Top 50 Retail Angel Investors in United Kingdom (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Paul Forster
Angel
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5 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.1M–$15M |
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Tom Singh
Angel
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5 | United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $393k–$5.9M |
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Nigel Wray
Angel
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4 | United Kingdom, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech | $916k–$10M |
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Will Martin
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $524k–$30M |
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Simon Murdoch
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Finance | $637k–$15M |
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Richard Fearn
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Advertising, Internet | $550k–$13M |
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Will Brooks
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $524k–$30M |
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Marc Hazan
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Series A | Marketplace, Video, Retail | $1.9M–$4.2M |
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Matt Cooper
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, E-Commerce | $556k–$4.2M |
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Melih Odemis
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | $170k–$1.9M |
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Dimiter Tschawow
Angel
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2 | India, Mexico, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Retail, Internet | $4.6M–$50M |
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Adam Balon
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Food and Beverage, CRM, Video | $1.5M–$13M |
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Haluk Can Hür
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Mobile, Retail, Shopping | $64k–$520k |
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Paul Birch
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Series A | E-Commerce, Marketplace, SaaS | $828k–$955k |
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Thomas Teichman
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, CRM, SaaS | |
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Kevin Taylor
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed | NFC, PaaS, Retail | $672k–$904k |
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Martin McCourt
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, EdTech, Events | $196k–$2.1M |
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James Fong
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Retail, Marketing, Advertising | |
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Codie Sanchez
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Apps, FinTech, Software | $1M–$70M |
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Alan Barratt
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed | Energy, Retail, Food and Beverage | $3.7M–$6M |
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Sir Terry Leahy
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, SaaS, Mobile | $1.3M–$16M |
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Guy Westlake
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Logistics, E-Commerce, GPS | $144k–$1.5M |
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Jeroen Sibia
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Angel | Retail, Shopping, Social Shopping | $2M–$2.2M |
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Jon Wright
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series B, Series A | CRM, Video, Mobile | $1.5M–$19M |
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Giles Brook
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Snack Food, Retail | $524k–$2.6M |
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Philip Green
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Internet, Software, Information Technology | $120k–$13M |
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Tjaart van der Waalt
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed | Retail, Marketing, Advertising | $962k–$3M |
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Dan Martell
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Series A | Apps, Software, SaaS | $168k–$6M |
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Serge Weinberg
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed | Retail, Fashion | |
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Rob Dobson
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Business Intelligence, SaaS | |
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Nick Wheeler
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Angel | Retail, E-Commerce, Fashion | |
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Knut Frängsmyr
Angel
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1 | Sweden, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Banking, Retail | |
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James Watt
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Apps | |
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Nicholas Acaster
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Mobile, Retail, Consulting | |
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Charles Atterton
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Series A | Retail, Fashion, Consumer Goods | |
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Adrian Thompson
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Angel | Retail, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods | |
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Jose Marin
Angel
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1 | United States, Brazil, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Internet | |
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Mato Perić
Angel
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1 | Germany, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | |
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Nicole Crentsil
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Personal Health, Beauty, Retail | |
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Will Hobhouse
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed | Baby, Retail, Shopping | |
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Anu Adedoyin Adasolum
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Pre-Seed | Retail, Fashion, Brand Marketing | |
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Sharmadean Reid
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Debt Financing | Beauty, Retail, E-Commerce | |
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Joe Middleton
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Retail, Shopping, Social Shopping | ||
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Anna Sweeting
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, France, United States | Series A, Seed | Fashion, E-Commerce, Retail | |
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Helen Williamson
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Series A | Retail, Fashion, Consumer Goods | |
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Robin Knox
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, SaaS, Social Network | |
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Paul Walton
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, SaaS, Social Network | |
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Lee Harlow
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Series A | Retail, Fashion, Consumer Goods | |
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Richard Reed
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Mobile, Content, Medical | $1.2M–$17M |
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Faik Ulutaş
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Mobile Apps, Mobile | $29k–$1.3M |
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Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$4.2M; Series A $3.9M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
- Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
- Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
Tom Singh OBE is the Founder of New Look, a leading UK entrepreneur and active private investor with family interests spanning: retail, technology, real estate, renewable energy sectors and private equity. He currently holds the position of Non-Executive Board Member for New Look with over 900 stores worldwide which he founded in 1969.Inaddition to his responsibilities at New Look, Tom is a founding member of: the Social Investment Task Force, the Chairman of the UK Advisory Council for the British Asian Trust, and is a Trustee of the Pakhar Foundation. Tom is an active philanthropist and social investor and in recent years, has taken an increasing interest in the world of technology.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $393k–$5.9M; Series A $1.6M–$4.1M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Floom — Floom helps you send stunning flowers by local independent florists. Same day and next day flower delivery available. Free delivery on your first purchase.
- Fabacus — We are a leading data and technology business with a unique data service designed to digitally-transform the licensing industry. Contact us today.
- Tonic Health — Tonic Health is leading a nutrition movement. The 1 million strong community that subscribes to all-natural, high-impact vitamin drinks and gummies to fuel your energy, mood and immunity without the junk. Try our tonic effervescent vitamins drinks, no added sugar gummies, or max strength drinks.
Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino's Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors.Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community.Nigel still calls the area home, too - having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $916k–$5.9M; Series A $1.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vizzy —
- Implement AI — Implement AI provides managed AI agent solutions and teams of virtual workers via its AI Agent Platform, offering SMEs cost-effective, enterprise-grade solutions to amplify human potential, optimise productivity, and drive growth.
- Tonic Health — Tonic Health is leading a nutrition movement. The 1 million strong community that subscribes to all-natural, high-impact vitamin drinks and gummies to fuel your energy, mood and immunity without the junk. Try our tonic effervescent vitamins drinks, no added sugar gummies, or max strength drinks.
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $524k–$3.5M; Series A $2.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Loadsure — Loadsure is a spot freight cargo insurance company.
- Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.
Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 125
- Round size: Seed $637k–$3M; Series A $712k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
- MoveWise — Best casino sites UK ranked by reliability, game variety, bonus terms, and payout performance to help players choose with confidence.
- Area4 Labs — Hearby is your gateway to local live events.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Advertising, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $550k–$2M; Pre-Seed $585k–$1.9M; Series A $1.7M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
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.
- MV.Health — MysteryVibe offers the most advanced & award winning smart sex toys for men, women & couples that elevates their sexual health and wellbeing.
- Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.
Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $524k–$3.1M; Series A $2.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.
Marc Hazan is the Vice President Of Premium Business Development at Spotify (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/spotify#/entity), a commercial music streaming service that provides digital content from a range of record labels and artists.
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- Industry: Marketplace, Video, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grabyo — A modern, powerful cloud-based managed service with all the tools needed for live production, distribution and video monetization.
- 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.
- Appear Here — Appear Here is an online marketplace for retail space. Since the company was founded in 2012, it has facilitated the opening of over 10,000 stores in the UK, US, and France. Appear Here has raised a total of $21.4 million in VC funding from the previous backers of Spotify, Pinterest, Hailo and Trivago.
Matt Cooper is Chairman of Octopus. Before joining Octopus, Matt was Principal Managing Director of Capital One Bank (Europe) where he led the team guiding strategy and operations. He helped the UK arm grow from a start-up to a business employing more than 2,000 people and generating over £275 million in revenue.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $556k–$2.8M; Angel $1.8M–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $2M–$2.9M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.
- Clerkenwell Health — Clerkenwell Health addresses the growing unmet demand for effective mental health treatments.
- Juniper — Juniper is a reproductive healthcare insurance provider.
Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $170k–$1.9M; Angel $275k–$524k; Pre-Seed $200k–$510k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Otsimo — Otsimo offers special education and speech therapy apps for autism, down syndrome and other developmental disabilities. Click to see our autism apps!
- UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
- Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, Mexico, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $4.6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Valoreo — Valoreo acquires, operates, and scales outstanding e-commerce brands with superstar products. We focus on brands with excellent customer reviews and merchants that have proven success by being top-seller in niche categories with high-growth potential.
- UpScalio — We will partner with you to invest, grow and scale your e-commerce business to new heights. For and by Indian entrepreneurs and innovators.
- Zapp — Thousands of hand-picked products - delivered across London in minutes, 24/7.
Mr. Commercial. Was the innocent co-CEO & sales director who led the international expansion to exit. Ex McKinsey UK & Jo'burg and former Virgin marketing manager. St John's college, Cambridge- economics.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, CRM, Video
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scoota — Scoota is an online advertising technology company that enables advertisers to create, activate, measure and optimise brilliant brand campaigns at scale.We offer a single programmatic platform for the creation and delivery of rich, high-impact formats via open real-time bidding and private marketplaces, without compromising creative executionor brand safety.Our technology includes a unique campaign delivery system that pre-reads an ad space in real-time so that the right creative is delivered into the right ad unit without the need for pre-testing and independent site integration.We care about and invest in an open and long-term approach, enabling partners to work with us through integration with their own systems of choice, or via our platform whether as a self-serve solution, or a fully managed service.Scoota was founded in London in 2008 and employs more than 40 people. In 2015, we won best overall programmatic technology at The Drum Digital Trading Awards and Silver for Best Ad Tech Provider at the 2015 British Media Awards.
- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
- Simba Sleep — One Mattress. Five Layers of Comfort. Tailored to Suit All. Bringing together experience & technology so that your mattress gives you the best night's sleep.
Haluk Can Hür
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- Industry: Mobile, Retail, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $64k–$520k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- Shopi — All-in-One Store Platform for Omnichannel Retailing
Paul Birch resides in central London, England. He graduated from University (Imperial College) many years ago - but now believes the University of Life has much more to offer than traditional education.Paul's background is systems analysis. He has loved the Internet since the first day he went online back in 1996. He's been surfingthe Internet ever since and has applied many surfing discoveries to BirthdayAlarm. He also enjoy's travelling and helps run Adventura Singles Holidays.Paul has fun everyday, by helping bring a little extra joy to people's lives through the Birthday Alarm service. Formerly himself a 'bad boy' at remembering birthdays - he is of course now excellent!
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $828k–$955k
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shutl — Shutl is a technology startup that offers convenient fulfillment services by connecting online retailers with local same-day couriers.The company solves fulfillment for retailers and shoppers by enabling immediate or convenient delivery of online purchases. Its platform creates a marketplace from the capacity of local courier firms and usesretail partners’ local stocks to fulfill purchases. It integrates with all major dispatch software and retailers’ existing technologies.Shutl operates in more than 50 towns across the United Kingdom with a virtual fleet of thousands of couriers who complete 10,000 deliveries every day.Shutl was founded in December 2009 by
- ONBORD —
- Housebites — Create tasty, inspiring and healthy meals at home. We'll send you all the ingredients, recipes and expert tips. Release your inner chef!
Tom is the Chairman of SPARK Venture Management and has a long track record in backing, chairing and developing some of Europe’s most successful internet, technology, music, games and software businesses. Additionally, he has 20 years’ prior investment banking experience acquired at Credit Suisse, Bank of Montreal Nesbitt and Mitsubishi Bank,where he held various positions including Head of Corporate Finance, Trading and Syndicate. Tom was Executive Chairman of SPARK Ventures plc for 10 years until 2011 and now chairs SPARK Venture Management, which manages the SPARK Ventures plc portfolio and other significant technology and life sciences portfolios including funds from major institutions and 27 Oxford University colleges and the UK Government. Tom has operated hands-on after his City days in many small and fast growing businesses from start up to IPO or trade sale. Thus, unusually, he combines awareness of the capital markets and the M&A environments with that of entrepreneurial, rapid growth companies with mould-breaking ideas.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, CRM, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Popsa — Popsa won the Software category and was placed 3rd overall in Deloitte’s list of the 50 fastest growing companies in the UK in 2020 (in-between Bulb and Revolut), and was also awarded a place as a "one to watch" in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100.In an increasingly digital world, it's all too easy to lose your photos to the cloudor to the depths of your camera roll, never to be seen again.So we decided to do something about it.Popsa launched in 2016 to bring your memories to life by printing them in beautiful, physical products that you can hold.However, instead of making you spend hours designing your product (like Snapfish or Photobox), we do the hard work for you in minutes.Our vision is to send you regular bundles of photos in the post without you having to think about it. Little presents to yourself. A monthly subscription to your memories.We're developing technology to make it happen:• Machine learning to curate your most sentimental photos. • Bespoke algorithms to automatically design beautiful layouts. • The fastest delivery from the best printers in the world.Customers will sign up and every month they'll unwrap a new collection of memories to keep for years to come.
- Doctify — Find and book the best healthcare providers on Doctify. Read verified patient reviews and book your appointments with confidence
- Simba Sleep — One Mattress. Five Layers of Comfort. Tailored to Suit All. Bringing together experience & technology so that your mattress gives you the best night's sleep.
Kevin Taylor is a coder turned entrepreneur who lives in the Chicagoland area, where he makes things out of words, bytes or flour, depending on his mood.Kevin has suffered from a lifelong obsession with entrepreneurship and is an angel investor and advisor for early-stage start-ups. He has a current interest in brick-and-mortar or otherold-school business models that are ripe to receive exponential boosts by leveraging technology.He consults on how to start up and successfully grow professional services businesses, such as software development, web design, headhunting and recruiting, etc. He also works as CTO-for-Hire to help startups without technical co-founders successfully get their product development off the ground.Career highlights:Former Co-Owner of EventWax, LLC, an online event registration company.Former Lecturer in Technology Entrepreneurship at DePaul University, where he designed and taught courses for both undergraduate and graduate students.Former Director of Engineering at Groupon.Former President and Founder of Obtiva Corporation, an Agile and Ruby on Rails development shop acquired by Groupon in 2011. Co-Founder of the Software Craftsmanship North America conference.Early promoter and adherent to Software Craftsmanship values and practices and practitioner, trainer, and coach in the areas of Agile Project Management, Extreme Programming, and software development.
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- Industry: NFC, PaaS, Retail
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $672k–$904k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ensygnia — Ensygnia's solutions sit at the heart of shopper interaction. The Ensygnia platform delivers integration Platform as a Service for large payment companies and corporations who value speed and simplicity for customer journeys as much as regulatory compliance and security. This provides the simplest, fastest and most secure omnichannelinteraction and purchasing experience. The platform enables market leading companies to rapidly deliver Value Added Services for omnichannel. This is a full-service, integrated suite of best of breed third-party services. It includes integration with over 350 different payment providers and methods global. But capabilities extend well beyond payments into: identity validation, KYC, AML, Authentication, Biometrics, PSD2, SCA, GDPR, Data Validation, Data Enrichment, POS, PED, eCommerce and other systems.Ensygnia's flagship product Onescan enables any call-to-action to become an instant action. This delivers beautiful simplicity, allowing consumers to interact securely online, in-store, or on-the-go. Whatever you need to do, you can with Onescan.All flows, automations and CX / UX are fully customisable and dynamically brandable in real-time. The company holds a globally granted patent portfolio forming the definitive standard for secure QR code payment & login. This includes two patents granted in China.
Martin McCourt is Leader in High Tech Growth & Transformation
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- Industry: E-Commerce, EdTech, Events
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $196k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- HeadBox — HeadBox connects corporate event planners with 100,000+ unique, inspiring, iconic, and creative spaces worldwide for meetings and events.
- reboxed — Buy refurbished iPhones, Samsungs, Airpods & Eco-cases from Reboxed! We can save you 40% on refurbished Apply iPhones & Reconditioned Samsung phones.
- Technology Will Save Us — They are on a mission to spark the creative imagination of young people using hands on technology. Their award winning make-it-yourself kits and digital tools help kids (and the adults that love them) to make, play, code and invent using technology.They started small, around their kitchen table, and have now built a company of 28 passionatedesigners, educators, engineers and problems solvers – obsessed with inspiring kids and empowering parents to become creators of technology. They have 6 different make it yourself kits and hundreds of digital tools and projects to support kids in learning through play.They have sparked the imaginations of kids in over 87 countries around the world. They work closely with children to design their kits, engaging in large scale research projects before beginning on design & manufacture.
James Fong has been the CEO of Oriental Dreamworks. James joined Amazon in 2012 and is responsible for leading its Merchant Services and Advertising businesses, including “Selling on Amazon”, “Fulfillment by Amazon”, “Global Selling” and “Advertise on Amazon”.Prior to joining Amazon, James was a Managing Director of China Tongyin, a boutiquemerchant bank in Greater China, responsible for its TMT practice; a Managing Director of Strategic Investments at NBA China, responsible for its arena, internet and league investments and business development efforts; a General Manager at Microsoft China, responsible for sales and marketing for 17 provinces and 32 cities; and the Managing Director of Microsoft’s $165 million China equity investment fund.James holds an undergraduate degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Industry: Retail, Marketing, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
Codie is the founder and CEO of Contrarian Thinking, a fast-growing media company that helps people free minds and bank accounts, the founder of Contrarian Thinking Capital VC Fund investing in the infrastructure tech of small business. She also co-founded Unconventional Acquisitions, a firm focused on small business acquisition in the micro-PEspace. She also owns the Main Street Hold Co, a portfolio of small businesses across the US. She is a former partner and Board Member at a cannabis private equity firm and micro-PE firm, built a $1 billion+ AUM Latin America business, and held leadership positions at Goldman Sachs, State Street, and Vanguard. She started as a journalist where she won the JFK award and Howard Buffett Foundation grant for border conflict. Sanchez is a pundit on CNBC, Fox, Forbes, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, People en Español, Business Wire. She was listed as a 25 Most Innovative Leader in Cannabis, The Cannabis Disruptor by MG Retailer, and a Top Cannabis Investor by Forbes. She has an M.B.A. from Georgetown University, a master’s from ESADE and Fundação Getúlio Vargas, and a B.A. from Arizona State University. She sits on the board of the Arcview Group, Permian Capital Hedge Fund, Magma Partners Chilean Venture Fund, and is actively involved in AEI and YEC.
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- Industry: Apps, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Series A $7.7M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Basket — Basket lets you keep track of things you want to buy, automatically finding the best prices, saving you time and money. Say hello to your new shopping companion.
- SkyFi® — SkyFi makes on-demand, high-resolution satellite images and videos available to anyone who has access to a smartphone, tablet or computer.
- Figure — Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.
Alan Barratt - Founder & CEO @ Grenade
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- Industry: Energy, Retail, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $3.7M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Neutonic — Unlock your potential with our powerful nootropic blend designed to make you feel less stressed, less fatigued and genuinely more productive. Save up to 20% subscription and bundles.
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Browse database — It's Free!Sir Terry Leahy joined Cheshunt, England-based Tesco in 1979 and held marketing positions at the retailer before becoming commercial director of fresh foods in 1986 and a member of the board in 1990. Leahy was appointed Chief Executive of Tesco plc in March 1997.Leahy received a Knighthood for services to food retailing in the 2002 New YearHonours. He was voted as Britain’s Most Admired Leader (2005 and 2006) by Management Today, recognized by the Wall Street Journal and CNBC as European Business Leader of the Year (2005), and named European Businessman of the Year by Fortune (2004). A Guardian Unlimited Politics panel found him to be the most influential non-elected person in Britain in 2007.Leahy is a Director on the Liverpool Vision Regeneration Board and a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council.In 2010 he received the Daily Telegraph’s Award for a Decade of Excellence in Business, a Lifetime Achievement award from Director Magazine, and was voted Business Person of the Year by the Sunday Times.Sir Terry Leahy retired from Tesco in March 2011.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$16M; Series A $2M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
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.
Guy is an entrepreneur and investor who’s experienced online/technology businesses at pretty much every level – from 1-man startup to global multinational. He is Co-founder & CEO at Lavanda in London. Guy knows what it means to roll your sleeves up and get your hands dirty, whilst understanding the need to establish scalable processes thatcan support rapid growth. He is passionate about culture and working with exceptional people to build innovative businesses that create meaningful value. He speaks Spanish, French and Italian. Studied at the ESCP Europe and University of Bristol. His interests are UX, e-commerce, web 2.0, social media, cloud computing, analytics, ECM, Business process management, web content management, software, business solutions, strategic marketing, consultancy, innovations, cinema, music, literature, current affairs, entrepreneurship, start-ups.
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- Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce, GPS
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $144k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Shutl — Shutl is a technology startup that offers convenient fulfillment services by connecting online retailers with local same-day couriers.The company solves fulfillment for retailers and shoppers by enabling immediate or convenient delivery of online purchases. Its platform creates a marketplace from the capacity of local courier firms and usesretail partners’ local stocks to fulfill purchases. It integrates with all major dispatch software and retailers’ existing technologies.Shutl operates in more than 50 towns across the United Kingdom with a virtual fleet of thousands of couriers who complete 10,000 deliveries every day.Shutl was founded in December 2009 by
- Ometria — The customer data and experience platform for retail
- what3words — Every 3 metre square has a unique 3 word address.
Jeroen Sibia
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- Industry: Retail, Shopping, Social Shopping
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Angel $2M–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Cornerstone — Cornerstone is a regular delivery service of razor blades and shaving supplies for men. Its service include German-engineered razors and British-blended skincare products. Cornerstone was founded in January 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Operations guru. Was the co-CEO and COO of innocent, behind much of the process and operations still in place there today. Ex Bain Consultancy. St John's College, Cambridge - Engineering.
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- Industry: CRM, Video, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$6.4M; Series B $12M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scoota — Scoota is an online advertising technology company that enables advertisers to create, activate, measure and optimise brilliant brand campaigns at scale.We offer a single programmatic platform for the creation and delivery of rich, high-impact formats via open real-time bidding and private marketplaces, without compromising creative executionor brand safety.Our technology includes a unique campaign delivery system that pre-reads an ad space in real-time so that the right creative is delivered into the right ad unit without the need for pre-testing and independent site integration.We care about and invest in an open and long-term approach, enabling partners to work with us through integration with their own systems of choice, or via our platform whether as a self-serve solution, or a fully managed service.Scoota was founded in London in 2008 and employs more than 40 people. In 2015, we won best overall programmatic technology at The Drum Digital Trading Awards and Silver for Best Ad Tech Provider at the 2015 British Media Awards.
- Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
- Simba Sleep — One Mattress. Five Layers of Comfort. Tailored to Suit All. Bringing together experience & technology so that your mattress gives you the best night's sleep.
Giles Brook
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Snack Food, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $524k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bio&Me — Bio&Me Gut-Loving Prebiotic Granola from The Gut Health Doctor. Only granola with an EFSA health claim "Good for your gut". High in fibre. No added sugar. 15 different plant-based ingredients (Seeds, Legumes, Nuts, Vegetables, Fruit, Wholegrains). Prebiotic. Vegetarian. Vegan. Chicory Root Fibre. For good gut health.
- BEPPS Snacks — BEPPS Snacks are chickpea snacks with black-eyed pea inclusions that pack a flavourful punch.
- Fearne & Rosie — Hello! Berry nice to meet you. Our mum says it's really important that we eat the berry best food. So we squish together natural ingredients to make tasty, fruity jams, honeys and spreads. MORE FRUIT, LESS SUGAR Just for you! Love, Fearne and Rosie x
Phil studied finance and accounting at Salford University and went on to qualify as a management accountant shortly after. He has worked for various retail, FMCG and tech companies over the last 20 years, with 8 years spent working for Amazon, where he held various finance roles and learned about scaling a business. His most recent role wasleading finance for Amazon’s European Operations, before joining Deliveroo in 2016 as CFO, helping scale the organization rapidly. Although his favorite job ever was investing in bars in Germany and Austria. Outside work Phil has 4 children, is engaged with a number of European based Start-ups and small enterprises covering various industries such as VR/AR, Media, Security, Software, and e-commerce.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3.7M; Series A $5.5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kouo — Kouo is an emotional intelligence platform using neural imaging sensors to monitor emotional states.
- Ordo — The Complete Omni - Channel Retail solution, helping independents be better than ever.
- Reach Industries — Reach Industries focuses on developing cutting-edge products for companies. Reach Industries was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Bristol, UK.
Tjaart van der Walt is the Co-founder & Director at Tyme. He attended Stellenbosch University.
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- Industry: Retail, Marketing, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $962k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
- Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
Dan Martell is the Founder and CEO of Saas Academy. He previously worked at Flowtown as a CMO and Co-Founder. Dan Martell attended Microsoft Certified Professional.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $168k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neutonic — Unlock your potential with our powerful nootropic blend designed to make you feel less stressed, less fatigued and genuinely more productive. Save up to 20% subscription and bundles.
- Founderpath — Over $200M deployed to 500+ founders with 200+ 5-star reviews. Get capital and use powerful agents to double revenue and save time.
- BuddyPro — BuddyPro is a platform for building AI experts from know-how. If you are an expert, coach, consultant, or you teach anything and you have some know-how, books, online courses or youtube videos, you upload them and build your own AI within a week. Then you sell it for a premium subscription to your audience, $1-2K per year. Then people consult withyour AI 24/7 instead of talking to you and it gives them your advice, personalized to their specific life story and current situation.It's a single-thread chat, talks like a human and forms a long-term mentorship relationship with the clients. It has human-like memory, remembers what user talked about, even months and years back and always uses the memory for putting things into context.After you launch your BuddyPro, you don't have to deliver anything else, it just works for you, you don't have to create new content or consult with your clients, the AI does it for you.Your BuddyPro helps clients put your know-how into action much better than online courses, it's extremely personalized and proactive.BuddyPro can be your premium stand-alone product, lots of experts who launched their AI on our platform stopped doing online courses and the month when they launched their AI Expert is very often the most successful month of their whole career.We already have 500+ experts that launched or are preparing their AI, total recurring revenue of their AI experts is over $4.5M dollars.
Serge Weinberg is a French citizen. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law, a Graduate Degree of Institut d’Études Politiques and is a Graduate of ENA (Ecole Nationale d’Administration).Since 2009, he has been a Director of Sanofi and was appointed Chairman of the Board in May 2010. He is also Chairman of the Strategy Committee of Sanofi. He wasinterim CEO between October 29, 2014 and April 1, 2015. Serge Weinberg held different positions as a « sous-préfet » from 1976 to 1981, and became Chief of Staff of the French Budget Minister, Laurent Fabius, in 1981. After serving as Deputy General Manager for Finance at the French Television Channel FR3 (1982-1983), he became Chief Executive Officer and then Chairman of the Havas Tourisme Group from 1983 to 1987. He served as CEO of Pallas Finance for three years before joining the Pinault Group in 1990 as President of CFAO. In the Pinault Group he served as Chairman and CEO of Rexel from 1991 to 1995 He is also a member of the Board of the AFEP and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.He is also a founder of the Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord Disorders (ICM).
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Box Upon a Time — Box Upon a Time is a UK company offering busy parents a baby clothes ‘personal shopper’ service through a subscription model.Each month or quarter, parents receive a Box with a selection of gorgeous baby clothes handpicked by a stylist. Each selection is personalised to the parents' tastes, and offered to the parents at a 60% discount.BoxUpon a Time is partner of over 30 of the best babywear designer brands like Toffee Moon, Tartine & Chocolat, Jake and Maya, Dolls & Dirt and many more to delight parents every month/quarter.Subscribers have the choice between 3 Boxes: • The Silver Box, (£29 per box,) offers 2 to 3 items worth £40-£60 with up to 50% off retail prices • The Gold Box, (£49 per box,) offers 3 to 4 items worth £80-£120, with up to 60% off retail prices • The Platinum Box, (£69 per box,) offers 3 to 5 items from luxury brands worth £110-£170, with up to 60% off retail prices
Rob founded Actix (actix.com) in 1991 and as CEO (1991-2005) grew it to over $50m revenue by 2005. More than 90% of the world’s mobile phone customers have their networks optimized by Actix software and Rob has worked with many of the world’s leading mobile operators and infrastructure vendors. In 2005 he sold a majority stake in the company toPE firm Summit Partners at a $100+m valuation. He has invested in a further 30+ startups and has had five very successful exits (he's not counting failures as they come with the territory). Rob is chairman of Robotical (robotical.io) and DevicePilot.com. He's also the founding chairman of Singletrack.com and a supporter of the unique orchestra SouthbankSinfonia.co.uk. As an inveterate tinkerer in software and hardware, he's fascinated by IoT, 3D printing and the maker movement (as you can probably see from his personal website (robdobson.com). Rob is a Fellow of the IET and has a 1st class honours degree in Electronic Engineering.
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- Industry: Software, Business Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
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- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
- DevicePilot — DevicePilot Service Monitoring for connected devices provides a single pane of glass for Product, Operations and Customer Support teams, driving up customer satisfaction and growth, while reducing operational costs.
- Connect4 — The client-centric platform for you and your team. Consistently deliver outstanding client meetings. Every single time.
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Browse database — It's Free!Nicholas Charles Tyrwhitt Wheeler (born 20 January 1965 in Ludlow, Shropshire) is an English businessman. He attempted a number of different businesses, including a photography venture and a Christmas tree delivery service. In 1986 he established the Charles Tyrwhitt company and shirt brand, which he owns.Wheeler grew up in Ludlow and waseducated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Eton College, and the University of Bristol, where he studied geography. His first job was as a management consultant for Bain & Company. In November 1986, he set up Charles Tyrwhitt, now a well-known shirt brand in the United Kingdom. The business is a Limited Liability Partnership. It has grown to be the UK’s largest mail-order shirt business, and also has several brick and mortar locations (as of October 2014, 17 in the United Kingdom, 5 in the United States, and one in France). In 2008, he was a regional judge for the Entrepreneur Challenge in the UK.Wheeler is married with four children to Chrissie Rucker, founder of The White Company. In 2015, their collective wealth was estimated at £330 million by the Sunday Times Rich List. Together they live in Buckinghamshire and also own a chalet in Klosters, Switzerland named Haus Alpina.
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- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Fashion
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- CUDONI — Buy and sell preloved designer clothing, bags, shoes & accessories at Sign of the Times. Current season authentic pre-owned luxury fashion at sale prices.
- Papier — Papier offers customizable stationery such as wedding cards, notebooks, planners, and notecards. Founded in London in 2015, Papier's aim is to inspire people to connect with each other in a more thoughtful way and more often. As digital messages proliferate in their lives, receiving something beautifully made through the letterbox isappreciated now more than ever before - Papier makes this simple and easy to do.At their core, is a love of art and design, words, and of course, paper. Their carefully curated collection of designs, married with quality printing and premium paper, stands us apart from other online card and invitation sites.
- Cornerstone — Cornerstone is a regular delivery service of razor blades and shaving supplies for men. Its service include German-engineered razors and British-blended skincare products. Cornerstone was founded in January 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Knut Frängsmyr is the chief operating officer and deputy chief executive officer of Frängsmyr holds master’s degrees in law from Frängsmyr is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Elvy — Geofy AI platform provides home owners control over their energy needs with subscription of solar, heat pump and battery system.
- OnBuy — OnBuy is an online marketplace that offers multi-category products. Its marketplace offers competitive fees for its sellers and helps to list all the products in its portal that enable users to purchase products without hassle. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Poole, Dorset.
- Maintract — Maintract is a new generation of financial contract management software. It also offers banking and financial services. They provide contract management automation solutions to banks for drafting, data verification, workflow automation, contract data monitoring, tracking workflow and documentation, compliance management, and more.
James Watt is an Aberdeenshire entrepreneur who co-founded one of the world’s most popular craft breweries, BrewDog.Before embarking on a hop-fuelled journey that would change the face of the beer industry forever, James completed an honours degree in Law and Economics. It didn’t take long for him to discover that the corporate suit-and-tie worldof litigation and libel was not for him, so he packed in his career in a law after a few weeks, opting to return to the bitter cold shores of Northeast Scotland to join his father as a fully-qualified Deepsea Captain.At 24-years-old, James took a new path. Inspired by the bold and experimental beers being crafted by a new movement of brewers on the West Coast of the U.S, James joined forces with friend Martin Dickie, and together the pair started brewing their own beers in Martin’s mum’s garage. In a world dominated by cask bitters and mass-produced lagers, their penchant for heavily-hopped and relentlessly bitter beers made them a unique duo, especially in the town of Fraserburgh. Undeterred by opinion, they pursued their passion through meticulous study, experimentation and boundary-pushing ideas, hellbent on showcasing that beer could be more than just fizzy yellow liquid made by global dominating brewers.2007 was a seminal year for James. BrewDog became a reality, setting up shop on a derelict industrial estate in Fraserburgh between a needle exchange and ‘The Godfather of Carpets’. While Martin took the reins on brewing and production, James focused on growing the business, handling accounts and spearheading the brand’s new breed of irreverent marketing that grabbed headlines for years to come. Not only did the pair produce some of the most exciting beers the UK has ever seen, but James also led the charge on Equity for Punks, a ground-breaking new crowdfunding initiative that would be mirrored for years to come by other brands across the globe. In 2014, James was awarded Great British Entrepreneur of the Year. He is also one of only a handful of people in Europe holding the title of Master Cicerone5, a title reserved for only the most diligent beer experts. In 2016, he was awarded the MBE in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours list. By this time, BrewDog was now 9 years old and boasted a 360-person strong workforce, 26 bars across the UK and Europe, as well as over 14,000 shareholders. Latter achievements include a number of publishing deals. James released Business for Punks: Break All The Rules – The BrewDog Way and co-wrote BrewDog: Craft Beer for the People. These books both showed the impact that BrewDog had on the beer, from both a business and marketing perspective, as well highlighting the importance of exceptional quality products in a world heavily populated by mainstream beer. But times were changing, and James was at the front of the pack, leading the way and carving a new path for the beer world.By 2019, James’ passion for sustainability had become integral to the brand. BrewDog was employing over 2,000 people at this time, with 100 bars located around the globe and over 130,000 Equity Punk shareholders. Amazing beer was still at the heart of everything James was doing, but building sustainability into this world was now not a question of if, but when.So, in 2020, BrewDog announced that they were the world’s first carbon negative brewery – a huge step that would see the industry take note and follow suit with commitments to change the way they do business. James worked closely with Small World Consulting’s Mike Berners-Lee to calculate the businesses carbon emissions and identify ways to reduce these through authentic reforestation programmes, which included a 9,308 acre plot of land in the Scottish Highlands and set forth to embark on one of the largest reforestation projects the UK has ever seen. In just 15 years, the beer world has transformed. Beyond the liquid in your glass, the breweries at the forefront of the movement are more than just suppliers of a product. They are social commentators, integral to local communities and beacons of quality and change. James has been paramount to these developments, showing that beer can be a force for good.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia
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- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Basket — Basket lets you keep track of things you want to buy, automatically finding the best prices, saving you time and money. Say hello to your new shopping companion.
- Yum Bug — Delicious edible insects delivered to your door. Single dried cricket packs and receipe kits. You'll be cooking tasty bug recipes in no time!
- Tallow + Ash — The best-smelling laundry detergents and fabric softeners. Formulated with planet-friendly, vegan, cruelty-free ingredients. Powerful plant-based stain removal. Made in the UK. Non-bio for sensitive skin.
Nicholas Acaster
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- Industry: Mobile, Retail, Consulting
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- MEEK — Meek Ventures support educational institutes and students to build an entrepreneurship culture.
- Modern Rugs — Modern Rugs is a UK-based online rug retailer.
- Happy Projects — Food manufacturing company
Charlie Atterton (former CEO, Jigsaw)
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- All Good Things — We wanted to create a place where beautiful fashion and great prices could live together. Brands you love. Always up to 65% off.
Adrian Thompson CEO at aspen pumps
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- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- The Mothership — The Mothership brings the power of multichannel marketing and digital-first branding to the best consumer products.
Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
- Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
- Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.
Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
- Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
- Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
Nicole Crentsil is the CEO at Black Girl Fest.
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- Industry: Personal Health, Beauty, Retail
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Yuty — The inclusive, conscious beauty destination powered by AI. YUTY helps you find the right beauty products, that will work for you, without the guesswork!
- Ruka — We celebrate Black women and create hair products designed with real textures in mind.
- Afrocenchix — Discover natural afro hair products from Afrocenchix. Safe, effective formulas including shampoos, conditioners, oils & moisturisers for healthy curls.
Will Hobhouse
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- Industry: Baby, Retail, Shopping
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Mamamade — Organic baby food delivery service. Our frozen, homemade quality meals are created by expert nutritionists & chefs to suit your baby's stage of development.
- Cornerstone — Cornerstone is a regular delivery service of razor blades and shaving supplies for men. Its service include German-engineered razors and British-blended skincare products. Cornerstone was founded in January 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Brand Marketing
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Jendaya — The next decade will be defined by its push toward greater diversity, inclusion and representation across every facet of fashion. Jendaya is an online luxury marketplace housing the next generation of international luxury labels & designers. Shop ready-to-wear, accessories, and luxury beauty products for men and women.
Sharmadean Reid - Chief Executive Officer @ The Stack World
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ruka — We celebrate Black women and create hair products designed with real textures in mind.
- Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
Joe Middleton is the CEO and Chairman of PlayerLayer as well as Dreamsport Ltd.
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- Industry: Retail, Shopping, Social Shopping
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cornerstone — Cornerstone is a regular delivery service of razor blades and shaving supplies for men. Its service include German-engineered razors and British-blended skincare products. Cornerstone was founded in January 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Founding Partner at Vaultier7. Vaultier7 is a London-based, specialist private equity fund dedicated to providing growth capital to brands within Beauty & Personal care, Health & Wellness and Lifestyle.
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- Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Retail
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Alena — Overcome social anxiety with a personalised solution that starts with your brain. Sign up to get early access.
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- Frescobol Carioca — Live the spirit of Rio with Frescobol Carioca. Shop designer swimwear, apparel, beach bats, accessories and more. Discover our latest collection online.
Helen Williamson (former MD, Whistles)
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- All Good Things — We wanted to create a place where beautiful fashion and great prices could live together. Brands you love. Always up to 65% off.
Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Social Network
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
- Handl — Handl is an online platform for vehicle & fleet servicing.
- My Probate Partner — Simplify the probate process in Scotland with expert support. Join our free webinar and book a consultation today.
Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Social Network
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
- Handl — Handl is an online platform for vehicle & fleet servicing.
- Just Venue — Just Venue is an online platform that aims to socialise event space booking, by connecting event hosts and organisers with space owners and managers. Just Venue aims to connect event hosts and organisers with venue owners and managers.The website has taken inspiration from other community platforms like AirBnB, Uber and TaskRabbit.
Lee Harlow (former MD, TFG London).
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- All Good Things — We wanted to create a place where beautiful fashion and great prices could live together. Brands you love. Always up to 65% off.
Richard is the founder of Innocent Drinks, UK's number 1 smoothie brand. In 2009 The Coca-Cola Company acquired a minority stake in Innocent Drinks and in 2013 the stake was increased to over 90%. Innocent Drinks gives 10% of its profits to charity. Richard is known to have implemented a google-like working atmosphere at InnocentDrinks' offices, where people feel like at home. He appeared in sereval high profile TV shows and documentaries, here is a documentary with Peter Jones from Drangon's Den (UK's equivalent of Shark Tank) He is now a successful investor through his company JamJar Investments, where they invest in strong teams with an idea that consumers love.
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- Industry: Mobile, Content, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Series A $1.5M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Simba Sleep — One Mattress. Five Layers of Comfort. Tailored to Suit All. Bringing together experience & technology so that your mattress gives you the best night's sleep.
- Beckley Psytech — Our mission is to help people suffering from neurological and psychiatric conditions by developing our pipeline of psychedelic compounds.
- Beckley Canopy Therapeutics — Beckley Canopy Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company designed to research cannabis health products.
Faik Ulutaş is a General Manager at Mensa Sinai Ticaret Ve Mali Yatirimlar AS (MEMSA).
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- Industry: Software, Mobile Apps, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $29k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shippn — International package forwarding service. Shop from Amazon, Shein, Macy's worldwide. Fast shipping with DHL & FedEx. Trusted by 50,000+ customers.
- MYTH AI — Myth AI provides artificial intelligence-based "state of the art" pattern design tools that brings together designers and businesses.
- Meloknows — Meloknows is a mobile application that provides a marketplace for beauticians and hairdressers to provide beauty services.
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