# Bill Dobbie

> Bill Dobbie is a seed investor at Chanrossa backing Machine Learning and Autonomous Vehicles. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Chanrossa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chanrossa)
- Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billdobbie
- Website: http://www.occa-home.co.uk
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bill.dobbie

Bill Dobbie is a seed investor at Chanrossa in Edinburgh focused on Machine Learning and Autonomous Vehicles. Bill Dobbie is the Managing Director of Chanrossa. He previously worked at Edinburgh Alternative Finance as a NED & Founding Investor. Bill Dobbie attended the University of St Andrews.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $382k–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 25% |
| Autonomous Vehicles | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| loveelectric | Loveelectric operates as a vehicle leasing company that makes electric vehicles affordable and accessible for everyone. They offer small electric cars and family electric cars for their customers. They provide the car scheme, and the employer signs and pays for a lease agreement on behalf of the employee. | $1.1M | Seed | Nov 04, 2022 |  |
| Machine Labs | Big company machine learning for marketing at a small company price. | $1.3M | Seed | Jul 09, 2020 |  |
| Machine Labs | Big company machine learning for marketing at a small company price. | $1M | Seed | Jun 28, 2019 |  |
| Logicalware | Logicalware is a scalable software platform that maximises customer engagement and experience to strengthen relationships with your customers. Our intuitive platform tracks each customer journey to bring context to conversations and build authentic relationships. We connect you to your customers with seamless communication in a single interface.With unlimited customisations and automations, we make it simple to optimise workflow and create smart reporting to monitor your success. Our years of experience in email management have given us the long term vision to innovate Logicalware as a full customer engagement and experience platform that priorities efficiency, authenticity and simplicity. Every customer. One platform. Logicalware. | $382K | Seed | Jun 23, 2005 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstart Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Marchmont Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marchmont-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Scottish Enterprise](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scottish-enterprise) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Chanrossa

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Chanrossa.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bill Dobbie | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-dobbie |

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## FAQ

### What does Bill Dobbie invest in?

Bill Dobbie invests primarily in Machine Learning and Autonomous Vehicles startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 4 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 Bill Dobbie's check size?

Bill Dobbie typically joins rounds of $382k–$1.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bill Dobbie participates in.

### When did Bill Dobbie last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bill Dobbie closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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?

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