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Top 50 Video Games VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in November 2024

Investor	Video Games United Kingdom investments
Initial Capital	8
Northstar Ventures	7
Animoca Brands	4
Prime Ventures	4
Scottish Investment Bank	4
LVP	4
Equity Gap	4
Beringea	4
Concept Ventures	3
GSR	3
Swordfish Investments	3
Par Equity	3
Imbiba	3
Hiro Capital	3
Concept Ventures	3
Griffin Gaming Partners	3
Merit Circle	3
Praetura Ventures	3
River Capital	2
Frog Capital	2
Infinity Ventures Crypto	2
GFR Fund	2
ESRG Investments	2
Supercell	2
Project A Ventures	2
LVL1 Group	2
Index Ventures	2
NPIF - FW Capital Debt Finance	2
Maven Capital Partners	2
Premiere Capital	2
Newable Private Investing	2
Atomico	2
FOV Ventures	2
AngelDAO	2
Edge VC	2
Shima Capital	2
Eldridge Industries	2
Innovate UK	2
Sweet Capital	2
Blizzard Fund	2
Mercia Asset Management PLC	2
Unbound	2
Firstminute Capital	2
Wealth Club	2
Caballeros Capital	2
Lightning Ventures	2
Edition Capital	2
Creative UK	2
Makers Fund	2
Pantera Capital	2

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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

Zebedee — Transform your game into an earning powerhouse with ZBD Rewards.
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.
Hot Wave Fitness — Hot Wave Fitness which owns the HOTME brand provides personalized, and private fitness services.

Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FAT32 — FAT32 is at the forefront of compliance automation, transforming the way businesses satisfy regulatory requirements.
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.
Circadacare — Circadacare helps elderly people and people with dementia live independently for longer with an integrated circadian lighting and home health monitoring system.

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, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GEODNET — The Global Earth Observation Decentralized Network (GEODNET) is a decentralized network of Space Weather mining stations that report the real-time influence of the Sun’s solar winds on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals. This data is commonly used to accurately correct GNSS (GPS and other navigation satellite) signals to providecentimeter level positioning accuracy and improve absolute time accuracy to nano-second level. Traditional applications for these data services include Automotive/Autonomous Navigation, Agriculture/Construction Vehicle Machine Control, Earthquake/Geohazard Monitoring, and traditional Land Survey. Blockchain applications include decentralized Mapping, Metaverse Digital Twins, Location-Aware Smart Contracts, and Proof-of-Location and Time. GEOD is the native utility token that is used for: Fees for providing GEODNET data streams and services. Rewards to Space Weather Miners. Used for governance votes to determine how network resources are allocated. Gas for future native GEODNET blockchain location/time proofs.
Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized

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, Information Technology, FinTech
Series B, Series A, Series C
The Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Holidu — Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany.
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.

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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.

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 - The AI NPC engine built by game developers for game developers. Populate virtual worlds with characters that mimic real behavior.
Look North World — Publisher and Developer of interactive entertainment for Creator platforms like Fortnite (UEFN) and Curseforge. Enclave: Survival Skyward available now in ARK: Survival Ascended.
Steel City Interactive — Steel City Interactive develops gaming.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mirna — Mirna is a veterinary diagnostics company that specializes in the development of veterinary disease testing technology.
MiAlgae — MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company that aims to revolutionize the £340 billion global livestock feed industry by producing microalgal products – through the remediation of wastewater – as nutrient supplements for fishmeal in livestock feeds. Their microalgal products are high in omegas and proteins, both of which are required forthe production of many livestock feeds, especially in the aquaculture sector.Their production methodology uses circular economy to reduce the operating costs involved in the production of microalgae and as such allows them to compete with other supplements currently on the market.
Shot Scope — The official Shot Scope website. Golf watches, range finders and performance tracking that help lower your score and handicap. Buy direct online today!

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, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

MOTH: — MOTH: is a beverages company that provides ready-to-drink cocktail for family and friends.
Gorilla — We empower Energy Retailers in pricing, forecasting and reporting with data-driven solutions in boosting speed and flexibility.
ATLAS Space Operations — ATLAS Space Operations provides Secure Space Access Anytime, Anywhere. Ground Software as a Service on a global federated network.

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

Verax AI — Seeks to be the leading provider of enterprise-grade trust solutions for Generative AI, enabling companies worldwide to build or adopt any Generative AI agent with confidence
Anam — Anam is the developer of real-time AI personas for brands to increase consumer interaction..
Vsim Technology — Experience the power of next-generation physics simulations with Vsim. Our cutting-edge technology provides realistic and accurate simulations for various industries.

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, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MeshMap — MeshMap is a decentralized 3D map developer focused on creating a decentralized 3D globe map and augmented reality (AR) content network.
Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Ordzaar — Ordzaar is the operator of a decentralized Bitcoin marketplace where crypto traders can buy, sell, and exchange ordinals.

Swordfish Investments has invested in several sectors worldwide including technology, media, financial services, sports management, education and marketing. We spend a large proportion of our time working with our portfolio companies and advising them on a variety of issues related to product, strategy, finance, fundraising, technology and humanresources. Some of our investments are included below.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Viker — Viker is a mobile studio that designs, develops and publishes mobile and computer games for OS and Android systems.
plutos ONE — Get exclusive offers, vouchers, promo code, and coupon codes on top brands. Hurray! Grab it Today
Tinka Games — Tinka Games is a gaming platform that specializes in creating and playing of multiplayer gamebooks and interactive stories.

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

Artus — Artus is a revolutionary heating and air conditioning product. Applications include residential, commercial and high-precision environments.
iGii — Integrated Graphene enable better products with a revolutionary design for manufacture process producing the world's highest quality pure 3D Graphene Foam, Gii.
Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT) — NPT is a cleantech company that has developed a revolutionary process technology called REFNOVA. REFNOVA allows customers to converts non-food plant residues into sustainable products such as biochar, activated carbon, biofuel, biopolymers and biochemicals. Our products help customers replace fossil based products and enable decarbonisation.

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 UK offers a best-in-class, full-motion racing simulator experience. Experience the thrill of F1 at our state of the art venues today.
Little Houses Group — Creating a family of clubs that parents and children will love. Little Houses will be a new kind of family club. Open to both members and pay-and-play guests.
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.

Founded by Luke Alvarez, Ian Livingstone and Cherry Freeman, Hiro Capital is a Luxembourg/London technology Venture Capital fund which invests in European and UK innovators in Games, Esports and Digital Sports.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

FRVR — FRVR brings captivating games to billions of players instantly.
Sidero Labs — Automate the installation and management of Kubernetes clusters. Secure, open source, immutable, API managed Kubernetes platform.
Maintain Altitude — Maintain Altitude is a new mobile game development company that loves both music and games. The company is based in the United Kingdom.

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

Verax AI — Seeks to be the leading provider of enterprise-grade trust solutions for Generative AI, enabling companies worldwide to build or adopt any Generative AI agent with confidence
Anam — Anam is the developer of real-time AI personas for brands to increase consumer interaction..
Vsim Technology — Experience the power of next-generation physics simulations with Vsim. Our cutting-edge technology provides realistic and accurate simulations for various industries.

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 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, Video Games
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Aria — Aria is a role-playing game in which players can freely traverse an open world while experiencing the thrill of epic quests and combat.
Oxalis games — Founded by Industry Veterans, Oxalis Games is an Independent game dev studio creating the next generation of life-sims. Currently working on Moonfrost...
Gameplay Galaxy — From the creators of Trial Xtreme, the blockbuster series that reached over 250,000,000 downloads, comes the next level of competitive extreme sports games ecosystem.

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

Ruuby — Ruuby is the UK's leading on-demand beauty services marketplace, and since inception Ruuby therapists have delivered over 400,000 treatments through the platform. With a network of over 2,500 expert, vetted beauty and wellness professionals, Ruuby is committed to delivering exceptional services in the comfort of the home, office and hotel.
SteamaCo — Discover SteamaCo: the advanced IoT smart metering platform revolutionising energy in emerging markets
CloudGuard AI — CloudGuard is a next-generation cybersecurity platform that uses a combination of AI and human intelligence to proactively hunt and remediate threats 24/7 across on premise and public cloud platforms. CloudGuard’s disruptive approach combines Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation to provide a modern, intelligent security operationscentre (SOC) based on proactivity, prevention, and real-time responsiveness.Our mission is to liberate businesses from the crippling constraints of conventional approaches to security, lifting the burden of uncertainty and simplifying the complexity of modern security operations.Malicious organisations are using sophisticated AI and ML to create all kinds of threats at mind-bending scale. Why let them have all the fun?

River Capital helps small and medium sized businesses to accelerate their growth and achieve their full potential.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Jones AV — Jones AV offers services such as medical system integration, design and planning, 3D modelling, programming, research and development. The firm's products include surgical monitors, radiology displays, medical video recorders, medical infrastructure, IT & AV hardware, servers & software and cameras.
Black Milk — Black Milk sells pistachio sauce, chocolate, and vanilla spread.
Taylor Hunt — Taylor Hunt is a company that offers first-rate service to its clients. Offering a variety of items, including lift modernisation, manufactured architraves, and bespoke finishes, all completed to the client's specifications and timeline.

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.

Who we are We are investors and entrepreneurs helping define the next generation of Blockchain startups. Our Focus Passionate founders. Disruptive models. Borderless markets. Exponential effects. Our Geography Starting from...

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Anzen — USDz - stablecoin backed by real world assets
Magma — Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain.
Fluid Protocol — Fluid Protocol is a decentralized, over-collateralized lending mechanism designed especially for Fuel Network. In order to maximize capital efficiency, Fluid offers users a safe and effective method of releasing liquidity from their collateral without having to liquidate their underlying assets.

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, India

Portfolio highlights

UnVale — UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online.
Orange — Orange is a developer of a variety of deep-learning models with a focus on computer vision and natural language processing for comics.
Final Boss Sour — Final Boss Sour is a gaming-themed snack brand offering a healthier alternative to traditional sour treats. Inspired by retro gaming aesthetics, our snacks deliver bold flavors and a fun experience for gamers of all ages.

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.

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Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Bitmagic — Discover Bitmagic, the revolutionary game development platform powered by Generative AI. Create multiplayer 3D games with simple prompts, no coding needed. Join our community and start creating your own games today!
Future Run — Future Run embarks on an ambitious mission to redefine competitive gaming.
Redly Games — Redly Games is an independent gaming studio.

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

11x — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive scale.
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.

LVL1 Group is a private investment management firm, operating across different asset classes and geographies. We were founded with entrepreneurial spirit at our core, with a natural passion for venture investing, working closely with founders to forge meaningful strategic relationships and helping them to succeed. We are not bound by mandates andinvestment periods, which allows us to be flexible and opportunistic. We look for companies that aim to make a strong global impact, particularly in Online Travel, Gaming, eSports, Content and Community Platforms.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Appetito — Buy all your groceries and household essentials from your online supermarket. Order from the comfort of your home at your finger tips.
GRACIA.AI — AI-powered ultra-photorealistic volumetric videos for VR, MR and more
Jiffy Grocery — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services

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

Valdera — Valdera is the sourcing and procurement platform that makes it easy to buy or sell chemicals, ingredients, and raw materials. We partner with segment leaders, ranging from the world's largest CPG manufacturers to household names in the beauty industry.
Tebi — Tebi is a software company that develops integrated management software apps and tools for hospitality and retail businesses.
Thread AI — Thread AI makes infrastructure simple for enterprises and can drive adoption and innovation in AI.

NPIF - FW Capital Debt Finance is a fund managed by FW Capital and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund . NPIF is an initiative launched by the government-owned British Business Bank and supported by the European Regional Development Fund and European Investment Bank. As a key part of the government’s ‘Northern Powerhouse’ vision, whichaims to create economic prosperity in the North of England, NPIF provides commercial finance to support small and medium sized businesses in the region.FW Capital manages both the £92.8m Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund for the North West and the £69.4m Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund for Tees Valley and Cumbria.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Construction, Health Care
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

BioGrad — Established in 2014 under the leadership of Dr. Natalie Kenny, Matthew Fagan and Jay Fitzgerald. BioGrad has undergone a transformative journey spanning nine
Host & Stay — Luxury holiday homes and apartments located across the UK, from North Yorkshire to Northumberland, to Liverpool
Inside Contracts — Inside Contracts Group provides services within floor preparation, floor finishes, interior design and cleaning across multiple sectors.

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

Novatus Global — Enabling firms to Ensure Accurate, Complete, and Timely transaction reporting across all regimes with our award-winning reporting platform, En:ACT.
Connected Data — Connected Data | Data Enabled Debt Management
Corporate Modelling — OPX is our award-winning business optimisation software which will transform your business and improve your productivity.

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

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
Weldfast — Weldfast is a manufacturer and supplier of welding consumables, abrasives, chemicals, premium gas equipment, and safety products.
EarSwitch — Empowering new ways to control and connect with the world through in-ear biometric switch and sensor technology

Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

R.grid — Research Grid is the automation engine for admin-free clinical trials. Research Grid has developed two industry-leading products that leverage its AI-powered automation engine.
Raycast — A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.
Dexory — Discover the only warehouse intelligence platform that helps logistics providers to maximise visibility of daily inventory operations using autonomous robots.

FOV Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Iconic.AI — Iconic AI is an AAA games studio AI-driven game development
Flow Computing — Flow's Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) gives 100X CPU performance for demanding applications, such as locally-hosted AI and general-purpose parallel computing.
Distance Technologies — Distance Technologies seeks to develop glasses-free XR applications

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

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

Media and Entertainment, Video, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, Jersey, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Springpod — Gain virtual work experience with top employers and try university courses before you apply on Springpod. Enhance your CV and Personal Statement online for free
Edit Cloud — Edit Cloud is an editing platform that offers virtual editing suites.
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.

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

Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
Ava Protocol — Ava Protocol is an event-driven EigenLayer AVS that seamlessly automates cross-chain transactions for DeFi, NFTs, games, and more.
Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.

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

Qloo — Qloo is the cultural AI. Qloo has developed cutting-edge machine learning processes and AI algorithms to predict taste for any target audience and map relationships within and between cultural domains, including: Music, Film, TV, Dining, Nightlife, Fashion, Books, Travel and Tech.Qloo has mapped more than a quarter-trillion culturalcorrelations, and makes this intelligence readily available to individuals, developers, and leading brands. Qloo's cultural AI is currently powering personalization and informing key decisions for market leaders in tech, financial services, entertainment, automotive, fashion, CPG and hospitality. Qloo is headquartered and lovingly built in NYC.
CoreWeave — CoreWeave provides flexible compute services and products to empower innovators. The company provides GPU accelerated compute solutions to the CGI and machine learning industries. Backed by quality hardware and systems management infrastructure, CoreWeave is built to help clients scale and adapt to evolving compute requirements at industry leadingeconomics.
Bilt Rewards — Join the loyalty program for your home and neighborhood. Earn points on rent and get access to exclusive benefits across dining, travel, fitness, and more.

Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation .

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Awen Oncology — Delivering first-in-class therapeutics that target novel, undrugged cancer-specific factors, offering new hope for patients around the world.
Purple Transform — Purple Transform operates as an artificial intelligence company. Purple Transform improves decision accuracy with digital intelligence.
OW Smell Made Digital — OW Smell Made Digital offers software and hardware solutions for controlling smell.

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

Information Technology, Financial Services, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
The Seeds Labs — Seeds Labs is the developer of the Web3 game Bladerite, which emphasizes high-quality games and game infrastructure.
Balcony Technology — Balcony Leverages Distributed Ledger Technology To Provide The Real Estate Ecosystem With A Blockchain-Based Solution

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 — Streamline the underwriting process with Send's innovative commercial insurance platform. Our underwriting workbench is designed to automate time-consuming manual tasks so you can focus more on data-driven underwriting.

Unbound is a crowdfunding publisher that gives people the tools, support and freedom to bring their ideas to life.

Investment focus

eSports, PC Games, Automotive
Series A, Series D, Funding Round
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CARS24 — Buy and Sell Used Cars Online at Cars24. Cars24.com offers home inspection to sell your car and provides 100% verified second-hand customer cars at best price with Easy Finance and RC Transfer.
Fnatic — Fnatic is the world's leading esports organisation, with a winning legacy of 17 years and counting in over 28 different titles.

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

TreQ — TreQ is a manufacturing company that builds and operates bespoke quantum computing clusters.
ClaimSorted — ClaimSorted is a modern claims TPA providing a 5-star claims experience while also reducing operational and indemnity costs through our industry-leading claims team and advanced automation
Landbase — Landbase combines leading agentic AI with human expertise to intelligently automate your Go-To-Market

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, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Anaphite — A breakthrough nanomaterial
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.
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.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Switzerland, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

NovaNet — NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games.
Range Labs — The blockchain security and intelligence platform. Featuring a comprehensive security and risk management suite powered by machine learning and security expertise.
Darkbright Studios — Darkbright Studios is the developer of Smolbound, a Web3 life sim RPG.

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

Vida — The AI phone agent for small business. Answer calls and texts with an AI phone agent that always works and is never busy. number that answers calls and texts with AI.
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.

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

Hybe IM — HYBE INTERACTIVE MEDIA (HYBE IM) is broadening the scope of HYBE's entertainment offerings by creating games and publishing them for people all over the world. HYBE IM creates numerous contents and services by combining cutting-edge interactive media technology with music, artists, and entertainment components, resulting in new viewpoints andexperiences.
Dusk — Rune is an automated friend or squad finder and voice chat for players on mobile games. Users can hang out and share amazing experiences together. The company builds the future of LFG for mobile gamers.
THINKR — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GAMEE — Join Mocaverse Season in Arc8 for Moca-themed Beasties and exclusive tournaments. Earn Realm Points and delve into the exciting world of gaming and digital collectibles.
Azra Games — Azra Games is a collection
Gradient Network — Gradient Network is a provider of decentralized computing services that aim to improve interoperability between blockchain networks. The company provides a system that allows for liquid staking and computing power sharing while also ensuring cross-chain compatibility and effective resource allocation, allowing developers and enterprises to improvetheir blockchain applications.

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