Andy Phillipps
Non Executive Director @ Thought Machine
London, United Kingdom
Andy Phillipps is a seed investor at Thought Machine in London focused on Software and Travel. Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Andy Phillipps invests in
Stages Andy Phillipps invests in
Countries Andy Phillipps invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $680k–$6.5M
- Series A
- $3.7M–$11M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (28%)
- Travel 4 (22%)
- E-Commerce 3 (17%)
- Internet 2 (11%)
- Communities 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (67%)
- Series A 2 (11%)
- Funding Round 2 (11%)
- Angel 1 (6%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
Country
- United Kingdom 13 (72%)
- Finland 1 (6%)
- Germany 1 (6%)
- United States 1 (6%)
- The Netherlands 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Civic Marketplace
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Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses. | $3.2M / Seed / Nov 20, 2024 | |
Layla AI
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Layla operates as a travel discovery platform. | $3.3M / Seed / Nov 29, 2023 | |
5Mins
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5Mins s a gamified learning platform designed to help employees improve their skills .It curates short-form video content from leading creators around the world and makes it available to teams and businesses via adaptive and gamified learning engine. | $5.7M / Seed / Nov 07, 2022 | |
Nous
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Nous is a software company that deals with household utilities. Nous was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in London. | $9M / Seed / Feb 18, 2022 | |
Wevat
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Wevat makes it easy for tourists to get tax back on shopping in Europe. | $2.9M / Seed / Jan 04, 2019 | |
We Got POP
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We Got POP is a web-based platform for people engaged in the production of films, TV series, and commercials. It was launched in 2013 and is operated from London, United Kingdom. | $2.4M / Feb 08, 2018 | |
Encore Musicians
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Encore is the UK's fastest-growing marketplace for hiring outstanding musicians. Trusted by thousands of customers ever year, who have written reviews for our musicians with an average score of 4.96 out of 5. | $713K / Seed / Oct 31, 2016 | |
Zego
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Zego is a commercial motor insurance provider that powers opportunities for businesses, from entire fleets of vehicles to self-employed drivers and riders. It combines best-in-class technology with sophisticated data sources to offer insurance products that save businesses time and money. Since its inception, Zego has believed that the problemwith traditional insurance is that it holds businesses back. It’s too expensive and time consuming, and it no longer suits businesses who use vehicles to earn money. Zego’s products represent a solution to this problem for businesses based across the UK, Europe and beyond. | $191K / Seed / Sep 30, 2016 | |
Wholi
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Wholi is a collection of lists of people for the startup community in London. It is solving people search online using a combination of web-scale data gathering, indexing, natural language processing, machine learning, and graph networks. | $6.5M / Seed / Mar 01, 2016 | |
NEXT AI
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NEXTis an AI-powered product discovery platform that transforms the way product teams collect, consume, and act on customer insights. Client teams at Deloitte, Bosch, and Autodesk use NEXT to turn customer interactions into product insights. NEXT understands every customer interaction, delivers insights at scale, letting product teams bring theircustomers into every decision.Teams that use NEXT build better products, accelerate time to product market-fit, and spend less on development costs. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Feb 01, 2016 | |
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Co-Investors
About Thought Machine
Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.Its mission is to cure one of the banking industry's primary problems: its reliance on outdated IT infrastructure. Nearly every bank is stuck on a legacy IT platform, which cripples their ability to innovate and give their customers thetype of service they deserve.The company provides a solution to this is Vault: a complete retail banking platform that is capable of being configured easily to suit the needs of any bank. They have built Vault from the ground up as a cloud-native, microservice API architecture platform. Thought Machine has a deep culture of engineering excellence, and they believe it is this which delivers a solution compelling enough to engender a seismic shift in the banking industry.
Thought Machine Contacts
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Andy Phillipps
Non Executive Director
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Matt Wilkins
Chief People & Information Officer
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Richard Little
Non Executive Director
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Andy Macguire
Chairman Of The Board
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Asif Faruque
Head of Communications
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FAQ
What does Andy Phillipps invest in?
Andy Phillipps invests primarily in Software, Travel and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 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 Andy Phillipps's check size?
Andy Phillipps typically joins rounds of $680k–$6.5M at Seed and $3.7M–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Andy Phillipps participates in.
When did Andy Phillipps last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Andy Phillipps closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 18 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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