Top 50 Social Network Startup Investors in United Kingdom

Investor	Social Network United Kingdom investments
Octopus Ventures	3
Female Founders Fund	3
Development Bank of Wales	3
Angels Den	2
MOHARA	2
Sweet Capital	2
Nicolas Steegmann	2
Julien Romanetto	2
Paul Walton	2
Ville Vesterinen	2
Ian Hathaway	2
Ryan Petersen	2
Coral Reef IO	2
Eduardo Ronzano	2
Philipp Moehring	2
La Famiglia	2
Northstar Ventures	2
Deepali Nangia	2
Frederic Montagnon	2
Robin Knox	2
Hotspur Capital	2
Felix Capital	2
GuideStar Ventures	2
Andy Chung	2
Partech	2
Greycroft	2
Index Ventures	2
Marek Gumienny	2
Hambro Perks Ltd.	1
Abdo Achkar	1
Miller Research (UK) Ltd	1
Social Tech Trust	1
kaushal kumar	1
Tudor Investments	1
Advent Life Sciences	1
Gobi Partners	1
Redrice Ventures	1
Wayra	1
Ventura Capital	1
KM Capital	1
Magnus Rausing	1
S4C Digital Media	1
Fuel Ventures	1
Quiet Capital	1
24 Haymarket	1
June Angelides	1
Stephen Morana	1
Sonder Capital	1
Phil Boddy	1
Graham Hobson	1

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
Swiipr Technologies — Restore passenger and staff confidence with contactless solutions post Covid 19/ SARS by embracing Swiipr’s mobile and web technology solutions for issuing; Welfare for disruption, compensation, crisis, staff, operational expenses and more! Automate and streamline operations. Reduce paper and plastic consumption. Reduce human touch points andgo contactless

Female Founders Fund is a seed stage venture fund that invests exclusively in female-founded companies. We believe strongly in the exponential power of exceptional female talent. We invest in e-commerce, media, platforms, advertising and web-enabled services businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Oula Health — Oula is a modern maternity clinic combining the best of obstetrics and midwifery care to deliver an evidence-based and personalized pregnancy experience
Rising Team — Plug and play team sessions that lead to deeper connection, personal growth, and team effectiveness
Suma Wealth — SUMA is a revolutionary financial wellness company with the mission to engage, educate, and empower the Latinx community via a holistic approach of Digital Media, Experiences, and FinTech. By creating culturally relevant content, virtual experiences, and providing financial tools that demystify and reimagine financial wellness throughentertainment, we aim to become the trusted source to help Latinos own their economic power, overcome financial challenges, and better prepare for a more prosperous future.

Development Bank of Wales is formed in 2001 by the Welsh Assembly Government. Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hope Macy — Hope Macy is a dynamic and expanding financial technology company. Its primary focus is on consumers who require additional security in managing their money, as well as those in the subprime sector.
Validient — Onboard Clients With Confidence - Automated Compliance Software, AML and due diligence solutions. Empower your business.
Peppercorn — Peppercorn is an insurance company that engages in auto insurance and financial services. The company uses technology to create smarter customer service experiences that give more control to customers, starting with car insurance. Peppercorn uses cutting-edge conversational AI to change the whole car insurance experience.

Angels Den is an angel-led investment platform that connects fast-growing companies with experienced investors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
OnCare — Home care software | care management system
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.

MOHARA is a digital product agency, enabling entrepreneurs and corporates to fulfil their potential by applying our ten years of software product expertise to craft innovative and disruptive digital products.

Investment focus

Health Care, Marketing, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

WYSPR — Wyspr is a London-based AdTech startup specializing in influencer marketing.
Lealtà — Lealtà is a SaaS company that develops a patient membership platform based on a neurobehavioral framework that drives patient loyalty and healthy choices for better care and financial outcomes.
Acolyte Health — Acolyte Health is a patient engagement solution that creates a better outcome. It provides personalized instructions, connections, education, and more.It provides a more effective call-to-action instructional video, in several languages, for the 70% of patients who don't grasp their treatment plan or who need to better prepare for their nextvisit. This automated interactive video material was created with the caregiver's digital twin.

Sweet is the King.com (Candy Crush) founders' evergreen investment fund. We are passionate about funding the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Pachama — Harnessing AI to drive carbon capture and protect global forests
The Expert — Book consultations with the world's top design experts
Masters — Train mind and body on the Masters app with full workout programs designed and run by the world's best athletes. Join today and start training like a pro.

Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AniML — Doly: Generate outstanding 3D product videos with speed and ease.
Entroview — Entroview is a deep-tech startup specializing in battery software diagnostics.
Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.

Jlien Romanettois the Co-Founder and Product at Arianee. Julien Romanetto attended Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)l.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

getinside — Getinside is a retail media platform for e-merchants. The company delivers advertising experiences by enhancing the parcels of e-merchants who are trusted by their consumers. Getinside was established in 2022.
MeltingSpot — One platform to broadcast your lives, initiate discussions, gather your content, manage your audiences and much more. Get MeltingSpot for free.
Morpho Labs — A permissionless and non-custodial lending protocol. Earn interest on over-collateralized lending and borrow digital assets using immutable infrastructure.

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 — We deliver car care services to you. Order from professional valets, oil, adblue, washer and care services and subscribe to monthly services to save money.
Just Venue — Just Venue is an online platform that aims to socialise event space booking, by connecting event hosts and organisers with space owners and managers. Just Venue aims to connect event hosts and organisers with venue owners and managers.The website has taken inspiration from other community platforms like AirBnB, Uber and TaskRabbit.

Co-founder and CEO at Grey Area.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Starcart — Starcart is an online store that offers a wide range of products and allows the customers to compare its prices. The company was founded in 2021.
Kleoverse — Work with the leading Web3 projects to build your skill-based portfolio and earn objective Proof-of-Talent.
Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.

Ian Hathaway is Research Director at the Center for American Entrepreneurship, where he leads content development efforts, publishes research and commentary, and advises on policy and strategy.He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a research fellow at the Technology and Policy Research Initiative at BostonUniversity, and an adjunct professor at New York University.Ian has published for prominent research institutions, universities, non-profits, and businesses, and is regularly cited in leading press outlets for his views and research on entrepreneurship, including in The New York Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among many others.He has also been an advisor to organizations in the information technology, media, life sciences, venture capital, non-profit, government, and education sectors, on a range of research, public policy, and strategy issues.Previously, Ian was an economist at the Federal Reserve, World Trade Organization, and Bloomberg, and founded Ennsyte Economics. Ian is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where he studied economics and political economy.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Colombia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Figuro — Figuro is reshaping the brokerage channel for insurance companies in LATAM by transforming how insurance is bought, sold and designed. That means no more photocopies, no printed forms, no waiting for hours or days to get a quote or a policy. Today, more than 60% of insurance sales in the region are made through a channel that hasn't changed in50 years, that relies mostly on human activity, paper or Excel -for the innovators-. We are more effective and efficient than any other traditional broker in the market for individuals and families.
Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.

Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
TruckSmarter — Our mission is to empower truck drivers lives across the US through technology and grit.
Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.

Coral Reef is an investor in technology and creativity.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Social Network
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pimoroni — Pimoroni is a U.K.-based company that designs, manufactures, and sells quality products for makers, geeks, and educators. It is the creator of Pibow case for Raspberry Pi. In 2013, Pimoroni launched its maker shop and started to offer products from Adafruit, SparkFun, Technology Will Save Us, Sugru, and many other maker businesses. The company hasalso invested in a full circuit board assembly production line, including pick and place, reflow, and wave soldering and has begun to design its own hobbyist electronics.Pimoroni also launched a range of HAT boards, including the Unicorn HAT, Explorer HAT Pro, Propeller HAT, Piano HAT, and Display-O-Tron HAT. Recently it launched its Picade, started providing guides and tutorials on its new learning portal, increased the range of products on its shop to over 850 different SKUs, and grown its team to seventeen people who design, engineer, test, assemble, package, and ship all from its premises in Sheffield, the U.K.
The Dots — Professional networking for the new world of work. Get advice. Meet collaborators. Find jobs. Upskill at events.
Tantrum XYZ — Tantrum XYZ is a web platform and an online retail store. It offers recommendations, tips, kids gear, and events. The company sells kid’s clothes, toys, and general parenting equipment. Tantrum XYZ was founded in Shane Feng and Ben Wynne-Simmons in 2016; and is headquartered in London, England.

Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.
Morpho Labs — A permissionless and non-custodial lending protocol. Earn interest on over-collateralized lending and borrow digital assets using immutable infrastructure.

Philipp is an earliest stage technology investor in Berlin. He invested in more than 100 companies across various sectors, including open source software, ML/AI enabled SaaS, and deep tech from synthetic biology to materials science.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Levity — Train your own AI on documents, images, or text data to perform daily, repetitive tasks so your team can reach the next level of productivity. No code required.
consalio — consalio enables customers to gain transparency over ongoing consulting activities and costs in the company.
Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.

We are an early-stage venture capital fund backing the best tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the US

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Parloa — Transform your customer service across all channels with our customized, enterprise-ready contact center AI platform.
Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
NaroIQ — Discover how we make Money Matter through out innovative fund infrastructure, enabling fair and redistributive earnings in the ETF and fund market.

Northstar Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in innovative solutions to help solve the most pressing societal issues we have today. Our ticket sizes range from £100k to £500k into early stage tech companies. We provide added value in leveraging our network of university partners, funders, non-executive directors and talent to supporteach investment.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Lightox — Lightox has developed a unique range of molecular tools for use in imaging, therapeutics and assay development. These unique probes are smaller than any other commercially available fluorescent product. They offer the option of using our technologies as freely-moving probes that readily incorporate into cells or with a range of flexible linkers togive specificity to your unique applications and research needs.
DayaTani — DayaTani supplies farmers with comprehensive services to increase their productivity.
Circadacare — Circadacare helps elderly people and people with dementia live independently for longer with an integrated circadian lighting and home health monitoring system.

Deepali Nangia

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jude — Hey, we're Jude. A healthcare start-up on a mission is to bring bladder care into the mainstream.
Juniver — Science-based recovery program for eating disorders. Free yourself from urges, strengthen your decision-making, and get back to living your life.
Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.

Entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experience, Frédéric has founded, ran and exited 4 companies for a total value of more than USD 400 million. He has been involved in the field of cryptocurrency as an investor since 2013.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!

Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
Handl — We deliver car care services to you. Order from professional valets, oil, adblue, washer and care services and subscribe to monthly services to save money.
My Probate Partner — The better way to navigate probate in Scotland. Avoid large probate solicitor bills by completing your application with our 5-star fixed-price support service.

Hotspur Capital is a financial organization.

Investment focus

Software, Location Based Services, Mobile
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Femeda — Femeda provides groundbreaking technology for the treatment of urinary incontinence for women worldwide. Get in touch today to find out more.
Screach — See Free Offer!No credit card/contract required!Live Sports Offers!See more info See more
Greengage Lighting — Poultry lighting and poultry sensors for precision livestock farming, scheme compliance and animal welfare

A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

TechWolf — TechWolf uses AI to bring you an automated, continuous and objective view on the workforce skills you have, the skills you need and the gap in between.
Wordsmith AI — Best in class legal ai for in house legal teams. Wordsmith is used by some of the best companies in the world. Powerful products include legal ai chatbot, legal ai document generation and a whole tool kit of ai for legal documents.
TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.

GuideStar Ventures is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Video
Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ask-AI — ASK's AI & NLP analyzes text-heavy company knowledge and customer communications to reveal critical product insights and precise answers for CS teams.
GlossAI — Detect, analyze, and monitor every brand-related video with GlossAi's Social Watching platform. Enhance your brand protection, get video insights, real-time marketing, and influencer selection. Monitor and analyze videos to elevate your brand's online presence today!
LayerX — LayerX enables organizations to turn any browser into the most protected & manageable workspace, protecting from web-borne threats and browsing risk

Andy Chung is the Partner and Founder of Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company. He previously worked at AngelList as a Partner. Andy Chung attended University of Cambridge.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Denmark, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.
Cosmos Video — Team spaces designed for remote teams to be productive and engaged.

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

FlexAI — We are unlocking the future of Machine Intelligence by rearchitecting the compute infrastructure
Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
HD — HD is a healthcare and surgery marketplace, powering over 1,500+ healthcare providers including some of the biggest hospitals. HD connects patients to hospitals, clinics, operating rooms, and surgeons while offering healthcare financing solutions to increase access to affordable care and surgeries. To date, over 250,000 patients have benefited frommore accessible and affordable healthcare and surgeries through the company's platform.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pika — The idea-to-video platform that sets your creativity in motion.
Stability AI — AI for Humanity. Stability AI is a solution studio dedicated to innovating ideas. By using collective intelligence principles and augmented technology we design and implement feasible solutions to seemingly intractable problems.
Thoughtly — Thoughtfully assists companies in creating and implementing AI speech agents that mimic humans.

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Rohlik — Rohlik is an innovative grocery delivery startup that offers a 90-minute same-day delivery service. Since its inception, Rohlik has been growing and is on track to EUR 300 mil. revenues in 2020. Rohlík was founded in 2014 by Marek Sacha and Tomas Cupr and is headquartered in Karlín, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
Wordsmith AI — Best in class legal ai for in house legal teams. Wordsmith is used by some of the best companies in the world. Powerful products include legal ai chatbot, legal ai document generation and a whole tool kit of ai for legal documents.
Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.

Marek Gumienny - Non Executive Director @ Sharedband Limited

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Privacy
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Privitar — Informatica is an Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader that brings data to life by empowering businesses to realize the transformative power of their most critical assets.
MediSieve — MediSieve is a multi-award-winning medical device company developing Magnetic Blood Filtration (MBF), a platform technology for the treatment of blood-borne diseases by physically removing disease relevant targets directly from a patient’s bloodstream. MBF is an extracorporeal technology, similar to dialysis. A patient's blood is continuouslycirculated through an external blood loop containing the MediSieve system. Targeted magnetic particles (TB-MPs) are infused into the loop, binding specifically to disease-relevant targets in the patient's blood. The blood then flows through a magnetic filter which captures the particles and bound targets and the remainder of the blood returns to the patient unaffected; the TB-MPs never enter the patient’s body. MediSieve is based at the Imperial Incubator in White City, London. It has dedicated workshop and laboratory facilities (including capacity for ELISAs, Flow Cytometry and human blood testing) in which products are developed and validated.
StoryTerrace — StoryTerrace helps you capture your story in a beautiful book with professional writers and face-to-face interviews

Hambro Perks partner with founders and entrepreneurs to support growth businesses at all stages of investment cycle. Hambro Perks has specialised and dedicated investment teams, working across a number of funds. In addition to their flagship Venture, EIS and co-investment funds, Hambro Perks offers a number of specialist differentiated investmentstrategies, including Hambro Perks Environmental Technology, Special Situations, and Access, which invests in venture secondaries.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Medwing — MEDWING serves as the most trusted and convenient platform for finding opportunities and working in healthcare. From temporary to permanent staffing, we simplify hiring, allowing healthcare professionals to do what they do best -- care. MEDWING Berlin-based company wants to empower healthcare candidates to work in a way that suits their individuallifestyles and to support hospitals and care facilities in recruiting and human resource management.
Paytrix — Access the best payments infrastructure around the world, all through a single platform.
Vedanta Biosciences — Vedanta Biosciences is a developer of immunotherapies designed to treat immune-mediated and infectious diseases. The company's immunotherapies include a suite of proprietary assays to select pharmacologically potent strains, vast proprietary datasets from human interventional studies, and facilities for cGMP-compliant manufacturing ofrationally-defined bacterial consortia in powder form, enabling physicians to access live bacteria drug to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases easily.It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Abdo Achkar is the Founder & CEO at Sowlutions.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
United States, Lebanon, Japan

Portfolio highlights

GoBEBA — GoBEBA is an on-demand e-commerce logistics platform operating in emerging Africa markets. We bring together local merchants, consumers and logistics service providers to enable efficient discovery and ordering of frequently purchased products and services in one platform. This combination delivers an asset-light convenient, multi-categoryon-demand ordering service for everyday essentials. We do this by aggregating demand for merchants through a curated digital marketplace which connects merchants directly to consumers and logistics service providers in an on-demand basis . GoBeba is an ‘everything’ app’ for a wide range of services including grocery shopping, food delivery, cargo, and many other on-demand services.
uPaint — Discover uPaint, premium paint by numbers kits for all ages. We craft all components in-house, ensuring top quality. Customize any image to create your own masterpiece. It's the perfect, thoughtful gift idea that's stress-free and easy for everyone. Experience a relaxing and joyful activity with stunning results.
Ur My Type — Ur My Type is an app that uses personality types to make dating and finding friends online more meaningful.

Miller Research (UK) is a consultancy working to create and support sustainable communities across the UK.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Social Media
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Blurrt — Blurrt is a leading social analytics & content software platform. Blurrt allows users to collect, listen, showcase, anaylse and engage with their social audiences in real time.Blurrt collects & processes thousands of social media posts in real time, using sophisticated search queries. Our platform allows users to surface interestingcontent in a fast and easy to use way, whilst our purpose built analytics provide measurable insights on such things as sentiment/emotional reaction, topics of conversation, volume of data, reach, gender demographics and geo-location.

Social Tech Trust is a UK's leading dedicated investor of socially motivated tech.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Education
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TapSOS — TapSOS is an app for a non-verbal method of contacting the emergency services. It will promote inclusivity and help transform the delivery of emergency services.
RightsDD — RightsDD is an award winning startup. Use RightsDD's platform to assess and monitor suppliers for slavery risk. Train employees with RightsDD's online and in-person anti-slavery courses. Benefit from specialist consulting.
Carers Trust — Carers Trust provides basic digital skills for young adult carers to help them achieve their aspirations.A carer is anyone who cares, unpaid, for a friend or family member who due to illness, disability, a mental health problem or an addiction cannot cope without their support.Anyone could be a carer – a 15-year-old girl looking after a parentwith an alcohol problem, a 40-year-old man caring for his partner who has terminal cancer, or an 80-year-old woman looking after her husband who has Alzheimer's disease.

kaushal kumar

Investment focus

Social, Fashion, Internet
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Little Black Door — Little Black Door, LBD - The Social Wardrobe A free wardrobe sharing application that enables its users to upload their wardrobe, interact with their fashion items & share them on social networks We’re out to disrupt the way in which we engage with our fashion assets.

Founded in 1980 by Paul Tudor Jones II, the firm currently manages $21 billion. The firm's investment strategies include global macro trading, fundamental equity investing in the U.S. and Europe, emerging markets, venture capital, commodities, event driven strategies and technical trading systems."

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Telecommunications
Series A, Funding Round, Series D
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

TransMedics — TransMedics is a medical device company that addresses the unmet need for better, more effective organ transplant technologies. The company has developed the first commercial, portable warm blood perfusion system that allows for a new type of organ transplant, called a living organ transplant. This technology, called an Organ Care System, or OCS,is designed to maintain organs in a warm, functioning state outside of the body during transport from organ donor to recipient. The OCS could potentially increase organ availability and improve outcomes for the growing population of patients with end-stage organ failure in need of a transplant, bridging the widening gap between the number of organs available and the number of recipients awaiting transplants.TransMedics was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts,
Pepgen — PepGen empowers nucleic acid therapeutics to go the distance. PepGen's ambition is to unlock the potential of nucleic acid therapeutics by leveraging the drug delivery capabilities of their innovative product engine. PepGen's initial focus is on the application of this technology to the efficacious delivery of antisense oligonucleotides,and they are advancing novel conjugate therapeutics to the clinic.
Farmers Business Network — FBN helps family farmers maximize their farm's profit potential by leveraging technology to reduce the cost of production and maximize the value of crops.

Advent Life Sciences is a venture team investing in life sciences businesses. The team consists of 11 professionals with extensive scientific, medical and operational experience, and a long-standing track record of entrepreneurial and investment success across the UK, Europe and the US. The Firm invests in a range of sectors within life sciences,principally in new drug discovery, enabling technologies, and med tech. Realizations in the last three years include Algeta, Avila, CN Creative, EUSA, Micromet. Current investments include Acutus, Biocartis, Cellnovo, f2G, NeRRe,

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Moximed — Moximed Inc. is dedicated to improving the standard of care for patients with osteoarthritis, and is investigating therapies to treat a number of affected joints. The lead product, the KineSpring® Knee Implant System, is designed for patients with knee osteoarthritis.
Tridek-One — Tridek-One is a private biotechnology company founded in 2018, based on groundbreaking research by our scientific founders at INSERM, Paris on the role of CD31 in the modulation of the immune response.
PIC Therapeutics — PIC Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on fundamentally changing how we treat cancer by developing a new generation of therapeutics based on the modulation of RNA translation.

Gobi Partners is the most interconnected Pan-Asian venture capital firm with US$1.5 billion in assets under management (AUM). Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, the firm supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets.Founded in 2002, Gobi has raised 15 funds to date, invested inover 350 startups and nurtured 10 unicorns. Gobi has grown to 15 locations across key markets in Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Manila, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore and Surabaya.As a Participant of the United Nations Global Compact, Gobi Partners is committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption to ensure long-term value creation and sustainability across our portfolio.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, Malaysia, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Carsome — Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowingthe customers to sell their cars.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.
CompAsia — Device lifecycle solutions for a greener world.
iMotorbike — iMotorbike is the #1 motorbike online E-commerce website in South East Asia, providing a fast, secure, simple and trouble free online experience with a wide variety of product range, setting itself apart from what exists in the market. iMotorbike offers three main categories: motorbikes, parts and accessories. For a complete 360° experience,iMotorbike also enables users the access to services such as insurance and financing. At iMotorbike we always strive to offer our customers the best experience through a complete and efficient online ecosystem for motorbike users, lovers and professionals.

We support Founders creating premium consumer brands, platforms and related tech solutions.

Investment focus

Fashion, Retail, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FlexSea — FlexSea develops novel biomaterials derived from renewable marine resources to replace current primary plastic packaging.
Spacegoods — Spacegoods | The Next Generation Wellness Brand We create all-in-one mushroom & adaptogen blends that help you unlock your very best self - tastes great, super potent, made in England - try for yourself today...
The Self Space — Self Space offers contemporary mental health services. They also offer a range of session options including one on one therapy, couples therapy, student sessions, supervision, executive coaching, and team dynamics sessions. They provide therapy for some of the corporate industries, including tech, finance, advertising, marketing, hospitality andfashion.

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
Remuner — Remuner's variable pay software automates sales commission systems, integrating company and employee objectives and incentives. Its commission management platform leverages AI and analytics to improve performance.
Depasify — The all in one platform for dealing with digital assets. Reduce costs and time to market in a secure way.

Ventura Capital is an investment firm focused on late-stage high-growth companies in global technology sectors. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series C, Seed
United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Playermaker — PlayerMaker is a football tech startup that provides coaching enhancement and player development solutions for football academies. It features on-footwear sensors that provide detection of foot and ball interactions that helps coaches to assess the player performance. PlayerMaker was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Hoxton, London.
The Mobility House — Their approach within the world of smart energy is to realize e-mobility - by emphasizing on individual mobility and fuelled by energy from regenerative resources. Companies and individuals can easily enter the electric mobility area - in a safe, sustainable and affordable way, thereby walking away from fossil fuel consuming solutions from thepast.Ever since 2009 The Mobility House has become one of Europe’s leading providers for electric mobility.Within the fast-growing market environment they specialize on charging solutions and managing the battery pack for energy storage. They stand for an international access to e-mobility – which is safe and customer-oriented. The quality of their products combined with reasonable prices and optimum customer service, ensure satisfaction of their customers and their business partner.Operating b2b with the automotive industry, leasing services and energy utilities, and b2c with EV customers: Fulfilling the customers´ needs is their benchmark for competition within the market.
Zilch — Buy now, pay later with Zilch. Shop thousands of brands online or in store and pay off your purchase over 6 weeks in 4 instalments.

KM Capital is an early-stage venture fund headed by Adam Kamani, CEO of Kamani Property Group and co-founder of prettylittlething.com. The founding team has considerable experience of scaling several well-known businesses to IPO (Betfair, ZPG, Boohoo) and we add value by sharing our experiences and wider business network with companies at acritical stage in their development.We predominantly focus on consumer tech opportunities where we can leverage our experience and network to make a difference.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Wellness, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Scan.com — Use scan.com to find the best medical imaging centers near you Find an MRI scan, CT scan, X-ray Scan, or other diagnostic imaging scan with scan.com.
Midnite — Building the future of esports betting
Supportwave — NerdApp offers online or on-site tech support for your home or small business. Just sign up and book a Nerd instantly or schedule at your convenience!

Magnus Rausing

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Lick — Lick | Paints, Wallpapers and Supplies. Your Room, Covered
By Rotation — Rent over 25000+ designer fashion items online from our free app. Discover luxury designer dresses, clothing, bags and accessories from your trending favorite brands.
Anch.ai — Anch.AI is an Ethical AI Governance platform that helps you comply with EU regulations and avoid risks and penalties when developing and using AI as part of your business.

S4C is the only Welsh language television channel in the world. As a public service broadcaster, it commissions independent producers from across Wales to make the majority of its programmes. ITV Cymru Wales is also commissioned to produce programmes. BBC Cymru Wales provides around 10 hours of programming per week for S4C, including the news anddaily soap Pobol y Cwm, funded out of the licence fee.S4C broadcasts over 115 hours of programmes each week, including sport, drama, music, factual, entertainment and events, across a range of platforms, including online. S4C offers comprehensive services for children: Cyw for younger viewers, Stwnsh for older children and programmes for teenagers. And the programmes are available in HD on Sky and Freesat in Wales and across the UK.Since April 2013, most of S4C's income comes from the licence fee via the BBC Trust with a proportion coming from the UK government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). S4C also has some powers to generate its own commercial income, for example, through advertising sales.

Investment focus

TV, Internet, Software
Seed, Series B
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Blurrt — Blurrt is a leading social analytics & content software platform. Blurrt allows users to collect, listen, showcase, anaylse and engage with their social audiences in real time.Blurrt collects & processes thousands of social media posts in real time, using sophisticated search queries. Our platform allows users to surface interestingcontent in a fast and easy to use way, whilst our purpose built analytics provide measurable insights on such things as sentiment/emotional reaction, topics of conversation, volume of data, reach, gender demographics and geo-location.
Inuk Networks — nuk Networks Limited is a triple-play service provider which has capitalized on the rapid growth of broadband technologies by developing a platform for the distribution of broadcast quality TV and carrier-class telephony over closed IP-based networks.

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Lunio — Drive performance marketing efficiency by cutting out invalid traffic across all paid marketing channels. Reach more users with the same ad spend.
Eleos — Get income protection insurance online with Eleos. All policies include 24x7 Virtual GP, gym discounts and other benefits.
StudioSpace — StudioSpace provides brands with on-demand access to the world’s best specialist digital and marketing services. Our platform users benefit from a single umbrella contract to access all of our agencies, enabling maximum choice without complexity in procurement or onboarding delays.

Move the world forward with quiet capital. We are builders who invest in remarkable founders from day zero.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.
Bedrock Ocean Exploration — Bedrock is building smarter, more efficient ways to collect and manage seafloor data.
Speakeasy — Speakeasy product & overview

24Haymarket is an investment network which included several highly-experienced private equity and venture capital investors, seasoned entrepreneurs, and senior operators. Investing up to £5 million in growth companies in the UK and Europe. They invested their own capital in direct alignment with entrepreneurs and actively support their growthagenda and join the board of the companies in which they invest. Since inception in 2011, 24Haymarket has invested in more than 50 high-growth businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

myGwork — The global recruitment & networking hub for LGBTQ+ professionals. Find jobs in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender friendly organisations. Grow your LGBTQ+ professional network. Read the latest LGBTQ+ professional news.
Previsico — Previsico is a spinOut company from Loughborough University specialising in modelling flooding in real-time, using weather predictions to make street-level flood nowcasts and forecasts. The company's mission is to be the leading global provider of cutting-edge flood prediction that saves lives and livelihoods.Its FloodMap Live producesround the clock street-level flood risk predictions and analytics. Uniquely, these are continuously modelled and updated using a combination of different weather forecasts. This allows the company to map the likelihood of short and long-term surface water events in real-time to the street level.
Huq Industries — The leading monitoring platform for footfall, dwell, catchment and traffic flows valued by government, retail and real-estate. Used by 50+ councils!

June Angelides MBE - Investor, Entrepreneur and SpeakerBorn in London and raised in Lagos, June joined Samos Investments in 2018, investing in high growth European businesses. Prior to this, she started the first child-friendly coding school in the UK, Mums in Tech, which taught over 250 women to code in 3 years. She also held roles on theVenture Debt Team and Early Stage Banking Team at Silicon Valley Bank. An active part of the tech and startup ecosystem, she sits on the boards of Cajigo, Women of the Year, Ruka and Everpress, a mentor at Oxford University and runs mentoring circles for founders and aspiring VCs. She is a founding member and judge on the Debut Sessions, a monthly pitch session for founders seeking seed investment. She is passionate about flexible working and getting more women and girls into tech. She is a Columnist at The Financial Times. She has been named by the Financial Times as the 6th Most Influential Tech Leader and by Computer Weekly as one of the most Influential Women in Tech. June received an Honorary Fellowship at the Institute of Engineering and Technology and was awarded an MBE for services to women in technology. She was recently joined the UK Government Taskforce on Women-Led High-Growth Enterprises’ which aims to support women entrepreneurs, tackle investing barriers and increase the number of women-led fast-growing businesses. She is investing in early stage startups in Africa and is focused on Ecommerce, Fintech, Healthtech, B2B SaaS and Future of Work.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Rental, Food Delivery
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
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.
By Rotation — Rent over 25000+ designer fashion items online from our free app. Discover luxury designer dresses, clothing, bags and accessories from your trending favorite brands.

Stephen Morana was the Chief Financial Officer at Cazoo. He attended The University of Sheffield.

Investment focus

Apps, Parenting, Mobile Apps
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

bubble app — Bubble is a trusted community that allows you to connect with friendly, local babysitters and nannies. Find flexible childcare for your family.

Sonder Capital invests in teams and technologies that can transform healthcare in the medical device, diagnostic and healthtech sectors. We are Foundational Investors – we commit our energy and capital early to guide and support companies from inception to acquisition or IPO. We look for big ideas that will change lives.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
Series A, Seed, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Vitestro — Vitestro is a fast-growing medical robotics company. We are the first to bring intuitive, autonomous technology to European hospitals.
G.I. Windows — G.I. Windows is a clinical-stage company developing the first fundamental breakthrough in surgical anastomotic technology. This technology will allow less invasive surgery and offer the capability of developing more procedures new to the world. The company is creating a new category in healthcare designed to create less invasive surgery and reducehealthcare costs.G.I. Windows is committed to innovation that helps improve the way diagnostic and interventional procedures impact the essential balance between both patients and the healthcare system. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States.
Wondr Medical — Wondr Medical is the platform for medical discovery, built around health care professionals.

Phil is an experienced equity derivatives broker working for Sunrise Brokers LLP, part of the BGC Partners Group. He is also an Angel Investor focused on post-seed early ventures.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Apps, FinTech
Equity Crowdfunding, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Ireland, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

&Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
24seven.pk — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.
AxiaFunder — AxiaFunder is a litigation funding platform, providing pre-vetted litigation investment opportunities to investors and flexible fast finance to claimants

From London, via Sydney, to California and now back in Europe, Jody’s passion is working with innovative, consumer-facing digital and technology businesses, helping them transform and grow across new sectors, markets and audiences.

Investment focus

Apps, Energy, Travel
Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hiyacar — Peer to peer car rental in London. Rent a car from your neighbours or rent your car out to make extra money. Sign up now!
bubble app — Bubble is a trusted community that allows you to connect with friendly, local babysitters and nannies. Find flexible childcare for your family.
USIO Energy — USIO Energy are building the energy company of the future, using AI to deliver electricity and gas to perfectly match people's lifestyles.