Calum Forsyth
VC Investor @ Techstart Ventures
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Calum Forsyth is a pre-seed investor at Techstart Ventures in Edinburgh focused on Software and Information Technology. Calum Forsyth
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 71%
Last updated:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (35%)
- Information Technology 3 (18%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (18%)
- SaaS 2 (12%)
- Analytics 2 (12%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 9 (53%)
- Seed 7 (41%)
- Series A 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Setting the global standard for image recognition powered by synthetic data. | $7.8M / Series A / Apr 23, 2025 | ||
| This Is Unfolded is an environmentally conscious business that produces reasonably priced, ethically produced clothing while minimizing waste. | $1.3M / Pre-Seed / Oct 06, 2022 | ||
| The volume of mobile data traffic is exploding and 5G will have to fulfil a growing variety of performance requirements, ranging from extreme mobile broadband to low-latency automotive IoT. To accommodate such demands, enhanced flexibility in managing the infrastructure is needed. Network slicing allows operators to customise resources on aper-service basis, by virtually partitioning the physical infrastructure, thereby enabling new lucrative revenue streams. However, without deep intelligence into the traffic flowing over slices, and where it originates, it is impossible to effectively and efficiently monetize them. To address this need, we are developing Microscope, an AI tool for mobile traffic decomposition. Microscope is a lightweight method that identifies and quantifies the nature and source of individual streams (e.g. Netflix, Google cloud services, Facebook, etc; down to individual base station) from aggregate streams. This allows data to be collected in the cloud rather than from expensive location-based probes, and also works with encrypted data sources which are impossible to analyse with traditional approaches such as using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). Our technology tackles the challenges of decomposition through deep learning, due to its effectiveness in operating on large-scale mobile traffic in real-time, as demonstrated by our own research. Microscope is fast, cheap, encryption agnostic, scalable, and compatible with current NFV and open RAN initiatives | $1M / Pre-Seed / Nov 16, 2021 | ||
| Lupovis is a Glasgow-based company that specializes in helping its customers protect their business-critical network assets as well as data and IP from attackers that have already compromised the network and from insider threats. | $848.7K / Pre-Seed / Oct 28, 2021 | ||
| Gigged.AI is an innovative digital talent sourcing and onboarding platform. | $786K / Seed / Oct 18, 2021 | ||
| Gigged.AI is an innovative digital talent sourcing and onboarding platform. | $808.2K / Pre-Seed / Sep 30, 2021 | ||
| Reath is a software platform that lets businesses adopt safe, compliant, scalable reuse systems. It has been designed with input from businesses operating reuse systems, and environmental, health, and safety regulators. Their focus is on helping to capture data about your reusable packaging easily and at-scale, and using that data to maintaincompliance with regulatory standards like batch codes, or optimise the system. | $428.8K / Pre-Seed / Aug 26, 2021 | ||
| Desana is changing how the world *works*.We support the hybrid real estate strategies for global employers, simplifying how they give employees access to workspace wherever they are. We do this by making the global flexible workspace market useable in the same platform that companies use to manage desk and meeting room bookings within theirown buildings.Less reliance on long-term leases. Way more flexibility for teams. | $4M / Seed / Jun 29, 2021 | ||
| Glaize develops custom-fit stick-on gel nail products in the UK, allowing users to upload photos of their hands for personalized sizing. Its offerings, covering manicures, pedicures, and nail-art stickers, are formulated from pre-UV-cured, bio-based gel blends that eliminate the need for UV lamps and minimize nail damage. The company designs itsformulations, packaging, and tools with sustainability. | Seed / Feb 11, 2021 | ||
| The biggest barrier to mass robot adoption is their inability to feel the world around them. Touchlab are changing this by manufacturing an e-skin system, thinner than human skin, which can be wrapped around hard or soft robots to sense pressure, location, and direction in real-time. Touchlab are applying this technology to grand challenges thatbenefit existing and unrealised markets including dexterous grasping automation, medical, and nuclear decommissioning. Touchlab are also a finalist in the global ANA Avatar XPrize competition, enabling teleoperated robot Avatars. | Pre-Seed / Jan 05, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Techstart Ventures
Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.
Techstart Ventures Contacts
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Allen Martin
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Audrey Casciere Osborne
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Hal Wilson
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Jamie Andrews
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Julie Curran
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What does Calum Forsyth invest in?
Calum Forsyth invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Calum Forsyth last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Calum Forsyth closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 17 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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