# Winton Ventures

> Winton Ventures is a VC fund in London backing Software and Cyber Security. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Feb 2023
- Lead investor: 12%
- Fund size: $67M
- Last fund: Jan 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/winton-ventures-limited/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/WintonCapital
- Website: https://www.winton.com/ventures

Winton Ventures is a VC fund in London focused on Software and Cyber Security. Winton Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Winton Group that invests in companies that operate in the cybersecurity, energy and environment, and data science-driven healthcare sectors. It leverages Winton’s extensive experience and in-house expertise in data science to make better investment decisions and to support actively its portfoliocompanies. It began operation in 2015, with its headquarters in London in the United Kingdom.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $393k–$3.3M |
| Series A | $2M–$125M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 31% |
| Cyber Security | 7 | 27% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 19% |
| Analytics | 4 | 15% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 15% |

53 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 27% |
| Series A | 7 | 27% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 15% |
| Series B | 3 | 12% |
| Series C | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 14 | 54% |
| Israel | 2 | 8% |
| United States | 2 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Antoine Péchin | Vice President | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antoine-p%C3%A9chin |
| David Harding | Founder & Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-harding-354c |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CyberSmart | CyberSmart is an automated compliance platform that helps you to identify, fix, certify and protect against security incidents to your business. CyberSmart provides a cybersecurity platform that enables small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to combat the constant threat of cyber-attacks and increasing regulation in an ever-evolving technologicallandscape and increasingly connected digital operating space. | $15.3M | Series B | Feb 23, 2023 |  |
| SenseOn | SenseOn provides accurate and context-rich alerts. These automated capabilities free security teams from the burden of exhaustive analysis, alert fatigue, and false positives. It brings together cyber security experts, former government cyber operatives, and applied machine learning specialists. | $20M | Series A | Sep 27, 2021 |  |
| CyberSmart | CyberSmart is an automated compliance platform that helps you to identify, fix, certify and protect against security incidents to your business. CyberSmart provides a cybersecurity platform that enables small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to combat the constant threat of cyber-attacks and increasing regulation in an ever-evolving technologicallandscape and increasingly connected digital operating space. | $3.1M | Series A | Jun 18, 2021 |  |
| Ripjar | Ripjar is a data intelligence platform company whose mission is to provide corporates and institutions with the most advanced data and analytics solutions to protect themselves in real-time from evolving risks that threaten their growth, prosperity, and value.Founded by former members of the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ),Ripjar develops software products that combine automation, artificial intelligence, and data visualization to help companies solve the most complex risk and security management problems at scale.Ripjar was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. | $36.8M | Series B | Sep 24, 2020 |  |
| Exonar | Exonar is the world-leading data indexing company building the crucial software organisations use to discover their data at scale, keep it safe and realise its value.Every company faces the same problem; knowing what data they’ve got, and where it is stored. Exonar is the only software available today able to find and reveal billions of items ofstructured and unstructured information; enabling businesses to ‘know the truth’ about their data in order to reduce risk, uncover business value and deliver digital transformation.Backed and funded by Beringea, Amadeus Capital Partners, Winton Ventures and Downing Ventures, Exonar boasts a growing list of large and well-recognised customers in the pharmaceutical, financial services and national critical infrastructure industries. | $8.5M | Series A | Jan 21, 2019 |  |
| Panaseer | Panaseer is the first Continuous Controls Monitoring platform for enterprise cybersecurity. Our platform shows you every asset, application, user and data set across your IT estate in real-time. This identifies gaps in controls coverage, aligns security with framework standards and substantiates regulatory compliance. Our automated reportssignificantly reduce reporting time and tailor insights to stakeholders at every level, enhancing decision-making from the boardroom to the analyst. These reports can also be mapped to the organisation’s structure, so you can prioritise risk based on impact to the business.Enterprise security leaders around the world trust our platform to help them make better security decisions. | $10M | Series A | Jun 18, 2018 |  |
| Tessian | Tessian’s mission is to secure the human layer. Using machine learning technology, Tessian automatically stops data breaches and security threats caused by human error - like data exfiltration, accidental data loss, business email compromise, and phishing attacks - with minimal disruption to employees' workflow. As a result, employees areempowered to do their best work, without security getting in their way. Founded in 2013, Tessian is backed by renowned investors like Sequoia, Accel, March Capital, and Balderton, and has offices in San Francisco and London. | $13M | Series A | Jun 17, 2018 |  |
| BlueVoyant | BlueVoyant is a cybersecurity company that enables cybersecurity defense and protection through technology and tailored services. The company provides advanced cyber threat intelligence managed security services and proactive professional services with forensic capabilities for incident response and remediation. They help large enterprises withimpactful intelligence and offer small and medium enterprises the same kind of software and level of services that large enterprises enjoy all from a world-class team of experts that would be challenging to amass directly.BlueVoyant offers increased visibility, professional insights, and targeted responsiveness. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA. | $125M | Series A | Aug 03, 2017 |  |
| Panaseer | Panaseer is the first Continuous Controls Monitoring platform for enterprise cybersecurity. Our platform shows you every asset, application, user and data set across your IT estate in real-time. This identifies gaps in controls coverage, aligns security with framework standards and substantiates regulatory compliance. Our automated reportssignificantly reduce reporting time and tailor insights to stakeholders at every level, enhancing decision-making from the boardroom to the analyst. These reports can also be mapped to the organisation’s structure, so you can prioritise risk based on impact to the business.Enterprise security leaders around the world trust our platform to help them make better security decisions. | $3.3M | Seed | May 30, 2017 |  |
| Exonar | Exonar is the world-leading data indexing company building the crucial software organisations use to discover their data at scale, keep it safe and realise its value.Every company faces the same problem; knowing what data they’ve got, and where it is stored. Exonar is the only software available today able to find and reveal billions of items ofstructured and unstructured information; enabling businesses to ‘know the truth’ about their data in order to reduce risk, uncover business value and deliver digital transformation.Backed and funded by Beringea, Amadeus Capital Partners, Winton Ventures and Downing Ventures, Exonar boasts a growing list of large and well-recognised customers in the pharmaceutical, financial services and national critical infrastructure industries. | $1.7M | Seed | Apr 27, 2017 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Winton Ventures invest in?

Winton Ventures invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 26 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 Winton Ventures's check size?

Winton Ventures typically joins rounds of $393k–$3.3M at Seed and $2M–$125M 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 Winton Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Winton Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Winton Ventures?

The team at Winton Ventures includes Antoine Péchin (Vice President) and David Harding (Founder & Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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