Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in United Kingdom

Investor	Recruiting United Kingdom investments
Paul Forster	4
Stefan Ciecierski	3
Will Brooks	3
Alex Macdonald	3
Will Martin	3
Keith MacDonald	2
Sir Terry Leahy	2
Rajan Navani	2
Simon Murphy	2
Chris Bruce	2
Peter Preston	2
Stuart Marks	2
Michael Whitfield	2
Steve Perry	2
Jimmy Braimah	2
Jerome Joaug	1
Dave Pell	1
Thomas Regier	1
Ben Westwood	1
Rudy Kadoch	1
Stephen Warrington	1
Matthew Bell	1
Nick Kingsbury	1
Graham Clempson	1
Shakil Khan	1
Gary Elden OBE	1
Simon Ramery	1
Andrew Gale	1
David Blake	1
Mehmet Yilmaz	1
Jonathan Lenson	1
Adrian Durham	1
Phillip Chambers	1
Dan Cobley	1
Duncan Jennings	1
Neha Tanna	1
Mandeep Singh	1
David Craig	1
Prasanna Sankar	1
Kevin Beales	1
Selcuk Gerger	1
Yoann Turpin	1
Richard Flint	1
Derek Jacobson	1
David Haye	1
Richard Fearn	1
Joshua Cornelius	1
Ian Dyke	1
Catherine Lenson	1
Catherine Lenson	1

Paul Forster

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Enzai — Enzai's AI governance platform allows you to build and deploy AI with confidence. Measure your progress in AI responsibility, and get actionable steps with our 3-minute maturity assessment.
Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
Triple — The best payment data enrichment solution. Our API includes fraud detection, transaction enrichment, categorization, subscriptions, and carbon footprint.

Stefan Ciecierski

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Harriet — Efficient, cost effective AI for HR that improves the employee experience. Get time back to focus on what counts and let Harriet do the rest | Harriet
Fundably — Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan | Access £1k-£2m
Atman Labs — Hi, welcome to Atman Labs. We're an applied AI R&D and product company in London building software to emulate human expertise across multiple commercial domains.

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
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.

Keith MacDonald

Investment focus

SaaS, Video, Software
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

docStribute — ALT/AVE helps financial institutions streamline the digital distribution of regulated documents to their customers.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sirenum — Sirenum is a cloud-based platform for managing the staff lifecycle for agencies, recruiters and organisations who rely on staff for operational purposes.Sirenum is built on a highly agile technology platform, which allows us to connect with other service providers for functions not yet in the system. This trick allows us to deliver features thatthey would not otherwise have, if a client requires these features up front. Once significant demand for a particular feature becomes apparent, they may decide develop that feature in house, replacing the outside vendor and retaining additional profits.Sirenum is geared towards employers who operate complex workforces of shift workers. Sirenum is particularly suited to the Staffing, Railway, Aviation, Construction, Hospitality, Healthcare, Home care, Deliveries, Logistics and Transportation. Operators in these sectors typically have hundreds or thousands of employees.
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.

Rajan Navani - CEO & Founder @ JetSynthesys

Investment focus

Art, Coffee, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Peepul Tree — Peepul Tree is a platform for the hand-made artisanal works. Peepul Tree celebrates the rich and varied legacy that these artisans carry.
Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.
Assiduus Global — We are a trusted Global E-commerce partner and accelerator, a unified platform helping to Build and Scale E-commerce Brands Globally. Reach us Now!

Simon Murphy Entrepreneur & Investor

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Recruiting
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Goodtalent — 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.

Jerome is a serial entrepreneur who founded Cambridge Nanosystems, a leading graphene nanomaterial supplier, at the age of 24. He worked previously in the energy industry on the implementation of smart grids and renewable energy integration in France and the UK. After this first exit, he advised and invested in startups primarily in the areas ofCleantech and Education. In early 2017, he founded Nymbly, a company aiming at deploying low power Internet of Things solutions for Smart Cities and Smart Environment applications. The company was acquired at the end of 2017 by ARM.Jerome completed his training at the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hadean — Hadean are a venture backed tech startup providing the most simple and secure platform for cloud native development. Intuitive and developer friendly, the Hadean Platform provides a friction free route to a cloud-native infrastructure. It lets you write applications once and deploy anywhere, taking care of setup, configuration, scaling, securityand more.Hadean have developed two flagship applications. Aether Engine provides distributed load balancing for agent-based simulations, while Muxer is a network model that utilises distributed edge networks. The result is spatial simulations of unparalleled size and complexity, where thousands of concurrent users can join and interact. Hadean have found traction in gaming, healthcare, virtual events and defence with industry leading companies such as Microsoft, Minecraft and CAE.
CodeMonk — CodeMonk is your one stop solution to find pre-vetted tech talent, hire them as individual contractors or on permanent basis, and pay them from a single dashboard.
Humanlinker — Humanlinker is a cutting-edge AI guided technology for revenue generation teams

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

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Open Source
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

Thomas Regier is a Founder and CEO at DataGuard. He earned a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University.

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.

Ben Westwood is the Founding Partner & CEO of Hoxton Circle. He previously worked at Argyll Scott as a Director London & UK.

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!

Rudy Kadoch

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.

In 2006 Stephen joined Carbon as Non-Executive Chairman. He has a wide knowledge of the financial services industry and extensive experience leading professional services businesses and consulting to top management in various multinationals. He is a Partner of a leading consulting firm and previously held the role of director of group strategy ata major UK international bank. Stephen holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Banking and International Finance from City University Business School (now Cass) in London. Stephen is a keen amateur actor and enjoys tennis.

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.

Matthew Bell - Director, SC Launch Program @ South Carolina Research Authority

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Recruiting
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, 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!
New Forge — Transform Manufacturing Knowledge into Simple Steps - Reduce the Chaos of Searching Through & Creating Technical Processes
AbCelex Technologies — AbCelex Technologies is a biotechnology company that develops solutions which focus on animal health and food safety challenges. It focuses on swine, poultry, and other farm animals. AbCelex Technologies develops protein feed that is able to prevent and treat a number of bacterial infections in animals. It offers NF-220, sdAb-based proteinfragments. AbCelex Technologies was founded by Saeid Babaei in 2010. It is based in Mississauga, Ontario.

Nick Kingsbury has 30 years experience in business, of which 12 was in the role of CEO for two software companies, and 7 was as Sector Partner for the international venture capital company 3i.Nick is an experienced international software entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He started his career with one of the leading UK software houses beforefounding his own company, Software Support Limited, in the mid 1980s which grew to become a leading systems integration company for Workflow applications. In 1996 this business merged with Staffware plc which then IPOâ€™d on the London market. With Staffware Nick was Senior VP for International Business Development and Marketing. In 1999 Nick joined the international venture capitalist, 3i plc, for which he was Sector Partner for the software and internet sector. 3i invested over $500m in 150 software companies across Europe, the US and Asia, of which Nick was personally involved in many. His role was to develop 3iâ€™s investment strategy and to advise on new investments. He also worked with existing investee companies with their strategic development, notably through partnership with the leading IT players worldwide. He served on the board of three 3i companies, Propero, the virtualisation company, sold to VMWare, Metastorm, the leading Business Process Management company (as observer) and the security software company Chronicle Solutions where he was also interim CEO.Nick left 3i in 2007 and now advises a number of companies on their corporate and funding strategies. He currently serves on the boards of several private and public companies. See engagements for more information.Kingsbury Ventures has access to a network of specialist associates covering media, electronics and other industries.

Investment focus

Software, Security, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

BlackCurve — We help eCommerce businesses make pricing decisions
Pickr — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Tailored.to — Tailored is a personal shopping assistant making tedious product search history.We've organised the entire web's wisdom about products. We know what every product is best for.Users tailor products to their own needs by answering a few insightful questions about the category.They receive the best three products for theirpersonal needs. Test us at www.tailored.to.We make money by powering 100% personalised (and GDPR compliant) advertising to them on behalf of brands.Publishers can host Tailored in relevant editorial to receive a share of this new advertising revenue.Learn more http://marketing.tailored.to/ Revenue comes from advertising, brand partnerships and product sales. This is shared with our host publishers.We've huge interaction rates when Tailored is added to lifestyle content. A significant percentage of readers are tailoring products to their own needs (thereby sharing their personal buying needs so that we can automatically serve personalised retargeted advertising). Tailored is scalable across product categories, publishers and geographies. We can be added to any content. Get in touch! martin@tailored.to

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Services, Retail Technology
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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

George Ayittey has a Doctor in Philosophy (Ph.D.) at the University of Manitoba. He founded the Free Africa Foundation.

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!

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.

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!

Andrew Gale is the founder of Longbrook Ventures.

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!

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.

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.

Mehmet Yilmaz is the Co-Founder of Freeletics.

Investment focus

Health Care, Hospital, Recruiting
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

Jonathan Lenson

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
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.
Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about our WFM solution.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Finance, Software
Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nokkel — utilizing technology to intelligently combine data in order to uncover property potential and enable individuals to make better decisions. All have a passion for improving people's perceptions of real estate. This, together with our exceptional staff, contribute to Nokkel's current success.
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.

Phillip Chambers is the GM, Peakon Employee Voice at Workday. He attended University of Manchester.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Human Resources
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Marts — Discover Marts' innovative IT asset management platform for efficient procurement, tracking, and support. Equip your IT department with smart, centralized tools for complete lifecycle management - from acquisition to recycling. Request a demo today
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.

Dan Cobley is the Managing Partner of Blenheim Chalcot. He previously worked at Santander UK as a Strategic Advisor to the Board. Dan Cobley attended the University of Cambridge.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Carmoola — Ready to hit the road? Find the car of your dreams and make your money move. Spread the cost with flexible payment plans to get new wheels, on your terms.
Mettle — The only mental fitness toolkit built for men
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.

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 email digest of the best tools for developers.

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.

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!

Founder and former CEO at Trouva (backed by Index Ventures & exited to LON:MADE). He is now an Angel Investor & Advisor, and a Board Member at Amnesty International. He was previously an investor at BC Partners, one of Europe’s largest Private Equity funds, investors in Intelsat, Foxtons (where Mandeep was on the board), and Chewy. Prior tothat he was a strategy consultant at OC&C and graduated in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge. He set up his first startup in his bedroom as a teenage coder.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

11x.ai — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Sourcerie — Discover the best products for you, based on reviews from people just like you.

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.

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.

Prasanna Sankar is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Rippling.

Investment focus

Software, Human Resources, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Togai — Launch usage based pricing models with Togai's reliable metering & billing platform. Usage based billing infrastructure built to handle scale of any size.
Movley — Movley helps firms manufacturing in China build better products through on-the-ground control inspections.
Gullak.Money — Gullak helps you create wealth starting with the first step of automating your savings. Gullak automatically saves money from your account via UPI autopay & invest these savings into wealth-creating assets, starting with digital gold investments.

Kevin Beales - Founder & CEO @ Refract

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.

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.

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.

Yoann Turpin is the Co-Founder & Head of BD at Wintermute. Yoann Turpin attended at EDHEC Business School.

Investment focus

Blockchain, SaaS, Recruiting
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CodeMonk — CodeMonk is your one stop solution to find pre-vetted tech talent, hire them as individual contractors or on permanent basis, and pay them from a single dashboard.
Altitude — Actively managed collateralised loans

Richard Flint

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!
Seat Unique — Seat Unique is an online marketplace to buy official hospitality packages and VIP tickets to live sports, music, and cultural events.

Derek Jacobson

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.

David Haye is a British professional boxer.

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

Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.

Joshua Cornelius is the Co-Founder at Freeletics.

Investment focus

Health Care, Hospital, Recruiting
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

Ian Dyke

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
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.
Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about our WFM solution.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
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.
Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about our WFM solution.