# Rodney Appiah

> Rodney Appiah is a pre-seed investor at Cornerstone VC (London) backing Health Care and FinTech. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cornerstone VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cornerstone-vc)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 69%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneyappiah/

Rodney Appiah is a pre-seed investor at Cornerstone VC in London focused on Health Care and FinTech. Rodney joined Foresight in 2016 from the Business Growth Fund where he spent 5 years providing minority growth capital and board support to UK SMEs. Prior to BGF, Rodney was an investment banker at Merrill Lynch, advising PE sponsors and TMT corporates on leveraged finance transactions and M&A activity.In his spare time, Rodney is a businessadvisor to a number of start-up businesses and a school governor for an East London based Academy. Rodney holds a Bsc in Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 4 | 31% |
| FinTech | 3 | 23% |
| Software | 3 | 23% |
| Apps | 2 | 15% |
| Real Estate | 2 | 15% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 54% |
| Seed | 5 | 38% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 10 | 77% |
| Portugal | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Evaro | Evaro provides digital health integration to increase accessibility of pharmacy products. | $25M | Series A | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Gladys | Gladys is a revolutionary social care software platform set to transform the caregiving landscape through innovation, empowerment, and direct connections. With a commitment to cutting out intermediaries, Gladys brings local carers, helpers, and families together in a seamless digital ecosystem. Led by a seasoned co-founding team with extensiveexperience in the sector, Gladys is uniquely positioned to address the challenges faced by the social care industry. As a female-led tech business based in the UK, Gladys is dedicated to driving change, simplifying processes, and enhancing the quality of care provided to vulnerable individuals. Backed by venture capital firm Antler, Gladys is poised to redefine social care, empowering caregivers and families. | $2M | Seed | Oct 13, 2025 |  |
| Litehaus | Itehaus is a pioneering property development company specializing in construction solutions, including 3D-printed modular homes and sustainable building technologies. Its mission is to revolutionize real estate development by combining technology, sustainability, and design innovation to create elegant, minimalist, and eco-friendly homes harmonizedwith Portugal’s natural beauty. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | May 21, 2025 |  |
| ComplyStream | ComplyStream enables faster and smarter FinCrime alert resolution by unifying your fragmented data, communication and workflows in a single AI-native platform. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Jarvis | Jarvis offers a platform for managing lifetime pensions, featuring a retirement calculator and financial insights. | $2.3M | Seed | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| Evaro | Evaro provides digital health integration to increase accessibility of pharmacy products. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 31, 2024 |  |
| Aster | Clinic enablement software for women's health providers, keeping them private and independent and helping to reduce poor health outcomes. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Jan 30, 2024 |  |
| Storia | Storia is guided journaling software that helps people uncover their authentic voice. The journaling app combines AI-guided prompts, on-demand sessions, reflections, and community to help users recover their inner narratives, build self-awareness, and cultivate a stronger connection with their real selves. |  | Pre-Seed | May 24, 2023 |  |
| Sticky Connectons | Solve problems in physical spaces with branded stickers. Everything you need to improve convenience and make more money in hospitality, retail, town centres and more. | $1.9M | Seed | May 12, 2023 |  |
| Afrocenchix | Afro haircare is a $42B market and it’s growing fast. But the big players don’t understand the customers or their problems. We’ve had those problems, and our customer centric, data driven approach at Afrocenchix has helped us to formulate, manufacture & sell over 65,000 bottles of our safe, effective products so far. Our award-winningproducts and featured in top publications such as Vogue, and on the Indy Best lists and have an average 4.7 star review from 1000s of customers. We’re just getting started. | $1.2M | Seed | Jul 08, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Exceptional Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exceptional-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SFC Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-funding-club) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ascension](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascension-ventures-limited) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Praetura Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/praetura-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Zeal Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zeal-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Cornerstone VC

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Cornerstone VC operates as a venture capital firm.

3 contacts available at Cornerstone VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rodney Appiah | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rodney-appiah |
| Edwin Appiah | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edwin-appiah-f466 |
| Jude Addo | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jude-addo-615e |

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## FAQ

### What does Rodney Appiah invest in?

Rodney Appiah invests primarily in Health Care, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 Rodney Appiah last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rodney Appiah closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 13 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?

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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