Michael Tefula
Principal @ Downing Ventures
London, United Kingdom
Michael Tefula is a seed investor at Downing 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:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 21%
Last updated:
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Industries Michael Tefula invests in
Stages Michael Tefula invests in
Countries Michael Tefula invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $501k–$8.9M
- Pre-Seed
- $1M–$1.4M
- Series A
- $5.2M–$8.9M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (21%)
- SaaS 2 (14%)
- FinTech 2 (14%)
- Financial Services 2 (14%)
- Information Technology 2 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (29%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (21%)
- Series A 3 (21%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| InTouchNow provides outsourced multi-channel answering services. | $3.1M / Seed / Sep 21, 2026 | ||
| 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 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 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 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 / Seed / Jun 03, 2019 | ||
| 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. | $5.2M / Series A / Jan 21, 2019 | ||
| 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 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. | $3M / Seed / May 29, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Downing Ventures
Downing Ventures is a division of Downing LLP. They invest venture capital into early and growth stage technology businesses. Our belief is that technology now forms an integral part of the everyday lives of consumers, corporations and governments. Further, they believe that they are now experiencing the benefits of the second wave of technologydevelopment, which is now based on sound infrastructure. Investing into this trend, they look for: Visionary entrepreneurs, with the ability to execute as well as dream. Large (potential) addressable markets. Distinct product / service advantages. Limited adoption risk for customers. They seek to invest 250,000 to 5 million per company. They will invest in seed-stage deals and Series A deals, and then look to continue to support those companies through phases of subsequent growth. Fundamentally, they back entrepreneurs. They are supportive, hopefully helpful, investors.
Downing Ventures Contacts
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Kostas Manolis
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Mike Kennedy
Ventures Adviser - Downing Ventures
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Nick Lewis
Founding Partner, Investment Committee Member & Chairman
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Sophie Andre
Portfolio and Operations Manager
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Chris Allner
Partner
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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 14 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 $501k–$8.9M at Seed, $1M–$1.4M at Pre-Seed and $5.2M–$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.
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When did Michael Tefula last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Michael Tefula closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 14 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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