# Yorkshire Bank

> Yorkshire Bank is a VC fund in Leeds backing Software, Marketing and Recruiting. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leeds, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Apr 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yorkshire-bank
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/yorkshirebank
- Website: http://www.ybonline.co.uk
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yorkshirebank

Yorkshire Bank is a VC fund in Leeds focused on Software and Marketing. Yorkshire Bank ia provider of banking and financial services.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Marketing | 1 | 33% |
| Recruiting | 1 | 33% |
| Advertising | 1 | 33% |
| Construction | 1 | 33% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 33% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 33% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 67% |
| Germany | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nano Interactive | Nano Interactive was founded in 2014 by Carl & Christian, two former executives of ValueClick (now Conversant) after identifying an opportunity to develop an ad tech business focused on the emerging search and intent based targeting sector.Following a recent growth investment, the business is in a high growth stage expanding across EMEA withoffices in Starnberg, Hamburg, London, Paris, Warsaw and Belgrade. | $6.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 07, 2020 |  |
| Invenias | Invenias is the world’s leading cloud-based platform for executive and strategic hiring. With offices and hosting centers across EMEA, the US and Asia, Invenias supports thousands of users across fifty countries. Our customers include executive search firms, strategic recruitment firms, in-house executive recruitment teams, and executive talentorganizations within Private Equity and Venture Capital firms. We enable our customers to fulfil search assignments more effectively, build stronger relationships with their clients and candidates, and transform the productivity of their operations. Customers love our easy to use desktop and mobile applications, and our cloud-based platform which removes complexity and cost. We are passionate about designing innovative applications that are incredibly simple, intuitive and easy to use and that blend seamlessly with your favourite desktop, mobile and web applications such as Microsoft Office. This drives full adoption and full participation of users across your teams and organisation. | $1.7M | Debt Financing | Apr 19, 2016 |  |
| BWB Consulting | BWB Consulting is an integrated engineering and environmental consultancy that delivers multi-disciplinary engineering solutions to the property, development and construction industry. BWB Consulting provides over 70 services, in 15 sectors to an international client base.It offers building and built environment services ranging from designingnew buildings to adapting, refurbishing, and maintaining existing building stocks; and from initial feasibility study to planning, detailed design, construction, routine maintenance, decommissioning, and demolition services for public and private sector development projects. Its environment services include advisory, investigative, design, and validation services relating to various aspects of the ground and water environment. The company also provides transport and infrastructure services, which include planning and designing multi-modal transport infrastructure. It serves industrial and manufacturing, education, retail, leisure and hospitality, residential, distribution, energy and carbon, retail, urban regeneration, commercial, health, public, culture and heritage, road and rail, finance and investment, and water environment sectors. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. As of July 12, 2017, BWB Consulting Limited operates as a subsidiary of Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A. |  | Private Equity | Apr 17, 2008 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Clydesdale Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clydesdale-bank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Catapult Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catapult-venture-managers) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Foresight Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foresight-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Maven Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maven-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MMC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mmc-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Yorkshire Bank invest in?

Yorkshire Bank invests primarily in Software, Marketing and Recruiting startups, most often at Debt Financing and Private Equity stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Yorkshire Bank last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yorkshire Bank closed in Apr 2020. Shizune tracks 3 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 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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