Top 50 Automotive Angel Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023
Top 50 Automotive Angel Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023
| Investor | Automotive United Kingdom investments |
|---|---|
| Alexander Edward Chesterman | 3 |
| David Murray-Hundley | 3 |
| Will Martin | 2 |
| Richard Fearn | 2 |
| James Hind | 2 |
| Shan Drummond | 2 |
| Ned Cranborne | 2 |
| Simon Murdoch | 2 |
| Will Brooks | 2 |
| Nikolaj Nyholm | 1 |
| Reece Chowdhry | 1 |
| Hank Vigil | 1 |
| Julien Codorniou | 1 |
| Rahmyn Kress | 1 |
| Frederick Achom | 1 |
| Theo Osborne | 1 |
| Lawrence Leuschner | 1 |
| Ricardo Schaefer | 1 |
| Graham Hobson | 1 |
| Eamon Tuhami | 1 |
| Gigi Levy Weiss | 1 |
| Jonathan Guthrie | 1 |
| Michael Crow | 1 |
| Alan Rutledge | 1 |
| Richard Branson | 1 |
| Pete Hutton | 1 |
| Lopo Champalimaud | 1 |
| Tim Jackson | 1 |
| Gareth Williams | 1 |
| Marc Blumenthal | 1 |
| Andrew Weisz | 1 |
| Tino Nombro | 1 |
| Charlie Songhurst | 1 |
| Adam Ridgway | 1 |
| Christian Woolfenden | 1 |
| Stuart Dyble | 1 |
| Klaus Nyengaard | 1 |
| Adrian Lloyd | 1 |
| Adrien Cohen | 1 |
| Simon Lambert | 1 |
| Tim Scholes | 1 |
| Peter Read | 1 |
| Chris van der Kuyl | 1 |
| James Watt | 1 |
| Jason Ballard | 1 |
| Errol Damelin | 1 |
| Vip Amin | 1 |
| Ross Mason | 1 |
| Robert E. Diamond Jr. | 1 |
| Julia Stent | 1 |
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Alex Chesterman is the founder and CEO of Cazoo. He was the Founder & CEO of ZPG Plc, a FTSE-250 listed company. Previously Alex co-founded Lovefilm, Europe's leading digital movie rental business, which was successfully sold to Amazon. Alex is also one of the UK's most active tech angel investors having backed dozens of early stagedigital startups and was awarded an OBE for services to services to digital entrepreneurship in 2016.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Lick — Lick | Paints, Wallpapers and Supplies. Your Room, Covered
- 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.
David Murray-Hundley aka The Grumpy Entrepreneur™ is a technology geek and entrepreneur at heart.CEO and Co Founder of Pario Ventures. www.parioventures.com . I invest alongside the majority of Pario Ventures investments. David was inspired by the movie “War Games” at the age of 8 and commercially released his first game for the BBC Micro atjust 11 years old.David went on to study Artificial Intelligence when people thought it was just about Terminator and in his early 20s was part of the team that delivered the worlds first Web Ecommerce B2B platform with Barclays and Chase Manhatten.For the rest of his 20s David helped develop the first smart card readers for Credit Cards with Dione and was part of the founding team for Commerce One in Silicon Valley who became the top stock on Nasdaq (Ecommerce) during the dotcom boom at $22bn valuation.Also built the Internets first Automotive Market Place Exchange for General Motors forming part of Covisint. He was bankrupt by the time he was 30. “A good thing”, he says and later went on to build and be part of building a number of companies and has had a number of exits in recent years as well as Reid Hoffman awarding David Linkedin European Business Leader Of The Year.David is a company chairman, director, advisor and mentor. He invests in and works with a number of startups and scaling companies not just in technology. Technology key focus is Consumer Fintech, E-Commerce, Artificial Inteligence and Automotive and Motorsport Technology Also, following in the footsteps of his one of his inspirations, John Harvey-Jones, he spends a lot of time troubleshooting businesses.
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- FinTech, Automotive, Financial Services
- Equity Crowdfunding, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Yayzy — Your free carbon footprint calculator. Learn about your impact. Fund the best climate solutions. Plant trees. Fight climate change.
- LANDBAY — Your dedicated Landbay intermediary page for specialist buy-to-let mortgages. Partner with a lender who gives you direct decisions with a flexible approach and a full online application process.
- Riversimple — Riversimple is a new kind of business, designed from scratch to pursue our purpose: the systematic elimination of the environmental impact of personal transport. Our aim is mobility at zero cost to the planet. We’ve designed a radically new car (the Rasa) which emits nothing but a tiny amount of water and will do the equivalent of c250 mpg.Charging takes 3 minutes, and the range is 300 miles. We’re building a fundamentally new form of business system that aligns our interests with our customers’ and the environment’s. There’s no trade off between profit and purpose. We love what we’re doing and we hope you will too. We’re actively seeking commercial partners and employees. We’re always interested to hear from like-minded pioneering people and companies. We are excited to be coming to our first pilot market in the UK this year.
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.
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- Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
- Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
- Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.
James is the big boss of carwow, so it's hardly a surprise that cars are one of his biggest passions.He studied Finance but was put off a city career after just 2 months of trying one. He's very competitive, especially when it comes to ping pong at the office. He invented the rule that if anyone loses a game 11-0 they have to buy donutsfor the entire team!
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- Software, Apps, Health Care
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MindLabs — Live sleep and meditation classes for your mind. Led by experts. Backed by neuroscience. Now available to download on the App Store.
- Screenloop — Screenloop is the hiring intelligence platform that allows you to source candidates, analyse interviews, and automate the reference process.
- Rightcharge — Choose your perfect electric car charger and connect with the right installer.
Shan Drummond is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK.
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- SaaS, Social, Analytics
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ometria — Ometria’s mission is to build the brain that powers all communication between retailers and their customers. Ometria helps clients leverage data to build detailed customer profiles, and make sure that all messages they send are always relevant, leading to higher engagement and increased revenues.Ometria was founded by four serial entrepreneurs,with combined experience in e-commerce, computer science, mathematics, and SaaS, has been invested in by London’s most prominent entrepreneurs and investors, and is used by top retailers in the UK, Europe, and across the world.
- Car Throttle — The internet's car community
Ned Cranborne is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK.
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- SaaS, Social, Analytics
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ometria — Ometria’s mission is to build the brain that powers all communication between retailers and their customers. Ometria helps clients leverage data to build detailed customer profiles, and make sure that all messages they send are always relevant, leading to higher engagement and increased revenues.Ometria was founded by four serial entrepreneurs,with combined experience in e-commerce, computer science, mathematics, and SaaS, has been invested in by London’s most prominent entrepreneurs and investors, and is used by top retailers in the UK, Europe, and across the world.
- Car Throttle — The internet's car community
Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Analytics
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
- Peek Home — Peek Home provides sketch plans, prices and planning advice for people who are puzzled by the process of creating their perfect home. All we need is your house number & postcode - no home visit needed.
- Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Nikolaj Nyholm - Founder & CEO @ Scattershot
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- Gaming, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- CloudMade — Whilst car makers invest in features intended to increase the appeal of their vehicles, most consumers are confused and turned off by complicated interfaces, rows of buttons or a complete lack of buttons. By combining their deep knowledge of automotive systems engineering with a strong sense of user-centric design and a turn-key machine learningplatform, CloudMade is bringing the excitement of simplicity back to the automotive industry. OEMs and Tier 1s use their machine learning tools, user experience know-how and engineering acumen to excite their customers with adaptive user experiences that take the hassle out of driving.In 2018 CloudMade had run 70 proof of concept projects with 7 car makers in North America, Europe and Japan.
- Mojiworks — Mojiworks pioneers ‘hypersocial’ games: designed social-first and distributed using instant-play technology to be played with friends and family on the largest chat and social apps across the world.Mojiworks’ development ethos is to help Mojiworkers do the best work of their careers through values of inclusivity, collaboration, and learning.Mojiworks strives to have an exceptionally progressive culture, receiving GamesIndustry.biz’s ‘Best Places To Work’ awards in 2018 and 2019, and winning the 2018 Diversity Award which recognises companies that encourage a diverse workforce in games.Based in Guildford UK and founded in 2016, Mojiworks is one of the highest-profile startups in the chat and instant games space. The founders have a previous exit in games through acquisition of Wonderland Software Limited by Zynga Inc. Mojiworks’ investors are among the most successful games VCs: Balderton Capital (BigFish, NaturalMotion, Wooga), Heartcore Capital (Seriously) and Lifeline Ventures (Supercell).
- TrapLight Games — A hard-hitting mobile game studio from Finland. Traplight is a premium mobile games studio with 10+ years of game development expertise at the highest level. Our ambition is to create world class, chart topping, scalable game services.
Reece is the Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures - an early-stage SEIS/EIS VC fund investing in technology companies primarily focused on Fintech, Enterprise and Gaming. He was awarded “Top 5 Asian Tech Investors” 2018 (KPMG & Diversity UK) and is the youngest-ever investor to profiled by The Sunday Times. Reece is a frequent keynote andpanel speaker at prominent industry events such as StartupGrind Europe and Fintech Live. Reece holds a BA in International Business from Durham University and is a Chartered Management Consultant (ACMA, CGMA) having started his career as a Management Consultant at EY.Reece invests personally in all of RLC Ventures' investments.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
- Condense — Live-streamed volumetric video into game engines
- Crowd Data Systems — Crowd Data Systems (CDS) offers a new approach to treasury management. CDS has developed an ‘app by app’ Treasury Management System which is built upon cloud infrastructure, offering everything from cash to exposure management in modular parts.
Hank Vigil serves as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Partnerships of Microsoft Corp. He was Senior Director of Strategy Planning and Business Development for the Digital Television Group at Microsoft, responsible for the development of Microsoft’s digital TV strategy.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
- Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
- 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.
Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- Sharpist — We offer personalized learning that will help people-centric organizations and teams grow throughout the challenges of today and tomorrow. Learn more!
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Rahmyn Kress is the Chief Digital Officer of Henkel. His focus is to accelerate Henkel’s digital activities across all business units across the company. He has more than 25 years of experience in developing and implementing digital strategies. Prior to joining Henkel, he has been with Accenture since 2010, where he held several executive rolesfrom being the CEO & President of an Accenture digital subsidiary, Managing Director, Telecom, Media & Technology and most recently as Managing Director of Accenture Ventures in Europe. Prior to this, he was the Senior Vice President of Physical and Digital Operations at Universal Music Group.
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- Leasing, Software, Analytics
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- WeVee — WeVee is a fully integrated electric vehicle price comparison and leasing platform.
- Fero Labs — Fero is a machine learning solution powering the next wave of industrial process improvement.
Frederick "Freddie" Achom is a British Nigerian businessman, he lives between Paris, New York and London. He is the co-founder and chairman of the Rosemont Group Capital Partners, a private investment group with a portfolio of companies with interests in digital technology, financial services and renewable technology. Achom has over 20years of experiences within the private equity and investment sector.He is the non executive Chairman of Vivid Technologies and also director and shareholder of Mumbai stock exchange listed renewable energy and micropower provider, Communication Power Engineering Company (CPEC). Achom is also well known for his more high profile ventures in the entertainment sector, as owner of Private members clubs Crystal, Jalouse and The Scotch of St James. In 2013 and 2015 he was recognised in the JP Morgan-sponsored power list, as one of the UK’s 100 most influential Britons of African and Caribbean heritage, for his achievements in business. Achom was also listed as one of the 1000 most influential Londoners by the Evening Standard news and media corporation in 2010 and again in 2011. In 2017 he was awarded CEO of the year, in the Venture Capital Seed Investment category, by The European CEO organisation.
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- Apps, SaaS, Parking
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- AppyParking — Decarbonising cities from the kerb up. Best-in-class Kerbside Data, APIs and Smart Parking Solutions for Local Authorities and Businesses. Get in Touch.
- JustGo —
Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.
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- Software, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- The Dots — Professional networking for the new world of work. Get advice. Meet collaborators. Find jobs. Upskill at events.
- Nova Credit — Nova Credit is a consumer credit bureau that connects consumers and lenders with trusted data and analytics to expand access to credit.
- Platform Science — Experience the power to choose what drives your fleet. Platform Science delivers telematics and fleet management tools on a platform built for transportation.
Lawrence Leuschner is the CEO & Co-Founder at TIER Mobility.
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- Software, Environmental Consulting, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
- Bonnet — Bonnet is the easy way to charge your EV on the go. Access more than 3000 public chargers around the world. It's the must-have app for electric vehicle drivers everywhere.
- Bosque Foods — Kinoko Labs develops the next generation of meat substitutes, starting with whole-cut meat items made from fungal mycelium produced organically. Headquartered in New York.
Ricardo Schaefer - Partner @ Target Global
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Jefa — Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution.Jefa's goal is to empower women to live without limits or obstacles. Jefa does this by giving its clients access to fair, affordable, and secure financialservices through a mobile account.
- Revolut — Open a free account in minutes right from your phone, and make your money go further
- Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
From London, via Sydney, to California and now back in Europe, Jody’s passion is working with innovative, consumer-facing digital and technology businesses, helping them transform and grow across new sectors, markets and audiences.
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- Apps, Travel, Leisure
- Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Hiyacar — Peer to peer car rental in London. Rent a car from your neighbours or rent your car out to make extra money. Sign up now!
- bubble app — Find and book brilliant sitters and nannies recommended by your friends and community with our easy to use childcare app that's loved by parents just like you
- USIO Energy —
Eamon Tuhami is the Founder of X8IQ. Eamon attended London Guildhall University.
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- Rental, Software, Automotive
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Glisser — Virtual events embedded right inside your own website. Live digital engagement experiences that deliver real results Ecosystem Embeddable Integration-Enabled Monetization Opportunities Organizer Experience Simple for Planners Simple for Speakers World-Class Support Audience Experience Customizable Feature-Rich Hybrid-Ready Simple for Audiences Core Platform Data Insights No Hidden Costs Scalable Secure See all Benefits
- Voltric — Voltric provides a subscription service for electric vehicles on a 12 or 24 month plans.
- Finalrentals — Discover the freedom of the open road with our car rental services available in over 25 countries! Explore the world in comfort and style with Finalrentals.
Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Shamaym — Continuous Improvement Platform helps teams get better every day and drive better outcomes in product development, sales, support, and more.
- Lumen — Lumen is a device and app that measures your metabolism in a single breath and provides daily personalized nutrition based on your metabolic data. Through the device and app, you can achieve your fitness goals whether they be weight loss, performance optimization, or simply improving your metabolic health.As a company, we are a team ofscientists, researchers, engineers, and designers, aimed at improving the way people understand their metabolism. We believe that a healthy metabolism is a key to better health and that everyone can attain it with a little help from Lumen.At Lumen, we are all about teamwork, friendship, and family. Curious about joining? We are always looking for creative people who share our passion for health and fitness to join our team.
- Diagnostic Robotics — Diagnostic Robotic develops a signal-agnostic artificial intelligence system for healthcare insurers, providers, and patients. It allows to build powerful predictive analytics models that will solve a world-wide challenge, strained health budgets, and workforces. Diagnostic Robotic was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Jonathan Guthrie
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- Automotive, Service Industry
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fresh Car Valeting — Highly experienced professional mobile valeting and SMART auto repair services operating all over the UK. A complete mobile car valeting service, we can clean your car anywhere that you can park it.
Michael Crow, NatWest Group’s Director of Public Policy.
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- Automotive, Service Industry
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fresh Car Valeting — Highly experienced professional mobile valeting and SMART auto repair services operating all over the UK. A complete mobile car valeting service, we can clean your car anywhere that you can park it.
Alan Rutledge
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
- SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
- Volition — Volition is the largest marketplace of industrial components, built just for hardware teams. We make it easy to find and purchase off-the-shelf parts.
Sir Richard Branson is the current Founder of the Virgin Group and Owner and Founder of Virgin Limited Edition. He previously worked at OneWeb as a Board Member. Sir Richard Branson attended Bishopsgate School.
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- FinTech, E-Commerce, Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
- Waterplan — Waterplan is a SaaS platform for companies to manage water availability in their facilities.
- Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
Pete was appointed EVP and President of Product Groups in January 2014. He is responsible for the development and delivery of ARM’s main business lines including ARM processors, Mali graphics processors and Artisan Physical IP. Before this role he was general manager of the media processing division. Pete joined ARM in 2008 and has also held vicepresident positions within the processor and media processing divisions. Prior to ARM, Pete ran corporate engineering for Wolfson Microelectronic, he was also general manager for processors at ARC International and a group director for Cadence Design Systems.
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- Battery, Software, Automotive
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Tenyks — Tenyks gives Computer Vision Engineers the insights to build more reliable models faster! Collaborate to identify and fix dataset issues. Improve data quality. Boost model performance. No more wondering in the dark.
- Breathe Battery Technologies — Breathe Battery Technologies is a research-led technology company developing advanced battery management algorithms
Lopo is currently the CEO of Wahanda (http://www.wahanda.com), a London based health, beauty and wellness community & marketplace that connects consumers, wellness businesses and professionals through content, ratings & reviews and commerce. Lopo co-founded Wahanda with Salim Mitha in February 2008.Prior to Wahanda, Lopo wasthe Managing Director of European Lifestyle for lastminute.com. In this role he was responsible for developing all aspects of the non-travel business across Europe at lastminute.com which included Theatre ticketing, concert ticketing, restaurant bookings, days out, experiences and spas. Lopo joined lastminute.com in January 2004 and when he left to found Wahanda, lifestyle respresented more than 40% of all the sales by volume at the company.From 1994 to 2004, Lopo was the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Fulcrum Analytics (http://www.fulcrumanalytics.com). Fulcrum is today one of the leading database marketing firms in North America but was initially known as Cyber Dialogue and was the world's first online market research firm. Cyber Dialogue is credited with having created the online survey, the online focus group while providing industry leading insight on the internet consumer.
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- Mobile Apps, Apps, Social
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sup app — Sup app is a free mobile app that makes chance encounters and serendipitous moments with friends happen more often without the creep factor as they don’t use maps.Get notified when friends are around you. They have all been there when they check their social feeds and see that a friend they haven’t seen in ages was just round the corner;attending the same festival or event. Before you kick yourself for missing out on the chance to see them well with Sup app you can see your friends more.Sup app lets you see your friends more with notifications when friends are nearby. Interact and stay in touch with friends. Send a Sup to a friend to see if they’re free and want to meet up. It can turn a dull day into a good old catch up.
- ClickMechanic — ClickMechanic is the UK's market leading platform that connects car owners who need repairs, servicing and inspections to the UK's best mechanics. They match thousands of customers every month with trusted professional mechanics in cities across the UK. Their instant quoting functionality, fast booking and secure payment makes them thesimplest and most convenient way to book a car mechanic.ClickMechanic was founded in 2012 as a simple solution to the age-old problem of getting an honest, trustworthy and transparent mechanic for your car. While running a previous car parts aggregator business, Andrew found there was a problem with many customers not trusting their mechanics. After further investigation and a chat with his mechanic brother he realised there was just no easy way to book a trusted mechanic. He then decided to study a research masters in Manchester where he devoted himself to understanding these problems better. After writing an 85,000 word thesis on the space he moved to London to join accelerator EF where he met Felix who had identified these same problems. The pair decided to then team up and develop ClickMechanic with the goal of building the easiest and most transparent way for car owners to book trusted mechanics.
Tim Jackson is the Founder, CEO, General Partner & Partner of Walking Ventures & he attended University of Oxford in in 1983.
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- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- CloudNC — CloudNC CAM Assist your CAM programming co-pilot. Automate your CAM programming. From setup to CAM program in seconds for 3-axis prismatic parts.
- Credit Kudos — Credit Kudos builds products using Open Banking so credit providers can approve more people and lower risk. Explore now!
- Joint Academy — Joint Academy connects patients with licensed physical therapists to deliver online treatments for chronic joint and back pain. Our treatments are clinically proven and give patients access to a personal, licensed physical therapist, an individualized exercise plan, interactive education about the condition, and progress tracking — all through auser-friendly app. Peer-reviewed studies show that Joint Academy patients reduce their pain, change their minds about surgery, and quit painkillers. Joint Academy is now available to patients in Sweden, the US, the UK, France, and Germany.
Gareth Williams co-founded Skyscanner Limited in 2001 and has been its CEO through to 2018. Chairman to Jan 2020. We spent $6m of primary capital raised through to $1.8bn sale to Trip.com. Now ‘funemployed’ and learning.
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- Software, Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, Hungary, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Swurf — The work surfing platform. Making it easy for venues to welcome a new community of remote workers.
- Pommelhorse — We develop technology that makes digital communication more Human - We're a vision digital signal processing technology startup
- Maison Sport — Maison Sport has been created by 3 ski instructors, Olly, Nick and Aaron - all of them share a great passion for skiing and the mountains!“At Maison Sport we are making it simple to book Ski and Snowboard instructors online. Our aim is to seamlessly connect people looking for lessons with their ideal instructor, whilst making it easy forinstructors to market themselves, so they can continue to do what they love.Currently in France, our plan is to expand across the rest of the globe, helping the best instructors impart their passion for skiing and snowboarding on likeminded customers.”
Marc Blumenthal is the CEO of Intelladon, a Tampa-based producer of advanced electronic courseware and learning management solutions.He was one of the original founders and still a key investor in Tribridge Software. Marc was founder and former CEO of Progressive Business Solutions, which he grew from start-up mode to a leading computer systemsintegrator producing nearly $20-million in corporate revenue, before selling to ePartners. Prior to establishing Progressive, Marc worked in IBM’s National Accounts Division. Marc currently serves on the Board of the Tampa Bay Technology Forum and Metropolitan Ministries.He has his BS in Management Information Systems from the University of South Florida.
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- Events, Leisure, Internet
- Funding Round, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom
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- E-Car Club — E-Car is the UK’s first entirely electric pay-per-use car club, designed to provide community members with the convenience and flexibility of a full-sized private car without the high cost of owning one. And all with the lowest emissions in the market today!
- Pocket Network — Pocket provides RPC access to Ethereum, Polygon, and a dozen more blockchain networks. Everything from testnets to mainnets to any open-source interface.
Andrew Weisz - Partner @ Weisz Investments
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- Software, Education, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
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- Sidequest — SideQuest is the early access layer for Virtual Reality. Get access to the latest Oculus Quest Games, Oculus App Lab games & lots of free apps on applab and sideload.
- Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.
- Guardian Angel — Death is tough enough. We're here to make it that little bit easier. By making planning for and through death simpler. So you can focus on what really matters.
Tino Nombro - Chief Executive Officer & Founder @ Ambergreen Internet Marketing
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- Automotive, Service Industry
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fresh Car Valeting — Highly experienced professional mobile valeting and SMART auto repair services operating all over the UK. A complete mobile car valeting service, we can clean your car anywhere that you can park it.
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
- Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
- Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.
A sustainabilist, a father, speaker and focused entrepreneur.ONE MOTO is an award-winning, impact driven EV company focused on changing the way we move.I specialise in sustainable product development, tech-driven vehicles and delivering the future of mobility to the everyday commuter and logistics sector.I'm a speaker of Future and SmartMobility, and a start-up mentor for the future of entrepreneurship in the region.Having successfully built an exited four businesses in the UAE over 14 years in Dubai managing a portfolio of start-up companies four respected brands under The MEDIACUBED Group; humbled by a collective of fantastic award-winning clients, a proud portfolio and a team that supported the vision of the businesses. I spent a decade in the Media industry in Europe, in front and behind the camera for production companies including; BBC, Channel 4, Tiger Aspect, Optomen, Endemol and Ricochet before setting up my own businesses in the UAE. With a love for story-showing, seeking out experiences, positions me as a creative businessman with the ability to deliver ‘great ideas that work’. I continue to make mistakes and hopefully always will (they cost less with wisdom).
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- Logistics, Automotive, Delivery Service
- Seed, Convertible Note
- United Kingdom
Christian Woolfenden - Managing Director @ Photobox
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- InsurTech, Insurance, Automotive
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Brolly — Brolly, a London-based start-up that specializes in flexible, personalized insurance products for the digital generation. Brolly offers a Policy Management platform that enabled customers to consolidate all of their insurance policies into a single dashboard, and a fully-digital contents insurance available on iOS and Android, enabling customers tocover their belongings straight from their smartphones.
- GetAgent — Find the best estate agent to sell your home, in just a few clicks. We show you how they perform and how much they charge.
- Subdial Watches — Whether you're buying or selling we've got you covered. Sell smarter with Subdial. Quick, simple & transparent.
Stuart Dyble, has more than a quarter of a century in the business and is widely regarded as one of the most experienced PRs in the industry in-house and agency side. He was VP of global communications for Premier Automotive Group and Ford of Europe (responsible for brands including Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Aston Martin and Lincoln worldwide) andhas lived and worked in the US, Germany and Japan. He then was head hunted as Head of Sport for XIX Entertainment in Los Angeles, before setting up the agency.
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- Automotive
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Rightcharge — Choose your perfect electric car charger and connect with the right installer.
Klaus Nyengaard is the co-founder and Chairman of GenieBelt, a SaaS-based platform that develops project management software. He is also co-founder of the investment club, Nordic Makers. He serves as the co-chairman of Treatwell, a beauty and wellness community marketplace. Nyengaard has previously been CEO & Chairman of Just-Eat pre-IPO, andbuild a number of tech companies. In 1994, Klaus Nyengaard graduated from Aarhus University with a specialized degree in economics and management.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Denmark, United Kingdom, Spain
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- Famly — Easy-to-use software for childcare providers. Our nursery management software makes administration, planning, and learning journals easy. Try it for free.
- Panion — Panion is a community-building tool that helps companies, schools, and organizations facilitate more social interactions amongst its members. The platform is entirely keyword searchable and filterable so members are able to search for each other based on common interests, values, goals or experiences and even narrow their searches by location,gender, age, language and much more. Members and admins can propose spontaneous events within the network and form social groups around an interest. Community admins are given a dashboard of analytics to track trends in their community and send segmented messages based on interest and location.
- Spotahome — Spotahome is a mid- to long-term residential rentals platform that is reinventing the property market. It offers the most complete property and room listings for stays above 30 days, bookable exclusively through online viewings which saves tenants and property owners time and money. The company creates the listing at no cost to the landlord - aprofessional photographer ("Homechecker") visits the property and creates the audio-visual materials including high quality photos, HD video tours, detailed floor plans and honest property and neighbourhood descriptions. By offering the most complete property listings, it allows tenants to book their property from anywhere in the world without the need for in-person viewings. It also offers guarantees against default payments and damages. Spotahome is growing rapidly, fueled by a $40M Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, the first leading Silicon Valley VC in a Spanish company. It is present in 11 cities across 8 countries in Europe.Spotahome was launched by Alejandro Artacho, Bryan McEire, Hugo Monteiro and Bruno Bianchi in March 2014 and has offices in both Madrid, Spain and London, UK.
Adrian Lloyd is a Partner at Episode 1, an early stage Venture Capital fund focusing on software enabled businesses with the beginnings of customer traction.Adrian has had a career as a management consultant and entrepreneur, with a gap at Stanford Business School in 2008-10 where he earned his MBA.He focuses on customer-centric product andbusiness design as an investor and you can read more of his thoughts at http://www.episode1.com/news-and-blog/blogAdrian has been investing in software businesses since 2008.
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- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
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- Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
- Jump — Launched in late 2018 after 2 years of R&D supported by competitive grant funding from the UK & NL Government, Jump is a people analytics platform that gives everyone a chance to succeed. By understanding what makes people unique and linking this to business outcomes, Jump gives more personalised job recommendations to professionals, inturn attracting much better job applications to businesses. Win:win for both!Jump is backed by outstanding investors whose successes include Revolut, CarWow, GoodLord, Magic Pony and many others. Jump collaborates with Imperial College and other top UK Universities in the development of the data science and algorithms behind Jump.Looking for new career options or just a change of scenery? Sign up and receive personalised job matches - absolutely and always for free - at https://app.jump.work/jobsLooking to transform your talent attraction using people analytics? Drop me a note and we can chat!
- Kayenta — Digital prime broker to hedge funds. Kayenta builds cutting edge treasury infrastructure for hedge funds to connect to the roads and rails of the funding markets.
Adrien Cohen is the President and Co-Founder of Tractable. He attended HEC Paris and Tsinghua University.
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- Battery, Automotive, Energy Storage
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Breathe Battery Technologies — Breathe Battery Technologies is a research-led technology company developing advanced battery management algorithms
Simon Lambert is Chief Technical Officer at Wahanda, a health, beauty and wellness marketplace offering a list of global spas, health, beauty and wellness options. He is Former CTO at moo.com.
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- Apps, Marketplace, Information Services
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Vira Health — Vira is a digital health company focused on improving long-term health for women. We do this by addressing female-specific conditions and improving the collection and use of female data in healthcare.
- Much Better Adventures — Join like-minded people on an award-winning adventure. Unique and flexible small group adventures without the logistical headache, helping wild places thrive one adventure at a time.
- Technology Will Save Us — They are on a mission to spark the creative imagination of young people using hands on technology. Their award winning make-it-yourself kits and digital tools help kids (and the adults that love them) to make, play, code and invent using technology.They started small, around their kitchen table, and have now built a company of 28 passionatedesigners, educators, engineers and problems solvers – obsessed with inspiring kids and empowering parents to become creators of technology. They have 6 different make it yourself kits and hundreds of digital tools and projects to support kids in learning through play.They have sparked the imaginations of kids in over 87 countries around the world. They work closely with children to design their kits, engaging in large scale research projects before beginning on design & manufacture.
Tim Scholes
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- Automotive, Service Industry
- Angel
- United Kingdom
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- Moneyshake — Moneyshake is the new, hassle-free solution to finding your ideal lease car. Their journey cuts through the clutter to secure the very best deal for you. They're shaking up the car lease market. At Moneyshake, you can find your ideal lease car in just a few clicks.
Peter is a partner at Vitruvian; a venture partner at BlueYard and LocalGlobe; an advisor to Entrepreneur First, Future Positive Capital, and StrongMinds; and a Trustee of Frazzled Cafe, Doteveryone, and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. He is an angel investor/advisor in over 100 tech startups
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- Software, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series E, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Qapital — Qapital is an award-winning app designed to let you save, invest, and spend with any goal in mind.
- Snap.hr — Sign up to Snap.hr now to get headhunted by 500+ other tech companies
- Car Throttle — The internet's car community
Chris van der Kuyl is a highly experienced Chief Executive and Non-Executive Director whose expertise combines the start-up, development and market listed business arena in the technology, media and entertainment sectors.Van der Kuyl grew his first business, VIS entertainment plc out of a bedroom in Dundee to become a global player in thecreation of leading-edge entertainment property for computer, television and video games platforms worldwide. Through the development of VIS, as CEO and President, he took the business through substantive growth by developing and delivering on an acquisition, development and ultimately merger strategy that took the business on to an international stage merging in 2004 with the NASDAQ listed Bam Entertainment company. This experience has equipped him in delivering successful and substantial fundraising exercises in the Private Equity, Corporate Venturing and now Listed Markets. Moreover as a business builder he has an exceptional ability in developing committed employees whilst keeping an ever- watchful eye on the bottom line.Chris is widely recognised as one of the UK's the leading young entrepreneurs. He is also a regular contributor to the 21st Century business and enterprise agenda through a variety of conference keynote speaking engagements and media coverage. Chris is a member of the Global Leaders of Tomorrow Programme at the World Economic Forum. The young entrepreneur also embraces the spirit of 'giving something back' and is fully committed to building the next generation of business people by encouraging enterprise education in Schools, Colleges and Universities. He was Chairman of Young Enterprise Scotland for seven years and is a member of the Smith Group advising the Scottish Executive on educational matters. As one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Chris sits as a member of the Scottish Scientific Advisory committee who advise the Scottish government on all areas of science and technology. Chris also Chairs the Creative board of the Education Wing at Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow and is a Director of Dundee Science Centre.
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- Gaming, Insurance, Marketing
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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- TVSquared — With trusted, independent attribution and partnerships with DSPs, publishers, advertisers and MVPDs, TVSquared measures the effectiveness of TV advertising through an infinitely scalable platform for linear, addressable and OTT/CTV.
- Handl — We deliver car care services to you. Order from professional valets, oil, adblue, washer and care services and subscribe to monthly services to save money.
- Ant Workshop — Ant Workshop is a Develop and TIGA Award nominated microstudio founded in January 2015 by Tony Gowland to focus on developing original IP and interesting games with an off-beat sense of humour.
James Watt is an Aberdeenshire entrepreneur who co-founded one of the world’s most popular craft breweries, BrewDog.Before embarking on a hop-fuelled journey that would change the face of the beer industry forever, James completed an honours degree in Law and Economics. It didn’t take long for him to discover that the corporate suit-and-tie worldof litigation and libel was not for him, so he packed in his career in a law after a few weeks, opting to return to the bitter cold shores of Northeast Scotland to join his father as a fully-qualified Deepsea Captain.At 24-years-old, James took a new path. Inspired by the bold and experimental beers being crafted by a new movement of brewers on the West Coast of the U.S, James joined forces with friend Martin Dickie, and together the pair started brewing their own beers in Martin’s mum’s garage. In a world dominated by cask bitters and mass-produced lagers, their penchant for heavily-hopped and relentlessly bitter beers made them a unique duo, especially in the town of Fraserburgh. Undeterred by opinion, they pursued their passion through meticulous study, experimentation and boundary-pushing ideas, hellbent on showcasing that beer could be more than just fizzy yellow liquid made by global dominating brewers.2007 was a seminal year for James. BrewDog became a reality, setting up shop on a derelict industrial estate in Fraserburgh between a needle exchange and ‘The Godfather of Carpets’. While Martin took the reins on brewing and production, James focused on growing the business, handling accounts and spearheading the brand’s new breed of irreverent marketing that grabbed headlines for years to come. Not only did the pair produce some of the most exciting beers the UK has ever seen, but James also led the charge on Equity for Punks, a ground-breaking new crowdfunding initiative that would be mirrored for years to come by other brands across the globe. In 2014, James was awarded Great British Entrepreneur of the Year. He is also one of only a handful of people in Europe holding the title of Master Cicerone5, a title reserved for only the most diligent beer experts. In 2016, he was awarded the MBE in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours list. By this time, BrewDog was now 9 years old and boasted a 360-person strong workforce, 26 bars across the UK and Europe, as well as over 14,000 shareholders. Latter achievements include a number of publishing deals. James released Business for Punks: Break All The Rules – The BrewDog Way and co-wrote BrewDog: Craft Beer for the People. These books both showed the impact that BrewDog had on the beer, from both a business and marketing perspective, as well highlighting the importance of exceptional quality products in a world heavily populated by mainstream beer. But times were changing, and James was at the front of the pack, leading the way and carving a new path for the beer world.By 2019, James’ passion for sustainability had become integral to the brand. BrewDog was employing over 2,000 people at this time, with 100 bars located around the globe and over 130,000 Equity Punk shareholders. Amazing beer was still at the heart of everything James was doing, but building sustainability into this world was now not a question of if, but when.So, in 2020, BrewDog announced that they were the world’s first carbon negative brewery – a huge step that would see the industry take note and follow suit with commitments to change the way they do business. James worked closely with Small World Consulting’s Mike Berners-Lee to calculate the businesses carbon emissions and identify ways to reduce these through authentic reforestation programmes, which included a 9,308 acre plot of land in the Scottish Highlands and set forth to embark on one of the largest reforestation projects the UK has ever seen. In just 15 years, the beer world has transformed. Beyond the liquid in your glass, the breweries at the forefront of the movement are more than just suppliers of a product. They are social commentators, integral to local communities and beacons of quality and change. James has been paramount to these developments, showing that beer can be a force for good.
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- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Basket — Basket lets you keep track of things you want to buy, automatically finding the best prices, saving you time and money. Say hello to your new shopping companion.
- Yum Bug — Delicious edible insects delivered to your door. Single dried cricket packs and receipe kits. You'll be cooking tasty bug recipes in no time!
- Tallow + Ash — The best-smelling laundry detergents and fabric softeners. Formulated with planet-friendly, vegan, cruelty-free ingredients. Powerful plant-based stain removal. Made in the UK. Non-bio for sensitive skin.
Jason Ballard - MD at NCPS @ AppyWay
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- Apps, SaaS, Parking
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- AppyParking — Decarbonising cities from the kerb up. Best-in-class Kerbside Data, APIs and Smart Parking Solutions for Local Authorities and Businesses. Get in Touch.
Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Israel
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- Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- Ritual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Vip Amin
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- Energy, Software, Automotive
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Electric Miles — We are powering the future of energy management through EV smart charging solution and software. Download the app today.
Created the Mule Project, Founded MuleSoft, gone public (MULE:NYSE). Work on their product direction, vision and strategy. Active investor and advisor.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- M3O — Explore the cloud as serverless building blocks
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
- DLT (short for data load tool) — the data loading library for python
Robert E. Diamond Jr. - Non-Executive Director @ Yocuda
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- FinTech, Big Data, InsurTech
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cazana — Cazoo Data Services technology checks vehicle data across the UK and worldwide to help our automotive clients get insights into individual vehicles and worldwide trends.
Ms.Julia Stent is Commercial Director at Top10.
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- Automotive
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Rightcharge — Choose your perfect electric car charger and connect with the right installer.
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