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Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Financial services startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Financial services companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023

Investor Financial Services United Kingdom investments
Chris Adelsbach 53
Will Brooks 23
Will Martin 22
Will Neale 17
Charles Delingpole 16
Taavet Hinrikus 16
Paul Forster 16
Errol Damelin 15
Matt Robinson 12
Charlie Songhurst 12
Mark Ransford 11
Serge Chiaramonte 11
Alan Morgan 10
Alexander Edward Chesterman 10
Reece Chowdhry 9
Mandeep Singh 8
Ed Wray 7
Michael Pennington 7
Rob Devey 6
Stefan Glänzer 6
Michael Bristow 6
Christian Faes 6
Simon Franks 6
Sam Enrico Williams 6
Jon Moulton 6
Edward Lando 6
Carlos Gonzalez- Cadenas 5
David Rutter 5
Andrew Mullinger 5
Henry Ritchotte 5
Cristóbal Conde 5
Ian Hogarth 5
Chris Mairs 5
Tom Hulme 5
Greg Marsh 4
Tim Draper 4
Svetozar Georgiev 4
Vassil Terziev 4
Nadav Ben-Chanoch 4
Jonathan Seaton 4
Stanley Fink 4
Tom Blomfield 4
Theo Osborne 4
Alessandro Hatami 4
Dan Cobley 4
Craig Dewar 4
Paul Townsend 4
James Meekings 4
Perry Blacher 4
Thomas Glocer 4

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Chris Adelsbach
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in the past 12 months

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Will Brooks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Will Martin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Will Neale
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Japan, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
  • Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
  • Kuai Commerce — Kuai Commerce is a next-generation solution for ambitious brands looking to sell directly to Chinese Gen Z consumers through the power of social commerce. Our tech-enabled services provide market entry and brand acceleration options for emerging category-leaders who otherwise would find the complexity of China prohibitively challenging
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Charles Delingpole
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • Sync Savings — Rebuilding the infrastructure of cash savings
  • Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
  • Morphoses — Unlocking Potential: Empowering 6-17 Year-Old Learners with Future-Focused Soft Skills for Education and Employability
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Taavet Hinrikus
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Paul Forster
Angel · 7 investments in the past 12 months

Paul Forster

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Errol Damelin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
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Matt Robinson
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in the past 12 months

Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Atoa — Accept in-store payments using any UK Bank App. Merchants save up-to 70% versus cards and get paid faster. Sign-up in three minutes.
  • Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
  • Context.ai — Context.ai is product analytics for LLM applications. Understand your users and improve their experiences in your LLM powered products.
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Charlie Songhurst
Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 20 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Mark Ransford
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Angel Investor

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, France, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

  • Alpha Vault — Alpha Vault is a decentralized crypto investment platform
  • Sync Savings — Rebuilding the infrastructure of cash savings
  • Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
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Serge Chiaramonte
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Serge Chiaramonte

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

  • Trezy — Trezy is smart & simple software the helps you manage your business with real-time finance insights & automated cash-flow forecasting.
  • 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.
  • Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
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Alan Morgan
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Alan co-founded MMC Ventures in 2000. As an active business angel investor he saw the opportunity for a more structured strategic and due diligence approach to venture investing. Alan is a member of the Investment Committee and leads MMC's financial services focus. He has lead responsibility for Small World.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United Kingdom, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • 9fin — Everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one platform. Our full suite of high yield data products is loved by Investment Banks, Sales & Trading, Law Firms, Asset Managers and Hedge Funds.
  • Connectd — Online platform underpinned by smart matching technology directly connecting the UK’s leading Founders, Investors & NAMs.
  • Froots — Froots.io is an online wealth manager that helps people to afford things that are considered for the lucky few. Whether one aspires an early retirement or a top education for their children, froots helps them to achieve their long-term financial objectives by tailoring a goal based .
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Alexander Edward Chesterman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Reece Chowdhry
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Mandeep Singh
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in the past 12 months

Founder and former CEO at Trouva (backed by Index Ventures & exited to LON:MADE). He is now an Angel Investor & Advisor, and a Board Member at Amnesty International. He was previously an investor at BC Partners, one of Europe’s largest Private Equity funds, investors in Intelsat, Foxtons (where Mandeep was on the board), and Chewy. Prior tothat he was a strategy consultant at OC&C and graduated in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge. He set up his first startup in his bedroom as a teenage coder.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • 11x.ai — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
  • TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
  • Sourcerie — Discover the best products for you, based on reviews from people just like you.
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Ed Wray
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Michael Pennington
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B. Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • Konfir — employment Home page Instantly access employment or income records for any UK-based worker, with their consent
  • FUEL — Where everlasting fanbases are built
  • Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
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Rob Devey
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Rob joined Octopus as an independent non-executive director in October 2013. Prior to this Rob was the CEO of Prudential UK and Europe, where he was responsible for developing the company’s business in the UK and Europe as it continued to meet the savings and retirement needs of its millions of customers.Rob has over 15 years’ experience infinancial services. Prior to joining Prudential in 2009, he worked at Lloyds Banking Group across a number of senior management roles and was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in both Europe and the US.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Funding Round, Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Modulr — Modulr offers Payments-as-a-Service which automates payment flows, embeds payments in other platforms and enables customers to launch entirely new services.
  • Urban Jungle — We're doing insurance differently, by shaking up a traditional industry. We make it clearer, easier and more affordable to insure the stuff you love.
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Stefan Glänzer
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • Auro — Auro is a mobile fitness-tech solution providing you with a personal trainer in your ear. We believe that fitness is at its effective best, when it is personalized, engaging, and accessible anytime. We break down the barriers to exercise by providing millions of people all over the world access to a personal trainer along with the best of contentthat boutique studio fitness has to offer.We’re creating a truly motivating, connected fitness experience that keeps people coming back for more by combining world class instructors, killer playlists and data science led personalisation.Our mission is to transform lives by making fitness experiences awesome, accessible and affordable.
  • LIFT99 — LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.
  • ClickClickDrive — ClickClickDrive is a developer of a search engine designed for users to find driving schools.The company's platform helps users to find information on different driving schools, find evaluations/recommendations published by driving students and also offers an easy-to-use theory application to help them prepare for the exam, enabling usersto choose the best driving school for them.
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Michael Bristow
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Mike Bristow, CEO and Co-Founder of CrowdProperty (www.crowdproperty.com), the leading specialist property peer-to-peer lender in the UK. Actual property development and investment experience lies at the heart of CrowdProperty meaning hands-on, expertise-led due diligence and loan monitoring. Lending is focused on the SME property developer market,a key segment for supplying much needed UK housing stock, which is poorly and inefficiently served by traditional funding sources.CrowdProperty's unique combination of data, analytics, tech, expertise, rigour, relationships, security, extent of value chain disruption and vision means we stand out in sustainably delivering a better deal to lenders and borrowers alike through high-quality, institution-grade lending with huge potential ahead.

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Investment focus

  • Real Estate, SaaS, Software
  • Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Belgium, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

  • RENTUU — Rentuu has been featured for the last 3 years in a row in the UK's Top 100 UK Start-Ups List, and operates a global, fast-growing, cloud-based technology platform and franchise network for the multi-billion pound sterling equipment hire industry. We’re a venture capital backed technology start-up backed by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (founder ofeasyJet) and other institutional investors with the exclusive rights to the easyHire brand in a number of countries, including the UK, EU, Switzerland, South Africa, and Dubai to facilitate equipment rental for construction and party equipment.
  • Howsy — Howsy is a real estate management platform that provides repairs management and renewal services for landlords and tenants. Howsy. A new concept designed to shake up the way of renting works for good. Its on a mission to create a simple, intuitive and fairly priced experience that’s powered by new ideas and brilliant technology.
  • CrowdProperty — CrowdProperty is a specialist property project lending platform used to facilitate short-term loans. It is a profitable fintech lending innovator that matches demand that property professionals undertaking property projects and supply that is retail investors of capital for value-creating property projects that enable clients to get a better dealfor the borrowers, lenders, the under-supplied housing environment, and increased spend in the economy.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
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Christian Faes
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Christian Faes is the co-founder and Exec Chair of LendInvest, which is marketplace platform for property finance, and one of the leading Fintech businesses in the UK. The business has raised well over £1 billion in debt and equity, from institutions such as Atomico, the European Investment Fund, Citibank, HSBC, and the National Australia Bank.Christian comes from a legal background having practised as a real estate lawyer in Australia (Allens Arthur Robinson), and then in the UK with Clifford Chance and Deutsche Bank.  In 2008, Christian co-founded the business with Ian Thomas, initially seeing an opportunity in the short term mortgage market.Christian is a keen advocate for the Fintech sector, and sits on the Government’s Fintech Delivery Panel; and founded and chairs the Digital Finance Forum. He is an active supporter and early investor in several startups, including Seedrs, Crowdcube and Onfido.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
  • Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
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Simon Franks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Sam Enrico Williams
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in the past 12 months

Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr. Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • NFT Metadata Editor — Edit and customize the metadata of your NFTs. Connect your wallet, select the NFT, and this tool will allow you to modify the metadata, charging a fee for the service.
  • NFT Exhibition Space — Showcase your NFT collection in a virtual exhibition. Connect your wallet, select the NFTs, and this tool will create a virtual exhibition space for your collection.
  • Crypto Wealth Manager — Connect your wallet, input your holdings and financial goals, and this tool will provide portfolio management features and recommendations.
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Jon Moulton
Angel

Jon Moulton is a British venture capitalist. He is the founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Better Capital, and is the former managing partner of the private equity firm Alchemy Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Cyprus, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

  • Pockit — Open a prepaid account in 3 minutes online or in-app, get your contactless prepaid card in 2 working days with no credit check.
  • Hometree — Keep yourself warm with Hometree, and try our no price hike promise. Compare our different boiler & home cover plans to see how you can save.
  • Hellas Direct — Hellas Direct is a digital-first, full-stack insurance company, empowered by cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence. The Cyprus-based company is backed by a roster of leading investors, including Portag3, IFC (a member of the World Bank), Endeavor Catalyst, former Goldman Sachs economist Lord O’Neill and private equity veteran JonMoulton. Modelling itself on Amazon, Hellas Direct aims to disrupt the insurance value chain by adopting an extreme focus on operational excellence.
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Edward Lando
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
  • NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
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Carlos Gonzalez- Cadenas
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months

Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas is the Partner at Index Ventures. He previously worked as a Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPO/CTO) at GoCardless.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • PetsApp — A mobile-first veterinary telemedicine platform enabling veterinary clinics to offer text chat and video consultations to pet owners
  • Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.
  • Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.
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David Rutter
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

David founded R3 in 2015 and in his role of Chief Executive Officer is responsible for the strategic direction of R3.With over 30 years of experience leading some of Wall Street’s top institutions, David is a longtime creative thought leader in financial markets and innovation, and has played a significant role in the adoption of electronictrading in the global OTC derivatives industry.David served for ten years as the CEO of Electronic Broking at ICAP Plc, the world’s largest interdealer broker, where he led the BrokerTec fixed income and EBS foreign exchange platforms. Prior to ICAP, David was co-owner and CEO (Americas) of Prebon Yamane.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Blockchain, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • VALK — DeFi Portfolio Management System
  • Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
  • Aerotrax — The Next Generation of Aircraft Maintenance Software. Aerotrax is an enterprise software company focused on digitally tracking the lifecycle of every aircraft, part, and component.
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Andrew Mullinger
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Andrew is currently focused on a number of projects helping Funding Circle scale globally.As a founder, Andrew has grown Funding Circle from an idea into the largest and fastest growing small business loan marketplace in the world. Andrew helped build out and lead the company’s operations before focusing on risk management. He was responsiblefor ensuring the performance of the first $1.5bn of loans originated globally has great risk adjusted returns for investors before handing over the reins to Jerome, our Global CRO.Since Funding Circle entered the US in 2012, he has split his time between Funding Circle’s San Francisco and London offices.Before founding Funding Circle, Andrew worked at Nomura and Citigroup specializing in regulatory and risk management. He also spent time at Ernst & Young as a consultant where he advised financial institutions, government and regulators on risk management and regulation, including a major UK bank on its SME credit models. Andrew holds a degree in Mathematics from Manchester University.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
  • tripAbrood — Your Family Adventure Awaits!
  • Tooth Fairy — Winner of app of the year, for emergencies, teeth straightening, teeth whitening & prescriptions. Teledentistry and dentist available 24/7. Founded by dentists.
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Henry Ritchotte
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Mr. Henry Ritchotte has been a Member of Management Board at Deutsche Bank AG since June 1, 2012 and serves as its the Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Ritchotte serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Global Markets Division Worldwide at Deutsche Securities Inc. He served as Head of Global Markets of Deutsche Securities Inc. Mr. Ritchotte joinedDeutsche Bank in 1995 in hedge fund coverage and has played an important role in the development of Deutsche Bank's global markets business. Mr. Ritchotte has held a variety of senior management positions including global head of hedge fund sales and head of sales for Asia. He served as Joint Chief Operating Officer of Global Markets Division at Deutsche Bank AG since 2008.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Arkera — Arkera helps companies increase revenues by empowering anyone to make exciting investment decisions they never imagined. Using our extensive financial expertise and Artificial Intelligence, we connect real world events to unique investment stories.
  • Neyber — Join Neyber today to help improve financial wellbeing and happiness in the workplace. Financial education, affordable loans, and savings and investments paid from your salary.
  • Luther Systems — Luther Systems platform empowers enterprises to automate and run their processes at speed and scale.
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Cristóbal Conde
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Cristobal is an active investor in early-stage companies, and a senior member of the Partnership for NYC’s FinTech incubator for software companies. His current investments include True Office, where he serves as executive chairman, Calastone, where he serves as chairman, Centripetal Networks, where he is a board member, and Digital Reasoning,where he is a board member.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Lab 1 — Lab 1 - Contextualising the World's Compromised Data
  • Venari Security — Venari is an encrypted traffic analysis (ETA) platform that detects threats hidden within encrypted traffic and helps deliver cryptographic and regulatory compliance for enterprise organisations without the need for decryption. Acting as an automated early warning system for security teams, Venari's ETA platform detects threats hidden withinencrypted traffic reducing the overall response time.Headquartered in London with a Development Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Tunis, Venari fundamentally changes the way encrypted traffic is analysed using a combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and behavioural analytics. To date, Venari has been recognised by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) cyber accelerator programme and Barclays TechStars accelerator program. The organisation has won various industry awards in 2019 and 2020.
  • Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.
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Ian Hogarth
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • The Garden — The Garden is an online media company.
  • Condense — Live-streamed volumetric video into game engines
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Chris Mairs
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Chris Mairs - Venture Partner @ Entrepreneur First

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Pathway — LLM-enabled financial research at the speed of thought.
  • Statement — Find the right card machine for your business, with good rates and the best features. Search the top providers in minutes, including Worldpay, Barclaycard, Tyl and Teya.
  • 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.
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Tom Hulme
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Tom Hulme is a General Partner and Head of Europe at GV and was a CEO and Founder at Magnom Corporation. Tom attended Harvard Business School and Bristol University.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Smol — laundry capsules. posted.
  • Kinnu — Kinnu is a learning engine that allows to explore new concepts and master any field of study. Kinnu allows to choose from an ever-expanding list of themes such as artificial intelligence, modern art, intermittent fasting, psychology, philosophy, history, and scientific breakthroughs.
  • Immersive Gamebox — Immersive Gamebox is a unique immersive experience which lets you play virtual team adventures in the world's smartest room. Come and play!
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Greg Marsh
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Greg Marsh - Founder & CEO @ Nous

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Software, Real Estate
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Flown — The FLOWN platform helps you develop deep focus as you work and get inspiration as you rest. Science-backed tools for a deep work life
  • Communion — Build your buffer against the world and fix your relationship with money.
  • Snap It Limited — On demand deliveries for tradespeople
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Tim Draper
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 18 investments in the past 12 months

Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • EtherMail — EtherMail is the Web 3.0 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication.
  • Arkam Intelligence — See intelligence on the addresses, entities, individuals, and assets most important to you.
  • SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
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Svetozar Georgiev
Angel · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria

Svetozar has been instrumental in establishing the Telerik brand and growing the Marketing and Financial organizations within the company. As a seasoned marketing executive, he has invented some of Telerik’s most successful marketing campaigns and has led to fruition many innovative ideas in the field of digital marketing. His profound expertise inthe areas of product positioning, marketing research and communications has helped Telerik become one of the most recognized brands in the space of .NET developer tools.Svetozar previously held management positions at Lowe Lintas, as well as several IT companies. He holds Bachelor’s Degrees in Business Administration and Journalism from the American University in Bulgaria.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom, Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

  • Payhawk — Save time and money, manage spend, and scale your business with Payhawk. Get premium Visa Cards, dedicated IBANs, SEPA, and Faster Payments, all in one place.
  • Reloyalty — Get rewarded automatically for staying loyal to local businesses in London
  • icanpreneur — The first Accelerator-as-a-Software that guides tech entrepreneurs from idea to product/market fit without relying on luck
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Vassil Terziev
Angel · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria

Vassil is responsible for overseeing Telerik’s strategic direction and enabling its rapid growth as a global provider of enterprise-class software and services. As a co-founder of Telerik, Vassil was instrumental in growing the sales, support and business development units of the company and establishing the fanatical dedication to customerservice. Vassil’s vision and dedication has helped Telerik keep its slogan to “Deliver more than expected” and enjoy a solid track record of growing revenues and profitability in the ever changing developer tools marketplace.Vassil earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration at the American University in Bulgaria and has served in various roles in companies from real estate, investment and high-tech industries.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Bulgaria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Payhawk — Save time and money, manage spend, and scale your business with Payhawk. Get premium Visa Cards, dedicated IBANs, SEPA, and Faster Payments, all in one place.
  • Reloyalty — Get rewarded automatically for staying loyal to local businesses in London
  • UPPER — Upper enables start-ups, businesses, and organizations to find and hire quality tech talent to work full-time, part-time, or hourly
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
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Jonathan Seaton
Angel · Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Jonathan Seaton is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Twinkl.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Stanley Fink
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Lord Stanley Fink is a non-executive director and investor in British Pearl. He is a senior, well-known and accomplished financial services professional, with a long and diverse track record in, among others, the managed futures, brokerage and hedge fund industries.He was born in 1957 and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity Hall,Cambridge graduating with a degree in Law. He then qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982 and worked at Mars and Citibank NA before joining Man Group plc in 1987, stepping down as Deputy Chairman of the Group in July 2008 after an illustrious career spanning 21 years including a successful period as Group CEO.Currently he is Chairman of ISAM Europe LLP, a hedge fund with offices in London, Florida and Cayman. He also is a non-executive director of Marex Spectron and Chairman of Zenith Hygiene Group plc.Lord Fink is a committed philanthropist whose focus is health, education and the environment. His roles include being a Trustee of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), a Trustee of the Mayor’s Fund for London and Co-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He was Chairman of the highly successful campaign by the Evelina London Hospital's Appeal to raise £10 million to assist in equipping the new hospital in 2005. He is also Chair Emeritus of the Board of Governors of Burlington Danes Academy which he sponsored through ARK. He was raised to the Peerage in 2011.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Bud — Bud uses Open Banking to help financial companies to access and make sense of messy financial data.
  • mmi — Make better-informed brand communications decisions on a local, global and campaign level. Talk to us about how you can increase your beauty brand sales.
  • Blackbullion — Learning platform for students who want to get in control of their money
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Tom Blomfield
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in the past 12 months

Tom Blomfield is the CEO of Monzo, a new kind of bank, designed for smartphones. Tom previously founded GoCardless, a fintech startup that has gone on to raise $25m. In 2013, he was nominated as one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the European Commission. He gives talks regularly about the future of banking and fintech.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fertifa — Fertifa is an innovative employer benefit solution making fertility care more accessible and affordable.The company works with employers to offer a valuable employee benefit which bridges the gap between an employer and their employees when dealing with the sensitivity and privacy of employees’ reproductive issues. It also offers guidance andadvice, next-generation fertility treatment, and access to a range of holistic services for the best chance of success. The company was founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom.
  • 1Bstories — Helping publishers and brands increase engagement and conversions using AI. Mobile, vertical, 60 second video formats made in an instant. Tell your story today!
  • StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!
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Theo Osborne
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Alessandro Hatami
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Alessandro is Managing Partner at Pacemakers. They provide independent advice to executive teams on selecting the right partners in order to convert digital strategies into commercial success. Previously, he was Group Innovation Director & COO Digital Banking at Lloyds Banking Group; MD of PayPoint.net, Director Large Merchant Services atPayPal & European Marketing Director at GE Capital. He is also a Board Advisor at CashPlus. He is a mentor of several FinTech start-ups working with Techstars, Seedcamp and Startupbootcamp. He is also an investor in several early stage companies.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Curve — Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015.
  • Trilo — Welcome to the simplest way to pay. Whether your strolling on the high street, or scrolling on your phone, you'll get a Boost whenever you shop with Trilo.
  • Kore Labs — KORE has created a platform for digital product management in the financial space. Discover more and get in touch.
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Dan Cobley
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Dan Cobley is the Managing Partner of Blenheim Chalcot. He previously worked at Santander UK as a Strategic Advisor to the Board. Dan Cobley attended the University of Cambridge.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Finance
  • Funding Round, Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Freyda — Built for private markets, we automate manual data extraction from documents so that you can focus on optimizing returns.
  • Carmoola — Ready to hit the road? Find the car of your dreams and make your money move. Spread the cost with flexible payment plans to get new wheels, on your terms.
  • Anya — Using smart technology, we provide parents and parents-to-be with vital support on their breastfeeding and parenting journey, anytime, anywhere.
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Craig Dewar
Angel · Douglas, NA - Isle of Man, Isle of Man · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Craig founded Flex-e-card with Tony Kerr in 2000, before founding Global Processing Servcies. He was a former technology director in investment banking and front office systems within Salomon Brothers, JP Morgan, CSFB.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Retail, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Collctiv — Collect money from your friends for that birthday present, sports event or anything you like. They don't even need to download an app, just tap to pay using Apple/Google Pay or their card. Join Collctiv today for free.
  • Tell Money — Tell Money provider of a fintech platform that delivers Open Banking solutions for banks and other accounts.
  • Zipzero — Zipzero users can earn cash rewards by sharing receipts from everyday purchases, which they can then use to pay household utility bills. Our path to scale is in partnership with leading utilities, who are encouraged to push ZIPZERO to their customers as we help them pay their bills.
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Paul Townsend
Angel · Bromley, Bromley, United Kingdom

Co-founder of Envoy (sold to WorldPay).Paul has over 20 years’ experience in mainstream banking with Warburgs and Bank of New York, plus 15 years in electronic payments with Earthport plc, Neteller, Envoy and Worldpay. Before co-founding Vitesse, Paul was Founder and COO of Envoy Services Ltd. He is also an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Payments, Financial Services, Banking
  • Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Curve — Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015.
  • Griffin — Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England.
  • Veridu — Veridu provides Identity solutions for a global internet economy.Veridu brings trust to online business with services to quickly, reliably and efficiently verify the identity of users globally in order to eliminate fraud and unwanted behavior. Online business wants to be global. Any transaction hinges on identity and current identitysolutions are standing in the way. Veridu is changing that with comprehensive global ID solutions.
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James Meekings
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

As co‑founder and UK Managing Director James leads the UK business and is responsible for overseeing the overall strategic direction and day‑to‑day operation of Funding Circle in the UK. James co‑founded Funding Circle in the UK in 2010 after seeing how difficult it was for small businesses to access funding and wanting to build something better.Prior to Funding Circle James was at OC&C Strategy Consultants where he advised companies on strategy and growth across the retail, media and services sectors.James has a first class Economics and Management degree from Oxford University.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom

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.
  • Ophelos — Ophelos was created to transform how individuals, families, and businesses manage their financial health.
  • Electric Car Scheme — Salary sacrifice lets employees pay for an electric car from their gross salary before tax. It's basically the Cycle to Work scheme but for electric cars.
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Perry Blacher
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Perry Blacher is a Partner at Augmentum Fintech.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
  • Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
  • Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
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Thomas Glocer
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Tom Glocer joined BlueVoyant as Executive Chairman and Founder in 2017.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • GPTZero — Covered by >100 media outlets, GPTZero is the most advanced AI detector for ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard. Check up to 50000 characters for AI plagiarism in seconds.
  • Hive — Hive is a distributed data storage and computing platform, enabling users to rent their computing resources and co-localized storing and processing.
  • Hive — Hive is a decentralized cloud platform based on the peer-to-peer exchange of the available capacities of users' computers.
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