# Adam Knight

> Adam Knight is a seed investor at Social and Sustainable Capital backing Credit and Bitcoin. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Social and Sustainable Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-and-sustainable-capital)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jul 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/adam-knight/43/b22/61a
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Adam8Knight

Adam Knight is a seed investor at Social and Sustainable Capital in London focused on Credit and Bitcoin. Commodity trader and business builder turned social finance entrepreneur and angel investor. Co-founder of SASC, trustee at RoundhouseLDN, and racing driver.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Credit | 1 | 33% |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 33% |
| FinTech | 1 | 33% |
| Finance | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kody | Founded by a small group of final-year high school students and launched in 2023, Founder Yoyo Chang (CEO) studied at the University of Cambridge & York whilst raising over US$40M. Today, Kody's AI-native financial infrastructure and Agentic Commerce platform is growing to connect millions of users to leading businesses all over the world. | $3.8M | Seed | Jul 12, 2021 |  |
| CommuterClub | Based in London, United Kingdom, CommuterClub offers a software solution that enables businesses to manage season ticket schemes. The company was founded by Petko Plachkov in 2013. | $800K | Angel | Dec 01, 2014 |  |
| Coinfloor | Coinfloor's mission is to facilitate and enable the convergence between the traditional finance industry and the burgeoning cryptocurrency markets within institutional-grade infrastructure, championing the stability and sustainability of cryptocurrencies as an alternative asset class and monetary system. Rooted in values of trust,reliability and security, their goal is to create a safe and transparent environment for their clients to trade and invest in cryptocurrency. Coinfloor serves the diverse needs of institutional or sophisticated investors and professional traders, offering their clients access to secure and transparent exchanges to trade and invest in cryptocurrency. The first exchange in their group, Coinfloor Exchange UK, a cryptocurrency spot trading platform, began trading in March 2014, and has continued to operate uninterrupted since its launch. It is the longest running cryptocurrency exchange in the UK. In January 2018, they added Coinfloor Exchange Gibraltar to their portfolio. In March 2018, CoinfloorEX joined the Coinfloor family, offering the first ever physically delivered cryptocurrency futures and spot exchange.Coinfloor’s client on-boarding process is strictly modelled against regulatory standards for AML and KYC. Coinfloor established industry best practice by being the first exchange to publish monthly Provable Solvency reports. Their commitment to transparency and regular auditing instills client confidence that Coinfloor has sufficient cryptocurrency liquidity to manage market fluctuation. Coinfloor investors include globally recognised venture capital firms and strategic investors. They are proud to have attracted funding from Passion Capital and Taavet Hinrikus. They also are backed by private investors including Adam Knight, who is the Chairman of their Board of Directors. | $262K |  | Jun 06, 2014 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cognition Foundry](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cognition-foundry) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HU Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hu-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Nerd Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nerd-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Passion Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/passion-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Social and Sustainable Capital

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Social and Sustainable Capital operates as an investment firm. The Company provides loans and equity capital for charities and social enterprises.

2 contacts available at Social and Sustainable Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Knight | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-knight |
| Benjamin Rick | CEO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-rick |

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## FAQ

### What does Adam Knight invest in?

Adam Knight invests primarily in Credit, Bitcoin and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Adam Knight last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Adam Knight closed in Jul 2021. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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