Herald Ventures
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Herald Ventures is a VC fund in London focused on Software and SaaS. Herald Investment Trust plc is a United Kingdom-based investment company. The Company's objective is to achieve capital appreciation through investments in smaller quoted companies in the areas of telecommunications, multimedia and technology (TMT). It invests in various sectors, including oil and gas, including oil equipment, services anddistribution, and alternative energy; basic materials, such as chemicals; industrials, such as construction and materials, industrial engineering and support services; consumer goods, such as household goods and home construction and leisure goods; healthcare, such as healthcare equipment and services; consumer services, such as general retailers and media; telecommunications, such as fixed line telecommunications and mobile telecommunications; financials, such as financial services, and technology, such as software and computer services. Herald investment management limited (HIML) is the investment manager of the Company.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
Last updated:
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Industries Herald Ventures invests in
SoftwareSaaSManufacturingRisk ManagementEnterprise Software
Stages Herald Ventures invests in
Series BSeries CPost-IPO EquitySeries ASeries D
Countries Herald Ventures invests in
United KingdomIndiaFranceUnited States
Contacts
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Aidan Paul
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Alastair Unwin
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Fergus Argyle
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Fraser Elms
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John Booth
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (29%)
- SaaS 3 (21%)
- Manufacturing 2 (14%)
- Risk Management 2 (14%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (14%)
Stage
- Series B 3 (21%)
- Series C 2 (14%)
- Post-IPO Equity 2 (14%)
- Series A 1 (7%)
- Series D 1 (7%)
Country
- United Kingdom 5 (36%)
- India 1 (7%)
- France 1 (7%)
- United States 1 (7%)
Team
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Aidan Paul
CEO
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CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Alastair Unwin
Team Member
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Team Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Fergus Argyle
Team Member
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Team Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Fraser Elms
Analyst
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Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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John Booth
Consultant
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Consultant | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Median Technologies
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MEDIAN Technologies develops medical imaging software and services dedicated to oncology clinical trials, cancer screening, and clinical practice. The company standardizes and automates the interpretation of medical images in oncology to optimize the diagnosis of cancer patients and the assessment of their response to therapy. The company servestwo primary markets: drug development and patient care. MEDIAN Technologies has a strategic partnership with a contract research organization to offer integrated imaging services for clinical trials to biopharma sponsors worldwide, and a strategic partnership with Canon to develop new imaging technologies, and to address the patient care market. MEDIAN Technologies was founded in 2002 and is based in Sophia-Antipolis, France. | $27.7M / Post-IPO Equity / Aug 01, 2025 | |
Ather Energy
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Ather Energy manufactures electric scooters and an electric vehicle charging network called AtherGrid. It focuses on building a complete ecosystem for India’s electric vehicles powered by indigenous design and all locally manufactured. Ather Energy's key products include the Ather 450X, their flagship electric scooter. It is renowned for itspowerful performance, long-range, and advanced smart features such as touchscreen dashboards, connected mobile apps, and over-the-air updates. The Ather 450 Plus, a slightly less powerful version of the 450X, offers many of the same innovative features while balancing performance and affordability.Both scooters are equipped with a smart dashboard that provides navigation, ride statistics, and other useful features. They are also integrated with mobile apps, allowing users to monitor their vehicle's performance, locate charging points, and access various connected features. | $48.7M / Series E / Oct 17, 2022 | |
Attraqt
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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 | |
Green Plug
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Green Plug brings about a much needed revolution in the way we power electronic products. Today, dozens of consumer electronics (CE products) require external power adapters and battery chargers. Unfortunately, there is no common interface that will provide for interoperability and reusability, convenience, savings and the reduction of unnecessarycomponents that wind up as eWaste because power adapters are normally thrown away when they are in perfect working condition. That's not sustainable. That's poor economics. And, Green Plug has changed this for the better.Green Plug is the first developer of digital technology that enables real-time collaboration between electronic devices and their power sources. Billions of devices including laptops, printers, speakers, routers, modems, cell phones, entertainment devices, power tools, cameras and so many other portable electronic devices require a power source that converts between 90V and 254V wall power to device-specific DC power. That means that these devices require unique power converters, and that is very costly, is extremely inconvenient and contributes to wasted resources and pollution.Greentalk(TM)-enabled intelligent power supplies, however, communicate with electronic devices and negotiate device power requirements for all devices connected to them. All cables and connectors are uniform; so, they work with any device! Being intelligent power sources, they eliminate wasted "phantom power" (power that is wasted when chargers are plugged in and either connected to devices that are fully charged or have no devices connected to them.) Greentalk provides an API for power monitoring and reporting applications as well as advanced control built upon 2-way communication. | Series C / Dec 11, 2012 | |
Celoxica
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Based in London, United Kingdom, Celoxica delivers latency market data access and order execution solutions to the advanced trading community. The company’s solutions include a full range of market data feed handlers for the main U.S. and European equities, options, futures exchanges, and FX. With clients that include trading firms who co-locatetheir strategic applications in high frequency trading environments, market making, liquidity provision, algorithmic trading, and smart order routing, the company also offers a single access point for brokers and their clients by handling inbound FIX, credit check, and outbound native protocol to the execution venues. Celoxica was founded in 1996. | $842K / May 08, 2012 | |
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Celoxica
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Based in London, United Kingdom, Celoxica delivers latency market data access and order execution solutions to the advanced trading community. The company’s solutions include a full range of market data feed handlers for the main U.S. and European equities, options, futures exchanges, and FX. With clients that include trading firms who co-locatetheir strategic applications in high frequency trading environments, market making, liquidity provision, algorithmic trading, and smart order routing, the company also offers a single access point for brokers and their clients by handling inbound FIX, credit check, and outbound native protocol to the execution venues. Celoxica was founded in 1996. | $1.4M / Aug 10, 2010 | |
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Green Plug
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Green Plug brings about a much needed revolution in the way we power electronic products. Today, dozens of consumer electronics (CE products) require external power adapters and battery chargers. Unfortunately, there is no common interface that will provide for interoperability and reusability, convenience, savings and the reduction of unnecessarycomponents that wind up as eWaste because power adapters are normally thrown away when they are in perfect working condition. That's not sustainable. That's poor economics. And, Green Plug has changed this for the better.Green Plug is the first developer of digital technology that enables real-time collaboration between electronic devices and their power sources. Billions of devices including laptops, printers, speakers, routers, modems, cell phones, entertainment devices, power tools, cameras and so many other portable electronic devices require a power source that converts between 90V and 254V wall power to device-specific DC power. That means that these devices require unique power converters, and that is very costly, is extremely inconvenient and contributes to wasted resources and pollution.Greentalk(TM)-enabled intelligent power supplies, however, communicate with electronic devices and negotiate device power requirements for all devices connected to them. All cables and connectors are uniform; so, they work with any device! Being intelligent power sources, they eliminate wasted "phantom power" (power that is wasted when chargers are plugged in and either connected to devices that are fully charged or have no devices connected to them.) Greentalk provides an API for power monitoring and reporting applications as well as advanced control built upon 2-way communication. | Series B / Feb 03, 2010 | |
CriticalBlue
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Headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, with a branch office in San Jose, California, CriticalBlue is a well-established part of the Edinburgh technological scene. We launched Approov to help our customers protect the business value that is flowing through their API channels.Our innovative technology enables next generation mobile API security,eradicating whole classes of threats and inefficiencies with one seamless integration into existing software infrastructure.Our extensive experience in the depths of the software stack and our dynamic runtime technologies proven in the field make us ideally positioned to offer a digital business protection solution that is effective even at the lowest binary level, computationally efficient, and straightforward to integrate. | $4M / Series C / Sep 10, 2008 | |
Enigmatec
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Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. offers automation solutions for physical and virtual resource management. The company offers Execution Management System, an automation solution to implement run book automation solutions that describe the process of cataloguing, codifying, testing, and automating the manual, scripted, and ad hoc procedures used to manageinformation technology (IT) environments. It offers Enigmatec Virtual Orchestrator, which provides a self-service request user interface that automates IT workflows to provision, configure, allocate, and reclaim virtual resources; Enigmatec Automated Disaster Recovery that creates, deploys, manages, and monitors various aspects of disaster recovery operations; Execution Management System, a solution to automate repetitive scripted or manual tasks; and integrations and adapters for various commercial and in-house technologies. Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. also provides Cloud Lifecycle Management Solution that manages requests and resources that are sourced from internal source and acquired from the cloud. In addition, it offers Rapid Start Program for virtualization management, process audit, and training; and a range of courses, including introductory, intermediate, and advanced classes for developers, integration specialists, system administrators, and IT operators. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in New York, New York. | $14M / Series D / Aug 06, 2008 | |
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Celoxica
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Based in London, United Kingdom, Celoxica delivers latency market data access and order execution solutions to the advanced trading community. The company’s solutions include a full range of market data feed handlers for the main U.S. and European equities, options, futures exchanges, and FX. With clients that include trading firms who co-locatetheir strategic applications in high frequency trading environments, market making, liquidity provision, algorithmic trading, and smart order routing, the company also offers a single access point for brokers and their clients by handling inbound FIX, credit check, and outbound native protocol to the execution venues. Celoxica was founded in 1996. | $3.9M / Jan 06, 2007 | |
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FAQ
What does Herald Ventures invest in?
Herald Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 14 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 Herald Ventures?
The team at Herald Ventures includes Aidan Paul (CEO), Alastair Unwin (Team Member) and Fergus Argyle (Team Member), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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