# Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in United Kingdom in June 2026 ## Venrex - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet Venrex Investment Management is a UK-based venture capital firm that backs creative Founders to launch and build innovative businesses. ## Worth Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software Tax Efficient Investments with the Start-up Series SEIS & EIS Fund. Our approach unearths compelling investment opportunities. ## Foresight Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Private Equity, Seed - Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care 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. ## Fuel Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies. ## Balderton Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Angels Den - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software Join 21,000+ investors backing the top 4% of UK startups. Access vetted, tax-efficient (SEIS/EIS) investment opportunities and exclusive pitch events. ## Praetura Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care 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. ## Mobeus Equity Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Retail Mobeus is a leading equity investor in UK-based SMEs. We partner with talented and determined management teams of businesses with strong growth potential. ## Seedrs - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs. ## Tom Singh - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS 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. ## Octopus Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## True. - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail A unique model for investing, innovating & growing ## The FSE Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology 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. ## Forward Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Forward Partners is a venture capital firm in London specialising in technology businesses focused on eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI early-stage startups. ## Paul Forster - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## LAUNCHub Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software LAUNCHub is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe. ## Active Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Retail, E-Commerce Active Partners is a consumer-focused investment firm that partners with visionary founders to build the iconic brands of tomorrow. ## Monte Carlo Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Monaco, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software Discover Monte Carlo Capital, a leading angel investment firm supporting early-stage startups in technology. ## Gresham House Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Gresham House Ventures is a growth equity investor, working with exceptional entrepreneurs and investing in high growth businesses. ## Livingbridge - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Private Equity, Seed - Focus: Software, Consulting, Information Technology 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. ## JamJar Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage We love, help & invest in early-stage consumer brands. ## Hummingbird Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Biotechnology 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. ## Nigel Wray - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Fitness 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. ## Salica - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## South Central Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Belgrade, Vojvodina, Serbia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence South Central Ventures is dedicated to investments in startups, small and medium globally oriented technology companies in SE Europe. ## Simon Murdoch - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Finance 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. ## Will Martin - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures ## BOOST&Co - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Telecommunications BOOST&Co offers term loans, venture debt and invoice financing for innovative, fast-growing SMEs. Looking for funding? Get in touch today ## DN Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce 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). ## Downing Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology The opportunity for institutional investors to access leading UK early stage healthtech businesses ## MMC Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning MMC is a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high-growth UK companies. Investing in technology companies at Seed and Series A. ## Business Growth Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Private Equity - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies. ## Ascension - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Internet Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one. ## Jenson Funding Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Marketplace, Information Technology 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. ## Atomico - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world. ## dmg ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet 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 ## Highland Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet 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. ## Will Brooks - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures ## Highland Europe - Type: VC Fund - Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce 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. ## Development Bank of Wales - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds. ## NVM Private Equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Private Equity, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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. ## Richard Fearn - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Advertising, Internet 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. ## Midlands Engine Investment Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Debt Financing, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Software 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. ## LDC - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Private Equity, Secondary Market - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing 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. ## Redrice Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care We support Founders creating premium consumer brands, platforms and related tech solutions. ## Anglia Capital Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce Anglia Capital Group are Angel Investors supporting innovative early stage businesses in East Anglia ## Giles Brook - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: Food and Beverage, Snack Food, Retail Giles Brook ## VentureFounders - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical Volution is a UK based Venture Capital firm. We back ambitious Fintech and SaaS businesses, ready to accelerate their growth to Series B and beyond. ## Connect Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London. ## Techstart Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.