Stride.VC
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Stride.VC is a venture capital firm targeting seed stage startups. Founded in 2018, the firm is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
- Total investments:
- 86
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 58%
- Fund size:
- $171M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Stride.VC invests in
Stages Stride.VC invests in
Countries Stride.VC invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.4M–$12M
- Pre-Seed
- $800k–$5.9M
- Series A
- $6.7M–$29M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 17 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (10%)
- SaaS 8 (9%)
- FinTech 7 (8%)
- E-Commerce 5 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 36 (42%)
- Series A 19 (22%)
- Pre-Seed 8 (9%)
- Series B 6 (7%)
- Funding Round 2 (2%)
Country
- United Kingdom 26 (30%)
- France 9 (10%)
- Germany 3 (3%)
- United States 3 (3%)
- Spain 2 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fred Destin
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 77 | Find email | |
Cleo Sham
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Gabbi Cahane
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Ron Bouganim
Investor
|
Investor | Total investments: 12 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Thema
|
Thema provides AI-powered infrastructure for analyzing market structure and building opportunities for private equity investors. | $4.5M / Pre-Seed / Feb 24, 2026 | |
TRIVER
|
Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England. | $18.9M / Series A / Sep 23, 2025 | |
Conceivable Life Sciences
|
Conceivable Life Sciences is building the first fully automated IVF lab to democratize access to IVF. | $50M / Series A / Sep 15, 2025 | |
Buena
|
Buena offers a digital property management platform and integrated services for landlords and tenants. It provides tools for rental and condominium management, covering maintenance coordination, accounting, legal compliance, and transparent reporting via an app. Through its AI-enabled software and acquisition strategy, it centralizes and automatesroutine tasks such as accounting and financial reporting. The platform assigns a dedicated manager per property and connects with vetted service providers, delivering real-time visibility into activity and costs. | $58.2M / Series A / Jul 23, 2025 | |
Applied Computing
|
Foundational model for refining operations | $12.1M / Seed / May 28, 2025 | |
handly
|
handly is becoming the leading company in the Service Tech industry. We enable people to create their ideal living environment, while empowering home service companies to build their business and saving time for a quality life. | $3.9M / Seed / Feb 18, 2025 | |
Nodals AI
|
Nodals AI is a newly launched media buying platform that aims to enhance advertising performance by leveraging first-party data signals from media owners.Nodals AI seeks to address the evolving challenges in digital advertising where traditional identifiers like cookies are becoming less effective due to privacy concerns and regulatory changes. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Feb 05, 2025 | |
Kraaft
|
Kraaft is a field communication and coordination platform built for subcontractors, specialty trades, and construction teams. Crews share real-time updates, photos, tasks, and jobsite reports directly from the field, while project managers gain clear visibility into progress across every job. Kraaft replaces scattered WhatsApp threads and phonecalls with structured, job-based chats that automatically organize documentation, tracking, and reporting. More than 1,000 contractors use Kraaft to improve field-to-office communication, reduce delays, and standardize jobsite activity across multiple crews and projects. | $13.5M / Series A / Jan 21, 2025 | |
|
Conceivable Life Sciences
|
Conceivable Life Sciences is building the first fully automated IVF lab to democratize access to IVF. | Series A / Jan 14, 2025 | |
ARGO AI
|
At ARGO, we’re building a different kind of company — it’s insurance but vertically integrated from the ground up.For the first time, AI allows us to unify the three historically disconnected processes of insurance manufacturing into a single intelligent system. What was once fragmented now operates as one continuous, adaptive loop. At ARGOthat's what we have built as an AI-native company — vertically integrated commercial insurance, exclusively focused on serving private companies.This philosophy defines how we think and operate.We believe in control over every layer of our business. It may seem fanatical, but we see it as essential — the discipline that enables long-term focus, precision, and resilience. | $5M / Pre-Seed / Nov 01, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does Stride.VC invest in?
Stride.VC invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 86 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 Stride.VC's check size?
Stride.VC typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$12M at Seed, $800k–$5.9M at Pre-Seed and $6.7M–$29M 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 Stride.VC participates in.
How do I contact Stride.VC?
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Who are the partners at Stride.VC?
The team at Stride.VC includes Fred Destin (Founder), Cleo Sham (Partner) and Gabbi Cahane (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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