# Matt Clifford

> Matt Clifford is a seed investor at Innovate UK backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Innovate UK](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovate-u-k-)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-clifford/25/938/246
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/matthewclifford
- Website: https://x.com/matthewclifford
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matt.p.clifford

Matt Clifford is a seed investor at Innovate UK in London focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Matt co-founded EF after being a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Prior to EF Matt spent his time studying at MIT fuelled by an obsession with R, Python and unusual datasets. EF is the best place for Europe’s top technical individuals to meet and build world-changing startups in London.They select purely on the basis of technical talent, so youcan apply before you have a team or an idea. The intensive 6-month programme is designed to give you the best possible support in the first 200 days of your startup’s life.They have created over 40 startups now worth over $300 million. The startups are funded by some prestigious investors including Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Octopus Investments and Y Combinator.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $764k–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $55k–$4.2M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $2.4M–$34M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 27% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 17% |
| FinTech | 5 | 12% |
| SaaS | 4 | 10% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 7% |

61 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 41% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 22% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 5% |
| Series A | 1 | 2% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 15 | 37% |
| United States | 4 | 10% |
| India | 2 | 5% |
| Estonia | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Asterix Health | Asterix Health is the workforce solution for modern healthcare. | $2.9M | Pre-Seed | May 07, 2026 |  |
| Rivan Industries | Rivan Industries designs and builds modular, vertically integrated, synthetic fuel plants. | $33.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 20, 2026 |  |
| Rivan Industries | Rivan Industries designs and builds modular, vertically integrated, synthetic fuel plants. | $33.8M | Series A | Apr 20, 2026 |  |
| Asymmetric Security | Asymmetric Security is an AI-native cybersecurity startup specializing in digital forensics and incident response. It combines elite forensic experts with proprietary AI to accelerate investigations, especially Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, at less than half the cost of competitors while shrinking timelines from days to hours. | $4.2M | Pre-Seed | Jan 23, 2026 |  |
| Stackfix | Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform. | $3M | Seed | Dec 03, 2024 |  |
| Patch | Patch building a national network of neighborhood workspaces and will be sharing news, ideas, and plans from the Work Near Homeworld. | $3.7M | Seed | Mar 20, 2023 |  |
| Flow Engineering | Flow is the first engineering data platform built for agile engineering teams. Flow helps teams stay integrated with the correct data, regardless of which tool they are working in. | $8.5M | Seed | Dec 06, 2022 |  |
| Koos | KOOS is a platform for community incentives that provides flexible, equity-like advantages to contributors who are not employees. | $4M | Seed | Sep 29, 2022 |  |
| Claimer | Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom. | $4.2M | Seed | Sep 14, 2022 |  |
| FinStack | Fullstack digital lending platform with a no-code interface that can enable digital lending for any company in a few clicks - without having to hire engineers! | $55K | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Entrepreneurs First](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entrepreneurs-first) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Entrepreneurs First](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entrepreneur-first) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [redalpine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redalpine-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiny-vc) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Amino Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amino-collective) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Possible Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/possible-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Innovate UK

VC Fund · Swindon, United Kingdom

Innovate U.K. is a NPO that offers funding services to support science and technology innovations.The organization offers services and information on births, deaths, marriages, business, self-employed, childcare, parenting, citizenship, law, disabled persons, transportation, education, environment, housing, money, tax, travel, immigration, andjobs. Innovate U.K. is based in Swindon.

5 contacts available at Innovate UK.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aileen Thompson | Interim Director of Communications | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aileen-thompson |
| Chris Coonick | Programme Manager, Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-coonick |
| John Whittall | Lead Technologist, Sustainable Agriculture and Food | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-whittall |
| Jonny Voon | Innovation Lead - Digital (Internet of Things and Distributed Ledgers) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonny-voon |
| Liam Winder | Innovation Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liam-winder |

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## FAQ

### What does Matt Clifford invest in?

Matt Clifford invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 41 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 Matt Clifford's check size?

Matt Clifford typically joins rounds of $764k–$7M at Seed, $55k–$4.2M at Pre-Seed and $2.4M–$34M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Matt Clifford participates in.

### When did Matt Clifford last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matt Clifford closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 41 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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