# Oliver Kicks

> Oliver Kicks is a pre-seed investor at Concept Ventures backing Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Concept Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rlc-ventures)
- Location: Fulham, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverkicks/
- Website: https://rlc.ventures

Oliver Kicks is a Partner at Concept Ventures, the UK's largest dedicated pre-seed fund. He specialises in Marketplaces, AI, Games and Enterainment investments.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 31% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 31% |
| SaaS | 3 | 23% |
| Internet | 2 | 15% |
| Audio | 1 | 8% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 69% |
| Seed | 3 | 23% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 69% |
| Germany | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gendo | Gendo is a browser based platform that provides beautiful CGI. It accelerates design image production 100x with AI and ML, eliminating technical hurdles for designers using innovative browser-based tools." | $5.4M | Seed | Nov 15, 2024 |  |
| Jigcar | Jigcar is an AI-driven automotive logistics platform enabling multi-site dealer groups to sell more cars, reduce operational costs and delight customers. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 08, 2024 |  |
| Gendo | Gendo is a browser based platform that provides beautiful CGI. It accelerates design image production 100x with AI and ML, eliminating technical hurdles for designers using innovative browser-based tools." | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 03, 2024 |  |
| Haz | Haz is an AI social commerce software that links friends based on the things they own. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | May 21, 2024 |  |
| Haz | Haz is an AI social commerce software that links friends based on the things they own. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | May 21, 2024 |  |
| Symbe | Symbe is an AI-powered, collaborative business case platform that automates and standardizes the generation of compelling business cases, enabling large-scale value-selling. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | May 02, 2024 |  |
| Harriet | Harriet is the first full-stack AI solution designed to prepare organizations' internal data for the AI revolution, relieve people teams of daily admin burdens, and provide each employee with their own HR assistant. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 07, 2023 |  |
| JustParent | JustParent is a SAAS based Insurance and Employee Benefit firm that helps SMB with their employees. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 07, 2023 |  |
| Zelt | Zelt provides the enterprise with all the functionality needed to manage its workforce across the whole employee lifecycle end-to-end with applications spanning HR, Finance and IT use cases. Zelt is easy to use, tasteful, and affordable, and it enables organizations to function in a simpler and more automated way. The platform automates variousaspects of employee management, such as onboarding and offboarding, significantly reducing the time and effort required to provision employee accounts. | $3.5M | Seed | Jul 20, 2023 |  |
| Auctree | Auctree is an online trading platform for real estate investors. | $2.7M | Seed | Mar 28, 2023 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Concept Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rlc-ventures) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Notion Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/notion-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Portfolio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portfolio-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blissgrowth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blissgrowth) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Concept Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Concept Ventures is the UKs largest dedicated pre-seed fund, focused on backing founders reshaping how we work, play, and learn. As a firm built by industry outsiders, we understand the importance of being flexible, founder-first partners at the earliest of stages. We can shape or join your rounds of up to £2m, with capacity to follow-on toSeries-A & beyond.

5 contacts available at Concept Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jack Sidhu | Investment Council | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-sidhu |
| Jeff Chowdhry | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-chowdhry |
| Nikunj Varshney | Tech Lead - Full Stack Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nikunj-varshney |
| Oliver Kicks | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oliver-kicks |
| Reece Chowdhry | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reece-chowdhry |

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## FAQ

### What does Oliver Kicks invest in?

Oliver Kicks invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Oliver Kicks last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Oliver Kicks closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 13 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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