# Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

> Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is a VC fund backing Social. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/foreign-and-commonwealth-office
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/foreignoffice
- Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-office
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fcotravel

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is a VC fund in London focused on Social and Medical. Foreign & Commonwealth Office is a government organization that provides tourists and travellers with travel alerts, tips, and advice. It promotes the United Kingdom's interests overseas supporting its citizens and businesses around the globe.Foreign & Commonwealth Office has a worldwide network of embassies and consulates thatemploys over 14,000 people in nearly 270 diplomatic offices. It works with international organizations to promote British interests and global security, including the EU, NATO, Foreign & Commonwealth Office was founded on January 1, 1936 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$790k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Social | 1 | 25% |
| Medical | 1 | 25% |
| Logistics | 1 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 25% |
| Enterprise | 1 | 25% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kenya | 2 | 50% |
| Mauritius | 1 | 25% |
| South Africa | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Chisholm | Permanent Secretary, Department for Business and Energy and Industrial Strategy | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-chisholm |
| Helena Morrissey | Lead Non-Exec Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/helena-morrissey |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Keep IT Cool | Raino Tech4Impact is a social enterprise that leveraging technology as an enabler to empower African communities. Founded in 2014, They have been developing technology-driven solutions in health, agriculture, sports, green energy and offer business support services.In partnership with various key players in different sectors, they have developedunique and efficient different use cases of technological solutions impacting millions of lives. | $500K | Seed | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| HealthDart | HealthDart provides digital health, pharmacies, healthcare, and health finance services. They also provide medicines, in-person consultations with verified nurses and doctors, and instant health advice services. , |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 02, 2021 |  |
| Ziada | Ziada is a mobile application that helps service providers in the unorganised sector grow their companies and find new clients. |  | Seed | Aug 02, 2021 |  |
| AgroCenta | AgroCenta was founded by two ex-esoko employees, Francis Obirikorang and Michael K. Ocansey in 2015 to improve the agricultural value chain in Ghana. Two critical problems within the value chain, which are the lack of an access to market for smallholder farmers in the rural areas, which subjected them to activities of exploitative, buying frommiddlemen and the lack of a coordinated truck delivery system to cart their commodities from farms to markets to sell.AgroCenta’s idea is to solve these age-old problems by introducing an online sales platform that connected smallholder farmers directly to an online market, which has wider geographic size, to sell their commodities. The end result? Exploitative buying was reduced to the barest minimum since farmers were in control of selling their commodities at prices that were favorable to them.Once a farmer gets offers from interested buyers, the problem of logistics and transportation were sorted using AgroCenta’s patent TrucKR solution that allowed the smallholder farmer in any remote village in Ghana access trucks at the click of a button. You can call it the uber for trucks. AgroCenta is changing the very lives of smallholder farmers by using technology to solve problems they encounter in agriculture. | $790K | Seed | Jan 29, 2021 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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- [JP Morgan Chase](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jpmorgan-chase-co) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office invest in?

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office invests primarily in Social, Medical and Logistics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's check size?

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office typically joins rounds of $500k–$790k at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office participates in.

### How do I contact Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office?

Public channels for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office?

The team at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office includes Alex Chisholm (Permanent Secretary, Department for Business and Energy and Industrial Strategy) and Helena Morrissey (Lead Non-Exec Director). 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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