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Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in United Kingdom (August 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
Ariadne Capital Limited
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Mobile, Publishing, Hardware $525k–$6.5M
Connect Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, FinTech $669k–$55M
Flow Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning $311k–$3.8M
Alexander Chesterman
Angel
3 United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $470k–$23M
QVentures
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $125k–$3.9M
Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Finland Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $1.4M–$168M
Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Debt Financing Software, Health Care, Manufacturing $18k–$3.8M
Simon Franks
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Health Care, Payments $318k–$23M
Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Seedcamp
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, SaaS
Haitao Capital
VC Fund
2 China, United States, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Apps, Education $120k–$4.7M
Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $313k–$24M
Mobeus Equity Partners
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Retail
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
Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $382k–$9.5M
Paul Forster
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$18M
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2.1M–$44M
Guinness Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Australia Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $3.8M–$15M
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
Forward Partners
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $42k–$17M
Initial Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Finland Seed, Series A Gaming, Mobile, Software $796k–$12M
Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $100k–$4M
Nesta Impact Investments
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia Seed, Series A Education, Health Care, SaaS $262k–$10M
LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund
2 Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $55k–$59M
Raghav Gupta
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Internet $354k–$5M
Nauta Capital
VC Fund
2 Spain, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Mobile $1.1M–$27M
Peter Hinssen
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, SaaS, EBooks $524k–$4.8M
Creandum
VC Fund
2 Sweden, Germany, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.8M–$87M
Smedvig Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Sweden, United States Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$30M
Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Australia, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $500k–$20M
Hoxton Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care $1.9M–$35M
Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $1.2M–$45M
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
SoftBank Group
VC Fund
1 United States, China, India Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Advertising $2M–$75M
Spivy Private Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Media and Entertainment, SaaS, Content
HSBC
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, India Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
JetSynthesys
VC Fund
1 India, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Music, Events, Gaming $750k–$19M
Doug Scott
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Advertising, B2B, B2C $159k–$3.6M
Carlos Espinal
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $159k–$17M
Rene Rechtman
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Denmark Series A, Seed Education, Social Media, Information Services $5.5M–$22M
Nenad Marovac
Angel
1 Germany, United Kingdom, France Series B, Series A, Series C E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS $3.3M–$245M
10X Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, FinTech $900k–$36M
Tom Hulme
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $520k–$50M
Fritz Demopoulos
Angel
1 Germany, Spain, Hong Kong Series A, Series B, Seed Travel, Hospitality, Rental $4.5M–$21M
Octavian Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom Series A Video, Software, Automotive
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
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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 $202M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Made TV — Start your new business venture with a great domain name. A trusted source for domains since 2005.
  • 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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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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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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Alexander Chesterman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $470k–$3M; Series A $2.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Atheni AI — Guided AI adoption: the thinking of a top consultancy, the 1:1 personalisation of a coach, delivered at the scale of a platform. Capability, not access. Independent by design.
  • Zefir — An all-in-one platform that allows people to sell or buy in one simple, certain transaction
  • Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the award-winning digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients.
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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
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$3.9M; Angel $393k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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: 195
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$12M; Series A $6.3M–$45M; Series B $13M–$168M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $327M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AlveoGene — Transforming Rare Respiratory Disease Outcomes Using Inhaled Gene Therapy
  • Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
  • Scripta Therapeutics — Biology decoded, disease undone - modulating transcription factors to restore health
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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
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 248
  • Round size: Seed $360k–$3.3M; Debt Financing $18k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Wagonex — Car subscription is the new, all-inclusive, flexible alternative to leasing. No large downpayment and a single fixed monthly payment. Just add fuel and go.
  • Jehu Group — The Jehu Group is a third generation family owned business with over 80 years of successful trading history.We mange our operations on a day-to-day basis through three trading subsidiaries. Each subsidiary is supported by Jehu Group Limited which provides finance, HR, technical and procurement functions.In all of our markets, we position ourselvesas a dynamic and bespoke alternative to national contractors and house builders and are proud of our strong reputation in the market place.
  • Reacta Biotech — Reacta Biotech has been established to develop, manufacture and commercialise oral food challenge materials to pharmaceutical standards of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
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Simon Franks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $318k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Auro — Auro is a mobile fitness-tech solution providing you with a personal trainer in your ear. We believe that fitness is at its effective best, when it is personalized, engaging, and accessible anytime. We break down the barriers to exercise by providing millions of people all over the world access to a personal trainer along with the best of contentthat boutique studio fitness has to offer.We’re creating a truly motivating, connected fitness experience that keeps people coming back for more by combining world class instructors, killer playlists and data science led personalisation.Our mission is to transform lives by making fitness experiences awesome, accessible and affordable.
  • Thriva — At-home blood testing and science-backed next steps to feel great, maximise your performance, and extend your healthspan.
  • Lick — Lick | Paints, Wallpapers and Supplies. Your Room, Covered
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Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 3 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, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Netacea — Netacea takes a smarter approach to bot management. Intent Analytics™ powered by machine learning quickly and accurately distinguishes bots from humans to protect websites, mobile apps and APIs from automated threats while prioritising genuine users. Actionable intelligence with data-rich visualisations empowers you to make informed decisions aboutyour traffic. The Netacea approach offers incredible speed, accuracy and transparency, solving the growing problem of credential stuffing and account takeover at scale. The technology is designed to complement existing controls such as WAF rulesets, rate limiting and threat databases to provide a deep analysis of all website visitors, actionable intelligence and real-time threat.The Netacea approach continuously monitors your web traffic to pinpoint the difference in automated bot activity vs genuine visitors, keeping you ahead of evolving bot threats. Choose to automatically block, redirect or challenge automated attacks in real-time, or receive alerts notifying you of potential threats. With access to rich dashboards and data, you can easily identify and stop account takeover attempts early in the attack chain.Learn more at www.netacea.com
  • Semble — The integrated clinical system for managing your patients' medical data and admin tasks.
  • Locate Bio — Locate Bio is a regenerative medicine development company focused on orthobiologics. Locate Bio exists to help surgeons improve the lives of people with debilitating spinal conditions. We are curious about what is possible, but ground all our work in robust scientific evidence. We relentlessly pursue high-value opportunities with clear unmetclinical needs.
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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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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, Series A
  • Geography: China, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$4.7M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% 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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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: 243
  • Round size: Seed $670k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $313k–$1.7M; Series A $4.4M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow

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 is a trust and counter-fraud platform that helps financial services replace legacy document checks with safe, easy digital ID acceptance.
  • Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
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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:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Intralink — Your international expansion made fast, easy and cost effective
  • Lace Partners — LACE Partners are a leading HR and Payroll transformation consultancy. We're able to support organisations with strategy through to execution.
  • Ellis Recruitment Group — Ellis Recruitment Group provides specialist IT staff to enterprises across the world. Through our four brands, we provide an unparalled recruitment service.
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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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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: 138
  • Round size: Seed $382k–$3M; Series A $2M–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
  • MNS — Transforming global healthcare with self-administered microneedle vaccine patches. Safe, efficient, and accessible- bringing vaccinations to homes worldwide.
  • 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.
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Paul Forster
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.9M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oraion — Your single source of truth for enterprise data
  • Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
  • Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
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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: 400
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$22M; Series B $8M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $101M 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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Guinness Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Guinness Ventures has invested into early stage businesses since 2010, providing capital to a wide range of UK companies

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Series A $3.8M–$12M; Series B $4.6M–$15M
  • 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: 64
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$6.8M; Pre-Seed $400k–$7M; Series A $3.5M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GAIM.FUN — GAIM.FUN turn a single sentence into an explorale, fully interactive 3D environment,
  • 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.
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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 — Modern Addiction Care
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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: 108
  • 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 $76M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Plyable — AI manufacturing software, composite and metallic molds and parts, composite parts, tools, metallic, engineering, technology, ai
  • nSpireMe — nSpireMe helping children supercharge their violin learning with interactive practice apps.
  • Patch — Patch helps you choose the best plants for your space, delivers them to your door, and helps you look after them.
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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
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $796k–$4.2M; Series A $988k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% 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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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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: 183
  • Round size: Seed $326k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Product Guru — Although there has been a significant change of pace in the technology used within the retail sector, the process of finding the products that drive the market has really remained at a stand-still. With more and more small, specialist suppliers driving innovation in the sector, it has been harder than ever for buyers to be able to consider alloptions.
  • Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
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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, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $262k–$2.5M; Series A $466k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $65M 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: 149
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $183k–$2.8M; Series A $2.9M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M 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.
  • OfficeRnD — OfficeRnD helps flex space operators and hybrid teams manage the workplace of the future. Book your demo or start a free 14-day trial.
  • 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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Raghav Gupta
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Entrepreneur, operator, investor and author of the bestselling One to Ten. Currently, Rags is President of Butlr.io and venture partner at Hyperplane. Prior to Butlr, Rags was COO at Humatics, GM EMEA at Ooyala, CCO at Videoplaza (sold to Telstra/Ooyala) and part of the founding management team at Brightcove (IPO).

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $354k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Squark — Predict who to focus on, what to do next, and what it will do to revenue with fundraising AI that works across your CRM, campaigns, and donor lifecycle.
  • Powerspike — Powerspike is a new type of advertising network based on content creators - where any marketer can make their brand famous in a few clicks. Our Endorsement Serving technology automatically buys, executes, and optimizes content creator endorsements - replacing the traditionally lengthy process of RFP’s, human negotiations, and insertion orders.
  • Fluent Forever — Discover the revolutionary app to learn any language fast and retain it forever. Ditch translation for effective tools like spaced repetition, mnemonics and interactive flashcards.
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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: 173
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.4M; Series A $2.6M–$11M; Series B $3.5M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $202M 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.
  • airfocus — airfocus is the first modular product management software: Manage and communicate your product strategy, prioritize your roadmap, and solve the right problems.
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Peter Hinssen
Angel · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 2 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, SaaS, EBooks
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London,England.
  • Sparkcentral — Consumers today engage with brands and companies on social channels by sending tweets and messages stating their customer service needs openly and publicly. Many companies choose to respond to these consumers via the same channels in order to address their concerns. The Sparkcentral Platform helps customer support teams manage large volumes ofsocial inquiries in a streamlined and efficient manner. The platform pulls in the messages from these social channels and presents them to customer care teams via a secure agent console that automatically assigns the messages to the first available agent. Sparkcentral’s client roster includes Delta Air Lines, Emirates, Netflix, Nordstrom, Dropbox, Uber, and T-Mobile.The company’s client portfolio includes Formerly known as TwitSpark, Sparkcentral was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
  • Rita Data — Rita is a zero-party data platform that connects consumers and brands to enable trusted and engaging data transactions. The mobile app allows users to view, control, and share their data for rewards.
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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: 288
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$17M; Series A $5.3M–$35M; Series B $8M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • EquiLibre Technologies — The Next Generation of Algorithmic Trading
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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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • 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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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: 1093
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
  • Suma Wealth — Meet Charlie, your AI financial coach inside the SUMA app. Get personalized budgeting, savings, and investing advice in English or Spanish.
  • Journey Live — Journey is shifting the way modern companies prioritize mental health. Our proactive, inclusive tools engage every employee, every day.
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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: 137
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$12M; Series A $5M–$28M; Series B $6M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

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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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: 289
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.8M; Series A $1.6M–$15M; Series B $2M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
  • Psyomics — Technology to support better mental health assessment - accelerating patients to the right care pathway, first time.
  • 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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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: 23
  • Round size: Seed $363k–$8.7M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% 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 — Monetize content with AI upscaling, multilingual subtitles, viral prediction tools. Stream content on PS5/PSVR2. Built for creators who want more revenue.
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SoftBank Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

SoftBank Group provides venture funding and strategic support to exceptional entrepreneurs building disruptive enduring businesses. They are a small team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who take an "active" approach to helping their companies reach their full potential. They manage $600 million across three funds and investacross a company’s lifecycle, from early to growth stages. Through their close ties to a number of Asia’s leading mobile, internet and technology companies – including strategic partners SoftBank Corp, Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group – SoftBank Capital offers unique expertise to businesses seeking to address the Asian market. Since 1995, SoftBank Capital has partnered with internet pioneers such as Criteo, Gilt Groupe, OMGPOP (Zynga), betaworks, BuzzFeed, Buddy Media (Salesforce.com), Huffington Post (AOL), Associated Content (Yahoo!), Danger (Microsoft), Geocities (Yahoo!), E*Trade and Yahoo!.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Advertising
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 234
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$25M; Series B $5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • GroundTruth — Understand your consumer, build your business, increase store visits and sales, and make smarter forecasting decisions with location data that tells the truth.
  • Shake — Shake is a mobile-first application that allows users to create, sign, and send, plain English and legally binding agreements from their phones. Shake was founded in 2012 by an experienced team of entrepreneurs and investors. They have decades of startup and executive leadership experience at companies such as Google, Spotify, AOL, BuzzFeed,and RRE Ventures.
  • RebelMouse — Build, launch, and grow with AI-powered workflows, technical SEO, and performance-first publishing.
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Spivy Private Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Spivy Private Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, SaaS, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Tagboard — Tagboard is an Emmy-nominated audience experience platform designed to help storytellers in sports, news, and entertainment produce the most engaging content in the world with a fraction of the resources required by traditional graphics systems.
  • Jet Media Network — Jet Media Network is an exciting new venture between Box to Box Sports Marketing Ltd and JetEngage, part of an established and impressive group called the JetLine group
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HSBC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups, 20 in the past 12 months

HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, serves millions of customers through its three Global Businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 200
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kavak — KAVAK is an innovative company in the automotive industry that helps people acquire their own car, offering a wide range of guaranteed and certified cars.
  • ACEN Australia — ACEN Australia develops renewable energy assets including several solar, wind, battery, and hydro projects across Australia.
  • WiseTech Global — WiseTech Global develops cloud-based software solutions for the international and domestic logistics industries. Since 1994 they have helped logistics companies efficiently manage the movement of goods and information. With over 6,000 customers across 7,000 sites in more than 125 countries, their breakthrough software solutions are renowned fortheir powerful productivity, extensive functionality, comprehensive integration, deep compliance capabilities, and truly global reach.Their leading product, CargoWise One, provides the most sophisticated and comprehensive end-to-end logistics solution in the world and forms an integral link in the global supply chain. From single-office businesses to large multinational companies worldwide, their clients are able to improve their visibility, efficiency, quality of service, and profitability by adopting their next-generation technology.As an innovator, they use software and hardware to solve problems and create new ways of working and living. They build products using the latest software tools and the best hardware platforms, and they take pride in delivering solutions that make a significant difference to their customers, partners, staff, shareholders, and the logistics industry at large.Their people are the core of who we are. The accumulation of our collective experience shared values, and individual skills have allowed their business to deliver industry-leading solutions that exceed expectations. We are a mature, profitable, rapidly expanding business focused on great products, the intellectual property that drives them, the brands they create, and the markets and customers they serve.WiseTech Global was founded in 1994 in Sydney, Australia, with a mission to lead the international logistics industry in technology innovation. The company now operates worldwide with offices in Australia, China, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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JetSynthesys
VC Fund · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Our aim is to build world class digital products, platforms and services in India, with a goal of impacting the daily digital lives of 1.3 Billion Indians. A billion+ reaching for their mobiles, we reach them through our products.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Events, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NODWIN Gaming — NODWIN Gaming is a global entertainment leader, specializing in youth culture, esports, gaming, music, anime, comics & comedy.
  • Kratos Gamer Network (KGeN) — Discover KGeN, where gaming meets the future. Dive into a world of cutting-edge technology and immersive experiences, designed for the next generation of gamers. Join us and redefine the way you play
  • Assiduus Global — Scale your brand worldwide with Assiduus Global, a Cross-Border E-Commerce accelerator offering AI-driven growth and brand protection.
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Doug Scott
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Doug Scott is Founder at Potential.co

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Campus — Live courses with top professors.
  • Ricochet.ai — Deep learning tools for sales development teams
  • Citrus Labs — Citruslabs provides a simple and affordable way to prove your products actually work. We offer clinical trials for dietary supplements, skincare & cosmetic products, health foods, medical devices, pet products, CBD products, and biotech companies. It has never been easier to create research-backed product claims.
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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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Rene Rechtman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Social Media, Information Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Denmark

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fanvue — The creator subscription platform for the future. Sign up before the end of the month and take home 85%.
  • Movellas — Changing the experience of reading and writing stories for teens all over the world. Movellas is a self-publishing platform based around the Japanese concept of mobile short stories. The market in Japan has exceeded 82 million people, meaning it became the fastest growing form of literature amongst Japanese teenagers.Users can create theirown stories and publish to the social and interactive community, with fellow readers able to comment, give feedback and assist in developing each story. Anyone can create their own 'movella' and it is accessible via the web or mobile device.
  • Async — Podcastle is an AI-powered content creation platform that helps podcasters, educators, marketers, and other creators to produce professional-quality audio and video content like podcasts and audiobooks. The company’s goal is to democratize access to content creation by offering an end-to-end suite of tools encompassing creation, editing,transcription, voice duplication, and distribution.
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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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10X Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

10X invests across the capital structure, alongside the world's top technology investors. They align Wall Street and Silicon Valley by bringing institutional capital to high growth ventures in private and public markets, helping founders and investors achieve scale and liquidity while retaining upside and control.10X was founded in 2004 andis based in New York.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 230
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6M; Pre-Seed $900k–$5M; Series A $4M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Betr — Betr is a direct-to-consumer micro-betting that introduces instant gratification to sports betting. It provides tools to support responsible play and give control over their gambling. It encourages them to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within their personal limits. Betr was founded in 2022 and is based in Miami, Florida.
  • Portal — Build next-generation cell engineering and drug discovery workflows with Portal mechanoporation for broad intracellular delivery across cells and cargoes.
  • CEA Industries — CEA Industries (NASDAQ: BNC) is a publicly traded company pursuing a BNB-focused digital asset treasury strategy.
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Tom Hulme
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Tom Hulme is based out of London, Greater London and is the Managing Partner & Head of Europe of Google Ventures. Tom previously worked at IDEO as a Founder, Board Director, and Senior Advisor. Tom Hulme attended the Harvard Business School. Tom Hulme has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Wired UK’s Top 100Digital Power Brokers, and the Evening Standard’s list of London’s 1000 Most Influential People and received the Baker Scholar Award.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $520k–$11M; Series A $11M–$45M; Series B $20M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Octavian Ventures is an investment vehicle and advisory firm founded by Richard D. Titus, a serial entrepreneur, business leader, investor and strategic advisor to businesses across the UK, Europe, Latin America and the USA. Octavian works with a broad range of T.I.M.E - Technology, Internet, Media & Entertainment enterprises and hasparticular focus on developing early stage internet and mobile businesses. Octavian’s approach to investments and advisory services are based on real experience and rooted in strong, sound and hard-earned strategic product and investment rationale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Software, Automotive
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Videoplaza — Our mission is to empower broadcasters and video publishers to build profitable and sustainable businesses in the internet-delivered TV world. More than 50% of the broadcasters in Europe run their advertising businesses on Karbon. Our technology, built for video, is device agnostic and empowers publishers to trade across sales channels,maximising the value of their audiences. Due to our belief in valuing service equally to technology, we have local teams in London (HQ), Stockholm (R&D), Berlin, Cologne, Madrid, Paris, and Singapore.
  • Mission Motors — The company designs and supplies high-performance EV powertrains,including energy storage systems, drive systems and software, to the vehicle manufacturers, targeting a wide range of applications—including battery-electric, plug-in hybrid electric and hybrid-electric vehicles.
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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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Publishing Investor funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 207 deals from 304 investors.

304
investors
in United Kingdom Publishing startups
207
deals
in United Kingdom Publishing startups
$2.5M
median round
in United Kingdom Publishing startups
35%
lead investors
lead at least one round
31%
Seed
most common funding stage
73/27
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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