# Puma Private Equity

> Puma Private Equity is a VC fund in London backing Software and Consulting. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 92%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.pumaprivateequity.co.uk/

Puma Private Equity is a VC fund in London focused on Software and Consulting. We are a private equity team that provides growth capital to small and medium-sized businesses across the UK.We are the private equity division of Puma Investments, which manages a series of investment funds on a discretionary basis. This means we have capital in hand, ready to deploy – so we can move quickly to help you. We operate across thecountry from our offices in London, Liverpool and Edinburgh and are part of an organisation that raised its first private equity fund in 1996.We are proud of the strong relationships we build, and look forward to supporting your future success.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.8M–$14M |
| Private Equity | $2.2M–$7.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 13% |
| Consulting | 4 | 11% |
| Retail | 3 | 8% |
| Internet | 3 | 8% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 8% |

61 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 12 | 32% |
| Series A | 9 | 24% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 16% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 20 | 53% |
| Japan | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Ireland | 1 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Kaye | Chief Executive Officer & Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-kaye-fcfb |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MOTH: | MOTH: is a beverages company that provides ready-to-drink cocktail for family and friends. | $14.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| HR Duo | We give access to enterprise-level HR services and support. We help manage the entire employment cycle - from onboarding to exit - no matter where in the world your staff are based. We do it through blending the right tech with some of the most experienced HR minds and expertise around. You can automate up to 80% of your HR day-to-day while stayingcompliant, freeing you up to focus on what really matters. It’s like having a team always working away on your behalf, and only a click away. | $1.8M |  | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| HR Duo | We give access to enterprise-level HR services and support. We help manage the entire employment cycle - from onboarding to exit - no matter where in the world your staff are based. We do it through blending the right tech with some of the most experienced HR minds and expertise around. You can automate up to 80% of your HR day-to-day while stayingcompliant, freeing you up to focus on what really matters. It’s like having a team always working away on your behalf, and only a click away. | $1.8M |  | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| Pockit | Pockit is a fintech business that focuses on providing financial services primarily to customers who are typically excluded or at least underserved by high street banks. It provides a digital banking app designed to cater to the underbanked masses. | $17.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 08, 2026 |  |
| Aveni | Aveni is an award-winning technology company that specializes in Natural Language Processing for Financial Services and other highly regulated industries. Its team of world-leading scientists and engineers has developed a proprietary NLP pipeline that extracts context from customer conversations. This powers a range of transformative productfeatures, including automated compliance monitoring, the identification of vulnerable customers and performance management of call centre agents and advisers. | $16.1M | Series B | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Yaso | Kuai Commerce is a social commerce solutions for brand acceleration. | $11.1M | Series A | Sep 21, 2025 |  |
| Love Corn | Love Corn manufactures packaged roasted corn products. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Ho-ho-kus, New Jersey, United States. | $6.3M | Private Equity | Apr 10, 2025 |  |
| NRG Gym | NRG Gym is a health and wellness center. | $4.9M |  | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| NRG Gym | NRG Gym is a health and wellness center. | $4.9M | Private Equity | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| Bikmo | Bikmo exists to enable you to ride more.We build awesome insurance products to protect our customers for unexpected events, use technology to make taking out and managing your policy ultra-simple, and provide exceptional customer experiences through our team of bike geeks.We’re now 5 years into our mission to enable anyone, anywhere, to protecttheir lifestyle, so they can spend more time enjoying it. And, become the brand that resonates with and protects the passion and drive behind the bike and adventure sports community.At the heart of our business is a bunch of bike and adventure sports geeks who choose to spend their free time in the epic wild places our earth has to offer and we want to continue to be able to do just that. | $6M | Private Equity | Dec 16, 2024 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Haatch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haatch) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Lloyds Banking Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lloyds-bank) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Puma Private Equity invest in?

Puma Private Equity invests primarily in Software, Consulting and Retail startups, most often at Private Equity and Series A stage. Most of the 38 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 Puma Private Equity's check size?

Puma Private Equity typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$14M at Series A and $2.2M–$7.9M at Private Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Puma Private Equity participates in.

### How do I contact Puma Private Equity?

Public channels for Puma Private Equity include 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 Puma Private Equity?

The team at Puma Private Equity includes David Kaye (Chief Executive Officer & Founder). 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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