# Simon Franks

> Simon Franks is a seed investor at Redbus Ventures (London) backing FinTech and Health Care. See 54 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Redbus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redbus-group)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 54
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-franks-42952554
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/SimonFranksUK
- Website: http://redbus.uk

Simon Franks is a seed investor at Redbus Ventures in London focused on FinTech and Health Care. Simon Franks is the founder and managing partner of Redbus Ventures and Chairman of the Franks Family Foundation. (www.thefff.org)

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $524k–$5.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $318k–$1.6M |
| Series A | $5.4M–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 7 | 13% |
| Health Care | 7 | 13% |
| Payments | 6 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 9% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 9% |

73 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 26 | 48% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 17% |
| Series A | 5 | 9% |
| Angel | 2 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 33 | 61% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tolemy Bio | Tolemy Bio develops AI-driven tools to design, optimize, and control cell culture processes for advanced therapies. The company focuses on precision-engineered, custom cell culture media for cell and gene therapies and biologics. Its platforms use artificial intelligence and machine learning to map how nutrients and signals influence cells. TolemyBio supports cell therapy innovators with data-driven media design and process control. Its solutions aim to improve critical quality attributes and manufacturability for advanced therapeutic products. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Nesti | Backed by world-class sales, marketing, and GTM investors - Nesti is an AI-first generative video platform that enables sales teams to deliver 1,000s of personalised outreach videos, on dynamic buyer landing pages, at scale. |  | Seed | Feb 12, 2025 |  |
| 5Mins | 5Mins s a gamified learning platform designed to help employees improve their skills .It curates short-form video content from leading creators around the world and makes it available to teams and businesses via adaptive and gamified learning engine. | $5.7M | Seed | Nov 07, 2022 |  |
| Wild Cosmetics | We create awesome personal care products that are kind to your body and kind to our planet. | $6.8M | Seed | Feb 17, 2022 |  |
| Oto Health | Oto builds digital therapeutics for tinnitus. There are 390 million people with intrusive tinnitus around the world. Our mission to help them, by providing science-based therapy, that is accessible to all. | $697.5K | Pre-Seed | Jan 14, 2022 |  |
| Lapse | Lapse is a social disposable camera app. The app lets close groups recreate the magic of old-school disposable cameras by taking 36 snaps to ‘rolls’ in private group chats. | $11M | Seed | Dec 20, 2021 |  |
| Pharmacierge | Pharmacierge is the award-winning digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients. | $1.7M | Seed | Oct 26, 2021 |  |
| Pharmacierge | Pharmacierge is the award-winning digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients. | $1.7M | Seed | Oct 26, 2021 |  |
| Lapse | Lapse is a social disposable camera app. The app lets close groups recreate the magic of old-school disposable cameras by taking 36 snaps to ‘rolls’ in private group chats. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 30, 2021 |  |
| Trilo | Trilo is the simplest way for people to pay people |  | Angel | Sep 17, 2021 |  |

10 of 54 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Redbus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redbus-group) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Ascension](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascension-ventures-limited) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Haatch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haatch) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Force Over Mass Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/force-over-mass-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Fuel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fuel-ventures-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Redbus Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Redbus Group is a UK based investment group that invests in early stage ventures and funds or acquires businesses that require restructuring. Redbus Group came into existence as an offshoot of Redbus Film Distribution which was founded in 1997 as a film distribution company. Redbus Film Distribution had rapidly established itself as one of thelargest and most profitable film distributors in the UK. In late 2000 it was sold to Helkon Media AG.Redbus through its subsidiary Filmgroup was the first company in Europe to successfully develop technology to compress and stream moving images over the internet. Between 2000 and 2004 Redbus was the UK's fastest growing company with a compound annual growth rate in-excess of 280%. In 2005 Redbus sold its production and distribution operations to Lionsgate Inc and sold its stake in Lovefilm of which it was co-founder, to Amazon in 2010.Employing an entrepreneurial and disciplined approach, Redbus, either with partners or alone looks for opportunities to leverage off its capital, market knowledge and management resources.

1 contacts available at Redbus Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Simon Franks | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-franks |

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## FAQ

### What does Simon Franks invest in?

Simon Franks invests primarily in FinTech, Health Care and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 54 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 Simon Franks's check size?

Simon Franks typically joins rounds of $524k–$5.7M at Seed, $318k–$1.6M at Pre-Seed and $5.4M–$23M 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 Simon Franks participates in.

### When did Simon Franks last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Simon Franks closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 54 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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