Westerly Winds
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Westerly Winds is a VC fund in London focused on Gaming and FinTech. Westerly Winds was launched to address the challenges that many entrepreneurs face when building companies and specialised asset management businesses in their formative years. We back and invest in dynamic visionary founders and companies that have the potential to become an integral part of the ‘new economy’. Working as partners with theexecutive teams on a round the clock basis, we assist with financing, business development, stakeholder management and business strategy activities, thus adding muscle to some of the business’ critical functions.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
- Fund size:
- $5.9M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Westerly Winds invests in
GamingFinTecheSportsSoftwareWearables
Stages Westerly Winds invests in
Series BVenture - Series UnknownSeedSeries ASeries C
Countries Westerly Winds invests in
United StatesUnited KingdomSwedenLuxembourg
Round sizes
Series B $8M–$52M
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series B
- $8M–$52M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Gaming 2 (15%)
- FinTech 2 (15%)
- eSports 2 (15%)
- Software 2 (15%)
- Wearables 2 (15%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (31%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (31%)
- Seed 1 (8%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
- Series C 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 6 (46%)
- United Kingdom 3 (23%)
- Sweden 1 (8%)
- Luxembourg 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dudley Hawes
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Karim Abdel-Ghaffar Plaza
Founding Partner and CEO
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Founding Partner and CEO | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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Ash Gulati
Counsel
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Counsel | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Ashton Squires
Technology and Investments
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Technology and Investments | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Ayako Adachi
Investments
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Investments | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
CoFi
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CoFi is a digital platform that empowers contractors to get project funding backed by on-demand payments. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2023 | |
Frameplay
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Frameplay is an Intrinsic advertising platform for video games. Frameplay offers a transparent, self-serve, gamer-first experience that encourages creativity whilst delivering sophisticated data and analytics to both advertisers and developers. Frameplay is truly the in-game advertising leader, enabling intrinsic advertising within video gameenvironments. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2023 | |
Aquabyte
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Aquabyte builds machine learning products for aquaculture (fish) farms.Aquabyte was founded in 2017 to bring machine learning and computer vision technologies to the aquaculture industry. Our diverse team of machine learning experts, entrepreneurs, and aquaculture biologists are hyperfocused on delivering solutions with a real-world impact.Real-time sea lice counting, biomass monitoring, and appetite detection are just a few of the many applications that will eventually be possible with the Aquabyte system. We have offices in San Francisco and Norway.Aquabyte surpasses modern farm monitoring products with our machine learning platform and smart camera system. Our solution offers easy installation, continuous monitoring, and multiple applications.Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing sectors of food production on the planet, offering a meaningful solution to global food deficits. Aquabyte’s mission is to use machine learning to make fish farms more efficient, sustainable, and profitable. | $25M / Series B / Jul 13, 2022 | |
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Tenacity Venture Capital
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Tenacity Venture Capital operates as an early-stage venture capital firm. | Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 21, 2021 | |
Elvie
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Elvie is a health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. They are committed to building extraordinary products that improve the health and lives of women everywhere and at all stages of life.Their first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected Kegel trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor viafun, five-minute workouts. Launched in October 2015 to great acclaim, they took the wellness industry by storm! Our street cred includes more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious CES Innovation Award, the IDA Design Award, and the Red Dot Award. As a business, Elvie has been recognized as one of Wired’s ‘hottest start-ups" and named one of the 15 start-ups "to watch" by The Sunday Times, and both products have been featured in the Oscar nominee gift bags.They recently launched a second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent wearable breast pump, which is making it possible for new mothers to pump anytime, anywhere. Elvie Pump received international praise following its unveiling on the catwalk at London Fashion Week and at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B led by IPGL and supported by Octopus Ventures and Impact Ventures. This represented the largest ever fundraise in femtech. This new round of financing will accelerate Elvie’s research and development efforts as well as help grow brand awareness and distribution for Elvie Pump and Elvie Trainer across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.Headquartered in London, UK, with offices also in New York City, the company has received numerous awards and raised more than $52 million in investment. | $17.5M / Series C / Sep 07, 2021 | |
Carbon Clean Solutions
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Carbon Clean Solutions is an innovation company specializing in carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery technology for industrial purposes. CCS APBS breakthrough technology significantly reduces the operating costs and environmental impacts, thereby, making CCS technology cost-effective.Carbon Clean Solutions provides proprietary technology to power plantsand industrial utilities for removing up to 90% carbon dioxide from the flue gases. Patented carbon capture technology developed by Carbon Clean Solutions, involves capturing carbon dioxide using proprietary regenerable advanced solvent combined with improved energy integration CO2 capture process. Low cost, energy-efficient APBS CO2 capture technology can be embedded in new power plants or retrofitted to existing ones.Carbon Clean Solutions operates multiple research teams and facilities across the globe and is commercializing its innovative energy=efficient CO2 capture with global customers. | $8M / Series B / Aug 03, 2021 | |
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Elvie
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Elvie is a health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. They are committed to building extraordinary products that improve the health and lives of women everywhere and at all stages of life.Their first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected Kegel trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor viafun, five-minute workouts. Launched in October 2015 to great acclaim, they took the wellness industry by storm! Our street cred includes more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious CES Innovation Award, the IDA Design Award, and the Red Dot Award. As a business, Elvie has been recognized as one of Wired’s ‘hottest start-ups" and named one of the 15 start-ups "to watch" by The Sunday Times, and both products have been featured in the Oscar nominee gift bags.They recently launched a second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent wearable breast pump, which is making it possible for new mothers to pump anytime, anywhere. Elvie Pump received international praise following its unveiling on the catwalk at London Fashion Week and at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B led by IPGL and supported by Octopus Ventures and Impact Ventures. This represented the largest ever fundraise in femtech. This new round of financing will accelerate Elvie’s research and development efforts as well as help grow brand awareness and distribution for Elvie Pump and Elvie Trainer across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.Headquartered in London, UK, with offices also in New York City, the company has received numerous awards and raised more than $52 million in investment. | $80.5M / Series C / Jul 27, 2021 | |
Nodes & Links
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Nodes & Links' mission is to empower organizations across all domains to tame project complexity. Our technology lets you understand the risks that stem from complex interactions within your projects and provides you with the information you need to act. Together, we enable what was before, impossible. | $10.9M / Series A / Jul 01, 2021 | |
LeaseLock
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LeaseLock is an insurance technology company replacing security deposits with insurance. Its flagship lease insurance product leverages artificial intelligence to eliminate security deposits from enterprise operating infrastructure—powering a faster, simpler, more affordable rental transaction. LeaseLock seamlessly deploys within the nativeonline leasing checkout, resulting in significant conversion lift—while instantly generating industry-leading coverage for the property on every lease.LeaseLock has insured over $1 billion in leases backed by insurance rated A (Excellent) by A.M. Best. Its global investors include SoftBank Ventures Asia, Wildcat Ventures, Westerly Winds, Vertex Ventures US, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, American Family Ventures, Moderne Ventures, and Mucker Capital. | $52M / Series B / Feb 03, 2021 | |
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LeaseLock
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LeaseLock is an insurance technology company replacing security deposits with insurance. Its flagship lease insurance product leverages artificial intelligence to eliminate security deposits from enterprise operating infrastructure—powering a faster, simpler, more affordable rental transaction. LeaseLock seamlessly deploys within the nativeonline leasing checkout, resulting in significant conversion lift—while instantly generating industry-leading coverage for the property on every lease.LeaseLock has insured over $1 billion in leases backed by insurance rated A (Excellent) by A.M. Best. Its global investors include SoftBank Ventures Asia, Wildcat Ventures, Westerly Winds, Vertex Ventures US, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, American Family Ventures, Moderne Ventures, and Mucker Capital. | $52M / Series B / Feb 03, 2021 | |
| See all 13 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Westerly Winds invest in?
Westerly Winds invests primarily in Gaming, FinTech and eSports startups, most often at Series B and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Westerly Winds's check size?
Westerly Winds typically joins rounds of $8M–$52M 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 Westerly Winds participates in.
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Who are the partners at Westerly Winds?
The team at Westerly Winds includes Dudley Hawes (Venture Partner), Karim Abdel-Ghaffar Plaza (Founding Partner and CEO) and Ash Gulati (Counsel), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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