# Concept Ventures

> Concept Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 93 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 93
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 39%
- Last fund: Apr 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rlcventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/RLCVentures
- Website: https://rlc.ventures/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RLC-Ventures-167719270561493/

Concept Ventures is a VC fund in London focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Concept Ventures is the UKs largest dedicated pre-seed fund, focused on backing founders reshaping how we work, play, and learn. As a firm built by industry outsiders, we understand the importance of being flexible, founder-first partners at the earliest of stages. We can shape or join your rounds of up to £2m, with capacity to follow-on toSeries-A & beyond.

## Contacts

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

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $510k–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$3.1M |
| Series A | $10M–$19M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 39 | 42% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 23 | 25% |
| SaaS | 12 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 12% |
| Gaming | 6 | 6% |

109 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 45 | 48% |
| Pre-Seed | 41 | 44% |
| Series A | 3 | 3% |
| Series B | 1 | 1% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 63 | 68% |
| United States | 8 | 9% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jack Sidhu | Investment Council | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-sidhu |
| Jeff Chowdhry | Chairman | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-chowdhry |
| Nikunj Varshney | Tech Lead - Full Stack Engineer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nikunj-varshney |
| Oliver Kicks | Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oliver-kicks |
| Reece Chowdhry | Founder & CEO | 78 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reece-chowdhry |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Architect AI | Architect AI is a pioneering the world’s first agentic website and Its platform turns any site into a self-learning AI agent that observes visitor behavior. | $4.8M | Seed | Sep 09, 2025 |  |
| Archestra.AI | Build powerful, safe, interconnected AI agents without the technical overhead. | $3.4M | Pre-Seed | Aug 14, 2025 |  |
| Anam | Anam is the developer of real-time AI personas for brands to increase consumer interaction.. | $9M | Seed | Jul 11, 2025 |  |
| Dex | Dex is a SaaS company that offers an AI assistant to act as user's personal talent agent and scan the tech market for next opportunity. | $3.1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| Cloud Capital | CloudCapital manages cloud costs and invests in tech companies using AI and ML. | $5.4M | Seed | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Capably AI | Capably empowers professionals to automate complex tasks with AI in minutes, regardless of their level of technical expertise. Operating autonomously in the background, Capably acts as an extension of the teams it supports, driving greater productivity and efficiency. Anyone in the company can use Capably to automate back-office tasks like dataentry and processing, generate insights and reports, manage projects, and more—all while the organisation maintains complete control and visibility over how and when employees delegate work to AI. | $4M | Seed | Apr 22, 2025 |  |
| Arondite | Arondite is a defence technology company building the foundational software and AI to power the autonomous age. | $9.8M | Seed | Apr 02, 2025 |  |
| Gendo | Gendo is a browser based platform that provides beautiful CGI. It accelerates design image production 100x with AI and ML, eliminating technical hurdles for designers using innovative browser-based tools." | $5.4M | Seed | Nov 15, 2024 |  |
| Verax AI | Seeks to be the leading provider of enterprise-grade trust solutions for Generative AI, enabling companies worldwide to build or adopt any Generative AI agent with confidence | $7M | Seed | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| Verax AI | Seeks to be the leading provider of enterprise-grade trust solutions for Generative AI, enabling companies worldwide to build or adopt any Generative AI agent with confidence | $7.6M | Seed | Oct 30, 2024 |  |

10 of 93 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Concept Ventures invest in?

Concept Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 93 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 Concept Ventures's check size?

Concept Ventures typically joins rounds of $510k–$7M at Seed, $500k–$3.1M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$19M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Concept Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Concept Ventures?

Public channels for Concept Ventures 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 Concept Ventures?

The team at Concept Ventures includes Jack Sidhu (Investment Council), Jeff Chowdhry (Chairman) and Nikunj Varshney (Tech Lead - Full Stack Engineer), 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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