# Somerston Group

> Somerston Group is a VC fund in St. Helier backing SaaS, Big Data and Software. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. Helier, Jersey
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Aug 2019
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.somerston.com/

Somerston Group is a VC fund in St. Helier focused on SaaS and Big Data. Somerston is an international group engaged primarily in real estate investment and development.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 50% |
| Big Data | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Analytics | 1 | 50% |
| Scheduling | 1 | 50% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series C | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| JRNI | JRNI is an experiential relationship management (XRM) platform for scheduling and managing personalized experiences at scale. With apps for facilitating appointments, virtual queuing, and events, plus industry-leading analytics, JRNI helps businesses offer remote and in-person experiences that increase revenue, profitability, and efficiency, buildcustomer relationships, and improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. | $6M | Series C | Aug 21, 2019 |  |
| Brainnwave | Founded in 2015 in Edinburgh by Steve Coates and Graham Jones, Brainnwave helps businesses unlock game-changing insights with a new generation of customised business intelligence applications.Delivered through a blend of data engineering, data science and a unique tech stack – Brainnwave provides customised, no-code intelligence applications thatenable users across the organisation – from sales to operations, access trusted intelligence to tell the story they need, to support everyday decision making.Brainnwave intelligence applications are massively scalable thanks to the near-infinite power of cloud computing and are fully customisable with ML & AI to solve highly complex business-specific problems.Clients and partners across the globe trust Brainnwave to imagine, engineer and craft game-changing solutions that help achieve their ambitions. | $1.3M | Seed | Jul 01, 2018 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Downing Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/downing-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Old College Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/old-college-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [PeakSpan Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peakspan-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Somerston Group invest in?

Somerston Group invests primarily in SaaS, Big Data and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Somerston Group last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Somerston Group closed in Aug 2019. Shizune tracks 2 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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