Richard Blakesley
Angel Investor · at Boost Fund
London, United Kingdom
Richard Blakesley is a seed investor at Boost Fund in London focused on Software and Mobile Apps. Previously a TMT mergers and acquisitions specialist, Richard has been directly involved in 12 startups in the past 15 years and has the scars to prove it. He co-founded Capital Pilot in 2016 to help companies avoid the same problems that he has encountered numerous times, aiming to bring velocity, efficiency and transparency to the early stagetech funding marketplace. In the process he has found his dream job. Capital Pilot currently has 300 companies registered on its investment readiness and investor matching platform and aims to become the trusted marketplace for high quality EIS and SEIS investment activity.Richard also mentors early stage entrepreneurs and startups through programmes run by London & Partners and New Entrepreneurs Foundation.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
Last updated:
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Industries Richard Blakesley invests in
Stages Richard Blakesley invests in
Countries Richard Blakesley invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (18%)
- Mobile Apps 2 (18%)
- iOS 1 (9%)
- Apps 1 (9%)
- Sports 1 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (45%)
- Funding Round 2 (18%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Fanslide develops a live in-play fantasy football application. | $60.6K / Seed / Jun 29, 2022 | ||
| The easy way to find and pay referees | $65K / Seed / Jun 29, 2022 | ||
| DabbaDrop provides plant-based meals in reusable stainless steel containers. | $60.6K / Seed / Jun 29, 2022 | ||
| Bubbl is an easy-to-use plug-in for your company’s iOS or Android app, giving you the state of the art geofence-triggered functionality to empower your marketing team with powerful location-based consumer engagement tools and real-time analytics. With Bubbl, you can hyper-focus your consumer engagement strategy by sending geo-triggered surveys,videos, vouchers and push & pull notifications when it’s most relevant to your consumers - at the specific time and based on their location or proximity to a given place. Installed in a matter of minutes, it gives you a cloud-based platform to manage your geo-triggered campaigns and analyse live insight. Your marketing content triggered by geofences appears on your consumers’ phones without your app being opened and without the need for active WiFi or beacons. | Jun 29, 2022 | ||
| ORB Innovations is a deep tech, digital health platform for high-quality biometric data and insights, their mission is to empower our users to lead better, healthier, happier lives by always providing next-generation access to performance and well-being data. | Seed / Jun 29, 2022 | ||
| Bubbl is an easy-to-use plug-in for your company’s iOS or Android app, giving you the state of the art geofence-triggered functionality to empower your marketing team with powerful location-based consumer engagement tools and real-time analytics. With Bubbl, you can hyper-focus your consumer engagement strategy by sending geo-triggered surveys,videos, vouchers and push & pull notifications when it’s most relevant to your consumers - at the specific time and based on their location or proximity to a given place. Installed in a matter of minutes, it gives you a cloud-based platform to manage your geo-triggered campaigns and analyse live insight. Your marketing content triggered by geofences appears on your consumers’ phones without your app being opened and without the need for active WiFi or beacons. | $60.6K / Seed / Jun 29, 2022 | ||
| The easy way to find and pay referees | $60.6K / Pre-Seed / Jun 29, 2022 | ||
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What does Richard Blakesley invest in?
Richard Blakesley invests primarily in Software, Mobile Apps and iOS startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Richard Blakesley last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Richard Blakesley closed in Jun 2022. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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