# REV

> REV is a VC fund in London backing Software and Analytics. See 70 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 70
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 34%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rev-vc
- Website: http://rev.vc

REV is a global venture capital partnership. They are backed by one of the world's largest content, technology and analytics companies, RELX Group. Their mission is to help build companies that can transform their markets through the application of data, technology and analytics. Since 2000 they have invested over $200m in Big Data, DigitalHealth, Internet and Enterprise Technology companies. They have been early investors in disruptive category leaders like Palantir, Healthline, Babbel and Netli. Their portfolio of companies is part of a large, extended family of businesses that also includes the entire Reed Elsevier Group. Collaboration is actively encouraged and supported. Their focus is high growth, internet, media & technology businesses based in the US, Europe or Israel. Their typical sectors include: new media, mobile, big data & analytics, healthcare information & software and groundbreaking analytic technologies. They will invest at any stage of a company's development, from early/seed stage to growth capital and whatever their initial capital investment, they remain committed to helping the company achieve market leadership. They are a global investor active in all the major western venture capital hubs - San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin and Tel Aviv. Their largest portfolio cluster is in California.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.5M–$15M |
| Series B | $5M–$35M |
| Series C | $7M–$37M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 24% |
| Analytics | 17 | 24% |
| Big Data | 9 | 13% |
| Enterprise Software | 9 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 13% |

84 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 15 | 21% |
| Series C | 14 | 20% |
| Series A | 8 | 11% |
| Series D | 7 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 10% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 35 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 7% |
| Israel | 2 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kevin Brown | Founder Partner | 25 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-brown-5 |
| Tony Askew | Founder Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tony-askew |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Orbital Witness | Orbital Witness is a LegalTech-meets-PropTech company developing a legal risk rating for real estate - a cheaper, faster and reliable alternative to the legacy, costly and time consuming legal due diligence process in property transactions. | $60M | Series B | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| EvenUp | EvenUp is a legal tech company that develops cloud and AI-based legal case management solutions for personal injury AI and document generation. Its ligation cost software values personal injury claims and automates aspects of personal injury legal practices. | $150M | Series E | Oct 07, 2025 |  |
| Harvey | Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider. | $59M | Series E | Oct 06, 2025 |  |
| Harvey | Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider. | $300M | Series E | Jun 23, 2025 |  |
| Harvey | Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider. | $300M | Series D | Feb 12, 2025 |  |
| LegalMation | LegalMation is an AI technology company that provides tools to help attorneys and legal professionals automate routine litigation tasks, allowing them to focus on more valuable tasks in their practice. It aims to redefine the way these professionals provide value to their clients, whether as outside or in-house legal counsel.For corporate legaldepartments, LegalMation tools will provide in-house attorneys and paralegals unparalleled time and cost savings, standardized and consistent documentation, and ultimately the ability to outsource less. It also allows law firms to achieve higher per-attorney profitability and efficiency.LegalMation was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States. | $15M | Series A | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Gigasheet | Gigasheet delivers healthcare market intelligence powered by AI and the industry’s most comprehensive price transparency data. The platform ingests and analyzes billions of payer and provider rate records from Transparency in Coverage datasets, structuring them into usable, queryable intelligence. Its AI models benchmark rates, identify outliers,and surface savings or growth opportunities automatically. Users can combine their own claims or network data within a scalable, spreadsheet-like interface to generate consultant-level insights without engineering effort. Gigasheet’s technology turns complex healthcare pricing data into fast, explainable intelligence that drives smarter contracting and network decisions. | $7M | Series A | Jun 02, 2022 |  |
| Effectiv | Effectiv is a next-gen fraud management platform with out-of-box solutions designed specifically for financial institutions. Effectiv’s focus is to significantly reduce the time it takes to deploy and adapt fraud detection strategies without adding any friction to good users.The Effectiv platform comes with an easy to use, no-code, orchestration& rule engine with pre-built integrations to all industry standard data & intelligence providers; an AI-assisted case management system built to increase investigator efficiency; and a powerful reporting and analytics dashboard.About us: Our founding team has over 30 years of combined experience in building risk mitigation systems at companies like Google, PayPal and Walmart. We were also part of the early team at Simility (acquired by PayPal), where we developed fraud detection solutions for large banks like US Bank, Synchrony, Discover, Zions, Itau and Santander. | $4.1M | Seed | Mar 29, 2022 |  |
| Effectiv | Effectiv is a next-gen fraud management platform with out-of-box solutions designed specifically for financial institutions. Effectiv’s focus is to significantly reduce the time it takes to deploy and adapt fraud detection strategies without adding any friction to good users.The Effectiv platform comes with an easy to use, no-code, orchestration& rule engine with pre-built integrations to all industry standard data & intelligence providers; an AI-assisted case management system built to increase investigator efficiency; and a powerful reporting and analytics dashboard.About us: Our founding team has over 30 years of combined experience in building risk mitigation systems at companies like Google, PayPal and Walmart. We were also part of the early team at Simility (acquired by PayPal), where we developed fraud detection solutions for large banks like US Bank, Synchrony, Discover, Zions, Itau and Santander. | $4.1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 29, 2022 |  |
| Cybersixgill | Cybersixgill is the leader in cyber threat intelligence enablement and enrichment. Their fully automated threat intelligence solutions help organizations fight cyber crime, detect phishing, data leaks, fraud and vulnerabilities as well as amplify incident response – in real-time. The Cybersixgill Investigative Portal empowers security teams withcontextual and actionable insights as well as the ability to conduct real-time investigations. Rich data feeds such as Darkfeed™ and DVE Score™ harness Cybersixgill’s unmatched intelligence collection capabilities and deliver real-time intel into organizations' existing security systems. Most recently, Cybersixgill introduced agility to threat intel with their CI/CP methodology (Continuous Investigation/Continuous Protection). Current customers include enterprises, financial services, MSSPs, governments and law enforcement entities. | $35M | Series B | Mar 10, 2022 |  |

10 of 70 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does REV invest in?

REV invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Big Data startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 70 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is REV's check size?

REV typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$15M at Series A, $5M–$35M at Series B and $7M–$37M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds REV participates in.

### How do I contact REV?

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### Who are the partners at REV?

The team at REV includes Kevin Brown (Founder Partner) and Tony Askew (Founder Partner). 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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