# Aken Capital

> Aken Capital is a VC fund in London backing Big Data and Financial Services. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aken-capital/
- Website: https://www.akencapital.com/

Aken Capital is a VC fund in London focused on Big Data and Financial Services. Aken Capital manages large assets: capital market, income, and alternative incomes focused on high potential opportunities

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 3 | 27% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 27% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 27% |
| SaaS | 2 | 18% |
| InsurTech | 2 | 18% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 36% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 36% |
| Series B | 2 | 18% |
| Seed | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 10 | 91% |
| Brazil | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Simon Franco | Founder and CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-franco-1ba8 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hadean | Hadean are a venture backed tech startup providing the most simple and secure platform for cloud native development. Intuitive and developer friendly, the Hadean Platform provides a friction free route to a cloud-native infrastructure. It lets you write applications once and deploy anywhere, taking care of setup, configuration, scaling, securityand more.Hadean have developed two flagship applications. Aether Engine provides distributed load balancing for agent-based simulations, while Muxer is a network model that utilises distributed edge networks. The result is spatial simulations of unparalleled size and complexity, where thousands of concurrent users can join and interact. Hadean have found traction in gaming, healthcare, virtual events and defence with industry leading companies such as Microsoft, Minecraft and CAE. | $4.9M | Series A | Mar 23, 2023 |  |
| CENTURY Tech | CENTURY is the award-winning artificial intelligence teaching and learning platform for schools, colleges and universities.Founded in 2015, CENTURY uses AI (ML & deep learning), neuroscience and learning science to provide each student with an education that dynamically adapts to their individual needs, while empowering teachers to performeven better as educators. | $6.6M | Series A | Sep 01, 2022 |  |
| Illuminate Financial | Illuminate Financial is a specialist venture capital firm investing in early-stage Enterprise AI & Fintech companies. With teams across London, New York, and Singapore, we combine capital with unmatched connectivity to global financial institutions, helping visionary founders build and scale. Illuminate operates at the centre of the globalfinancial services ecosystem. We connect founders with investors, financial institutions, and strategic partners, giving our portfolio companies direct access to insight, demand, and decision-makers. From this unique vantage point, we identify critical market needs and back the solutions best placed to solve them, creating a virtuous cycle that drives transformation across the industry. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| KETS Quantum Security | KETS Quantum Security is developing a range of future-proof, cost-effective technologies for quantum-secured communications. | $4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 24, 2022 |  |
| Loadsure | Through Holistic Freight Protection, Loadsure predicts, prevents and protects. We harness real-time data and human-centric tech to enable autonomous risk management, deliver accurately-priced freight insurance and transparent, automated claims. | $11M | Series A | Mar 10, 2022 |  |
| Red Sift | Red Sift's Digital Resilience Platform solves for the greatest vulnerabilities across the complete attack surface. By providing comprehensive coverage of an organization’s digital footprint through best-in-class discovery and monitoring, Red Sift enables users to proactively uncover threats within email, domains, brand, and the networkperimeter. Paired with sophisticated remediation capabilities, Red Sift provides organizations with the tools to shut down phishing and ensure ongoing compliance with email and web security protocols.Red Sift is a global organization with offices in North America, Australia, Spain, and the UK. It boasts an impressive client base across all industries, including Domino’s, ZoomInfo, Athletic Greens, Pipedrive, and top global law firms. Red Sift is also a trusted partner of Entrust, Microsoft, and Validity, among others. Find out more at redsift.com. | $54M | Series B | Feb 24, 2022 |  |
| ONEVC | ONEVC partners with founders building scalable businesses across large market opportunities and supports companies through early operational and growth challenges. The firm provides capital along with recruiting support, people strategy guidance, and operational insight drawn from experience in building and scaling startups. The firm maintains aconcentrated investment approach centered on founding teams, product-market fit potential, and technology-driven business models with category expansion opportunities. |  | Seed | Dec 30, 2021 |  |
| Attest | Attest is a fast-scaling, SaaS business based in London and New York, and backed by investors including NEA, one of Silicon Valley's most prolific venture capital firms with over 225 portfolio company IPOs since 1977.Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.The Attest platform enables businesses to engage directly with >110 million consumers across >45 countries, starting in 90 seconds. Attest enables businesses to learn, measure, and grow ever-faster, across marketing, product, brand, innovation, competition, pricing, and beyond.Great companies put consumers and data at the heart of every decision. Attest makes this possible for anyone in any business, continuously, on a global scale. Clients use Attest to crack their greatest growth problems and fill the most valuable gaps in their knowledge, informing real decisions with fresh new inputs every day. | $64M | Series B | Oct 27, 2021 |  |
| Humanising Autonomy | Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human-machine interactions. They are a predictive AI company creating a global standard that improves the way vehicles and systems interact with people in any environment. | $11M | Series A | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Scribeless | Scribeless develops technology for businesses to automate handwritten marketing in order to generate and retain more business. The platform offers a wide variety of handwriting styles. In order to make real handwriting that is indistinguishable from actual writing, Scribeless uses AI to learn and recreate real handwriting. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MMC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mmc-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [2050 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2050-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amplifier](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplifier-36cb) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Beacon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beaconcapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Citi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citigroup) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Aken Capital invest in?

Aken Capital invests primarily in Big Data, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 11 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 Aken Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Aken Capital?

The team at Aken Capital includes Simon Franco (Founder and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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