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Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in United Kingdom (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and 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 E-Commerce, FinTech, Health Care $470k–$24M
QVentures
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $125k–$4.3M
Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Finland Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $1.3M–$168M
Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Manufacturing $19k–$5.4M
Simon Franks
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Health Care, Payments $323k–$23M
Redbus Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Australia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, E-Commerce, Health Care $323k–$23M
Ariadne Capital Limited
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Mobile, Publishing, Hardware $525k–$6.5M
Flow Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning $311k–$3.8M
Connect Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, FinTech $669k–$55M
Seedcamp
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, SaaS
Guinness Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Australia Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $2M–$158M
1Up Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, Video Games, Online Games $400k–$55M
a16z Scout Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $250k–$8.5M
Initial Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Finland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, Mobile, Software $575k–$12M
Raghav Gupta
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Internet $395k–$5M
Peter Hinssen
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, SaaS, EBooks $523k–$4.8M
Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $991k–$45M
Molten Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, FinTech $3.2M–$200M
PROfounders Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Apps, Travel
Nicolas Julia
Angel
2 France, Israel, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $400k–$15M
Marco Valta
Angel
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Secondary Market E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace $16k–$24M
SyndicateRoom
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, India Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Health Care, Software, Medical $244k–$2.7M
Santiago Fernández López
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed Travel, Content, Publishing
Making Ideas Business
VC Fund
2 Spain, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Legal, Travel, Boating $585k–$760k
Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $576k–$13M
Creandum
VC Fund
2 Sweden, Germany, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.8M–$80M
Smedvig Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Sweden, United States Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Advertising, Information Technology $1.5M–$30M
Haitao Capital
VC Fund
2 China, United States, Canada Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Apps, Education $120k–$101M
Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Australia, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $250k–$20M
Hoxton Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care $1.9M–$35M
DC Thomson Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore Seed, Series B Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Ayre Group
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland Seed, Series A Blockchain, Bitcoin, Video Streaming $363k–$8.7M
Paul Forster
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1M–$26M
Mobeus Equity Partners
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Information Technology, Retail $2.7M–$20M
Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $313k–$24M
Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $382k–$9.5M
Forward Partners
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $42k–$17M
Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $197k–$4M
Nesta Impact Investments
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Education, Health Care, SaaS $168k–$10M
LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund
2 Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $55k–$22M
Nauta Capital
VC Fund
2 Spain, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Mobile $1.2M–$27M
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2.2M–$44M
Doug Scott
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, B2B $159k–$3.6M
Carlos Espinal
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $159k–$17M
Nenad Marovac
Angel
1 Germany, United Kingdom, France Series B, Series A, Series C E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS $3.3M–$245M
Rene Rechtman
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Denmark Series A, Seed, Angel Education, Social Media, Information Services $5.5M–$22M
Tom Hulme
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series B, Series A Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $520k–$70M
Thomas Leysen
Angel
1 United Kingdom Series A, Series B EBooks, EdTech, Education
Gaingels
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$100M
Holtzbrinck Digital
VC Fund
1 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Education, Software, Information Technology
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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: E-Commerce, FinTech, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $523k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $470k–$3M; Series A $2.3M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Atheni AI — Atheni focused on embedding AI guidance directly into day-to-day workflows rather than relying on standalone training sessions or workshops.
  • Zefir — 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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QVentures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

QVentures sources, screens, and invests in top-tier start-ups from Seed to Series B. Our investors consist of Family Offices, Institutional Investors, UHNWIs, and Cashed-out Entrepreneurs. We look for disruptive companies with a proven product-market fit, set to scale from Seed to Series B. We focus on Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, Consumer Tech,FinTech, AdTech, EdTech, InsurTech and HealthTech and more. We look for quality management teams, large addressable markets, proven traction, sustainable business models, route to scale and quality investors.To apply for investment, please fill out this short form to be reviewed: https://qventures.typeform.com/to/zZPOWf

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4.3M; Angel $426k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $250k–$761k
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Astronome AI — Astronome AI is a company that provides streamlined IT management for SMEs, powered by AI.
  • Electric Sheep — Electric Sheep offers an AI-powered agentic video editor and VFX platform, streamlining content creation and post-production. Generate, edit, and enhance videos with advanced AI tools for filmmakers and creators.
  • NeuWave Technologies — NeuWave Technologies delivers environmental analysis for floating offshore wind farm development and operational management.
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Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Oxford Science Enterprises is the university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companies taking onchallenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 202
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $6.3M–$45M; Series B $9.1M–$168M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $299M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Caudal Energy — Porpoise Power develops a tidal energy system using oscillating hydrofoil technology inspired by dolphin swimming mechanics.
  • Singular Machines — Singular Machines is an engineering automation company that provides solutions to engineering issues.
  • Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
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Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund · Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 284
  • Round size: Seed $365k–$3M; Debt Financing $19k–$3.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $383k–$5.4M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Reacta Biotech — Reacta Biotech has been established to develop, manufacture and commercialise oral food challenge materials to pharmaceutical standards of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
  • Design and Supply — Design and Supply are specialist manufacturers and suppliers of Industrial Steel Doors and Architectural Products.
  • MeOmics Technology — MeOmics Technology is a biotech company with a focus on improving the diagnosis and treatment of mental health illnesses. The company operates in the manufacturing industry and has a team of 9 employees. The team includes experts in Neuronal Cell Biology and Neuropsychopharmacology. The company's mission is to leverage technology to enhancethe understanding and treatment of mental health conditions.
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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: 58
  • Round size: Seed $586k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $323k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
  • Oto Health — Take back control of your tinnitus with Oto, the app built by doctors that teaches you how to stop noticing the ringing using clinically proven techniques. Includes CBT, targeted mindfulness, and relaxation. 86% users experience benefits after just 1 month.
  • Tolemy Bio — The AI-native virtual cell platform for therapeutic development and manufacture.
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Redbus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Redbus Group is a UK based investment group that invests in early stage ventures and funds or acquires businesses that require restructuring. Redbus Group came into existence as an offshoot of Redbus Film Distribution which was founded in 1997 as a film distribution company. Redbus Film Distribution had rapidly established itself as one of thelargest and most profitable film distributors in the UK. In late 2000 it was sold to Helkon Media AG.Redbus through its subsidiary Filmgroup was the first company in Europe to successfully develop technology to compress and stream moving images over the internet. Between 2000 and 2004 Redbus was the UK's fastest growing company with a compound annual growth rate in-excess of 280%. In 2005 Redbus sold its production and distribution operations to Lionsgate Inc and sold its stake in Lovefilm of which it was co-founder, to Amazon in 2010.Employing an entrepreneurial and disciplined approach, Redbus, either with partners or alone looks for opportunities to leverage off its capital, market knowledge and management resources.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 149
  • Round size: Seed $586k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $323k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SOLVE — SOLVE have developed novel transient flow techniques that extend the capabilities of current approaches. SOLVE’s products leverage technology for the efficient collection of data from chemical reactions, as well as predictive computational models tuned based on the collected data. Both the data by itself, as well as the models, are used to informthe reaction conditions and solvent mixtures applied to manufacture chemical compounds at different scales of production.
  • Tolemy Bio — The AI-native virtual cell platform for therapeutic development and manufacture.
  • Nila Elder Care — Nila acquires independent UK homecare agencies and runs them on our AI platform. Families get care they can count on; owners get a fair exit and a team that's looked after.
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Ariadne Capital Limited
VC Fund · Malta, Illinois, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Ariadne Capital is an investment and advisory firm that enables corporates who seek new digital revenues and startups who understand digital infrastructure. It specializes in sourcing funding, advising on business development, and exiting growth-stage digital companies. Ariadne Capital also brings its technology insight to corporates, advisingthem on innovating their business models, and how to work with entrepreneurs and high-growth startups to win in their markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Publishing, Hardware
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$2.1M; Series A $525k–$6.5M; Series B $2.7M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $214M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Made TV — Made TV is the largest holder of local TV licenses in the UK, covering more than 11 million people across 5 stations: Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Teesside and Tyne & Wear. Made TV aims to become the premier source of all local information, entertainment and events across the whole of the UK connecting businesses and consumers in a way that islacking in the UK market. Made TV will be carried with prominent EPG (Electronic Programme Guide) positions on all major platforms including Channel 8 on Freeview and Channel 117 on Sky.
  • Bloomy Days — Bloomy Days is a subscription-based fresh cut flower delivery service with headquarters in Germany. Bloomy Days currently delivers approximately 900 packages of fresh flower bouquets every week to businesses and private individuals. Customers can select the frequency of the delivery (e.g. weekly, bi-monthly, monthly), where Bloomy Days guaranteesthat flowers are no more than 7 days old. The company hand crops and prepares ready to use bouquets of flowers which are carefully selected from the market. Bloomy Days subscription model allows the company to avoid any inventory costs, ensuring strong cash flow and low capital requirements.
  • Money Dashboard — Discover our multi-award winning budget app & save money on the go. Reach your financial goals & join over 600,000+ registered users for free at Money Dashboard
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Flow Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Flow Capital provides founder-friendly growth capital for high-growth companies operating in high-growth markets in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. As of 2021, we have deployed over $120M in growth capital to 56+ companies. Investment sizes range anywhere from $1-7 million for companies generating at least $4 million in annualrevenues. We work closely with companies to come up with a financing structure that fits their unique company needs, often creating a hybrid between our two financing structures: Revenue-Based Financing and Venture Debt.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $650k–$2M; Debt Financing $311k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Tattle — Tattle App is the leading customer experience platform for restaurants and hospitality. Get actionable, real-time feedback through our survey app to improve loyalty. Follow up with your guests in a single click. Never let another customer leave your restaurant angry.
  • Miniluxe — Miniluxe operates as a nail and beauty lounge that offers manicures, pedicures, warm oil treatment, waxing, and hands and feet therapies. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Common Wealth — Common Wealth is a digital platform that provides retirement planning services.
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Connect Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $669k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.7M; Series A $5M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $80M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Clearword — Clearword unlocks fundamentally new ways for organizations to communicate and collaborate, using tools they already use. Collaborative Agendas, Automatic Meeting Minutes in a Searchable Library.
  • Ourspace — Meet Ourspace— the collaborative team design canvas. Created by former Hotjar, Spendesk and Glovo execs, Ourspace takes a 360 approach to team design to help functional leaders better organize the people they have and the ones they need. With the dynamic nature of business and people, it’s been historically difficult for tech leaders to make smartreactive and proactive team design decisions with people-data stored across Miro boards, HR tools and outdated documents. Ourspace is the first purpose-built software designed specifically for tech leaders to equip them to build and rebuild their teams by bringing together people, projects, and priorities into one contextual place.
  • Citymapper — The ultimate transport app - iPhone / Android / Web
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Seedcamp
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups, 32 in the past 12 months

Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 308
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
  • Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
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Guinness Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Disciplined, active investing in pursuit of strong, sustainable outcomes for clients over the long term.

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  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Series A $3.8M–$12M; Series B $4.6M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$158M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Holibob — We make selling experiences easy, with industry expertise and innovative technology designed to deliver the right product to the right person at the right time.
  • Sportable — Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences. With Rugby being their primary focus, they are working with a number of teams and manufacturers to create and develop hardware and wearable devices that enable sport specific data to be collated in real time. Their technology gives the viewer, the team, and thebroadcaster unprecedented insight into the decision making of players.Sportable was founded in 2015 and is based in London, England.
  • Shot Scope — The official Shot Scope website. Golf watches, range finders and performance tracking that help lower your score and handicap. Buy direct online today!
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1Up Ventures
VC Fund · Kirkland, Washington, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

1Up Ventures is an investment firm that specializes in game developers. The company is based in Kirkland, Washington.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$6.8M; Pre-Seed $400k–$7M; Series A $3.5M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Torpor Games — Experiences that challenge and provoke. Suzerain - a fictional political drama set in the 1950s. How will you rule? Out now for PC, Mobile, Xbox, PS & Switch
  • TrustBridge.GG — The premier platform for competitive PlayStation gaming with secure escrow-based competitive gaming. Put your gaming skills to the test and earn real money on the most secure PlayStation competitive gaming platform.
  • Magic Potion Games — Magic Potion Games is a computer gaming company that offers an online space for social gaming.
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a16z Scout Fund
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $525k–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OpenCode — Marble AI tutor helps you learn full stack, PyTorch, React, and any technology. Interactive projects with personalized guidance that adapts to your skill level.
  • NOFire AI — The Context and Control Model for Production
  • Grata Health — Grata is an AI-enabled addiction treatment platform that pairs a virtual clinic (MAT, therapy, peer support) with software to triage, schedule, and support patients in under a minute. The patient app delivers continuous recovery touchpoints, and the EHR automates provider workflows and risk monitoring to improve retention and lower cost of care.
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Initial Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Initial Capital is an investor in seed and early-stage technology companies with a focus on games, consumer services & technology enablers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $796k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $575k–$1.3M; Series A $988k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Saf.money — One API to move money across Central America using Bitcoin, stablecoins, and local banking rails.
  • Space Ape — Visit Supercell.com and find out more about us and our games.
  • Antidote — London-based startup studio for Bitcoin founders
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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 $395k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Squark — Predict who to focus on, what to do next, and what it will do to revenue with fundraising AI that works across your CRM, campaigns, and donor lifecycle.
  • Powerspike — Powerspike is a new type of advertising network based on content creators - where any marketer can make their brand famous in a few clicks. Our Endorsement Serving technology automatically buys, executes, and optimizes content creator endorsements - replacing the traditionally lengthy process of RFP’s, human negotiations, and insertion orders.
  • Fluent Forever — Discover the revolutionary app to learn any language fast and retain it forever. Ditch translation for effective tools like spaced repetition, mnemonics and interactive flashcards.
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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 $523k–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London,England.
  • Sparkcentral — Consumers today engage with brands and companies on social channels by sending tweets and messages stating their customer service needs openly and publicly. Many companies choose to respond to these consumers via the same channels in order to address their concerns. The Sparkcentral Platform helps customer support teams manage large volumes ofsocial inquiries in a streamlined and efficient manner. The platform pulls in the messages from these social channels and presents them to customer care teams via a secure agent console that automatically assigns the messages to the first available agent. Sparkcentral’s client roster includes Delta Air Lines, Emirates, Netflix, Nordstrom, Dropbox, Uber, and T-Mobile.The company’s client portfolio includes Formerly known as TwitSpark, Sparkcentral was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
  • Rita Data — Rita is a zero-party data platform that connects consumers and brands to enable trusted and engaging data transactions. The mobile app allows users to view, control, and share their data for rewards.
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Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Parkwalk is a London-based fund management firm. Parkwalk invests in UK technology companies that have IP backing and freedom to operate, generally spun out of UK universities. Their funds seek to generate capital gains for their investors, enhanced by the attractive tax relief provided by EIS. Parkwalk entered this investment sector in 2009,anticipating a wave of tax-efficient incentives launched by the UK Government to stimulate innovative emerging technology companies and thereby help drive economic growth.Parkwalk utilises academic, technology transfer, venture capital and personal networks developed over many years to gain access to the highest calibre deal-flow. In 2017 Parkwalk joined forces with IP Group plc, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company that is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IPO. As at March 2019 the combined group has net assets of £1.2bn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 316
  • Round size: Seed $991k–$4.9M; Series A $1.6M–$14M; Series B $2.2M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
  • K3 Metrology — K3 Metrology is a specialist metrology company commercialising laser‑based 3D coordinate measurement technology developed at the National Physical Laboratory. The company’s platform is designed to provide high‑accuracy, uncertainty‑aware dimensional data in large‑volume industrial environments, supporting inspection and assembly processes inadvanced manufacturing. Its systems integrate into production workflows where traceable measurements are required across complex geometries and large structures. The technology is applied in sectors such as aerospace, defence, and nuclear, where dimensional integrity and process control are critical.
  • MoA Technology — We harness the principles of natural selection to accelerate discovery for better, safer herbicides so farmers can continue to feed the world.
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Molten Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Molten Ventures is a leading British venture capital firm backing Europe’s highest-growth private technology companies. Our expert investment team stay ahead of the curve, identifying transformative trends and next-generation companies before they break through. We combine multiple pools of capital to invest at all stages of the businesslifecycle—from seed and early stage to growth and late stage—focusing on disruptive sectors like Spacetech, Fintech, and AI. Our strategy is simple: back bold ideas, scale them with capital and expertise, and unlock high-value exits—whether through strategic acquisitions, trade buy-outs, or IPOs. Since our 2016 IPO, we’ve delivered strong realised returns, reinvesting into the next wave of innovation—creating a virtuous cycle of growth and value.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 230
  • Round size: Series A $3.2M–$31M; Series B $7.9M–$60M; Series C $11M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $7M in 2011

Portfolio highlights

  • XMOS — In 2005, a small team assembled to create a fast and flexible microcontroller that would enable designers to respond quickly to diversifying market demand. The first (XS1) and second (xcore-200) generation processors put unprecedented I/O capability (available through software for the first time) alongside significant DSP and controlprocessing – establishing XMOS as a name in the audio sector.The vision quickly shifted towards AI. Caught between two very different technical and commercial models, Graphcore was formed to focus on server-side AI, and XMOS continued the quest towards low-cost embedded intelligence (edge-AI). Most recently XMOS enabled voice to become mainstream, releasing the XVF3510 – a disruptive high-performance, low cost far-field 2-mic voice interface. This was followed up with xcore.ai – a new crossover processor for the AIoT that brings AI, DSP, control and I/O together in a single device.
  • MAIA Technology — MAIA is a front-to-back asset management technology suite born out of an established asset management business with the pedigree of a decade of development and refinement.
  • Mobile Travel Technologies — Mobile Travel Technologies (MTT) is the leading mobile travel technology specialist for airlines, hotels and travel intermediaries with an extensive customer base across the global travel industry.MTT’s advanced mobile travel platform powers some of the most successful and highest revenue generating mobile channels in the travel industry. As apioneer in this space having first launched mobile bookings for airlines in 2006, MTT has remained a first mover in mobile travel and has picked up many awards along the way for its successful, customer focused travel apps & mobile sites. MTT offers its clients unrivalled travel industry expertise, world-class mobile development, creative design, mobile usability expertise and a sophisticated mobile travel platform. MTT clients include Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), the flag carrier for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, LAN Airlines in Chile and TAM Airlines in Brazil (the LATAM Airlines Group), easyJet, transavia.com of the Air France KLM Group, Flybe, Jumeirah Group and Atlantis The Palm, Dubai.
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PROfounders Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • QA.tech — Our AI combines the skills of a QA engineer with the speed of automated testing for you. This shortens your time to market, cuts costs and improves the quality of your web apps.
  • Qneiform — The best way to understand human capital
  • ClimeFi — ClimeFi is the leader specialising in permanent carbon removals (CDRs), partnering with companies to build portfolio of certified CDR assets.
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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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Marco Valta
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 15 years experience in the tech/web industry. As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $16k–$3.3M; Series A $2.5M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coinbase — Coinbase is an online platform for digital currency transactions, enabling merchants, consumers, and traders to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies. The company provides Bitcoin wallet services, allowing users to manage digital assets and conduct transactions. Coinbase offers merchant payment processing tools, supporting businesses in integratingcryptocurrency payments. It facilitates secure digital currency exchanges, assisting users in navigating blockchain-based financial transactions.
  • SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
  • Salty. — Salty Dot, Inc. is the Embedded Insurance® technology company. Salty removes existing consumer impediments to buying the right policy and having the proper coverage. The company’s platform is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables carriers and distribution partners to offer a customized policy to insure a product orservice in real-time during the purchase process. Salty uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze unique data sources about the buyer and the purchase. It then sorts through multiple carriers to seamlessly offer the right insurance. Salty is licensed in all 50 states. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wearesalty.com.
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SyndicateRoom
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

SyndicateRoom is fintech company made up of data-scientists, investment professionals, software developers and marketers with one mission: to be an early investor in every British startup success story.To do this – and make fund investors money – we don’t try to spot the next Big Thing.Instead, we apply a data-driven model to portfolioconstruction; a repeatable process designed to maximise returns and minimise risk for fund investors. As such, we build startup portfolios that don’t attempt to predict the future; they work to stack the odds in investors’ favour.Our fund, Access EIS, aims to build investors a diversified portfolio of 50+ companies by co‑investing exclusively with some of the UK’s best-performing angel investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 149
  • Round size: Seed $390k–$2.7M; Equity Crowdfunding $244k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ManaMind — Human-like testing at machine scale. ManaMind delivers fully autonomous QA testing for video games - zero-shot, no code access, infinitely scalable.
  • urfuture — Urfuture connects young job seekers with entry-level employment opportunities through a mobile application. The system uses behavioural and data-driven matching to suggest roles aligned with user profiles and preferences. It includes tools for building a single profile that can be used across multiple job applications, reducing repeated CVcreation. The platform supports job discovery, application tracking, and direct communication between candidates and employers through messaging and video features. Urfuture also enables employers to post roles, review matched candidates, and manage hiring workflows in a centralized system.
  • Joyvié — Joyvié Health designs medical continence products focused on managing severe faecal incontinence. The company is developing a patent-pending class of non-invasive faecal management briefs that prevent stool from contacting the skin. By separating waste from the body, the underwear aims to lower the risk of skin breakdown and secondary infectionwhile reducing the physical and emotional strain on caregivers. Joyvié Health works with care providers to pilot its products in real-world care environments and gather clinical and user feedback. Its offering is intended for adults with continence needs in institutional and home care settings, and for professionals responsible for continence care. The company also engages with investors and partners to advance product development and clinical evaluation.
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Santiago Fernández López
Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 2 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
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Niume Limited — Niume is a collaborative blogging platform that enables bloggers to create distribute, and monetize their content.The platform enables bloggers to create and distribute content on their range of spheres, consisting of art, photography, fashion, culture, food, and travel. Furthermore, they are able to monetize their content through PayPal andtrack their revenue per post through its dashboard.Niume was launched in 2012 by Alex Hughes, Daniel Gennaoui, and Francesco Facca and is based in London.
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Making Ideas Business
VC Fund · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Making Business Ideas is an investment fund in crowdfunding mode by +70 partners, all of them alumni, teachers, and staff of www.isdi.es. Their expertise is very heterogeneous: among them are experts in marketing, design, finance, strategy, and technology from different sectors such as: telecommunications, consumer, communication, cosmeticservices, media agencies, and the Internet. This diversity and their extensive knowledge of the digital world is their competitive advantage over other investment funds. So that their contribution to the entrepreneurial project is not only economic but also advice to carry out the projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Legal, Travel, Boating
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $585k–$760k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • StockFink — This is the homepage of the website
  • 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.
  • BoatBureau — Selamat datang di KOMODO69, platform game online yang menawarkan pengalaman bermain yang tak terlupakan! Didukung fitur-fitur canggih dan kemudahan penarikan dana, KOMODO69 menjadi pilihan utama bagi pecinta game online yang ingin meraih kemenangan mutlak. Nikmati keseruan bermain di situs terpercaya dengan peluang mem
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Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $576k–$3.2M; Series A $2.2M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $659k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $38M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • StratoBayes — Automated stratigraphic correlation with quantified uncertainty, built on Bayesian statistical inference.
  • Camena Bioscience — Camena Bioscience is a synthetic biology company that develops tools to engineer new synthetic biology applications. It has engineered new nucleic acid synthesis technology which improves the quality and speed of synthesis. Its multi-enzymatic technology takes one approach to DNA, RNA, and XNA synthesis, offering increased accuracy over existingPhosphoramidite synthesis technology.Camena Bioscience was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge.
  • Warwick Acoustics Ltd — Warwick Acoustics is a UK-based technology company specialising in the development of HighRes Audio solutions for the automotive and headphone markets based on its patented High Precision Electrostatic Laminate technology (HPELs). Their ultra thin, lightweight HPELs deliver audiophile performance across a bandwidth several octaves greater thantraditional moving coil speakers in a form factor that is less than one quarter the weight, and one tenth of the thickness. In addition, HPELs offer designers unparalleled flexibility to shaped and form a speaker to individual design requirements.
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Creandum
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups, 22 in the past 12 months

We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Sweden, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 316
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$17M; Series A $5.5M–$31M; Series B $8M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $545M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Rillet — Rillet automates majority of month-end close and offers powerful GAAP and SaaS reporting. The software has built-in revenue recognition, invoicing, and AI-powered accounting.
  • Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.
  • OLIX — OLIX designs and manufactures optical processors that use light-based circuits to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads. The company develops Optical Tensor Processing Units that execute matrix and tensor operations for training and running inference on large-scale machine learning models. Its hardware aims to increase performance and reducepower consumption relative to conventional electronic accelerators by processing data in the optical domain. Flux Computing focuses on infrastructure for generative AI and advanced neural networks, targeting data centers and organizations that require intensive model computation. The product stack centers on custom optical chips integrated with supporting electronics, control software, and tools that link into existing AI frameworks. Sales and partnerships primarily address customers building large AI clusters, research environments, and emerging applications that benefit from high-throughput, low-energy computation.
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Smedvig Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Venture Capital firm based in London. We help enable business funding though capital investment. In turn, that funds and drives business growth as exceptional speed. Visit our site to find out how our proven model of business investment can help your start up.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Advertising, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$14M; Series B $1.8M–$30M; Series C $1.5M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • conmeet — conmeet operates as a cloud-native all-in-one platform for process-oriented construction and trade companies.
  • Tequipy — Buy, configure, and deploy devices in 180+ countries at local retail price. No contracts, no mark-ups, no recurring fees. ISO 27001 certified.
  • Embankment — Dedicated to AIFs. Driven by technology, delivered by domain experts
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Haitao Capital
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Haitao Capital is the first China-macro driven early stage venture fund. China's story is no longer just a Chinese story.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: China, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$4.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$101M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aggregion — Any scenarios for data collaboration in a secure and trusted environment: Building and running ML models, Customer data management and communications, Business partnerships and ecosystems
  • 247tickets — 247tickets is a one-stop-shop for tickets to the best events, movies, experiences and trips in China and around SE Asia.With offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen & Beijing, 247tickets aims to present customers with endless options of events, experiences, trips, tours and movies, with personalised recommendations, all the best deals and the bestcustomer service and concierge agents in the business. Tickets can be booked on their easy to use mobile/desktop website, via a WeChat concierge service or via distribution partners, including websites such as TimeOut China and City Weekend Shanghai.With an emphasis on the best in entertainment and experiences, 247tickets have sold tickets to tens of thousands of plays, sports events, musicals, tours, movies, trips and more. In 2017 they acquired the trip and experience provider Travelers Society, stating their intent to join the high growth markets of inbound and outbound tourism in China.
  • Hippo & Crate Ltd — Hippo&Crate is a subscription-based D2C oral care brand fast becoming a world-class lifestyle brand for personal care CPGs.  Think of us as the DollarShaveClub of the U.S. whom got acquired by Unilever for a cool US$1B with MUJI aesthetics.We are in the early innings of a generational oral care upgrade in China and riding on the megaconsumption upgrade trend that is taking the entire continent by storm. Our purpose is to allow our customers to look and feel good, and that's why we went to great length to make really high quality, beautiful oral care products with better ingredients for them.Our model is relatively simple, vertically integrated, digital native disrupting the major players like P&G, Unilever by cutting off the retailers and selling to the consumers direct. We do this by building up a fanatical fan base with word of mouth tactics. These behemoths do not have relationship with their customers and overly depend on broadcast advertising, this is where we come in.Brushing is the new Sexy!
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Everywhere Ventures is a global pre-seed venture capital fund for founders, by founders. Click to read Everywhere VC, by Everywhere Ventures, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1303
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $4.4M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
  • Keebler Health — AI-Enabled Coding for Medical Billing Teams
  • Neurometric AI — Making Intelligence Free | https://t.co/ZxWxeMBJt2 | https://t.co/W8nlLqYwQi
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Hoxton Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Hoxton Ventures focuses on startups that either disrupt existing industries or invent entirely new market categories. Hoxton typically invests between $500,000 and $5 million into pre-seed, seed, and Series A stage companies, and follows its capital through the life of the company. The firm is based in London and invests all across Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$12M; Series A $5M–$28M; Series B $6M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $60M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
  • Behavox — Behavox is an enterprise platform that unifies all types of data into a single data lake, allowing users to query the data and apply machine learning to identify capital markets misconduct and insider threats.Separate Behavox installations form the network defence that aggregates misconduct detection algorithms. The network then uses machinelearning and AI to optimise detection algorithms and suggest new ones. This innovation enables the “brains” to the system to continuously improve and evolve.Complex, high-load and sophisticated engineering is at the core of all the products that Behavox develops to enable deployment at the largest institutions in financial services. They are taking cutting-edge academic research and applying it to enterprise problems that require complex backend engineering with large-scale production footprint.
  • Fabrica AI — Fabrica AI offers a revolutionary platform for faster robot development, using custom hardware designs and learned optimal control to increase efficiency while minimizing complexity and cost. With a vision for a future where robot development takes days, not years.
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DC Thomson Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

DC Thomson Ventures (DCT Ventures) is the corporate venture arm of D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd., a private, family-owned company with a long heritage of entrepreneurship. Headquartered in Dundee, Scotland with a London office in Fleet Street, the DC Thomson Group is one of the leading media organisations in the UK, predominantly publishingnewspapers and magazines. Shortlist Media and Puzzler Media also form part of the DC Thomson publishing division.The wider DC Thomson Group has other major divisions operating in international book publishing (Parragon), data centres (brightsolid) and global online genealogy (Findmypast).DC Thomson has a long traditional of entrepreneurial investment which is now led through DCT Ventures. Through acquisitions and investments, the organisation has diversified into new media, digital technology, education, retail, radio and television.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kando — Kando offers a Data as a Service platform that delivers real-time insights from wastewater networks. This technology enables organizations to identify pollution sources and improve wastewater quality through machine learning and automated sampling. The focus is on enhancing public health and environmental well-being by optimizing wastewatermanagement practices.
  • Trax — Optimize shopper experiences, monitor and analyze insights, increase sales and simplify your retail business life with Trax retail management solutions.
  • Limelight Sports — Creating an Active World. Together. They create real-life and online communities where you can connect and share your active experiences. They are the agency of the Active World. They work with global brands to bring you active experiences around the world.
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Ayre Group
VC Fund · St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Ayre Group is a venture capital firm that has been disrupting industries and creating iconic brands for decades, from technology, real estate, and Bitcoin, to media & publishing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Video Streaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $363k–$8.7M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Libraro — Libraro operates on blockchain technology to modernise the book publishing sector.
  • Gate2Chain — Research lab phase in data integrity and tokenization completed.
  • Rad — Stream thousands of shows free, publish your own videos and earn with memberships and tips, and play your own files on mobile, TV, console and VR.
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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 $1M–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.7M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oraion — Your single source of truth for enterprise data
  • Wassist — Launch your AI sales agent on WhatsApp for Shopify in under 60 seconds. Recover 30-50% of abandoned carts and increase conversions by 3x.
  • Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
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Mobeus Equity Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Mobeus is a leading equity investor in UK-based SMEs. We partner with talented and determined management teams of businesses with strong growth potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Retail
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$7.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $157M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • MPB — MPB is an online platform specializing in used photography and videography kit. It claims to have transformed access to photo and video kits by offering a technology-based, customer-centric service. The company's platform also offers the right price for every piece of kit based on make, model, condition, and market, across a large selection ofcamera bodies, lenses, filters, and accessories.Founded by Matt Barker in 2011, MPB is headquartered in Brighton, East Sussex.
  • Preservica — Ensure compliance and longevity with our Digital Preservation software. Secure your organization's valuable records.
  • Big Potato Games — Big Potato is a board games company that's as versatile as its vegetable namesake.
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 253
  • Round size: Seed $674k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $313k–$1.7M; Series A $4.4M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $126M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • PANTA — PANTA Index Technology is a pioneering fintech company founded by industry veterans to transform the index creation landscape. Our state-of-the-art, cloud-based SaaS solution empowers financial institutions to build and operate complex, bespoke indices and portfolios with unprecedented scale, speed, and precision.As the only pure-play technologyprovider in this space, we streamline the entire index lifecycle while offering advanced back-testing and simulation capabilities. PANTA aims to democratize index technology, enabling institutions of all sizes to innovate faster and make data-driven investment decisions. We're set to become the operating system for next-generation indexing, driving innovation and efficiency across the rules-based and quantitative investment landscape.
  • Vouchsafe — Vouchsafe the world's first real-time fraud bureau. We provide one simple API that returns an instant fraud risk score for a set of customer details.
  • Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
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Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

The Cambridge Angels are a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in internet, software, technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors in the Cambridge (UK) area and throughout the UK.Typical funding requirements thatthe Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £50,000 to £500,000 - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have received more than £1m in funding from their Members over several funding rounds.Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 142
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$3M; Series A $2M–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
  • Orthofuse — Orthofuse designs and manufacturers advance orthopaedic solutions using 3D printing technology. Their focus is on bringing precision and simplicity to complex surgical procedures, creating implants and systems that fit naturally into a surgeon's workflow while delivering dependable outcomes.
  • Singular Photonics — Singular Photonics is a startup that creates SPAD-based image sensors.
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Forward Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Forward Partners is a venture capital firm in London specialising in technology businesses focused on eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Seed $343k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $42k–$2M; Series A $2.6M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $75M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Ably Realtime — Ably is the realtime platform built for scale and reliability. Power live chat, messaging, collaborative apps, and AI experiences that never drop.
  • OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.
  • OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 202
  • Round size: Seed $249k–$4M; Pre-Seed $197k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Go Swag — Branded gifts for people you work with
  • Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
  • Foresight — Foresight turns regulatory change into confident action. Compliance-critical teams see every change that affects their products across chemicals, sustainability, product safety, ESG, and HSE, with the evidence to act.
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Nesta Impact Investments
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Nesta Impact Investments backs innovative businesses that focus on creating social and environmental good

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Health Care, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $262k–$2.5M; Series A $520k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $168k–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Gaia Learning — Gaia Learning are a special online school dedicated to children with additional needs. We help kids with ADHD, ADD, OCD, PDA and Autism, learn online.
  • Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
  • martee ai — Reduce Wastage, Unlock Revenue, Maximise Profit. Martee ai is the only demand forecasting tool tailored for the food-on-the-go industry.
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LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Seed-stage VC fund for Central and Eastern Europe. 90+ companies backed.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $219k–$2.8M; Series A $2.9M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • nFuse.ai — nFuse scales your B2B sales with AI. Up to 30% revenue uplift, $1 per order processing cost, live in 30 days. No new apps, no behavior change.
  • Giraffe360 — Giraffe360 is game-changing subscription product for real estate companies to streamline professional quality photography and high accuracy floor plan creation.
  • Nanogram — Nanogram is an AI-powered gaming startup that creates an instant prompt-to-game platform, allowing anyone to build and share interactive short-form video games. Frequently described as "TikTok for mobile games," the company delivers an endless, vertical social feed of byte-sized, zero-download games that players swipe through and playinstantly.
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Nauta Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

We support visionary founders across Europe as they build the next generation of B2B software companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 175
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.4M; Series A $2.7M–$11M; Series B $3.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $220M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • NetBird — Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home. It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth.
  • Tangany — Europe's regulated digital asset custodian. Trusted by 60+ banks, brokers and financial institutions. MiCA-licensed and BaFin regulated from Germany. API-first.
  • Neurolabs — Neurolabs helps puts an end to out-of-stocks using a powerful combination of computer vision and synthetic data, improving customer experience and increasing revenue.
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 426
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$13M; Series A $3.3M–$22M; Series B $8M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
  • Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
  • Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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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: Software, E-Commerce, B2B
  • 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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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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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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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, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series A $5.5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fanvue — The creator subscription platform for the future. Sign up before the end of the month and take home 85%.
  • Movellas — Changing the experience of reading and writing stories for teens all over the world. Movellas is a self-publishing platform based around the Japanese concept of mobile short stories. The market in Japan has exceeded 82 million people, meaning it became the fastest growing form of literature amongst Japanese teenagers.Users can create theirown stories and publish to the social and interactive community, with fellow readers able to comment, give feedback and assist in developing each story. Anyone can create their own 'movella' and it is accessible via the web or mobile device.
  • Async — 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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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 B, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $520k–$11M; Series A $11M–$45M; Series B $20M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Smol — A smol revolution in laundry and cleaning; heavy on dirt, lighter on the planet. Laundry Capsules, Sprays, Dishwash tabs & more. Trial for FREE today!
  • Kinnu — Download Kinnu Law - The smartest SQE1 revision app with the highest quality practice questions and AI-powered learning assistant
  • 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.
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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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Gaingels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1258
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.5M; Series A $5.5M–$37M; Series B $16M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Quadient Accounts Receivable by YayPay — YayPay accounts receivable automation software helps businesses collect faster, forecast cash flow accurately, and improve payment process. Automate your AR
  • Sharper Sense — Neuromodulation for Clear Senses
  • Willow Wealth — Willow Wealth is an alternative investment platform focused on generating income streams for investors. Get exclusive access to private market investments.
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Holtzbrinck Digital
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Holtzbrinck Digital is a venture capital fund and venture builder from Munich.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • DeSci Labs — DeSci Labs helps researchers manage, store and publish data with AI-powered insights and workflows to boost chances of publishing in top journals.
  • Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
  • Metaphacts — Metaphacts is an innovative software company that provides the product, expertise, and services to build customer-oriented knowledge graph applications in areas such as life sciences and pharma, engineering and manufacturing, finance and insurance, and cultural heritage.
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Publishing Investor funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 236 deals from 341 investors.

341
investors
in United Kingdom Publishing startups
236
deals
in United Kingdom Publishing startups
$2.4M
median round
in United Kingdom Publishing startups
36%
lead investors
lead at least one round
32%
Seed
most common funding stage
71/29
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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