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Top 50 Publishing VC Funds & Investors in United Kingdom (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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 Seed, Series A or Series B 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
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
Flow Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning $311k–$3.8M
QVentures
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $125k–$3.9M
Seedcamp
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, SaaS
Mercia Asset Management
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund
2 Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $55k–$59M
Haitao Capital
VC Fund
2 China, United States, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Apps, Education $120k–$4.7M
a16z Scout Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $250k–$8.5M
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
Guinness Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Australia Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $3.8M–$15M
Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $382k–$9.5M
1Up Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, Video Games, Online Games $400k–$55M
Forward Partners
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $42k–$17M
Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $1.2M–$45M
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
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
Smedvig Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Sweden, United States Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$30M
Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $313k–$24M
Nesta Impact Investments
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia Seed, Series A Education, Health Care, SaaS $262k–$10M
Creandum
VC Fund
2 Sweden, Germany, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.8M–$87M
PROfounders Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Apps, Travel
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2.1M–$44M
Nauta Capital
VC Fund
2 Spain, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Mobile $1.1M–$27M
Tiny VC
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
CMT Digital Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Clarendon Fund Managers
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
Los Angeles Media Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom Convertible Note, Seed Publishing, Internet, Software $17M–$17M
24 Haymarket
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $714k–$16M
Emerge VC
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Education, EdTech, Software $33k–$22M
Ithaka
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom EBooks, EdTech, Education
nChain Group
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Spain Corporate Round, Seed Blockchain, Information Technology, Software
Notion Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Perivoli Innovations
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Kenya, South Africa Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device $1.4M–$26M
SAATCHiNVEST
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Peru Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Apps $400k–$55M
Mobeus Equity Partners
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States Series A, Private Equity Software, Information Technology, Retail $2.8M–$22M
SoftBank Group
VC Fund
1 United States, China, India Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Advertising $2M–$75M
SyndicateRoom
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, India Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Health Care, Software, Medical $244k–$2.7M
10X Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, FinTech $900k–$36M
EOS VC Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Grant, Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, Gaming $50k–$30M
Knight Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, China, Spain Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $3M–$38M
1745 Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Advertising, Artificial Intelligence $1.3M–$30M
BACKED VC
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A Software, Blockchain, Biotechnology $2M–$59M
Redbus Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Australia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, E-Commerce, Health Care $42k–$23M
Equinox Systems
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom Seed, Series A Mobile, Retail, Publishing
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tiny VC
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups, 16 in the past 12 months

Backing great companies when they're tiny

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
  • Paper — Paper is an digital canvas designed to help designers create and organize their work.
  • Outcome — TeamOS makes team dependencies visible, speeds up blocker resolution, and offers actionable insights into bottlenecks
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CMT Digital Ventures
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups, 20 in the past 12 months

An exciting new iteration of our website is coming soon. CMT Digital is a blockchain and digital assets focused subsidiary of the CMT Group, a 24 year-old trading and investments firm. The CMT Group has operated as a valued partner to entrepreneurs, traders, and technologists

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • CFX Labs — Technology, relationships, and compliance leadership in service of consumer safety & protection.
  • Cryptoworth — Cryptoworth is a cryptocurrency solution and consultancy company working hard at the intersection of cryptocurrencies, blockchains, business and people to better-serve the fin-tech industry. Cryptoworth was created to reduce the complexity of cryptocurrency adoption, usage, and management. Cryptoworth provides the best cryptocurrency and blockchainsolutions for use cases spanning from single users to large institutions.
  • Trident Digital — Trident Digital is restoring market liquidity by providing the next-generation digital asset platform that addresses issues with access, security, and capital efficiency. It allows lenders and borrowers to connect transparently and not rely on a central counterparty.
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Clarendon Fund Managers
VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

We ensure that businesses in Northern Ireland with growth aspirations can access equity finance to reach their potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • StimOxyGen — StimOxyGen specializes in developing innovative, pH-responsive nanoparticles designed to generate oxygen in hypoxic tumors. This technology aims to enhance the effectiveness of cancer treatments such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy by addressing tumor hypoxia, a significant clinical challenge. F
  • 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.
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Los Angeles Media Fund
VC Fund · West Hollywood, California, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Los Angeles Media Fund is a leading entertainment and media company involved in producing and financing feature films, unscripted and scripted television, sports, music, theatre, and live events.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Convertible Note, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Convertible Note $17M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rizzle — Revolutionizing video creation with AI-powered solutions. Syndicate globally and turn your content into revenue.
  • 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
  • Rizzle — Rizzle helps publishers turn articles into editorial-grade video produced by expert editors, then distribute and monetize them across major platforms.
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24 Haymarket
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

24Haymarket is an investment network which included several highly-experienced private equity and venture capital investors, seasoned entrepreneurs, and senior operators. Investing up to £5 million in growth companies in the UK and Europe. They invested their own capital in direct alignment with entrepreneurs and actively support their growthagenda and join the board of the companies in which they invest. Since inception in 2011, 24Haymarket has invested in more than 50 high-growth businesses.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $714k–$3.8M; Series A $1.6M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DefiniGEN — Generate metabolic disease phenotypes in primary-like human cells using the best-in-class human iPSC differentiation platform. Find out more here!
  • Previsico — Discover Previsico's real-time flood forecasting solutions, designed to mitigate risks for businesses and communities worldwide.
  • Kelda Technology — Kelda Technology is a British clean tech business that develops water-in-air shower products that halve water usage and water heating costs through patented shower technology. Kelda Technology has adapted cutting edge automotive and aerospace technology to produce a revolutionary “water-in-air” shower system that halves water use without any lossin performance. Water is broken into droplets to form a comfortable spray which is accelerated using a globally patented jet-type nozzle. Not only does it halve water costs, but also halves associated heating costs.The Kelda shower system holds appeal for a wide range of sectors, including gym and leisure, hotels and accommodation providers, healthcare, and maritime – all industries where water efficiency is key. The product has completed in-market validation and commercial trials, is in manufacture and the company has already signed installation deals with some of the largest leisure operators in the UK and Latin America.Kelda Technology was recently chosen as one of the top 30 cleantech companies in the world at the New Energy Start-Up awards 2016 and was this week shortlisted by the UK Business Angels Association for Best Investment in a Disruptive Tech Business.
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Emerge VC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Emerge is a $70m pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best edtech and future of work founders and executives. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders re-designing the future of learning and work.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $53k–$8M; Pre-Seed $33k–$3.2M; Series A $5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • VARM — Varm provides efficient insulation for energy saving and comfort.
  • 5U AI — 5U AI gives freight teams an AI workforce that's connected across multiple communication channels to understand, reason and act on data.
  • Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.
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Ithaka
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

We are a mission-based not-for-profit working to eliminate barriers to learning by making higher education and access to knowledge more affordable.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EBooks, EdTech, Education
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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nChain Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups, 6 in the past 12 months

A global tech company offering software, IP Licensing & consulting services. Providing Blockchain solutions and products. Bitcoin SV.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Asset Layer — Asset Layer operates as a digital asset platform powered by blockchain.
  • Planetary Metaverse — Planetary Metaverse is a modern mobile app that combines a metaverse platform with social networking layer.
  • Universal Plastic — Universal Plastic is tech platform to quantify, audit, and notorise data from plastic waste collections.
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Notion Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups, 23 in the past 12 months

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 242
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Orus — L'assurance professionnelle que vous attendiez. Plus juste, rapide, simple et humaine. Souscrivez en 5 minutes et recevez votre attestation sous 48 heures.
  • Zango — Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight.
  • OpenTrade — OpenTrade providers web3 treasurers, institutions, and accredited investors access to on-chain structured financial products backed by investment grade RWAs.
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Perivoli Innovations
VC Fund · St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Perivoli Innovations is a venture investment Trust established in 2016 by the Perivoli Trust. It donates profits to the Perivoli Foundation, a UK Charity, whose principal focus is Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4.3M; Series A $1.4M–$12M; Series B $2.8M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
  • African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.
  • Downforce Technologies — Downforce Technologies is a pioneering leader in science-led, data-driven land management solutions focused on optimising soil health, soil organic carbon levels and biodiversity. With over 30% of the world's soil already degraded, urgent action is needed to address this pressing global challenge. Our platform offers a complete,high-resolution view of the land's carbon profile, enabling precise analysis and site-specific strategies for optimizing carbon levels.
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SAATCHiNVEST
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Discover M+C Saatchi Group, a leading global creative agency specializing in innovative advertising, branding, and marketing solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Peru

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$2.6M; Series A $4.2M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • unrd — unrd is creating a new genre of entertainment by combining Hollywood quality plots with mobile storytelling techniques.
  • Dataseat (now part of Verve Group) — Dataseat provides app and game marketers with the tools they need for programmatic success in the privacy-centric ad landscape.
  • Touchcast — Touchcast specializes in providing a generative web platform that integrates content creation, management, and distribution. Its products include Genything, a generative media orchestration layer; Ciscape, a generative content management system; and CogCache, a cognitive CDN that optimizes AI model operations. The platform supports industries suchas financial services, automotive, e‑commerce, learning & development, and public service by enabling conversational interfaces and immersive experiences. It offers no‑code workflows to ingest existing content, customize interactions, and monitor engagement with built‑in analytics. The company maintains integration partnerships to streamline deployment and infrastructure management.
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Mobeus Equity Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 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, Private Equity
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$7.5M; Private Equity $13M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $155M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Preservica — Ensure compliance and longevity with our Digital Preservation software. Secure your organization's valuable records.
  • Buster + Punch — Buster + Punch is a London-born home fashion label. We work with rare, solid materials to make extraordinary items for everyday use. It all started in a garage in East London where we discovered a passion for making the things we love. From lighting and hardware to custom motorcycles and whisky bars, we now make unexpected and elegant interiorproducts for those who want to live with conviction. Our work is inspired by London's fashion, music and sub-culture scenes where we collaborate with street artists, bike builders, musicians and fashion designers to inject attitude into our crafted products.
  • ActiveNav — Get the full picture of all your unstructured data. Identify sensitive data, optimize storage, enhance your data privacy, and comply with regulations.
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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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SyndicateRoom
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Seed $360k–$2.7M; Equity Crowdfunding $244k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ManaMind — Human-like testing at machine scale. ManaMind delivers fully autonomous QA testing for video games - zero-shot, no code access, infinitely scalable.
  • Xperiome — Match research-ready members to clinical and real-world studies, faster and smarter than ever before through data-driven insights into the rare disease experience.
  • Joyvié — Joyvié Health designs medical continence products focused on managing severe faecal incontinence. The company is developing a patent-pending class of non-invasive faecal management briefs that prevent stool from contacting the skin. By separating waste from the body, the underwear aims to lower the risk of skin breakdown and secondary infectionwhile reducing the physical and emotional strain on caregivers. Joyvié Health works with care providers to pilot its products in real-world care environments and gather clinical and user feedback. Its offering is intended for adults with continence needs in institutional and home care settings, and for professionals responsible for continence care. The company also engages with investors and partners to advance product development and clinical evaluation.
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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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EOS VC Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Galaxy Digital is a NYC-based multi-strategy investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Gaming
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6M; Grant $50k–$50k; Series A $1.7M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wyden — Wyden is an institutional trading platform for banks and brokers, unifying digital asset execution, treasury, settlement, accounting, and connectivity through a single platform.
  • Timeless — Buy shares in exclusive assets such as rare sneakers, watches & luxury cars from as little as €50 per share (incl. VAT).
  • Stableton Financial — Explore private blue-chip tech investment opportunities with Stableton. Diversify your portfolio with top private tech companies, offering liquidity, transparency, and growth potential.
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Knight Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Knight Capital is helping founders from series A to series B and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, China, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$15M; Series B $11M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iDWELL — iDWELL (www.idwell.com) is a revolutionary CRM cloud software and tenant app, especially designed for the next generation of real estate management. It enables the automation of routine processes, and bundles as well as optimizes all communication between the stakeholders of a property, including service providers, asset managers, landlords,tenants and property managers. Currently, more than 750,000 apartment units are managed with the assistance of iDWELL.The iDWELL ticketing system and the connected tenant app automates routine maintenance tasks with regards to handling and reporting damages. This allows iDWELL customers to focus on more important and revenue-generating tasks. The iDWELL marketplace provides further opportunities to service tenants and landlords while generating revenue.
  • Dealroom.co — Dealroom helps professional investors, corporates and local governments to discover & track innovative tech companies.
  • Plan4 Software — PLAN4 Software GmbH was founded to assist YOU in digitizing your business. The combination of years of experience as an architect and the innovative mindset of a software company enables us to help you with your daily challenges. Our solutions are simple, effective and time-saving, so you have more time for the really important tasks of everydayarchitects.
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1745 Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Part of media company Bertelsmann, BDMI initially invests $100k to $4m in seed and early stage digital media startups in online video, nextgen publishing and pubtech/adtech.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 212
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Series A $3.2M–$20M; Series B $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $63M in 2006

Portfolio highlights

  • Mojiva — Mojiva Inc. is the parent company of the Mojiva, the mobile ad network and the Mocean Mobile, the mobile ad serving platform. It is led by a team of advertising and media veterans from Google, DoubleClick, Yahoo, Nokia and AdMob, with more than 100 years of collective experience in mobile marketing and technology.Mojiva, Inc. provides productsand solutions that not only fuel the mobile advertising marketplace by bringing mobile ad buyers together with mobile content sellers, but that also solve unique challenges in the mobile marketing space. Solutions include tools to market your products and services to mobile users, monetize your mobile content, enable your global ad sales team to capitalize on an expanded media mix, control your inventory, or mobilize the brands your agency is working with.
  • Sensity AI — Sensity AI thanks to an all-in-one approach can guarantee the best deepfake detection software capabilities currently available in the marketplace
  • Fractional AI — AI transformation. Powered by engineering excellence.
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BACKED VC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups, 10 in the past 12 months

BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders, at Seed, in Europe. We provide founders with an extensive support system to catalyse their development as a company operators and leaders. Through our Founder Experience Platform and energetic portfolio community we help entrepreneurs across all areas of a startup:from talent management to business development, further fundraising and international expansion.Founded in 2015 by partners Andre de Haes and Alex Brunicki, we invest across sectors including BioTech, Entertainment, Financial Services, Industry 4.0 and more. Investments to date include Hutch, Pollen, Thought Machine, LabGenius, THIS, Enterprise Alumni, and many more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.7M; Series A $5.5M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Ruka — We celebrate Black women and create hair products designed with real textures in mind.
  • GingerControl — GingerControl is the AI audit layer for global trade spend. It re-reasons every duty decision, reconciles purchase orders to entries, and audits freight charges in customs value, then recovers the leakage, in every market you trade in.
  • Round Finance — On the verge of excellence.
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Redbus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Round size: Seed $655k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $42k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SOLVE — SOLVE have developed novel transient flow techniques that extend the capabilities of current approaches. SOLVE’s products leverage technology for the efficient collection of data from chemical reactions, as well as predictive computational models tuned based on the collected data. Both the data by itself, as well as the models, are used to informthe reaction conditions and solvent mixtures applied to manufacture chemical compounds at different scales of production.
  • Tolemy Bio — The AI-native virtual cell platform for therapeutic development and manufacture.
  • Nila Elder Care — With Nila's certified carers, your family back home receives compassionate, professional support, so you never have to worry from afar
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Equinox Systems
VC Fund · Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States · 1 investments in United Kingdom Publishing startups

Equinox Systems is a aesigner and marketer of server-based communications products. The company provides products and software that support serial device connectivity.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Retail, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ordo — The Complete Omni - Channel Retail solution, helping independents be better than ever.
  • 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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Publishing VC funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 184 deals from 222 investors.

222
investors
in United Kingdom Publishing startups
184
deals
in United Kingdom Publishing startups
$2.7M
median round
in United Kingdom Publishing startups
45%
lead investors
lead at least one round
30%
Seed
most common funding stage

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