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Top 50 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in United Kingdom in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Wine and spirits startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Wine and spirits companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in United Kingdom in January 2025

Investor	Wine And Spirits United Kingdom investments
Angels Den	3
Whiterock Finance	2
JamJar Investments	2
Alexander Edward Chesterman	2
Business Growth Fund	2
Atomico	2
Beringea	2
Max Ventures	2
Jad Benabdelkhalek	1
Ben Bilboul	1
Ann Elliott	1
Development Bank of Wales	1
Jonathan Warburton	1
HSBC UK	1
Founders Capital	1
Co-FundNI	1
Secure Trust Bank	1
Comhar Capital	1
MOHARA	1
Imbiba	1
Will Greenwood	1
Lightspeed Venture Partners	1
Piper Private Equity	1
New Anglia Capital	1
Simon Gunning	1
Pente Capital	1
Alex Ikonn	1
Seedrs	1
Stephen Fitzpatrick	1
Midlands Engine Investment Fund	1
Rob Dobson	1
Semapa Next	1
Edition Capital	1
James Murphy	1
Ian Wright	1
Equity Gap	1
Brett Akker	1
James Matthews	1
Speedinvest	1
Jon Reynolds	1
David Golding	1
Notion Capital	1
8point8 Capital	1
Ursula Burns	1
Global Founders Capital	1
John Magnier	1
Anglia Capital Group	1
Shapers	1
Nigel Wray	1
Amy Wilson	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
OnCare — Home care software | care management system
SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.

Growth Loan Fund Invest NI and NILGOSC.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Retail, Manufacturing
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Axial3D — Leading the way with the latest 3D imaging, models, and devices
Solarfix — Solarfix NI Ltd is a leading One-Stop Solar Specialist. Commerical, Domestic, New Build, Self Build, Agricultural and Off-Grid Solar PV solutions. Tesla Powerwall, PureDrive, StorEdge, SolarEdge, Zappi, Eddi, Myenergi, Duracell, Repairs & Upgrades, Solar Panel installation in Northern Ireland.
Drinksology Kirker Greer — Drinksology Kirker Greer produces trusted spirit brands across an eclectic range of spirit categories. Drinksology creates, produces, distributes, and manages a global portfolio of premium wine brands. Drinksology Kirker Greer is a food and drinks company.

JamJar Investments is a venture capital firm that invest in high growth consumer brand businesses in both digital and non-tech.Its combination of operational, commercial and brand experience was honed over 14 years taking innocent from scratch to sale to Coca Cola for north of half a billion £. That journey means the company understand thejourney of entrepreneurs, the highs the lows, the challenges and some of the solutions. JamJar is the consumer Venture Capital fund run by the innocent drinks founders.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

XOXO Soda — XOXO Soda is a plant-based drink with prebiotic fiber that is low in sugar and calories.
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With Nothing Underneath — WNU is all about simplicity - paired back, laid back, timeless, effortless shirts - just like the woman who wears them. Our shirts are not about trends or fleeting style moments, but about a wardrobe essential in which to live a life.

Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zefir — Zefir aims to expand the realm of possibilities for millions of European homeowners. We make home-selling simpler, faster and more certain by buying the property directly from you. Selling a home is now just a few clicks away.
Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.

BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sulmara — Innovation for a sustainable energy future | Sulmara
Besseges — ValvesTubesFittings.com launched in 2015 as the online arm of Besseges VTF and has become one of the leading online pipeline suppliers.
Miracle Design & Play — Miracle Design & Play specializes in designing and installing playgrounds for children.

Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, 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 — BotsAndUs is a London-based startup that develops robotics and AI solutions. They combine social sciences with human-centered design and cutting edge engineering and make sure robots seamlessly integrate into day to day life.

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.

Max Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in consumer tech and health-tech companies. Max Ventures primarily invests in digital commerce, digital media, fintech, and digital Health. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Sweden, Canada

Portfolio highlights

UnityAI — At UnityAI, we specialize in developing innovative AI solutions that drive business success. Our state-of-the-art technology and expert team empower companies to optimize operations, enhance decision-making, and unlock new opportunities. Discover how UnityAI can transform your business with our comprehensive suite of AI services. Partner with us to turn your vision into reality.
Adonis — Adonis is the first revenue intelligence and automation platform that delivers AI-driven insights to help your medical practice, hospital, or digital health clinic beat revenue KPIs.
Hello Patient — Healthcare AI that gets your team off the phone & in front of patients

Jad Benabdelkhalek - General Partner @ Golden Record Ventures

Investment focus

Winery, FinTech, Payments
Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
Orbital — We bridge the gap between traditional and crypto financial solutions, providing a regulated, secure and frictionless experience for global businesses.

Ben Bilboul - Chief Executive Officer @ Karmarama

Investment focus

Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

Ann Elliott

Investment focus

Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Amped PCR — Explore Amped PCR's advanced DNA amplification solutions for precise molecular diagnostics. Trusted by food safety authorities and biotech companies. Learn more
Coffi Lab — Dog friendly independent coffee shops, inspired by our love of coffee & labs. In Monmouth, Marlborough & Abergavenny. Proud Supporter of Guide Dogs UK.
Stable Resources — We are Stable. We pioneer new ways for teams to collaborate and innovate with technology being the enabler.

Jonathan Warburton

Investment focus

Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

HSBC UK provides financial products and services and long-term general and industrial credit services.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Food and Beverage
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Amey — Amey provides full life-cycle engineering, operations, and decarbonization solutions for transportation infrastructure and complex facilities.
Global Metcorp — Global Metcorp is an import and export company that specilizes in scrap metal, waste rubber, and waste paper wholesale supply.
Offset Print & Packaging — Offset Print & Packaging offers printed cartons and greeting cards. They provide their products for the industries, which include food and beverage, toiletries and cosmetics, technology and electronics, homeware and gifts, entertainment and multimedia. Their products include solid board printed cartons, litho laminated corrugated boxes,computer games packaging, food and drink packaging, household goods packaging, confidential trade services, and brc accredited.

Founders Capital is An early-stage fintech focused investment firm based in London, UK.Their investment objective has been to identify and capture opportunities in the following emerging key alternative finance and FinTech areas:Market Place Lending (MPL) – invested in a range of market place lending companies including those focusingconsumer finance (Bondora), real- estate (EstateGuru) and SME lending and invoice finance (Investly) Secondary Market for Private Shares – creating a market place / secondary market where investors / founders can offload private shares (SharesBook) Balance Sheet Lending (BSL)- capitalising on the changing regulatory landscape in the the EU and backing up new types of ethical alternatives to payday lending (Credio) MPL Robolender – setting up a buy-side MPL operation that would give investors a single entry-point to market place lending across multiple platforms (PeerCap) ETF Roboadvisors – disrupting the mainstream wealth management space and offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional wealth managers and independent financial advisors, initially by focusing on the expat market (WealthPat)

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Communities
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Vietnam, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cooky.vn — The community loves food, cooking and baking. Join the community to share recipes and cooking tips.
Freja — Award-winning bone broths from Freja Foods. Responsibly sourced and conveniently packaged, Freja bone broth is available online and via leading retailers.
Winefi — Invest in collections of fine wine and spirits at low cost. Expertly-curated, diversified and managed for you from sourcing to sale. Only with Winefi.

Through Co-Fund NI £12.5million will be made available to invest alongside business angels and business angel syndicates (hereafter referred to as "private investors" or "syndicates") into eligible SME's based in Northern Ireland. When matched 45% public with 55% private investors on a deal-by-deal basis this will give anoverall "fund" size of £28m.This initiative is provided by Invest Northern Ireland and part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund under the Invest for Growth and Jobs Programme 2014-2020.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Kinsetsu — Organisations are continually challenged to find better ways to manage processes. Traditional approaches are being pushed to their limits.
CV6 Therapeutics — CV6 Therapeutics is a drug development company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel therapies for the treatment of human diseases.
GenoMe Diagnostics — GenoME Diagnostics - We are developing a blood test for an earlier and more accurate diagnosis of ovarian cancer.GenoME Diagnostics .

Secure Trust Bank provides simple, transparent savings accounts, mortgages and Business and Commercial Finance. They are a bank. They look after savings and they lend money to individuals and to businesses. They like to keep it simple. Their mission is to build the best bank in Britain.They’re proud of their West Midlands roots and today theyoperate from a number of locations in the UK. They’re a much bigger family now – there’s more than 700 of us. In October 2016 they successfully listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Furniture, Pet
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Grant
United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Weldfast — Weldfast is a manufacturer and supplier of welding consumables, abrasives, chemicals, premium gas equipment, and safety products.
Henderson & Jones — H&J is a litigation investment company that purchases litigation and arbitration claims.
Butchers Pet Care — Butchers Pet Care is a Wet feeding producer in the UK. Butcher’s also make great tasting meals for cats too! Butcher’s Pet Care prides itself in making more natural dog food and cat food, which is delicious and 100% complete and balanced. They can do this because it’s all they do; make great-tasting pet foods that cats and dogs love and thrive on;it’s their passion!

Hands on business and capital investment support - Comhar Capital focuses upon direct capital investment for companies run by forward-thinking growth-orientated owner-managers.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TaperedPlus — TaperedPlus specialises in the design of flat roofs and insulation. TaperedPlus is aiming to modernise and promote tapered insulation within the UK markets.
Panintelligence — Expand ARR and accelerate your product roadmap with engaging, secure, embedded analytics and reporting designed specifically for SaaS.
The Lakes Distillery — Pushing boundaries in pursuit of flavour creation, The Lakes Distillery's artistic ethos is at the intersection of art, science and nature. Discover the award-winning Lakes Single Malt Whisky, and our unique collection of gin, vodka, whiskies and gifts from The Lake District.

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

Investment focus

Marketing, Advertising, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

WYSPR — Wyspr is a London-based AdTech startup specializing in influencer marketing.
Lealtà — Lealtà is a SaaS company that develops a patient membership platform based on a neurobehavioral framework that drives patient loyalty and healthy choices for better care and financial outcomes.
Ekko — Ekko is the transformative app, debit card, and ecosystem making it effortless to turn the tide on climate change.

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.

Will Greenwood

Investment focus

Winery, Snack Food, Organic Food
Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
Fearne & Rosie — Hello! Berry nice to meet you. Our mum says it's really important that we eat the berry best food. So we squish together natural ingredients to make tasty, fruity jams, honeys and spreads. MORE FRUIT, LESS SUGAR Just for you! Love, Fearne and Rosie x

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Whatnot — Whatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and geek out with collectors and other like-minded people. All items on Whatnot are verified. Shop on web or download the app.
Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
Seekho — Learn from 10,000+ bite-sized videos on Technology, Money, Youtube, Instagram, and 10+ more categories with Seekho Experts. Start Now

We are the investment partner of choice for ambitious founders. Founded by entrepreneurs, we are a team of brand experts who have grown over 40 global brands.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Fashion
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Omlet — Award-winning modern Chicken Coops, Dog Crates, stylish Hamster Cages, outdoor Cat Enclosures & easy-to-clean Rabbit Hutches. Shop online now.
Wild Nutrition — Wild Nutrition are natural supplements made using the highest-quality ingredients.
The Thinking Traveller — The Thinking Traveller is a multiple award-winning villa rental company specializing in luxury villas in the Mediterranean regions of Sicily, Puglia, and the Minor Italian islands in Italy.

The New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership are transforming the economy by securing funds from government to help businesses grow in Norfolk and Suffolk.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Seed, Grant
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CROSSIP — Great tasting non-alcoholic spirits with a kick. Made from natural botanical ingredients, no added sugar. 0% alcohol drinks perfected by TV's Carl Anthony Brown.
Cellexcel — Cellexcel is a biomaterials research company that develops technology for enhancement of water resistance of biomaterials.
One Planet Pizza — One Planet Pizza is a vegan food company, dedicated to creating good food. It distributes a range of frozen pizzas and redi-meals through local retail outlets and via home delivery in Norwich, Cambridge, and Ipswich. One Planet's pizza currently come in 4 Italian style pizza's and can be found in most of the major high streetsupermarkets.One Planet Pizza is owned by a group of vegan and veggie business people, including Mike Hill (co-owner of River Green Café), Jan Wise (owner of The Beggie Red Lion Pub) and Tanya Chapman (owner of Luvegan Cakes in Leicester). The company is also supported and backed by a number of vegan bloggers and activists.

Simon Gunning is the CEO of Campaign Against Living Miserably.

Investment focus

Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

At Pente, we invest in entrepreneurs and operators who aim to build great businesses. The teams we partner with are true builders, whether they work with wireframes, code, physical products or ideas.We see the emergence of a kinder and more sustainable world, powered by a new generation of businesses. A world where life's luxuries areredefined as design being the central determinator of quality. We are working with the most promising founders and businesses to catalyze change with radical, empathetic visions for a better future.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, Austria

Portfolio highlights

WatchHouse — Cosy, unique coffee spots & eateries in London. We make great coffee and exceptional food within beautifully bespoke environments tailored around our local community. It is as simple as that. | Never worry about running out of coffee supplies again. The Modern Coffee experience from the comfort of your own home.
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.
Mytos — The Infrastructure for Cell Manufacturing

Alex Ikonn is the Co-Founder of Intelligent Change. He previously worked at Luxy Hair as a Co-founder. Alex Ikonn attended York University.

Investment focus

Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
Lunata Beauty —

Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
Signature Brew — Signature Brew is a music bar and brewery that aims to bring people together. They provide beer, booze, and live music for their patrons, which enables them to bring the community together through the power of good beer, music, and memories.
SRSLY Low Carb — SRSLYLowCarb is a home for healthy, Keto and Low Carb friendly foods. Perfect for diabetic-friendly diets. Elevate your health journey with us!

Stephen Fitzpatrick is founder and CEO of Vertical Aerospace and OVO Energy. Recognising the potential of EVTOLs to transform air travel, Fitzpatrick resolved to bring together the best technologies from aviation, energy and automobile industries. Today, the company is closing in on its mission of decarbonising flight.A serial entrepreneur,Stephen Fitzpatrick believes in the power of human ingenuity, directing his attention to forming businesses that solve the world’s biggest problems.In 2009 he founded OVO Energy, overseeing its growth to the biggest independent provider of power in the UK, offering customers energy that is cheaper, cleaner and simpler than rivals.Stephen Fitzpatrick’s expansive experience, as founder of an energy company and former owner of F1 team, Manor Racing, led to his setting up Vertical Aerospace. In 2021 the company announced conditional pre-orders for 1,350 aircraft from American Airlines, Avolon, Virgin Atlantic, Marubeni Corp, Iberojet and Bristow Group for an estimated $5.4bn. In December of that year, Vertical Aerospace listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Today the company is poised to launch the most advanced aircraft of its type ever designed, the VX4, with test flights expected to run in 2022.

Investment focus

Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.

MEIF is an investment firm that operates equity and debt investment towards growth capital. The firm aims to transform the finance landscape for smaller businesses in the Midlands and to realize the region’s potential to achieve economic growth through enterprise. It is a collaboration between the British Business Bank and ten Local EnterprisePartnerships (LEPs) in the West Midlands and East and South East Midlands. MEIF provides over £250m of investment to boost small and medium business (SME) growth in the Midlands.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lexverify — Lexverify uses artificial intelligence to detect potential legal and compliance concerns in communications. It assists businesses in proactively avoiding legal and regulatory concerns by harnessing the power of AI. Their objective is to make technological communication a benefit rather than a problem.
Centaur Robotics — Centaur believes mobility needs re-imagining to provide a real advantage for everyday human needs. Our vision is to challenge thinking through design and technology to create superhuman technology - that provides extra-ordinary mobility fit for humans in the 21st Century.
Purple Transform — Purple Transform operates as an artificial intelligence company. Purple Transform improves decision accuracy with digital intelligence.

Rob founded Actix (actix.com) in 1991 and as CEO (1991-2005) grew it to over $50m revenue by 2005. More than 90% of the world’s mobile phone customers have their networks optimized by Actix software and Rob has worked with many of the world’s leading mobile operators and infrastructure vendors. In 2005 he sold a majority stake in the company toPE firm Summit Partners at a $100+m valuation. He has invested in a further 30+ startups and has had five very successful exits (he's not counting failures as they come with the territory). Rob is chairman of Robotical (robotical.io) and DevicePilot.com. He's also the founding chairman of Singletrack.com and a supporter of the unique orchestra SouthbankSinfonia.co.uk. As an inveterate tinkerer in software and hardware, he's fascinated by IoT, 3D printing and the maker movement (as you can probably see from his personal website (robdobson.com). Rob is a Fellow of the IET and has a 1st class honours degree in Electronic Engineering.

Investment focus

Software, Business Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
DevicePilot — DevicePilot Service Monitoring for connected devices provides a single pane of glass for Product, Operations and Customer Support teams, driving up customer satisfaction and growth, while reducing operational costs.
Connect4 — The client-centric platform for you and your team. Consistently deliver outstanding client meetings. Every single time.

Semapa Next is a venture capital firm that invests in European-based companies aspiring to become global category leaders.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, B2B
Series A, Seed
Portugal, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Soveren — Soveren helps engineering and security teams protect personal data by detecting privacy risks and analyzing real-time data flows within your infrastructure.
Ferovinum — We are a technology enabled supply chain financing partner for the wine and spirit industries. Our platform funds wine producers, whisky distillers, bottlers and merchants.
RealFevr — Collect moments with the most iconic video moments of your favourite football players.

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.

James Murphy is the Founder/CEO at New Commercial Arts.

Investment focus

Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

Ian Edward Wright MBE is an English television and radio personality and former professional footballer.

Investment focus

Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.

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.
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!
Vector Photonics — Vector Photonics is a spin-out company from the University of Glasgow and is based in Glasgow, Scotland, one of the UK and world’s Optical and Photonics centres of excellence.

Brett Akker is a Non-Executive Director at Much Better Adventures.

Investment focus

Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fy! — Fy is an e-commerce company that builds a mobile marketplace to shop online. It uses a combination of social content, machine learning, and a deep understanding of its products and suppliers to create a personalized experience for each shopper using the site and app. Fy was launched in 2017 driven by a mission to make the world of designdiscoverable, affordable, and instantly accessible through social commerce.
Chargifi — Chargifi empowers synchronous work, orchestrating people and spaces to get the best work done, wherever, whenever and with whoever they choose. We enable the realtime and dynamic orchestration of people and spaces so companies can adopt flexible working at scale. Where, when and who work is done with is now fully intentional, and this is at theheart of workplace experience.
Much Better Adventures — Join like-minded people on an active, small group, tour.

James Matthews is the CEO at Eden Rock Group.

Investment focus

Organic, Wine And Spirits
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Goldling Drinks — Goldling Drinks is a organic canned spirit startup offers natural flavour vodkas.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

EnliteAI — enliteAI is a technology provider for Artificial Intelligence. We are the maker of Maze, an open-source framework for applied Reinforcement Learning and Detekt, a modern geospatial data platform for object detection in mobile mapping data supporting the entire asset management life cycle.
HomeCooks — HomeCooks delivers chef-crafted meals from the UK's top independent cooks right to your door. Browse our weekly menus of authentic global cuisines, from spicy Asian delights to comforting home-cooked classics. With quick reheating, you can enjoy restaurant-quality meals anytime at home.
Tibo energy — To make sure you operate within the limits of your contract we control your network. We avoid congestion in your energy network.

Jon Reynolds is the Co-Founder and CEO at SwiftKey. He attended University of Cambridge during 2004 - 2007.

Investment focus

FinTech, Food Delivery, Supply Chain Management
Series A, Seed, Series C
United Kingdom, United States

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Onfido — Onfido digitally proves a user’s real identity using AI technology, by verifying their photo ID and comparing it to their facial biometrics. It means users and businesses can verify their online identities anywhere and anytime, without compromising on experience, inclusion, privacy or security. Onfido powers over 1,500 fintech, banking, andmarketplace clients globally—helping them onboard more users while reducing risk. Identity underpins all transactions, and over the coming years, access to everything will be based on every user's ability to easily and securely prove their legal identity. This will change how we think of access—everything from opening a bank account to self-checking-in to a hotel, and ultimately voting.
Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
Hinge Health — The #1 clinic for joint & muscle pain. Join today and take control of your pain with access to our personalized virtual physical therapy program

David Golding

Investment focus

Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
Series A
United Kingdom

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Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
Refute — Refute identifies and addresses misinformation on behalf of there businesses.
Upvest — Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API. Upvest brings together everything that’s required to offer a broad range of investment products on the website and app. They are connected to the world’s leading asset providers and exchanges to provide the bestinvestments, at the best prices and execution speed.

8point8 Capital specialises in Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A funding of high growth UK businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sensat — Access a backdrop of the real world to overlay plans, test options & spot constraints from your desktop. Bring teams onto the same page using one project view.
MeVitae — end-to-end D&I recruiting tools straight into your application tracking system to combat unconscious and algorithmic bias
Square Root Soda — Square Root are craft soft drinks made from fresh fruit. We want to make the best non-alcoholic drinks like a G&T, a Negroni Spritz and other unusual flavours so we make them in our own soda brewery in London. You can be sure the drinks contain less sugar, more flavour & we're always innovating! Buy online now.

Ursula Burns is a Senior Advisor at Teneo Holdings. She is also Chairman of the Board at VEON, and director of Uber, American Express, ExxonMobil and Nestlé. She will join Diageo’s board in April 2018.Burns was previously the Chairman of the Board of the Xerox Corporation from 2010 to 2017 and Chief Executive Officer from 2009 to 2016.Shejoined Xerox as an intern in 1980 and during her career she held leadership posts spanning corporate services, manufacturing and product development. She was named president in 2007. During her tenure as chief executive officer, she helped the company transform from a global leader in document technology to the world’s most diversified business services company serving enterprises and governments of all sizes. Shortly after being named CEO in 2009, she spearheaded the largest acquisition in Xerox history, the $6.4 billion purchase of Affiliated Computer Services.In 2016, Burns led Xerox through a successful separation into two independent, publicly traded companies – Xerox Corporation, which is comprised of the company’s Document Technology and Document Outsourcing businesses, and Conduent Incorporated, a business process services company. The separation of the two businesses enhanced their competitive positions and created significant value creation opportunities.Burns, who regularly appears on Fortune’s and Forbes’ lists of the world’s most powerful women, is now a Senior Advisor to global CEO advisory firm Teneo. She is a board director of Uber, American Express, ExxonMobil, and Nestlé, and the chairman of VEON. She will join the board of Diageo in April 2018. U.S. President Barack Obama appointed her to help lead the White House national program on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) from 2009-2016, and she served as chair of the President’s Export Council from 2015-2016 after service as vice chair 2010-2015.She also provides leadership counsel to several other community and non-profit organizations, including the Ford Foundation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Corporation, Cornell Tech Board of Overseers, the New York City Ballet, and the Mayo Clinic. Burns is a member of the National Academy of Engineers and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Burns holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Events
Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, United Kingdom

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CleanCo — Why Clean? A more positive approach to non-alcoholic drinks. It makes it easier to order at the bar and more sense for people who drink less, or not at all as part of a cleaner lifestyle.
Goodera — Engage employees for social impact with Goodera. We curate, plan, and manage engaging volunteering programs for 10M+ employees.
Rapport — The smart solution for building superhuman teams. Rapport distills decades of research on high performing teams down to a few smart, simple steps that integrate seamlessly into your workflow.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

John Magnier is Ireland's leading thoroughbred stud owner and has extensive business interests outside the horse-breeding industry.

Investment focus

Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.

Anglia Capital Group are Angel Investors supporting innovative early stage businesses in East Anglia

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

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CROSSIP — Great tasting non-alcoholic spirits with a kick. Made from natural botanical ingredients, no added sugar. 0% alcohol drinks perfected by TV's Carl Anthony Brown.
Easology — New easy to use tablets - Samsung Galaxy easology. Easology makes your tablet easy with large text, big buttons, clear menus + more.
Cellexcel — Cellexcel is a biomaterials research company that develops technology for enhancement of water resistance of biomaterials.

Shapers is backed by global fintech operators and investing in fintech founders across Europe.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, PaaS
Seed
Belgium, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Chift — Offer native integrations within your software. Your clients connect your software to their tools in one click. Connect easily to Accounting, POS, Invoicing, e-commerce, etc.
Ferovinum — We are a technology enabled supply chain financing partner for the wine and spirit industries. Our platform funds wine producers, whisky distillers, bottlers and merchants.
Ember — Find everything you need to run your business in one app, with qualified accountants on hand whenever you need.

Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino's Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors.Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community.Nigel still calls the area home, too - having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Glassette — Discover and collect beautiful, curated homeware from the best brands in the UK. Shop thoughtfully, live joyfully.
Get A Drip — Get A Drip offers IV drips, booster shots and Longevity therapies. IV Drips are administered by medical staff, GMC registered Doctors and NMC registered Nurses.
Stubben Edge — Financial services for a new generation. Sign up free to sell better financial products, cheaper, faster and to more people with Flightdeck

Amy Wilson is the Marketing Consultant and Agency Founder at w digital.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Water, Energy
Equity Crowdfunding, Angel
United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

pluumo — Inspired by the circular economy, pluumo harnesses the power of surplus feathers to create best-in-class thermal packaging designed to insulate temperature sensitive deliveries.
OceanSaver — OceanSaver is Norwegian company that manufactures ballast water management system. It has been a well-recognized supplier of ballast water treatment systems for ocean-going vessels in accordance with UN’s Ballast Water Treatment Convention. OceanSaver was among the first suppliers to be approved by IMO, to successfully complete the stringent testregime by the US Coast Guard and to obtain a USCG type approval in December 2016.The company filed for bankruptcy in 2017 and was consequently sold to IMS Group, a Norwegian group of companies focusing on leading technological solutions for the offshore and marine market.
Wellbeing Sisters — The home of clean beauty and wellbeing. Shop with confidence - we check the ingredients so you don't have to!

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