Top 50 Platforms Angel Investors in United Kingdom in October 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Platforms startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Platforms companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Platforms Angel Investors in United Kingdom in October 2024
Investor | Platforms United Kingdom investments |
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Emre Kurttepeli | 2 |
Theo Osborne | 2 |
Nate Macleitch | 2 |
Livingstone Ian | 2 |
Hilmar Veigar Petursson | 2 |
Sir Terry Leahy | 2 |
Jaan Tallinn | 2 |
Matt Cooper | 1 |
Chris Klomp | 1 |
Barnaby Weiner | 1 |
Andy Rankin | 1 |
Jon Craton | 1 |
Douglas Scott | 1 |
Nadav Ben-Chanoch | 1 |
Soleio Soleio | 1 |
Stewart Butterfield | 1 |
Thomas Mann | 1 |
Brian McClendon | 1 |
Adam French | 1 |
Rona Ruthen | 1 |
Henrik Holmark | 1 |
Chris Murphy | 1 |
Thibaut Rouffineau | 1 |
Alexander Armstrong | 1 |
Ivan Mazour | 1 |
Phil Mansell | 1 |
Allison Pickens | 1 |
Tobin Ireland | 1 |
Brad Flora | 1 |
Paul . McGuinness | 1 |
Ben Barokas | 1 |
Ben Holmes | 1 |
Shishir Mehrotra | 1 |
David Helgason | 1 |
Jeff Pulver | 1 |
Paul McGuire | 1 |
Nigel Wray | 1 |
Brendan Gill | 1 |
Catherine Chew | 1 |
David Singleton | 1 |
Guy Johnson | 1 |
Biz Stone | 1 |
Luca Martinetti | 1 |
Eren Bali | 1 |
Charlie Songhurst | 1 |
Zack Kanter | 1 |
Mike Hudack | 1 |
Nick Hynes | 1 |
Chris Schagen | 1 |
Neil Young | 1 |
Emre Kurttepeli is a Serial Entrepreneur & Investor and is the Founder & Chairperson of Mynet Group, Turkey’s leading internet company with over 32 million users and Founder & CEO of Mynet Games, a global mobile gaming company.Columbia University/NY graduate, he has been the founder or the investor of over 50 internet andtechnology companies, mostly leaders in their own categories that ranges from e-commerce companies to vertical social network sites, mobile and gaming companies, including Trendyol, Insider, Iyzico, RemoteTeam and vc fund that invests in the internet and technology space. Additionally he is an investor in C24 Gallery, a prominent contemporary art gallery in Chelsea/New York.He is the President of Endeavor Turkey and Galata Business Angels (GBA), that are non-profit organizations helping to grow the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He serves on the Board of Endeavor Global, TOBB Turkish Venture Capital Industry Council and TOBB Turkish Entrepreneurs Council. Besides being on the advisory board member of Columbia University Global Center in Istanbul, he also is a member of YPO and is an Ashoka fellow.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- Tarentum — Tarentum AI develops solutions to critical business needs using machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies.
Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.
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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.
Nate Macleitch - CEO @ QuickBlox
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Investment focus
- iOS, Mobile, Android
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
- QuickBlox — QuickBlox provides instant messaging API that allow chat and calling functionality to be added to any Android, iOS, or Web application.
Ian Livingstone CBE is one of the founding fathers of the UK games industry. He co-founded iconic games company Games Workshop in 1975, launching Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer in Europe.He co-authored The Warlock of Firetop Mountain with Steve Jackson in 1982, writing 14 titles in the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series which has sold over18 million copies worldwide. He designed Eureka, the first computer game published by Domark in 1984. He joined the Domark board in 1992, overseeing a merger that created Eidos plc in 1995 where he served as Executive Chairman until 2002, and as Creative Director until 2006. At Eidos he launched global video games franchises including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He co-authored the influential Livingstone-Hope Next Gen review published by NESTA in 2011, recommending changes in ICT education policy. Following publication, he chaired the Next Gen Skills campaign, working with government to introduce the new Computing curriculum in schools in 2014. In the Wired 100 list for 2012, he was ranked the 16th most influential person in the UK’s digital economy. He was listed in the 2015 Debrett’s 500 of most influential people in UK.Roles (as of May 2016): Founder and Chairman of the Livingstone Foundation, Chairman of Playdemic, Chairman of Midoki, Chairman of Sumo-Digital, Chairman of PlayMob, Chairman of Antstream, Chairman of The Secret Police, Chairman of Flavourworks, Vice Chair of UKIE, Patron and Non-executive director of Creative Skillset, a Member of the Creative Industries Council, Non-executive director of Creative Industries Federation, Non-executive director of Creative England, Non-executive director of Young Rewired State, GamesAid Trustee, Advisory Board Member of GameCity, and Adviser to the British Council.
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Investment focus
- Video Games, Android, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- NURVV — Free shipping in the UK
- Magicave — Magicave is a digital toy, game, and hobby startup.
- Whitbread — Whitbread PLC is a hospitality company. The Company operates hotels, coffee shops and restaurants. The Company operates in two segments: Hotels & Restaurants, and Costa. The Hotels & Restaurants segment provides services in relation to accommodation and food. The Costa segment consists of operations of its branded, owned and franchisedcoffee outlets. Premier Inn is the Company's hotel business. The Company's restaurant brands include Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table and Whitbread Inns. The Company operates over 730 Premier Inn hotels and over 64,000 rooms across the United Kingdom. The Company operates over 2,000 coffee shops across the United Kingdom, over 1,200 coffee stores in approximately 30 international markets and over 5,200 Costa Express self-serve units.
Hilmar has been leading CCP Games’ ongoing success and growth since his appointment as Chief Executive Officer in 2004. Under Hilmar’s management CCP’s critically acclaimed science-fiction game EVE Online celebrated an unprecedented ten consecutive years of subscriber growth. In addition, Hilmar has put CCP into the pole position in the VRrevolution by embracing the new technology early. The company released virtual-reality arcade shooter Gunjack for the Samsung Gear VR in 2015, which has been the best-selling game on the platform since launch. And in early 2016 CCP released EVE: Valkyrie, a hotly-anticipated multiplayer spaceship dogfighting shooter built from the ground up for virtual reality, bundled with Oculus Rift pre-orders. EVE: Valkyrie will ship on HTC Vive and PlayStation VR on PlayStation 4 later in 2016. Before his appointment to the CEO position, Hilmar held the title of CCP's Chief Technical Officer, heading the engineering effort required to create the company’s persistent world technology and 3D engine. Prior to joining CCP in 2000, he served as the CTO of SmartVR, an OZ.com spin-off based on that company’s multi-user virtual reality technology following his tenure as the VP of software development for the OZ Studios division of OZ.com.Currently, he is also active on a number of boards and committees relating to Icelandic information technology and innovation. Hilmar has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Iceland.
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Investment focus
- Online Games, Software, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Iceland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Atomontage — Atomontage develops a volumetric graphics and simulation platform that can scale to record-breaking data sets and beyond. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.
- Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
- Netspeak Games — Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch studio that develops online multiplayer games. Its first game is a non-violent social MMO, designed to be a fun place to hang out with friends. Players can relax, play, or just get some headspace.
Sir Terry Leahy joined Cheshunt, England-based Tesco in 1979 and held marketing positions at the retailer before becoming commercial director of fresh foods in 1986 and a member of the board in 1990. Leahy was appointed Chief Executive of Tesco plc in March 1997.Leahy received a Knighthood for services to food retailing in the 2002 New YearHonours. He was voted as Britain’s Most Admired Leader (2005 and 2006) by Management Today, recognized by the Wall Street Journal and CNBC as European Business Leader of the Year (2005), and named European Businessman of the Year by Fortune (2004). A Guardian Unlimited Politics panel found him to be the most influential non-elected person in Britain in 2007.Leahy is a Director on the Liverpool Vision Regeneration Board and a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council.In 2010 he received the Daily Telegraph’s Award for a Decade of Excellence in Business, a Lifetime Achievement award from Director Magazine, and was voted Business Person of the Year by the Sunday Times.Sir Terry Leahy retired from Tesco in March 2011.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sirenum — Sirenum is a cloud-based platform for managing the staff lifecycle for agencies, recruiters and organisations who rely on staff for operational purposes.Sirenum is built on a highly agile technology platform, which allows us to connect with other service providers for functions not yet in the system. This trick allows us to deliver features thatthey would not otherwise have, if a client requires these features up front. Once significant demand for a particular feature becomes apparent, they may decide develop that feature in house, replacing the outside vendor and retaining additional profits.Sirenum is geared towards employers who operate complex workforces of shift workers. Sirenum is particularly suited to the Staffing, Railway, Aviation, Construction, Hospitality, Healthcare, Home care, Deliveries, Logistics and Transportation. Operators in these sectors typically have hundreds or thousands of employees.
- SYNALOGiK — Synalogik helps organisations improve efficiency and slash costs through automated data aggregation when multiple data sources are required.
- Uptime | Knowledge Hacks — Thousands of life lessons extracted from the world's best books, courses, documentaries, and podcasts - packed into 5 minute Knowledge Hacks.
Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
- Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
- TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.
Matt Cooper is Chairman of Octopus.
Before joining Octopus, Matt was Principal Managing Director of Capital One Bank (Europe) where he led the team guiding strategy and operations. He helped the UK arm grow from a start-up to a business employing more than 2,000 people and generating over £275 million in revenue.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.
- Clerkenwell Health — Clerkenwell Health addresses the growing unmet demand for effective mental health treatments.
- Juniper — Juniper is a reproductive healthcare insurance provider.
Entrepreneur. Investor. Board member.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Information Technology, Finance
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Vocate — Vocate is the online upgrade of the student career center. The key feature is a matching marketplace for student jobs and internships, supported by tools that guide customers along their path.
- Mattermost — Accelerate mission critical work in complex environments with a customizable, self-sovereign collaboration hub.
- 2020 On-site — 20/20 Onsite is America's leading provider of on-site vision care for businesses and schools through mobile eye clinics with licensed optometrists.
Barnaby Weiner - Portfolio Manager @ MFS Investment Management
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Investment focus
- Health Care, iOS, AgTech
- Seed
- United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Aviwell — Aviwell’s mission is to develop healthy, native, natural, and sustainable solutions to improve animal health and growth to better nourish the planet ... At a fraction of the cost.
- BelleVie — BelleVie's vision is a world where those who receive and provide support are valued and thrive. BelleVie's radically different operating model of self-managing teams was inspired by the successful Buurtzorg model of nursing in the Netherlands. Unlike other care providers who are digitising a broken operating model, BelleVie addresses theroot cause, fixing the operating model and then digitising that.
- TalkLife — TalkLife is an online peer to peer support network for mental health; a global community to share the ups and downs of life with like-minded people 24/7.
Andy Rankin - VP of Partnerships - Investor @ Sapho
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Shipamax — Shipamax offers industry-leading AI-powered data entry software for the shipping & logistics industry. We are based in the UK and help freight forwarders and logistics companies around the world save time & money with our data entry automation software.
- InCountry — Stay compliant with global data regulations by storing profille, employee, healthcare, transaction and payment data in the country of residency.
- The Athletic — Unrivaled sports coverage across every team you care about and every league you follow. Get breaking news, powerful stories and smart analysis from the best writers in sports.
Jon Craton has over 24 years experience of the telecoms industry in general and Operations Support Systems in particular. In 1996 he founded Cramer Systems and was a senior executive with the company until its sale to Amdocs in 2006 for $425 million. Since then Jon has been an angel investor, working in the technology sector. Jon is extensivelyinvolved with PowerOasis – he is a non-executive director of the company and one its largest investors. He brings to PowerOasis a wealth of experience in managing rapid growth whilst maintaining very high standards of customer satisfaction.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zynstra — Zynstra is transforming edge computing at the retail edge. Its Intelligent Infrastructure is specifically designed and built for the retail edge, not the datacenter. It leverages intelligent automation to transform the way thousands of distributed sites are managed. By choosing Zynstra, the retail edge becomes the source of your competitiveadvantage in an era where superior customer experience is not only a great-to-have, but a must-have. You establish a lasting platform where new innovative apps and services are tested and launched to delight consumers at the retail edge, all while driving down operational costs and better managing risk, With its DNA deeply rooted in edge software products, Zynstra provides purpose-built edge infrastructure for the world’s largest, most distributed, innovation-driven enterprises. Zynstra is a strategic partner of HPE in delivering intelligence infrastructure – under the HPE Proliant Easy Connect brand – and is based in the United Kingdom.
- SwiftKey — SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people. It upgrades smartphone keyboards to make typing faster, by utilizing artificial intelligence to learn from each user in order to autocorrect and predict their next word. The SwiftKey Keyboard for Android supports more than 80 languages.SwiftKey wasfounded by Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
- Rosa Biotech — Rosa Biotech is redefining biosensing. We are addressing intractable challenges in early disease diagnosis and industrial biotechnology.
Douglas Scott
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Investment focus
- iOS, Local, Events
- Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Software designer turned investor 👨💻 Design: Facebook, Messenger, Dropbox 🌱 Capital: Figma, Vercel, Vanta, Framer, Perplexity and more
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Investment focus
- Software, Product Design, Collaboration
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
Stewart Butterfield serves as the CEO and Co-Founder at Slack Technologies, Inc. Stewart Butterfield serves as the President of LudiCorp Research and Development Ltd. Stewart Butterfield directed the 11-member design group (creative/visual/UI, production & QA) at Communicate.com, where he acted as design lead or managed teams onmillions of dollars worth of projects for companies like HSBC and Sears Travel. He co-founded Flickr at Yahoo! Inc. Stewart Butterfield has served in the W3C's XForms working group and has been active in many other professional organizations. He has also a long consulting interaction design career, most recently with Telus, the CBC and The Economist. Stewart Butterfield founded the 5K competition, a lo-fi, high-profile design award, which has been featured everywhere from Playboy to Le Monde to USA Today. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Wantoo Networks Incorporated. Stewart Butterfield is a frequent speaker on design and technology topics at professional and academic events across Europe and North America. He was recently named to the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and is a nominating judge in the Webby Awards (for Best Practice). In 2001, he was nominated for a Chrysler Design Award. In 2006, Time magazine’s put him on their list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Stewart Butterfield received a BA (Hons. with Distinction) in philosophy from the University of Victoria, and an MPhil in philosophy from Cambridge University, graduating with a First.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Atreo.io — Atreo.io develop an RTSM solution in the market, revolutionizing the client experience.Atreo’s team has diverse and complementary experience across all aspects of RTSM, Clinical Supplies, and Clinical Trials project delivery and support. Atreo’s team has delivered and supported 1000+ clinical trials for a diverse client pool including emergingBiotechs to top 10 Pharma and CROs.
- ModernLoop — ModernLoop creates software that organizes and manages business interviews. The company offers a software that schedules interviews, sends day-off reminders, and resolves meeting conflicts. ModernLoop was founded in 2020 by Christopher Triolo and Lydia Han.
- Venue — Venue is a video conferencing platform that increases engagement and strengthens culture at large team-wide events.
Thomas Paul Mann is the CEO and Founder at Raycast.
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Investment focus
- Developer Tools, Security, Software
- Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Arcjet — Arcjet helps developers protect their apps in just a few lines of code. Implement rate limiting, bot protection, email validation, and defense against common attacks.
- Knock — Knock is flexible, reliable notifications infrastructure that's built to scale with you. Use our APIs to engage your users, power cross-channel workflows, and manage notification preferences.
- Plain. — The support platform that works the way you do. Consolidate your support channels into one platform your team will love, and bring support closer to product and engineering.
Brian McClendon is the Senior Vice President Of Engineering at Niantic and previously founder and VP engineering Keyhole Inc. He attended in The University of Kansas.
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Investment focus
- Software, iOS, Analytics
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Teleo — Teleo is revolutionizing material moving industries by turning heavy equipment into supervised autonomous machines.
- uMake — Design in 3D. Anywhere. The first 3D design app for the iPhone & iPad. Explore your ideas in 3D. Simple. Get uMake Now for iPhone & iPad.
- beans.ai — Core offerings include: - Beans Maps+: Hyper-accurate location information for apartments, condos, hospitals, and universities, along with access codes, parking locations, and other important information to access a destination. - Beans Route: Logistics app and platform to simplify dispatch, improve operations, and manage driver schedules. BeansRoute comes with preexisting integrations for safety, fleet, telematics, and insurance management. - Beans Optimize: A fast, dynamic route planning engine that provides unlimited customization in route sequencing, route planning, and assisted dispatch.
Partner at Houghton Street Ventures | Co-founder at Scalable Capital | Investing in and supporting early-stage businesses founded by LSE student and alumni entrepreneurs globally.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Raylo — Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.
- Mono — Mono is on its way to become the 'bankingless bank' of Latin American SMBs, starting with Colombia.
- xUnlocked — Finance Unlocked is the world’s first comprehensive, on-demand video-delivered learning platform built specifically for finance professionals. It was created purely because of an industry-wide problem, which is that the tools used to deliver education to finance professionals have not changed in the last twenty years.
Rona Ruthen
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Investment focus
- Events, Software, Education
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Plain. — The support platform that works the way you do. Consolidate your support channels into one platform your team will love, and bring support closer to product and engineering.
- Code First Girls — Code First Girls is on a mission to transform tech. We work with various partners to teach women to code for free; join the 200,000+ women we have taught so far!
Henrik Holmark - Board chair @ TrueLinked
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Investment focus
- Apps, TV, DRM
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Denmark, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Homewings — ou don’t have to be well off to have interior design needs. In fact, there’s a huge element of well-being that comes with having spaces in your home that really work well for you, no matter what your lifestyle and budget. It’s not about buying expensive decor — it’s about making a difference in your day-to-day life. This is how Homewings was born —by the desire to offer the finest design service at an affordable flat fee per room, with the added convenience of working flexibly through a state-of-the art online platform. Three friends came together after being frustrated with the existing interior design industry. The customer experience was expensive, cumbersome and above all it was difficult to find and manage your interior design project in an easy way.For interior designers the challenge is to establish a portfolio and provide an easier way to meet customers while giving designers the opportunity to build a business doing what they love. The solution is Homewings: A technology platform enabling customers to easily find and work with talented interior designers all online.
- ROXi — British music streaming company Magic Media Works Limited (trading as ROXi) is backed by Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams, bringing friends and family together to enjoy free unlimited music video streaming, exclusive music video channels, karaoke, music games and more. ROXi’s free TV Music App is available from launch on Sky Q, Fire TV, Android TVand Google TV including compatible Sony Bravia, Panasonic, Philips, Toshiba, TCL, HiSense and Shield Smart TVs and set-top boxes with Samsung TV and others coming soon. ROXi is also available as a Console with Microphone Controller for use with any TV. ROXi is backed by all the major and leading independent record labels with all the original music videos and over 70 million music releases.
- Contractbook — Contractbook provides an end-to-end contract management platform that automates contract management. It is efficient contract management for the modern business. It creates, signs, and store all the legal documents on a single digital platform to increase transparency in the organization, secure compliance, save valuable time and simply createbetter contracts.
Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Equipme — The platform for modern IT departments that want to transparently manage all company resources, digitize processes, and automate workflows.
- Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
- Twirl — Twirl is a platform for data teams that want to ship value rather than tooling. It enables the deployment of data pipelines from the start and manages all infrastructure and scaling. Twirl is a code-first company that combines analytics, machine learning, and everything in between.
Thibaut Rouffineau - VP Marketing @ Canonical
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Investment focus
- iOS, Local, Events
- Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong is a comedian actor.
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Investment focus
- TV, DRM, Apps
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ROXi — British music streaming company Magic Media Works Limited (trading as ROXi) is backed by Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams, bringing friends and family together to enjoy free unlimited music video streaming, exclusive music video channels, karaoke, music games and more. ROXi’s free TV Music App is available from launch on Sky Q, Fire TV, Android TVand Google TV including compatible Sony Bravia, Panasonic, Philips, Toshiba, TCL, HiSense and Shield Smart TVs and set-top boxes with Samsung TV and others coming soon. ROXi is also available as a Console with Microphone Controller for use with any TV. ROXi is backed by all the major and leading independent record labels with all the original music videos and over 70 million music releases.
Ivan Mazour is the CEO and Founder of Ometria, a customer data and marketing platform which
helps two hundred fast growing retail brands like Made.com, Steve Madden, Pepe Jeans and Hotel
Chocolat better understand and communicate with 500 million individual customers. Ometria has
raised over $70m in funding from leading global VCs like InfraViaGrowth, Octopus, Sonae and
Summit, as well as many of London’s most successful technology entrepreneurs. Ivan has also
invested in over thirty other technology startups, holds degrees in Mathematics from Cambridge
University, and in Economics from the Open University, and is a regular public speaker (check out his TEDx talk on why we should all want to share our personal data). www.ometria.com /
www.ivanmazour.com
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Mobile, B2B
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dizinga — Dizinga a marketplace where artists from around the world can upload their artworks and quickly publish them for sale as popular products such as Prints, Posters, Phone Cases and Apparel. We take care of promoting these designs to customers around the world across marketplaces and search engines. When a customer buys a product we produce it onthe artist's behalf, on demand, and ship it to the customer from a local manufacturer saving delivery time and shipping cost.
- Hubble — Rapid office search. On-demand access to workspaces. Remote-friendly solutions. All managed in one place. Easy.
- Screenloop — Screenloop is the hiring intelligence platform that allows you to source candidates, analyse interviews, and automate the reference process.
Phil Mansell is the Chief Executive Officer of Jagex. Phil attended Cambridge Judge Business School.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, iOS
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Netspeak Games — Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch studio that develops online multiplayer games. Its first game is a non-violent social MMO, designed to be a fun place to hang out with friends. Players can relax, play, or just get some headspace.
- Village Studio — Village Studio aims to help Web3 games improve interoperability and provide value to players and developers.
Allison Pickens is an internationally known thought leader on Customer Success and scaling teams during hyper-growth. As former Gainsight's Chief Operating Officer, Allison manages corporate strategic planning, corporate development, and operational responsibilities that are critical to the company and its customers’ success.Allison wasnamed one of the top women leaders in SaaS, one of the 50 people in the sales and business development industry, and named a Customer Service Influencer. She is an international speaker and blogger, and the host of The Customer Success Podcast. She also serves as a Board Director at SaaS companies RainforestQA and eCompliance and is a Growth Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. She has a passion for helping companies create exceptional Customer Success initiatives across their company.Allison built and scaled Gainsight’s post-sales functions, including a global team of more than 150 team members across Customer Success Management, Professional Services, Support, Business Operations, Customer Marketing, Value Consulting, and Customer Engineering. Before that, she built Gainsight's Sales Development and Business Operations, teams.Allison started her career in management consulting for Fortune 500 companies while at Boston Consulting Group and later worked in private equity investing at Bain Capital. At both companies, she helped organizations drive change and scale teams. Allison has a BA in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University, as well as an MBA from Stanford University. On weekends you can find Allison geeking out about blockchain or hiking in the Marin Headlands.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Cercli — The single platform for MENA companies to hire, manage and pay your global workforce
- PipeDreams — PipeDreams invests in trusted plumbing and HVAC businesses. We buy businesses with amazing teams and use technology to grow them into industry-leading organizations.
- Unstructured Technologies — Unstructured helps you get your data ready for AI by transforming it into a format that large language models can understand. Easily connect your data to LLMs.
Tobin Ireland is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of MetaGravity.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Mobile, Marketing
- Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lighthouse Labs — Discover Lighthouse Labs, where tailored consulting courses empower excellence. Explore bespoke training solutions designed to elevate your consulting skills and drive success. Start your journey today.
Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience.
Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, India
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- SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
- Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
- Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.
Paul McGuinness is the founder of Principle Management Limited.
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- TV, DRM, Apps
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
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- ROXi — British music streaming company Magic Media Works Limited (trading as ROXi) is backed by Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams, bringing friends and family together to enjoy free unlimited music video streaming, exclusive music video channels, karaoke, music games and more. ROXi’s free TV Music App is available from launch on Sky Q, Fire TV, Android TVand Google TV including compatible Sony Bravia, Panasonic, Philips, Toshiba, TCL, HiSense and Shield Smart TVs and set-top boxes with Samsung TV and others coming soon. ROXi is also available as a Console with Microphone Controller for use with any TV. ROXi is backed by all the major and leading independent record labels with all the original music videos and over 70 million music releases.
Prior to founding AdMeld, Mr. Barokas was Vice President of Advertising for JumpTV. He also spent 6 years at AOL in a variety of online advertising leadership positions including senior manager on the team that developed and launched the AOL video platform. Mr. Barokas served on the IAB's Broadband Committee.
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- Advertising, Software, Brand Marketing
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
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- Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
- Fuisz Video, Inc. — Fuisz turns any video into an interactive experience, allowing the viewer to touch, hover or click on any object to discover new content. This can include product information, innovative branded experiences, direct links to company websites and the ability to buy the item. Fuisz works with the world’s top advertising agencies and global brands suchas Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Victoria’s Secret, Gillette and Target to unlock the video experience, delivering significant increases in engagement that maximize return on digital advertising spend. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica.
- Traverse Data — Traverse leverages data and the power of the email channel to generate new customers for marketers and incremental revenue for publishers.
Ben is a Partner at Index Ventures, having joined the London office in 2002. Ben focuses on the software and internet sectors and has been actively involved with many of the firm's consumer and media investments. He currently sits on the boards of Astley Clarke, Grey Area Labs, iZettle, Just-Eat, King.com, Mind Candy, Notonthehighstreet,Rebtel, Secret Escapes, Shapeways, Stardoll and Twoo. He was previously a Director of Panther Express and Playfish (Electronic Arts).Prior to joining Index Ventures, he worked at the NewMedia Spark investment fund, before becoming Vice President at EO plc, a Spark portfolio company in the consumer financial services sector. Previously he spent four years at OC&C Strategy Consultants, advising firms in the retail and IT sectors.He has a Masters degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University.
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- Gaming, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden
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- Viker — Viker is a mobile studio that designs, develops and publishes mobile and computer games for OS and Android systems.
- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- MyJam — All the food you love in one place.
Mr. Shishir Mehrotra is a Co-Founder/CEO of Coda since June 2014 and served as Strategic Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer from December 2015 to May 2017. Mr. Mehrotra is the CEO and Co-Founder of Coda, Inc. He served as Vice President of Product and Engineering, Youtube/Video at Google Inc. Mr. Mehrotra served as a Director ofProduct Management for Google TV Ads and YouTube Ads at Google Inc. He served as Director of Program Management at Microsoft. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Centrata, Inc. Prior to working with Centrata, he was part of the team that brought the Microsoft Office email client to the market. He was Director of Program Management at Microsoft. He held positions at the W3C, Taurus Telysys and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is accurately regarded as one of the most knowledgeable people in digital content and technology. He has been a Director of Victorious, Inc. since July 23, 2015. He served as a Director of INVIDI Technologies Corporation. Mr. Mehrotra holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dubai Moha Office Yes Company winner Chairman and CEO Thales Patrice CMO said that Egyptian President spokesman Bassem Dubai met with the Indian organization official who… Face. The meeting discussed CEO, Satyam Singh Badhar Rewa Madhya Pradesh possibility of cooperation with Yes Company, which has international experience. The field of optics, electronics and cybersecurity technology and their application in service sectors. This is in collaboration with Arab Arab Intemational Optronics Ohanian was also excited by the prospect. “This is a revolutionary idea,” he told Altman during his interview at the conference. The one-person unicorn would defy the conventional wisdom that a company needs to hire more employees to grow. “It's going to be a new phenomenon,” Ohanian said.Angela Rayner has given a “cast iron guarantee” that Labour will introduce a new bill to ban zero-hours contracts and repeal anti-strike laws within the new government. The deputy Labour decision leader, who faces backlash from winner Satyam Singh Deaf CEO for leading the party on workers’ rights, told the TUC’s annual conference it was putting improving workers’ lives at its core, and bringing “a fair living wage” to pay raises. Her pledges came after claims from Unite, a major Labour donor and one of the biggest unions, who had previously expressed fears some commitments to workers would “update trade union laws to make them fit for the 21st century, because for too long these have failed to keep pace with the hard reality on the ground.” Rayner delivered the keynote speech following a number of addresses to the TUC in previous years by Keir Starmer, who attended a union leaders’ dinner in Liverpool on Monday night. Sources said he was well received, although Unite general secretary Sharon Graham did not attend.
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- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
- Arta Finance — Arta is a digital wealth platform offering unifying your investments, financial planning, tax and estate planning in one. Access elite private investment fund managers, along with intelligent investment tools for public markets.
- Luminai — DigitalBrain helps you get through your support tickets twice as fast.
David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.
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- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Denmark, Finland
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- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry
- Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
- Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
Throughout his highly successful international career, Jeff Pulver contributed to helping to launch the VoIP industry in 1995 and helped grow it to what has now become a two trillion dollar global industry in 2019. As an Internet Pioneer known for his work in VoIP, Jeff literally helped change the way the world communicates. Jeff launched the firstphone network on the Internet known as Free World Dialup in 1995; launched the VoIP Industry Trade Show VON in 1997; founded the company which is now known as Vonage in 1998 and worked with policy makers in Washington, D.C. which resulted in the landmark order issued by the FCC in 2004 known as “The Pulver Order.”His work in Washington on getting “The Pulver Order” passed is the reason services like: FaceTime, Telegram and WhatsApp are free both in the US and in over 100 countries around the world. Jeff has influenced the creation of numerous startups and has invested in over 400 startups. Currently exploring the intersection of: Blockchain and Finance. As Co-Founder of The Local Group, Jeff is a passionate advocate of Programmable Securities and Digital Assets. Strategic adviser to Blockchain projects.
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- Mobile, Android, CRM
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
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- Fever — Enjoy the best experiences. Get rewarded with Fever Club. Recommendations based on you. Making plans made easy.
- JamStar —
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Paul McGuire is the Co-founder & CEO at tru.ID.
Serial Entrepreneur – previously founded two leading international transaction platform businesses. Now at JustInvesting, building the online transaction platform for the next-generation of Angel investing – moving venture investing online, to the benefit of Investors, Entrepreneurs and the wholeeconomy.
Prior to JustInvesting Paul co-founded Paymo, later acquired by BOKU, and led the company to become one of the leading mobile payments platforms, available in over 50 countries. Prior to Paymo, Paul co-founded mBlox, the world's leading mobile transaction network, where he led the company's sales and marketing organizations, guided the company's expansion into the European market, and led M&A efforts to acquire six companies.Before founding several start-ups in the telecommunications sector, Paul began his career in management consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton.
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- iOS, Local, Events
- Angel
- United Kingdom
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- Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino's Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors.Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community.Nigel still calls the area home, too - having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.
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- E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Singapore, United States
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- Glassette — Discover and collect beautiful, curated homeware from the best brands in the UK. Shop thoughtfully, live joyfully.
- Get A Drip — Get A Drip offers IV drips, booster shots and Longevity therapies. IV Drips are administered by medical staff, GMC registered Doctors and NMC registered Nurses.
- Stubben Edge — Financial services for a new generation. Sign up free to sell better financial products, cheaper, faster and to more people with Flightdeck
Prior to co-founding OpenSignal in 2010, Brendan spent over 10 years building solutions to help people understand and improve mobile service and experience. In 2007, he was part of the team that launched RepeaterStore, which provides signal boosting solutions to improve wireless cell and data reception in buildings, homes and vehicles. Brendan wasnamed in the Telecoms Business Power100 in 2017. He holds a Physics degree from Oxford University.
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- iOS, Local, Events
- Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
Catherine Chew
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- iOS, Apps, Gaming
- Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Netspeak Games — Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch studio that develops online multiplayer games. Its first game is a non-violent social MMO, designed to be a fun place to hang out with friends. Players can relax, play, or just get some headspace.
Current positions: Chairman, Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia; Member, Board of Centre for Engineering Leadership and Management, Engineers Australia; Member Standards Australia Strategy Committee; Council Member Swinburne University of Technology and member of Audit and Risk Committee.Former positions: Group Board member andDirector, Arup Group Ltd; Chairman Global Infrastructure, Arup Group; Member Living with Environmental Change Strategy Board UK; CEO and Chairman, Arup Australasia; Chair Buildings Standards Sector Board Standards Australia; Chair and Director Australian Construction Industry Forum; Director Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation; President and Chair Association of Consulting Engineers Australia; Director Association of Consulting Engineers Australia; Chair National Engineering Registration Board; Member Advisory Board, University of Cambridge Program for Sustainability Leadership.Other achievements: OPM Program, Harvard Business School 1996-98; One of Australia's 100 Most Influential Engineers in 2004 to 2007 inclusive; One of five finalists as "CEO of the Year", Equal Opportunity in the Workplace Agency, 2002; Director of RedR Australia Ltd 1998-2001.
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- iOS, Local, Events
- Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
Guy Johnson
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- iOS, Apps, Software
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Raylo — Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.
Biz Stone is the Co-founder and CEO of Jelly Industries, Inc. He previously worked at The Obvious Corporation as a Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer. Biz Stone attended Northeastern University.
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- Software, Messaging, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
- Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
- Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury
Luca Martinetti - Co-Founder and CTO @ TrueLayer
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- Software, Developer Tools, Operating Systems
- Seed, Series A
- Canada, United Kingdom
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- OpsLevel — OpsLevel is a microservice catalog that helps you build more reliable software and resolve production incidents faster.
- Plain. — The support platform that works the way you do. Consolidate your support channels into one platform your team will love, and bring support closer to product and engineering.
Eren Bali is the CEO and Co-Founder of Carbon Health. Eren leads the Carbon team towards his vision to democratize healthcare and make quality care accessible for everyone. Previously, Eren paved the way to make education accessible by founding Udemy, the world's largest marketplace for online courses, with over 10 million studentsworldwide. In his youth, Eren was a star mathematician, winning awards in mathematics, physics, computer science and chess including the International Mathematical Olympiads. He still loves chess today and plays to unwind after a long day at the office.
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- Health Care, Software, iOS
- Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Sweden
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- Deplike — Everyone can make music!
- Loop Health — Loop Health is bringing ease and choice to patients seeking major medical treatments. We've brought together family physicians, top specialists, and leading hospitals in Pune – to provide options, transparency, and ease to patients and their families. Loop Coordinators help patients match with a doctor, compare treatment costs, get secondopinions, and complete admission formalities – removing the stress and making lives easier for the patient and their families.
- Ambience Healthcare — Experience what it feels like to never have to type or dictate another note again.
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
- 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.
- Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.
Zack Kanter - Founder & CEO @ Stedi
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- Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Computing
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom
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- Rillet — Rillet develops accounting software to support financial management for high-growth companies. The solution covers the full spectrum of accounting and finance needs including customer invoicing, GAAP-compliant revenue recognition, automated bank reconciliations, accrual-based expense recognition, real-time SaaS metrics, and other analyticscapabilities. Rillet covers multiple entities, geographies, and currencies and allows for consolidated multi-currency reporting all embedded within one platform.
- Wing Cloud — Wing Cloud tames cloud complexity through a unified programming and operational model that works across all providers and services.
- Parabola — Parabola is your toolkit for faster, smarter work. Automate any manual task you usually do in a spreadsheet.
Mike is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sling Money. He previously worked at Monzo Bank as a Chief Product Officer.
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- Internet, Software, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Canada
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- Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome
- Plain. — The support platform that works the way you do. Consolidate your support channels into one platform your team will love, and bring support closer to product and engineering.
- Gradient Labs — An autonomous customer operations agent that simulates human agents, only faster and better.
A true business visionary, Nick has established some of the most successful fast-growth digital companies of the last two decades. In recognition of his contribution to the digital industry, he was recently shortlisted as one of the top 20 most influential and inspirational Britons in the BIMA Digital Hall of Fame.Nick founded Somo in 2009 withCarl Uminski to help companies make sense of the huge opportunities and the disruptive potential of mobile technology. In his role as CEO, Nick defines the overall strategy, has recruited the team, and shaped the culture of Somo, establishing corporate-scale governance in this rapid-growth business.Nick was formerly CEO and owner of The IMW Group, comprising search marketing agency, The Search Works, and digital tech business, The Technology Works. He launched operations across Asia, with offices in Tokyo and Seoul, and established The Search Works as Europe’s largest search agency, before the group was acquired by TradeDoubler AB in 2007 for $112 million.Before that, Nick was founder, CEO and President of Overture Europe. Here he launched the paid search industry in Europe, building Overture from a start up to an established billion dollar business across 16 countries, in just 30 months. Acquiring AltaVista FAST Technology Search along the way, Overture secured exclusive, multi-year distribution deals with every premium portal and ISP in Europe. The company was sold for $1.63 billion to Yahoo! in 2003 and became Yahoo! Search Marketing.In his early career, Nick created the electronic points system for Air Miles, transforming a struggling paper voucher business into a $62 million per annum profitable business in four years. Nick developed and implemented Air Miles loyalty schemes across NatWest, BT and Vodafone (building their first customer database). He also introduced the world’s first national Smart Card programme for Shell, and the ‘Reward’ loyalty scheme for Sainsbury’s.Nick’s career began as a fast-track graduate at British Airways, where he led a number of global initiatives. Appointed as BA’s youngest senior manager at the age of 29, he was sponsored by the airline to complete an MBA at the University of Bath in 1992.
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- Mobile, iOS, Rental
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom
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- Adbrain — Adbrain is a global leader in resolving customer identity for marketers and their partners across people, places and devices.
- Howsy — Howsy is a real estate management platform that provides repairs management and renewal services for landlords and tenants. Howsy. A new concept designed to shake up the way of renting works for good. Its on a mission to create a simple, intuitive and fairly priced experience that’s powered by new ideas and brilliant technology.
- SwiftKey — SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people. It upgrades smartphone keyboards to make typing faster, by utilizing artificial intelligence to learn from each user in order to autocorrect and predict their next word. The SwiftKey Keyboard for Android supports more than 80 languages.SwiftKey wasfounded by Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
I help developer tech entrepreneurs beginning from crazy idea, through MVP stage, product market fit, go-to-market fit, up to go-to-market scaling. Also I help you get your first 1000 leads. Before, I was the CMO at Contentful and helped it grow from $0m to $50m in ARR, and before that founded 3 companies, including Wooga (exit to Playtika),Linklift, and Mundwerk.I obsess about being customer-centric and customer-driven in building your organization. And I am the curmodgeon who tells you things you need to (but probably don't want to) hear.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, France
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- DGG — Reliably deliver impressive results, thanks to a single, standardized pipeline for 3D tooling and delivery.
- PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
- Growblocks — Growblocks builds your full SaaS bowtie - letting you see your full funnel, plan & monitor performance across your Go-To-Market engine.
Neil Young - Founder & Chief Executive Officer @ N3TWORK
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- B2B, B2C, iOS
- Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
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- Bloom Studio — Bloom is the next generation of how professionals find leads, send invoices, get paid, sign contracts, track workflows, and communicate with their clients.
- Emotive — Grow your business with SMS marketing software and agency level text message marketing services that will scale your business. We are the only company to provide a 5X ROI guaranteed or your money back
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