# Megumi Ikeda

> Megumi Ikeda is a seed investor at Hearst Ventures backing Marketplace. See 9 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hearst Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hearst-interactive-media)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megumi-ikeda-37932b1
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/megumiikeda

Megumi Ikeda is a seed investor at Hearst Ventures in London focused on Marketplace and Financial Services. Megumi Ikeda is the managing director of Hearst Ventures and the general manager of Hearst Ventures Europe, where she oversees investments and non-organic acquisitions across Europe. She is based in London.Ikeda previously ran the European arm of the Peacock Equity Fund, GE Capital and NBCUniversal’s $250MM venture fund. Previously, she workedin corporate M&A and distribution deals at NBCUniversal. Ikeda started her career in Tokyo as a reporter for Dow Jones and an international business manager at Wired in San Francisco.Ikeda received her undergraduate degree from Columbia College, Columbia University and earned her MBA at UCLA’s The Anderson School.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.9M–$16M |
| Series A | $8.9M–$18M |
| Series B | $20M–$76M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marketplace | 2 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 22% |
| CMS | 1 | 11% |
| SaaS | 1 | 11% |
| Travel | 1 | 11% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Series B | 3 | 33% |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 67% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Creative Force | End-to-end workflow software for e-commerce content production. | $8.9M | Series A | Oct 16, 2023 |  |
| Surfboard | Surfboard provides scheduling and building workforce management through customer service software. | $4.9M | Seed | Nov 21, 2022 |  |
| SAPI | Our embedded credit solution provides platforms with a flexible end-to-end lending program that enables them to offer fast and attractive financing for their merchants, to grow their ecosystems and businesses. |  |  | Mar 28, 2022 |  |
| Huboo | Huboo helps businesses grow by taking care of all their logistics and eCommerce order fulfillment needs. The company's order fulfillment solution integrates with eCommerce sales channels, marketplaces, and systems needed. Huboo was founded in 2017 by Martin Bysh and Paul Dodd and is headquartered in Bristol, UK. | $81.5M | Series B | Oct 06, 2021 |  |
| Vyne Technologies | Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform. | $15.5M | Seed | Sep 23, 2021 |  |
| Vira Health | Vira is a digital health company focused on improving long-term health for women. We do this by addressing female-specific conditions and improving the collection and use of female data in healthcare. | $2.1M | Seed | Jul 29, 2021 |  |
| Huboo | Huboo helps businesses grow by taking care of all their logistics and eCommerce order fulfillment needs. The company's order fulfillment solution integrates with eCommerce sales channels, marketplaces, and systems needed. Huboo was founded in 2017 by Martin Bysh and Paul Dodd and is headquartered in Bristol, UK. | $18M | Series A | Sep 29, 2020 |  |
| Plum Guide | Plum Guide is not just a booking platform. It's a benchmark for quality. There are 15,000,000+ vacation homes listed online. The choice is overwhelming. The standard is dispiriting. So we created the Plum Guide Award. Our mission is to find and award the best homes out there with our trusted quality mark. | $19.8M | Series B | Mar 20, 2019 |  |
| GeoPhy | GeoPhy offers solutions that combine traditional and alternative data sources with machine learning to assist clients in identifying opportunities and managing risks throughout the market, thereby making commercial real estate more transparent, efficient, and faster. GeoPhy aids real estate professionals in understanding commercial property valueand the factors that influence it by sizing opportunities by market based on their specific criteria and providing property overviews that draw on the expanding data and insights sources. | $33M | Series B | Jan 24, 2019 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ada Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ada-vemtires) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Episode 1](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/episode) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Inkef](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inkef-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Maersk Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maersk-growth) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Hearst Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

Hearst Ventures makes strategic investments in companies operating at the intersection of media, information, and technology.

5 contacts available at Hearst Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Darcy Frisch | Managing Director & Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darcy-frisch |
| David Famolari | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-famolari |
| Edward P. Zebrowski | Finance Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edward-p-zebrowski |
| Gabby Munoz | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabby-munoz-f307 |
| Gil Canaani | Managing Director & General Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gil-canaani |

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## FAQ

### What does Megumi Ikeda invest in?

Megumi Ikeda invests primarily in Marketplace, Financial Services and CMS startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What round sizes does Megumi Ikeda invest in?

Megumi Ikeda typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$16M at Seed, $8.9M–$18M at Series A and $20M–$76M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Megumi Ikeda's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Megumi Ikeda took part in.

### How do I contact Megumi Ikeda?

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### When did Megumi Ikeda last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Megumi Ikeda closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 9 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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