Impact Ventures UK
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Impact Ventures UK (IVUK) is a growth capital impact fund managed by LGT Venture Philanthropy (LGT VP) and launched in partnership with Berenberg. They have seen the emergence of innovative and competitive business models being developed to improve the quality of life of disadvantaged individuals in the UK. IVUK was founded to invest in and support these enterprises. They are focused on delivering and measuring social impact through a professionalised framework established over the last seven years by LGT VP across the globe.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 58%
- Fund size:
- $34M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Impact Ventures UK invests in
Stages Impact Ventures UK invests in
Countries Impact Ventures UK invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $524k–$3.3M
- Series B
- $648k–$42M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.3M–$2.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (21%)
- SaaS 3 (16%)
- Information Technology 3 (16%)
- Apps 2 (11%)
- Consulting 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (26%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (21%)
- Series B 3 (16%)
- Series A 2 (11%)
- Series C 1 (5%)
Country
- United Kingdom 12 (63%)
- India 1 (5%)
- Australia 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jared Tausz
Investment Manager
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Investment Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Kevin Bone
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Lucy Inmonger
Investment Manager
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Investment Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Lullo Lullo
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Oliver Karius
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orkestra is a renewable energy software platform that provides tools to assist energy companies in the planning, selling, and optimization of new energy deployments. | $1.3M / Seed / Oct 19, 2023 | ||
| Elvie is a health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. They are committed to building extraordinary products that improve the health and lives of women everywhere and at all stages of life.Their first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected Kegel trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor viafun, five-minute workouts. Launched in October 2015 to great acclaim, they took the wellness industry by storm! Our street cred includes more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious CES Innovation Award, the IDA Design Award, and the Red Dot Award. As a business, Elvie has been recognized as one of Wired’s ‘hottest start-ups" and named one of the 15 start-ups "to watch" by The Sunday Times, and both products have been featured in the Oscar nominee gift bags.They recently launched a second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent wearable breast pump, which is making it possible for new mothers to pump anytime, anywhere. Elvie Pump received international praise following its unveiling on the catwalk at London Fashion Week and at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B led by IPGL and supported by Octopus Ventures and Impact Ventures. This represented the largest ever fundraise in femtech. This new round of financing will accelerate Elvie’s research and development efforts as well as help grow brand awareness and distribution for Elvie Pump and Elvie Trainer across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.Headquartered in London, UK, with offices also in New York City, the company has received numerous awards and raised more than $52 million in investment. | $42M / Series B / Apr 02, 2019 | ||
| Ummeed Housing Finance is a housing finance company that provides home loans and loan against property to lower and middle income families. The company aims to help people with informal incomes, who have limited access to organized finance and who constitute significant portion of the Indian population.Ummeed Housing Finance's servicesinclude issuance of home loans and loan against property to improve operational efficiency and reduce turnaround time for customers, enabling low and middle income households to get access to affordable housing loans in an innovative and personalized manner. | $8.3M / Series C / Sep 24, 2018 | ||
| Farmdrop is the online ethical supermarket delivering locally procuded, organic groceries and ethical home essentials directly to your door. It brings tastier, healthier and more convenient food, all while supporting a more sustainable food system for everyone.By cutting out the middleman, Farmdrop pays a fairer price to producers, whilecustomers get access to food which is up to five times fresher than what is sold by conventional supermarkets. Because your shop shouldn't cost the Earth. | $13.3M / Series B / Jun 14, 2018 | ||
| teamtogether is the change management platform that humanises organisational transformation by putting people at the heart of change. Proven to be at least 6x* more impactful than alternatives with global customers.We are the result of a pivot of Freeformers where we worked with many large organisations delivering successful change programmes viathe change network, or champion, approach. teamtogether is the only SaaS platform that delivers change network management at scale. | $1.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 24, 2018 | ||
| Unforgettable’s mission is to improve the lives’ of all those affected by dementia worldwide and to become the leading global brand destination for life-changing dementia products and services.We are well funded by the UK’s leading social impact investors and Mckesson Ventures. Mckesson is the world’s largest healthcare company. We are a B Corpand believe that business should be a force for good.Unforgettable.org is the most visited dementia product specialist online and the world’s best marketplace of dementia products and services with over 1000 products to help those with dementia do the things we take for granted. And now in partnership with Lloyds Pharmacy, we are the first to bring dementia products to the high street – improving access and raising awareness of dementia products for the people who need them the most. | $2.9M / May 02, 2017 | ||
| Latimer is the youth co-creation agency.We put young creatives, consumers, tribes or influencers at the heart of strategy, content creation and distribution. All too often, organisations make key decisions on behalf of young audiences, without involving them in the process. Our mission is to bring the two parties closer together than everbefore, ensuring the objectives of the brand and the needs of the audience are met in equal measure. Heralded in The Guardian as "Moral Mad Men", we have co-created with over 55,000 young people across 37 countries worldwide, with an influencer reach of over 350 million. At our core, we believe in creating opportunities for young people, by giving them the chance to help brand partners shape their agendas and content. The outputs from this ensure that the objectives of the brand and the needs of the audience are met in equal measure.Going on a journey with your audience is an incredibly exciting process and we’ve seen the results outperform industry standard metrics for our brand partners when they team up with inspiring young talent. These results demonstrate the power of working with youth communities and talent, as no one knows how to reach youth audiences better than the audience themselves.Latimer are listed in the top 50 most disruptive businesses in the UK by Real Business and described as "the future of advertising".Latimer have built powerful youth communities for some of the worlds biggest brands and causes, delivering impactful outcomes. Recent clients include; VOXI by Vodafone, Unilever, The Big Issue, eBay, Public Health England, THINK!, Plan International, Samsung, MTV, BBC Three, British Council, National Crime Agency and Bose. | $1.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 06, 2016 | ||
| K10 was founded in 2010 to address the declining number of apprentices working in the construction sector and the difficulties contractors faced when committed to delivering effective apprenticeship programmes.Working in collaboration with government, local authorities, developers, contractors, sub-contractors, training providers and 3rd sectororganisations, K10 is a London wide construction skills network.We recognise the short term nature of contracts on site and when the contractor has no more work for the trainee, apprentices are released back to K10 and we place them on another site with a different host contractor.K10 takes full responsibility for the individuals’ apprenticeship and all associated contractual obligations. | $648.3K / Series B / Sep 29, 2016 | ||
| Livity, the Youth Marketing Agency. Our purpose is to measurably improve the lives of young people (whilst still finding time to play hide and seek). | $2M / Seed / Sep 19, 2016 | ||
| Learning Possibilities develops and provides a cloud based school learning platform for education and government customers. It offers LP+4, a learning platform that provides one-click collaboration/communication tools, drag and drop resource/assignment management, integration with MIS systems, and usage analytics; and LP+365, a learningmanagement system on Office 365 that provides an intuitive user interface, personalized dashboard, and various collaboration and assignment tools. Learning Possibilities also provides secure Infrastructure as a Service and Software as a Service solutions to the private and public sectors. Mehool Sanghrajka founded Enterprise MPC in 1989 that became Learning Possibilities in 2007, with its headquarters in Elstree in the United Kingdom and offices in London in United Kingdom and the Middle East. | $5.6M / Series A / May 10, 2016 | ||
| See all 19 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Impact Ventures UK invest in?
Impact Ventures UK invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Impact Ventures UK invest in?
Impact Ventures UK typically joins rounds of $524k–$3.3M at Seed, $648k–$42M at Series B and $1.3M–$2.3M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Impact Ventures UK's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Impact Ventures UK took part in.
How do I contact Impact Ventures UK?
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Who are the partners at Impact Ventures UK?
The team at Impact Ventures UK includes Jared Tausz (Investment Manager), Kevin Bone (Partner) and Lucy Inmonger (Investment Manager), 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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