# Maria Dramalioti-Taylor

> Maria Dramalioti-Taylor is a seed investor at Beacon Capital (London) backing Software and SaaS. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Beacon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beaconcapital)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dramalioti
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/dramalioti
- Website: http://www.beaconcapital.co.uk

Maria Dramalioti-Taylor is a seed investor at Beacon Capital in London focused on Software and SaaS. Maria is the founding managing partner of Beacon, pre-Series A VC firm specialising on enterprise tech ventures. She is on the board of a number of portfolio companies, is a member of the RAEng Enterprise and the Chairs in Emerging Technologies Committees, INSEAD EIR and Included.VC Board member. She is an engineer and holds an MBA. She used tofence the foil so watch out for her ripostes!

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 36% |
| SaaS | 3 | 27% |
| Market Research | 2 | 18% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 18% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 64% |
| Series A | 3 | 27% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 73% |
| Spain | 1 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zinklar | Zinklar is the Agile Market Research platform that helps you make safer and smarter business decisions. The company delivers results in real-time and turns Market Research into an everyday solution for brands globally. It offers a product traditionally acquired via Market Research Agencies on a yearly subscription basis.Zinklar is designing thesurvey using the online editor with guides and templates, and question types include multiple-choice, rating scales, open responses, and the option to add images, video, or audio. They viewing and analyzing results in a dashboard with charts, tables, and raw data. | $5.5M | Series A | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| Humanising Autonomy | Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human-machine interactions. They are a predictive AI company creating a global standard that improves the way vehicles and systems interact with people in any environment. | $11M | Series A | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Lifebit | Lifebit CloudOS is an intelligent genomics platform that understands DNA data and generates meaningful insights like humans do. This offers researchers, and their organisations (ie. top tier pharmas), a highly scalable, modular and reproducible system that automates the analysis processes, learns from the data via AI and provides actionableinsights. | $60M | Series B | Sep 28, 2021 |  |
| DevicePilot | DevicePilot Service Monitoring for connected devices provides a single pane of glass for Product, Operations and Customer Support teams, driving up customer satisfaction and growth while reducing operational costs. | $2.1M | Seed | May 13, 2020 |  |
| novoville | novoville transforms the way citizens interact with their councils/local governments by capturing incoming citizens’ requests for services, delivering and monitoring response, and integrating this seamlessly into organisational workflow.novoville exposes quickly the e-services of councils directly on the smartphones of citizens. This ismade possible through a configurable mobile app. At the other end, a cloud dashboard allows local authorities to engage and communicate with citizens more efficiently. They can then quantify the quality of interactions and monitor the performance of used resources. Large scale data capture and subsequent processing converts everything into meaningful KPIs.in June 2017 novoville was selected among other 9 GovTech startups to participate in the GovStart Growth Program that helps tech startups trasform the UK's Public Sector. novoville is a "PUBLIC 100" company. | $1.5M | Seed | Nov 22, 2018 |  |
| Lifebit | Lifebit CloudOS is an intelligent genomics platform that understands DNA data and generates meaningful insights like humans do. This offers researchers, and their organisations (ie. top tier pharmas), a highly scalable, modular and reproducible system that automates the analysis processes, learns from the data via AI and provides actionableinsights. | $3M | Seed | Jul 19, 2018 |  |
| Autologyx | Autologyx is a LegalTech/RegTech, no-code, containerized digital operations platform that automates for the real world and non-linear processes unlike traditional Robotic Process Automation or Business Process Management. The company serves multiple verticals, but has an acute focus on the legal and professional services industry includingLaw Companies, Corporate Legal Departments, Law Firms and other Legal Services displacing the need for point solutions or single purpose software systems for claims and asset management, entity management, work allocation and triage, contract and document review, compliance, regulatory and governance. | $1.9M | Seed | Nov 07, 2017 |  |
| Ometria | Ometria’s mission is to build the brain that powers all communication between retailers and their customers. Ometria helps clients leverage data to build detailed customer profiles, and make sure that all messages they send are always relevant, leading to higher engagement and increased revenues.Ometria was founded by four serial entrepreneurs,with combined experience in e-commerce, computer science, mathematics, and SaaS, has been invested in by London’s most prominent entrepreneurs and investors, and is used by top retailers in the UK, Europe, and across the world. | $6M | Series A | Oct 11, 2017 |  |
| OnePulse | OnePulse is a digital platform that makes market research engaging, producing real-time consumer insights effectively and inexpensively. Via its web-based portal, OnePulse enables businesses to access consumers in two ways: by building a branded community and also by accessing the general OnePulse consumer community. For consumers, OnePulseis a dedicated mobile app that allows them to easily respond to Pulses of up to three questions. OnePulse rewards its users both financially and through interactive gamification within the application. The tech industry has called OnePulse "the Twitter of consumer insight"; it takes response rates, response times and user engagement to levels never-before-seen by conventional digital surveys. With this real-time platform, businesses will understand consumers better, in turn promoting confident decision-making and driving profitability. | $3M | Seed | May 31, 2017 |  |
| Chaser | Chaser helps businesses get their invoices paid on time, automatically. They're solving the twin problems of late payment and the time it has previously taken to chase customers.Chaser is a platform that is reimagining how this chasing is carried out. A business can use their web application to apply rules based automation to chasing theircustomers via email. They can do so intelligently, powered by the behavioural analytics from their proprietary email handling and logging software. | $637K | Seed | Apr 01, 2015 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pentech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pentech-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Aken Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aken-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amplifier](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplifier-36cb) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ACF Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-cofund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Beacon Capital

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Beacon is a London-based VC specialising on early stage technology founders that help enterprises digitize their operations, innovate and compete at global scale.We back teams with strong entrepreneurial vision and exceptional technical talent. We have been involved in some extraordinary stories over the past 8 years. We believe that investing atthis stage requires an extraordinary ability to read “signal over noise”, take bets on global challenges, spot talent & deliver effective post-investment support. What makes us different is our focus on enterprise tech at the early stages of product/market fit and our ability to help our founders validate commercial scale. Typically, we provide 30-50% of the capital in rounds between £1m - £3m and prefer to commit early and lead the round.If you think we can be a good fit for each other, please reach out directly to one of us or at hello@beaconcapital.co.uk.

5 contacts available at Beacon Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Ryan | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-ryan-4 |
| Dionysia Kaplan | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dionysia-kaplan |
| Dmitry Seregin | Operations Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dmitry-seregin |
| Larry Levine | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/larry-levine |
| Maria Dramalioti-Taylor | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maria-dramalioti-taylor |

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## FAQ

### What does Maria Dramalioti-Taylor invest in?

Maria Dramalioti-Taylor invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Market Research startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 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 Maria Dramalioti-Taylor last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Maria Dramalioti-Taylor closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 11 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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