# Bertie Highmore

> Bertie Highmore is a seed investor at Blue Wire Capital backing SaaS and Artificial Intelligence. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Blue Wire Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-wire-capital)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bertie-highmore
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/b_highmore
- Website: https://x.com/b_highmore

Bertie Highmore is a seed investor at Blue Wire Capital in London focused on SaaS and Artificial Intelligence. Bertie Highmore - General Partner @ Blue Wire Capital

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 21% |
| Health Care | 2 | 14% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 14% |
| EdTech | 1 | 7% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 21% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 29% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 29% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ovo Labs | Ovo Labs is developing therapeutics that boost egg quality to enhance IVF success, technology aims to extend the timeline when the chances of conception are high. | $5.3M | Seed | Apr 24, 2025 |  |
| Ignota Labs | Ignota Labs recognizes that safety errors during the drug discovery process can result in expensive setbacks and delays in bringing life-changing medications to market. Ignota Labs world leading AI methods, which include deep learning and machine learning approaches, are intended to examine complicated molecular data and provide accurate toxicitypredictions. | $6.9M | Seed | Feb 26, 2025 |  |
| Caribou | Companies are now global from day one. The tax & legal admin needed to operate globally compounds with every entity.To solve this, companies engage external experts (lawyers/tax experts), but their solutions rely on human intervention and create hidden future costs by focusing on a narrow part of the problem, not the whole state of thecompany.Caribou is an alternative to working with service providers. By tracking your finances, personnel, and corporate information, we can continuously monitor your entities and prepare the compliance docs you need to operate anywhere in the world legally. | $2.7M | Seed | Dec 23, 2024 |  |
| River Platform Company | River is a distributed community event platform connecting top podcasters, creators, and influencers with their fans. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Oct 15, 2024 |  |
| Praktika | Praktika offers an sutomated 1-1 tutorship powered by genAI Avatars. The company empowers learners to overcome language barriers and seize new opportunities. | $35.5M | Series A | May 22, 2024 |  |
| beehiiv | Beehiiv is the publishing and newsletter platform built by creators for creators. | $33M | Series B | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| Praktika | Praktika offers an sutomated 1-1 tutorship powered by genAI Avatars. The company empowers learners to overcome language barriers and seize new opportunities. |  | Seed | Feb 13, 2024 |  |
| Space DOTS | The first modular pico-labs for active in-space testing of advanced materials, from LEO to Cis-lunar and Interplanetary orbits. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 25, 2023 |  |
| Space DOTS | The first modular pico-labs for active in-space testing of advanced materials, from LEO to Cis-lunar and Interplanetary orbits. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 21, 2023 |  |
| beehiiv | Beehiiv is the publishing and newsletter platform built by creators for creators. | $12.5M | Series A | Jun 21, 2023 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Creator Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creator-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Creator Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creator-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [BFC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchain-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Social Leverage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-leverage) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [7percent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/7-percent) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Blue Wire Capital

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Blue Wire Capital (BWC) supports innovation by backing visionaries who want to change how the world works, primarily at pre-seed and seed. BWC provides exceptional founders and outstanding managers with fast & flexible access to capital, assistance, and a comprehensive network.

1 contacts available at Blue Wire Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bertie Highmore | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bertie-highmore |

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## FAQ

### What does Bertie Highmore invest in?

Bertie Highmore invests primarily in SaaS, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Bertie Highmore last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bertie Highmore closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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