Bloc Ventures
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Bloc Ventures is an investment company focused on investments in early-stage Deep Tech companies. Pitch directly to Bloc here: https://blocventures.com/pitching/Bloc Ventures is not an investment fund, it is a company that invests in early-stage tech companies. Bloc Ventures is very much a company in the traditional sense,with a rigorous focus on governance, costs, and profit, governed by a board of directors with an operational model that enables its stakeholders to focus on building value through a longer-term collaborative and evergreen approach to early-stage tech investing.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, England.
- Total investments:
- 24
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
Last updated:
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Industries Bloc Ventures invests in
Stages Bloc Ventures invests in
Countries Bloc Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $653k–$6.8M
- Series A
- $2.4M–$16M
- Series B
- $25M–$27M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (29%)
- Internet of Things 4 (17%)
- Financial Services 3 (13%)
- SaaS 2 (8%)
- Mobile 2 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (38%)
- Series A 5 (21%)
- Series B 2 (8%)
- Funding Round 2 (8%)
- Debt Financing 1 (4%)
Country
- United Kingdom 11 (46%)
- Israel 1 (4%)
- Belgium 1 (4%)
- United States 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
David Leftley
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
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Andrew Griffin
CFO
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CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Andy Green CBE
Senior Independent Director
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Senior Independent Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bruce Beckloff
co-founder and CEO
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co-founder and CEO | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Dimitris Stoimenou
Investment Director
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Investment Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| AccelerComm is an exciting semiconductor IP-core company that provides solutions to accelerate the next generations of wireless communications (3GPP rel 14, rel 15 and beyond).Their technology solves the bottleneck that would otherwise limit the speed of next generation wireless communication, namely the error correction decoding that isrequired to overcome the effects of noise, interference and poor signal strength. | $15M / May 29, 2025 | ||
| Luluchain is a novel platform that blends emotional value and blockchain technology. It uses modular blockchain and AI technology to enable efficient emotional data management and personalized services. | $5M / Seed / Nov 19, 2024 | ||
| AccelerComm is an exciting semiconductor IP-core company that provides solutions to accelerate the next generations of wireless communications (3GPP rel 14, rel 15 and beyond).Their technology solves the bottleneck that would otherwise limit the speed of next generation wireless communication, namely the error correction decoding that isrequired to overcome the effects of noise, interference and poor signal strength. | $26.7M / Series B / Apr 11, 2023 | ||
| Pharrowtech designs next-generation solutions for fixed-wireless access, wireless VR/AR and ultra-high capacity wireless links. It builds on more than 12 years of top-notch R&D performed at imec, the Belgian R&D powerhouse. Leveraging deep technical expertise in algorithm, chip and antenna design for millimeter-wave systems, it createsproducts with best-in-class performance, power and cost features. | $15.6M / Series A / May 12, 2022 | ||
| Helix Technologies is developing a range of compact, high-performance, dielectric-loaded ceramic antennas for use in a wide range of demanding telecommunications and navigation applications. The use of the ceramic core enables the fabrication of antennas that are physically smaller than conventional antennas, behave much more effectively andpredictably in a wide range of challenging user scenarios and have many compelling technical advantages | $4M / Seed / Dec 17, 2021 | ||
| ShieldIOT delivers innovative cybersecurity solutions that protect edge devices from security threats and operational risks. Their application-agnostic software solution enables device manufacturers and network operators to automatically secure existing and new devices, across multiple industries, with no need for any development resources orsecurity expertise. | $7.4M / Series A / Nov 19, 2021 | ||
| Mindtrace builds intelligent systems which exploit the synergy of brain-inspired algorithms and neuromorphic hardware. Mindtrace aims at revolutionizing the world of Artificial Intelligence. Using inspiration from the brain, their goal is to develop novel and unique neuromorphic algorithms, sensors and processing hardware, to create machines whichare able to continuously and autonomously learn about the real world, and use this knowledge for predictive decision making.Their systems will seamlessly integrate learning in deep neural networks with inference over distributed graph-based knowledge representations to facilitate continuous "one-shot" learning and inference and the transfer of learnt knowledge to new domains. Their neuromorphic learning and inference algorithms are designed to be executed on massively parallel, many core distributed computer systems which use discrete event-based, asynchronous, sparse computation for speed, efficiency and low energy. | $3M / Seed / Feb 22, 2021 | ||
| Paytia is a specialist telephone payment processor. Paytia's systems allow businesses to take payment card details from their customers without putting their card data at risk over the phone. | $1.6M / Seed / Oct 27, 2020 | ||
| EVRYTHNG is the internet of things smart products platform connecting consumer products to the Web and managing real-time data to drive applications and analytics throughout the product lifecycle. Its a consumer product manufacturers work with EVRYTHNG to manage billions of intelligent identities in the cloud for their products. This enables brandsto deliver digital services directly to end-users through their products, manage supply chains more effectively using real-time data, and operate smart products connected to the broader ecosystem of applications and services on the Web and in the enterprise.It was founded in 2011 and is based in London, Greater London. | $10M / Oct 06, 2020 | ||
| AccelerComm is an exciting semiconductor IP-core company that provides solutions to accelerate the next generations of wireless communications (3GPP rel 14, rel 15 and beyond).Their technology solves the bottleneck that would otherwise limit the speed of next generation wireless communication, namely the error correction decoding that isrequired to overcome the effects of noise, interference and poor signal strength. | $7.4M / Series A / Sep 21, 2020 | ||
| See all 24 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Bloc Ventures invest in?
Bloc Ventures invests primarily in Software, Internet of Things and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 24 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 Bloc Ventures's check size?
Bloc Ventures typically joins rounds of $653k–$6.8M at Seed, $2.4M–$16M at Series A and $25M–$27M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bloc Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Bloc Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Bloc Ventures?
The team at Bloc Ventures includes David Leftley (Co-Founder and Managing Partner), Andrew Griffin (CFO) and Andy Green CBE (Senior Independent Director), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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