# Haatch

> Haatch is a VC fund in Stamford backing Software and Information Technology. See 593 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stamford, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 593
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last fund: Dec 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/haatch
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/haatch
- Website: http://www.haatch.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/haatch

Haatch is a VC fund in Stamford focused on Software and Information Technology. We accelerate Pre-seed B2B SaaS companies to their first £1m ARR and build the infrastructure to get to £10m+. We’re experts in Founder-led-sales and building early sales teams. We operate both SEIS & EIS Funds which invest in B2B SaaS companies solving deep pains in the present and/or creating massive impact for organisations.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 34 | 6% |
| Information Technology | 17 | 3% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 17 | 3% |
| SaaS | 15 | 3% |
| E-Commerce | 13 | 2% |

146 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 68 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 64 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 1% |
| Series A | 4 | 1% |
| Series B | 1 | 0% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 92 | 16% |
| United States | 6 | 1% |
| Ireland | 4 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 0% |
| Norway | 1 | 0% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Simon Penson | Partner | 127 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-penson |
| Charlie Weavers-Wright | Associate | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charlie-weavers-wright-d4f0 |
| Elaine Weavers-Wright | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elaine-weavers-wright |
| Frederick Soneya | Co-Founder & Partner | 133 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fred-soneya |
| Gauri Kanodia | Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gauri-kanodia |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| YardOps | YardOps provides a cloud-based modular yard management platform designed to optimize time-stamped activities across gatehouses, supply chain yards, and loading docks. The software replaces spreadsheets and radio communication by delivering real-time vehicle visibility, arrival flow management, and automated digital check-ins. Through thiscentralized hub, businesses reduce carrier detention charges, resolve disputes with defensible operational evidence, and improve warehouse throughput. | $673.4K | Seed | Aug 03, 2026 |  |
| Kinematic Trees | Kinematic Trees develops software for modular robotics and evolvable artificial intelligence, with a focus on business and domestic software applications. The company provides a robot-agnostic technology stack that lets developers connect to robots, access sensor data, and issue high-level motion and control commands across different hardwareplatforms. Its KT Engine, APIs, and robot drivers manage communication, kinematics, and low-level electronics so applications can run on diverse robots without code rewrites. Kinematic Trees offers KT Cognition for composing modular perception, decision-making, and action components into full robotics behaviors. It also provides KT Helix, which supports deploying parts of a robot’s control and cognition in the cloud. Together these tools target developers, researchers, and hobbyists building portable robotics applications across operating systems, programming languages, and robot form factors. | $777.6K | Pre-Seed | Jul 29, 2026 |  |
| Prolo | Procurement within the construction industry is traditional, analogue and ripe for disruption. We’re on a mission to help construction companies reduce costs and save time through our new AI procurement tool, Prolo.Our service leverages cutting-edge AI, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and voicetranscription, to bypass outdated practices in the construction industry. This technology enhances decision-making, increases efficiency, and delivers a superior user experience. | $5.6M | Seed | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Unloq AI | Unloq AI creates embedded, co-created technologies that link your business objectives to actual AI-enabled execution. | $1.2M | Seed | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| Friday4:30 | Friday4:30 operates an end-to-end SaaS incident management platform designed to streamline live crisis coordination for food and beverage brands. The software replaces fragmented spreadsheets, manual procedures, and email chains with a unified framework for logging and tracking operational disruptions. By centralizing early signals, communicationworkflows, and response strategies in one structured interface, the platform ensures rapid, auditable resolution for product recalls and supply chain failures. | $449.2K | Pre-Seed | Jun 12, 2026 |  |
| Breaking Change | Breaking Change develops simulation-driven game technology and real-time platforms for core gaming studios. The company focuses on research, development, and engineering of real-time simulation systems that support deeply systemic and replayable gameplay. Its licensable platform is designed to help external studios create complex mechanics andinteractive experiences across multiple genres. Breaking Change builds visual computing and automation pipelines to support efficient development workflows. It targets core game developers seeking to integrate advanced simulation features into their titles. The company also maintains R&D collaborations and provides its technology as reusable infrastructure for interactive entertainment projects. | $980.6K | Pre-Seed | Jun 08, 2026 |  |
| Happl | Our goal is to make Happl the leading People Experience platform for businesses across the globe. We want every manager to feel empowered to engage and support their teams, to make sure employees feel like they belong. | $11M | Series A | May 11, 2026 |  |
| Tellis Labs | Tellis is an agentic catalogue platform for mid-market ecommerce brands. Specialised AI agents work across the entire product catalogue — enriching descriptions, fixing feed data, and auditing visuals — grounded in real shopper signals from reviews, returns and support tickets. Built for Shopify and Magento merchants who need every productdiscoverable across traditional search and AI shopping channels. | $500K | Pre-Seed | May 07, 2026 |  |
| Open Moove | Open Moove is a software platform that provides tools for property transactions, collaboration, and workflow management. | $948.8K | Pre-Seed | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| StirLight | StirLight is a manufacturing company that focuses on friction stir welding a solid‑state joining process used to weld metals—particularly aluminium and dissimilar alloys—without melting the material. It operates as a small‑scale engineering and manufacturing service, using its own FSW‑capable machinery and technical expertise to support partnersin sectors such as aerospace, automotive, energy, and industrial equipment, where high‑integrity, low‑distortion joints are critical | $1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 14, 2026 |  |

10 of 593 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Portfolio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portfolio-ventures) — VC Fund, 23 deals together
- [Act Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/act-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [Playfair Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/playfair-capital) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Sure Valley Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/suir-valley-venture) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Ascension](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascension-ventures-limited) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Avonmore Developments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avonmore-developments) — VC Fund, 13 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Haatch invest in?

Haatch invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 593 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Haatch?

The team at Haatch includes Simon Penson (Partner), Charlie Weavers-Wright (Associate) and Elaine Weavers-Wright (Co-Founder), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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