Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors in United Kingdom in February 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Social media startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social media companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors in United Kingdom in February 2025
Investor | Social Media United Kingdom investments |
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Michael Birch | 4 |
Richard Brennan | 3 |
Stefan Glänzer | 3 |
Claire Valoti | 3 |
Nick Mason | 2 |
James Phipps | 2 |
Mandeep Singh | 2 |
Will Brooks | 2 |
James Farnhill | 2 |
Stefano Martinetto | 2 |
Simon Murphy | 2 |
Rajan Navani | 2 |
Peter Gabriel | 2 |
Husayn Kassai | 2 |
Stephen Bullock | 2 |
Will Martin | 2 |
Pablo Morenes | 2 |
Jag Singh | 2 |
Brent Hoberman | 2 |
Stephen Bullock | 2 |
Graham Paterson | 2 |
Desigan Chinniah | 2 |
Ken Olisa | 2 |
Chris Underhill | 2 |
David Frankel | 1 |
Con Gornell | 1 |
Joi Ito | 1 |
Neel Sachdev | 1 |
Matt Cooper | 1 |
Michel Combes | 1 |
Tanmay Bhat | 1 |
Jason Downes | 1 |
Julian Weisser | 1 |
Furqan Rydhan | 1 |
Thomas Glocer | 1 |
Mitch Richmond | 1 |
Bill Wade | 1 |
Connie Chan | 1 |
Carlos Domingo | 1 |
Callum Illsley | 1 |
Paul Walton | 1 |
Richard Flint | 1 |
Simone Cimminelli | 1 |
Jeffrey Schoonover | 1 |
Laurent Philonenko | 1 |
Marc Weinstein | 1 |
Blake Picquet | 1 |
Brian Pokorny | 1 |
Simon Ramery | 1 |
Alvaro Alvarez del Rio | 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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Nicholas Berkeley Mason, CBE is an English drummer and founder member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.
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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 Phipps
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Investment focus
- Apps, Events, Software
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
Mandeep Singh is an Angel investor. He previously was the founding CEO at Trouva. Mandeep Singh studied Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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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
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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.
James Farnhill
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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.
Stefano Martinetto is CEO at tomorrow ltd.
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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
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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!
Stephen Bullock - Exec Chairman @ Autologyx
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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 — Immerse is the technology company behind the industry-leading virtual reality platform, Immerse VEP. Built from the ground up, the platform helps companies create, scale and deploy VR training and maximise their ROI.Virtual Reality is enhancing human performance in ways that were once unthinkable. Today, it is transforming the way we learn,explore and interact. As a frontrunner in training and education, we recognised this potential early and focused on developing an open platform to help companies increase their ROI.We are uniquely positioned in that we’ve invested time in understanding the needs of large enterprises. As a result, we’ve developed a true open platform. A platform which answers the nuances and challenges of deploying and scaling VR training, and which helps maximise employee performance.
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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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.
Pablo Morenes
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Investment focus
- Apps, Events, Software
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
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
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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.
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.
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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
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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 — Immerse is the technology company behind the industry-leading virtual reality platform, Immerse VEP. Built from the ground up, the platform helps companies create, scale and deploy VR training and maximise their ROI.Virtual Reality is enhancing human performance in ways that were once unthinkable. Today, it is transforming the way we learn,explore and interact. As a frontrunner in training and education, we recognised this potential early and focused on developing an open platform to help companies increase their ROI.We are uniquely positioned in that we’ve invested time in understanding the needs of large enterprises. As a result, we’ve developed a true open platform. A platform which answers the nuances and challenges of deploying and scaling VR training, and which helps maximise employee performance.
Graham Paterson
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Investment focus
- Apps, Events, Software
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
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?
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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.
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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.
Chris Underhill - Non Executive Chairman @ Hive Marketing Cloud
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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
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:
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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.
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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.
Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.
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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.
Neel Sachdev is a partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Neel represents financial sponsors and their affiliates on the financing of multi-jurisdictional leveraged buyouts and other complex financing transactions in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Neel advises on a wide range of complex financing transactions includingsponsor led leveraged financings, asset backed lending and securitisations, commercial paper and capital markets deals and derivatives.
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Investment focus
- Music, Internet, Social Media
- Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Tunepics — Tunepics lets you share your favourite pictures with any song and capture the emotion behind each moment.• Be a part of connecting the world through music and emotion • Share music that you love with every picture that you post• Tunepics on Apple Watch makes sure you never miss a moment• Add your emotion and see how you make other peoplefeel whether they are dancing, happy or heartbroken • Discover new music through your friends and their moments
Matt Cooper is Chairman of Octopus.
Before joining Octopus, Matt was Principal Managing Director of Capital One Bank (Europe) where he led the team guiding strategy and operations. He helped the UK arm grow from a start-up to a business employing more than 2,000 people and generating over £275 million in revenue.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.
- Clerkenwell Health — Clerkenwell Health addresses the growing unmet demand for effective mental health treatments.
- Juniper — Juniper is a reproductive healthcare insurance provider.
Michel Combes was the Chief Executive Officer of Assystem.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Coupons, Big Data
- Seed, Series D
- France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Swile — Swile got its start by disrupting the incumbent meal voucher market in France. Their all-in-one smartcard groups together all employee benefits such as meal vouchers, gift vouchers, and mobility benefits. Swile also aims to reinvent life at work and create a better work culture for all employees with their super app. Features include praises, eventcreation, collections and P2P payments between colleagues. They also offer employee engagement surveys and insight analytics. It was founded in 2018 by Loïc Soubeyrand and is based in Paris, France.
- Shopcade — Mantra: Shopcade is leading the convergence of content and commerce, so consumers can keep up with latest news and shop related items all in one place. What we are: Shopcade is a tech platform that specializes in promoting the trendiest products, showcasing the latest content features and engaging socially with consumers. Shopcade not only actsas a publisher and marketplace, but we also drive user engagement with personalised content that helps to boost both brand awareness and sales conversion based on customers' preferences. Shopcade has been acquired by Lagardere Active in January 2017 and no longer operates on a stand-alone basis. From a tech standpoint, we are passionate about data marketing performance and partner with platforms on projects such as for example: DEV OPS - backend optimisations, performance analysis, and troubleshooting - cloud infrastructure and agile dev best practicesMOBILE - mobile API design / specificationsSOCIAL & PERSONALISATION - Provide ability for users to create, share, and buy from wish lists - Provide email and/or push notifications - Implement sharing widgets - Enable Instagram tag matching - Run Facebook campaigns for retailersSEO Boost impressions and improve click through rate by - product tagging with microformat - sitemap creation & auto-updating - Page load optimisationsANALYTICS - User acquisition tracking and performance reports - A/B testing - Google Tag manager to allow marketing team to better make use of retargeting - Monitor click behavior and improve click through rate of campaign landing pages
Tanmay Bhat, SuperteamDAO.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Unikon.ai — Unikon.ai has solved the issue of access on this open-source platform. Every user has a personal profile that they can modify to include different prices for direct messaging, video calls, and audio calls."Unikon" means "you and I connect."
- EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
- Offline — Offline is a private members' community for the top 10% tech founders and CEOs in India. Apply online to become a member.
Jason Downes is a Consultant of International Finance Corporation. Previously, Jason Downes served as an Senior Investment Officer at International Finance Corporation for seven years. Previously, he co-founded and served as General Director and Chief Investment Officer at ru-Net Holdings for five years. Prior to joining ru-Net, he held seniorpositions in the investment banking divisions of United Financial Group, Renaissance Capital and Credit Lyonnais. Jason Downes has nearly 20 years of dedicated technology, media and telecom industry experience in venture capital, private equity and capital markets banking, primarily in Russia/CIS, India, and Sub-Saharan Africa. He serves as an Advisory Board Member of Frontier Ventures. He served on the Boards of Yandex, Ozon, and Vested Development Inc. Jason Downes graduated in Actuarial Science from City University, London (1986-1989).
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Social Media
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Kliqed — Kliqed Ltd. builds consumer mobile (and web) apps for the purposes of professional networking. Kliqed has built the LinkOut networking app, launched in London.
Julian Weisser is a Co-Founder and Head of Recruiting at On Deck.
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- Internet, Software, Real Estate
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
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- ValueBase — This page discusses the history of ValueBase, what brought us together and why we decided that accurate appraisal was important. It also explains why we focus on mass appraisal and statistical techniques like regression.
- Induced AI — Induced is an AI-native browser RPA platform that lets users combine browsing and web tools, along with smart reasoning and memory, to automate enterprise workflows of all kinds.
- The Network — A people search engine by The Network
Furqan Rydhan - Co-Founder @ thirdweb
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- Blockchain, Social Media, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
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- Orb — built for artists, creators, degens, and you!
- Cypherock — Welcome to Cypherock, where we are dedicated to building the world's safest cold wallet to protect your crypto. Discover Cypherock X1 with cutting-edge technology and robust security features.
- CrowdPad — CrowdPad is the world's first mobile social token app built on Solana to enable creators to build tokenized communities
Tom Glocer joined BlueVoyant as Executive Chairman and Founder in 2017.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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- Superlegal — Superlegal, the world's #1 contract automation platform, is the fastest, easiest and most cost effective way to negotiate and close deals.
- Cradle — Design better proteins
- Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
Mitch Richmond is an American former professional basketball player.
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- Social Media, Social Network, Video Streaming
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- RECRD — RECRD is a video community, where users engage content with video responses, Creators monetise immediately through ad revenues and advertisers connect with their audience at no risk.
William Wade is the Founder and CEO at Company.com.William Wade attended University of New Hampshire.
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- Social Media, Lead Generation, Network Security
- Series A
- United Kingdom
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- 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.
Connie Chan is the current General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. She previously worked at HP as a Head of webOS China. Connie Chan attended Stanford University.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong
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- flavrs — Connecting the world through food.
- Clear — Buy, track and share your skincare with the free Clear app available on iOS and Android now.
- KoBold Metals — KoBold is a mineral exploration company driving the clean energy future by accelerating the discovery of critical metals.
Carlos Domingo is the Founder & CEO at Securitize.
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- Social Media, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
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- Bag on Board — Bag on Board partners with airlines to offer their passengers a service to check-in their bags from anywhere in the city.
- Startupxplore — Startupxplore is a premium startup investment platform that allows unexperienced and time-savvy investors to diversify their portfolio by co-investing with a group of top-level investors with a proven track record on startup investment.
- Albora Technologies — High-precision geolocation open ecosystem that delivers accurate positioning coordinates ubiquitously, specially addressing problems in challenging environments.
Callum Illsley
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- Apps, Events, Software
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- 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.
Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.
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- Software, SaaS, Social Network
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States
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- 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.
- Just Venue — Just Venue is an online platform that aims to socialise event space booking, by connecting event hosts and organisers with space owners and managers. Just Venue aims to connect event hosts and organisers with venue owners and managers.The website has taken inspiration from other community platforms like AirBnB, Uber and TaskRabbit.
Richard Flint
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- Events, Mobile, Ticketing
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- SonicJobs — Apply to your dream position with just one click, with the magic of AI. Sign up with SonicJobs today!
- GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.
- Seat Unique — Seat Unique is an online marketplace to buy official hospitality packages and VIP tickets to live sports, music, and cultural events.
Simone Cimminelli is a Founding Partner at Cimminelli Holding. He attended ESCP Business School.
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- Analytics, Real Time, Social Media
- Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom
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- Spyn Technologies —
- READBUG —
- FindTheRipple — FindTheRipple is the first AI-driven bot that supports marketers with automatic content generation about trending topics relevant for their target. The tool makes real-time marketing for social media easy for everyone.
Jeffrey Schoonover is the Managing Partner at CloudTree Ventures.
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- Social Media, Social Network, Video Streaming
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- RECRD — RECRD is a video community, where users engage content with video responses, Creators monetise immediately through ad revenues and advertisers connect with their audience at no risk.
Laurent Philonenko is Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Development and CTO at Avaya, a leading provider of solutions that enable customer and team engagement. In this role, Laurent is responsible for the development and execution of Avaya’s short- and long-term growth and engagement strategies. As part of his focus on Avaya growthstrategies, Laurent has oversight of M&A, Avaya Labs, architecture and consulting groups, as well as the Avaya DevConnect developer program and technology partnerships. Laurent is a recognized leader and proven visionary in the enterprise collaboration and communications space. Prior to his current role, Laurent served as Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development for Avaya. Before joining Avaya, Laurent served successively as Vice-President and General Manager of several business units and as Chief Technology Officer for Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group and before joining Cisco as CEO for Genesys. Laurent is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and earned a master’s degree in Management Science from Paris University. He holds nine U.S. patents. In his spare time, Laurent is an avid sportsman who enjoys running and biking. His other hobbies include practicing his culinary skills, flying airplanes and reading on a variety of topics.
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- SaaS, Software, Analytics
- Angel
- United Kingdom
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- Brand Embassy — Brand Embassy is an omnichannel cloud-based customer service platform providing integrated social media, messaging, live chat and AI-powered chatbot service. Customers such as T-Mobile, Vodafone, Alibaba, and Puma in 30+ countries have achieved 69% higher agent productivity, 61% higher sales conversions and have scaled operations by 300% with noadditional headcount. Brand Embassy helps companies to accelerate the digital transformation of contact centers in an agile and scalable manner. The fast-growing company is headquartered in Prague, with offices in Boston, San Diego, London and Dubai. See more at www.brandembassy.com.See our CEO, Vit Horky, talking about the digital transformation in customer care here: https://youtu.be/V_JExmeiJKo
I graduated from Wharton with a BSc in Economics and began my career as an investment banker. In 2012, I left my cushy job at Morgan Stanley to begin an entrepreneurial adventure. My first startup, TINCO, was a financial services business created to protect investors from the purchasing power destruction of then-unprecedented quantitative easing.Although TINCO failed, it led me to purchase my first Bitcoin in 2013.While building TINCO, I started an advisory business called Satya Management to serve start-ups in the consumer, media & entertainment, and wellness industries.Through a client, I fell in love with the live events industry and decided to start my 2nd company, 90sFest. 90sFest was a live events platform catered to millennials that pioneered the convergence of experiential marketing with mass social media distribution. We sold 90sFest to Scopus Media in 2017.It was at this time that I was hired to try to salvage the now infamous Fyre Festival. Many who saw the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, have called me the “voice of reason.”After Fyre, I saw that my bitcoin investment returned 20x my principal and began deep research on the cryptocurrency industry. I later became Principal at a blockchain-focused venture fund called Wave Financial.
I left Wave Financial in 2019 to strike out on my own and continue to advise, coach, and invest in leading entrepreneurs.I once again fell in love with an industry – sustainable agriculture – and now lead business development at Steward.
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- Blockchain, FinTech, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Brazil, Denmark
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- t2.world — t2 is a decentralized publisher curated by communities. On t2, time is value and manifests subcultures. Together, we are the future of reading.
- The Fabricant — A digital fashion house leading the fashion industry towards a new sector of digital-only clothing.
- Arcadia Finance — Run decentralised leverage strategies on-chain
Blake Picquet is the co-founder of CUE Audio.
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- SaaS, Payments, Software
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Edge — Founded in 2018, Edge is an influencer marketing platform that brings smart solutions to influencer campaigns with the power of accurate data. The data-driven influencer platform enables users to see metrics such as reach, impressions, and engagement of all your influencers and their content across Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook.Edge allows youto master influencer campaign reporting by choosing from preset reporting dashboards and customise them to suit your reporting needs. Only Edge allows you to create bespoke reports. The fastest, smartest, easiest influencer management platform.
Brian Pokorny is a General Partner of SV Angel. Prior to this, he was at Airbnb, where he joined via an acquisition of DailyBooth/Batch. DailyBooth was a venture backed social media start-up that Brian led for 3 years as their CEO. Before this, Brian was a partner at SV Angel with David Lee and Ron Conway upon the launch of the firm. Prior toSV Angel he was a founding team member and partner at Baseline Ventures, a leading seed-stage investment firm. Before joining Baseline, Brian spent close to 4 years at Google within various positions in the Content Partnerships team and Direct Sales Organization. Before this, he had various roles within sales operations and finance at Juniper Networks, TIBCO Software, and Applied Materials. Brian graduated with a degree in Operations and Management Information Systems from Santa Clara University. Brian's first angel investment was in Twitter and he is also a personal angel investor in Square, OMGPOP (Acquired by Zynga), Tweetdeck (Acquired by Twitter), Milo (Acquired by eBay), Chomp (Acquired by Apple) and others. Brian has advisory positions with Ooyala (Acquired by Telstra), Rupture (Acquired by EA). At SV Angel, Brian has also originated investments in companies such as Instacart, Patreon, Mesosphere, Credit Karma, and foursquare.
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- Software, Apps, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, France, Canada
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- Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
- Plenty — Discover Plenty, the free money app built for couples. Track, budget, save and invest - all in one place. Grow wealthy, together.
- Float Health — Float Health is a mobile application that allows consumers to send a nurse to their house when a family member is ill. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Simon has worked in investment banking and corporate finance for nearly 20 years and from this has a strong insight into opportunities and challenges currently facing the market participants in wealth management. Simon started his career in leveraged finance and moved into corporate finance advisory where he helped companies raise debt and equitycapital as well as provided strategic advice for fast-growing businesses and start-ups. Simon has helped a number of innovative new businesses launch and grow and has seen first-hand the disruption to the financial services sector as established players are impacted by legacy costs, increased regulation, new entrants and better technologies.
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- Mobile, Employment, Recruiting
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- SonicJobs — Apply to your dream position with just one click, with the magic of AI. Sign up with SonicJobs today!
Alvaro Alvarez del Rio - Founder @ Boost Capital Partners
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- Software, Food and Beverage, Pet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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