# Sir Terry Leahy

> Sir Terry Leahy is a Series A investor at Liverpool Vision backing Software and SaaS. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Liverpool Vision](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liverpool-vision)
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 60%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-leahy-954429a5

Sir Terry Leahy is a Series A investor at Liverpool Vision focused on Software and SaaS. Sir Terry Leahy joined Cheshunt, England-based Tesco in 1979 and held marketing positions at the retailer before becoming commercial director of fresh foods in 1986 and a member of the board in 1990. Leahy was appointed Chief Executive of Tesco plc in March 1997.Leahy received a Knighthood for services to food retailing in the 2002 New YearHonours. He was voted as Britain’s Most Admired Leader (2005 and 2006) by Management Today, recognized by the Wall Street Journal and CNBC as European Business Leader of the Year (2005), and named European Businessman of the Year by Fortune (2004). A Guardian Unlimited Politics panel found him to be the most influential non-elected person in Britain in 2007.Leahy is a Director on the Liverpool Vision Regeneration Board and a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council.In 2010 he received the Daily Telegraph’s Award for a Decade of Excellence in Business, a Lifetime Achievement award from Director Magazine, and was voted Business Person of the Year by the Sunday Times.Sir Terry Leahy retired from Tesco in March 2011.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$16M |
| Series A | $2M–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 40% |
| SaaS | 4 | 27% |
| Mobile | 3 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 20% |
| EdTech | 2 | 13% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 33% |
| Seed | 4 | 27% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 20% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 12 | 80% |
| Israel | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Perlego | Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London,England. | $19.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| Roots Allotments | Roots Allotments is building the future of local food growing through a nationwide network of chemical-free allotment communities. Founded in 2022, Roots gives people everything they need to grow their own food — land, tools, seeds, workshops, and expert help — all managed through a seamless digital platform.With over 20 UK locations and 4,000+active growers, Roots partners with landowners to regenerate underused land, increase biodiversity, and reconnect people with nature. The company’s mission is to get 250,000 people growing their own food by 2033, tackling loneliness, food security, child education, and soil health along the way.Roots has raised over £6M from investors including JamJar Ventures, Active Partners, Sir Terry Leahy, and Red Bus Ventures. Each Roots community generates recurring revenue through membership fees and product sales, making the model both impactful and profitable. | $4M | Seed | Apr 04, 2024 |  |
| BrandShield | BrandShield® is an innovative Digital Risk Protection and Brand Protection solution. Its robust, patented technology finds web fraud, social media impersonation, online phishing, trademark infringements, and counterfeit sales. The system analyzes content and metrics of each website, marketplace, or social platform, and uses artificial intelligenceand sophisticated algorithms for threat prioritization and remediation. BrandShield's groundbreaking pattern recognition technology finds fraud networks and major brand threats. It also includes enforcement tools and services, to form a powerful Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting solution.BrandShield's robust, patent pending technology helps fighting infringements and makes brand protection possible for all sizes of organizations. BrandShield's A-Z solution protects the brand from detection of threats to their takedown. Brandshield's proactive aproach extends any organization's assets protection outside the organization's perimeter. BrandShield detects logo usage online, fraud clusters, cross-platform connections and prioritizes online threats customized uniqely for each brand.BrandShied's technology dramatically improves the way organizations can manage and protect their digital brand. Till now online brand protection solutions were limited, based on human analysis, highly expensive, and therefore available only to the biggest companies. BrandShield's technology revolutionizes this market, and will allow every business to monitor and protect its brand online, at a reasonable cost.Brandshield's website - http://www.brandshield.com/ | $3.4M |  | Oct 24, 2023 |  |
| SYNALOGiK | Scout, created by Synalogik, is a one-of-a-kind data aggregation platform capable of automating complicated fraud and enhanced due diligence investigations across Synalogik, third-party, internal, and open-source datasets. Log in once, then configure automated, unified search, risk assessment, and reporting across all of your selected data sources,allowing your analysts to be significantly more productive, efficient, and make better judgments. | $4M | Series A | Jan 24, 2022 |  |
| Uptime | Our story began with a vision to build a platform that makes knowledge accessible, affordable, and fun, while also being free from negativity, doom-scrolling and advertising. That’s how we came to be Knowledge Hackers. Uptime is a free app featuring 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world’s best books, courses and documentaries. All Hacks areavailable in text, audio and our unique visual story format, distilling the key ideas and insights from thousands of sources to keep users informed and save them time and effort. And the best thing is, you can share Hacks in just a tap with anyone via socials and text. It’s time to know more in no time.It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in London, England. | $16M | Seed | Feb 10, 2021 |  |
| Sirenum | Sirenum is a cloud-based platform for managing the staff lifecycle for agencies, recruiters and organisations who rely on staff for operational purposes.Sirenum is built on a highly agile technology platform, which allows us to connect with other service providers for functions not yet in the system. This trick allows us to deliver features thatthey would not otherwise have, if a client requires these features up front. Once significant demand for a particular feature becomes apparent, they may decide develop that feature in house, replacing the outside vendor and retaining additional profits.Sirenum is geared towards employers who operate complex workforces of shift workers. Sirenum is particularly suited to the Staffing, Railway, Aviation, Construction, Hospitality, Healthcare, Home care, Deliveries, Logistics and Transportation. Operators in these sectors typically have hundreds or thousands of employees. | $2.7M | Series A | Jan 29, 2021 |  |
| fastPAYE | fastPAYE is a cloud-based employee wage management tool. fastPAYE offers businesses a service where they can pay staff part of their already earned salary in advance of payday. |  | Seed | Jan 16, 2020 |  |
| Sirenum | Sirenum is a cloud-based platform for managing the staff lifecycle for agencies, recruiters and organisations who rely on staff for operational purposes.Sirenum is built on a highly agile technology platform, which allows us to connect with other service providers for functions not yet in the system. This trick allows us to deliver features thatthey would not otherwise have, if a client requires these features up front. Once significant demand for a particular feature becomes apparent, they may decide develop that feature in house, replacing the outside vendor and retaining additional profits.Sirenum is geared towards employers who operate complex workforces of shift workers. Sirenum is particularly suited to the Staffing, Railway, Aviation, Construction, Hospitality, Healthcare, Home care, Deliveries, Logistics and Transportation. Operators in these sectors typically have hundreds or thousands of employees. | $1.3M | Seed | Oct 18, 2019 |  |
| Syrenis | Businesses are inundated with data concerning their customers whilst the processing, storage and usage of this data is increasingly protected by legislation. Formed by a team with a background in software development and data marketing, Syrenis Ltd came into being in February 2000. Using their first-hand experience of the challenges faced bybusinesses when handling personal data, founders Nicola Watson and Ian Johnstone resolved to make things simpler. |  | Angel | Feb 04, 2019 |  |
| PlayerData | Our mission is to transform the way Athletes train, giving everyone from amateur to professional access to the latest in wearable technology. We pride ourselves on our PlayerData community, bringing athletes together to make the most of their data. We value openness, progress and accessibility, which are at the foundation of everything we do.Whether we are bettering ourselves, our service, or helping our customers enhance themselves in their sports, we strive to progress together and make all of our technology accessible to athletes at every level. | $508K |  | Dec 04, 2018 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Caspian Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caspian-capital-limited) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [William Currie Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-currie-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Active Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Edition Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edition-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Estinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/estinvest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Great Oaks Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/great-oaks-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Liverpool Vision

VC Fund · Liverpool, United Kingdom

Liverpool Vision is the city’s economic development company which integrates economic development and business and enterprise support designed to accelerate the city’s growth and build a sustainable economy. Their business is helping your business.They have played a pivotal role in co-ordinating the delivery of the city’s economic andphysical renaissance over the last decade, working within the strategic leadership of the City Council and the Mayor of Liverpool.

3 contacts available at Liverpool Vision.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sir Terry Leahy | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sir-terry-leahy |
| Ellen Cutler | Director of Invest | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ellen-cutler |
| Max Steinberg | Chief Executive | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/max-steinberg |

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## FAQ

### What does Sir Terry Leahy invest in?

Sir Terry Leahy invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 15 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 Sir Terry Leahy's check size?

Sir Terry Leahy typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$16M at Seed and $2M–$5M 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 Sir Terry Leahy participates in.

### When did Sir Terry Leahy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sir Terry Leahy closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 15 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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