# Mark Pearson

> Mark Pearson is a seed investor at Fuel Ventures Asia backing Software. See 102 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Fuel Ventures Asia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fuel-ventures-asia)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 102
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 89%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/markalanpearson
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/markpearson
- Website: https://www.fuel.ventures
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.pearson.967

Mark Pearson is a seed investor at Fuel Ventures Asia in London focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Mark Pearson is based out of London, England and is the Founder and Managing Partner of Fuel Ventures Asia. Mark previously worked at Markco Media as a Founder and CEO.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $670k–$4.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $451k–$1.4M |
| Series A | $3.7M–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 16 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 16 | 16% |
| Financial Services | 15 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 15 | 15% |
| SaaS | 13 | 13% |

113 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 47 | 46% |
| Pre-Seed | 24 | 24% |
| Series A | 10 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 9% |
| Angel | 3 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 75 | 74% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PANTA | PANTA Index Technology is a pioneering fintech company founded by industry veterans to transform the index creation landscape. Our state-of-the-art, cloud-based SaaS solution empowers financial institutions to build and operate complex, bespoke indices and portfolios with unprecedented scale, speed, and precision.As the only pure-play technologyprovider in this space, we streamline the entire index lifecycle while offering advanced back-testing and simulation capabilities. PANTA aims to democratize index technology, enabling institutions of all sizes to innovate faster and make data-driven investment decisions. We're set to become the operating system for next-generation indexing, driving innovation and efficiency across the rules-based and quantitative investment landscape. | $2M | Seed | May 14, 2026 |  |
| Misti AI | Misti AI is a physical observability platform that turns site video into real-time operational insight and long-term searchable memory, helping teams get alerts and investigate incidents without manually reviewing footage. | $337.6K | Pre-Seed | Apr 29, 2026 |  |
| Locai | Locai is a sovereign AI infrastructure and orchestration platform based in Cardiff, Wales. Regulated organisations use Locai to run artificial intelligence on their own servers, on-premises or in a private cloud, without sending data to third-party cloud providers.The platform covers large language models, audio transcription, video processing,and image analysis from a single control plane. Model outputs can feed directly into other models, making multimodal AI workflows possible on hardware the organisation already owns. Locai also fine-tunes and optimises compact open-weight models for on-device and off-cloud inference, targeting edge hardware including Apple M-series and NVIDIA consumer GPUs. Locai works with open-weight, third-party, and customer-supplied models and is not tied to any particular hardware vendor.Locai is built for sectors where data residency and compliance are hard requirements: financial services, healthcare, defence, critical national infrastructure, and legal services. Products include Locai Link, an AI orchestration and inference layer, and Alcove, a secure agentic workspace for enterprise teams.Locai was founded in May 2025 and is based at Tramshed Tech in Cardiff. Backers include Fuel Ventures, Google for Startups, and NVIDIA Inception. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 22, 2026 |  |
| Arrival | Arrival which focuses on payments consolidation and property-related services. | $677.7K | Pre-Seed | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| Deaku | Deaku is an intelligent, connected workspace built for the creator economy. The platform brings together content strategy, analytics, collaboration, communication, and AI into a single system designed specifically for creators, marketing teams, and production companies. | $639.1K | Pre-Seed | Mar 16, 2026 |  |
| Levellr | Levellr software helps creators & brands to build, manage and monetise messaging communities within existing apps, including Discord & Telegram. Our tools, which sit on top of Discord & Telegram, help our customers to acquire powerful-first party data on superfans, build highly engaged communities & generate tangible revenueopportunities, whilst also providing our customers with community strategy & on-going moderation services to ensure their communities thrive. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 29, 2026 |  |
| WealthAI | WealthAI is developing an AI Operating System for wealth managers, family offices, private banks, and asset managers. The company's platform aims to modernize wealth firms, enabling them to scale, improve service, and lead in an AI-driven environment. WealthAI's mission is to promote the responsible adoption of AI in wealth management,focusing on usability, performance, and trust | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jan 29, 2026 |  |
| Allocation Strategy | Allocation Strategy is a UK-based fintech company delivering advanced asset allocation analytics to institutional investors like pension funds, hedge funds, and asset managers. Founded by ex-leaders from Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), it combines decades of research in expected returns, risk modeling, and portfolio optimization withmodern cloud technology for cost-effective delivery. | $2.1M | Seed | Jan 20, 2026 |  |
| Karavel.ai | Karavel is an AI platform that manages regulatory control, marketing evaluations, and procedures in finance, technology and healthcare. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Jan 13, 2026 |  |
| TYTEN | An AI tool that helps maintenance technicians quickly diagnose and resolve issues by providing step-by-step diagnostics and repair guidance based on specific equipment manuals. | $993K | Pre-Seed | Nov 27, 2025 |  |

10 of 102 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Founders Factory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-factory) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Haatch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haatch) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Indico Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/indico-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [APX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apxberlin) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Fuel Ventures Asia

VC Fund



2 contacts available at Fuel Ventures Asia.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jingjing Xu | Partner and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jingjing-xu-1902 |
| Mark Pearson | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-pearson |

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## FAQ

### What does Mark Pearson invest in?

Mark Pearson invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 102 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 Mark Pearson's check size?

Mark Pearson typically joins rounds of $670k–$4.1M at Seed, $451k–$1.4M at Pre-Seed and $3.7M–$18M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mark Pearson participates in.

### When did Mark Pearson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mark Pearson closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 102 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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