# Hargreave Hale

> Hargreave Hale is a VC fund in London backing E-Commerce and Apps. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jul 2019
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hargreave-hale/
- Website: https://www.hargreave-hale.co.uk/

Hargreave Hale is a VC fund in London focused on E-Commerce and Apps. Hargreave Hale Limited offers security trading and brokerage services to institutional and individual clients. The company provides investment advisory, share brokerage and dealing, portfolio management, custodial services, unit trusts, individual savings accounts (ISA’s), personal equity plans (PEP’s), and intermediary services. They understandthat no two people are the same, so anything they do will always focus on clients as individuals. They work with their clients to assess their personal circumstances and determine future goals, ensuring that any solution they provide is suited to their specific needs. Their philosophy is to try to give clients what they want rather than tell them what they can have.Hargreave Hale is a leading provider of investment management, stock broking and fund management services in the UK. Their experienced professionals offer private clients, professional intermediaries, companies, trusts and charities a progressive and modern approach to investment coupled with traditional values of customer service.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 38% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |
| Baby | 1 | 13% |
| Gift | 1 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 2 | 25% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |
| Series D | 1 | 13% |
| Series E | 1 | 13% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 63% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Clueit | Head of Compliance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-clueit |
| Lee Finlayson | Joint Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lee-finlayson |
| Siddarth Chand Lall | Fund Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/siddarth-chand-lall |
| Stuart Brookes | Joint Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stuart-brookes |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gousto | Gousto provides you with all the ingredients in the right proportions to cook delicious meals at home. The produce is organic, fresh, and seasonal. Gousto’s recipes are developed by a team of passionate chefs and tested by all their friends and families first (very picky people). You get to choose the recipes online and every week the selection isupdated to make sure there’re plenty of new recipes for you. The recipes are delivered right to your doorstep once a week so you decide when to cook. Whenever you’re on holiday or just don’t have time, simply place the subscription on hold – it’s easy.Gousto was started in 2011 by two friends who share a passion for food and cooking. In their previous lives, Timo and James loved cooking but didn’t have much time to go to various grocery shops. They found it difficult to cook recipes from online databases or follow cook-along TV shows. Ready-meals from supermarkets do the job but the quality isn’t great, they have lots of additives, and they get boring very easily. One day, James and Timo decided that there must be some way to make life easier and the idea for Gousto was born. The first recipes were offered at market stalls and from there the concept has grown into what you see today. Of course, all of Timo and James' friends are Gousto guinea pigs. Today, Gousto has a team of professional chefs and passionate amateurs (thanks mum), making sure that the recipes cover all cuisines and styles. | $38.2M | Series F | Jul 12, 2019 |  |
| Gousto | Gousto provides you with all the ingredients in the right proportions to cook delicious meals at home. The produce is organic, fresh, and seasonal. Gousto’s recipes are developed by a team of passionate chefs and tested by all their friends and families first (very picky people). You get to choose the recipes online and every week the selection isupdated to make sure there’re plenty of new recipes for you. The recipes are delivered right to your doorstep once a week so you decide when to cook. Whenever you’re on holiday or just don’t have time, simply place the subscription on hold – it’s easy.Gousto was started in 2011 by two friends who share a passion for food and cooking. In their previous lives, Timo and James loved cooking but didn’t have much time to go to various grocery shops. They found it difficult to cook recipes from online databases or follow cook-along TV shows. Ready-meals from supermarkets do the job but the quality isn’t great, they have lots of additives, and they get boring very easily. One day, James and Timo decided that there must be some way to make life easier and the idea for Gousto was born. The first recipes were offered at market stalls and from there the concept has grown into what you see today. Of course, all of Timo and James' friends are Gousto guinea pigs. Today, Gousto has a team of professional chefs and passionate amateurs (thanks mum), making sure that the recipes cover all cuisines and styles. | $22.9M | Series E | Jan 06, 2019 |  |
| Albert Technologies | Albert is the first-ever artificial intelligence marketing platform for the enterprise, driving fully autonomous digital marketing campaigns for some of the world’s leading brands. Created by Albert Technologies Ltd. in 2010, Albert’s mission is to liberate businesses from the complexities of digital marketing – not just by replicating theirexisting efforts, but by executing them at a pace and scale not previously possible. He serves as a highly intelligent and sophisticated member of brands’ marketing teams, wading through mass amounts of data, converting this data into insights, and autonomously acting on these insights, across channels, devices and formats, in real time. This eliminates the manual and time-consuming tasks that currently limit the effectiveness and results of modern digital advertising and marketing. Brands such as Harley Davidson, EVISU, Cosabella, and Made.com credit Albert with significantly increased sales, an accelerated path to revenue, the ability to make more informed investment decisions, and reduced operational costs. | $18M | Post-IPO Equity | Jul 04, 2018 |  |
| Gousto | Gousto provides you with all the ingredients in the right proportions to cook delicious meals at home. The produce is organic, fresh, and seasonal. Gousto’s recipes are developed by a team of passionate chefs and tested by all their friends and families first (very picky people). You get to choose the recipes online and every week the selection isupdated to make sure there’re plenty of new recipes for you. The recipes are delivered right to your doorstep once a week so you decide when to cook. Whenever you’re on holiday or just don’t have time, simply place the subscription on hold – it’s easy.Gousto was started in 2011 by two friends who share a passion for food and cooking. In their previous lives, Timo and James loved cooking but didn’t have much time to go to various grocery shops. They found it difficult to cook recipes from online databases or follow cook-along TV shows. Ready-meals from supermarkets do the job but the quality isn’t great, they have lots of additives, and they get boring very easily. One day, James and Timo decided that there must be some way to make life easier and the idea for Gousto was born. The first recipes were offered at market stalls and from there the concept has grown into what you see today. Of course, all of Timo and James' friends are Gousto guinea pigs. Today, Gousto has a team of professional chefs and passionate amateurs (thanks mum), making sure that the recipes cover all cuisines and styles. | $37.3M | Series D | Mar 12, 2018 |  |
| Laundrapp | Laundrapp is the UK’s leading online laundry and dry cleaning service, offering unparalleled levels of quality cleaning right across London and up to 100 towns and cities. Their 5-star laundry service replaces the need for using your local laundrette or dry cleaner and offers a quick and convenient pick-up service direct from your home. Their free,award-winning app is available on both iOS and Android devices, however, you can also place your order online through their website. | $7.2M | Series C | Jul 25, 2017 |  |
| Zappar | Zappar is an app development company that specializes in developing augmented reality, virtual reality products, infotainment experiences, and original intellectual properties. The company also works with licenses and brand partners who are looking for marketing opportunities.Zappar’s app, ZapWorks, allows users to build individual augmentedreality and virtual reality content to interact with others. For example, users who look at select boxes of Pauls yogurt, through the ZapWorks app, on their phones will see an interactive augmented reality animation of cartoon characters emerging from the box.Zapper was founded by Simon Taylor, Connell Gauld, and Caspar Thykier in 2011. The company is based in London, United Kingdom. | $3.8M | Series A | Feb 23, 2017 |  |
| My 1st Years | Once upon a time, two best friends named Jonny and Dan were looking for the perfect gift for a friend’s new-born. They wanted to give a unique present that was personal and wouldn't break the bank - but they could not find the perfect one. After many hours of research and trialling, they created their very first pair of personalised babyshoes. Soon the shoes were being requested by friends and relatives everywhere, and My 1st Years was born.Since then, My 1st years has been dedicated to creating high-quality personalised gifts, all made with as much love, as that very first pair of shoes. With next day delivery available and the brand’s iconic luxury gift box free with orders, it really is the online destination for gifts loved by all. | $6.5M | Series A | Jan 16, 2017 |  |
| Attraqt | Attraqt (LON: ATQT) powers exceptional shopping experiences for over 300 of the world’s leading brands and retailers, with Search, Merchandising and Personalization solutions. Attraqt optimizes ecommerce site performance through a set of API-enabled, algorithm-driven, intelligent SaaS services. Ultimately ensuring individualized and connectedmicro-experiences that support product discovery from inspiration to purchase, and beyond. The platform is embedded with AI to unify and empower all key customer journey stakeholders, enabling business, data and technical teams to successfully leverage existing ecommerce technology investments.Our AI models perform in real-time whilst allowing clients to integrate their own algorithms. This helps to build and act on true personalization strategies to create differentiated experiences at scale, so our customers can exceed the expectations of today’s shopper, while reaching commercial goals. Attraqt is publicly listed on LSE: AIM and headquartered in London, with offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, Paris, Sofia, Hamburg and Sydney. |  | Post-IPO Equity | Nov 01, 2015 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

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- [MMC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mmc-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ACF Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-cofund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Atami Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atami-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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## FAQ

### What does Hargreave Hale invest in?

Hargreave Hale invests primarily in E-Commerce, Apps and Baby startups, most often at Series A and Post-IPO Equity stage. Most of the 8 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 Hargreave Hale?

The team at Hargreave Hale includes David Clueit (Head of Compliance), Lee Finlayson (Joint Managing Director) and Siddarth Chand Lall (Fund Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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