# Chris Underhill

> Chris Underhill is a seed investor at Hive Marketing Cloud (Bristol) backing Apps and Analytics. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hive Marketing Cloud](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hive-intelligence)
- Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jun 2013
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/christopherunderhill

Chris Underhill is a seed investor at Hive Marketing Cloud in Bristol focused on Apps and Analytics. Chris Underhill - Non Executive Chairman @ Hive Marketing Cloud

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 50% |
| Analytics | 1 | 50% |
| Marketing | 1 | 50% |
| Social CRM | 1 | 50% |
| Social Media | 1 | 50% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Audiense | Audiense developes delivering unique consumer insight and engagement capabilities to many of the world’s biggest brands and agencies. The Audiense platform delivers consumer insight and engagement through a combination of highly scaleable social data, cognitive science and traditional marketing. Its solutions enable brands and agencies to buildunique insights, acquire more customers and deliver superior marketing results from automated messaging and advertising campaign execution.The company is one of only two Twitter Official Partners worldwide for both Data/Insights and Advertising. Audiense also leverages the IBM Watson cognitive computing platform to determine unique and powerful personality insights from audience data.Audiense works with a wide range of enterprise clients, including sports brands and Premier League football clubs, major news publishers, top digital agencies, marketing leading clothing and music brands, and even the UK government. | $1.8M | Series A | Jun 06, 2013 |  |
| Audiense | Audiense developes delivering unique consumer insight and engagement capabilities to many of the world’s biggest brands and agencies. The Audiense platform delivers consumer insight and engagement through a combination of highly scaleable social data, cognitive science and traditional marketing. Its solutions enable brands and agencies to buildunique insights, acquire more customers and deliver superior marketing results from automated messaging and advertising campaign execution.The company is one of only two Twitter Official Partners worldwide for both Data/Insights and Advertising. Audiense also leverages the IBM Watson cognitive computing platform to determine unique and powerful personality insights from audience data.Audiense works with a wide range of enterprise clients, including sports brands and Premier League football clubs, major news publishers, top digital agencies, marketing leading clothing and music brands, and even the UK government. | $549K | Seed | Nov 21, 2012 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Avonmore Developments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avonmore-developments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Scottish Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scottish-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Hive Marketing Cloud

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Hive Marketing Cloud.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Underhill | Non Executive Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-underhill |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Underhill invest in?

Chris Underhill invests primarily in Apps, Analytics and Marketing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Chris Underhill last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Underhill closed in Jun 2013. Shizune tracks 2 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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