# Andrew Wyke

> Andrew Wyke is a seed investor at Salica backing FinTech, Finance and Computer. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Salica](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hambroperksltd)
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-wyke-b44325125/?originalSubdomain=uk

Andrew Wyke is a seed investor at Salica focused on FinTech and Finance. Andrew is a serial angel investor and has a broad portfolio of technology investments at various stages of growth.Prior to Hambro Perks, Andrew was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and built and ran one of the most successful Pan European businesses within the Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities Division. Andrew and his team wereresponsible for covering a broad range of global clients including institutional money managers, international banks and corporates, working with them to implement a broad range of strategic initiatives across Europe and globally. He joined Goldman Sachs on a graduate training programme, having graduated from Nottingham University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 20% |
| Finance | 3 | 20% |
| Computer | 2 | 13% |
| Education | 2 | 13% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 13% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 27% |
| Series A | 3 | 20% |
| Series B | 3 | 20% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 40% |
| Ireland | 1 | 7% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PrimaryBid | PrimaryBid is a technology platform that allows everyday investors fair access to public companies raising capital. PrimaryBid always ensures that retail investors transact at the same time and at the same price as institutional investors.Through PrimaryBid's long-term agreement with the London Stock Exchange, the company has created theinfrastructure to seamlessly connect everyday investors with public companies when it matters most. | $190M | Series C | Feb 20, 2022 |  |
| Capitalise.com | At Capitalise.com, our vision is to unlock UK businesses’ full potential today by matching the right business to the right lender. With 360 plus lenders and growing this funding journey has become increasingly complex and hard to navigate. Capitalise.com uses in-house technology and data analytics to identify the best financing options availablefor UK businesses. We've partnered with over 80 institutional and fintech lenders throughout the UK to offer business loans to UK SMEs. | $13.8M | Series B | Aug 31, 2021 |  |
| Previse | Previse uses Artificial Intelligence to enable corporate buyers to safely ensure they pay all their suppliers instantly.Paying all suppliers instantly eliminates their need to rely on expensive short term credit, lowering costs for buyers and giving SMEs the confidence to reinvest in growing their businesses, boosting the economy.Supplierssimply click to agree to instant payments.Previse then uses hundreds of millions of data points and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence algorithms to provide a score of a corporate buyer’s likelihood to pay the invoice. This allows funders to instantly release funds to the supplier to meet the invoice.Previse sits alongside funders’ existing payment technology. Its frictionless adoption requires no changes to either buyers’ or funders’ existing payment infrastructure or on-boarding of new processes or technologies. | $11M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 16, 2020 |  |
| PrimaryBid | PrimaryBid is a technology platform that allows everyday investors fair access to public companies raising capital. PrimaryBid always ensures that retail investors transact at the same time and at the same price as institutional investors.Through PrimaryBid's long-term agreement with the London Stock Exchange, the company has created theinfrastructure to seamlessly connect everyday investors with public companies when it matters most. | $8.6M | Series A | Sep 08, 2019 |  |
| Capitalise.com | At Capitalise.com, our vision is to unlock UK businesses’ full potential today by matching the right business to the right lender. With 360 plus lenders and growing this funding journey has become increasingly complex and hard to navigate. Capitalise.com uses in-house technology and data analytics to identify the best financing options availablefor UK businesses. We've partnered with over 80 institutional and fintech lenders throughout the UK to offer business loans to UK SMEs. |  | Series A | Feb 21, 2019 |  |
| Fair | Fair is a car leasing company that aims to grant access to mobility to everyone by pioneering the car-as-a-service (CaaS) concept. It gives customers the freedom to drive the car they want for as long as they want, and the flexibility to walk away at any time. Fair was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. |  | Series B | Dec 20, 2018 |  |
| Previse | Previse uses Artificial Intelligence to enable corporate buyers to safely ensure they pay all their suppliers instantly.Paying all suppliers instantly eliminates their need to rely on expensive short term credit, lowering costs for buyers and giving SMEs the confidence to reinvest in growing their businesses, boosting the economy.Supplierssimply click to agree to instant payments.Previse then uses hundreds of millions of data points and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence algorithms to provide a score of a corporate buyer’s likelihood to pay the invoice. This allows funders to instantly release funds to the supplier to meet the invoice.Previse sits alongside funders’ existing payment technology. Its frictionless adoption requires no changes to either buyers’ or funders’ existing payment infrastructure or on-boarding of new processes or technologies. |  | Series A | Aug 20, 2018 |  |
| Pi-Top | pi-top is a fast-growing ed-tech company with a unique vision to increase access to coding, robotics and AI through project-based learning.pi-top’s mission is to inspire a generation of makers by giving young people STEAM-related hard skills (e.g. coding and circuitry) and in-demand soft skills (e.g. communication, critical thinking andproblem-solving) that they will need in a rapidly changing world.pi-top’s award-winning hardware and software ecosystem is used around the world thousands of homes, maker spaces and schools, blending physical computing and project-based learning with Computer Science and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) education. With its latest product ecosystem educators and students get to design, code and make anything they can imagine. |  | Series B | Jul 13, 2018 |  |
| Coras | Coras enables customers to purchase tickets they want from the sites they already use. | $1.7M | Seed | Jul 01, 2018 |  |
| Insurtech Gateway | The insurance industry has so many barriers to entry, founders often run out of energy and money just trying to get in. The Gateway is a one-stop-shop for founders, where they can get underwriting paper, investment capital and advice on how to design and build their startup, all surrounded by great insurance partners. The Gateway fund supports theportfolio post incubation, to Series A and beyond.“The Gateway are our insurance sherpas, guiding us through the wilderness of insurance” Mark Musson, co-founder, Humn.ai (Gateway portfolio company)Insurers often struggle to innovate within their own businesses, the Gateway enable insurers to do this in a safe environment. They facilitate insurers, technology partners and insurtechs to get to know each other and work together, over the whole duration of building a business.The Gateway would like to meet early-stage founders with game-changing ideas or products, and progressive (re)insurers who are interested in collaboration. |  |  | Nov 29, 2017 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Atlantic Bridge University Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-bridge-university-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Augmentum Fintech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/augmentum-fintech) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Digital Space Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-space-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elkstone Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elkstone-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gauss Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gauss-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Outward VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/outward-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Salica

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships.

5 contacts available at Salica.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Bradley | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-bradley |
| Andrew Noyons | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-noyons |
| Andrew Wyke | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-wyke |
| David Hayers | Head of Venture Debt | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-hayers |
| Ivo Detelinov | Fund Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hani-enaya |

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## FAQ

### What does Andrew Wyke invest in?

Andrew Wyke invests primarily in FinTech, Finance and Computer startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 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 Andrew Wyke last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andrew Wyke closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 15 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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