# Kevin Beales

> Kevin Beales is a seed investor at Refract (Newcastle Upon Tyne) backing Software and SaaS. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Refract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/refract)
- Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinbeales
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/kevinbeales
- Website: https://x.com/kevinbeales

Kevin Beales is a seed investor at Refract in Newcastle Upon Tyne focused on Software and SaaS. Kevin Beales - Founder & CEO @ Refract

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 75% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Drones | 1 | 25% |
| Database | 1 | 25% |
| Robotics | 1 | 25% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Angel | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fuuse | Miralis Data design and develop technology solutions to some of the biggest problems in logistics, transportation and infrastructure. They provide services in data analytics, algorithm development, modelling, simulation, artificial intelligence and machine learning to empower their customers. | $2.2M | Seed | Mar 08, 2022 |  |
| Fuuse | Fuuse helps to make EV transition easy and smooth to encourage more businesses to go electric. | $2.2M | Seed | Mar 08, 2022 |  |
| Altitude Angel | Altitude Angel provides airspace management data & services for drone manufacturers, developers and airspace stakeholders. Their flagship services are built on top of the Altitude Angel cloud platform, which offers scalable solutions for drone automation, UTM ("Air traffic control for drones") and identity and registration.They arean aviation technology company who create global-scale solutions that enable the safe integration and use of fully autonomous drones into global airspace. Their purpose-built cloud platform supports both U-Space and UTM, and delivers market-leading services to drone operators, manufacturers and software developers. Their innovative solutions for ATM enable them to access a rich source of real-time airspace, environmental and regulatory data which is expertly customised to the specific operation. | $380K | Seed | Aug 20, 2015 |  |
| Tungl | Tungl is on a mission to revolutionise how businesses assess, select, and ultimately hire tech talent. Our tech recruitment platform provides online assessments and is used by those hiring tech talent worldwide to validate a candidate's practical skills and knowledge. We empower recruitment teams to shortlist candidates with confidence andenable hiring managers to have insightful interviews. This means businesses can make quicker and data-driven hiring decisions. We have a range of ready-made assessments in all major technologies, and you can use your own questions to make bespoke assessments, shaped around your job spec. We're easy to use and saves your business time - streamlining your tech recruitment. |  | Angel | Sep 01, 2014 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Par Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/par-equity) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Refract

VC Fund · Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Every conversation, call, demo, meeting and email contains a treasure trove of insight.The words used, phrases chosen, questions asked all impact on success. Yet, throughout our own careers, sales coaching always felt broken.We would ride along calls and demos, share ideas and feedback, all without a shared reflective view.And as powerful ascoaching continually proves to be, it only accounts for less than 5% of sales managers time.So,to make sales coaching simple, more time efficient and to amplify the benefits, we built Refract.By highlighting the decisive and defining moments of these conversations and surfacing coachable insight specific to your business and reps, mistakes and missed opportunities can be remedied. Great moments can be shared amongst the team. The best made available in a searchable library.Our AI technology delivers personalized insight, based on your business and your reps, showing the actions and words that align with top performers and results.We work with a range of global clients, with teams from just a handful to the 1000’s. And whilst every organization is different, they all have one thing in common. They’re passionate about improving sales conversations, and that’s just what we’re here for.

2 contacts available at Refract.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kevin Beales | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-beales |
| Ayo Omojola | Co-founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ayo-omojola |

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## FAQ

### What does Kevin Beales invest in?

Kevin Beales invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Drones 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.

### When did Kevin Beales last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kevin Beales closed in Mar 2022. 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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