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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
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
Errol Damelin
Angel
7 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $535k–$47M
Mark Ransford
Angel
7 United Kingdom, France, Italy Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $419k–$30M
Sam Enrico Williams
Angel
6 United Kingdom Pre-Seed Blockchain, Web Apps, Sports $10k–$55k
Taavet Hinrikus
Angel
6 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Software, Financial Services $1M–$52M
Will Neale
Angel
6 United Kingdom, Italy, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $121k–$6.2M
Simon Franks
Angel
6 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Health Care, Payments $318k–$23M
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
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
Perry Blacher
Angel
4 United Kingdom, France, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $531k–$8.1M
David Rutter
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Blockchain, Information Technology
François Derbaix
Angel
3 Spain, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $106k–$1.1M
Edward Gazelle
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, B2C $400k–$510k
Andrew Mullinger
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed, Series A FinTech, Information Technology, SaaS $1.1M–$3.8M
Alan Morgan
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Austria, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $382k–$7M
Paul Townsend
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed, Series A Payments, Financial Services, Banking $393k–$3.8M
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
Ian Hogarth
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $668k–$28M
Andreas Mihalovits
Angel
3 Spain, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $411k–$7M
Chris Mairs
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, FinTech, Financial Services $334k–$3.9M
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
Marek Fodor
Angel
2 Spain, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $159k–$1.8M
Gerri Kodres
Angel
2 Estonia, United Kingdom, Latvia Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care $1M–$7.9M
Edward Lando
Angel
2 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $125k–$5.8M
Alexander Pack
Angel
2 United States, Singapore, China Seed, Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Blockchain $1M–$10M
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
Greg Kidd
Angel
2 United States, Spain, United Kingdom Seed, Series A FinTech, Mobile, Software $385k–$4.5M
Janis Krums
Angel
2 United States, Estonia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Big Data, SaaS, FinTech $159k–$2.1M
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
Max Levchin
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile $1.3M–$50M
Reid Hoffman
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Social Media, Internet $800k–$112M
Tom Hulme
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $520k–$100M
Alessandro Hatami
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Eamon Jubbawy
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Hungary Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Payments, Software, Apps $293k–$8.6M
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
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
Kevin Chong
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Kevin Taylor
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed NFC, PaaS, Retail
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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–$4.2M; Series A $3.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

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.
  • Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
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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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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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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: 40
  • 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.
  • Briefcase — Automate your accounting workflows with AI
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 27
  • 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
  • Connectd — Connectd helps startups navigate their growth journey by providing connections, expert guidance, and tools to build meaningful partnerships in the UK.
  • Silas Insurtech — Streamlining manually intensive and laborious Insurance Underwriting processes within Commercial and Specialty Lines.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 316
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flent — Flent offers fully furnished designer homes.
  • Swaive — Swaive operates a financial firm that invests in risk-free instruments. The organization allows you to park your money without risk.
  • Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
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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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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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Greg Kidd
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Greg Kidd is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Know Labs.Greg is a co-founder and partner of Hard Yaka. As an investor, Greg provided first money at Twitter, Square, Coinbase, Robinhood, and Solana. Other early investments include Ripple, Uphold, and Brave.After working at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton,Greg took his first company public on the NASDAQ with $250 million in revenue and 3,200 staff globally. He later served in the payments division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and as a director at the financial regulatory consulting firm Promontory Financial Group. Greg also served as Chief Risk Officer at Andreesen Horowitz and Google Ventures backed startup Ripple. Greg graduated from Brown University and earned an MBA from Yale University and an MPA in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Spain, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $385k–$4.5M; Series A $2.7M–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

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.
  • MONI — MONI is building the bridge between the now and the future of banking and financial services. Our mission is to provide simple low-cost mobile personal banking tools for everyone, everywhere – and credit in real-time.We do not believe in the anarchy of destructing the old, we believe in future-proof evolution. We are building a hub connectingthe current banking, payment and credit provisioning systems to new technologies such as cryptocurrencies. Our technology reduces system complexity, cuts out middlemen, reduces costs for all parties, and decreases fraud.MONI technology, accessible from any feature or smartphone, enables every citizen to identify themselves and provides them with basic financial services. Our technology works today, on any carrier network, anywhere in the world.
  • 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/
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Janis Krums
Angel · Riga, Riga, Latvia · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Janis Krums is a Venture Partner at change ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Estonia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $658k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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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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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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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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Tom Hulme
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Tom Hulme is based out of London, Greater London and is the Managing Partner & Head of Europe of Google Ventures. Tom previously worked at IDEO as a Founder, Board Director, and Senior Advisor. Tom Hulme attended the Harvard Business School. Tom Hulme has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Wired UK’s Top 100Digital Power Brokers, and the Evening Standard’s list of London’s 1000 Most Influential People and received the Baker Scholar Award.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $520k–$6.5M; Series A $10M–$100M; Series B $16M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kinnu — Download Kinnu Law - The smartest SQE1 revision app with the highest quality practice questions and AI-powered learning assistant
  • Picfair — A new standard for online images. Upload your pics, name your price - an open-to-all image licensing marketplace. Picfair has thousands of images uploaded by photographers in 44 countries around the world, all available to license within a few clicks.
  • Wonderbly — Wonderbly is a full stack publishing startup from London. Wonderbly combines the power of stories with the possibilities of technology, to create magical, personalised experiences and make kids around the world more curious, clever and kind. Their first product www.lostmy.name sold over 600,000 copies and shipped to over 135 countries in theworld.
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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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Eamon Jubbawy
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Payments, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Hungary

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$8.6M; Pre-Seed $293k–$6.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Skrap — Skrap is an on-demand mobile marketplace for skip hire and other waste collection services.
  • Neverless — Securely buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and other cryptocurrencies with zero fees. Earn high yield on USDT, USDC and USDP.
  • Volter — Volter software offers a comprehensive solution for commercial and industrial property owners to deploy, manage, and improve solar assets.
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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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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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Kevin Chong
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Kevin Chong - Head @ Outward VC

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ometria — Create unforgettable customer experiences on every channel, powered by AI. Meet Ometria: the CDXP tailor-made for retail brands.
  • OnePulse — Create effective online surveys for market research to help gather audience insights & make data-driven decisions with ease. Try our online survey tool today.
  • Autologyx — Autologyx combines powerful workflow automation with a simple, intuitive workspace so you can deliver and automate legal and compliance work.
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Kevin Taylor
Angel · Orlando, Florida, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Payments startups

Kevin Taylor is a coder turned entrepreneur who lives in the Chicagoland area, where he makes things out of words, bytes or flour, depending on his mood.Kevin has suffered from a lifelong obsession with entrepreneurship and is an angel investor and advisor for early-stage start-ups. He has a current interest in brick-and-mortar or otherold-school business models that are ripe to receive exponential boosts by leveraging technology.He consults on how to start up and successfully grow professional services businesses, such as software development, web design, headhunting and recruiting, etc. He also works as CTO-for-Hire to help startups without technical co-founders successfully get their product development off the ground.Career highlights:Former Co-Owner of EventWax, LLC, an online event registration company.Former Lecturer in Technology Entrepreneurship at DePaul University, where he designed and taught courses for both undergraduate and graduate students.Former Director of Engineering at Groupon.Former President and Founder of Obtiva Corporation, an Agile and Ruby on Rails development shop acquired by Groupon in 2011. Co-Founder of the Software Craftsmanship North America conference.Early promoter and adherent to Software Craftsmanship values and practices and practitioner, trainer, and coach in the areas of Agile Project Management, Extreme Programming, and software development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: NFC, PaaS, Retail
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ensygnia — Ensygnia's solutions sit at the heart of shopper interaction. The Ensygnia platform delivers integration Platform as a Service for large payment companies and corporations who value speed and simplicity for customer journeys as much as regulatory compliance and security. This provides the simplest, fastest and most secure omnichannelinteraction and purchasing experience. The platform enables market leading companies to rapidly deliver Value Added Services for omnichannel. This is a full-service, integrated suite of best of breed third-party services. It includes integration with over 350 different payment providers and methods global. But capabilities extend well beyond payments into: identity validation, KYC, AML, Authentication, Biometrics, PSD2, SCA, GDPR, Data Validation, Data Enrichment, POS, PED, eCommerce and other systems.Ensygnia's flagship product Onescan enables any call-to-action to become an instant action. This delivers beautiful simplicity, allowing consumers to interact securely online, in-store, or on-the-go. Whatever you need to do, you can with Onescan.All flows, automations and CX / UX are fully customisable and dynamically brandable in real-time. The company holds a globally granted patent portfolio forming the definitive standard for secure QR code payment & login. This includes two patents granted in China.
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Payments Angel investor funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 167 deals from 218 investors.

218
investors
in United Kingdom Payments startups
167
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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