Top 50 Legal Angel Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023
Top 50 Legal Angel Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023
| Investor | Legal United Kingdom investments |
|---|---|
| Al Giles | 3 |
| David Rutter | 3 |
| Alexander Edward Chesterman | 3 |
| Richard Lawrence Hargreaves | 2 |
| Duncan Painter | 2 |
| James Meekings | 2 |
| Taavet Hinrikus | 2 |
| Michael Pennington | 2 |
| Will Neale | 2 |
| Charles Delingpole | 2 |
| Tom Blomfield | 2 |
| Ned Staple | 2 |
| Andrew Mullinger | 2 |
| Paul Forster | 2 |
| Kevin Chong | 1 |
| Anton Vaisburd | 1 |
| Paul Massara | 1 |
| Oliver Burgel | 1 |
| Dev Subrata | 1 |
| Ragnar Sass | 1 |
| Dominic Collins | 1 |
| Mohamed Aboshanab | 1 |
| Daniel Curran | 1 |
| Matt Robinson | 1 |
| Martin Henk | 1 |
| David Edmond Neuberger | 1 |
| Jun Wang | 1 |
| Samir Desai | 1 |
| Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman | 1 |
| Todd McDonald | 1 |
| Will Brooks | 1 |
| Stuart Marks | 1 |
| Eddy Vaisberg | 1 |
| Tim Sadler | 1 |
| Perry Blacher | 1 |
| Duncan Jennings | 1 |
| Tom Welch | 1 |
| Tracy Terrill | 1 |
| Doug Monro | 1 |
| Ben Holmes | 1 |
| Edward Bishop | 1 |
| Marc Murphy | 1 |
| Artis Kehris | 1 |
| Mathias Eklof | 1 |
| Carlos Gonzalez- Cadenas | 1 |
| Will Martin | 1 |
| Richard Stone | 1 |
| Mart Abramov | 1 |
| Samir Goel | 1 |
| Spencer Lake | 1 |
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Al Giles
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- Legal, Software, Legal Tech
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
- Runna — Runna is your personalized running coach. With tailored training plans, world-class coaching and an in-app community to help you achieve your goals, whether you're training for a faster 5k or your first marathon. Download Runna today.
- Vauban — Vauban is a tech company reshaping the world of private investing. The platform makes it easier, faster, and more cost-effective for anyone to co-invest in private companies. With Vauban, you can easily create your Syndicate online, start sharing your deal flow and let your network co-invest with you in startups. Vauban has automated the SPV &funds setup process.
David founded R3 in 2015 and in his role of Chief Executive Officer is responsible for the strategic direction of R3.With over 30 years of experience leading some of Wall Street’s top institutions, David is a longtime creative thought leader in financial markets and innovation, and has played a significant role in the adoption of electronictrading in the global OTC derivatives industry.David served for ten years as the CEO of Electronic Broking at ICAP Plc, the world’s largest interdealer broker, where he led the BrokerTec fixed income and EBS foreign exchange platforms. Prior to ICAP, David was co-owner and CEO (Americas) of Prebon Yamane.
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- FinTech, Blockchain, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- VALK — DeFi Portfolio Management System
- Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
- Aerotrax — The Next Generation of Aircraft Maintenance Software. Aerotrax is an enterprise software company focused on digitally tracking the lifecycle of every aircraft, part, and component.
Alex Chesterman is the founder and CEO of Cazoo. He was the Founder & CEO of ZPG Plc, a FTSE-250 listed company. Previously Alex co-founded Lovefilm, Europe's leading digital movie rental business, which was successfully sold to Amazon. Alex is also one of the UK's most active tech angel investors having backed dozens of early stagedigital startups and was awarded an OBE for services to services to digital entrepreneurship in 2016.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Lick — Lick | Paints, Wallpapers and Supplies. Your Room, Covered
- Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
- Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.
Richard Lawrence Hargreaves
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- Apps, PaaS, SaaS
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Autologyx — Autologyx combines powerful workflow automation with a simple, intuitive workspace so you can deliver and automate legal and compliance work.
- PCL Health —
Duncan joined the company in October 2011 as Chief Executive Officer. In March 2012, he led a significant restructure of the group, which saw the creation of Top Right Group and its separate business units operating at the heart of the customer communities they serve. In December 2015, following a successful three-year turnaround, Duncan formed thenew Group Company Brand – Ascential.As CEO, Duncan has a relentless focus on improving our products and services to ensure this drives greater customer retention. Ensuring our customers get improved value every year from our products; seeking constant feedback; adapting what our brands focus on and empowering our experts to have the confidence to be champions of insight or access to the markets we serve; have been the core ingredients to the strong results of the Group over the last few years.Before joining the Group, Duncan was an Executive at BskyB, where he supported their growth objectives to ten million customers. Prior to that, he was Global Product Leader at Experian plc, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of consumer intelligence company ClarityBlue, which was acquired by Experian in 2006, and European Systems Integration Director for Hitachi Data Systems.
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- Legal, Computer, Software
- Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Hudson MX — Building technology that empowers buyers, agencies, and their partners and reducing the operational costs inherent in the media buying process.
- ThoughtRiver — ThoughtRiver's Contract Acceleration Platform (CAP) is the most advanced, AI-powered, automated contract review solution on the market.
As co‑founder and UK Managing Director James leads the UK business and is responsible for overseeing the overall strategic direction and day‑to‑day operation of Funding Circle in the UK. James co‑founded Funding Circle in the UK in 2010 after seeing how difficult it was for small businesses to access funding and wanting to build something better.Prior to Funding Circle James was at OC&C Strategy Consultants where he advised companies on strategy and growth across the retail, media and services sectors.James has a first class Economics and Management degree from Oxford University.
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- Health Care, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- Ophelos — Ophelos was created to transform how individuals, families, and businesses manage their financial health.
- Electric Car Scheme — Salary sacrifice lets employees pay for an electric car from their gross salary before tax. It's basically the Cycle to Work scheme but for electric cars.
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
- Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
- Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Konfir — employment Home page Instantly access employment or income records for any UK-based worker, with their consent
- FUEL — Where everlasting fanbases are built
- Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Japan, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
- Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
- Kuai Commerce — Kuai Commerce is a next-generation solution for ambitious brands looking to sell directly to Chinese Gen Z consumers through the power of social commerce. Our tech-enabled services provide market entry and brand acceleration options for emerging category-leaders who otherwise would find the complexity of China prohibitively challenging
Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Sync Savings — Rebuilding the infrastructure of cash savings
- Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
- Morphoses — Unlocking Potential: Empowering 6-17 Year-Old Learners with Future-Focused Soft Skills for Education and Employability
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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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Fertifa — Fertifa is an innovative employer benefit solution making fertility care more accessible and affordable.The company works with employers to offer a valuable employee benefit which bridges the gap between an employer and their employees when dealing with the sensitivity and privacy of employees’ reproductive issues. It also offers guidance andadvice, next-generation fertility treatment, and access to a range of holistic services for the best chance of success. The company was founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom.
- 1Bstories — Helping publishers and brands increase engagement and conversions using AI. Mobile, vertical, 60 second video formats made in an instant. Tell your story today!
- StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!
Ned Staple is the General Counsel and Company Secretary at Cazoo.
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- Legal, SaaS, Advice
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Juro — Juro is an all-in-one contract automation platform that helps legal and business users to agree & manage contracts in one unified workspace.
- Lexoo — Lexoo is a flexible legal outsourcing solution for in-house legal teams to get recurring work and multi-country projects off their plate.
Andrew is currently focused on a number of projects helping Funding Circle scale globally.As a founder, Andrew has grown Funding Circle from an idea into the largest and fastest growing small business loan marketplace in the world. Andrew helped build out and lead the company’s operations before focusing on risk management. He was responsiblefor ensuring the performance of the first $1.5bn of loans originated globally has great risk adjusted returns for investors before handing over the reins to Jerome, our Global CRO.Since Funding Circle entered the US in 2012, he has split his time between Funding Circle’s San Francisco and London offices.Before founding Funding Circle, Andrew worked at Nomura and Citigroup specializing in regulatory and risk management. He also spent time at Ernst & Young as a consultant where he advised financial institutions, government and regulators on risk management and regulation, including a major UK bank on its SME credit models. Andrew holds a degree in Mathematics from Manchester University.
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- FinTech, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
- tripAbrood — Your Family Adventure Awaits!
- Tooth Fairy — Winner of app of the year, for emergencies, teeth straightening, teeth whitening & prescriptions. Teledentistry and dentist available 24/7. Founded by dentists.
Paul Forster
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
- CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
- finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
Kevin Chong - Head @ Outward VC
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Azimo — Azimo is an online money transfer company that provides a fast, secure, and low-cost alternative to legacy high street remittance services.Azimo is created with the explicit mission of cutting the costs of sending money home. Its international money transfer platform allows to send money either to a bank account or to over 270,000 cash pick-uppoints around the world and is accessible via mobile devices.
- OnePulse — Turn market research into an engaging real-time conversation with OnePulse's game-changing online survey tool.
- Autologyx — Autologyx combines powerful workflow automation with a simple, intuitive workspace so you can deliver and automate legal and compliance work.
Anton Vaisburd
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- Legal, Legal Tech, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Legal Nodes — Offload your legal tasks to a virtual legal department and get on with running your business. Get started with the Legal Nodes platform for free.
Paul has extensive experience in the energy and service sectors in Europe and North America. Having stepped down as CEO of Electron he is now an Advisor to the Board, as well as being an Adviser to Habitat Energy, a member of the Committee on Fuel Poverty advising the UK Secretary of State for Energy, and Chair of Medicinema, a charity that buildscinemas in hospitals.He has served on the Executive Committee of two of the largest utilities in Europe, Centrica Plc and RWE/INNOGY. From 2006 to 2009, he was President and Founding Partner of Genesis Capital Corporation, a Canadian private equity company investing funds in small and medium-sized industrial businesses. From 1997 to 2005, Paul held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility with Centrica plc, Direct Energy North America, in Toronto. His tenure there culminated in his role as President of Canadian Operations and serving as a Member of the North American Board and the North America Executive Committee. His leadership enhanced the Company’s growth from $700,000MM to $2.7Bn, and from 600 to 3,000 employees.
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- Machine Learning, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
- iSIZE Technologies — Bringing Efficient, Intelligent And Sustainable Solutions To Video Delivery
- Breathe Battery Technologies — Breathe Battery Technologies is a research-led technology company developing advanced battery management algorithms
Oliver Burgel
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- Legal, Software, Legal Tech
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Dev is the founder of Fidel. Prior to Fidel, Dev has been active in a variety of start-ups ranging from e-commerce to social networking. Fidel is an API platform for Card-Linking. It makes it easy for developers to build applications that receives real-time payment events directly from transactions made by payment cards, both online and offline.
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- Legal, FinTech, Legal Tech
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
Ragnar Sass has strongest skill is to find the best people and keep them rocking in speed of 200 km/h. He has organized 20+ Hack-a-thons Garage48 in Eastern Europe + West & East-Africa. He advise other founders and share experience where it could help.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Alvin — Highly accurate, automated column-level lineage, powering your data workflows.
- BeTRITON — 100% electric recreational vehicle - revolution in sustainable travel. BeTRITON (formerly known as Z-Triton) offers extraordinary experience and freedom to travel both over land and water.
- Around — The largest network of workspaces on flexible terms. We are a savvy team from Latin America providing fast-growing companies with on-demand access to flexible office space. Everywhere.We believe work at its best is always creative and collaborative, expressed with freedom, autonomy, and purpose; and the space surrounding us should help us achieveit, anywhere & everywhere.We are shaping the future of work today by improving workspaces and the rules around them, and helping innovative teams find their ideal space to make their best work every day — our first step on a journey to change the way we work and think about work.Our best work. Anywhere. Everywhere. We are Around.
Dominic Collins is the CEO and Co-Founder at Darabase. Dominic attended Durham University.
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- Legal, FinTech, Finance
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FinanceAcar — FinanceAcar is an online, finance comparison website that allows its users to compare car finance and leasing deals. It enables users to select a vehicle of their choice and compare prices across different products, receive quotations or apply online for funds, and get the vehicle delivered to their doorstep. The website offers car financeinformation and prices for more than 11,000 different vehicles. It also provides comparison of business car leasing and contract purchase products. Users of the website are required to be UK residents and 18 years of age or older.
Building Next-Generation Ecosystem Entrepreneur, Globalist, Lawyer. hello at visxa dot com
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- Consulting, Legal, Travel
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- VISXA — VISXA is a platform for legal support in business and individual immigration. VISXA takes on the complexities of legalizing emigration so that you can think about the positive changes ahead. Whether you are immigrating for training, professional development, family rebuilding, business expansion, VISXA can help you get what you want with aguarantee.3 easy steps to get you closer to your goal:- fill out the form on the website; - get a free consultation. We understand your situation better, you get a specialist for your case; - VISXA is your single point of contact, tracking progress on your case to receive a positive decision
- NEWTEAM — NEWTEAM® International Law Firm, Building Bridges between the West and East
- Passport Bros — Passport Bros Global Lifestyle Global Mindset Global Law #PassportBros #Passbros
Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Brazil, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
- RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
- GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Atoa — Accept in-store payments using any UK Bank App. Merchants save up-to 70% versus cards and get paid faster. Sign-up in three minutes.
- Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
- Context.ai — Context.ai is product analytics for LLM applications. Understand your users and improve their experiences in your LLM powered products.
Martin Henk is the Co-founder of Pipedrive.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Baserow — Self hosted open source no-code database and Airtable alternative. Baserow gives you the powers of a developer without leaving your browser.
- Breyta — Unify your customer and user data to get actionable insights throughout your customer lifecycle.
- SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.
David Edmond Neuberger
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- Legal, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Genie AI — Access a huge library of high-quality legal templates, guidance from law firms and an AI lawyer all in one place! Legally-sound has never been easier.
Jun Wang
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- Legal, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Genie AI — Access a huge library of high-quality legal templates, guidance from law firms and an AI lawyer all in one place! Legally-sound has never been easier.
Samir is responsible for driving the company strategy, overseeing the company’s finances and managing the day to day operations at Funding Circle, the leading marketplace for business loans. Samir has worked extensively in the financial services sector. Before founding Funding Circle he was an executive at Olivant and a management consultant atBCG, advising a number of major UK and global banks and insurers on strategy, new product initiatives and operational efficiency.Investors at Funding Circle have now lent over $800 million to 8,000 small businesses in the UK and US. In the UK, investors include 37,000 individuals, the British Business Bank, local councils, universities and financial institutions.
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- FinTech, iOS, Apps
- Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Raylo — Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.
- Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
- Electric Car Scheme — Salary sacrifice lets employees pay for an electric car from their gross salary before tax. It's basically the Cycle to Work scheme but for electric cars.
Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe / -Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger) - Equity Markets - Real Estate - FX - Commodity - Bonds - Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT - Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories: - Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint - Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi - D2C / B2C - Food & Beverages - Pharma - Media & Entertainment
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- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Agnikul — Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
- Log 9 Materials — Log 9 Materials Scientific Private Limited is a graphene research and development company. At Log 9 Materials we are determined to accelerate the commercialization of graphene nanotechnology. We have just developed the first commercial product on graphene- 'Smoke-safe'. This innovative graphene based cigarette filter reduces the risk ofgetting cancer by 90%. We offer a wide range of graphene (CVD graphene, rGO) and its derivatives. We bring to you graphene as researchers and not just manufactures, so we understand the triviality of the grade of our products.
- Toffee Ride - Learning App for Classes I - IV — Toffee Ride is a learning App that is singularly focused on helping your child develop a thorough understanding of fundamental concepts.
Todd is Co-Founder and Head of Product and Marketing for R3. Todd co-founded R3 in 2015 and was one of the first to uncover the promise of blockchain technology for the financial services industry and beyond.In his current role, Todd is responsible for R3’s product and marketing strategy, aligning key markets and customers to drive the longerterm strategic roadmap for Corda. He also served on the Hyperledger Governing Board where he oversaw all project business and marketing matters. Todd, alongside fellow leaders in the crypto assets sector, founded The Global Digital Finance (GDF) industry body to release an industry code of conduct to drive sustainable crypto assets innovation.Prior to R3, Todd spent fourteen years at Standard Chartered Bank as a Managing Director in their financial markets group where he held positions such as Global Head of Electronic FX Trading and Head of FX for the Americas. Todd holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Colgate University, NY.
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- Legal, FinTech, Legal Tech
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
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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- Software, Information Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States
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.
Eddy Vaisberg Start-up Exec (COO, CGO) || Angel Investor || Ex-BCG
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- Legal, Legal Tech, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Legal Nodes — Offload your legal tasks to a virtual legal department and get on with running your business. Get started with the Legal Nodes platform for free.
Tim is the CEO and co-founder of CheckRecipient, a next generation email security platform which uses machine learning to predict when emails are being sent to the wrong people. Some of the world's largest organisations across the financial and legal sectors are using CheckRecipient and in the past 6 months the company has been crowned"Best Security Startup" by WIRED, "Best Machine Intelligence Startup" by Legal Geek and "Best Startup - Gold Category" by Info Security Products Guide. Tim was recently listed as one of Forbes "30 Under 30" in European Technology for 2017.
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- Software, Information Technology, Legal
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
- Lightdash — Connect your dbt project to Lightdash and allow everyone to answer their own data questions. Built for analysts and the modern data stack.
- Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.
Perry Blacher is a Partner at Augmentum Fintech.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
Duncan Jennings is the Investor and Board Member at Motorway.
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- Marketplace, Software, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Motorway — With so many ways to sell your car, it can be overwhelming. At Motorway, we’re focused on building the best way. Our vision is to build a better car market for everyone.Transparent and straightforward in all that we do, our smart technology matches our customers’ cars with a nationwide network of verified dealers.This enables those dealers tobuy vehicles direct from private sellers using our fully-online sales platform, with hundreds of cars successfully sold every day.Reducing time and effort on all sides, we help everyone get the right deal quickly. It all, just, works.In our first 4 years, we've helped over 2.5 million car owners value and sell their car. We've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun.
- Otta — Only matches tailored to your preferences. Only the most exciting, innovative and fast-moving companies.
- Console — A free weekly email digest of the best tools for developers.
Tom Welch
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- Apps, Legal, Software
- Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- amicable — amicable is the trusted legal service for divorcing and separating couples. Get help reaching an agreement or having your agreement documented in a consent order...
Executive with extensive experience building and leading high performing teams in technology, operations, and marketing. LegalZoom is the leading online provider of legal services to small business and families. The product portfolio includes over 50 transaction and subscription products and has served over 2 million customers withexceptionally high customer satisfaction. During tenure as an executive officer, revenue grew in excess of 400%, expanded from 50 employees to over 1000, achieved significant profitability, and developed the most known brand in legal services. Served in the consolidated role of CTO/CIO with broad responsibilities supporting marketing; product development; finance; sales; operations; customer care; and fulfillment.
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- Legal, Advice, Consumer
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Farewill — Write a legal will in 15 minutes. Apply for probate or arrange a cremation over the phone.
Doug was most recently COO of property portal Zoopla. From 2008 he led the growth of the team from 5 to 75 people and the site to number 2 in UK property with 5M visitors a month, organically and through acquisitions. Previously he was MD of Gumtree.com, the UK's largest classified ads site, where he built the team and business through a fungrowth ramp after acquisition by eBay in 2005.Prior to Gumtree, Doug worked for eBay UK, Bain & Company, Unilever and also as an entrepreneur. Doug has a BA in English from Cambridge, an MBA from Kellogg, and hates to admit he is a qualified accountant.
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- FinTech, Legal, Clean Energy
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- Screenloop — Screenloop is the hiring intelligence platform that allows you to source candidates, analyse interviews, and automate the reference process.
- Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.
Ben is a Partner at Index Ventures, having joined the London office in 2002. Ben focuses on the software and internet sectors and has been actively involved with many of the firm's consumer and media investments. He currently sits on the boards of Astley Clarke, Grey Area Labs, iZettle, Just-Eat, King.com, Mind Candy, Notonthehighstreet,Rebtel, Secret Escapes, Shapeways, Stardoll and Twoo. He was previously a Director of Panther Express and Playfish (Electronic Arts).Prior to joining Index Ventures, he worked at the NewMedia Spark investment fund, before becoming Vice President at EO plc, a Spark portfolio company in the consumer financial services sector. Previously he spent four years at OC&C Strategy Consultants, advising firms in the retail and IT sectors.He has a Masters degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University.
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- Gaming, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- MyJam — All the food you love in one place.
- Sequential — 5,971 Followers, 1,054 Following, 268 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sequential Skin (@sequential.skin)
Edward Bishop - Co-Founder & CTO @ Tessian
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- Legal, FinTech, Legal Tech
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
Founder and CEO, Marc is responsible for Fenergo’s business operational strategy and corporate direction. With 18 years’ experience developing, selling and delivering enterprise financial technology to global banks, Marc has developed a proven track record of building successful business-winning and leadership teams. In 2015, he led an $85m fundinground with Insight Venture Partners and Aquiline Capital Partners, marking the second fundraising effort for the company. In 2013, Fenergo secured €4m funding from Investec Ventures Ireland Limited. The latest fundraising enables Fenergo to create a platform for global growth that will see it capitalize on the growing demand being created by an ever-evolving financial regulations market. Marc was recently named a Fintech 100 Most Influential Leader in recognition of the impact that Fenergo’s technology is having on the way financial institutions manage their compliance obligations and operational requirements. Marc is a software engineering and MBA graduate of Dublin City University
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- Legal, FinTech, Computer
- Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FlowForma — Unlock competitive advantage with FlowForma, the #1 no code digital process automation software & business process management tool. Get a free trial now!
- Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
Artis Kehris - Co-Founder @ Printify
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- Information Technology, Information Services, Legal
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Estonia, Latvia, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Cloud Factory — Cloud Factory provides consulting, implementation, and support for Dynamics 365 Business Central, MYOB Advanced, SAP B1, Wiise and Korber Warehouse Management.
- Legal Nodes — Offload your legal tasks to a virtual legal department and get on with running your business. Get started with the Legal Nodes platform for free.
- Cloud Factory — Cloud Factory is developing their own line of custom-branded jewelry products for brands, artists, and creators.
Mathias Eklof is a Co-Founder & CEO at Yell.ru.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Legal, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cargofy — Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts.
- Legal Nodes — Offload your legal tasks to a virtual legal department and get on with running your business. Get started with the Legal Nodes platform for free.
- Let's Enhance — AI to enhance, upscale and generate pictures. Increase resolution and quality. Fix blurry, pixelated, low res images. Make every photo sharp and clear. Start for free.
Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas is the Partner at Index Ventures. He previously worked as a Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPO/CTO) at GoCardless.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PetsApp — A mobile-first veterinary telemedicine platform enabling veterinary clinics to offer text chat and video consultations to pet owners
- Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.
- Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Richard Stone
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- Apps, Legal, Software
- Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- amicable — amicable is the trusted legal service for divorcing and separating couples. Get help reaching an agreement or having your agreement documented in a consent order...
Mart Abramov - Co-founder/ CEO @ TaxScouts
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- Legal, Legal Tech, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Legal Nodes — Offload your legal tasks to a virtual legal department and get on with running your business. Get started with the Legal Nodes platform for free.
Samir is a social entrepreneur, writer, and connector committed to bridging the public and private sectors by bringing together diverse communities to eliminate the access gap.In 2015, Samir Co-Founded Esusu, a platform designed to empower users to better save, access capital, and build credit through community savings. Prior to Esusu, SamirCo-Founded Transfernation, a nationally recognized 501(c)3 non-profit which uses technology to ensure excess food from events goes toward underserved communities across New York City. To-date Transfernation has rescued over 300,000 thousand pounds of food and impacted 250,000 lives. For his entrepreneurial endeavors Samir has been recognized as a WEF Global Shaper, Global Good Fund Fellow, Dalai Lama Fellow, Resolution Fellow and was the recipient of the Jefferson Awards Foundation National Public Service Award.In addition to his work as a social entrepreneur, Samir has had the opportunity to build a robust skillset over his time at LinkedIn working across 5 offices in Customer Success Consulting, Talent Acquisition, and Sales Strategy & Operations focused on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Previously Samir worked at The United Nations, Venture for America, and various non-profits in the New York City areaSamir is an avid writer and contributes for LinkedIn, The Daily Muse, Influencive, Mogul, and Quartz. Samir supplements his entrepreneurship and writing with public speaking engagements, which have ranged from The United Nations to the Clinton Global Initiative's Final Annual Meeting.Samir received his Bachelor's of Science from New York University's Stern School of Business. Samir enjoy's baking & cooking, staying active, travel, writing, and spending time with his family and 4 younger siblings.
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- SaaS, Legal, Advice
- Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mirza — We help employers hire and retain working parents and caregivers. Our care now, pay later childcare loan helps you support your workforce
- Rent Small Small — Rent Small Small is a Nigeria-leading prop-tech platform providing a unique rental solution to Nigerians in order to improve the home-seekers rental experience and increase homeowner's occupancy rate.Our business model is unique as it allows verified tenants to find a property on the go, stay within budget, and pay rent flexibly. We providefirst-of-its-kind rent insurance for property owners against rent default, and unlike traditional agents, we don’t charge agency and legal fee.Our mandate is to provide suitable and affordable homes for home-seekers, influence the conception and birth of new homes to boost the livelihood and productivity of Nigerian youths, and help homeowners make their property rentable and profitable.
- Flourish Fi — Creating a banking experience that people love. Enable banks and credit unions to strengthen relationships with a rewards system, financial literacy and savings journey.
Spencer Lake was appointed Global Head of Capital Financing with effect from 12 August 2013. He is a Partner for Element Ventures. Capital Financing houses the primary products of Global Banking and Markets, such as Debt Capital Markets and Equity Capital Markets. Spencer was previously Co-Head of Global Markets with effect from 1 January 2011.Global Markets housed the bank’s fixed income, commodities, and equity activities across sales, trading, origination, and research.Spencer joined HSBC in 2006 as Global Head of Debt Capital Markets and Acquisition Finance. He was also jointly responsible for HSBC's government sector.Prior to joining HSBC, Spencer had a 17-year career with Merrill Lynch in New York, Hong Kong, and London across a number of areas including real estate finance, investment banking, and debt capital markets. During his career at Merrill, Spencer ran Asian debt origination, started and managed European public sector origination, managed European emerging markets asset and liability origination, European financing and risk management and, prior to his departure, ran liability origination in the Pacific Rim (Japan, Asia-Pacific and Australasia). Before Merrill Lynch, Spencer worked for two years at JP Morgan in real estate investment banking.Spencer holds a BA degree in International Finance and Marketing from Suffolk University, Massachusetts, and an MBA degree from New York University's Stern School of Business.
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- Legal, FinTech, Training
- Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Abroad — Abroad is a coaching, education, and research platform designed to actualize leadership and organizational potential. Our offerings are powered by evidenced-based research, practical applications, ancient wisdom, and mindfulness-based practices. In the first phase of our mission, Abroad is working with global leadership networks, ventureportfolios, innovative organizations, and forward-thinking nations to holistically develop leaders and usher forth the wellbeing economy for the benefit of all.
- Nivaura — Making Financial Services Invisible : Technology for faster, cheaper and compliant on-demand issuance and administration of financial instruments.
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