# Jessica Jackson

> Jessica Jackson is a pre-seed investor at GC Angels backing Software and Information Technology. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [GC Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gc-angels)
- Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 73%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-jackson-68786150/

Jessica Jackson is a pre-seed investor at GC Angels in Manchester focused on Software and Information Technology. Jessica Jackson serves as an Investment Director at GC Angels.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 20% |
| Apps | 2 | 13% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 47% |
| Seed | 6 | 40% |
| Angel | 2 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Robotiz3d | We are building the world’s first autonomous road maintenance vehicle to help tackle the spiralling pothole problems. Combining robotics, ai, and autonomous vehicle technologies, our battery powered system can perform driverless patrol of the roads, automatically detecting and repairing surface defects such as cracks and potholes. Our solution ischeaper, faster, and more sustainable than conventional methods, delivering up to 90% cost savings, with minimum or no human intervention. With our A+ team we are looking to lead what is expected to be a $231 billion market. Our Mission is to help build a safe and sustainable road infrastructure through intelligent and automated maintenance and repair. | $255.2K | Pre-Seed | Dec 05, 2024 |  |
| Aquaint | Aquaint offers digital solutions for daily checklists, logs, spreedsheets, and related documentation. | $254.2K | Seed | Dec 05, 2024 |  |
| North AI | North AI operates as an AI start up company for media sector. | $255.2K | Pre-Seed | Dec 05, 2024 |  |
| Aquaint | Aquaint offers digital solutions for daily checklists, logs, spreedsheets, and related documentation. | $255.2K | Pre-Seed | Dec 05, 2024 |  |
| Decently | Decently provides the world a better place by developing advanced digital products. Decently mission is to improve lives through innovative digital product. | $655K | Pre-Seed | Sep 20, 2023 |  |
| Simplifai Systems | Simplifai Systems is a provider of a traffic management system that uses artificial intelligence so that it can achieve a number of goals beyond simple congestion control. The company's product generates real-time traffic control strategies that solve complex issues, such as major events, pollution, traffic incidents, and unexpectedcongestion. It exerts real-time control of city-wide traffic management systems such as traffic signals, to achieve a wide variety of citizen-focused and coordinated goals.Simplifai Systems was established in 2017 and is headquartered in Huddersfield, England. | $334.9K | Seed | Nov 22, 2021 |  |
| Guardian Angel | Helping people plan for and manage death | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 07, 2021 |  |
| Your FLOCK | Your FLOCK is a SaaS platform that uses data and science behind motivations at work to enable teams to be more productive and engaged at work.Your FLOCK provides ML-driven software that helps managers to coach their teams by providing users with activities tailored to their motivations and designed to help them be more ‘in sync’ with their teamand work more effectively. | $333.1K | Pre-Seed | Jun 28, 2021 |  |
| Xploro | Xploro is an award-winning and clinically validated health information platform that uses augmented reality, gameplay, and artificial intelligence to deliver health information to young patients, in a way that makes them feel empowered, engaged and informed, whilst having fun at the same time. | $2.1M | Seed | May 20, 2021 |  |
| CAPSLOCK | CAPSLOCK provides career-changing education around cutting-edge emerging technologies, such as cyber security. They make their educational programmes affordable and accessible to everyone, by using modern student finance arrangements and delivering world-class education entirely online. We make sure our admissions process concentrates on anindividual’s future potential, not their past academic background. The programmes focus on employment outcomes. They prepare learner’s for the workplace, so they can apply new skills in a real, practical way and ultimately start their tech-based career. Included is a mentoring programmes and industry-specific certifications to increase the employability of our learners. They have enrolled over 700 learners and are helping to plug the UK’s cyber skills gap with this new generation of talent. Their graduates are being hired by the likes of Barclays, Dyson and the BBC, and are seeing an average salary increase of 65%. CAPSLOCK has won many awards including: 2021: DCMS UK’s Most Innovative Cyber SME  2021: TechUK Cyber Innovator of the Year  2022: NCSC’s Cyber Den Winner  2022: Learning Technologies Awards Best Online Distance Learning Programme  2023: Women in IT Awards Tech Start-up of the Year  2023: BVCA's Excellence in Impact award, The Portfolio Company - Social Impact category. Key facts:  Company launched: February 2021  Location: 100% remote  Learners enrolled to date: 700+  Average % hired within 6 months of graduation: 70%  Learners who go into entry-level roles (20-35k): 61%  Learners who go into mid-level roles (35-50k): 33%  Learners who go into senior roles (50k+): 6%  No. of companies who have hired CAPSLOCK learners: over 120   Average salary learner salary pre-CAPSLOCK: £22,300   Average learner salary post-CAPSLOCK: £34,400   Highest salary to date: £79,000 – Policy Adviser 2nd highest salary to date: £75,000 – Splunk solutions engineer, | $467.4K | Pre-Seed | Mar 25, 2021 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northern-powerhouse-investment-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ADV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelerated-digital-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ascension](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascension-ventures-limited) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [E2E Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e2e-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fair By Design Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fair-by-design-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SFC Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-funding-club) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About GC Angels

VC Fund · Manchester, United States

The Growth Company’s two Angel services, Co-Angel Investment Service and North West Business Angels have recently merged creating a more cohesive offer, enabling increased access to early stage equity funding. The service now known as GC Angels, supports businesses seeking access to angel investment, ranging from £25,000 up to £2m. Developed by GCas the next evolution of its successful Co Angel Investment Service, GC Angels forms part of the GM Combined Authority's response to supporting the early stage investment market, and integrates with the range of wider GC business finance and business support services. It will incorporate the network offer (NWBA); the fee-bearing advisory service (Co Angel) alongside the new GM Co-Investment Fund, providing an innovative, single solution equity funding service.

2 contacts available at GC Angels.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jessica Jackson | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jessica-jackson-17a0 |
| Damian Mohammed | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/damian-mohammed |

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## FAQ

### What does Jessica Jackson invest in?

Jessica Jackson invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Jessica Jackson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jessica Jackson closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 15 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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