Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United Kingdom (November 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Alexander Chesterman
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, FinTech, Health Care | $470k–$24M |
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Simon Franks
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, Australia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, E-Commerce, Health Care | $323k–$23M |
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Paul Forster
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1M–$26M |
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Raghav Gupta
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Internet | $395k–$5M |
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Marco Valta
Angel
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Secondary Market | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $200k–$24M |
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Peter Hinssen
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Apps, SaaS, EBooks | $523k–$4.8M |
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Santiago Fernández López
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed | Travel, Content, Publishing | |
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Nicolas Julia
Angel
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2 | France, Israel, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $400k–$15M |
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Bootstrapped Debt Financing
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $11k–$1.2M |
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Zaid Al-Aifari
Angel
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1 | Austria, Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed | Mobile Apps, Education, Audio | |
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Don Hoang
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, France, Austria | Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Analytics, B2B | |
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Ciara McElligott
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed | Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing | |
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Nicholas Johnston
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed | News, Coffee, Organic | |
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Tony Smurfit
Angel
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1 | Ireland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Publishing, Video, Privacy | |
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Mark Thompson
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed | News, Software, Publishing | |
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jonathan wright
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Venture - Series Unknown | Printing, Publishing, Packaging Services | |
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Megan Kaspar
Angel
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1 | Croatia, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Publishing, Marketplace, Digital Media | |
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Andrin Bachmann
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, France | Seed, Series B, Series A | Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace | $756k–$30M |
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Dave McClure
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $207k–$30M |
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Andrew Grahame
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Apps, Beauty | |
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Thomas Leysen
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | EBooks, EdTech, Education | |
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Peter Read
Angel
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1 | Germany, United Kingdom | Seed | Toys, Content, E-Commerce | $1M–$1.5M |
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Cenk Serdar
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Audio | $600k–$2.4M |
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Thierry Henry
Angel
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1 | Sweden, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B, Series C | Apps, Video, Sports | |
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Paul Field
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Art, Women's, Internet | |
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Volker Hirsch
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Apps, EdTech | $39k–$2.1M |
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Konstantin Stiskin
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$4M |
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Tom Hulme
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series B, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $520k–$70M |
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Nenad Marovac
Angel
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1 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Series A, Series B, Series C | E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps | $4.5M–$108M |
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Joachim Behrendt
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, SaaS, Software | $103k–$1.9M |
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Daniel Waterhouse
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $245k–$66M |
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Simon Murdoch
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Finance | $712k–$16M |
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Federico Pirzio-Biroli
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Non Profit, Venture Capital | $200k–$4.5M |
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John Greathouse
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Advertising, B2B, SEO | $700k–$33M |
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Chris Davis
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom | Series C, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Publishing, EBooks, EdTech | |
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Julien Codorniou
Angel
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1 | France, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $125k–$23M |
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Luc Van Malderen
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed | EBooks, EdTech, Education | |
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Darren Reiss
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed | EBooks, EdTech, Education | |
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Turi Munthe
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany | Seed | Software, News, Computer | |
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Bill Holroyd
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Rental, Retail, Fashion | |
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Charlie Songhurst
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $500k–$24M |
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Luc De Vos
Angel
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1 | Belgium, Finland, United States | Seed, Series A, Private Equity | Analytics, Consulting, B2B | $22k–$11M |
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Nick Mason
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Social Media, Information Technology, B2B | $5.6M–$6M |
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David Langer
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, FinTech, Software | $25k–$27M |
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Christian Faes
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Australia, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $355k–$27M |
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William Martin
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $874k–$11M |
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Rene Rechtman
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Denmark | Series A, Seed, Angel | Education, Social Media, Information Services | $5.5M–$22M |
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Marc Hazan
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Series A | Marketplace, Video, Retail | $1.9M–$4.9M |
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David Walter
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Angel | Computer, Internet, PC Games | |
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Sven Fund
Angel
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1 | Germany, Italy, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Publishing, Events, Digital Media | $250k–$3M |
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Alex Chesterman is based out of London, England, and is the Founder of Cazoo. Alexander previously worked at ScreenSelect as a Co-Founder. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $470k–$3M; Series A $2.3M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Atheni AI — Atheni is software with real people behind it. A 90-day programme that helps teams use AI on the work they already do, with guidance shaped around each person's role.
- Zefir — An all-in-one platform that allows people to sell or buy in one simple, certain transaction
- Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the award-winning digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients.
Simon Franks is the founder and managing partner of Redbus Ventures and Chairman of the Franks Family Foundation. (www.thefff.org)
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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $586k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $323k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- Oto Health — Take back control of your tinnitus with Oto, the app built by doctors that teaches you how to stop noticing the ringing using clinically proven techniques. Includes CBT, targeted mindfulness, and relaxation. 86% users experience benefits after just 1 month.
- Tolemy Bio — The AI-native virtual cell platform for therapeutic development and manufacture.
Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.7M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wassist — Launch your AI sales agent on WhatsApp for Shopify in under 60 seconds. Recover 30-50% of abandoned carts and increase conversions by 3x.
- Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
- Applied Protein Labs — Applied Protein Labs is a biotech company based in the London, UK. The company specialises in the development of next-generation proteins for industry and agriculture.
Entrepreneur, operator, investor and author of the bestselling One to Ten. Currently, Rags is President of Butlr.io and venture partner at Hyperplane. Prior to Butlr, Rags was COO at Humatics, GM EMEA at Ooyala, CCO at Videoplaza (sold to Telstra/Ooyala) and part of the founding management team at Brightcove (IPO).
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $395k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Squark — Predict who to focus on, what to do next, and what it will do to revenue with fundraising AI that works across your CRM, campaigns, and donor lifecycle.
- Powerspike — Powerspike is a new type of advertising network based on content creators - where any marketer can make their brand famous in a few clicks. Our Endorsement Serving technology automatically buys, executes, and optimizes content creator endorsements - replacing the traditionally lengthy process of RFP’s, human negotiations, and insertion orders.
- Fluent Forever — Discover the revolutionary app to learn any language fast and retain it forever. Ditch translation for effective tools like spaced repetition, mnemonics and interactive flashcards.
Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 20 years experience in the tech industry. As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 250 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima Assicurazioni, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso, Oura, Anduril, Anthropic, Boring Company,
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4.1M; Series A $2.5M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coinbase — Coinbase is an online platform for digital currency transactions, enabling merchants, consumers, and traders to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies. The company provides Bitcoin wallet services, allowing users to manage digital assets and conduct transactions. Coinbase offers merchant payment processing tools, supporting businesses in integrating cryptocurrency payments. It facilitates secure digital currency exchanges, assisting users in navigating blockchain-based financial transactions.
- SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
- Salty. — Salty Dot, Inc. is the Embedded Insurance® technology company. Salty removes existing consumer impediments to buying the right policy and having the proper coverage. The company’s platform is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables carriers and distribution partners to offer a customized policy to insure a product orservice in real-time during the purchase process. Salty uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze unique data sources about the buyer and the purchase. It then sorts through multiple carriers to seamlessly offer the right insurance. Salty is licensed in all 50 states. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wearesalty.com.
Peter Hinssen is based out of Ghent Metropolitan Area and is the Co-Founder and Partner of Nexxworks. Peter previously worked at Mediahuis nv as a Board Member. Peter Hinssen attended Ghent University.
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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, EBooks
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $523k–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London,England.
- Sparkcentral — Consumers today engage with brands and companies on social channels by sending tweets and messages stating their customer service needs openly and publicly. Many companies choose to respond to these consumers via the same channels in order to address their concerns. The Sparkcentral Platform helps customer support teams manage large volumes ofsocial inquiries in a streamlined and efficient manner. The platform pulls in the messages from these social channels and presents them to customer care teams via a secure agent console that automatically assigns the messages to the first available agent. Sparkcentral’s client roster includes Delta Air Lines, Emirates, Netflix, Nordstrom, Dropbox, Uber, and T-Mobile.The company’s client portfolio includes Formerly known as TwitSpark, Sparkcentral was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
- Rita Data — Rita is a zero-party data platform that connects consumers and brands to enable trusted and engaging data transactions. The mobile app allows users to view, control, and share their data for rewards.
Focused on the achievement of happiness, considering all the meanings of the word for the stake holders in a business project, which are: a) Satisfaction for Clients and Providers, b)Profits for Shareholders, c)Motivation for the Team, d) Innovation, social welfare and sustainability for the Community and e) Happiness for my Family.
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- Industry: Travel, Content, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Niume Limited — Niume is a collaborative blogging platform that enables bloggers to create distribute, and monetize their content.The platform enables bloggers to create and distribute content on their range of spheres, consisting of art, photography, fashion, culture, food, and travel. Furthermore, they are able to monetize their content through PayPal andtrack their revenue per post through its dashboard.Niume was launched in 2012 by Alex Hughes, Daniel Gennaoui, and Francesco Facca and is based in London.
Nicolas Julia is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France, and is the CEO and Co-founder of Sorare. Nicolas previously worked at Stratumn as a VP of Operations. Nicolas Julia attended the EM Lyon Business School.
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- Industry: FinTech, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Israel, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$15M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
- Altertable — We're building an AI-driven, proactive, unified platform that redefines how modern companies leverage their data.
- Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
Bootstrapped Debt Financing
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $11k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kornem Energy — Kornem Energy provides energy intelligence and mobile-fuel delivery and diesel delivery on demand for the needs of today, tomorrow, and our future.We are eliminating the traditional fuel supply chain infrastructure using IOT & a compact terminal-to-car logistics aggregation, through service, automation and mobility.This enables us todeliver fuel directly to the customers who can request fuel delivery wherever they are, through our mobile app, while bridging the gap between feedstock aggregation, quality-assurance and end-user accessibility.No more expensive real estate, no more extensive supply chain. Just #FuelToYou
- SymbaSync — SymbaSync™ helps organizations maximize return on employee investment by providing Human Resources Software to source, qualify, and engage employees to populate project teams. SymbaSync’s tools increase employee satisfaction improving employee ownership, engagement, and retention. SymbaSync provides a company with a complete overview of up-to-dateemployee skills, interests, and workplace preferences.
- Tactii — DropCatch.com helps you secure expiring domain names.
Zaid Al-Aifari
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Education, Audio
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria, Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Monkee — Monkee combines Personal Finance and Cashback in one unique product. We help our users to save more money for what's important to them and actively support them in growing their savings while consciously shopping the things they need. At the same time we help our retail partners to connect with consumers in a relevant and rewarding way. Thecompany was founded in Austria. The app was launched in the kick-off markets Germany and Austria.
- ELOOP — With ELOOP Carsharing you can rent electric vehicles per minute, hour or day. Download our app and rent electric vehicles in Vienna.
- QuickSpeech — QuickSpeech ist die intelligente Microlearning-Plattform, die Ihre Mitarbeiter automatisch in kurzen Wissensportionen spielerisch trainiert und motiviert.
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Browse database — It's Free!Don Hoang is the Partner of Atomico. He previously worked at Revolut as a Vice President of Global Business. Don Hoang attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, B2B
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Formance — Numary makes it easy to build complex money-moving software with its open-source ledger & Numscript programming language.
- Condukt — Scale compliance into growth and efficiency with real-time data and AI agents.
- consola.finance — 100% accurate crypto accounting: Import, Categorize, and Sync your crypto and fiat transactions with QuickBooks, Xero, Netsuite, Banana, and more!
Ciara McElligott is an Investor / Strategic Advisor / NED in human capital/work tech.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ufurnish.com — ufurnish.com is the home for furniture discovery. Search, discover, compare and shop furniture online across the entire retail market on one website.
Nicholas Johnston
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- Industry: News, Coffee, Organic
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- CRU Kafe — Here at CRU Kafe our mission is simple, to deliver the finest Organic coffee from around the world, in the convenience of a Nespresso® friendly capsule. We care about the big picture, and that means Fairtrade partnerships, eco-firendly packaging and honest customer relationships.
- The Mill — Award-winning local journalism from Greater Manchester's new quality newspaper - join our free mailing list or support us as a paying member. Click to read The Mill, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.
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- Industry: Publishing, Video, Privacy
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ufurnish.com — ufurnish.com is the home for furniture discovery. Search, discover, compare and shop furniture online across the entire retail market on one website.
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
- VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
Mark Thompson is the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery. He previously worked at The New York Times as a President & CEO. Mark Thompson attended Stonyhurst College and Merton College, Oxford.
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- Industry: News, Software, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- GPTZero — Covered by >100 media outlets, GPTZero is the most advanced AI detector for ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard. Check up to 50000 characters for AI plagiarism in seconds.
- The Mill — Award-winning local journalism from Greater Manchester's new quality newspaper - join our free mailing list or support us as a paying member. Click to read The Mill, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
jonathan wright
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- Industry: Printing, Publishing, Packaging Services
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Reel Label Solutions — Reel Label Solutions is the at the forefront of the packaging printing industry, offering high quality, bespoke print solutions for your packaging.
Megan Kaspar is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Magnetic. She previously worked at MKE as a Managing Partner. Megan Kaspar attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
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- Industry: Publishing, Marketplace, Digital Media
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Croatia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- CYBR Magazine — Buy issues of CYBR Magazine the futurist magazine curating futurism, technology and techwear.
- Tribute Brand — 51K Followers, 2 Following, 227 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from TRIBUTE BRAND (@tribute_brand)
- Trustless Media — A new kind of production hub where ideas people care about actually come to life.
Andrin brings his entrepreneurial spirit and investment experience to Piton. He was a co-founder of Glocalnet, which became Sweden's 3rd largest consumer telecom service provider and was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange before being acquired by Telenor. Following this, he was a partner at M/C Venture Partners - one of the leading private equity investors in the US telecom services space. He was also one of two principals establishing an investment company that became QXL Ricardo PLC's largest shareholder in 2005, and was instrumental in the transformation of QXL leading to its sale to Naspers for around $1.9 billion.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $756k–$4.9M; Series A $3M–$9.6M; Series B $4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dala — Your workplace has the answer. Just ask Dala for it.
- Koru Kids — Koru Kids is a building better childcare services, starting with nanny sharing in London. The team behind Koru Kids has a background in childcare (their own and other people's), healthcare and tech startups. Their company name is Koru Kids, company number is 10047637, and their HQ is 110 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2LS. 'Koru Kids'is a registered trademark (UK00003153316). They are registered with the Information Commissioners' Office (registration number ZA181818), and also affiliated with the Financial Conduct Authority's Innovation Hub. They are grateful for the ongoing support (financial and moral!) of Camden Council.
- Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world, including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $207k–$2.8M; Series A $930k–$10M; Series B $2.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
- Tribal Credit — Tribal is a payments and financing platform using the latest emerging technologies to provide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in emerging markets with better access to financial services. Tribal offers these SMBs access to modern payment methods like multi-currency physical and virtual business credit cards, local and internationalwires, along with short-term financing, and a powerful spend management platform to track and control their expenses—all in one seamless interface. Tribal has raised from SoftBank Latin America Fund, QED Investors, BECO Capital, Stellar Development Foundation, and Coinbase Ventures. The company is also among an elite group of companies chosen as part of the Visa FinTech Fast Track program.
- Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
Andrew Grahame is a Founder at The Cook & The Thief.He attended St Austell College.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Quill — Quill has merged with Jellyfish to become their global Ecommerce Content capability, delivering multi-language content solutions that support Jellyfish’s cutting-edge digital transformation services
- Shopological — Shopological is a website and mobile app focusing on men’s and women’s fashion, beauty, and lifestyle as well as providing access to sales and promotional updates aggregated from more than 1,400 fashion and beauty retailers.Registered members receive personalized email reminders whenever their favorite shops or brands have a sale or promotion,allowing them priority access to sell products.Shopological has received The IBM People's Choice Award 2014 and The RBS EnterprisingU Award 2012. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
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Browse database — It's Free!Mr. Thomas Leysen served as the Managing Director of Umicore NV. Mr. Leysen joined Umicore in 1993. Mr. Leysen served as an Executive Vice President of Umicore SA from 1998 to 2000. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Umicore SA from May 10, 2000 to November 2008. He transformed the former Union Minière, a non-ferrous company in aninternational materials-technology group called Umicore. He started his career in the maritime business in Hamburg, London and Tokyo. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Transcor Group from 1983 to 1988. In 1989, he managed the restructuration of the General Trading Cy, a subsidiary of the Société Générale de Belgique. He has been the Chairman of Umicore SA since November 19, 2008. He has been the Chairman of the Board at KBC Group NV, KBC Bank NV and KBC Insurance since October 1, 2011. He serves as Chairman of Corelio NV, Eurometaux, Corelio Media , and European Association of Metals, Eurométaux. He serves as President and Chairman of the BJA.
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- Industry: EBooks, EdTech, Education
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
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- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London,England.
- Semafor — Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Peter is a partner of Read Investments, specializing in commercial real estate acquisitions and development. He is the former Co-Owner of Grocery Outlet Inc., a family-owned retail grocery business with 140 stores located throughout the western states. Mr. Read’s strong affinity with the SF SPCA stems from its progressive and humane commitment to the lives of dogs and cats, and the example it demonstrates to other animal hospitals and shelters. His animal volunteer background follows in the footsteps of his dear departed wife, Carol Ann Read, through her longtime involvement with the Lindsey Wildlife Museum and the Marine Mammal Center. He is now joined by his two daughters in serving these wonderful causes. Mr. Read has an economics degree from the University of San Francisco. He joined the Board of Directors in 2000.
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- Industry: Toys, Content, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Quill — Quill has merged with Jellyfish to become their global Ecommerce Content capability, delivering multi-language content solutions that support Jellyfish’s cutting-edge digital transformation services
- Wummelkiste — Wummelkiste manufactures and provides subscription-based arts and craft products for kids.
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- Industry: SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Audio
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $600k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- FineDine — Finedine, a growing tech company, empowers restaurants with an AI-powered SaaS growth platform. FineDine helps restaurants grow at every stage, from attracting new customers through automated digital marketing to streamlining reservations, orders, payments, loyalty programs, and retargeting campaigns. Finedine creates a seamless omnichannelexperience for both restaurants and their guests. By analyzing customer behavior, FineDine provides actionable insights that help restaurateurs optimize their operations and make data-driven decisions. The platform simplifies restaurant management by offering an all-in-one solution, eliminating the need for multiple software programs.
- Plentific — Plentific empowers landlords and property managers to deliver more efficient repairs and maintenance services.Plentific is a purpose-driven technology business. Since 2013, the company works with trade professionals and their property partners to transform their processes and the communities they serve. The company's platform and themarketplace is currently in use by landlords and property managers across residential, commercial and social applications throughout the United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Plentific was founded by Emre Kazan and Cem Savas to make it easy to find reliable trade services and manage property repairs and maintenance. The pair believed property management could and should be better - for local trades specialists, property managers and tenants.
Thierry Daniel Henry is based out of Zürich, Zurich, and is the Director of Football of On.
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- Industry: Apps, Video, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grabyo — A modern, powerful cloud-based managed service with all the tools needed for live production, distribution and video monetization.
- Neko Health — Try the Neko Body Scan. Get answers right away, and let us monitor your health - so you don't have to.
- HomeCourt — HomeCourt is a mobile app that uses AI to record and track basketball shots, makes, misses, and location.
CEO EMEA, TouchCast. Partner, bMuse. Director, Higgaboom. Advisor, Dugout. Advisor to Amaliah and Lead Investor. Board Member and Investor, Inn Style Ltd. Investor, The Memo. Ignite Accelerator Investor and Mentor. Free Word Board Member. Consultant. Ex Daily Mail executive
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- Industry: Art, Women's, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- AMALIAH — Amaliah is dedicated to amplifying the voices of Muslim women. Led by a passion to empower individuals through their identity, our work seeks to surface the many different voices and experiences within our community. We create content for Muslim women that aims to shape thought and act as a tool for cultural change.
- The Memo — The feel good baby edit to make big decisions, easy. Shop best selling, trusted and adored baby and maternity essentials. Free delivery over $99!
Volker Hirsch is the Co-Founder and Director of Blue Beck Limited. He previously worked at Bibblio as a Chairman & Investor. Volker Hirsch attended the University of Hamburg.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $39k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wonde — School data, simplified. Wonde helps 30k+ UK schools securely manage MIS data and integrate with 600+ apps.
- Pi-Top — pi-top is a fast-growing ed-tech company with a unique vision to increase access to coding, robotics and AI through project-based learning.pi-top’s mission is to inspire a generation of makers by giving young people STEAM-related hard skills (e.g. coding and circuitry) and in-demand soft skills (e.g. communication, critical thinking andproblem-solving) that they will need in a rapidly changing world.pi-top’s award-winning hardware and software ecosystem is used around the world thousands of homes, maker spaces and schools, blending physical computing and project-based learning with Computer Science and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) education. With its latest product ecosystem educators and students get to design, code and make anything they can imagine.
- The Link App — Curve is the home of diverse, exciting and inspiring theatre in Leicester. Find out more and book tickets here.
Konstantin Stiskin is based out of Limassol and is the Co-Founder and Supervisory Board member of Finom. Konstantin previously worked at GENXT as an Ideologist and Board observer. Konstantin Stiskin attended Higher School of Economics.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vivox AI — Our pre-trained AI agents automate manual, repetitive tasks traditionally handled by Level 1 analysts, including AML, adverse media monitoring, sanctions screening reviews, KYC/KYB onboarding, and periodic reviews
- Mobalytics — The all-in-one gaming companion that analyzes your performance and gives you insights to level up your game.
- Plurio — Full-Funnel Dashboards with Advanced Attribution Built Just for You
Tom Hulme is based out of London, Greater London and is the Managing Partner & Head of Europe of Google Ventures. Tom previously worked at IDEO as a Founder, Board Director, and Senior Advisor. Tom Hulme attended the Harvard Business School. Tom Hulme has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Wired UK’s Top 100 Digital Power Brokers, and the Evening Standard’s list of London’s 1000 Most Influential People and received the Baker Scholar Award.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $520k–$11M; Series A $11M–$45M; Series B $20M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Smol — A smol revolution in laundry and cleaning; heavy on dirt, lighter on the planet. Laundry Capsules, Sprays, Dishwash tabs & more. Trial for FREE today!
- Kinnu — Download Kinnu Law - The smartest SQE1 revision app with the highest quality practice questions and AI-powered learning assistant
- Immersive Gamebox — Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team Adventures in the world's smartest room. Our GameBox Adventure pods combine projection mapping, touch screen, motion tracking and surround sound technologies to create an entirely new form of digital group entertainment.
Nenad Marovac is the Founder and Managing Partner of DN Capital. DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on European and US technology companies. He founded DN Capital in June 2000. Nenad Marovac is based in London, England, and previously worked at AUTO1 as a Board Member. Nenad Marovac attended the Harvard Business School and the San Diego State University.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Series A $4.5M–$25M; Series B $6M–$28M; Series C $20M–$108M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
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- Reedsy — Reedsy allows authors to find and work with the best publishing professionals: from developmental editors to book cover designers, publicists and translators.
- Ben — Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalise benefits and reward.Our secret? Marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee Mastercards and financial infrastructure. That’s how Ben instantly adds employee choice to your existing benefits, unlocks access to hundreds of additional options through Ben Card, all whilesaving you time and money.
- Annelutfen.com — Annelutfen is a full price online shop for baby products (0-12) in Turkey. Annelutfen offers the widest selection (18.000 SKUs), fast delivery (1-3 days), and best in class user experience.
Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $110k–$1.9M; Angel $103k–$327k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
- Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
- Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
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Browse database — It's Free!Daniel David Waterhouse is based out of London, England and is the General Partner of Balderton Capital. Daniel previously worked at Wellington Partners as a General Partner. Daniel David Waterhouse attended the University of Oxford.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $245k–$7.7M; Series A $3.5M–$50M; Series B $8M–$66M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
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- Mapfit — Mapfit was sunset in October 2018. Please see these 16 Google Places API alternatives.
- Unaric — Our mission is to help Salesforce customers maximise their investment on the Salesforce platform through an integrated suite of applications. Explore our application suites across Revenue Operations, Service Operations and System Administration.
- Kama — A science-based app of guided practices for desire, pleasure and connection. Five minutes a day. Start free.
Simon Thomas Murdoch is based out of London and is the Founding Partner of Episode 1. Simon previously worked at Onebillion as a Trustee. Simon Thomas Murdoch attended Brunel University London.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- Round size: Seed $951k–$3.2M; Series A $712k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
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- Sylvi — Meet Sylvi, your AI language tutor. She tracks your mistakes as you chat to build custom lessons. The more she knows, the better you get. Ready to speak?
- Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
- Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.
Fede Pirzio-Biroli is based out of Nairobi and is the Founder & Director of Playfair Capital. Fede previously worked at Storybricks as a Angel Investor. Fede Pirzio-Biroli attended the University of St Andrews.
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- Industry: Software, Non Profit, Venture Capital
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Bibblio — Conversion optimization, powered by AI. Increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences, for stronger site metrics and ROI.
- Believe.in — Believe.in provides a white label technology that improves online fundraising, donation processing, and event performance of non-profit organizations.Available in multiple markets, languages, and currencies, Believe.in supports 2.8 million non-profit organizations globally and is easily customized and integrated into any non-profitorganization’s website and existing back-office toolkit.Believe.in was founded in May 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
- Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future
John has held a number of senior executive positions with successful startups during the past fifteen years. At Computer Motion (RBOT), he was the CFO and VP of Business Development. At Citrix Online (CTXS – formerly Expertcity), Greathouse served as CFO and SVP of Strategic Development. At CallWave, he served as the SVP of Sales & Bus Dev. In his capacities at Computer Motion and Citrix, Greathouse spearheaded transactions which generated more than $350 million of shareholder value, including Computer Motion’s initial public offering and the sale of Expertcity to Citrix for over $230M. Greathouse is currently a Faculty member of UCSB’s Technology Management Program and a Venture Partner at Rincon Venture Partners. Greathouse is a CPA and earned his MBA from the Wharton School.
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- Industry: Advertising, B2B, SEO
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$3M; Series A $700k–$5.8M; Series B $2.1M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coull — Coull is a #Technology company that adds value to any video through innovative video ad formats: The OverStream Suite. #Advertising #VideoMarketing #AdTech
- JazzHR — JazzHR is powerful, user-friendly, and affordable recruiting software built to help small to medium-sized businesses hire smarter and faster.
- Apeel Sciences — Apeel Sciences produces products including avocados, apples, mangos, cucumbers, and citrus protected by plants. They support the plant’s natural ability to protect against environmental stress by maintaining moisture and reducing oxidation.
Mr. Davis has over 13 years of professional experience in the investment banking, private equity and venture capital industries. He began his career as a systems analyst in the Zurich and Singapore offices of Credit Suisse First Boston working on the development, implementation and maintenance of global accounting, credit risk management and trade settlement information systems. Mr. Davis then transitioned into a financial advisory roll serving in the High Yield Origination Group of TD Securities’ New York office where he worked on various leveraged finance transactions in the energy, auto parts, media and paper sectors. Since March 2003, Mr. Davis has worked in the private equity and venture capital operations of the Gefinor Group. Mr. Davis received his MBA in the Financial Engineering track of the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. and Bachelor of Commerce with a major in Information Systems from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.
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- Industry: Publishing, EBooks, EdTech
- Stage:Series C, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London,England.
- Anokiwave — Anokiwave features silicon core chip solutions that reduce system cost and enable rapid technology adoption. Its proprietary chip architectures, feature-rich solutions, and complementary III/V products deliver unprecedented system performance. The company provides disruptive value by solving the toughest engineering problems with creativesystem architectures and the optimal selection of semiconductor technologies.It was founded in 1999 and is based in San Diego, California.
- SocialFlow — Distribute your content effectively on social media with Piano Amplifier. Automate, optimize, and track performance to expand your audience reach.
Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments. Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has been serving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp. Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005. His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday. He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $569k–$8M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.7M; Series A $3.3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Claimy — Integrate Claimy to unlock the full potential of your catalogue, recover missing royalties, and gain real-time insights into your performances.
- Jolly — Jolly is a rewards platform for the workplace that incentivizes employee performance. It implements performance-based incentives to increase employees utilization, compliance, referrals, and loyalty.
- Arlequin AI — Unlock actionable insights from complex social data to drive strategic decisions using our AI models.
Luc Van Malderen
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- Industry: EBooks, EdTech, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London,England.
Darren Reiss
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- Industry: EBooks, EdTech, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London,England.
Turi manages a significant proportion of NBM’s dealflow, with a particular focus on EMEA. He sits on the boards of NBM portfolio companies in the US, Europe, the Middle East and India.Before joining NBM, Turi advised multiple early and later stage media and media tech companies. In 2012, Turi exited his company Demotix to Bill Gates’ CorbisImages. Demotix, which he founded in 2007, had become the world’s largest network of photojournalists.
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- Industry: Software, News, Computer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany
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- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Snap.hr — Sign up to Snap.hr now to get headhunted by 500+ other tech companies
- RetentionGrid — Two thumbs up - I recently switched to WPX Hosting and recommend their speed, service and security - they do know what they are talking about when it comes to WordPress hosting.
- Signal AI — Explore Signal AI's reputation management and risk intelligence solutions. Signal AI provides companies with actionable insights designed to navigate enterprise risk, strengthen reputation, and fuel growth.
Charles William Holroyd CBE DL is a British investor and philanthropist.
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- Industry: Rental, Retail, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- By Rotation — Rent over 25000+ designer fashion items online from our free app. Discover luxury designer dresses, clothing, bags and accessories from your trending favorite brands.
- By Gamers For Gamers — Made up entirely of gamers, we are a team that is dedicated to bringing you the best PC gaming and tech content possible.
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Browse database — It's Free!Charlie Songhurst is a private investor in technology companies. He previously worked at Microsoft as Head of Corporate Strategy. Charlie attended the University of Oxford.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 266
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5.1M; Series A $2.9M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mantic — Mantic is a world-class technical team on a mission to solve the next AI grand challenge: predicting global events with superhuman accuracy, and deploying this capability to power radically improved decision-making in business and government.
- Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
- Bleu Robotics — Bleu Robotics is an advanced AI and automation company that develops cutting-edge robot learning software designed to deploy humanoid robots seamlessly into industrial environments. Drawing on two decades of academic research in robotics and artificial intelligence, the company addresses the flexibility bottlenecks of traditional, fixed factory automation.
Luc De Vos is the non-executive director at Hybrid Software Group PLC. Luc De Vos attended KU Leuven.
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- Industry: Analytics, Consulting, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Geography: Belgium, Finland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $22k–$4.2M; Series A $2.6M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Finactum — Finactum delivers company data for Belgium in a freemium business model. The offering is to provide 'rich' factual data and as such be a tool for company competitive intelligence, m&a market research or lead generation. The company aims to be(come) a data Intelligence Service Provider (web 3.0).
- Husky Marketing Planner — Marketing planning & marketing calendar tool for marketing teams. Makes the complete marketing planning clear on one central digital platform.
- DataStories International — DataStories a Partners in Performance Company, is an end-to-end prescriptive analytics provider for your operations. Real-time optimisation for better quality, yield and energy efficiency.
Nicholas Berkeley Mason, CBE is an English drummer and founder member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.
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- Industry: Social Media, Information Technology, B2B
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $5.6M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LICKD — Music licensing for video Creators on YouTube & Facebook. Making music available for everyone to use, without compromise.
- Lightful — Lightful helps nonprofits and charities develop the skills, tools and confidence to build trust and gain support online
- Disciple — Create your own branded community app. Bring your people, content and commerce together in one place.
David Langer is the Founding Partner at Lionheart Ventures, a global, seed-stage venture capital firm investing in companies that make humanity more resilient. Our focus areas are climate protection, mental health and financial inclusion.Previously, David was an angel investor in 20+ companies and founder & CEO of Zesty, a healthy corporatecatering company whose mission is to improve the health of humanity. Zesty served 7+ million meals and raised $20MM+ from investors including Index Ventures, Founders Fund and Y Combinator before being acquired by Square in 2018.David’s entrepreneurial career began in 2005 as co-founder & CEO of GroupSpaces, a London-based SaaS company targeting membership groups backed by investors including Index Ventures, Lowercase Capital and Avonmore Developments. In 2010, David was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts for Services to Entrepreneurship.Personally, David is passionate about developing a strong mind and body. He is a certified hatha and yin yoga teacher, experienced meditator and regular attendee of Burning Man, and other transformational events. He is also a hobbyist powerlifter, and previously competed at CrossFit, triathlon and was a national table tennis champion as a child. He has appeared on TV game shows in England including ITV's The Krypton Factor, Channel 4's Countdown and Channel 5's Brainteaser.David studied Mathematics at St Anne's College, Oxford where he was awarded 2nd place in the UK Graduate of the Year competition by Real World Magazine.
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- Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9M; Series A $25k–$27M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Groww — Start Online Investing in Stocks & Direct Mutual Funds with India's No. 1 Stock Broker - Groww. Equity Trading, F&O, Direct Mutual Funds with Zero-commission & 24x7 support.
- Calm — Relax with Calm, a simple mindfulness meditation app that brings clarity and peace of mind into your life
- BibliU — BibliU is an innovative learning enablement platform that gives students access to the course materials they need, from etextbooks to courseware and monographs.
Christian Faes is based out of Los Angeles, California and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Faes and Co. Christian previously worked at Department for International Trade (DIT) as a Advisor, Trade Advisory Group (Telecoms and Technology). Christian Faes attended Bond University.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $355k–$20M; Series A $4.5M–$27M; Venture - Series Unknown $6.7M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Knoma — Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning. The business is tackling the digital skills gap as the global economy shifts into the fourth industrial revolution. We help people looking to future proof their career or move into new areas of work by reducing the barrier of payment and removing the pain point of sourcingtechnical courses.The business is built upon the firm belief in the importance of lifelong education to drive improvements in our customers’ future prosperity. We believe education should be accessed in a short, but frequent manner; at a lower price point and a focus on gaining technical, digital and data skill-sets. All users can gain access up to £10,000, where the cost of a course can be spread over 12 months with flexible repayments. The product is completely free to all end users with no interest or fees applicable. Knoma works with leading coding and tech schools. We are a fun and driven team, ready to make an impact!
- Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
- Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $874k–$5.5M; Series A $2.3M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$6.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Rene Rechtman is based out of London and is the co-founder & CEO of Moonbug. Rene previously worked at the Walt Disney Company as a Head of non-linear media. Rene Rechtman attended the University of Copenhagen.
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- Industry: Education, Social Media, Information Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series A $5.5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fanvue — The creator subscription platform for the future. Sign up before the end of the month and take home 85%.
- Movellas — Changing the experience of reading and writing stories for teens all over the world. Movellas is a self-publishing platform based around the Japanese concept of mobile short stories. The market in Japan has exceeded 82 million people, meaning it became the fastest growing form of literature amongst Japanese teenagers.Users can create theirown stories and publish to the social and interactive community, with fellow readers able to comment, give feedback and assist in developing each story. Anyone can create their own 'movella' and it is accessible via the web or mobile device.
- Async — Chat-based AI creative suite for video content production. From raw footage and AI-generated scenes to finished videos in one AI workflow - just tell Async what you want.
Marc Hazan is the Vice President Of Premium Business Development at Spotify (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/spotify#/entity), a commercial music streaming service that provides digital content from a range of record labels and artists.
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- Industry: Marketplace, Video, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grabyo — A modern, powerful cloud-based managed service with all the tools needed for live production, distribution and video monetization.
- Motorway — Motorway started in 2017 with a vision to build a better car market for everyone, harnessing the power of technology to deliver an amazing experience.We help everyone to quickly and easily sell their car for the best price from the comfort of home, using only a phone.Transparent and straightforward in all that we do, our smart tech matches ourcustomers’ cars with a nationwide network of verified dealers. This enables those dealers to buy vehicles direct from private sellers using our fully-online sales platform, with hundreds of cars successfully sold every day.Reducing time and effort on all sides, we help everyone get the right deal quickly. It all, just, works.With over 1m car owners using our site and apps every month, we've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun.
- Appear Here — Appear Here is an online marketplace for retail space. Since the company was founded in 2012, it has facilitated the opening of over 10,000 stores in the UK, US, and France. Appear Here has raised a total of $21.4 million in VC funding from the previous backers of Spotify, Pinterest, Hailo and Trivago.
David Walter is founder of Use Space Manchester, a new co-working hub in Ardwick, Manchester.
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- Industry: Computer, Internet, PC Games
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- By Gamers For Gamers — Made up entirely of gamers, we are a team that is dedicated to bringing you the best PC gaming and tech content possible.
Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp
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- Industry: Publishing, Events, Digital Media
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany, Italy, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $250k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UNFIA — The marketplace of craft wine
- Ex Ordo — Ex Ordo is a Galway-based software company whose web applications enable research conference organisers to manage successful and career-enhancing events at which researchers can publish papers and collaborate together. Their web applications automate the mundane, time-consuming tasks, saving organisers an average of 15 days, €5 to €15k, overthe life of a conference.
- SciFlow — SciFlow is a comprehensive publishing platform that allows researchers to focus on what is important – their research. We offer an intuitive text editor that helps to focus on writing – not formatting – the document. All co-authors can write, comment and review the same version of the article. With our premium services, we allow researchers tocheck for plagiarism and spelling errors and to translate their text. With one click, the article is exported to a publisher compliant format. Unlike existing text editors, researchers can perform all tasks related to publishing scientific texts with SciFlow on a single platform. Thus, SciFlow saves time and gives the confidence to submit an article to a publisher.
Publishing Angel investor funding in United Kingdom at a glance
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