Coral Reef IO
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Coral Reef IO is a VC fund in London focused on Apps and Mobile. Coral Reef invests in creativity through technology. It invests in groundbreaking ideas and exceptional management teams to create world class businesses. Supporting creativity is core to what it does whether that be in new business models, novel routes to market or great product design.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Coral Reef IO invests in
Stages Coral Reef IO invests in
Countries Coral Reef IO invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $395k–$2.3M
- Angel
- $364k–$413k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Apps 2 (22%)
- Mobile 2 (22%)
- E-Commerce 2 (22%)
- Social Network 2 (22%)
- Video 1 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (67%)
- Angel 2 (22%)
- Funding Round 1 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Shane Feng
MD
|
MD | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pimoroni is a U.K.-based company that designs, manufactures, and sells quality products for makers, geeks, and educators. It is the creator of Pibow case for Raspberry Pi. In 2013, Pimoroni launched its maker shop and started to offer products from Adafruit, SparkFun, Technology Will Save Us, Sugru, and many other maker businesses. The company hasalso invested in a full circuit board assembly production line, including pick and place, reflow, and wave soldering and has begun to design its own hobbyist electronics.Pimoroni also launched a range of HAT boards, including the Unicorn HAT, Explorer HAT Pro, Propeller HAT, Piano HAT, and Display-O-Tron HAT. Recently it launched its Picade, started providing guides and tutorials on its new learning portal, increased the range of products on its shop to over 850 different SKUs, and grown its team to seventeen people who design, engineer, test, assemble, package, and ship all from its premises in Sheffield, the U.K. | $364K / Angel / Jul 19, 2016 | ||
| Pimoroni is a U.K.-based company that designs, manufactures, and sells quality products for makers, geeks, and educators. It is the creator of Pibow case for Raspberry Pi. In 2013, Pimoroni launched its maker shop and started to offer products from Adafruit, SparkFun, Technology Will Save Us, Sugru, and many other maker businesses. The company hasalso invested in a full circuit board assembly production line, including pick and place, reflow, and wave soldering and has begun to design its own hobbyist electronics.Pimoroni also launched a range of HAT boards, including the Unicorn HAT, Explorer HAT Pro, Propeller HAT, Piano HAT, and Display-O-Tron HAT. Recently it launched its Picade, started providing guides and tutorials on its new learning portal, increased the range of products on its shop to over 850 different SKUs, and grown its team to seventeen people who design, engineer, test, assemble, package, and ship all from its premises in Sheffield, the U.K. | $395.1K / Seed / Jun 16, 2016 | ||
| Tantrum XYZ is a web platform and an online retail store. It offers recommendations, tips, kids gear, and events. The company sells kid’s clothes, toys, and general parenting equipment. Tantrum XYZ was founded in Shane Feng and Ben Wynne-Simmons in 2016; and is headquartered in London, England. | Seed / Jan 01, 2016 | ||
| The professional network for people who don’t wear suits to work. Build your community. Land your dream freelance, full time or remote dream job. Upskill at virtual events. Get advice & find collaborators. Download via the App Store!“The Dots can help you make those all important connections. It’s networking for the modern world” – Apple, Appof the Day“Makes LinkedIn look pretty stuffy” – TechCrunch“The Next LinkedIn?” – Forbes | $2.3M / Seed / Oct 22, 2015 | ||
| Vidsy is a creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation to help global brands. Vidsy helps global brands create effective video ads, efficiently and consistently across digital. Vidsy's technology, global community of 6,000+ vetted creators, and fully managed services are empowering brands to intelligently transform theirdigital advertising for an ever-evolving world of mobile video. | $413.2K / Angel / Sep 01, 2015 | ||
| Fliplet is a no-code/ low-code app builder that enables anyone to build apps without any coding knowledge. Whether you are the Events Coordinator looking for a way to engage guests at your next conference, or a Trainer that wants to test employee understanding of content with a quiz, you can build an amazing, effective, and powerful app inFliplet with ZERO coding.The platform is trusted by more than 100+ enterprises and many small businesses as clients.With Fliplet, users can build anything they want from scratch, but the platform also offers over 15+ different prebuilt templates for the below use cases:- Learning - Directory - Marketing - Innovation/idea management - Approval workflow - Portal app - Sales Enablement - Communications - Data capture - Emergency management - Events - Food ordering - Multilingual - Remote and office management - Task management - Reporting App - Blank solution to build from scratch | $759.4K / Seed / Apr 25, 2015 | ||
| Digi.me's technology allows consumers to gather together their personal data and share it on their terms with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange. They are distribution partners for the likes of Toshiba and Lenovo and are working with world-leading businesses in health insurance, finance, pharma and FMCG. | $1.2M / Seed / Jan 30, 2015 | ||
| UBIO's managed automation service transforms websites into powerful transactional and data APIs, giving our customers the power back over their own customers’ journey.UBIO can connect anything on the web, both websites and APIs, providing rich data and performing any interaction. Our customers include Google and trivago. We power theirability to collect availability and price data from over 50,000 hotels around the world, and we power organisations such as kiwi.com to sell airline tickets and TickX to sell theatre tickets. Our teams are based across Europe and are dedicated to building technology that makes meaningful connections between the services on the web and delivering business outcomes for our customers. | $1.1M / Oct 01, 2014 | ||
| UBIO's managed automation service transforms websites into powerful transactional and data APIs, giving our customers the power back over their own customers’ journey.UBIO can connect anything on the web, both websites and APIs, providing rich data and performing any interaction. Our customers include Google and trivago. We power theirability to collect availability and price data from over 50,000 hotels around the world, and we power organisations such as kiwi.com to sell airline tickets and TickX to sell theatre tickets. Our teams are based across Europe and are dedicated to building technology that makes meaningful connections between the services on the web and delivering business outcomes for our customers. | $1.1M / Seed / Oct 01, 2014 |
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FAQ
What does Coral Reef IO invest in?
Coral Reef IO invests primarily in Apps, Mobile and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 9 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 Coral Reef IO's check size?
Coral Reef IO typically joins rounds of $395k–$2.3M at Seed and $364k–$413k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Coral Reef IO participates in.
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Who are the partners at Coral Reef IO?
The team at Coral Reef IO includes Shane Feng (MD). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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