Top 50 Education Angel Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023
Top 50 Education Angel Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023
| Investor | Education United Kingdom investments |
|---|---|
| Andrew Weisz | 6 |
| Simon Franks | 4 |
| Michael Whitfield | 4 |
| Theo Osborne | 4 |
| Chris Bruce | 4 |
| Paul Heydon | 4 |
| Alexander Edward Chesterman | 3 |
| Reece Chowdhry | 3 |
| Volker Hirsch | 3 |
| Taavet Hinrikus | 3 |
| Paul Forster | 3 |
| Deborah Quazzo | 3 |
| Stephan Thoma | 2 |
| Will Martin | 2 |
| Bart Swanson | 2 |
| Andy Murray | 2 |
| Ed Wray | 2 |
| Biz Stone | 2 |
| Ken Baumann | 2 |
| Anil D. Aggarwal | 2 |
| Ashley Cooper | 2 |
| Jonathan Seaton | 2 |
| Andrew McGill | 2 |
| Renaud Visage | 2 |
| John Lloyd | 2 |
| Claire Davenport | 2 |
| Wendy Tan White | 2 |
| Nick Hungerford | 2 |
| Lisa Stone | 2 |
| Bernie Sinniah | 2 |
| Jonathan Goodwin | 2 |
| Will Brooks | 2 |
| Alister Jordan | 2 |
| Peter Hinssen | 2 |
| Chris Adelsbach | 2 |
| Alwin Magimay | 2 |
| Craig Pines | 2 |
| Charles Wiles | 2 |
| Jason Weeks | 2 |
| Pallavi Reddy | 1 |
| Greg Finkelstein | 1 |
| Andrew Colin | 1 |
| Scott McKinley | 1 |
| Rona Ruthen | 1 |
| Kevin Beales | 1 |
| Elissa Grey | 1 |
| Louis d'Origny | 1 |
| Giles Phelps | 1 |
| Rosaleen Blair | 1 |
| Baris Aksoy | 1 |
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Andrew Weisz - Partner @ Weisz Investments
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- Software, Education, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Simon Franks is the founder of Redbus Group. Simon serves on the board of (or advisor to), a number of early stage companies. Simon has won a number of awards for business, including the Sunday Times Fast Track award. In 2013 Simon was selected as one of the world's 100 top innovators by British Airways and was part of the "BAUngrounded" flight for the 2013 G8 summit. Simon is also philanthropically and politically engaged, with a particular interest in issues pertaining to international development and separately, economic policy. Simon was an advisor to Ed Balls and the Labour Party on business, entrepreneurialism and innovation. Simon serves on the advisory board of the Labour campaign for International Development, the advisory board of Campaign Bootcamp, is International Chairman of the Lake Clinic in Cambodia and advisor to Tilganga Hospital in Kathmandu.
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- FinTech, Payments, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Australia, 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.
- Oto Health — Take back control of your tinnitus with Oto, the app built by doctors that teaches you how to stop noticing the ringing using clinically proven techniques. Includes CBT, targeted mindfulness, and relaxation. 86% users experience benefits after just 1 month.
- 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
Michael Whitfield - Chairman @ hundo.careers
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- Recruiting, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Unmind — Unmind is a workplace mental health platform. We empower employees to measure, understand, and improve their mental wellbeing.
- Involve.ai — involve.ai helps you prevent churn, grow revenue, and deliver amazing customer outcomes.
- HR DataHub — HR DataHub operates as an HR data benchmarking platform for organizations to tackle issues that are right at the top of the boardroom agenda.
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.
Chris was a benefit consultant when he co-founded Thomsons. His role spans every aspect of the business, from engaging with clients to the development of DarwinTM software. This means he is in close contact with HR and benefit specialists globally, understanding the changing benefit landscape.
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- Recruiting, Internet, Human Resources
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Unmind — Unmind is a workplace mental health platform. We empower employees to measure, understand, and improve their mental wellbeing.
- HowNow — HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.
- HR DataHub — HR DataHub operates as an HR data benchmarking platform for organizations to tackle issues that are right at the top of the boardroom agenda.
30 years as a founder, operator, investor, and advisor. Previously Paul was a Co-Founder and General Partner at LVP. Paul has invested in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity (NYSE:U), Matchmade, Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), AppOnboard, FRVR,Starform, Gameclub, Coherence, Lucid Sight, Doppio Games, Capture, Flick, EvenPrime, Tellie & Litho and others. Previously, he was an investment banker at Avista Partners, Commerzbank Securities & ING Barings. He has both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.
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- Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Tellie — Create a free website/link-in-bio to market your art, release new music, increase your followers, sell merchandise, and share your portfolio/resume/EPK. Token Gate all.
- Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
- Glean AI — Glean AI is the only Accounts Payable solution that combines smart automation with spend intelligence and powers Finance teams to drive material savings.
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.
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.
Volker Hirsch is the Chief Commercial Officer of Medicines Discovery Catapult. He previously worked at Bibblio as a Chairman & Investor. Volker Hirsch attended the University of Hamburg.
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- Software, Apps, EdTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wonde — Wonde operates a platform that provides schools with the tools to manage their school data. Its solution allows schools to control their school data; approve, decline, and monitor those who integrate with their data; and receive monthly reports and manage the application. The company’s solution also allows developers to view the status of existingintegrations and request access to new school data, as well as school data integration. In addition, it offers reporting tools to the school senior leadership team. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
- Pi-Top — pi-top is a fast-growing ed-tech company with a unique vision to increase access to coding, robotics and AI through project-based learning.pi-top’s mission is to inspire a generation of makers by giving young people STEAM-related hard skills (e.g. coding and circuitry) and in-demand soft skills (e.g. communication, critical thinking andproblem-solving) that they will need in a rapidly changing world.pi-top’s award-winning hardware and software ecosystem is used around the world thousands of homes, maker spaces and schools, blending physical computing and project-based learning with Computer Science and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) education. With its latest product ecosystem educators and students get to design, code and make anything they can imagine.
- The Link App — The Link App drives businesses forward through on-demand and secure communications between legal professionals and their clients.
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
- Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
- Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
Paul Forster
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
- CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
- finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
Deborah Quazzo is a Managing Partner at GSV Ventures and a Co-founder at ASU+GSV Summit. She was a Founder and Managing Partner at GSV Advisors. He attended Princeton University and Harvard Business School.
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- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Unmudl — Unmudl is the Skills-to-Jobs™ Marketplace, connects learners and employers via a coast-to-coast network of leading community colleges. Through Unmudl, learners easily access courses and short-term credential programs that lead to jobs. These jobs pay family-supporting wages and contribute directly to the country's economic growth and recovery.Employers use the Unmudl marketplace to source diverse talent directly from courses and programs.
- Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
- Daybreak Health — Daybreak partners with youth, families, and schools to create personalized, easily accessible, and affordable mental health programs.
Stephan Thoma
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- EdTech, E-Learning, Corporate Training
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Learnerbly — Transform the way your People learn - give them access to a marketplace of learning resources specific to their needs and curated from 200+ providers.
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.
Bart helps companies scale globally and has been active in the technology sector for more than fifteen years as an entrepreneur, mentor, and executive. Previously he was the Chairman of Summly (sold to Yahoo), COO at Badoo, an MD International at GSI Commerce (sold to eBay), a GM at Amazon.com (helping lead the international expansion from1998-2001), and was an MD at EMI Music Europe. Bart received an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, was a Fellow at the Lauder Institute, and has a BA in History from the University of Southern California.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Certn — Thousands of companies worldwide rely on Certn''s integrated background screening to secure the right people with an 80% reduced time to hire.
- Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
- Part3 — Part3 takes the hassle out of construction administration. Build field reports 90% faster. Collaborate with your team anytime, anywhere. Digitally stamp and sign change orders, RFIs, shop drawings, submittals, and more.
Former Tennis star; angel investor; business man
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- Internet, Software, Education
- Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- HowNow — HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.
- ZoomDoc —
- GoodBox — Welcome to the future of fundraising with GoodBox. Charity contactless technology made to maximise your fundraising & help you embrace contactless giving.
Mr. Edward Wray, Ed is a Co-Founder of Betfair Australia Pty Ltd. Mr. Wray co-founded The Sporting Exchange Limited (Alternate Name: Betfair Limited) in May 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Betfair, he spent eight years at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a Vice President in the debt capital markets and derivatives area. He servesas the Chairman at Betfair. He has been Non-executive Chairman of The Sporting Exchange Limited since 2006. He served as the Chairman of Betfair Limited since 2006. He served as Non-Executive Chairman of Betfair Group PLC from March 17, 2008 to March 6, 2012. He has been a Director at Sporting Exchange since August 1998. Mr. Wray has been a Director of Betfair Group PLC since August 20, 1999. He serves as a Non Executive Director of Funding Circle Ltd. He served as a Director at Betfair since 1999.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Hole19 — Download Hole19's free Golf App with GPS, Scorecard and Rangefinder for iOS and Android. Plus connect with your golf buddies. Now ready for watch
- Netwealth — Netwealth uses cutting-edge technology and an expert team to provide a cost-effective wealth management service. See how we can help manage your investments.
- SmartUp.io — SmartUp offers a platform where people can learn, interact and share on any device. Having integrated features that people love from the best social and workplace platforms, your learners will enjoy a consumer-grade learning experience.
Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. A progenitor of social media, and early Google employee, Biz has been developing large scale systems that serve the global conversation for twenty years. As an investor, Biz has backed Square, Pinterest, Slack when it was called Speck, Nest, Intercom and Beyond Meat (where he remains on the boardas Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee), among others. In 2016, Stone's Jelly, a "human in the loop" AI search service, was acquired by Pinterest. After the sale, Twitter requested Biz return full time to lead the company's strategic vision, brand, and internal culture objectives alongside co-founder Jack Dorsey. Biz has been recognized as INC Magazine Entrepreneur of the Decade and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also an author, filmmaker and Fellow at both Oxford University and Berkeley.
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- Software, Messaging, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
- Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
- Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury
Ken Baumann is the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors at SWEETSPOT. Ken was a star of ABC Family's Secret Life of the American Teenager which concluded its fifth and final season last summer. While working fulltime, he also founded a non-profit publishing company (Sator Press) that discovers innovative and challengingliterature. Ken's first two novels and a nonfiction book about the video game EarthBound were published last year. Ken is a seed investor in Memrise, an online learning platform combining art with science to provide game-like learning experiences. Passionate about learning and literature, Ken is currently a freshman at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ken also donates his time to Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles raising funds for pediatric IBD.
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- EdTech, Software, Education
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Memrise — Learn a language as it's used now. Immerse yourself in lessons that feature videos of native speakers, so you start speaking real life language, fast.
Anil D. Aggarwal is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Personatech. He attended Boston University School of Law.
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- Information Services, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sydecar — Sydecar is a deal execution platform for venture investors. We handle back-office operations for emerging venture investors, automating banking, compliance, contracts, and reporting so that customers can focus on making deals and building relationships.
- Multiverse — We're building an outstanding alternative to university and corporate training via professional apprenticeships
- Edisen — Helping lenders drive digital loan growth with the tools, data, and guidance that turns homeowners into qualified borrowers.
Ashley Cooper - Chairman @ Properr
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- SaaS, Software, Education
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Properr — The Klaviyo email marketing agency, powering aggressive and sustainable growth for ambitious D2C brands. We leverage the power of Email Marketing, SMS, Push & Direct Mail, to unlock unwavering loyalty for global eCommerce brands.
- 2B Enterprising — 2B Enterprising offers an enterprise education program for primary schools that aims to inspire next generation and foster an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Coincover — Cryptocurrency insurance-backed technology to make cryptocurrency safe for individuals and businesses to hold and use.
Jonathan Seaton is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Twinkl.
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- Software, Education, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Bippit — Bippit is a financial support system for employees, which provides them with a 1-1 financial coach, powerful tools, and practical resources.Research has shown that 3/4 staff members have financial concerns that directly affect them at work, but only 1/10 have been able to speak to an expert about them. This has a huge impact onbusinesses, as 15% of payroll cost can be lost from reduced productivity, presenteeism, and an increase in staff turnover, due to the financial worries of their workforce.Bippit makes professional financial support completely free for employees, whenever and wherever they need it, and is backed by early stage investors in Monzo, Freetrade, and Calm.
- Wally Health — Unlimited dental cleanings and whitening for $199/year
- Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen offers the best locations, satellite kitchens, and digital tools for restaurants that want to scale their delivery network.
Andrew is currently Non-Executive Director of ASX-listed Countplus Limited and Non-Executive Chairman of PM Capital. Previously he was Managing Director and CEO of ASX-listed Treasury Group Ltd and before that Andrew co-founded the leading Australian private equity firm Crescent Capital Partners.
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- B2B, SaaS, Software
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Howamigoing — OUR WHY We want people to live their best lives. We believe people grow more when in teams. We believe great teams are built on constructive feedback. At work. At home.OUR HOW We’re using technology + design + psychology to break down crucial communication barriers between people: We want to create a safe-space where people can feelcomfortable asking uncomfortable questions and giving uncomfortable answers.OUR WHAT We’ve developed a beautifully designed, UX-led platform that helps employees and employers manage goal setting, 360-degree feedback, manager check-ins, pulse surveys and personal note keeping all year round.This saves time, money and anxiety while providing a safe, confidential portal for employees to proactively gather year-round advice from their colleagues.
Building the world's largest event technnology company with Eventbrite (NYSE: EB).Helping start-ups scale with seed fund Point Nine Capital.Angel investing in bold and ambitious European and U.S. start-ups. Sample from 40+ portfolio companies: - Sqreen (exited to Datadog) - Meero ($290M in funding) - Algolia ($184M) - Alkemics ($54M) -Builder ($29M) - Verve ($28M) - Fox Intelligence (€18M)
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Cordless — Bridging the gap between voice and text
- ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
- finres — Understand, Evaluate and Invest to Become Resilient to a Changing Climate. With finres, access the latest science, state-of-the-art decision-making methods and big data to transform your vulnerabilities into opportunities.
John Lloyd
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- Health Care, Education, Wellness
- Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Thrive — Thrive creates apps to prevent and treat stress, anxiety, phobias and much more. Thrive aims to enable people around the world to manage their emotional well-being, reach their full potential, and live happier and healthier lives.Thrive's apps are designed to prevent and treat different emotional and mental health difficulties. They are alsouseful for optimising mental state when facing challenges likely to cause stress. We have tools to help manage depression, stress, anxiety, or even different phobias.Through the use of clinically proven therapy and games, Thrive provides its users with a highly engaging treatment. Our apps see a 70% completion rate versus industry benchmark of 10%-30%. You can play them anywhere from on the tube to in your house and can easily download them for an affordable price. Founded by Consultant Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and a highly experiences Games Development team, we're here to provide instant therapies to anyone with internet access. Evidence-based, engaging games that are clinically proven to help are only a download away.
- Easy Peasy — Get EasyPeasy parenting tips and activities, personalised for you and your 0-5 year old, from our playful community of parents and experts.
- Elemental Software — Elemental is a digital platform that connects patients health and social care professionals and community health & wellness providers.Health Professionals are able to generate digital social prescriptions for citizens with chronic health risks such as depression, social isolation, type 2 diabetes and obesity, connecting them with qualityassured providers who deliver community based interventions across the domains of exercise, diet/nutrition, social support and mental health.The software is designed as a multi-tenanted cloud service and so can be implemented rapidly. It is highly parameterised and can be customised to suit an individual organisation's functional requirements without compromising its technological core.
Claire Davenport
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- Corporate Training, EdTech, Events
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Learnerbly — Transform the way your People learn - give them access to a marketplace of learning resources specific to their needs and curated from 200+ providers.
- Code First Girls — Code First Girls is on a mission to transform tech. We work with various partners to teach women to code for free; join the 150,000+ women we have taught so far!
Wendy Tan White is the Chief Executive Officer of Intrinsic. She Previously worked at X, the moonshot factory as the Vice President, Moonshots at Alphabet, X.Wendy Tan White attended Imperial College London.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Multiverse — We're building an outstanding alternative to university and corporate training via professional apprenticeships
- Checkstep — CheckStep provides a AI-powered Trust & Safety and UGC management software to online platform worldwide. It enables company to manage the full policy management life-cycle.
- 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.
Nick is the founding CEO of Nutmeg. Following a business degree at Exeter University, Nick worked at Barclays in the areas of product, banking and wealth management. Nick was a Divisional Director at Brewin Dolphin and has an MBA from Stanford University in the United States. Nick's industry and investment views are respected globally and hefrequently appears on Bloomberg, CNBC and BBC and has been quoted in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and many international publications. Nick has been a guest lecturer at academic institutions including Harvard, Stanford and London Business School and has represented UKTI around the world, promoting the benefits of doing business in Britain.
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- SaaS, EdTech, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cuvva — 500,000 people are chooosing radically better car insurance. Join them. Get a quote now. Insurance made easy.
- Zen Educate — Zen Educate is a simple, streamlined platform for teachers and teaching assistants to find work in schools without expensive agency fees.
- Multiply — Multiply is working with the Financial Conduct Authority's Advice Unit to get fully regulated and become one of the first automated financial advice solutions. They use encryption to ensure your information is fully secure, and they will never share or sell your data.Traditional financial advisors are too expensive for most people, and theyusually only help clients with upwards of £100,000 in the bank. This means there are millions of people in the UK who want to make better financial decisions but don’t know how. They think this is a big problem. It’s even got a name - the advice gap - and they are determined to close it, by making financial advice available to everyone.Multiply creates free financial plans to help you decide what to do with your money. All you have to do is create an account on their website, answer a few questions about your current situation and what you want for your future, and their smart technology will do the rest. What you’ll get is a list of recommendations across savings, pensions, investments, insurance, and more. It’s a fast, secure, easy way to get impartial guidance on how to make your money work for you, and it’s absolutely free to use.
Lisa Stone
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- Education, SaaS, Big Data
- Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SAM Labs — SAM Labs provides everything you need to deliver the most engaging STEAM and Coding learning experience in your classroom with Hardware, Software and curriculum-aligned lesson plans
- Arbor Education — Arbor is the UK's most popular cloud MIS, helping primary schools, secondary schools and MATs work more easily and collaboratively.
Bernie Sinniah
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- Internet, Education, E-Learning
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- HowNow — HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.
- SenzAgro (Pvt) Ltd —
Jonathan Goodwin is the Founder, Partner & Head of Merchant Banking of Alvarium & he attended University of Nottingham.
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- E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- BridgeU — BridgeU offers world-class university and careers guidance for global secondary schools. Empower your students. Inform your guidance strategy. Improve outcomes.
- Farmdrop — The UK's first fully certified organic supermarket, Planet Organic offers 1000s of products for delivery across the UK. From food and drink to health and beauty, we think carefully about everything we sell so you don't have to.
- MyTutor — MyTutor provides secondary school learners with online access to over 7,000 Russell Group university students, reducing the time, hassle and cost of finding a subject expert locally.Lessons take place in their innovative online lesson space, which allows parents to substitute expensive tutors coming to their house, for live, one-to-one sessionswith young, bright and successful undergraduates. If the pupil forgets something, every session is recorded, so they can play it back after.They also partner with schools and universities to provide larger contracts for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. School teachers stay up-to-date with the programme through a personalised online dashboard.The company has grown at 3x YoY for the last three years, with 200,000+ bookings and applications from 50,000 tutors. At the same time quality has been maintained, with 70,000+ 5* reviews and every tutor personally interviewed.MyTutor was founded by Robert Grabiner, Bertie Hubbard and James Grant.
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.
Alister is currently Chief Executive of Coles Express, Coles Online and Corporate Affairs Coles Group. Before his current post at Australia’s second-largest food retailer, he was Chief of Staff to the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd
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- B2B, SaaS, Software
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Howamigoing — OUR WHY We want people to live their best lives. We believe people grow more when in teams. We believe great teams are built on constructive feedback. At work. At home.OUR HOW We’re using technology + design + psychology to break down crucial communication barriers between people: We want to create a safe-space where people can feelcomfortable asking uncomfortable questions and giving uncomfortable answers.OUR WHAT We’ve developed a beautifully designed, UX-led platform that helps employees and employers manage goal setting, 360-degree feedback, manager check-ins, pulse surveys and personal note keeping all year round.This saves time, money and anxiety while providing a safe, confidential portal for employees to proactively gather year-round advice from their colleagues.
Peter Hinssen is the Co-founder and Partner at nexxworks.
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- Apps, SaaS, EBooks
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
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- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
- Sparkcentral — Consumers today engage with brands and companies on social channels by sending tweets and messages stating their customer service needs openly and publicly. Many companies choose to respond to these consumers via the same channels in order to address their concerns. The Sparkcentral Platform helps customer support teams manage large volumes ofsocial inquiries in a streamlined and efficient manner. The platform pulls in the messages from these social channels and presents them to customer care teams via a secure agent console that automatically assigns the messages to the first available agent. Sparkcentral’s client roster includes Delta Air Lines, Emirates, Netflix, Nordstrom, Dropbox, Uber, and T-Mobile.The company’s client portfolio includes Formerly known as TwitSpark, Sparkcentral was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
- Rita Personal Data — Collect, view and control your data. Smoothly, and in total privacy.
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
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- Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
- Kavida.ai — Kavida helps procurement managers ensure on time deliveries and improve supplier collaboration.
- Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
Alwin Magimay
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- Internet, Education, E-Learning
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- HowNow — HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.
Craig’s leadership of Amerigo builds on more than a decade of experience driving growth and innovation in education. Prior to Amerigo, Craig was President & CEO of Deltak, a pioneering provider of online education services for leading American universities. In 2014, after leading the sale of Deltak to John Wiley & Sons, he became a ManagingDirector in Wiley’s Corporate Development group, identifying and executing acquisitions and strategic partnerships. Craig is passionate about building a dynamic and cohesive team culture that drives successful outcomes for Amerigo's students. He received a B.S. in Finance from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
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- EdTech, Education, Higher Education
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- FourthRev — We deliver life-changing experiences that combine the best of career-focused education built with leading technology companies | Contact us to transform your career
Charles is the co-CEO and Co-Founder of Zzish, one of Europe's leading education technology growth ventures.
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- Education, E-Learning, Software
- Angel, Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Perkbox — Harmonise your employee benefits and rewards globally. Provide benefits, support wellbeing and create a culture of recognition to boost employee engagement.
- Of Course Learning — Learn from experts and enjoy lifetime access to high-quality video lessons, downloads and quizzes. With hundreds of courses, we're sure to have something for you
- EZ Education (creators of DoodleMaths) — EZ Education have created DoodleMaths, an adaptive-learning application that rapidly accelerates children's learning in maths.
Jason is CEO of vendorable.com, one of Australia’s fastest growing real-estate tech companies. He is also an investor in and advisor to Qwilr.com, as well as Realla (recently exited to CoStar). Previously Jason was Director and Head of Business Development at mining engineering company Vicon Services, which was sold to EnerMech in 2013 for A$30m.
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- B2B, SaaS, Software
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Howamigoing — OUR WHY We want people to live their best lives. We believe people grow more when in teams. We believe great teams are built on constructive feedback. At work. At home.OUR HOW We’re using technology + design + psychology to break down crucial communication barriers between people: We want to create a safe-space where people can feelcomfortable asking uncomfortable questions and giving uncomfortable answers.OUR WHAT We’ve developed a beautifully designed, UX-led platform that helps employees and employers manage goal setting, 360-degree feedback, manager check-ins, pulse surveys and personal note keeping all year round.This saves time, money and anxiety while providing a safe, confidential portal for employees to proactively gather year-round advice from their colleagues.
Pallavi Reddy is Head of Venture Investment @ Aviva
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- Education, E-Learning
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Your Juno — Join the Your Juno community and take control of your financial wellness. Download our free app and start planning for financial success today.
Greg Finkelstein, Senior Advisor, Center for Higher Education Transformation at Tyton Partners.
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- EdTech, Education, Higher Education
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FourthRev — We deliver life-changing experiences that combine the best of career-focused education built with leading technology companies | Contact us to transform your career
Andrew Colin is the Founder & Owner at INTO University Partnerships.
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- Apps, Education, Career Planning
- Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Debut — Debut accelerates your job search and helps graduates enter the job market quicker than ever. Only four minutes that could set you up for life.
Scott McKinley, Founding Partner, McKinley Hodge Group.
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- EdTech, Education, Higher Education
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FourthRev — We deliver life-changing experiences that combine the best of career-focused education built with leading technology companies | Contact us to transform your career
Rona Ruthen
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- Events, Software, Education
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Plain. — Meet the support platform that works the way you work with your customers. Incredibly fast, integrated with Linear and Slack, and a powerful API for everything else.
- Code First Girls — Code First Girls is on a mission to transform tech. We work with various partners to teach women to code for free; join the 150,000+ women we have taught so far!
Kevin Beales - Founder & CEO @ Refract
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- Software, SaaS, Drones
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fuuse — Fuuse is an electric vehicle charge point management system that enables your chargers to deliver more for you and your drivers.
- Fuuse — Creating efficiencies, reducing costs and striving for lower emissions in transport, logistics and supply chain through innovation.
- Altitude Angel — Altitude Angel delivers solutions which enable the safe integration and use of drones and UAVs into international airspace.
Elissa Grey is a senior vice president at Essence Digital Limited.
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- Education, E-Learning
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Your Juno — Join the Your Juno community and take control of your financial wellness. Download our free app and start planning for financial success today.
Louis d'Origny
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- Art, Auctions, Education
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SAM Labs — SAM Labs provides everything you need to deliver the most engaging STEAM and Coding learning experience in your classroom with Hardware, Software and curriculum-aligned lesson plans
- Cryptograph — Made By Icons. Owned By You.
Giles Phelps
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- Internet, Education, Recruiting
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Digital Profile — Our vision is to establish the world’s best community for tech & devs to share, learn, and build their skills & careers. Built on our values of control, privacy & transparency
Rosaleen Blair is the Founder and Chair of AMS.
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- Events, Education, Consulting
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Code First Girls — Code First Girls is on a mission to transform tech. We work with various partners to teach women to code for free; join the 150,000+ women we have taught so far!
Baris is a General Partner at AV8 Ventures. He joined AV8 from Google, where he served as the Head of Global Strategic Business Development in Media & Entertainment industry vertical, covering AI and infrastructure technologies.Prior to Google, Baris was the CFO at Anvato and led the acquisition by Google. Earlier, Baris was an investor atIntel Capital, covering global consumer and enterprise investments. While there, he invested in companies like Yume (IPO), OpenFeint (acq by Gree), Crowdstar (acq by Glu), Sense Networks (acq by YellowPages), and Caring.com (acq by Bankrate), many of which were acquired or went public during his time there. As a product manager and engineer, he held leadership positions at Calix and Alcatel.He received his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his B.S. in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Neol — Neol is a decentralized and tokenized cohort-based learning and on-demand talent platform, powered by a curated global creative community.
- Insly — Insly provides insurance software solutions that help you manage and automate your insurance business operations and increase the efficiency of your processes.
- Woven — Woven Calendar - The most powerful calendaring and scheduling app
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