# Public

> Public is a VC fund in London backing Information Technology and GovTech. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: May 2021
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/public.io
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/public_team
- Website: http://www.public.io/

Public is a venture capital firm that supports technology startups aiming to work more deeply with the UK’s public services.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Public. Shizune tracks 6 team members at Public. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/public?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 3 | 60% |
| GovTech | 2 | 40% |
| Hardware | 2 | 40% |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| Analytics | 2 | 40% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Non-equity Assistance | 2 | 40% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 80% |
| Israel | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander de Carvalho | Co-founder, CIO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-de-carvalho |
| Andy Richardson | Chief Technology Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-richardson-fda3 |
| Daniel Korski | CEO and Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-korski |
| Hanna Johnson | Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hanna-johnson |
| Max Chambers | Chief Strategy Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/max-chambers |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Coplug | 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 | 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 |  |
| novoville | novoville transforms the way citizens interact with their councils/local governments by capturing incoming citizens’ requests for services, delivering and monitoring response, and integrating this seamlessly into organisational workflow.novoville exposes quickly the e-services of councils directly on the smartphones of citizens. This ismade possible through a configurable mobile app. At the other end, a cloud dashboard allows local authorities to engage and communicate with citizens more efficiently. They can then quantify the quality of interactions and monitor the performance of used resources. Large scale data capture and subsequent processing converts everything into meaningful KPIs.in June 2017 novoville was selected among other 9 GovTech startups to participate in the GovStart Growth Program that helps tech startups trasform the UK's Public Sector. novoville is a "PUBLIC 100" company. | $1.5M | Seed | Nov 22, 2018 |  |
| Kraydel | Kraydel addresses social isolation and also supports independence for our Users. Kraydel is the only platform to combine social connectivity, through easy TV-video calling, with scalable remote monitoring, through the broadest IoT platform for health and environmental sensors and devices. This combination supports User independence and wellbeing,delivering peace of mind to families and carers. Kraydel is headquartered in Belfast, with offices in London. | $1.2M | Seed | Jan 16, 2018 |  |
| GoodBox | GoodBox is a fundraising-focused hardware and software tech start-up, primarily serving charities and the non-profit sectors. The company helps its clients to drive efficiencies in fundraising by harnessing the latest technologies.The company aims to drive incremental revenues effortlessly by delivering the most innovative technology, productsand services to the sector. |  |  | Jan 01, 2018 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ascension](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascension-ventures-limited) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Beacon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beaconcapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Clarendon Fund Managers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clarendon-fund-managers) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Salica](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hambroperksltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IQbility](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iqbility) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [PJ Tech Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pj-tech-catalyst) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Public invest in?

Public invests primarily in Information Technology, GovTech and Hardware startups, most often at Seed and Non-equity Assistance stage. Most of the 5 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?

Public channels for Public include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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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