# VentureFounders

> VentureFounders is a VC fund in London backing Health Care and Software. See 51 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 51
- Last investment: Mar 2021
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/venture-founders-ltd-
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/VFounders
- Website: http://venturefounders.co.uk
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/VentureFounders

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for VentureFounders. Shizune tracks 6 team members at VentureFounders. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/venturefounders?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $643k–$9.8M |
| Series B | $4.3M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 9 | 18% |
| Software | 7 | 14% |
| Medical | 6 | 12% |
| Biotechnology | 5 | 10% |
| Medical Device | 5 | 10% |

73 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 14 | 27% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 16% |
| Series B | 5 | 10% |
| Seed | 4 | 8% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 4 | 8% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 29 | 57% |
| United States | 2 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Gray | Head of Channel Islands | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-gray-1c2f |
| Ed Bardos | MD & COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-bardos |
| James Codling | Co-Founder & Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-codling |
| Johanna Achcar Bengtsson | Portfolio Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/johanna-achcar-bengtsson |
| Nina Foote | Head of Growth | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nina-foote |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lightpoint Medical | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 TV | Hopster is a beautifully designed app for the under-sixes, aiming to strike the perfect balance between learning and fun. |  |  | Dec 30, 2019 |  |
| FullCircl | DueDil is the largest source of free private company information in the UK and Ireland.DueDil enables companies to benefit from the richest source of private company information, on a platform which runs alongside existing processes to help drive automation and enable more informed decision making. From sizing your market and on-boarding newcustomers, to automating your compliance checks on the businesses that you deal with, DueDil is the end-to-end solution companies need to transform their on-boarding process.Founded by entrepreneur Damian Kimmelman and launched in April 2011, DueDil is headquartered in London, UK. It’s backed by Passion Capital, Jonty Hurwitz, Federico Pirzio-Biroli, Sherry Coutu, and Tom Hulme.DueDil has been shortlisted for two Guardian Digital Innovation 2012 awards, was a finalist at the TechCrunch Europas, winner of the GeeknRolla startup competition, and has been featured in publications such as the Telegraph, TechCrunch, the FT, Wired, The Guardian, GigaOm and The Wall Street Journal.Along with companies such as Adobe, LinkedIn, and Thomson Reuters, DueDil was named as one of 31 companies expected to have an important impact on the information industry in 2012 by leading market research firm Outsell Inc, and the UK government's Cabinet Office transparency team has cited DueDil as a business providing innovative services using open data, in Deloitte’s ‘Open data: Driving growth, ingenuity and innovation’ report. | $1.3M | Series C | Jun 13, 2019 |  |
| Flagstone | 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 |  |

10 of 51 investments shown.

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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 Funding Round 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 is VentureFounders's check size?

VentureFounders typically joins rounds of $643k–$9.8M at Series A and $4.3M–$25M 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 VentureFounders participates in.

### How do I contact VentureFounders?

Public channels for VentureFounders 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 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 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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