# Bloc Ventures

> Bloc Ventures is a VC fund in London backing Software and Internet of Things. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bloc-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/blocventures
- Website: https://www.blocventures.com/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $655k–$6.6M |
| Series A | $2.2M–$16M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 29% |
| Internet of Things | 4 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 13% |
| SaaS | 2 | 8% |
| Mobile | 2 | 8% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 38% |
| Series A | 5 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 8% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 11 | 46% |
| Israel | 1 | 4% |
| Belgium | 1 | 4% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Leftley | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-leftley |
| Andrew Griffin | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-griffin-989e |
| Andy Green CBE | Senior Independent Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-green-3 |
| Bruce Beckloff | co-founder and CEO | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruce-beckloff |
| Dimitris Stoimenou | Investment Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dimitris-stoimenou |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AccelerComm | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Geospace/Helix Technologies | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| EVRYTHNG | 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 | 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 |  |
| Zeetta Networks | Zeetta Networks spun out of the renowned High-Performance Networks Group of Bristol University in 2015 to commercialise the group’s leading Network Virtualisation & Slicing technology. Our patent-protected software technology, NetOS®, enables network operators to virtualise their networks, and then automate operations and expose the network’scapabilities in a way that cannot be done today by any of Zeetta’s competitors. We have strong market traction and engaged with world leading players, including Deutsche Telecom, Orange, BT, Colt, Facebook, and Vodafone, amongst others. Moreover, NetOS® includes a powerful Virtualization Engine which uniquely operates across different types of networks. This enables the development of “network slices” i.e. logical and isolated sub-networks which can be used like real physical networks for the development of applications. Network Virtualization enables the most efficient use of the network resources because they can be shared among many users with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) for each service and user. | $1.2M | Convertible Note | Jun 26, 2020 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IP Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ip-group-plc) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [IQ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iq-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [KBC Focus Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kbc-start-it-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sway Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swayvc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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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 $655k–$6.6M at Seed and $2.2M–$16M 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 Bloc Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Bloc Ventures?

Public channels for Bloc Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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 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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