Top 50 Social Startup Investors in United Kingdom (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Social and Sustainable Capital
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, The Netherlands | Debt Financing | Non Profit, Charity, Service Industry | $2M–$6.5M |
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Chris Barrett
Angel
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4 | United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Apps, PaaS, Music | $191k–$241k |
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UK Research and Innovation
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $62k–$13M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2.1M–$44M |
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Google Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $1.1M–$125M |
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $39k–$10M |
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Redbus Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Australia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, E-Commerce, Health Care | $42k–$23M |
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True.
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail | |
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Seedcamp
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, SaaS | |
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Russell Sheffield
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom | Angel, Convertible Note | Apps, PaaS, Music | $191k–$241k |
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Connect Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $669k–$55M |
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24 Haymarket
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, Biotechnology | $714k–$16M |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $713k–$33M |
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Inventures SA
VC Fund
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2 | Belgium, France, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology | |
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Soleio Soleio
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Product Design, 3D Technology | $2.6M–$33M |
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Big Issue Invest
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom | Debt Financing, Grant | Charity, Non Profit, Communities | $49k–$6.5M |
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Nicolas Julia
Angel
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2 | France, Israel, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $400k–$15M |
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Beringea
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Analytics | $2.3M–$26M |
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Richard Fearn
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Advertising, Internet | $550k–$13M |
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Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Finland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Software | $1.4M–$168M |
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Dhiraj Mukherjee
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed | Wellness, Social, Nutrition | $1.4M–$4.1M |
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Tangram Partners Limited
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Angel | Manufacturing, Energy, Health Care | $149k–$2.7M |
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $313k–$24M |
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Shan Drummond
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed | SaaS, Social, Analytics | $550k–$1.6M |
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Notion Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.1M–$66M |
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Sustainable Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Israel, Luxembourg | Pre-Seed, Seed | Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Biotechnology | |
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Ned Cranborne
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom | Seed | SaaS, Social, Analytics | $550k–$1.6M |
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JamJar Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage | $1.1M–$23M |
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Rob Dobson
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $39k–$1.8M |
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Ada Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $507k–$6.8M |
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Richard Lewis
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Social, Travel, Software | |
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Sameer Singh
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, France, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Apps, Software, Mobile | |
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Mike Lobanov
Angel
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1 | Russian Federation, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Series B, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency | $1.3M–$51M |
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Simon Franks
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Australia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Health Care, Payments | $318k–$23M |
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redalpine
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $1.6M–$125M |
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Passion Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $573k–$85M |
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Matt Robinson
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $650k–$50M |
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $380k–$19M |
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Claire Nooriala
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Mobile, Social | |
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Ian Marchant
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Angel | Energy, Information Technology, Software | $236k–$8.8M |
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Jamie Swango
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Apps, Wellness, Audio | $1.3M–$1.5M |
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Redrice Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Retail, Fitness, Wellness | $1.5M–$15M |
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Maria Palma
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Robotics, Software, Financial Services | $1.3M–$30M |
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Ascension
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Internet | $229k–$5.1M |
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David Giampaolo
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, India, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Health Care, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | $330k–$5.5M |
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Amadeo Brenninkmeijer
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software | $100k–$3.2M |
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Vinay Solanki
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia | Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | FinTech, Apps, Mobile | $1.3M–$15M |
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Peter Read
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series E, Angel | Software, Apps, Mobile | $550k–$120M |
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Jim Mellon
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Series A, Seed | Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Health Care | $536k–$47M |
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Eden Block
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Gibraltar | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology | $500k–$43M |
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Chris Barrett
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- Industry: Apps, PaaS, Music
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Angel $191k–$241k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trackd — Trackd® is the Award-Winning Social Music Universe uniting both Music Lovers and Artists around the world. Trackd allows artists to make recurring revenues from their music. Available on the App Store or Web.FOR THE MUSIC LOVER Enjoy totally free music – ad-free – music from a world of professional, independent and emerging Artists. CreatePlaylists, Like, Follow and engage socially with Artists like never before.FOR THE ARTISTS Calling all Musicians, Lyricists, DJ’s, Producers and Rappers from all genres worldwide – import, record, collaborate and share your musical ideas and lyrics anywhere - all from within one app.Trackd - Share the love of the global language.
Advancing knowledge, improving lives, driving growth.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Round size: Seed $655k–$4.1M; Grant $145k–$13M; Pre-Seed $62k–$921k
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chromatin Bioscience — By mining the genome using our bioinformatics platform, we design novel synthetic promoters to control cell-type selective gene expression for our clients
- University of Liverpool — The University of Liverpool is one of the great centres of research, knowledge and innovation. Our pioneering reputation attracts students, experts and partners from around the world. Through our research, teaching and collaborations we seek to be life changing and world shaping.Exceptional minds1,300 leading researchers36,000 students177,000 alumni in 192 countries4,700 staffCountless partners worldwideLiverpool has been home to explorers and revolutionaries for over 800 years. Their pioneering spirit is alive in the city and inspires our university.Our university is everywhere, from our Chinese joint venture University to our Arctic research stations, American exchanges to the Internet home of our online programmes.
- University of Manchester — The University of Manchester is known for research excellence and a diverse student community.
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: 400
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$22M; Series B $8M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $101M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
- 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.
- 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.
GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1231
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$17M; Series A $6M–$101M; Series B $16M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Gusto — Gusto develops web-based payroll solution for small- and medium-sized businesses. It operates an online platform that provides payroll, benefits, human resources, and integration services for employers and employees in the United States.Gusto offers health benefits and workers’ compensation benefits that include medical insurance, commuterbenefits, and 401(k) contributions as well as workers’ compensation insurance plans, time tracking, and integration services, and access to employees for processing payroll from web-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets. It also provides access to employees and contractors to browse their previous pay stubs, review their payroll forms, verify their personal details, and statistics about their pay, tax payments and federal forms filing services, and security and support services.Gusto serves startups, coffee shops, doctors, creative agencies, lawyers, and boutiques. Edward Kim, Joshua Reeves, and Tomer London founded ZenPayRoll in 2011 that became Gusto, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California with an additional office in Denver in Colorado.
- SolveAI —
- Smarterer — Individuals and Fortune 500 companies use Smarterer to help close the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Their dynamic assessment engine leverages the freshest crowdsourced tests around, to rapidly pinpoint skill level with a credible score. In November 2014, Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for serioussoftware developers, IT specialists and creative technologists, acquired Smarterer. As the world's largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,500 courses authored by top experts. Smarterer will continue to power crowdsourced assessments for freelancer marketplaces, e-learning providers and enterprise companies anywhere people need to prove their skills to connect with professional opportunities. The Smarterer community has answered over 56 million during 1.7 million test sessions, across hundreds of tests.
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, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 208
- Round size: Seed $39k–$2.1M; Series A $295k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- H2CHP — H2CHP's Free Piston Engine Technology enables your transition to green energy with the reliability & confidence of fuel flexibility.
- NunaBio — NunaBio operates as a privately-owned specialist DNA development company. NunaBio engaged in CRO (Contract Research Organizations) and CDMO (Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation) activities.
- Advanced Electric Machines — Our magnet free motors help manufacturers build more sustainable vehicles and products. See how we can help you today.
Redbus Group is a UK based investment group that invests in early stage ventures and funds or acquires businesses that require restructuring. Redbus Group came into existence as an offshoot of Redbus Film Distribution which was founded in 1997 as a film distribution company. Redbus Film Distribution had rapidly established itself as one of thelargest and most profitable film distributors in the UK. In late 2000 it was sold to Helkon Media AG.Redbus through its subsidiary Filmgroup was the first company in Europe to successfully develop technology to compress and stream moving images over the internet. Between 2000 and 2004 Redbus was the UK's fastest growing company with a compound annual growth rate in-excess of 280%. In 2005 Redbus sold its production and distribution operations to Lionsgate Inc and sold its stake in Lovefilm of which it was co-founder, to Amazon in 2010.Employing an entrepreneurial and disciplined approach, Redbus, either with partners or alone looks for opportunities to leverage off its capital, market knowledge and management resources.
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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 115
- Round size: Seed $655k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $42k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% 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 — With Nila's certified carers, your family back home receives compassionate, professional support, so you never have to worry from afar
A unique model for investing, innovating & growing
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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.
Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 308
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
- Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Investment focus
- Industry: Apps, PaaS, Music
- Stage:Angel, Convertible Note
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Angel $191k–$241k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trackd — Trackd® is the Award-Winning Social Music Universe uniting both Music Lovers and Artists around the world. Trackd allows artists to make recurring revenues from their music. Available on the App Store or Web.FOR THE MUSIC LOVER Enjoy totally free music – ad-free – music from a world of professional, independent and emerging Artists. CreatePlaylists, Like, Follow and engage socially with Artists like never before.FOR THE ARTISTS Calling all Musicians, Lyricists, DJ’s, Producers and Rappers from all genres worldwide – import, record, collaborate and share your musical ideas and lyrics anywhere - all from within one app.Trackd - Share the love of the global language.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 159
- Round size: Seed $669k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.7M; Series A $5M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $80M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Clearword — Clearword unlocks fundamentally new ways for organizations to communicate and collaborate, using tools they already use. Collaborative Agendas, Automatic Meeting Minutes in a Searchable Library.
- Ourspace — Meet Ourspace— the collaborative team design canvas. Created by former Hotjar, Spendesk and Glovo execs, Ourspace takes a 360 approach to team design to help functional leaders better organize the people they have and the ones they need. With the dynamic nature of business and people, it’s been historically difficult for tech leaders to make smartreactive and proactive team design decisions with people-data stored across Miro boards, HR tools and outdated documents. Ourspace is the first purpose-built software designed specifically for tech leaders to equip them to build and rebuild their teams by bringing together people, projects, and priorities into one contextual place.
- Citymapper — The ultimate transport app - iPhone / Android / Web
24Haymarket is an investment network which included several highly-experienced private equity and venture capital investors, seasoned entrepreneurs, and senior operators. Investing up to £5 million in growth companies in the UK and Europe. They invested their own capital in direct alignment with entrepreneurs and actively support their growthagenda and join the board of the companies in which they invest. Since inception in 2011, 24Haymarket has invested in more than 50 high-growth businesses.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $714k–$3.8M; Series A $1.6M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DefiniGEN — Generate metabolic disease phenotypes in primary-like human cells using the best-in-class human iPSC differentiation platform. Find out more here!
- Previsico — Discover Previsico's real-time flood forecasting solutions, designed to mitigate risks for businesses and communities worldwide.
- Kelda Technology — Kelda Technology is a British clean tech business that develops water-in-air shower products that halve water usage and water heating costs through patented shower technology. Kelda Technology has adapted cutting edge automotive and aerospace technology to produce a revolutionary “water-in-air” shower system that halves water use without any lossin performance. Water is broken into droplets to form a comfortable spray which is accelerated using a globally patented jet-type nozzle. Not only does it halve water costs, but also halves associated heating costs.The Kelda shower system holds appeal for a wide range of sectors, including gym and leisure, hotels and accommodation providers, healthcare, and maritime – all industries where water efficiency is key. The product has completed in-market validation and commercial trials, is in manufacture and the company has already signed installation deals with some of the largest leisure operators in the UK and Latin America.Kelda Technology was recently chosen as one of the top 30 cleantech companies in the world at the New Energy Start-Up awards 2016 and was this week shortlisted by the UK Business Angels Association for Best Investment in a Disruptive Tech Business.
Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 603
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $713k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
- Facility — Flexkeeping is a Hotel Operations Platform designed to help teams automate and collaborate like never before.
- Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
Inventures is a European venture capital fund that builds a better world through a portfolio of investments in sustainable businesses.The firm has two funds: Inventures I & Inventures II.Inventures was created to support early stage smart and innovative European businesses, to support sustainable job growth and empower entrepreneurs.Inventures empowers citizenship co-investments through a crowdfunding platform, MyMicroInvest.
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- Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Belgium, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- BiOceanOr — BiOceanOr harnessed the power of Marine Biology and AI to deliver bio-guided services that optimize fish welfare and fish growth, while supporting aquaculture sustainability standards
- myskillcamp — Myskillcamp is a digital learning platform and educational design support service. Myskillcamp supports their customers in the digital transformation of their company and the launch of their Digital Learning project. From the audit of needs to the design of engaging educational devices, through a pilot phase, they make a point of honor to adapt thedigital to the specificities of each and give it meaning.With their online platform, businesses can manage their learner communities and connect all their partners in one place. Their tool also allows businesses to structure training spaces by skills, trades, brands within camps. In parallel, businesses can create educational content from scratch, select a map in their marketplace, or plan sessions in-class. Businesses can organize the distribution of their training to a single learner or to a whole group.
- Octave — A sustainable, cost-effective and reliable energy storage system with second-life batteries from electric vehicles.
Software designer turned investor 👨💻 Design: Facebook, Messenger, Dropbox 🌱 Capital: Figma, Vercel, Vanta, Framer, Perplexity and more
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- Industry: Software, Product Design, 3D Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$12M; Series A $13M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bezi — The AI assistant built for Unity developers. Get instant help with debugging, code generation, shader creation, and prototyping. Integrates with the engine and works with your actual project, not generic answers.
- Bezi — The AI assistant built for Unity developers. Get instant help with debugging, code generation, shader creation, and prototyping. Integrates with the engine and works with your actual project, not generic answers.
- Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
Big Issue Invest provides social investment to charities and social enterprises across the UK working to end poverty and inequality.
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- Industry: Charity, Non Profit, Communities
- Stage:Debt Financing, Grant
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Grant $49k–$130k; Debt Financing $63k–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $28M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Ruka — We celebrate Black women and create hair products designed with real textures in mind.
- From Babies with Love — From Babies With Love is a social enterprise that supports abandoned and orphaned children around the world by manufacturing & selling organic baby gifts.
- Lightning Reach — Lightning Reach is a financial support portal that makes it easy for people to find and apply for a wide range of personalised support in one place. This support can range from; charitable grants, local council schemes, help with bills and the cost of living crisis and benefits.
Nicolas Julia is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France, and is the CEO and Co-founder of Sorare. Nicolas previously worked at Stratumn as a VP of Operations. Nicolas Julia attended the EM Lyon Business School.
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- Industry: FinTech, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Israel, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$15M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
- Altertable — We're building an AI-driven, proactive, unified platform that redefines how modern companies leverage their data.
- Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
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
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 171
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$11M; Series B $4.1M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Peerius — Deliver targeted messaging, personalized offers, and recommend the most relevant content for your users.
- 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.
Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.
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- Industry: Software, Advertising, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $550k–$2M; Pre-Seed $585k–$2M; Series A $1.7M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Darabase — Turn every billboard and screen into a measurable, interactive AR experience for the smart glasses era.
- Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
- Unlock — End-to-end platform for corporate events, intuitively designed for non-event planners
Oxford Science Enterprises is the university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companies taking onchallenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 195
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$12M; Series A $6.3M–$45M; Series B $13M–$168M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $327M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- AlveoGene — Transforming Rare Respiratory Disease Outcomes Using Inhaled Gene Therapy
- Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
- Scripta Therapeutics — Biology decoded, disease undone - modulating transcription factors to restore health
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Browse database — It's Free!Dhiraj Mukherjee is an experienced digital business executive and entrepreneur with a proven track record in both corporate and start-up environments.Recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe’s Top 50 technology entrepreneurs in 2015, he was previously Head of Banking Innovation at Virgin Money. In 2000, Dhiraj co-founded ShazamEntertainment, the world’s first mobile phone-based music recognition service (sold to Apple for a reported $400M). Over the course of his career, he has held senior roles in media & entertainment, consulting and the charity sector. Dhiraj is also an active angel investor, and speaks regularly at conferences on innovation and entrepreneurship.
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- Industry: Wellness, Social, Nutrition
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Heights — We provide the daily nutrients, knowledge and network you need to elevate your cognitive potential and brain health. Learn more!
- onHand — The volunteering and climate impact platform for businesses and individuals. Help your local communities and have global impact.
Terms and Conditions for Edible Marketing & Edible Internet inc Web Hosting Account Suspended / Service Cancellation & Acocunt Deletion
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Energy, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $149k–$2.6M; Equity Crowdfunding $2.1M–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buyerdock — Buyerdock is a GS1 partner, 2D QR Barcode and European recycle logo generator, automatically download triman and conai regulations for consumer packaging, all delivered by a Digital Product Passport
- Caldera — An easy, affordable way to electrify industrial steam - cutting gas costs, price volatility, and carbon emissions.
- The Ticket Bank — The Ticket Bank matches event tickets to disadvantaged and marginalized individuals by working with charities & event organizers. It also provides event tickets to disadvantaged and marginalized individuals free of charge. They work with event organizers, charities and community organizations to distribute otherwise unused event tickets tobeneficiaries, creating fantastic life experiences that provide wide-ranging benefits to health and wellbeing.The Ticket Bank aims to offer a service that supports more ticket donations to more community projects and increases participation in arts events. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Sheffield, England, UK.
Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 243
- Round size: Seed $670k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $313k–$1.7M; Series A $4.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PANTA — PANTA Index Technology is a pioneering fintech company founded by industry veterans to transform the index creation landscape. Our state-of-the-art, cloud-based SaaS solution empowers financial institutions to build and operate complex, bespoke indices and portfolios with unprecedented scale, speed, and precision.As the only pure-play technologyprovider in this space, we streamline the entire index lifecycle while offering advanced back-testing and simulation capabilities. PANTA aims to democratize index technology, enabling institutions of all sizes to innovate faster and make data-driven investment decisions. We're set to become the operating system for next-generation indexing, driving innovation and efficiency across the rules-based and quantitative investment landscape.
- Vouchsafe — Vouchsafe is a trust and counter-fraud platform that helps financial services replace legacy document checks with safe, easy digital ID acceptance.
- Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
Shan Drummond is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK.
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- Industry: SaaS, Social, Analytics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $550k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ometria — The customer data and experience platform for retail
- Car Throttle — The internet's car community
Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 279
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $7.5M–$66M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Volo Commerce — Volo brings together data and intelligence from all over the commerce ecosystem and uses AI to provide real-time actionable insights.
- Apperio — Apperio is now part of PERSUIT. Find out more about the platform, or log in to your Apperio account.
- Wercker — Industry leading container registry, for organizations to manage Docker images, perform vulnerability analysis, and manage access via fine-grained access control.
Welcome to the home of Climate Tech. We are a full service ecosystem empowering sustainable start-ups to scale through community, investment, innovation and workspace.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Biotechnology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Israel, Luxembourg
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- PlantSea — PlantSea manufactures and develops sustainable products using seaweed and aquaculture materials. It offers bioplastics items as biodegradable alternatives. PlantSea is based in Gaerwen, England.
- Uplift360 — Uplift360 is a greentech startup working in advanced material circular economy (redesign, reuse, regenerate and recycle), uniquely focused on the defence and security sector.
- Danu Robotics — Danu Robotics manufactures AI guided robotic systems for sorting recyclable waste - highly accurate, modular multi-arm systems that retrofit into existing MRF operations and collates EPR data.
Ned Cranborne is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK.
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- Industry: SaaS, Social, Analytics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $550k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ometria — The customer data and experience platform for retail
- Car Throttle — The internet's car community
We love, help & invest in early-stage consumer brands.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 125
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.5M; Series A $3.4M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Meatly — Good Dog Food creates cultivated meat for healthy pets and a healthy planet
- Reformed — Reformed: Arabica coffee and ceremonial matcha, enriched with functionality: collagen or creatine, adaptogens and twenty-one vitamins.
- TrueStart Coffee — TrueStart Coffee offers a range of coffee products, including barista-grade instant coffee and loose coffee bags. The company emphasizes healthy and delicious coffee, sourcing beans and air-roasting them with care.
Rob founded Actix (actix.com) in 1991 and as CEO (1991-2005) grew it to over $50m revenue by 2005. More than 90% of the world’s mobile phone customers have their networks optimized by Actix software and Rob has worked with many of the world’s leading mobile operators and infrastructure vendors. In 2005 he sold a majority stake in the company toPE firm Summit Partners at a $100+m valuation. He has invested in a further 30+ startups and has had five very successful exits (he's not counting failures as they come with the territory). Rob is chairman of Robotical (robotical.io) and DevicePilot.com. He's also the founding chairman of Singletrack.com and a supporter of the unique orchestra SouthbankSinfonia.co.uk. As an inveterate tinkerer in software and hardware, he's fascinated by IoT, 3D printing and the maker movement (as you can probably see from his personal website (robdobson.com). Rob is a Fellow of the IET and has a 1st class honours degree in Electronic Engineering.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $638k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $39k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Drinkly — Drinkly offers an on-demand service of alcoholic drinks to its customers in Edinburgh, UK. Its online platform lets its customers to purchase their favorite alcoholic drinks, like crafted beers, spirits, and wine, conveniently from their home and offices.
- Robotical — Robotical™ is a startup based in Edinburgh, UK. They designed a low cost walking robot that's fully programmable, wifi-enabled, and really customisable and upgradeable. Perfect for kids, makers and educators to get stuck into robotics.
- Orders Made Simple — Simplify your supply chain with Orders Made Simple. Streamlined ordering, total control, and supply chain harmony at your fingertips. Get started today.
Ada Ventures is a pre-seed inclusive venture capital firm that invests in the best, not just the best-connected. They find and fund the Ada Lovelaces of today. Backing European founders building businesses for a better human future. They invest £250K - £1M in technology companies across climate equity, economic empowerment and healthy ageing. Adainvests in purpose-led founders building for markets that are large, untapped and growing. Their approach drives outperformance, which they call Inclusive Alpha®.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.8M; Pre-Seed $507k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Tyred — Tyred is revolutionising micromobility with a service philosophy built in three core pillars: simplicity, convenience, and scalability.
- Interfaze — JigsawStack provides fine-tuned custom models that do the heavy lifting for APIs in every tech stack and helps ship faster.
- Cascade — Cascade is an AI platform that helps engineering, architecture, and construction firms predict upcoming projects and automatically find, score, and write proposals for high‑fit contracts, so they can win more work with less manual effort.
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Browse database — It's Free!Richard Lewis is a Chairman at Earth Blox. Attended University of Glasgow.
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- Industry: Social, Travel, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
- Make it Social — Make it Social is a social-first creative agency founded by two former Universal Pictures creatives. Specialising in creating and adapting content for social media.
Network Effects Investor, Partner @ Speedinvest, Instructor @ Reforge
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Haz — Track and unlock the resale value of your stuff
- Torg — Torg puts the largest base of suppliers in F&B at the fingertips of buyers with an intuitive SaaS to simplify sourcing.
- Cino — Cino automatically deducts everyone's share from their bank accounts. Create groups with whom you want to share bills, set your ratio split & stop fronting costs!
At Target Global Mike is focused on investments in the Fintech and E-commerce spaces, as well as overall management of the firm. He also manages the relationships with co-investors who join deals alongside Target Global.Before joining Target Global, Mike worked at one of the largest Russian asset manageres, Alfa Capital, where he wasresponsible for managing $200+ million in assets for Alfa Capital’s 15 largest private clients.Mike holds a bachelor’s degree from the London School of Economics and twice won Russian state competitions in economics and entrepreneurship.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Russian Federation, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$11M; Series A $1.3M–$22M; Series B $4.5M–$51M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
- Freename — Register Web3 domains, custom TLDs, or import domains. Secure your digital identity today.
- Hedgehog Protocol — Don't scroll. Predict.
Simon Franks is the founder and managing partner of Redbus Ventures and Chairman of the Franks Family Foundation. (www.thefff.org)
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- Industry: FinTech, Health Care, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $524k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $318k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Auro — Auro is a mobile fitness-tech solution providing you with a personal trainer in your ear. We believe that fitness is at its effective best, when it is personalized, engaging, and accessible anytime. We break down the barriers to exercise by providing millions of people all over the world access to a personal trainer along with the best of contentthat boutique studio fitness has to offer.We’re creating a truly motivating, connected fitness experience that keeps people coming back for more by combining world class instructors, killer playlists and data science led personalisation.Our mission is to transform lives by making fitness experiences awesome, accessible and affordable.
- Thriva — At-home blood testing and science-backed next steps to feel great, maximise your performance, and extend your healthspan.
- Lick — Lick | Paints, Wallpapers and Supplies. Your Room, Covered
redalpine is a thesis-driven vc with deep expertise in software and science. since 2006. we believe in the power of big ideas and in empowering game changers. we don't just invest, we co-create a better tomorrow. together with you.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 197
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Series A $3.2M–$31M; Series B $15M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- microagi — Accelerating embodied AGI
- telli — The platform for AI phone calls. https://t.co/yOOUfNYMFe - used by 100+ enterprises - backed by @ycombinator & @cherryventures
- Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.
Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators who are applying our experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. We are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe, and we believe that the criticaldifferentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders. We take pride in the calibre and success of all of our founders and teams including but nowhere near limited to GoCardless, Tray.io, Mendeley, Digital Shadows, Adzuna, Smarkets, Ravelin, Tide, Marshmallow, Butternut Box, PolyAI, Lendable and Monzo Bank
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 180
- Round size: Seed $573k–$6.5M; Series A $2.3M–$14M; Series B $6.3M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
- Secondmind — Helping automotive engineers design better cars, faster.
- Opensignal — Opensignal is the leading global provider of independent insights into network experience and market performance.
Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $650k–$3M; Series A $6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Malga — Malga is an online payment platform that offers fraud protection and payment split services.
- Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
- Malga — Instant access to multiple payment providers with a single integration
Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0.FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growthjourney.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 181
- Round size: Seed $380k–$4.8M; Series A $3.3M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
- Artificial Labs — Build your future placement and underwriting strategy with Artificial's pioneering technology.
- Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.
Claire Nooriala VP EMEA, Snap Inc.
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile, Social
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
- Quiver — Quiver is a retail tech company that delivers e-commerce orders. Quiver was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in London.
Ian Marchant is based out of Edinburgh, Scotland and he served as Chairman of Logan Energy. Ian previously worked at Thames Water as Chairman Of The Board. Ian Marchant attended Durham University.
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- Industry: Energy, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $236k–$1.4M; Series A $1.3M–$8.8M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Piclo — Piclo is an independent marketplace making electricity grids smart, flexible, and sustainable. The Piclo marketplace enables renewables, batteries, and electric vehicles to provide local flexibility to distribution networks, easing the complex transition to a low-carbon future and delivering low-cost and resilient grids. It encourages greaterparticipation, standardization, and scale in order to level the playing field and accelerate the transition to Net Zero.
- SMPnet — Revolutionising power grid management with cutting-edge solutions. Join us to shape a sustainable and efficient energy landscape.
- Interpac — Interpac has developed a new packaging production system the corrugator which does not use steam in the manufacturing process. The Interpac system is a revolutionary process that enables on-demand production which significantly reduces packaging costs and emits 90% less greenhouse gases than conventional processes.
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- Industry: Apps, Wellness, Audio
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
- Needed — Prenatal vitamins leave most women depleted, so we redesigned the Prenatal Multi from the ground-up, and paired it with the Omega-3 (DHA and EPA), Collagen Protein, and Pre/Probiotic that mamas need. Take them before, during, and after pregnancy (and while breastfeeding) for optimal prenatal and postpartum nourishment.
- SPOKE — Music and lyricism-led mindfulness, aimed at helping the world's most creative minds feel at ease.
We support Founders creating premium consumer brands, platforms and related tech solutions.
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- Industry: Retail, Fitness, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- 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 $76M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Epetōme — Epetōme offers gut health supplements focused on digestive health using probiotics, prebiotics and patented capsule technology.
- Omni — Omni provides Healthy Vegan Dog Food in the UK, made by vets to be a nutritionally complete meal for your dog. Feed your dog all the goodness of plants backed by science.
- Puresport — Puresport was created to craft the finest, premium-quality natural products to support every element of wellbeing, from pain & recovery, to sleep, focus, mood, stress, and balance.
Maria Palma is the General Partner at Freestyle. Previously, she was a general partner at Kindred Capital VC.
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- Industry: Robotics, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$11M; Series A $14M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
- Dash Bio — A modern, automated platform engineered from the ground up to deliver high-quality and dramatically accelerated bioanalysis.
- Maneva — Maneva Copilot AI is able to interpret, summarize, and combine the diverse landscape of data that exists throughout your production facility, and deliver the appropriate content to the question provided at all levels of roles, whether it is operational supervisors, quality managers, and management, process engineers, or maintenance leads
Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 240
- Round size: Seed $229k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $379k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $22M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases
- Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
- GEEIQ — GEEIQ is the intelligence platform brands use to plan, activate and measure marketing in virtual worlds like Roblox, Fortnite and ZEPETO.
David Giampaolo is founder and CEO of Pi Capital.Giampaolo previously founded, built and sold several businesses and health club chains in the U.S. and Europe. He has financial interests in several other businesses and industries, working as an investor, advisor, and board member of some of the largest and most successful health and fitnesscompanies in the world, including Fitness First, 24 Hour Fitness, Zumba Fitness, and Zorba India.He is on the board of Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, chairman of Gousto, and senior advisor to AMG (Affiliated Managers Group, Inc.) and BC Partners. Giampaolo is a member of YPO and CEO global business organizations and a trustee of Speakers4Schools.org and Pro Bono Economics.
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- Industry: Health Care, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $536k–$5.5M; Angel $330k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $350k–$2.9M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WILD.AI — Train with your female physiology - not against it! Track your menstrual cycle to sync workouts, nutrition, and recovery with your body's unique needs.
- Syndi Health — Meet Syndi Health: an all-in-one platform for aggregating, recommending, and paying for digital health services - amplifying your employee wellbeing support with 0% admin.
- Vinehealth — Best ePRO data collection tool | Digital patient support programmes for cancer patients | Remote PROMs data collection | Real-world studies | Oncology clinical research | Cancer support app | Cancer companion app for patients self-management | Self-reporting tool f
Amadeo Brenninkmeijer is the Senior Partner at inPositiv.
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- Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.2M; Angel $880k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ProcessOut — Route transactions, analyze and report on your entire payment ecosystem and switch on providers in one click. Trusted by leading brands.
- SkyWatch — SkyWatch makes it easy, fast, and affordable to buy commercial satellite imagery for your geospatial needs.
- Little Black Door — Little Black Door, LBD - The Social Wardrobe A free wardrobe sharing application that enables its users to upload their wardrobe, interact with their fashion items & share them on social networks We’re out to disrupt the way in which we engage with our fashion assets.
Vinay Solanki is currently Head of Channel 4's Commercial Growth Fund responsible for their “media for equity” investment activity on disruptive digital consumer businesses. The model is focused on providing high quality TV airtime in return for passive equity stakes in typically growth phase companies. Since joining in the Summer of 2015,Vinay has led 10 deals in total, including 6 equity investments in consumer businesses alongside Series A VCs (such as DN Capital, Mangrove Partners, Felix Capital, Octopus Ventures & Accel Partners, amongst others). Vinay is actively seeking interesting and high growth consumer facing companies that might benefit from access to UK TV airtime, and has an active pipeline for 2017. Vinay is a highly experienced strategic advisor in media, digital and consumer businesses with over 15 years’ experience. Prior to Channel 4, Vinay held either M&A, strategy and/or commercial business development positions at Getty Images, Liberty Global, Ingenious Media and Ernst & Young.
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- Industry: FinTech, Apps, Mobile
- Stage:Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.4M; Series B $6.5M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
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- Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
- Sprive — Sprive is the free app that helps take years off your mortgage and save you thousands of pounds in interest.
- Layered Reality — Take an immersive journey through the iconic sci-fi tale with this virtual experience from Jeff Wayne.
Peter Read is based out of London and is the Cortex Partner of Vitruvian Partners. Peter previously worked at TOCCA as an angel investor. Peter Read attended the University of Oxford. Peter Read has been certified as a speaker at The E-Act Burnham Park Academy, Slough.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series E, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $550k–$1.7M; Series E $100M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HowDo — HowDo is sound & picture chapters to capture epic stories of everyday knowledge.
- Snap.hr — Sign up to Snap.hr now to get headhunted by 500+ other tech companies
- Believe.in — Believe.in provides a white label technology that improves online fundraising, donation processing, and event performance of non-profit organizations.Available in multiple markets, languages, and currencies, Believe.in supports 2.8 million non-profit organizations globally and is easily customized and integrated into any non-profitorganization’s website and existing back-office toolkit.Believe.in was founded in May 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Jim Mellon is an international investor with interests in several industries. After leaving Oxford, where he studied PPE, (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) he worked in Asia and the United States for two fund management companies, GT and Thornton, before establishing his own business in 1991. His business operations include two components, alisted fund management company called Charlemagne Capital, and an Asian mining group, Regent Pacific.In addition, Mr. Mellon is Co-Chairman of West African Minerals Corporation and Regent Pacific Group. He is on the board of a number of public quoted companies, including Brazilian Gold Corporation, Charlemagne Capital Limited, Manx Financial Group, Plethora Solutions, Polo Resources, Port Erin Biophara Investments Limited, and the Speymill plc. He is the life tenant of a trust which owns the Burnbrae Group, which has substantial assets in the biotechnology, financial services, property, mining and leisure sectors. Mr. Mellon spends most of his time working on startup ideas and investing. His book, “Wake Up!” was published in 2005; his second book "10 Investments for the Ten Years Ahead" was published in 2008. In 2012, he co-wrote "Cracking the Code" which focuses on the biotechnology sector and how to profit from it. Mr. Mellon lives in the Isle of Man, Brussels and Ibiza and is an honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $536k–$20M; Series A $4.6M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Netwealth — Netwealth provides expert investment management and tailored wealth planning solutions, helping you confidently achieve your financial goals.
- Juvenescence — We extend healthy lifespan through developing innovative medicines that target core aging mechanisms to not only treat but prevent age-related diseases.
- Repair Biotechnologies — Repair Biotechnologies is a developer of clinical gene and protein therapies intended to focus on the reversal of age-associated thymic atrophy and consequent loss of immune function. The company's platform is committed to developing treatments for ageing and age-related diseases that address the root causes of these conditions, enabling humanbeings to improve their health span through targeting the causes of age-related diseases and ageing itself.
Venture house dedicated to enabling a new digital future with blockchain
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Gibraltar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $750k–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2M; Series A $5M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Questflow — Questflow Labs seeking to give customers with an all-in-one solution for user intent perception and distribution, AI agentic workflow automation, and human-AI cooperation. Questflow Labs is pioneering a novel approach to decentralized AI agentic workflow.
- Yotta Labs — Building the GPU Cloud for efficient ML with heterogeneous hardware and cross-cloud orchestration
- NuConstruct — Software Development. MEV Builder from an alternative timeline. Advanced onchain solving and execution.
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One Small Thing
— Our vision is a justice system that can recognise, understand, and respond to trauma. Our mission is to redesign the justice system for women & their children.
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Handcrafted Projects
— Handcrafted Projects is a not for profit organization that offers skills renovation for poor mental or physical health and unemployed people
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Peter Bedford Housing Association Ltd
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