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

Investor	Social Media United Kingdom investments
Michael Birch	4
Claire Valoti	3
Richard Brennan	3
Stefan Glänzer	3
Will Brooks	2
Chris Underhill	2
Brent Hoberman	2
Desigan Chinniah	2
Rajan Navani	2
Will Martin	2
Simon Murphy	2
Mandeep Singh	2
Stefano Martinetto	2
Peter Gabriel	2
Husayn Kassai	2
Stephen Bullock	2
Ken Olisa	2
Pablo Morenes	2
Stephen Bullock	2
Nick Mason	2
Graham Paterson	2
James Farnhill	2
Jag Singh	2
James Phipps	2
Gerry Campbell	1
Joi Ito	1
Matt Cooper	1
Jason Downes	1
Julian Weisser	1
Paul Walton	1
Laurent Philonenko	1
Blake Picquet	1
Raphaël Devreker	1
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman	1
Barnaby Weiner	1
Amir Nooriala	1
Sameer Singh	1
Mario Gabriele	1
Maxime Favier	1
Robin Knox	1
Ben Wynne-Simmons	1
Joyce Yang	1
Jeffrey Thomas	1
Rod Leefe	1
Jean-Charles Bully	1
Den Christian Bocassa	1
Bill Tai	1
Con Gornell	1
Michel Combes	1
Tanmay Bhat	1

Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo. He previously worked at Blab as a Co-Founder. Michael Birch attended Imperial College London.

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 provides a new way to make and consume interactive experiences on your phone with friends. Whatifi unlocks the ability to discuss, debate and decide what happens next in the movies you watch with friends and family, offering dozens of plotlines, character arcs, and endings.

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.

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.

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.
HEY HOLY — We’re transforming pet care — with a breed-specific health concept instead of one-size-fits-all, with longevity at its core
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.

Will Brooks - Founder & 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.

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

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, France, Germany

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.

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.

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 Global — Assiduus is a full service E-Commerce management company that specializes in an end to end value chain enabling clients to exponentially grow sales on ecommerce platforms, enhance brand visibility and improve customer retention.

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.

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.

Mandeep Singh is an Angel investor at multiple firms. He previously was the founding CEO at Trouva. Mandeep Singh studied Physics at the University of Cambridge.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
Prior Labs — Prior Labs develops Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) like TabPFN to solve AI's structured data challenge, enabling native understanding & boosting ML performance.
Bluebook — self-driving accounting

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

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.

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!

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 — 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.

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

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 — 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.

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

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

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.

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, Artificial Intelligence
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
Strange Loop Labs — Guru automates tax, insurance, and audit processes with generative AI
Lightning Reach — Lightning Reach is a financial support portal that makes it easy for people to find and apply for a wide range of personalised support in one place. This support can range from; charitable grants, local council schemes, help with bills and the cost of living crisis and benefits.

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

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,

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.

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.

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.

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).

Investment focus

Mobile, Social Media
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Real Estate
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Network
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, 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 — Handl is an online platform for vehicle & fleet servicing.
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.

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

Blake Picquet is the co-founder of CUE Audio.

Investment focus

SaaS, Payments, Software
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

Raphaël Devreker, Co-founder & co-CEO : 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.

Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe / -Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger) - Equity Markets - Real Estate - FX - Commodity - Bonds - Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT - Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories: - Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint - Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi - D2C / B2C - Food & Beverages - Pharma - Media & Entertainment

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Agnikul — Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Log 9 Materials — The spirit of innovation remains the cornerstone of every mission here at Log9. We have failed numerous times in this mission of ours, only to learn from them
Toffee Ride - Learning App for Classes I - IV — Toffee Ride is a learning App that is singularly focused on helping your child develop a thorough understanding of fundamental concepts.

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.

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

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

Founder of The Generalist and Generalist Capital.

Investment focus

B2B, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital app designed to help Generation Z become financially independent. It allows users to manage their own money with solutions such as PIX (Brazil’s “instant-payment” method), prepaid credit card, allowance management and a virtual card, in addition to features that let users customise the app’s design and a marketplace withdiscounts on Gen Z’s most desired brands. Structured as a financial hub, NG.CASH aims to accompany its clients throughout their lives and increase financial literacy in the region.
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.
Levels — Levels helps you see how food affects your health with data from biosensors like continuous glucose monitors (CGMs)

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.

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 — Handl is an online platform for vehicle & fleet servicing.
My Probate Partner — My Probate Partner is a platform that offers free guides and paid-for tools to help consumers manage someone's affairs after they die without expensive legal help.

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.

Joyce Yang - Founder @ Global Coin Research

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michel Combes was the Chief Executive Officer of Assystem.

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.

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."
Offline — Offline is a private members' community for the top 10% tech founders and CEOs in India. Apply online to become a member.
infinyte.club — The ultimate wealth product for intelligent investors: track your net worth, manage public and private market investments & grow wealth across traditional & new-age assets.