Pentech Ventures
VC Fund
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Pentech Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on finding category defining software companies. Their passion is helping founders develop their startup into an internationally successful organisation. They have done this multiple times, partnering with leading VCs, corporations and investment banks along the way. They consider any opportunitycapable of becoming a market leader but are most comfortable being the first venture investor, supporting founders through the early stages of proving product and market fit. Their initial investment is likely to be £500K to £2M, with up to £10M invested over the lifetime of the investment.They invest in founders who are ambitious to build a global company, have the passion and ability to attract the best team and who are focused on the data and understand the key drivers in proving and building their business. They support the founders they invest in to develop and grow with their business.
- Total investments:
- 80
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 34%
- Fund size:
- $119M
- Last fund:
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Industries Pentech Ventures invests in
Stages Pentech Ventures invests in
Countries Pentech Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $1.3M–$17M
- Series B
- $3.7M–$60M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 21 (26%)
- Information Technology 11 (14%)
- Analytics 9 (11%)
- Machine Learning 7 (9%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 24 (30%)
- Series B 14 (18%)
- Funding Round 13 (16%)
- Seed 11 (14%)
- Series C 7 (9%)
Country
- United Kingdom 31 (39%)
- United States 6 (8%)
- Ireland 2 (3%)
- Belgium 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Craig Anderson
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Eddie Anderson
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Marc Moens
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Sandy McKinnon
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Andy Duncan
Financial Controller
|
Financial Controller | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
nPlan
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nPlan learns how previous construction projects performed, to predict the outcomes of future projects. | $16M / Series B / Oct 17, 2025 | |
Causaly
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Causaly develops a biomedical research discovery tool designed to find and unlock key hidden evidence in biomedicine. It amplifies human cognitive abilities to expand the boundaries of discovery toward making the best decisions in biomedicine. | $60M / Series B / Jul 13, 2023 | |
Deep Render
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Deep Render Ltd. is a spin-out from the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. We are a London based AI start-up that is developing the next generation of media compression algorithms. Our proprietary and patented technology is at the forefront of machine learning research. Furthermore, our Biological Image Compression results arestate-of-the-art, providing at least a 50% efficiency gain over the previous standards | $6.3M / Series A / Mar 29, 2023 | |
PrimaryBid
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PrimaryBid is a technology platform that allows everyday investors fair access to public companies raising capital. PrimaryBid always ensures that retail investors transact at the same time and at the same price as institutional investors.Through PrimaryBid's long-term agreement with the London Stock Exchange, the company has created theinfrastructure to seamlessly connect everyday investors with public companies when it matters most. | $190M / Series C / Feb 20, 2022 | |
FloodFlash
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80% of the world’s catastrophic flood losses aren’t insured. That’s $58bn of uncovered damage, and it’s getting bigger each year because of climate change, population growth and urbanisation. FloodFlash is an insurance technology company that combines computer models, cloud software and internet-of-things sensors into flood cover that protectsthose the insurance industry has left behind.FloodFlash is the first parametric flood insurance available to the mass market. Each customer chooses a depth of flooding and how much they’d receive when floods reach that depth. When the smart sensor installed at their property detects flood water at the chosen depth, the claim is paid in full.Since the 2019 launch FloodFlash has been at the forefront of the global parametric movement. Their smart cover has set new standards for simple, transparent insurance, protecting thousands that can’t get cover anywhere else and winning over 30 industry awards. Founded by catastrophe risk experts Adam Rimmer and Dr Ian Bartholomew, FloodFlash has raised £2.1m in investment to date.FloodFlash is headquartered in London, is a registered coverholder at Lloyd’s of London and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. | $14.4M / Series A / Feb 10, 2022 | |
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FloodFlash
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80% of the world’s catastrophic flood losses aren’t insured. That’s $58bn of uncovered damage, and it’s getting bigger each year because of climate change, population growth and urbanisation. FloodFlash is an insurance technology company that combines computer models, cloud software and internet-of-things sensors into flood cover that protectsthose the insurance industry has left behind.FloodFlash is the first parametric flood insurance available to the mass market. Each customer chooses a depth of flooding and how much they’d receive when floods reach that depth. When the smart sensor installed at their property detects flood water at the chosen depth, the claim is paid in full.Since the 2019 launch FloodFlash has been at the forefront of the global parametric movement. Their smart cover has set new standards for simple, transparent insurance, protecting thousands that can’t get cover anywhere else and winning over 30 industry awards. Founded by catastrophe risk experts Adam Rimmer and Dr Ian Bartholomew, FloodFlash has raised £2.1m in investment to date.FloodFlash is headquartered in London, is a registered coverholder at Lloyd’s of London and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. | $14.9M / Series A / Feb 10, 2022 | |
Vauban
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Vauban is a tech company reshaping the world of private investing. The platform makes it easier, faster, and more cost-effective for anyone to co-invest in private companies. With Vauban, you can easily create your Syndicate online, start sharing your deal flow and let your network co-invest with you in startups. Vauban has automated the SPV &funds setup process. | $6.3M / Seed / Nov 26, 2021 | |
Cognitive Credit
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Cognitive Credit combines data and develops tailored solutions for institutional credit investors. Its cutting-edge, data-driven software combines modern productivity tools with analytical features for more efficient and precise corporate credit analysis. Its proprietary data extraction pipeline is quick, accurate, and transparent. To supportcross-team collaboration and on-the-go connectivity, the company designs with the entire investment team in mind. It enables its clients to be as productive and insightful as possible by combining the most accurate fundamental data in the market with real-time updates and a suite of advanced analytics. | $8M / Series A / Nov 22, 2021 | |
Lifebit
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Lifebit CloudOS is an intelligent genomics platform that understands DNA data and generates meaningful insights like humans do. This offers researchers, and their organisations (ie. top tier pharmas), a highly scalable, modular and reproducible system that automates the analysis processes, learns from the data via AI and provides actionableinsights. | $60M / Series B / Sep 28, 2021 | |
Monolith AI
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Monolith AI is a software company that uses machine learning and data science to help engineers improve the product development process. It enables companies to monetize on their old simulation and test data by using it to anticipate the behavior of new products. Companies can optimize their R&D process by reducing the number of simulations,tests, and prototypes required to develop a new product delivering faster and better products.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London, England. | $9.6M / Series A / Aug 23, 2021 | |
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FAQ
What does Pentech Ventures invest in?
Pentech Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 80 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 Pentech Ventures's check size?
Pentech Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$17M at Series A and $3.7M–$60M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Pentech Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Pentech Ventures?
The team at Pentech Ventures includes Craig Anderson (Partner), Eddie Anderson (Founding Partner) and Marc Moens (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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