# Russell Buckley

> Russell Buckley is a seed investor at Ballpark Ventures backing Artificial Intelligence. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ballpark Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ballpark-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/russellbuckley
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/russellbuckley
- Website: https://x.com/russellbuckley

Russell Buckley is a Founding Partner at Kindred Capital.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$3.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $1k–$2.6M |
| Series A | $13M–$33M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 30% |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| Logistics | 2 | 20% |
| Personal Health | 2 | 20% |
| B2B | 1 | 10% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Samphire Neuroscience | Samphire Neuroscience builds clinically validated neurotechnology to support women across their lives. Our wearable devices, Nettle™ and Lutea™, are built on the same underlying brain-stimulation technology, targeting neural pathways involved in pain, mood, stress, and sleep regulation. - Lutea™ is available globally as a wellness device. Itstimulates the same regions of the brain to support stress regulation, sleep, and recovery - key drivers of readiness and long-term performance - allowing athletes and teams to move beyond wellbeing education alone to practical, evidence-based intervention. - Nettle™ is a CE-marked (EU and UK regulated), drug- and hormone-free device that has been clinically shown to improve pain, mood, functionality, and the ability to train during the menstrual cycle, with measurable benefits after one month of use - supporting athletes to maintain training intensity and movement quality during their period. - The Samphire App is the platform controlling all Samphire hardware products with the use of CycleSync™ AI technology: the only one of its kind to support personalized neurotechnology use for women. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Hofy | Our platform enables your business to bring out-of-the-box home offices and on-site services to one employee or thousands – in just a couple of clicks. | $15M | Series B | Sep 28, 2022 |  |
| Gravity Sketch | Gravity Sketch is powering design teams that need to think, collaborate, and create in three dimensions. They build intuitive multi-platform tools to radically improve the efficacy and efficiency of developing 3D products.Their energy is focussed entirely on their customers - removing friction from their archaic workflows, helping enhance andexpedite their creative intent, and ultimately, making collaboration in cross-functional teams faster and more cost-effective.It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in London, England. | $32.5M | Series A | Apr 19, 2022 |  |
| Hofy | Our platform enables your business to bring out-of-the-box home offices and on-site services to one employee or thousands – in just a couple of clicks. | $12.7M | Series A | Oct 19, 2021 |  |
| Farmstand | Farmstand was a B2B health-tech company described as the “Sweetgreen for office cafeterias.”Our mission was to improve human health through "food as medicine", served in workplace cafeterias and supported by a proprietary pre-order app.Founded in 2016 and acquired in 2023, Farmstand raised $5M in venture capital and debt from top-tierVCs and a Meta board member.We secured strategic partnerships with three of the world’s largest foodservice providers, Compass Group, Aramark, and ISS, and partnered with delivery giants Deliveroo and Uber Eats. Through these relationships, we launched 36 locations across the UK, combining physical concessions and online storefronts.We operated 11 branded concessions inside leading corporate offices, including JPMorgan, Barclays, BlackRock, Blackstone, and KPMG, through on-site partnerships with Compass Group, Aramark, and ISS, and managed 25 online storefronts via Deliveroo and Uber Eats, consistently earning a 4.5 out of 5 average customer rating. To accelerate growth, we also signed two franchise agreements to roll out 100 additional locations across Europe.Farmstand was a Certified B Corp, committed to measurable environmental and social impact.The concept was inspired by what one of our co-founders began eating after a cancer diagnosis: real food, mostly plants, thoughtfully prepared to help people live longer and live better. | $1K | Pre-Seed | Oct 20, 2020 |  |
| Gravity Sketch | Gravity Sketch is powering design teams that need to think, collaborate, and create in three dimensions. They build intuitive multi-platform tools to radically improve the efficacy and efficiency of developing 3D products.Their energy is focussed entirely on their customers - removing friction from their archaic workflows, helping enhance andexpedite their creative intent, and ultimately, making collaboration in cross-functional teams faster and more cost-effective.It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in London, England. | $3.7M | Seed | Sep 16, 2020 |  |
| Hofy | Our platform enables your business to bring out-of-the-box home offices and on-site services to one employee or thousands – in just a couple of clicks. | $2.5M | Seed | Aug 30, 2020 |  |
| Dexory | Dexory captures real-time insights of warehouse operations using fully autonomous robots and Artificial Intelligence.Dexory is paving the way for AI and robotics to completely transform the world of logistics, automating data collection and building digital twin technology that unlocks insights across all levels of warehouse operations. It is aplatform that delivers real-time information for the receiving, storing, and dispatch stages, allowing companies unprecedented access to their operations.The fully autonomous mobile and modular robots measure, track, and find goods across warehouses without workflow disruption. The data is fed real time into digital twins, allowing logistics and warehouses to quickly respond to operational challenges they face on a daily basis. | $2.6M | Seed | Jul 06, 2020 |  |
| Dexory | Dexory captures real-time insights of warehouse operations using fully autonomous robots and Artificial Intelligence.Dexory is paving the way for AI and robotics to completely transform the world of logistics, automating data collection and building digital twin technology that unlocks insights across all levels of warehouse operations. It is aplatform that delivers real-time information for the receiving, storing, and dispatch stages, allowing companies unprecedented access to their operations.The fully autonomous mobile and modular robots measure, track, and find goods across warehouses without workflow disruption. The data is fed real time into digital twins, allowing logistics and warehouses to quickly respond to operational challenges they face on a daily basis. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 06, 2020 |  |
| LoopMe | LoopMe is the global leader in brand performance, redefining brand advertising for the digital world and bringing brands into apps. LoopMe was the first to apply AI to brand advertising and its Intelligent Marketplace, finding solutions to industry challenges that haven’t previously been solved. With consumer insights and AI at its core, LoopMemakes brand advertising better, outperforming industry benchmarks for leading global brands. LoopMe has achieved a fully organic gross revenue CAGR of 40% for the period 2018-2025.Our patented AI-technology PurchaseLoop, measures and optimizes consumer sentiment and builds audiences in real-time, creating a perfect feedback loop to improve advertising performance and outcomes for brands and agencies. LoopMe puts the consumer at the heart of every campaign, using our AI to make the mid-funnel (awareness, consideration, purchase intent) more measurable and optimizable.LoopMe’s AI-powered Intelligent Marketplace drives more effective supply and demand connections, rooted in programmatic delivery and ensures a more effective outcome for bids to be matched. LoopMe’s standalone measurement and audience data targeting solutions enable clients to leverage insights and target more effectively across mobile, programmatic and CTV. Chartboost expands LoopMe’s established presence in the mobile app ecosystem, significantly growing its SDK network and strengthening its outcomes-based AI technology platform.Our vision is to change advertising for the better, by building technology that will redefine brand advertising. LoopMe was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in the UK, with global offices across London, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney, Melbourne, Dnipro, Lviv, Krakow, Manchester, Beijing and Hong Kong. | $500K | Seed | Jan 16, 2013 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TrueSight Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/truesight-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Activum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/activum) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/20vc-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Capnamic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capnamic-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Day One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/day-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Forward Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Ballpark Ventures

VC Fund · Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Ballpark Ventures is a small, boutique fund investing in early stage technology startups. Their partners are all successful entrepreneurs and at this stage, investing their own money.

5 contacts available at Ballpark Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Charles Canning-Smith | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-canning-smith |
| Eric Newnham | Founding Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-newnham |
| Harry Dewhirst | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harry-dewhirst |
| Jeffrey Cooper | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-cooper-3 |
| Oliver Bishop | Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oliver-bishop |

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## FAQ

### What does Russell Buckley invest in?

Russell Buckley invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Logistics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 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 Russell Buckley's check size?

Russell Buckley typically joins rounds of $500k–$3.7M at Seed, $1k–$2.6M at Pre-Seed and $13M–$33M 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 Russell Buckley participates in.

### How do I contact Russell Buckley?

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### When did Russell Buckley last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Russell Buckley closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 10 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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