# Michael Liebreich

> Michael Liebreich is a seed investor at BloombergNEF (London) backing SaaS and Mining. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BloombergNEF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-energy-finance)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mliebreich
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MLiebreich

Michael Liebreich is a seed investor at BloombergNEF in London focused on SaaS and Mining. Michael Liebreich is Founder and Chair of the Advisory Board of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the world’s leading provider of research on clean energy, energy technology and advanced transportation. Michael founded New Energy Finance in 2004 and acted as Chair and Chief Executive before selling it to Bloomberg LP in 2009. Bloomberg New EnergyFinance is headquartered in London and now has over 200 staff in 13 offices around the world.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $318k–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Mining | 1 | 25% |
| Travel | 1 | 25% |
| Mineral | 1 | 25% |
| Children | 1 | 25% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Magrathea | Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts. | $10M | Seed | Jun 07, 2023 |  |
| Cypher Coders | Cypher inspires children to learn the language of the future through hands-on creative coding camps and courses. Cypher inspires children to learn the language of the future through a proprietary creatively themed coding education. Cypher's EdTech platform delivers its creatively themed computer science education to children age 6 - 12+through courses taught at holiday camps, after school clubs, weekend courses or 1 to 1 tuition. | $318K | Seed | Jul 29, 2019 |  |
| Zeelo | Zeelo is a TransitTech company that develops a mobility platform, providing transportation services to help an organization operate. The company delivers mission-critical mobility solutions for employees and students across the US, UK, and Ireland. Focused on corporations and schools, it enables safe, reliable, and sustainable transportationthrough its proprietary, asset-light technology platform. | $6M | Series A | Jan 31, 2019 |  |
| Zeelo | Zeelo is a TransitTech company that develops a mobility platform, providing transportation services to help an organization operate. The company delivers mission-critical mobility solutions for employees and students across the US, UK, and Ireland. Focused on corporations and schools, it enables safe, reliable, and sustainable transportationthrough its proprietary, asset-light technology platform. | $1.6M | Seed | Nov 21, 2017 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [InMotion Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inmotion-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Capricorn Investment Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capricorn-investment-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Counteract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/counteract) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dynamo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dynamovc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ETF Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/etf-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Exor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exor-eb7d) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About BloombergNEF

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

New Energy Finance provides industry information, analytics, and research services for the clean energy and carbon markets.The company offers research, forecasts, investment data, and analytical tools as well as news about the clean energy, power, gas, water, and carbon markets. It also provides proprietary price indexes for pricing polysilicon,wafers, modules, cells, wind turbines, and power-purchase agreements; and publishes and licenses various equity-sector and region-specific clean energy indexes.In addition, the company offers financial, economic, and policy analysis in various industries and markets such as advanced transportation, bioenergy, carbon capture and storage, digital energy, energy efficiency and storage, gas, geothermal, hydro and marine, nuclear, power, REC, solar, and wind. It also provides custom research services and runs senior-level networking events.New Energy Finance serves utilities and oil and gas companies; multinational corporations; clean energy technology providers; and governments and quasi-governmental agencies in the United Kingdom and internationally.New Energy Finance was founded in 2004 and is based in London, United Kingdom. It has locations in Beijing, China; Cape Town, South Africa; Munich, Germany; New Delhi, India; San Francisco, California; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Sydney, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; Zurich, Switzerland; Singapore; Hong Kong; and Washington and New York, United States.

5 contacts available at BloombergNEF.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Claire Curry | Head of Technology & Innovation | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claire-curry |
| Michael Liebreich | Chairman & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-liebreich |
| Angus McCrone | Chief Editor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angus-mccrone |
| Bryony Collins | Editor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryony-collins-fa8e |
| Conor Hanley | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/conor-hanley-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Liebreich invest in?

Michael Liebreich invests primarily in SaaS, Mining and Travel startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 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 Michael Liebreich's check size?

Michael Liebreich typically joins rounds of $318k–$10M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Michael Liebreich participates in.

### When did Michael Liebreich last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Liebreich closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 4 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?

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