# Andy Skipper

> Andy Skipper is a seed investor in London backing News and Video. See 2 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: May 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyskipper
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/andyskipper
- Website: http://ctocraft.com

Andy Skipper is a seed investor in London focused on News and Video. Consultant CTO to online businesses around Europe; founding CTO with Made.com, a designer furniture retailer launched in March 2010 under Pro Founders and Jaina Capital among others. Responsible for technology and partner selection, business process modelling, team building and resource strategy, production infrastructure design.Executive-leveltechnical manager, with a hands-on development and testing background. Having operated as a CTO for a number of high growth startups since 2006, he's built and managed several successful agile teams of PHP, Python, Java and .Net developers and testers, including internationally distributed teams. A certified Scrum Product Owner, he specialises in implementing agile practices which provide means of constant improvement within the development and operations teams, and a culture of improved transparency with the rest of the business.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| News | 1 | 50% |
| Video | 1 | 50% |
| Content | 1 | 50% |
| Journalism | 1 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sifted | Sifted is a media site for Europe’s innovators and entrepreneurs. |  | Seed | May 01, 2019 | https://sifted.eu/ |
| Trint | Trint™ is what happens when technology meets opportunity. Jeff Kofman (veteran journalist) and Mark Boas (seasoned web developer) met at the Mozilla Festival in 2013, and quickly realized that the work Mark and his team were doing on media and transcripts could solve a problem that Jeff had long encountered: painstaking transcription of interviews. |  | Seed | May 18, 2016 | https://www.trint.com/ |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Wild Blue Cohort](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wild-blue-cohort-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Andy Skipper invest in?

Andy Skipper invests primarily in News, Video and Content startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 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 Andy Skipper?

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### When did Andy Skipper last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andy Skipper closed in May 2019. Shizune tracks 2 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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