William Christopher Currie
Founder @ William Currie Group
Guildford, United Kingdom
William Christopher Currie is a Series A investor at William Currie Group in Guildford focused on SaaS and Software. Bill is the founder of the William Currie Group, which specializes in investments in the retail, e- commerce and tech sectors. Previously Bill was a top-ranked, multi award-winning retail analyst for Barclays (BZW), Hoare Govett and Charterhouse Securities, where he was Joint Managing Director. Current directorships include Eagle Eye Group PLC,Metapack Ltd, and LTS Group. Key past investments have included ASOS, QXL, The Hut Group, Zooplus, Caffé Nero and Anatwine
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries William Christopher Currie invests in
Stages William Christopher Currie invests in
Countries William Christopher Currie invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$16M
- Series A
- $4M–$5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 4 (67%)
- Software 4 (67%)
- Mobile 2 (33%)
- Big Data 2 (33%)
- Human Resources 2 (33%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (50%)
- Seed 2 (33%)
- Angel 1 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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SYNALOGiK
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Scout, created by Synalogik, is a one-of-a-kind data aggregation platform capable of automating complicated fraud and enhanced due diligence investigations across Synalogik, third-party, internal, and open-source datasets. Log in once, then configure automated, unified search, risk assessment, and reporting across all of your selected data sources,allowing your analysts to be significantly more productive, efficient, and make better judgments. | $4M / Series A / Jan 24, 2022 | |
Uptime
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Our story began with a vision to build a platform that makes knowledge accessible, affordable, and fun, while also being free from negativity, doom-scrolling and advertising. That’s how we came to be Knowledge Hackers. Uptime is a free app featuring 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world’s best books, courses and documentaries. All Hacks areavailable in text, audio and our unique visual story format, distilling the key ideas and insights from thousands of sources to keep users informed and save them time and effort. And the best thing is, you can share Hacks in just a tap with anyone via socials and text. It’s time to know more in no time.It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in London, England. | $16M / Seed / Feb 10, 2021 | |
Sirenum
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Sirenum is a cloud-based platform for managing the staff lifecycle for agencies, recruiters and organisations who rely on staff for operational purposes.Sirenum is built on a highly agile technology platform, which allows us to connect with other service providers for functions not yet in the system. This trick allows us to deliver features thatthey would not otherwise have, if a client requires these features up front. Once significant demand for a particular feature becomes apparent, they may decide develop that feature in house, replacing the outside vendor and retaining additional profits.Sirenum is geared towards employers who operate complex workforces of shift workers. Sirenum is particularly suited to the Staffing, Railway, Aviation, Construction, Hospitality, Healthcare, Home care, Deliveries, Logistics and Transportation. Operators in these sectors typically have hundreds or thousands of employees. | $1.3M / Seed / Oct 18, 2019 | |
Lavanda
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Lavanda is a modular SaaS platform designed to optimize real estate assets by enabling landlords and property managers to tap into legitimate short and medium-term rental demand. Lavanda has built an integrated ecosystem focused on delighting residents whilst boosting net operating income. Target markets include multifamily, build-to-rent (BTR),student housing, serviced apartment and vacation rental portfolios. | $1.2M / Angel / Jul 14, 2017 | |
WorkAngel
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They are changing people's perception of how to do employee engagement and improve staff retention in the mobile age.They offer a way for global enterprises to fast track their mobile presence internally to bring the company’s internal digital experience in line with what is expected by their employees. Featuring cross-platformcommunication & collaboration tools, a social recognition platform and online and in-store discounts & deals to offer personalised employee benefits & rewards relevant to the individual. | $5M / Series A / Jan 19, 2015 | |
Purple
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Purple’s solution allows businesses to monitor their physical spaces and actively promote their brand, while providing valuable insights into customer behavior within venues.With over 20 million users across 83 countries, Purple works with a range of brands and venues, including Legoland, Jaguar, United Wireless Arena, City of York, TUI,Centurylink, Pizza Express, British Land, Merlin Entertainments Group and the Indiana Pacers.It has a global agreement in place with Westcon Comstor, in addition to an active reseller base of over 950 in 80 countries. Purple employs over 100 full time staff and currently has offices in the UK, US, Spain, Australia, Singapore and Chile, with more offices planned.Purple is experiencing growth in multiple sectors, including hospitality, where people have time to spend online; in retail, where footfall tracking is essential; in healthcare, offering transparency around service and communication; and in entire cities moving towards the Internet of Things.Purple divides its offering into two specific segments; WiFi Solutions and Location Services. Free and Enhanced licenses are available for both WiFi Solutions and Location Services.As a brief product summary:Purple WiFi is the well-established guest WiFi, analytics, and marketing product. Key features include: Splash Pages - Create branded splash pages with our drag and drop editorEmail & SMS - Send emails & SMS based on demographics and behaviorReviews - Connect review platforms and send feedback requestsContent FilteringBandwidth ManagementReporting and InsightsPurple Location is a location based services product that works to actually pinpoint devices within physical spaces. Key features include: Proximity Marketing - Zone Flow, Journey ManagementHeatmappingMoving Venues - For Public TransportWiBeacons - Location HardwarePress contacts:Lloyd Gofton lloyd@liberatemedia.com+44 (0)7919 353 484 | $5M / Series A / Jan 12, 2015 |
Co-Investors
About William Currie Group
William Currie Group is a private investment group that finances emerging e-commerce and technology companies. William Currie Group is a dynamic, multifaceted investment business, which brings together a team of professional investors. They support companies with significant, rapid growth potential and their investment portfolio is concentrated onthe e-commerce and Tech Sectors. The Group, which was established in 1997, has grown significantly and now has substantial shareholdings in numerous market leading, quoted and privately-owned companies.William Currie Group recognises and supports growth potential. They have the people, expertise and capital to enable sustainable, rapid growth and have an strong track record of guiding young businesses through challenging fast growth situations, which require rapid operational scaling.
William Currie Group Contacts
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Neil Currie
Director
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William Christopher Currie
Founder
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FAQ
What does William Christopher Currie invest in?
William Christopher Currie invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 6 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 William Christopher Currie's check size?
William Christopher Currie typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$16M at Seed and $4M–$5M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds William Christopher Currie participates in.
When did William Christopher Currie last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for William Christopher Currie closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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 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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