Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Fuel Ventures is a VC fund in London focused on Software and SaaS. Fuel Ventures, a leading UK venture capital and investment fund specialising in early stage tech startup investments. Fuel Ventures supports high-growth technology companies from pre-seed (SEIS Fund) to seed (EIS Fund) and their Venture Capital Trust (VCT Fund). As an active investor, Fuel Ventures provides both capital and strategic support to drive innovation and scale rapidly.
- Total investments:
- 256
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 77%
- Fund size:
- $126M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Fuel Ventures invests in
Stages Fuel Ventures invests in
Countries Fuel Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $674k–$4.9M
- Pre-Seed
- $313k–$2M
- Series A
- $4.4M–$24M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 46 (18%)
- SaaS 28 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 27 (11%)
- Information Technology 26 (10%)
- Financial Services 20 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 93 (36%)
- Pre-Seed 77 (30%)
- Series A 20 (8%)
- Funding Round 12 (5%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 9 (4%)
Country
- United Kingdom 158 (62%)
- United States 5 (2%)
- Ireland 2 (1%)
- United Arab Emirates 2 (1%)
- China 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Alexander Breeden
Investment Associate
|
Investment Associate | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
James D'Mello
Head of IFA Distribution
|
Head of IFA Distribution | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jing Xu
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Mark Pearson
Founder and Managing Partner
|
Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 107 | Find email | |
Shiv Patel
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Affinity Labs is a creator-led software startup studio using AI to build, launch, and grow software brands around influencers. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| Souk enables SaaS firms to recruit, launch and manage channel partners easily and accelerate deals together. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Sep 03, 2026 | ||
| AI Score empowers organisations to harness AI safely | $5.4M / Seed / Sep 03, 2026 | ||
| support@stoa.money | $2.4M / Pre-Seed / Jul 06, 2026 | ||
| PANTA Index Technology is a pioneering fintech company founded by industry veterans to transform the index creation landscape. Our state-of-the-art, cloud-based SaaS solution empowers financial institutions to build and operate complex, bespoke indices and portfolios with unprecedented scale, speed, and precision.As the only pure-play technologyprovider in this space, we streamline the entire index lifecycle while offering advanced back-testing and simulation capabilities. PANTA aims to democratize index technology, enabling institutions of all sizes to innovate faster and make data-driven investment decisions. We're set to become the operating system for next-generation indexing, driving innovation and efficiency across the rules-based and quantitative investment landscape. | $2M / Seed / May 14, 2026 | ||
| Misti AI is a physical observability platform that turns site video into real-time operational insight and long-term searchable memory, helping teams get alerts and investigate incidents without manually reviewing footage. | $337.6K / Pre-Seed / Apr 29, 2026 | ||
| Locai is a sovereign AI infrastructure and orchestration platform based in Cardiff, Wales. Regulated organisations use Locai to run artificial intelligence on their own servers, on-premises or in a private cloud, without sending data to third-party cloud providers.The platform covers large language models, audio transcription, video processing,and image analysis from a single control plane. Model outputs can feed directly into other models, making multimodal AI workflows possible on hardware the organisation already owns. Locai also fine-tunes and optimises compact open-weight models for on-device and off-cloud inference, targeting edge hardware including Apple M-series and NVIDIA consumer GPUs. Locai works with open-weight, third-party, and customer-supplied models and is not tied to any particular hardware vendor.Locai is built for sectors where data residency and compliance are hard requirements: financial services, healthcare, defence, critical national infrastructure, and legal services. Products include Locai Link, an AI orchestration and inference layer, and Alcove, a secure agentic workspace for enterprise teams.Locai was founded in May 2025 and is based at Tramshed Tech in Cardiff. Backers include Fuel Ventures, Google for Startups, and NVIDIA Inception. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Apr 22, 2026 | ||
| Arrival which focuses on payments consolidation and property-related services. | $677.7K / Pre-Seed / Apr 15, 2026 | ||
| JAAQ. is a mental health-focused online platform that allows users access to specialists and advocates. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England. | $17.3M / Series A / Mar 23, 2026 | ||
| Flexzo is an AI-powered workforce platform that connects healthcare organizations with healthcare professionals for shift-based and contract work. The platform enables organizations to post vacancies, access candidate profiles, and match roles with professionals based on skills, availability, and compliance data. It includes tools for credentialmanagement, document tracking, and automated reminders to support regulatory requirements and workforce readiness.Flexzo Ai also allows healthcare professionals to create profiles, upload qualifications, and receive shift opportunities aligned with their preferences and schedules. The system uses data inputs such as location, travel distance, and credentials to facilitate matching between roles and candidates. In addition, the platform maintains records of work history and supports communication between organizations and professionals.The company operates as a workforce matching platform that facilitates direct engagement between healthcare providers and workers without acting as an employer or recruitment agency. | $12M / Series A / Mar 20, 2026 | ||
| See all 256 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Fuel Ventures invest in?
Fuel Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 256 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Fuel Ventures invest in?
Fuel Ventures typically joins rounds of $674k–$4.9M at Seed, $313k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $4.4M–$24M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Fuel Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Fuel Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Fuel Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Fuel Ventures?
The team at Fuel Ventures includes Alexander Breeden (Investment Associate), James D'Mello (Head of IFA Distribution) and Jing Xu (Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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