Julian Ranger
Angel Investor
Guildford, United Kingdom
Julian Ranger is a seed investor in Guildford focused on Software and Email. After early work integrating as an aeronautical engineer, Julian founded STASYS Ltd in 1987, specialising in data interoperability and the military internet, and grew it to a staff of 230, with subsidiaries in the United States, Germany, Malaysia and Australia prior to its sale to Lockheed Martin in 2005. Julian’s management responsibilitiesencompassed the complete range from Board level vision, direction and control to business development, operational, finance and technical leadership, including developing the iSMART process used for interoperability management by militaries worldwide today. Julian left Lockheed in 2007 as Vice President International Strategic Development, and set up his angel investment and consultancy business, J Ranger Ltd. Julian has invested and supported over 20 start-up businesses, highlights include: Astrobotic, aiming to be the first commercial lunar landing, rover and exploration business; Hailo, revolutionizing the licenced taxi market worldwide; DataSift, providing intelligent access to the world’s social data streams.Julian continues to build new businesses, currently founder and Chairman of digi.me which is reimagining the personal internet putting users back in control of their own data.Julian is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IMechE and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers, and is also a Virgin Galactic Future Astronaut.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Julian Ranger invests in
Stages Julian Ranger invests in
Countries Julian Ranger invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $196k–$327k
- Angel
- $131k–$885k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (75%)
- Email 2 (50%)
- SMS 1 (25%)
- iOS 1 (25%)
- Video 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (50%)
- Angel 2 (50%)
Country
- United Kingdom 3 (75%)
- United States 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digi.me's technology allows consumers to gather together their personal data and share it on their terms with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange. They are distribution partners for the likes of Toshiba and Lenovo and are working with world-leading businesses in health insurance, finance, pharma and FMCG. | $885K / Angel / Dec 24, 2012 | ||
| The platform for the world's sports. > Players, Parents, Friends, Teams, Clubs, Leagues > Governing Bodies, Brands | $131K / Angel / Jun 20, 2011 | ||
| DAD is software which provides a simple, secure way to organize your digital stuff, making it easy to use across all applications, and to link and extend that data. It also provides a 100% private sharing capability with family and friends. Organize once, use wherever, forever. Once installed on your computer DAD works feverishly behind the scenesto create a super index of your files, making hidden information about these files (often referred to as metadata) available for you to utilise. Using the DAD application you can enrich and organise your files with personal tags, comments and rules. Using DAD Secure Share you can even share your files privately with your friends and family across the web. If you have more than one computer in your home DAD can, if so asked, identify all your holiday photos stored on each computer and ensure these are all kept together to make a perfect family holiday album. All done automagically, without you having to waste a single second on organising. | $327K / Seed / Jan 01, 2009 | ||
| Larosco, is an innovative software company that have been studying and experimenting with recommendations technologies since 2001 and are specialists in the field of online referral marketing. The company has recently developed what is believed to be the World's first relationship marketing software designed specifically for both the retailand recruitment market sectors.Using a unique tracking and identification system, BongoMagic captures in real time the behavioural, recommendation and buying patterns of each individual involved in an advertising campaign. It then uses this information to identify the ‘Influencers’ within a social network. The client can then use these ‘influencers’ to promote products or jobs to an extended and more receptive network of consumers or job seekers. | $196K / Seed / Jan 01, 2009 |
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FAQ
What does Julian Ranger invest in?
Julian Ranger invests primarily in Software, Email and SMS startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 4 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 Julian Ranger invest in?
Julian Ranger typically joins rounds of $196k–$327k at Seed and $131k–$885k at Angel. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Julian Ranger's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Julian Ranger took part in.
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When did Julian Ranger last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Julian Ranger closed in Dec 2012. Shizune tracks 4 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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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