec fixed income and EBS foreign exchange platforms. Prior to ICAP, David was co-owner and CEO (Americas) of Prebon Yamane.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Blockchain, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • VALK — Deciphers and streamlines blockchain transactions & DeFi activities, through comprehensive data, actionable insights and easy reporting
  • Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
  • Aerotrax — The Next Generation of Aircraft Maintenance Software. Aerotrax is an enterprise software company focused on digitally tracking the lifecycle of every aircraft, part, and component.
Matt Robinson Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Malga — Malga is an online payment platform that offers fraud protection and payment split services.
  • Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
  • Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
Perry Blacher Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Perry Blacher is a Partner at Augmentum Fintech.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
  • Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
  • Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
Ian Hogarth Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
  • Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
  • Fabric — One home for everything. A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. All your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links, and files automatically gathered into one self-organizing home. Never forget anything again.
Andreas Mihalovits Angel · Marbella, Andalucia, Spain · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Dost — Dost automates the process of incoming supplier invoices to help CFOs and Finance Managers of mid-size and large companies with a high volume of invoices to improve efficiency, accuracy in data entry and reduce time when processing incoming invoices by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent process automation (IPA).
  • CheKin — Chekin has developed a framework that covers everything related to guest registration on touristic accommodations. Chekin has made it extremely easy to register guests for third-party software providers (startups, travel companies, Hospitality software and so on..), in two aspects, 1. It helps with all the local touristic regulations across theEuropean Union and 2. With a set of APIs that facilitates all the guest registration process. Chekin is the premier supplier of trusted software solutions for digitalizing the check-in and check-out (and all the key legal points to take into consideration in between). We provide a stack of optimized, ready-to-run software solutions, and support for implementation on travel tech companies. Further, Chekin rapidly updates applications according to regional law changes to ensure optimal results. Chekin integration model is to be embedded into the partner solution, this native integration provides a better experience for the end users, a trusted tool for the hotelier, and lower their cost due to the guest data collection process.
  • GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.
Yoyo Chang Angel
Yoyo is a Taiwanese born British entrepreneur who is a co-founder and the current CEO of KodyPay. Yoyo co-founded KodyPay in the final year of High School and successfully raised US$6 million over 2020/21. Hoping to build a career in investment banking, Yoyo had started to invest in the stock market at the age of 13. With returns of over 80%in Q4 2016, he led his school team to first place in a national investment competition. During Yoyo's first year at the University of York, Yoyo self-invested £120,000 of trading profits to build a pilot product for KodyPay.Yoyo has studied at King’s College, University of Cambridge and Langwith College, University of York.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, E-Commerce, Point of Sale
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Kody — Businesses of all shapes and sizes can create their own digital experiences using KodyPay.
Chris Mairs Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Chris Mairs - Venture Partner @ Entrepreneur First
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
  • Quantly — Enterprise-grade Investment Research Infrastructure
  • Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.
Andrew Mullinger Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Andrew is currently focused on a number of projects helping Funding Circle scale globally.As a founder, Andrew has grown Funding Circle from an idea into the largest and fastest growing small business loan marketplace in the world. Andrew helped build out and lead the company’s operations before focusing on risk management. He was responsiblefor ensuring the performance of the first $1.5bn of loans originated globally has great risk adjusted returns for investors before handing over the reins to Jerome, our Global CRO.Since Funding Circle entered the US in 2012, he has split his time between Funding Circle’s San Francisco and London offices.Before founding Funding Circle, Andrew worked at Nomura and Citigroup specializing in regulatory and risk management. He also spent time at Ernst & Young as a consultant where he advised financial institutions, government and regulators on risk management and regulation, including a major UK bank on its SME credit models. Andrew holds a degree in Mathematics from Manchester University.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
  • tripAbrood — Your Family Adventure Awaits!
  • Toothfairy — Winner of app of the year, for emergencies, teeth straightening, teeth whitening & prescriptions. Teledentistry and dentist available 24/7. Founded by dentists.
Tom Vorisek Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Founder Esalen Ventures, LLC which has made more than 75 private/angel investments from pre-seed to mezzanine stages and is an LP in 8 PE Funds. Tom is also an International Fine Art Dealer with a focus on paintings of 20th century American, European and Asian artists.Prior to his current roles, Tom was an experienced executive with over 20years in cross-disciplined leadership roles in Advertising-General, Digital and Mobile, Ad Tech, Emerging Media, Technology and Early Stage Venture. Co-Founder FCB Sports Marketing, FCB/SF, IDG, Flycast (IPO), McGrath Rentcorp (IPO) and Ad Infuse (acq by Velti).
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Wave Sports + Entertainment — Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company building brands, original content, talent, and products for the next generation of digital super fans.
  • Quiver — Quiver is a retail tech company that delivers e-commerce orders. Quiver was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in London.
  • Hammock — Hammock gives landlords full control over their property finances. We provide real-time monitoring of all payments, made and received, bookkeeping and property tax statements, all in one place.
François Derbaix Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Francois Derbaix is the Co-founder and co-CEO of Indexa Capital. He previously worked at Toprural as a Founder and CEO. Francois Derbaix attended the Catholic University of Louvain.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Spain, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Balio — Personal Finance Manager and Investing
  • Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.
  • Solfy — Solfy is a Marketplace for self-consumption of solar energy.
Michael Bristow Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Michael Bristow is the CEO & Co-Founder of CP Capital. He previously worked at Peer-to-Peer Finance Association as a Board Member. Michael Bristow attended London Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Real Estate, SaaS, Software
  • Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Belgium, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • RENTUU — Rentuu has been featured for the last 3 years in a row in the UK's Top 100 UK Start-Ups List, and operates a global, fast-growing, cloud-based technology platform and franchise network for the multi-billion pound sterling equipment hire industry. We’re a venture capital backed technology start-up backed by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (founder ofeasyJet) and other institutional investors with the exclusive rights to the easyHire brand in a number of countries, including the UK, EU, Switzerland, South Africa, and Dubai to facilitate equipment rental for construction and party equipment.
  • Howsy — Howsy is a real estate management platform that provides repairs management and renewal services for landlords and tenants. Howsy. A new concept designed to shake up the way of renting works for good. Its on a mission to create a simple, intuitive and fairly priced experience that’s powered by new ideas and brilliant technology.
  • CrowdProperty — CrowdProperty is a specialist property project lending platform used to facilitate short-term loans. It is a profitable fintech lending innovator that matches demand that property professionals undertaking property projects and supply that is retail investors of capital for value-creating property projects that enable clients to get a better dealfor the borrowers, lenders, the under-supplied housing environment, and increased spend in the economy.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Paul Townsend Angel · Bromley, Bromley, United Kingdom
Co-founder of Envoy (sold to WorldPay).Paul has over 20 years’ experience in mainstream banking with Warburgs and Bank of New York, plus 15 years in electronic payments with Earthport plc, Neteller, Envoy and Worldpay. Before co-founding Vitesse, Paul was Founder and COO of Envoy Services Ltd. He is also an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Financial Services, Banking
  • Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Curve — Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015.
  • Griffin — Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England.
  • Veridu — Veridu provides Identity solutions for a global internet economy.Veridu brings trust to online business with services to quickly, reliably and efficiently verify the identity of users globally in order to eliminate fraud and unwanted behavior. Online business wants to be global. Any transaction hinges on identity and current identitysolutions are standing in the way. Veridu is changing that with comprehensive global ID solutions.
Edward Gazelle Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Edward Gazelle is the co-founder of Propoly.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, B2C
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Propoly — Choose Propoly for an effortless property transaction. Tenancy progression software that keeps letting agents compliant & reduces admin.
  • YourWelcome — Use YourWelcome tablets to transact and interact with your guests during their stay. Improve their guest experience and increase your revenue at once.
  • Fleksy — The Fleksy Software Keyboard Development Kit (SDK) enables companies to overcome the challenge of building a top-notch typing experience on both iOS and Android. Your company can then focus on its area of expertise & value-add for a simple monthly licensing fee.
Michael Pennington Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B. Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
  • FUEL — Where everlasting fanbases are built
  • Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
Serge Chiaramonte Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Serge Chiaramonte
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • Tranched — Introducing real-time on-chain securitisation. Fintech Lenders and Professional Investors can now launch an institutional-grade transaction up to 90% faster than before.
  • Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch Angel · Miami, Florida, United States
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
  • Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Cyrus Jilla Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Cyrus Jilla
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Investment focus
  • Banking, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series B
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • KiKapay — Fair, Fast, Secure direct from bank payments that are convenient for merchants and their customers. Powered by Open Banking
  • Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
Theo Osborne Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • The Dots — Professional networking for the new world of work. Get advice. Meet collaborators. Find jobs. Upskill at events.
  • Nova Credit — Nova Credit is a credit infrastructure and analytics company that enables businesses to grow responsibly by harnessing alternative credit data.
  • Platform Science — Experience the power to choose what drives your fleet. Platform Science delivers telematics and fleet management tools on a platform built for transportation.
Kevin Chong Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Kevin Chong - Head @ Outward VC
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Azimo — Azimo is an online money transfer company that provides a fast, secure, and low-cost alternative to legacy high street remittance services.Azimo is created with the explicit mission of cutting the costs of sending money home. Its international money transfer platform allows to send money either to a bank account or to over 270,000 cash pick-uppoints around the world and is accessible via mobile devices.
  • OnePulse — Turn market research into an engaging real-time conversation with OnePulse's game-changing online survey tool.
  • Autologyx — Autologyx combines powerful workflow automation with a simple, intuitive workspace so you can deliver and automate legal and compliance work.
Phil McGriskin Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Phil McGriskin - CEO & Founder @ Vitesse PSP
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Investment focus
  • Payments, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Kwanji — Kwanji is an online FX comparison platform empowering businesses globally to trade more efficiently. Bridging both emerging and traditional markets, we’re partnered with FCA regulated brokers in the UK and beyond. Quickly compare and choose from multiple FX quotes in seconds, send funds and transact globally without being overcharged.
  • Griffin — Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England.
  • Veridu — Veridu provides Identity solutions for a global internet economy.Veridu brings trust to online business with services to quickly, reliably and efficiently verify the identity of users globally in order to eliminate fraud and unwanted behavior. Online business wants to be global. Any transaction hinges on identity and current identitysolutions are standing in the way. Veridu is changing that with comprehensive global ID solutions.
Marek Fodor Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Marek began his career working in consulting and banking before moving on to internet-related projects. Before joining Kantox he co-founded and was CTO at Atrapalo, largest independent online travel agency in Spain. He is an active business angel investor and mentor for technology startups. He is specialised in marketing and growth strategiHe has adual university education background in both computer science and in economics.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Honei — Honei is an app that enables mobile ordering and payment in restaurants.
  • Coverfy — Coverfy APP is a free mobile insurance manager that simplifies and solves all insurance-related issues for its users. The APP optimizes user´s insurance policies and covers all his insurance needs using digital technology and semi-authomatic algorithms. Coverfy is an insurance broker registered at the General Directorate of Insurance and PensionFunds (DGSFP) and acting independently from the insurance companies.
  • Iristrace — Iristrace’s mission is to help great brands deliver on their promise. Iristrace enables enterprises to better manage their business risks with flexible control frames for their operations that can easily be changed as processes evolve. By subscribing to its SaaS platform, teams can collaborate better on quality and brand standards, oncompliance programs and on safety procedures. They can also use the platform to react faster to exceptions and incidents. With Iristrace, business experts without IT knowledge easily design and roll out their controls across their organisation in a record time. They can determine themselves whether controls are scheduled automatically, triggered by events or used in self-service. Iristrace makes data collection, consolidation, analysis and reporting much simpler. Data can come from team members themselves directly from their mobile app, from suppliers, from other systems or from IoT devices.With the Iristrace mobile app, employees become much more agile, while management and subject matter experts receive real time information on their tablet or desktop through the Iristrace platform.Customers save time and money by moving away from their disparate traditional tools and methods such as email, messenger, spreadsheets and slide decks or even pen and paper that many companies still use today. Tedious tasks such as chasing for information and reporting are greatly simplified. The benefits include a faster implementation of strategy, better staff and supplier engagement on the company’s objectives, improved compliance, shorter learning cycles, lower costs and a far superior customer experience as a result.Tens of leading companies in sectors such as retail, fashion, hospitality and automotive are benefitting from Iristrace’s platform to mitigate risks and benchmark their multiple business locations. Iristrace helps turning business risks into business valueWith Iristrace, your company will be able to: – See and follow data collection processes in real time – Get visual results as soon as they come in – Manage incidents and solve them immediately by means of a personalised notification system – Simply configure forms and checklists, without any IT knowledge – Request pictures and comments to obtain a visual proof as well as valuable additional information – Store all the data securely on private servers or in the cloud – Get an overview of the data collected in dashboards – Access data through spreadsheets and send data to other systemsPrivate infrastructure and networking are available as an option
Tom Hulme Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Tom Hulme is a General Partner and Head of Europe at GV and was a CEO and Founder at Magnom Corporation. Tom attended Harvard Business School and Bristol University.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Smol — A smol revolution in home cleaning. Great for you & the planet. Laundry capsules, sprays, dishwash tabs & more. Trial for FREE today!
  • Kinnu — Kinnu is a learning engine that allows to explore new concepts and master any field of study. Kinnu allows to choose from an ever-expanding list of themes such as artificial intelligence, modern art, intermittent fasting, psychology, philosophy, history, and scientific breakthroughs.
  • Immersive Gamebox — Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team Adventures in the world's smartest room. Our GameBox Adventure pods combine projection mapping, touch screen, motion tracking and surround sound technologies to create an entirely new form of digital group entertainment.
Alan Morgan Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Alan co-founded MMC Ventures in 2000. As an active business angel investor he saw the opportunity for a more structured strategic and due diligence approach to venture investing. Alan is a member of the Investment Committee and leads MMC's financial services focus. He has lead responsibility for Small World.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United Kingdom, Austria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 9fin — 9fin is a leading provider of debt market intelligence and offers everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one AI-powered platform
  • Connectd — Online platform underpinned by smart matching technology directly connecting the UK’s leading Founders, Investors & NAMs.
  • Froots — Froots.io is an online wealth manager that helps people to afford things that are considered for the lucky few. Whether one aspires an early retirement or a top education for their children, froots helps them to achieve their long-term financial objectives by tailoring a goal based .
Eamon Jubbawy Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Eamon Jubbawy is the co-founder of Onfido. In 2016, Eamon was named as one of Forbes' ‘30 Under 30’, and as the Digital Entrepreneur Awards' 'Young Digital Entrepreneur of the Year'. Eamon is Deputy Chair of Tech Nation's Fintech Delivery Panel.
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Software, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Hungary
Portfolio highlights
  • Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
  • Screenloop — Screenloop is the hiring intelligence platform that allows you to source candidates, analyse interviews, and automate the reference process.
  • Volter — Volter software offers a comprehensive solution for commercial and industrial property owners to deploy, manage, and improve solar assets.
Janis Krums Angel · Riga, Riga, Latvia
Janis Krums is a Venture Partner at change ventures.
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Investment focus
  • Big Data, Financial Services, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • KWOTA — Kwota offers digital validation and trading services for recycled material CO₂ emissions.
  • PayQin — Vous allez aimer payer en ligne
  • Detail — Record and edit videos with Detail for iOS and macOS. Everything you need to create videos and podcasts, fast. Download for free on the App Store.
Gerri Kodres Angel
Gerri Kodres is the Founding Partner at Specialist VC. He attended Rīgas Ekonomikas augstskola - Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Estonia, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
  • PayQin — Vous allez aimer payer en ligne
  • Nordigen — Nordigen is a free open banking API that provides PSD2 data connections to all major European banks.
  • Nanordica Medical — Nanordica Medical develops novel nanoparticle-based antibacterial wound care products.
Mandeep Singh Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Mandeep Singh currently works as an Angel Investor and Advisor for Multiple Startups. He previously worked at Accel as a Starter and Scout. Mandeep Singh attended the University of Cambridge.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
  • Galileo AI — Galileo AI creates delightful, editable UI designs from a simple text description. It empowers you to design faster than ever.
  • Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.
Carlo Gualandri Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Carlo Gualandri is the founder and CEO at Soldo. Gualandri is an Italian technology entrepreneur whose innovative companies have broken new ground in the world of media (Virgilio), banking (Fineco), and gaming (Gioco Digitale).
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Investment focus
  • Banking, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Soldo — Soldo is a multi-user expense account that helps companies to manage the entire business expense cycle. It integrates prepaid Mastercard cards, a web-based administration console, and a mobile app into one intuitive future-ready platform.Soldo was founded by a group of tech veterans and payment pioneers who refused to accept the inefficient andfragmented state of business spending in the 21st century.
Peter Jackson Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Peter Jackson - Group CEO @ Flutter Entertainment
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Credit, Payments
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Thriva — At-home blood testing and science-backed next steps to feel great, maximise your performance, and extend your healthspan.
  • Railsr — Railsbank. REDEFINING THE POSSIBILITIES - We go beyond financial transactions, to deliver digital experiences your customers love.
  • Super Payments — Super Payments is a fintech that disrupts the industry behemoths Visa and MasterCard.
Carlos Blanco Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Carlos Blanco is the Chairman and CEO of Encomenda Capital Partners SGEIC. He previously worked at Hastee as a Partner. Carlos Blanco attended Pompeu Fabra University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Spain, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Finteca — Finteca can save you more than € 8,000 * compared to traditional advisors. Without commissions, without risk, our professional team improves conditions of interest and other parameters.
  • BRICKBRO — Currently, Brickbro is one of the leading real estate transactional platforms in the spanish market.
  • Viterbit — Viterbit is a technology start-up that offers a Recruitment and Selection Software (ATS). Just what your company needs to go one step further with the talent it hires. The greatest strength organizations have are the people who work in them, so our team is committed to helping you attract the talent you need.
Damien Lane Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Damien Lane has spent the last 20 years investing in private companies, both in Private Equity where he was a partner with Electra Partners, then at Octopus Ventures where he was a senior member of the investment team. Having made a number of angel investments, Damien co-founded Episode 1 with Simon and Adrian in 2012. While at Episode 1,Damien has led investments in Carwow, Scurri, Touch Surgery, Attest and Zipcube and loves working with early stage teams of entrepreneurs; helping them develop their early stage startup into a fast growth enterprises capable of raising more funding from later stage investors. When he is not trying to help businesses to implement an optimal approach to growth, Damien can mostly be found running around Hampstead Heath or the Coastal paths of Great Britain. Having trained obsessively to run a 2:52 Marathon in 2015, he is now trying to dip below 2:50, in the spirit of continuous improvement. Damien has an MBA from Cambridge University and a Masters degree in PE from Oxford University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
  • Surgery Hero — We combine expert human care, individually-tailored content and cutting edge tech to empower people to take control of their health so they can conquer their surgery.
  • Surgery Hero — We combine expert human care, individually-tailored content and cutting edge tech to empower people to take control of their health so they can conquer their surgery.
Ed Wray Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Mr. Edward Wray, Ed is a Co-Founder of Betfair Australia Pty Ltd. Mr. Wray co-founded The Sporting Exchange Limited (Alternate Name: Betfair Limited) in May 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Betfair, he spent eight years at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a Vice President in the debt capital markets and derivatives area. He servesas the Chairman at Betfair. He has been Non-executive Chairman of The Sporting Exchange Limited since 2006. He served as the Chairman of Betfair Limited since 2006. He served as Non-Executive Chairman of Betfair Group PLC from March 17, 2008 to March 6, 2012. He has been a Director at Sporting Exchange since August 1998. Mr. Wray has been a Director of Betfair Group PLC since August 20, 1999. He serves as a Non Executive Director of Funding Circle Ltd. He served as a Director at Betfair since 1999.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • Hole19 — Download Hole19's free Golf App with GPS, Scorecard and Rangefinder for iOS and Android. Plus connect with your golf buddies. Now ready for watch
  • Netwealth — Netwealth uses cutting-edge technology and an expert team to provide a cost-effective wealth management service. See how we can help manage your investments.
  • SmartUp.io — SmartUp is the ultimate platform for peer-to-peer knowledge creation, sharing and exchange.Conceived and developed by a seasoned team of founders and investors behind Founders Forum, Spotify, Siri, lastminute.com and others, SmartUp now hosts more than 150,000 members and is used around the world by startup founders, companies, innovators,business schools and curious entrepreneurs.SmartUp’s intuitive learning system provides communities engaging and fun ways to contribute and consume bite-sized pieces of knowledge and insight. Its powerful platform unlocks your community’s real knowledge to help every member unleash their potential.
Ricky Knox Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Ricky is a serial investor and entrepreuner. He has built five technology disruptors in fintech and telecoms, each of which also does a bit of good for the world.Before Tandem he founded Azimo and Small World, two remittance businesses, and is managing partner of Hexagon Partners, a private equity firm. He built Tandem to be a digital bank thathelps improve customers' lives with money. Ricky has a first class degree from Bristol University and an MBA from INSEAD.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
  • Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.
  • Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
Max Levchin Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Max Levchin is the Founder and CEO of Affirm. He previously worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an Advisory Board Member. Max Levchin attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Bland AI — Transform your enterprise communication with Bland AI. Automate inbound and outbound phone calls using AI that sounds human. Perfect for sales, customer support, and operations with customizable voices and seamless integrations.
  • CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
  • Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
Greg Kidd Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Believer that ones identity credentials should be truly portable and owned by individuals themselves rather than corporations or governments. The trade-off between security and privacy can meet the needs of both traditional institutions worried about compliance and risk, but also consumer protection advocates who care about the underserved andunderbanked.Adviser/Investor via hardyaka.com for numerous startups in the exchange space including Shift, Ripple and 3taps, and previously Square and Twitter. Previously a director at Promontory Financial and a senior analyst for payments at The Board of Governor of the Federal Reserve. Senior Associate at Booz Allen. Founded and took Dispatch Management Services Corp public on the NASDAQ. Have worked as an instructor/leader for Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School.Specialties: Portable identity, digital currencies and exchange markets for goods, services, and information with functional emphasis on messaging, payments, and reputation/trust/risk. Well versed in visualizations for risk reporting and controls.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Mobile, Payments
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Aeldra — Exclusive U.S. Banking for Indians. Open a U.S. bank account in 10 minutes from India if you have an Indian Passport. Visa, Social Security Number or U.S. Address not required. Get a Mastercard Global Debit Card and a cutting-edge Mobile Banking App. Aeldra is the first neo-bank offering cross-border banking to Indians. Indians can now apply for a U.S. Bank Account with a Mastercard Debit Card from India using their Indian Passport. Using revolutionary technology based on Machine Learning Aeldra has proprietary KYC, Risk Management and Info Security capabilities to be in compliance with U.S. & Indian regulations as well as meeting the highest standards of safety and security. Aeldra's mission is to democratize global banking by providing seamless access to all. Indian citizens can open a U.S. bank account from home, and manage the account through an intuitive App.
  • Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
  • Tribe — Tribe is a global blockchain ecosystem builder that connects startups and tech talents with leading opportunities. By working closely with organizations including blockchain protocols, corporates, governments, startups, and developer communities, it strives to power the next wave of talents and companies' leap from Web2 to Web3. Some ofTribe's official partners include Enterprise Singapore, Pfizer, HSBC, Infineon Technologies, IMDA, BMW Group Asia, ConsenSys, IBM, Intel, Nielsen, PwC, R3, and Temasek amongst others. For more information, please visit https://tribex.co/
Steve Rotheram Angel · Kirkby, Knowsley, United Kingdom
Steven Philip Rotheram is a British Labour Party politician who is the Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region.
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Investment focus
  • Payments
  • Angel
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Peepl — Peepl is a Fuse Network-powered innovative payments and rewards technology that enables local restaurants an alternative to the existing food delivery behemoths such as Deliveroo, Uber Eats, and Just Eat.
Adam Knight Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Commodity trader and business builder turned social finance entrepreneur and angel investor. Co-founder of SASC, trustee at RoundhouseLDN, and racing driver.
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Investment focus
  • Credit, Bitcoin, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Kody — Businesses of all shapes and sizes can create their own digital experiences using KodyPay.
  • Coinfloor — Coinfloor's mission is to facilitate and enable the convergence between the traditional finance industry and the burgeoning cryptocurrency markets within institutional-grade infrastructure, championing the stability and sustainability of cryptocurrencies as an alternative asset class and monetary system. Rooted in values of trust,reliability and security, their goal is to create a safe and transparent environment for their clients to trade and invest in cryptocurrency. Coinfloor serves the diverse needs of institutional or sophisticated investors and professional traders, offering their clients access to secure and transparent exchanges to trade and invest in cryptocurrency. The first exchange in their group, Coinfloor Exchange UK, a cryptocurrency spot trading platform, began trading in March 2014, and has continued to operate uninterrupted since its launch. It is the longest running cryptocurrency exchange in the UK. In January 2018, they added Coinfloor Exchange Gibraltar to their portfolio. In March 2018, CoinfloorEX joined the Coinfloor family, offering the first ever physically delivered cryptocurrency futures and spot exchange.Coinfloor’s client on-boarding process is strictly modelled against regulatory standards for AML and KYC. Coinfloor established industry best practice by being the first exchange to publish monthly Provable Solvency reports. Their commitment to transparency and regular auditing instills client confidence that Coinfloor has sufficient cryptocurrency liquidity to manage market fluctuation. Coinfloor investors include globally recognised venture capital firms and strategic investors. They are proud to have attracted funding from Passion Capital and Taavet Hinrikus. They also are backed by private investors including Adam Knight, who is the Chairman of their Board of Directors.
  • CommuterClub — Commuter Club's Business and Travel News focuses on providing insights and updates on UK commuting trends, business transportation solutions, and cost-saving strategies for daily travel. It highlights key industry developments, innovations in transport services, and expert advice on making commuting more efficient. This section also offers valuable information on the financial benefits of annual travel passes and flexible payment options for frequent commuters, ensuring they stay informed about the latest travel news.
Alexander Pack Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Alex Pack is a Founding Partner on the deal team at AngelList, the largest platform for early-stage tech investing in the world. Previously he was an investor with Arbor Ventures, an early-stage VC firm in Hong Kong, where he focused on opportunities in cross-border FinTech, EdTech, and blockchain technology.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Blockchain
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Zerion — Zerion is an investing app that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to access a suite of new financial products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). Simple, user-centered design is combined with a powerful tech stack that aggregates across every major decentralized exchange, offering users a single point of entryfor managing their digital assets with ease. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception.
  • SX Network — Scaling Polygon for betting, DeFi and NFTs
  • Affine — Alpine Empower Banking offers an exceptional financial solution designed to maximize your financial growth. With secure deposits and high yields, you can rest assured that your funds are protected while earning attractive returns. Additionally, Alpine Empower Banking provides convenient card benefits, ensuring easy access to your funds and a seamless banking experience.
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