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Top 50 Payments VC Funds in United Kingdom

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Payments startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Payments VC Funds in United Kingdom

Investor	Payments United Kingdom investments
Seedcamp	20
Force Over Mass Capital	14
Speedinvest	14
Ascension	11
Par Equity	10
Passion Capital	9
Global Founders Capital	9
Anthemis	8
tokentus investment AG	8
Digital Currency Group	8
Equity Gap	8
Connect Ventures	7
Headline	7
Northstar Ventures	7
ConsenSys	7
Index Ventures	7
Accel	6
Maven 11 Capital	6
Maven Capital Partners	6
Fuel Ventures	6
Octopus Ventures	6
Breega	6
Blockchain Founders Fund	6
Firstminute Capital	6
Notion Capital	6
ACE & Company	5
KR1	5
Animoca Brands	5
Alphabit Fund	5
Finch Capital	5
LocalGlobe	5
Episode 1	5
Firestartr	5
Nesta Ventures	5
Kima Ventures	5
Barclays Corporate Banking	5
1818 Venture Capital	5
Magnus Capital	5
Blockchain.com Ventures	5
Balderton Capital	5
Wayra	4
G1 Ventures	4
UFP Fintech	4
gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)	4
Hambro Perks Ltd.	4
Playfair Capital	4
Practica Capital	4
SFC Capital	4
Cambridge Angels group	4
Launchpool	4

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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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
CUR8 — CUR8 is committed to establishing a global market for carbon reduction. Carbon removal methods include increased rock weathering, direct air capture, forests, construction, soil, biomass, oceans, and new technologies.
SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
Necture — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.

Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders.Run by an experienced and diverse team of successful entrepreneurs, we have been relentlessly dedicated to finding the UK’s best Seed-stage startups since 2014.Ascension benefits from the active industry connections essential forthe sourcing and development of deal-flow and due diligence. The team has co-invested with the UK’s leading angels and VCs, key to securing follow-on funding as the portfolio businesses move to their next stage of growth.We believe in building an inclusive, community driven brand that can benefit the wider UK tech ecosystem and strive to work with conviction, integrity, humour, and humility.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
ManholeMetrics — We are a multi-award winning sensor and analytics start-up on a mission to stop flooding and bring wastewater into the 21st Century.
SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Computer
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Cyacomb — Cyacomb has created a ground-breaking digital forensic tool helping law enforcement, cloud companies and social media to fight against harmful online content.
Partful — Make sure customers get the right parts first time, every time with digital 3D parts catalogue software and digital work instructions.
Artus — Artus is a revolutionary heating and air conditioning product. Applications include residential, commercial and high-precision environments.

Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators applying their experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. They are Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero.They have been personally involved in the largest European technology exits of the past decade,including the biggest exits of the year for 4 of the past 10 years by market value (Ricardo.de acquired by QXL, Skype purchased by Ebay, Last.fm acquired by CBS, and QXL/Tradus acquired by Naspers) and want to be involved in many more.They believe that the critical differentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders.They are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe. As an example of this, White Bear Yard is their own hub for activities, ambitions and energy and where have fun in the process.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
Monzo — Spend, save and manage your money, all in one place. Open a full UK bank account from your phone, for free.
SAPI — SAPI enables platform companies to offer business loans to their merchants, earning a revenue share while growing their ecosystem.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zocks — The Meeting Assistant made for Financial Advisors
Simplify — Simplify is a common application for jobs & internships. Autofill job applications anywhere on the web, get notified when new jobs open, & seamlessly track your applications.
Smartpay — Smartpay is the first free of charge BNPL payment option for Japanese consumers who have credit cards. There are no sign-up fees, interest fees, settlement fees, or late charges. The payment experience is also Japan’s first cross-merchant, cross-platform, and single-click checkout BNPL service, allowing consumers to checkout in as little as 10seconds. The BNPL payment solution is simple to understand, structured on 3 equal installments over 8 weeks. This means that unlike the existing BNPL services in Japan, customers do not need to go to the convenience store to make payments or pay any bank transfer fees.

digitally native finance

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

HappyPal — HappyPal is changing the French employee benefit market ($20bn) replacing paper gift vouchers (o/w 20% expire before usage) with an innovative SaaS and fintech solution. HappyPal offers a new kind of credit card for all employee allowances (gift, culture, vacation, sport...). « After experiencing first-hand the pain points of employeebenefits management in France (hefty fees, unused allowances, poor user experience...), we are now driven by the belief that it is high time employees and admins had access to a modern plug & play solution to offer employee perks »
Ergo — Ergo empowers shoppers by letting them communicate with retailers so they can set prices together.
Reserv — We are a premier claims platform, born from state-of-the-art data intelligence and talent management technology.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Nayms — A single platform exposing capital markets to a variety of insurance pools. Pools are tokenised allowing investors to trade exposure. Payment rails and pool governance powered by smart contracts.
Transak — Transak offers a simple integration to allow your users to buy more than 100+ cryptocurrencies with credit/debit cards, or bank transfers in more than 120+ countries.
Intract — Intract is the owner and operator of a web3 platform for marketing services. Customer relationship management, growth hacking, and token gating are among the marketing services provided by the organization. Its platform analyzes real users and performs high-ROI marketing campaigns to recruit more like them, allowing firms to sell themselves andattract more customers using blockchain technology.

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Beoble — The chat solution for web3 people. The most fun you'll have on a wallet-to-wallet messaging app.
Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
Tensorplex Labs — Tensorplex Labs is a Web3 and artificial intelligence (AI) firm developing finance and intelligence infrastructure for decentralized AI networks.

Equity Gap is a group of private individuals set up to invest in and support emerging and growing businesses based in Scotland

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ilosta — Ilosta specializes in developing novel technology to reduce the cost, time, and dangers associated with monitoring the health of engineering structures and extending their lifespan without requiring human intervention.
QuickBlock — Interlocking blocks is the best way to summarise how QUICKBLOCK works to a novice. Our interlocking blocks click together to build desired structures.
Mocean Energy — At the forefront of global wave energy industry, Mocean Energy pioneers technology for accessing the untapped potential of ocean waves.

Connect is the Product VC. We are a thesis-led, pan-European pre-seed and seed stage VC. We invest in opinionated products, crafted with love, and loved by many.We've been backing product-led founders since 2012. Our investments include Truelayer, Typeform, Oyster, Lifebit, Kheiron, Faks and Sprinque. Our specialisms cut across SaaS,fintech, consumer, digital health and Web3. Collectively, we’re passionate about the power of product to transform people’s lives.We started Connect to back companies that help create the world we want to live in, and it’s hard to change the world without scale. That's why we’re in the business of investing in outlier companies — those with the potential to create impact on a massive scale.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Torg — Sourcing made simple. Easily send requests to 100's of food and drink suppliers. Discover new products, suppliers and buyers. Negotiate the best prices
Fantix — Fantix is a no-code network of companies that work together to develop AI models. Fantix is a collaborative learning technique based on data abstraction to develop common, strong machine learning models without pooling user-level data, maintaining consumer privacy and business confidentiality.
Aikido Security — Easily discover and track all your security issues in one place with Aikido's all-in-one AppSec product.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Helcim Inc. — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
Carewell — Are you a caregiver? At Carewell, find the best home health products with discreet packaging & the support you need with guides, articles, and 24/7 service. 30% OFF 1st Autoship!
Prescient AI — Industry-leading marketing & media mix modeling (MMM) & marketing attribution software powered by AI. Get actionable insights in 36 hours.

Northstar Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in innovative solutions to help solve the most pressing societal issues we have today. Our ticket sizes range from £100k to £500k into early stage tech companies. We provide added value in leveraging our network of university partners, funders, non-executive directors and talent to supporteach investment.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

DayaTani — DayaTani supplies farmers with comprehensive services to increase their productivity.
MarraBio — MarraBio Ltd. is a spin out company from Newcastle University using engineered bacterial protein polymers to provide bioactivity to cells at the industrial scale in the cultivated meat sector and beyond.
Circadacare — Circadacare offers a broad approach to circadian lighting products for the care home industry. We are one of the most reliable circadian lighting company in UK.

Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Entangle Protocol — Connect data, assets, and more with Entangle's fast and fully customizable interoperability primitives.
Agora — Agora operates as a digital dollar and an asset platform.
Metaverse HQ — Metaverse HQ is the leading NFT Alpha Community with 1,300+ active members. We are an international community that communicates via Discord through specific text channels and a 24/7 voice chat with 100s of members sharing alpha, investment strategies, market analytics, and technical analysis, at any given time.

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

SESO — Seso is a labor solution for agriculture. We provide support with the entire H-2A process, including the H-2A Visa, recruiting farmworkers, H-2A compliance, and digital worker onboarding.
Vizcom — Vizcom is an Ai-powered creative tool designed for design and creative professionals. It offers a transformative approach to concept drawing, enabling users to turn their sketches into impressive realistic renderings quickly and efficiently.
Nourish — Achieve your desired health and wellness through personalized nutrition counseling. Nourish is the easiest way to find a registered dietitian and get it covered by your insurance. Find a dietitian today and start your telehealth appointments.

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
Coast — Coast is the simple, all-in-one fleet and fuel card that helps businesses easily pay for and track vehicle expenses. It's quick to set up, easy-to-use, and full of rewards.
Imperia — We provide to our clients tools for managing and optimizing their processes in the area of operations through an innovative, advanced and user-friendly software solution. Analytics Demand Planning (ADP) is a complete solution to support the demand forecasting process, based on two key pillars: 1. Easy-to-use: the solution is fully integrated inExcel, providing great ease of use and minimum implementation times. “If you know how to use Excel, you know how to use ADP”. 2. Collaborative planning: the tool is developed under a collaborative environment in which all members of the organization can be involved in the process, improving the decision-making process.Furthermore, it has great computing power based on statistical models and a wide range of advanced functionalities that add extra value to the product. Such as reference segmentation, intelligent cleaning of historical data series and integrated dashboards for sales and forecast analytics.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sophon — Sophon is a developer of a gaming and AI platform that aims to have an impact on communities. The company has enabled consumers to make an impact on web3.
Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
Camp Network — Camp Network provides online camp registration and camp management software for all types of events across the United States.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Carcinotech — Carcinotech is a MedTech company manufacturing 3D printed mini tumours developed from patient-specific cancer stem cells, primary cells and established cell lines.
Metrion Biosciences — Metrion Biosciences is a Contract Research Organization (CRO) that is located in the world renowned Cambridge biocluster.
McKenzie Intelligence Services Ltd — We deliver actionable intelligence on a global scale, empowering informed decision making for insurance and commercial clients across the world

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Eilla AI — AI Platform to Power the M&A, VC and PE Deal Workflow.
iCustoms — ClearCustoms use AI & ML to reduce 200m new annual customs declarations time
Think Cyber Security — Think Cyber Security was founded at the end of 2016 by Dr Mike Butler and Tim Ward, the ex-global heads of Information Security and Information Services respectively, from the cyber arm of BAE Systems (previously Detica). Their mission, to deliver pragmatic, user-oriented, solutions providing measurable security risk reduction.Despite a $1bnsecurity awareness market (predicted to grow to $10bn by 2027), 90% of successful cyber-attacks start with the human user. In a context where technical controls can never promise to be 100% and cyber risks involve people as much as computers, ThinkCyber offer the next generation in Security Awareness. Their RedFlags™ software product applies behavioural and learning science theory in a highly innovative approach, to provide context-sensitive just-in-time guidance – delivering secure behavioural change for their customers.

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
Haiper — Haiper is a generative AI startup building perceptual foundation models for next-generation visual content creation.
Connected — Connected is a startup that offers affordable connecting humans, unleashing a new wave of IoT-based business models and contributing to bridge the digital gap.

VCs use all sorts of tricks to attract the best companies. We do too. But as founders, we know that the main reason you choose an investor to be a part of your journey is because you like them. You trust them. Their values align with yours.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Qobra — Qobra is the next generation Sales Compensation Software designed for sales, operations, finance & HR fast-growing teams.
Cook-e — Cook-e's robotic kitchen automatically prepares warm dishes such as bowls, pastas, woks, from fresh ingredients. Recipes can be entered in the software controlling the robot. The robot can cook up to 100 dishes/hour.
Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Layer Edge — First Optimistic Rollups with Modular DA Layer on #Bitcoin. Fast, Inexpensive & Familiar EVM environment for #BTC ecosystem.
Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.
Unstable Protocol — Unstable Protocol implements zkOracles to enhance the DeFi utility for the LRTfi market.

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Layla — Find, plan & book your next trip in seconds using AI. Layla will give you personalized ideas for where to go, help you plan an itinerary & book hotels & flights.
Risk Ledger — Risk Ledger ensures your supply chain security by providing tools to run and respond to cyber security-led, third-party risk management programmes at scale.
Arcane Intelligence — The AI Copilot for modern Marketers. Arcane accelerates and automates mundane tasks. Join the waitlist today.

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Xaver — Increase your sales efficiency by 65% with Xaver. Enhance productivity and unlock more time for customers using our specialised AI-driven sales solutions tailored for the financial sector, ensuring every agent becomes a high-achieving expert.
ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.
Tomorrow Things — TomorrowThings builds digital twins in a one-click fashion to enable sustainability with the power of simplicity.

ACE & Company (“ACE”), founded in 2005, is a global investment group specialized in private investments with total assets of over $1.6 bn across three investment strategies and investment solutions. With headquarters in Geneva and offices in London, New York, and Cairo, ACE’s global presence brings the company in direct contact with sourcingpartners, investment firms, as well as entrepreneurs and provides investors unparalleled access to a network of opportunities. ACE’s passion is for finding investment opportunities where we have an advantage through many years of relationship building, a carefully developed position of knowledge in the sectors which we are active, and a culture of efficiency to gain first mover’s advantage. ACE’s purpose is to offer investors a long-term and collaborative investment approach that values honesty, transparency and rigorous execution, so that our strategies not only provide unique access to value accretive, risk-managed deals, but fosters what we consider our bedrock—trust.ACE’s progress has been marked by a globally respected track record since the Company was founded in 2005. In the last four years we have increased our total assets by fivefold and in 2017 received the Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority (FINMA) authorization.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
Pledge — Pledge makes it simple for businesses of every size to measure, reduce and offset the climate impact of their products.

KR1 is a publicly listed investment company focussed on the blockchain ecosystem. We invest in early stage projects and blockchain-based digital assets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Anoma — A sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties.
Interop — Investing in the Interchain
Side Protocol — Side Protocol is a settlement and value exchange layer for the Bitcoin modular blockchains.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
0G Labs — 0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues.
Burnt — Creators of XION, The Blockchain Built To Make Crypto Human.

Alphabit Digital Currency Fund.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

OrangeDX — OrangeDX, the first-generation DEX aggregator, is your innovative portal to the BRC20 DEX universe. As a multifaceted Bitcoin Protocol platform, it enables users to trade, swap, secure, and launch BRC20 and bridged ERC20 tokens, along with borrowing and lending services.
Championfy — Championfy's mission is to empower and unleash everyone's inner champion through Esports and ignite the region with hope, inspiration, respect, strengths, and friendship.
MetaVersus World — MetaVersus combines gaming with Web3 to provide a hyper-realistic digital environment for brands to build in and for users to discover as MetaCitizens

Backing entrepreneurs to build Financial Technology market leaders in Europe and South East Asia. Finch Capital invests in financial services, real estate tech, insurance tech, etc.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

eflow — Regulatory Compliance solutions for Market Abuse, Best Execution and Regulatory Reporting. Trade Surveillance, Regulatory Reporting and Trade Lifecycle Management.
NomuPay — NomuPay's Unified Payments Platform provides local acceptance and payouts in Southeast Asia, Europe and Turkey via a single system integration.
Fourthline — Comply with KYC and AML regulations throughout the customer lifecycle with Fourthline's bank-grade identity platform.

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Qogita — A leading global wholesale supplier that offers a wide variety of products, brands, and categories across geographies.
Catalog — Catalog is the first plug-and-play tool exclusively designed to digitise small-to-medium B2B merchants ordering process. With Catalog, B2B SMBs are equipped with the tool they need to reclaim their time, engage with buyers in meaningful ways and boost growth.
Victory League — The virtual home for football fandom.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

StackOne — Accelerate your SaaS growth with our unified API solution for HRIS, ATS, and CRM. Say "yes" to customers, build advanced integrations quickly, and experienced the best data privacy controls in the market.
sable bio — We reinvent drug safety through cutting-edge AI-driven data and predictive analytics. Empowering researchers with state-of-the-art tools that integrate and expand on multimodal evidence, we propel the development of safe and effective medicines.
Superlinked — Build engaging social experiences into your event or community platform.

Firestartr helps the most promising digital entrepreneurs take their companies from seed stage to Series A and beyond. Beyond providing capital, they draw on their entrepreneurial successes and senior operational experience with leading technology companies to support sustainable growth in their portfolio. Their deep domain expertise, combinedwith an unrivalled network of advisors, enable us to make meaningful connections at the right time and propel companies with hands-on support.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Banked — Banked : Real time payments for consumers, businesses and banks.
Qori — Accept a wide variety of cryptocurrencies on your POS terminal or iOS or Android device without handling crypto yourself.
Clarisights — Clarisights streamlines reporting for sophisticated growth marketing teams. Automatically integrate, process and visualize data from all of your marketing sources.

We bring bold ideas to life to change the world for good.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical Device, Medical
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Citymart — Citymart powers cities to deliver services that work. Following best practices developed with leading cities around the world, Citymart connects cities and revolutionizes the way cities frame needs, complete procurements, and improve service delivery. Over 100 cities in 35 countries have adopted Citymart tools and methods to-date.
Featurespace — Featurespace™ is the world leader in Enterprise Financial Crime prevention for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering. Featurespace invented Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and Automated Deep Behavioral Networks, both of which are available through the ARIC™ platform, a real-time machine learning software that risk scores events in more than 180 countriesto prevent fraud and financial crime.ARIC™ Risk Hub uses advanced, explainable anomaly detection to enable financial institutions to automatically identify risk, catch new fraud attacks and identify suspicious activity in real-time. More than 30 major global financial institutions are using ARIC to protect their business and their customers. Publicly announced customers include HSBC, TSYS, Worldpay, NatWest, Contis, Danske Bank, ClearBank, Akbank and Permanent TSB.
Radio Physics Solutions — Radio Physics Solutions is a security and investigation company that specializes in the fields of real-time concealed threat detection, Up to 30m Distance, autonomous, and unobtrusive. It specializes in providing early warning of threats concealed under peoples’ clothes, and so reduce the number of casualties caused by terrorists and criminalsglobally at schools, train stations, airports, government and military installations, tourist attractions and entertainment venues.Radio Physics Solutions was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
Keyring Network — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.
Composable Prompts — Composable Prompts helps enterprises deploy LLM technology, with governance, collaboration, orchestration, and a unique virtualization engine.

Barclays PLC is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide. It is engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management with an extensive international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia.The company offers current accounts, savingsproducts, Woolwich-branded mortgages, unsecured loans, general insurance, and banking and money transmission services to small- and medium-sized businesses; investment and insurance products; business lending services; bank assurance solutions; and retail, credit and debit card, and corporate services. It also offers international payments services for consumer and business customers, including credit cards and consumer lending services; investment banking services comprising strategic advisory, financing, and risk management services to large corporate, government, and institutional clients; integrated corporate banking solutions, including cash management, lending, and trade financing services to corporate and financial institutions as well as multinationals; and a range of wealth and investment management services such as international and private banking, investment management, fiduciary, and brokerage services.With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs more than 147,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests, and protects money of more than 48 million customers and clients worldwide.The company was formerly known as Barclays Bank Limited and changed its name to Barclays PLC in January 1985. It was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

WHSmith — Welcome to WHSmith. Here you can find stationery, books, toys and games and many more products. Shop online or find out more about us.
WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Offr — Offr is the new way to buy and sell property, quickly and transparently.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
RideTandem — Tandem turns local transport providers into smart shuttles for work, education and more. The smart way to move your community.
WatchMyCompetitor — WMC is the market leading competitor monitoring tool. Use the latest AI tech and human analysts to monitor competitors and develop strategies.

Magnus Capital is a crypto investment firm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
Singapore, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rivalz — An AI-Driven DePIN RollApp
IntentX — The Future of Decentralized Derivatives
Thetanuts Finance — Thetanuts is a multi chain structured products protocol with automated strategies to generate income

Blockchain.com is the most popular place to securely buy, store, and trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other top cryptocurrencies.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Portfolio highlights

PolySign — PolySign develops state-of-the-art, secure, scalable infrastructure for financial institutions to fully leverage their digital assets. The company also develops a secure and scalable infrastructure for financial institutions to fully leverage their digital assets. They aim to integrate with existing financial organizations and global markets, andrigorously embrace the highest standards for regulation.
Elementus — Elementus is a data-first Web3 company empowering organizations to unify, explore, and operationalize the blockchain with the highest degree of confidence.
Matter Labs — Matter Labs is scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge proofs to accelerate public blockchain adoption. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system.Thecompany was founded in 2018 with its head office in Berlin, Germany.

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Coro — Cloud-based cybersecurity for every part of your company. We protect email, data, cloud apps, devices, and even users. Try Coro today!
Photoroom — Create product and portrait pictures using only your phone. Remove background, change background and showcase products.
VOI Technology — VOI is a micro-mobility startup that provides electric scooters for last-mile transportation. Douglas Stark, Filip Lindvall, and Fredrik Hjelm founded it in 2018. Its headquarters is located in Stockholm in Sweden.VOI Technology is aiming to create a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable,sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network.

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
Remuner — Remuner's variable pay software automates sales commission systems, integrating company and employee objectives and incentives. Its commission management platform leverages AI and analytics to improve performance.
Depasify — The all in one platform for dealing with digital assets. Reduce costs and time to market in a secure way.

Investing in a decentralized world

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

D8X — D8X is an institutional-grade perpetual futures DEX with a financial engineering approach that significantly transforms the way perpetual futures can be traded on-chain.
Coinchange — Turn your crypto into more crypto with Coinchange, an easy to use bridge into DeFi for everyone. Earn up to 20% returns on your crypto annually.
Arkis - DeFi Prime Broker — Arkis facilitates the provision of the most capital-efficient undercollateralized leverage for DeFi financial institutions and traders. Accelerating the maturity of DeFi.

UFP Fintech is a trading name of Mariana Investment Partners LLP, authorised & regulated by the FCA

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Crezco — Crezco provides international, instant and frictionless payments for businesses. APIs, integrations, fraud protection, compliance, we've got you covered!
Weavr — Supercharge your app with embedded finance. Weavr Plug-and-Play Finance is the fastest way to prototype and launch new revenue generators and operational efficiencies.
Vauban — Vauban is a tech company reshaping the world of private investing. The platform makes it easier, faster, and more cost-effective for anyone to co-invest in private companies. With Vauban, you can easily create your Syndicate online, start sharing your deal flow and let your network co-invest with you in startups. Vauban has automated the SPV &funds setup process.

gCC (gumi Cryptos Capital) is a blockchain and cryptographic asset fund that invests in the crypto native stack from L1 to the application layer, as well as in traditional businesses supporting the ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — 0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues.
Keyring Network — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.
Blackwing — Blackwing runs a range of modular apps while retaining decentralization, and it is distinguished by leverage trading.

Hambro Perks partner with founders and entrepreneurs to support growth businesses at all stages of investment cycle. Hambro Perks has specialised and dedicated investment teams, working across a number of funds. In addition to their flagship Venture, EIS and co-investment funds, Hambro Perks offers a number of specialist differentiated investmentstrategies, including Hambro Perks Environmental Technology, Special Situations, and Access, which invests in venture secondaries.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

IDOVEN — IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.
SUPERHOG — SUPERHOG is a digital trust platform with embedded insurance
Responsibly — Responsibly is a supplier data platform for responsible procurement. We provide a one-stop-shop for responsible supplier data across a wide variety of data providers, to make it easier for you to source responsibly.

Playfair Capital is an early-stage fund that commits to companies early and with conviction. Based in London, Playfair combines the best aspects of angel investing with a focused fund, to invest in truly ambitious founders, wherever they are in the world. Playfair takes a sector-agnostic approach and investments span deep tech, SaaS, marketplacesand B2B companies. We’ve backed the founders of more than 60 companies including Mapillary (acq. Facebook), CryptoFacilities (acq. Kraken), Omnipresent, Orca AI, Ravelin, sprout.ai, Thought Machine, Trouva and Vinehealth.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Ascento — Secure, maintain, and inspect outdoor assets by reducing the intervention times and augmenting data capturing capability.
Spotted Zebra — Spotted Zebra's skills cloud powers skills-based organisations. Our platform ensures skills are the centre of every decision made about people. Whether talent acquisition, talent development or internal mobility, Spotted Zebra focuses people on skills.
Continuum Industries — Continuum Industries is a developer of Optioneer, the leading software for linear infrastructure optioneering.

Practica Capital

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

CTO2B — CTO2B helps organization in managing the cloud service adoption and runtime operations.
Sentante — The first fully-robotic teleoperated system for endovascular interventions - Sentante. Fully robotic. Teleoperated. Haptic feedback.
Evergrowth — Evergrowth is the premiere B2B account-based sales platform, leveraging AI-driven insights to craft customer-centric sales frameworks and transform how companies engage and succeed. Its services are designed to build sustainable revenue growth machines for B2B companies, focusing on acquiring high-value clients through proven account-basedstrategies. Evergrowth’s AI-powered customer-centric sales workflows and data analysis tools help sales teams efficiently capture, recycle, and expand their Total Addressable Market (TAM), enhancing customer engagement by providing personalized data-driven interactions and ultimately leading to better sales outcomes. The company was founded in November 2023 by serial entrepreneurs JB Daguené, Mantas Urnieza, Tadas Cekavicius, Aivaras Rastenis, and Algimantas Padegimas, and has offices in Vilnius, Lithuania, and New York City, USA.

SFC Capital, the UK's most active seed investor (PitchBook, 2020), provides capital and support to British startups. By combining its Angel Network and Seed Funds, SFC has created a unique model that allows investors to get exposure to SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, either directly or through a diversified portfolio curated and managedby SFC’s expert team. In 2020, SFC received a £10m allocation from Business Investments as part of the Regional Angels Programme in support of SFC's mission to back promising early-stage companies from every corner of the UK.SFC Capital is an Appointed Representative of SFC Capital Partners Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 736184).

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Graide — Give more feedback, faster than ever. Deliver assignments and get immediate insights into student performance. Use artificial intelligence to help you grade.
North AI — North AI operates as an AI start up company for media sector.
PulmoBiomed — Pulmobiomed has developed a best-in-class exhaled breath condensate device, capable of capturing Covid-19 particles in as little as 5 seconds. Pulmobiomed a biotechnology company is working with industry leaders in integrating their diagnostic capabilities into our PBM-Hale device. Pulmobiomed techn

The Cambridge Angels are a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in internet, software, technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors in the Cambridge (UK) area and throughout the UK.Typical funding requirements thatthe Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £50,000 to £500,000 - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have received more than £1m in funding from their Members over several funding rounds.Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

zeroRISC — ZeroRISC operates as a stealth start-up making hardware security foundations transparent and trustworthy.
Albotherm — Smart transitioning coating technology - A bright idea for shade.
Five Alarm Bio — Five Alarm Bio is a drug discovery company. Five Alarm intends to use discoveries to provide secure and efficient remedies for a variety of age-related illnesses and limitations. Five Alarm Bio is creating a small molecule strategy to strengthen the body's defense against aging.

Launchpool connects varied stakeholders in the crypto industry, including funds, communities, marketers, and experts.

Investment focus

Virtual Currency, Blockchain, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

5ire — 5irechain challenges other Tier 1 Smart Contract Platforms by embedding sustainability in the consensus mechanism architecture at the core. 5ire uses Machine Learning to track +650 ESG data sources in real time to for an Sustainability Score for the Validators of the chain. Learn more at http://5ire.org/ Follow :https://twitter.com/5ireChain Let's connect: https://t.me/OfficialFireChain
MegaFans — MegaFans is a mobile eSports platform and gaming company, that created an integrated software solution for mobile games, enabling them to offer competitive eSports tournaments to their audiences, which increases retention and monetization through a more inclusive experience for 2.5 billion gamers globally.
MetaVersus World — MetaVersus combines gaming with Web3 to provide a hyper-realistic digital environment for brands to build in and for users to discover as MetaCitizens

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