# Francesca Warner

> Francesca Warner is a seed investor at Ada Ventures (London) backing Health Care and Wellness. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ada Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ada-vemtires)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 71%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescawarner
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/checkwarner
- Website: https://x.com/checkwarner

Francesca Warner is a seed investor at Ada Ventures in London focused on Health Care and Wellness. Check has been a pre-seed investor for over nine years. She is a former Downing Ventures principal and a venture advisor for Seraphim Capital. Check is the chair and co-founder of Diversity VC and is a former advertising exec. Check backs founders who are unnaturally obsessed with their customers as they build a once-in-a-lifetime business solvingthe world's biggest problems.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 4 | 24% |
| Wellness | 3 | 18% |
| Life Science | 3 | 18% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 18% |
| Software | 2 | 12% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 71% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 12% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 12% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 14 | 82% |
| Denmark | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Juno Bio | Juno Bio uses machine learning and state of the art bioinformatics to analyse and predict how best to manipulate microbiomes, significantly reducing the time and resources needed to improve their functionality. | $3.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| Alcolase | Alcolase is a Danish life science start-up that specializes in alcohol flushing. | $1.7M | Seed | May 18, 2026 |  |
| Valla | We believe that data-driven legal advice can change lives.The legal industry is drowning in data that it can never use. Every day, millions of pages of case law, decisions and precedent are created and then ignored. Valuable insights are locked away in PDFs or scattered across hundreds of text documents, waiting to be pieced together.This hasserious real-world consequences. When someone's rights are voilated, they should know that they have legal options. When their lawyers advises them, they should feel confident they're giving the best informed, most up-to-date advice. Right now, this isn't happening - and real lives are feeling the impact.Valla's mission is to bring transparency and insight to the legal sector. We do this by analysing those millions of pages and extracting data from them. We then turn that into insight that's easy to understand and use - insight that can make a real difference in real people's lives. | $2.7M | Seed | Jun 02, 2025 |  |
| PHINXT Robotics | PHINXT Robotics enables warehouses of any size to deploy autonomous robots as needed, with no expertise required. | $2.5M | Seed | Aug 06, 2024 |  |
| Glowb | Glowb offers solar energy and battery solutions. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| MultiOmic Health | Operator of a precision medicine business intended to develop and commercialize data assets for metabolic syndrome. The company applies computational systems' biology, also combines data science and biology expertise to offer data-driven development of therapeutics, along with develops machine learning-enhanced systems biology models andcomposite biomarkers, enabling diagnostic companies to get access to new therapeutic and diagnostic R&D programmes for subsequent co-development and global commercialization with multinational biopharma. | $6.2M | Seed | May 04, 2023 |  |
| Flexa | The flexible working platform | $2.9M | Seed | May 25, 2022 |  |
| SPOKE | SPOKE is an app that provides an audio experience for well-being. It uses a unique blend of lo-fi music, hip hop, and mindfulness to help users re-tune their minds, sleep better, and strengthen their mindset. Each soothing episode includes music and spoken word by some of the UK's best producers and emerging artists, all of whom have beentrained by neuroscientists, psychologists, and therapists. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Feb 16, 2022 |  |
| SPOKE | SPOKE is an app that provides an audio experience for well-being. It uses a unique blend of lo-fi music, hip hop, and mindfulness to help users re-tune their minds, sleep better, and strengthen their mindset. Each soothing episode includes music and spoken word by some of the UK's best producers and emerging artists, all of whom have beentrained by neuroscientists, psychologists, and therapists. | $1.5M | Seed | Feb 16, 2022 |  |
| FINDS | FINDS is a unique, video marketplace app for fashion. We are a female-led team that believes that an online fashion marketplace should be just as dynamic and inspiring as a thrift market IRL. We are on a mission to create a fashion resale community that offers a fun, interactive place for people who love to buy, sell & express their uniqueitems and style - together.It's simple to start selling. List your products in your shop, set a fixed price and choose to add them to a live stream to show your items from every angle. It's easy to buy, explore and discover items, styles, people and personalities you'll love. | $600K | Pre-Seed | Oct 08, 2021 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Selvedge Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/selvedge-venture) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Active Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ascension](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascension-ventures-limited) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bethnal Green Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bethnal-green-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Amelia Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amelia-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Ada Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Ada Ventures is a pre-seed inclusive venture capital firm that invests in the best, not just the best-connected. They find and fund the Ada Lovelaces of today. Backing European founders building businesses for a better human future. They invest £250K - £1M in technology companies across climate equity, economic empowerment and healthy ageing. Adainvests in purpose-led founders building for markets that are large, untapped and growing. Their approach drives outperformance, which they call Inclusive Alpha®.

5 contacts available at Ada Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Francesca Warner | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francesca-warner |
| Michael Tefula | Principal & Head of Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-tefula |
| Christian Tooley | Ada Ventures Angel | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-tooley-9361 |
| Diarra Smith | Head of Portfolio and Brand | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diarra-smith-6892 |
| Elizabeth Shaw | Venture Scout | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elizabeth-shaw-2bd5 |

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## FAQ

### What does Francesca Warner invest in?

Francesca Warner invests primarily in Health Care, Wellness and Life Science startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 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 Francesca Warner last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Francesca Warner closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 17 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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