# Imran Akram

> Imran Akram is a Series B investor at AVP (London) backing SaaS, Software and Recruiting. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [AVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axa-strategic-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 45%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/growthcapital
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/imran_akram
- Website: http://www.growthandcapital.com

Imran Akram is a Series B investor at AVP in London focused on SaaS and Software. Growth equity investor at AXA Venture Partners focused on €2-40m equity cheques into technology businesses across Europe, North America and Israel. Proven investor in marketplaces (Auto1, Zenjob, Florence), fintech (Remitly), software (Cognism and Sendcloud) and consumer businesses (Innogames, Treatwell).Imran co-founded AXA Venture Partners in2016 after a prior decade of technology investment experience. He graduated First Class from Christ Church, Oxford with a Masters in Engineering, Economics and Management and worked in banking and consulting before realising how much he enjoyed investing.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 27% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Recruiting | 2 | 18% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 18% |
| Sales Automation | 2 | 18% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 6 | 55% |
| Series C | 3 | 27% |
| Series D | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 3 | 27% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 27% |
| Spain | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FINBOURNE Technology | FINBOURNE Technology was founded in December 2016 with a mission to reduce the cost of investing and increase transparency for everyone. The company has grown from seven founders to over 130 people in less than five years. Our SaaS-native solutions offer greater agility and control, designed to deliver a new standard for data management, with afaster time to market. Built as a bitemporal engine and using open APIs, LUSID® ingests and translates data across organisations’ existing operational stack and wider ecosystem. The data platform supports IBOR, ABOR, tax-lot accounting, valuation and risk workflows. While, Luminesce®, a data virtualisation engine, solves the need to find and securely gather an extended world of data in real-time, enabling deeper insights and analytics. Together, they cover a depth of critical data management processes, for start-up managers, through to global investment institutions. | $69.9M | Series B | Jun 17, 2024 |  |
| Florence | Florence is an online marketplace that connects vacant care home shifts to local nurses and carers looking for extra work. Our online platform takes an intelligent approach to managing the healthcare staffing crisis. Florence is built with the needs of nurses and healthcare providers at the forefront. It operates as a marketplace that cuts out themiddleman and empowers healthcare operators to find the right staff with the right skills at the right time. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London, England. | $36M | Series B | May 30, 2022 |  |
| Zenjob | Zenjob is a digital staffing marketplace that provides temporary work to workers and employees to companies. Using the Zenjob app, talents find and book jobs on an hourly basis and can flexibly decide when, where and for whom they work. Each month, more than 40.000 workers are employed in sectors such as logistics, e-commerce, retail, and service.Zenjob was founded in 2015 by Fritz Trott, Cihan Aksakal, and Frederik Fahning in Berlin and currently employs over 300 people. | $51M | Series D | Feb 22, 2022 |  |
| Cognism | Cognism is an end-to-end sales-acceleration solution that provides sales organizations with a more efficient way to prospect. Delivered as a software service (SaaS), with its unique data asset and compliance engine, Cognism is helping to enrich CRM records, stream leads into the funnel and is using artificial intelligence to surface opportunitiesand identify customer trends. The company is a pure AI sales technology company that generates prospect data at scale, cleaning and enriching it, helping sales teams to grow and scale across all levels of the sales process.  Cognism using patented AI technology, to provide B2B sales teams with a blend of real-time company, people and event data to streamline prospecting, find and deliver new revenue. It integrates seamlessly with all major CRM and Email Service systems. They use it to manage their database and provide high-quality, real-time B2B data to their clients.Cognism was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England, UK, with offices in USA, Macedonia and Croatia. | $87.8M | Series C | Jan 13, 2022 |  |
| Zenjob | Zenjob is a digital staffing marketplace that provides temporary work to workers and employees to companies. Using the Zenjob app, talents find and book jobs on an hourly basis and can flexibly decide when, where and for whom they work. Each month, more than 40.000 workers are employed in sectors such as logistics, e-commerce, retail, and service.Zenjob was founded in 2015 by Fritz Trott, Cihan Aksakal, and Frederik Fahning in Berlin and currently employs over 300 people. | $29.9M | Series C | May 12, 2020 |  |
| Cognism | Cognism is an end-to-end sales-acceleration solution that provides sales organizations with a more efficient way to prospect. Delivered as a software service (SaaS), with its unique data asset and compliance engine, Cognism is helping to enrich CRM records, stream leads into the funnel and is using artificial intelligence to surface opportunitiesand identify customer trends. The company is a pure AI sales technology company that generates prospect data at scale, cleaning and enriching it, helping sales teams to grow and scale across all levels of the sales process.  Cognism using patented AI technology, to provide B2B sales teams with a blend of real-time company, people and event data to streamline prospecting, find and deliver new revenue. It integrates seamlessly with all major CRM and Email Service systems. They use it to manage their database and provide high-quality, real-time B2B data to their clients.Cognism was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England, UK, with offices in USA, Macedonia and Croatia. | $12M | Series B | Mar 10, 2020 |  |
| Zenjob | Zenjob is a digital staffing marketplace that provides temporary work to workers and employees to companies. Using the Zenjob app, talents find and book jobs on an hourly basis and can flexibly decide when, where and for whom they work. Each month, more than 40.000 workers are employed in sectors such as logistics, e-commerce, retail, and service.Zenjob was founded in 2015 by Fritz Trott, Cihan Aksakal, and Frederik Fahning in Berlin and currently employs over 300 people. | $15.9M | Series B | Nov 20, 2018 |  |
| ForceManager | ForceManager is the all-in-one sales accelerator platform for field sales teams. In order to improve results and increase sales activity, the system offers a native application for smartphones, tablets and the Apple Watch that tracks and provides contextual information when on the move, allowing sales reps to work efficiently and focus on selling,not on reporting.With ForceManager, sales managers also get real-time insights into their sales team's activity. By receiving detailed statistics that accurately reflect all interactions between sales teams and customers, managers make better decisions and increase quarterly revenue. |  |  | Sep 14, 2018 |  |
| ForceManager | ForceManager is the all-in-one sales accelerator platform for field sales teams. In order to improve results and increase sales activity, the system offers a native application for smartphones, tablets and the Apple Watch that tracks and provides contextual information when on the move, allowing sales reps to work efficiently and focus on selling,not on reporting.With ForceManager, sales managers also get real-time insights into their sales team's activity. By receiving detailed statistics that accurately reflect all interactions between sales teams and customers, managers make better decisions and increase quarterly revenue. | $12M | Series B | Nov 23, 2017 |  |
| Quandoo | In 8 years, Quandoo has expanded into 11 countries and has seated more than 200 million diners in 18,000+ restaurants. Quandoo’s technology-enabled marketplace equips both restaurants and diners with innovative products to elevate dining out as we know it. Headquartered in Berlin, with international footprints in Austria, Switzerland, Italy,Turkey, the UK, Hong Kong, Finland, Singapore, Australia and the Netherlands; the founders’ vision is to grow Quandoo into the world’s leading marketplace for dining out experiences. Quandoo is a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings, and with its sister companies HotPepper and AirRegi, forms the world’s largest restaurant marketing and software company. Quandoo currently employs more than 370 people from 50 countries. | $25M | Series C | Jul 04, 2014 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acton-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Atlantic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Blue Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Forestay Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forestay-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Piton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/piton-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [redalpine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redalpine-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About AVP

VC Fund · Paris, France

AXA Venture Partners (AVP) is a venture capital fund investing in high-growth, technology-enabled companies. AVP has built a unique investment platform specialized in tech investments with $600 million of assets under management through three pillars of investment expertise: Early Stage Fund, Growth Stage Fund and Fund of Funds. To date, AVP hasinvested in 40 Early and Growth equity deals and 6 Fund investments. AVP team operates globally backed by offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong. Beyond investments, AVP provides access to business development opportunities helping portfolio companies to scale globally and accelerate their growth.

5 contacts available at AVP.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Scherbakovsky | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-scherbakovsky |
| François Robinet | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fran%C3%A7ois-robinet |
| Imran Akram | General partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imran-akram |
| Manish Agarwal | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manish-agarwal-bd0b |
| Marc Lewden | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marc-lewden |

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## FAQ

### What does Imran Akram invest in?

Imran Akram invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Recruiting startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Imran Akram last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Imran Akram closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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