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Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United Kingdom (August 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
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
Paul Forster
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$18M
Nicolas Julia
Angel
2 France, Israel, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $400k–$15M
Peter Hinssen
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, SaaS, EBooks $524k–$4.8M
Raghav Gupta
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Internet $354k–$5M
Fiona Cruickshank
Angel
1 United Kingdom Angel News, Publishing
Zaid Al-Aifari
Angel
1 Austria, Turkey, United Kingdom Seed Mobile Apps, Education, Audio
Federico Pirzio-Biroli
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Non Profit, Venture Capital $200k–$4.5M
Konstantin Stiskin
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Analytics, Apps $1M–$4M
Antoine Nussenbaum
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Spain, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage $3.8M–$680M
Tom Hulme
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $520k–$50M
Rene Rechtman
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Denmark Series A, Seed Education, Social Media, Information Services $5.5M–$22M
Will Martin
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Japan Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $856k–$11M
Nenad Marovac
Angel
1 Germany, United Kingdom, France Series B, Series A, Series C E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS $3.3M–$245M
Turi Munthe
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Germany Seed Software, News, Computer
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
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
jonathan wright
Angel
1 United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown 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
John Greathouse
Angel
1 United States Series B, Seed, Series A Marketing, Advertising, B2B $700k–$33M
Edward Suh
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Series B Mobile Apps, FinTech, Financial Services $780k–$30M
Darren Reiss
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed EBooks, EdTech, Education
Marc Hazan
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Marketplace, Video, Retail $1.9M–$4.2M
David Walter
Angel
1 United Kingdom Angel Computer, Internet, PC Games
Santiago Fernández López
Angel
1 United Kingdom Travel, Content, Publishing
Dan’l Hewitt
Angel
1 United Kingdom Series A Content, E-Commerce, Publishing
Chris Davis
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Series C, Seed Publishing, EBooks, EdTech
Bill Holroyd
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed, Angel Rental, Retail, Fashion
Luc De Vos
Angel
1 Belgium, Finland, United States Seed, Series A, Private Equity Analytics, Consulting, B2B $22k–$11M
Dave McClure
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $159k–$30M
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–$16M
Thomas Leysen
Angel
1 United Kingdom Series A, Series B EBooks, EdTech, Education
Peter Read
Angel
1 Germany, United Kingdom Seed Toys, Content, E-Commerce $1M–$1.5M
Joachim Behrendt
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A SaaS, Software, Social Media $11k–$1.9M
Will Brooks
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $524k–$30M
Andrew Grahame
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Apps, Beauty
Nick Mason
Angel
1 United Kingdom Series A, Seed Social Media, Information Technology, B2B $5.2M–$6M
Cenk Serdar
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Audio $600k–$2.4M
Carlos Espinal
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $159k–$17M
Thierry Henry
Angel
1 Sweden, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Series C Apps, Video, Sports
Doug Scott
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Advertising, B2B, B2C $159k–$3.6M
Sven Fund
Angel
1 Germany, Italy, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Publishing, Events, Digital Media $250k–$3M
Andrin Bachmann
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Germany, France Seed, Series B, Series C Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace $637k–$70M
Nicole Junkermann
Angel
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series C E-Commerce, Music, FinTech $1.2M–$104M
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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: 43
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $470k–$3M; Series A $2.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Atheni AI — Guided AI adoption: the thinking of a top consultancy, the 1:1 personalisation of a coach, delivered at the scale of a platform. Capability, not access. Independent by design.
  • 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.
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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–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $318k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Auro — Auro is a mobile fitness-tech solution providing you with a personal trainer in your ear. We believe that fitness is at its effective best, when it is personalized, engaging, and accessible anytime. We break down the barriers to exercise by providing millions of people all over the world access to a personal trainer along with the best of contentthat boutique studio fitness has to offer.We’re creating a truly motivating, connected fitness experience that keeps people coming back for more by combining world class instructors, killer playlists and data science led personalisation.Our mission is to transform lives by making fitness experiences awesome, accessible and affordable.
  • Thriva — At-home blood testing and science-backed next steps to feel great, maximise your performance, and extend your healthspan.
  • Lick — Lick | Paints, Wallpapers and Supplies. Your Room, Covered
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Paul Forster
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2 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: 81
  • 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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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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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 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.
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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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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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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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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.
  • 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
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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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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: 26
  • Round size: Seed $3.9M–$4.9M; Series A $3.8M–$30M; Series B $12M–$680M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% 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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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, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $520k–$11M; Series A $11M–$45M; Series B $20M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% 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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Rene Rechtman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

René Rechtman has been a successful part of the media, entertainment and tech environment since 1998 both as an entrepreneur and investor. René has completed three significant exits. Most recently, selling Maker Studios to The Walt Disney Company, prior Goviral to AOL and in 2005 leading Tradedoubler to IPO. René has been listed in Wired Europe’sTop 100 most influential list several times.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Social Media, Information Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • 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 — Podcastle is an AI-powered content creation platform that helps podcasters, educators, marketers, and other creators to produce professional-quality audio and video content like podcasts and audiobooks. The company’s goal is to democratize access to content creation by offering an end-to-end suite of tools encompassing creation, editing,transcription, voice duplication, and distribution.
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Will Martin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $856k–$5.5M; Series A $2.2M–$11M
  • 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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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, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$20M; Series B $6M–$28M; Series C $5M–$245M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% 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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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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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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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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jonathan wright
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

jonathan wright

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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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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John Greathouse
Angel · Santa Barbara, California, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Advertising, B2B
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$3M; Series A $700k–$5.8M; Series B $2.1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% 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.
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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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Darren Reiss
Angel · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Darren Reiss

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Marc Hazan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketplace, Video, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$4.2M
  • 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.
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David Walter
Angel · Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

David Walter is founder of Use Space Manchester, a new co-working hub in Ardwick, Manchester.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Santiago Fernández López
Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Content, Publishing
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • 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.
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Dan’l Hewitt
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Dan'l Hewitt is the Moonbug at Moonbug Entertainment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, E-Commerce, Publishing
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • 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
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Chris Davis
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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 tradesettlement 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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, EBooks, EdTech
  • Stage:Series C, Seed
  • 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.
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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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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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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 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.
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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–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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?
  • Realla — Search the entire commercial property market for offices, serviced office space, retail, industrial for sale and to rent
  • 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.
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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 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.
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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 — 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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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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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: Financial Services, FinTech, 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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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 — 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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Nick Mason
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Nicholas Berkeley Mason, CBE is an English drummer and founder member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Information Technology, B2B
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Series A $5.2M–$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.
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Cenk Serdar
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Cenk Serdar

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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • Deep Zen — Site will be available soon. Thank you for your patience!
  • 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.
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Carlos Espinal
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Carlos is Managing Partner at Seedcamp, Europe's seed fund, investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. Carlos hails originally from Latin America and joined Seedcamp in '09 following stints as an Associate at Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and as an engineer forthe Advanced Communications Technologies group of The New York Stock Exchange (SIAC). Carlos runs Seedcamp alongside Reshma Sohoni and is passionate about working closely with founders from their earliest stage, supporting them across everything from finding product-market-fit to setting fundraising milestones - he wrote a successful book on that very topic, The Fundraising Fieldguide. Carlos is frequently listed as one of the most influential voices in tech and VC. You can find Carlos podcasting at 'This Much I Know' where he interviews leading tech voices, innovators, entrepreneurs, investors and operators as they share their stories with Seedcamp's global audience.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $393k–$7.3M; Series A $8.5M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Refute — Refute identifies and addresses misinformation on behalf of there businesses.
  • LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
  • Telleroo — Better bulk payments. Cut out payment errors. Work more securely. Get payment, accounting systems & finance teams working better together. Save time and hassle.
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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, 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.
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Doug Scott
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Doug Scott is Founder at Potential.co

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, B2B, B2C
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Campus — Live courses with top professors.
  • Ricochet.ai — Deep learning tools for sales development teams
  • Citrus Labs — Citruslabs provides a simple and affordable way to prove your products actually work. We offer clinical trials for dietary supplements, skincare & cosmetic products, health foods, medical devices, pet products, CBD products, and biotech companies. It has never been easier to create research-backed product claims.
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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, 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.
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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: Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $637k–$4.9M; 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 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.
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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 — 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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Publishing Angel investor funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 48 deals from 82 investors.

82
investors
in United Kingdom Publishing startups
48
deals
in United Kingdom Publishing startups
$1.4M
median round
in United Kingdom Publishing startups
7%
lead investors
lead at least one round
44%
Seed
most common funding stage

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