Peter Read
Angel Investor
London, United Kingdom
Peter Read is a seed investor in London focused on Software and Apps. Peter Read is based out of London and is the Cortex Partner of Vitruvian Partners. Peter previously worked at TOCCA as an angel investor. Peter Read attended the University of Oxford. Peter Read has been certified as a speaker at The E-Act Burnham Park Academy, Slough.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 12%
Last updated:
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Industries Peter Read invests in
SoftwareAppsMobileTravelE-Commerce
Stages Peter Read invests in
SeedSeries EAngelSeries ASeries F
Countries Peter Read invests in
United KingdomUnited StatesGermanyIndiaSweden
Round sizes
Seed $550k–$1.7MSeries E $100M–$120M
Round size
- Seed
- $550k–$1.7M
- Series E
- $100M–$120M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (24%)
- Apps 3 (18%)
- Mobile 3 (18%)
- Travel 2 (12%)
- E-Commerce 2 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (59%)
- Series E 2 (12%)
- Angel 1 (6%)
- Series A 1 (6%)
- Series F 1 (6%)
Country
- United Kingdom 5 (29%)
- United States 4 (24%)
- Germany 3 (18%)
- India 2 (12%)
- Sweden 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Porter
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Porter offers a range of on-demand logistics and moving services tailored to business and personal needs. It provides intra-city transport using mini-trucks, tempos, electric vehicles, and two-wheelers for delivering goods of varying sizes. Porter Enterprise supports businesses with managed bulk transport, distribution, and supply-chain workflows.Residential relocation is supported through its Packers & Movers offering, which includes moving and packing assistance. Additionally, inter-city courier services facilitate parcel delivery via air or surface to thousands of postal codes. | Secondary Market / May 08, 2025 | |
Turtlemint
|
Turtlemint is an online insurance platform that identifies and purchases appropriate insurance policies for consumers. It aims to “demystify” insurance by explaining the jargon in a simple way and providing smart tools to help a user make the right choice. From search to purchase, the entire process can be completed online in just a few clicks.The company offers car insurance, bike insurance, health insurance, and term life insurance. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. | $120M / Series E / Apr 29, 2022 | |
Logically
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Logically combines artificial intelligence with expert analysts to reduce the individual, institutional, and societal damage caused by misleading and deceptive online discourse. Working with governments and organisations around the world, Logically's unique combination of artificial and expert intelligence means we can apply scale and nuanceto the problems of mis- and disinformation, detecting, triaging, and responding to issues, as well as predicting and preventing emerging threats. | $24M / Series A / Mar 16, 2022 | |
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Porter
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Porter offers a range of on-demand logistics and moving services tailored to business and personal needs. It provides intra-city transport using mini-trucks, tempos, electric vehicles, and two-wheelers for delivering goods of varying sizes. Porter Enterprise supports businesses with managed bulk transport, distribution, and supply-chain workflows.Residential relocation is supported through its Packers & Movers offering, which includes moving and packing assistance. Additionally, inter-city courier services facilitate parcel delivery via air or surface to thousands of postal codes. | $99.9M / Series E / Oct 25, 2021 | |
Snap.hr
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Snap.hr is a recruitment platform designed exclusively for developers. Designed as a solution to what the company sees as ‘the fragmented and outdated’ traditional recruitment market, Snap.hr uses groundbreaking AI and machine learning technology, combined with a specialist in-house team, to match companies with skilled tech talent.To achievethis, Snap.hr is vastly improving matching, transparency and communication between businesses and job seekers, enabling not only better hiring, but also retention rates. | Seed / Mar 01, 2016 | |
Car Throttle
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Car Throttle was started in 2009 after founder Adnan Ebrahim realised there was no online platform for people like him: young, millennial car enthusiasts. Dubbed ‘Buzzfeed for cars’, the site quickly evolved into a vibrant community serving millions of users - called CTzens - who follow the brand on its apps and major social media platforms.CarThrottle creates and distributes engaging car content and works closely with advertisers looking to reach a valuable audience. Their investors include the minds behind AOL, Facebook, Skype and MailOnline. | $550K / Seed / Aug 01, 2013 | |
Qapital
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Launched in 2012, and led by Founder & CEO, George Friedman, Qapital is a new kind of banking experience that empowers people to maximize their happiness by saving, spending, and investing with their goals in mind. By blending behavioral psychology with technology, Qapital provides people with the tools they need to make managing money easyand fun. The Qapital app is designed to help users better understand their saving, spending, and investing habits by highlighting the tradeoffs made when managing money. It allows users to save for their real-life goals with customizable, automated deposits that are linked to their everyday actions, like riding the bus, going to the gym, or buying a coffee. To help users spend more intentionally, Qapital provides an FDIC-insured checking account, Qapital Visa® Debit Card, and Weekly Spending Target tool to track day-to-day spending. And for more long-term goals, Qapital Invest, which is set to launch in Spring 2018, will bring a goal-based and automated approach to the world of investing, offering users an effortless way to grow their money and plan for their future. | $500K / Angel / May 16, 2013 | |
Wummelbox
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The Wummelbox Team’s greatest goal is to develop fun and creative arts & crafts projects for kids between the ages of 3 and 8. It is their job to ensure that each and every project fulfils the highest quality standards, without exception. Each month, they create a brand new Wummelbox, enabling kids to dive into an exciting world of play,crafts, and fun. | $1M / Apr 15, 2013 | |
Twitmusic
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Twitmusic is the leading Twitter marketing platform for the music industry.SaaS solution enables music artists & labels to launch campaigns to help them grow their followers, go Trending and reach new audiences on Twitter. In addition, they provide labels with actionable insights & analytics to determine the effectiveness of theirmarketing campaigns.- Registered musicians: 44,000 (with 500,000,000+ followers). - Artist sign up up 200% annually- Registered Artists: Lil Wayne, Jason Mraz, Bryan Adams, Duran Duran, Carly Rae Jepsen, Sean Kingston, Steve Aoki, The Lumineers, Cody Simpson, Cher Lloyd, MC Hammer, Brandy, Muse, Jon Secada, Amanda Palmer, Asher Roth, Miguel & many more.- Partners: Sony, Warner Music, Universal, EMI, Def Jam, Epic Records, RCA, Columbia Records, Tool Room Records, RED Music, Scooter Braun Projects, CAA, Atom Factory, Stricly Rythme, Bill Silva, Hashtag Mgmt, Stampede Mgmt & many more. | Seed / Jan 01, 2013 | |
Narrative
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Narrative is an innovative market leader in wearable cameras and intelligent image analysis. The Narrative Clip is an automatic, stamp-sized camera that the user clips on to her clothes to capture photos and location data without conscious interaction. Narrative’s image analysis service analyzes the photos and data and serves the user with her mostmeaningful and memorable moments in a mobile app photo stream.Narrative was founded by Martin Källström, Oskar Kalmaru, Björn Wesén and Simon Pantzare, Sebastian Björkelid March 1, 2012. It is headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, with additional offices in Sweden (Stockholm and Lund) and the United States (San Francisco). As of April 2014, the company has 45 employees. | $675K / Seed / Jul 03, 2012 | |
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FAQ
What does Peter Read invest in?
Peter Read invests primarily in Software, Apps and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series E stage. Most of the 17 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 Peter Read's check size?
Peter Read typically joins rounds of $550k–$1.7M at Seed and $100M–$120M at Series E. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Peter Read participates in.
When did Peter Read last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Peter Read closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 17 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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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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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