Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in United Kingdom (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
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23 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $3.4M–$22M |
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Venrex
VC Fund
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17 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Fashion, Software | $425k–$18M |
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JamJar Investments
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care | $1.2M–$20M |
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $313k–$24M |
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Seedrs
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, FinTech | $44k–$3.4M |
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Worth Capital
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, Bangladesh, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software | $6.6k–$661k |
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $5M–$160M |
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Foresight Group
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $648k–$8.3M |
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Salica
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Secondary Market, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $645k–$346M |
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SFC Capital
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $123k–$2.5M |
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The FSE Group
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $106k–$5.4M |
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Ascension
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $236k–$10M |
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Active Partners
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Food and Beverage, Retail, E-Commerce | $1.1M–$34M |
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Gresham House Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $1.8M–$27M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2.1M–$43M |
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Tom Singh
Angel
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6 | United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $418k–$5.9M |
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Redrice Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Retail, Fitness, Wellness | $1.5M–$15M |
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Angels Den
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States, Finland | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding | E-Commerce, Mobile, Software | $38k–$1.8M |
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Mobeus Equity Partners
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Retail | $2.7M–$17M |
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Praetura Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, Australia, Germany | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $261k–$7.2M |
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Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, Australia, United States | Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Manufacturing | $19k–$5.5M |
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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 | $1M–$26M |
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LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $54k–$22M |
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Pembroke VCT
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Fashion, E-Commerce, Retail | $1.3M–$7.4M |
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Forward Partners
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $54k–$17M |
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True.
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail | |
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Puma Private Equity
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, Japan, France | Private Equity, Series A | Software, Retail, Consulting | $2.5M–$14M |
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Episode 1
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $951k–$18M |
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Midlands Engine Investment Fund
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Portugal | Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Health Care, Manufacturing | $250k–$2.7M |
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Redbus Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, E-Commerce, Software | $323k–$23M |
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MMC Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1.4M–$54M |
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Future Planet Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Singapore | Seed, Convertible Note | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $670k–$5.1M |
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $197k–$5.7M |
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Material V
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Austria | Seed, Series A, Secondary Market | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $1.6M–$36M |
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IW Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care | $972k–$15M |
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Stonebridge PLC
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, Singapore, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Retail, CRM, Pet | $896k–$11M |
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Highland Capital Partners
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $3M–$65M |
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Nigel Wray
Angel
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4 | United Kingdom, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $481k–$10M |
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $46k–$10M |
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Hummingbird Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Turkey, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Financial Services, Biotechnology | |
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Seneca Partners
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom | Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Seed | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $541k–$13M |
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dmg ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Internet | $996k–$200M |
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Monte Carlo Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $375k–$100M |
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Livingbridge
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, Ireland, India | Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Consulting, Information Technology | $1M–$65M |
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Anna Sweeting
Angel
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Series A, Grant, Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion | $10k–$11M |
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Boost Fund
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Wellness, Artificial Intelligence | $54k–$600k |
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Beringea
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, E-Commerce, Analytics | $2.3M–$25M |
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Saturn Partners
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Finance, Health Care, Biotechnology | $1M–$350M |
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Simon Murdoch
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Finance | $712k–$16M |
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DN Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $786k–$82M |
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BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 605
- Round size: Series A $4.1M–$21M; Private Equity $6.4M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $97M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
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- Boost Juice Bars UK — Boost Juice Bars UK offer a range of smoothies and freshly squeezed juice products.
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Venrex Investment Management is a UK-based venture capital firm that backs creative Founders to launch and build innovative businesses.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 184
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $425k–$3M; Series A $6M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Observable Space — OurSky is a modern developer platform for space applications. We provide real-time observational data and analysis of objects and activities in space. Built as an open, community-driven resource for the new space age engineer.
- Integral Privacy Technologies — Real-world data, ready for AI.
- Something & Nothing — Our Premium Sodas are made with the highest quality natural juices, extracts and botanicals for elevated refreshment.
We love, help & invest in early-stage consumer brands.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Series A $3.9M–$20M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$9.2M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Meatly — Good Dog Food creates cultivated meat for healthy pets and a healthy planet
- Reformed — Reformed: Arabica coffee and ceremonial matcha, enriched with functionality: collagen or creatine, adaptogens and twenty-one vitamins.
- TrueStart Coffee — TrueStart Coffee offers a range of coffee products, including barista-grade instant coffee and loose coffee bags. The company emphasizes healthy and delicious coffee, sourcing beans and air-roasting them with care.
Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 255
- Round size: Seed $674k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $313k–$1.7M; Series A $4.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $126M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- AI Score — AI Score empowers organisations to harness AI safely
- Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
- Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 312
- Round size: Seed $45k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $44k–$488k; Equity Crowdfunding $125k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
- LANDBAY — Your dedicated Landbay intermediary page for specialist buy-to-let mortgages. Partner with a lender who gives you direct decisions with a flexible approach and a full online application process.
- OurPetsLife — At OurPetsLife, our mission is to empower pet owners with innovative, reliable, and accessible Pet products trusted by the professionals. From dog food, supplements for pets, shampoo, pet treats, dental care & much more.
Tax Efficient Investments with the Start-up Series SEIS & EIS Fund. Our approach unearths compelling investment opportunities.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, Bangladesh, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $24k–$661k; Venture - Series Unknown $6.6k–$124k
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $7.6M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- FC Labs — Brainfit uses wearable technology to measure brain fitness as easily as your physical.
- Metacarpal — Metacarpal design upper-limb prosthetics without compromise. We aim to make the most robust, functional hand prosthesis that people love wearing because it works so effectively and looks so beautiful. Be proud to show your artificial side!
- Fox Robotics — Fox Robotics, is a start-up, located in Camberley, an innovator in robotics technology. They solve fundamental in-premises logistics problems across multiple areas such light manufacturing, aerospace, health agriculture and retail, etc . Their easy-to-use robotics solutions boost business productivity and substantially reduce cybersecurity andhealth-and-safety risks for customers.They understand that robotics will play an important role in society, at many levels and across all industries. Robots need to adapt to human environments by the use of advanced AI, sensors, control algorithms and strong security. Their products and solutions sit at the heart of key business processes and have an important role to play in the successful businesses of the future.
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 465
- Round size: Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $9.3M–$100M; Series C $13M–$160M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $615M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- NewBay — NewBay enables operators and device makers to deliver a lifetime of digital content experiences across any connected device such as mobile, PC, tablets and TV. The NewBay white label software platform powers cloud-based services for storing, sharing, accessing and organizing digital content. NewBay enables customers to monetize a wide range ofbranded services such as social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, notifications and converged messaging. NewBay is delivering highly successful commercial services for operators and device makers worldwide. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon and LG Electronics. NewBay is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator and device maker services. NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, USA; Atlanta, USA; London, UK; Sydney, Australia and Seoul, South Korea. NewBay was founded in 2002. Following acquisition in 2011, NewBay is a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM).
- Socowave — Get full access to this domain. Easy, seamless transactions. Zero percent financing available.
- Spott — Spott is an AI-native ATS & CRM for Staffing and Recruiting firms.
Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 230
- Round size: Seed $648k–$7.3M; Private Equity $2.1M–$8.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $979k–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $120M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Vertal — Vertal is a food waste recycling company
- Welding Engineers — Welding Engineers has been in business since 1966 and is a major independent door company specialising in the manufacture, installation, repair and maintenance of all types of Industrial Doors and Shutters, Steel Fabrication, Lift Gates and Shutters, Industrial Roofing and Structural Glazing.
- Industrial Engineering Plastics — Industrial Engineering Plastics delivers specialist thermoplastic fabrication, DW154-compliant ductwork, machining, and plastics distribution
Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 249
- Round size: Seed $645k–$4.3M; Series A $3.9M–$19M; Secondary Market $60M–$346M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $12M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
- CameraMatics — Digitize fleet management to optimize performance. Onboard sensors, smart cameras, & apps to mitigate risk, manage safety & achieve sustainability goals.
- Modern Milkman — Modern Milkman is a Yorkshire-based milk delivery company.
Discover the UK's leading SEIS Fund, offering tax-efficient investments in innovative startups. Join thousands of savvy investors and raise capital for your business with SFC Capital.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 777
- Round size: Seed $123k–$2M; Pre-Seed $170k–$858k; Venture - Series Unknown $201k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
- Anemo Labs — We develop highly selective polymer-based sensors to detect gas VOCs in the ppb range, in real-time. We combine custom hardware with Machine Learning to characterize smells
- INTELLIGENT MASS SPEC SOLUTIONS — Intelligent Mass Spec Solutions develops urine-based mass spectrometry and machine learning diagnostics for adrenal cancer.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 277
- Round size: Seed $294k–$2.3M; Debt Financing $106k–$696k; Venture - Series Unknown $485k–$5.4M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
- SageTech — Integrating simply, seamlessly and universally into existing anaesthetic equipment, the practical solution is supported by an easy to use, fully managed...
- Amino —
Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 325
- Round size: Seed $236k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $261k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $790k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $21M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Sprive — Sprive is the free app that helps take years off your mortgage and save you thousands of pounds in interest.
- Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
- Honest Mobile — It's time for mobile done right. Explore SIM-only plans that include bills that go down, support in seconds and a shrinking carbon footprint as standard. One of the UK's top-rated mobile networks.
Active Partners is a consumer-focused investment firm that partners with visionary founders to build the iconic brands of tomorrow.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Retail, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$34M; Series A $1.1M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Sprive — Sprive is the free app that helps take years off your mortgage and save you thousands of pounds in interest.
- MAGIC AI — The home fitness system that uses AI technology to give you hyper-personalised training on demand on a beautifully designed mirror.
- Seat Unique — Seat Unique is an online marketplace to buy official hospitality packages and VIP tickets to live sports, music, and cultural events.
Gresham House Ventures is a growth equity investor, working with exceptional entrepreneurs and investing in high growth businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Series A $4M–$13M; Series B $3.7M–$27M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$8.5M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $64M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- BOSCO — BOSCO enables marketers to make decisions about their marketing budget. Online merchants need a set of tools that handle both the complexity of online media and the uncertainty produced by competition among various possibilities. They believe that online marketing and advertising are clouded with multiple contradictory sources of data.
- Spinners — Spinners provides traditional games such as bowling, darts, clay shooting, and mini golf with interactive fun.
- Patchworks — Patchworks is an integration platform for retail and e-commerce businesses. Use a powerful, user-friendly platform to connect the core business applications, such as the e-commerce platform, warehouse software, ERP, 3PL, or anything in between. It connects key ecommerce systems, such as storefronts like Shopify and BigCommerce, ERPs, CRMs, andfulfillment solutions, allowing retailers to simplify technology stack integration. Patchworks eliminates the need for manual data entry by automating the flow of data across the business, allowing to scale without overwhelming the operations.
We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 440
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.8M–$22M; Series B $8M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
- Metris Energy — The AI-native operating system for renewable energy.
- Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $418k–$5.9M; Series A $1.6M–$4.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$5.4M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fabacus — Fabacus is a global technology business and creator of proprietary technology platform, Xelacore, designed to digitally-transform businesses within the licensing & retail industries. Driven by first-hand experience within retail, licensing and manufacturing, Fabacus are standardising product information, allowing businesses to create robust andretail standards-compliant product catalogues to sit at the core of all their business initiatives. Xelacore is a modular, cloud-based platform, built to meet bespoke business needs and integrate with existing systems, including multifaceted data validations and governance checks. It enables licensors, licensees and brands to improve business agility and ability - driving sales, combatting counterfeit, increasing efficiency and ultimately achieving full visibility of their consumer product licensing programs, with to-the-minute data authenticated by all stakeholders. Fabacus was founded in 2016 with headquarters in London. The company's mission is to transform brand licensing through the power of data, with their industry-wide solution.
- Heights — We provide the daily nutrients, knowledge and network you need to elevate your cognitive potential and brain health. Learn more!
- 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.
We support Founders creating premium consumer brands, platforms and related tech solutions.
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- Industry: Retail, Fitness, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Series A $2.7M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.1M–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $84M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Epetōme — Epetōme offers gut health supplements focused on digestive health using probiotics, prebiotics and patented capsule technology.
- Omni — Omni provides Healthy Vegan Dog Food in the UK, made by vets to be a nutritionally complete meal for your dog. Feed your dog all the goodness of plants backed by science.
- Puresport — Puresport was created to craft the finest, premium-quality natural products to support every element of wellbeing, from pain & recovery, to sleep, focus, mood, stress, and balance.
Join 27,000+ UK angel investors backing top early-stage startups. Explore vetted, tax-efficient SEIS/EIS deals, pitch events, and co-investment opportunities.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $38k–$923k; Equity Crowdfunding $131k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AAZZUR — AAZZUR is an embedded finance platform helping businesses launch payments, cards, lending and financial services through flexible financial infrastructure.
- OnCare — Home care software | care management system
- SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.
Mobeus is a leading equity investor in UK-based SMEs. We partner with talented and determined management teams of businesses with strong growth potential.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Retail
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$7.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $157M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Revive — Revive! is the UK's leading mobile repairer of minor damage to car bodywork or alloy wheels. Interested in a franchise? Follow @revivefranchise.
- Big Potato Games — Big Potato is a board games company that's as versatile as its vegetable namesake.
- Ellis Recruitment Group — Ellis Recruitment Group provides specialist IT staff to enterprises across the world. Through our four brands, we provide an unparalled recruitment service.
Praetura Ventures has been supporting entrepreneurs with more than money since 2011. Click to find out more about how we can help businesses and investors.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 167
- Round size: Seed $655k–$4.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $261k–$7.2M
- Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $123M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Tended — Tended creates advanced solutions to change how people work and improve employee safety across high-risk industries. Through a combination of wearable technology and behavioural science, Tended's main focus is to drive positive behavioural change, which has proven benefits on both an individual and organisational level.Tended'ssolutions are currently improving safety across industry-leading companies in sectors including construction, manufacturing, utilities and logistics.
- Holdson — Holdson is an electrochemical polishing machine tool supplier aiming to address the issue of inconsistent surface finishes on additive manufactured components.The technology is producing intellectual property through patents, providing a competitive advantage in the advanced machinery industry.
- PEAK:AIO — PEAK:AIO delivers software-defined storage for AI, enabling fast, scalable data infrastructure and optimized GPU utilization.
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Browse database — It's Free!Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 294
- Round size: Seed $279k–$3M; Debt Financing $19k–$3.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $383k–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- nisien.ai — Nisien.ai uses industry-leading AI for the detection, defence and resolution of online harm, for better online safety and digital wellbeing.
- Design and Supply — Design and Supply are specialist manufacturers and suppliers of Industrial Steel Doors and Architectural Products.
- MeOmics Technology — MeOmics Technology is a biotech company with a focus on improving the diagnosis and treatment of mental health illnesses. The company operates in the manufacturing industry and has a team of 9 employees. The team includes experts in Neuronal Cell Biology and Neuropsychopharmacology. The company's mission is to leverage technology to enhancethe understanding and treatment of mental health conditions.
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: 82
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.7M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Otel AI — Otel reads every system your hotel runs on as one hotel, then hands your team each decision with the case already made. Live in days.
- Wassist — Launch your AI sales agent on WhatsApp for Shopify in under 60 seconds. Recover 30-50% of abandoned carts and increase conversions by 3x.
- Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
Seed-stage VC fund for Central and Eastern Europe. 90+ companies backed.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 158
- Round size: Seed $54k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $216k–$2.8M; Series A $4.4M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- nFuse.ai — nFuse scales your B2B sales with AI. Up to 30% revenue uplift, $1 per order processing cost, live in 30 days. No new apps, no behavior change.
- Veridion — Veridion is a living digital replica of the business world. Decision-grade data for enterprise scale systems
- Nanogram — Nanogram is an AI-powered gaming startup that creates an instant prompt-to-game platform, allowing anyone to build and share interactive short-form video games. Frequently described as "TikTok for mobile games," the company delivers an endless, vertical social feed of byte-sized, zero-download games that players swipe through and playinstantly.
Pembroke VCT PLC is a venture capital trust specializing in investments in any stage of business development. Their focus is on companies in the health and fitness, hospitality, apparel, and accessories, and media and technology sectors.
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- Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$5.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaizan — Kaizan is a Client Intelligence Platform for Client Success teams to retain and grow revenue
- Ryft — Say hello to unified payment processing with Ryft. Accept payments online and in person, automate split payments, and monetise transactions from one integration.
- Serve First — Serve First is an AI customer experience platform that turns real-time feedback into insights, helping drive smarter business decisions.
Forward Partners is a venture capital firm in London specialising in technology businesses focused on eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $390k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $54k–$2M; Series A $3.3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $75M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Ably Realtime — Ably is the realtime platform built for scale and reliability. Power live chat, messaging, collaborative apps, and AI experiences that never drop.
- OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.
- OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Fable — Fable Home dinnerware brings people together for love, laughter, and storytelling by delivering gorgeous cutlery, tableware, and glassware at affordable prices.
- Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
- Awe Inspired — We believe in fine jewelry as a vehicle for empowerment. Shop our collection of goddess necklaces, coin necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and more.
We invest in businesses, providing capital, expertise & partnership to drive transformational change and enable scalable growth. Learn more.
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- Industry: Software, Retail, Consulting
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Japan, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Series A $2.8M–$14M; Private Equity $2.5M–$8.8M
- Lead/follow: 94% lead, 6% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aveni — Aveni builds AI for financial services. Two suites, wealth and compliance, run on one FCA-aligned platform trusted by leading UK banks and wealth managers.
- HubBox — HubBox provides software for online retailers to offer out of home delivery through pickup networks, with seamless ecommerce courier integration.
- Semeris — Discover Semeris, an AI-powered platform offering legal document analysis for finance, asset management, and legal firms. Streamline deal insights and decision-making.
We build relationships early, make decisions quickly, but engage with you for the long term. Our focus is getting B2B software companies at Pre-Seed and Seed to a successful Series A.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 184
- Round size: Seed $951k–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $3.2M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $96M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Veridue — Veridue uses AI to automate M&A due diligence and project finance for renewable energy.
- SimplyCook — SimplyCook offers home recipe kits with easy step-by-step guides to cook restaurant-quality food in less than 20 minutes.SimplyCook boxes contain 4 easy to follow recipes and 4 ingredient kits. Each kit is designed to provide perfect taste-containing ingredient blends devised by professional chefs.
- Mantic — Mantic is a world-class technical team on a mission to solve the next AI grand challenge: predicting global events with superhuman accuracy, and deploying this capability to power radically improved decision-making in business and government.
MEIF is an investment firm that operates equity and debt investment towards growth capital. The firm aims to transform the finance landscape for smaller businesses in the Midlands and to realize the region’s potential to achieve economic growth through enterprise. It is a collaboration between the British Business Bank and ten Local EnterprisePartnerships (LEPs) in the West Midlands and East and South East Midlands. MEIF provides over £250m of investment to boost small and medium business (SME) growth in the Midlands.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Round size: Seed $327k–$2.7M; Debt Financing $250k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Doughnotts — Doughnotts is a coffee and doughnut shop.
- School of Coding — School of Coding is affiliated with the reputated org, invites you to apply for sept. intake Explore our courses and start your world-class education.
- Halo X Ray Technologies — HALO X-ray Technologies - next generation X-ray diffraction technology for the aviation security, medical and process control markets.
Redbus Group is a UK based investment group that invests in early stage ventures and funds or acquires businesses that require restructuring. Redbus Group came into existence as an offshoot of Redbus Film Distribution which was founded in 1997 as a film distribution company. Redbus Film Distribution had rapidly established itself as one of thelargest and most profitable film distributors in the UK. In late 2000 it was sold to Helkon Media AG.Redbus through its subsidiary Filmgroup was the first company in Europe to successfully develop technology to compress and stream moving images over the internet. Between 2000 and 2004 Redbus was the UK's fastest growing company with a compound annual growth rate in-excess of 280%. In 2005 Redbus sold its production and distribution operations to Lionsgate Inc and sold its stake in Lovefilm of which it was co-founder, to Amazon in 2010.Employing an entrepreneurial and disciplined approach, Redbus, either with partners or alone looks for opportunities to leverage off its capital, market knowledge and management resources.
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- Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 153
- Round size: Seed $586k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $323k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SOLVE — SOLVE have developed novel transient flow techniques that extend the capabilities of current approaches. SOLVE’s products leverage technology for the efficient collection of data from chemical reactions, as well as predictive computational models tuned based on the collected data. Both the data by itself, as well as the models, are used to informthe reaction conditions and solvent mixtures applied to manufacture chemical compounds at different scales of production.
- Tolemy Bio — The AI-native virtual cell platform for therapeutic development and manufacture.
- Nila Elder Care — Nila acquires independent UK homecare agencies and runs them on our AI platform. Families get care they can count on; owners get a fair exit and a team that's looked after.
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Browse database — It's Free!MMC is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in exceptional entrepreneurs across Europe.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 261
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $2.9M–$19M; Series B $10M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $129M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Zenithon — Zenithon is building machine learning models to provide a step change in the development and optimization of technology.
- ABEX — Algorithmic Best Execution for digital assets driven by an ultra low latency, high frequency, agency trading engine and enhanced by deep quantitative research.
- Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
Brilliant Ideas. Brilliant People. Brilliant Minds.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 287
- Round size: Seed $670k–$5.1M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $23M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Unloq AI — Unloq is a Decision Intelligence Platform that turns your company data and live market signals into governed strategic recommendations. Approved, tracked, measured.
- Nourished — At Nourished we create innovative. personalised nutrition stacks that are truly unique to you. Vegan, waste-free and always made to order.
- K3 Metrology — K3 Metrology is a specialist metrology company commercialising laser‑based 3D coordinate measurement technology developed at the National Physical Laboratory. The company’s platform is designed to provide high‑accuracy, uncertainty‑aware dimensional data in large‑volume industrial environments, supporting inspection and assembly processes inadvanced manufacturing. Its systems integrate into production workflows where traceable measurements are required across complex geometries and large structures. The technology is applied in sectors such as aerospace, defence, and nuclear, where dimensional integrity and process control are critical.
Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 209
- Round size: Seed $233k–$4M; Pre-Seed $197k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $477k–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Go Swag — Branded gifts for people you work with
- Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
- Foresight — Foresight turns regulatory change into confident action. Compliance-critical teams see every change that affects their products across chemicals, sustainability, product safety, ESG, and HSE, with the evidence to act.
Targeting disruptive ventures for a Material global impact.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$2.8M; Series A $15M–$36M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Carbyne — Carbyne's cloud-native NG911 platform for 911 dispatch centers. APEX delivers AI-powered call handling, live video, and real-time data for PSAPs. Axon 911 Core.
- Velvet — Velvet is a pioneering AI company transforming the workflow of venture capital and private equity funds. Our digital analyst enhances fund operations by automating routine tasks and augmenting human capabilities with advanced AI and natural language processing.
- silana — Technology to revolutionize fashion - economical, ecological and social
Support high-growth UK businesses and benefit from bespoke investment opportunities designed to offer long-term growth potential and significant tax relief through the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS).
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $972k–$6.6M; Series A $2.5M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$6.4M
- Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Ubamarket — Ubamarket is a tech startup that provides a retail shopping app. The application enables users to scan items as they shop, receive automatic loyalty, and checkout without waiting in line. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London, England.
- Navigator — The #newNavigator has launched! Get better results from your digital ad campaigns and put your brand in front of millions of travellers.
- Impact Recycling — Impact Recycling has developed a breakthrough plastic recycling technology which separates the components of post-consumer, mixed plastic waste to recover two consistent streams of plastic; polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), each with over 95 per cent purity.
Stonebridge is a private investment firm backed by family office capital. We empower visionary entrepreneurs with Growth capital investment and a world-class network to build the global leaders of tomorrow.
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- Industry: Retail, CRM, Pet
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $896k–$11M; Series A $8.9M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $9M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BIOME9 — Next-generation gut health testing and science-backed supplements to treat your dog inside and out. Discover how your dog's unique biology could lead them to a longer, happier and healthier life.
- Nathans Barbers — Contemporary barbershop in Hebden Bridge town centre, now in our 18 year priding ourself in great customer service and quality haircuts.
- The Growth Foundation — The Growth Foundation is a business consulting firm that assists clients with business development through branding, CRM, and finance.
Founded in 1988, Highland Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm focused on putting the entrepreneur first.With offices in Silicon Valley, Boston and Shanghai, Highland has raised over $3 billion in committed capital and invested in more than 225 companies, resulting in category-defining businesses across consumer and enterprisetechnology.Investments include 2U, Ask Jeeves, Bromium, Gigamon, Leap Motion, LevelUp, Lycos, MapQuest, Nebula, QD Vision, Qihoo 360, Quattro Wireless, RentJuice, Rent the Runway, Starent Networks, Sybase, Violin Memory, VistaPrint and WePay.Highland also serves as a mentor for future entrepreneurs through Summer@Highland, a program that provides students and university-affiliated startups with the environment and resources to take their initiative to the next level.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 412
- Round size: Series A $3M–$25M; Series B $5.2M–$50M; Series C $10M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $21M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- F2 AI — The AI platform for private markets investors. Go from data room to decision 75% faster.
- Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.
- Bitwise — Bitwise is a crypto-specialist asset manager for individuals, investment managers, and institutions navigating cryptocurrency. The company offers a suite of 32 investment solutions, including yield and alpha strategies, multi-strategy solutions, separately managed accounts, onchain staking, index funds, bitcoin ETPs, and more. By serving as aspecialist partner, it enables clients to access the opportunities that meet their objectives.
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, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $999k–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $481k–$1.8M; Series A $1.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vizzy — Vizzy lets you showcase your wins, passions, ideas and personality to employers. Build a free profile and get discovered by companies that want to know the real you.
- Implement AI — Implement AI provides managed AI agents to organisations that want to put AI to work.
- 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.
Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 270
- Round size: Seed $46k–$1.6M; Series A $295k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $261k–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- OneClickComply — Automate SOC 2, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, and 10+ frameworks. OneClickFix remediates 1,000+ controls automatically. Trusted by 30+ organisations.
- Land Digital — Land Digital is a tech, web design, web creation, content marketing, digital marketing, SEO, and mobile application agency.
- Magnitude Biosciences — Magnitude Biosciences is a biotechnology firm combine experience in ageing research, the nematode C. elegans and automation.
Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Karman+ — Mining near Earth asteroids
- Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
- Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.
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Browse database — It's Free!Seneca Partners is an investment firm that specializes in SME investment and advisory business. Formed in 2010, and headquartered in the North West of England, the management team has extensive experience across a range of sectors, including private equity, corporate finance, wealth management, accountancy, and stockbroking. Seneca won “AlternativeFinance Provider” in both 2016 and 2017 at the North West Business Insider Awards.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $561k–$5.9M; Series B $1.6M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $541k–$13M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Fabacus — Fabacus is a global technology business and creator of proprietary technology platform, Xelacore, designed to digitally-transform businesses within the licensing & retail industries. Driven by first-hand experience within retail, licensing and manufacturing, Fabacus are standardising product information, allowing businesses to create robust andretail standards-compliant product catalogues to sit at the core of all their business initiatives. Xelacore is a modular, cloud-based platform, built to meet bespoke business needs and integrate with existing systems, including multifaceted data validations and governance checks. It enables licensors, licensees and brands to improve business agility and ability - driving sales, combatting counterfeit, increasing efficiency and ultimately achieving full visibility of their consumer product licensing programs, with to-the-minute data authenticated by all stakeholders. Fabacus was founded in 2016 with headquarters in London. The company's mission is to transform brand licensing through the power of data, with their industry-wide solution.
- SolasCure — SolasCure aims to support healthcare professionals with wound care products that significantly improve the health and wellbeing of patients with chronic wounds.
- Alderley Lighthouse Labs — Alderley Lighthouse Labs is a laboratory-based testing facility, specializing in human diagnostics.
Venture with a voice We are a venture capital fund specialising in taking consumer startups to the mass market. With the backing of the UK's largest news
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $996k–$200M; Series A $5.8M–$17M; Series B $9.3M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- NUL — Reduce your alcohol consumption. Because less is more.
- Honest Mobile — It's time for mobile done right. Explore SIM-only plans that include bills that go down, support in seconds and a shrinking carbon footprint as standard. One of the UK's top-rated mobile networks.
- Final Boss Sour — The final boss of sour candy
Discover Monte Carlo Capital, a leading angel investment firm supporting early-stage startups in technology.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $375k–$9.3M; Series A $1.3M–$100M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $13M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Algorized — Algorized develops advanced technologies for human presence detection using UWB Radar.
- Ratio — A new way to finance subscription companies without dilution offering flexibility to help you thrive and compete. Put your recurring revenue to work.
- Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.
Livingbridge is a leading mid-market private equity firm. We empower your business to unlock its true potential. This is investment done the right way, built on ambition and experience.
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- Industry: Software, Consulting, Information Technology
- Stage:Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Private Equity $5.2M–$65M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$8.4M
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.8B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- T-Pro — T-Pro is a world leading document and patient workflow manahement platform for heathcare. Powered by state of the art AI speech technology, T-Pro reduces the burden of documentation for clinicians and automates patient noting and correspondence workflows.
- CitNOW Group — Created to leverage innovation and help retailers and manufacturers deliver an outstanding customer experience, CitNOW Group is driven by the vision to transform the way the automotive world communicates.
- Direct Ferries — Direct Ferries is an online platform that provides a selection of ferry routing information to its users.The platform allows its users to compare ferry crossings in its search and find fairs associated with them at the time of travel. Its network covers ports in Europe, with crossings available throughout Africa, Asia, Australia, North America,and South America. Furthermore, it allows its users to choose routes, as well as ferry deals information on their selected routes.
Seasoned entrepreneur and investor, who has dedicated the last decade to investing in and partnering category-defining consumer brands
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion
- Stage:Series A, Grant, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $4.9M–$11M; Grant $10k–$10k
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alena — Overcome social anxiety with a personalised solution that starts with your brain. Sign up to get early access.
- Sourcerie — Make bolder & faster decisions with an always-on connection to your customers
- Frescobol Carioca — Live the spirit of Rio with Frescobol Carioca. Shop designer swimwear, apparel, beach bats, accessories and more. Discover our latest collection online.
Capital Pilot is a Boost Fund that provides entrepreneurs with the opportunity to gain access to fast, data-driven investment. Apply now for an Investability Rating and see if you qualify for automatic funding!
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- Industry: Information Technology, Wellness, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $54k–$600k; Pre-Seed $61k–$469k
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $6.5M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Auxeris | AuxPay — Auxeris is a SaaS infrastructure platform powering independent recruiters and recruitment teams globally.The platform provides end-to-end tooling across candidate sourcing, client acquisition, workflow automation, and embedded payments through AuxPay.AuxPay enables compliant, cross-border fee collection, invoicing, and payout infrastructure builton Stripe Connect, removing operational and financial friction for recruiters and hiring companies. Auxeris is designed to replace the need for traditional agency infrastructure, enabling recruiters to operate independently while accessing enterprise-grade tooling and global payment capabilities.
- Hotel Manager — Hotel Manager is the platform for delivering modern experiences to guests, wherever they are. Launch and build your hotel app in no time and manage your growth easily. All in one platform with zero technical knowledge required.
- Boxspring Entertainment — Box Media are a creative media-on-demand production company. Redefining Normal. Reinventing Learning.
Beringea is an international investor in high growth US & UK businesses. With expertise in multiple sectors we are at the forefront of emerging trends.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 175
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$10M; Series B $4.8M–$25M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.5M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $51M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Lumar (formerly Deepcrawl) — Deepcrawl is now Lumar. We empower businesses to realize their websites’ full commercial potential with a robust website intelligence platform and professional services partnerships. Lumar helps businesses see their websites’ technical foundations in a new light — so brands can easily identify and implement the website changes that will have themost impact on their digital-driven growth. The technical health of a website plays a major role in both search engine visibility and user experience — key influences on any business’s brand awareness, customer satisfaction, and sales.
- Simplestream — We are Simplestream, an award-winning and best-in-class provider of next-generation TV solutions to some of the biggest players in the broadcast, sport, and media industry.
- Skills Matter — Skills Matter is a global community of technologists interacting, sharing knowledge, inspiring and improving each other. It's where software professionals go to get inspired, connect with peers and learn about new technologies; and where tech experts go to share their knowledge, build their personal brands and grow their audiences.With100,000+ members from 126 countries, Skills Matter is one of the world's largest communities of software professionals. These community members connect on our platform and participate in expert-led talks, conferences, meetups and workshops advancing the state of software engineering globally.
Saturn Partners works side-by-side with innovators to build groundbreaking companies. This Boston venture capital firm provides VC funding for seed and early-stage technology companies.
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- Industry: Finance, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3.7M; Series A $4M–$350M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Panopto — Panopto is the leading video platform for businesses & universities. With Panopto, anyone can create and share professional on-demand videos securely.
- Third Pole — The Third Pole™ core technology is an innovative clean, tankless inhaled Nitric Oxide (NO) proven equivalent to marketed tank-gas in the lab. Nitric oxide saves hypoxic newborns, but is available only in a limited number of countries, for those who can afford it, by physicians who have access to the product. We intend to make NO availableworldwide.
- Areteia Therapeutics — Areteia Therapeutics is a biotechnology company committed to putting asthma patients in better control of their disease. The company was spun out of Pennsylvania-based Knopp, which published results from its phase 2 clinical trial last year that showed its oral drug candidate could reduce the count of blood eosinophil, which is an indication ofimproving lung function and is found in several asthma-related treatments.
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: 126
- Round size: Seed $796k–$3M; Series A $712k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sylvi — Meet Sylvi, your AI language tutor. She tracks your mistakes as you chat to build custom lessons. The more she knows, the better you get. Ready to speak?
- Realla — Search the entire commercial property market for offices, serviced office space, retail, industrial for sale and to rent
- Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.
DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 424
- Round size: Seed $786k–$12M; Series A $4.5M–$25M; Series B $10M–$82M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Gaussion — Gaussion is revolutionising batteries by utilising magneto-electrochemistry.
- unique.ai — Automate personalized experiences to successfully transform your organization.
- sherpa — AI Operating System for External Workforce Management
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