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Top 50 Retail Angel Investors in United Kingdom

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Retail startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Retail Angel Investors in United Kingdom

Investor	Retail United Kingdom investments
Paul Forster	4
Nigel Wray	3
Simon Murdoch	3
Will Martin	3
Will Brooks	3
Tom Singh	3
Richard Fearn	3
Philip Green	2
Melih Odemis	2
Paul Birch	2
Marc Hazan	2
Matt Cooper	2
Thomas Teichman	2
Dimiter Tschawow	2
Kevin Taylor	2
Sir Terry Leahy	2
James Fong	2
Tjaart van der Waalt	2
Adam Balon	2
Jon Wright	2
Jeroen Sibia	2
Haluk Can Hür	2
Guy Westlake	2
Giles Brook	2
Ricardo Schaefer	1
Nick Wheeler	1
Mato Perić	1
Nicole Crentsil	1
Craig Dewar	1
Leonardo DiCaprio	1
Dinika Mahtani	1
Giles Palmer	1
John Egan	1
Jonathan Quin	1
Andy Oldham	1
Adrian Thompson	1
Charles Atterton	1
Ben Barnett	1
Anna Sweeting	1
Nicholas Acaster	1
Andrus Purde	1
Robin Knox	1
Knut Frängsmyr	1
Lord Mervyn Davies	1
Serge Weinberg	1
Philipp Moehring	1
Paul Walton	1
Helen Williamson	1
Lee Harlow	1
Tim Chen	1

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Paul Forster

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Glassette — Discover and collect beautiful, curated homeware from the best brands in the UK. Shop thoughtfully, live joyfully.
Get A Drip — All of our Drips and Booster Shots are administered by our medical staff, consisting of GMC registered Doctors and NMC registered Nurses.
Stubben Edge — Financial services for a new generation. Sign up free to sell better financial products, cheaper, faster and to more people with Flightdeck

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Analytics
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
Peek Home — Peek Home provides sketch plans, prices and planning advice for people who are puzzled by the process of creating their perfect home. All we need is your house number & postcode - no home visit needed.
Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fabacus — We are a leading data and technology business with a unique data service designed to digitally-transform the licensing industry. Contact us today.
Finboot — Finboot is the dynamic SaaS company behind MARCO, the enterprise-grade suite of blockchain applications and middleware solutions for value and supply chains
Heights — Simple, science-led supplements for a healthier body and mind, combined.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kouo — Kouo is an emotional intelligence platform using neural imaging sensors to monitor emotional states.
Ordo — Ordo allows you to receive payments, in real time, for a single flat fee of 20p, no matter the amount. Free trial. No commitment. No contract. No equipment.
Reach Industries — Reach Industries focuses on developing cutting-edge products for companies. Reach Industries was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Bristol, UK.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Deplike — Everyone can make music!
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.
HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!

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!

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom

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!

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.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Video, Retail
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States

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 the radically accessible new way to offer your whole team reproductive health cover. Simple, affordable and built for every body.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, CRM, Advertising
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

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 — Doctify is capturing the voice of patients. Read over hundreds of thousands of verified reviews for your specialist, dentist, hospital or care home.
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.

Dimiter Tschawow

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Mexico, Germany

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.

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.

Investment focus

NFC, PaaS, Retail
Seed
United Kingdom

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.

Sir Terry Leahy joined Cheshunt, England-based Tesco in 1979 and held marketing positions at the retailer before becoming commercial director of fresh foods in 1986 and a member of the board in 1990. Leahy was appointed Chief Executive of Tesco plc in March 1997.Leahy received a Knighthood for services to food retailing in the 2002 New YearHonours. He was voted as Britain’s Most Admired Leader (2005 and 2006) by Management Today, recognized by the Wall Street Journal and CNBC as European Business Leader of the Year (2005), and named European Businessman of the Year by Fortune (2004). A Guardian Unlimited Politics panel found him to be the most influential non-elected person in Britain in 2007.Leahy is a Director on the Liverpool Vision Regeneration Board and a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council.In 2010 he received the Daily Telegraph’s Award for a Decade of Excellence in Business, a Lifetime Achievement award from Director Magazine, and was voted Business Person of the Year by the Sunday Times.Sir Terry Leahy retired from Tesco in March 2011.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sirenum — Sirenum is a cloud-based platform for managing the staff lifecycle for agencies, recruiters and organisations who rely on staff for operational purposes.Sirenum is built on a highly agile technology platform, which allows us to connect with other service providers for functions not yet in the system. This trick allows us to deliver features thatthey would not otherwise have, if a client requires these features up front. Once significant demand for a particular feature becomes apparent, they may decide develop that feature in house, replacing the outside vendor and retaining additional profits.Sirenum is geared towards employers who operate complex workforces of shift workers. Sirenum is particularly suited to the Staffing, Railway, Aviation, Construction, Hospitality, Healthcare, Home care, Deliveries, Logistics and Transportation. Operators in these sectors typically have hundreds or thousands of employees.
SYNALOGiK — Synalogik helps organisations improve efficiency and slash costs through automated data aggregation when multiple data sources are required.
Uptime | Knowledge Hacks — Thousands of life lessons extracted from the world's best books, courses, documentaries, and podcasts - packed into 5 minute Knowledge Hacks.

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.

Investment focus

Retail, Marketing, Advertising
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

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.

Tjaart van der Walt is the Co-founder & Director at Tyme. He attended Stellenbosch University.

Investment focus

Retail, Marketing, Advertising
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, The Netherlands

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.

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.

Investment focus

CRM, Video, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom

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.

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.

Investment focus

CRM, Video, Mobile
Series B, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

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.

Jeroen Sibia

Investment focus

Retail, Shopping, Social Shopping
Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom

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.

Haluk Can Hür

Investment focus

Mobile, Retail, Shopping
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Shopi — All-in-One Store Platform for Omnichannel Retailing

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.

Investment focus

Logistics, E-Commerce, GPS
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

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
Ometria — Ometria’s mission is to build the brain that powers all communication between retailers and their customers. Ometria helps clients leverage data to build detailed customer profiles, and make sure that all messages they send are always relevant, leading to higher engagement and increased revenues.Ometria was founded by four serial entrepreneurs,with combined experience in e-commerce, computer science, mathematics, and SaaS, has been invested in by London’s most prominent entrepreneurs and investors, and is used by top retailers in the UK, Europe, and across the world.
what3words — Every 3 metre square has a unique 3 word address.

Giles Brook

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Snack Food, Retail
Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Freja — Award-winning bone broths from Freja Foods. Responsibly sourced and conveniently packaged, Freja bone broth is available online and via leading retailers.
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

Ricardo Schaefer - Partner @ Target Global

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Jefa — Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution.Jefa's goal is to empower women to live without limits or obstacles. Jefa does this by giving its clients access to fair, affordable, and secure financialservices through a mobile account.
Revolut — Join 40+ million customers globally using Revolut to send money to 160+ countries, hold up-to 36 currencies in app, spend in 150+ currencies, and manage their money.
Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.

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.

Investment focus

Retail, E-Commerce, Fashion
Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bamba — Bamba is a small software development house building Android applications
Enter — Enter's Revenue Cycle Management & Medical Billing service makes healthcare Providers' and Patients' lives better. Increase revenue and delight patients with 100% transparency.
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.

Investment focus

Personal Health, Beauty, Retail
Pre-Seed, Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Yuty — Yuty is an AI-driven beauty marketplace helping conscious beauty shoppers find the right hair care, skincare, and cosmetic products based on their genetic lifestyle, environment and preferences.
Ruka — We celebrate Black women and create hair products designed with real textures in mind.
Afrocenchix — Afro haircare is a $42B market and it’s growing fast. But the big players don’t understand the customers or their problems. We’ve had those problems, and our customer centric, data driven approach at Afrocenchix has helped us to formulate, manufacture & sell over 65,000 bottles of our safe, effective products so far. Our award-winningproducts and featured in top publications such as Vogue, and on the Indy Best lists and have an average 4.7 star review from 1000s of customers. We’re just getting started.

Craig founded Flex-e-card with Tony Kerr in 2000, before founding Global Processing Servcies. He was a former technology director in investment banking and front office systems within Salomon Brothers, JP Morgan, CSFB.

Investment focus

Software, Retail, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Collctiv — Collect money from your friends for that birthday present, sports event or anything you like. They don't even need to download an app, just tap to pay using Apple/Google Pay or their card. Join Collctiv today for free.
Tell Money — Tell Money provider of a fintech platform that delivers Open Banking solutions for banks and other accounts.
Zipzero — Zipzero users can earn cash rewards by sharing receipts from everyday purchases, which they can then use to pay household utility bills. Our path to scale is in partnership with leading utilities, who are encouraged to push ZIPZERO to their customers as we help them pay their bills.

Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and nine Golden Globe Awards. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004), and has been nominated by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Acommitted environmentalist, DiCaprio has received praise from environmental groups for his activism. At the 2007 Oscar ceremony, DiCaprio and former Vice President Al Gore announced that the Academy Awards had incorporated environmentally intelligent practices throughout the planning and production processes, and on July 7, 2007, DiCaprio presented at the American leg of Live Earth.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Health Care
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Israel, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Polestar — Wir stellen Performance-Elektroautos her. Unser Ziel: eine bessere Zukunft durch Innovationen.
ID Genève — We make watches that reflect the values and principles of people who are committed to fight climate change and who wish to have a positive social and environmental impact. The materials used are circular and have a lower carbon footprint than the industry average.
NUVIEW — Explore NUVIEW's LiDAR satellite technology, revolutionizing Earth observation with annual global mapping, unrivaled coverage, and cutting-edge data.

Dinika Mahtani

Investment focus

Rental, Retail, Fashion
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Meander — Vektor is the career platform for Tech professionals.
By Rotation — Rent over 25000+ designer fashion items online from our free app. Discover luxury designer dresses, clothing, bags and accessories from your trending favorite brands.

Giles Palmer is the founder and CEO of Brandwatch, a leading social intelligence company.Formerly of BSkyB, Giles started Brandwatch and since its launch in August 2007, it has grown to become one of the world’s leading social media analytics and listening companies.Giles’ goal for Brandwatch is to help organisations find and engage withonline conversations that matter. This motivation has turned Brandwatch into a platform that gathers millions of online conversations every day and provides users with the tools to analyze them. This empowers brands and agencies to make smarter, data-driven business decisions. Brandwatch has developed a social listening and analytics offering, Brandwatch Analytics, and a social command center platform Brandwatch Vizia, which showcases real-time visualizations across enterprises. Currently, Brandwatch has over 1,000 customers including 30 of the Fortune 100 companies, and serves businesses across the globe, from FTSE100 companies to SMEs.Giles regularly speaks at social media conferences and serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for Sussex University as well as the Social Media Committee for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

Investment focus

SaaS, Retail, Software
Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Whatagraph — Connect, organize, visualize, and share your marketing data in a single platform. Built for marketing agencies and in-house marketing professionals.
The Mothership — The Mothership brings the power of multichannel marketing and digital-first branding to the best consumer products.

John Egan is a Non-Executive Director.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Consumer Goods
Series A
United Kingdom

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.

Jonathan co-founded World First in January 2004. His career before this included two years as Head of Business Development within the Financial Markets division of RBS. Prior to that he was at Citibank, initially as a trader before moving to the bank's global corporate sales desk. He then looked after the European sales of Citibank'sonline FX trading products. Jonathan holds a law and accountancy degree from the University of Edinburgh.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Retail
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

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.
The Mothership — The Mothership brings the power of multichannel marketing and digital-first branding to the best consumer products.

Andy joined Quidco in March 2010 after 13 years delivering large IT programmes across the financial services and media sectors. He previously worked for PwC, KPMG, Gartner and other blue-chip consultancies. Andy also has practical software startup experience from 5 years building up a software technology company which was acquired byActivIdentity in 2005.

Investment focus

Retail, Shopping, Social Shopping
Funding Round
United Kingdom

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.

Adrian Thompson CEO at aspen pumps

Investment focus

Retail, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

The Mothership — The Mothership brings the power of multichannel marketing and digital-first branding to the best consumer products.

Charlie Atterton (former CEO, Jigsaw)

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Consumer Goods
Series A
United Kingdom

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.

Ben Barnett (former CEO, TFG London).

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Consumer Goods
Series A
United Kingdom

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.

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.

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Retail
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Alena — Overcome social anxiety with a personalised solution that starts with your brain. Sign up to get early access.
DeMellier London —
Frescobol Carioca — Live the spirit of Rio with Frescobol Carioca. Shop designer swimwear, apparel, beach bats, accessories and more. Discover our latest collection online.

Nicholas Acaster

Investment focus

Mobile, Retail, Consulting
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

Experienced startup marketer. Co-founder and CEO of Outfunnel. Skype and Pipedrive alumni. Angel investor.

Investment focus

Software, Public Transportation, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia, United Kingdom, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

Avrio — Capture and share data analysis, user research, and learnings directly in context, with your team.
Klaus — Hypergrowth companies use Klaus to run an effective customer service QA process, coach agents, and boost retention.
SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.

Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Network
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Canada, United States

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 — We deliver car care services to you. Order from professional valets, oil, adblue, washer and care services and subscribe to monthly services to save money.
My Probate Partner — The better way to navigate probate in Scotland. Avoid large probate solicitor bills by completing your application with our 5-star fixed-price support service. Designed to make sure you get Scottish probate 100% right.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Retail
Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
upSWOT — UpSWOT is a fintech platform that enables banks to connect, collect, and normalize data from business software tools they regularly use.The company's technology serves financial institutions to help them build loyalty and grow engagement among their SMB clients. Its platform is a white-labeled portal deployed into customers’ private cloudand connected with the online banking application. Using an approach similar to Plaid, SMBs connect their data for continuous, API-enabled access to QuickBooks, Xero, Salesforce, and 120+ other business-critical SaaS applications. Data is aggregated in real-time and thousands of signals are analyzed to help SMBs better understand the health of their businesses via interactive dashboards. On the back-end, Upswot surfaces meaningful data for relationship managers to upsell the right products and services while building more meaningful and longer-lasting relationships.The Berkeley, Califoria-located company was co-founded by Aleksander Simeiko, Andrey Davydchuk, Dmitriy Syvolap, and Dmitry Norenko in 2019.
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.

Lord Mervyn Davies

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Internet
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
TapSimple — Cashless giving made simple

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).

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

Philipp is an earliest stage technology investor in Berlin. He invested in more than 100 companies across various sectors, including open source software, ML/AI enabled SaaS, and deep tech from synthetic biology to materials science.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Levity — Train your own AI on documents, images, or text data to perform daily, repetitive tasks so your team can reach the next level of productivity. No code required.
consalio — The advisor spend management solution that helps management to stay in control of the advisor spend.
Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.

Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Network
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States

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 — We deliver car care services to you. Order from professional valets, oil, adblue, washer and care services and subscribe to monthly services to save money.
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.

Helen Williamson (former MD, Whistles)

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Consumer Goods
Series A
United Kingdom

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.

Lee Harlow (former MD, TFG London).

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Consumer Goods
Series A
United Kingdom

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.

Tim Chen

Investment focus

Gaming, Retail, Sports
Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NI0 — NIO mission is to through hard work and healthful choices, you can overcome the distractions of the daily grind and outperform the competition. NIO Training is the next level wellness sports tape system that moves beyond prevention and elevates athletic achievement and nutrition.
Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.

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