Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors in United Kingdom in January 2026

Investor	Social Media United Kingdom investments
Michael Birch	4
Stefan Glänzer	3
Richard Brennan	3
Claire Valoti	3
Bill Liao	2
Ken Olisa	2
Desigan Chinniah	2
Rajan Navani	2
Simon Murphy	2
Peter Gabriel	2
James Phipps	2
Will Martin	2
Graham Paterson	2
James Farnhill	2
Will Brooks	2
Brent Hoberman	2
Nick Mason	2
Stephen Bullock	2
Stephen Bullock	2
Amir Nooriala	2
Mandeep Singh	2
Pablo Morenes	2
Jag Singh	2
Stefano Martinetto	2
Husayn Kassai	2
Chris Underhill	2
Paul Forster	1
Balaji Srinivasan	1
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	1
Laurent Philonenko	1
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman	1
Sameer Singh	1
Jeffrey Thomas	1
Alvaro Alvarez del Rio	1
Marc Weinstein	1
Joi Ito	1
Maxime Favier	1
Bill Wade	1
Alex Macdonald	1
John Kelly	1
Julian Weisser	1
Callum Illsley	1
Fiona Pathiraja	1
Robert (Rob) Reeg	1
Vivek Kumar	1
Gerry Campbell	1
Jason Downes	1
Blake Picquet	1
Barnaby Weiner	1
Robin Knox	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 — Discover amazing camping and glamping sites across the UK. Family-friendly accommodation, surfing spots, and outdoor adventures. Book your perfect holiday today!
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.

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

Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
HEY HOLY — We’re transforming pet care — with a breed-specific health concept instead of one-size-fits-all, with longevity at its core
Arthos — Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries.

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.

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.

Bill Liao joined Founders Pledge as Pledger in 2020. Bill Liao is the European Investment Partner at SOSV, investing in, supporting and mentoring companies and startups at all stages of growth. Bill Founded SOSV’s biotech practice and runs IndieBio in Europe. Bill comes to SOSV with a wealth of experiences, both in the public and private sectors. Aco-founder of CoderDojo, a free global network formed to assist young people with learning computer programming, Bill also co-founded XING, a pioneering enterprise social networking platform. Prior to these endeavors, Bill served as COO of Davnet, a telecommunications carrier. Bill has also distinguished himself as a diplomat, serving as a special diplomatic envoy for St Kitt’s and Nevis, with an emphasis on sustainable development and the environment. Author of three books, he is a regular speaker at many events and venues such as The London School of Economics, The World Economic Forum, The Globe Forum in Sweden, The House of Commons and TED as well as TEDx. He is Founder of WeForest that has planted over 9 million trees globally.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

PlayMob — Playmob is a games platform for brands with purpose. We connect the most meaningful brands to billions of mobile gamers, to take action and make the world a better place while positively boosting the brands bottom line. Through leveraging playable-ads with our unique impact methodology, harnessing media space within existing hit mobile titlesand tracking powerful values-based data and business data, Playmob aims to be the first global distribution platform, enabling brands to reach and engage gamers with their purpose. Playmob also benefits the publisher by meaningfully engaging with the player. We see engagement rates of 30% to 50%.
Teachable — Explore a curated collection of articles delving into emerging technologies, industry insights, and innovative strategies. From cybersecurity and AI to logistics optimization and automation, our content provides valuable perspectives to help you stay ahead in today's.
Whiteyboard — Whiteyboard has come up with an ultra inexpensive white board that sticks on to any wall, weighs less than 2 pounds and gets you working in seconds.

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.

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 — Scale your brand worldwide with Assiduus Global, a Cross-Border E-Commerce accelerator offering AI-driven growth and brand protection.

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.

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.

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

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Loadsure — Loadsure is a spot freight cargo insurance company.
Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.

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.

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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 — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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 — Launch your own fully branded community app today. Engage, grow, and monetize your audience with complete control and seamless customization options.

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.

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.

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

Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed
United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sylvi — Sylvi.ai is an AI-powered language learning platform designed to help users achieve fluency through natural, conversational practice.
Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
ComplyStream — ComplyStream enables faster and smarter FinCrime alert resolution by unifying your fragmented data, communication and workflows in a single AI-native platform.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Droidrun — Droidrun is a cutting-edge software development company that specializes in creating innovative solutions enabling AI agents to seamlessly access and control smartphone applications. By leveraging advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, their software facilitates smooth interactions between AI systems and mobile devices,empowering agents to autonomously navigate, operate, and optimize a wide range of apps on both Android and iOS platforms.
Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
Fractile — Fractile is designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at 1/10th the cost.

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

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
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Anytype — An operating system for the new Internet
Machinery Partner — Machinery Partner is a marketplace buying heavy machinery and equipment directly from manufacturers. Browse our range of construction and mining equipment.
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.

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

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!

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

Paul Forster

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Blitz Electric Mobility — Blitz provides electric vehicles and fleet management software to food and beverage delivery, courier, and logistics companies.
Paradigm — The AI-powered way to do spreadsheet work. Set up, edit, populate, and analyze sheets with assistant. Enrich empty cells with data from trusted sources.
Inversion — Inversion is a technology-first investment company that acquires and transforms legacy businesses with blockchain technology.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
Newsrooms.ai — Newsrooms.ai is an AI-powered content production and management platform that enables businesses and news organizations to automate their whole content pipeline—from research and content generation to publishing across many digital channels.

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

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.

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

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

Alvaro Alvarez del Rio - Founder @ Boost Capital Partners

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Pet
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Howbout — Share time & actually keep up with friends
Pourwell — Introducing the world's first subscription club for premium alcohol free spirits
Volta — Design, perform and stream your own mixed reality experience in just minutes.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Drosera — Drosera is a decentralized incident response system that uses hidden security intentions to contain and mitigate attacks.
Degen War$ — Degen War$ is a player-versus-player NFT card game that takes place entirely on the blockchain.
Uranium Digital — Uranium Digital is astartup that uses tokenization to target the uranium market. The business represents uranium ore with blockchain tokens, facilitating smooth transactions in this highly regulated and initially underfunded industry.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Alex Macdonald is the Co-Founder and CEO Sequel. He previously Co-Founded Velocity Black. He attended The University of Manchester.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Kalder — Kalder is a unified web3 brand loyalty platform for brands and creators to drive meaningful engagement, onboard new users, and reward superfan communities.
Stelia — Stelia builds distributed AI platforms that scale globally. Research-driven intelligent systems for healthcare, education, and enterprise operations worldwide
Aurora — The next generation lifestyle OS for post-exit & late-stage founders.

John Kelly - Project Manager @ RQtwo

Investment focus

Internet, Social Media, Food Delivery
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

EarlyBird — EarlyBird is a postal snacking service that delivers healthy snacks to its users’ doorstep. It provides its users with TasteBox, 5 healthy snacks and 2 unique teas, to help them through the working week. Its TasteBox also contains music and art from up and coming artists. EarlyBird was launched in 2014 and is based in London, England.

Julian Weisser is a Co-Founder and Head of Recruiting at On Deck.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hyperspell — Hyperspell is the data platform that lets you build your AI-enabled apps faster. Let your users connect to dozens of services, and use Hyperspell’s end-to-end data pipeline to get structured data with a single API call.
Supermemory — Supermemory offers a platform for organizing and retrieving saved knowledge through a combination of memory APIs, semantic search, and integrated tools. It enables users and developers to import content from documents, bookmarks, and external services, and then query that content using natural language. Supermemory supports workflows like building“second brain” systems, intelligent agents, and knowledge bases by connecting context across documents. It provides permission controls and integration with large language models to allow applications to maintain stateful, evolving memory. Supermemory also addresses use-cases in research, content writing, support systems, and enterprise knowledge management.
The Network — A people search engine by The Network

Callum Illsley

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Robert (Rob) Reeg

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.

Vivek Kumar

Investment focus

Mobile, Employment, Recruiting
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.