Top 50 Social Impact VC Funds in United Kingdom

Investor	Social Impact United Kingdom investments
Ascension	3
Ananda Impact Ventures	2
Nesta Impact Investments	2
Intel	2
Tomahawk.VC	2
Nationwide Building Society	1
DD Venture Capital	1
Active Partners	1
Vestel Ventures	1
KHP Ventures	1
Foresight Williams	1
Funderbeam	1
NBS Ventures	1
Merian Ventures	1
Lazio Innova	1
All Turtles	1
APX	1
Not On The High Street	1
SoftBank	1
Seedrs	1
365.fintech	1
Humanity United	1
Concept Ventures	1
Intesa Sanpaolo	1
Mediobanca Banca di Credito Finanziario S.p.A.	1
Northstar Ventures	1
Kindred Capital	1
Social Tech Trust	1
Algorand Foundation	1
Digital Currency Group	1
360 lab	1
GMG Ventures	1
Purpose Ventures	1
Downing Ventures	1
Loyal VC	1
MGV Capital Group	1
Grouport Ventures	1
MSM	1
Concept Ventures	1
StartupJobs	1
Ariadne Capital Limited	1
Sequoia Climate Foundation	1
Impact Ventures UK	1
Quadrature Climate Foundation	1
Open Society Foundations	1
Google.org	1
Environmental Defense Fund	1
Jenson Funding Partners	1
Commerce Capital	1
Nordic Eye Venture Capital	1

Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
ManholeMetrics — We are a multi-award winning sensor and analytics start-up on a mission to stop flooding and bring wastewater into the 21st Century.
SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.

We are the home for entrepreneurs with a big vision who want to create something less ordinary. Something that matters. For all of us.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

EcoG — EcoG connects and enables monetizing charging infrastructure with an API-software platform. EcoG is the first cloud-based platform to enable shared revenue streams and value-added services in fast charging. With EcoG a personalized and customized EV fast charging experience is easy to implement and operate.
Klim — Klim enables farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture at scale by providing them financial support, knowledge, documentation tools, and a community via our digital companion for farmers.Klim-verified carbon removal credits, generated by Klim farmers, help companies to transition to net zero by offsetting their carbon emissions locallyand with maximum impact and transparency.
OroraTech — OroraTech provides global real-time information services. The first target market is early detection and monitoring of wildfires, extended by a proprietary constellation of thermal imaging nanosatellites equipped with in-space AI image processing. At the beginning of 2020, OroraTech launched an MVP called Wildfire Service (WFS) that enables quickdetection and monitoring of wildfires on a global scale. The combination of existing thermal-infrared satellite data with external data layers, such as fuel, wind, and risk maps results in an automatic generation of fire alerts and the display of current fire perimeters for users. The MVP was launched in early 2020 and has gained increasing traction with governmental and large corporate customers all over the world.

We provide financial, knowledge and network capital to innovative enterprises that are changing the world for good.

Investment focus

Education, SaaS, Internet
Funding Round, Convertible Note, Series B
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

WeWALK — WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service.
Empiribox — Empiribox has identified a number of issues and elements that impact on the quality of science teaching currently offered at primary schools across the UK and internationally.
Arbor Education — Arbor is the UK's most popular cloud MIS, helping primary schools, secondary schools and MATs work more easily and collaboratively.

Intel is building on its unrivaled history of innovation to power the future of computing and communications. Intel's ambitions? A world that runs on Intel. Intel is doing this by helping its customers find the technologies and solutions that allow them to transform their businesses and gain market advantage.And it all starts with data.Intel is on a journey from a PC-centric company to a data-centric company. Intel's unmatched depth of experience and scope of vision allows it to dream big, to create a world where Intel powers the future of computing and communications—including powerful processors and accelerators that unlock the full potential of data. Intel continuously delivers advances in performance, power, and connectivity across a diversity of data-centric workloads, so its customers can harness the raw power of data.Intel's innovations span architecture, memory, software, and security to help develop transformative products and experiences for its customers. Collectively, Intel's 107,000 employees worldwide are enabling amazing experiences in 5G, artificial intelligence, driverless cars, and much more.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.
Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source & platform provider of machine learning technologies. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.

Tomahawk.VC (www.tomahawk.vc) is an entrepreneur-led early-stage venture capital firm founded by serial entrepreneur Cédric Waldburger. We invest in global-first companies in Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A rounds. We give honest and quick feedback and value empathy, execution and clarity. We think that data beats experience beats opinion.Global-first companies are ventures that think and act global from the very start. They hire the best talent from anywhere in the world and build company culture incorporating remote employees from day 1. Investments range from USD 100k-1M per transaction and up to USD 2M per company. Global focus, based in Switzerland. Get in touch via www.Tomahawk.VC.

Investment focus

FinTech, Cryptocurrency, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Buynomics — buynomics is the leading solution to optimize your product portfolio. Our clients use buynomics to optimize pricing, promotions, & portfolio architecture.
Pods — Building DeFi. Strategies, primitives and tooling. Welcome to Pods.
Daylight — Our transaction recommendation API helps apps, protocols, and creators grow transactions and revenue.

Nationwide Building Society is a British mutual financial institution and the largest building society in the UK. It has its headquarters in Swindon, with an office in Threadneedle Street, London, and with administration centres based in Bournemouth, Northampton and Dunfermline.Nationwide’s origins lie in the Provident Union Building Society(Wiltshire, 1846), the Northampton Town & County Freehold Land Society (Northampton 1848), and within the co-operative movement in London (1884). Following numerous mergers – most importantly the merger with Anglia Building Society in 1987 and the Portman Building Society in 2007, Nationwide is the now the world’s largest mutual financial institution, the UK’s third largest mortgage lender, and one of the UK’s largest savings providers.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Sales
Seed, Series A, Series C
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hazy — Hazy is a UCL AI spin out backed by Microsoft and Nationwide. Our core product is synthetic data - data generated artificially using machine learning techniques, that retains the statistical properties of the real data and can be safely used for analytics and innovation without compromising customers privacy and confidential information. We do itby capturing patterns in the raw data to generate completely synthetic 'hazy' data that maintains the statistical value of the original. This means businesses can unlock their data for innovation freely with safer and faster data provisioning on demand and no compliance, security or privacy risks and procurement delays.
Plend — Plend is the UK’s first social lending marketplace on a mission to make credit history, history.Built on the belief that one size doesn’t fit all when it comes to credit, our marketplace allows borrowers to fulfil their dreams at affordable rates which are funded by people who are looking to make a real difference.We’re on a mission to betterunderstand people who, up until now, have been ignored or exploited by mainstream lenders. We care passionately about creating a fairer financial future where we accurately assess real affordability in order to provide a truly low cost solution that enables people to live a full and happy life, which we all deserve.Backed by the Fair By Design Fund, NBS Ventures, Tomahawk.VC and Haatch Ventures.
Kettel Homes — Helping first-time buyers achieve their dream of homeownership

DD Venture Capital supports outstanding entrepreneurs to realize their vision by providing capital, advisory, and door opening.

Investment focus

SaaS, Digital Media, Social Media Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pabio — Get your apartment fully furnished by a professional interior designer and rent high-quality furniture from premium brands on a monthly subscription with Pabio.
Plend — Plend is the UK’s first social lending marketplace on a mission to make credit history, history.Built on the belief that one size doesn’t fit all when it comes to credit, our marketplace allows borrowers to fulfil their dreams at affordable rates which are funded by people who are looking to make a real difference.We’re on a mission to betterunderstand people who, up until now, have been ignored or exploited by mainstream lenders. We care passionately about creating a fairer financial future where we accurately assess real affordability in order to provide a truly low cost solution that enables people to live a full and happy life, which we all deserve.Backed by the Fair By Design Fund, NBS Ventures, Tomahawk.VC and Haatch Ventures.
grape — grape is a technology-enabled insurance that is 100% digital and integrates with 50+ HR, accounting platforms.

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

Investment focus

Retail, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MEplace — MEplace creates a new approach to children’s wellbeing and preschool education. MEplace was founded in 2019 and was headquartered in England, UK.
Taylor & Hart — Taylor & Hart's mission is to create and deliver engagement rings that allow people to truly express themselves in a way that captures the emotions they feel for each other.- Offering over 100,000 ethically sourced GIA graded diamonds to choose from.- Winner of "Best New Jeweler 2014" and nominated for numerous otherawards.- Crowd-fundeded through Seedrs twice raising over $500,000- Notable mentions in the Telegraph, Guardian, Elle, Glamour, Forbes, FT- Customer rating of over 9.6/10 from over 120 reviews.- Team members based in London, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria- Transacted over $2m over the last 12 months.- Set a pink diamond on the inside of every ring as a trademark
Glowb — Looking for trusted solar panel installers and solar battery installers in Central England? We can help homeowners transition to solar energy.

Vestel Ventures is the corporate investment company of Vestel Group of Companies.

Investment focus

Apps, Cyber Security, Consumer Applications
Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

WeWALK — WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service.
Rierino — Scale up your ecommerce business equipped with Big Tech skills, startup agility and continuous intelligence.
Mega Fortuna — Mega Fortuna is a leading creator and producer of apps and games. To accomplish this, we mix client needs and lifestyle trends with industry-leading technology.

KHP Ventures is an investment firm that provides innovative ideas for healthcare.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Hospital
Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

WeWALK — WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service.
Patchwork — Helping managers and clinicians finally achieve effective and sustainable staffing. Built by and with healthcare professionals.

An Enterprise Investment Scheme (“EIS”) that will invest into early-stage, unquoted companies that are developing disruptive technology and pioneering innovations. The Fund represents a collaboration between Foresight Group and the Williams Advanced Engineering business (part of the Williams Group). Foresight will be launching and managing theFund.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Semiconductor, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Phlux Technology — Phlux is a photonics company developing innovative light detector and imaging systems. Spun out from the University of Sheffield in September 2020, Phlux is developing high performance infrared sensors for LIDAR, fibre sensing and imaging systems.
Cambridge GaN Devices — Cambridge GaN Devices develops transistors designed to bring widespread adoption of GaN technology in consumer electronics.

Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pynk — Pynk is the Multi-Award Winning London Fintech that rewards you for making predictions on assets like Gold, NASDAQ and Bitcoin. Free sign up, start today!
FleetFox — UpSteam is a mobile car wash that comes to your home, office, wherever. Pick a time and a location. Our trained Washer will come to you. Get UpSteam and skip the driving and waiting in a carwash.

At NBS Ventures, we look for inspirational teams who are developing solutions that could benefit Nationwide’s members and society as a whole. We’re based in London and Swindon, and invest globally in companies at Seed and Series A investment stage. Nationwide Building Society is a mutual organisation, which means we’re not owned by shareholders,but by our customers - we call them our members. We don’t just believe in the power of the collective. We embody it. We are a community of 15 million members and it’s why we invest in start-ups. We invest for the long term, supporting great companies to scale, then do things together that neither of us could alone.

Investment focus

FinTech, Marketplace, Real Estate
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Plend — Plend is the UK’s first social lending marketplace on a mission to make credit history, history.Built on the belief that one size doesn’t fit all when it comes to credit, our marketplace allows borrowers to fulfil their dreams at affordable rates which are funded by people who are looking to make a real difference.We’re on a mission to betterunderstand people who, up until now, have been ignored or exploited by mainstream lenders. We care passionately about creating a fairer financial future where we accurately assess real affordability in order to provide a truly low cost solution that enables people to live a full and happy life, which we all deserve.Backed by the Fair By Design Fund, NBS Ventures, Tomahawk.VC and Haatch Ventures.
Kettel Homes — Helping first-time buyers achieve their dream of homeownership

Merian Ventures invests in women founded and co-founded innovation in cyber, blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and consumer-facing companies.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aiwyn — Anduin offers a complete accounts receivables software solution for your accounting firm. From billing to collections, Anduin can help your accounting firm!
Honeycomb — Honeycomb is a software debugging tool that can help you solve problems faster within your distributed services. Try Honeycomb for free today!
Populus — Populus empowers cities to digitally manage their curbs and streets to deliver a safer, more equitable, sustainable transportation future.

Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CyLock — CyLock anti-hacker is a software designed to defend systems from hacker attacks, identifying weaknesses in their systems and websites, and providing information to address vulnerabilities used by the cybercriminal to access their computers. Through CyLock's Anti-Hacker system, small and medium-sized businesses will be able to test theirdigital defences to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities in websites, e-commerce sites, apps, e-mails, information systems, corporate networks, servers, and IoT. Companies that do not periodically test their digital tools and their staff skills are more exposed to cyber attacks, which turn into business interruptions, document loss, e-commerce, and online payments breakdown.
Medicud — Medicud develops a device for treating wounds with negative pressure dressing.
Rocky — Grow your mindset with the AI coaching chat in just 5 minutes of daily self-improvement sessions to be truly successful.

We make products that matter

Investment focus

Software, B2B, 3D Technology
Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Makua — Makua is the micro-philanthropy app. Explore the best nonprofits, get inspired to give, and easily make donations. Join the #MakuaMovement
Zibra AI — Zibra Liquids is a real-time and cross-platform physically correct fluid simulation plugin for game developers
Chatterbox — A corporate language learning platform that uniquely offers active practice alongside algorithmically matched native language coaches who share their students' professional backgrounds and interests. On the app, engineers are learning Arabic from engineers and aid workers are learning French from medical doctors and achieving industry toppingcourse completion rates. Chatterbox language coaches are professionals who have become forcibly displaced and are currently undervalued in the labour market. Co-founded by a former refugee and Y Combinator alum, Chatterbox is backed by BGV, All Turtles and WeWork.

APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.

Not On The High Street is a provider of a curated collection of gifts.

Investment focus

B2B, B2C, Education
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Chatterbox — A corporate language learning platform that uniquely offers active practice alongside algorithmically matched native language coaches who share their students' professional backgrounds and interests. On the app, engineers are learning Arabic from engineers and aid workers are learning French from medical doctors and achieving industry toppingcourse completion rates. Chatterbox language coaches are professionals who have become forcibly displaced and are currently undervalued in the labour market. Co-founded by a former refugee and Y Combinator alum, Chatterbox is backed by BGV, All Turtles and WeWork.

SoftBank Group Corp. (Chairman & CEO: Masayoshi Son) Corporate and IR site provides company information such as our company profile, an overview of the company and Group companies, as well as IR and CSR.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, India

Portfolio highlights

Mapbox — Integrate custom live maps, location search, and turn-by-turn navigation into any mobile or web app with Mapbox APIs & SDKs. Get started for free.
Stack AV — Stack AV - Revolutionizing the Transportation of Goods
Better.com — Buy or refinance your home with Better Mortgage for a seamless online mortgage experience backed by superior customer support. Not available in all states. See better.com/about-us/licensing-disclosure.

Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Shoorah — Shoorah is a fresh and comprehensive wellbeing app that helps you support your mental health and nourish your wellbeing.
Taylor & Hart — Taylor & Hart's mission is to create and deliver engagement rings that allow people to truly express themselves in a way that captures the emotions they feel for each other.- Offering over 100,000 ethically sourced GIA graded diamonds to choose from.- Winner of "Best New Jeweler 2014" and nominated for numerous otherawards.- Crowd-fundeded through Seedrs twice raising over $500,000- Notable mentions in the Telegraph, Guardian, Elle, Glamour, Forbes, FT- Customer rating of over 9.6/10 from over 120 reviews.- Team members based in London, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria- Transacted over $2m over the last 12 months.- Set a pink diamond on the inside of every ring as a trademark
Splint Invest — Splint Invest is a B2B2C platform, where customers can buy tokens of alternative investments. Combining smart contracts, DLT and AI, we tokenize real-world assets effortless and fully automated.

365.fintech is a boutique VC focusing on pre-seed & seed API-first, infrastructure & b2b/b2b2c fintech in broader CEE & Baltics.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ondato — Ondato provides end-to-end eKYC and AML solutions to streamline your compliance processes. Fight fraud with an identity verification service.
Montonio — 10x lower fees and the most customer-friendly financing solution.
Velaris — Velaris is a flexible, all-in-one Customer Success platform to help you create winning experiences. Automation, alerts, lifecycle management, health, intelligence

Humanity United is committed to building a world where modern-day slavery and mass atrocities are no longer possible. They support efforts that empower affected communities and address the root causes of conflict and modern-day slavery to build lasting peace.

Investment focus

Sustainability, Supply Chain Management, SaaS
Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ulula — Get real-time social, labor and human rights insights across supply chains directly from workers and communities anywhere in the world.
RightsDD — RightsDD is an award winning startup. Use RightsDD's platform to assess and monitor suppliers for slavery risk. Train employees with RightsDD's online and in-person anti-slavery courses. Benefit from specialist consulting.
SupplyShift — At SupplyShift, we’re committed to helping businesses create more transparent, responsible, and resilient supply chains. We believe that, when properly managed, a company’s supplier network can deliver incredible value for the company, the greater economy, and can play an important role in changing our world for the better.For business to thrive,collaboration in the supply chain is critical. That’s why we built a network for supply chain transparency. A place for buyers and suppliers to engage on critical aspects of risk without repeating their efforts. A place where information can be shared quickly and insights can be found efficiently. We help some of the world’s most influential companies turn supplier information into action, improving their risk resilience and sustainable business practices. With tens of thousands of companies across 133 countries exchanging data every day, SupplyShift is the world’s largest supply chain transparency network.

Concept Ventures is the UK's largest pre-seed fund. Founded in 2018, the firm has backed over 45+ companies changing how we Work, Play and Learn and focused only at the pre-seed stage.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
Browse AI — Monitor any webpage for changes. Download any data on the web as a spreadsheet. Turn any website into an API.
ElevenLabs — Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice.

Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed
Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Battistella — Battistella sells lumber, pine chips, sawdust, and pine logs. They serve both domestic and foreign markets. It exports its products worldwide. They engage in continuous recycling, which gives them the experience they need to satisfy the customs regulations of the various nations where they do business. They use the sawn pine wood that they processto make furniture and packaging.
Fincantieri — Fincantieri is one of the shipbuilding groups and number one by diversification and innovation. It is leader in cruise ship design and construction and a reference player in all high-tech shipbuilding industry’s sectors, from naval to offshore vessels, from high-complexity special vessels and ferries to mega-yachts, ship repairs and conversions,systems and components production and after-sales services.
Selene — Selene produces FFS tubulars, FFS films, preformed bags, stretch hoods, and technical films for industrial applications.

Mediobanca is the leading Italian player in Corporate & Investment Banking, Consumer Finance and Online BankingFor over 60 years we have helped our clients grow, offering high-quality advisory services and providing finance in all its various forms, from more traditional bank credit to the most sophisticated solutions available on capitalmarkets.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Shopping
Series A, Debt Financing
Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MANGO BCN — Spanish multinational Retail company with Headquarters in Barcelona. Leading Brand worldwide and one of the main exporting companies in the European textile sector.
Audaces Impact — Impact investment platform whose mission is to mainstream impact investing.Audaces uses an innovative hybrid model for impact investing. It sources and validates investment opportunities in breakthrough social enterprises and invests with its own principal from its own vehicle. It subsequently syndicates the same transaction to a community ofaccredited UHNWI investors on its co-investment platform.Audaces investors include foundations, HNWIs, family offices and sophisticated investors. They are offered the opportunity to co-invest directly in social businesses, partnering with the deal sourcing, due diligence, legal work and management capability of an institutional fund, whilst maintaining the flexibility to pick and choose investments on a deal-by-deal basis.

Northstar Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in innovative solutions to help solve the most pressing societal issues we have today. Our ticket sizes range from £100k to £500k into early stage tech companies. We provide added value in leveraging our network of university partners, funders, non-executive directors and talent to supporteach investment.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
MarraBio — MarraBio Ltd. is a spin out company from Newcastle University using engineered bacterial protein polymers to provide bioactivity to cells at the industrial scale in the cultivated meat sector and beyond.
Peek Home — Peek Home provides sketch plans, prices and planning advice for people who are puzzled by the process of creating their perfect home. All we need is your house number & postcode - no home visit needed.

A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

m3ter — We enable software companies to intelligently deploy all usage-based scenarios whether they charge by subscription, consumption, or a hybrid pricing model.
Vitaance — Vitaance is a new insurtech start-up in the life insurance industry. We aim to improve people's quality of life through financial, emotional and physical wellbeing, by creating smart, fair and responsible insurance products enabled by technology. We want to democratize access to life insurance and to a healthier lifestyle.
Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030

Social Tech Trust is a UK's leading dedicated investor of socially motivated tech.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Education
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TapSOS — TapSOS is an app for a non-verbal method of contacting the emergency services. It will promote inclusivity and help transform the delivery of emergency services.
RightsDD — RightsDD is an award winning startup. Use RightsDD's platform to assess and monitor suppliers for slavery risk. Train employees with RightsDD's online and in-person anti-slavery courses. Benefit from specialist consulting.
Carers Trust — Carers Trust is a major charity for, with and about carers.

Fulfilling the global promise of blockchain technology by leveraging the Algorand protocol and open source software for an inclusive ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Parcision — Parcision revolutionizes the hiring process on Wall Street by introducing a crucial element: quantifiable skill. The current Wall Street hiring practice puts too much emphasis on alma mater and network connection, which deters many candidates. We aim to establish a quantitative approach that enables individuals from all backgrounds to assess theirskills and demonstrate their accuracy in analyzing critical market events, such as company earnings and economic announcements. We firmly believe that regardless of identity, sex, race, location, or educational background, everyone deserves an equal opportunity to pursue a rewarding career in the financial industry. Through our blind hiring and skills-first approach, we hope to change the DNA of Wall Street.To achieve this, we harness the power of Web 3 technology, specifically smart contracts, to facilitate and oversee tamper-proof tests that quantify candidates' analytical capabilities. By leveraging this advanced technology, we ensure a transparent, auditable, and provable performance metric for participants. The most accomplished participants are duly acknowledged financially and reputationally based on their exceptional proficiency. This recognition is facilitated through participants' undeniable track records on Parcision.Parcision is chess for financial analysts.
PlanetWatch — We leverage advanced technologies of the population to improve environmental monitoring worldwide and help protect public health
Quantum Temple — Quantum Temple is the Web3 platform that enables equitable exchanges between conscious collectors and ancestral communities. Our goal is to protect and share the knowledge, traditions, and art forms of cultures around the world in perpetuity through blockchain technology.

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Axoni — Axoni is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure. Product offerings include blockchain deployments, large-scale data management, bespoke smart contract development, analytics services, and connectivity tools.
AlloyX — AlloyX makes it simple and accessible for protocols, DAOs, and institutional investors to create diversified RWA investment strategies. We provide lenders with a flexible and efficient platform for managing all of their RWA assets based on their yield, risk, and liquidity preferences.
Coinflow Labs — Coinflow is a payment solution that allows Web3 companies to accept traditional payment methods and payout their customers by converting cryptocurrency to USD in their traditional bank account.

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Investment focus

Software, Apps, FinTech
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pynk — Pynk is the Multi-Award Winning London Fintech that rewards you for making predictions on assets like Gold, NASDAQ and Bitcoin. Free sign up, start today!
GoApp.pet — GoApp is the first pet-centric products and services marketplace with a geolocation feature that will allow users to (i) comparison-shop pet supplies for the best price with same-day delivery and (ii) hire local pet services on demand. Download now and become a part of the best pet platform in the world! Available at App Store and Google Play.

London based Venture Capital Fund Manager investing in UK seed stage companies at the intersection of media and technology

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Chatterbox — A corporate language learning platform that uniquely offers active practice alongside algorithmically matched native language coaches who share their students' professional backgrounds and interests. On the app, engineers are learning Arabic from engineers and aid workers are learning French from medical doctors and achieving industry toppingcourse completion rates. Chatterbox language coaches are professionals who have become forcibly displaced and are currently undervalued in the labour market. Co-founded by a former refugee and Y Combinator alum, Chatterbox is backed by BGV, All Turtles and WeWork.
Papercup — Next-gen AI Dubbing service that automates video translation. Create new voices in other languages for your video content at scale and increase your ROI.
Signal AI — Signal AI is an AI-powered business intelligence and media monitoring company that aggregates, analyses, and provides business leaders with insights into digital, print and broadcast media, news, and regulatory data. Signal AI’s machine learning enables businesses to track their competitive landscape, changes to regulation, and monitor theirreputation—empowering them to make smarter, faster business decisions.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

Investing in ambitious founders and for-profit tech startups contributing to solving world challenges. We've built several successful companies and will help to build yours. We invest our own money, 100-1mil EUR per investment. We are part of tech private equity firm Pale Fire Capital.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, EdTech
Seed, Angel, Series B
Germany, Singapore, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

encubate — With 2,500+ members, Encubate belongs to the most popular tools for aspiring entrepreneurs. Through a combination of exercises, mentoring and bite-sized learning, Encubate will help you build your business.
Fryd — Alphabeet helps people grow vegetables.
Igloohome — Award-winning smart digital locks for homes, real estate, infrastructure and more. Our keyless access solutions include the Smart Mortise, Deadbolt, Keybox and Padlock. igloohome products work with a mobile app, so access can be granted from anywhere, at any time.

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

Investment focus

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

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 — Implement a customized, flexible, and cost-effective training solution to accelerate the rollout of your medical device, surgical robotic system, or product.

Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

InSyBio — A disruptor to Precision Medicine and Nutrition through biomarker discovery.
ZestIOT — ZestIOT is an IoT & AI enabled aviation platform to integrate passenger, baggage, aircraft, ground & airport operations.
Wellx — Turn your health into currency. At Wellx, we're focused on making you healthier. Insurance helps us make it happen.

We are a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in fintech, consumer internet, and enterprise software.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Plerk — Somos una plataforma que te permite crear planes de incentivos flexibles para tus colaboradores cumpliendo con las normas de trabajo NOM 035 y 037 y deducir impuestos
Codiga — Customizable Real-Time Static Code Analysis engine. Works anywhere you write code.
Frank Innovations — A simpler and cheaper way to get a car. Order your car subscription online in minutes from GO. Save ...

Grouport is a dynamic and versatile fund with a unique approach – it combines direct engaged involvement in terms of project portfolio with an attractive return on investment. As such, the Investor enters the startup ecosystem and becomes a member of a unique network of fellow Angels investing their financial means and know-how into progressivestartups shaping the 21st century.Further, Grouport allows you to enter the startup ecosystem without the need to abandon or divert from your current job occupation and career. Grouport – engaged involvement in progressive startups that have the potential to significantly affect our future Grouport – bringing together a remarkable group of people with a common goal and allowing them to grow.Grouport – unique investment opportunity for those seeking new challenges and creating projects from scratch.

Investment focus

SaaS, Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Czech Republic, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Beem — Beem lets musicians, performers and influencers live stream themselves in Augmented Reality and have their followers see those broadcasts wherever they are.
Oxus.AI — AI-driven speech analytics software aiming to cover 6,000 languages, and every member of your sales team. Get every agent in your team performing like your best reps.
Pulse — An easy way to share your GoPro videos with friends and your community. Pulse is a social network for sports that connects creators to fans and communities. Trail running, snowboarding, mtb, paragliding, kite surfing

MSM is an early-stage generalist impact fund that invests all across Europe.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

GoParity — GoParity is an online savings and investment platform that uses a P2P business model to simplify investment and allow citizens and companies to get a decent return on their sustainable loans. Citizens and companies invest their funds in projects they believe in to generate economic, social and environmental impact.We are driving the transitiontowards a more sustainable and inclusive economic system, making investment in sustainable solutions accessible to all, from citizens to small enterprises. Join us @ www.goparity.com
Flecto — Flecto is the rental platform that makes businesses thrive in the circular economy. A flexible rental software for all types of businesses.
WNWN Food Labs — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein

Early-stage VC Firm based in London, investing in UK technology startups & SaaS companies through our award-winning pre-seed funds.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
Browse AI — Monitor any webpage for changes. Download any data on the web as a spreadsheet. Turn any website into an API.
ElevenLabs — Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice.

Hot job offers from startups are waiting for you. Apply and get a meaningful job!

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

encubate — With 2,500+ members, Encubate belongs to the most popular tools for aspiring entrepreneurs. Through a combination of exercises, mentoring and bite-sized learning, Encubate will help you build your business.

Ariadne Capital is an investment and advisory firm that enables corporates who seek new digital revenues and startups who understand digital infrastructure. It specializes in sourcing funding, advising on business development, and exiting growth-stage digital companies. Ariadne Capital also brings its technology insight to corporates, advisingthem on innovating their business models, and how to work with entrepreneurs and high-growth startups to win in their markets.

Investment focus

Publishing, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jumo Health — Jumo Health develops age-appropriate, educational resources for patients and caregivers for use throughout their medical journey. It works with providers, manufacturers, and advocacy groups, to ensure resources are available at the moment of diagnosis, during a treatment regimen, or while participating in a clinical trial. The company was foundedin 2009 and is headquartered in New York, United States.
Luno — Available in over 40 countries. Luno is a secure cryptocurrency platform that lets you buy, sell, store and trade BTC and ETH.
Money Dashboard — Discover our multi-award winning budget app & save money on the go. Reach your financial goals & join over 600,000+ registered users for free at Money Dashboard

Our North Star: Preventing the worst impacts of climate change by accelerating the transition to clean energy.

Investment focus

Consulting, Non Profit, Machine Learning
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Climate Policy Radar — Climate Policy Radar is a nonprofit organization that offers machine learning, climate legislation, and digital ecosystem services.

Impact Ventures UK (IVUK) is a growth capital impact fund managed by LGT Venture Philanthropy (LGT VP) and launched in partnership with Berenberg.They have seen the emergence of innovative and competitive business models being developed to improve the quality of life of disadvantaged individuals in the UK. IVUK was founded to invest in andsupport these enterprises.They are focused on delivering and measuring social impact through a professionalised framework established over thelast seven years by LGT VP across the globe.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Farmdrop — The UK's first fully certified organic supermarket, Planet Organic offers 1000s of products for delivery across the UK. From food and drink to health and beauty, we think carefully about everything we sell so you don't have to.
Orkestra — Orkestra is a renewable energy software platform that provides tools to assist energy companies in the planning, selling, and optimization of new energy deployments.
Elvie — The official home of Elvie Trainer and Elvie Pump. We're pioneering female-first innnovation in tech to improve the lives of women around the world. Learn more, direct from Elvie.

The new climate reality demands unprecedented climate action

Investment focus

Consulting, Non Profit, Machine Learning
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Climate Policy Radar — Climate Policy Radar is a nonprofit organization that offers machine learning, climate legislation, and digital ecosystem services.

One of the largest philanthropic organizations in the world, we care about freedom, democracy, and human rights.

Investment focus

Consulting, Non Profit, Machine Learning
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Climate Policy Radar — Climate Policy Radar is a nonprofit organization that offers machine learning, climate legislation, and digital ecosystem services.

Google.org is a platform that pulls together Google's philanthropic efforts. Google.org funds teams with big ideas that have a long-term global impact.

Investment focus

Non Profit, Education, Information Technology
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Ireland, Australia

Portfolio highlights

InnovateUS — InnovateUS is an online learning initiative that provides public sector professionals with self-paced and live skills training in areas such as data, digital, and community engagement.
Global Sisters — Global Sisters is a Making Business Possible for ALL women
Climate Policy Radar — Climate Policy Radar is a nonprofit organization that offers machine learning, climate legislation, and digital ecosystem services.

Environmental Defense Fund provides solutions for environmental problems. It is a non-profit organization that protects the environmental rights of people, including access to clean air and water, healthy and nourishing food, and flourishing ecosystems.The company was incorporated in 1967 and is based in New York, United States with additionaloffices nationwide.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

Climate Policy Radar — Climate Policy Radar is a nonprofit organization that offers machine learning, climate legislation, and digital ecosystem services.

Invest in Jenson EIS & SEIS Funds. Supporting Growth Capital. Diverse Portfolio of investment. Deployment in current tax year.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tesel — Tesel has a big ambition to get all ESG services and companies hanging out in the same place. We connect businesses who understand that ESG is essential to commercial success, not just a box to be ticked, and we bring them together in our marketplace.
RezKit — RezKit is a travel booking systems helps shopkeepers and online retailers can operate efficiently and profitably thanks to a wide variety of instruments at their disposal.
Swoperz — Swoperz is a shopping outlet where kids between the ages of 6 and 16 can exchange garments at any time.

Investment Firm

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Social Impact, Sustainability
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.

International venture capital firm based in Copenhagen. We come from the North, but we work in the world. We are Nordic Eye.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Denmark, India

Portfolio highlights

Freightify — Integrated platform for freight rate management, sailing schedules, and freight quotes. Easy rate search to customer management. All in one dashboard.
Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
Underlining — Underlining a beauty and wellness company that creats innovative products across multiple beauty verticals.