# Nick Hungerford

> Nick Hungerford is a seed investor at Portage Ventures backing SaaS. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Portage Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portag3-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nick-hungerford-781a6713
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/nickhungerford?lang=en
- Website: https://x.com/nickhungerford?lang=en

Nick Hungerford is a seed investor at Portage Ventures in London focused on SaaS and Software. Nick is the founding CEO of Nutmeg. Following a business degree at Exeter University, Nick worked at Barclays in the areas of product, banking and wealth management. Nick was a Divisional Director at Brewin Dolphin and has an MBA from Stanford University in the United States. Nick's industry and investment views are respected globally and hefrequently appears on Bloomberg, CNBC and BBC and has been quoted in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and many international publications. Nick has been a guest lecturer at academic institutions including Harvard, Stanford and London Business School and has represented UKTI around the world, promoting the benefits of doing business in Britain.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$8.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 29% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| EdTech | 1 | 14% |
| Finance | 1 | 14% |
| Education | 1 | 14% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 71% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 29% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 57% |
| Singapore | 1 | 14% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Circular | Circular is delightful subscription e-commerce, with sustainability at its heart. By focusing on customer experience while reducing waste and underutilization, we provide subscriptions to premium devices at affordable prices and with unmatched flexibility. Our mission is simple: to make subscribing to devices superior to owning them in every way,and thereby to accelerate the transition to a waste-free circular economy.At Circular, being a great place to work is anything but an afterthought. We are serious about crafting a place where adults work and learn together and every day is filled with meaning, collaboration, joy, and (most of all) impact. | $7.6M | Seed | Oct 08, 2023 | https://nowcircular.com |
| Rose AI | Rose is a next-generation data management platform that allows users to quickly find relevant data and interact with it in a way that allows them to make data driven decisions. Dealing with large amounts of data is a painful experience. The world is fifty odd years into the information revolution, and yet even the most sophisticated ofinstitutions are still working on data using the same hodgepodge of opaque databases and error-prone spreadsheets developed decades ago. Finding what you want is difficult, cleaning data is a constant pain, and integrating information across sources and tools requires investing huge amounts of time and human capital. Rose addresses these issues by providing you with a hub for finding, cleaning, and interacting with your data. Rose's data marketplace gives users exposure to a wide array of robust data sets from a myriad of reputable providers. Users can view how a dataset is constructed and can pull the underlying data into an Excel spreadsheet or Jupyter Notebook. Information is the most valuable commodity in the marketplace today. Rose gives your organization a common set of tools for manipulating, sharing, and profiting off the backbreaking work of turning raw information into insights that drive decisions. | $5.5M | Seed | Sep 21, 2021 | https://rose.ai |
| Zen Educate | Founded in 2017, Zen Educate is an online platform to connect supply teachers with openings in schools. | $8.9M |  | Sep 24, 2019 | http://www.zeneducate.com |
| Zen Educate | Founded in 2017, Zen Educate is an online platform to connect supply teachers with openings in schools. | $8.4M | Seed | Sep 24, 2019 | http://www.zeneducate.com |
| Multiply | Multiply is working with the Financial Conduct Authority's Advice Unit to get fully regulated and become one of the first automated financial advice solutions. They use encryption to ensure your information is fully secure, and they will never share or sell your data.Traditional financial advisors are too expensive for most people, and theyusually only help clients with upwards of £100,000 in the bank. This means there are millions of people in the UK who want to make better financial decisions but don’t know how. They think this is a big problem. It’s even got a name - the advice gap - and they are determined to close it, by making financial advice available to everyone.Multiply creates free financial plans to help you decide what to do with your money. All you have to do is create an account on their website, answer a few questions about your current situation and what you want for your future, and their smart technology will do the rest. What you’ll get is a list of recommendations across savings, pensions, investments, insurance, and more. It’s a fast, secure, easy way to get impartial guidance on how to make your money work for you, and it’s absolutely free to use. | $2.5M |  | Jun 05, 2018 | https://www.multiply.ai/ |
| Cuvva | Always on, or just an hour. Get flexible and fair car insurance on your terms, in minutes with Cuvva. The mobility app has sold around 6 million policies, and supported over 760,000 customers. | $2M | Seed | Jan 25, 2017 | https://cuvva.com/ |
| Charlie | Charlie is built by serial startup founders to solve their most pressing need – more time. Designed so that it’s easy to use and simple to manage, Charlie automates the administrative headaches of running a company so you can focus on building real value. | $1.3M | Seed | Mar 22, 2016 | http://www.charliehr.com |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Adjuvo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adjuvo) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Brighteye Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brighteye-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [7percent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/7-percent) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Airtree Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airtree-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Connect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connect-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Portage Ventures

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

Portage Ventures is a global fintech-focused venture capital investor. The firm makes early-stage investments in promising Canadian financial tech companies that have potential for global impact.

5 contacts available at Portage Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tripp Shriner | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tripp-shriner |
| Adam Felesky | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-felesky |
| AJ Okereke | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aj-okereke |
| Carina Doshi | Chief of Staff | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carina-doshi |
| Daniel Ballen | Partner and Co-Head, Portage Capital Solutions | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-ballen |

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## FAQ

### What does Nick Hungerford invest in?

Nick Hungerford invests primarily in SaaS, Software and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 7 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 Nick Hungerford's check size?

Nick Hungerford typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$8.9M 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 Nick Hungerford participates in.

### How do I contact Nick Hungerford?

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### When did Nick Hungerford last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nick Hungerford closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 7 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?

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