# Reuben Wilcock

> Reuben Wilcock is a seed investor at Blackfinch Ventures (London) backing Software and SaaS. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Blackfinch Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackfinch-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 81%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-reuben-wilcock-489a75/

Reuben Wilcock is a seed investor at Blackfinch Ventures in London focused on Software and SaaS. Reuben Wilcock, Ventures Director, Blackfinch Group.Reuben is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur with 15 years’ experience founding and growing technology start-ups. His smart home energy spinout, Joulo, won a British Gas Connected Homes award and was acquired by Quby. He also co-founded the startup Bar Analytics. Reuben was a leading figure inentrepreneurship at the University of Southampton, founding the accelerator Future Worlds, and mentoring over 200 entrepreneurs and 50 companies. Reuben has a first-class honours degree in Electronics, a PhD in integrated circuit design and is an inventor on five patents.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 30% |
| SaaS | 4 | 15% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 11% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 52% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 19% |
| Series A | 3 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 20 | 74% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adia Thermal | Adia Thermal provides technology that enables heat pumps installations. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| GT Wings | GT Wings offers unique turn-key engineering services for the marine industry. | $1.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 20, 2024 |  |
| Quin AI | Quin AI is a generative behavioural AI platform poised to transform how companies engage their customers online. | $2M | Seed | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Kelpi | Kelpi is a sustainable biotech start-up bio-refining seaweed to make bioplastic packaging that is marine-safe and home-compostable. | $5.5M | Seed | May 30, 2024 |  |
| RideTandem | RideTandem focuses on transportation technology. It transforms local transportation companies into smart shuttles for work, education, and other purposes. | $3M | Seed | Jul 12, 2023 |  |
| Martech3D | Martech3D is a B2B manufacturer's 3D product marketing and sales platform. The 3D virtual showroom is a photo-realistic 3D environment that allows businesses to showcase their product lines in an entertaining and unique manner. | $621.5K | Seed | Jun 06, 2023 |  |
| OnePulse | OnePulse is a digital platform that makes market research engaging, producing real-time consumer insights effectively and inexpensively. Via its web-based portal, OnePulse enables businesses to access consumers in two ways: by building a branded community and also by accessing the general OnePulse consumer community. For consumers, OnePulseis a dedicated mobile app that allows them to easily respond to Pulses of up to three questions. OnePulse rewards its users both financially and through interactive gamification within the application. The tech industry has called OnePulse "the Twitter of consumer insight"; it takes response rates, response times and user engagement to levels never-before-seen by conventional digital surveys. With this real-time platform, businesses will understand consumers better, in turn promoting confident decision-making and driving profitability. | $504.7K | Series A | Feb 23, 2023 |  |
| Tangle.io | Tangle is an intuitive open source platform that offers reusable components, drag and drop capabilities without requiring any code, secure architecture, and full code extensibility, enabling businesses to create corporate apps in a matter of hours. | $748.5K | Seed | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| Teamed | Teamed support businesses as they swiftly and legally expand globally. Our goal is to become the top employer for all international remote employees. Our ideals serve as the engine for our ambition. | $3.1M | Seed | Dec 09, 2022 |  |
| Currensea | Currensea is a FinTech company that offers a direct debit travel card that allows users to make transactions in multiple currencies.The company's product links to any UK bank account and reduces exchange rates and transaction fees abroad without setting up and managing a new bank account to get better rates. It also allows users to top upprepaid cards, allowing them to make payments while traveling without opening a new bank account and at a lower cost. | $3.1M |  | Sep 30, 2022 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Praetura Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/praetura-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [1818 Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1818-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Nexus Investment Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-investment-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Blockchain Valley Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchain-valley-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bristol Private Equity Club](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bristol-private-equity-club) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Juno Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juno-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Blackfinch Ventures

VC Fund · Gloucester, United Kingdom

Blackfinch Ventures invests across sectors in fledgling companies with strong ideas and solid management teams. It provides initial and follow-on funding to start-ups, those looking to grow to the next level, and scale-ups. It then works closely with investee companies over many years, providing assistance and guidance to help businesses succeed.

3 contacts available at Blackfinch Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reuben Wilcock | Head of Ventures | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reuben-wilcock |
| Richard Harley | Senior Ventures Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-harley-eb0a |
| Richard Cook | Founder,CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-cook-1f6d |

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## FAQ

### What does Reuben Wilcock invest in?

Reuben Wilcock invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Reuben Wilcock last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Reuben Wilcock closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 27 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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