# The Twenty Minute VC

> The Twenty Minute VC is a VC fund backing Software. See 111 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 111
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last fund: Oct 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-twenty-minute-vc/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/harrystebbings
- Website: http://www.thetwentyminutevc.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Twenty-Minute-VC-769935093077190/

The Twenty Minute VC is a VC fund in London focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. TheTwentyMinuteVC is a twenty-minute VC podcast about finance, business development, and investment.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.9M–$15M |
| Series A | $12M–$58M |
| Series B | $15M–$116M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 22 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 9% |
| FinTech | 9 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 8% |
| SaaS | 8 | 7% |

101 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 35 | 32% |
| Series A | 17 | 15% |
| Series B | 8 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 20 | 18% |
| United Kingdom | 13 | 12% |
| France | 8 | 7% |
| Germany | 6 | 5% |
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Harry Stebbings | Founder | 80 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harry-stebbings |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rivo | Rivo is a consumer fintech that sits on top of users’ existing bank accounts and automates idle cash management. It links to checking, keeps a user-set safe balance, sweeps excess cash into higher-yield instruments, and moves funds back before bills hit. | $2.7M | Seed | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Squid | Squid offers a workspace for planning, modeling, and testing power grid networks with tools for network analysis and simulation. |  | Seed | Jul 23, 2026 |  |
| Fireworks AI | Fireworks.ai offers generative AI platform as a service. We optimize for rapid product iteration building on top of gen AI as well as minimizing cost to serve. | $1.5B | Series D | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| ZML | ZML develops a production inference stack that decouples artificial intelligence workloads from specific proprietary hardware targets. The platform compiles open-source machine learning models directly into optimized code for multiple chip types without using traditional Python runtimes. | $20M | Seed | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| THEKER Robotics | THEKER Robotics is a startup developing intelligent general-purpose robots for sectors such as waste management and logistics. | $85M | Series A | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Structured AI | Structured AI is an AI-powered tool designed to help users organize their days more easily and quickly by creating and managing tasks in a timeline. | $4.2M | Seed | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| fonio.ai | Founded in Vienna in 2024, fonio.ai provides AI-powered phone assistants that automate customer communication 24/7. The platform answers calls, forwards inquiries, books appointments, and integrates with CRM and ERP systems, while every interaction is transcribed and can be stored, shared, or connected to existing tools. | $17M | Seed | Jun 09, 2026 |  |
| Pogo | Pogo enables people to earn money and save on shopping, finances, and more by unlocking the power of their data. Pogo allows users to take control of their data and how they monetize it, as well as to be compensated when their data is used for market research and personalized advertising. It pushes recommendations based on the data users choose tolink with the app, which users can act on in a few clicks. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 09, 2026 |  |
| Fuse Energy | Fuse is an energy supplier that offers the UK's cheapest electricity tarif. Also active in the US. | $30M | Series B | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Archestra.AI | Build powerful, safe, interconnected AI agents without the technical overhead. | $10M | Seed | Jun 02, 2026 |  |

10 of 111 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/20vc-fund) — VC Fund, 43 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does The Twenty Minute VC invest in?

The Twenty Minute VC invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 111 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is The Twenty Minute VC's check size?

The Twenty Minute VC typically joins rounds of $2.9M–$15M at Seed, $12M–$58M at Series A and $15M–$116M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds The Twenty Minute VC participates in.

### How do I contact The Twenty Minute VC?

Public channels for The Twenty Minute VC include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 Twenty Minute VC?

The team at The Twenty Minute VC includes Harry Stebbings (Founder). 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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