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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in United Kingdom in May 2026

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 Startup Investors in United Kingdom in May 2026

Investor Retail United Kingdom investments
Venrex 12
Worth Capital 11
Foresight Group 9
Fuel Ventures 8
Mobeus Equity Partners 6
Balderton Capital 6
Seedrs 6
Praetura Ventures 6
Angels Den 6
Tom Singh 5
True. 5
Paul Forster 5
Active Partners 5
The FSE Group 5
Octopus Ventures 5
Forward Partners 5
Monte Carlo Capital 4
LAUNCHub Ventures 4
Gresham House Ventures 4
Livingbridge 4
JamJar Investments 4
Business Growth Fund 4
Nigel Wray 4
Hummingbird Ventures 4
Salica 4
Downing Ventures 3
Midlands Engine Investment Fund 3
dmg ventures 3
MMC Ventures 3
Highland Capital Partners 3
Will Martin 3
BOOST&Co 3
DN Capital 3
NVM Private Equity 3
Atomico 3
Jenson Funding Partners 3
LDC 3
Simon Murdoch 3
South Central Ventures 3
Redrice Ventures 3
Richard Fearn 3
Development Bank of Wales 3
Highland Europe 3
Will Brooks 3
Ballpark Ventures 2
James Fong 2
Crane Venture Partners 2
Ascension 2
Kelvin Capital 2
Paul Birch 2

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Venrex
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

Venrex Investment Management is a UK-based venture capital firm that backs creative Founders to launch and build innovative businesses.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Chexy — Let your rent elevate your lifestyle. Chexy is the new standard for paying rent. We believe that tenants should be able to pay rent digitally and flexibly while building credit and earning rewards.
  • Midnite — Bet on Football, Horse Racing, Slot games, Live Dealer, and much more. Play your way and get rewards like no other. Unlock huge promos, boosts, and free spins. Easily deposit and instantly withdraw your winnings. Join today and claim your welcome offer.
  • Quantum Light — The world of Quantum Pigments
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Worth Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

Tax Efficient Investments with the Start-up Series SEIS & EIS Fund. Our approach unearths compelling investment opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Bangladesh, United States

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.
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Foresight Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

  • Ajenta — The only video platform developed for the education sector. By replicating the classroom experience, Vscene makes remote learning truly interactive.
  • Ruleguard — Ruleguard is an regulatory technology platform for financial sector firms that helps you manage and evidence compliance across your organisation. Features include automated horizon scanning, rules mapping, SMCR compliance, third party oversight tools, breach management and regulatory checklists.
  • Harvest London — Fresh, reliable, sustainable ingredients for the food industry. Using vertical farming, Harvest grows exactly what you need, with less environmental impact: better tasting and better for the planet.
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

  • Deaku — Your connected workspace and ecosystem to grow faster, create better, and earn more together.
  • TYTEN — An AI tool that helps maintenance technicians quickly diagnose and resolve issues by providing step-by-step diagnostics and repair guidance based on specific equipment manuals.
  • Flexzo Ai — Flexzo is an AI-powered workforce platform that connects healthcare organizations with healthcare professionals for shift-based and contract work. The platform enables organizations to post vacancies, access candidate profiles, and match roles with professionals based on skills, availability, and compliance data. It includes tools for credentialmanagement, document tracking, and automated reminders to support regulatory requirements and workforce readiness.Flexzo Ai also allows healthcare professionals to create profiles, upload qualifications, and receive shift opportunities aligned with their preferences and schedules. The system uses data inputs such as location, travel distance, and credentials to facilitate matching between roles and candidates. In addition, the platform maintains records of work history and supports communication between organizations and professionals.The company operates as a workforce matching platform that facilitates direct engagement between healthcare providers and workers without acting as an employer or recruitment agency.
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Mobeus Equity Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Preservica — Ensure compliance and longevity with our Digital Preservation software. Secure your organization's valuable records.
  • Vet’s Klinic — Based in Swindon, Vet's Klinic offers you high quality pet care at flexible prices. Register and Book Now.
  • ActiveNav — Get the full picture of all your unstructured data. Identify sensitive data, optimize storage, enhance your data privacy, and comply with regulations.
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
  • Dash0 — Dash0 is modern OpenTelemetry Native Observability, built on CNCF Open Standards such as PromQL, Perses and OTLP with full cost control
  • Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
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Seedrs
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

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.
  • Residently — Simplifying the rental process: from finding the perfect pad to furnishing and sourcing expert local home services, all at the tap of a button.
  • The Cookaway — The Cookaway offers an exciting range of world cuisine menus put together by our expert chefs and available to buy as a recipe box.
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Praetura Ventures
VC Fund · Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia

Portfolio highlights

  • Peak — Accelerating AI adoption in retail and manufacturing, driving growth through inventory optimisation, AI-driven pricing, and more.
  • OBT Live — OBT Live helps brands in media, sport, retail and leisure drive sales and increase brand loyalty among consumers through AI.
  • Patchwork — NHS workforce solution for managing rotas, bank shifts, and staffing. Trusted by 200+ organisations. Built by healthcare professionals.
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Angels Den
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

Join 21,000+ investors backing the top 4% of UK startups. Access vetted, tax-efficient (SEIS/EIS) investment opportunities and exclusive pitch events.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
  • 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.
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Tom Singh
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, 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
  • 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.
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True.
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

A unique model for investing, innovating & growing

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, France

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.
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Paul Forster
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Paul Forster

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
  • Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
  • Bounti — Bounti helps organizations steer, enable, and scale their frontline employees, combining training, quality control, communication, and operations execution into one intuitive app. With Bounti, companies can maintain consistent quality and operations, streamline training and reach their entire workforce in more than 100 languages.
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Active Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

Active Partners is a consumer-focused investment firm that partners with visionary founders to build the iconic brands of tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Retail, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • ARTAH — We create science-backed systems for real, lasting change. Our award-winning supplements and nutrition programmes blend cutting edge science with high-quality, natural ingredients to help you see and feel visible changes.
  • Gutology — Gutology is your Number 1 Gut Health Podcast, free nutritional advice & natural supplements to help you Optimise Your Gut.
  • Coopah Running — Try Coopah free. Cancel anytime. Personalised running plans to help you smash your race goals.
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The FSE Group
VC Fund · Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Sendr — Sendr uses AI to enhance sales outreach with personalized messages and data-driven tools for higher buyer engagement.
  • TruePlayers — Trueplayers is a computer game development company that specializes in mobile games. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Falmouth, Cornwall.
  • Grace & Green — Grace & Green fight for access, inclusivity, and education, dismantling barriers to essential care. Because dignity shouldn't come with a price.
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Baselime — Use logs, metrics, distributed tracing and wide-events to detect, diagnose and resolve issues before they impact your users.
  • OLIX — OLIX designs and manufactures optical processors that use light-based circuits to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads. The company develops Optical Tensor Processing Units that execute matrix and tensor operations for training and running inference on large-scale machine learning models. Its hardware aims to increase performance and reducepower consumption relative to conventional electronic accelerators by processing data in the optical domain. Flux Computing focuses on infrastructure for generative AI and advanced neural networks, targeting data centers and organizations that require intensive model computation. The product stack centers on custom optical chips integrated with supporting electronics, control software, and tools that link into existing AI frameworks. Sales and partnerships primarily address customers building large AI clusters, research environments, and emerging applications that benefit from high-throughput, low-energy computation.
  • Connectome Health — Connectome is a cognitive intelligence platform that measures and understands how the brain changes over time using transparent, science-backed data people and organisations can trust.
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Forward Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • OutThink — Move from traditional security awareness to adaptive security with the world's first AI-native cybersecurity human risk management platform.
  • Patch — Patch helps you choose the best plants for your space, delivers them to your door, and helps you look after them.
  • 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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Monte Carlo Capital
VC Fund · Monaco, Bayern, Germany

Discover Monte Carlo Capital, a leading angel investment firm supporting early-stage startups in technology.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • Klay — Reimagine music with KLAY.
  • Krepling — You have the idea. We have the tools. Start, scale and grow your business using Krepling's leading centralized commerce software.
  • Shipsi — Shipsi empowers any retailer with the ability to offer an easy “instant shipping” option on their checkout page—without worrying about logistics. They use existing infrastructure and last-mile delivery networks to help customers order now AND get it now. Shipsi was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.
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LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria

LAUNCHub is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
  • UVIONIX — Uvionix deploys Autonomous Flying Robots (AFRs) to monitor and report live data, ensuring a comprehensive view of operations, workflow efficiency, and near 100% inventory level accuracy. The system creates live digital twins of warehouse spaces, meticulously tracking each material movement. Delivering precise, unbiased data, and being immune to human error, the platform drastically enhances material planning, reduces stock losses, and lowers labor costs.
  • Giraffe360 — Giraffe360 is game-changing subscription product for real estate companies to streamline professional quality photography and high accuracy floor plan creation.
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Gresham House Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

Gresham House Ventures is a growth equity investor, working with exceptional entrepreneurs and investing in high growth businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia

Portfolio highlights

  • eConsult Health — eConsult Health Limited designs and builds digital triage and remote consultation solutions that unleash the power of healthcare.
  • Funding Xchange — Funding Xchange is transforming and connecting the SME funding eco-system through digital eligibility and affordability assessment tools. Funding Xchange built its leading technology platform by connecting businesses with more than 70 funders to access indicative offers in 3 minutes and money in businesses’ bank accounts in 10 minutes.Funding Xchange’s Marketplace provides access to finance where businesses are engaging with their finance. Using its API-led technology, Funding Xchange is embedding its Marketplace in the largest Price Comparison Websites like MoneySuperMarket, delivering custom marketplaces to banks like NatWest and Monzo, integrating finance solutions in advisory platforms like Enterprise Nation and finance available within accounting software and payment providers own eco-system. Through FXE Technologies, the business white-labels its intelligent SME lending tools for banks, funders and brokers. Clients are able to deploy white-labelled, digitally-led customer journeys and market-facing intermediary portals, transforming operating costs and increasing look-to-book ratios while also empowering active portfolio risk management.The tools are powered by real-time access to validated transactional data and leverage insights into risk analytics and underwriting across a broad spectrum of SME funding solutions. The eligibility and affordability tools deliver the benefits of digital transformation without the risk of complex and costly technology projects. Funding Xchange was founded in 2014 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom.
  • ActiveNav — Get the full picture of all your unstructured data. Identify sensitive data, optimize storage, enhance your data privacy, and comply with regulations.
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Livingbridge
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Consulting, Information Technology
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
  • United Kingdom, Ireland, India

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.
  • 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.
  • Symphony Ventures — We blend human expertise with AI-driven capabilities to provide brands with comprehensive CX outsourcing services & solutions.
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JamJar Investments
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

We love, help & invest in early-stage consumer brands.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Yepoda — Yepoda is a DTC K-Beauty brand developing sustainable & natural beauty products based on the latest trends & innovations from South Korea.
  • Sava Technology — SAVA is reinventing health monitoring with a novel biosensing platform enabling real-time, affordable, and painless molecular monitoring.
  • Meatly — Good Dog Food creates cultivated meat for healthy pets and a healthy planet
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Jola — Jola provides broadband, ethernet leased lines, hosted telephony, ISDN replacement, calls & lines and Mobile SIMs to UK SMEs via Partners.
  • Origin Tech — Origin Tech is a UK-based water technology company that has won numerous awards. Our commitment is to minimize water waste and maintain the integrity of water supply systems globally.
  • Trouva — Trouva, launched in September 2015, is the marketplace for bricks and mortar independent shops, selling unique homeware and lifestyle products from hundreds of shops and boutiques. Trouva bridges online and offline in retail to offer click and collect, 1-hour delivery, and worldwide shipping in a single seamless platform.Trouva is one of the mostexciting e-commerce start-ups in Europe, backed by amazing VC and Angel Investors whose successes include Secret Escapes, Net-A-Porter, and Farfetch (BGF Ventures, Octopus Investments, C4 Ventures, Index Ventures & LocalGlobe).
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Nigel Wray
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Get A Drip — Premium IV vitamin drips, booster shots, diagnostics and longevity treatments. Clinician-led wellness clinics helping you optimise energy, health and performance.
  • Stubben Edge — We make it easy for anyone from a broker to a retailer to access the best products, earn better commissions, and grow their businesses.
  • 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.
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Hummingbird Ventures
VC Fund · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 12 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Financial Services, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Turkey, United Kingdom

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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Salica
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Semble — The integrated clinical system for managing your patients' medical data and admin tasks.
  • RevvedUp.ai — Effortlessly build engaging sales rooms that increase pipeline, accelerate deals and create a delightful buyer experience with our AI Sales Engine.
  • GoodFit — Implement & scale any GTM strategy. Commercial Leaders use GoodFit to configure the data they need, to fuel their GTM strategy of choice
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Downing Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ondat — Ondat is a software-defined, cloud native storage for Kubernetes. We provide persistent storage for stateful Kubernetes applications in production.
  • Baby2Body — Nearly 3 million women have used Baby2Body during their fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum journeys. Helping women around the world live healthier and happier with personalized fitness, nutrition, and wellness programs.
  • Distributed — Quality Driven Tech Teams. On-demand.
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Midlands Engine Investment Fund
VC Fund · Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Manufacturing, Software
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

  • Lexverify — Lexverify uses artificial intelligence to detect potential legal and compliance concerns in communications. It assists businesses in proactively avoiding legal and regulatory concerns by harnessing the power of AI. Their objective is to make technological communication a benefit rather than a problem.
  • Centaur Robotics — Centaur believes mobility needs re-imagining to provide a real advantage for everyday human needs. Our vision is to challenge thinking through design and technology to create superhuman technology - that provides extra-ordinary mobility fit for humans in the 21st Century.
  • Purple Transform — Purple Transform operates as an artificial intelligence company. Purple Transform improves decision accuracy with digital intelligence.
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dmg ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Blue Stripes — Blue Stripes upcycles the entire cacao pod to make delicious and antioxidant-rich foods, including Cacao Water, Granola, Trail Mix, Dried Cacao Fruit, Chocolate Covered Cacao Beans, and Whole Cacao Chocolate Bars. Our products are vegan, gluten-free, and full of key nutrients like Iron and Magnesium.
  • Final Boss Sour — Final Boss Sour is a gaming-themed snack brand offering a healthier alternative to traditional sour treats. Inspired by retro gaming aesthetics, our snacks deliver bold flavors and a fun experience for gamers of all ages.
  • SURI (Sustainable Rituals) — A world-class clean that doesn’t cost our planet. SURI is the new, sustainable electric toothbrush. Delivering an effective clean with innovative plant-based materials.
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MMC Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Nexcade — Bringing intelligent automation to Freight Forwarding. Nexcade builds agents that meet forwarders where they work today- cutting through noise, accelerating descisions, and helping teams win more business.
  • Modo Energy — Energy market data, benchmarking, and projections. All in one place and backed by Modo Energy insights.
  • Albatross AI — Inspire Customers Boost Conversions Capture Missed Revenues
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Highland Capital Partners
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States

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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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

  • Eko Health — At Eko every digital stethoscope from Eko comes with smart disease detection capabilities to help healthcare professionals confidently identify and diagnose heart and lung disease during physical exams.
  • Kyruus Health — Kyruus Health is a care access platform that provides solutions for providers data management, patient engagement, and activation.
  • Coin Metrics — Crypto intelligence for the future of finance. Coin Metrics organizes the world's crypto data and makes it transparent and accessible.
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Will Martin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
  • Loadsure — Loadsure is a spot freight cargo insurance company.
  • Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.
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BOOST&Co
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

BOOST&Co offers term loans, venture debt and invoice financing for innovative, fast-growing SMEs. Looking for funding? Get in touch today

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Telecommunications
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Malta

Portfolio highlights

  • Swyft — The original sofa in a box with 100 day returns, 24 hour delivery, 15 year frame guarantee & easy clean fabrics. Swyft makes beautiful living easy.
  • 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.
  • Diamond Logistics — UK logistics company providing reliable parcel delivery, courier services and fulfilment solutions for businesses nationwide.
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DN Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States

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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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Quandoo — In 8 years, Quandoo has expanded into 11 countries and has seated more than 200 million diners in 18,000+ restaurants. Quandoo’s technology-enabled marketplace equips both restaurants and diners with innovative products to elevate dining out as we know it. Headquartered in Berlin, with international footprints in Austria, Switzerland, Italy,Turkey, the UK, Hong Kong, Finland, Singapore, Australia and the Netherlands; the founders’ vision is to grow Quandoo into the world’s leading marketplace for dining out experiences. Quandoo is a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings, and with its sister companies HotPepper and AirRegi, forms the world’s largest restaurant marketing and software company. Quandoo currently employs more than 370 people from 50 countries.
  • Remitly — Send money online faster and more securely with Remitly, and discover our great exchange rates and low money transfer fees.
  • GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
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NVM Private Equity
VC Fund · Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

NVM Private Equity Limited is an independently-owned firm of venture capital managers with over 20 years experience of investing in UK businesses. They manage five investment funds, four of which are Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and their funds under management exceed £175 million.They are a long-established investor focused on the UK regions,primarily targeting small management buy-outs and growth investment in businesses that are led by high quality incumbent management teams.They have a wide range of skills, interests and backgrounds. That means they bring a thorough and rounded approach to the investment process. They live and work in the UK regions, so are entrenched within their local business communities.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Vegetarian Express — With over 35 years of experience and 1200+ plant-based ingredients in our larder, from cutting-edge plant-based meat alternatives to rare and hard-to-find.
  • The Climbing Hangar — Rock climbing London with added Hangar community spirit.
  • YorkTest — YorkTest is an award-winning food intolerance & allergy testing company, optimising health and wellbeing with our range of health tests. Order online...
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Atomico
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Y42 — Y42's Turnkey Data Orchestration Platform gives you a unified space to build, monitor and maintain a robust flow of data to power your business
  • Qatalog — Connect tools, resources and teams in one digital Work Hub. Find information quickly, collaborate effectively. Set up your Work Hub.
  • LabGenius — Finding the next generation of drugs with machine learning, synthetic biology and laboratory automation
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Jenson Funding Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

Jenson Funding Partners LLP (Jenson) was founded in 2012 by Paul Jenkinson and Sarah Barber from Jenson Solutions Ltd., a network of finance directors who continue to provide support to the investee companies. Since 2012, they have launched five SEIS and four EIS funds. They are now in the 10th tranche and have invested £16 million in 100entrepreneurial UK businesses that have typically launched their product or service and are typically close to or past revenue. In addition, they have supported 20 follow-on funding rounds, all at a premium to the initial launch cost. They have recently become FCA-authorized and have split our SEIS and EIS funds into two separate funds, retaining the same ethos and strategy across both evergreen funds.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Marketplace, Artificial Intelligence
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • YAi Digital — Find out if AI engines cite your content. YAi measures your Content Readiness and AI Visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Free audit available.
  • PeachWeb — Peach Worlds is the Squarespace for 3D immersive websites. It's the first no-code builder powered by AI, enabling designers to effortlessly create 3D websites without any coding.
  • 3NS — 3DNS is an onchain domain registrar that bridges traditional web domains with blockchain technology by tokenizing domains as NFTs. It supports over 420 top-level domains, including .com, .xyz, and .box, and partners with an ICANN-accredited registrar to initiate domain registrations off-chain before securely tokenizing them on-chain. This approachenhances domain security by mitigating risks associated with centralized registrars and enables instant domain transfers without the need for brokers or escrow services. Additionally, 3DNS domains are compatible with Ethereum Name Service (ENS), allowing them to function as decentralized identifiers and facilitating seamless integration with various web3 applications.
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LDC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months

For over 40 years, LDC has been the trusted investment partner for ambitious management teams. We invest in a diverse range of businesses across every region and sector of the UK economy.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Secondary Market
  • United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

  • Precise TV — Precise.TV helps you deliver brand safe, targeted YouTube advertising campaigns complete with actionable data analytics to drive performance for your brand.
  • HSL Compliance — HSL Compliance offers water hygiene and tank replacement, water quality testing, city and guilds training & fire risk assessments services.
  • LendingMetrics — Delivering cutting-edge financial technology and innovative solutions including the multi-award-winning Auto Decision Platform (ADP). ISO-accredited credit reference agency licensed and regulated by the FCA.
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Simon Murdoch
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Finance
  • 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.
  • MoveWise — Best casino sites UK ranked by reliability, game variety, bonus terms, and payout performance to help players choose with confidence.
  • Area4 Labs — Hearby is your gateway to local live events.
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South Central Ventures
VC Fund · Belgrade, Vojvodina, Serbia

South Central Ventures is dedicated to investments in startups, small and medium globally oriented technology companies in SE Europe.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
  • Insightful — Get Insightful starting from 6.4$ and start monitoring your employees now!
  • City Expert — City Expert Global is a Serbian startup that introduces new technologies and business approach to the traditional real estate sector. It focuses on creating new standards in the advertising and agency real estate sector. City Expert Global was founded in 2015 by Darko Luković, Stefan Stojanović, and Igor Jović. It is based in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Redrice Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

We support Founders creating premium consumer brands, platforms and related tech solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Fashion, Fitness
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • GoJoe — Ditch the step challenge apps and employee engagement platforms and boost inclusivity and engagement with GoJoe.The employee engagement and wellbeing app that people actually use.
  • Lovetovisit — Discover & book tickets for days out & things to do near you. Discounts & deals, no membership fees! Attractions, theatres, zoos, theme parks, aquariums & more
  • Coopah Running — Try Coopah free. Cancel anytime. Personalised running plans to help you smash your race goals.
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Richard Fearn
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Advertising, Internet
  • 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.
  • MV.Health — MysteryVibe offers the most advanced & award winning smart sex toys for men, women & couples that elevates their sexual health and wellbeing.
  • Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.
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Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund · Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • IQ Endoscopes — Fully Disposable Endoscopes for General Medical Use. A successful initial investment funding round completed, we are seeking future funding to take the IQ Scope to market.
  • ADC Biotechnology — Temukan prediksi Macau 4D 5D akurat di situs kami! Dapatkan bocoran togel toto Prediksi Macau Hari ini, dirumuskan oleh master prediktor. Bandingkan analisa Anda dan manfaatkan prediksi kami untuk meningkatkan peluang kemenangan Anda. Bergabunglah dengan kami untuk meraih JP impian. Salam JP
  • Community Energy Pembrokeshire — Temukan cara menangkap cuan di lautan dengan ORCA128! Bergabunglah dengan kami untuk strategi dan tips terbaik dalam dunia perikanan.
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Highland Europe
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland

Highland Europe invests in rapidly growing European internet, mobile, and software companies that address large market opportunities and have over €10 million in annualized revenues. They can provide acquisition finance or lead secondary transactions as well as making primary investments. Their capital enables management teams to accelerate growthand build a lasting, valuable business.Highland Europe was launched in 2012 and closely collaborates with Highland Capital Partners, an independent global venture capital firm with a twenty-seven year investment experience and offices in Boston and Palo Alto.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Series B, Series C, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • FINBOURNE Technology — A platform built to reduce the cost of investing. FINBOURNE empowers global financial institutions with investment and enterprise data management solutions.
  • Contentsquare — The AI-powered Contentsquare platform unlocks insights to engage, convert, and retain with Experience and Product Analytics and Voice of Customer tools.
  • Signal AI — Explore Signal AI's reputation management and risk intelligence solutions. Signal AI provides companies with actionable insights designed to navigate enterprise risk, strengthen reputation, and fuel growth.
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Will Brooks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
  • Robin — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
  • Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.
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Ballpark Ventures
VC Fund · Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Ballpark Ventures is a small, boutique fund investing in early stage technology startups. Their partners are all successful entrepreneurs and at this stage, investing their own money.

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Investment focus

  • Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

  • Silverback.ai — The ultimate business intelligence platform for e-commerce marketplaces
  • Adludio — Adludio is the AI-powered platform that delivers interactive mobile advertising. By using data to design your ad creative, and algorithms to optimize your campaigns, Adludio makes sure you win the battle for brand attention.
  • Pronto Technology — Pronto, we care deeply about the meals we deliver to you. We want them to be very good; for you, the community and the environment. All our healthy meals are freshly cooked from scratch, just like at home - they won’t see the inside of a freezer.
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James Fong
Angel · Jingan, Shanghai, China

James Fong has been the CEO of Oriental Dreamworks. James joined Amazon in 2012 and is responsible for leading its Merchant Services and Advertising businesses, including “Selling on Amazon”, “Fulfillment by Amazon”, “Global Selling” and “Advertise on Amazon”.Prior to joining Amazon, James was a Managing Director of China Tongyin, a boutiquemerchant bank in Greater China, responsible for its TMT practice; a Managing Director of Strategic Investments at NBA China, responsible for its arena, internet and league investments and business development efforts; a General Manager at Microsoft China, responsible for sales and marketing for 17 provinces and 32 cities; and the Managing Director of Microsoft’s $165 million China equity investment fund.James holds an undergraduate degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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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.
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Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

Crane is a London based VC firm investing and building seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep technology businesses across Europe. Our strategy is to support founders in building and executing their go-to-market strategy.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Cyberhaven — DLP works for 1% of companies; fortunately there is Cyberhaven for the other 99%. Cyberhaven makes data protection simple, accurate, and comprehensive. With it's Data Detection and Response (DDR) platform, Cyberhaven automatically discovers and classifies data, provides continuous risk detection, delivers accurate blocking and incidentresponse, and improves user behavior.
  • Chiral — Next-generation electronics with nanomaterials
  • OLIX — OLIX designs and manufactures optical processors that use light-based circuits to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads. The company develops Optical Tensor Processing Units that execute matrix and tensor operations for training and running inference on large-scale machine learning models. Its hardware aims to increase performance and reducepower consumption relative to conventional electronic accelerators by processing data in the optical domain. Flux Computing focuses on infrastructure for generative AI and advanced neural networks, targeting data centers and organizations that require intensive model computation. The product stack centers on custom optical chips integrated with supporting electronics, control software, and tools that link into existing AI frameworks. Sales and partnerships primarily address customers building large AI clusters, research environments, and emerging applications that benefit from high-throughput, low-energy computation.
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Ascension
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • Sprive — Sprive is the free app that helps take years off your mortgage and save you thousands of pounds in interest.
  • ReBorn® Homewares — ReBorn purpose is to transform the sustainability of the global homewares industry. We are committed to creating the most stylish and planet-friendly homewares, and driving collective change in the UK and beyond .Our five key principles are: 1.Recycling Waste 2.Local production 3.Circular Design 4.Stylish Solutions 5.Collaborative Power
  • Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.
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Kelvin Capital
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Paul Birch resides in central London, England. He graduated from University (Imperial College) many years ago - but now believes the University of Life has much more to offer than traditional education.Paul's background is systems analysis. He has loved the Internet since the first day he went online back in 1996. He's been surfingthe Internet ever since and has applied many surfing discoveries to BirthdayAlarm. He also enjoy's travelling and helps run Adventura Singles Holidays.Paul has fun everyday, by helping bring a little extra joy to people's lives through the Birthday Alarm service. Formerly himself a 'bad boy' at remembering birthdays - he is of course now excellent!

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, 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
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  • Housebites — Create tasty, inspiring and healthy meals at home. We'll send you all the ingredients, recipes and expert tips. Release your inner chef!
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