# Toby Moore

> Toby Moore is a seed investor at Connect Ventures (London) backing Software and Apps. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Connect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connect-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobymoore/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/tobymoore
- Website: https://x.com/tobymoore

Toby Moore is a seed investor at Connect Ventures in London focused on Software and Apps. Toby has spent the last 12 years in lead technical roles, designing and building products from start-up to successful global businesses across a number of sectors, most recently in gaming and entertainment, and is currently CTO and Co-Founder of Space Ape Games, an award-winning mobile gaming studio based in the heart of London. Prior toco-founding Space Ape Games, Toby was CTO at Mind Candy for over six years, leading the company’s technical and product teams from pre-revenue to success with over 80 million registered users for the company’s hero brand, Moshi Monsters. He was a key member of the award winning management team that grew the business from 16 to over 180 employees across multiple locations.Before Mind Candy, Toby worked across a range of industries in dual product / engineering roles, predominately in small teams focused on bringing innovations in application and web development to large established companies. Toby regularly shares his years of experience with other start-ups and entrepreneurs and is a mentor at Seedcamp as well as running his own CTO mentoring group. Toby studied Software Engineering with AI and specialises in agile product development processes, high calibre team recruitment and development, scalable internet architectures, analytical product management, team leadership, innovation and strategy.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$1.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $427k–$1.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 50% |
| Apps | 1 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Audio | 1 | 17% |
| Music | 1 | 17% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SPOKE | SPOKE is an app that provides an audio experience for well-being. It uses a unique blend of lo-fi music, hip hop, and mindfulness to help users re-tune their minds, sleep better, and strengthen their mindset. Each soothing episode includes music and spoken word by some of the UK's best producers and emerging artists, all of whom have beentrained by neuroscientists, psychologists, and therapists. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Feb 16, 2022 |  |
| SPOKE | SPOKE is an app that provides an audio experience for well-being. It uses a unique blend of lo-fi music, hip hop, and mindfulness to help users re-tune their minds, sleep better, and strengthen their mindset. Each soothing episode includes music and spoken word by some of the UK's best producers and emerging artists, all of whom have beentrained by neuroscientists, psychologists, and therapists. | $1.5M | Seed | Feb 16, 2022 |  |
| Multiply | Multiply is working with the Financial Conduct Authority's Advice Unit to get fully regulated and become one of the first automated financial advice solutions. They use encryption to ensure your information is fully secure, and they will never share or sell your data.Traditional financial advisors are too expensive for most people, and theyusually only help clients with upwards of £100,000 in the bank. This means there are millions of people in the UK who want to make better financial decisions but don’t know how. They think this is a big problem. It’s even got a name - the advice gap - and they are determined to close it, by making financial advice available to everyone.Multiply creates free financial plans to help you decide what to do with your money. All you have to do is create an account on their website, answer a few questions about your current situation and what you want for your future, and their smart technology will do the rest. What you’ll get is a list of recommendations across savings, pensions, investments, insurance, and more. It’s a fast, secure, easy way to get impartial guidance on how to make your money work for you, and it’s absolutely free to use. | $2.5M |  | Jun 05, 2018 |  |
| Kiroku | Kiroku is creating technologies which automate the least rewarding parts of work. | $308K | Convertible Note | Apr 25, 2018 |  |
| Motion - Activity Goals | The hardest part of exercising is putting your trainers on.Set your personal weekly activity goal and create a team with friends to make sure you all keep hitting your goals.Choose a goal that works for you:- Active calories- Steps- No. of Workouts- Active distanceCreate a team with your friends and share your goals with each other,so you can motivate each other as you progress through the week towards your goal.Auto Sharing - By syncing your wearable (AppleWatch / FitBit /Garmin) directly with Motion or any other tracker / App via Health, you will never need to ‘post’ your activity to Motion, it will be automatically shared with your group as soon as you finish.Team Streak - The aggregate of your individual goals becomes the team goal, build up the team streak by making sure that everybody in the team hits their own goal. | $427K | Pre-Seed | Apr 04, 2018 |  |
| Charlie | Charlie is built by serial startup founders to solve their most pressing need – more time. Designed so that it’s easy to use and simple to manage, Charlie automates the administrative headaches of running a company so you can focus on building real value. | $1.3M | Seed | Mar 22, 2016 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ada Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ada-vemtires) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bethnal Green Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bethnal-green-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [7percent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/7-percent) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AI Seed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ai-seed-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Connect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connect-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Connect Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Connect is the Product VC. We are a thesis-led, pan-European pre-seed and seed stage VC. We invest in opinionated products, crafted with love, and loved by many.

5 contacts available at Connect Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amira Naik | Senior Finance Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amira-naik |
| Federico Miguens | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/federico-miguens-7a0d |
| Karin Killander | Head of Brand & Community | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karin-killander-80f4 |
| Katy Turner | Operations Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katy-turner |
| Mark Pettit | CTO; Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-pettit-2f1e |

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## FAQ

### What does Toby Moore invest in?

Toby Moore invests primarily in Software, Apps and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 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 Toby Moore's check size?

Toby Moore typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$1.5M at Seed and $427k–$1.4M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Toby Moore participates in.

### When did Toby Moore last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Toby Moore closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 6 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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