# Event Horizon

> Event Horizon is a VC fund in London backing Retail and Shopping. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eventhorizon
- Website: http://eventhorizon.io

Event Horizon is a VC fund in London focused on Retail and Shopping. At Event Horizon, they accelerate great ideas from initial conception through to market. They focus on understanding and testing value-proposition and growth assumptions, product/market, and overarching business and product strategy. They use this understanding, coupled with their love for cutting-edge technology and big-picture thinking, tobuild exceptional businesses.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Event Horizon. Shizune tracks 1 team members at Event Horizon. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/event-horizon?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 1 | 50% |
| Shopping | 1 | 50% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 50% |
| Data Center | 1 | 50% |
| Electronics | 1 | 50% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

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

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 1 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 50% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ian Wood | Co-founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-wood |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DreamBig Semiconductor | DreamBig Semiconductor provides SmartNICs as the perfect blend of hardware and programmable accelerations enabling secure and high-performance network solutions for big data centers, cloud, storage, machine learning and edge computing while increasing productivity. Their customers contact through email only. | $75M | Series B | Jul 16, 2024 | https://dreambigsemi.com |
| Gloo.ng | Gloo.ng is an electronic procurement engine dedicated to delivering direct to the doorsteps of her clients, on a same-day basis and at very affordable prices, a wide variety of high quality brands of supermarket goods. Gloo.ng provides her clients very convenient, very efficient and very affordable means of shopping for supermarket goods, savingthem irreplaceable time, needless stress and valuable money, thereby enriching their lives with the happiness these savings facilitate. Gloo.ng is more than an online ecommerce site. It is a vision! We are on a mission to promote the happiness of families and redefine & own the word "supermarket" in Nigeria. Starting from Nigeria, our True North is to do to supermarket shopping in Africa what Amazon did to book shopping in the world. | $550K | Seed | Dec 31, 2014 | http://www.gloo.ng |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-run-ventures-china) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Grandfull Convergence Fund — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hanwha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hanwha-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hygrove Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hygrove-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ignite Innovation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ignite-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kuyt Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kuyt-capital-partners-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Event Horizon invest in?

Event Horizon invests primarily in Retail, Shopping and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Event Horizon?

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### Who are the partners at Event Horizon?

The team at Event Horizon includes Ian Wood (Co-founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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