# ADV

> ADV is a VC fund in London backing Software and Health Care. See 47 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 47
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 45%
- Fund size: $196M
- Last fund: Nov 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/accelerated-digital-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/AcceleratedDV
- Website: https://accelerated.ventures/founders/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AcceleratedDV/

ADV is a patient venture investment engine. Its team are entrepreneurs and operators who have learnt the hard lessons and want to pay them forward. Currently investing £150M, ADV takes the long view of business building, investing across the funding lifecycle of startups, scaleups and ‘scalebigs’. ADV champions the innovators - the people who buildcomplex, technical, generation-defining businesses. ADV’s investors are British Business Bank, Legal & General and Woodford Investment Management.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 19% |
| Health Care | 7 | 15% |
| Wellness | 4 | 9% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 9% |
| FinTech | 3 | 6% |

87 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 45% |
| Series A | 13 | 28% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 11% |
| Series C | 3 | 6% |
| Series B | 2 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 32 | 68% |
| Kenya | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reem Mobassaleh Wyndham | Investment Lead | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reem-mobassaleh-wyndham |
| Ryan Procter | Marketing Lead | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-procter |
| Timo York | Product Development Lead | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/timo-york |
| Tong Gu | Investment Lead | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tong-gu |
| James Foster | Transaction and Investment Lead | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-foster-uk |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Onto | Onto is an electric vehicle subscription startup that provides an all-inclusive, hassle-free solution for driving an electric car. The company was founded in 2017 by co-founders Rob Jolly and Dannan O’Meachair in Warwick, United Kingdom. | $60M | Series C | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Onto | Onto is an electric vehicle subscription startup that provides an all-inclusive, hassle-free solution for driving an electric car. The company provides an electric car subscription service that helps people make the switch to driving electric cars.The company was founded in 2017 by co-founders Rob Jolly and Dannan O’Meachair in Warwick, UnitedKingdom. | $60M | Series C | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Pariti | Pariti empowers businesses with tools and expertise and providing expert freelancers with a platform to develop their careers. It helps businesses in underserved markets overcome the hurdles of accessing capital, hiring talent, and expanding beyond their borders by connecting them with handpicked experts on our platform that will not only advisebut do the work to achieve their goals. | $2.9M | Seed | Dec 05, 2021 |  |
| Verto | We power cross‑border payments for the world’s fastest‑growing startups and enterprises; with a specific focus on emerging markets. Send and receive instant payments globally through a single API or via our web platform. | $10M | Series A | Sep 30, 2021 |  |
| Guardian Angel | Helping people plan for and manage death | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 07, 2021 |  |
| Nodes & Links | Nodes & Links' mission is to empower organizations across all domains to tame project complexity. Our technology lets you understand the risks that stem from complex interactions within your projects and provides you with the information you need to act. Together, we enable what was before, impossible. | $10.9M | Series A | Jul 01, 2021 |  |
| Push Doctor | Push Doctor is Europe’s largest digital health brand – and began connecting patients to a smart network of thousands of UK qualified GPs in as little as 6 minutes on any device. Providing nine out of ten patients with a resolution during their digital consultation.Today the brand is evolving to encompass the widest range of medical, health,wellness and lifestyle products / services with the core goal of enabling its customers to live happier, longer lives. Push Doctor. For Health. For LifeSpeak to a GP online at PushDoctor.co.uk or via the iOS and Android apps anywhere in the World, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and receive diagnosis, referral letters, fit for work notes and if necessary, prescription medication. | $17.9M | Series C | Oct 26, 2020 |  |
| B-Secur | B-Secur are on a mission to revolutionise the way people experience technology in the connected world using their unique heartbeat. We’ve invested over 15 years of deep, scientific research in ECG to become a world leader in the development and integration of ECG technology, partnering with some of the world's leading technology companies.We’ve harnessed the power of ECG to create HeartKey®, offering advanced physiological monitoring with intrinsic data protection.We have developed a suite of powerful ECG algorithms and analytics for user identification, wellness, and health, ready for integration into leading devices and systems. B-Secur also have a combined 50+ years of in-house hardware and material science, which our partners can use to significantly reduce development costs on hardware and ECG electrode design. B-Secur and HeartKey® bring you our world class expertise in ECG combined with powerful, flexible integration and configuration possibilities to create your optimal product, with a competitive edge. | $2M |  | Sep 15, 2020 |  |
| B-Secur | B-Secur are on a mission to revolutionise the way people experience technology in the connected world using their unique heartbeat. We’ve invested over 15 years of deep, scientific research in ECG to become a world leader in the development and integration of ECG technology, partnering with some of the world's leading technology companies.We’ve harnessed the power of ECG to create HeartKey®, offering advanced physiological monitoring with intrinsic data protection.We have developed a suite of powerful ECG algorithms and analytics for user identification, wellness, and health, ready for integration into leading devices and systems. B-Secur also have a combined 50+ years of in-house hardware and material science, which our partners can use to significantly reduce development costs on hardware and ECG electrode design. B-Secur and HeartKey® bring you our world class expertise in ECG combined with powerful, flexible integration and configuration possibilities to create your optimal product, with a competitive edge. | $1.9M | Series A | Sep 15, 2020 |  |
| Lingumi | Lingumi is an education technology company that offers a pre-school English language learning system for parents and children. The company's platform offers mobile-based software, enabling pre-school children to learn foreign languages including sounds, words and phrases through games and playful methods. | $4.9M | Series A | Mar 13, 2020 |  |

10 of 47 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does ADV invest in?

ADV invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Wellness startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 47 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact ADV?

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### Who are the partners at ADV?

The team at ADV includes Reem Mobassaleh Wyndham (Investment Lead), Ryan Procter (Marketing Lead) and Timo York (Product Development Lead). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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