# Tim Jackson

> Tim Jackson is a seed investor at Walking Ventures (London) backing Internet and Software. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Walking Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lean-investments)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Jun 2015
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timjackson/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/timjaxn
- Website: https://x.com/timjaxn

Tim Jackson is a seed investor at Walking Ventures in London focused on Internet and Software. Tim Jackson is the Founder, CEO, General Partner & Partner of Walking Ventures & he attended University of Oxford in in 1983.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $170k–$2.5M |
| Angel | $273k–$707k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 4 | 22% |
| Software | 4 | 22% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 17% |
| FinTech | 2 | 11% |
| Security | 2 | 11% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 56% |
| Angel | 4 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 11 | 61% |
| United States | 3 | 17% |
| Sweden | 2 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joint Academy | Joint Academy connects patients with licensed physical therapists to deliver online treatments for chronic joint and back pain. Our treatments are clinically proven and give patients access to a personal, licensed physical therapist, an individualized exercise plan, interactive education about the condition, and progress tracking — all through auser-friendly app. Peer-reviewed studies show that Joint Academy patients reduce their pain, change their minds about surgery, and quit painkillers. Joint Academy is now available to patients in Sweden, the US, the UK, France, and Germany. | $2.2M | Seed | Dec 06, 2016 |  |
| Credit Kudos | Credit Kudos is a credit bureau that uses financial behaviour to measure creditworthiness. It utilizes consumer transaction data to build highly accurate and transparent credit score-cards and affordability metrics. | $764K | Seed | Aug 01, 2016 |  |
| CloudNC | CloudNC develops advanced software that enables factories to autonomously manufacture precision parts. Precision manufacturing is fundamental to every aspect of modern life - without it, there are no cars, aircraft, or ships. No mobile phones or computers. No houses or hospitals, no factories or power plants. No food. In the modern world,virtually nothing can be made without precision parts. And yet, the manufacturing industry has been slow to modernize and adopt the innovations that are shaping the future. CloudNC's mission is to automate manufacturing and create a clean and sustainable industrial revolution that accelerates humanity. They’re building the autonomous factories of the future to make manufacturing 10x more efficient, sustainable and faster than anything today.They’re reimagining manufacturing, making it more efficient and productive than ever before, and opening a unique opportunity for investors to transform a $150bn industry.CloudNC elevates an entire industry and put manufacturing back at the cutting edge. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 01, 2016 |  |
| Joint Academy | Joint Academy connects patients with licensed physical therapists to deliver online treatments for chronic joint and back pain. Our treatments are clinically proven and give patients access to a personal, licensed physical therapist, an individualized exercise plan, interactive education about the condition, and progress tracking — all through auser-friendly app. Peer-reviewed studies show that Joint Academy patients reduce their pain, change their minds about surgery, and quit painkillers. Joint Academy is now available to patients in Sweden, the US, the UK, France, and Germany. | $1M | Seed | May 12, 2016 |  |
| CarSnip.com | CarSnip is an online platform that enables users to find, compare, and purchase cars. It was launched by Alastair Campbell in November 2014 and is based in Nottingham. | $1M | Seed | Mar 09, 2016 |  |
| Lexoo | Lexoo is a marketplace where businesses and in-house legal teams can easily compare and hire talented and forward-thinking lawyers around the wolrd, all pre-screened and vetted by Lexoo. The lawyers are incentivised to compete for work and people can see hundreds of reviews from other businesses. The team of ex-lawyers does the vetting so userswill only receive quotes from lawyers that are right for the job. The lawyers are typically former big firm lawyers who now work on a lower overhead basis. The Lexoo solution is easier, more cost-effective, and transparent.Lexoo was founded on 2014 by Daniel van Binsbergen and Chris O’Sullivan. It is headquartered in London. | $1.1M | Seed | Nov 02, 2015 |  |
| EZ Education (creators of DoodleMaths) | EZ Education have created DoodleMaths, an adaptive-learning application that rapidly accelerates children's learning in maths. | $707K | Angel | Oct 06, 2015 |  |
| Greta | Greta helps developers to shorten content load times, reduce buffering and increase content quality. This improves their product’s end user experience, especially during traffic spikes, which leads to higher conversion rates, more engaged users and a better bottom line.By using machine learning technology Greta analyzes network data inreal-time, and automatically calculates the fastest route for the content to be delivered, which improves performance. Greta currently supports images, audio and video.The implementation takes a few minutes, and you can then easily make configurations in the UI and access your own dashboard to evaluate how your content delivery setup affects your end users’s experience. | $273K | Angel | Sep 22, 2015 |  |
| Tessian | Tessian’s mission is to secure the human layer. Using machine learning technology, Tessian automatically stops data breaches and security threats caused by human error - like data exfiltration, accidental data loss, business email compromise, and phishing attacks - with minimal disruption to employees' workflow. As a result, employees areempowered to do their best work, without security getting in their way. Founded in 2013, Tessian is backed by renowned investors like Sequoia, Accel, March Capital, and Balderton, and has offices in San Francisco and London. | $276K | Pre-Seed | Jun 30, 2015 |  |
| Castle | Castle enables online businesses of all sizes to detect and prevent user account fraud, a technology previously only available to banks and large financial institutions. Whether you’re building a bitcoin service, e-commerce store, mobile app, or any other customer-facing application, Castle's API's lets you add account hijack protection.Castle tracks fraudsters based on device fingerprint, keystrokes, site browsing history, and hundreds of other signals. Whenever something suspicious occurs, both the administrator and account owner are alerted and can immediately take appropriate action. | $360K | Seed | Feb 12, 2015 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Walking Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lean-investments) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Angels Den](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angels-den) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Autodesk](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/autodesk) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BACKED VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backed-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dendera Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dendera-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Episode 1](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/episode) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Walking Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Walking Ventures is a seed fund which invests in early-stage Internet and other technology startups based in Europe. The fund is a private vehicle controlled by Tim Jackson, a leading figure in the European technology scene as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, angel investor, commentator and technology journalist.

1 contacts available at Walking Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tim Jackson | Founder, CEO, General Partner & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tim-jackson-uk |

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## FAQ

### What does Tim Jackson invest in?

Tim Jackson invests primarily in Internet, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 18 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 Tim Jackson's check size?

Tim Jackson typically joins rounds of $170k–$2.5M at Seed and $273k–$707k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Tim Jackson participates in.

### When did Tim Jackson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tim Jackson closed in Jun 2015. Shizune tracks 18 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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