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Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United Kingdom (July 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in United Kingdom Publishing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Kingdom Publishing startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Paul Forster
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$18M
Alexander Chesterman
Angel
3 United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $470k–$23M
Simon Franks
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Health Care, Payments $318k–$23M
Peter Hinssen
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, SaaS, EBooks $524k–$4.8M
Nicolas Julia
Angel
2 France, Israel, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $400k–$15M
Raghav Gupta
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Internet $354k–$5M
Adeo Ressi
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed News, AgTech, Aerospace
Stefano Rosso
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Series A, Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Video, Beauty
David Rosenberg
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Seed, Series A News, Gaming, Mobile
Turi Munthe
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Germany Seed Software, News, Computer
Zaid Al-Aifari
Angel
1 Austria, Turkey, United Kingdom Seed Mobile Apps, Education, Audio
Ian Hogarth
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Karen Hanton
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed Events, E-Commerce, Music
Don Hoang
Angel
1 United Kingdom, France, Austria Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Analytics, B2B
Ciara McElligott
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing
Nicholas Johnston
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed News, Coffee, Organic
Benjamin Yoskovitz
Angel
1 Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Tony Smurfit
Angel
1 Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Publishing, Video, Privacy
Mark Thompson
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed News, Software, Publishing
Fiona Cruickshank
Angel
1 United Kingdom Angel News, Publishing
Marc McCabe
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Big Data, FinTech
jonathan wright
Angel
1 United Kingdom Printing, Publishing, Packaging Services
Bootstrapped Debt Financing
Angel
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Megan Kaspar
Angel
1 Croatia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Publishing, Marketplace, Digital Media
Diane Coyle
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed News, Publishing
Michele Connolly
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing
Christian Faes
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $357k–$20M
Nenad Marovac
Angel
1 Germany, United Kingdom, France Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS $3.3M–$20M
Bill Holroyd
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed, Angel Rental, Retail, Fashion
Thierry Henry
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B Apps, Video, Sports
Charlie Songhurst
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $500k–$8.5M
Federico Pirzio-Biroli
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Non Profit, Venture Capital $200k–$4.5M
Sven Fund
Angel
1 Germany, Italy, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Publishing, Events, Digital Media $250k–$3M
Volker Hirsch
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Apps, EdTech $33k–$2.1M
Fritz Demopoulos
Angel
1 Germany, Spain, Hong Kong Series A, Series B, Seed Travel, Hospitality, Rental $4.5M–$21M
Simon Murdoch
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Software, Finance $712k–$15M
Thomas Leysen
Angel
1 United Kingdom Series A, Series B EBooks, EdTech, Education
Luc De Vos
Angel
1 Belgium, Finland, United States Seed, Series A, Private Equity Analytics, Consulting, B2B $22k–$11M
Peter Read
Angel
1 Germany, United Kingdom Seed Toys, Content, E-Commerce $1M–$1.5M
Andrin Bachmann
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Germany, France Seed, Series B, Series C E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace $637k–$70M
Joachim Behrendt
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A SaaS, Software, Social Media $11k–$1.9M
Edward Suh
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Series B Mobile Apps, FinTech, Financial Services $780k–$30M
Konstantin Stiskin
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Analytics, Apps $1M–$4M
Dave McClure
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $159k–$30M
Will Brooks
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $524k–$30M
Antoine Nussenbaum
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Spain, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage $3.8M–$680M
Andrew Grahame
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Apps, Beauty
Nicole Junkermann
Angel
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series C E-Commerce, Music, FinTech $1.2M–$104M
Tom Hulme
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $520k–$70M
David Langer
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, FinTech, Wellness $25k–$27M
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Paul Forster
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.9M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oraion — Your single source of truth for enterprise data
  • Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
  • Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
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Alexander Chesterman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $470k–$3M; Series A $2.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Atheni AI — Atheni focused on embedding AI guidance directly into day-to-day workflows rather than relying on standalone training sessions or workshops.
  • Zefir — Zefir aims to expand the realm of possibilities for millions of European homeowners. We make home-selling simpler, faster and more certain by buying the property directly from you. Selling a home is now just a few clicks away.
  • Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the 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 either the same day or next weekday
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Simon Franks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Health Care, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $318k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
  • Thriva — At-home blood testing and science-backed next steps to feel great, maximise your performance, and extend your healthspan.
  • Trilo — Welcome to the simplest way to pay. Whether your strolling on the high street, or scrolling on your phone, you'll get a Boost whenever you shop with Trilo.
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Peter Hinssen
Angel · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Peter Hinssen is the Co-Founder and Partner at Nexxworks.

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Investment focus

  • 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 $524k–$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 of the world's best 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 isheadquartered 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.
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Nicolas Julia
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Raghav Gupta
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $354k–$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.
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Adeo Ressi
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Adeo Ressi is CEO of the Founder Institute (http://FI.co), a pre-seed startup accelerator that operates in nearly 200 cities worldwide. Adeo has founded or run ten technology businesses, and he has developed a number of innovations that help startup companies. He is passionate about mentoring Founders, space exploration and inspiringpeople to achieve their greatness.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, AgTech, Aerospace
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tech.eu — The premier source of European technology news, data, research, analysis and in-depth market intelligence.
  • INTERSTELLAR LAB — autonomous modules for crop cultivation on Earth and life-support in Space
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Stefano Rosso
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Stefano was born on June 1st, 1979 in Marostica (Vicenza) in North East Italy. After high school in Bassano del Grappa, he left Italy to pursue his studies at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, where he completed a BA in International Trade and Marketing. He began his work experience outside the family company, collaborating with brandslike ZooYork, part of the Ecko Unlimited group. Stefano returned to Italy in 2005 with a new challenge: he began his professional experience at Diesel, working in different areas of the company (from production to marketing), to become eventually Strategic Brand Alliances Director, planning and managing the brand’s collaborations in diverse fields. His latest projects were a limited edition sneakers series with adidas Originals, and the partnership with Ducati.In July 2011, Stefano Rosso has left Diesel for a new position challenge: he is currently Director of Corporate Development for OTB (Only the Brave) Group, the holding which incorporates Diesel, Maison Martin Margiela, Viktor & Rolf, and Staff International (an Italian company manufacturing and distributing licensed prêt-à-porter brands DSquared2, Just Cavalli, Vivienne Westwood and Marc Jacobs Menswear, as well as the group’s own brands Maison Martin Margiela and Viktor&Rolf). Stefano Rosso loves and plays soccer, and he is president of the Bassano soccer team. He loves snowboarding and motorcycling, and he is into contemporary and street art and the whole digital world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Video, Beauty
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Heat — Discover the new, immersive way to shop designer fashion and high end streetwear for both men and women on HEAT. Off-White, Palm Angels and more may be included in the HEAT mystery box.
  • CYBR Magazine — Buy issues of CYBR Magazine the futurist magazine curating futurism, technology and techwear.
  • The Fabricant — A digital fashion house leading the fashion industry towards a new sector of digital-only clothing.
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David Rosenberg
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Director of Strategy at Snap

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Gaming, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lowkey — Lowkey enables players to automatically save their best gaming moments as video clips and share them effortlessly with friends & communities. Gamers of all types, from casual friends playing 'Among Us' together, to the top pros in esports like League of Legends and VALORANT, use Lowkey to capture plays or full games and share themSnapchat-style.
  • 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.
  • Detail — Record and edit videos with Detail for iOS and macOS. Everything you need to create videos and podcasts, fast. Download for free on the App Store.
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Turi Munthe
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, News, Computer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Zaid Al-Aifari
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Zaid Al-Aifari

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Investment focus

  • 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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Ian Hogarth
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
  • Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
  • Fabric — One home for your digital world. Your second brain. A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. All your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links, and files in one calm, minimal app. No organizing required. Never forget anything again.
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Karen Hanton
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Karen Hanton MBE, was the founder and Chairman of Toptable, a restaurant booking company. In 2010, Toptable was sold to OpenTable for $55m.Karen has also founded the IT staffing firm Mortimer Spinks. After selling Mortimer Spinks, she bought and staffed a restaurant business in Fulham, which in 1998 inspired her to found Toptable. Karen wasappointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Events, E-Commerce, Music
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • DICE — DICE was founded in London in 2014, DICE helps fans discover and buy tickets to live shows and streams all over the world. Available in the UK, US, France, Italy, Spain, India and Australia, and accessible to fans globally through its live stream offering, DICE is on a mission to get people out more.
  • Hussle — Gym membership with total flexibility. Gym passes to no contract gym memberships that you can use in thousands of gyms across the UK. Gym and swim wherever you want to. Stop and start whenever you like.
  • Hire Space — The best venues for hire in the UK and beyond. Find undiscovered venues and book online at the UK's highest rated venue platform. Premium Hire Space 360 solution available for corporate bookers.
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Don Hoang
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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!
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Ciara McElligott
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Ciara McElligott is an Investor / Strategic Advisor / NED in human capital/work tech.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Nicholas Johnston
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Nicholas Johnston

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Benjamin Yoskovitz
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Founding Partner at Highline BETA, a startup co-creation and venture development company. Ben is an entrepreneur, product lead, angel investor. He co-authored Lean Analytics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Reedsy — Reedsy allows authors to find and work with the best publishing professionals: from developmental editors to book cover designers, publicists and translators.
  • Breather — Breather is an app and a provider of space-as-a-service, with a growing network of private workspaces built for productivity. It enables businesses to access flexible workspace by the hour, day, or month. Every space is designed to be comfortable, private, and productive, with plug-and-play technology that ensures that can get to work as soon asthe arrival.Founded by CEO Julien Smith in 2012, the company has grown to include hundreds of locations in 10 major across the globe including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London.
  • CareGuide — We believe good people deserve the best care. Connect with housekeepers, nannies, pet sitters, and elder \ care providers with ease. Trusted and secure.
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Tony Smurfit
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Mark Thompson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Fiona Cruickshank
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Fiona Cruickshank is a Founder and Director at Lead Candidate

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Publishing
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • The QT — The QT is a digital media outlet with a regional news concentrated on the Northeast news.
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Marc McCabe
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Marc McCabe is a Scout at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Nomad Capital. Prior to this role, Marc was a Business Development Lead and before that, a Team Member of Business and Corporate Development. Previously, Marc was a Partner at SV Angel and an Online Media Associate at Google.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Big Data, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Noloco — Noloco is a no-code platform for teams to instantly create apps powered by their business data. Easily turn Airtable bases and spreadsheets into customer portals or internal tools without code.
  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
  • Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
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jonathan wright
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

jonathan wright

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Printing, Publishing, Packaging Services
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Bootstrapped Debt Financing
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Bootstrapped Debt Financing

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 — We do rapid prototyping on machine learning and analytics for small companies. Our main focus is to bring down the budget for small companies and startups who want to explore things in Machine Learning. Affordable Machine Learning for startups and small companies. We are partnering up with various startups and small companies.
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Megan Kaspar
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Diane Coyle
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Michele Connolly
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Michele Connolly is an EMA Head of Infrastructure, KPMG.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Christian Faes
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Christian Faes was previously co-founder and CEO of LendInvest, which is a technology driven mortgage lender and a leading Fintech company. The company has over £3.5 billion of Funds Under Management, and is one of the largest non-bank mortgage lenders in the UK. Now building Faes & Co.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $357k–$20M; Series A $4.5M–$6.4M
  • 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.
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Nenad Marovac
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Nenad Joseph Marovac is based out of London, England and is the Founder, Managing Partner of DN Capital. Nenad previously worked at AUTO1 as a Board Member. Nenad Joseph Marovac attended the Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$11M; Series B $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Bill Holroyd
Angel · Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Charles William Holroyd CBE DL is a British investor and philanthropist.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Rental, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Thierry Henry
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Thierry Daniel Henry is a retired French professional footballer who played as a forward. He played for Monaco, Juventus, Barcelona, New York Red Bulls and spent eight years at Arsenal where he is the club's all-time record goalscorer.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Video, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • 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.
  • HomeCourt — HomeCourt is a mobile app that uses AI to record and track basketball shots, makes, misses, and location.
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Charlie Songhurst
Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 190
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Skrap — Skrap is an on-demand mobile marketplace for skip hire and other waste collection services.
  • Hyphen SCS — Find and rent verified warehouses across 992+ cities in India. Compare 65,000+ listings on Hyphen SCS.
  • Uncovr — Uncovr is an AI-powered surgical intelligence and documentation platform that automatically transforms operating room videos into structured clinical reports and billing codes.
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Federico Pirzio-Biroli
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Non Profit, Venture Capital
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bibblio — Conversion optimization, powered by AI. Increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences, for stronger site metrics and ROI.
  • Brewbot — Brewbot is a multidisciplinary team of designers and developers based in Belfast, N. Ireland. They come from different backgrounds and experiences — music, design, code, and fine art — but they all share a common passion for brewing.
  • CRE Venture Capital — Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Sven Fund
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Events, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • 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.
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Volker Hirsch
Angel · Macclesfield, Cheshire East, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $33k–$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.
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Fritz Demopoulos
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Fritz Demopoulos has been an entrepreneur and investor within the media and internet industries for over 10 years. He co-founded Qunar.com, China's largest travel internet company; and Shawei.com, China's largest sports internet company. Fritz also had senior positions at Netease and The News Corporation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Hospitality, Rental
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Spain, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Series A $4.5M–$8.5M; Series B $16M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BibliU — BibliU is an innovative learning enablement platform that gives students access to the course materials they need, from etextbooks to courseware and monographs.
  • Perk (formerly TravelPerk) — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
  • Arbio — Arbio is transforming the property management landscape for alternative accommodations by leveraging advanced AI technology. Our solutions drive higher revenue, increased profitability, and superior operational efficiency - setting a new industry benchmark.By combining data-driven insights with seamless automation, we optimize every aspect ofproperty performance, enhancing both owner returns and guest satisfaction.With a vision to redefine how properties are managed and monetized, Arbio is paving the way for a more efficient, profitable, and scalable future in the alternative accommodations market.
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Simon Murdoch
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Seed $796k–$3M; Series A $712k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Realla — Search the entire commercial property market for offices, serviced office space, retail, industrial for sale and to rent
  • Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
  • Area4 Labs — Hearby is your gateway to local live events.
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Thomas Leysen
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: EBooks, EdTech, Education
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best 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 isheadquartered 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.
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Luc De Vos
Angel · Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Luc De Vos is the non-executive director at Hybrid Software Group PLC. Luc De Vos attended KU Leuven.

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Investment focus

  • 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 $2.4M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Apirium — Apirium acts as your ICT architect for the digital economy.
  • 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.
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Peter Read
Angel · Berkeley, California, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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 tothe 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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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • Quill — Pelajari cara memilih slot gacor dengan RTP tinggi, volatilitas tepat, dan fitur bonus untuk meraih kemenangan besar di Indonesia. Temukan tips dan strategi untuk memilih mesin slot terbaik.
  • Wummelkiste — Wummelkiste manufactures and provides subscription-based arts and craft products for kids.
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Andrin Bachmann
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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 leadingprivate 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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $637k–$5.3M; Series B $4M–$30M; Series C $5.7M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dala — Your workplace has the answer. Just ask Dala for it.
  • Koru Kids — Koru Kids was made for busy modern families. Search vetted nannies for just the days and times you need.
  • Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
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Joachim Behrendt
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $11k–$1.9M; Angel $15k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scorp — "User generated viral video machine " is the definition for Scorp Ads. We convert the power of word of mouth into short selfie-videos. Scorp seeds the message and motivates users to join the conversation on brands' topic with positive association or hype about the brand.Viewers like to consume content that they are interestedin. In Scorp there are wide range of videos that is not just only about comedy or music but also about news, politics, sports, movies&TV shows, celebrities, books-art, food, fashion-beauty and relationships that are created as selfie 15 second videos. Scorp shows users 100s of videos, opinions or approaches on a single topic. The format enables users to discover different point of views.
  • 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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Edward Suh
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Edward Suh

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $780k–$9.8M; Series A $4.7M–$30M; Series B $8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kippa — ## Build Setup
  • Pushas — Buy & Sell Authentic, Brand-New Sneakers From Australia's Favourite Sneaker Store. Widest selection of hype, exclusive sneakers: Air Jordans, Yeezys, Nike, Adidas, Off-Whites & more. AfterPay, Klarna, ZipPay & Laybuy available. 'Authenticity' guarantee on every sneaker purchase or your money back.
  • Clever Real Estate — We match you with top agents nationwide and help you save. Sellers get full service for just a 1.5% listing fee. Buyers can get cash back after closing.
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Konstantin Stiskin
Angel · Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Konstantin Stiskin is the Co-Founder and Supervisory Board member at Finom.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, Apps
  • 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

  • Genotek — The company delivers genetic tests that help people to live healthier (predisposition tests), save lives (inherited deseases) and help in family planning (carrier screening).
  • Yieldify — Supercharged growth just got easier. Epsilon Accelerate gives growing brands a fast, flexible, out-of-the-box solution for one, clear view of customers, channels and performance in 30 days.
  • Mobalytics — The all-in-one gaming companion that analyzes your performance and gives you insights to level up your game.
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Dave McClure
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$3M; Series A $673k–$10M; Series B $2.2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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 — Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs whohave built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.
  • Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
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Will Brooks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$3.1M; Series A $2.2M–$30M
  • 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.
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Antoine Nussenbaum
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Antoine is a Partner and member of the founding team of Felix Capital. He currently sits on the boards of TravelPerk, Papier, Frichti, Heetch and Urban Massage.He previously was a Partner at Atlas Global, a private equity fund originally part of GLG Partners. Prior to Felix Capital he has worked closely with various early-stage digital startupsincluding Mirakl, Reedsy, 31Dover, Pave.com and actively helped them launch their businesses. He has also been involved since inception with Huckletree, a fast growing coworking operator dedicated to the European digital community which was started by his wife. Antoine moved to London in 2006 when he joined ABN AMRO as an M&A investment banker. Prior to this he was based in Paris and was part of the founding team of NT Valley, a software business aim at retailers. He started his career as a brand and intangible asset valuation consultant at Sorgem Evaluation.A graduate of ESCP European Business School and University Paris Dauphine, Antoine is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Spain, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $3.9M–$5.3M; Series A $3.8M–$30M; Series B $12M–$680M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oatly — A site filled with everything you could possible think of, and also probably not think of, related to an oat drink company called Oatly.
  • Reedsy — Reedsy allows authors to find and work with the best publishing professionals: from developmental editors to book cover designers, publicists and translators.
  • Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
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Andrew Grahame
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Andrew Grahame is a Founder at The Cook & The Thief.He attended St Austell College.

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Investment focus

  • 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 — Pelajari cara memilih slot gacor dengan RTP tinggi, volatilitas tepat, dan fitur bonus untuk meraih kemenangan besar di Indonesia. Temukan tips dan strategi untuk memilih mesin slot terbaik.
  • 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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Nicole Junkermann
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Nicole Junkermann is the Founder at NJF Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Music, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.2M; Series C $8M–$104M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RelateIQ — With Salesforce Essentials, small businesses have the world's most-powerful sales and customer support solution at their fingertips. For $25 a month, small businesses can easily manage customer and account information, close more sales deals, and provide high-level customer support so you can get on with your day. Salesforce is the #1 CRM software and contact manager system for small businesses. Learn more about how service and sales come together with Salesforce Essentials.
  • Elvie — The official home of Elvie Trainer and Elvie Pump. We're pioneering female-first innovation in tech to improve the lives of women around the world. Learn more, direct from Elvie.
  • Soundtrack Your Brand — Soundtrack Your Brand is a Spotify joint venture and the exclusive provider of Spotify Business and Spotify Enterprise. We connect brands and fans, and our vision is to grow the music market and thereby support artists, so that they can give the world more great music
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Tom Hulme
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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 100Digital 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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $520k–$6.5M; Series A $10M–$45M; Series B $16M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Xempus AG — XEMPUS makes pension and life insurance easy for everyone
  • MileIQ — MileIQ provides automatic mileage tracking for deductions and expenses. Whether you're a self-employed worker looking for a mileage deduction or a large company that wants to get a handle on mileage expenses reports, MileIQ is automatic, easy and accurate. MileIQ is mileage tracking the way you need it to work. MileIQ is a Microsoft-ownedcompany.
  • Double Crown Gaming Co. — We are on a mission to deepen connections among friends and family through play - we build games and activities that celebrate shared interests and affinities.
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David Langer
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Wellness
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • 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.
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Publishing Angel investor funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 48 deals from 84 investors.

84
investors
in United Kingdom Publishing startups
48
deals
in United Kingdom Publishing startups
$1.3M
median round
in United Kingdom Publishing startups
6%
lead investors
lead at least one round
46%
Seed
most common funding stage

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