VentureFounders
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
VentureFounders is a VC fund in London focused on Health Care and Software. VentureFounders gives its members exclusive access to investments in some of the UK's highest growth, B2B and B2B2C technology companies. The portfolio includes some of the UK's leading tech success stories.
- Total investments:
- 51
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries VentureFounders invests in
Stages VentureFounders invests in
Countries VentureFounders invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $635k–$9.7M
- Series B
- $4.4M–$25M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.8M–$17M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 9 (18%)
- Software 7 (14%)
- Medical 6 (12%)
- Financial Services 6 (12%)
- Biotechnology 5 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 14 (27%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (12%)
- Series B 5 (10%)
- Seed 4 (8%)
- Equity Crowdfunding 4 (8%)
Country
- United Kingdom 29 (57%)
- United States 2 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Michael Gray
Head of Channel Islands
|
Head of Channel Islands | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ed Bardos
MD & COO
|
MD & COO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
James Codling
Co-Founder & Managing Director
|
Co-Founder & Managing Director | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Johanna Achcar Bengtsson
Portfolio Manager
|
Portfolio Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Nina Foote
Head of Growth
|
Head of Growth | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lightpoint Medical is an early-stage medical device company founded in 2012. The company is developing a breakthrough intraoperative imaging technology called Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging (CLI). CLI has the potential to detect cancer in real-time during surgery, and thereby reduce the likelihood of cancer recurrence and the need for reoperation. | $8M / Series C / Mar 25, 2021 | ||
| Zopa is a P2P money lending service that allows lenders and borrowers to deal directly with one another, cutting out the banks that act as middlemen. Zopa provides an app designed to help users manage their loans, credit cards, and savings and monitor their credit scores conveniently. Zopa also mitigates lenders' risk by enforcing monthlydirect debit repayment, making borrowers sign a legal contract, and allowing lenders to lend small chunks of money to individual borrowers (e.g., someone lending £1000 would have their money spread across, say, 100 borrowers).The company itself makes money by charging a fixed fee for borrowers and a 1% annual fee for lenders.Zopa has received public acclaim as well, having been awarded CNET Technology Awards' 2006 Internet Innovation of the Year, the 2007 Webby Award for Best Banking/Bill-Paying Website, the 2008 Webby Award for Financial Services, the Banker 2007 Award for Best Internet Project, and Moneywise 2009 Awards for Best Customer Service and Best Personal Loan. | $26.2M / Mar 22, 2021 | ||
| Zopa is a P2P money lending service that allows lenders and borrowers to deal directly with one another, cutting out the banks that act as middlemen. Zopa provides an app designed to help users manage their loans, credit cards, and savings and monitor their credit scores conveniently. Zopa also mitigates lenders' risk by enforcing monthlydirect debit repayment, making borrowers sign a legal contract, and allowing lenders to lend small chunks of money to individual borrowers (e.g., someone lending £1000 would have their money spread across, say, 100 borrowers).The company itself makes money by charging a fixed fee for borrowers and a 1% annual fee for lenders.Zopa has received public acclaim as well, having been awarded CNET Technology Awards' 2006 Internet Innovation of the Year, the 2007 Webby Award for Best Banking/Bill-Paying Website, the 2008 Webby Award for Financial Services, the Banker 2007 Award for Best Internet Project, and Moneywise 2009 Awards for Best Customer Service and Best Personal Loan. | $27.7M / Series H / Mar 22, 2021 | ||
| DeadHappy is an insurtech company that provides digital pay-as-you-go life insurance services. It specializes in offering flexible life insurance policies that are designed to be cheaper, easier, and better than existing traditional providers. Its offerings include pricing insurance based on current circumstances and the option to add furthercoverage on a rolling basis.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Leicester, England. | $6.5M / Series B / Jan 13, 2021 | ||
| Farewill is a will writer and funeral and direct cremation provider which leverages a platform to simplify complex processes, avoids legal jargon and hidden fees. It is a provider of an all-in-one financial and legal services platform used to deal with all paperwork after death. It enables clients to manage their wills online using simple andaffordable digital tools through round-the-clock customer service operations. | $25.5M / Jul 08, 2020 | ||
| Farewill is a will writer and funeral and direct cremation provider which leverages a platform to simplify complex processes, avoids legal jargon and hidden fees. It is a provider of an all-in-one financial and legal services platform used to deal with all paperwork after death. It enables clients to manage their wills online using simple andaffordable digital tools through round-the-clock customer service operations. | $25.2M / Series B / Jul 08, 2020 | ||
| Scoota is an online advertising technology company that enables advertisers to create, activate, measure and optimise brilliant brand campaigns at scale.We offer a single programmatic platform for the creation and delivery of rich, high-impact formats via open real-time bidding and private marketplaces, without compromising creative executionor brand safety.Our technology includes a unique campaign delivery system that pre-reads an ad space in real-time so that the right creative is delivered into the right ad unit without the need for pre-testing and independent site integration.We care about and invest in an open and long-term approach, enabling partners to work with us through integration with their own systems of choice, or via our platform whether as a self-serve solution, or a fully managed service.Scoota was founded in London in 2008 and employs more than 40 people. In 2015, we won best overall programmatic technology at The Drum Digital Trading Awards and Silver for Best Ad Tech Provider at the 2015 British Media Awards. | $2.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 06, 2020 | ||
| Hopster is a beautifully designed app for the under-sixes, aiming to strike the perfect balance between learning and fun. | Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 30, 2019 | ||
| FullCircl provides a platform and services with access to company intelligence. They provide a platform for customer-facing channels in B2B financial services. They support online sources for data on markets, organizations, and individuals. They address customer lifecycle challenges facing financial institutions. | $1.3M / Series C / Jun 13, 2019 | ||
| Flagstone's simple, secure online platform gives you access to hundreds of deposit accounts from 37 banks through a single application, empowering you to earn more interest income and reduce risk. | $14.4M / Series A / May 16, 2019 | ||
| See all 51 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does VentureFounders invest in?
VentureFounders invests primarily in Health Care, Software and Medical startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 51 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does VentureFounders invest in?
VentureFounders typically joins rounds of $635k–$9.7M at Series A, $4.4M–$25M at Series B and $1.8M–$17M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not VentureFounders's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds VentureFounders took part in.
How do I contact VentureFounders?
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Who are the partners at VentureFounders?
The team at VentureFounders includes Michael Gray (Head of Channel Islands), Ed Bardos (MD & COO) and James Codling (Co-Founder & Managing Director), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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