# Velcourt

> Velcourt is a VC fund backing SaaS, Analytics and Machine Learning. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Apr 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.velcourt.co.uk/

Velcourt is a VC fund focused on SaaS and Analytics. Velcourt manages, funds, and advises rural businesses on farms to provide financial results and management of assets, consistent with the clients' objectives. Practices employed meet the stringent requirements of today's consumer in terms of the environment, animal welfare, and food safety. It is retained by landowners, tenants, workingfarmers, and institutional investors.Velcourt was established in 1967.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Analytics | 1 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hummingbird Technologies | Hummingbird Technologies is an artificial intelligence SaaS platform using the latest deep learning and computer vision techniques along with proprietary algorithms to provide actionable intelligence to farmers and agri-businesses at key decision-making times in the growing season. The company analyses remote sensing data to help farmers identifyearly problems in their crops such as crop health, disease risk & detection, weed mapping and yield prediction as well as valuable information such as canopy coverage, plant counting, size and biomass estimation, with the objective of optimising inputs and maximising efficiency. Hummingbird began operating in 2016 and since then has covered in excess of >500,000 hectares of arable crops for farmers and agri-businesses. Their platform is utilised at key decision-making points in the growing season to allow intelligent and specific information to inform chemical or operational input decisions that decrease costs and improve outputs. | $1.3M | Seed | Apr 01, 2016 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Force Over Mass Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/force-over-mass-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Samos Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samos-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Velcourt invest in?

Velcourt invests primarily in SaaS, Analytics and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Velcourt last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Velcourt closed in Apr 2016. Shizune tracks 1 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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