# Nicholas Stocks

> Nicholas Stocks is a Series A investor at White Star Capital (London) backing EdTech and Retail. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [White Star Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/white-star-capital)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 56%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/njstocks/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/njstocks
- Website: https://x.com/njstocks

Nicholas Stocks is a Series A investor at White Star Capital in London focused on EdTech and Retail. Nicholas Stocks is the general partner at White Star Capital. Nicholas has experience as an entrepreneur, operator, advisor and investor. Previously, he founded he worked for Global Founders Capital, the $1bn sector agonstic global fund, and was an early member of the team at UKCloud (formerly known as Skyscape). He has also worked for AccessIndustries-owned AINMT in Brazil, PT in Lisbon, and was an investment banker at UBS in London. Nicholas holds an MBA from London Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EdTech | 1 | 11% |
| Retail | 1 | 11% |
| Banking | 1 | 11% |
| FinTech | 1 | 11% |
| Leasing | 1 | 11% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Series B | 2 | 22% |
| Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 11% |
| Series D | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Poland | 1 | 11% |
| Germany | 1 | 11% |
| Singapore | 1 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FINN | At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated. | $113.4M | Series D | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| MyEdSpace | MyEdSpace provides affordable, high-quality Maths teaching for KS3, GCSE and A-level students across the UK. We teach through our unique award winning platform to provide an engaging and modern approach to education for our students. We combine live online lessons from world-class teachers with personal mentors, homework, revision materials andprofessionally designed workbooks. Our teachers are fully qualified, and are subject experts with a huge amount of previous experience teaching in schools across the country | $15M | Series A | Sep 29, 2025 |  |
| FINN | At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated. | $109.8M | Series C | Jan 11, 2024 |  |
| TransactionLink | We integrate tech and fintech solutions (eg. video verification, access to credit bureaus and other databases, digital signature) under one API and provide our clients with all of them under 1 contract, 1 technological integration and with 1 invoice. We take care of the ugly parts - minimum fees, negotiations, traffic requirements and techintegration. Our FinTech Appstore is continously growing - we add new Apps and new geographies on a regular basis - and our clients can access them with a few lines of code. | $5.3M | Seed | Oct 11, 2023 |  |
| Una Brands | Una Brands provides a fast and fair way for e-commerce business owners to sell their companies. The company uses significant growth capital to transform its e-commerce brand into a household name. Una's data analytics and AI platform will help automate and optimize their processes, giving them a competitive edge.Una Brands was founded in2020 and is based in Singapore. | $30M | Series B | Sep 29, 2022 |  |
| FINN | At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated. | $110M | Series B | May 25, 2022 |  |
| FINN | At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated. | $110M | Series B | May 11, 2022 |  |
| Una Brands | Una Brands provides a fast and fair way for e-commerce business owners to sell their companies. The company uses significant growth capital to transform its e-commerce brand into a household name. Una's data analytics and AI platform will help automate and optimize their processes, giving them a competitive edge.Una Brands was founded in2020 and is based in Singapore. | $15M | Series A | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| FINN | At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated. | $21.9M | Series A | Dec 07, 2020 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Heartcore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heartcore-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [HV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holtzbrinck-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Korelya Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korelya-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Picus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/picus-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [UVC Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uvc-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alpha JWC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-jwc-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About White Star Capital

VC Fund · New York, United States

White Star Capital is a global venture capital fund and multi-stage technology investment platform investing in North America, Europe and Asia. It backs exceptional entrepreneurs globally, leveraging their extensive experience and networks to help them scale their businesses internationally. Operating out of New York, London, Montreal, Toronto,Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong, its presence, perspective and people enable it to partner closely with Founders to help them scale internationally from Series A onwards.

5 contacts available at White Star Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nicholas Stocks | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicholas-stocks |
| Alex Thabet | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-thabet |
| Cameron Coombes | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cameron-coombes-4b1b |
| Christophe Bourque | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christophe-bourque |
| Cristina Ventura | Venture Partner and Chief Catalyst Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cristina-ventura |

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## FAQ

### What does Nicholas Stocks invest in?

Nicholas Stocks invests primarily in EdTech, Retail and Banking startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Poland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Nicholas Stocks last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nicholas Stocks closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 9 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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