Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in United Kingdom (June 2026)
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QVentures
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $125k–$3.9M |
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Alexander Chesterman
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $524k–$23M |
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Simon Franks
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, Australia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Health Care, Payments | $318k–$23M |
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Ariadne Capital Limited
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Mobile, Publishing, Hardware | $525k–$6.5M |
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Flow Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning | $300k–$5M |
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Paul Forster
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.1M–$15M |
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Seedcamp
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, SaaS | |
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Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Finland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Software | $1.3M–$168M |
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Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | |
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Connect Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $669k–$55M |
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Peter Hinssen
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Apps, SaaS, EBooks | $524k–$4.8M |
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Nauta Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Spain, United Kingdom, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Mobile | $1.1M–$22M |
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Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Estonia | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $270k–$9.5M |
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Smedvig Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, SaaS, Advertising | $1.5M–$30M |
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Haitao Capital
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, Education | $120k–$4.7M |
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Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Philippines | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $982k–$46M |
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DC Thomson Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore | Seed, Series B | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | |
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Ayre Group
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, South Africa | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Video Streaming, Information Technology | $393k–$4.4M |
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PROfounders Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Apps, Travel | |
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a16z Scout Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Brazil, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $250k–$8.9M |
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $183k–$3.5M |
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Forward Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $343k–$17M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1.9M–$48M |
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Nesta Impact Investments
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia | Seed, Series A | Education, Health Care, SaaS | $262k–$10M |
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $338k–$20M |
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Hoxton Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care | $1.8M–$29M |
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Initial Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Finland | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Mobile, Software | $796k–$12M |
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Guinness Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Australia | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $3.8M–$16M |
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Creandum
VC Fund
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2 | Sweden, Germany, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.8M–$80M |
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Nicolas Julia
Angel
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2 | France, Israel, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $400k–$15M |
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Raghav Gupta
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Internet | $354k–$5M |
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LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Internet | $44k–$58M |
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Mobeus Equity Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Retail | |
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1Up Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Video Games, Online Games | $400k–$55M |
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jonathan wright
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Printing, Publishing, Packaging Services | ||
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Dapper Labs
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency | |
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Sfermion
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, France | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | |
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Fourth Revolution Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Brazil | Seed, Series A | Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | |
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Greyrock Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Bermuda | Seed, Series D, Series A | Education, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | |
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Holtzbrinck Digital
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Education, Software, Information Technology | |
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The Halo Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Angel, Series C | Publishing, Video, Software | |
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Clarendon Fund Managers
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Health Diagnostics | |
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Spice Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | France, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Blockchain, Publishing | |
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APX
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | |
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Calm Company Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | |
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Bootstrapped Debt Financing
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | |
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Charlie Songhurst
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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SkyVision Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | |
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Ian Hogarth
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | |
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Double Peak Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Australia | Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | |
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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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $125k–$3.9M; Angel $393k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CareerPaths — career mentorship website that links users with skilled industry professionals in Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Investment Banking for invaluable career assistance.
- Astronome AI — Astronome AI is a company that provides streamlined IT management for SMEs, powered by AI.
- NeuWave Technologies — NeuWave Technologies delivers environmental analysis for floating offshore wind farm development and operational management.
Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.
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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $524k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $655k–$3M; Series A $2.3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zefir — Zefir aims to expand the realm of possibilities for millions of European homeowners. We make home-selling simpler, faster and more certain by buying the property directly from you. Selling a home is now just a few clicks away.
- Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
- Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Health Care, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $524k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $318k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
- Thriva — At-home blood testing and science-backed next steps to feel great, maximise your performance, and extend your healthspan.
- Trilo — Welcome to the simplest way to pay. Whether your strolling on the high street, or scrolling on your phone, you'll get a Boost whenever you shop with Trilo.
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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- 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
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $650k–$1.7M; Debt Financing $300k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% 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.
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$4.2M; Series A $3.9M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
- Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
- Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 166
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $5M–$46M; Series B $8.5M–$168M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $327M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Pepgen — PepGen empowers nucleic acid therapeutics to go the distance. PepGen's ambition is to unlock the potential of nucleic acid therapeutics by leveraging the drug delivery capabilities of their innovative product engine. PepGen's initial focus is on the application of this technology to the efficacious delivery of antisense oligonucleotides,and they are advancing novel conjugate therapeutics to the clinic.
- Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
- Quantum Motion — Quantum Motion delivers scalable silicon-based quantum computing using standard semiconductor manufacturing technology.
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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- 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.
We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- Round size: Seed $669k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$3.9M; Series A $5M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $80M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- ONE FIIT — Fiit offers a real-time performance feedback and live leader boards that allows users to challenge their friends from around the world.
- Torg — Torg puts the largest base of suppliers in F&B at the fingertips of buyers with an intuitive SaaS to simplify sourcing.
- MedAll — MedAll is a training platform for healthcare professionals and students: a 'virtual medical school'. MedAll enables healthcare organisations to deliver and store their training courses, conferences and teaching sessions in one place - and to share that training with the healthcare community internationally.
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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, EBooks
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $524k–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
- Sparkcentral — Consumers today engage with brands and companies on social channels by sending tweets and messages stating their customer service needs openly and publicly. Many companies choose to respond to these consumers via the same channels in order to address their concerns. The Sparkcentral Platform helps customer support teams manage large volumes ofsocial inquiries in a streamlined and efficient manner. The platform pulls in the messages from these social channels and presents them to customer care teams via a secure agent console that automatically assigns the messages to the first available agent. Sparkcentral’s client roster includes Delta Air Lines, Emirates, Netflix, Nordstrom, Dropbox, Uber, and T-Mobile.The company’s client portfolio includes Formerly known as TwitSpark, Sparkcentral was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
- Rita Data — Rita is a zero-party data platform that connects consumers and brands to enable trusted and engaging data transactions. The mobile app allows users to view, control, and share their data for rewards.
We support visionary founders across Europe as they build the next generation of B2B software companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 160
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.5M; Series A $2.6M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $202M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- ifeel — Ifeel is the emotional well-being platform for modern organizations. Ifeel is a unique workplace mental health platform for companies.
- Danelfin — Find the best stocks with Danelfin's AI stock picker. Optimize your portfolio with explainable AI insights and make smarter, data-driven investment decisions.
- Stockagile — StockAgile is a cloud-based solution that makes the supply chain of the retail companies easier, agile, and more efficient.This tool allows to analyse the product life cycle, from its design or purchase, to it is sold to the final customer, offering an omnichannel shopping experience. In addition, it removes the complexity of choosing the rightproduct to design or buy, choosing the right store to increase its sales, or finding a balance between stocks and promotions. StockAgile uses data mining and artificial intelligence algorithms to create predictive models that increase sales, through assisted inventory allocation, automatic provisioning and optimization of stock-outs. Among multiple features, the product offers manufacturing management, inventory and warehouse management, wholesale management, point of sale, store management and synchronization with ecommerce.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $270k–$2.9M; Series A $2M–$9.5M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MNS —
- FLIT — Unfold Your Next Adventure. Discover the compact folding electric bike purpose-built for commuters, urban explorers and weekend tourers.
- AVIEL Intelligence — Prevent APP fraud with the highest quality of intelligence. Use AVIEL intelligence to help prevent your customers making payments to scammers - and from receiving payments related to scams.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Advertising
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 82
- Round size: Series A $2M–$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
- roclub — roclub is a healthcare company that offers a teleoperation platform for MedTech. The platform enables MRI/CT scans to be carried out remotely, providing support and training for radiographers. The company's solution can bring medical technology, regardless of type, manufacturer, and installation site, into a managed system withoutintegrations plug-and-play. roclub also offers a bonus program for radiographers who recommend their solution to their employers.
- Understory — Understory is the only tool you need to sell experiences. To create, manage and grow your experience business.
- Embankment — Dedicated to AIFs. Driven by technology, delivered by domain experts
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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- 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!
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 259
- Round size: Seed $982k–$5M; Series A $1.6M–$13M; Series B $2M–$46M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Mogrify — Mogrify is pioneering a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapy and transforming the development of ex vivo cell therapy.
- PhoreMost — PhoreMost is a new-model drug discovery company based in Cambridge, UK: Using its core expertise to open up new ‘druggable’ target space and working with a global network of co-invested academic and industrial collaboration partners, we aim to bring a wide array of novel ‘targeted’ therapies more efficiently to market and pass these cost savingsonto patients.
- Bramble Energy — Bramble Energy is an innovator energy technology company that designs and manufactures high-performance, low-cost, and fuel cell stack. The company ability to leverage the global high-volume PCB industry means that they are the first fuel cell company with the manufacturing capacity to supply gigawatts of fuel cell hardware, something the batteryindustry has spent many years and £B’s to achieve.Bramble Energy specifically uses a printed circuit board (PCB) technology to form the structural parts of the fuel cell. It also provides products including modular PCBFC stacks, H20:20W PCBFC system, custom design PCBFC, and 500W PCBFC stack.Bramble Energy was founded in 2016 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom.
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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- 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 is an end-to-end solution that creates continuous awareness of events in the collection system. Kando enables utilities to remotely and continuously improve their operations by providing the following features:• Realtime wastewater quality data across the collection system • Pinpoint sources of pollution • Early warnings of damaging WWTPinfluent quality • Machine learning that evolves with your network • Autonomous sampling units • User fee calculator • Customized pollution alerts • A user-friendly, online interface • Detection of COVID-19 infection rates (New)The combination of these actionable insights results in:• Reduced CAPEX/OPEX • Greater WW reuse capabilities • Improved public health • Cleaner environmentsKando has been deployed in Los Angeles, Milan, Brisbane, and many other cities. To gain a greater understanding of how our system can help your organization, visit our homepage at www.kando.eco.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Video Streaming, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $393k–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Libraro — Libraro operates on blockchain technology to modernise the book publishing sector.
- Vaionex — Next Generation Blockchain Applications. We are building the infrastructure and services that will power the new internet and economic system.
- Gate2Chain —
We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $250k–$8.9M; Pre-Seed $525k–$4.3M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Praan — Praan builds the world's most advanced air purification technologies for commercial and industrial applications.
- 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.
- Popularium — Popularium was founded by an all-star team of gaming industry veterans responsible for the largest asset-based games and platforms in history—such as Magic: The Gathering, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, the Halo franchise, and Xbox Live.Popularium started from a simple idea that we shared: What would games look like if they involved thecommunity from an early stage? What if this community had the tools to impact the narrative and create assets of real value from the game?
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Browse database — It's Free!Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 153
- Round size: Seed $183k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $410k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Biomage — Cellenics is a single cell data analysis software. It starts with a 10X Chromium count matrix produced by Cell Ranger. Unlike Loupe, the Cellenics platform is an end-to-end tool, which allows you to perform single cell RNA-seq data processing, multiple sample data integration, visualisation, differe
- Heysummit — Build beautiful virtual events, conferences, courses, and more to engage with your audience and grow your community through events-based marketing.
- BrainWaveBank — BrainWaveBank has developed a first-in-class wearable electroencephalography (EEG) device to conveniently and non-invasively measure the mechanisms that underpin neurological disorders and therapies. Our platform can securely gather, store and analyse data from many thousands of users, building neurocognitive profiles of individuals and populationsor demographic groups. This easy-to-scale and distributable approach will help clinical professionals to transform our understanding of brain health and develop the next generation of treatments.BrainWaveBank was founded in January 2015 and has offices in Belfast , Northern Ireland and Dublin, Ireland.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $343k–$3.9M; 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
- OutThink — Move from traditional security awareness to adaptive security with the world's first AI-native cybersecurity human risk management platform.
- Patch — Patch helps you choose the best plants for your space, delivers them to your door, and helps you look after them.
- OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 368
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$13M; Series A $3M–$21M; Series B $7.5M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $101M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Wazoku — Wazoku - Where Innovation Works Wazoku
- Mojo — Join 600,000+ men worldwide using AI-powered coaches to build a performance mindset and take back control of their love lives.
- Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives
Nesta Impact Investments backs innovative businesses that focus on creating social and environmental good
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- Industry: Education, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $262k–$2.6M; 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.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 224
- Round size: Seed $670k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $338k–$1.7M; Series A $4.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HiiKER — Find 1000s of the best backpacking and hiking adventures, with reviews, photos, and great places to stay.
- Research Grid (R.grid) — Research Grid (R.grid) automates the entire clinical trial back-office by accelerating timelines and cutting admin delays. Get faster and more successful trials today.
- Spendkey — Spendkey's intelligent spend analytics solution helps businesses transform raw spend data into actionable insights to enable better business decisions, optimise costs and maximise savings
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$12M; Series A $5M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% 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.
- 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.
- Peptone — We are the first in class pre-clinical translational biophysics company focusing on the discovery of novel therapeutics against intrinsically disordered targets.
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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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $796k–$4.2M; Series A $988k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Supercell — Visit Supercell.com and find out more about us and our games.
- Antidote — London-based startup studio for Bitcoin founders
- BetterDoctor — Our provider network software solutions & services provide unmatched tools & insights for you. Discover how you can measure, manage, monitor & model.
Guinness Ventures has invested into early stage businesses since 2010, providing capital to a wide range of UK companies
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- 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 $4.5M–$16M
- 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!
We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Sweden, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 270
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$16M; Series A $5M–$33M; Series B $8M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- unitQ — unitQ's product quality monitoring platform empowers businesses to take a data-driven approach to product quality so they can fix the right quality issues smarter and faster.
- Payosu — Use Osu to get more bookings, take payments with zero fees, automate the invoicing, and let your business thrive.
- Cerrion — Cerrion is a visual AI that helps production teams react faster to process deviations, automate root cause analysis, and implement targeted improvement actions. They believe that process transparency enabled by AI and computer vision is key to achieving more autonomy and sustainability in manufacturing. Their software is built and designed withproduction teams from all over the world in the loop.
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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- 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
- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- LaCollection — LaCollection is creating a new way of owning digital versions of a physical artwork by working with cultural institutions. Like a limited edition “digital lithography”, collectors are now able to own certified digital twins of masterpieces from the world’s greatest museums, galleries, and artists.
- Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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.
LAUNCHub is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Round size: Seed $44k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $183k–$2.3M; Series A $2.8M–$58M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
- UVIONIX — Uvionix deploys Autonomous Flying Robots (AFRs) to monitor and report live data, ensuring a comprehensive view of operations, workflow efficiency, and near 100% inventory level accuracy. The system creates live digital twins of warehouse spaces, meticulously tracking each material movement. Delivering precise, unbiased data, and being immune to human error, the platform drastically enhances material planning, reduces stock losses, and lowers labor costs.
- 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.
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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- 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
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- 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.
1Up Ventures is an investment firm that specializes in game developers. The company is based in Kirkland, Washington.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $400k–$7M; Series A $3.5M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Starform — We believe that the best games are forged in the crucible of player feedback.
- Sprocket Games — Sprocket Games is game development studio launching a cross-platform, social adventure game.
- Twin Suns — World Class Video Games
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- Industry: Printing, Publishing, Packaging Services
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Reel Label Solutions — Reel Label Solutions is the at the forefront of the packaging printing industry, offering high quality, bespoke print solutions for your packaging.
Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Yoz Labs — Save time, streamline your development, and reach users on their preferred channels
- Spexi — An intuitive and collaborative platform for drone-based data
- Halfbrick Studios — Creators of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride and more mobile mega hits!
Sfermion is a metaverse-native firm investing in esoteric digital assets.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Helika — Helika is a web3 product analytics platform that helps projects better understand their users, increase engagement, and drive growth.
- Pixelmon — Collect, Evolve & Battle alongside your Pixelmon in our Multiplayer Open World Adventure and Monster Combat Arena.
- Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow — A web3 social deduction game & community built by former Disney and Club Penguin veterans. For aficionados of mirth, mayhem, and the mysterious.
4RC is a crypto-native investment platform focused exclusively on digital assets and blockchain technology. Our thesis is centered on the belief that web3 networks will become the digital infrastructure of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We invest in tokens & equity with asymmetric upside, provide hands-on support to incubate investments, andgenerate yield on liquid assets to compound appreciation. We’re focused on long-term product-market fit and outsized risk-adjusted return across DeFi, NFTs, Gaming, Media, Metaverse, DAO Tooling, and Blockchain Infrastructure.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- GolfN — GolfN is the web3 digital caddie. Play at more than 30,000+ courses worldwide and get rewarded for completing on-course activities. Collect and equip unique NFTs to multiply your rewards on and off the course.
- Utopia Labs — Trusted by leading DAOs to streamline operations, manage payroll, and consolidate financial reporting.
- Saltwater Games — Saltwater Games create unique XR games and provide gamers with an platform that prioritises the fun of immersive play and economic longevity via AAA experiences with innovative decentralised ownership.
Greyrock is a private investment company focused on education and technology.
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- Industry: Education, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series D, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, Bermuda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Go1 — Go1 offers training content from 250+ industry-leading providers, delivered seamlessly through any HR tech stack.
- Academia.edu — Academia.edu is the largest and fastest-growing platform in the world for sharing academic research. Its mission is to accelerate and democratize academic research. Over 150 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 25 million papers. Over 100,000 people join Academia.edu each day. Academia.edu attracts over 52 million uniquevisitors a month. 40% of the world's faculty log in to Academia.edu every month. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Expensify — Explore our job and internship openings and learn what makes us a company you'll love to join. Also find our more about history, teams, the latest news, and more!
Holtzbrinck Digital is a venture capital fund and venture builder from Munich.
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- 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
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!The Halo Fund is a venture capital firm that offers early-stage investment services to technology startups. It was founded in 2000 by Carol Sands and is based in California.
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- Industry: Publishing, Video, Software
- Stage:Series A, Angel, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Qumu — Making Enterprise Video Smarter. Qumu delivers seamless video experiences that manage, secure and measure content.
- Ensighten — The leader in consent management and compliance enforcement. Ensighten's CMP+ is a comprehensive solution for cookie consent, client-side security, and data privacy
- Komodo Learning — Boost your child's maths skills & confidence with short regular learning & practice sessions. Try Komodo Free. Designed by teachers for families.
We ensure that businesses in Northern Ireland with growth aspirations can access equity finance to reach their potential.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
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- Total investments: 57
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Fluid Focus — Take control of your screen time and build better focus habits. Join thousands already reclaiming their time and attention; all whilst earning real-world rewards.
- Liquid Acquire — Liquid Acquire provides AI solutions for mergers and acquisitions.
- Cumulus Neuroscience — Cumulus Neuroscience has created a next-generation integrated physiological and digital biomarker platform.
Investment advisory services dedicated to family funds
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Blockchain, Publishing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United Kingdom, United States
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- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Daylight — Discover new relevant things to do in crypto: mints, claims, votes, and more.
- Capsule Wallets — At Capsule, we thrive on challenging the design of products we use every day. In doing so, we hope to introduce you to a simpler way of living.
- Immortal Game — Play chess online with friends, join daily tournaments, solve chess puzzles and challenge yourself on the most fun chess website!
APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 177
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bloom — Bloom is creating the social layer for modern finance, transforming your performance into social content that others can discover, replicate, and learn from.
- DC Connected — Mobility Enhancement Platform
- Synergi — Synergi app features smart charging, smart climate, solar charging, and more to help you use electricity when it's cheap and good for the planet. Start saving and earning with smart electricity use!
Early stage funding, resources, and mentorship for founders building profit-driven calm businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Chaiz — Chaiz is the first digital marketplace for extended car warranties. Search, compare and buy service plans from top providers completely online.
- CodeWP — We've just launched the NEW CodeWP Make WordPress Easy With AI . AI chat and coding tools trained specifically for WordPress creators. Try CodeWP For Free Watch
- Economize — Economize is a cloud cost optimization software that helps engineering teams analyze, manage and optimize their GCP/AWS cloud infrastructure spend.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kornem Energy — Kornem Energy provides energy intelligence and mobile-fuel delivery and diesel delivery on demand for the needs of today, tomorrow, and our future.We are eliminating the traditional fuel supply chain infrastructure using IOT & a compact terminal-to-car logistics aggregation, through service, automation and mobility.This enables us todeliver fuel directly to the customers who can request fuel delivery wherever they are, through our mobile app, while bridging the gap between feedstock aggregation, quality-assurance and end-user accessibility.No more expensive real estate, no more extensive supply chain. Just #FuelToYou
- SymbaSync — SymbaSync™ helps organizations maximize return on employee investment by providing Human Resources Software to source, qualify, and engage employees to populate project teams. SymbaSync’s tools increase employee satisfaction improving employee ownership, engagement, and retention. SymbaSync provides a company with a complete overview of up-to-dateemployee skills, interests, and workplace preferences.
- Tactii — We do rapid prototyping on machine learning and analytics for small companies. Our main focus is to bring down the budget for small companies and startups who want to explore things in Machine Learning. Affordable Machine Learning for startups and small companies. We are partnering up with various startups and small companies.
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 168
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Skrap — Skrap is an on-demand mobile marketplace for skip hire and other waste collection services.
- Forgent AI — Forgent uses AI agents to draft tender proposals, find opportunities and coordinate teams.
- Hyphen SCS — Building India's Biggest warehousing & Fulfilment Platform
SkyVision Capital (SVC) promotes new, open decentralized technology and its development. We are a Crypto Fund that is dedicated to incubating and investing in founders of tomorrow, today.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
- GoldLink — GoldLink is a decentralized, on-chain undercollateralized lending protocol utilizing a novel and modular lending architecture to offer borrowers powerful, sophisticated investment strategies beyond anything offered in the space today.
- Spot On Chain — Spot On Chain is a leading blockchain analytics platform that provides actionable insights for traders of all levels. Our platform simplifies the process of analyzing blockchain data, making it easy for you to make smart decisions with confidence. With Spot On Chain, you can track market trends, identify emerging opportunities, and stay ahead of the competition.
Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
- Fabric — One home for your digital world. Your second brain. A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. All your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links, and files in one calm, minimal app. No organizing required. Never forget anything again.
Double Peak Group is a family office focused on investments in the digital asset and blockchain space.As one of the first family offices based out of Asia focused on digital assets, we have been deeply entrenched in the crypto space since 2017. At Double Peak, we adopt a philosophy of value investing and making key investments with a long timehorizon in early funding rounds and secondary markets. The ultimate vision is to bridge cutting-edge decentralized technologies between China and International markets.Our team consists of talented people with institutional backgrounds. Namely, investment banking, private equity, venture capital and entrepreneurship.Double Peak have invested in a multitude of areas including: Asset Management, Banking & Payments, Cross-Chain Platforms, CeFi-DeFi Bridges, Infrastructure Protocols, Investment Funds, Gaming/GameFi, NFTs, Privacy/Security, The Metaverse, Trading and Exchanges.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- OX.FUN — Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and trending altcoin derivatives on the most FUN exchange around. Join OX.FUN today and earn up to 200% yield. Moo.
- Farcana — Experience fast-paced 4v4 PvP battles in a futuristic sci-fi landscape. Compete as one of 24 Stars with unique abilities to dominate the arena.
- Access Protocol — Publish written content. Mint NFTs. Build communities on Discord & Telegram. All under a single subscription.
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