Top 50 Retail VC Funds & 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, Series B | E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care | $1.2M–$175M |
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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, Artificial Intelligence | $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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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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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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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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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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Ascension
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $250k–$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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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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Angels Den
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Finland | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Mobile, Software | $38k–$923k |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $41k–$22M |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Midlands Engine Investment Fund
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Portugal | Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Manufacturing | $257k–$3.3M |
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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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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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Blissgrowth
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $93k–$25M |
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BACKED VC
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Blockchain, Biotechnology | $2M–$59M |
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Jenson Funding Partners
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, Switzerland | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Marketplace, Information Technology | $101k–$1.5M |
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Downing Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $569k–$14M |
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Nexus Investment Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | SaaS, Education, E-Learning | $498k–$3.1M |
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Calculus Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Biotechnology, Software, Medical | $1.9M–$10M |
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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: 608
- 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
- Camino — Camino Leisure Holdings is a Spanish bar and restaurant that serves authentic food and wines.
- Arran Aromatics —
- Boost Juice Bars UK — Boost Juice Bars UK offer a range of smoothies and freshly squeezed juice products.
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 — Integral focuses on compliantly connecting health data in a secure and efficient manner, serving as the only end-to-end regulated insights platform transforming compliance barriers into competitive advantage. We offer a range of products and services to help businesses accelerate their data processing, collaborate securely, and unlock new insights.Our software provides robust security and privacy protections while enabling seamless collaboration with regulated data. Our flagship offering is Expert Certifications-as-a-Service, which allows companies to work with de-identified data to discover novel insights and make innovative business decisions. Unlike traditional methods conducted by consultants that take months, our automated expert certification software drastically reduces processing time to mere hours.Through our expertise in privacy-enhancing technologies and deep understanding of healthcare data complexities, we help enterprises extract bespoke, actionable insights from regulated data that aren't available anywhere else, making us a valuable asset for any company looking to compliantly work with regulated data.
- 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, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Series A $3.9M–$20M; Series B $4.4M–$175M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Sava Technology — SAVA is reinventing health monitoring with a novel biosensing platform enabling real-time, affordable, and painless molecular monitoring.
- 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, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 256
- Round size: Seed $674k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $313k–$2M; Series A $4.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $126M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- AI Score — AI Score is the intelligence-led AI governance platform for enterprise. Monitor AI risk, prove compliance and capture value in real time. Book a demo.
- Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
- Affinity Labs — We build software companies with category-defining creators.
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: 313
- Round size: Seed $45k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $44k–$488k; Equity Crowdfunding $107k–$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.
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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.
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: 232
- 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
- Bloemteknik — Bloemteknik develops, manufactures, and distributes high-quality modular lighting solutions for vertical farms and greenhouses. All solutions are cooperatively tailored with our growers to maximize production and reduce cost-of-ownership.
- 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.
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: 471
- Round size: Series A $5M–$32M; 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
- Duvo — Duvo brings your people, AI agents and existing systems together to map, run and improve your processes, with decisions, exceptions and results in one place.
- 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).
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The FSE Group provides growth finance and support for ambitious UK businesses, helping SMEs start, scale and succeed through tailored funding solutions.
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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: 279
- Round size: Seed $294k–$2.6M; Debt Financing $106k–$633k; 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.
- Amino —
- Alchera Technologies — Alchera's AI-powered, cloud-based software platform provides real-time data on the movement of vehicles and pedestrians around cities and major infrastructure
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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: 783
- 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
- Obsero — Obsero is an AI search intelligence platform and consultancy designed for marketing and communications teams. The platform tracks, measures, and optimizes how brands surface, get cited, and are recommended across Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI search assistants.
- SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
- NEARHUMAN — Nearhuman develops intelligent safety systems for micromobility and other physical-world devices. The company focuses on edge AI and computer vision that run directly on vehicles such as e-scooters and e-bikes to detect hazards, monitor pedestrian proximity, and support real-time decision making. Its flagship product, Scootrr, is an AI-powered safety platform that enables on-device perception, automatic deceleration, and safety analytics without reliance on cloud connectivity. Nearhuman designs its technology to integrate with existing shared micromobility fleets, collaborating with operators, vehicle manufacturers, and research partners. The company also provides dashboards and tools that turn on-vehicle events into route-level safety intelligence for stakeholders such as fleet operators and city authorities. Its work spans hardware vision kits, embedded firmware, perception models, and supporting software for deployment and monitoring.
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: 326
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $261k–$2.8M; 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.
- Neela Biotech — Transforming organic waste into carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuels through innovative biotechnology and AI.
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.
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: 442
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.4M–$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.
- Living Optics — Living Optics is commercializing next generation imaging technology which leverages a compact camera system based on breakthroughs in hardware design and software processing.
- 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.
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, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $38k–$923k; Angel $50k–$496k
- 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.
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 — Social games bar with duckpin bowling, Clayshot, electric darts, mini golf, cocktails and artisan pizza. Venues in Chester, Plymouth, Reading and Solihull.
- 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 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 — The UK's leading wellness brand creating the world's most trusted and certified natural wellness products to optimise mind and body. Informed Sport certified supplements.
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: 296
- Round size: Seed $279k–$3M; Debt Financing $19k–$3.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $383k–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Reacta Biotech — Reacta Biotech has been established to develop, manufacture and commercialise oral food challenge materials to pharmaceutical standards of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
- 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.
- Outlook Expeditions — Outlook Expeditions provide overseas educational expeditions, adventure travel and service-learning projects for schools.
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.
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! provide mobile repairs to minor vehicle damage. Scuffs, wheels and paint repairs are carried out at a location convenient to you.
- Big Potato Games — Our board games are easy to learn, quick to play and guaranteed to get the party started. Get 10% off your first order when you sign up to our newsletter.
- 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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: 166
- Round size: Seed $41k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $216k–$2.8M; Series A $4.4M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- 1club AI — 1club is an AI-native club management software platform built for gyms, fitness studios, and multi-sport facilities. It helps operators automate memberships, bookings, scheduling, billing, and member communication in one unified system. With built-in marketplace distribution, branded member portals, and AI agents that assist both staff and members, 1club enables clubs to streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver a modern digital experience to their communities.
- 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 — B2B payments built for recruitment. Auxeris helps agencies automate invoicing, collect payments on time and take control of cash flow with AuxPay.
- 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.
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 enterprise technology. 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: 413
- Round size: Series A $3M–$25M; Series B $5.2M–$50M; Series C $10M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% 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.
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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.
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: 278
- Round size: Seed $46k–$1.4M; Series A $295k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $261k–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- OneClickComply — OneClickComply automates ISO 27001, SOC 2, Cyber Essentials and 240+ standards: evidence from 13,000+ tools, one-click fixes and an in-house audit team.
- 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.
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.
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 $2.7M–$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.
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
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- 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.
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 — Navigator is the Travel Audience Platform turning 2+ billion travel signals into audiences advertisers and agencies can act on, across every vertical.
- 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.
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. The company's mission is to keep humanity on the exponential by enabling radically faster and more accurate design and optimization. Their team develops physics grounded machine learning models that make complex simulations dramatically faster, enabling more simulations, more iterations and more ways to explore what is possible.
- ABEX — Algorithmic Best Execution for Digital Assets
- 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: 288
- 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.
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: 185
- 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.
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: 210
- 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 swag people want to keep, designed, sourced, stored and delivered by one team to 180+ countries. Managed programmes, Studio projects and Select.
- 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.
- Farmdrive — Farmdrive helps supply chain partners create transparent, effective, and resilient operations from farm to shelf by streamlining data collection and simplifying farm management.
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Browse database — It's Free!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 — Lovable Generated Project
- The Growth Foundation — The Growth Foundation is a business consulting firm that assists clients with business development through branding, CRM, and finance.
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 Enterprise Partnerships (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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $327k–$2.7M; Debt Financing $257k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $466k–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ace Padel — Ace Padel is a club operator and expanding a network of community-focused padel venues, offering court bookings,
- 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.
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 — Cut down or stop drinking on your own terms with a clinician-led programme based on The Sinclair Method. No pressure, no stigma.
- 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 — Final Boss Sour uses real fruit to create delicious sour candy treats. Our sour cranberries, blueberries and strawberries are better than candy.
Redbus invests in early-stage ventures, predominantly but not exclusively, in the UK. Redbus allocates part of its resources to special situations such as acquiring a business that requires reorganising or purchasing an asset that seems materially undervalued. We are not a fund, we are permanent capital, so we invest for the long term and can be very patient. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we understand some great businesses can take time to flourish. Most importantly, we get, like and understand mavericks, innovators and operators. We once were them. We are proven entrepreneurs who are passionate about backing the next generation of entrepreneurs. Our lead people have founded or had senior managerial roles in start-ups that have had successful and material exits. Our portfolio companies benefit from the support both financially and otherwise of experienced entrepreneurs who have been on the same journey they are on. We aim to provide entrepreneurial insights, know-how, strategic introductions and operational experience that will help entrepreneurs have the courage to grab opportunities, avoid some mistakes and ultimately build excellent companies. We love it when people who want to talk to us manage to find someone in our eco-system who can introduce them to us. A recommendation goes a long way. If that is not possible then we would want know why you think we would be the right investors for you as opposed to any one of the other great investors out there. We can move quickly and can run at an entrepreneur's speed. Sometimes we take down a whole round, other times we act as lead and others we just participate. We like investing alongside angel investors whom have proven entrepreneurial experience and successful track record of backing brilliant entrepreneurs.
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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.
Blissgrowth is to build the next generation of companies that focus on increasing human happiness at work and in life.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $93k–$25M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2M; Series A $10M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- JustParent — Parental leave insurance for businesses
- sequel — A digital family office for athletes, artists, and entrepreneurs backing companies that advance humanity.
BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders, at Seed, in Europe. We provide founders with an extensive support system to catalyse their development as a company operators and leaders. Through our Founder Experience Platform and energetic portfolio community we help entrepreneurs across all areas of a startup:from talent management to business development, further fundraising and international expansion.Founded in 2015 by partners Andre de Haes and Alex Brunicki, we invest across sectors including BioTech, Entertainment, Financial Services, Industry 4.0 and more. Investments to date include Hutch, Pollen, Thought Machine, LabGenius, THIS, Enterprise Alumni, and many more.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.7M; Series A $5.5M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Ruka — We celebrate Black women and create hair products designed with real textures in mind.
- GingerControl — GingerControl is the AI audit layer for global trade spend. It re-reasons every duty decision, reconciles purchase orders to entries, and audits freight charges in customs value, then recovers the leakage, in every market you trade in.
- Round Finance — On the verge of excellence.
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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- Industry: Software, Marketplace, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $101k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $196k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Qalzy — Track calories, macros, and nutrition effortlessly with Qalzy, a smart kitchen scale and AI calorie counter that logs meals automatically.
- YAi Digital — The one-stop solution for crafting ready to publish content for agencies and brands.
- Luna Pet Healthcare — Luna Pet Healthcare is a UK-based veterinary company specializing in affordable dental care exclusively for dogs and cats. It operates dental-only clinics in Bristol and Reading, focusing on preventative and restorative treatments to address common pet dental issues.
The opportunity for institutional investors to access leading UK early stage healthtech businesses
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Seed $569k–$4.2M; Series A $3.4M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.4M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- TidalSense — CRiL was formed in April 2013 specifically to develop innovative medical devices to diagnose and manage respiratory conditions. They have been building a platform technology, N-Tidal, based on the measurement and analysis of tidal breathing CO2 throughout the entire breath.
- Qkine — Growth Factors made for stem cells Animal-free We control every step of protein manufacture ensuring all our products are completely animal-free Total transparency Stringent purity and bioactivity testing data for all proteins - know what you are giving your cells Protein innovation Our R&D team
- FundamentalVR — Solutions for knowledge acquisition and skills development for any interactive medium
Helping promising UK businesses grow by raising private capital through government-sponsored EIS incentives.
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- Industry: SaaS, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $498k–$3.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.6M–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pi-Top — pi-top is a fast-growing ed-tech company with a unique vision to increase access to coding, robotics and AI through project-based learning.pi-top’s mission is to inspire a generation of makers by giving young people STEAM-related hard skills (e.g. coding and circuitry) and in-demand soft skills (e.g. communication, critical thinking andproblem-solving) that they will need in a rapidly changing world.pi-top’s award-winning hardware and software ecosystem is used around the world thousands of homes, maker spaces and schools, blending physical computing and project-based learning with Computer Science and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) education. With its latest product ecosystem educators and students get to design, code and make anything they can imagine.
- BBC Maestro — BBC Maestro is a streaming platform that was developed to teach and inspire individuals to explore their creativity. Anyone can master a wide range of disciplines and follow in the footsteps of specialists respected all over the world by using pre-recorded classes and complete course notes.
- Teamed — Your international employment platform. Payroll, taxes, compliance and benefits for the best teams on earth.
At Calculus Capital they are specialists in creating and managing tax efficient private equity funds for the individual. Funds that are ideal for today's market - offering generous tax benefits, and significant growth potential within a sensible risk profile.They look to make £2-5 million investments in established companies with provenmanagement teams and a successful product or service. Their entrepreneurial flair, combined with their experience and sound commercial judgement has resulted in a diversified investment portfolio and an impressive track record. In June 2013 Calculus Capital was top ranked in the prestigious Martin Churchill Tax Efficient Review for the 6th year in a row. The Government has recently shown its support for EIS funds, by maintaining the five generous tax benefits and widening the scope of EIS investments. These changes benefit Calculus Capital's rigorous and proven strategy. As a result they are experiencing their strongest pipeline of prospective investments yet.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Medical
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.9M–$7.8M
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Edify Systems — The Human-First AI platform for multi-site food and beverage operators. Tighter margins, less waste, more time on the floor.
- Grateful — Grateful provides cashless tipping and trunk management software that integrates QR/NFC, EPOS systems, and compliance reporting.
- Resurrect Bio — Resurrect Bio is a disease resistance trait discovery company. Using AI and our high-throughput in planta screening platform we provide traits for breeders.
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