# The Future Fund

> The Future Fund is a VC fund in London backing Software, FinTech and Financial Services. See 81 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 81
- Last investment: Jan 2023
- Lead investor: 21%
- Fund size: $675M
- Last fund: May 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026

The Future Fund is a VC fund in London focused on Software and FinTech. The Future Fund is provides government loans to UK-based companies ranging from £125,000 to £5 million.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $557k–$5.5M |
| Convertible Note | $393k–$7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 20 | 25% |
| FinTech | 14 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 14 | 17% |
| Health Care | 11 | 14% |
| Biotechnology | 8 | 10% |

151 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 12 | 15% |
| Convertible Note | 12 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 12 | 15% |
| Series A | 9 | 11% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 70 | 86% |
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Unwasted | Unwasted offers a sustainable alternative to virgin wood-based panels using waste cardboard, with the mission to produce sustainable materials that can be remade indefinitely without harm to the environment. | $1.8M | Seed | Jan 24, 2023 |  |
| Omega | International entrepreneurs face frustration and setbacks due to complex regulations, difficulty finding expert service providers, and inaccessible banking. These challenges hinder their ability to successfully launch and grow businesses in new markets. Omega aims to eliminate these challenges by offering an integrated banking-alternativeplatform solution that empowers international entrepreneurs to launch, run, and scale their businesses seamlessly. Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK (FRN 901093) and funded by Mastercard, Omega provides a comprehensive suite of services designed to ease the process of starting and managing a business. | $3.7M | Seed | Dec 01, 2022 |  |
| Sofant Technologies | Sofant is developing a low cost RF MEMS technology that solves power consumption and heat problems in high frequency phased array antenna systems. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 29, 2022 |  |
| OneDome | OneDome is the World’s first HomeBuying platform which enables home buyers and sellers to conduct an end-to-end property transaction online. From searching for properties to engaging with estate agents, conveyancers and mortgage brokers - everything is done on one centralised consumer-centric platform. In 2019, OneDome acquiredNethouseprices.com, one of the oldest property search websites in the UK. OneDome is a listing partner of Facebook Marketplace, this partnership allows OneDome to automatically list all properties with Facebook Marketplace making it easier for Facebook users to find properties. OneDome managed websites are among the most visited property websites in the UK, attracting nearly 3Mil monthly visits and generating 4 property enquiries from its customers every minute. OneDome is working with most of the largest property companies in the UK.OneDome Group was founded in 2016 by Babek Ismayil, a former Senior Vice President of Credit Trading at J.P. Morgan. Chairman of OneDome is Sir Nigel Knowles, former CEO and Chairman of DLA Piper and current CEO of DWF Plc.OneDome has raised £13.2Mil in external funding from several prominent family offices in the UK and the USA. Our website: www.onedome.com | $11.6M | Series B | Oct 27, 2022 |  |
| Auddy | The Problem: Millions of series. Endless producers. Advertising £s to be located. An audience to build. Many platforms. How does a creator navigate this fragmented but large ecosystem? Creators do not have the resources to bring business and analytical skills to their podcast. Or the ability to properly market or develop an audience.Auddy solvesthe creator’s problem through the combination of editorial input, data insights and analytics, marketing and promotional services and sales. In so doing, it also rewards the creator by paying a significant royalty rate. | $3M | Seed | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| SteadyPay | SteadyPay exists to improve the financial wellness of all gig economy workers. Our service enables gig economy workers to enjoy consistent income even when they work inconsistent hours (due to such factors as reduced shifts, fewer bookings, time of sick and holidays). Using the SteadyPay mobile app, customers securely link to their bank, we thenwork out the customer's average income and monitor for when income drops below that average. When this happens we provide a top-up, advancing money to the customer's bank to bring their income back up to average. No interest is charged on the top-up; we are a subscription credit service. By smoothing out income we enable gig economy workers to budget with confidence for everyday essentials, and in turn reduce the need to turn to high-cost credit solutions that trigger debt spirals. | $6.6M | Series A | Mar 04, 2022 |  |
| Paragraf | Paragraf is the world’s leading graphene-based electronic device design, development and manufacturing company. Building on our proprietary process to grow graphene directly on standard semiconductor industry substrates, Paragraf has pioneered the delivery of two-dimensional technologies at scale. Paragraf’s high-quality graphene – integratablewith standard semiconductor tool process lines – has unlocked the incorporation of this remarkable material into both existing and new electronic devices and applications. Through our world-first dedicated graphene device foundry, Paragraf delivers high-performance, low-power technologies to multiple markets and offers two-dimensional-material foundry services to customers and partners, providing graphene in chips to their device requirements. | $60M | Series B | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| SyntheticGestalt | SyntheticGestalt creates tools and methods for applied machine learning-based drug discovery that are aimed at streamlining and automating research in the life sciences sector. The company's synthetic biology simulation models can accurately predict the outcomes of various amino acid arrangements without having to perform time-consumingexperimental steps, helping pharmaceutical companies by automating and accelerating the drug development process. Preclinical candidates are chemical compounds discovered through research that have the potential to become new drugs for the treatment of a particular disease. | $11M | Series A | Sep 29, 2021 |  |
| Unwasted | Unwasted offers a sustainable alternative to virgin wood-based panels using waste cardboard, with the mission to produce sustainable materials that can be remade indefinitely without harm to the environment. | $5.5M | Seed | Jul 16, 2021 |  |
| NeRRe Therapeutics | NeRRe Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a biotechnology company that develops clinical and pre-clinical neurokinin receptor antagonists. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Stevenage, United Kingdom. | $27.6M | Series B | Jul 07, 2021 |  |

10 of 81 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercia-equity-finance) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Crowdcube](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crowdcube) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Haatch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haatch) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [North East Development Capital Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/north-east-development-capital-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Mercia Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercia-technologies) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ascension](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascension-ventures-limited) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does The Future Fund invest in?

The Future Fund invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 81 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 The Future Fund's check size?

The Future Fund typically joins rounds of $557k–$5.5M at Seed and $393k–$7M at Convertible Note. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds The Future Fund participates in.

### When did The Future Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for The Future Fund closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 81 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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