Michael Tefula
Principal & Head of Product @ Ada Ventures
London, United Kingdom
Michael Tefula is a seed investor at Ada Ventures in London focused on Software and SaaS. Michael has been a pre-seed investor for over six years. He is a self-taught developer, former operator and angel investor. Founders value his ability to engage with the technical aspects of their products and the transformative journey of growing from Pre-seed to Series A. Michael is incredibly curious and seeks to build a deep partnership withevery founder he backs.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
Last updated:
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Industries Michael Tefula invests in
Stages Michael Tefula invests in
Countries Michael Tefula invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $524k–$9.2M
- Pre-Seed
- $1M–$1.4M
- Series A
- $5.1M–$8.9M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (23%)
- SaaS 2 (15%)
- FinTech 2 (15%)
- Financial Services 2 (15%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (23%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (23%)
- Series A 3 (23%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Incredible
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Incredible is repayments platform that leverages artificial intelligence & open finance to track, pay and reduce the cost of borrowing. | $1M / Pre-Seed / May 14, 2024 | |
Odin
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Odin enables seamless fundraising from your network in just a few clicks, taking care of all legal and administrative tasks. The platform collaborates with founders, angel syndicates, and emerging fund managers worldwide. It supports investors from almost any location, manages SPVs, handles complex carried interest arrangements, and more. Futureplans include enabling users to raise entire funds on Odin (not just deal-by-deal SPVs) and providing a feature for discovering and joining investment clubs directly through the platform. | $3.1M / Seed / Dec 31, 2023 | |
Dala
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Dala is an intelligent, real-time source of truth that eliminates the cultural, financial, and operational struggles of splintered tools. They provide assistance to operators and progressive funds in order to fuel growth. These experts specialize in knowledge management, networked knowledge, context, AI, semantic search, search engines, SaaS,software, knowledge graphs, and knowledge discovery. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Mar 24, 2021 | |
Hummingbird Technologies
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Hummingbird Technologies is an artificial intelligence SaaS platform using the latest deep learning and computer vision techniques along with proprietary algorithms to provide actionable intelligence to farmers and agri-businesses at key decision-making times in the growing season. The company analyses remote sensing data to help farmers identifyearly problems in their crops such as crop health, disease risk & detection, weed mapping and yield prediction as well as valuable information such as canopy coverage, plant counting, size and biomass estimation, with the objective of optimising inputs and maximising efficiency. Hummingbird began operating in 2016 and since then has covered in excess of >500,000 hectares of arable crops for farmers and agri-businesses. Their platform is utilised at key decision-making points in the growing season to allow intelligent and specific information to inform chemical or operational input decisions that decrease costs and improve outputs. | $2.6M / Seed / Oct 15, 2019 | |
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Hummingbird Technologies
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Hummingbird Technologies is an artificial intelligence SaaS platform using the latest deep learning and computer vision techniques along with proprietary algorithms to provide actionable intelligence to farmers and agri-businesses at key decision-making times in the growing season. The company analyses remote sensing data to help farmers identifyearly problems in their crops such as crop health, disease risk & detection, weed mapping and yield prediction as well as valuable information such as canopy coverage, plant counting, size and biomass estimation, with the objective of optimising inputs and maximising efficiency. Hummingbird began operating in 2016 and since then has covered in excess of >500,000 hectares of arable crops for farmers and agri-businesses. Their platform is utilised at key decision-making points in the growing season to allow intelligent and specific information to inform chemical or operational input decisions that decrease costs and improve outputs. | $8.9M / Series A / Jun 03, 2019 | |
Hubble
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Hubble makes hybrid working easy.We're the only platform that helps you configure, deliver, and manage all of your workspace needs in one place. Whether that's the HQ, home or on-demand.Our mission is to improve the working lives of one million people by 2025.We know your people are your most valuable asset. Let us help you create aworkplace where they can truly thriveHubble is based in London and was founded in 2014 by Tushar Agarwal (CEO) and Tom Watson. It has raised £10m from some of the biggest names in property and venture capital, including JLL, Starwood Capital, Seedcamp, and Entrepreneur First. | $5.1M / Series A / Jan 21, 2019 | |
Open Bionics
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Brunel Hand is a robotic hand with nine degrees of freedom for researchers. They use 3D printing to make their devices customized for each customer and accessible by anyone! They're developing the perfect medical grade materials to give their hands the right strength and grip and to make them last. | $5.9M / Series A / Jan 10, 2019 | |
Flock
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Flock is a fully digital insurance company for commercial motor fleets. We're on a mission to make the world quantifiably safer with connected insurance that enables and incentivises safer driving. With Flock, safer fleets pay less. Iit's why hundreds of companies trust us to protect their vehicles and drivers including Virtuo andJaguar Land Rover's luxury leasing firm, The Out. We're proud to be supported by some of the world's leading VCs, including Social Capital and Anthemis. Our goal is to become the world's leading fully digital insurer for connected and autonomous vehicles. | $2.9M / Seed / May 29, 2018 | |
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Hummingbird Technologies
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Hummingbird Technologies is an artificial intelligence SaaS platform using the latest deep learning and computer vision techniques along with proprietary algorithms to provide actionable intelligence to farmers and agri-businesses at key decision-making times in the growing season. The company analyses remote sensing data to help farmers identifyearly problems in their crops such as crop health, disease risk & detection, weed mapping and yield prediction as well as valuable information such as canopy coverage, plant counting, size and biomass estimation, with the objective of optimising inputs and maximising efficiency. Hummingbird began operating in 2016 and since then has covered in excess of >500,000 hectares of arable crops for farmers and agri-businesses. Their platform is utilised at key decision-making points in the growing season to allow intelligent and specific information to inform chemical or operational input decisions that decrease costs and improve outputs. | $3.9M / Seed / Mar 05, 2018 | |
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Flock
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Flock is a fully digital insurance company for commercial motor fleets. We're on a mission to make the world quantifiably safer with connected insurance that enables and incentivises safer driving. With Flock, safer fleets pay less. Iit's why hundreds of companies trust us to protect their vehicles and drivers including Virtuo andJaguar Land Rover's luxury leasing firm, The Out. We're proud to be supported by some of the world's leading VCs, including Social Capital and Anthemis. Our goal is to become the world's leading fully digital insurer for connected and autonomous vehicles. | $524K / Seed / Dec 14, 2016 | |
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Co-Investors
Everywhere Ventures
2 deals together
London Co-Investment Fund
2 deals together
SALIC
2 deals together
Ananda Impact Ventures
1 deal together
Angel Invest
1 deal together
Anthemis
1 deal together
About Ada Ventures
Ada Ventures is a pre-seed inclusive venture capital firm that invests in the best, not just the best-connected. They find and fund the Ada Lovelaces of today. Backing European founders building businesses for a better human future. They invest £250K - £1M in technology companies across climate equity, economic empowerment and healthy ageing. Adainvests in purpose-led founders building for markets that are large, untapped and growing. Their approach drives outperformance, which they call Inclusive Alpha®.
Ada Ventures Contacts
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Francesca Warner
Founding Partner
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Michael Tefula
Principal & Head of Product
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Christian Tooley
Ada Ventures Angel
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Diarra Smith
Head of Portfolio and Brand
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Elizabeth Shaw
Venture Scout
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FAQ
What does Michael Tefula invest in?
Michael Tefula invests primarily in Software, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 Tefula's check size?
Michael Tefula typically joins rounds of $524k–$9.2M at Seed, $1M–$1.4M at Pre-Seed and $5.1M–$8.9M 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 Michael Tefula participates in.
When did Michael Tefula last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Michael Tefula closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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