James Lewis
Investment Director @ Downing Ventures
London, United Kingdom
James Lewis is a Series A investor at Downing Ventures in London focused on Software and SaaS. James joined Downing in 2012 and is involved in sourcing and evaluating transactions, alongside managing a number of portfolio companies. James qualified as an ACA with PwC in London and Hong Kong. Immediately prior to joining Downing he returned to London to run the finance and operations of a small UK-based drinks company. James focuses onbusinesses seeking growth capital.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries James Lewis invests in
Stages James Lewis invests in
Countries James Lewis invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Series A
- $2.5M–$6.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (38%)
- SaaS 2 (25%)
- E-Commerce 2 (25%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (25%)
- B2C 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (25%)
- Seed 1 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (13%)
- Series B 1 (13%)
- Series C 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| HolidayFox is a platform to discover and book family staycations. From a fun filled day out with the kids through to a whole holiday, HolidayFox has it all. Get suggestions, find, build and book your perfect package all in one place | Pre-Seed / May 01, 2020 | ||
| JRNI is an experiential relationship management (XRM) platform for scheduling and managing personalized experiences at scale. With apps for facilitating appointments, virtual queuing, and events, plus industry-leading analytics, JRNI helps businesses offer remote and in-person experiences that increase revenue, profitability, and efficiency, buildcustomer relationships, and improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. | $6M / Series C / Aug 21, 2019 | ||
| Limitless enables businesses to connect customers with qualified experts to solve customer service enquiries on-demand, providing a faster and better service for significantly less cost. Expert responses and customer feedback then train our AI systems to automate low value queries overtime. The platform is live in over 20 countries and majorclients include Microsoft, Unilever and Sage. Current investors include Unilever Ventures, Downing Ventures and Albion Capital. | $6.5M / Series A / Apr 10, 2019 | ||
| They are a fast growing business with a rapidly developing product. They are passionate about growing in a way that benefits their existing clients. Every year, they re-invest significantly in their team. The Firefly team is made up of a mixture of expert technologists, teachers, designers, support specialists and account managers. It's thatmixture they think helps us to understand their schools better.They enjoy writing and supporting software that teachers, students and parents enjoy using. By focusing on education, they can make sure that Firefly has just the features you need and not the ones you don't. A lot of their best ideas they get from the teachers, students and parents they stay in close contact with as they continue to develop the product!They think it's important to work with trusted partners in the industry so they don't spend their time re-inventing the wheel, and you can choose best of breed products and services that work well together.Although wthey have got schools using Firefly across the world, they are proudly based in London and also have offices in Brighton. | $6.6M / Series B / Jan 24, 2019 | ||
| Glownet provides RFID contactless solutions for the live event industry, principally music festivals, and has developed the leading fully-integrated platform on the market. The solution combats ticket fraud, reduces queues, slashes transaction times, increases spend per head, cuts staffing costs at gates and bars and controls staff theft. It alsogives promoters transparency on vendor sales and provides customer segmented profiling on purchasing behaviours. Launched in 2012, the business delivers cashless payment, entry management, social media engagement and customer insight solutions using RFID. Glownet has deployed its fully cashless services at over 500 events across 40 countries worldwide. Clients include Live Nation, Sonar and many more major music festival organisers. The team has also worked with brand partners such as Pernod Ricard, Spotify, Paypal, Maserati to enhance the live event experience. | $2.5M / Series A / Apr 30, 2018 | ||
| JRNI is an experiential relationship management (XRM) platform for scheduling and managing personalized experiences at scale. With apps for facilitating appointments, virtual queuing, and events, plus industry-leading analytics, JRNI helps businesses offer remote and in-person experiences that increase revenue, profitability, and efficiency, buildcustomer relationships, and improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. | $13.4M / Series C / Apr 18, 2018 | ||
| Limitless enables businesses to connect customers with qualified experts to solve customer service enquiries on-demand, providing a faster and better service for significantly less cost. Expert responses and customer feedback then train our AI systems to automate low value queries overtime. The platform is live in over 20 countries and majorclients include Microsoft, Unilever and Sage. Current investors include Unilever Ventures, Downing Ventures and Albion Capital. | $3M / Seed / Dec 01, 2017 | ||
Volo Commerce
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Volo brings together data and intelligence from all over the commerce ecosystem and uses AI to provide real-time actionable insights. | $8.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 19, 2017 |
Co-Investors
About Downing Ventures
Downing Ventures is a division of Downing LLP. They invest venture capital into early and growth stage technology businesses. Our belief is that technology now forms an integral part of the everyday lives of consumers, corporations and governments. Further, they believe that they are now experiencing the benefits of the second wave of technology development, which is now based on sound infrastructure. Investing into this trend, they look for: Visionary entrepreneurs, with the ability to execute as well as dream. Large (potential) addressable markets. Distinct product / service advantages. Limited adoption risk for customers. They seek to invest 250,000 to 5 million per company. They will invest in seed-stage deals and Series A deals, and then look to continue to support those companies through phases of subsequent growth. Fundamentally, they back entrepreneurs. They are supportive, hopefully helpful, investors.
Downing Ventures Contacts
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Kostas Manolis
Partner and Head of Unquoted Investments
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Mike Kennedy
Ventures Adviser - Downing Ventures
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Nick Lewis
Founding Partner, Investment Committee Member & Chairman
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Sophie Andre
Portfolio and Operations Manager
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Chris Allner
Partner
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FAQ
What does James Lewis invest in?
James Lewis invests primarily in Software, SaaS and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series A and Seed 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.
What round sizes does James Lewis invest in?
James Lewis typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$6.5M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not James Lewis's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds James Lewis took part in.
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When did James Lewis last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for James Lewis closed in May 2020. Shizune tracks 8 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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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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