William Brooks
Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
London, United Kingdom
William Brooks is a seed investor at Portfolio Ventures in London focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
- Total investments:
- 72
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries William Brooks invests in
Stages William Brooks invests in
Countries William Brooks invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $501k–$3.5M
- Series A
- $2.2M–$30M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.6M–$2.7M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 20 (28%)
- FinTech 19 (26%)
- Software 17 (24%)
- Artificial Intelligence 15 (21%)
- SaaS 10 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 43 (60%)
- Series A 8 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 8 (11%)
- Funding Round 4 (6%)
- Angel 2 (3%)
Country
- United Kingdom 62 (86%)
- United States 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Heim Health is a healthcare firm using technology to deliver scalable, community-based solutions. | $2.8M / Seed / Nov 19, 2024 | ||
| Konfir is a B2B SaaS platform that provides instant employment and income verifications for UK-based workers. | $2.5M / Seed / May 24, 2023 | ||
| 5Mins s a gamified learning platform designed to help employees improve their skills .It curates short-form video content from leading creators around the world and makes it available to teams and businesses via adaptive and gamified learning engine. | $5.7M / Seed / Nov 07, 2022 | ||
| Robin is the pioneering Legal Intelligence company, transforming how businesses understand and leverage their legal agreements. Founded in 2019, Robin serves Fortune 500 companies and growing enterprises with AI-powered contract analysis and legal workflow automation. The company is backed by leading investors including Paypal Ventures, Temasek andPlural.Through proprietary AI models, and partnerships with Anthropic and AWS, in-house legal teams can extract, synthesize and analyze data across contracts and legal documents at scale, integrating with CLMs, SharePoint, Box, Google Drive, and Dropbox. | $2.4M / Seed / Jul 12, 2021 | ||
| We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva. | $2.2M / Seed / Jun 30, 2021 | ||
| Disputed.io develops legal automation and client service tools for litigation lawyers in the AI and security sectors. The solutions provided by Disputed can assist with all types of class actions (data protection, emissions, equal pay, financial, gig economy, shareholder, securities, bitcoin/cryptocurrency, etc.), volume claims, mass torts,and mass arbitrations. Disputed allows those in the disputes market to do more business by abandoning outdated offline methods in favor of automation and online connectivity. | $1M / Seed / Nov 09, 2020 | ||
| Marshmallow is an insurtech. Being one of the only EU based insurtechs to own their own insurance company - they have total control of the entire value chain, from sign-up and pricing through to claims affording them the unrivalled ability to deliver an exceptional customer experience. Operating in an archaic industry worth trillions of dollarsMarshmallow started by doing car insurance in the UK but will offer multiple insurance products in multiple geographies - all driven by technology.They have raised over $100m to date from top tier investors. | $30M / Series A / Nov 02, 2020 | ||
| Funding Xchange is transforming and connecting the SME funding eco-system through digital eligibility and affordability assessment tools. Funding Xchange built its leading technology platform by connecting businesses with more than 70 funders to access indicative offers in 3 minutes and money in businesses’ bank accounts in 10 minutes.Funding Xchange’s Marketplace provides access to finance where businesses are engaging with their finance. Using its API-led technology, Funding Xchange is embedding its Marketplace in the largest Price Comparison Websites like MoneySuperMarket, delivering custom marketplaces to banks like NatWest and Monzo, integrating finance solutions in advisory platforms like Enterprise Nation and finance available within accounting software and payment providers own eco-system. Through FXE Technologies, the business white-labels its intelligent SME lending tools for banks, funders and brokers. Clients are able to deploy white-labelled, digitally-led customer journeys and market-facing intermediary portals, transforming operating costs and increasing look-to-book ratios while also empowering active portfolio risk management.The tools are powered by real-time access to validated transactional data and leverage insights into risk analytics and underwriting across a broad spectrum of SME funding solutions. The eligibility and affordability tools deliver the benefits of digital transformation without the risk of complex and costly technology projects. Funding Xchange was founded in 2014 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom. | $10M / Series A / Sep 14, 2020 | ||
| Good Club is a sustainable grocery brand and retailer, revolutionising grocery shopping by wiping out waste and eliminating the environmental impact of everyday groceries. The company has recently launched reusable product packaging and delivery boxes that are collected from customers and cleaned for reuse.Founded in 2018 and headquartered inLondon, England, United Kingdom. | $1.3M / Seed / Jul 21, 2020 | ||
| Bikmo exists to enable you to ride more.We build awesome insurance products to protect our customers for unexpected events, use technology to make taking out and managing your policy ultra-simple, and provide exceptional customer experiences through our team of bike geeks.We’re now 5 years into our mission to enable anyone, anywhere, to protecttheir lifestyle, so they can spend more time enjoying it. And, become the brand that resonates with and protects the passion and drive behind the bike and adventure sports community.At the heart of our business is a bunch of bike and adventure sports geeks who choose to spend their free time in the epic wild places our earth has to offer and we want to continue to be able to do just that. | $2.2M / Series A / May 20, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Portfolio Ventures
Portfolio Ventures was founded in October 2014 by Will Martin and Will Brooks. They have been involved in raising funding for over 120 early stage companies. They set up Portfolio Ventures to work with high-quality UK startups that have already achieved early traction, are ready to scale and will benefit from access to their network of sophisticated private and professional investors.
Portfolio Ventures Contacts
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William Martin
Founder and Director
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FAQ
What does William Brooks invest in?
William Brooks invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 72 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 William Brooks invest in?
William Brooks typically joins rounds of $501k–$3.5M at Seed, $2.2M–$30M at Series A and $1.6M–$2.7M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not William Brooks's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds William Brooks took part in.
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When did William Brooks last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for William Brooks closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 72 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 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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