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Top 50 Photography Startup Investors in United Kingdom in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Photography startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Photography companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Photography Startup Investors in United Kingdom in May 2025

Investor	Photography United Kingdom investments
Scottish Investment Bank	3
HOWZAT Partners	3
Max Jennings	2
Jonathan Beddoes	2
Accomplice	2
Index Ventures	2
Newable Private Investing	2
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund	2
Venrex	2
Barclays Corporate Banking	2
QVentures	2
Force Over Mass Capital	2
Tom Hulme	1
Andy Phillipps	1
GC Angels	1
7percent Ventures	1
Duncan Jennings	1
Sercan Alici	1
Caribou Property	1
Labora Group	1
Anthony Eskinazi	1
Creative England	1
Markus Kern	1
Nic Brisbourne	1
Chris Mairs	1
Chris Burke	1
Kirill Makharinsky	1
Braveheart Investment Group	1
LAUNCHub Ventures	1
The Accelerator Group	1
Highland Europe	1
Mustard Seed	1
Northstar Ventures	1
Midven	1
Wayra	1
Miroma Ventures	1
LEAF Investments	1
HSBC	1
Mark Hirschfield	1
Richard Fearn	1
Jeroen Seghers	1
David Soskin	1
Highland Capital Partners	1
Balderton Capital	1
Point Nine	1
Lorenz Bogaert	1
Theo Osborne	1
KM Capital	1
Avlar BioVentures	1
Telefonica	1

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Investment focus

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

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.
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Administrate — Administrate is a comprehensive, configurable training management platform that helps organizations streamline enterprise learning and development. Organize, deliver, plan, automate, analyze, and scale your training program effectively -- all through one system. Deliver multi-modality learner experiences, maximize training resources, anddemonstrate business results with insight-rich reporting. Hundreds of organizations serving millions of learners choose Administrate to manage their training program.

Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.

Investment focus

Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
Handiscover — Handiscover is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website, dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classiﬁcation system which allows users to select accommodation based on their diﬀerent levels of mobility/physical disability. It was founded by SebastienArchambeaud in 2014, a father to a boy with a muscle disease.
Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.

Max Jennings is the Co-Founder at Console.

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, Photography
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Picfair — A new standard for online images. Upload your pics, name your price - an open-to-all image licensing marketplace. Picfair has thousands of images uploaded by photographers in 44 countries around the world, all available to license within a few clicks.
Console — A free weekly devtools newsletter. Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.

Jonathan began his entrepreneurial career at school aged 17 when he founded a web-hosting company which sold within its first year of trading. After developing an early taste of business success, whilst at university Jonathan co-developed a popular music software application that was downloaded by over 30,000,000 people. For his post-graduatestudies, Jonathan was the youngest person ever to complete a Masterclass in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. Following academia, Jonathan joined Zugo in 2008 (a leading search solutions platform and aggregator) that became a cornerstone of distribution for major search engines (most notably Microsoft Bing). In late 2012, Jonathan exited from Zugo and subsequently co-founded Techtopia, a technology incubator located in the heart of 'silicon village' in North West London. Today, Jonathan remains a director of Techtopia, a product visionary, angel investor and an ambassador for the Internet industry.

Investment focus

Photography, Film, Video
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Twine — Build a more diverse team of freelancers to beat your competition. Hire vetted freelancers from Twine's global network to help you scale your business.
Lifecake — Canon Europe, leading provider of digital cameras, digital SLR cameras, inkjet printers & professional printers for business and home users.
Socialite —

Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office. We have been part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, Coinlist, Currencycloud, DraftKings, FalconX, FLOW, Freshbooks, Integral Ad Science, Hopper, HQO, Luna, Near, Orchard, Patreon, PillPack, Plastiq, Recorded Future, SecurityScorecard, Skillz, Veracode, Work Human, WHOOP, Zoopla, and more. We are also founders behind Accomplice Blockchain and the Spearhead operator-angel movement.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Neutrl — Neutrl partners with online brands to provide a sustainable shopping experience - allow customers to remove carbon emissions from their orders.
CodeAnt AI — AI code reviewer that helps teams cut manual code review time and bugs by 50%. Start your 14-days free trial today!
Flashnet — Flashnet is commited to build a Bitcoin exchange that anyone can use and where people keep their own money.

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

Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.

Newable: Helping over 20,000 businesses thrive annually with tailored financial products, advice, and flexible workspace solution

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Delta g — Delta g Limited is a quantum technology and gravity gradiometry company. A spin-out from the University of Birmingham our technology has applications in industries as varied as civil engineering, infrastructure, defence, rail, navigation and resource exploration. Experts from science, engineering an
Weldfast — Weldfast is a manufacturer and supplier of welding consumables, abrasives, chemicals, premium gas equipment, and safety products.
EarSwitch — Empowering new ways to control and connect with the world through in-ear biometric switch and sensor technology

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) is an initiative launched by the government-owned British Business Bank.It is a key part of the government’s ‘Northern Powerhouse’ vision, which aims to end the historic North / South divide and create economic prosperity in the North of England on par with London and the South East.Thegovernment firmly believes that SMEs form the foundation of the region’s future growth. NPIF therefore aims to nurture regional entrepreneurship by providing investment and support for small and medium businesses between 2016 and 2021. NPIF's funding will support new and growing SMEs, create jobs and encourage and attract additional private sector investment.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Think 360 — Think 360 is able to comprehend the needs, provide straightforward and effective solutions, and provide solutions for decision makers.
CCI Photonics — CCI Photonics specialises in medical instruments and supplies, as well as conducting biotechnology research and development.
Patisserie Lane — Patisserie Lane will provide coffee, tea, and pastries in the heart of Farnworth hamlet.

Venrex Investment Management is a UK-based venture capital firm that backs creative Founders to launch and build innovative businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pockla — Supercharging creatives with content strategy and creation.
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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

Sunswap — Sunswap is developing zero-emission transport refrigeration products to reduce noise and air pollution in our cities. Our mission is to replace the dirty diesel engines currently in use in the cold chain with our electric Transport Refrigeration Units (TRU).
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.

QVentures sources, screens, and invests in top-tier start-ups from Seed to Series B. Our investors consist of Family Offices, Institutional Investors, UHNWIs, and Cashed-out Entrepreneurs. We look for disruptive companies with a proven product-market fit, set to scale from Seed to Series B. We focus on Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, Consumer Tech,FinTech, AdTech, EdTech, InsurTech and HealthTech and more. We look for quality management teams, large addressable markets, proven traction, sustainable business models, route to scale and quality investors.To apply for investment, please fill out this short form to be reviewed: https://qventures.typeform.com/to/zZPOWf

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Meysey — Meysey is an AI-powered fraud detection and prevention tool for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that offers automated alerts to help them guard against financial fraud, both external and internal.
Renewabl — Renewabl is the platform that allows companies to meet their decarbonisation targets quickly and efficiently by matching renewable energy certificates directly from hydro, wind and solar on a 24/7-hour basis.
Astronome AI — Astronome AI is a company that provides streamlined IT management for SMEs, powered by AI.

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.
Apaleo — Transform your hospitality business with an open platform. Easily connect 3rd party applications to build a best-in-class tech stack for your hotel
SentientSports — SentientSports is revolutionising the sports industry by unlocking the full potential of AI in sporting organisations.

Tom Hulme is a General Partner and Head of Europe at GV and was a CEO and Founder at Magnom Corporation. Tom attended Harvard Business School and Bristol University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Smol — A smol revolution in laundry and cleaning; heavy on dirt, lighter on the planet. Laundry capsules, sprays, dishwash tabs & more. Trial for FREE today!
Kinnu — Download Kinnu Law - The smartest SQE1 revision app with the highest quality practice questions and AI-powered learning assistant
Immersive Gamebox — Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team Adventures in the world's smartest room. Our GameBox Adventure pods combine projection mapping, touch screen, motion tracking and surround sound technologies to create an entirely new form of digital group entertainment.

Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Travel, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Finland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
Layla AI — Layla operates as a travel discovery platform.
Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.

The Growth Company’s two Angel services, Co-Angel Investment Service and North West Business Angels have recently merged creating a more cohesive offer, enabling increased access to early stage equity funding. The service now known as GC Angels, supports businesses seeking access to angel investment, ranging from £25,000 up to £2m. Developed by GCas the next evolution of its successful Co Angel Investment Service, GC Angels forms part of the GM Combined Authority's response to supporting the early stage investment market, and integrates with the range of wider GC business finance and business support services. It will incorporate the network offer (NWBA); the fee-bearing advisory service (Co Angel) alongside the new GM Co-Investment Fund, providing an innovative, single solution equity funding service.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Fashion
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cress — Cress is a new online marketplace focused to buying and selling gently used children's apparel.
Brarista — Elevate your lingerie shopping with our AI Fit Chatbot, seamlessly offering perfect bra fittings and bespoke styling advice. Boost sales, enhance customer satisfaction, and streamline operations.
Prorizon — Prorizon is to pioneer a new era in mental health through the development of objective measurements and tracking ,paralleling advancements in physical health, to empower individuals with proactive and preventative health solutions.

Venture X is our top-notch financial investment firm Webflow Template created for modern VC and investor firms looking for a dark mode website design.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Magdrive — A revolutionary plasma thruster for the new space age
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
Biological Black Box — A groundbreaking new field of science using real neurons for computing. Train the most complex AI models better, faster, and cheaper using 500 million years of biology.

Duncan Jennings is the Investor and Board Member at Motorway.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Software, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Motorway — With so many ways to sell your car, it can be overwhelming. At Motorway, we’re focused on building the best way. Our vision is to build a better car market for everyone.Transparent and straightforward in all that we do, our smart technology matches our customers’ cars with a nationwide network of verified dealers.This enables those dealers tobuy vehicles direct from private sellers using our fully-online sales platform, with hundreds of cars successfully sold every day.Reducing time and effort on all sides, we help everyone get the right deal quickly. It all, just, works.In our first 4 years, we've helped over 2.5 million car owners value and sell their car. We've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun.
Otta — Only matches tailored to your preferences. Only the most exciting, innovative and fast-moving companies.
Console — A free weekly devtools newsletter. Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.

Sercan Alici

Investment focus

Pet, Hospitality, Photography
Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DogGO — DogGO is a pet service app that uses a mobile application to offer safe and professional dog walking and grooming services to dog owners. It also offers its users a detailed profile of their pets, as well as an easy service request and tracking feature, smart and suitable matching, and 24/7 customer service to support all of their pet'sneeds. Their application has over 150,000 users and tens of thousands of pet profiles. Furthermore, by entering into agreements with corporate companies for their employees or users, they ensure that all pet families have access to DogGO when they need it.
Albumera — Stunning, convenient 30 minute photo shoots by talented local pros. Your session is complimentary - you only pay for the photos you love!
Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!

Caribou Property is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Genetics
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Macomics — Macomics is an immuno-oncology company. Macomics focus on the development of novel, first-in-class immunotherapies designed to modulate macrophages, increasing the body’s immune defence against tumours.
Epsilogen — IGEM Therapeutics is a developer of an immuno-oncology company intended to develop immunoglobulin antibodies to treat cancer.The company's offerings include IgE-based drugs targeting solid tumors, enabling patients to kill parasites which reside in human tissue, also the home of the solid tumor.
Lunac Therapeutics — LUNAC Therapeutics are a drug discovery spin-out from University of Leeds, developing next generation oral anti-coagulant therapies.

Labora Group is the single family office dedicated to managing the affairs of the Mackie Family. The name "Labora" comes from the Mackie Family coat of arms and means "to work" or "endeavor". Labora Group focuses on growth-orientated initiatives that create long-term value for all stakeholders, such as real estatedevelopment, startup and private equity investment, and management of multiple affiliated businesses.

Investment focus

Apps, Fashion, Wedding
Seed
United States, Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Yepic — Start snapping photos and let YEPIC organise your jobs! GPS timesheets, work photos, and admin, all in one place. Download YEPIC for free!
focus360 — focus360 is a day-to-day management app.
Birdy Grey — Shop chic bridesmaid dresses in colors and styles that make everyone in the bridal party happy. For a limited time only, shop Shiny Satin styles from $89!

Anthony Eskinazi - Founder & CEO @ JustPark

Investment focus

Video, Marketplace, Photography
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Picfair — A new standard for online images. Upload your pics, name your price - an open-to-all image licensing marketplace. Picfair has thousands of images uploaded by photographers in 44 countries around the world, all available to license within a few clicks.
NextUp — Stream incredible stand-up comedy. Watch over 80 exclusive shows (and counting) from great names you'll know with loads for you to discover. All with a 30 day free trial and no contract. 'The Netflix of UK Stand-Up' - Engadget.

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Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Covatic — We help media companies deliver private-by-design, addressable advertising and marketing without exposing personal data.
V9 Group — V9 Group is a group of technology and payment experts.We're problem solvers. We identify markets with issues and using our thinking and experience…we challenge, innovate and disrupt them. Two sectors we've been focusing on are retail and payments. And we have developed products that are not only disrupting these sectors... they’rerevolutionising them.
Huey Games — Huey Games is a Ga me developer providing smart porting service for various consoles.

Markus Kern

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Photography
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lifecake — Canon Europe, leading provider of digital cameras, digital SLR cameras, inkjet printers & professional printers for business and home users.
Socialite —

Nic is the Managing Partner of Forward Partners, an "Applied VC" that backs early-stage companies from day one and provides them with a support team to supercharge their business.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Outlyer — Outlyer is a self-service infrastructure monitoring platform made for DevOps and microservices. We monitor your full stack—from servers and cloud providers to databases, containers and custom metrics. We give you dashboards, analytics and alerts that are easy to set up and customize for both developer and operations teams.Outlyer is monitoring,done differently.
OutThink — The first cyber security platform to treat human behaviour as the solution, rather than the problem.
Togethera — We're bringing the world’s families closer together by providing a private, simple place to share, that’s easily accessible by grandparents and children, on phones, tablets and computers.

Chris Mairs - Venture Partner @ Entrepreneurs First

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice
Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.

EBlink board member Chris Burke’s career in telecommunications, IT and technology spans more than 30 years in both Europe and North America. He has held technical and management responsibilities at a telecom equipment supplier (Nortel), a fixed-line carrier (Energis), a wireless service provider (Vodafone), and a consumer device manufacturer(Research In Motion – RIM). His most recent public-company position, which he left in 2009, was RIM’s managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa. From 2001 to 2004, Chris was chief technology officer (CTO) at Vodafone UK. From 1997 to 2000, he was CTO and chief information officer at U.K.-based Energis, where he helped take the company public and onto the FTSE 40. Previously, he spent 15 years with Bell Northern Research and its parent company Northern Telecom in a variety of roles, including software development, operations and ultimately sales.Chris, who has extensive experience in helping guide companies through stock offerings and acquisitions, has served on several boards of directors. He was chairman of Ubiquity Software during that company’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2005 and its 2007 sale to Avaya. He was lead independent director of March Networks during its 2005 IPO, director at Oz Communications when it sold to Nokia in 2008, and a director and investor in Dialog Semiconductor when it completed a successful secondary offering in 2009. He currently serves on the boards of Dialog Semiconductor and Kontron (both listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange), as well as several venture and private equity-backed companies. Chris divides his time between board positions, numerous advisory roles and his investment and advisory business, Buster Burke Ltd. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Can.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Software
Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

iovox — Tracking and analytics for phone calls and voice. Generate more leads and optimize your marketing ROI by designing the right solution for your business.
Navmii — Easily add maps, search and navigation to your mobile and web applications using our developer-friendly navigation and mapping SDKs & APIs
Togethera — We're bringing the world’s families closer together by providing a private, simple place to share, that’s easily accessible by grandparents and children, on phones, tablets and computers.

Kirill is the CEO and Founder of Enki, a tech-enabled skills training company.Previously, Kirill cofounded Emerging Travel, a leading online travel agency; and Quid, an intelligence tool for strategy teams. Both companies have over $40M annual net revenue each.Kirill is an Oxford University alum where he graduated with a double first inMathematics and as the #1 UK Graduate of the Year.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Mobile
Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Calm — Relax with Calm, a simple mindfulness meditation app that brings clarity and peace of mind into your life
Togethera — We're bringing the world’s families closer together by providing a private, simple place to share, that’s easily accessible by grandparents and children, on phones, tablets and computers.
Share Practice — Share Practice helps doctors identify and understand the most effective clinical treatments based on the success of other doctors.

Braveheart Ventures Ltd was formed in 1997 by four Scottish businessmen as an informal investment syndicate. In 2003, Braveheart Investment Group plc was incorporated, and subsequently acquired Braveheart Ventures. The transition towards becoming a recognised investment management company was completed in 2004 when Braveheart Ventures becameauthorised by the Financial Services Authority. In March 2007 Braveheart Investment Group plc became a listed company when its shares began trading on AIM.The organisation has grown steadily year on year and now comprises a management team of twelve and a client base of around 100. Braveheart currently has over 30 companies in its diverse portfolio and enjoys close relationships with several universities and science parks. The Groupâ€:tm:s headquarters are in Perth and there is a regional office in central London.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Hardware
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Biopta — Discover the power of human tissue testing at REPROCELL. Translate your discoveries into therapies with our efficacy, safety, and ADME assays.
Spiral Gateway — Every business deserves a great domain name! Purchase directly from your preferred domain name registrar (GoDaddy, Namecheap, IONOS, Network Solutions etc.) or contact me here with any questions.Ask me about a limited-time discount :)
Design LED Products — Innovative Lighting Technologies for the Automotive Market.

LAUNCHub is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
UVIONIX — Uvionix deploys Autonomous Flying Robots (AFRs) to monitor and report live data, ensuring a comprehensive view of operations, workflow efficiency, and near 100% inventory level accuracy. The system creates live digital twins of warehouse spaces, meticulously tracking each material movement. Delivering precise, unbiased data, and being immune to human error, the platform drastically enhances material planning, reduces stock losses, and lowers labor costs.
Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.

Based in London, The Accelerator Group (TAG) has been an advisor and investor in early stage and start-up companies since 1995. They focus on the Internet services, eCommerce and multi-channel retail sectors, investing primarily in the US and Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Finance
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zemanta — Zemanta brings the power of programmatic advertising to native. Zemanta One is the only cross-channel media buying platform specifically designed for the promotion and distribution of marketing content. The world's largest brands and leading digital agencies use Zemanta's programmatic platform to scale, automate and optimize their entirenative advertising programs.Founded in 2007, Zemanta is based in New York with offices across North America and Europe.
Riskified — Leading global ecommerce enterprises leverage Riskified's AI-powered fraud and risk intelligence platform for chargeback guarantee, to grow revenues, and to fight fraud and policy abuse at scale.
Wise — 160+ countries, 40 currencies, one account. Save when you send, spend and manage your money internationally.

Highland Europe invests in rapidly growing European internet, mobile, and software companies that address large market opportunities and have over €10 million in annualized revenues. They can provide acquisition finance or lead secondary transactions as well as making primary investments. Their capital enables management teams to accelerate growthand build a lasting, valuable business.Highland Europe was launched in 2012 and closely collaborates with Highland Capital Partners, an independent global venture capital firm with a twenty-seven year investment experience and offices in Boston and Palo Alto.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
United Kingdom, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

9fin — 9fin is a leading provider of debt market intelligence and offers everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one AI-powered platform
LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 16 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
smaXtec — We offer professional dairy farmers the most technologically advanced health system, based on measuring inner body temperature, rumination and activity inside the cow's rumen. Farmers achieve stable high milk yields, reduce the use of antibiotics and significantly increase animal welfare. The 24/7 health monitoring system increases theeffectiveness of all work processes on professional dairy farms. smaXtec makes a decisive contribution to the stability and profitability of industrial dairy farming worldwide - while at the same time increasing sustainability.

Mustard Seed enables the creation and evolution of world-class businesses that generate positive and sustainable outcomes. They believe that solving big social and environmental problems drives commercial success in the long run. They seek scalable solutions to gaps currently left unfilled by government and industry in the areas of economicinclusion, education, environmental sustainability, health, and family and community.Mustard Seed invests in and incubates socially and environmentally impactful start-ups. They connect a dynamic and influential network of global members with exceptional entrepreneurial talent across the world. They also develop bespoke impact measurement frameworks and support established companies to align profit and impact through tailored strategies and effective deployment of their resources.Mustard Seed was co-founded by Alex Pitt and Henry Wigan, first classmates at the London School of Economics and later colleagues at Goldman Sachs. In 2013 Henry and Alex observed a rising appetite for socially-minded entrepreneurship among the world’s most talented graduates. They also observed a critical lack of capital to adequately meet this need. They started Mustard Seed to bridge the gap.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Loctax — Complete oversight of global tax compliance obligations and risks in a single platform built for in-house tax teams.
FINDS — FINDS is a unique, video marketplace app for fashion. We are a female-led team that believes that an online fashion marketplace should be just as dynamic and inspiring as a thrift market IRL. We are on a mission to create a fashion resale community that offers a fun, interactive place for people who love to buy, sell & express their uniqueitems and style - together.It's simple to start selling. List your products in your shop, set a fixed price and choose to add them to a live stream to show your items from every angle. It's easy to buy, explore and discover items, styles, people and personalities you'll love.
Maven Pet — The Maven Pet Smart Collar & Cat/Dog Activity Tracker monitors your pet 24/7, detecting health issues early and helping increase their life quality and span.

Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

VRAI — First and foremost, they are a content creation company specialising in virtual reality production. They are visual storytellers embracing this new medium as a way of creating immersive, engaging content.Their pioneering methodology takes elements from our diverse background. We use techniques from narrative cinema, from visual effects, fromexhibition design, from gaming, from brand management and combine them in new exciting ways to help you tell your story.
Nanovery — Founded by scientists specialised in Nanotechnology, Medicinal Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence, we are on a mission to enable early detection of cancer through a rapid and affordable blood test Backed by academics at top universities, clinicians, industrial leaders, and Entrepreneur First.
MySalesCoach — MySalesCoach offers Despite overwhelming evidence that sales coaching has the greatest impact on rep development and success, managers typically devote less than 5% of their time to coaching a team that craves and deserves coaching to reach their full potential.

Midven is a specialist venture capital company providing investment to fast growing small and medium sized enterprises ("SMEs"), run by an energetic, experienced and hands-on team of investment managers.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Inicio AI — A specialist Income & Expenditure trained virtual agent delivering improved CX and robust results
4T2 Sensors — 4T2 Sensors is a fluid sensor designer and data analytics company that focuses on sensor technologies meant to analyze fluids in real-time utilizing electrical impulses.
Assemble You — Increase your learning and development skills with our podcast-style Power Skills audio learning. Unlock your potential with innovative training in multiple languages. Build a better you and embark on an exciting journey of self-improvement today!

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

Wise CX — Wise CX specializes in leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance customer loyalty and satisfaction for businesses and institutions. The company offers solutions that are designed to improve customer experiences through personalized attention and smart solutions. Wise CX's services include the development of chatbots and conversationalchannels, aiming to make customer interactions more efficient and effective. With a focus on compliance with current data protection regulations, Wise CX ensures that its solutions adhere to legal standards, providing a secure environment for customer data. The company's offerings are tailored to meet the needs of professional services, aiming to transform customer service into a more engaging and responsive experience.
Capably AI — Capably empowers professionals to automate complex tasks with AI in minutes, regardless of their level of technical expertise. Operating autonomously in the background, Capably acts as an extension of the teams it supports, driving greater productivity and efficiency. Anyone in the company can use Capably to automate back-office tasks like dataentry and processing, generate insights and reports, manage projects, and more—all while the organisation maintains complete control and visibility over how and when employees delegate work to AI.
Just Move In — Just Move In makes home moving easy. We help you save time, hassle & money on your move by allowing you to easily manage the admin. You can set up utilities, find great deals on broadband, arrange removals & insurance and more.

Miroma Ventures is the investment arm of The Miroma Group, predominantly focusing on investing in venture and growth stage consumer brands and media platforms. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs and deliver marketing solutions to accelerate growth and drive long-term value for the business.

Investment focus

Advertising, Apps, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Bruvi — Bruvi is a breakthrough single-serve coffee system, with patent pending technology and proprietary, eco-friendly B-Pods®. Bruvi brews filter coffee, true espresso and Americanos, as well as the first cold brew from a single-serve brewer. Bruvi will offer sustainably sourced craft coffee from house brands and from some of the most popular third waveroasters.
New Stance — New Stance is a full service influencer talent marketing and partnership activation agency in London specialising in the Sports & Entertainment sectors.
ROAM — Explore courses and classes in outdoor sports, nutrition, fitness, yoga, and more. Learn beginner to pro-level skills from the experts.

Leaf Investments is an early stage investor in learning technology businesses. Founded on the principle that emerging technologies present opportunities to create new learning solutions, they are looking to support entrepreneurs across the learning spectrum, both domestically and internationally.

Investment focus

Education, Software, E-Learning
Seed
United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Zzish — Zzish are EdTech's most passionate pioneers; on a mission to transform the use of apps in the classroom through a data driven technology platform that solves key pain points for developers and teachers. Their platform helps developers create, distribute and monetise and helps teachers discover, use and buy, curriculum mapped education appsthat have a real impact on student learning. At the heart of their platform are their real-time teacher dashboards, a "virtual teaching assistant" that gives teachers instant insight into student strengths and weaknesses using any app.More than 500,000 teachers (70% in the USA) from over 170 different countries have signed up to use Zzish already. With their first paying schools in the UK, US, Holland and Israel and Ministries of Education around the world starting to recommend their products, Zzish is now scaling up to become a global technology leader providing the key data and intelligence layer underpinning the new generation of education applications.Zzish has won numerous awards over the last few years. EdSurge ranked Quizalize as the "No.1 new app for schools" in 2015 and Zzish was selected as one of the "Future 30" at the Bett Show (Europe's leading EdTech trade show) and one of the "EdTech 20" at EdTechXEurope (Europe's leading EdTech investor summit). Moreover the Zzish Teacher Dashboards was the runner up for Teach Secondary's "Technology Innovation of the Year" and a finalist for selection in the Education Resource Awards.
BlikBook — BlikBook is an easy to use platform helping lecturers become more organised and manage contact with their students. The platform helps students find answers and get academic support from peers and their lecturers. It can be accessed directly from laptops, tablets and mobiles or through a Virtual Learning Environment.BlikBook lets you, andstudents easily add questions, answers, articles and updates for your class. It is easy to use, simple by design and works across all devices.BlikBook encourages students to help one another, meaning you are not answering all questions, a repository of answers is created, and duplicate questions are removed. We help improve the way discussion is organised and in the process help you manage your workload.BlikBook easily integrates into your existing Virtual Learning Environment or can be used as a stand alone website. This means no need for multiple logging in for yourself and for your students as well as access on any device.
Learning with experts — Learningwithexperts.com provides a structured virtual learning environment delivering vocational and hobby courses to passionate professionals and amateurs in subjects such as gardening and photography.

HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, serves millions of customers through its three Global Businesses.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
United Kingdom, United States, India

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.
ACEN Australia — ACEN Australia develops renewable energy assets including several solar, wind, battery, and hydro projects across Australia.
Warehouse Reit — Warehouse Reit functions as a closed-ended investing firm. The company aims to hold a diverse portfolio of freehold and long-leasehold warehouse properties, including those in the trade counter, industrial or manufacturing, storage and distribution, and retail warehouse sub-sectors. Investment and provision of local urban warehouses are thecompany's sole operating segment. Rent and other sources of income are its main sources of income.

Mark Hirschfield - CEO & Director @ A.H.Field Properties

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Photography
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lifecake — Canon Europe, leading provider of digital cameras, digital SLR cameras, inkjet printers & professional printers for business and home users.

Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.

From the age of 15, Jeroen has co-founded over a dozen companies which released various products reaching over 100 million users around the globe. He was heavily involved with the product development and marketing of Zugo, Wyzo and a leading file-sharing client.Jeroen obtained his BCS from Hogeschool Gent, specializing in software engineering,followed by a Master Class in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School.When not flying from one continent to the next, he can be found in London where he serves as a director of TechTopia Ltd and chairman of FACEIT Ltd.Jeroen is also an active investor and sits on the board of various startups around the globe.Constantly on the look-out for new projects and building innovative marketing strategies.

Investment focus

Video, Gaming, Mobile
Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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Upcomer — Upcomer is your one-stop location for esports and gaming news, features, guides, opinions, and walkthroughs.

David Soskin is on the boards of mySupermarket.com and Cortexica Vision Systems where he is Chairman. He was a non-executive director of the Momondo Group (formerly Cheapflights) until October 2014 when Great Hill Partners acquired a majority stake in the business. Priceline Inc acquired Momondo in 2017 for $550 million.He served as ChiefExecutive Officer of Cheapflights - which he joined in March 2000 upon the management buy-in - until April 2008. Under his leadership, Cheapflights grew from an attic-based operation into an international leader in online travel search reaching 8.4 million users in January 2008. During this period, Cheapflights won many industry awards and was included in the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track of the UK's 100 fastest growing privately-owned technology companies for five years in a row. David was a Finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2006.

Investment focus

Travel, E-Commerce, Reputation
Seed, Series A
Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

WAYN — Providing inspiration on where to travel next
Silverback.ai — eRated (http://erated.co) creates a single identity for e-commerce sites, allowing online buyers and sellers to utilize their already existing reputation everywhere they go. By using a universal identity, sellers are able to operate in more marketplaces, reach more customers and increase their conversion rates and sales as they nolonger need to re-build their reputation (ratings, reviews and comments) in each site. eRated uses a widget displayed in partner sites that aggregates and summarizes the sellers ratings and feedback earned across various marketplace, increasing user trust.The founders are all veterans of elite Israeli army tech units and alumni of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program (Israel's most prominent student accelerator program).

Founded in 1988, Highland Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm focused on putting the entrepreneur first.With offices in Silicon Valley, Boston and Shanghai, Highland has raised over $3 billion in committed capital and invested in more than 225 companies, resulting in category-defining businesses across consumer and enterprisetechnology.Investments include 2U, Ask Jeeves, Bromium, Gigamon, Leap Motion, LevelUp, Lycos, MapQuest, Nebula, QD Vision, Qihoo 360, Quattro Wireless, RentJuice, Rent the Runway, Starent Networks, Sybase, Violin Memory, VistaPrint and WePay.Highland also serves as a mentor for future entrepreneurs through Summer@Highland, a program that provides students and university-affiliated startups with the environment and resources to take their initiative to the next level.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

Transcend — Transcend offers data governance solutions that help companies achieve privacy compliance through powerful data mapping and data discovery, automated data subject requests, and simple cookie consent, all with industry leading security.
Eko Health — At Eko every digital stethoscope from Eko comes with smart disease detection capabilities to help healthcare professionals confidently identify and diagnose heart and lung disease during physical exams.
Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.

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 A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
Taktile — Taktile's no-code platform enables you to easily build automated decision flows and iterate on them in a data-driven way leveraging backtests and A/B testing.
Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick and place automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
Rerun — Multimodal log handling and visualization for spatial and embodied AI. Managed infrastructure to ingest, store, analyze, and stream data at scale with built-in visual debugging. Fast, flexible, and easy to use.

Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FixForm — At FixForm, we aim to keep spaces and buildings in good, safe and clean condition. Our platform allows everybody to report problems with just the snap of a picture. Simplify your maintenance today and become part of the FixForm community.
Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.

Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

The Dots — Professional networking for the new world of work. Get advice. Meet collaborators. Find jobs. Upskill at events.
Nova Credit — Nova Credit is a credit infrastructure and analytics company that enables businesses to grow responsibly by harnessing alternative credit data.
Platform Science — Experience the power to choose what drives your fleet. Platform Science delivers telematics and fleet management tools on a platform built for transportation.

KM Capital is an early-stage venture fund headed by Adam Kamani, CEO of Kamani Property Group and co-founder of prettylittlething.com. The founding team has considerable experience of scaling several well-known businesses to IPO (Betfair, ZPG, Boohoo) and we add value by sharing our experiences and wider business network with companies at acritical stage in their development.We predominantly focus on consumer tech opportunities where we can leverage our experience and network to make a difference.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Wellness, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Scan.com — Use scan.com to find the best medical imaging centers near you Find an MRI scan, CT scan, X-ray Scan, or other diagnostic imaging scan with scan.com.
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Supportwave — NerdApp offers online or on-site tech support for your home or small business. Just sign up and book a Nerd instantly or schedule at your convenience!

Avlar was founded in 1999 by Alan Goodman and Daniel Roach and manages Avlar Fund II (£43m) and the First Cambridge Gateway Fund (£35m). Avlar has invested in eighteen companies across a range of sub-sectors of the bioscience industries. Ten are still private, two have been merged, three have been bought by public companies, two have been sold forcash and two listed on the public markets. Prior to the formation of Avlar Messrs Roach and Goodman co-founded or seed financed nine life science companies. Seven of these were listed on recognized Stock Exchanges producing highly profitable realizations. These included Acambis, Chiroscience, Core, Salix and Oxford Biomedica.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CellCentric — CellCentric’s primary programme targets a deubiquitinase (DUB) enzyme which is strongly associated with prostate cancer, a leading cause of mortality among men. The target modulates the androgen receptor pathway and can potentially combat the multiple resistance mechanisms seen with recently approved prostate cancer drugs such Xtandi and Zytiga.The programme also has potential clinical utility in non-small cell lung, breast and colon cancer.
Takeda Cambridge — Takeda Cambridge Limited (TCB) and its subsidiary TSP, have established world-class target identification and validation capabilities. Together they have developed a promising pipeline of novel drug discovery targets and compounds in key areas of unmet medical need such as CNS disorders, chronic pain and urology indications, endocrinology andmetabolic-related diseases.
Crescendo Biologics — Crescendo Biologics is a new Cambridge-based company whose vision is to deliver next-generation antibody therapeutics based on novel class-leading platforms.The focus of the company is on developing platforms that will address key issues in generating high-affinity, soluble, human VH antibody fragments. These are the smallest fragments thatretain antibody binding, and have many desirable properties as potential therapeutics. Crescendo will then utilise these platforms for product development of in-house targets or in partnership with other companies.

Telefonica, S.A. operates as a diversified telecommunications group that provides fixed line and mobile telephony services.Telefonica wants to enhance people's lives and the performance of businesses as well as the progress of the communities where they operate by delivering innovative services based on information and communicationstechnologies. The company operates in 24 countries and its total number of customers amounted to 315.7 million.Telefónica has one of the most international profiles in the sector with more than 77% of its business outside its home market and a reference point in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking market.The Group stands in seventh position in the sector Telco worldwide in terms of market capitalisation the 1st as an European integrated operator and in seventeenth position in the Eurostoxx 50 ranking, composed of the major companies in Europe (March 31st 2013).Telefónica is a listed company. It has more than 1.5 million direct shareholders. Its capital traded on the continuous market on the Spanish Stock Exchanges (Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia) and on those of London, New York, Lima and Buenos Aires.In Latin America, Telefónica gives service to more than 212.4 million customers as of the end of March 2013 becoming the leader operator in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru and has substantial operations in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela. In Europe, on top of the Spanish operations, the Company has operating companies in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Czech Republic and Slovakia, providing services to more than 102.7 million customers as of the end of March 2013.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Ori Industries — Ori is a developer of a cloud platform designed to enable computing anywhere and everywhere. It empowers developers and networks to build future applications for global infrastructure from smart cities, immersive worlds, and autonomous machines. Ori Industries was established in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England.
Upword — Upword is an artificial intelligence-powered reading tool for college students and learners. Their services include NLP, artificial intelligence, education, e-learning, reading comprehension, machine learning, college students, consumer products, universities, and lifelong learning.
Nearby Computing — NearbyComputing commercializes NearbyOne, an Edge IT fabrics orchestration platform that seamlessly manages the lifecycle of infrastructure, the VNFs and the applications, controlling their deployment and associated resources. NearbyOne addresses all these orchestration issues in a holistic and intertwined way. Applications and VNFs provided bythird party ISVs are onboarded to create a rich ecosystem of pre-integrated services, that get deployed in one-click. Service assurance and KPI monitoring are natively integrated into the platform to automatically control service SLAs. Infratructure, Network, Apps and KPIs are managed from a single pane of glass, and smart placement and configuration policies dynamically adjust service levels.

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