# Active Partners

> Active Partners is a VC fund in London backing Food and Beverage and Retail. See 54 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 54
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 46%
- Fund size: $135M
- Last fund: Jan 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/activepartners/
- Website: https://active.partners/

Active Partners is a VC fund in London focused on Food and Beverage and Retail. Active Private Equity Advisory LLP is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in mid venture, buyouts, early stage, and growth capital financing. We partner with innovative entrepreneurs in the consumer, leisure and retail space, providing intellectual and financial capital, operational expertise and a rich networkof contacts to help build scalable, successful businesses.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Active Partners. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Active Partners. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/active-partners?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$34M |
| Series A | $1.1M–$15M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $2M–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 10 | 19% |
| Retail | 6 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 11% |
| Fashion | 5 | 9% |
| Travel | 4 | 7% |

76 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 35% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 9 | 17% |
| Series A | 8 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 11% |
| Private Equity | 4 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 39 | 72% |
| Belgium | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Singapore | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anna Sweetman | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-sweetman |
| Gavyn Davies | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gavyn-davies-1e6d |
| Spencer Skinner | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spencer-skinner |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Seat Unique | Seat Unique is an online marketplace to buy official hospitality packages and VIP tickets to live sports, music, and cultural events. | $26.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 21, 2026 |  |
| All Things Butter | All Things Butter provides organic butter. | $4.9M | Seed | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Froot Pops | Froot Pops brings a household obsession to the freezer aisle with its signature chocolate-dipped fruit. Originally perfected at home to satisfy a best friend's snack cravings. | $1.5M | Seed | Apr 08, 2026 |  |
| Epetōme | Epetōme offers gut health supplements focused on digestive health using probiotics, prebiotics and patented capsule technology. |  | Seed | Feb 18, 2026 |  |
| Gutology | Gutology is a online Health care app for providing helath tips and prescribed medicines easily. | $2.4M | Seed | Jan 12, 2026 |  |
| VIEVE | Make-up brand by the famous artist Jamie Genevieve. A beauty brand built upon inclusivity, self-expression and positivity. | $12.1M |  | Dec 22, 2025 |  |
| Bolt Insight | We are an AI-powered consumer intelligence firm, utilising cutting-edge market research methodologies to provide real-time consumer insights.Our "Qual at Scale" capability revolutionises market research. With BoltChatAI, our AI-powered platform, we can capture and analyse qualitative data on a massive scale, in multiple countries anddifferent languages, revealing insights that were previously unimaginable.We delve deeper into the consumer psyche, uncovering detailed motivations and preferences at unprecedented speeds and volumes. This unique capability helps brands quickly and accurately align with consumer needs, setting new standards for market responsiveness and strategic depth. | $9.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 09, 2025 |  |
| Marleybones | Marleybones is a consumer goods firm that specializes in dog food. | $3.3M |  | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| MyEdSpace | MyEdSpace provides affordable, high-quality Maths teaching for KS3, GCSE and A-level students across the UK. We teach through our unique award winning platform to provide an engaging and modern approach to education for our students. We combine live online lessons from world-class teachers with personal mentors, homework, revision materials andprofessionally designed workbooks. Our teachers are fully qualified, and are subject experts with a huge amount of previous experience teaching in schools across the country | $15M | Series A | Sep 29, 2025 |  |
| STOCKED | Stocked is a food delivery app that offers ready-to-eat meals. Stocked was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in East Sussex, United Kingdom. | $1.8M | Seed | Aug 13, 2025 |  |

10 of 54 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Venrex](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venrex-investment-management) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Active Partners invest in?

Active Partners invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Retail and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 54 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Active Partners's check size?

Active Partners typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$34M at Seed, $1.1M–$15M at Series A and $2M–$26M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Active Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Active Partners?

Public channels for Active Partners include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Active Partners?

The team at Active Partners includes Anna Sweetman (Principal), Gavyn Davies (Founder) and Spencer Skinner (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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