# Gareth Williams

> Gareth Williams is a seed investor at Skyscanner (Edinburgh) backing Software and Apps. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Skyscanner](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/skyscanner)
- Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/garethjlwilliams
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/gareth_o_

Gareth Williams is a seed investor at Skyscanner in Edinburgh focused on Software and Apps. Gareth Williams co-founded Skyscanner Limited in 2001 and has been its CEO through to 2018. Chairman to Jan 2020. We spent $6m of primary capital raised through to $1.8bn sale to Trip.com. Now ‘funemployed’ and learning.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $655k–$5.2M |
| Pre-Seed | $38k–$1.7M |
| Series A | $3.3M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 24% |
| Apps | 3 | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 12% |
| SaaS | 2 | 8% |

60 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 32% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 20% |
| Series A | 4 | 16% |
| Angel | 3 | 12% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 12% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 17 | 68% |
| Hungary | 1 | 4% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jump Ship Brewing | Jump Ship Brewing is a brewing company that specializes in the production of alcohol-free beers and craft-brewed drinks. | $203.2K | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Swurf | Swurf is a developer of an app that links hosts and spaces with remote workers. |  | Seed | Jul 16, 2025 |  |
| Flock Mobility | Flock Mobility is the ambition to inspire more sustainable travel for corporates. Transport is the largest carbon-emitting sector and one which has yet to show any clear emission reduction trajectory, making it the heart of the climate emergency and center stage in the shift to a net zero economy. Flock Mobility shares the position that more rapidand radical action is required to decarbonize the transport sector. A move to electric vehicles as well as more intensive use of fewer vehicles offers a cost-effective, socially progressive, and implementable set of options to cut carbon. | $1.3M | Seed | Apr 15, 2025 |  |
| Wordsmith AI | Advanced legal AI for in house legal teams | $5M | Seed | Jun 20, 2024 |  |
| Ember | Ember builds and operates electric bus networks that give people a zero-emission, convenient, and affordable way to get from A to B. It’s the first company in the world to take a full-stack, tech-led approach to bus travel, creating a compelling alternative to cars for a much broader customer base. The Ember operating system manages the wholenetwork – everything from timetabling and ticketing to charging and maintenance – delivering a dramatically better service at lower cost. Over 10,000 customers per week ride with Ember and the number is growing quickly. | $13.9M | Series A | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Maison Sport | Maison Sport has been created by 3 ski instructors, Olly, Nick and Aaron - all of them share a great passion for skiing and the mountains!“At Maison Sport we are making it simple to book Ski and Snowboard instructors online. Our aim is to seamlessly connect people looking for lessons with their ideal instructor, whilst making it easy forinstructors to market themselves, so they can continue to do what they love.Currently in France, our plan is to expand across the rest of the globe, helping the best instructors impart their passion for skiing and snowboarding on likeminded customers.” | $3.8M | Series A | Sep 28, 2023 |  |
| Swurf | Swurf is a developer of an app that links hosts and spaces with remote workers. |  | Angel | Jul 06, 2022 |  |
| Pommelhorse | Pommelhorse offers communication tools for work, education, health care, and personal use. Pommelhorse controls video in the real-time, frame by frame and pixel by pixel, using a combination of traditional vision algorithms and our own innovative techniques. Additionally, it develops and trains specialized models to complement or supplement ourvision algorithms in order to achieve cutting-edge performance in confined spaces. | $819.6K | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2022 |  |
| Machines With Vision | Transforming the maintenance of linear infrastructure using millimetre-accurate mapping. | $3.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 24, 2022 |  |
| Boundary | Boundary Technologies Ltd is a revolutionary new way to protect your home and family. Offering 'security as a service', the Boundary home security system will be accurate enough to provide an automatic police response and will also be the only truly smart alarm system to meet UK and European alarm standards. | $5.2M | Seed | May 26, 2021 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Equity Gap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equity-gap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Scottish Enterprise](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scottish-enterprise) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Scottish Investment Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scottish-investment-bank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [2150](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2150) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Skyscanner

VC Fund · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Skyscanner is a leading global travel search site, a place where people are inspired to plan and book direct from millions of travel options at the best prices.They are unbiased and free, which means that the 60 million people who use us every month can trust their comprehensive range of flight, hotel and car hire options.Their secret is intheir unique proprietary technology that connects people directly to everything the travel industry has to offer. They also power travel search for over 1200 partners through their Skyscanner for Business products.Their highly-rated free mobile app has been downloaded over 70 million times. They’re global but local and their products are available in over 30 languages and 70 currencies.Founded in 2003, they employ over 900 staff, with offices in Barcelona, Beijing, Budapest, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Miami, Shenzhen, Singapore and Sofia. Skyscanner is part of the Ctrip group.Skyscanner is always free for travellers and they never charge travellers commission. They work with their airline and online travel agent partners in a number of ways: some partners agree to give Skyscanner a commission for every booking made through us or for every time travellers visit a partner’s website. Other partners advertise on the Skyscanner website and app. They always make sure any adverts are labelled or separate from any search results so users know exactly what’s what.

5 contacts available at Skyscanner.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aoife O' Toole | Senior Growth Manager, Senior Global Paid Marketing Manager, Social | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aoife-o-toole |
| Bryan Young | Senior Growth Manager, Squad Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-young-1546 |
| Darren Huston | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darren-huston |
| Filip Filipov | VP Product Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/filip-filipov |
| Gareth Williams | Cofounder & Chairperson | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gareth-williams |

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## FAQ

### What does Gareth Williams invest in?

Gareth Williams invests primarily in Software, Apps and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 25 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 Gareth Williams's check size?

Gareth Williams typically joins rounds of $655k–$5.2M at Seed, $38k–$1.7M at Pre-Seed and $3.3M–$14M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gareth Williams participates in.

### When did Gareth Williams last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gareth Williams closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 25 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?

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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