# Mark Ransford

> Mark Ransford is a pre-seed investor in London backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 44 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 44
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markransford

Mark Ransford is a pre-seed investor in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Angel Investor

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $630k–$5.2M |
| Pre-Seed | $441k–$4.2M |
| Series A | $8.6M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 19 | 43% |
| Financial Services | 18 | 41% |
| Software | 9 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 18% |
| Payments | 7 | 16% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 19 | 43% |
| Seed | 17 | 39% |
| Series A | 4 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 21 | 48% |
| France | 5 | 11% |
| Italy | 1 | 2% |
| Poland | 1 | 2% |
| Austria | 1 | 2% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Xylo | Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery. | $3.7M | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2026 |  |
| Talentir | Content Monetization | $4.5M | Seed | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| Steward | Steward.ai is a VC-backed fintech startup specializing in AI-powered compliance for investor onboarding, AML, and KYC processes. | $5M | Seed | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| Conveyd | Conveyd provides a digital conveyancing platform that supports residential property transactions by combining online workflows with regulated legal services. The platform enables users to manage buying, selling, and remortgaging processes through a single interface that handles case initiation, identity checks, document management, andcommunication with legal professionals. Conveyd uses automation and data-driven checks to streamline tasks such as onboarding, compliance verification, and progress updates, helping reduce manual steps in traditional conveyancing. Its services include online quotes, digital case tracking, and structured updates that allow customers, brokers, and partners to monitor transaction stages in real time. The company works with qualified conveyancing solicitors to prepare, review, and complete legal documentation required for property transfers. Conveyd’s offering is designed to integrate legal execution with technology-enabled transparency across the conveyancing process. | $3.3M | Seed | Dec 12, 2025 |  |
| Juo | Juo builds the future of subscription technology. | $4.6M | Seed | Nov 25, 2025 |  |
| Sumary | Sumary is a finance-tech company that offers an AI-powered reporting, budgeting & forecasting for e-conomic. | $4.2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| Lette AI | Lette AI is building the AI back office for property management, helping institutional real estate funds and operators scale portfolios across the UK, Ireland, and GCC. In minutes, proprietary AI learns how a business runs internally and deploys custom AI agents that take over leasing, management, and resident engagement. This delivers fasterlease-ups, lower operating costs, higher tenant retention, and stronger Net Operating Income.Trusted by leading institutional landlords, Lette replaces fragmented systems with a single intelligent control room for investors. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Silas Insurtech | Streamlining manually intensive and laborious Insurance Underwriting processes within Commercial and Specialty Lines. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Low Observable Technology | Low Observable Technology delivers solutions in digital asset trading infrastructure, specializing in market making and liquidity provision. The firm also develops stealth technologies for defense applications, focusing on electronic countermeasures and low observability systems critical to undetectable aircraft missions. | $5M | Seed | Aug 21, 2025 |  |
| Zango | Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight. | $4.8M | Seed | Jul 01, 2025 |  |

10 of 44 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [EQT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eqtventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Exor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exor-seeds) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Exor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exor-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Inovia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inovia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Mark Ransford invest in?

Mark Ransford invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 44 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 Ransford's check size?

Mark Ransford typically joins rounds of $630k–$5.2M at Seed, $441k–$4.2M at Pre-Seed and $8.6M–$30M 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 Ransford participates in.

### When did Mark Ransford last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mark Ransford closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 44 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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