# Rory Stirling

> Rory Stirling is a seed investor at Connect Ventures backing Software. See 31 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Connect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connect-ventures)
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 65%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rorystirling
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/rorystirling
- Website: https://www.connectventures.co/

Rory Stirling is a seed investor at Connect Ventures focused on Software and Financial Services. Rory is a Partner at Connect Ventures, a thesis-led venture capital firm based in London and investing across Europe. Connect leads seed investments in purpose-led founders, obsessed with solving hard problems at scale, by creating products and companies that people love. Rory is passionate about technology, entrepreneurship and leadershipdevelopment, and has spent the majority of his career working in start-ups and venture capital. Prior to Connect he was a partner at MMC Ventures and a co-founding partner at BGF Ventures. He’s invested at seed, series A and series B stage, in both B2B and consumer software companies. He now spends most of his learning and investing in fintech.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 26% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 23% |
| FinTech | 6 | 19% |
| B2B | 4 | 13% |
| Apps | 4 | 13% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 42% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 16% |
| Series A | 3 | 10% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 19 | 61% |
| Belgium | 1 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nexcade | Nexcade provides comprehensive end-to-end AI automation solutions for global freight forwarding, covering air, ocean, and road logistics. | $6M | Seed | Jul 08, 2026 | https://nexcade.ai |
| Nexcade | Nexcade provides comprehensive end-to-end AI automation solutions for global freight forwarding, covering air, ocean, and road logistics. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Oct 07, 2025 | https://nexcade.ai |
| Cloud Capital | CloudCapital manages cloud costs and invests in tech companies using AI and ML. | $5.4M | Seed | Apr 23, 2025 | https://www.cloudcapital.co |
| Cloud Capital | CloudCapital manages cloud costs and invests in tech companies using AI and ML. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 17, 2025 | https://www.cloudcapital.co |
| Tuza | Statement works with small company payment providers to connect merchants with the best option for users. Statement comparison and boarding engine reduces the time required to find a card processor from days to minutes. | $5M | Seed | May 02, 2024 | https://www.statementpayments.com |
| Unwritten | Unwritten is on a mission to make climate change part of every capital allocation decision. Climate change is rewiring the global economy. Our analytics and expertise help financial decision makers manage the risks and opportunities.Unwritten was founded in London in 2022 by the former leads of Palantir Technologies’ climate data solution. Thecompany is backed by leading venture funds and climate transition experts. | $3.5M | Seed | Apr 08, 2024 | https://www.dovetail.finance/ |
| Swallow | Pricing Operations Platform for Insurance and Finance | $1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 05, 2023 | https://swa.llow.io |
| Sprinque | Sprinque offers a B2B checkout platform for merchants and marketplaces. Its platform enables merchants and marketplaces to offer pay-by-invoice with net payment terms to online buyers without adding risk or increasing operational overhead. Juan Espinosa, Manoj Tutika, and Mark Holleman founded the Amsterdam-based company in 2021. | $6.5M | Seed | Jan 16, 2023 | https://www.sprinque.com |
| Payable | Payable is one platform for payment operations - we provide an intuitive API and dashboard that allow your teams to reconcile payments and make bank transfers. We automate payment operations processes and give you the financial infrastructure to scale you business. Reconcile payments with a complete view of your stack. Match transactions betweendifferent payments providers and banks and know your cash position. Make payments through your existing bank accounts and track them to success, without the pain of clunky bank portals and file submissions. Our flexible, scalable ledgers mean you can focus on building out products, rather than worrying about implementing financial infrastructure. Get up and running in minutes, with our no-code dashboard and easy to integrate API. | $6.1M | Seed | Oct 11, 2022 | http://payable.co |
| Ophelos | Ophelos was created to transform how individuals, families, and businesses manage their financial health. | $6.1M | Seed | Jun 29, 2022 | https://www.ophelos.com/ |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fly Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fly-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eden Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eden-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Entropy Industrial Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entropy-industrial-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Force Over Mass Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/force-over-mass-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HOWZAT Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howzat-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Connect Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Connect is the Product VC. We are a thesis-led, pan-European pre-seed and seed stage VC. We invest in opinionated products, crafted with love, and loved by many.

5 contacts available at Connect Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amira Naik | Senior Finance Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amira-naik |
| Federico Miguens | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/federico-miguens-7a0d |
| Karin Killander | Head of Brand & Community | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karin-killander-80f4 |
| Katy Turner | Operations Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katy-turner |
| Mark Pettit | CTO; Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-pettit-2f1e |

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## FAQ

### What does Rory Stirling invest in?

Rory Stirling invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Rory Stirling?

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### When did Rory Stirling last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rory Stirling closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 31 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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