Guinness Ventures
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Guinness Ventures is a VC fund in London focused on Software and E-Commerce. Guinness Ventures has invested into early stage businesses since 2010, providing capital to a wide range of UK companies
- Total investments:
- 48
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 60%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Guinness Ventures invests in
Stages Guinness Ventures invests in
Countries Guinness Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $3.8M–$12M
- Series B
- $4.6M–$15M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $2M–$158M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (17%)
- E-Commerce 5 (10%)
- Health Care 5 (10%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (10%)
- Analytics 4 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 22 (46%)
- Series B 6 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (13%)
- Funding Round 5 (10%)
- Seed 1 (2%)
Country
- United Kingdom 31 (65%)
- Australia 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ashley Abrahams
Fund Manager
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Fund Manager | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
Edward Guinness
Chief Executive Officer
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Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Timothy Guinness
Founder & Chief Investment Officer
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Founder & Chief Investment Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Adam Barker
Senior Associate
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Senior Associate | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Giles Kidd-May
Chief Marketing Officer
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Chief Marketing Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shot Scope's statistic collecting technology is currently in development, led by a team of engineers and golfers based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Trials are planned on UK golf courses throughout 2015 with general release scheduled for 2016. | $8.4M / Series B / Jul 31, 2024 | ||
| Holibob operates as a B2B marketplace for tours and experiences. It helps consumer-facing travel and lifestyle brands to access their premium inventory that is instantly bookable. It also enables its B2B travel partners to access an incremental revenue stream, whilst improving their customer's experience via its curated and personalizedcontent which generates deep brand experiences. | Series A / Jun 10, 2024 | ||
| Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences. With Rugby being their primary focus, they are working with a number of teams and manufacturers to create and develop hardware and wearable devices that enable sport specific data to be collated in real time. Their technology gives the viewer, the team, and thebroadcaster unprecedented insight into the decision making of players.Sportable was founded in 2015 and is based in London, England. | $3.8M / Series A / May 01, 2024 | ||
| Qureight is an imaging analytics company. It also aims to develop a new improved and streamlined version of its analytical platform – harnessing the ability of AI and advanced processing tools to gain new insights into respiratory diseases such as Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) and lung cancer. | $8.5M / Series A / Apr 16, 2024 | ||
| Curators of original food, brands and experiences. Bringing non-stop originality to kitchens everywhere.Sessions is a growth platform for original food brands and experiences. Founded in 2019, we're on a mission to bring non-stop originality to every kitchen and food lovers across the UK.Today we have launched and scaled 10 food brands,partnered with 270+ hot kitchens delivering over 3 million orders, launched curated residencies in popular venues such as Mikkeller Brewery and Roundhouse, and are the team, chefs and hands behind the iconic reimagined food hall in Brighton, Sessions @ Shelter Hall. We Manage, Licence & Franchise our food brands alongside creating food tech products such as POS systems and kitchen tech hardware. Who's Hungry? | $3.8M / Apr 08, 2024 | ||
| PlotBox is a developer of a cemetery management software used to facilitate cemeteries operation services. Its software offers records management that bring all deceased records together into a quickly searchable database that includes images of headstones and paper records, generate pre and at-need contracts with ease, interpret financial data aswell as manages all the administration related to burials and cremations including finance and reporting that enable clients to generate leads and revenue for cemeteries and improves service levels for families. | $6.2M / May 31, 2023 | ||
| Doctify is a high-growth HeathTech company revolutionizing the global healthcare market. Having expanded into 4 markets with an ambitious growth plan over the coming year. Doctify has developed a first-of-its-kind healthcare-specific patient feedback and review product allowing healthcare providers to drive improvements in patient care on a dailybasis. Our technology allows healthcare providers to collect and digitize patient feedback and publish it through multiple channels (both externally and internally). The SaaS tool provides insights and analytics into the care they provide. It means for the first time patients can read real-time verified feedback for a hospital, clinic, or doctor for a specific condition or procedure. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 31, 2023 | ||
| Shot Scope's statistic collecting technology is currently in development, led by a team of engineers and golfers based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Trials are planned on UK golf courses throughout 2015 with general release scheduled for 2016. | $3.3M / Series A / Dec 13, 2022 | ||
| Changing the future of eLearning with OBRIZUM, using Ai to create Automated, Adaptive, and Analytic eLearning. | $12.1M / Series A / Nov 23, 2022 | ||
| In five years, Cera has expanded to 10,000+ staff across the UK and Germany, delivering 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, and has grown from zero to nearly $300M revenues. Every day, Cera delivers healthcare services equivalent to several dozen hospitals or 1,000 care homes, and has grown 100-fold over the past two years making it one of the fastestgrowing businesses in Europe.Cera currently holds more than 300+ partnerships with the NHS and local authorities, and the company’s technology is used by 2,000+ businesses nationwide. It’s technology predicts health deteriorations in patients 30-fold faster than traditional care companies, with its Professional Carers and Nurses responding to over 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts each day.Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cera has delivered 10 million healthcare visits in people’s homes, created 10,000 jobs, and licensed it’s recruitment technology to the UK Government Department of Health to recruit 50,000+ people into healthcare careers. Cera was co-founded by entrepreneur, physician and policy expert Dr Ben Maruthappu, and its advisory board is chaired by Sir David Behan, the former CEO of the Care Quality Commission. Cera’s technology and care network have been recognised by over 30 industry awards including Deloitte Fast 50 (#8 in 2021, down from #26 in 2020), Sunday Times Fast Track and Most Outstanding Home Care Provider. | $170.2M / Series C / Aug 04, 2022 | ||
| See all 48 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Guinness Ventures invest in?
Guinness Ventures invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 48 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 Guinness Ventures's check size?
Guinness Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.8M–$12M at Series A, $4.6M–$15M at Series B and $2M–$158M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Guinness Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Guinness Ventures?
The team at Guinness Ventures includes Ashley Abrahams (Fund Manager), Edward Guinness (Chief Executive Officer) and Timothy Guinness (Founder & Chief Investment Officer), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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