# Nicholas Brisbourne

> Nicholas Brisbourne is a seed investor at Molten Ventures backing Software. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Molten Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-esprit)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brisbourne
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/brisbourne
- Website: https://x.com/brisbourne

Nicholas Brisbourne is a seed investor at Molten Ventures in London focused on Software and SaaS. Nic was a founding partner of Molten in 2006 before leaving to set up his own firm, Forward Partners, in 2013. Forward raised two funds and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2021 before being acquired by Molten in 2024. Nic's career in venture capital started in 1999 when he joined Reuters Venture Capital and prior to that he was amanagement consultant.He holds a first class degree in Social and Political Science from Cambridge university.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $318k–$2.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 40% |
| SaaS | 2 | 20% |
| Education | 2 | 20% |
| Messaging | 2 | 20% |
| Advertising | 2 | 20% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 50% |
| United States | 3 | 30% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Makers | At Makers, we are creating a new generation of tech talent who are skilled and ready for the changing world of work. We are inspired by the idea of discovering and unlocking potential in people for the benefit of 21st century business and society. We believe in alternative ways to learn how to code, how to be ready for work and how to be of valueto an organisation. At our core, Makers combines tech education with employment possibilities that transform lives. | $8.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 08, 2022 |  |
| OutThink | OutThink is a cyber security start-up, headquartered in London, UK. Recognised by Gartner and Forrester for innovation, we transform the way companies engage with their employees to educate, change behaviours and build a risk aware culture. Our award-winning human risk management platform (SaaS) is built to identify and reduce risky workforcebehaviours. OutThink brings an innovative solution built by CISOs for CISOs, to help address the growing demand for fully trained employees in the fight against growing cyber threats. | $1.6M | Seed | Feb 12, 2020 |  |
| Patch | Patch helps you choose the best plants for your space, delivers them to your door, and helps you look after them. | $786K | Seed | Jun 01, 2017 |  |
| Outlyer | Outlyer is a self-service infrastructure monitoring platform made for DevOps and microservices. We monitor your full stack—from servers and cloud providers to databases, containers and custom metrics. We give you dashboards, analytics and alerts that are easy to set up and customize for both developer and operations teams.Outlyer is monitoring,done differently. | $480K | Seed | Sep 29, 2014 |  |
| Togethera | We're bringing the world’s families closer together by providing a private, simple place to share, that’s easily accessible by grandparents and children, on phones, tablets and computers. | $318K | Seed | Feb 09, 2014 |  |
| Conversocial | Conversocial is a Customer Experience Platform for Messaging Channels.Your customers have moved to messaging — your brand should too. Conversocial simplifies how brands communicate with their customers by combining human agents and bots in a single platform. The result; frictionless customer experiences throughout the customer lifecycle thatenhance customer loyalty and drive revenue — at scale. Forward-thinking brands such as Google, Sephora, British Airways, and Facebook trust Conversocial to help them embrace messaging as an efficient and scalable customer experience channel. Conversocial has offices in New York City, London and San Francisco with a global team of people passionate about helping brands build and scale meaningful relationships with their customers. | $2.4M | Series A | May 24, 2011 |  |
| Tribold | Tribold is the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Product Management (EPM) software specifically developed for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). Tribold EPM™ is a single, integrated suite of Enterprise Product Management applications that empowers CSPs to put products at the heart of their business.Tribold EPM™ is based on aCentralized Product & Service Catalog (CPC) and a Product & Service Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Dramatic improvements in product management performance enable CSPs to drive increased profit by reducing time to market, decreased cost to market, increased quality of the product management process and increased ability to support product and service innovation.Today, Tribold EPM manages over US$64b of products and services for our customers. Headquartered in London, and with offices in North America and Asia, Tribold was founded in 2003 and is privately held. | $11M |  | Jan 14, 2009 |  |
| Tribold | Tribold is the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Product Management (EPM) software specifically developed for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). Tribold EPM™ is a single, integrated suite of Enterprise Product Management applications that empowers CSPs to put products at the heart of their business.Tribold EPM™ is based on aCentralized Product & Service Catalog (CPC) and a Product & Service Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Dramatic improvements in product management performance enable CSPs to drive increased profit by reducing time to market, decreased cost to market, increased quality of the product management process and increased ability to support product and service innovation.Today, Tribold EPM manages over US$64b of products and services for our customers. Headquartered in London, and with offices in North America and Asia, Tribold was founded in 2003 and is privately held. | $15M | Series B | Mar 22, 2007 |  |
| Patch | Patch helps you choose the best plants for your space, delivers them to your door, and helps you look after them. | $327K | Pre-Seed |  |  |
| StrikeAd | StrikeAd Fusion, a proprietary technology platform for agencies and advertisers to plan, execute, and evaluate their mobile advertisements. It is created to answer the ever growing need of media planning and buying agencies to manage their mobile campaigns effectively through a single platform. The company's platform is not a bolt on to anexisting DSP but a mobile-specific platform in its own right, a single console through which agencies can plan, execute and evaluate hundreds of mobile campaigns, minute-by-minute, on a global basis. | $2.6M | Seed |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Business Growth Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-growth-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eden Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eden-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Educapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/educapital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Forward Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HOWZAT Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howzat-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Molten Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Molten Ventures is a leading British venture capital firm backing Europe’s highest-growth private technology companies. Our expert investment team stay ahead of the curve, identifying transformative trends and next-generation companies before they break through. We combine multiple pools of capital to invest at all stages of the businesslifecycle—from seed and early stage to growth and late stage—focusing on disruptive sectors like Spacetech, Fintech, and AI. Our strategy is simple: back bold ideas, scale them with capital and expertise, and unlock high-value exits—whether through strategic acquisitions, trade buy-outs, or IPOs. Since our 2016 IPO, we’ve delivered strong realised returns, reinvesting into the next wave of innovation—creating a virtuous cycle of growth and value.

5 contacts available at Molten Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alan Duncan | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-duncan |
| David Cummings | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-cummings-2 |
| George Chalmers | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-chalmers |
| Inga Deakin | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inga-deakin |
| John Marsh | Senior Partner, Venture Capital | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-marsh |

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## FAQ

### What does Nicholas Brisbourne invest in?

Nicholas Brisbourne invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Education startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 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 Nicholas Brisbourne's check size?

Nicholas Brisbourne typically joins rounds of $318k–$2.6M 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 Nicholas Brisbourne participates in.

### How do I contact Nicholas Brisbourne?

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### When did Nicholas Brisbourne last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nicholas Brisbourne closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 10 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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