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Top 10 Franchise VC Funds & Investors in United Kingdom (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in United Kingdom Franchise startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Kingdom Franchise startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Pembroke VCT
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A Fashion, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage $1.2M–$18M
Alchimia Investments
VC Fund
2 Italy, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Seed Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology $2.1M–$14M
EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software $200k–$30M
Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $277k–$3.7M
HMB Finance Group
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom Angel FinTech, Franchise, Financial Services
Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning $1.7M–$30M
Kima Ventures
VC Fund
1 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $250k–$12M
Burda Principal Investments
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series B, Series C, Series A E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail $4.3M–$65M
GC Angels
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology
LDC
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands Private Equity, Secondary Market Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $10M–$55M
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Pembroke VCT
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Franchise startups

Pembroke VCT PLC is a venture capital trust specializing in investments in any stage of business development. Their focus is on companies in the health and fitness, hospitality, apparel, and accessories, and media and technology sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$4.5M; Series A $1.2M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ro&Zo — Your go to brand for the latest fashion pieces for the eco-conscious woman. Shop statement dresses & tops in versatile silhouettes. #roandzowomen. Shop now.
  • Pembroke VCT — Pembroke VCT PLC is a venture capital trust specializing in investments in any stage of business development. Their focus is on companies in the health and fitness, hospitality, apparel, and accessories, and media and technology sectors.
  • Cydar Medical — Advancing the Quality of Care. Cydar Medical provides regulated cloud-based AI clinical applications within an enterprise data architecture to support healthcare organizations in the provision of improved outcomes in image-guided surgery.
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Alchimia Investments
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in United Kingdom Franchise startups

Alchimia is an investment company primarily operating in the Venture Capital Sector. Leveraging the expertise of our team and a wide network of international advisors, we invest and co-invest in high growth potential opportunities offering capital, as well as dedicated strategic and operational resources.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$3M; Series A $5.4M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
  • Prestatech — Prestatech is a digital credit factory that has developed an innovative underwriting platform for banks and financial institutions in Europe. Currently active with major European banks, Prestatech offers them a variety of digital credit services from data enrichment to end-to-end instant lending solutions. Thanks to technological innovation,Prestatech has gained an extensive expertise in the digital credit space and through its open-platform is currently offering API-based solutions that leverage on AI, advanced algorithms and Big Data technologies.
  • Chiara Ferragni — COM Chiara Ferragni
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in United Kingdom Franchise startups

EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.6M; Series A $4.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
  • Snowstorm — Snowflake is decentralized and is deployed as a pluggable transport for Tor.
  • Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Franchise startups, 32 in the past 12 months

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 141
  • Round size: Seed $799k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $277k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $123M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Odore — Our platform enables the world's leading brands to sample their products more effectively.
  • Supportwave — NerdApp offers online or on-site tech support for your home or small business. Just sign up and book a Nerd instantly or schedule at your convenience!
  • Fantastic Days — Fantastic Days is a beauty social intelligence platform provider.
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HMB Finance Group
VC Fund · 1 investments in United Kingdom Franchise startups

The HMB Finance Group provides financial solutions for every stage of your financial journey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Franchise, Financial Services
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • The UK Adviser Group / AdviserTech® — At The UK Adviser, our advisers deal with lenders on a day-to-day basis. Their experience means they can offer more than just mortgages
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Franchise startups, 10 in the past 12 months

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 133
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$5.5M; Series A $4.9M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $107M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Axis — axis for Business enables small businesses to seamlessly manage employee payroll, salary advances, and expenses - all from one place.
  • Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
  • Roadie — Easier, scalable and zero-maintenance. With security, scorecards and customizability built-in.
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in United Kingdom Franchise startups, 42 in the past 12 months

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 380
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $800k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mimbi — Mimbi provides brands and agencies with a platform that allows them to better measure & optimize the impact of retail media campaigns
  • OnlyDust — OnlyDust is a contribute to the best StarkNet projects, and get paid in USDC or Tokens.
  • Depot — The fastest place to build Docker images.
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Burda Principal Investments
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in United Kingdom Franchise startups

Burda Principal Investments (BPI) is a division of Hubert Burda Media which provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Series A $4.3M–$17M; Series B $4.7M–$40M; Series C $16M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neotaste — Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
  • Nord Security — Nord Security is the leader in the field of online privacy and security. Our security tools have earned praise from respected experts and tech outlets.
  • Patronus Group — Rethinking elderly healthcare
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GC Angels
VC Fund · 1 investments in United Kingdom Franchise startups

The Growth Company’s two Angel services, Co-Angel Investment Service and North West Business Angels have recently merged creating a more cohesive offer, enabling increased access to early stage equity funding. The service now known as GC Angels, supports businesses seeking access to angel investment, ranging from £25,000 up to £2m. Developed by GCas the next evolution of its successful Co Angel Investment Service, GC Angels forms part of the GM Combined Authority's response to supporting the early stage investment market, and integrates with the range of wider GC business finance and business support services. It will incorporate the network offer (NWBA); the fee-bearing advisory service (Co Angel) alongside the new GM Co-Investment Fund, providing an innovative, single solution equity funding service.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Your FLOCK — Your FLOCK helps teams stay together longer by increasing employees engagement by asking the right questions based on a team member's values.
  • Simplifai Systems — Simplifai Systems is a provider of a traffic management system that uses artificial intelligence so that it can achieve a number of goals beyond simple congestion control. The company's product generates real-time traffic control strategies that solve complex issues, such as major events, pollution, traffic incidents, and unexpectedcongestion. It exerts real-time control of city-wide traffic management systems such as traffic signals, to achieve a wide variety of citizen-focused and coordinated goals.Simplifai Systems was established in 2017 and is headquartered in Huddersfield, England.
  • 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.
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LDC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United Kingdom Franchise startups, 6 in the past 12 months

For over 40 years, LDC has been the trusted investment partner for ambitious management teams. We invest in a diverse range of businesses across every region and sector of the UK economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Private Equity, Secondary Market
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Private Equity $10M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sedex — At Sedex, it is our goal to help businesses consistently improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) results by providing data-driven insight, tools, and services.
  • UniHomes — UniHomes showcase the best all-inclusive student homes across the UK. View & compare student accommodation with bills included.
  • Star Live — From world tours, brand activations and record-breaking feats of engineering to complex turnkey solutions for major sporting, entertainment and cultural events, Star Live makes it happen.
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Franchise VC funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 9 deals from 18 investors.

18
investors
in United Kingdom Franchise startups
9
deals
in United Kingdom Franchise startups
$3.5M
median round
in United Kingdom Franchise startups
44%
lead investors
lead at least one round
22%
Series A
most common funding stage

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