Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in United Kingdom in April 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Recruiting startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in United Kingdom in April 2025
Investor | Recruiting United Kingdom investments |
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Paul Forster | 4 |
Stefan Ciecierski | 3 |
Will Brooks | 3 |
Alex Macdonald | 3 |
Will Martin | 3 |
Stuart Marks | 2 |
Michael Whitfield | 2 |
Sir Terry Leahy | 2 |
Simon Murphy | 2 |
Keith MacDonald | 2 |
Steve Perry | 2 |
Jimmy Braimah | 2 |
Rajan Navani | 2 |
Chris Bruce | 2 |
Peter Preston | 2 |
Giles Phelps | 1 |
Kıvanc Semen | 1 |
Orkhan Abdullayev | 1 |
Kevin Beales | 1 |
Kingsley Duffy | 1 |
Simon Ramery | 1 |
Jenny Ervine | 1 |
Ian Dyke | 1 |
Tim Parsons | 1 |
Ben Westwood | 1 |
Duncan Jennings | 1 |
Mike Kershaw | 1 |
Oliver Black | 1 |
David Haye | 1 |
Derek Jacobson | 1 |
Selcuk Gerger | 1 |
Neha Tanna | 1 |
Gary Elden OBE | 1 |
Matthew Bell | 1 |
Andrew Gale | 1 |
Shakil Khan | 1 |
Adrian Durham | 1 |
David Blake | 1 |
Catherine Lenson | 1 |
David Craig | 1 |
Mandeep Singh | 1 |
Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines | 1 |
Mehmet Yilmaz | 1 |
Phillip Chambers | 1 |
Graham Clempson | 1 |
Dave Pell | 1 |
Joshua Cornelius | 1 |
Vivek Kumar | 1 |
Rudy Kadoch | 1 |
Tom Stafford | 1 |
Paul Forster
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
- Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
- Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
Stefan Ciecierski
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Video, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Willo — Interview anyone, anywhere for free. GDPR compliant one-way video interviews that can be set up in minutes. Trusted in over 100 countries - free to start.
Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Alex Macdonald is the Co-Founder and CEO of sequel - an investment platform on a mission to help athletes build a legacy for their families and the world. He previously Co-Founded Velocity Black, raised more than $40m in funding, and which was successfully exited to US Bank Capital One in 2023. He is a serial angel investor having invested in 50early stage startups and funds.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Kalder — Kalder is a unified web3 brand loyalty platform for brands and creators to drive meaningful engagement, onboard new users, and reward superfan communities.
- Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
- Fundably — Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan | Access £1k-£2m
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Stuart Marks is a successful entrepreneur who has built and sold four businesses over the past 25 years. They have spanned several sectors including CRM, location-based services and digital media. Every company applied innovation to challenge existing business models.Stuart has worked with a diverse and international customer-base includingSainsbury’s, British Airways, Unilever, Vodafone, BMW and various government agencies across the world. His previous company, ITIS Holdings plc, was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was Europe’s leading provider of real-time traffic information and connected car technology.The first company to commercialize crowdsourced data from GPS devices and mobile phone networks, Stuart sold the firm in 2011 to Washington-based INRIX before going on to establish L Marks to invest in the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Urbix — Urbix is producing a management dashboard for municipalities to manage their data and processes to ensure that decisions are made based on hard evidence which is readily available in an easy to understand format.
- WeFiFo — WeFiFo launched in 2016 and is a multi-award-winning platform that enables enthusiastic home cooks, Supper Club hosts and professional chefs to share their food with paying guests. WeFiFo is Airbnb for the kitchen table but offers much more than just a marketplace. Designed to encourage and empower talented cooks to monetise their kitchen skills,WeFiFo offers a sophisticated infrastructure allowing hosts to up-skill and earn a transformative income with flexible working hours and rewards. WeFiFo also supports professional chefs who don't want the risk of a bricks and mortar restaurant but want to feed a new audience. Anyone can sign up and join in, hosts are not pre-screened or curated, but ratings and reviews help guests choose between the multitude of events on offer – from novice cooks to award winning chefs at the top of their game. They are the online destination to discover exciting experiential dining near you and their platform promotes, insures and inspires cooks and chefs of all abilities to take the next step on their food journey while keeping hosts and guests safe every step of the way.
- Orbital Witness — Instant property insight - Liberation for everyone involved in property transactions.
Michael Whitfield - Chairman @ hundo.careers
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Unmind — Unmind is a workplace mental health platform. We empower employees to measure, understand, and improve their mental wellbeing.
- Involve.ai — involve.ai helps you prevent churn, grow revenue, and deliver amazing customer outcomes.
- HR DataHub — HR DataHub operates as an HR data benchmarking platform for organizations to tackle issues that are right at the top of the boardroom agenda.
Sir Terry Leahy joined Cheshunt, England-based Tesco in 1979 and held marketing positions at the retailer before becoming commercial director of fresh foods in 1986 and a member of the board in 1990. Leahy was appointed Chief Executive of Tesco plc in March 1997.Leahy received a Knighthood for services to food retailing in the 2002 New YearHonours. He was voted as Britain’s Most Admired Leader (2005 and 2006) by Management Today, recognized by the Wall Street Journal and CNBC as European Business Leader of the Year (2005), and named European Businessman of the Year by Fortune (2004). A Guardian Unlimited Politics panel found him to be the most influential non-elected person in Britain in 2007.Leahy is a Director on the Liverpool Vision Regeneration Board and a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council.In 2010 he received the Daily Telegraph’s Award for a Decade of Excellence in Business, a Lifetime Achievement award from Director Magazine, and was voted Business Person of the Year by the Sunday Times.Sir Terry Leahy retired from Tesco in March 2011.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
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.
- SYNALOGiK — Synalogik helps organisations improve efficiency and slash costs through automated data aggregation when multiple data sources are required.
- Uptime | Knowledge Hacks — Thousands of life lessons extracted from the world's best books, courses, documentaries, and podcasts - packed into 5 minute Knowledge Hacks.
Simon Murphy Entrepreneur & Investor
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Investment focus
- Retail, Consumer Goods, Events
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Pieter Pot — Verpakkingsvrij boodschappen doen bij online supermarkt Pieter Pot. Makkelijk aan huis geleverd in herbruikbare statiegeldpotten. Pot leeg? Dan vullen we hem opnieuw. Met onze verpakkingsvrije bezorgdienst verminderen we de hoeveelheid afval en CO2. Waarom zou je nog verpakkingen kopen?
- Seat Unique — Seat Unique is an online marketplace to buy official hospitality packages and VIP tickets to live sports, music, and cultural events.
- The Smart Container Company — The Smart Container Company is the team behind KegTracker and BeverEDGE, a first-to-market IoT device and platform that instantly turns kegs into SMART containers. Our technology tracks real-time location, volume, temperature, and motion for each keg and delivers actionable insights that enable transparency and zero.
Keith MacDonald
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Video, Software
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- docStribute — Secure document distribution and digital signature solutions for your business no matter the size and market you're in.
- Willo — Interview anyone, anywhere for free. GDPR compliant one-way video interviews that can be set up in minutes. Trusted in over 100 countries - free to start.
Steve is an Economist by training with a Ph.D. in econometrics. After 3 years at the TSB Bank, ultimately as Group Economist, Steve joined Visa Europe where he held several Executive positions: Head of Strategy, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Digital Officer and finally, Founder & CEO Visa Europe Collab (Visa’sInnovation Centre). Steve is an experienced Executive and Non-Executive Director & Chairman, particularly in fintech and Data Analytics.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Video, Software
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Willo — Interview anyone, anywhere for free. GDPR compliant one-way video interviews that can be set up in minutes. Trusted in over 100 countries - free to start.
Jimmy Braimah
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Workskuad — Goodtalent.io is a cloud-based social talent marketplace for companies to crowdsource, screen, hire and pay software engineering talents globally, for full-time, remote, and contract roles.
Chris was a benefit consultant when he co-founded Thomsons. His role spans every aspect of the business, from engaging with clients to the development of DarwinTM software. This means he is in close contact with HR and benefit specialists globally, understanding the changing benefit landscape.
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Internet, Human Resources
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Unmind — Unmind is a workplace mental health platform. We empower employees to measure, understand, and improve their mental wellbeing.
- HowNow — HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.
- HR DataHub — HR DataHub operates as an HR data benchmarking platform for organizations to tackle issues that are right at the top of the boardroom agenda.
Peter Preston
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Video, Software
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Willo — Interview anyone, anywhere for free. GDPR compliant one-way video interviews that can be set up in minutes. Trusted in over 100 countries - free to start.
Giles Phelps
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Investment focus
- Internet, Education, Recruiting
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Digital Profile — Our vision is to establish the world’s best community for tech & devs to share, learn, and build their skills & careers. Built on our values of control, privacy & transparency
Kivanc Semen is a Founder and CEO at DataGuard. He is a former CEO in the technology sector (since 2009), programmer, and IT / process consultant for SMEs and corporations (2005-2009) with a focus on data protection and IT security.
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Health Care, Mental Health
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
- TalentGrid.io — Hire senior developers from Turkey with TalentGrid, the biggest developer and tech talent network with 40,000+ pre-vetted members.
Orkhan Abdullayev is a CEO / Co-Founder at Payrails.
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Human Resources, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TalentGrid.io — Hire senior developers from Turkey with TalentGrid, the biggest developer and tech talent network with 40,000+ pre-vetted members.
Kevin Beales - Founder & CEO @ Refract
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Drones
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fuuse — Fuuse is an electric vehicle charge point management system that enables your chargers to deliver more for you and your drivers.
- Fuuse — Creating efficiencies, reducing costs and striving for lower emissions in transport, logistics and supply chain through innovation.
- Altitude Angel — Altitude Angel delivers solutions which enable the safe integration and use of drones and UAVs into international airspace.
Kingsley Duffy is the Owner and CEO at SLovar. He previously worked as the Founder and CEO of HostelBookers. Mr. Duffy is a British-national entrepreneur. He was also the reason why HostelBookers merged with Web Reservations International (WRI) in 2013 because Mr. Duffy is sitting on the Board of Directors of WRI.
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Investment focus
- Events, Recruiting, Advertising
- Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TalentPool — TalentPool is a Talent Matching Platform connecting talented recent graduates with up to 5 years’ experience with great opportunities at start-ups and SMEs. They specialise in 4 key sectors: Graduate, Marketing, Operations and Sales. Their innovative matching engine takes the pain out of hiring and being hired. They know about the stress for jobseekers of applying to countless employers. And they also know about the challenges faced by employers wanting to speak to the right candidates.
Simon has worked in investment banking and corporate finance for nearly 20 years and from this has a strong insight into opportunities and challenges currently facing the market participants in wealth management. Simon started his career in leveraged finance and moved into corporate finance advisory where he helped companies raise debt and equitycapital as well as provided strategic advice for fast-growing businesses and start-ups. Simon has helped a number of innovative new businesses launch and grow and has seen first-hand the disruption to the financial services sector as established players are impacted by legacy costs, increased regulation, new entrants and better technologies.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Employment, Recruiting
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SonicJobs — Apply to your dream position with just one click, with the magic of AI. Sign up with SonicJobs today!
Jenny Ervine
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FutureMatch — We enable organisations to make smarter sourcing and hire decisions through using analytics, machine learning and AI. MyPAM -> Measure and Analyse Talent Using analytics –> Predict & Improve Recruitment Processes with AI and ML = Achieve Right Talent, Right Fit for the Right Roles with ML and AI
Ian Dyke
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Human Resources
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- HR DataHub — HR DataHub operates as an HR data benchmarking platform for organizations to tackle issues that are right at the top of the boardroom agenda.
Tim Parsons is the CFO at Wagestream.
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Hospitality, Staffing Agency
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Slinger — Slinger is a hospitality recruitment tool that connects vetted hospitality workers with some of London's best food and drink businesses. Sign up today!
Ben Westwood is the Founding Partner & CEO of Hoxton Circle. He previously worked at Argyll Scott as a Director London & UK.
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Hospitality, Staffing Agency
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Slinger — Slinger is a hospitality recruitment tool that connects vetted hospitality workers with some of London's best food and drink businesses. Sign up today!
Duncan Jennings is the Investor and Board Member at Motorway.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Software, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Motorway — With so many ways to sell your car, it can be overwhelming. At Motorway, we’re focused on building the best way. Our vision is to build a better car market for everyone.Transparent and straightforward in all that we do, our smart technology matches our customers’ cars with a nationwide network of verified dealers.This enables those dealers tobuy vehicles direct from private sellers using our fully-online sales platform, with hundreds of cars successfully sold every day.Reducing time and effort on all sides, we help everyone get the right deal quickly. It all, just, works.In our first 4 years, we've helped over 2.5 million car owners value and sell their car. We've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun.
- Otta — Only matches tailored to your preferences. Only the most exciting, innovative and fast-moving companies.
- Console — A free weekly devtools newsletter. Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.
Mike Kershaw - SVP of Sales & Marketing @ Renegade Tool Company
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Investment focus
- Software, Recruiting, Staffing Agency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Oliver Black
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Human Resources
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- HR DataHub — HR DataHub operates as an HR data benchmarking platform for organizations to tackle issues that are right at the top of the boardroom agenda.
David Haye is a British professional boxer.
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Investment focus
- Software, Logistics, Recruiting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Syft — Choose the fastest way to find temporary work that fits your lifestyle. Your life. Your work. Your choice.
- NuBreed Hotels — Pushing accommodation for the events industry forward.
- Snap It Limited — On demand deliveries for tradespeople
Derek Jacobson
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Internet
- Series A, Debt Financing
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Tempo — Tempo provides job match and job search solutions to help you find the perfect job. Our intuitive platform makes it easy to find the right job for you.
- Prodigy Finance — Get a student loan from Prodigy Finance without collateral or co-signer, to study at one of 1000+ schools around the world.
Selcuk Gerger is a co-founder and the COO of Prisync, a competitor tracking application for e-commerce companies.
Prior to that, he served as a corporate communications specialist at Gerger Group.
Gerger holds a master’s degree in marketing communications from Istanbul Bilgi University.
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Human Resources, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TalentGrid.io — Hire senior developers from Turkey with TalentGrid, the biggest developer and tech talent network with 40,000+ pre-vetted members.
Neha is a medical doctor in London. Neha spent years as a General Practitioner before transitioning to the Life Sciences industry, where she held various roles in pharmaceutical companies. She holds an MBA from London Business School, where she fell in love working with entrepreneurs and startups. She has since worked with a startup med-techcompany, as well as several accelerators and VCs in the healthcare space, most recently with a global venture builder with a focus on early-stage tech companies. Neha is an angel investor, loves tennis and dance, and is a strong advocate for personal fitness and nutrition. She also has a soft spot for wildlife and conservation.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Recruiting
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
George Ayittey has a Doctor in Philosophy (Ph.D.) at the University of Manitoba. He founded the Free Africa Foundation.
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Hospitality, Staffing Agency
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Slinger — Slinger is a hospitality recruitment tool that connects vetted hospitality workers with some of London's best food and drink businesses. Sign up today!
Matthew Bell - Director, SC Launch Program @ South Carolina Research Authority
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Recruiting
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Pixlmob — The right editor for the job is ready, waiting and verified.
- Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
- New Forge — Transform Manufacturing Knowledge into Simple Steps | Reduce the Chaos of Searching Through & Creating Technical Processes
Andrew Gale is the founder of Longbrook Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Hospitality, Real Estate
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Just Move In — Just Move In makes home moving easy. We help you save time, hassle & money on your move by allowing you to easily manage the admin. You can set up utilities, find great deals on broadband, arrange removals & insurance and more.
- Slinger — Slinger is a hospitality recruitment tool that connects vetted hospitality workers with some of London's best food and drink businesses. Sign up today!
Shakil Khan is currently Head of Special Projects at Spotify, where he is also personal advisor to founder and CEO Daniel Ek. He has had a number of online businesses in the UK since 2000, was part of the founding team at buy.at, which was acquired by AOL, and he recently founded CoinDesk, a bitcoin news site.Shak has done extensive volunteerwork as an ambassador for charity: water, having helped raise millions of dollars for clean and safe drinking water. He is also a keen supporter and friend of Pencils of Promise, who build schools for those most in need.Having lived in China, Shak speaks Chinese (as well as English, Urdu, Punjabi, and Danish) and currently divides his time between London, San Francisco, New York and airport lounges.Shak is an investor in BitPay, Spotify, Top10, Duedil and YPlan. Shak was also an investor and mentor to Nick D'Aloisio who built and sold Summly, a news curation app that was sold to Yahoo in March 2013.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Otta — Only matches tailored to your preferences. Only the most exciting, innovative and fast-moving companies.
- Thingtesting — Explore thousands of new online brands and share your honest reviews so everyone on the internet can shop better. Discover the best brands in personal care, home decor, clothing, food, tech and more.
- Founders Pledge — Home | Founders Pledge
Adrian is the founder and CEO of FNZ and has overseen the development of the company since it started in 2004. He is currently based in the company’s London office.Prior to starting FNZ, he worked as an equity analyst for what at the time was Credit Suisse NZ now First NZ Capital.Adrian has a BSc (Hons 1st Class) in physics and mathematics,and a BMus in performance piano, both from Victoria University Wellington.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Finance, Software
- Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nokkel — Discover how Nokkel helps financial advisors and homeowners manage property wealth with real-time data, insights, and tools for smarter financial decisions.
- Exizent — Exizent is here to transform the probate industry with our specialist software, helping legal professionals streamline inefficient processes and accelerate growth.
- Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
David Blake is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Degreed, a firm that helps anyone score and validate their lifelong education from any source. He also serves as a contributor to MOOCS.com. Prior to this, Blake was a NEW.edu Launch Consultant with UniversityNow and a founding member of Zinch, a social networking site connecting students to amyriad of study and professional opportunities.
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Investment focus
- Software, Education, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Stellic — Stellic provides next generation degree management tools for your entire campus - students, advisors, administrators and leaders - with one goal in mind. A better path to academic success.
- Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
- Sounding Board, Inc — Your strategic partner for leader transformation. Leadership development through coaching solutions, mentoring management, and flexible program software.
Catherine is an investor, board director and executive coach. She is based in London and works globally.She is an experienced international C-suite executive with a strong track record in the People, DE&I and ESG fields. Together with Jonathan Lenson. she invests in exceptional early-stage tech companies across the UK, US and Israel, andbrings in-depth previous board experience as both an executive and non-executive director.She writes and speaks on topics including the future of work, corporate culture and purpose, diversity and inclusion, and work/life integration.As part of her coaching practice, she is the first UK-based facilitator to be certified in the Fair Play method. Catherine was the first female Managing Partner appointed at SoftBank Investment Advisers, the world’s largest technology investment firm with $175 billion under management in the two SoftBank Vision Funds and SoftBank Latin America Funds. As the founding Chief People Officer for five years (2017-2022), she led the HR, ESG and Real Estate teams globally.An experienced and trusted executive coach at C-suite level, she worked with companies within the Vision Fund portfolio on leadership, talent, DE&I, ESG, and operating challenges, including as a Board Director.Catherine built SBIA’s ESG practice and designed its strategy for Social Impact. She led SoftBank’s early stage venture funds focused on diverse founders, including the $100m+ SB Opportunity Fund (US) and Emerge (EMEA), including as an Investment Committee member.Catherine is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (Class of 2021) and a founding member of Sustainability30 (which brings together Chief Sustainability Officers from 30 of the world’s leading companies).She spent the formative years of her career at UBS AG, Switzerland’s leading financial services firm, and is proud to have progressed from intern to Managing Director in the same firm. In her final role there, she led Reward for UBS across the UK and EMEA region.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Fertifa — Fertifa is an innovative employer benefit solution making fertility care more accessible and affordable.The company works with employers to offer a valuable employee benefit which bridges the gap between an employer and their employees when dealing with the sensitivity and privacy of employees’ reproductive issues. It also offers guidance andadvice, next-generation fertility treatment, and access to a range of holistic services for the best chance of success. The company was founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom.
- Tangent — Tangent: Your bridge from diverse backgrounds to tech sales roles via referrals, coaching, and unique video pitches. Create a free account today!
- Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
David Craig joined Refinitiv as Founding CEO and Board Member in 2018. David Craig is President of the Financial & Risk business of Thomson Reuters.Previously, Craig served as President of Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance and had been the company’s Chief Strategy Officer.Craig also served as Chief Strategy Officer ofThomson Reuters UK Limited.He joined the company in 2007 from McKinsey & Company where he was a Partner in the Global Business Technology Office, advising banks, technology and media companies, as well as co-leading the global IT Strategy Practice and the Outsourcing and Offshoring Practice.Prior to McKinsey, he was a Senior Principal and Partner at American Management Systems.He is a graduate of the University of Bristol. Craig also serves as a Trustee of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Investment focus
- Software, Film, SaaS
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- onkho — onkho is practice management with fully integrated email. CRM, workflow, email and documents all integrated, in one place and shared across the whole team.
- Big Couch — Big Couch was co-founded by Maria Tanjala and Irina Albita in 2014, they have established a reputation as a fintech startup in the film industry, working on an innovative co-finance model which has been helping film producers fund their films in the UK, Europe and NY since 2015. In 2017 Big Couch partnered with leading computer scientists atImperial College London to develop a new, decentralised and transparent product for revenue allocation and distribution. This product is called FilmChain. FilmChain is being built on the Ethereum platform and will provide real-time information, lower friction and increase revenues for the films stakeholders. The prototype will be running film projects by August 2018.
Mandeep Singh is an Angel investor at multiple firms. He previously was the founding CEO at Trouva. Mandeep Singh studied Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
- Prior Labs — Prior Labs is developing innovative foundation models that understand spreadsheets and databases.
- Bluebook — self-driving accounting
Since 2010, I’ve co-founded 4 companies, raised $15M, hired +40 employees, pioneered a socially innovative, alternative venue in France (a cooperative organizing 250 free concerts per year, selling 100% organic & fair trade food, ranked 1 of 334 in South-West of France on TripAdvisor), built a social network for entrepreneurs with a communityof 30k+ users, and a networking app for professionals ranking me #182 among the Top Networking App Founders on Crunchbase in 2020. Today, I’m the Co-founder & COO of Dfns (Future40, Techstars '21), a cybersecurity company that builds custody SaaS protocol for web3 apps. Think of it as a developer tool providing secure cloud for crypto. We are on a mission to bring serenity to DeFi by eliminating new blockchain risks and making crypto transactions easier, faster, more affordable, and compliant with existing regulations.Blockchain is changing finance much like internet changed communication—forever. It's an eye-opening technology that is revolutionizing the way we trade and transfer money as worldwide transactions become cheaper, faster, more open and more reliable. We are building the future of crypto banking, brick by brick.HMU on Twitter @christophergdf
Or email me chris@dfns.co
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- Bitcoin, FinTech, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France, United Kingdom
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- RLTY — Metaverse Events Company
- Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
- Job Protocol — By incentivizing anyone to refer top talent, Web3 companies hire faster through Job Protocol. Attach referral bounties to your open roles and unclock the open recruiting economy.
Mehmet Yilmaz is the Co-Founder of Freeletics.
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- Health Care, Hospital, Recruiting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Turkey, United Kingdom
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- Bloom — Bloom empowers everyone to be their own therapist through interactive video-guided therapy sessions.
- Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
- Bloom Health Partners — Bloom Health Partners has been shutdown.
Phillip Chambers is the GM, Peakon Employee Voice at Workday. He attended University of Manchester.
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- Software, Information Technology, Human Resources
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany
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- Marts — Marts is an integrated platform that enhances the capacities of IT departments by eliminating these inefficiencies. Put unconnected systems and intimidating spreadsheets behind. IT asset management, support services, and procurement are all integrated into one platform by Marts.
- Strise — Strise is signaling a new era of enterprise software and organizational change, transforming how companies work and empowering individual growth through knowledge. We believe in the AI-enabled financial institution without data silos where users and data are working together to solve even the most complex business problems.
- Cello — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel. Cello is the easiest way to add a P2P referral program to any SaaS product in hours.
Graham Clempson has over 30 years of experience in the Private Equity and Credit Markets, from the development of the European Leveraged Finance and High Yield Markets and as a principal in many of the largest Complex Secondary Private Equity Transactions over the past decade.In partnership with Coller Capital, Graham is Chairman of 3 PrivateEquity Funds in the UK, US and France, and serves as an Advisory Board member to MidOcean Partners (US) and Pearl Diver Capital (UK).Prior to founding Quartic Capital, Graham was Co-Founder and European Managing Partner of MidOcean Partners, and DB Capital Partners, and CEO of Morgan Grenfell Private Equity, following roles as Co-head of European Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust Company.Graham is Chairman of Pilotlight (www.pilotlight.org.uk) , a business mentoring Charity in the UK. He has an MA in Law from Oxford University.
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- Software, Information Services, Retail Technology
- Angel, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States
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- Link Big — Nadav Raviv Portfolio: UXR, UI/UXD, PD.
- Fixtuur — DigitalBridge is a Visual Commerce platform that provides retailers and brands with a new way to showcase their products to customers through real-time 3D and Augmented Reality.
- Headstart — Diverse candidates are often systematically excluded when it comes to campus recruiting and high-volume hiring. Headstart diversity recruiting software breaks this cycle of exclusion and levels the playing field for all candidates by removing bias from recruiting processes. When it comes to diversity, we are all in.
Dave Pell is the founder of Rollyo, a search engine that allows users to register accounts and create search engines to retrieve results from preferred websites.Currently, he serves as the managing director at Arba Seed Investment Group. He is also the writer of two blogs davenetics and electablog. He is also the author of a daily newslettercalled NextDraft.Dave is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the
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- Mobile, Internet, Open Source
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
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- Zone7 — A data-driven Artificial Intelligence system that enables high levels of athlete performance and availability.
- Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
- Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.
Joshua Cornelius is the Co-Founder at Freeletics.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Hospital, Recruiting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Turkey, United Kingdom
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- Bloom — Bloom empowers everyone to be their own therapist through interactive video-guided therapy sessions.
- Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
- Bloom Health Partners — Bloom Health Partners has been shutdown.
Vivek Kumar
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Employment, Recruiting
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SonicJobs — Apply to your dream position with just one click, with the magic of AI. Sign up with SonicJobs today!
Rudy Kadoch
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Staffing Agency
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Job Protocol — By incentivizing anyone to refer top talent, Web3 companies hire faster through Job Protocol. Attach referral bounties to your open roles and unclock the open recruiting economy.
Tom is a Co-Founder at DST Global, an internet-focused investment firm with a global focus.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
- Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
- Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
- Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
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