# Top 50 Android Startup Investors in United Kingdom in May 2026

## Northstar Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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

## Octopus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech

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

## Prime Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech

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 : 

## Venrex
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet

Venrex Investment Management is a UK-based venture capital firm that backs creative Founders to launch and build innovative businesses.

## Frog Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics

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.

## Pioneer Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

300+ YC alumni investing in the top YC startups

## Initialized Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the seed. Initialized has 6 investing partners and over $3.2B under management over five core funds since its founding in 2012. The firm's startups have created in aggregate over $200B in market value so far.

## Cambridge Angels group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

The Cambridge Angels are a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in internet, software, technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors in the Cambridge (UK) area and throughout the UK.Typical funding requirements thatthe Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £50,000 to £500,000 - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have received more than £1m in funding from their Members over several funding rounds.Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.

## Mercia Asset Management PLC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

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

## SyndicateRoom
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical

SyndicateRoom is fintech company made up of data-scientists, investment professionals, software developers and marketers with one mission: to be an early investor in every British startup success story.To do this – and make fund investors money – we don’t try to spot the next Big Thing.Instead, we apply a data-driven model to portfolioconstruction; a repeatable process designed to maximise returns and minimise risk for fund investors. As such, we build startup portfolios that don’t attempt to predict the future; they work to stack the odds in investors’ favour.Our fund, Access EIS, aims to build investors a diversified portfolio of 50+ companies by co‑investing exclusively with some of the UK’s best-performing angel investors.

## Jaan Tallinn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-founder of Future of Life Institute.

## Techstart Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Techstart Ventures is a leading investor of seed capital across Scotland and Northern Ireland. they are a trusted partner to ambitious founders on their journey to success.

## NTEC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuwait, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Mobile, iOS, Apps

NTEC is a leader in promoting sustainable transfer of technology to the region, through a corporate venture capital model.
They invest in the following :
* Biotechnology and Life Sciences
* IT and Telecommunication
* Energy and Alternate Energy
* Water and Environment
* Venture Capital Funds

## HV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

## Cambridge Innovation Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Cambridge Innovation Capital backs life sciences and technology companies with an affiliation to Cambridge, Europe’s capital for innovation. As a preferred investor for the University of Cambridge, they have unparalleled access to investment opportunities in the ecosystem.Since our inception in 2013, they have raised £275 million to invest indisruptive, deep-tech businesses in sectors including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, quantum technologies, autonomous systems, therapeutics, medtech/diagnostics, digital health, and genomics/proteomics.

## Balderton Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

## Pentech Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Analytics

Pentech Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on finding category defining software companies. Their passion is helping founders develop their startup into an internationally successful organisation. They have done this multiple times, partnering with leading VCs, corporations and investment banks along the way. They consider any opportunitycapable of becoming a market leader but are most comfortable being the first venture investor, supporting founders through the early stages of proving product and market fit. Their initial investment is likely to be £500K to £2M, with up to £10M invested over the lifetime of the investment.They invest in founders who are ambitious to build a global company, have the passion and ability to attract the best team and who are focused on the data and understand the key drivers in proving and building their business. They support the founders they invest in to develop and grow with their business.

## Hambro Perks Ltd.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Financial Services

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

## Livingstone Ian
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Android, Video Games, PC Games

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

## Ascension
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, FinTech

Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders

## ePlanet Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Mobile, Internet

EPlanet Capital is a growth investor that provides venture capital and investment for telecom, media, and technology companies.It is focused on companies that display considerably high growth and development in emerging and developing countries of the world.EPlanet Capital has invested in over 99 companies that span from Baidu in China toVirgin Mobile in Latin America.

## Nate Macleitch
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: iOS, Mobile, Android

Nate Macleitch - CEO @ QuickBlox

## David Singleton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: iOS, Local, Events

Current positions: Chairman, Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia; Member, Board of Centre for Engineering Leadership and Management, Engineers Australia; Member Standards Australia Strategy Committee; Council Member Swinburne University of Technology and member of Audit and Risk Committee.Former positions: Group Board member andDirector, Arup Group Ltd; Chairman Global Infrastructure, Arup Group; Member Living with Environmental Change Strategy Board UK; CEO and Chairman, Arup Australasia; Chair Buildings Standards Sector Board Standards Australia; Chair and Director Australian Construction Industry Forum; Director Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation; President and Chair Association of Consulting Engineers Australia; Director Association of Consulting Engineers Australia; Chair National Engineering Registration Board; Member Advisory Board, University of Cambridge Program for Sustainability Leadership.Other achievements: OPM Program, Harvard Business School 1996-98; One of Australia's 100 Most Influential Engineers in 2004 to 2007 inclusive; One of five finalists as "CEO of the Year", Equal Opportunity in the Workplace Agency, 2002; Director of RedR Australia Ltd 1998-2001.

## Kennet Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Kennet - We partner with Founders and teams of successful, capital efficient SaaS and tech-enabled services companies ready to take the next big jump.

## Clearly Social Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Education, Software, Health Care

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## Ballpark Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile

Ballpark Ventures is a small, boutique fund investing in early stage technology startups. Their partners are all successful entrepreneurs and at this stage, investing their own money.

## YOLO Leisure and Technology
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: TV, DRM, Apps

YOLO Leisure and Technology plc aims to focus on opportunities in the travel, technology and leisure sectors.


## Creandum
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile

We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.

## Martlet Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Martlet Capital is an early-stage investor based in Cambridge, providing patient capital to deep technology and life science startups with high growth potential. Investing in the future.

## Paul McGuire
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: iOS, Local, Events

Paul McGuire is the Co-founder & CEO at tru.ID.
Serial Entrepreneur – previously founded two leading international transaction platform businesses. Now at JustInvesting, building the online transaction platform for the next-generation of Angel investing – moving venture investing online, to the benefit of Investors, Entrepreneurs and the wholeeconomy.
Prior to JustInvesting Paul co-founded Paymo, later acquired by BOKU, and led the company to become one of the leading mobile payments platforms, available in over 50 countries. Prior to Paymo, Paul co-founded mBlox, the world's leading mobile transaction network, where he led the company's sales and marketing organizations, guided the company's expansion into the European market, and led M&A efforts to acquire six companies.Before founding several start-ups in the telecommunications sector, Paul began his career in management consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton.

## Hotspur Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Location Based Services, Mobile

Hotspur Capital is a financial organization.

## Public
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Android, GovTech, Hardware

Starting life as an accelerator and investor, we have become a leading European government-focused technology company

## Symvan Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, SaaS

Award-winning EIS & SEIS technology venture capital fund manager

## Redgate Software
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1

Founded in 1999, Red Gate Software produces ingeniously simple tools used by more than 500,000 IT professionals worldwide. The company currently specializes in SQL Server and .NET tools. Red Gate has been chosen as one of The Sunday Times (UK) 100 best small companies to work for in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

## Red Circle Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, iOS

OTB is the parent company of iconic fashion brands Diesel, Maison Margiela, Marni, Paula Cademartori and Viktor&Rolf, and state-of-the-art companies Staff International and Brave Kid. A group with an extensive production know-how, a wide distribution netw

## Brendan Gill
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: iOS, Local, Events

Prior to co-founding OpenSignal in 2010, Brendan spent over 10 years building solutions to help people understand and improve mobile service and experience. In 2007, he was part of the team that launched RepeaterStore, which provides signal boosting solutions to improve wireless cell and data reception in buildings, homes and vehicles. Brendan wasnamed in the Telecoms Business Power100 in 2017. He holds a Physics degree from Oxford University.

## Douglas Scott
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: iOS, Local, Events

Douglas Scott

## Mark Gretton
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series E
- Focus: TV, Electronics, Intellectual Property

Mark Gretton

## Boost Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Software, iOS

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## Henrik Holmark
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, TV, DRM

Henrik Holmark - Board chair @ TrueLinked

## Adam Clayton
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: TV, DRM, Apps

Adam Clayton is an Irish musician who is the bass guitarist of the rock band U2.

## Alexander Armstrong
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: TV, DRM, Apps

Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong is a comedian actor.

## Thibaut Rouffineau
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: iOS, Local, Events

Thibaut Rouffineau - VP Marketing @ Canonical

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Clarendon Fund Managers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Security

Clarendon Fund Managers is a venture capital fund manager based in Belfast, focused on co-investments with business angel and private investor lead deals. It manages £42.5m of regional VC Funds in Northern Ireland including the £30m Co-Investment Fund and has invested in over 60 companies since it began investing in 2001.

## Endeavour Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: TV, DRM, Apps

Endeavour Ventures Ltd raises money for growth businesses from HNW and Sophisticated investors. We have directly sourced >£150m for portfolio companies directly from individuals typically looking for EIS opportunities.We make very few investments each year and work hard to create successful outcomes. We tend to make thematic investments intofast growth markets, always seeking the most experienced management teams and the most scalable models. Our opportunities are often driven by regulatory or technological change. We are amongst the few growth EIS investors able to demonstrate a successful 12 year track record.We typically seek board representation and consider ourselves to be key partners in the enterprise.We differentiate ourselves from a VC or angel investor group, in that we make fewer investments each year. We try to ensure that our companies are fully funded. We are not driven purely by brokerage fees on funds raised. Our model has no management fee and depends upon achieving exits.Specialties: Finding investors for scalable fast growth businesses that do not yet qualify for institutional investment, but have potential to become the global businesses of tomorrow.Due diligence of market opportunities and management teams.Valuation and structuring of deals.Sourcing of investment.Strategic partnerships.Portfolio highlights: 1. Aim-listed Blue Prism Group plc, into which we invested initially in 2006. In 2017 it topped £1bn market cap, making it our first “Unicorn”, before falling back just below that level. 2. Ebury Partners, which we invested in in 2012. 45% of the company was sold to Santander for £375m in 2019.Endeavour Ventures Limited is Authorised and Regulated by the FSA, as required by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, and is entered in the FSA Register with Firm Reference Number 431709 (see www.fsa.gov.uk for details).Endeavour Ventures Limited is a private limited company registered in England and Wales with company number 05244123. The registered office is 9-13 St Andrew Street, London EC4A 3AF.The recipients of our investment opportunities must either be certified as high net worth individuals or sophisticated investors as defined in our client criteria.

## Nigel Wray
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet

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.

## Brian McClendon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lawrence, Kansas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, iOS, Analytics

Brian McClendon is the Senior Vice President Of Engineering at Niantic and previously founder and VP engineering Keyhole Inc. He attended in The University of Kansas.

## Paul . McGuinness
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: TV, DRM, Apps

Paul McGuinness is the founder of Principle Management Limited.

## Shishir Mehrotra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Altos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps

Mr. Shishir Mehrotra is a Co-Founder/CEO of Coda since June 2014 and served as Strategic Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer from December 2015 to May 2017. Mr. Mehrotra is the CEO and Co-Founder of Coda, Inc. He served as Vice President of Product and Engineering, Youtube/Video at Google Inc. Mr. Mehrotra served as a Director ofProduct Management for Google TV Ads and YouTube Ads at Google Inc. He served as Director of Program Management at Microsoft. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Centrata, Inc. Prior to working with Centrata, he was part of the team that brought the Microsoft Office email client to the market. He was Director of Program Management at Microsoft. He held positions at the W3C, Taurus Telysys and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is accurately regarded as one of the most knowledgeable people in digital content and technology. He has been a Director of Victorious, Inc. since July 23, 2015. He served as a Director of INVIDI Technologies Corporation. Mr. Mehrotra holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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