Oxford Seed Fund
VC Fund
Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford Seed Fund is a VC fund in Oxford focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Oxford Seed Fund invests into startups where either a current Oxford student, alumni or researcher is part of the founding team. We invest up to £100,000 into top Oxford-affiliated startups across the globe and provide them with the network and support to scale. Our team is primarily made up of students from Saïd Business School, as well as other departments of the University of Oxford, and an alumni team. Supported by Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Centre, we have sourced and evaluated hundreds of startups and made early investments into unicorns such as Onfido and Go1.
- Total investments:
- 35
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
Last updated:
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Industries Oxford Seed Fund invests in
Stages Oxford Seed Fund invests in
Countries Oxford Seed Fund invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $33k–$6.8M
- Pre-Seed
- $370k–$1.1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (23%)
- Software 5 (14%)
- FinTech 4 (11%)
- Information Technology 4 (11%)
- Machine Learning 3 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 16 (46%)
- Pre-Seed 12 (34%)
- Series A 1 (3%)
- Funding Round 1 (3%)
- Convertible Note 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 12 (34%)
- United Kingdom 12 (34%)
- Bolivia 1 (3%)
- Nigeria 1 (3%)
- Switzerland 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beltic helps fintechs onboard businesses faster by using KYB data, signals, and LLMs to assess risk, flag fraud, and explain decisions. | $7.3M / Seed / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Zeit AI, founded by former Palantir engineers, generates a structured data base atop your tabular data files which you can query using natural language. For example, you suspect an efficiency in your organisation and you have a bunch of data files, instead of reading through all of them one by one in excel, you explore them in Zeit AI. Theycurrently offer a two-week pilot program where their engineers develop tailored solutions for data challenges involving CSV, Excel, or PDF files. | $5.8M / Seed / Sep 03, 2026 | ||
| Viktor is an AI‑driven platform that acts as a virtual coworker inside messaging and collaboration tools, connecting to a broad set of business‑software systems to automate workflows, run tasks, and support knowledge‑work operations across marketing, operations, and engineering functions. | $75M / Series A / May 19, 2026 | ||
| Remy AI offers software that helps robot arms learn tasks through vision and AI for picking, packing, sorting, and warehouse automation. | $700K / Seed / Mar 23, 2026 | ||
| The A&B Smart Materials Using innovative cooling technologies to boost photovoltaic efficiency. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Dec 12, 2025 | ||
| Jack Fertility offers convenient home sperm testing kits that enable users to conduct lab-grade semen analysis without visiting a clinic. The service includes flexible delivery, easy sample collection, and personalized digital results with recommendations tailored to individual needs. | $673.9K / Pre-Seed / Oct 01, 2025 | ||
| Structured AI is an AI-powered tool designed to help users organize their days more easily and quickly by creating and managing tasks in a timeline. | $497.1K / Pre-Seed / Jul 30, 2025 | ||
| Lume Health is a San Francisco–based healthtech startup developing the first wearable capable of tracking hormone fluctuations in real time through a sweat sensor. Designed for continuous, needle-free monitoring, Lume replaces outdated lab tests with instant, actionable insights on stress, sleep, and energy at the cellular level. Targetingbiohackers, athletes, and high-performing professionals, the device helps users understand and respond to their bodies’ hormonal shifts without waiting weeks for results. Early beta users report transformative benefits, from restored energy to improved well-being, positioning Lume as a potential game-changer in personalized health tracking. | Pre-Seed / Jun 29, 2025 | ||
| Cohesive is a CRM company that provides automated lead generation and marketing platform solutions for local businesses. | Pre-Seed / Jun 19, 2025 | ||
| Allia Health provides a digital platform for mental health professionals, integrating tools for client onboarding, scheduling, treatment planning, and progress tracking. The platform features secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth services with AI-assisted documentation to streamline clinical workflows. It collects real-world data through clientcheck-ins, symptom tracking, and optional wearable integrations, offering clinicians insights into patient progress between sessions. Allia Health operates on a model where individual clinicians access the platform at no cost, while larger healthcare organizations pay for enterprise features and analytics. The platform is accessible via iOS, Android, and web applications. | $2M / Seed / Jun 18, 2025 | ||
| See all 35 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Oxford Seed Fund invest in?
Oxford Seed Fund invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Oxford Seed Fund invest in?
Oxford Seed Fund typically joins rounds of $33k–$6.8M at Seed and $370k–$1.1M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Oxford Seed Fund's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Oxford Seed Fund took part in.
When did Oxford Seed Fund last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Oxford Seed Fund closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 35 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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