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Top 50 Publishing VC Funds in United Kingdom

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Publishing startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Publishing VC Funds in United Kingdom

Investor	Publishing United Kingdom investments
Seedcamp	3
Flow Capital	3
QVentures	3
Oxford Science Enterprises	3
Mercia Asset Management PLC	3
Connect Ventures	3
Hoxton Ventures	2
Fuel Ventures	2
Nesta Impact Investments	2
1Up Ventures	2
Initial Capital	2
LAUNCHub Ventures	2
Cambridge Angels group	2
Smedvig Capital	2
Oxford Science Enterprises	2
Creandum	2
Techstart Ventures	2
Parkwalk Advisors	2
Haitao Capital	2
Nauta Capital	2
Mobeus Equity Partners	2
Guinness Ventures	2
PROfounders Capital	2
Forward Partners	2
NJF Capital	1
Vast Ventures	1
8point8 Capital	1
Liberty City Ventures	1
Octavian Ventures	1
Digital Science	1
The Halo Fund	1
nChain Group	1
Kanosei Ventures	1
Dapper Labs	1
Dennis Publishing	1
Tiny VC	1
EQT Ventures	1
Arts Alliance	1
Octopus Ventures	1
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund	1
Spice Capital Partners	1
Andurance Ventures	1
Wing Venture Capital	1
Battery Ventures	1
Greyrock Investments	1
Clarendon Fund Managers	1
6th Man Ventures	1
Midven	1
HSBC	1
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)	1

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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.

Investment focus

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

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.

Flow Capital provides founder-friendly growth capital for companies across North America and the UK through venture debt and revenue-based financing.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Machine Learning
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Echobox — Echobox is the leading content automation platform. Businesses around the world automate the distribution of over 40 million stories each year with Echobox.
PROLIFIQ — Prolifiq is a Salesforce native account planning platform designed to help sellers close large complex accounts.
Ask.Vet — Vet24seven, Inc. introduces Ask.Vet, the online community where veterinarians engage and interact with animal owners to provide trusted, expert advice, information, & resources that help them with the care, health, and well-being of their animals. Ask.Vet was designed as the ‘go-to’ destination for the two hundred million households withanimals around the world. Questions are routed to a licensed veterinarian who is trained to educate, direct, and refer the client to a veterinarian, veterinary hospital, or other service providers nearby for diagnosis, treatment, and care. Veterinarians, clinics, and product/service providers will pay a referral free to Ask.Vet for qualified leads.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

sqcdp — We work with manufacturing clients to make paper systems redundant, introducing smart, efficient systems to capture production data through your teams.
PORTAIRE — Bring your team together and simplify your work from product discovery to procurement.
PROSPECT 100 — PROSPECT 100 is building the digital space for co-creation, democratizing the creative industries

Oxford Sciences Innovation is the world’s largest 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 companiestaking on challenges 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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Navenio — Navenio is a software technology company that provides location-based services for indoor environments via mobile applications. Its solution provides an improvement on other indoor localization technologies, having the ability to locate people without the need for implementing, managing, or surveying any new building hardware such as beacons orwi-fi. Navenio’s intelligent workforce solution unlocks significant improvements in the efficiency and workflow of staff and teams through automation that is carefully driven from real-world best practice.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Oxford, England.
Sitryx Therapeutics — Sitryx is a biopharmaceutical company focused on regulating cell metabolism to develop first-in-class disease modifying therapeutics in immuno-oncology and immuno-inflammation. The company was co-founded by a team of world-leading scientists from the United States and Europe who have contributed significantly to the field of immunometabolism.Sitryx was founded in 2018 with seed funding from SV Health Investors and raised $30 million Series A funding from an international syndicate of specialist investors including SV Health Investors, Sofinnova Partners, Longwood Fund and GSK. The company has a pipeline of projects at multiple stages of drug discovery. Sitryx is headquartered in Oxford, UK.
Oxford Quantum Circuits — Oxford Quantum Circuits developing technology using the power of quantum to do things which have never been achieved before, from enabling life-changing drug discoveries to developing new battery technologies.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Camena Bioscience — Camena Bioscience is a synthetic biology company that develops tools to engineer new synthetic biology applications. It has engineered new nucleic acid synthesis technology which improves the quality and speed of synthesis. Its multi-enzymatic technology takes one approach to DNA, RNA, and XNA synthesis, offering increased accuracy over existingPhosphoramidite synthesis technology.Camena Bioscience was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge.
Axis Spine Technologies — Axis Spine Technologies is building an expert team to develop highly differentiated products that provide meaningful improvements in patient care.
Send — We're transforming commercial insurance software with our composable SaaS platform, which seamlessly scales and flexes to cover everything your team needs.

Connect is the Product VC. We are a thesis-led, pan-European pre-seed and seed stage VC. We invest in opinionated products, crafted with love, and loved by many.We've been backing product-led founders since 2012. Our investments include Truelayer, Typeform, Oyster, Lifebit, Kheiron, Faks and Sprinque. Our specialisms cut across SaaS,fintech, consumer, digital health and Web3. Collectively, we’re passionate about the power of product to transform people’s lives.We started Connect to back companies that help create the world we want to live in, and it’s hard to change the world without scale. That's why we’re in the business of investing in outlier companies — those with the potential to create impact on a massive scale.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Torg — Sourcing made simple. Easily send requests to 100's of food and drink suppliers. Discover new products, suppliers and buyers. Negotiate the best prices
Fantix — Fantix is a no-code network of companies that work together to develop AI models. Fantix is a collaborative learning technique based on data abstraction to develop common, strong machine learning models without pooling user-level data, maintaining consumer privacy and business confidentiality.
Aikido Security — Easily discover and track all your security issues in one place with Aikido's all-in-one AppSec product.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
Baseimmune — Baseimmune data-driven vaccine design
Fluent — Fluent empowers your decision makers with AI: ask data questions directly, get insights instantly.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Eilla AI — AI Platform to Power the M&A, VC and PE Deal Workflow.
iCustoms — ClearCustoms use AI & ML to reduce 200m new annual customs declarations time
Think Cyber Security — Think Cyber Security was founded at the end of 2016 by Dr Mike Butler and Tim Ward, the ex-global heads of Information Security and Information Services respectively, from the cyber arm of BAE Systems (previously Detica). Their mission, to deliver pragmatic, user-oriented, solutions providing measurable security risk reduction.Despite a $1bnsecurity awareness market (predicted to grow to $10bn by 2027), 90% of successful cyber-attacks start with the human user. In a context where technical controls can never promise to be 100% and cyber risks involve people as much as computers, ThinkCyber offer the next generation in Security Awareness. Their RedFlags™ software product applies behavioural and learning science theory in a highly innovative approach, to provide context-sensitive just-in-time guidance – delivering secure behavioural change for their customers.

We provide financial, knowledge and network capital to innovative enterprises that are changing the world for good.

Investment focus

Education, Health Care, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia

Portfolio highlights

WeWALK — WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service.
Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
BibliU — BibliU is an innovative learning enablement platform that gives students access to the course materials they need, from etextbooks to courseware and monographs.

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

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stoke Games — Stoke Games operates as an independent gaming studio.
Talofa — A fitness battle game where you move to play!
Bazooka Tango — Bazooka Tango is a mobile gaming company.

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

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Pok Pok — Pok Pok is a low-stimulation app for kids 2-7 filled with Montessori-inspired digital toys that offer a calmer way to learn through screen time play.
Zebedee — Seamlessly weave real-money transactions into your game to improve retention and engagement.
Yoko Robotics — Yoko is the affordable personal robot chef that enables you to eat healthier, save money, and spend your valuable time on the more important things in life.

LAUNCHUB is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.
Dataworks Research SRL — Soleadify provides business data enrichment with unprecedented coverage of SMBs, accurate classification and in-depth insights based on real-time updates.Always driven by the complexity of AI and Machine Learning, we build more efficient ways of getting more data and get more out of it. Urged on reliability and complete-ness, our datasets haveyet to be beaten in terms of accuracy and classification by industry mammoths.
Kubeark — Kubeark powers scalable, rapid, and compliant SaaSification and software lifecycle management.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

zeroRISC — ZeroRISC operates as a stealth start-up making hardware security foundations transparent and trustworthy.
Albotherm — Smart transitioning coating technology - A bright idea for shade.
Five Alarm Bio — Five Alarm Bio is a drug discovery company. Five Alarm intends to use discoveries to provide secure and efficient remedies for a variety of age-related illnesses and limitations. Five Alarm Bio is creating a small molecule strategy to strengthen the body's defense against aging.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Advertising
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Masabi — Leading fare payments platform for public transport. Mobile Ticketing, Mobility as a Service, Account-Based Ticketing, Contactless Ticketing (cEMV).
Lunio — Drive performance marketing efficiency by cutting out invalid traffic across all paid marketing channels. Reach more users with the same ad spend.
DRUID — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.

Oxford Science Enterprises a university-partnered venture firm, investing in early-stage life science, AI & software, and deep tech.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Archangel Lightworks — Archangel Lightworks is integrating space and air assets using laser communication.
Grey Wolf Therapeutics — By targeting the ERAP proteases in the antigen presentation pathway Grey Wolf aims to change the neoantigen repertoire in cancer.
Quantum Motion — One Hundred Qubits is Interesting. One Million is World-changing

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Seed
Sweden, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
atla — Advance the potential and safety of AI
Kosmik — Kosmik is the visual canvas for knowledge management. Kosmik allows you to write, create large media collections, browse the web and share it all with your team! No more folders, bookmarks or infinite message threads.

Techstart Ventures is a leading investor of seed capital across Scotland and Northern Ireland. they are a trusted partner to ambitious founders on their journey to success.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Enzai — Enzai's AI governance platform allows you to build and deploy AI with confidence. Measure your progress in AI responsibility, and get actionable steps with our 3-minute maturity assessment.
Sensoteq — We specialise in wireless sensor solutions for remote machine health monitoring. Sensoteq's technology enables predictive maintenance of industrial applications, preventing costly downtime and increasing efficiency.
Continuum Industries — Continuum Industries is a developer of Optioneer, the leading software for linear infrastructure optioneering.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Mogrify — Mogrify is pioneering a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapy and transforming the development of ex vivo cell therapy.
Adsilico — Adsilico redefines medical device innovation.
Wayland Additive — Wayland Additive Limited is a West-Yorkshire based company pushing the boundaries of electron beam 3D printing. Wayland’s goal is to develop, manufacture and sell metal Additive Manufacturing (“AM” – 3D printing) machines to industrial end-users such as major players in the aerospace and medical industries.

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

Investment focus

Software, Education, Blockchain
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
China, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Aggregion — Our vision for Aggregion is ambitious, but simple: a universal license processing platform that allows all business participants (copyright holders, distributors, channels, and end customers) to seamlessly interact within a single trusted environment. The idea is similar to the Visa/Mastercard model, except Aggregion’s primary area of focus ison licenses, rights and rules. Aggregion develops the back-end which is able to provide technology, network and governance for any type of licensing transactions, and integrating any external systems via API as needed.
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!

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Series B
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

airfocus — airfocus is the first modular product management software: Manage and communicate your product strategy, prioritize your roadmap, and solve the right problems.
ESPROFILER — ESProfiler is an enterprise platform that empowers CISOs to prioritise threats, optimise spend & continuously maximise return on investment
NumberEight — Privacy-friendly mobile app monetization and analytics for app publishers, ad suppliers and SSPs. Know your users with intelligent first party data: specialized mobex AI for contextual advertising.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Retail
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Intralink — Your international expansion made fast, easy and cost effective
Lace Partners — LACE Partners are a leading HR and Payroll transformation consultancy. We're able to support organisations with strategy through to execution.
Ellis Recruitment Group — Ellis Recruitment Group provides specialist IT staff to enterprises across the world. Through our four brands, we provide an unparalled recruitment service.

The Guinness Ventures team have been investing in early-stage businesses since 2010.Guinness EIS provides scale-up capital to private companies and Guinness AIM EIS invests in AIM-listed companies.We invest in outstanding entrepreneurs and businesses with disruptive and ambitious growth plans. We have successfully supported the growth of over100 companies since 2010 and are always excited to meet passionate entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Doctify — Doctify is capturing the voice of patients. Read over hundreds of thousands of verified reviews for your specialist, dentist, hospital or care home.
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!
Obrizum — Changing the future of eLearning with OBRIZUM, using Ai to create Automated, Adaptive, and Analytic eLearning.

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

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Travel
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Smiler — Memorable experiences deserve to be captured in high quality. We make it happen. Valuable memories in high quality, for everyone, everywhere.
Frontnow — Frontnow is redefining e-commerce with AI, providing businesses with powerful pre-sales tools to maximize core KPIs and provide an in-store-like shopping experience. Our vision is to transform online shopping into a dynamic, hyper-personalized, and inspirational experience through an adaptive interface. By revolutionizing the ecosystem, theyempower businesses to thrive in the digital age and significantly impact the way customers shop online, leading to a more profitable and customer-centric retail world.
Scaleup Finance — Improve your financial management

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

PocDoc — PocDoc is a pioneer in the field of smartphone-based fast disease testing.
OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe safeguards critical infrastructure with AIoT devices, enhancing asset health and security while reducing cloud data transfers.
APEXX — The APEXX payment gateway consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.

NJF Capital is the venture capital arm of NJF Holdings, founded by investor and entrepreneur Nicole Junkermann.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bioptimus — Our mission is to build the first universal AI foundation model for biology to fuel breakthrough discoveries and accelerate innovations in biomedicine and beyond.
Pesto — Pesto is a San Francisco-based fintech business that recently released the Pesto Mastercard a next-generation asset-backed secured credit card.
Evolv AI — Evolv AI is the first AI-led experience optimization platform that recommends, builds, deploys and optimizes testing ideas for you.

Vast Ventures they invest in consumer brands, AI and cloud software, and more.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Advertising
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Base — Base is a membership organization that brings together outstanding minds such as innovators, artists, and eccentrics from all backgrounds and industries for personalized social activities.
Juno Medical — Juno Medical offers comprehensive, modern healthcare services for the whole family. Transparent pricing, inclusive and welcoming atmosphere. Learn more.
Florence — Gain capacity to care. Maximize clinical capacity, reduce administrative burden, expand access, and increase patient satisfaction.

8point8 Capital specialises in Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A funding of high growth UK businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sensat — Access a backdrop of the real world to overlay plans, test options & spot constraints from your desktop. Bring teams onto the same page using one project view.
MeVitae — end-to-end D&I recruiting tools straight into your application tracking system to combat unconscious and algorithmic bias
Square Root Soda — Square Root are craft soft drinks made from fresh fruit. We want to make the best non-alcoholic drinks like a G&T, a Negroni Spritz and other unusual flavours so we make them in our own soda brewery in London. You can be sure the drinks contain less sugar, more flavour & we're always innovating! Buy online now.

Liberty City Ventures is a seed-stage fund headquartered in New York City. They invest in startups that are innovating at the cross-sections of technology, media, and commerce. Liberty City Ventures began operations in the summer of 2012 and is led by experienced technology executives and investors.They start backing promising startups at anearly stage so they can provide value and resources throughout their lifetime and fuel further growth. They commit a percentage of each partner’s time to provide value-added services to their portfolio companies using our expertise in PR, marketing, management, and operations.In addition to its general fund, Liberty City Ventures also has a dedicated Digital Currency Fund with a focus on Bitcoin. They invest in and support companies that are building the infrastructure, products, and services that will become the foundation of a new digital currency.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Fuze — Embedded digital asset capabilities for financial institutions. Digital asset infrastructure - purpose-built for the Middle East.
Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
mmERCH — Non-Fungible Fashion. Bringing generative design to fashion, we code, cut, and curate one-of-one for everyone across the digital, physical, and virtual.

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

Investment focus

Video, Software, Automotive
Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

Digital Science is a technology company serving the needs of scientific research. They provide software that makes the research process simpler and more efficient so that everyone can work smart and discover more. Their technology helps solve problems for researchers, institutions, publishers and funders.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Grant, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

OntoChem — OntoChem is an IT company that provides services such as customizable text analysis and data mining products.
Intoolab — Intoolab is an A.I. biomedicine platform where Pharmas and Universities go to use the first Artificial Bioscientist called Tzager that takes advantage of Bayesian Networks to emulate how humans think.
CC Technology — Flexible and innovative support for the whole grants lifecycle with specialist modules for research funding needs.

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.

Investment focus

Publishing, Video, Software
Series A, Angel, Series C
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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 mathematics skills & confidence with short regular learning & practice sessions. Try Komodo Free. Designed by teachers for families.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Software
Corporate Round, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

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.

WEB3

Investment focus

Fashion, Blockchain, Publishing
Seed, Pre-Seed
Croatia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ARTISANT — ARTISANT - Web3 fashion creative space and community for artists, designers and brands. Create, trade and use digital fashion NFTs
CYBR Magazine — Buy issues of CYBR Magazine the futurist magazine curating futurism, technology and techwear.
Tribute Brand — 51K Followers, 2 Following, 227 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from TRIBUTE BRAND (@tribute_brand)

Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Antic — Antic develops a digital assets platform that builds foundations of a shared ownership economy by helping people collaborate, coordinate and earn together as a group, enabling users to own digital assets collectively and empower groups to purchase together what they could not alone, seamlessly.
Yoz Labs — Save time, streamline your development, and reach users on their preferred channels
Spexi Geospatial Inc. — An intuitive and collaborative platform for drone-based data

We are Future, the global platform for specialist media, home to some of the world's most popular media brands and expert content.

Investment focus

Publishing, Digital Media
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Contentment Ltd — Publishers and brands use our award winning platform, Padify, to create beautiful app, adverts and digital magazines for mobile and tablet. We’re based in Shoreditch, London.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Transmutex SA — Producing clean energy from nuclear waste is the challenge Transmutex is taking on. Based on experimentaly validated science from CERN in Geneva.
mixedbread ai — mixedbread.ai offers simple text embedding generation, designed to enhance the developing experience in your AI projects.
Yacheng Network — Yacheng Network is a provider of information technology and software services that specializes in offering these services.

EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totalling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than justcapital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totalling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totalling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris and San Francisco, taking a locals with locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures' in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Seed
Sweden, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fly.io — Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers easily. The company's application delivery network uses a global network of servers to accept visitor traffic, run middleware on requests, then route them to backend applications, enabling website owners to direct theirvisitors to their respective sites securely and in a few clicks.
Verkor — Verkor is a battery cell manufacturer whose goal is to increase the production of low-carbon batteries to fulfill the growing demand for electric vehicles. The company focuses on the development of low-carbon batteries with a carbon footprint that is many times smaller than standard batteries. This reduces the logistics footprint, includingemissions, and provides businesses with batteries that are very inexpensive and use carbon-free electricity.
Volt.io — Increase retention and digital sales by allowing your customers to initiate direct payments, from their bank accounts to yours in real-time. Your checkout in super-drive, powered by Volt.

Arts Alliance is a venture capital organisation supporting a growing network of entrepreneurs. They have a "hands on approach" to investment and provide both creative talent and strategic advice to Portfolio Companies in the technology and services, and communications sectors.

Investment focus

Advertising, Mobile, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Spoonshot — Spoonshot's technology leverages food science and artificial intelligence to predict consumer tastes and food trends. We've built our several solutions from this core technology to solve some of the food & beverage industry's key challenges.
Aprila Bank — Aprila is a product- and technology company offering innovative financial solutions to small and medium sized businesses. Aprila’s API-based technology platform is connected to around 130,000 SMEs through partnership agreements with leading online accounting systems and other relevant system providers.
Growth Street — Growth Street offers UK businesses a faster alternative to bank overdrafts.They see that many growing businesses need flexibility to manage their cashflow. Whether it’s managing the seasonal cycle of business or balancing invoice payments against outgoings, managing cashflow can take a lot of time, focus and energy. Often balancing the booksmeans delaying payments, leaning on suppliers or juggling costs, which can suck up your time, put pressure on your supplier relationships and generally make businesses less efficient.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
Awell Health — Ollie is a vast library of over 100 interface blocks with complete Webflow CMS integration. Build beautiful websites in less time than ever.
Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) is an initiative launched by the government-owned British Business Bank.It is a key part of the government’s ‘Northern Powerhouse’ vision, which aims to end the historic North / South divide and create economic prosperity in the North of England on par with London and the South East.Thegovernment firmly believes that SMEs form the foundation of the region’s future growth. NPIF therefore aims to nurture regional entrepreneurship by providing investment and support for small and medium businesses between 2016 and 2021. NPIF's funding will support new and growing SMEs, create jobs and encourage and attract additional private sector investment.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sitehop — Sitehop is a technology company creating innovative solutions for cyber-security and networking. Sitehop utilizes its custom FPGA solutions to optimize and accelerate cloud/telco networks.
Cellerate — Cellerate is a pioneer in the development and manufacturing of advanced automated solutions for battery research and technology scaling. They specialize in developing engineering solutions that improve the quality, performance, and endurance of energy storage systems, thereby promoting a more sustainable future. Our cutting-edge portfolio includessystems for automated material handling, tailored cell assembly, and industrial processing.
Robinvalley — Here in Robin Valley we pride ourselves on Eco-friendly handmade jewellery because it never goes out of style. Our sustainable and playful jewellery collections, from animals to plants, art music to science, daily life to fantasy. No matter what hobbies or interests we have something for you.

Investment advisory services dedicated to family funds

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Blockchain, Publishing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

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!

Andurance Ventures is an independent technology venture capital firm based in London, founded by Nicolas Granatino and Pierre Andurand. Andurance Ventures is focused on digital media, content management and knowledge economy enabler start-ups in the converging consumer and enterprise ecosystems.

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Video Streaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Neolithe — Néolithe transforms non-recyclable waste into mineral aggregates.
Massa — The decentralized and scaled blockchain
Novaquark — Dual Universe is a single-shard sandbox MMO focusing on emergent gameplay, and developed by Novaquark for PC.You believe in a future where games will become more than games, but rather places where meaningful adventures and learning will take place. They believe that these collective online experiences will fill more and more of their free time,becoming more and more real. They believe that fun is the future of work.

Wing Venture Capital primarily invests in technology-based businesses. It emphasizes craftsmanship over volume and engages deeply with founders to help them build companies that matter. The body of work of Wing's team spans more than two decades and dozens of successful early-stage companies, 21 of which went on to achieve billion-dollar-plusoutcomes following IPOs or acquisitions. Its portfolio companies include Cohesity, Gong, Instart Logic, Juvo, Moogsoft, Palerra, Shape Security, and Snowflake.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
Gradient — A centralized data platform that enables full organizational observability. Find and manage everything that's going on with your team, products, and customers.
Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.

Battery Ventures is a global investment firm that focuses on technology. Battery invests in potentially, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Orkes — Orkes Cloud, built on Conductor, simplifies the creation, execution and scaling of distributed business flows that integrate internal and external micro-services.
Opal Security — Trusted by world-class companies, Opal enables companies to accelerate approval workflows, automate least privilege without custom code, and make SOC-2 a breeze!
Mobius Institute — Mobius Institute helps CBM and reliability practitioners, leaders, and partners through training, certification, conferences, and educational websites

Greyrock is a private investment company focused on education and technology.

Investment focus

Education, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series D, Series A
Australia, United States, Bermuda

Portfolio highlights

Go1 — GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.
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!

Clarendon Fund Managers is a venture capital fund manager based in Belfast, focused on co-investments with business angel and private investor lead deals. It manages £42.5m of regional VC Funds in Northern Ireland including the £30m Co-Investment Fund and has invested in over 60 companies since it began investing in 2001.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Security
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Angoka — ANGOKA is an IoT security company focused on protecting M2M communications for Smart Cities and Mobility. Headquartered in Belfast, with offices in London and The Hague, ANGOKA offers solutions that protect devices’ identities. With an increase of inherently insecure networks coming online with the boom of IoT, ANGOKA’s solutions safeguard criticalmachine-to-machine communication integrity and data provenance, creating trusted connections, even in untrustworthy networks.ANGOKA is the only cybersecurity company to win a place on Zenzic’s CAM Scale-Up Programme, delivered in partnership with Plug and Play. ANGOKA was also the first NI start-up to be selected for NCSC’s Cyber Accelerator, who reviewed and assessed ANGOKA’s technology. ANGOKA is also an alumnus of Seraphim Space Camp, Yes!Delft and TechNation Cyber 2.0. Finally, ANGOKA has been awarded several Innovate UK R&D projects, which focus on securing quantum communications (led by BT) and two drone projects.
Surgery Hero — We combine expert human care, individually-tailored content and cutting edge tech to empower people to take control of their health so they can conquer their surgery.
Rock Extraction — Rock Extraction is developing a cleantech alternative to explosives.

6th Man Ventures is an early stage crypto VC firm investing in web3 applications & infrastructure6MV was born from a love of web3 in practice and principle, founded and run by a group who both see the potential and actively work to bring projects to life every day. That makes us incredible partners to have on your journey.6th Man Ventureswas established in March 2021 in New York, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Claim — Claim is a social application that allows users to earn and trade rewards with friends. It also connects friends through their favorite brands and for brands to reward their customers. Its application enables friends to earn cash back, exchange rewards, and redeem together by shopping at their favorite brands.
Scallop — Scallop is the pioneering Next Generation peer-to-peer Web3 Decentralized Finance lending Money Market.
Cube Group — Cube is the world's fastest crypto exchange. Built by and for traders, Cube is the most liquid, secure and advanced cryptocurrency exchange.

Midven is a specialist venture capital company providing investment to fast growing small and medium sized enterprises ("SMEs"), run by an energetic, experienced and hands-on team of investment managers.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

MetCloud — METCLOUD is a next generation, cyber security & cloud platform provider. Contact our team today for pioneering cyber security solutions!
When in Rome — We bring you craft wines made by small, independent producers and sold in convenient, eco-friendly bag-in-boxes at a great price with free delivery.
Medmin Group Limited — Medmin is building a group of healthcare businesses that will transform private medical treatment for the uninsured and the clinicians that treat them. We are developing a network of clinics across the UK, grouping clinicians together into branded, condition focussed clinics that patients can easily identify online. The clinics will provide care toour "Get Well Soon" patients and also undertake work for insured and self-pay patients requiring other procedures and treatments.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
United Kingdom, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Minute Media — We are a digital-first media company with a global footprint, bringing passion to life with proprietary technology that powers best-in-class content and advertising partnerships.
Neoen — Neoen is an independent energy company, develops, finances, builds, and operates power plants based on renewable energies in France, Portugal, Australia, Mexico, Egypt, and El Salvador. It operates solar, wind, and biomass power plants. The company, through its subsidiaries, also specializes in the development of marine renewable energy projects inFrance; supports photovoltaic project developers and investors in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of solar power plants in France and abroad; and develops solar and wind farms.
MioTech — MioTech is an artificial intelligence platform that empowers investment managers to better serve their clients in a world of complex data. By integrating and analyzing data from all types of sources, MioTech streamlines the entire investment process, creating an ultimate data-driven investing experience. MioTech has offices in Shanghai and HongKong.MioTech is backed by Horizons Ventures, ZhenFund, and prestigious individual investors around the world.

Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created by founders for founders to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Indemn — Buy insurance online
Aster — Aster provides all-in-one patient management software for private practices, focussed on women's health. Serving OB/GYNs, Midwives, NPs, Doulas, Lactation Consultants and more..
Ecotone Renewables — Ecotone Renewables empowers communities to achieve sustainability through innovation and climate-smart practices.

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