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Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in United Kingdom (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in United Kingdom Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Kingdom Hardware startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Charlie Songhurst
Angel
9 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $360k–$18M
Richard Fearn
Angel
7 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms $600k–$4.9M
Eileen Burbidge
Angel
6 United Kingdom, United States, Sweden Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$14M
Andy Chung
Angel
5 United Kingdom, France, Denmark Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel SaaS, Software, Machine Learning $800k–$1.8M
Will Brooks
Angel
5 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $614k–$3.1M
Philipp Moehring
Angel
5 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, FinTech $800k–$2.7M
Stuart Marks
Angel
5 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel Software, Information Services, Information Technology $50k–$860k
William Tunstall-Pedoe
Angel
5 United Kingdom, Canada, Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software $1M–$3M
Will Martin
Angel
5 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $614k–$3.1M
Andrew Weisz
Angel
5 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Education, Apps $200k–$1.4M
Richard Brennan
Angel
4 United Kingdom Angel, Series A, Series B Mobile, Social Media, iOS
Taavet Hinrikus
Angel
4 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $910k–$50M
Robin Klein
Angel
4 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Fashion $1.6M–$10M
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel
3 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $100k–$5M
Graham Clempson
Angel
3 United Kingdom Angel Software, Information Services, Retail Technology $50k–$525k
Paul Forster
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Germany, Spain Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $750k–$9.9M
Chris Lee
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Finland, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Virtual Reality, Digital Entertainment $2.2M–$3.6M
Greg Marsh
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Real Estate
Julien Codorniou
Angel
3 France, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Apps $125k–$25M
Tony Jamous
Angel
3 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Developer APIs, Mobile $500k–$12M
Theo Osborne
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A Software, Apps, E-Commerce $16k–$12M
Balaji Srinivasan
Angel
3 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $125k–$18M
Gareth Williams
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Hungary, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Apps, SaaS $307k–$2.5M
Rupert Loman
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Digital Entertainment, Video Games, Media and Entertainment $800k–$3.6M
Michael Pennington
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $393k–$4.9M
Jon Moulton
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Cyprus, Luxembourg Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Banking $1.8M–$8.5M
Tim Jackson
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States, Sweden Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Software, E-Commerce $160k–$1.5M
Nadav Rosenberg
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Pharmaceutical $2M–$2M
Volker Hirsch
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Apps, EdTech $31k–$2M
Tom Singh
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, SaaS $369k–$5.5M
Tom Blomfield
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $307k–$30M
Paul Walton
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Software, SaaS, Social Network $37k–$1.2M
John Taysom
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $184k–$2.7M
Yoyo Chang
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed FinTech, E-Commerce, Point of Sale $150k–$3.3M
Philip Green
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Internet, Information Technology, Software $120k–$12M
Patrick Pichette
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series B, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Simon Murdoch
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Software, Analytics $96k–$21M
Reece Chowdhry
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Software, Financial Services, FinTech $123k–$7.7M
Alexander Edward Chesterman
Angel
3 United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services $214k–$8.6M
Nigel Wray
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
Edward Lando
Angel
3 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $100k–$4.5M
Robin Knox
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Software, SaaS, Social Network $37k–$2.9M
Tony Fitzpatrick
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed Hardware, Software, Consumer Electronics
Simon Rogerson
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Series A Real Estate, EdTech, FinTech
Alex Hoye
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, Romania Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Apps, Advertising $20k–$1.5M
Melih Odemis
Angel
2 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $170k–$1.8M
James Fong
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Hardware, Software, Advertising
Tjaart van der Waalt
Angel
2 United Kingdom, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed Retail, Marketing, Advertising $903k–$3M
Kevin Taylor
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed Hardware, Payments, Software $672k–$904k
John Hegarty
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Mobile, CRM $1M–$2.8M
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Charlie Songhurst
Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 9 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 20 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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $360k–$3.8M; Series A $2.5M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Richard Fearn
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$1.8M; Series A $1.6M–$4.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
  • Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
  • Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.
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Eileen Burbidge
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Eileen Burbidge is a Partner at Passion Capital, the pre-eminent early-stage VC fund based in London. She brings extensive operational experience to her investment activities gleaned from business and product roles at Yahoo!, Skype, Apple and elsewhere.In addition to Passion Capital, Eileen is also the Chair of TechCity UK, which is the Britishgovernment-backed organisation supporting digital business across the UK. She is also HM Treasury’s Special Envoy for FinTech appointed by then Chancellor George Osborne; Tech Ambassador for the Mayor of London’s office and served on former Prime Minister David Cameron’s Business Advisory Group.Eileen was made an MBE for services to Business in June 2015 and holds a BSc Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1.8M; Series A $2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Meeno — Meeno is a relationship mentoring app powered by generative AI
  • Amorai — Meeno is a relationship mentoring app powered by generative AI
  • 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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Andy Chung
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Andy Chung is the Partner and Founder of Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company. He previously worked at AngelList as a Partner. Andy Chung attended University of Cambridge.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
  • Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.
  • Cosmos Video — Team spaces designed for remote teams to be productive and engaged.
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Will Brooks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $614k–$2.8M; Series A $2.1M–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Philipp Moehring
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Philipp is an earliest stage technology investor in Berlin. He invested in more than 100 companies across various sectors, including open source software, ML/AI enabled SaaS, and deep tech from synthetic biology to materials science.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Levity — Train your own AI on documents, images, or text data to perform daily, repetitive tasks so your team can reach the next level of productivity. No code required.
  • consalio — The advisor spend management solution that helps management to stay in control of the advisor spend.
  • Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.
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Stuart Marks
Angel · Hale, Cheshire, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Stuart Marks is a successful entrepreneur who has built and sold four businesses over the past 25 years. They have spanned several sectors including CRM, location-based services and digital media. Every company applied innovation to challenge existing business models.Stuart has worked with a diverse and international customer-base includingSainsbury’s, British Airways, Unilever, Vodafone, BMW and various government agencies across the world. His previous company, ITIS Holdings plc, was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was Europe’s leading provider of real-time traffic information and connected car technology.The first company to commercialize crowdsourced data from GPS devices and mobile phone networks, Stuart sold the firm in 2011 to Washington-based INRIX before going on to establish L Marks to invest in the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $123k–$860k; Angel $50k–$525k
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Urbix — Urbix is producing a management dashboard for municipalities to manage their data and processes to ensure that decisions are made based on hard evidence which is readily available in an easy to understand format.
  • WeFiFo — WeFiFo launched in 2016 and is a multi-award-winning platform that enables enthusiastic home cooks, Supper Club hosts and professional chefs to share their food with paying guests. WeFiFo is Airbnb for the kitchen table but offers much more than just a marketplace. Designed to encourage and empower talented cooks to monetise their kitchen skills,WeFiFo offers a sophisticated infrastructure allowing hosts to up-skill and earn a transformative income with flexible working hours and rewards. WeFiFo also supports professional chefs who don't want the risk of a bricks and mortar restaurant but want to feed a new audience. Anyone can sign up and join in, hosts are not pre-screened or curated, but ratings and reviews help guests choose between the multitude of events on offer – from novice cooks to award winning chefs at the top of their game. They are the online destination to discover exciting experiential dining near you and their platform promotes, insures and inspires cooks and chefs of all abilities to take the next step on their food journey while keeping hosts and guests safe every step of the way.
  • Orbital Witness — Instant property insight - Liberation for everyone involved in property transactions.
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William Tunstall-Pedoe
Angel · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng is a British entrepreneur focused on world-changing products powered with Artificial Intelligence and other deep technology. He is based in Cambridge and London UK. He founded the British company Evi (formerly True Knowledge), the AI platform acquired by Amazon and where William, the team and the technology developed byEvi was used to create Alexa. He left in 2016. William is an active angel investor with investments in more than 100 startups. He is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab and a full member of Cambridge Angels.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ai Build — Additive Manufacturing Software
  • 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.
  • Unlikely AI — We are pioneering safe, trustworthy and powerful artificial intelligence
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Will Martin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $614k–$2.8M; Series A $2.1M–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Andrew Weisz
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Andrew Weisz - Partner @ Weisz Investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$1.4M; Pre-Seed $498k–$650k
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

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.
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Richard Brennan
Angel · 4 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Richard Brennan is a seasoned Senior Executive in the Telecommunications industry with significant strengths in Global Marketing and Branding. He joined Hutchison Whampoa in 1993 in the UK as part of the Founding Executive Management Team for Orange plc. He has held Board positions with Mobistar, GSMA CEO Board, and was Chairman of the Board forWildfire, Inc. He now works around the globe with innovative, energetic, and fast moving companies. He also serves as an Executive Consultant for HTC, specifically assisting them break into the competitive world of consumer branded smartphones. Richard is a keen cyclist and runner, and fundamentally believes the intelligence being built into smartphones will revolutionise the way mobiles are used for recreational outdoor activities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Social Media, iOS
  • Stage:Angel, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Zynstra — Zynstra is transforming edge computing at the retail edge. Its Intelligent Infrastructure is specifically designed and built for the retail edge, not the datacenter. It leverages intelligent automation to transform the way thousands of distributed sites are managed. By choosing Zynstra, the retail edge becomes the source of your competitiveadvantage in an era where superior customer experience is not only a great-to-have, but a must-have. You establish a lasting platform where new innovative apps and services are tested and launched to delight consumers at the retail edge, all while driving down operational costs and better managing risk, With its DNA deeply rooted in edge software products, Zynstra provides purpose-built edge infrastructure for the world’s largest, most distributed, innovation-driven enterprises. Zynstra is a strategic partner of HPE in delivering intelligence infrastructure – under the HPE Proliant Easy Connect brand – and is based in the United Kingdom.
  • SwiftKey — SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people. It upgrades smartphone keyboards to make typing faster, by utilizing artificial intelligence to learn from each user in order to autocorrect and predict their next word. The SwiftKey Keyboard for Android supports more than 80 languages.SwiftKey wasfounded by Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
  • Samba Networks — Looking to earn money from your connected TV or mobile app? Our award winning video advertising platform helps you improve your income through smart, fast and easy integration.
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Taavet Hinrikus
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $910k–$7.5M; Series A $5M–$31M; Series B $50M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

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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Robin Klein
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Robin Klein is the Non - Executive Chairman of MOO Print Ltd. He is also a Venture Partner at Index Ventures. Robin joined the London office of Index Ventures in April 2010 as a Venture Partner.He is a founding partner of The Accelerator Group, a seed investment company specialising in e-commerce, digital media and Internet services. He iscurrently Chairman of Quickbridge (Wonga), Moo Print Ltd, MyBuilder. He sits on the Boards of EDITD, Farfetch, FreeAgent, OneFineStay, Skimlinks, Zoopla. Robin is a governor of Rhyl primary school. He is also a past Chairman of Great Ormond Street hospital's funding company.Robin has 25 years of operating experience, 20 years of which as entrepreneur and 14 years of investing experience and he has been on the boards of three publicly quoted companies. In his last operating role as Chairman and CEO of Innovations, he conducted the very first UK ecommerce transaction in May 1995.Since starting his investment career in earnest in 1998 by co-founding The Accelerator Group (TAG) with his son, Saul, they have made over sixty investments. Robin is passionate about helping to build the European technology start-up ecosystem and actively supports Saul in the promotion of Seedcamp and OpenCoffee. He has a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering. An MSc in Industrial Engineering.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$9.8M; Series A $3.2M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cera — In five years, Cera has expanded to 10,000+ staff across the UK and Germany, delivering 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, and has grown from zero to nearly $300M revenues. Every day, Cera delivers healthcare services equivalent to several dozen hospitals or 1,000 care homes, and has grown 100-fold over the past two years making it one of the fastestgrowing businesses in Europe.Cera currently holds more than 300+ partnerships with the NHS and local authorities, and the company’s technology is used by 2,000+ businesses nationwide. It’s technology predicts health deteriorations in patients 30-fold faster than traditional care companies, with its Professional Carers and Nurses responding to over 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts each day.Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cera has delivered 10 million healthcare visits in people’s homes, created 10,000 jobs, and licensed it’s recruitment technology to the UK Government Department of Health to recruit 50,000+ people into healthcare careers. Cera was co-founded by entrepreneur, physician and policy expert Dr Ben Maruthappu, and its advisory board is chaired by Sir David Behan, the former CEO of the Care Quality Commission. Cera’s technology and care network have been recognised by over 30 industry awards including Deloitte Fast 50 (#8 in 2021, down from #26 in 2020), Sunday Times Fast Track and Most Outstanding Home Care Provider.
  • BelleVie — Home care tailored to your needs, helping you to live happily at home. We offer a wide range of care services with a focus on wellbeing.
  • Trouva — Support 100s of independent boutiques from across the UK and Europe
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Graham Clempson
Angel · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Graham Clempson has over 30 years of experience in the Private Equity and Credit Markets, from the development of the European Leveraged Finance and High Yield Markets and as a principal in many of the largest Complex Secondary Private Equity Transactions over the past decade.In partnership with Coller Capital, Graham is Chairman of 3 PrivateEquity Funds in the UK, US and France, and serves as an Advisory Board member to MidOcean Partners (US) and Pearl Diver Capital (UK).Prior to founding Quartic Capital, Graham was Co-Founder and European Managing Partner of MidOcean Partners, and DB Capital Partners, and CEO of Morgan Grenfell Private Equity, following roles as Co-head of European Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust Company.Graham is Chairman of Pilotlight (www.pilotlight.org.uk) , a business mentoring Charity in the UK. He has an MA in Law from Oxford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Services, Retail Technology
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Angel $50k–$525k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Link Big — Nadav Raviv Portfolio: UXR, UI/UXD, PD.
  • Fixtuur — DigitalBridge is a Visual Commerce platform that provides retailers and brands with a new way to showcase their products to customers through real-time 3D and Augmented Reality.
  • Headstart — Pack your pipeline with potential. Screen thousands of candidates instantly and improve DEI. 90% applicant completion rate.
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Paul Forster
Angel · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Paul Forster

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.6M; Series A $2.9M–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

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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Chris Lee
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Chris Lee is an investor at Facemoji. The Attended University of Nottingham.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Virtual Reality, Digital Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Finland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Carter — Carter is a startup working on conversational AI to help game developers make computerized gaming characters.
  • 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.
  • Troy Labs — GodmodeHQ is the growth marketing and data platform custom built for web3 businesses to reach users in web2. GodmodeHQ enables marketers to see the most meaningful consumer data like activity and spending across the market in the simplest way
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Greg Marsh
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Greg Marsh - Founder & CEO @ Nous

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Real Estate
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

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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Julien Codorniou
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $536k–$24M; Pre-Seed $125k–$1M; Series A $3.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
  • Sharpist — We offer personalized learning that will help people-centric organizations and teams grow throughout the challenges of today and tomorrow. Learn more!
  • Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
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Tony Jamous
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Tony Jamous is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor. He has made over 15 direct investments in global technology companies with a focus on developer tools, platforms models, impact, FinTech and HR Tech. Five of his companies have realized an exit to-date.Tony is currently building the future of work through his new venture Oyster, a distributedtalent enablement platform that allows growing companies to tap into the global talent pool and offer their remote workers around the world a great employment experience. Priori to Oyster, Tony co-founded and led Nexmo, a leader in CPAAS (Communication Platform As A Service) acquired by Vonage in 2016. Tony started his career in 2004 in the cloud, communication and mobile industries. At mBlox and Boku, Tony opened up global messaging and payment services. Tony holds a Masters in Computer Science from Grenoble Institute of Technology in France and an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland, with a focus on leadership development and organization behavior.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Developer APIs, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Series A $9M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clearword — Clearword unlocks fundamentally new ways for organizations to communicate and collaborate, using tools they already use. Collaborative Agendas, Automatic Meeting Minutes in a Searchable Library.
  • Juno — Meet Juno, a workplace wellbeing programme that you control.
  • Lune Climate — Lune Climate claims delivering climate impact initiatives is seen as a cost center and huge undertaking. However, Lune aims to provide API and software tools to simplify the ability for businesses to integrate climate impact into their customer experience, starting with carbon emissions calculations and carbon removal.
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Theo Osborne
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $16k–$2.4M; Series A $2.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 43 in the past 12 months

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $125k–$4.2M; Series A $1.7M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
  • Parallax — Receive money as if you were abroad. Save big with best rates and lowest fees. Withdraw instantly.
  • Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
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Gareth Williams
Angel · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Gareth Williams co-founded Skyscanner Limited in 2001 and has been its CEO through to 2018. Chairman to Jan 2020. We spent $6m of primary capital raised through to $1.8bn sale to Trip.com. Now ‘funemployed’ and learning.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Hungary, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $614k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $307k–$553k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Swurf — The work surfing platform. Making it easy for venues to welcome a new community of remote workers.
  • Pommelhorse — We develop technology that makes digital communication more Human - We're a vision digital signal processing technology startup
  • Machines With Vision — Transforming the maintenance of linear infrastructure using millimetre-accurate mapping.
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Rupert Loman
Angel · Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Rupert Loman

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Digital Entertainment, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $800k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Alter — Alter is an open source, cross-platform SDK consisting of a real-time 3D avatar system and motion capture built from scratch for web3 interoperability and the open metaverse.
  • Carter — Carter is a startup working on conversational AI to help game developers make computerized gaming characters.
  • OTHERWORLD — OTHERWORLD is a virtual island paradise in the cloud, home to VR’s best experiences across entertainment, arts, education and wellness, reached through unique, multi-sensory ‘immersion pods’ in its growing network of city centre venues.Since opening its first site in Shoreditch, East London in 2019, over 50,000 people have experienced OTHERWORLD,including celebrities Adele, Skepta, Jonathan Ross, KSI and Fnatic. The team have won plaudits at the FRAME Awards 2020 and a nomination for the VR Awards 2020.
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Michael Pennington
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $393k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

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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Jon Moulton
Angel · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Cyprus, Luxembourg

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$3.6M; Series A $4.9M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Tim Jackson
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Tim Jackson is the Founder, CEO, General Partner & Partner of Walking Ventures & he attended University of Oxford in in 1983.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $160k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CloudNC — CloudNC CAM Assist your CAM programming co-pilot. Automate your CAM programming. From setup to CAM program in seconds for 3-axis prismatic parts.
  • Credit Kudos — Credit Kudos builds products using Open Banking so credit providers can approve more people and lower risk. Explore now!
  • Joint Academy — Joint Academy connects patients with licensed physical therapists to deliver online treatments for chronic joint and back pain. Our treatments are clinically proven and give patients access to a personal, licensed physical therapist, an individualized exercise plan, interactive education about the condition, and progress tracking — all through auser-friendly app. Peer-reviewed studies show that Joint Academy patients reduce their pain, change their minds about surgery, and quit painkillers. Joint Academy is now available to patients in Sweden, the US, the UK, France, and Germany.
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Nadav Rosenberg
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Nadav leads Taboola’s expansion and operations in Europe and Australia.Prior to joining Taboola, Nadav was a member of the founding team of Groupon UK & IR, taking part in building and managing Groupon’s business in the UK.Before joining Groupon, Nadav worked as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company in London.Nadav isbased in London and holds an MBA from INSEAD, France.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $2M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • thymia — Making mental health as objectively measurable as physical health.
  • Exogene — Exogene is a biotechnology company accelerating the discovery of T-cell-receptor(TCR)-based cancer immunotherapies for solid tumours by combining deep learning and high-throughput TCR-antigen screening. Exogene is building a computational platform to quickly and inexpensively identify new tumour targets shared across cancer patients, as well assafe and effective TCRs against these tumour targets for therapeutic application. Their mission is to develop better TCR-based immunotherapies, faster and at a fraction of the cost.
  • Loops — Loops is a no-code analytics platform that provides product and data teams with growth opportunities hidden in their data.
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Volker Hirsch
Angel · Macclesfield, Cheshire East, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Tom Singh
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Tom Singh OBE is the Founder of New Look, a leading UK entrepreneur and active private investor with family interests spanning: retail, technology, real estate, renewable energy sectors and private equity. He currently holds the position of Non-Executive Board Member for New Look with over 900 stores worldwide which he founded in 1969.Inaddition to his responsibilities at New Look, Tom is a founding member of: the Social Investment Task Force, the Chairman of the UK Advisory Council for the British Asian Trust, and is a Trustee of the Pakhar Foundation. Tom is an active philanthropist and social investor and in recent years, has taken an increasing interest in the world of technology.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $369k–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fabacus — We are a leading data and technology business with a unique data service designed to digitally-transform the licensing industry. Contact us today.
  • Finboot — Finboot is the dynamic SaaS company behind MARCO, the enterprise-grade suite of blockchain applications and middleware solutions for value and supply chains
  • Heights — We provide the daily nutrients, knowledge and network you need to elevate your cognitive potential and brain health. Learn more!
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Tom Blomfield
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 9 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

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $307k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $750k–$1.2M; Series A $11M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

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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Paul Walton
Angel · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Social Network
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $307k–$307k; Pre-Seed $37k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
  • Handl — We deliver car care services to you. Order from professional valets, oil, adblue, washer and care services and subscribe to monthly services to save money.
  • Just Venue — Just Venue is an online platform that aims to socialise event space booking, by connecting event hosts and organisers with space owners and managers. Just Venue aims to connect event hosts and organisers with venue owners and managers.The website has taken inspiration from other community platforms like AirBnB, Uber and TaskRabbit.
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John Taysom
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

John Taysom started the Reuters Venture Capital Fund in Palo Alto in 1995 making 82 investments in internet and web infrastructure and services including Verisign, UltraDNS, Digimarc, ZeroKnowledge and Intertrust. He was a member of the Board of Digimarc pre and post its Nasdaq IPO, a Board member at Intertrust and a Board member at TIBCO throughits Nasdaq IPO. To date, seventeen of his investments have achieved an IPO.John acquired the Fund in an MBO in 2002. Now London-based with a seed portfolio of thirty US and UK start-ups; one has achieved an IPO and several have been acquired by Experian, Linkedin, Tesco, BMC and others.In 2011 and 2012 John took a Fellowship at Harvard to work on privacy issues and holds EU and US patents on a method of improving privacy online. For 2015 John is a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy and a Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, at UCL. He is a member of the Board of the Web Science Trust; chairs Performance Horizon, a fast growing UK startup; is a Governor at Hurstpierpoint College; and runs a small farm in Devon.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$2.7M; Angel $184k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LGN — LGN's edge AI management software puts you in complete technical and financial control of your edge AI systems.
  • Tenyks — Tenyks gives Computer Vision Engineers the insights to build more reliable models faster! Collaborate to identify and fix dataset issues. Improve data quality. Boost model performance. No more wondering in the dark.
  • Worldr — Worldr is a private, secure and compliant team communication app. While the user experience was designed to be extremely simple and effective, the back-end was architected to be deployable as if it were an in-house application.Worldr is a solution for larger companies, and especially regulated ones, who may not able to use third-partycollaboration applications because of 1) the threat to their data security and 2) lack of Compliance transparency.With 150 companies already signed up for our Beta, ranging from small startups to teams within major banks, Worldr is fully publicly launching in 2021.Please find the landing page at worldr.com
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Yoyo Chang
Angel · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Yoyo is a Taiwanese born British entrepreneur who is a co-founder and the current CEO of KodyPay. Yoyo co-founded KodyPay in the final year of High School and successfully raised US$6 million over 2020/21. Hoping to build a career in investment banking, Yoyo had started to invest in the stock market at the age of 13. With returns of over 80%in Q4 2016, he led his school team to first place in a national investment competition. During Yoyo's first year at the University of York, Yoyo self-invested £120,000 of trading profits to build a pilot product for KodyPay.Yoyo has studied at King’s College, University of Cambridge and Langwith College, University of York.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Point of Sale
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KodyPay — Businesses of all shapes and sizes can create their own digital experiences using KodyPay.
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Philip Green
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Phil studied finance and accounting at Salford University and went on to qualify as a management accountant shortly after. He has worked for various retail, FMCG and tech companies over the last 20 years, with 8 years spent working for Amazon, where he held various finance roles and learned about scaling a business. His most recent role wasleading finance for Amazon’s European Operations, before joining Deliveroo in 2016 as CFO, helping scale the organization rapidly. Although his favorite job ever was investing in bars in Germany and Austria. Outside work Phil has 4 children, is engaged with a number of European based Start-ups and small enterprises covering various industries such as VR/AR, Media, Security, Software, and e-commerce.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.9M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3.4M; Series A $5.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kouo — Kouo is an emotional intelligence platform using neural imaging sensors to monitor emotional states.
  • Ordo — Ordo allows you to receive payments, in real time, for a single flat fee of 20p, no matter the amount. Free trial. No commitment. No contract. No equipment.
  • Reach Industries — Reach Industries focuses on developing cutting-edge products for companies. Reach Industries was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Bristol, UK.
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Patrick Pichette
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Patrick Pichette currently Board Member at LightSpeed and Twitter. He is a former Google's chief financial officer, where he started in June of 2008. He has nearly 20 years of experience in financial operations and management in the telecommunications sector, including seven years at Bell Canada, which he joined in 2001 as executive vicepresident of planning and performance management.During his time at Bell Canada, he held various executive positions, including CFO from 2002 until the end of 2003, and was instrumental in the management of the most extensive communications network in Canada and its ongoing migration to a new national IP-based infrastructure.Prior to joining Bell Canada, Patrick was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a lead member of McKinsey's North American Telecom Practice. He also served as vice president and chief financial officer of Call-Net Enterprises, a Canadian telecommunications company.Patrick earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from UniversitA© du Quebec A  MontrA©al. He holds a master's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He also serves on the board of Engineers Without Borders (Canada).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.
  • Unlikely AI — We are pioneering safe, trustworthy and powerful artificial intelligence
  • Vay — Vay is a leading teledriving company that aims to launch a unique, affordable, and sustainable door-to-door mobility service.
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Simon Murdoch
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Analytics
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $135k–$2M; Series A $96k–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
  • Peek Home — Peek Home provides sketch plans, prices and planning advice for people who are puzzled by the process of creating their perfect home. All we need is your house number & postcode - no home visit needed.
  • Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
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Reece Chowdhry
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $123k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1M; Equity Crowdfunding $727k–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

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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Alexander Edward Chesterman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $214k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $614k–$3M; Series A $2.3M–$8.6M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

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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Nigel Wray
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino's Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors.Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community.Nigel still calls the area home, too - having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Glassette — Discover and collect beautiful, curated homeware from the best brands in the UK. Shop thoughtfully, live joyfully.
  • Get A Drip — All of our Drips and Booster Shots are administered by our medical staff, consisting of GMC registered Doctors and NMC registered Nurses.
  • Stubben Edge — Financial services for a new generation. Sign up free to sell better financial products, cheaper, faster and to more people with Flightdeck
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Edward Lando
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups, 17 in the past 12 months

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 221
  • Round size: Seed $321k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

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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Robin Knox
Angel · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Social Network
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $307k–$2.9M; Pre-Seed $37k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
  • Handl — We deliver car care services to you. Order from professional valets, oil, adblue, washer and care services and subscribe to monthly services to save money.
  • My Probate Partner — The better way to navigate probate in Scotland. Avoid large probate solicitor bills by completing your application with our 5-star fixed-price support service. Designed to make sure you get Scottish probate 100% right.
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Tony Fitzpatrick
Angel · 2 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Tony Fitzpatrick

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hardware, Software, Consumer Electronics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Veratrak — Veratrak connects the life sciences supply chain, pairing innovation with breakthrough technologies to deliver remarkable results.
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Simon Rogerson
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Simon Rogerson - Chief Executive and co-founder @ Octopus Group

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, EdTech, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zen Educate — Zen Educate is a simple, streamlined platform for teachers and teaching assistants to find work in schools without expensive agency fees.
  • Just Move In — Just Move In makes home moving easy. We help you save time, hassle & money on your move by allowing you to easily manage the admin. You can set up utilities, find great deals on broadband, arrange removals & insurance and more.
  • Kitt — Your whole office journey, all in one place. We keep your office running smoothly, you stay focused on your team, goals, and culture.
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Alex Hoye
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Alex Hoye is the Co-founder and CEO of Full Stack Supply Co. He previously worked at Runway East as a Co-founder. Alex Hoye attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Romania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $54k–$943k; Angel $20k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Motion - Activity Goals — Use Motion to set your personal weekly activity goal and visualise progress. Create a team with friends and share your goals.
  • Grabble — Discover the best new fashion and homeware with the Grabble app. Get inspired by amazing articles and edits curated by our expert stylists, and buy anything you like in one tap.
  • Carv — Carv fits in any ski boot, analyzes your technique, and coaches you with live audio as you ski.
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Melih Odemis
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $170k–$1.8M; Angel $275k–$492k; Pre-Seed $200k–$492k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Deplike — Guitar Effects App
  • UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
  • HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
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James Fong
Angel · Jingan, Shanghai, China · 2 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

James Fong has been the CEO of Oriental Dreamworks. James joined Amazon in 2012 and is responsible for leading its Merchant Services and Advertising businesses, including “Selling on Amazon”, “Fulfillment by Amazon”, “Global Selling” and “Advertise on Amazon”.Prior to joining Amazon, James was a Managing Director of China Tongyin, a boutiquemerchant bank in Greater China, responsible for its TMT practice; a Managing Director of Strategic Investments at NBA China, responsible for its arena, internet and league investments and business development efforts; a General Manager at Microsoft China, responsible for sales and marketing for 17 provinces and 32 cities; and the Managing Director of Microsoft’s $165 million China equity investment fund.James holds an undergraduate degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hardware, Software, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Darabase — Darabase helps brands & retailers run AR Outdoor Media on the real world.
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Tjaart van der Waalt
Angel · 2 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Tjaart van der Walt is the Co-founder & Director at Tyme. He attended Stellenbosch University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Marketing, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $903k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • Darabase — Darabase helps brands & retailers run AR Outdoor Media on the real world.
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Kevin Taylor
Angel · Orlando, Florida, United States · 2 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

Kevin Taylor is a coder turned entrepreneur who lives in the Chicagoland area, where he makes things out of words, bytes or flour, depending on his mood.Kevin has suffered from a lifelong obsession with entrepreneurship and is an angel investor and advisor for early-stage start-ups. He has a current interest in brick-and-mortar or otherold-school business models that are ripe to receive exponential boosts by leveraging technology.He consults on how to start up and successfully grow professional services businesses, such as software development, web design, headhunting and recruiting, etc. He also works as CTO-for-Hire to help startups without technical co-founders successfully get their product development off the ground.Career highlights:Former Co-Owner of EventWax, LLC, an online event registration company.Former Lecturer in Technology Entrepreneurship at DePaul University, where he designed and taught courses for both undergraduate and graduate students.Former Director of Engineering at Groupon.Former President and Founder of Obtiva Corporation, an Agile and Ruby on Rails development shop acquired by Groupon in 2011. Co-Founder of the Software Craftsmanship North America conference.Early promoter and adherent to Software Craftsmanship values and practices and practitioner, trainer, and coach in the areas of Agile Project Management, Extreme Programming, and software development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hardware, Payments, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $672k–$904k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ensygnia — Ensygnia's solutions sit at the heart of shopper interaction. The Ensygnia platform delivers integration Platform as a Service for large payment companies and corporations who value speed and simplicity for customer journeys as much as regulatory compliance and security. This provides the simplest, fastest and most secure omnichannelinteraction and purchasing experience. The platform enables market leading companies to rapidly deliver Value Added Services for omnichannel. This is a full-service, integrated suite of best of breed third-party services. It includes integration with over 350 different payment providers and methods global. But capabilities extend well beyond payments into: identity validation, KYC, AML, Authentication, Biometrics, PSD2, SCA, GDPR, Data Validation, Data Enrichment, POS, PED, eCommerce and other systems.Ensygnia's flagship product Onescan enables any call-to-action to become an instant action. This delivers beautiful simplicity, allowing consumers to interact securely online, in-store, or on-the-go. Whatever you need to do, you can with Onescan.All flows, automations and CX / UX are fully customisable and dynamically brandable in real-time. The company holds a globally granted patent portfolio forming the definitive standard for secure QR code payment & login. This includes two patents granted in China.
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John Hegarty
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Hardware startups

John Hegarty is one of the world’s most awarded and respected admen. Over six decades he has been at the forefront of the creative advertising industry from the early days of Saatchi and Saatchi to Bartle Bogle Hegarty, the global company he runs today.In 1982 he founded Bartle Bogle Hegarty with partners John Bartle and Nigel Bogle. The agencyswiftly became one of the most talked about and awarded advertising agencies in the world. BBH has won every Agency of the Year accolade and every creative award possible and has been at the forefront of the industry for twenty nine years.John has been responsible for campaigns for Levi’s such as the ground breaking commercial starring an unknown model called Nick Kamen who stripped off down to his boxer shorts in a launderette. He introduced the British to the phrase 'Vorsprung Durch Technik' for Audi and picked a young model/actor called Brad Pitt to star in a commercial for Levi’s. He pioneered the importance of music in commercials which has earned BBH nine number 1 hits. John also oversaw the first viral phenomenon to hit the headlines, the furry yellow puppet Flat Eric for Levi’s, who kicked Eminem off the number 1 singles slot in 1999.BBH now has offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Mumbai and John oversees the creative output of all these offices. This unique global structure also contributed to the company winning the Queen’s Award for Export Achievement twice, in 1996 and 1997.John has won golds at every industry awards including D&AD, Cannes and British Television. He has been given the D&AD President's Award for outstanding achievement and was admitted to the US One Show Advertising Hall of Fame. He has also been voted as one of the most influential people in fashion thanks to his work with Levi’s.In 2006, he was awarded honorary doctorates from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and Middlesex University and sits on the Board of Trustees of the Design Museum.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, CRM
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Popsa — Popsa won the Software category and was placed 3rd overall in Deloitte’s list of the 50 fastest growing companies in the UK in 2020 (in-between Bulb and Revolut), and was also awarded a place as a "one to watch" in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100.In an increasingly digital world, it's all too easy to lose your photos to the cloudor to the depths of your camera roll, never to be seen again.So we decided to do something about it.Popsa launched in 2016 to bring your memories to life by printing them in beautiful, physical products that you can hold.However, instead of making you spend hours designing your product (like Snapfish or Photobox), we do the hard work for you in minutes.Our vision is to send you regular bundles of photos in the post without you having to think about it. Little presents to yourself. A monthly subscription to your memories.We're developing technology to make it happen:• Machine learning to curate your most sentimental photos. • Bespoke algorithms to automatically design beautiful layouts. • The fastest delivery from the best printers in the world.Customers will sign up and every month they'll unwrap a new collection of memories to keep for years to come.
  • The Dots — Professional networking for the new world of work. Get advice. Meet collaborators. Find jobs. Upskill at events.
  • Simba Sleep — One Mattress. Five Layers of Comfort. Tailored to Suit All. Bringing together experience & technology so that your mattress gives you the best night's sleep.
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Hardware Angel investor funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 29 deals from 38 investors.

38
investors
in United Kingdom Hardware startups
29
deals
in United Kingdom Hardware startups
$1.2M
median round
in United Kingdom Hardware startups
16%
lead investors
lead at least one round
48%
Seed
most common funding stage

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