# GC Angels

> GC Angels is a VC fund in Manchester backing Software and Fashion. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, United States
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 56%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gc-angels/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/GC_Angels_
- Website: https://gcangels.uk

GC Angels is a VC fund in Manchester focused on Software and Fashion. The Growth Company’s two Angel services, Co-Angel Investment Service and North West Business Angels have recently merged creating a more cohesive offer, enabling increased access to early stage equity funding. The service now known as GC Angels, supports businesses seeking access to angel investment, ranging from £25,000 up to £2m. Developed by GCas the next evolution of its successful Co Angel Investment Service, GC Angels forms part of the GM Combined Authority's response to supporting the early stage investment market, and integrates with the range of wider GC business finance and business support services. It will incorporate the network offer (NWBA); the fee-bearing advisory service (Co Angel) alongside the new GM Co-Investment Fund, providing an innovative, single solution equity funding service.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $335k–$1.7M |
| Angel | $196k–$1.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $131k–$656k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 26% |
| Fashion | 4 | 12% |
| Health Care | 4 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 12% |
| SaaS | 3 | 9% |

66 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 47% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 26% |
| Angel | 6 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 28 | 82% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jessica Jackson | Investment Director | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jessica-jackson-17a0 |
| Damian Mohammed | Investment Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/damian-mohammed |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gaia Learning | World class education for neurodivergent children and edtech gaialytics platform. A registered Cambridge International School online, ADHD Friendly School accredited by the ADHD Foundation with network of skilled online educators offers personalised virtual classrooms and customised learning materials and experiences enabling children to study theBritish national curriculum on the go, at their own pace from anywhere with an internet and mobile device. | $535.1K | Seed | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| BreezeMove | BreezeMove is a software firm that provides property management, consulting, home buying, and selling solutions. | $993.3K | Seed | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Mission C | Mission C provides well-being and dietary supplement products such as beauty care, athletics, and rehabilitation solutions. | $462.5K | Seed | Mar 01, 2026 |  |
| OurPetsLife | Our PetsLife strive is to empower pet parents with innovative, dependable, and accessible pet products trusted by professionals. | $387.7K | Seed | Mar 24, 2025 |  |
| Brarista | Brarista offers AI-powered solutions for online lingerie retailers, enhancing customer experience by providing personalized fittings, reducing sizing confusion, and increasing sales. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 10, 2025 |  |
| Brarista | Brarista offers AI-powered solutions for online lingerie retailers, enhancing customer experience by providing personalized fittings, reducing sizing confusion, and increasing sales. | $656.6K | Seed | Mar 10, 2025 |  |
| Cress | Cress is a new online marketplace focused to buying and selling gently used children's apparel. | $295.6K | Pre-Seed | Feb 21, 2025 |  |
| Gaia Learning | World class education for neurodivergent children and edtech gaialytics platform. A registered Cambridge International School online, ADHD Friendly School accredited by the ADHD Foundation with network of skilled online educators offers personalised virtual classrooms and customised learning materials and experiences enabling children to study theBritish national curriculum on the go, at their own pace from anywhere with an internet and mobile device. | $719.6K | Seed | Oct 07, 2024 |  |
| TheNextLevel | TheNextLevel assists in just a few hours, our design team can produce a gorgeous native mobile app for iOS and Android that precisely matches your vision. The NextLevel uses a drag-and-drop app studio to keep it updated. The NextLevel creates a powerful mobile application that takes advantage of the mobile environment in a few hours. Your mobileapp shouldn't be an engineering nightmare, but rather a high-converting, low-maintenance sales channel. | $656.5K | Pre-Seed | Oct 03, 2024 |  |
| HACE | HACE is a specialist data company focused on the sustainable eradication of child labour in corporate supply chains. Our flagship product, the Child Labour Index (CLI), sold into Financial Services, scores and benchmarks a global universe of companies based on their exposure to child labour risk. Powered by AI, with transparency at its core, theCLI provides comprehensive data on company-specific risks relating to corporate governance frameworks and associated public sentiment, alongside generic supply chain risks affecting industry sectors. With an estimated 160 million children involved in child labour, this is a growing, stand-alone human rights and ESG risk issue for companies and investors, warranting dedicated attention. HACE’s data provides greater transparency around this risk, helping companies and their investors engage in better informed dialogue through the Stewardship Toolkit within the Child Labour Index. HACE is a female-founded business with significant experience in child labour risk management. Our commitment is to help our clients minimise their business and investment risks whilst making a difference around this major social challenge. | $569.8K | Pre-Seed | Feb 28, 2024 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Greater Manchester Combined Authority](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greater-manchester-combined-authority) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Praetura Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/praetura-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Green Angel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/green-angel-syndicate) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nesta Impact Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nesta-impactinvestments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ufi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ufi-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ADV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelerated-digital-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does GC Angels invest in?

GC Angels invests primarily in Software, Fashion and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 34 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 GC Angels's check size?

GC Angels typically joins rounds of $335k–$1.7M at Seed, $196k–$1.3M at Angel and $131k–$656k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds GC Angels participates in.

### How do I contact GC Angels?

Public channels for GC Angels 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 GC Angels?

The team at GC Angels includes Jessica Jackson (Investment Director) and Damian Mohammed (Investment 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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