Top 50 Publishing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in January 2026

Investor	Publishing United Kingdom investments
Seedcamp	3
Connect Ventures	3
Flow Capital	3
QVentures	3
Oxford Science Enterprises	3
Ariadne Capital Limited	3
Mercia Asset Management	3
Oxford Science Enterprises	2
Parkwalk Advisors	2
Octopus Ventures	2
Guinness Ventures	2
Cambridge Angels group	2
LAUNCHub Ventures	2
Nesta Impact Investments	2
Mobeus Equity Partners	2
Guinness Ventures	2
Nauta Capital	2
1Up Ventures	2
Techstart Ventures	2
PROfounders Capital	2
Smedvig Ventures	2
Hoxton Ventures	2
Initial Capital	2
Creandum	2
DC Thomson Ventures	2
Haitao Capital	2
Fuel Ventures	2
Forward Partners	2
Wing Venture Capital	1
Miroma Ventures	1
NJF Capital	1
Foreword Fund	1
Holtzbrinck Digital	1
6th Man Ventures	1
Dapper Labs	1
Double Peak Group	1
HSBC	1
Angel Investment Network	1
a41 Ventures	1
V Ventures	1
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)	1
Techemy Capital	1
Calculus Capital	1
Digital Science	1
Wing Venture Capital	1
Everywhere Ventures	1
Mediahuis	1
Tiny VC	1
Octavian Ventures	1
Clarendon Fund Managers	1

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ewake — Ewake.ai is your AI Production Teammate that seamlessly integrates with your production environment to bring reliability proactively and reactively. Never miss the heartbeat of your systems with our ambient agent for production reliability.
Nexcade — Bringing intelligent automation to Freight Forwarding. Nexcade builds agents that meet forwarders where they work today- cutting through noise, accelerating descisions, and helping teams win more business.
ai-coustics — ai|coustics is pioneering innovative audio algorithms based on AI and Deep Learning models and fundamentally improving the capabilities of Speech Audio Enhancement in digital communication and media content.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Meysey — Increase your company's resilience to fraud with Meysey today. We seamlessly plug into Xero to perform vital checks and governance across your commercial eco-system.
Renewabl — Renewabl is the platform that allows companies to meet their decarbonisation targets quickly and efficiently by matching renewable energy certificates directly from hydro, wind and solar on a 24/7-hour basis.
Astronome AI — Astronome AI is a company that provides streamlined IT management for SMEs, powered by AI.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kneu Health — Kneu Health transforms smart phones into clinical-grade monitors to keep a tab on neurological conditions like Parkinson’s and dementia.
Oath Surgical — High quality outpatient surgical care. That's our Oath. Oath provides patients with access to high quality, lower cost surgical care in premium and convenient outpatient settings.
Wild Bioscience — Wild Bioscience is a crop improvement company that provides carbon mitigation, yield enhancement, and farm productivity solutions.

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.

Investment focus

Publishing, Mobile, Digital Marketing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FluoRok — By employing our patented technology, we can produce fluorochemicals without the production of toxic and highly dangerous hydrofluoric acid
Neu Health — Neu Health enables clinicians, care givers and patients to tackle this growing challenge with cutting-edge digital technologies designed to make the latest care accessible for all, improving outcomes today and accelerating future breakthroughs.
Salience Labs — Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high-throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designedto exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and the University of Münster, Germany.

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

Brainomix — Since launching as a spin-out from the University of Oxford in 2010, Brainomix has developed award-winning, AI-powered imaging biomarkers, assisting physicians across the world to make better life-saving decisions. Brainomix seminal product, e-Stroke is a collection of tools that use state-of-the-art AI algorithms to support doctors by providingreal-time interpretation of brain scans to help guide treatment and transfer decisions for stroke patients, allowing more patients to get the right treatment, in the right place, at the right time.
Ceryx Medical — Ceryx Medical Ltd are the revolutionary business behind a unique bioelectronic technology that could change the way diseases such as heart failure are treated.
Enhanc3D Genomics — Enhanc3D Genomics is a spinout company from Babraham Institute.

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, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Baselime — Use logs, metrics, distributed tracing and wide-events to detect, diagnose and resolve issues before they impact your users.
Rekord — The AI-native platform to design, scale and monitor intelligent decision flows across underwriting, onboarding, compliance and fraud.
Zendo Energy — Zendo Energy is dedicated to the mission of decarbonising computing power. The company aims to empower data centres to become smarter, more efficient, and prepared for the increasing future demand of computing by leveraging advanced software solutions. Their platform utilizes real-time analytics and predictive tools to optimise energy consumption,reduce emissions, and integrate renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, thereby supporting the transition to sustainable digital infrastructure. This mission addresses the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of data centres amid the exponential growth of AI and computing workloads globally

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

Investment focus

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

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!

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

FLIT — Unfold Your Next Adventure. Discover the compact folding electric bike purpose-built for commuters, urban explorers and weekend tourers.
Wilder Sensing — Wilder Sensing analyses audio and other data sources to produce actionable insights into the status and trends of biodiversity on your site.
AVIEL Intelligence — Prevent APP fraud with the highest quality of intelligence. Use AVIEL intelligence to help prevent your customers making payments to scammers - and from receiving payments related to scams.

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

AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
UVIONIX — Uvionix deploys Autonomous Flying Robots (AFRs) to monitor and report live data, ensuring a comprehensive view of operations, workflow efficiency, and near 100% inventory level accuracy. The system creates live digital twins of warehouse spaces, meticulously tracking each material movement. Delivering precise, unbiased data, and being immune to human error, the platform drastically enhances material planning, reduces stock losses, and lowers labor costs.

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

Investment focus

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

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.

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.

Guinness Ventures specialise in Series A funding, supporting UK-based scale-up companies in the areas of enterprise technology, consumer brands and health innovation.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Goodrays — Our team at Goodrays got together around a shared respect for a super natural plant. No other plant in history has turned the energy of the sun into quite as many useful and important things that support and sustain human life and wellbeing on our planet... We went to great lengths to find the highest quality and most sustainable ingredients thatmake drinking a cold Goodrays such a unique and delicious experience. You’ll find our social feeds and journal full of information and daily inspiration for living a more creative, sustainable, active and curious life.
Rise & Fall — We partner with the finest manufacturers to offer luxury womenswear, menswear and homeware without the premium price tag. We are B Corp certified.
Yaso — Kuai Commerce is a next-generation solution for ambitious brands looking to sell directly to Chinese Gen Z consumers through the power of social commerce. Our tech-enabled services provide market entry and brand acceleration options for emerging category-leaders who otherwise would find the complexity of China prohibitively challenging

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
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.
Unravel — Embed video first travel inspiration and AI curated journeys directly in your app. A plug-and-play upgrade that boosts engagement, conversion and loyalty. The fastest way to add travel superpowers to your app.

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

Qloud Games — Qloud Games is an independent game studio developing Loftia.
Dead Astronauts — Dead Astronauts reinvents open-world game experiences with technical innovation at the core of the company and PLAYER CREATIVITY at the core of the games we make.
Day 4 Night Studios — Day 4 Night Studios is a game development studio that offer interactive and original computer as well as video games.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

RETìníZE — RETìníZE is an AR, VR, multi-screen installations, and software development.
Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
Liquid Acquire — Liquid Acquire provides AI solutions for mergers and acquisitions.

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, Germany

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.

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, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Chatlyn — Automated, AI-enhancend guest engagement, where your clients are most comfortable.
MarketLeap — Breaking E-commerce Barriers with Software. MarketLeap is managing all the complexities of selling and growing on marketplaces worldwide.
Glint Solar — Enabling developers to identify and analyze the best solar sites

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, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

BioCorteX — BioCorteX is a techbio that applies deep technology to deliver effective therapeutics and de-risk the pharma pipeline by leveraging the synergy between drugs and bacteria
Juno — Meet Juno, a workplace wellbeing programme that you control.
Milvus Advanced — Our Midas-touch alloys replicate the functional properties of platinum-group metals at a fraction of the cost.

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

Bipa — Bipa is a company that allows customers to buy and sell Bitcoin starting from R$1 using Pix and Lightning Network.
Antidote — London-based startup studio for Bitcoin founders
Hot Wave Fitness — Hot Wave Fitness which owns the HOTME brand provides personalized, and private fitness services.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cerrion — Cerrion is a visual AI that helps production teams react faster to process deviations, automate root cause analysis, and implement targeted improvement actions. They believe that process transparency enabled by AI and computer vision is key to achieving more autonomy and sustainability in manufacturing. Their software is built and designed withproduction teams from all over the world in the loop.
Vesence — AI Agents in Microsoft Office that review emails, documents, and projects before they leave your firm.
Kosmik — Transform your creative workflow with Kosmik's AI moodboard maker. Built-in browser, real-time collaboration, and infinite canvas for moodboarding.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Kando — Kando is an end-to-end solution that creates continuous awareness of events in the collection system. Kando enables utilities to remotely and continuously improve their operations by providing the following features:• Realtime wastewater quality data across the collection system • Pinpoint sources of pollution • Early warnings of damaging WWTPinfluent quality • Machine learning that evolves with your network • Autonomous sampling units • User fee calculator • Customized pollution alerts • A user-friendly, online interface • Detection of COVID-19 infection rates (New)The combination of these actionable insights results in:• Reduced CAPEX/OPEX • Greater WW reuse capabilities • Improved public health • Cleaner environmentsKando has been deployed in Los Angeles, Milan, Brisbane, and many other cities. To gain a greater understanding of how our system can help your organization, visit our homepage at www.kando.eco.
Trax — Optimize shopper experiences, monitor and analyze insights, increase sales and simplify your retail business life with Trax retail management solutions.
Limelight Sports — Creating an Active World. Together. They create real-life and online communities where you can connect and share your active experiences. They are the agency of the Active World. They work with global brands to bring you active experiences around the world.

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 — 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!

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, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Research Grid (R.grid) — Research Grid (R.grid) automates the entire clinical trial back-office by accelerating timelines and cutting admin delays. Get faster and more successful trials today.
PayControl — PayControl is the control layer for enterprise payment management — modular, provider-agnostic infrastructure designed for scale, with native support for digital assets.
Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.

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

Ctrl Alt — Access the world of alternative assets in a simple, transparent and secure way. Sign up to Ctrl Alt and start your alternative investment journey with us today.
OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.
OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.

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
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pixee — Pixeebot fixes vulnerabilities, hardens code, squashes bugs, and gives engineers more time to focus on the work that counts by conveniently delivering solutions as a pull request.
Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
Tensor9 — Tensor9 is a data security company. Tensor9 helps software and AI vendors run their products inside their customer's cloud — so sensitive customer data stays private. For vendors, this unlocks customers that can't share sensitive data.

Miroma Ventures is the investment arm of The Miroma Group, predominantly focusing on investing in venture and growth stage consumer brands and media platforms. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs and deliver marketing solutions to accelerate growth and drive long-term value for the business.

Investment focus

Advertising, Apps, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Bruvi — Bruvi is a breakthrough single-serve coffee system, with patent pending technology and proprietary, eco-friendly B-Pods®. Bruvi brews filter coffee, true espresso and Americanos, as well as the first cold brew from a single-serve brewer. Bruvi will offer sustainably sourced craft coffee from house brands and from some of the most popular third waveroasters.
New Stance — New Stance is a full service influencer talent marketing and partnership activation agency in London specialising in the Sports & Entertainment sectors.
ROAM — Explore courses and classes in outdoor sports, nutrition, fitness, yoga, and more. Learn beginner to pro-level skills from the experts.

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

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Owkin — We integrate the best of human and artificial intelligence to deliver better drugs and diagnostics at scale.
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.
Evolv AI — Evolv AI is the first AI-led experience optimization platform that recommends, builds, deploys and optimizes testing ideas for you.

Foreword Ventures is an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Foreword commits to adding value far beyond the small checks they write by devoting time, reputation, and capital to clients' success. Foreword typically invests in the pre-seed and seed stages, but can also invest in Series A and beyond whenthere is an existing relationship with the founder or co-investor.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Loctax — Complete oversight of global tax compliance obligations and risks in a single platform built for in-house tax teams.
Graneet — Graneet is a Digital Site Manager Assistant that is designed to help Construction Project Managers better track the financials and administrative processes of their projects (invoices, expenses, payments...).
Delphi — Delphi turns your expertise into an always-on presence, so you can grow your reach, serve your audience, and lead with clarity, without burning out.

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

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lecturio — Lecturio provides the highest quality medical education content delivered in the most advanced teaching platform for medicine. Built in collaboration with instructors from Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Brown University and more, Lecturio combines excellent didactics with high-tech delivery. Leading universities around the world trust us to helpthem deliver their unique approaches to teaching medicine and the platform adapts to their curricula and teaching methods.
pflege.de — web care LBJ GmbH is a service portal for care and housing for the elderly. The company advices and supports for individual inquiry about their telephone counselling services. It also has a network of partners across the region that offers its users with holistic services and domestic and institutional care.Caregivers for the elderly iscategorized as nursing and long term. The company offers a wide range of services such as food on wheels, everyday companion, and households and clearing. Accessible bathroom facilities are provided to the elders. They are treated with bath lift, hip bath, and tub to shower services. Stair lifts are also provided under the categories of home lift, hoist, and platform lift. A wide range of services and products, including carephone, mobile emergency, emergency mobile application, senior phones, and hearing aids are distributed.web care LBJ GmbH is a Germany-based company that was founded in 2011 by Lars Kilchert and Benedikt Zacher.
AMBOSS — AMBOSS: The digital medical resource that supports physicians in the hospital and students in the classroom. Ideal clinical companion & exam prep tool.

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

375ai — 375ai is an edge data intelligence network on Solana that provides advanced real-time data collection and analysis to power a smarter, more connected world.
worm.wtf — worm.wtf is the prediction marketplace for the Solana ecosystem.
Football.Fun — football. Fun is a fantasy football platform that combines the dynamics of cryptocurrency markets with football player trading.

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

Double Peak Group is a family office focused on investments in the digital asset and blockchain space.As one of the first family offices based out of Asia focused on digital assets, we have been deeply entrenched in the crypto space since 2017. At Double Peak, we adopt a philosophy of value investing and making key investments with a long timehorizon in early funding rounds and secondary markets. The ultimate vision is to bridge cutting-edge decentralized technologies between China and International markets.Double Peak have invested in a multitude of areas including: Asset Management, Banking & Payments, Cross-Chain Platforms, CeFi-DeFi Bridges, Infrastructure Protocols, Investment Funds, Gaming/GameFi, NFTs, Privacy/Security, The Metaverse, Trading and Exchanges.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Thala Labs — Unleash the liquidity of your assets with our Stablecoin, AMM, and Launchpad
Liqwid Labs — Liqwid Labs is an on-chain lending protocol on Cardano.
LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

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, Finance
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
United Kingdom, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

ARAUCO — ARAUCO is a diversified global company in the forestry industry. They use world-class technologies and processes throughout the value chain. They are present in the forestry, pulp, timber, panels and renewable energy businesses.
Dowsure — Dowsure - Cross-border e-commerce loan, cross-border e-commerce seller's exclusive cross-border e-commerce one-stop funding solution (Amazon seller loan Program partner)
WiseTech Global — WiseTech Global is changing the world of logistics through world-leading software solutions. Find out how you can make an impact by joining our team.

The UK Angel Investment Network connects business entrepreneurs with Angel Investors. Find an Investor for your business, or access a network of investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Denmark, India

Portfolio highlights

PF Nexus — Renewable energy and infrastructure marketplace, Reduce origination costs, increase deal flow, International and emerging market specialists, $30bn+ projects.
Here We Flo — Bringing dash of sunshine to life's messiest moments - think periods, pees and pleasure with funny, feminist and fierce energy. B Corp Certified. Proudly women owned + operated.
Aura Life — Aura Funerals is a digital end-of-life planning and funeral service.

about a41 Ventures

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BlockSurvey — BlockSurvey is a private, secure, and anonymous way to get your audience involved in questionnaires, assessments, online forms, and surveys.
FastLane — FastLane is an easy to integrate protocol that rewards participating validators for protecting the health of the Polygon blockchain.
Tiny Rebel Games — We are Petaverse Network. Our aim is simple but robust - we are building an open standard for digital pets. An interoperable data solution for creating infinite virtual companions to be by your side, across the metaverse. Pets to bond with, who will learn, evolve, and behave based on their specific 'DNA' and the interactions you havewith them. Soon, we will be helping people to adopt their first digital pets and take them into the first of many experiences they will be able to have with virtual companion.Embracing the wonders of #web3 we invite partnership with other creators across the metaverse.

Vventures support cutting-edged technology investment focus on sustainability, urbanization and life-science on AI and quantum based. In the heart of SEA, Vventures operates in Singapore and Thailand while invested worldwide in USA, UAE, Israel, Singapore, Hong Kong and China.

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Wobby — Wobby is changing the way professionals use data in a variety of industries. Locating public official data and connecting your own is simple with our all-in-one platform.
Deemples — Deemples isn't just for finding golf buddies? It allows you to book your golf games, pay in advance, and find the best rates online. One app does it all.
SCREENSHOT Media — SCREENSHOT Media is a media company, social-first publisher and full-service agency that simply gets Gen Z

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.

Digital Asset Investment, Funds Management, OTC, Proprietary Trading & Investment Intelligence. Deep Industry Knowledge, Proven Experience & IP Since 2013.

Investment focus

Big Data, Blockchain, Publishing
Seed
United Kingdom

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

At Calculus Capital they are specialists in creating and managing tax efficient private equity funds for the individual. Funds that are ideal for today's market - offering generous tax benefits, and significant growth potential within a sensible risk profile.They look to make £2-5 million investments in established companies with provenmanagement teams and a successful product or service. Their entrepreneurial flair, combined with their experience and sound commercial judgement has resulted in a diversified investment portfolio and an impressive track record. In June 2013 Calculus Capital was top ranked in the prestigious Martin Churchill Tax Efficient Review for the 6th year in a row. The Government has recently shown its support for EIS funds, by maintaining the five generous tax benefits and widening the scope of EIS investments. These changes benefit Calculus Capital's rigorous and proven strategy. As a result they are experiencing their strongest pipeline of prospective investments yet.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

EnsiliTech — EnsiliTech is a biotechnology start-up developing ensilication, a platform technology, to remove the need for refrigeration when transporting and storing vaccines and biologicals
Grateful — Grateful provides cashless tipping and trunk management software that integrates QR/NFC, EPOS systems, and compliance reporting.
Laverock Therapeutics — Laverock Therapeutics is developing a gene silencing platform for the creation of programmable, allogeneic cell therapies.

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 — Explore How OntoChem's Integration and Advanced Search Solutions Eliminate Data Silos and Unlock Insights to Fuel Discovery. Talk to an Expert Today!
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.

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.

Everywhere Ventures (fka "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 acrossten micro funds. The Fund's $70M+ 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, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

VOW — Meet Quick, a purpose-built Webflow template to promote SaaS and software apps without writing code. Its pre-built content will help you get your website up and running in no time at all.
Fusepay — Modern Finance & Payments for Indian Ocean Islands
Outfox Health — Healthcare answers quick as a fox

Mediahuisis a venture capital arm of the independent publishing and media company is on a mission to support founders who are changing the way we learn and work. As a lead investor, MHV participates in European EdTech & HRTech companies, from Series A and beyond.

Investment focus

Education, Human Resources, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland

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.
WorkerHero — Bei DriverHero findest du Fahrerjobs in Vollzeit, Teilzeit oder Minijob. Jetzt anmelden und Jobangebote von Unternehmen erhalten!
Impactpool — Job vacancies in the European Union, United Nations and International Organizations.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

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

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

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.

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

Investment focus

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

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.