# Michael Bristow

> Michael Bristow is a seed investor at Innovate Finance (London) backing Real Estate and Software. See 40 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Innovate Finance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovate-finance-8aea)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 40
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbristow/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mikebristow
- Website: http://www.crowdproperty.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001410901858

Michael Bristow is a seed investor at Innovate Finance in London focused on Real Estate and Software. Experienced business leader with a proven track record as CEO of CrowdProperty, where I delivered >20x revenue growth, 7-figure profitability whilst scaling up, and a leading market position. With 18 years strategy consulting experience, I specialise in defining clear and differentiated strategies, driving transformation and creating value incomplex environments for mid-cap to large-scale corporates and private equity owned businesses with experienced operator, investor, advisor and Board perspectives. Venture capital investor and advisor to HM Government on tackling constraints to SME business growth (99.9% of businesses in the UK supporting 27m jobs with £4.5tn of annual turnover).Key skills: • Leadership • Strategy • Growth • Transformation • Value-creation • Consulting • Private Equity / Venture Capital • Capital Raising • Commercial Due Diligence • Board-Level Governance • Stakeholder ManagementToolkit: • 18 years strategy/transformation/private equity consulting • 7 years transformational growth CEO • 6 years venture capital investment committee • Multiple Board positions (Executive & Non-Executive) • Broad sector experience to leverage • International perspective working in 18 countries and on many more • Multi-asset class investor • London Business School MBA • FT Non-Executive Director Diploma • Chartered Management Accountant • 1st Class Masters in Mechanical EngineeringAwards & Recognition: • CrowdProperty has been widely recognised including in the ‘Sunday Times Hundred’ (Britain's fastest growing profitable businesses), Deloitte Fast 50 / Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (UK’s/EMEA’s fastest growing technology businesses), and the Financial Times FT1000 (fastest growing businesses in Europe) for 4 consecutive years; Selected for high-profile scaleup programmes including ‘TechNation Fintech 5.0’, ‘Silicon Valley comes to the UK Scaleup Club’ and a ‘WIRED Trailblazer’ • Personally recognised as a finalist in 'Tech Entrepreneur of the Year' in the Go:Tech Awards, finalist in ‘Inspirational Leader of the Year’ at the UK PropTech Awards, awarded 'Entrepreneur of the Year' and 'Business Person of the Year' by the Midlands Business Awards and featured in the Alternative Credit Investor Power 50 list 5 years in a row (top 10 in 2022)Other: • Angel investing: London Business School E100 member; UKBAA member; 12+ years angel investing; 35+ investments • Real estate investing: 20+ years building an extensive residential property portfolio across tenant segments • Sport: ECB Cricket Foundation Coach, MCC Member; Active player

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $38k–$2.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $76k–$5.8M |
| Equity Crowdfunding | $504k–$2.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Real Estate | 9 | 23% |
| Software | 8 | 20% |
| SaaS | 7 | 18% |
| FinTech | 7 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 13% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 30% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 23% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 6 | 15% |
| Series A | 3 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 27 | 68% |
| Belgium | 1 | 3% |
| Ireland | 1 | 3% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Exciting Instruments | Exciting Instruments Limited is a joint company founded in Sheffield that combines the software prowess of Bulldozer Limited with Dr. Timothy Craggs' knowledge of single molecules. Through the use of cloud connectivity and real-time data visualisation, we are a genuine science and software partnership on a mission to assist you in streamliningthe procedure for creating discoveries in biophysics, life sciences, drug discovery, and medical diagnostics. | $5M | Seed | Nov 25, 2024 |  |
| Nestflow | NestEgg helps homeowners become financially free by trading their home equity for debt-free income. Our innovative equity-release model offers a fair, efficient way for millions of European elderly to tap their built-up housing wealth, while offering investors a unique asset class of owner-occupied real estate. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| Trubrics | Product analytics for AI assistants, copilots, and agents. | $503K | Pre-Seed | Apr 02, 2024 |  |
| AdvisoryAI | AdvisoryAI is an AI-driven client servicing solution designed to empower financial advisors by providing tailored client insights/ automating tailored reports/ streamlining client data management for optimal client care. With a focus on personalization and efficiency, AdvisoryAI revolutionizes the way advisors manage their clientrelationships and streamline their workflows. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| Hands In | Hands In is a payments platform that enables businesses to accept various types of split payments, including splitting transactions across multiple cards, facilitating group payments, and offering installment plans. Their solutions aim to reduce payment declines due to insufficient funds and enhance customer flexibility during checkout. Hands Inserves industries such as travel and ticketing, providing tailored payment options to improve customer experience and increase successful transactions. The company also offers a merchant dashboard for managing payments and advanced payment routing to optimize transaction processes. | $544.7K | Seed | May 15, 2023 |  |
| Scrub AI | Scrub AI is an IT company that provides web hosting, data augmentation, error correction, business strategy, and software solutions. |  | Angel | Mar 31, 2023 |  |
| Saltee | Saltee is a manufacturing company that provides sunscreen creams, cosmetics, serums, body lotions, and other skincare essentials. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Lucky Saint | Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer. | $12M | Series A | Jan 03, 2023 |  |
| Youtility | Every year we spend over 50% of our salaries on home finances yet managing and tracking these accounts is a modern day nightmare. Youtility is on a mission to provide a simple and smart solution. | $5.8M | Pre-Seed | Feb 24, 2020 |  |
| CrowdProperty | CrowdProperty (www.crowdproperty.com) is the UK's leading specialist property development lending platform.CrowdProperty is a profitable and disruptive fintech/proptech innovator with a game changing, highly scalable, customer-centric approach to the property finance market, underpinned by a highly scalable technology platformsupporting rapid UK growth and international expansion.Featured in the Sunday Times 100 report of Britain’s fastest growing profitable businesses, the Deloitte Fast 50 as one of UK's 50 fastest growing tech businesses, the Financial Times FT1000 fastest growing businesses in Europe for 3 consecutive years, the Tech Nation FinTech 5.0 programme, a WIRED Trailblazer and founding member of the Innovate Finance 36H Fintech Group.With a distinct 'property finance by property people' proposition, CrowdProperty's mission is to unlock the potential of small and medium sized property developers to build more much needed, under-supplied homes, helping them to grow their businesses quicker and drive spend in the economy on labour, materials and services. Actual property development and investment experience lies at the heart of the business meaning hands-on, expertise-led due diligence and loan monitoring and intimate understanding of the needs of a property developer. Lending is focused on small and medium sized developers, a key segment for supplying much needed UK housing stock, which is poorly and inefficiently served by traditional funding sources. CrowdProperty funds property professionals undertaking any sort of property project, structuring the perfect funding product and doing so with greater speed, ease, certainty, transparency and expertise than anyone in the market. Blog: www.blog.crowdproperty.com Main website: www.crowdproperty.com Mezzanine finance proposition: www.cpcapital.com Australian business: www.crowdproperty.com.au | $1.4M | Equity Crowdfunding | Apr 16, 2019 |  |

10 of 40 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pi Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pi-labs-2) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Seedrs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedrs) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Ascension](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascension-ventures-limited) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Countrywide](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/countrywide) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SyndicateRoom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/syndicateroom) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Innovate Finance

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Innovate Finance is an independent membership association that represents the UK’s global FinTech community. Founded in 2014 and supported by the City of London and Broadgate, Innovate Finance is a not-for-profit that advances the country’s leading position in the financial services sector by supporting the next generation of technology-ledfinancial services innovators.More than 250 global members have joined the Innovate Finance ecosystem to date. These companies range from seed stage start-ups to global financial institutions and professional services firms. All benefit from Innovate Finance’s leading position as a single point of access to promote enabling policy and regulation, talent development, and business opportunity and investment capital. By bringing together the most forward-thinking participants in financial services, Innovate Finance is helping create a global financial services sector that is more sustainable, more inclusive and better for everyone.

5 contacts available at Innovate Finance.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Danny Lopez | Non Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danny-lopez |
| Hayley Bromilow | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hayley-bromilow-3e5b |
| Janine Hirt | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/janine-hirt-beb3 |
| Michael Bristow | Founding Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-bristow |
| Thin Chambers | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thin-chambers |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Bristow invest in?

Michael Bristow invests primarily in Real Estate, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 40 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 Bristow's check size?

Michael Bristow typically joins rounds of $38k–$2.3M at Seed, $76k–$5.8M at Pre-Seed and $504k–$2.6M at Equity Crowdfunding. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Michael Bristow participates in.

### When did Michael Bristow last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Bristow closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 40 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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