Top 5 Theatre Startup Investors in United Kingdom in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Theatre startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Theatre companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Theatre Startup Investors in United Kingdom in February 2025

Investor	Theatre United Kingdom investments
Ingenious Media	1
ScaleUp Capital	1
Big Issue Invest	1
Lloyds Bank	1
Justin Cooke	1

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Ingenious Media is an one of the largest independent investors in the UK’s creative sector, they partner with companies and individuals in the film, television and live entertainment sectors to bring great ideas to life. They do this through their unique blend of industry knowledge, access to a diverse range of capital sources and exceptionalexecution capability.They have invested in excess of £8 billion in the sector and have a long and successful track record of collaboration with first class international partners, including Fox Searchlight, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Miramax, Open Road, Working Title, Film4, Warner Bros., Pathé, BBC, ITV, Endemol and Lionsgate.They have one of the most experienced teams of independent professionals in the UK dedicated to the analysis and commercial negotiation of media opportunities and are always looking for new opportunities to work with industry partners.

Investment focus

Apps, Theatre, Auctions
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, News
Private Equity, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

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Investment focus

Charity, Non Profit, Communities
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Grant
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OVO — OVO is the home of live theatre in St Albans, Hertfordshire. We are a theatre production company based in St Albans, just north of London.
World Media Initiatives — World Media Initiatives is a production company that stands out.
Phoenix Social Enterprise — PSE is a social enterprise with a purpose - to help individuals, communities and economies progress and grow, through our range of employment services

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Investment focus

Manufacturing, Financial Services, Real Estate
Debt Financing, Seed, Post-IPO Debt
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

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I am the Vice Chair of Unicef UK, a Venture Partner at tech VC Northzone, Chairman of The Drum, Deputy Chair of social learning platform FutureLearn and a Non-Executive Director, adviser and investor in numerous fast-growing technology businesses and sit on the British Museum Digital Advisory Board.Prior to Northzone I was the CEO and Founder ofPOSSIBLE UK, WPP Digital’s largest global agency. I am also the former Chair and now an Ambassador of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA), the industry body for everyone working in digital Britain. I discovered digital media while studying Quasi-Theatrical Leisure and Computers as Theatre while studying Drama at the University of Manchester. After graduating with honours I worked for the BBC, Universal Music and United News and Media before Co-founding global digital agency Fortune Cookie in 1997. I secured venture capital funding and grew the business across three continents before exiting to WPP in 2012. For two years I served on the Board of EPiServer – the world’s fastest growing content management and community platform until its sale to investment bank, IK Partners. I also served on the board of ActiveStandards until its merger with CrownPeak and raising of $50 Million from venture capital firm K1 to become the world's leading cloud-based digital experience management company.I have been lucky enough to have been listed in the Wired Top 100; rated the UK's second most influential person in digital by Econsultancy; inducted into the British Digital Hall of Fame and most recently, Business Insider ranked me as one of the UK's coolest tech VC's.