Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in United Kingdom (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
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22 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $241k–$19M |
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SFC Capital
VC Fund
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21 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $127k–$2M |
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Chris Adelsbach
Angel
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21 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $113k–$19M |
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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20 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$30M |
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Seedcamp
VC Fund
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20 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, SaaS | |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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19 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $411k–$33M |
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Ascension
VC Fund
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18 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Internet | $250k–$4.5M |
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
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16 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $313k–$24M |
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Redbus Ventures
VC Fund
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15 | United Kingdom, United States, Australia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, E-Commerce, Health Care | $323k–$23M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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15 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $575k–$30M |
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Anthemis
VC Fund
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14 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $1.3M–$60M |
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Par Equity
VC Fund
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14 | United Kingdom, United States, Brazil | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $168k–$4.3M |
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Index Ventures
VC Fund
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14 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $1.5M–$102M |
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MMC Ventures
VC Fund
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13 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1.4M–$54M |
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Passion Capital
VC Fund
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13 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $573k–$85M |
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Accel
VC Fund
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11 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.4M–$70M |
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Salica
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Secondary Market, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $700k–$346M |
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Notion Capital
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.1M–$66M |
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $650k–$30M |
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Headline
VC Fund
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10 | United States, Germany, Brazil | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $1.1M–$87M |
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Paul Forster
Angel
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10 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1M–$26M |
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence | $4.5M–$150M |
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Taavet Hinrikus
Angel
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $1.4M–$58M |
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Entrepreneurs First
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $55k–$30M |
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Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund
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9 | United States, United Kingdom, Australia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency | $1.3M–$43M |
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $39k–$10M |
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Connect Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $669k–$55M |
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tokentus investment AG
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain | $300k–$80M |
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Alexander Chesterman
Angel
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8 | United Kingdom, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, FinTech, Health Care | $470k–$24M |
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Animoca Brands
VC Fund
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8 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $1.3M–$40M |
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Equity Gap
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, SaaS | $220k–$6.3M |
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Charles Delingpole
Angel
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Spain | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $398k–$20M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2.2M–$44M |
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Matt Robinson
Angel
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $650k–$50M |
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
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8 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $510k–$48M |
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $591k–$16M |
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Mark Ransford
Angel
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8 | United Kingdom, France, Italy | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $441k–$30M |
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Northzone
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Sweden, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $2.5M–$76M |
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ConsenSys
VC Fund
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7 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $200k–$30M |
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Will Neale
Angel
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7 | United Kingdom, Spain, Italy | Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $121k–$6.3M |
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1818 Venture Capital
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Ukraine | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $655k–$25M |
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Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Private Equity | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $648k–$15M |
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Episode 1
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1M–$18M |
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Errol Damelin
Angel
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $535k–$47M |
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1kx
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Germany, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $1.8M–$40M |
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Union Square Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $2M–$45M |
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Praetura Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, Australia, Germany | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $622k–$9M |
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Kindred Capital
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $1.4M–$73M |
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Tiger Global Management
VC Fund
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7 | United States, India, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $9M–$284M |
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Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $245k–$7.9M |
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Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0.FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growthjourney.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 193
- Round size: Seed $420k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $241k–$2.4M; Series A $3.1M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
- Artificial Labs — Build your future placement and underwriting strategy with Artificial's pioneering technology.
- Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
Discover the UK's leading SEIS Fund, offering tax-efficient investments in innovative startups. Join thousands of savvy investors and raise capital for your business with SFC Capital.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 725
- Round size: Seed $127k–$2M; Pre-Seed $170k–$846k
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Keylr — Services partner for property managers. Book reliable, top-rated professionals for your properties with e-props.
- Furbnow — Furbnow - Your companion for home improvements for the future
- FlairMakers — FlairMakers provides a digital talent platform connecting hospitality businesses with vetted freelance professionals.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 315
- Round size: Seed $120k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $113k–$2M; Series A $4.3M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bourn — Bourn's technology is designed to automate cash flow management, offering SMEs fast access to capital.
- Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
- Emblematic — The first AI-driven Agentic Automation platform, designed to fully automate and enhance the accuracy of Finance Operations, including Bookkeeping, IFRS/GAAP Compliance, Reconciliations, and more.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 422
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.3M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- nPlan — AI that forecasts project outcomes, creates scenarios of the future and helps mitigate risk across single projects and portfolios. Trained on over 750,000 past programmes.
- Stream — Stream is a financial services firm that allows employees to stream their earned wages into their accounts through an instant app. The app allows them to have complete control over when they get paid. It also effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans, and employee stress suffered from short-term, unplanned financial obligations. Thecompany aims to play a key role in reducing the poverty premium and preventing employees from entering cycles of debt caused by overdraft fees, high-interest credit, or payday loans.
- microagi — Accelerating embodied AGI
Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 308
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
- Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 662
- Round size: Seed $798k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $372M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
- GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
- Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 313
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $261k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $21M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases
- Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
- Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 253
- Round size: Seed $674k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $313k–$1.7M; Series A $4.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $126M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- PANTA — PANTA Index Technology is a pioneering fintech company founded by industry veterans to transform the index creation landscape. Our state-of-the-art, cloud-based SaaS solution empowers financial institutions to build and operate complex, bespoke indices and portfolios with unprecedented scale, speed, and precision.As the only pure-play technologyprovider in this space, we streamline the entire index lifecycle while offering advanced back-testing and simulation capabilities. PANTA aims to democratize index technology, enabling institutions of all sizes to innovate faster and make data-driven investment decisions. We're set to become the operating system for next-generation indexing, driving innovation and efficiency across the rules-based and quantitative investment landscape.
- Vouchsafe — Vouchsafe the world's first real-time fraud bureau. We provide one simple API that returns an instant fraud risk score for a set of customer details.
- Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
Redbus Group is a UK based investment group that invests in early stage ventures and funds or acquires businesses that require restructuring. Redbus Group came into existence as an offshoot of Redbus Film Distribution which was founded in 1997 as a film distribution company. Redbus Film Distribution had rapidly established itself as one of thelargest and most profitable film distributors in the UK. In late 2000 it was sold to Helkon Media AG.Redbus through its subsidiary Filmgroup was the first company in Europe to successfully develop technology to compress and stream moving images over the internet. Between 2000 and 2004 Redbus was the UK's fastest growing company with a compound annual growth rate in-excess of 280%. In 2005 Redbus sold its production and distribution operations to Lionsgate Inc and sold its stake in Lovefilm of which it was co-founder, to Amazon in 2010.Employing an entrepreneurial and disciplined approach, Redbus, either with partners or alone looks for opportunities to leverage off its capital, market knowledge and management resources.
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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 149
- Round size: Seed $586k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $323k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SOLVE — SOLVE have developed novel transient flow techniques that extend the capabilities of current approaches. SOLVE’s products leverage technology for the efficient collection of data from chemical reactions, as well as predictive computational models tuned based on the collected data. Both the data by itself, as well as the models, are used to informthe reaction conditions and solvent mixtures applied to manufacture chemical compounds at different scales of production.
- Tolemy Bio — The AI-native virtual cell platform for therapeutic development and manufacture.
- Nila Elder Care — Nila acquires independent UK homecare agencies and runs them on our AI platform. Families get care they can count on; owners get a fair exit and a team that's looked after.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1090
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9M; Pre-Seed $575k–$5M; Series A $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
- Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
- Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 312
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $10M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $56M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Humanos — The Risk Network for AI https://t.co/RzfFeAgNCj
- PayPerks — PayPerks operates education and rewards solutions with our partners to improve the financial capability, financial health, and overall lives of millions of Americans.
- Monax — Monax offers a platform that leverages blockchain technology and offers a contract lifecycle management tool that permits consumers to easily procure lawyer-tested agreements and stay in full control of their business contracts as well as provides permission ledgers and smart contracts, enabling the finance, insurance, and construction sectors todevelop, customize, sell and reproduce legal products.
Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 253
- Round size: Seed $416k–$4.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $168k–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $122M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Fuuse — Fuuse is an electric vehicle charge point management system that enables your chargers to deliver more for you and your drivers.
- PathXL — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
- Skylark Lasers — UniKLasers specialises in single frequency, continuous wave DPSS lasers at mid- to high power. Suitable for Raman, Holography, Interferometry, Microscopy, Metrology, Quantum Technologies, and more
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1505
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $12M–$102M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $400M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Anrok — Anrok automates sales tax compliance across your financial stack, so you can grow your SaaS business in any market.
- OpenX — OpenX has the largest independent ad exchange network for publishers and demand partners, while maintaining the highest quality marketplace standards. Learn more.
- StorSimple — Learn how to migrate a StorSimple 8100 or 8600 appliance to Azure File Sync.
MMC is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in exceptional entrepreneurs across Europe.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 256
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.8M; Series A $2.9M–$19M; Series B $10M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $129M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Gardin — We believe in a world in which everyone has the right to access high quality, nutritious food that is good for you and for our planet. Our environmental issues are real, something, somewhere needs to change. Gardin promises to create the step-change required by deploying its technology.
- ABEX — Algorithmic Best Execution for digital assets driven by an ultra low latency, high frequency, agency trading engine and enhanced by deep quantitative research.
- sable bio — We provide comprehensive, quantified, and flexible Target Safety Intelligence to assist toxicologists, informaticians, and drug discovery scientists in delivering safe and effective new treatments.
Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators who are applying our experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. We are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe, and we believe that the criticaldifferentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders. We take pride in the calibre and success of all of our founders and teams including but nowhere near limited to GoCardless, Tray.io, Mendeley, Digital Shadows, Adzuna, Smarkets, Ravelin, Tide, Marshmallow, Butternut Box, PolyAI, Lendable and Monzo Bank
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 183
- Round size: Seed $573k–$6.5M; Series A $2.3M–$14M; Series B $5.9M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $52M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
- Secondmind — Secondmind is Engineering AI software that helps engineers stay in control of rising complexity - reaching reliable answers faster with far fewer tests and simulations.
- Opensignal — Opensignal is the leading global provider of independent insights into network experience and market performance.
First partner to exceptional teams everywhere
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2354
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $4.4M–$40M; Series B $9.5M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $750M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Yodlee — Yodlee is a provider of financial applications that aims to make online banking more profitable. Yodlee's personal financial management, payments, and customer acquisition solutions unify all personal financial account information to deliver centralized way for users to manage their financial tasks.
- MobStac — Developer of a cloud-based mobile marketing platform designed to connect the digital and physical worlds through the use of innovative technology. The company's platform is based on the principals of proximity marketing and engage customers in a personalized, context-aware way that leverages indoor location and proximity, enabling businessesand brands to leverage BLE beacon technology to deliver context-rich experiences to their end users.
- Diligent — Diligent, a modern governance company, is the only comprehensive governance software provider featuring tools to improve and simplify modern day governance.
Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 242
- Round size: Seed $700k–$4.3M; Series A $3.9M–$19M; Secondary Market $60M–$346M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $12M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
- CameraMatics — Digitize fleet management to optimize performance. Onboard sensors, smart cameras, & apps to mitigate risk, manage safety & achieve sustainability goals.
- Modern Milkman — Modern Milkman is a Yorkshire-based milk delivery company.
Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 286
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.1M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $7.5M–$66M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $130M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Volo Commerce — Volo brings together data and intelligence from all over the commerce ecosystem and uses AI to provide real-time actionable insights.
- Endra — Endra is a purpose-built platform for modern MEP engineering. Generate 3D models and drawings, sync with Revit and enjoy coordinated design workflows.
- Pivot — Pivot operates as a fintech company.
firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 217
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Intropy AI — Intropy increases distributor profitability by automating inventory and pricing decisions, at scale, across your distribution network.
- Neno Technology — Neno is a financial technology company that helps entrepreneurs start, manage, and scale their businesses without the administrative burden. The platform automates Dutch BV (private limited company) registration, business banking, corporate card issuance, invoicing, bookkeeping, payroll, and tax filing combining them into a single, streamlinedworkflow. Rather than juggling separate providers for each of these functions, founders get one integrated system paired with dedicated, personal accounting support. Neno's goal is to eliminate the hours founders typically lose to financial paperwork and follow-ups each month, letting them focus on growing their business instead of managing back-office operations.
- Reimagine Robotics — Show the robot what to do, correct it where it fails, and adapt it as the process changes.
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 550
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$12M; Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $8M–$87M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $865M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Blips — Blips is a platform in Brazil that aims to bridge the gap between investors and entrepreneurs. The company connects and drives investors and entrepreneurs with tangible assets that enable productive business activities, allowing customers to buy and finance supplies and inputs, as well as an educational platform to support the entrepreneurs'journey, teaching management techniques, growth, and technical knowledge for equipment use.
- Cameo — Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people.Cameo's mission is to create the most personalized and authentic fan experiences in the world. We're a marketplace where users can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people. We currently partner with thousands of talentacross all verticals. Cameo’s offices are in 1871 and we are proud to be part of Chicago’s thriving technology and startup community.
- Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.7M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Oraion — Your single source of truth for enterprise data
- Wassist — Launch your AI sales agent on WhatsApp for Shopify in under 60 seconds. Recover 30-50% of abandoned carts and increase conversions by 3x.
- Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 434
- Round size: Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $9.3M–$100M; Series C $13M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $615M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- NewBay — NewBay enables operators and device makers to deliver a lifetime of digital content experiences across any connected device such as mobile, PC, tablets and TV. The NewBay white label software platform powers cloud-based services for storing, sharing, accessing and organizing digital content. NewBay enables customers to monetize a wide range ofbranded services such as social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, notifications and converged messaging. NewBay is delivering highly successful commercial services for operators and device makers worldwide. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon and LG Electronics. NewBay is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator and device maker services. NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, USA; Atlanta, USA; London, UK; Sydney, Australia and Seoul, South Korea. NewBay was founded in 2002. Following acquisition in 2011, NewBay is a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM).
- Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
- GitGuardian — GitGuardian provides a platform for detecting and managing sensitive digital credentials and machine identities within software development environments. The company’s solutions scan source code repositories, cloud infrastructure configurations, and other development tools to identify exposed secrets such as API keys, security tokens, andcertificates that could be inadvertently committed. Its offerings include internal monitoring tools that help organizations observe secrets within private codebases and public monitoring capabilities to uncover leaks that occur in publicly accessible repositories. GitGuardian also supports governance over non‑human identities by maintaining inventories of machine accounts and associated credentials while offering contextual insights and workflows to assist security teams in prioritizing and addressing potential risks. The platform integrates with a variety of developer and security tools to bring visibility into hidden credentials across a technology stack and to support collaborative remediation activities. GitGuardian delivers automated detection paired with incident tracking features that assist in classifying exposures and guiding corrective actions throughout the software development lifecycle. The company’s technology targets security, DevOps, and compliance functions that aim to strengthen credential hygiene and reduce chances of unauthorized access within organizational systems.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $6.4M–$45M; Series B $23M–$58M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lassie — AI that runs the doctor's office.
- Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
- Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.
We turn exceptional individuals into funded founders. We back you first, then give you a bridge to Silicon Valley.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 447
- Round size: Seed $567k–$6.7M; Pre-Seed $55k–$2.9M; Series A $5.1M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $133M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
- EverSettled — Navigate the probate process with confidence. We provide a free checklist, guidance, and support to help families find clarity in the chaos of loss.
- Peripheral Labs — Peripheral Labs provides technology for live media and spatial intelligence.
Maven 11 is a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm. The teams we partner with are on a rigorous quest to solve most exciting problems and make the necessary shift towards decentralised tomorrow.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$3.1M; Series A $5M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $107M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Range — The financial control layer for companies operating across stablecoins, crypto and fiat rails.
- THEA-AI — AI that amplifies human performance
- Adjacent Markets — Event indexing and @AdjacentNews
Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Seed $39k–$2.1M; Series A $295k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $208k–$8.8M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- H2CHP — H2CHP's Free Piston Engine Technology enables your transition to green energy with the reliability & confidence of fuel flexibility.
- NunaBio — NunaBio operates as a privately-owned specialist DNA development company. NunaBio engaged in CRO (Contract Research Organizations) and CDMO (Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation) activities.
- Advanced Electric Machines — Our magnet free motors help manufacturers build more sustainable vehicles and products. See how we can help you today.
We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 166
- Round size: Seed $669k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $5M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $80M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Embedd — Chips modelled as digital twins. Software, tests and simulations generated for any target.
- Plain — Plain, a new startup that wants to reinvent support tools. While the customer support space is a competitive industry with big tech companies like Intercom and Zendesk, Plain believes it has a different approach as it focuses on API integrations to make your company’s product and your support platform work hand in hand.
- Citymapper — The ultimate transport app - iPhone / Android / Web
tokentus is a venture capital company investing in blockchain based business models. The tokentus network includes leading industry experts supporting portfolio companies with additional expertise, an institutional network to Banking and Financial Services, funding and market access in Germany and Switzerland. The ultimate goal is to createsynergies and acceleration for the portfolio companies within the ecosystem.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $300k–$11M; Pre-Seed $978k–$1.8M; Series A $7.5M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Blink — Blink is a fintech company creating a blockchain marketplace platform for blockchain analytics and recovering maximum extractable value.
- Intract — Real-time settlement, clean FX rates, and 30+ currencies for businesses on both sides of the transaction.
- jiritsu.network — Jiritsu is a decentralized protocol enabling verifiable compute.
Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $523k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $470k–$3M; Series A $2.3M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Atheni AI — Atheni focused on embedding AI guidance directly into day-to-day workflows rather than relying on standalone training sessions or workshops.
- Zefir — An all-in-one platform that allows people to sell or buy in one simple, certain transaction
- Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the award-winning 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.
Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 517
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vangrid — Vangrid operates as a decentralized physical infrastructure network.
- Slinky Network — Slinky Network provides an on-chain marketplace and payment protocol that connects AI agents and applications with third-party APIs. The company offers the SlinkyLayer platform, which wraps developer endpoints as discoverable skills and exposes them through an x402 pay-per-execution interface. Each API call triggers a non-custodial on-chainmicropayment, settling in the same request loop using networks such as Base and BNB Chain. Developers set prices, earn a defined revenue share, and receive instant payouts to their wallets without subscriptions or custodial holds. AI agents authenticate via wallet signatures, enabling autonomous, machine-to-machine access and payment without traditional logins or credit cards. The platform also records call ratings on-chain to provide portable, verifiable reputation for services.
- Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.
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Browse database — It's Free!Equity Gap is a group of private individuals set up to invest in and support emerging and growing businesses based in Scotland
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 113
- Round size: Seed $428k–$3M; Venture - Series Unknown $220k–$6.3M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mirna — Soon to be launched, our AI-powered MI:RNA platform is designed to detect a range of diseases prior to the development of clinical signs. This groundbreaking
- QuickBlock — QUICKBLOCK delivers training environments, deployable infrastructure and force protection solutions for defence and security organisations worldwide.
- Gutsy Health — Bloated after eating? Tired of feeling like sh!t? Are you really doing all the right stuff for your gut? We'll help you make good gut choices
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $398k–$2.3M; Series A $6.3M–$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 — Reindustrialising the West
We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 426
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$13M; Series A $3.3M–$22M; Series B $8M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
- Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
- Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $650k–$3M; Series A $6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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
We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 379
- Round size: Seed $510k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TurboFlow — Trading, made simple. Everyone gets a seat at TurboFlow.
- DePay — DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup.
- Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.
Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 708
- Round size: Seed $650k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $591k–$3.8M; Series A $1.3M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hoora — Hoora is a mobile gaming platform that offers an instant, scrollable feed of over 200 casual and arcade mini-games playable without downloads or waiting.
- Klaimee — Certify your AI agent. Get guaranteed. Risk evaluation, certification badge, financial guarantee, and liability insurance for AI agents.
- Shiplong — Shiplog gives every customer a live profile and decides the next best action in real time, so you expand, retain and grow revenue from the customers you already have.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $567k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $441k–$4.2M; Series A $8.6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Talentir — Talentir runs global payouts, carries the liability and makes them profitable. Pay creators, sellers and freelancers in 180+ countries in seconds.
- Xylo — Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery.
- Steward — Steward is an end-to-end KYC/B onboarding experience built for an AI age.
Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital firm operating across Europe and the US. Since 1996, it has backed more than 250 companies, including Spotify, Klarna, Spring Health, and Black Forest Labs.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 351
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$23M; Series A $4.1M–$36M; Series B $7.4M–$76M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.1B in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Sqore — Smart Recruitment - Automate the process between your job ad and the first interview.Increase screening efficiencyEfficiently screen your candidates based on their skills and motivation - automagically - regardless of number of candidates.Deepen candidate engagementEngage today’s generation of candidates through rewarding experiencesand allow them to get insights into your company before the interview.Lower your hiring costsWe don't charge per candidate. Evaluate 100,000 candidates at the same cost as 100 - no need to limit yourself in the search for new talent.
- SolveAI —
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Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.7M; Series A $6.5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Brix — Tokenized emerging markets yield. Trade the Macro.
- Shodai Network — The agreement layer for human and AI agents | UI + API + MCP
- Ethereum Institutional — Accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum
Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Spain, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $121k–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $650k–$3.7M
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!1818 Venture Capital is proud to invest in portfolios of tech startups that aim to generate wealth for our investors and do good in the world.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ukraine
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $655k–$5M; Series A $2.7M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kudwa — Kudwa is an AI-powered finance platform that unifies data, automates multi-entity consolidation, and gives leaders a trusted, real-time view of performance.
- Count Finance — Count Finance fintech company that offers all-in-one app for budgeting, automated savings, and smart investing solutions.
- WatchMyCompetitor — WMC is the market leading competitor monitoring tool. Use the latest AI tech and human analysts to monitor competitors and develop strategies.
Maven is one of the UK's leading private equity and investment firms. We provide essential capital and expertise to help businesses unlock their potential.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 212
- Round size: Seed $792k–$5M; Private Equity $981k–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $648k–$8.1M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- KubeNet — We are KubeNet - a multi-award winning technology solutions provider based in Glasgow. Whether it's Managed IT, IT Support, Cloud, Connectivity, Voice or Cyber Security, we're by your side as your trusted technology partner.
- Tixserve — Secure, Trackable, Interactive Digital Tickets for Live Events
- ReadyGo Diagnostics — ReadyGo Diagnostics has invented a novel “Diagnostic Pen”. Low cost, intuitive to use from the raw sample, the ReadyGo Pen will be a game-changer in the newly emerging consumer diagnostics market, offering a yes/no answer in minutes, based on molecular analysis.
We build relationships early, make decisions quickly, but engage with you for the long term. Our focus is getting B2B software companies at Pre-Seed and Seed to a successful Series A.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 168
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $5.1M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $96M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- RevEng — RevEng.AI is a cyber security and artificial intelligence company that helps organizations understand their cyber security supply chain. RevEng.ai identifies fundamental components of closed-source program binaries and generates real-valued vector embeddings for each component.
- sable bio — We provide comprehensive, quantified, and flexible Target Safety Intelligence to assist toxicologists, informaticians, and drug discovery scientists in delivering safe and effective new treatments.
- SimplyCook — SimplyCook offers home recipe kits with easy step-by-step guides to cook restaurant-quality food in less than 20 minutes.SimplyCook boxes contain 4 easy to follow recipes and 4 ingredient kits. Each kit is designed to provide perfect taste-containing ingredient blends devised by professional chefs.
Errol Damelin is the founder of Dust Road Ventures, a seed-stage investment firm investing in fintech, AI, health-tech, and enterprise software. He has made over 75 investments since 2011, almost all as first or second cheques. Before investing full-time he built three companies — Supply Chain Connect, Wonga, and Tide. Portfolio includes Wise(invested pre-revenue), Purplebricks (first investor), HiBob, K Health, Cleo AI, Earnin, Elliptic, Cazoo, Citymapper, YuLife, and Zoe. TechCrunch Founder of the Year (2010). Based in London. Originally from Klerksdorp, South Africa.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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $535k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $698k–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- Aurora — The Operating System for High Performance Living
- OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
1kx is a research-driven global investment firm making trust instant, open, and programmable, with 160+ investments since 2018 across DeFi, stablecoins, and onchain infrastructure.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Germany, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 183
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Series A $5M–$28M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EarnOS — EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3.
- KOR Protocol — KOR Protocol is a decentralized intellectual property (IP) infrastructure designed to empower creators, protect rights, and enable seamless collaboration and monetization of IP assets across various industries, including music, film, TV, gaming, and art. Backed by notable entities like Animoca Brands, Republic, Niantic, Sfermion, Solana, andprominent creators such as Black Mirror, Disclosure, deadmau5, and Richie Hawtin, KOR leverages blockchain, AI, and DeFi to offer a transparent, efficient, and scalable environment for IP expansion.
- Freehand — AI Teams for Complex Spend Management
Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 513
- Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$24M; Series B $6.2M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Tandems — Tandems enhances the way financial advice is delivered by equipping advisors, bankers, and agents with data-driven insights and personalized recommendations. Tandems focuses on improving institutional operations through automation and intelligent decision-support tools that streamline workflows and client engagement. The company’s technology isdesigned to augment human expertise, allowing financial professionals to allocate more time to strategic guidance and relationship building.
- Generalist AI — At Generalist, we are on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world.
- Gritt Robotics — Gritt is an intelligent system that combines robotics and AI to build the infrastructure that pulls society forward. Doing real work on real jobsites, today.
Praetura Ventures has been supporting entrepreneurs with more than money since 2011. Click to find out more about how we can help businesses and investors.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 165
- Round size: Seed $622k–$4.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Peak — Accelerating AI adoption in retail and manufacturing, driving growth through inventory optimisation, AI-driven pricing, and more.
- RapidSpike — Keep your website online, boost performance and improve your digital experience to increase customer conversions.
- We Influence — We Influence is a digital marketing agency specializing in search marketing and conversion rate optimization. The company also specializes in PPC, SEO, affiliate, social media, and content marketing, working with eCommerce brands across the UK to help catapult them to the next level of their growth. They help reach more potential customers throughsocial media channels to boost profitability and brand reach.We Influence transforms their clients’ businesses by catapulting them to the next level of their e-commerce growth.
A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M; Series A $7.9M–$33M; Series B $8M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $8M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- ZML — ZML is a production inference stack, purpose-built to decouple AI workloads from proprietary hardware.
- Bios Life — Bios Life is a technology-enabled healthcare company built to empower individuals to proactively manage their cancer risk, redefining personalized cancer screening and survivorship.
- 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.
Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1234
- Round size: Series A $9M–$54M; Series B $20M–$130M; Series C $30M–$284M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.2B in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Kavak — KAVAK is an innovative company in the automotive industry that helps people acquire their own car, offering a wide range of guaranteed and certified cars.
- StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
- OfBusiness — Get latest raw materials prices, news and instant quotes for 500+ Categories across Steel, Aluminium, Agri and more
Speak with our team, who can help you find sources of finance, engage with funders and secure investment to grow your business.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 270
- Round size: Seed $331k–$3.1M; Series A $1.7M–$7.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $245k–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
- IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems. Deploy, manage, and scale AI-driven, data-rich industrial systems at the edge with our open edge data platform.
- Administrate — Manage instructor-led training with Administrate. Plan, schedule, communicate, resolve issues, and report on training operations from one platform.
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