# The Players Fund

> The Players Fund is a VC fund in London backing Marketplace and Apps. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/players-fund
- Website: https://www.playersfund.vc

The Players Fund is a VC fund in London focused on Marketplace and Apps. Players Fund, the UK's first athlete-led enterprise formed by players, is pioneering a new frontier in venture capital by empowering the athlete community to invest.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for The Players Fund. Shizune tracks 2 team members at The Players Fund. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/the-players-fund?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.9M–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marketplace | 2 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |
| Comics | 1 | 13% |
| Events | 1 | 13% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 38% |
| France | 1 | 13% |
| Israel | 1 | 13% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ruari Bell | Co Founder & Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ruari-bell |
| Fergus Bell | Co Founder & Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fergus-bell-7d99 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Seat Unique | Seat Unique is an online marketplace to buy official hospitality packages and VIP tickets to live sports, music, and cultural events. | $26.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 21, 2026 |  |
| Huskeys | The New Brain for Web App Security. It's not a WAF; It's a whole new ecosystem. | $8M | Seed | Mar 30, 2026 |  |
| Hexagon Cup | The Hexagon Cup is a cutting-edge team-based padel (paddle) competition comprising male, female, and Next Gen competitors that combines elite professional sport with entertainment and celebrity ownership. |  | Seed | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Fundamento | Fundamento is an AI company that provides a voice-agent platform for enterprise contact centers within the financial services sector. Its solution automates borrower or customer engagements across the lending lifecycle—covering functions such as loan discovery, servicing, collections, and upselling. The platform supports multilingual conversation(30+ languages), integrates with existing enterprise systems (CRMs, loan management systems, enterprise dialers) and offers deployment options ranging from private cloud to on-premises to maintain compliance. | $1.9M | Seed | Oct 17, 2025 |  |
| Unravel | Unravel delivers immersive digital transformation and engagement with travellers through short-format, shoppable videos. | $7M | Series A | Apr 02, 2025 |  |
| Flagcat | Flagcat is a webtoon studio producing top notch original series. The company is developing its own proprietary webtoon engine. | $2.7M | Seed | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| Partao | Partao is an AI-enabled SaaS and marketplace offering parts for agricultural and construction equipment. | $3.1M | Pre-Seed | Jan 08, 2025 |  |
| OptimallyMe | OptimallyMe goal is to keep you connected to, educated about, and involved in your health. Your own health dashboard to help you monitor and manage your health. |  | Seed | Nov 04, 2024 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Epic Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/epic-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Active Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Acurio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acurio-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Acurio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-iron-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does The Players Fund invest in?

The Players Fund invests primarily in Marketplace, Apps and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 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 Players Fund's check size?

The Players Fund typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$8M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds The Players Fund participates in.

### How do I contact The Players Fund?

Public channels for The Players Fund include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at The Players Fund?

The team at The Players Fund includes Ruari Bell (Co Founder & Managing Partner) and Fergus Bell (Co Founder & Managing 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 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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