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Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in United Kingdom

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Video games startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Video games companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in United Kingdom

Investor	Video Games United Kingdom investments
Sam Enrico Williams	17
Initial Capital	8
Northstar Ventures	7
Prime Ventures	4
LVP	4
Rupert Loman	4
Scottish Investment Bank	4
Equity Gap	4
Par Equity	3
Concept Ventures	3
Concept Ventures	3
GSR	3
Imbiba	3
Frog Capital	2
GFR Fund	2
Caballeros Capital	2
Sweet Capital	2
Blizzard Fund	2
Firstminute Capital	2
Chris Lee	2
Griffin Gaming Partners	2
Edge VC	2
Innovate UK	2
Shima Capital	2
Index Ventures	2
Newable Private Investing	2
Merit Circle	2
ESRG Investments	2
Premiere Capital	2
Tom Blomfield	2
Matt Robinson	2
Maven Capital Partners	2
Makers Fund	2
Animoca Brands	2
Infinity Ventures Crypto	2
Livingstone Ian	2
Project A Ventures	2
Wealth Club	2
Mercia Asset Management PLC	2
Lightning Ventures	2
Edition Capital	2
Creative UK	2
AngelDAO	2
Praetura Ventures	2
Eldridge Industries	2
Beringea	2
H2O Venture Partners	1
Hilmar Veigar Petursson	1
GLOBAL TOP ROUND	1
Garena	1

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Investment focus

Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NFT Metadata Editor — Edit and customize the metadata of your NFTs. Connect your wallet, select the NFT, and this tool will allow you to modify the metadata, charging a fee for the service.
NFT Exhibition Space — Showcase your NFT collection in a virtual exhibition. Connect your wallet, select the NFTs, and this tool will create a virtual exhibition space for your collection.
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Initial Capital is an investor in seed and early-stage technology companies with a focus on games, consumer services & technology enablers.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Pok Pok — Pok Pok is a low-stimulation app for kids 2-7 filled with Montessori-inspired digital toys that offer a calmer way to learn through screen time play.
Zebedee — Seamlessly weave real-money transactions into your game to improve retention and engagement.
Yoko Robotics — Yoko is the affordable personal robot chef that enables you to eat healthier, save money, and spend your valuable time on the more important things in life.

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, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

DayaTani — DayaTani supplies farmers with comprehensive services to increase their productivity.
MarraBio — MarraBio Ltd. is a spin out company from Newcastle University using engineered bacterial protein polymers to provide bioactivity to cells at the industrial scale in the cultivated meat sector and beyond.
Circadacare — Circadacare offers a broad approach to circadian lighting products for the care home industry. We are one of the most reliable circadian lighting company in UK.

Prime Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on investing in European companies in the technology and related industries and leverages its capital, experience and network to actively guide them into global category leaders. The firm has invested in companies in the Benelux countries, United Kingdom, France, Finland and Sweden. From itsoffices in The Netherlands and the UK the independent partnership manages over EUR700 million in committed capital.(Source :

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Series B, Series A, Series C
The Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Holidu — Holidu is a search engine for vacation rentals. Search and compare more than 15 million vacation homes and save up to 55% on identical accommodations.
TerraPay — TerraPay, a mobile-first international payment network, has been founded with the vision to send money to any mobile. TerraPay interconnects financial services providers -- mobile wallet service providers, money transfer operators, banks and payment platforms – to create a “one network” for secure and seamless transnational movement of funds. Thenetwork facilitates a broad transaction set including interpersonal transfers, e-payments and government disbursements.TerraPay is platform agnostic and supports standard open APIs for integration with any mobile wallet provider. Through a single connection, partners gain access to a global payment network enabling rapid services up-scaling whilst minimizing Opex and Capex investments. As a fully regulated financial intermediary services network, TerraPay offers services beyond principal core transaction, routing and processing functions and assumes end-to-end responsibility for, regulatory compliance foreign exchange management and funds settlement.
Zuper — Zuper.co is the leading field service management software for small businesses. We help you to streamline your operations, improve your customer service, and grow your business.

LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Bitpart AI — Bitpart.AI is a Boston based startup that provides game developers of any level with pre-trained non-player characters (NPCs) for games. Soldiers, villagers, waiters, bartenders, sheriffs, bandits, bank robbers, clerks, you name it. Using generative AI and automated planners, Characters come with intelligence, behaviors, and dialogue; can interactwith objects in the world and dynamically converse with each other; and can be dropped into any game engine or user-generated content (UGC) platform. Bitpart.AI is building the Character Hub, where creators can browse, customize, and share NPCs, to refine their dialogue, moods, and personality traits to suit any desired use case.
Proxima — At Proxima, we aim to push the boundaries of interactive entertainment by blending innovative technology with deep artistry. We believe in the magic of exploration, the power of creativity, and the strength of human connection that form the very foundation of our gaming experiences.
Jam & Tea Studios — Jam & Tea Studios is a remote game studio that develops and offers multiplayer games. The company's games focus on leveraging innovative content and fostering social connections among players.

Rupert Loman

Investment focus

Digital Entertainment, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Alter — Alter is an open source, cross-platform SDK consisting of a real-time 3D avatar system and motion capture built from scratch for web3 interoperability and the open metaverse.
Carter — Carter is a startup working on conversational AI to help game developers make computerized gaming characters.
OTHERWORLD — OTHERWORLD is a virtual island paradise in the cloud, home to VR’s best experiences across entertainment, arts, education and wellness, reached through unique, multi-sensory ‘immersion pods’ in its growing network of city centre venues.Since opening its first site in Shoreditch, East London in 2019, over 50,000 people have experienced OTHERWORLD,including celebrities Adele, Skepta, Jonathan Ross, KSI and Fnatic. The team have won plaudits at the FRAME Awards 2020 and a nomination for the VR Awards 2020.

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Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
Administrate — Manage 100% of enterprise training operations with configurable training management software, designed to scale with your organization.

Equity Gap is a group of private individuals set up to invest in and support emerging and growing businesses based in Scotland

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ilosta — Ilosta specializes in developing novel technology to reduce the cost, time, and dangers associated with monitoring the health of engineering structures and extending their lifespan without requiring human intervention.
QuickBlock — Interlocking blocks is the best way to summarise how QUICKBLOCK works to a novice. Our interlocking blocks click together to build desired structures.
Mocean Energy — At the forefront of global wave energy industry, Mocean Energy pioneers technology for accessing the untapped potential of ocean waves.

Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Computer
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Cyacomb — Cyacomb has created a ground-breaking digital forensic tool helping law enforcement, cloud companies and social media to fight against harmful online content.
Partful — Make sure customers get the right parts first time, every time with digital 3D parts catalogue software and digital work instructions.
Artus — Artus is a revolutionary heating and air conditioning product. Applications include residential, commercial and high-precision environments.

Early-stage VC Firm based in London, investing in UK technology startups & SaaS companies through our award-winning pre-seed funds.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Harriet — Efficient, cost effective AI for HR that improves the employee experience. Get time back to focus on what counts and let Harriet do the rest | Harriet
Klarytee — Klarytee is a SaaS platform that builds security into sensitive content to enable granular control wherever the data goes
JustParent — Parental leave insurance for businesses

Concept Ventures is the UK's largest pre-seed fund. Founded in 2018, the firm has backed over 45+ companies changing how we Work, Play and Learn and focused only at the pre-seed stage.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Harriet — Efficient, cost effective AI for HR that improves the employee experience. Get time back to focus on what counts and let Harriet do the rest | Harriet
Klarytee — Klarytee is a SaaS platform that builds security into sensitive content to enable granular control wherever the data goes
JustParent — Parental leave insurance for businesses

GSR is the global leader in crypto trading and market-making. We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Lillius — LILLIUS_Making sports and home training easy and fun just like playing a game! LILLUS is a Blockchain based WEB3 Sports Experience Platform that rewards users for healthy activities!
EarlyFans — Welcome to EarlyFans! A new way to find your favorite creators, support them early, and get rewarded for it.
Midas — U.S. Treasuries, On-chain.

Investors in leisure, entertainment & lifestyle growth brands.

Investment focus

Hospitality, Restaurants, Family
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

F1 Arcade — F1 Arcade offers a best-in-class, full-motion racing simulator experience. Experience the thrill of F1 anytime at our state-of-the-art venues.
Little Houses Group — The goal of the Little Houses Group is to create a network of community-led spaces that improve people's lives through education, support, and recreation. Our clubs will be hubs for people to enjoy face-to-face interaction in a world that can be so focused on being online. The opportunity to see old friends and meet new ones, a haven forparents, a place where children can be children, and where everyone can be seen and heard.
OTHERWORLD — OTHERWORLD is a virtual island paradise in the cloud, home to VR’s best experiences across entertainment, arts, education and wellness, reached through unique, multi-sensory ‘immersion pods’ in its growing network of city centre venues.Since opening its first site in Shoreditch, East London in 2019, over 50,000 people have experienced OTHERWORLD,including celebrities Adele, Skepta, Jonathan Ross, KSI and Fnatic. The team have won plaudits at the FRAME Awards 2020 and a nomination for the VR Awards 2020.

Frog focuses on the growing opportunity emerging between venture capital and private equity. Over the past 15 years there has been a huge influx of startup businesses taking advantage of the digital revolution.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

McMakler — McMakler is the leading hybrid real estate agent in Germany. The company combines state-of-the-art marketing technology and central processes at its headquarters in Berlin with a local team of almost 400 permanent real estate agents across Germany in all major regions. With a supported brand awareness of 33%, McMakler is today the best-known realestate agent in Germany and is characterised by its far above-average service quality.
Oxford Medical Simulation — Drive clinical competency with OMS. Combining healthcare education and competency assessment with dynamic virtual reality simulations.
Clue Software — The leading investigation and intelligence management software trusted by investigation professionals globally.

GFR Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups that are disrupting the consumer entertainment industry. GFR Fund is managed by GREE VR Capital, an affiliate of GREE Inc., a global leader in the mobile gaming industry.With over a decade of experience driving innovators in multi-platform entertainment,we see emerging technologies such as VR, AR, AI, Video Streaming and Blockchain as powerful tools that will propel the entertainment industry into a new generation of consumable content. We are looking for talented entrepreneurs who share our passion and values to help realize their vision and expand their businesses globally.

Investment focus

Software, Video Games, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Digs — Digs is an easy-to-use collaboration software solution for professionals in residential home building that provides more efficient file storage, collaboration, and homeowner handoff for home construction projects. Try Digs for free today!
Stan — Stan has built a platform that allows esports fans to collect, play and trade digital collectibles such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their favorite esports players and content creators, through which they can win physical and virtual world perks and rewards such as getting a chance to meet their favorite players.
Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.

Caballeros Capital is a private investment firm focused on investing in the blockchain innovation space.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Portugal, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Interface Labs — Mobile companion for your Ethereum journey.
Polynomial — Trade DeFi options with highly efficient liquidity.
Range Labs — We help leading organizations build and use blockchains, DeFi protocols, and cross-chain bridges securely with the modular security and risk infrastructure suite backed by blockchain and machine learning expertise.

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.

Blizzard Fund is a venture capital fund managed by AVA Labs and targets cryptocurrency industries.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Canza Finance — Canza is building the world's largest non-institutional-based financial system.
Umoja — Umoja is enables anyone to hedge anything in a free market of hedging strategies.
Masa — Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally.

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Layla — Find, plan & book your next trip in seconds using AI. Layla will give you personalized ideas for where to go, help you plan an itinerary & book hotels & flights.
Risk Ledger — Risk Ledger ensures your supply chain security by providing tools to run and respond to cyber security-led, third-party risk management programmes at scale.
Arcane Intelligence — The AI Copilot for modern Marketers. Arcane accelerates and automates mundane tasks. Join the waitlist today.

Chris Lee is an investor at Facemoji. The Attended University of Nottingham.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Digital Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Carter — Carter is a startup working on conversational AI to help game developers make computerized gaming characters.
Sidequest — SideQuest is the early access layer for Virtual Reality. Get access to the latest Oculus Quest Games, Oculus App Lab games & lots of free apps on applab and sideload.
Troy Labs — GodmodeHQ is the modern way to go to market. Find leads by asking through chat with AI. Create outbound campaigns on email, Linkedin and chat messaging platforms. Manage relationships from a single inbox. Post targeted content on social media.

Griffin Gaming Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing across the broad gaming ecosystem.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ForthStar — ForthStar operates as a gaming company with a mission to make free-to-play hits.
Harmony Games — Harmony Games is a developer of next-generation hybrid-casual games.
Second Dinner Studios — Second Dinner is a small, sleek, and absurdly vigorous new game studio. We may be small, but we've got BIG DREAMS!

We are specialist investors in exceptional creative teams and emerging technologies. We invest £1m-5m in creative technology companies in the UK and Northern Europe. We have over £120m in AUM, and backed by the UK's British Business Bank.

Investment focus

Advertising, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Newsflare — Newsflare is an online video news community and marketplace, where sellers can upload video content & get paid and buyers can choose the videos they need.
SKY ENGINE AI — About Sky EngineSky Engine is an advanced data science technology and research company that develops innovative software solutions to improve computer vision. The company markets the Sky Engine deep learning platform, which is the next-generation of self-learning AI system for image and video analysis applications. The company was founded as aresearch and scientific spin-off in UK.About Sky Engine PlatformThe Sky Engine evolutionary AI platform for the deep learning in virtual reality is designed to overcome the complex object recognition challenges of modern machine/computer vision. It represents the future of self-learning in artificial intelligence technology, supporting efficient and cost effective workflows. Many image recognition tasks require acquisition of large amounts of data and manual data labelling. Sky Engine is designed to replace that. Sky Engine efficiently drives self-learning processes and offers advanced features for object discrimination, workflow automation and adaptive deep learning. Sky Engine is designed for tomorrow’s requirements in advanced analytics and decision support enabling AI business transformation.About Sky Engine client solutionsSky Engine creates flexible and innovative AI vision solutions tailored to customer needs and supports a wide range of industries, providing systems for a variety of data science needs, ensuring business partners get greater value from existing equipment.
Mojo Vision — Mojo Vision is a developer of augmented reality products and platforms intended to invent the future of computing. The company has developed a smart contact lens with a built-in display that gives timely information without interrupting the focus and delivers immediate, powerful, and relevant information without the intrusions of today'smobile devices, enabling users to connect with others at a glance, anytime, anywhere handsfree.Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.

Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation .

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

North AI — North AI operates as an AI start up company for media sector.
SökerData — SökerData is a biotechnology company that provides research, and data analysis solutions for disease-related datasets.
Aelius Biotech — Aelius biotech specialise in the development of models of the mucosal surfaces of the human body. We currently have the capability to model the gastrointestinal tract and the airways, and are in the process of developing model systems to simulate the mucosal surfaces of the eye and cervico-vaginal tract.

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
PrismaStake — PrismaStake is a cutting-edge decentralized staking platform that provides users with new opportunities. Its innovative multi-chain staking platform aims to democratize cryptocurrency by allowing people of all backgrounds to generate passive income through ETH crypto staking, altcoin staking, and other methods.
Elixir Games — Elixir Games is a game company that develops next-generation games for power players.

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

SESO — Seso is a labor solution for agriculture. We provide support with the entire H-2A process, including the H-2A Visa, recruiting farmworkers, H-2A compliance, and digital worker onboarding.
Vizcom — Vizcom is an Ai-powered creative tool designed for design and creative professionals. It offers a transformative approach to concept drawing, enabling users to turn their sketches into impressive realistic renderings quickly and efficiently.
Nourish — Achieve your desired health and wellness through personalized nutrition counseling. Nourish is the easiest way to find a registered dietitian and get it covered by your insurance. Find a dietitian today and start your telehealth appointments.

Newable: Helping over 20,000 businesses thrive annually with tailored financial products, advice, and flexible workspace solution

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Delta g — Delta g Limited is a quantum technology and gravity gradiometry company. A spin-out from the University of Birmingham our technology has applications in industries as varied as civil engineering, infrastructure, defence, rail, navigation and resource exploration. Experts from science, engineering an
EarSwitch — Empowering new ways to control and connect with the world through in-ear biometric switch and sensor technology
RAB Microfluidics — We diagnose early signs of failure in lubricated machinery and prevent equipment failure using our patented microfluidic technology and AI technology.

We are a decentralized autonomous organization on a mission to revolutionize gaming. Join us as we build the metaverse by empowering people to be a part of it.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

READYgg — Turnkey SDK Plug-ins to develop games on blockchain, mint in-game NFTs, list on App Store, compliant token economy, in less than 30 days cost-free
BloodLoop — BloodLoop is a gameplay system that allows games without having to be a pro player. They provide the MMO and social components for the guilds, farming materials, and crafting artifacts, or build the plot and arenas from the ground up.
Crypto Rogue Games — Crypto Rogue Games is a gaming and blockchain platform.

ESRG Investments specializes in a vast range of financial services. The group is able to offer independent and integrated cross border financial structuring. It plans and implements concepts for institutional clients and investors that require tailor-made solutions reflecting their specific requirements. ESRG specializes in mutual funds based intax neutral jurisdictions, UK taxation, UK pension administration, film bridge financing, property, land development, sports and leisure, and media.

Investment focus

Music, Video, Gaming
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

amBX — amBX lighting control software creates smart lighting for commercial buildings. Our SmartCore system allows remote building management for emergency lighting control, lighting building integration and vertical farming connectivity.

Invest in Film, SEIS, EIS and Property with expert creative investment company Premiere Picture. Contact us now on 01273 766399

Investment focus

Gaming, PC Games, MMO Games
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dream Harvest — Narrative-driven strategic games for all platforms and immersive narrative services for the games industry, including writing, dialogue prep, voice actor casting, dialogue production, facial performance capture and audio and animation post-production.
Fundamentally Games — THE LIVEOPS PUBLISHER Bringing Games to Live

Tom Blomfield is the CEO of Monzo, a new kind of bank, designed for smartphones. Tom previously founded GoCardless, a fintech startup that has gone on to raise $25m. In 2013, he was nominated as one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the European Commission. He gives talks regularly about the future of banking and fintech.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
Fundably — Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan | Access £1k-£2m
SAPI — SAPI enables platform companies to offer business loans to their merchants, earning a revenue share while growing their ecosystem.

Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
Context.ai — Context.ai is product analytics for LLM applications. Understand your users and improve their experiences in your LLM powered products.

Maven is one of the UK's leading private equity and investment firms. We provide essential capital and expertise to help businesses unlock their potential.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Liftango — At Liftango we guide global organisations on how to plan, launch and scale their shared mobility programs. Our mobility suite of services offer simulation, carpooling, on-demand bus and smart shuttle tracking services.
Power Roll — Power Roll has reinvented solar to generate energy anywhere and everywhere, using any surface.
Manufacture 2030 — Empower and inspire your suppliers to help you hit your carbon reduction targets by driving improvement at scale. Certainty for you, opportunity for your suppliers.

Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Forge — Forge is where gamers go to earn rewards and recognition from their achievements in gaming.
Blocklords — Be part of the most ambitious strategy game of our age.
Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection — Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection is a Web3 digital collection platform that includes encrypted art production, promotion, and collecting, as well as IP permission.

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
0G Labs — 0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues.
Burnt — Creators of XION, The Blockchain Built To Make Crypto Human.

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Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Durable — Durable is the easiest way to start a service business online. With marketing tools, invoicing, and templates - it's everything you need to build a business.
Cathedral Studios — Welcome to Cathedral Studios, where we believe that the future of gaming lies in the integration of cutting-edge technologies.
Cumulus Encrypted Storage System (CESS) — CESS, a Blockchain Based Decentralized DistributedCloud Storage, a Blockchain Based Decentralized CloudDataNetwork Infrastructure, a Decentralized Cloud Storage Online Data SharingPlatform, a Blockchain Based CloudStorageSolution

Ian Livingstone CBE is one of the founding fathers of the UK games industry. He co-founded iconic games company Games Workshop in 1975, launching Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer in Europe.He co-authored The Warlock of Firetop Mountain with Steve Jackson in 1982, writing 14 titles in the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series which has sold over18 million copies worldwide. He designed Eureka, the first computer game published by Domark in 1984. He joined the Domark board in 1992, overseeing a merger that created Eidos plc in 1995 where he served as Executive Chairman until 2002, and as Creative Director until 2006. At Eidos he launched global video games franchises including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He co-authored the influential Livingstone-Hope Next Gen review published by NESTA in 2011, recommending changes in ICT education policy. Following publication, he chaired the Next Gen Skills campaign, working with government to introduce the new Computing curriculum in schools in 2014. In the Wired 100 list for 2012, he was ranked the 16th most influential person in the UK’s digital economy. He was listed in the 2015 Debrett’s 500 of most influential people in UK.Roles (as of May 2016): Founder and Chairman of the Livingstone Foundation, Chairman of Playdemic, Chairman of Midoki, Chairman of Sumo-Digital, Chairman of PlayMob, Chairman of Antstream, Chairman of The Secret Police, Chairman of Flavourworks, Vice Chair of UKIE, Patron and Non-executive director of Creative Skillset, a Member of the Creative Industries Council, Non-executive director of Creative Industries Federation, Non-executive director of Creative England, Non-executive director of Young Rewired State, GamesAid Trustee, Advisory Board Member of GameCity, and Adviser to the British Council.

Investment focus

Android, Video Games, PC Games
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

NURVV — Free shipping in the UK
Magicave — Magicave is a digital toy, game, and hobby startup.
Whitbread — Whitbread PLC is a hospitality company. The Company operates hotels, coffee shops and restaurants. The Company operates in two segments: Hotels & Restaurants, and Costa. The Hotels & Restaurants segment provides services in relation to accommodation and food. The Costa segment consists of operations of its branded, owned and franchisedcoffee outlets. Premier Inn is the Company's hotel business. The Company's restaurant brands include Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table and Whitbread Inns. The Company operates over 730 Premier Inn hotels and over 64,000 rooms across the United Kingdom. The Company operates over 2,000 coffee shops across the United Kingdom, over 1,200 coffee stores in approximately 30 international markets and over 5,200 Costa Express self-serve units.

Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $600 M in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering,business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Relay — Relay is a technology-enabled delivery network that enables businesses to expand and improve their e-commerce operations.
Mindfuel — Our Data Product Management software solution and value services help increase transparency across the entire value chain, slash costs and boost your data ROI.
Labrys Technologies — Visualise & Coordinate Your People. Securely. Anywhere. In Real-Time.

UK's leading investment service for high net worth and sophisticated investors. Tax-efficient investments, free guides, and exclusive investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fabacus — We are a leading data and technology business with a unique data service designed to digitally-transform the licensing industry. Contact us today.
SolasCure — Our proprietary technology leverages biomimicry and evidence-based medicine to treat patients with chronic wounds.
Filament AI — Empower your private equity firm with our award-winning data integration platform. Filament Syfter is the data core for Private Markets - PE firms can integrate, interrogate and enrich their proprietary market intelligence.

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Camena Bioscience — Camena Bioscience is a synthetic biology company that develops tools to engineer new synthetic biology applications. It has engineered new nucleic acid synthesis technology which improves the quality and speed of synthesis. Its multi-enzymatic technology takes one approach to DNA, RNA, and XNA synthesis, offering increased accuracy over existingPhosphoramidite synthesis technology.Camena Bioscience was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge.
Axis Spine Technologies — Axis Spine Technologies is building an expert team to develop highly differentiated products that provide meaningful improvements in patient care.
Send — We're transforming commercial insurance software with our composable SaaS platform, which seamlessly scales and flexes to cover everything your team needs.

Lightning Ventures is an exclusively Bitcoin focused network of investors, operators, and developers, dedicated to supporting Lightning Network adoption worldwide

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Azteco — For every bit of life
OrdinalsBot — We make it easy to inscribe ordinals. Like, really easy.
Pnkfrg Studios — Pnkfrg Studios is a mobile gaming studio startup designing games for the Lightning Network on Bitcoin.

Investment, advice and expertise for the entertainment and leisure industry

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Events, Restaurants
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Farmer J — Farmer J serves honest food, that rolls with the seasons, is mindfully sourced, is bursting with flavour and most importantly, is scratch cooked on-site.
Pentire Drinks — Made from unique plants native to the Cornish coastline, Pentire is a new botanical non-alcoholic spirit drink. A gin style drink that harnesses the power, beauty and immense flavour of plants, without the after effects. Buy online now.
Lean Kitchen Network — Lean Kitchen Network is a developer of a virtual kitchen network.

We are here for those who dare to imagine: imagine a fairer, more prosperous world, achieved through the power of creativity.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Film Production, Broadcasting
Funding Round, Seed, Grant
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Covatic — We help media companies deliver private-by-design, addressable advertising and marketing without exposing personal data.
Viperio — The North East of England's leading esports club since 2013.
Wake The Tiger — Wake The Tiger has EXPANDED! Step through the portal into the Outerverse, part of the worlds first Amazement Park located in Bristol. Book your experience today.

AngelDAO operates as a decentralized autonomous organization.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Demox Labs — Demox Labs develops a decentralized, trustless oracle protocol for the connection of smart contracts to any off-chain data source. The company's data bridge from web2 to web3 unlocks all online data for smart contract development. Demox Labs was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.
Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

Praetura Ventures has been supporting entrepreneurs with more than money since 2011. Click to find out more about how we can help businesses and investors.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Covatic — We help media companies deliver private-by-design, addressable advertising and marketing without exposing personal data.
Decently — Decently provides the world a better place by developing advanced digital products. Decently mission is to improve lives through innovative digital product.
Percayso Inform — Percayso provides insurers with access to a wide range of data sources, allowing them to form a more comprehensive view of their customers.

Growing businesses to stand the test of time.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

KOHO Financial — A no-fee spending account with instant cash back & money management app designed to simplify your personal finances. Sign up in minutes to join over 1 million Canadians who use KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to budget and save.
Metropolis — Metropolis unites technology and operations to make parking remarkable.
Bilt Rewards — Rewards program for renters

Beringea is an international investor in high growth US & UK businesses. With expertise in multiple sectors we are at the forefront of emerging trends.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Evios — At EVIOS, we're on a mission to make Electric Vehicle (EV) charging as simple and smart as possible. By creating truly intuitive products that allow EV drivers to charge their vehicles at home and work, we are changing the game in the industry as it enters mass market.
Dentologie — With convenient dentist office locations throughout Chicago, Dentologie is here to provide a stress-free dental experience. Book your visit today!
Commonplace — Commonplace is an online citizen engagement platform. We help you to engage with more community members, collect their ideas and make better places.

H2O commercialises early stage technologies from premier universities, research organisations and existing companies. They work with the founder inventors to establish companies and build value.

Investment focus

Video Games, 3D Technology, Medical Device
Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eykona Medical — Eykona Medical develops and markets portable three dimensional imaging systems. Its systems are used to capture environments for videogames and in medical imaging for dermatological care. The company is based in Oxford, the United Kingdom.
Microbial Solutions — Microbial Solutions Limited offers a technology that can provide on-site treatment and disposal of MWFs which can unlock and release the replacement value of both the existing treatment technology and the associated logistics costs. The Microcycle™ technology is a powerful, patented biological degradation process that reduces waste MWFs toacceptable COD concentrations, removes toxicity and allows for the safe disposal of MWF as grey water to sewers on site. Through their offering, Microbial Solutions seeks to help their clients to cost-effectively meet their environmental responsibilities and to provide regulators with the tools to implement the regulations enshrining those responsibilities.

Hilmar has been leading CCP Games’ ongoing success and growth since his appointment as Chief Executive Officer in 2004. Under Hilmar’s management CCP’s critically acclaimed science-fiction game EVE Online celebrated an unprecedented ten consecutive years of subscriber growth. In addition, Hilmar has put CCP into the pole position in the VRrevolution by embracing the new technology early. The company released virtual-reality arcade shooter Gunjack for the Samsung Gear VR in 2015, which has been the best-selling game on the platform since launch. And in early 2016 CCP released EVE: Valkyrie, a hotly-anticipated multiplayer spaceship dogfighting shooter built from the ground up for virtual reality, bundled with Oculus Rift pre-orders. EVE: Valkyrie will ship on HTC Vive and PlayStation VR on PlayStation 4 later in 2016. Before his appointment to the CEO position, Hilmar held the title of CCP's Chief Technical Officer, heading the engineering effort required to create the company’s persistent world technology and 3D engine. Prior to joining CCP in 2000, he served as the CTO of SmartVR, an OZ.com spin-off based on that company’s multi-user virtual reality technology following his tenure as the VP of software development for the OZ Studios division of OZ.com.Currently, he is also active on a number of boards and committees relating to Icelandic information technology and innovation. Hilmar has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Iceland.

Investment focus

Online Games, Software, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Iceland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LearnCove — Give your teams the tools to deliver engaging learning experiences that impact what matters - performance, retention, and growth - with LearnCove!
Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
Netspeak Games — Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch studio that develops online multiplayer games. Its first game is a non-violent social MMO, designed to be a fun place to hang out with friends. Players can relax, play, or just get some headspace.

GTR is an interactive accelerator program dedicated to supporting small studios from all over the world with the development, publishing, and fundraising expertise they need to take their content global and make their businesses sustainable.

Investment focus

Video Games, PC Games, Gaming
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AMT Games — AMT Games is a leading web and mobile games developer, bringing awesome graphics, smooth gameplay, frequent updates to the huge community of gamers.
Lost Native — Lost Native is a newly formed micro studio on a mission to create games that remind you of your past adventures.

Garena is one of the largest internet companies in Southeast Asia and has over 1000 employees.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, France

Portfolio highlights

Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.
Playwind Games — Playwind Games is a mobile game studio based in the UK with a tight-knitted team that have years of experience working together in previous roles. The studio develops exciting new mobile games with a social twist and was founded in 2020 by Jack Tang with the belief that mobile games are better when played together.
PopScreen Games — PopScreen Games creates mobile RPG games for a wide audience. Wacky Battles, our first game, is a fairy tale adventure for mobile devices.

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