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Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in United Kingdom in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 Startup Investors in United Kingdom in September 2025

Investor	Recruiting United Kingdom investments
MMC Ventures	10
Piton Capital	8
Triple Point Ventures	5
VentureFounders	4
Playfair Capital	4
1818 Venture Capital	4
Nesta Impact Investments	4
Cabiedes & Partners	4
Paul Forster	4
Octopus Ventures	4
Ufi Ventures	4
Kelvin Capital	3
Will Martin	3
QVentures	3
Edenred Capital Partners	3
Northstar Ventures	3
Village Global	3
Stefan Ciecierski	3
Alex Macdonald	3
Will Brooks	3
SFC Capital	3
Episode 1	3
LocalGlobe	3
Downing Ventures	2
Velocity Partners	2
Viola FinTech	2
Stuart Marks	2
Founder Collective	2
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund	2
Sir Terry Leahy	2
TrueSight Ventures	2
Maven Capital Partners	2
The Future Fund	2
Samos Investments	2
7percent Ventures	2
MTech Capital	2
Tioga Capital Partners	2
The FSE Group	2
PROfounders Capital	2
Business Growth Fund	2
Keith MacDonald	2
Key Capital Partners	2
Blackfinch Ventures	2
Steve Perry	2
Peter Preston	2
Co-FundNI	2
Simon Murphy	2
Salica	2
Calibrate Management	2
Mobeus Equity Partners	2

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MMC is a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high-growth UK companies. Investing in technology companies at Seed and Series A.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BlackWall — Protect your web site from hacking, content theft, crawling, and cloning!
ABEX — ABEX Capital focuses on algorithmic trading for digital assets using machine learning and high-frequency trading engines. It offers "Algorithmic Best Execution" solutions for institutional clients and is registered with the FCA for cryptoasset activities
Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.

Piton Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Piton focuses exclusively on network effects businesses (marketplaces, exchanges and platforms) as this provide one of the few moats or forms of defensibility to achieve dominance. There are several forms of great network effects businesses thataren’t marketplaces that include data network effects (including machine learning and AI), businesses that rely on user generated content, as well as SaaS businesses with the potential to layer network effects around it. The firm is a stage and style-agnostic and seeks to invest from seed to late stage (€200k to €15m).

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.
Vesper — Vesper is the leading Commodity Intelligence Platform for Dairy, Sugar, Oils and Fats. View the latest commodity prices, insights & forecasts.
Munch — Munch operates a marketplace for restaurants, supermarkets, bakeries and cafes to sell their surplus food to consumers at a discounted price.

Investment management that activates capital across a range of industries, asset classes and sectors, connecting legacies with growth and businesses with better futures.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

trumpet — Create beautiful, personalised, trackable and interactive digital sales pods in a few clicks with trumpet
Visibly — Visibly developing technology to bring about the change our built environment requires by providing businesses with the tools they need to reduce the industry's skills gap and ensure our infrastructure can meet the needs of the population.
Paloma Health — A technology-enabled provider of children's mental health services, starting with autism assessments.

Volution is a UK based Venture Capital firm. We back ambitious Fintech and SaaS businesses, ready to accelerate their growth to Series B and beyond.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zopa — Zopa is a P2P money lending service that allows lenders and borrowers to deal directly with one another, cutting out the banks who act as middlemen. It works in the following way: the company first categorizes borrower credit grades with an A*, A, B, C, or Y rating; then lenders make offers that vary by money amount and time period for persons witha certain credit grade, and borrowers can then agree the aggregate offered rate.Zopa takes on such responsibilities as distributing money between parties, completing the legal paperwork, performing borrower identity/credit checks, and employing a collections agency that chases missed payments for the lender.Zopa also mitigates risk for lenders by enforcing monthly direct debit repayment, making borrowers sign a legal contract, and allowing lenders to lend small chunks of money to individual borrowers (i.e. someone lending Â£1000 would have their money spread across say, 100 borrowers).The company itself makes money by charging a fixed fee for borrowers and a 1% annual fee for lenders.Zopa has received public acclaim as well, having been awarded CNET Technology Awards' 2006 Internet Innovation of the Year, the 2007 Webby Award for Best Banking/Bill-Paying Website, the 2008 Webby Award for Financial Services, the Banker 2007 Award for Best Internet Project, and Moneywise 2009 Awards for Best Customer Service and Best Personal Loan.One of the three initial members of the UK's Peer-to-Peer Finance Association, together with FundingCircle and RateSetter. Other P2P lending services include
DeadHappy — DeadHappy is an insurtech company that provides digital pay-as-you-go life insurance services. It specializes in offering flexible life insurance policies that are designed to be cheaper, easier, and better than existing traditional providers. Its offerings include pricing insurance based on current circumstances and the option to add furthercoverage on a rolling basis.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Leicester, England.
Lightpoint Medical — Miniature, drop-in gamma probe system for minimally-invasive, robot-assisted cancer surgery.

Playfair is a generalist VC fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Warden AI — Warden AI is an AI assurance platform for validating fair, compliant, and trustworthy AI systems. Schedule a demo to learn more!
Those Beyond — Those Beyond develops a social gaming platform that supports interactive fan experiences within fictional universes. The platform uses its proprietary Arise Engine to enable browser-based adventures, role-playing, and puzzle-solving activities involving mass community participation. Projects include collaborations with entertainment franchises suchas "The Walking Dead," allowing fans to engage with story-driven challenges and community events. The platform includes customizable social spaces designed to reflect the themes and aesthetics of the associated intellectual properties.
Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.

1818 Venture Capital is proud to invest in portfolios of tech startups that aim to generate wealth for our investors and do good in the world.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
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.
Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Gaia Learning — Gaia Learning are a special online school dedicated to children with additional needs. We help kids with ADHD, ADD, OCD, PDA and Autism, learn online.
Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
martee ai — Reduce Wastage, Unlock Revenue, Maximise Profit. Martee ai is the only demand forecasting tool tailored for the food-on-the-go industry.

Cabiedes & Partners is a Spanish venture capital firm that provides seed funding and early-stage and later-stage investment services. Cabiedes & Partners was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Laagam — We craft attainable high fashion for your everyday special occasions. Bold fashion for dazzling people. Discover our collection. Drops every Wednesday. Instant shipping.
Shalion — Shalion enables ambitious brands to navigate their journey to digital shelf excellence with a unique, unified digital shelf & retail media insights solution.
Tutrocito — Tutrocito is an online store that sells decorative supplies and custom-made furniture.

Paul Forster

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Stackfix — Stackfix - We combine deep software and AI knowledge. We apply it to your business. We deliver returns.
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

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CRED — Compare millions of commercial data points and uncover unique and personalised opportunities for your brand.
Healsgood Ai LTD — Discover how HealsGood is revolutionising healthcare with AI-powered workforce solutions. Explore our expertise in clinical insourcing, staff bank management, and secure data-driven technology.
Perci Health — Connecting cancer patients with expert practitioners. On-demand, affordable appointments. Get personalised support and a tailored care plan today.

The UK’s specialist investor in VocTech ventures, investing between £150k and £1m in seed-stage companies that are building digital technologies to give people and businesses the skills needed for work, now and in the future.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AutonoMe — Supporting people with Learning Disabilities and Autism with employment and independent living skills
Assemble You — Increase your learning and development skills with our podcast-style Power Skills audio learning. Unlock your potential with innovative training in multiple languages. Build a better you and embark on an exciting journey of self-improvement today!
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!

We invest venture capital in to globally ambitious companies which have the potential to deliver a significant return to our investors

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

novosound — Novosound is an award winning Scottish sensors company utilising thin-film processes to eliminate conventional limitations in ultrasound sensors.
Chromacity — Chromacity manufacture the next generation of ultrafast lasers. Discover our fixed wavelength femtosecond lasers and picosecond OPOs.
Biotangents — Biotangents develops veterinary diagnostic tests to detect infectious diseases in livestock (bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD), mastitis, bovine respiratory disease (BRD), brucellosis) using our highly adaptable molecular diagnostic technology, Moduleic Sensing.

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 — 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 — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

QVentures sources, screens, and invests in top-tier start-ups from Seed to Series B. Our investors consist of Family Offices, Institutional Investors, UHNWIs, and Cashed-out Entrepreneurs. We look for disruptive companies with a proven product-market fit, set to scale from Seed to Series B. We focus on Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, Consumer Tech,FinTech, AdTech, EdTech, InsurTech and HealthTech and more. We look for quality management teams, large addressable markets, proven traction, sustainable business models, route to scale and quality investors.To apply for investment, please fill out this short form to be reviewed: https://qventures.typeform.com/to/zZPOWf

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Edenred Capital Partners is the Venture Capital investment arm of Edenred group. Employee Benefits, Payment, Mobility, Human Resources, and Retail.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
Banked — Banked : Real time payments for consumers, businesses and banks.
Beekeeper — Beekeeper is the employee app built for frontline success. Connect frontline teams, boost engagement, and make every shift more productive.

Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Nanovery — Founded by scientists specialised in Nanotechnology, Medicinal Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence, we are on a mission to enable early detection of cancer through a rapid and affordable blood test Backed by academics at top universities, clinicians, industrial leaders, and Entrepreneur First.
AI Hay — AI Hay develops an AI-driven answer engine that allows users to access information through a question-and-answer format. The company combines hyperlocal, culturally nuanced knowledge discovery engines with social loops to enhance community validation and perspectives. It utilizes in-house specialized large-language models, retrieval-augmentedgeneration (RAG), and social features to build a knowledge discovery platform that serves the community.
Magnitude Biosciences — Magnitude Biosciences is a biotechnology firm combine experience in ageing research, the nematode C. elegans and automation.

Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Qanooni — Qanooni is a legal technology company offering an AI-powered platform designed specifically for lawyers and legal professionals.
Fal — fal.ai is the fastest way to run diffusion models with ready-to-use AI inference, training APIs, and UI Playgrounds
Gravity — Meet Orion, the autonomous AI-Powered Data Analyst that turns overwhelming data into clear direction. It works 24/7 so your team doesn't have to.

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.

Alex Macdonald is the Co-Founder and CEO Sequel. He previously Co-Founded Velocity Black. He attended The University of Manchester.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
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 builds distributed AI platforms that scale globally. Research-driven intelligent systems for healthcare, education, and enterprise operations worldwide
Aurora — The next generation lifestyle OS for post-exit & late-stage founders.

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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 — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Discover the UK's leading SEIS Fund, offering tax-efficient investments in innovative startups. Join thousands of savvy investors and raise capital for your business with SFC Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Paapi — The truth-first ad measurement platform for D2C marketers tired of ad platform propaganda and wasted spend.
TILKI — TILKI is an AI-powered game creation platform that democratizes video game development by enabling all creators to build immersive games without coding.
Privasee — Privasee is a self-compliance tool that takes away the complexity of GDPR and makes it easy for SMEs to understand their data and mitigate its risks.

We build relationships early, make decisions quickly, but engage with you for the long term. Our focus is getting B2B software companies at Pre-Seed and Seed to a successful Series A.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
RevEng — The AI powered binary analysis platform for reverse engineering and malware analysis.
Project B — Project B provides Operations System for Employee Financial Data.

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
Xelix — Empower your AP & P2P teams with Xelix: AI-powered software that prevents overpayments & delivers meaningful insights around working capital.
Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.

The opportunity for institutional investors to access leading UK early stage healthtech businesses

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TidalSense — CRiL was formed in April 2013 specifically to develop innovative medical devices to diagnose and manage respiratory conditions. They have been building a platform technology, N-Tidal, based on the measurement and analysis of tidal breathing CO2 throughout the entire breath.
Qkine — Growth Factors made for stem cells Animal-free We control every step of protein manufacture ensuring all our products are completely animal-free Total transparency Stringent purity and bioactivity testing data for all proteins - know what you are giving your cells Protein innovation Our R&D team
FundamentalVR — A strategic partner helping med-device leaders solve the Competency @ Scale Gap todrive commercial success.

Velocity Partners is a leading global nearshore software development company. We offer rapid cost-effective business solutions to companies of all sizes

Investment focus

Legal, Mobile, Software
Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
United States, Greece, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spotawheel — Spotawheel is a trusted high-tech used cars B2C platform that redesigns the whole buy-sell process from scratch, ensuring value, transparency and customer satisfaction at the highest levels throughout.
Burns & Levinson — Burns & Levinson is a Boston-based, full service law firm with more than 125 attorneys in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island.
SERG Technologies — SERG Technologies is re-defining the way we interact with technology by creating reliable and functional wearables that can be used for activity tracking, monitoring health and fitness, and gesture recognition for smart devices.Our unique sensors detect tiny, subconscious movements that indicate a wearer’s intent, we turn these into controlsignals for everything from TV’s to smart prosthetics, resulting in almost instant response times. We are also developing new tools to allow Parkinson's patients to track their symptoms, providing vital new information to their doctors, leading to long term improvements to the efficacy their treatment.SERG was founded to make the gesture control of technology accessible for everyone and easier to use than ever before.

Viola FinTech is a cross-stage venture fund that invests in global FinTech companies alongside leading venture investors. The fund brings together financial institutions and innovative startups to accelerate the modernization and digitization of financial institutions and support the growth of FinTech companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Planck — Revolutionizing commercial insurance underwriting with GenAI - Planck gives underwriters the advantage to confidently navigate big data, classify businesses, and detect vital risk.
Rest Less — Rest Less is the UK's fastest growing digital community for the over 50s. Join for free. Restless offers content, guidance and resources on a range of topics spanning Work and Careers, Volunteering, Learning, Money, Health, Lifestyle and Relationships.
Summer — We believe owning a vacation home should be accessible to more than just a small percentage of people. That’s why we created Summer. Whether it be the high upfront and continued costs of ownership, the time that it takes to find and manage a home, or general uncertainty around buying real estate, Summer reduces the friction at every step in theprocess. Through our diverse product offerings aimed at all segments of the market, Summer is building a globally-recognized brand-- one synonymous with quality, joy, and opportunity. #StartSummering

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.

Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Coverflow — Coverflow is an AI-powered platform designed for policy checking, AMS updates, and generating proposals. Users can upload policies, and the AI automatically identifies and organizes them for analysis, flagging discrepancies and highlighting key details. The platform enables the generation of personalized proposals and provides complete checks toensure accurate decision-making. It also offers integration with other systems, automatic updates, and secure data handling with SOC2 compliance.
Weavy — Weavy is a company focused on enhancing team collaboration by providing developers with pre-built, seamlessly integrated collaboration features for web applications. Their platform offers components such as chat, messaging, file sharing, AI tools, and cloud integrations designed to save developers from repetitive coding tasks, enabling them tobuild smarter and faster without reinventing the wheel. Weavy's tools emphasize developer-friendliness, intuitive user experience, and cost-effectiveness, aiming to empower developers across skill levels to embed collaboration and AI-driven capabilities into internal apps efficiently.
General Medicine — General Medicine provides accessible healthcare services, including virtual visits, lab testing, imaging, referrals, and prescriptions to cater to patient needs. The organization is committed to supporting patients throughout their healthcare journey, whether through local specialists or in-house clinicians for various health concerns.

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

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Think 360 — Think 360 is able to comprehend the needs, provide straightforward and effective solutions, and provide solutions for decision makers.
CCI Photonics — CCI Photonics specialises in medical instruments and supplies, as well as conducting biotechnology research and development.
Patisserie Lane — Patisserie Lane will provide coffee, tea, and pastries in the heart of Farnworth hamlet.

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

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.
BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.

TrueSight Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed deals.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Querio — Querio is an AI native Business Intelligence platform that meets everyone at their technical level. From fully automated queries and visualizations, to co-pilot jupyter notebooks.
Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
Applied Computing — Applied Computing delivers industrial AI to the energy industry including oil and gas, refineries, and petrochemical plants, helping critical operations harness 100% of their data and optimise in real time for safer, faster, higher-performing decisions

Maven is one of the UK's leading private equity and investment firms. We provide essential capital and expertise to help businesses unlock their potential.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Q5D Technology — Additive manufacturing with conductors. Eliminate traditional wiring, saving space and weight. Unique 5-axis robots add power and data functions to products. Simplify supply chains and manufacturing. Transform productivity with our hardware, software, and support.
CWCS Managed Hosting — Let CWCS handle your hosting, full management, 24/7 expert support, seamless migrations, and UK-based performance you can trust.
Laverock Therapeutics — Laverock Therapeutics is developing a gene silencing platform for the creation of programmable, allogeneic cell therapies.

The Future Fund is provides government loans to UK-based companies ranging from £125,000 to £5 million.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Funding Round, Convertible Note, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Auddy — The Problem: Millions of series. Endless producers. Advertising £s to be located. An audience to build. Many platforms. How does a creator navigate this fragmented but large ecosystem? Creators do not have the resources to bring business and analytical skills to their podcast. Or the ability to properly market or develop an audience.Auddy solvesthe creator’s problem through the combination of editorial input, data insights and analytics, marketing and promotional services and sales. In so doing, it also rewards the creator by paying a significant royalty rate.
OneDome — Find, buy or sell property in one place with OneDome. Property search, mortgages, conveyancing and estate agents, we cover every step of the property journey.
Unwasted — Toto Macau Hari Ini Dan Togel Macau Pools Memberikan Keluaran Macau Tercepat Dari Live Draw Macau Pools Di Data Macau Hari Ini Diambil Dari Live Draw Macau Pools.

Samos Investments is a private equity investor with a focus on high-growth European businesses.Samos invests across a range of sectors including digital media, e-commerce, retail, financial services, energy and natural resources.Samos takes a proactive approach with its portfolio companies, working alongside many of the US and Europe’s topventure funds, family offices and private investors.The Samos Partners are also active angel/seed investors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Kenya, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Jude — Science-backed food supplement that makes you feel empowered, not embarrassed.
VIEVE — Shop award-winning and high-performance makeup by expert MUA Jamie Genevieve; bestselling primer, brushes, lip glosses, eyeshadows & more. Vegan & cruelty free.
Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.

Venture X is our top-notch financial investment firm Webflow Template created for modern VC and investor firms looking for a dark mode website design.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Magdrive — A revolutionary plasma thruster for the new space age
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
Biological Black Box — A groundbreaking new field of science using real neurons for computing. Train the most complex AI models better, faster, and cheaper using 500 million years of biology.

MTech Capital is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles (Santa Monica) and London investing in InsurTech - technology companies operating in the insurance industry.

Investment focus

Insurance, InsurTech, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Zuub — Zuub is an all-in-one dental revenue cycle management platform that streamlines processes and boosts revenue through automated insurance verification, and more.
Verituity — Transforming legacy payout systems as the only dynamic payout network that connects Banks, Payers, and Payees, with smarter, faster, and safer end-to-end verified payouts.
Matic Insurance — Matic is an independent insurance agency that works with multiple insurance carriers so that we can provide the best recommendation to you. This often results in the best policy and the best price.

Headquartered in Belgium, we provide our investors with exposure to the growing European blockchain ecosystem, with a focus on early-stage opportunities.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, France, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Olas — Olas is an innovative platform designed to leverage autonomous AI agents in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. By employing specialized agents that collaborate, Olas aims to offer complex and comprehensive services tailored to the needs of users in the rapidly evolving world of digital currencies.
FrodoBots Lab — FrodoBots Lab is pioneering advancements in Embodied AI research at the intersection of crypto and gaming.
Chronicle Labs — Evolving from the Oracle Core Unit at MakerDAO, Chronicle Protocol was created by the unit’s development team. Although the Oracles that underpinned Chronicle Protocol had been securing MakerDAO’s $10B+ collateral since 2016, the technology and its unique innovations weren’t available outside of Maker’s portfolio.In 2021, the team receivedsupport from MakerDAO to spin out the proprietary technology and form a new entity and brand. Chronicle Protocol was born.Chronicle continues to service MakerDAO and now, for the first time, is rolling out its on-chain Oracle services to support the wider Web3 world.Chronicle Protocol has been developed to solve many of the current pain points of on-chain Oracles and DeFi. On-chain Oracles, particularly on computationally expensive blockchains such as Ethereum, are bottlenecking the development of DeFi with an exorbitant cost of service and a lack of feasible scalability. Through developing a proprietary solution called Scribe, the team at Chronicle has built a blockchain-agnostic, ubiquitously accessible, scalable, end-to-end verifiable, and decentralized Oracle. The protocol’s unique architecture enables an ecosystem that delivers 100% decentralization and transparency. Every byte of data can be traced back to each Feed’s original data source queries, and new Oracles can be deployed (and updated) with the click of a button on the Chronicle Dashboard.Inspired by Ancient Greece’s Herodotus (the Father of History), Chronicle Protocol aims to be the world’s first open and verifiable data chronicler. Transparency, democracy, and accessibility are the columns on which Chronicle has built its temple, and industry-leading scalability, integration, and security are the features that power the protocol.Verifiable data, accessible to all - delivered securely and affordably.

FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Seed, Debt Financing, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
SportsPro — SportsPro manufactures its Pro sportswear training apparel and team wear and offers innovative conceptual ideas to local sports teams, including junior teams, athletes, sports clubs, parents, and supporters.
New Motion Labs — New Motion Labs is a driven collection of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs, dedicated to developing and licensing revolutionary designs for Mechanical Engineering. Nearly every mechanical component will contain a gear, belt or roller-chain drive. They all have one thing in common. They transfer power on one side of the tooth, and we referto this as ‘single engagement.’From the roller chain drives on bikes and e-bikes, to belt drives on conveyors and gear drives in transmissions. This method of engagement leads to shortcomings for each technology.Our first technology, DUAL ENGAGEMENT™ is a revolutionary method of transferring power on both sides of the sprocket tooth, leading to many advantages over roller-chains, increasing efficiency, strength and lifetime at smaller weights and sizes.Our technology enables a more efficient, more sustainable world, with smaller, lighter products with greater lifetimes.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Abacum — Our FP&A software automates data integration, eases collaboration & drives rapid insights into your financial health. See why Typeform, Ebury & Cabify trust us.
Qneiform — The Leading Financial Services Talent Data Platform
Capalo AI — We maximize the value of your energy storage systems. Now and in the future.

BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Xampla — Xampla's natural plant polymer technology is the innovative technology powering materials to change the world with plastic-free replacements and more.
CWC Group — CWC Group's objective is to deliver superior care in our family-oriented homes.
Enhanc3D Genomics — Enhanc3D Genomics is a spinout company from Babraham Institute.

Keith MacDonald

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.

Key Capital Partners (KCP) is focused on the equity gap, making equity investments of between £2 million and £10 million in profitable, growing companies. They will invest across all sectors and in all types of later-stage transactions.

Investment focus

Facilities Support Services, Recruiting, Manufacturing
Private Equity, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SJA Group — SJA Group operates as a support services & facilities company.
Smarter Services — Smarter Services is a facilities management company offering services across the estate, student, build-to-rent and healthcare sectors.
ICE Technology Services — Decades of experience allow us to offer IT services & tech consultancy to clients in industries including cruise, helping them achieve business goals.

We're passionate about supporting the UK's most talented founders of high growth technology businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Quin AI — Quin AI is a real-time digital customer analytics tool that helps e-commerce websites predict visitors’ behavior after only 3-clicks, and engage them in real-time. The tool is very simple to install (just a JavaScript plugin), and only uses in-session clickstream data (cookie-free & GDPR compliant) to make highly accurate predictions to supportconversion for traffic that otherwise drops.Quin significantly increases engagement and incremental revenue on websites through native engagement tools and easy API integration to available tech-stacks which makes the product an ideal solution for e-commerce websites and ideal partner for companies providing services to retail and e-commerce businesses.
Spaceflux — As satellites become increasingly vital, Spaceflux tackles the growing challenges of orbital congestion and debris that put them at risk. Thanks to our proprietary global network of optical sensors, we provide data-driven space situational awareness services from LEO to Cislunar.
Adia Thermal — Smart heat pump control that works with your existing radiators. Auto-balances heating, tracks flexible tariffs, and saves money on every bill.

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.

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.

Through Co-Fund NI £12.5million will be made available to invest alongside business angels and business angel syndicates (hereafter referred to as "private investors" or "syndicates") into eligible SME's based in Northern Ireland. When matched 45% public with 55% private investors on a deal-by-deal basis this will give anoverall "fund" size of £28m.This initiative is provided by Invest Northern Ireland and part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund under the Invest for Growth and Jobs Programme 2014-2020.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AMPLY Discovery — AMPLY Discovery is to develop new biological molecules for anti-infective health and nutrition applications in animal and human health.
GenoMe Diagnostics — GenoME Diagnostics - We are developing a blood test for an earlier and more accurate diagnosis of ovarian cancer.GenoME Diagnostics .
Cumulus Neuroscience — Cumulus Neuroscience has created a next-generation integrated physiological and digital biomarker platform.

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.

Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

HeadBox — HeadBox is a new online marketplace for creative, inspiring and offsite spaces. They are the first platform in the UK to directly link their Guests (corporate and SME bookers) to their Hosts (owners of those creative, inspiring spaces) allowing you to instantly search, book and pay in an easy and seamless way saving time and hassle when planning aSpace experience.
Merit Incentives — Seamless, API-driven solutions connecting you to a global network of 7,000+ brands, enabling real-time, instant gratification across 155+ countries.
Bumper — Split the cost of your car repairs and servicing into manageable monthly instalments with 0% interest. Fix it. Split it. Sorted.

Calibrate is focused on long-duration capital investments. Our firm belief is that having a longer timeline for investing will generate superior returns. We do not believe in short term solutions.Our ethos is to operate with integrity and to add value across the spectrum of the investment cycle.Our mission is to provide the means to support,sustain, and enhance stakeholder value; to generate an environment aligned with value creation.Our business is founded upon our core values and a measured approach to risk management as our name suggests.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

KisanHub — KisanHub Agri-Food Supply Chain Software helps Producer Groups to transform their supply chain and improve margins with greater visibility and data driven insights. With all your supply and procurement data together in one convenient dashboard, you can better predict supply and make the most of demand. Choose from a suite of software modules thatwork seamlessly to provide fast access to crop progress, weather information, satellite imagery, stock levels and delivery schedules.
Staff Heroes — Staff Heroes is the #1 On Demand Booking Platform for Temporary Staff, providing quality vetted workers to over 1000 Hospitality, Event and Venue businesses in London and transforming the traditional agency industry.Staff Heroes removes the middleman giving Businesses control and transparency with as much or little control as they wish.Businesses have the option to view Worker profiles and ratings allowing the creation of favourite pools of workers. Vice versa workers are able to rate Businesses based on their experience.Staff Heroes works with many large businesses such as Four Seasons, Hilton, BBC, ISS, Servest, Virgin Atlantic, Youngs, Aramark, Delaware North as well as with over 1'200 SMEs who have signed up to the platform since launch.Staff Heroes empowers Heroes (workers), allowing them to have control of where and when they work and creating a more democratic working environment with reward and gamification to incentivise loyalty.Staff Heroes was founded by Laurent Gibb in December 2015; and is headquartered in London, England.
Funding Xchange — Funding Xchange is transforming and connecting the SME funding eco-system through digital eligibility and affordability assessment tools. Funding Xchange built its leading technology platform by connecting businesses with more than 70 funders to access indicative offers in 3 minutes and money in businesses’ bank accounts in 10 minutes.Funding Xchange’s Marketplace provides access to finance where businesses are engaging with their finance. Using its API-led technology, Funding Xchange is embedding its Marketplace in the largest Price Comparison Websites like MoneySuperMarket, delivering custom marketplaces to banks like NatWest and Monzo, integrating finance solutions in advisory platforms like Enterprise Nation and finance available within accounting software and payment providers own eco-system. Through FXE Technologies, the business white-labels its intelligent SME lending tools for banks, funders and brokers. Clients are able to deploy white-labelled, digitally-led customer journeys and market-facing intermediary portals, transforming operating costs and increasing look-to-book ratios while also empowering active portfolio risk management.The tools are powered by real-time access to validated transactional data and leverage insights into risk analytics and underwriting across a broad spectrum of SME funding solutions. The eligibility and affordability tools deliver the benefits of digital transformation without the risk of complex and costly technology projects. Funding Xchange was founded in 2014 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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