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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in United Kingdom (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in United Kingdom Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Kingdom Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Chris Adelsbach
Angel
13 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $120k–$20M
Paul Forster
Angel
8 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$15M
Mark Ransford
Angel
7 United Kingdom, France, Italy Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $419k–$30M
Errol Damelin
Angel
7 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $535k–$47M
Charles Delingpole
Angel
7 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $382k–$20M
Alexander Chesterman
Angel
7 United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $524k–$23M
Will Neale
Angel
6 United Kingdom, Italy, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $121k–$6.2M
Sam Enrico Williams
Angel
6 United Kingdom Pre-Seed Blockchain, Web Apps, Sports $10k–$55k
Simon Franks
Angel
6 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Health Care, Payments $318k–$23M
Taavet Hinrikus
Angel
6 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Software, Financial Services $1M–$52M
Svetozar Georgiev
Angel
5 United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Greece Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, FinTech $110k–$3.2M
Vassil Terziev
Angel
5 United States, Bulgaria, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, FinTech $100k–$3.2M
Perry Blacher
Angel
4 United Kingdom, France, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $531k–$8.1M
Michael Bristow
Angel
4 United Kingdom, Belgium, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Real Estate, SaaS, Software $38k–$2.6M
Matt Robinson
Angel
4 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $650k–$50M
Edward Gazelle
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, B2C $400k–$510k
François Derbaix
Angel
3 Spain, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $106k–$1.1M
Ian Hogarth
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $668k–$28M
David Rutter
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Blockchain, Information Technology
Yoyo Chang
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed FinTech, E-Commerce, Point of Sale $150k–$3.3M
Tom Vorisek
Angel
3 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series B, Series A FinTech, Machine Learning, Financial Services $100k–$100M
Andreas Mihalovits
Angel
3 Spain, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $411k–$7M
Paul Townsend
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed, Series A Payments, Financial Services, Banking $393k–$3.8M
Chris Mairs
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, FinTech, Financial Services $334k–$3.9M
Alan Morgan
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Austria, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $382k–$7M
Andrew Mullinger
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed, Series A FinTech, Information Technology, SaaS $1.1M–$3.8M
Peter Jackson
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed FinTech, Credit, Payments $1.1M–$1.3M
Ed Wray
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Portugal Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $1M–$6.3M
James Hind
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Internet, Payments $917k–$5.1M
Craig Dewar
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Retail, FinTech $327k–$2.6M
Damien Lane
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, Software, Health Care $459k–$16M
Marek Fodor
Angel
2 Spain, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $159k–$1.8M
Michael Pennington
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, FinTech $701k–$3M
Gerri Kodres
Angel
2 Estonia, United Kingdom, Latvia Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care $1M–$7.9M
Max Levchin
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile $1.3M–$50M
Edward Lando
Angel
2 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $125k–$6.6M
Alexander Pack
Angel
2 United States, Singapore, China Seed, Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Blockchain $1M–$10M
Akash Gupta
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Apps, Travel, FinTech $268k–$2M
Tim Dempsey
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Financial Services $962k–$2.5M
Ricky Knox
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $982k–$4.3M
Reid Hoffman
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Social Media, Internet $800k–$112M
Henry Ritchotte
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, United States Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $637k–$10M
Simon Murdoch
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Software, Finance $637k–$15M
Alessandro Hatami
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Phil McGriskin
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed Payments, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Carlos Blanco
Angel
2 Spain, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Mandeep Singh
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Adam Knight
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Angel Credit, Bitcoin, FinTech
Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
2 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Theo Osborne
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A Software, Apps, E-Commerce
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Chris Adelsbach
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 13 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 226
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2M; Series A $4.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
  • FinCrime Dynamics — Our mission is to help make the world’s financial system safer through rapid deployment of effective AI for financial crime analytics, enabled by enriched synthetic data that captures the dynamics of fraud and money laundering and loads them into tailor-made scenarios that explore diverse threats that financial organisations are exposed to.Thisgoal has taken us to the forefront of Synthetic Data and Fincrime Analytics, and we are proud to have in our team people that have helped shape the state-of-the-art of these fields.Keywords: Finacial services, AML, Synthetic Data, Fintech, Machine learning, Big data, Simulation, Fraud Analytics, Compliance
  • Applied Computing — Applied Computing delivers industrial AI to the energy industry including oil and gas, refineries, and petrochemical plants, helping critical operations harness 100% of their data and optimise in real time for safer, faster, higher-performing decisions
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Paul Forster
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 8 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oraion — Your single source of truth for enterprise data
  • Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
  • Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
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Mark Ransford
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Angel Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $630k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $419k–$4.3M; Series A $8.6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
  • Zango — Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight.
  • Little John — Little John creates a platform using generative AI to empower insurance brokers.
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Errol Damelin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $535k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $668k–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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Charles Delingpole
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $382k–$2.3M; Series A $6.4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ascendx Cloud — Supercharge Salesforce with connected apps that streamline sales, automate data, and drive enterprise-scale growth - Salesforce Solutions By Ascendx
  • 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.
  • Isembard — Isembard has experience from the military, government, large enterprises, and a successfully exited technology business.
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Alexander Chesterman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $655k–$3M; Series A $2.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

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.
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Will Neale
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $121k–$6.2M; Pre-Seed $650k–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Sam Enrico Williams
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Web Apps, Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $10k–$55k
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NFT Metadata Editor — Be the first to claim for whitelist instant access to exclusive airdrop and giveaway drops.
  • NFT Exhibition Space — Be the first to claim for whitelist instant access to exclusive airdrop and giveaway drops.
  • Crypto Wealth Manager — Start claiming now for whitelist instant access to exclusive airdrop and giveaway drops.
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Simon Franks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Health Care, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $318k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
  • Thriva — At-home blood testing and science-backed next steps to feel great, maximise your performance, and extend your healthspan.
  • Trilo — Welcome to the simplest way to pay. Whether your strolling on the high street, or scrolling on your phone, you'll get a Boost whenever you shop with Trilo.
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Taavet Hinrikus
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Taavet Hinrikus is based out of London, England and is the Partner of Plural Platform and Board Member of CoMind. Taavet previously worked at Wise as a Chairman and Co-founder. Taavet Hinrikus attended INSEAD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.9M; Series A $7M–$47M; Series B $23M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Juro — Juro is an all-in-one contract automation platform that helps legal and business users to agree & manage contracts in one unified workspace.
  • 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.
  • Skeleton Technologies — Skeleton Technologies is the global leader in ultracapacitor & supercapacitor energy storage and helps companies in automotive, transportation, grid, and industry to save energy.
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Svetozar Georgiev
Angel · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 5 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Greece

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$3.2M; Angel $165k–$219k; Pre-Seed $138k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Payhawk — Payhawk is a spending software that simplifies expenses, payments, and card spending for growing businesses. The company's platform enables financial officers and business owners to manage the entire spending lifecycle end-to-end. It collects and analyzes receipts, invoices, and card transactions to help stay in control of the budget with nopaperwork for the employees. With its paperless corporate card linked to an automated expense management, Payhawk provides a product on top of existing banks.Payhawk was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England.
  • 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 — Icanpreneur is an AI co-founder platform that helps validate ideas, products, and growth opportunities, then turns customer insights into buyer personas, go-to-market strategy, and launch-ready assets.
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Vassil Terziev
Angel · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 5 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Bulgaria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $212k–$3.2M; Angel $100k–$300k; Pre-Seed $138k–$531k
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Payhawk — Payhawk is a spending software that simplifies expenses, payments, and card spending for growing businesses. The company's platform enables financial officers and business owners to manage the entire spending lifecycle end-to-end. It collects and analyzes receipts, invoices, and card transactions to help stay in control of the budget with nopaperwork for the employees. With its paperless corporate card linked to an automated expense management, Payhawk provides a product on top of existing banks.Payhawk was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England.
  • 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
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Perry Blacher
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Perry Blacher is a Partner at Augmentum Fintech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$8.1M; Pre-Seed $531k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

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.
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Michael Bristow
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Experienced business leader with a proven track record as CEO of CrowdProperty, where I delivered >20x revenue growth, 7-figure profitability whilst scaling up, and a leading market position. With 18 years strategy consulting experience, I specialise in defining clear and differentiated strategies, driving transformation and creating value incomplex environments for mid-cap to large-scale corporates and private equity owned businesses with experienced operator, investor, advisor and Board perspectives. Venture capital investor and advisor to HM Government on tackling constraints to SME business growth (99.9% of businesses in the UK supporting 27m jobs with £4.5tn of annual turnover).Key skills: • Leadership • Strategy • Growth • Transformation • Value-creation • Consulting • Private Equity / Venture Capital • Capital Raising • Commercial Due Diligence • Board-Level Governance • Stakeholder ManagementToolkit: • 18 years strategy/transformation/private equity consulting • 7 years transformational growth CEO • 6 years venture capital investment committee • Multiple Board positions (Executive & Non-Executive) • Broad sector experience to leverage • International perspective working in 18 countries and on many more • Multi-asset class investor • London Business School MBA • FT Non-Executive Director Diploma • Chartered Management Accountant • 1st Class Masters in Mechanical EngineeringAwards & Recognition: • CrowdProperty has been widely recognised including in the ‘Sunday Times Hundred’ (Britain's fastest growing profitable businesses), Deloitte Fast 50 / Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (UK’s/EMEA’s fastest growing technology businesses), and the Financial Times FT1000 (fastest growing businesses in Europe) for 4 consecutive years; Selected for high-profile scaleup programmes including ‘TechNation Fintech 5.0’, ‘Silicon Valley comes to the UK Scaleup Club’ and a ‘WIRED Trailblazer’ • Personally recognised as a finalist in 'Tech Entrepreneur of the Year' in the Go:Tech Awards, finalist in ‘Inspirational Leader of the Year’ at the UK PropTech Awards, awarded 'Entrepreneur of the Year' and 'Business Person of the Year' by the Midlands Business Awards and featured in the Alternative Credit Investor Power 50 list 5 years in a row (top 10 in 2022)Other: • Angel investing: London Business School E100 member; UKBAA member; 12+ years angel investing; 35+ investments • Real estate investing: 20+ years building an extensive residential property portfolio across tenant segments • Sport: ECB Cricket Foundation Coach, MCC Member; Active player

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Belgium, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $38k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $76k–$1M; Equity Crowdfunding $504k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Saltee
  • Scrub AI — Scrub AI is an IT company that provides web hosting, data augmentation, error correction, business strategy, and software solutions.
  • Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
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Matt Robinson
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $650k–$3M; Series A $6.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Malga — Malga is an online payment platform that offers fraud protection and payment split services.
  • 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.
  • Malga — Instant access to multiple payment providers with a single integration
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Edward Gazelle
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Edward Gazelle is the co-founder of Propoly.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, B2C
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$510k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Propoly — Streamline lettings with Propoly - the UK tenancy progression platform for letting agents. Automate compliance, agreements & payments in one system.
  • 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.
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François Derbaix
Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 3 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$1.1M; Angel $106k–$424k; Pre-Seed $149k–$570k
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

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.
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Ian Hogarth
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Ian Hogarth is based out of London, England, and is the Chairman of Phasecraft. Ian previously worked at Songkick as a Chairman. Ian Hogarth attended the University of Cambridge.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $668k–$7.7M; Series A $11M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blloc — The ultimate smartphone experience. Boost your productivity. Focus on what matters.
  • Cordless — Bridging the gap between voice and text
  • Heygo — Explore places to visit within the UK and around the world on Rest Less. Get inspired and plan trips to holiday destinations with us.
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David Rutter
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Blockchain, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VALK — Omni-chain data & Analytics layer
  • 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.
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Yoyo Chang
Angel · 3 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Point of Sale
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kody — Businesses of all shapes and sizes can create their own digital experiences using KodyPay.
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Tom Vorisek
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Machine Learning, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$6.9M; Series A $4.9M–$70M; Series B $27M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

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 is the first landlord software recognised by HMRC for Making Tax Digital. We provide MTD filings, real-time monitoring of rental income and expenses, bookkeeping and property tax statements
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Andreas Mihalovits
Angel · Marbella, Andalucia, Spain · 3 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $411k–$2.1M; Series A $1.5M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Colibid — Jagoledak Layanan Terbaik Master Vixenskitchen Rasakan Citra Rasa Dunia Penuh HIburan Penghasil Uang Dalam Genggaman Tangan
  • Motoreto — Motoreto is a used car and accessories marketplace. They explain the information and details of the used car and provide offers from dealers and payment options. Motoreto University is a Motoreto program designed to train specialized sales profiles in the international automotive industry.
  • 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.
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Paul Townsend
Angel · Bromley, Bromley, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Payments, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $393k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Chris Mairs
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Chris Mairs - Venture Partner @ Entrepreneurs First

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $655k–$3.9M; Angel $334k–$707k; Pre-Seed $917k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • nMachine — A Low-Code solution for creating extraordinary Day 2 Operations platforms - called nMachines - for your existing Kubernetes-based applications, that can be shared inside and outside your organization.
  • Incard — Welcome to the world's first payment solution designed exclusively for e-commerce, entrepreneurs, dropshippers and influencers. Join our waitlist now.
  • Tuza — Find the right card machine for your business, with good rates and the best features. Search the top providers in minutes, including Worldpay, Barclaycard, Tyl and Teya.
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Alan Morgan
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Austria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.8M; Angel $382k–$7M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ralio
  • Zango — Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight.
  • Silas Insurtech — Streamlining manually intensive and laborious Insurance Underwriting processes within Commercial and Specialty Lines.
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Andrew Mullinger
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
  • tripAbrood — tripAbrood is an AI-driven travel platform for families to discover and book holidays.
  • Toothfairy — Winner of app of the year, for emergencies, teeth straightening, teeth whitening & prescriptions. Teledentistry and dentist available 24/7. Founded by dentists.
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Peter Jackson
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Peter Jackson - Group CEO @ Flutter Entertainment

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Credit, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Ed Wray
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.7M; Series A $5.5M–$6.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 provides expert investment management and tailored wealth planning solutions, helping you confidently achieve your financial goals.
  • 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.
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James Hind
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

James is the big boss of carwow, so it's hardly a surprise that cars are one of his biggest passions.He studied Finance but was put off a city career after just 2 months of trying one. He's very competitive, especially when it comes to ping pong at the office. He invented the rule that if anyone loses a game 11-0 they have to buy donutsfor the entire team!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Internet, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $917k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $917k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Skrap — Skrap is an on-demand mobile marketplace for skip hire and other waste collection services.
  • MindLabs — Live sleep and meditation classes for your mind. Led by experts. Backed by neuroscience. Now available to download on the App Store.
  • Screenloop — Screenloop is the hiring intelligence platform that allows you to source candidates, analyse interviews, and automate the reference process.
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Craig Dewar
Angel · Douglas, NA - Isle of Man, Isle of Man · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Craig founded Flex-e-card with Tony Kerr in 2000, before founding Global Processing Servcies. He was a former technology director in investment banking and front office systems within Salomon Brothers, JP Morgan, CSFB.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $655k–$1.3M; Angel $327k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Collctiv — Collect money from your friends for that birthday present, sports event or anything you like. They don't even need to download an app, just tap to pay using Apple/Google Pay or their card. Join Collctiv today for free.
  • Tell Money — Helping account providers meet their PSD2 regulatory obligations, and bringing exciting new open banking tools to their customers. SaaS Solutions for AISPs and PISPs.
  • ZIPZERO — Zipzero users can earn cash rewards by sharing receipts from everyday purchases, which they can then use to pay household utility bills. Our path to scale is in partnership with leading utilities, who are encouraged to push ZIPZERO to their customers as we help them pay their bills.
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Damien Lane
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $459k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $605k–$1M; Series A $3.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Calira — Calira (formerly Clustermarket). Give researchers an easy way to book equipment, improve equipment utilisation, and get structured lab usage data.
  • Realla — Search the entire commercial property market for offices, serviced office space, retail, industrial for sale and to rent
  • IVO — Platform to allow media owners to deepen advertiser engagement, increase profitability and commercialise ad solutions with ease.
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Marek Fodor
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $371k–$830k
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

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.
  • Cocopool
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Michael Pennington
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$3M; Pre-Seed $701k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

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
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Gerri Kodres
Angel · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Estonia, United Kingdom, Latvia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.9M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PayQin — Vous allez aimer payer en ligne
  • Comodule — IoT solutions for light electric vehicles. Empowering emissionless transport and thus, making our world a cleaner and happier place to live.
  • Nordigen — Nordigen is a free open banking API that provides PSD2 data connections to all major European banks.
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Max Levchin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $4M–$27M; Series B $7.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

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.
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Edward Lando
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 314
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Swaive — Swaive operates a financial firm that invests in risk-free instruments. The organization allows you to park your money without risk.
  • AstroForge — We mine asteroids to extract valuable minerals in space at a lower cost and smaller carbon footprint than the current terrestrial mining methods.
  • Autoplay — Autoplay is an AI-powered platform that improves digital adoption by offering real-time, context-aware guidance. It learns from user interactions and software interfaces, adapting to help enterprises optimize usage, streamline workflows, and boost engagement across teams.
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Alexander Pack
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BCB Group — Pay, store, trade and earn fiat, stablecoins and digital assets globally.
  • Hashflow — Tight spreads. Zero slippage. MEV-resistant.
  • Non-fungible Technologies — We build financial platforms & infrastructure for the non-fungible asset class.
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Akash Gupta
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Akash Gupta

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Travel, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $268k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Skrap — Skrap is an on-demand mobile marketplace for skip hire and other waste collection services.
  • Kashing — Kashing uses smart payment technology that enables independent businesses to accept card payments. Thousands of independent business owners have turned to Kashing to power their payments and enable growth strategy. Their payment services are streamlined to offer its customers the best payment choices – whether they’d prefer to pay via card oronline.Kashing was founded in 2014 and is based in London, England.
  • Omnipresent — Let Omnipresent be your global HQ. We manage your payroll, benefits, compliance and taxes, so you can focus on growing your team. Book a call today.
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Tim Dempsey
Angel · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Tim Dempsey is a Managing Partner at Epiphany Capital. He graduated from the University of Manchester.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $962k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lunio — Say goodbye to wasted ad spend and false conversions. Use Lunio to stave off click fraud and invalid users, safeguarding the quality of your traffic and driving better returns from paid media
  • Mitra bio — We are transforming skin-care by approaching ageing as a disease to be fought. We are developing a genetic and epigenetic discovery platform to help skincare companies find and develop new compounds that actually fight the root cause of skin ageing.
  • PPC Protect — Say goodbye to wasted ad spend and false conversions. Use Lunio to stave off click fraud and invalid users, safeguarding the quality of your traffic and driving better returns from paid media
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Ricky Knox
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2M; Pre-Seed $982k–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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Reid Hoffman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and a member of the Sanmai Board of Directors. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Oxford, where he earned his M.St. in Philosophy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Social Media, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$26M; Series A $2.4M–$31M; Series B $8.3M–$112M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.
  • Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible
  • Tools For Humanity — Tools for Humanity is a technology company building for humans in the age of AI.
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Henry Ritchotte
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Henry Ritchotte is the Founder of RitMir Ventures. He previously worked at Deutsche Bank as a Head of Digital Bank. Henry Ritchotte attended the University of Chicago.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $637k–$2.7M; Series A $5.1M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arkera — Arkera helps companies increase revenues by empowering anyone to make exciting investment decisions they never imagined. Using our extensive financial expertise and Artificial Intelligence, we connect real world events to unique investment stories.
  • Neyber — Join Neyber today to help improve financial wellbeing and happiness in the workplace. Financial education, affordable loans, and savings and investments paid from your salary.
  • Luther Systems — Luther Systems platform empowers enterprises to automate and run their processes at speed and scale.
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Simon Murdoch
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $637k–$3M; Series A $712k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
  • MoveWise — Best casino sites UK ranked by reliability, game variety, bonus terms, and payout performance to help players choose with confidence.
  • Area4 Labs — Hearby is your gateway to local live events.
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Alessandro Hatami
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Alessandro is Managing Partner at Pacemakers. They provide independent advice to executive teams on selecting the right partners in order to convert digital strategies into commercial success. Previously, he was Group Innovation Director & COO Digital Banking at Lloyds Banking Group; MD of PayPoint.net, Director Large Merchant Services atPayPal & European Marketing Director at GE Capital. He is also a Board Advisor at CashPlus. He is a mentor of several FinTech start-ups working with Techstars, Seedcamp and Startupbootcamp. He is also an investor in several early stage companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
  • Trilo — Welcome to the simplest way to pay. Whether your strolling on the high street, or scrolling on your phone, you'll get a Boost whenever you shop with Trilo.
  • Kore Labs — KORE has created a platform for digital product management in the financial space. Discover more and get in touch.
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Phil McGriskin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Phil McGriskin - CEO & Founder @ Vitesse PSP

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kwanji — This domain used to be connected to a Wix website. Learn how to reconnect it, or create your own website.
  • 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.
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Carlos Blanco
Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Mandeep Singh
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Mandeep Singh is an Angel investor at multiple firms. He previously was the founding CEO at Trouva. Mandeep Singh studied Physics at the University of Cambridge.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Droidrun — Droidrun is a cutting-edge software development company that specializes in creating innovative solutions enabling AI agents to seamlessly access and control smartphone applications. By leveraging advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, their software facilitates smooth interactions between AI systems and mobile devices,empowering agents to autonomously navigate, operate, and optimize a wide range of apps on both Android and iOS platforms.
  • Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
  • Fractile — Fractile is designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at 1/10th the cost.
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Adam Knight
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Credit, Bitcoin, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 — Based in London, United Kingdom, CommuterClub offers a software solution that enables businesses to manage season ticket schemes. The company was founded by Petko Plachkov in 2013.
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 174
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Defx — Defx is a non-custodial perps venue. We're built on Arbitrum, and will be coming to Solana very soon.
  • Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
  • RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
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Theo Osborne
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Payments Angel investor funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 164 deals from 212 investors.

212
investors
in United Kingdom Payments startups
164
deals
in United Kingdom Payments startups
$3M
median round
in United Kingdom Payments startups
9%
lead investors
lead at least one round
46%
Seed
most common funding stage

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