# James Meekings

> James Meekings is a seed investor in London backing FinTech and Health Care. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmeekings
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/JCMeekings
- Website: https://x.com/JCMeekings
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/james.meekings.50

James Meekings is a seed investor in London focused on FinTech and Health Care. As co‑founder and UK Managing Director James leads the UK business and is responsible for overseeing the overall strategic direction and day‑to‑day operation of Funding Circle in the UK. James co‑founded Funding Circle in the UK in 2010 after seeing how difficult it was for small businesses to access funding and wanting to build something better.Prior to Funding Circle James was at OC&C Strategy Consultants where he advised companies on strategy and growth across the retail, media and services sectors.James has a first class Economics and Management degree from Oxford University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $896k–$6.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.4M–$3.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 23% |
| Health Care | 3 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 23% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 15% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 46% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 5Mins | 5Mins s a gamified learning platform designed to help employees improve their skills .It curates short-form video content from leading creators around the world and makes it available to teams and businesses via adaptive and gamified learning engine. | $5.7M | Seed | Nov 07, 2022 |  |
| The Electric Car Scheme | Electric Car Scheme works with a wide range of car lease companies to find the best lease on the market for each car. | $3.3M |  | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| The Electric Car Scheme | Electric Car Scheme works with a wide range of car lease companies to find the best lease on the market for each car. | $3.7M | Pre-Seed | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| Ophelos | Ophelos was created to transform how individuals, families, and businesses manage their financial health. | $6.1M | Seed | Jun 29, 2022 |  |
| Thirdfort | Thirdfort is an app-based solution that lets conveyancers verify client ID and source of funds in minutes. Combining ID scanning technology to check a client’s identity with open banking to prove money is from a legitimate source, Thirdfort is being used by award winning conveyancers around the UK. Thirdfort is backed by Alex Chesterman (Founderof Zoopla), Mishcon de Reya, Lawyer Checker and HM Land Registry. | $19.7M | Series A | Mar 07, 2022 |  |
| Toothfairy | Tooth Fairy is a platform that connects patients to dentists through its patent-pending technology. | $4M | Seed | Sep 29, 2021 |  |
| Terra API | Terra makes it easy to access fitness and health data from wearables and sensors. | $2.8M | Seed | Jun 09, 2021 |  |
| tripAbrood | tripAbrood is an AI-driven travel platform for families to discover and book holidays. | $896.2K | Seed | Apr 26, 2021 |  |
| Dala | Dala is an intelligent, real-time source of truth that eliminates the cultural, financial, and operational struggles of splintered tools. They provide assistance to operators and progressive funds in order to fuel growth. These experts specialize in knowledge management, networked knowledge, context, AI, semantic search, search engines, SaaS,software, knowledge graphs, and knowledge discovery. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Mar 24, 2021 |  |
| FLOWN | Flown is a “deep work-as-a-service” that offers ideal mental and physical spaces for individuals and teams to think and work more creatively and productively. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Nov 19, 2020 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Portfolio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portfolio-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AlbionVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albion-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fly Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fly-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kube VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kube-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does James Meekings invest in?

James Meekings invests primarily in FinTech, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is James Meekings's check size?

James Meekings typically joins rounds of $896k–$6.1M at Seed and $1.4M–$3.7M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds James Meekings participates in.

### When did James Meekings last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for James Meekings closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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