# Top 50 Legal Angel Investors in United Kingdom in May 2026

## Alexander Edward Chesterman
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## David Rutter
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Information Technology

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.

## Al Giles
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Legal, Software, Legal Tech

Al Giles

## Paul Forster
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Paul Forster

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

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.

## Charles Delingpole
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

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.

## Richard Lawrence Hargreaves
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, PaaS, SaaS

Richard Lawrence Hargreaves

## James Meekings
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Software

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.

## Michael Pennington
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

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.

## Tom Blomfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

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.

## Will Neale
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

## Ned Staple
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Legal, SaaS, Advice

Ned Staple is the General Counsel and Company Secretary at Cazoo.

## Duncan Painter
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Focus: Legal, Computer, Software

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.

## Andrew Mullinger
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## Stuart Marks
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hale, Cheshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Services, Information Technology

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.

## Tim Sadler
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Legal

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.

## Perry Blacher
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments

Perry Blacher is a Partner at Augmentum Fintech.

## Tom Welch
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Legal, Software

Tom Welch

## Tracy Terrill
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Legal, Advice, Consumer

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.

## Doug Monro
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Legal, Clean Energy

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.

## Edward Bishop
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Legal, FinTech, Legal Tech

Edward Bishop - Co-Founder & CTO @ Tessian

## Marc Murphy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Legal, FinTech, Computer

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

## Artis Kehris
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Information Services, Legal

Artis Kehris - Co-Founder @ Printify

## Richard Stone
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Legal, Software

Richard Stone

## Carlos Gonzalez- Cadenas
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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

## Will Martin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

## Samir Goel
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Legal, Advice

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.

## Spencer Lake
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Legal, FinTech, Training

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.

## Maarika Truu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Legal, Legal Tech, Marketplace

Maarika Truu - Head of Partnerships @ Single.Earth

## Harry Briggs
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce

Harry is a partner at OMERS Ventures, previously at Balderton Capital & BGF Ventures- and the youngest investor in the inaugural Forbes "Midas List Europe", thanks to investments such as The Hut Group, GoCardless, Touch Surgery and Revolut. Prior to Balderton, Harry co-founded Firefly Tonics, a healthy energy drink brand that sells inover 30 countries, sold to Private Equity in 2012. Harry started his career at McKinsey & Co., the strategy consultancy, in London and New York.

## Christie Pitts
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Legal, Advice, Big Data

Christie Pitts is Vice President of Operations at Mahmee. She attended the University of Phoenix.

## Thomas Adams
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Legal, FinTech, Legal Tech

Thomas Adams - Head of Client-Side Engineering and Co-Founder @ Tessian

## Anton Vaisburd
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Legal, Legal Tech, Marketplace

Anton Vaisburd

## Oliver Burgel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Legal, Software, Legal Tech

Oliver Burgel

## Martin Henk
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Martin Henk is the Co-founder of Pipedrive.

## David Edmond Neuberger
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Legal, Software, Machine Learning

David Edmond Neuberger

## Jun Wang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Legal, Software, Machine Learning

Jun Wang

## Eddy Vaisberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Legal, Legal Tech, Marketplace

Eddy Vaisberg Start-up Exec (COO, CGO) || Angel Investor || Ex-BCG

## Duncan Jennings
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, Software, Internet

Duncan Jennings is the Investor and Board Member at Motorway.

## Ben Holmes
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Internet

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.

## Mathias Eklof
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Legal, Mobile

Mathias Eklof is a Co-Founder & CEO at Yell.ru.

## Mart Abramov
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Legal, Legal Tech, Marketplace

Mart Abramov - Co-founder/ CEO @ TaxScouts

## Kevin Chong
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Kevin Chong - Head @ Outward VC

## Paul Massara
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Machine Learning, Software, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Dev Subrata
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Legal, FinTech, Legal Tech

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.

## Ragnar Sass
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## Dominic Collins
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Legal, FinTech, Finance

Dominic Collins is the CEO and Co-Founder at Darabase. Dominic attended Durham University.

## Mohamed Aboshanab
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Consulting, Legal, Travel

Building Next-Generation Ecosystem
Entrepreneur, Globalist, Lawyer.
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## Daniel Curran
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile

Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.

## Matt Robinson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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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