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Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United Kingdom in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Publishing startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United Kingdom in April 2025

Investor	Publishing United Kingdom investments
Simon Franks	3
Alexander Edward Chesterman	3
Paul Forster	3
Peter Hinssen	2
Raghav Gupta	2
Nicolas Julia	2
Karen Hanton	1
Joachim Behrendt	1
Marc McCabe	1
Benjamin Yoskovitz	1
Nicole Junkermann	1
David Langer	1
Fritz Demopoulos	1
Simon Murdoch	1
Bootstrapped Debt Financing	1
Edward Suh	1
Antoine Nussenbaum	1
Will Brooks	1
Konstantin Stiskin	1
Megan Kaspar	1
Nick Mason	1
Stefano Rosso	1
Thomas Leysen	1
Nenad Marovac	1
Andrew Grahame	1
Doug Scott	1
Rene Rechtman	1
Adeo Ressi	1
Luc De Vos	1
David Walter	1
Cesc Fabregas	1
Tom Hulme	1
Will Neale	1
Daniel Waterhouse	1
Peter Read	1
Andrin Bachmann	1
Don Hoang	1
Charlie Songhurst	1
Carlos Espinal	1
Dave McClure	1
Mark Thompson	1
Bill Holroyd	1
Ciara McElligott	1
jonathan wright	1
Diane Coyle	1
David Rosenberg	1
Will Martin	1
Federico Pirzio-Biroli	1
Turi Munthe	1
Sven Fund	1

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Simon Franks is the founder and managing partner of Redbus Ventures and Chairman of the Franks Family Foundation. (www.thefff.org)

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
Oto Health — Take back control of your tinnitus with Oto, the app built by doctors that teaches you how to stop noticing the ringing using clinically proven techniques. Includes CBT, targeted mindfulness, and relaxation. 86% users experience benefits after just 1 month.
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

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

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
Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.

Paul Forster

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier

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

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, EBooks
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

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 — Made with Framer

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).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Squark — Squark's no-code AI SaaS platform and API serves industries like media & entertainment, gaming and casinos, SaaS, and healthcare marketing.
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.

Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.

Investment focus

FinTech, Gaming, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Israel, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.

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.

Investment focus

Events, E-Commerce, Music
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Media
Seed, Angel, Series A
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Germany

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom

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.

Nicole Junkermann is the Founder at NJF Capital.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Analytics
Seed, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.
Tausendkind — Tausendkind is the Children's Clothing Online Store for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, good friends - simply for those who wish to bestow a baby or small child is not only with children's and baby fashion. They have also a variety of other ways to discover beautiful gifts and necessities for your children. Likewise, you always getusing Their unique service that offers you advice and assistance, not only to issues relating to children's fashion the right answer. You will find thousands of child lovingly chosen children's and baby clothing that gives maximum comfort and your offspring will accompany you faithfully through the first months of life. The range also includes in addition to the children's fashion, fashion toy for young and old, well-known brands such as Brio and Haba, to smaller brands like Janod and Lilliputiens. The everyday life of families with young children living apart from children's clothing and toys but especially of practical accessories, not only parents in many situations in daily life to help with the little ones. Useful changing pads, hot water bottles and scrims, and practical items for soothing babies, such as mobile or music boxes, all this and much more can be found at their Baby Accessory again. If you are looking for products on special occasions is safe in their baby gifts find category - for baptism, birth, Christmas and Co. there with us something suitable, whether baby fashion, toys and accessories, you will always find a suitable gift.
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

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Groww — Start Online Investing in Stocks & Direct Mutual Funds with India's No. 1 Investment & Trading Platform - 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.

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.

Investment focus

Travel, Hospitality, Tourism
Series A, Series B, Seed
Germany, Spain, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Tourlane — Discover the world's most enchanting destinations and exciting hideaways on your perfect vacation. At Tourlane, our Travel Experts make planning your trip of a lifetime easy and worry-free.
BibliU — BibliU is an innovative learning enablement platform that gives students access to the course materials they need, from etextbooks to courseware and monographs.
TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Analytics
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
Peek Home — Peek Home provides sketch plans, prices and planning advice for people who are puzzled by the process of creating their perfect home. All we need is your house number & postcode - no home visit needed.
Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.

Bootstrapped Debt Financing

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

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.

Edward Suh

Investment focus

Financial Services, Mobile Apps, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam

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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, News
Seed, Series A, Series C
United Kingdom, Spain

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.
TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

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 AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

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

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

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).
Play Piper — The Piper Computer Kit is the ultimate D.I.Y. computer-building experience, for ages 8-13. Build a REAL computer from start to finish while playing Minecraft: Raspberry Pi Edition to learn how to code and make STEAM connections to the real-world.
Mobalytics — The all-in-one gaming companion that analyzes your performance and gives you insights to level up your game.

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.

Investment focus

Publishing, Marketplace, Digital Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
Croatia, United Kingdom

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.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Social Media, B2B
Series A, Seed
United Kingdom

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 — Disciple | Create your own community platform. No coding required

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Video, Beauty
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

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.

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.

Investment focus

EBooks, EdTech, Education
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom

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.

Nenad Marovac is the Founder and Managing Partner of DN Capital, with over 25 years of experience in technology and media investments. His portfolio includes successful companies like Shazam (sold to Apple), Auto1, GoStudent, and OLX. Prior to founding DN Capital, he was a Partner at Advent International and has been featured on the Midas ListEurope. Nenad is also a co-founder of the DN Capital Foundation, supporting education and mental health initiatives for underprivileged children.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Apps
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom, France

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.
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.
Numa — Numa offers rooms & apartments in Europe's coolest neighbourhoods. See how simple travel can be. Sign up for exclusive discount. Book now!

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Beauty
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jellyfish — We are the industry leaders in the creation of high-performance, multi-language ecommerce content. Learn more about our expertise in Ecommerce Content.
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.

Doug Scott is Founder at Potential.co

Investment focus

Advertising, B2B, Event Promotion
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Campus — Live courses with top professors.
Ricochet.ai — Deep learning tools for sales development teams
Citruslabs — 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.

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.

Investment focus

Social Media, Events, Guides
Funding Round, Angel, Series A
Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tattoodo — Find your next tattoo
GameAnalytics — GameAnalytics is one of the world’s most popular analytics tools for games, used by indie developers, games studios, and established publishers around the world. Our network is approaching 100,000 games, which are played by more than 1.2 billion people each month. Since our launch back in 2012, GameAnalytics has received over $8M in funding fromhigh-profile tech investors, including Michael Arrington (Founder of TechCrunch) and Jimmy Maymann (CEO at Huffington Post).In 2016, the company was acquired by the leading mobile advertising company, Mobvista. For more information, visit https://www.gameanalytics.com
RFRSH Entertainment — Discover all things CS, Dota, schedules, games and more. Transform your viewing experience, stay updated, and earn rewards through our mini-games daily.

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.

Investment focus

News, AgTech, Aerospace
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom

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

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

Investment focus

Analytics, Consulting, B2B
Seed, Series A, Private Equity
Belgium, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Finactum — Finactum delivers company data for Belgium in a freemium business model. The offering is to provide 'rich' factual data and as such be a tool for company competitive intelligence, m&a market research or lead generation. The company aims to be(come) a data Intelligence Service Provider (web 3.0).
Husky Marketing Planner — Marketing planning & marketing calendar tool for marketing teams. Makes the complete marketing planning clear on one central digital platform.
DataStories International — DataStories a Partners in Performance Company, is an end-to-end prescriptive analytics provider for your operations. Real-time optimisation for better quality, yield and energy efficiency.

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

Investment focus

Computer, Internet, PC Games
Angel
United Kingdom

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.

Francesc "Cesc" Fàbregas Soler is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for English club Chelsea and the Spain national team.

Investment focus

Video, Sports, Publishing
Seed
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Grabyo — A modern, powerful cloud-based managed service with all the tools needed for live production, distribution and video monetization.
The Football Company — Create your digital fan identity and compete against others worldwide. Collect & win rare NFT items, that you truly own and trade them to earn real profit.

Tom Hulme is a General Partner and Head of Europe at GV and was a CEO and Founder at Magnom Corporation. Tom attended Harvard Business School and Bristol University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Smol — A smol revolution in laundry and cleaning; heavy on dirt, lighter on the planet. Laundry capsules, sprays, dishwash tabs & more. Trial for FREE today!
Kinnu — Kinnu is a learning engine that allows to explore new concepts and master any field of study. Kinnu allows to choose from an ever-expanding list of themes such as artificial intelligence, modern art, intermittent fasting, psychology, philosophy, history, and scientific breakthroughs.
Immersive Gamebox — Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team Adventures in the world's smartest room. Our GameBox Adventure pods combine projection mapping, touch screen, motion tracking and surround sound technologies to create an entirely new form of digital group entertainment.

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Italy, Japan

Portfolio highlights

qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.

Daniel joined Balderton as a General Partner in 2013 and he currently sits on the boards of Revolut, ROLI, Lovecrafts, TrademarkNow, Tictail, Thread, and Workable and also works with Instabridge and Curious.AI.Prior to Balderton, Daniel spent 5 years as a partner at Wellington Partners and invested in a number of fast-growing companiesincluding EyeEm, Hailo, YPlan, Bookatable (also a Balderton portfolio company, sold to Michelin), SumAll, Readmill (sold to Dropbox) and Qype (sold to Yelp).Before Wellington, Daniel was a sector partner at 3i where he worked on all of their venture and private equity investments in the internet sector in North America and Europe.And before that, he was at Yahoo! for six years from 1999, covering strategic development and M&A across the European region. He has a PhD and MA in applied mathematics from Oxford University and a Chartered Diploma in Accounting and Finance.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mapfit — Mapfit was sunset in October 2018. Please see these 16 Google Places API alternatives.
Unaric — Our mission is to help Salesforce customers maximise their investment on the Salesforce platform through an integrated suite of applications. Explore our application suites across Revenue Operations, Service Operations and System Administration.
Kama — Kama offers sexual wellness practices that improve how you experience love, sex, and intimacy. Available on the iOS App Store.

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.

Investment focus

Toys, Content, E-Commerce
Seed
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jellyfish — We are the industry leaders in the creation of high-performance, multi-language ecommerce content. Learn more about our expertise in Ecommerce Content.
Wummelkiste — Wummelkiste manufactures and provides subscription-based arts and craft products for kids.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Seed, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Bibulu — Connect with 5-star sitters and dog walkers near you who offer dog boarding, dog walking, house sitting, or doggy day care. Book and pay securely.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, B2B
Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, France, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Formance — Numary makes it easy to build complex money-moving software with its open-source ledger & Numscript programming language.
Condukt — Condukt helps companies onboard businesses at scale. Cut costs, simplify onboarding, and convert more customers.
consola.finance — 100% accurate crypto accounting: Import, Categorize, and Sync your crypto and fiat transactions with QuickBooks, Xero, Netsuite, Banana, and more!

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

FlyMy.AI — Real-time AI cloud
Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice

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.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Refute — Refute identifies and addresses misinformation on behalf of there businesses.
Tech.eu — The premier source of European technology news, data, research, analysis and in-depth market intelligence.
Telleroo — Better bulk payments. Cut out payment errors. Work more securely. Get payment, accounting systems & finance teams working better together. Save time and hassle.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Japan

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.

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.

Investment focus

News, Software, Publishing
Seed
United States, United Kingdom

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.

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

Investment focus

Rental, Retail, Fashion
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

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.

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

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing
Seed
United Kingdom

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.

jonathan wright

Investment focus

Printing, Publishing, Packaging Services
Funding Round
United Kingdom

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.

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

Investment focus

News, Publishing
Seed
United Kingdom

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.

Director of Strategy at Snap

Investment focus

News, Gaming, Mobile
Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

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.

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
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 AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

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.

Investment focus

Non Profit, Software, Venture Capital
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden

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.
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

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.

Investment focus

Software, News, Computer
Seed
United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Snap.hr — Sign up to Snap.hr now to get headhunted by 500+ other tech companies
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.
Signal AI — Make sense of the outside world with External Intelligence

Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

Investment focus

Publishing, Information Technology, Digital Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zapnito — Zapnito is an online community platform that helps organizations connect with their communities. Harness your expertise with our community management software.
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.
Journal of Medical Insight (JoMI) — The Journal of Medical Insight (JOMI) is a surgical journal publishing high-definition, peer-reviewed video articles for surgeons, physicians, and medical students.

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