# The SidebySide Partnership

> The SidebySide Partnership is a VC fund in London backing Apps and Retail. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-sidebyside-partnership/about/
- Website: https://thesidebysidepartnership.com/

The SidebySide Partnership is a VC fund in London focused on Apps and Retail. SidebySide Partnership is an EIS Venture Capital firm that invests and mentors fast-growing technology businesses.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 18% |
| Retail | 2 | 18% |
| Wellness | 2 | 18% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 18% |
| Customer Service | 2 | 18% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 36% |
| Series A | 4 | 36% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alicia Taylor | Portfolio Manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alicia-taylor-5a38 |
| Ben Ashworth | Junior Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-ashworth |
| John E. Bailye | Founder & Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-e-bailye |
| Sheli Gupta | Portfolio Company Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sheli-gupta |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tonic Health | Tonic Health is a natural high dose immunity tonic designed to help your immune system fight back. | $4.1M | Series A | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Ryft | Butlr is the fastest growing ordering platform for bars, pubs and music venues. One app across all venues removing queues. | $7.3M | Series A | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Ryft | Ryft is a payment platform designed to bring marketplaces and digital platforms to scale within Web 3.0. They simplify complex, multi-sided payments for marketplaces and P2P platforms by providing a plug-and-play end-to-end solution. The platform is providing automated next-day payouts for marketplace businesses and their merchants for a singleflat fee per transaction. | $7.3M | Series A | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Shot Scope | Shot Scope's statistic collecting technology is currently in development, led by a team of engineers and golfers based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Trials are planned on UK golf courses throughout 2015 with general release scheduled for 2016. | $8.4M | Series B | Jul 31, 2024 |  |
| Slip | Slip aims to create an omnichannel and frictionless experience for Retailers and their customers. | $3.2M | Seed | Jun 06, 2024 |  |
| Shot Scope | Shot Scope's statistic collecting technology is currently in development, led by a team of engineers and golfers based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Trials are planned on UK golf courses throughout 2015 with general release scheduled for 2016. |  |  | Jul 21, 2023 |  |
| Honest Mobile | Challenger MVNO | $3.7M | Seed | Apr 18, 2023 |  |
| The Bunch | The Bunch was set up by recent graduates who were fed up of being taken advantage of by utility companies. The company was founded as Easy Student Living in Leeds in 2016 taking on its first customers in May 2017. Since then the company has expanded, with over 3000 customers onboard for 2019/2020. The company rebranded in May 2019 to becomeThe Bunch in order to stay in touch with the long term goals of the company – being able to provide a service for ANYONE living in shared accommodation. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| Sherpr | Sherpr offers door to door luggage delivery service and box shipping services. They provide luggage shipping, box shipping, bikes, excess baggage shipping, international shipping, domestic shipping, relocation shipping, and airline baggage alternative. | $689.3K | Seed | Mar 31, 2021 |  |
| Love the Sales | LovetheSales.com, the leading website for shopping the sales online. They make it easy to shop all the sales in one place.They partner with over 850 of the biggest retailers worldwide to find the best offers on the web for you, your wardrobe and your home. Even more than that, they let you ‘favourite’ full price items and get alerted as soon asthey go on sale.We're a group of people that are passionate about using the budget they have to achieve the best lifestyle they can; and smart shopping in the sales offers us a way to do that. They want to share that with the world.They hope you enjoy using LovetheSales.com and it helps you to get what you want for less. If you have any feedback, or ideas on how they could improve their site, we'd love to hear from you. |  | Seed | Mar 31, 2021 |  |

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## Co-investors
- [Haatch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haatch) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does The SidebySide Partnership invest in?

The SidebySide Partnership invests primarily in Apps, Retail and Wellness startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.

### How do I contact The SidebySide Partnership?

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### Who are the partners at The SidebySide Partnership?

The team at The SidebySide Partnership includes Alicia Taylor (Portfolio Manager), Ben Ashworth (Junior Partner) and John E. Bailye (Founder & Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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