Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors in United Kingdom in January 2025

Investor	Social Media United Kingdom investments
Michael Birch	4
Claire Valoti	3
Stefan Glänzer	3
Richard Brennan	3
Graham Paterson	2
Brent Hoberman	2
Stephen Bullock	2
Desigan Chinniah	2
Ken Olisa	2
Pablo Morenes	2
James Phipps	2
Mandeep Singh	2
Will Brooks	2
Stefano Martinetto	2
Simon Murphy	2
Rajan Navani	2
Chris Underhill	2
Husayn Kassai	2
Jag Singh	2
Nick Mason	2
James Farnhill	2
Stephen Bullock	2
Peter Gabriel	2
Will Martin	2
Gerry Campbell	1
Amir Nooriala	1
Howard Lindzon	1
Maxime Favier	1
Sameer Singh	1
Robin Knox	1
Jean Pierre Van Der Berg	1
Ben Wynne-Simmons	1
Paul Forster	1
Barnaby Weiner	1
Joyce Yang	1
Jeffrey Thomas	1
Rod Leefe	1
Fiona Pathiraja	1
Jean-Charles Bully	1
Dario Franchitti	1
Annika Small	1
Bill Tai	1
Den Christian Bocassa	1
Balaji Srinivasan	1
David Frankel	1
Con Gornell	1
Vivek Kumar	1
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	1
Joi Ito	1
Bill Wade	1

Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo and Birthday Alarm. Birch was raised in North London, England, went to Imperial College, London in Central London (where he met Xochi, his wife), then worked in West London. After finally deciding that he had done London, Michael moved to San Francisco in 2002.Michael and Xochi Birch sold Bebo to AOL inMarch 2008 for USD 850 million. Their combined 70% stake yielded a profit of $595 million from the deal. In June 2008, Michael invested in, and joined the board of MyStore.com along with Julian Lennon and Gordon Crawford. He is also an investor in Goodreads, a book oriented social network.Having worked in a number of not-so-exciting computer related jobs, he relished the chance to set up an Internet based family business with his wife, Xochi and brother, Paul. Remembering birthdays was never his strong point, much to his embarrassment, so what could be better than something he could use himself. Michael was responsible for developing the original Birthday Alarm website back in 2001, but is no longer involved in its development.

Investment focus

Apps, Social Media, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Keyo — Keyo is an end-to-end solution that offers apartment rentals. Now, Keyo has blossomed into a full-scale software-as-a-service for landlords, targeting small-to-medium-sized renters with 20 to 5,000 units. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.
HolidayFox — HolidayFox is a platform to discover and book family staycations. From a fun filled day out with the kids through to a whole holiday, HolidayFox has it all. Get suggestions, find, build and book your perfect package all in one place
Whatifi — Whatifi turns passive viewers into active players who control what happens next.

Claire Valoti is General Manager UK Sales of Snapchat, Inc. and chair of Mobile Marketing Association. Claire became Head of Agency Relations at Facebook and Media Director at Weve. She also joined O2 Media Telefónica UK as Managing Director and MindShare as Head of Digital Display & Mobile and Business Director.Claire studied BA Hons,Politics at University of Nottingham.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Apps, Events
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Howbout — The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple. Automatically find dates that work, easily coordinate diaries and arrange plans with friends in seconds.
Howbout — Share time & actually keep up with friends
Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.

Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

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.
LIFT99 — LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.
ClickClickDrive — ClickClickDrive is a developer of a search engine designed for users to find driving schools.The company's platform helps users to find information on different driving schools, find evaluations/recommendations published by driving students and also offers an easy-to-use theory application to help them prepare for the exam, enabling usersto choose the best driving school for them.

Richard Brennan is a seasoned Senior Executive in the Telecommunications industry with significant strengths in Global Marketing and Branding. He joined Hutchison Whampoa in 1993 in the UK as part of the Founding Executive Management Team for Orange plc. He has held Board positions with Mobistar, GSMA CEO Board, and was Chairman of the Board forWildfire, Inc. He now works around the globe with innovative, energetic, and fast moving companies. He also serves as an Executive Consultant for HTC, specifically assisting them break into the competitive world of consumer branded smartphones. Richard is a keen cyclist and runner, and fundamentally believes the intelligence being built into smartphones will revolutionise the way mobiles are used for recreational outdoor activities.

Investment focus

Mobile, Social Media, Software
Angel, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zynstra — Zynstra is transforming edge computing at the retail edge. Its Intelligent Infrastructure is specifically designed and built for the retail edge, not the datacenter. It leverages intelligent automation to transform the way thousands of distributed sites are managed. By choosing Zynstra, the retail edge becomes the source of your competitiveadvantage in an era where superior customer experience is not only a great-to-have, but a must-have. You establish a lasting platform where new innovative apps and services are tested and launched to delight consumers at the retail edge, all while driving down operational costs and better managing risk, With its DNA deeply rooted in edge software products, Zynstra provides purpose-built edge infrastructure for the world’s largest, most distributed, innovation-driven enterprises. Zynstra is a strategic partner of HPE in delivering intelligence infrastructure – under the HPE Proliant Easy Connect brand – and is based in the United Kingdom.
SwiftKey — SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people. It upgrades smartphone keyboards to make typing faster, by utilizing artificial intelligence to learn from each user in order to autocorrect and predict their next word. The SwiftKey Keyboard for Android supports more than 80 languages.SwiftKey wasfounded by Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Samba Networks — Looking to earn money from your connected TV or mobile app? Our award winning video advertising platform helps you improve your income through smart, fast and easy integration.

Graham Paterson

Investment focus

Apps, Events, Software
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Howbout — The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple. Automatically find dates that work, easily coordinate diaries and arrange plans with friends in seconds.
Howbout — Share time & actually keep up with friends

Brent Hoberman is the Co-Founder and Executive Chair of Founders Forum. He previously worked at Royal Academy of Arts as a Corporate Advisory Board. Brent Hoberman attended the University of Oxford.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
Framework — Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school, radically reimagined for them. Born out of Founders Forum, a private network of the world's top tech entrepreneurs, we’ve worked with over 100+ operators—across product, growth, ops, people, data, engineering & design, from some of the world's most innovative companiesincluding Monzo, Babylon, Bulb & Depop—to pioneer a new model of lifelong learning.

Stephen Bullock - Exec Chairman @ Autologyx

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Audiense — Put consumer segmentation and cultural insights at the centre of your strategy
GroupSpaces — GroupSpaces is a London-based company developing technology to help real-world groups and communities manage and promote themselves online. Today its software helps manage over 1 million memberships for sports clubs, charities, university societies, national associations and many other groups. GroupSpaces was founded in 2007 by
Immerse — VR training solutions to transform corporate learning and boost operational efficiency. Explore our app and open platform.

Tech Advisor | Startup Mentor | Angel Investor | Board MemberDesigan Chinniah, aka Dees, provides seasoned startup, dot-com hardened, functional, strategic, creative and zero-bullshit executive advice. Dees possesses a unique set of Swiss-Army-Knife like talents and experiences - at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Business Development,Marketing, Fundraising and Developer Relations.A self-confessed geek — this sneakerhead lives in London with his wife, Sanne and their two kids, Summer Skye & Kiran Quinn.You’ve come this far… Why not say hello? helloATdesiganchinniahDOTcom#africa #ai #ar #blockchain #bots #community #connectivity #crypto #ethics #fintech #gaming #iot #opensource #privacy #speech #startups #voice #vr #web

Investment focus

Software, Communities, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klarytee — Klarytee is a SaaS platform that builds security into sensitive content to enable granular control wherever the data goes
Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
TigerBeetle — TigerBeetle operates as a distributed financial accounting database for mission-critical safety and performance.

Ken is Founder and Chairman of Restoration Partners, a boutique technology merchant bank advising and investing in IT companies. He joined the board of Reuters in 2004. From 1992 to 2006, Ken was Chair and CEO of Interregnum PLC, a public technology merchant bank. Prior to that, he was a senior executive for over 20 years at Wang Labs andIBM. From 1998 to 2008, he was a director of OpenText Corporation, and of Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation from 2007 until 2011. He is Chairman of London-listed Outsourcery PLC and serves on the boards of several UK not-for-profit organizations. Effective May 2015, Olisa has been appointed as Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London.Ken has an MA from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Machine Learning
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Brandwatch — Understand and engage with your customers at the speed of social with Brandwatch, the social suite built for our fast-moving world.

Pablo Morenes

Investment focus

Apps, Events, Software
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Howbout — The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple. Automatically find dates that work, easily coordinate diaries and arrange plans with friends in seconds.
Howbout — Share time & actually keep up with friends

James Phipps

Investment focus

Apps, Events, Software
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Howbout — The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple. Automatically find dates that work, easily coordinate diaries and arrange plans with friends in seconds.
Howbout — Share time & actually keep up with friends

Mandeep Singh currently works as an Angel Investor and Advisor for Multiple Startups. He previously worked at Accel as a Starter and Scout. Mandeep Singh attended the University of Cambridge.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
Galileo AI — Galileo AI creates delightful, editable UI designs from a simple text description. It empowers you to design faster than ever.
Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Stefano Martinetto is CEO at tomorrow ltd.

Investment focus

Fashion, Mobile Apps, Social Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ubooker — Global online booking platform for the fashion industry where top brands book talent directly

Simon Murphy Entrepreneur & Investor

Investment focus

Retail, Consumer Goods, Events
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Pieter Pot — Verpakkingsvrij boodschappen doen bij online supermarkt Pieter Pot. Makkelijk aan huis geleverd in herbruikbare statiegeldpotten. Pot leeg? Dan vullen we hem opnieuw. Met onze verpakkingsvrije bezorgdienst verminderen we de hoeveelheid afval en CO2. Waarom zou je nog verpakkingen kopen?
Seat Unique — Seat Unique is an online marketplace to buy official hospitality packages and VIP tickets to live sports, music, and cultural events.
The Smart Container Company — The Smart Container Company is the team behind KegTracker and BeverEDGE, a first-to-market IoT device and platform that instantly turns kegs into SMART containers. Our technology tracks real-time location, volume, temperature, and motion for each keg and delivers actionable insights that enable transparency and zero.

Rajan Navani - CEO & Founder @ JetSynthesys

Investment focus

Art, Coffee, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Peepul Tree — Peepul Tree is a platform for the hand-made artisanal works. Peepul Tree celebrates the rich and varied legacy that these artisans carry.
Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.
Assiduus — We are a trusted Global E-commerce partner and accelerator, a unified platform helping to Build and Scale E-commerce Brands Globally. Reach us Now!

Chris Underhill - Non Executive Chairman @ Hive Marketing Cloud

Investment focus

Apps, Analytics, Marketing
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Audiense — Put consumer segmentation and cultural insights at the centre of your strategy

Husayn Kassai is the Quench.ai CEO and Founder. Former CEO and Co-Founder at identity unicorn Onfido. He is a World Economic Forum "Tech Pioneer", Forbes Contributor & “30 Under 30” and has a BA in Economics and Management, Oxford University.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Social Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

quester — quester is the ultimate platform to share & discuss resources. Imagine Discord meets Google Bookmarks, but with the ability to create your own playlists of any online content and gamified libraries with others who share your passions!

Jag is one of Europe's most active angel investors, and is a Managing Partner at Angel Invest Ventures in Berlin. He's founded several companies (including two exits and a spectacular failure), and invested in over 100 startups over the last six years, including Spire (SPAC), Nutmeg (exit to JPM), Disperse, Eversend, Restack, and Anytype.He’s an ad-man at heart, and spent over a decade as a political strategist advising high-profile politicians, campaigns and corporations across the US and Europe. Jag is fluent in six languages, and can be found on Twitter via @JagSingh

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Konfetti — konfetti is building the leading platform for local workshops and events by empowering workshop providers with customized SaaS solutions
Widgetbook — Widgetbook is an open source tool for organizing widgets in Flutter. It accelerates UI development and improves the collaboration between developers, designers and clients.
Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.

Nicholas Berkeley Mason, CBE is an English drummer and founder member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Social Media, B2B
Series A, Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LICKD — Music licensing for video Creators on YouTube & Facebook. Making music available for everyone to use, without compromise.
Lightful — Lightful helps nonprofits and charities develop the skills, tools and confidence to build trust and gain support online
Disciple — Disciple | Create your own community platform. No coding required

James Farnhill

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Events
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Howbout — The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple. Automatically find dates that work, easily coordinate diaries and arrange plans with friends in seconds.
Howbout — Share time & actually keep up with friends
Crypcentra — End-to-end digital asset investment tools. Built for institutions.

Stephen Bullock - Exec Chairman @ Autologyx

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Audiense — Put consumer segmentation and cultural insights at the centre of your strategy
GroupSpaces — GroupSpaces is a London-based company developing technology to help real-world groups and communities manage and promote themselves online. Today its software helps manage over 1 million memberships for sports clubs, charities, university societies, national associations and many other groups. GroupSpaces was founded in 2007 by
Immerse — VR training solutions to transform corporate learning and boost operational efficiency. Explore our app and open platform.

Peter is clearly way more than a global music legend. He divides his time and energy between his music, humanitarian projects, business investments and his family.He became an investor and advisor to The Filter in 2006 and brings with him a clear vision of a need for smart filters to help us make sense of a world with too many choices. Workingwith Peter is inspiring – his passion and creativity help drive and motivate the team.

Investment focus

Music, TV, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Belgium, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tumelo — Tumelo is an impact-focused financial technology firm. Our mission is to enable retail investors and pension members to create and benefit from a more sustainable investment system. We do this by partnering with investment and pension providers, enabling them to provide their customers with transparency over the companies they own and ashareholder voice on issues they care about, such as gender equality or climate change. Our solution is white-label software delivered via APIs and/or a user dashboard. Our software integrates with existing investment platforms improving customer engagement, acquisition and retention for providers.
Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Gerry Campbell is an angel investor and advisor. His portfolio includes several notable early-stage companies, and he is actively investing in the mobile and local space. Recent investments include: VitalBriefing (Luxembourg), Refer.io & FastCall.Most recently, Gerry is the CEO/Founder of Frequency Group, which is “an advisory firmdedicated to the creation of high-functioning teams and achievement of extraordinary results." Campbell is currently an Angel Investor at Frequency Capital as well. Previously, Gerry was CEO of realtime search company Collecta, and raised $5MM as he guided that company through its development, launch and pivot. Before that, he was president and global head of Reuters Search and Content Technologies group, bringing deep domain expertise to existing Reuters products while driving breakthrough innovation in the delivery of relevant information and insight to customers. Prior to that, Mr. Campbell was SVP of AOL's Search and Directional Media group, where he managed the AOL Search, Local Search, Yellow Pages; Netscape Search; and eCommerce Search properties, including all search-based revenue and advertising initiatives. Earlier, Mr. Campbell led Product Strategy for AltaVista's commerce group, the original Shopping.com. He has also held marketing and management positions with Compaq and CompuServe, and co-founded Bounce Networks, a digital media startup. Mr. Campbell holds an MBA and a BA in Mass Media from The Ohio State University.His hobbies include family, running, motorsports and digital media.

Investment focus

Search Engine, Apps, Music
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Summize US — Summize is an intelligent SaaS contract management solution that helps your day-to-day Contract Analysis, Contract Summaries, and Contract Review Projects.
Collecta — Collecta monitors the update streams of popular realtime blogs and sites like Twitter, Wordpress, and Flickr, and shows results as they happen. Results can be filtered by status updates, comments, stories, or photos. The entire engine is built around the XMPP standard, which pushes out data on a continual basis, so that for every search you endup watching a stream that keeps updating itself.
TweetDeck — TweetDeck is a Twitter client for desktop, web, and mobile devices.TweetDeck was originally an Adobe Air desktop application, designed with a unique columned user interface. Its goal was to be a realtime application that allowed users to monitor that information in a single concise view. TweetDeck integrated services from Twitter, Twitscoop,12seconds, Stocktwits, and Facebook.In 2011,

Amir is the COO of OakNorth, Europe’s highest-valued fintech firm focused on unlocking the potential in customised lending to SMEs globally. Prior to joining OakNorth, he was an Ops and Tech MD at BGC, he has also worked at Barclays Investment Bank, Accenture and Cisco Systems.

Investment focus

Apps, Events, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

aisle 3® - Every Store. One Checkout. — Welcome to aisle-3. We don't think you should have to check lots of sites and open lots of tabs just to find products you want - we do the hard work so you can buy the best deal with any seller.
Howbout — Share time & actually keep up with friends

Howard Lindzon - Founder & General Partner @ Social Leverage

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Swag Golf — Premium milled golf putters designed and assembled in the USA, insane limited release golf club head covers, men's golf clothing & apparel, and the coolest golf accessories for all players who don't give a putt.
Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.
Whoosh — Modern golf operations software for private golf clubs that streamlines your workflows to improve member experiences and reduce revenue loss.

Maxime Favier, Co-founder at THE PHOTO ACADEMY & PICSMENTOR.

Investment focus

Dating, Internet, Mobile Apps
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

The Sauce — The Sauce is a dating app where profiles are made up of videos. It allows users to create their own content and really see someone's secret sauce. The Sauce was founded in 2020 and is located in London, England.

Network Effects Investor, Venture Partner @ Speedinvest, part of the Atomico Angel Program

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Paway — Paway is a social network just for dogs. A free dog walking app to meet local pet parents, schedule pup playdates, find dog friendly places & more. Join on apple and android.
Homefans — Find top-rated sports tours and activities in your destination through Homefans. Go beyond the game with trusted locals.
Konfetti — konfetti is building the leading platform for local workshops and events by empowering workshop providers with customized SaaS solutions

Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Network
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Canada, United States

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.
Handl — We deliver car care services to you. Order from professional valets, oil, adblue, washer and care services and subscribe to monthly services to save money.
My Probate Partner — The better way to navigate probate in Scotland. Avoid large probate solicitor bills by completing your application with our 5-star fixed-price support service. Designed to make sure you get Scottish probate 100% right.

Jean Pierre Van Der Berg

Investment focus

Marketing, Software, Consulting
Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Metigy — Looking for a digital marketing agency that can help you with higher engagement and better traffic? Then Metigy is the one-stop solution for you. We offer all
BestMark — Experience the best in mystery shopping with BestMark! Our company offers top-notch services for all your mystery shopping needs. Contact us today for more information.
We Are Social — We Are Social delivers businesses and brands with marketing campaigns and strategies that are based on social insights. The company has provided its services for brands such as Adidas, Audi, Google, and Netflix.We Are Social has offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Paris, Milan, Munich, Berlin, Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney, and Sao Paulo.It was founded in 2008.

An investor, engineer and entrepreneur.Ben is a Managing Director at Coral Reef. He works with and invests in tech entrepreneurs, startups and growth companies. He also works on a number of social impact and art projects such as TradeRelief, Root Matter and Exhibition Collective. Prior to this Ben held investment director roles at 3i Group plcand Barclays Private Equity where he managed investments, exits and sat on the board of 10 companies. In 2008 Ben helped set up and now manages TradeRelief - a charity investing in social enterprises in developing countries.Ben holds a 1st class Masters in Engineering Science from Oxford University, an Investment Management Certificate from the CFA, and obtained a Chartered Accountancy qualification from ICAS

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, Casual Games
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vidsy — Vidsy is the creative technology platform that helps global brands and agencies create high-performing video ads. Connect with our global network of creators and streamline your content creation process.
Fliplet — Create custom apps using Fliplet's app editor. Chances are Fliplet has already built 90% of your app. Features include no-code / low-code CMS, mobile/desktop/tablet support, data management, security, analytics and more.
SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.

Paul Forster

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.

Barnaby Weiner - Portfolio Manager @ MFS Investment Management

Investment focus

Health Care, iOS, AgTech
Seed
United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Aviwell — Aviwell’s mission is to develop healthy, native, natural, and sustainable solutions to improve animal health and growth to better nourish the planet ... At a fraction of the cost.
BelleVie — BelleVie's vision is a world where those who receive and provide support are valued and thrive. BelleVie's radically different operating model of self-managing teams was inspired by the successful Buurtzorg model of nursing in the Netherlands. Unlike other care providers who are digitising a broken operating model, BelleVie addresses theroot cause, fixing the operating model and then digitising that.
TalkLife — TalkLife is an online peer to peer support network for mental health; a global community to share the ups and downs of life with like-minded people 24/7.

Joyce Yang - Founder @ Global Coin Research

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Social Media
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Socket — Socket is a Web3 privacy infrastructure for social interactions for crypto-related purposes.
CrowdPad — CrowdPad is the world's first mobile social token app built on Solana to enable creators to build tokenized communities
Syndicate — Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network.

Jeffrey Thomas is a Co-Founder of Digital Reef. He attended University of East London.

Investment focus

Charity, Crowdfunding, Social Media
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lightful — Lightful helps nonprofits and charities develop the skills, tools and confidence to build trust and gain support online

Rod Leefe

Investment focus

Mobile, Employment, Recruiting
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SonicJobs — Apply to your dream position with just one click, with the magic of AI. Sign up with SonicJobs today!

Fiona is Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, an early stage healthtech VC fund based in London and Copenhagen.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Wellness
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Armenia

Portfolio highlights

Juniver — Science-based recovery program for eating disorders. Free yourself from urges, strengthen your decision-making, and get back to living your life.
Bloom Money — Bloom Money is a savings club app designed to help growing communities in migrant communities and use technology to promote community, safety, and convenience.
Storia — Capture your thoughts and unleash your inner voice

Jean-Charles Bully

Investment focus

Dating, Internet, Mobile Apps
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

The Sauce — The Sauce is a dating app where profiles are made up of videos. It allows users to create their own content and really see someone's secret sauce. The Sauce was founded in 2020 and is located in London, England.

Dario Franchitti

Investment focus

Charity, Crowdfunding, Social Media
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lightful — Lightful helps nonprofits and charities develop the skills, tools and confidence to build trust and gain support online

Annika Small is the Co-founder and Associate of CAST.

Investment focus

Charity, Crowdfunding, Social Media
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lightful — Lightful helps nonprofits and charities develop the skills, tools and confidence to build trust and gain support online

Bill Tai is the Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder, and Founding Investor of Treasure Data. He previously worked at Maxthon International Limited as a Chairman of the Board. Bill Tai attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MicroTau — Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces.
Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
Fathom — Instantly summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversation instead of taking notes.

Den Christian Bocassa is the CEO and Founder at Ethereum Enterprises.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Social Media, Social Network
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MW PLC UK — Web3 Social Network
Ethereum Enterprises — Ethereum Enterprises is a hedge fund company that focuses on blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZeroMark — ZeroMark is a defense product company building technology to ensure safety and precision when using kinetic and non lethal weapons.
Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
ImmuneAGE Bio — ImmuneAGE Bio is the first drug discovery platform company focused on immune system rejuvenation.

David Frankel is a Venture Partner with Blueprint Ventures. David brings more than 20 years of entrepreneurial, technology, investment and executive experience to the Blueprint Ventures team. He is recognized as a technology executive able to bridge technical, managerial, regulatory and financing issues and help management teams drive towardsdifferentiation in the marketplace.David's technology interests include wireline and mobile communications, high-performance computing, and IT infrastructure.Previously, David was the Founder and CTO of Jetstream Communications, a pioneering developer of voice-over-packet systems backed by Canaan, Crosspoint, Mayfield, Mohr Davidow, MCI/Worldcom, Nortel, and others. Prior to its acquisition by Paradyne, Jetstream successfully shipped more than $50 million of products to carriers in North America, Asia, and Europe. As a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur, David brings a deep understanding of technology, company building, fundraising, business development, and marketing. In addition, he brings deep relationships with equipment providers and carriers.David also served as Vice President of Engineering at Tricord Systems, a leading developer of Intel-based server computers. Earlier, at ETA Systems, David was Director of Systems Engineering for the company's line of supercomputers.David started his career at Control Data Corporation, working with semiconductor CAD tools and chip design automation. He holds three US patents, with several US and international applications pending. He is also a member of the IEEE.David holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois.David's current board responsibilities include KeyEye Communications and WiSpry.David is a licensed commercial pilot and enjoys flying his single engine airplane in and out of Palo Alto airport.via:

Investment focus

Video, Social Media, Social Network
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bragster — Bragster is a social network for dares (think Jackass meets Facebook). In Bragster you don't place cash bets, you simply "brag" to your friends that you will do something, like turn up at work in your pajamas. You can bet anything you want. It's very video oriented as well, so people can see proof of your dare. Revenues willeventually come from "sponsored brags" created by brands which want to distribute a marketing message in a fun way, and they are looking to license a white label version of the platform. Bragster is biggest in English speaking territories like the UK, US and Canada.Bragster is the re-launched version of Gottabet, a site which won a seed round in 2006 but dumped it's cash bettings model.

Con is an investor, advisor and consultant for a broad portfolio of entertainment, tech and cultural organisations. He was Executive Vice President, Marketing (EMEA) at Warner Bros. Pictures until 2018 and has previously worked for BBH, Grey and Mediacom.

Investment focus

Art, News, Travel
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cryptograph — Made By Icons. Owned By You.
Culture Trip — Culture Trip is a travel e-commerce brand with content at its core. The company offers a unique proposition in the market because in one single platform, customers can get inspired to explore the world, and also discover and book travel products. Through its website and app - used by millions of visitors every month - Culture Trip’s globalcommunity of travel experts and local insiders share travel content and recommendations, together with curated collections of places to stay, hotels, things to do and experiences that can be booked online. In addition, in 2021 the company launched its TRIPS by Culture Trip — unique small-group adventures, curated by travel experts and led by Local Insiders. Culture Trip was founded in London in 2011. It now has a team of around two hundred members of in-house staff. This group of technology, travel and media professionals operates out of branches in London, New York, and Tel Aviv. On top of that, Culture Trip has a worldwide network of local content creators and insiders – writers, filmmakers, photographers, and creatives – in hundreds of locations across the world.

Vivek Kumar

Investment focus

Mobile, Employment, Recruiting
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SonicJobs — Apply to your dream position with just one click, with the magic of AI. Sign up with SonicJobs today!

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.

Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

KLKTN — KLKTN is a curated music, manga and art NFT platform connecting creators with fans through special experiences. The platform allows fans to access special edition digital art and behind-the-scenes moments of artists' creative process. In collaboration with top creators and artists and powered by blockchain technology, KLKTN is takingartist-fan engagement and the best of creative experiential culture into the digital world. Artworks are available as a limited supply of authenticated digital products or NFTs, for purchase via credit card, with a fixed cost per item. KLKTN's co-founders are Jeff Miyahara, Chief Creative Officer and a renowned record producer and songwriter who has produced over 260 international artists; Fabiano Soriani, Chief Technology Officer and former lead blockchain engineer for Dapper Labs; and Daisuke Iwase, Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Business School graduate, former World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a digital pioneer known for co-founding Lifenet, a disruptive fintech venture, which he took to IPO. Built on the Flow blockchain to achieve affordable and environmentally-sustainable minting, KLKTN leaves more for artists, fans, and the planet.
Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
Shibuya — Welcome to Shibuya, a platform for high potential short films. We provide creators with a full-stack solution to fund films and shorts, build community, and foster an engaged fanbase. Fans can fund their favorite films, participate in the creative process, and join communities for the films they love most.

William Wade is the Founder and CEO at Company.com.William Wade attended University of New Hampshire.

Investment focus

Social Media, Lead Generation, Network Security
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ACE Security — Ace Security in london can assist make your commercial enterprise or event that much more at ease. We focus on safety guards that offer a wide variety of services and are enormously educated. Whether you want a protection protect for a private or public event, ACE Security has the understanding you need in london and surrounding regions. All of ourguards are very well vetted to make certain they've the proper training and revel in to hold you safe. We additionally make sure they are properly informed at the present day possible threats and how to cope with them in any scenario.