Public
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Public is a venture capital firm that supports technology startups aiming to work more deeply with the UK’s public services.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 53%
Last updated:
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Industries Public invests in
Stages Public invests in
Countries Public invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$1.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (47%)
- Information Technology 7 (41%)
- GovTech 4 (24%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (24%)
- SaaS 3 (18%)
Stage
- Non-equity Assistance 8 (47%)
- Seed 5 (29%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (12%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
Country
- United Kingdom 8 (47%)
- Germany 5 (29%)
- France 2 (12%)
- Spain 1 (6%)
- Israel 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alexander de Carvalho
Co-founder, CIO
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Co-founder, CIO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Andy Richardson
Chief Technology Officer
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Chief Technology Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Daniel Korski
CEO and Co-Founder
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CEO and Co-Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Hanna Johnson
Chief Operating Officer
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Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Max Chambers
Chief Strategy Officer
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Chief Strategy Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Coplug
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Coplug has developed SidM Systems, a spatial analytics digital platform that supports services and infrastructure planning across cities. The company is composed of an interdisciplinary team of urban planners, health experts, urban designers, software engineers, and data scientists. | Non-equity Assistance / May 25, 2021 | |
Zencity
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Zencity uses AI and big data to reinvent the way local governments make decisions. Its platform helps cities, counties, and other government agencies understand their residents' real needs and priorities, eliminating the guesswork from policymaking. Together with our government partners, Zencity is setting a new standard for performancemanagement in local government.With minimal integration or overhead, Zencity gathers and analyzes millions of resident-generated feedback points from online and offline channels. Then, using advanced AI and machine learning, Zencity distills reliable, actionable insights from this data. Local governments use Zencity’s insights to better prioritize resources, track performance more effectively, and - perhaps most importantly - connect more deeply with their communities. | Non-equity Assistance / May 25, 2021 | |
Matterway
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Matterway offers a task acceleration platform that eliminates digital friction, without complex process or IT changes. This increases productivity by 3-5x, reduces employee frustration, and accelerates work at scale. | Seed / Dec 20, 2020 | |
GovMind
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GovMind develops an insights service that systematically captures and structures information on GovTech solutions and their providers. The solutions are then mapped according to the functioning of public administrations. Its goal is to make the GovTech ecosystem transparent and accessible for administrations in this way. | Pre-Seed / Dec 20, 2020 | |
Vianova
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Vianova is a platform for managing connected and shared mobility in the urban public realm. It helps cities better manage their urban space, starting with mobility services. Along with the benefits of new mobility solutions, cities face growing challenges as they integrate fast-developing modes of transportation. Its company's technology helpscities and mobility operators better collaborate and communicate, in order to foster more liveable and breathable streets. | $2.2M / Seed / Dec 01, 2020 | |
Mush
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Mush is an online social platform that enables mothers to meet other mothers with kids the same age. It is a social network for mums, helping parents to interact and avoid loneliness. Based in London, it was founded by Sarah Hesz and Katie Massie-Taylor in 2016. | Non-equity Assistance / Aug 07, 2019 | |
Unblur
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Unblur develops an AI software for public emergency services such as firefighters, civil Protection and police. It offers a platform called IRIS, a modular SaaS platform specifically tailored for an incident commander. Unblur was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. | Non-equity Assistance / Aug 07, 2019 | |
Convaise
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Convaise is a chatbot that helps local administrations cut out forms and data entry, saving time and money. It offers a cloud-based software solution to help public administrations and corporates with simplifying administrative communication processes by complementing forms, requests, and applications with interactive AI-based digital assistants.Based in Munich, the company was founded by Jacob von der Haar, Stefan Zitzlsperger, and Tushaar Bhatt in 2019. | Non-equity Assistance / Aug 07, 2019 | |
Course Match
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Course Match reinvents access to higher education, connecting students direct to providers. They are trying to revolutionize the way students find degree schemes to pursue at University. Existing support for these prospective students simply isn't good enough, and they believe important educational decisions in a student's life should bemade based on more than an hourly careers advice meeting, a simple survey, or just gut feeling. | Non-equity Assistance / Aug 07, 2019 | |
Cap Collectif
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Cap Collectif creates ready-to-use participative applications. It provides access to many different functionalities. Services like methodological support, training, communication, results analysis, and others are available from them. | Non-equity Assistance / Aug 07, 2019 | |
| See all 17 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Public invest in?
Public invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and GovTech startups, most often at Non-equity Assistance and Seed 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 Public's check size?
Public typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$1.5M 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 Public participates in.
How do I contact Public?
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Who are the partners at Public?
The team at Public includes Alexander de Carvalho (Co-founder, CIO), Andy Richardson (Chief Technology Officer) and Daniel Korski (CEO and Co-Founder), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 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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