# Capital Pilot

> Capital Pilot is a VC fund in London backing Software and Mobile Apps. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2023
- Lead investor: 75%
- Fund size: $6.7M
- Last fund: Apr 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/10944786/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/capitalpilot
- Website: https://capitalpilot.com/

Capital Pilot is a VC fund in London focused on Software and Mobile Apps. The market for funding early-stage business is broken. Entrepreneurs looking to raise startup capital have two options. They can cold email potential investors where their proposal goes to the bottom of a large pile. Or they must rely on their limited network to – hopefully – get connected to the right investor. When they do get there, it is oftenwith an investment proposition that is incomplete or could be improved, and VCs and angels don’t have the bandwith to provide useful feedback on how to enhance chances of funding success.Capital Pilot is a platform that makes raising equity easier for startups, providing fundraising intelligence and matching between startups and investors.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Capital Pilot. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Capital Pilot. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/capital-pilot?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 25% |
| iOS | 1 | 13% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |
| Retail | 1 | 13% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Naomi Timperley | Chair | 0 | — |
| Richard Blakesley | Co-Founder & CEO | 11 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Greenspark | Greenspark incentivises and inspires companies to take action on environmental and social issues around the world.At a time when consumer and employee demand for action on climate change and social injustice is at an all-time high, we're giving businesses the tools they need to do something about it.Our Impact-as-a-Service Platform allowscompanies to create positive impact at key business touchpoints, track it in an easily digestible way, and then communicate it effectively with their customer base, site visitors and key stakeholders.The results are great for the planet, great for their brand image, and great for their bottom line. | $1.2M | Seed | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Rithum | Rithum collaborates on the creation of a new iteration of its smart home control system. It creates a smart house control panel that snaps into a light switch's opening to manage the lighting, audio, and heating of a structure. | $308.9K | Seed | Dec 13, 2022 |  |
| Canopey | Canopey.com is the home for buying better. We’re on a mission to make shopping sustainably easier for everyone, so they can buy without worrying about their impact on the planet and people.Canopey is the only platform to completely streamline ethical consumerism. We bring 1000s of verified sustainable products together into one online marketplacewith powerful impact stats showing the carbon emissions, water waste, and plastic waste saved per product compared to the mainstream alternative.Our product categories include beauty and skincare, clothing, food & drink, homeware, cleaning products and more. Sustainability values include vegan, plastic-free, biodegradable, recycled materials and more.We tackle three key areas: accessibility, transparency and relatability:1. We bring vetted sustainable products together under one roof, saving customers time and energy researching. Our guides and simple swaps help them reduce their footprint in quick and easy ways.2. Our Canopey Calculator gives customers stats showing the carbon emissions, water and plastic they save by shopping sustainably, compared to the mainstream alternatives. This allows them to track their impact over time.3. We’re a sustainable brand for a mainstream audience. We’re setting out to appeal to more than just the ‘eco warrior’, building an accessible and fun brand that connects with a wider audience which is growing each year.We picked Canopey as a name because it’s all about bringing everything under one roof. It’s about providing an inclusive home for everyone – from the eco-warriors and the refillers, all the way to those who are just starting to think about what they buy. | $344.6K | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2022 |  |
| Fanslide | Fanslide develops a live in-play fantasy football application. | $60.6K | Seed | Jun 29, 2022 |  |
| YESREF | The easy way to find and pay referees | $65K | Seed | Jun 29, 2022 |  |
| DabbaDrop | DabbaDrop provides plant-based meals in reusable stainless steel containers. | $60.6K | Seed | Jun 29, 2022 |  |
| ORB Innovations | ORB Innovations is a deep tech, digital health platform for high-quality biometric data and insights, their mission is to empower our users to lead better, healthier, happier lives by always providing next-generation access to performance and well-being data. |  |  | Jun 29, 2022 |  |
| Bubbl Ltd | Bubbl is an easy-to-use plug-in for your company’s iOS or Android app, giving you the state of the art geofence-triggered functionality to empower your marketing team with powerful location-based consumer engagement tools and real-time analytics. With Bubbl, you can hyper-focus your consumer engagement strategy by sending geo-triggered surveys,videos, vouchers and push & pull notifications when it’s most relevant to your consumers - at the specific time and based on their location or proximity to a given place. Installed in a matter of minutes, it gives you a cloud-based platform to manage your geo-triggered campaigns and analyse live insight. Your marketing content triggered by geofences appears on your consumers’ phones without your app being opened and without the need for active WiFi or beacons. |  |  | Jun 29, 2022 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Boost Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boost-fund) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [1818 Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1818-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anglia Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anglia-capital-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BBVA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bbva) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Crowdcube](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crowdcube) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Capital Pilot invest in?

Capital Pilot invests primarily in Software, Mobile Apps and iOS startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Capital Pilot?

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### Who are the partners at Capital Pilot?

The team at Capital Pilot includes Naomi Timperley (Chair) and Richard Blakesley (Co-Founder & CEO). 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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