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

The most active angel investors investing in United Kingdom Marketplace startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Simon Murdoch
Angel
12 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Software, Analytics $96k–$21M
Alexander Edward Chesterman
Angel
11 United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services $214k–$8.6M
Nigel Wray
Angel
10 United Kingdom, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
Paul Forster
Angel
10 United Kingdom, Germany, Spain Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $750k–$9.9M
Will Brooks
Angel
10 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $614k–$3.1M
Will Martin
Angel
9 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $614k–$3.1M
Tom Singh
Angel
8 United Kingdom Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, SaaS $369k–$5.5M
Theo Osborne
Angel
8 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A Software, Apps, E-Commerce $16k–$12M
Melih Odemis
Angel
7 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $170k–$1.8M
Mandeep Singh
Angel
6 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Information Technology $1M–$8.6M
Andy Phillipps
Angel
6 United Kingdom, Finland Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Communities, Software $184k–$6.5M
Errol Damelin
Angel
6 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $510k–$10M
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman
Angel
6 United Kingdom, India, United States Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $349k–$20M
Serge Chiaramonte
Angel
6 United Kingdom, United States, China Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $1.2M–$4.1M
Stuart Marks
Angel
5 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel Software, Information Services, Information Technology $50k–$860k
Tim Jackson
Angel
5 United Kingdom, United States, Sweden Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Software, E-Commerce $160k–$1.5M
Chris Adelsbach
Angel
5 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $120k–$5.4M
Andrew Weisz
Angel
5 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Education, Apps $200k–$1.4M
Sam Enrico Williams
Angel
5 United Kingdom Pre-Seed Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports $10k–$55k
Robin Knox
Angel
4 United Kingdom, Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Software, SaaS, Social Network $37k–$2.9M
Sebastian Picardo
Angel
4 United Kingdom, Italy, Germany Seed, Series A Fashion, Content, Lifestyle $2.1M–$2.5M
Guillaume Glaunès
Angel
4 United Kingdom, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Apps $1.7M–$2.1M
Charlie Songhurst
Angel
4 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $360k–$18M
Will Neale
Angel
4 United Kingdom, Japan, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $117k–$4.9M
Magnus Rausing
Angel
4 United Kingdom, Sweden, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
Oliver Slipper
Angel
4 United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Art, B2B, B2C $369k–$3.2M
Jorg Mohaupt
Angel
4 United Kingdom, United States, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Music, Mobile Apps, Art
Biz Stone
Angel
4 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Messaging, Mobile $375k–$14M
Ian Hogarth
Angel
4 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $123k–$12M
Tom Hulme
Angel
4 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series C Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence $600k–$80M
Richard Fearn
Angel
4 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms $600k–$4.9M
Paul Walton
Angel
4 United Kingdom, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Software, SaaS, Social Network $37k–$1.2M
Brent Hoberman
Angel
4 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.6M–$3.8M
Thomas Teichman
Angel
4 United Kingdom Seed, Angel E-Commerce, CRM, Advertising
Simon Franks
Angel
4 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Payments, Health Care $307k–$9.8M
Erdem Yurdanur
Angel
4 Turkey, United States, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Mobile, Advertising, Marketplace $142k–$1M
Chris Mairs
Angel
4 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, FinTech, Financial Services $492k–$1M
Reece Chowdhry
Angel
4 United Kingdom, Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Software, Financial Services, FinTech $123k–$7.7M
Nick Wheeler
Angel
3 United Kingdom Angel Commerce/Shopping, Design, Other
Simon Murphy
Angel
3 United Kingdom, The Netherlands Seed, Series A Consumer Goods, Retail, Mobile
Gareth Williams
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Hungary, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Apps, SaaS $307k–$2.5M
Peter Keen
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed Biopharma, E-Commerce, Web Design $528k–$1M
Christian Faes
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Angel Financial, Software, Lending and Investments $344k–$3.2M
Simon Beckerman
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Fashion, Advertising $1.7M–$3.7M
Alex Hoye
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States, Romania Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Commerce/Shopping, Sales/Marketing $20k–$1.5M
Duncan Jennings
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Marketplace, Software, Internet $860k–$3.8M
Sherry Coutu
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Romania, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Media and Entertainment, Commerce/Shopping
Alan Morgan
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Austria, United States Seed, Series A, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $369k–$9.8M
Nigel Knowles
Angel
3 United Kingdom Angel, Series A Marketplace, Real Estate $3.7M–$4.9M
Carmen Busquets
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A Fashion, E-Commerce, Search Engine $1M–$2M
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Simon Murdoch
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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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Alexander Edward Chesterman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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 · 10 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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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Paul Forster
Angel · 10 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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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Will Brooks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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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Will Martin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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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Tom Singh
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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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Theo Osborne
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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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Melih Odemis
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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 — Everyone can make music!
  • 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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Mandeep Singh
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$8.6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 11x.ai — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
  • TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
  • Sourcerie — Discover the best products for you, based on reviews from people just like you.
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Andy Phillipps
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $184k–$6.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
  • Wevat — Wevat makes it easy for tourists to get tax back on shopping in Europe.
  • Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
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Errol Damelin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $510k–$7.5M; Series A $3.7M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
  • Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
  • Ritual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
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Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 6 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: United Kingdom, India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $349k–$2.8M; Series B $11M–$20M; Equity Crowdfunding $3.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

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.
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Serge Chiaramonte
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Serge Chiaramonte

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.1M; Series A $2.7M–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trezy — Trezy is smart & simple software the helps you manage your business with real-time finance insights & automated cash-flow forecasting.
  • Basket — Basket lets you keep track of things you want to buy, automatically finding the best prices, saving you time and money. Say hello to your new shopping companion.
  • Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
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Stuart Marks
Angel · Hale, Cheshire, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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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Tim Jackson
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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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Chris Adelsbach
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 195
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.4M; Series A $3M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
  • Kavida.ai — Kavida helps procurement managers ensure on time deliveries and improve supplier collaboration.
  • Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
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Andrew Weisz
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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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Sam Enrico Williams
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $10k–$55k
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NFT Metadata Editor — Edit and customize the metadata of your NFTs. Connect your wallet, select the NFT, and this tool will allow you to modify the metadata, charging a fee for the service.
  • NFT Exhibition Space — Showcase your NFT collection in a virtual exhibition. Connect your wallet, select the NFTs, and this tool will create a virtual exhibition space for your collection.
  • Crypto Wealth Manager — Connect your wallet, input your holdings and financial goals, and this tool will provide portfolio management features and recommendations.
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Robin Knox
Angel · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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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Sebastian Picardo
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Sebastian Picardo is an active investor and advisor in the global luxury goods sector.As an investor, he has been very active in the fashion, technology and media sectors for over 9 years, investing in companies like Net a porter, Lyst, Farfetch, Business of Fashion and Highsnobiety. He has also been a venture advisor to London-based FelixCapital, a leading Venture Capital firm investing in digital lifestyle start-ups, since 2014.As an advisor, he has helped brands and retailers in areas such as digital marketing, customer experience, omni-channel retailing and innovation, In addition, he has advised companies wanting to enter and market their brands in China mainland.Sebastian was formerly Deputy President of Asia’s iconic luxury department store Lane Crawford. Sebastian joined Lane Crawford in 2012. As a member of the senior management team, he crafted and drove Lane Crawford’s “connected commerce” strategy, underlying the company's focus on omni-channel retail development to deliver a seamless customer experience.Previous to Lane Crawford, Sebastian was with Burberry where he served as Managing Director - Digital Commerce, based in the London headquarters. Prior to this role, he had helped transform and integrate the brand's Spanish operations into the global business as Managing Director - Operations at Burberry Spain. Before joining Burberry, Sebastian had held various senior finance roles at Net-A-Porter, Alexander McQueen and Deloitte.Originally from Argentina, he is a Chartered Accountant, holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a Master’s degree in International Finance. Most recently he attended Harvard Business School, where he successfully completed the Advanced Management Program.Sebastian lived in Buenos Aires, London, Barcelona and Hong Kong. He is fluent in Spanish, English, Italian and has an elementary command of Mandarin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Content, Lifestyle
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mos — Meet Mos: the way smart students get money for college
  • UNMADE — Unmade helps fashion and sportswear brands connect demand directly to production - so they become more adaptive, responsive, efficient and responsible.
  • Freeda Media — The voice of the new generations
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Guillaume Glaunès
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Angel Investor

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Voyage SMS — The flexible and delightful SMS marketing and message commerce platform. 30X ROAS, 30%+ CTR, and 2-5X relative list growth. Get a demo today.
  • Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
  • Rain — We build artificial intelligence processors, inspired by the brain. Our mission is to enable brain-scale intelligence.
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Charlie Songhurst
Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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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Will Neale
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $117k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $457k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
  • Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
  • Kuai Commerce — Kuai Commerce is a next-generation solution for ambitious brands looking to sell directly to Chinese Gen Z consumers through the power of social commerce. Our tech-enabled services provide market entry and brand acceleration options for emerging category-leaders who otherwise would find the complexity of China prohibitively challenging
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Magnus Rausing
Angel · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Magnus Rausing

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lick — Lick | Paints, Wallpapers and Supplies. Your Room, Covered
  • By Rotation — Rent over 25000+ designer fashion items online from our free app. Discover luxury designer dresses, clothing, bags and accessories from your trending favorite brands.
  • Anch.ai — Anch.AI is an Ethical AI Governance platform that helps you comply with EU regulations and avoid risks and penalties when developing and using AI as part of your business.
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Oliver Slipper
Angel · Cobham, Surrey, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Building Sports & Tech Companies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, B2B, B2C
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $369k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $369k–$492k
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Split — Split will let you know each time someone you’re avoiding is around & suggest an escape route. Split will display ‘hot zone’ map pointers on any location that the people you avoid tend to frequent. Know who the people you avoid are hanging out with (the ‘two birds, one stone’ feature).
  • PickGuru — Pickguru is a social gaming platform where friends and fans may participate in a range of fun sports prediction games.
  • Aura - Museum Genius — MEET AURA - THE MUSEUM GENIUS With Aura, you can explore Britain's leading museums and galleries, design your own journey, and listen to professionally produced audio stories of artworks and exhibits. THEMED ROUTES: For those with limited time You can personalise your way through the museums with cover with our themed routes. Whether you areshort on time, or you are interested in a specific theme, our themed routes will help find the must-see exhibits in your favourite museums. AUDIO STORIES WITH OFFLINE PLAYBACK We are partnering with high-profile museum curators, academics and skilled storytellers with distinct areas of expertise to create short and detailed audio stories of the must-see highlights of the museums. As Aura allows you to download audio content, you don't need an internet connection to listen during your visit. INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLANS Through our innovative technology, we provide interactive floor plans of the museums so you can enjoy your visit with time-efficiency, practicality, and ease. Simply search for a destination point and our indoor navigation system will help you get there easily. KEYPAD FOR EASY ACCESS If the museum is offering a traditional audio guide system, you will see signs next to exhibits with numbers on them. You can use our keypad at these museums. Simply use the keypad function to dial the number of the exhibit and we will take you directly to that exhibit's page on Aura.
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Jorg Mohaupt
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Jörg was appointed to the Board when Access Industries acquired the Company in 2007. Jörg is responsible for the media/online and telecom businesses at Access Industries, which he joined in May 2007. He was previously a Managing Director of Providence Equity Partners. Jörg has been active in the media and communications space since 1992. Hehas, as an investor, been involved with several businesses dealing with sports rights (RGE Group, Digiturk), internet services (Bibit NV, Adyen, Speedera Networks) and content delivery (Casema NV, Comhem AB). Jörg’s current board positions include Tory Burch LLC, Rebate Networks GmbH, AINMT Holdings AB, RGE Group Limited, Icon UK Distribution Holdings Limited and Mendeley Research Networks. Prior board positions include Digiturk, Casema NV, Comhem AB, Bibit BV, VersaTel Telecom NV and Speedera Networks Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Mobile Apps, Art
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Penfold — Our flexible, simple and powerful pension is designed to get you to your saving goals and stay with you for life, whichever direction it takes you.
  • Tracklib — Tracklib is the only service where anyone can legally clear samples from real music. From Isaac Hayes to Mozart, we got it.
  • Aura - Museum Genius — MEET AURA - THE MUSEUM GENIUS With Aura, you can explore Britain's leading museums and galleries, design your own journey, and listen to professionally produced audio stories of artworks and exhibits. THEMED ROUTES: For those with limited time You can personalise your way through the museums with cover with our themed routes. Whether you areshort on time, or you are interested in a specific theme, our themed routes will help find the must-see exhibits in your favourite museums. AUDIO STORIES WITH OFFLINE PLAYBACK We are partnering with high-profile museum curators, academics and skilled storytellers with distinct areas of expertise to create short and detailed audio stories of the must-see highlights of the museums. As Aura allows you to download audio content, you don't need an internet connection to listen during your visit. INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLANS Through our innovative technology, we provide interactive floor plans of the museums so you can enjoy your visit with time-efficiency, practicality, and ease. Simply search for a destination point and our indoor navigation system will help you get there easily. KEYPAD FOR EASY ACCESS If the museum is offering a traditional audio guide system, you will see signs next to exhibits with numbers on them. You can use our keypad at these museums. Simply use the keypad function to dial the number of the exhibit and we will take you directly to that exhibit's page on Aura.
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Biz Stone
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. A progenitor of social media, and early Google employee, Biz has been developing large scale systems that serve the global conversation for twenty years. As an investor, Biz has backed Square, Pinterest, Slack when it was called Speck, Nest, Intercom and Beyond Meat (where he remains on the boardas Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee), among others. In 2016, Stone's Jelly, a "human in the loop" AI search service, was acquired by Pinterest. After the sale, Twitter requested Biz return full time to lead the company's strategic vision, brand, and internal culture objectives alongside co-founder Jack Dorsey. Biz has been recognized as INC Magazine Entrepreneur of the Decade and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also an author, filmmaker and Fellow at both Oxford University and Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Messaging, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $375k–$2M; Series A $2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
  • Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
  • Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury
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Ian Hogarth
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $123k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
  • The Garden — The Garden is an online media company.
  • Condense — Live-streamed volumetric video into game engines
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Tom Hulme
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$4.9M; Series C $30M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Smol — laundry capsules. posted.
  • Kinnu — Kinnu is a learning engine that allows to explore new concepts and master any field of study. Kinnu allows to choose from an ever-expanding list of themes such as artificial intelligence, modern art, intermittent fasting, psychology, philosophy, history, and scientific breakthroughs.
  • Immersive Gamebox — Immersive Gamebox is a unique immersive experience which lets you play virtual team adventures in the world's smartest room. Come and play!
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Richard Fearn
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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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Paul Walton
Angel · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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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Brent Hoberman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Brent Hoberman is chairman and co-founder of Founders Factory, an ambitious corporate backed incubator/accelerator based in London, and also of Founders Forum, a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow. Brent is a co-founder and was founding chairman of Smartup, Grip &made.com, a leading European direct-from-factory consumer homewares retailer. Most recently, Brent co-founded Firstminute Capital, a London-based pan-European seed fund, backed by some of the world's top entrepreneurs. Brent co-founded lastminute.comin April 1998, was CEO from its inception and sold it in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn. Technology businesses he has co-founded have raised over $500m. Brent sits on the Advisory board for LetterOne Technology (a $16bn investment fund), the Oxford Foundry and the UK Government Digital Advisory Board. He is a board member of The Economist, a YGL and one of the Prime Minister's Business Trade Ambassadors. Brent was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship in the 2015 New Year's Honour's List.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Series A $1.6M–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
  • Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
  • Framework — Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school, radically reimagined for them. Born out of Founders Forum, a private network of the world's top tech entrepreneurs, we’ve worked with over 100+ operators—across product, growth, ops, people, data, engineering & design, from some of the world's most innovative companiesincluding Monzo, Babylon, Bulb & Depop—to pioneer a new model of lifelong learning.
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Thomas Teichman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Tom is the Chairman of SPARK Venture Management and has a long track record in backing, chairing and developing some of Europe’s most successful internet, technology, music, games and software businesses. Additionally, he has 20 years’ prior investment banking experience acquired at Credit Suisse, Bank of Montreal Nesbitt and Mitsubishi Bank,where he held various positions including Head of Corporate Finance, Trading and Syndicate. Tom was Executive Chairman of SPARK Ventures plc for 10 years until 2011 and now chairs SPARK Venture Management, which manages the SPARK Ventures plc portfolio and other significant technology and life sciences portfolios including funds from major institutions and 27 Oxford University colleges and the UK Government. Tom has operated hands-on after his City days in many small and fast growing businesses from start up to IPO or trade sale. Thus, unusually, he combines awareness of the capital markets and the M&A environments with that of entrepreneurial, rapid growth companies with mould-breaking ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, CRM, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
  • Doctify — Doctify is capturing the voice of patients. Read over hundreds of thousands of verified reviews for your specialist, dentist, hospital or care home.
  • 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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Simon Franks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Simon Franks is the founder of Redbus Group. Simon serves on the board of (or advisor to), a number of early stage companies. Simon has won a number of awards for business, including the Sunday Times Fast Track award. In 2013 Simon was selected as one of the world's 100 top innovators by British Airways and was part of the "BAUngrounded" flight for the 2013 G8 summit. Simon is also philanthropically and politically engaged, with a particular interest in issues pertaining to international development and separately, economic policy. Simon was an advisor to Ed Balls and the Labour Party on business, entrepreneurialism and innovation. Simon serves on the advisory board of the Labour campaign for International Development, the advisory board of Campaign Bootcamp, is International Chairman of the Lake Clinic in Cambodia and advisor to Tilganga Hospital in Kathmandu.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $492k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $307k–$3M; Series A $5.2M–$9.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
  • Oto Health — Take back control of your tinnitus with Oto, the app built by doctors that teaches you how to stop noticing the ringing using clinically proven techniques. Includes CBT, targeted mindfulness, and relaxation. 86% users experience benefits after just 1 month.
  • Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
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Erdem Yurdanur
Angel · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Advertising, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $142k–$1M; Pre-Seed $369k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ulak — [ENG] ULAK is a mobile app, that helps you find nearby couriers and place a custom order. With ULAK, the nearest courier to your location is directed to you, serves with the shipment you choose, app displays the instant location information until your shipment is delivered, shares delivery details with you, securely collects your payment from yourcredit card and completes the transaction. If you wish, you can get service with cash payment as well...[TUR] ULAK akıllı telefonlar üzerinde çalışan, motorlu kuryeye ihtiyacı olanlarla, güvenilir motorlu kuryeleri buluşturan bir mobil uygulamadır. ULAK ile size en yakın kuryeyi çağırarak gönderinizi yapabilir veya özel sipariş verebilirsiniz. ULAK ile bulunduğunuz konuma en yakın kurye size yönlendirilir, seçeceğiniz gönderi şekli ile hizmet verir, gönderiniz teslim edilene kadar anlık konum bilgisini gösterir, teslimat detaylarını size iletir, ödemenizi güvenli bir şekilde kredi kartınızdan tahsil eder, işlemi tamamlar. Dilerseniz nakit ödeme seçeneği ile hizmet alabilirsiniz.
  • Charmy — Charmy is a music social media site available online. Users can create playlists, share photos, and search for songs they prefer.
  • Tiramisu — TIRAMISU MOBILE GAME STUDIO
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Chris Mairs
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Chris Mairs - Venture Partner @ Entrepreneur First

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $492k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pathway — LLM-enabled financial research at the speed of thought.
  • Statement — Find the right card machine for your business, with good rates and the best features. Search the top providers in minutes, including Worldpay, Barclaycard, Tyl and Teya.
  • Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.
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Reece Chowdhry
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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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Nick Wheeler
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Nicholas Charles Tyrwhitt Wheeler (born 20 January 1965 in Ludlow, Shropshire) is an English businessman. He attempted a number of different businesses, including a photography venture and a Christmas tree delivery service. In 1986 he established the Charles Tyrwhitt company and shirt brand, which he owns.Wheeler grew up in Ludlow and waseducated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Eton College, and the University of Bristol, where he studied geography. His first job was as a management consultant for Bain & Company. In November 1986, he set up Charles Tyrwhitt, now a well-known shirt brand in the United Kingdom. The business is a Limited Liability Partnership. It has grown to be the UK’s largest mail-order shirt business, and also has several brick and mortar locations (as of October 2014, 17 in the United Kingdom, 5 in the United States, and one in France). In 2008, he was a regional judge for the Entrepreneur Challenge in the UK.Wheeler is married with four children to Chrissie Rucker, founder of The White Company. In 2015, their collective wealth was estimated at £330 million by the Sunday Times Rich List. Together they live in Buckinghamshire and also own a chalet in Klosters, Switzerland named Haus Alpina.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Commerce/Shopping, Design, Other
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • CUDONI — Cudoni is the leading serviced luxury marketplace in the UK and Europe; leveraging data and technology to provide exceptional service and complete convenience to consumers and businesses in the buying and selling of pre-loved luxury, in a way no resale business has before. We do all the work involved in the sales process; from item collection,through to providing data-driven market valuations, professional photography, descriptions, authentication, listings, storage and fulfilment. Our experience and credibility allows us to attain a 30-50% higher selling price on average for our sellers (than if they sold their items themselves), as pre-owned luxury is a market characterised by counterfeits, and value extraction is often difficult. For those who prefer not to wait for items to sell on consignment, but still want to avoid the hassle of selling themselves, we offer an ‘Instant Purchase’ solution. As we exclusively control inventory, unlike P2P incumbents, buyers are able to browse the most in-demand, curated products, with assurances around authenticity and quality, available for next day delivery at the click of a button.
  • Papier — Papier offers customizable stationery such as wedding cards, notebooks, planners, and notecards. Founded in London in 2015, Papier's aim is to inspire people to connect with each other in a more thoughtful way and more often. As digital messages proliferate in their lives, receiving something beautifully made through the letterbox isappreciated now more than ever before - Papier makes this simple and easy to do.At their core, is a love of art and design, words, and of course, paper. Their carefully curated collection of designs, married with quality printing and premium paper, stands us apart from other online card and invitation sites.
  • Cornerstone — Cornerstone is a regular delivery service of razor blades and shaving supplies for men. Its service include German-engineered razors and British-blended skincare products. Cornerstone was founded in January 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
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Simon Murphy
Angel · 3 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Simon Murphy Entrepreneur & Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer Goods, Retail, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Pieter Pot — Verpakkingsvrij boodschappen doen bij online supermarkt Pieter Pot. Makkelijk aan huis geleverd in herbruikbare statiegeldpotten. Pot leeg? Dan vullen we hem opnieuw. Met onze verpakkingsvrije bezorgdienst verminderen we de hoeveelheid afval en CO2. Waarom zou je nog verpakkingen kopen?
  • Seat Unique — Seat Unique is an online marketplace to buy official hospitality packages and VIP tickets to live sports, music, and cultural events.
  • The Smart Container Company — The Smart Container Company is the team behind KegTracker and BeverEDGE, a first-to-market IoT device and platform that instantly turns kegs into SMART containers. Our technology tracks real-time location, volume, temperature, and motion for each keg and delivers actionable insights that enable transparency and zero.
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Gareth Williams
Angel · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace 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: 20
  • 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
  • Maison Sport — Maison Sport has been created by 3 ski instructors, Olly, Nick and Aaron - all of them share a great passion for skiing and the mountains!“At Maison Sport we are making it simple to book Ski and Snowboard instructors online. Our aim is to seamlessly connect people looking for lessons with their ideal instructor, whilst making it easy forinstructors to market themselves, so they can continue to do what they love.Currently in France, our plan is to expand across the rest of the globe, helping the best instructors impart their passion for skiing and snowboarding on likeminded customers.”
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Peter Keen
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Peter Keen - Independent Investment Committee Member @ British Patient Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biopharma, E-Commerce, Web Design
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $528k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.
  • Small Pharma — Small Pharma is a biotechnology company researching and developing short-duration psychedelics with therapy for under-served mental health conditions.
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Christian Faes
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial, Software, Lending and Investments
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $344k–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
  • Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
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Simon Beckerman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Simon Beckerman is the founder of Depop, a peer-to-peer social shopping app based in London.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sojo — Making your clothes work for you has never been so simple. Download Sojo today and have one of our community of seamsters bring your clothes to life.
  • Contact — Contact is the fast, simple way to book creative talent.
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Alex Hoye
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Alex is a London-based entrepreneur and angel investor and in Internet, media, and consumer markets. He is CEO of Latitude Group, a European digital marketing agency, and before that co-founded GoIndustry plc, an online industrial auctions firm which he and the team listed in 2006. Hoye invested in Seedcamp and is chairman of Skimlinks andBraveNewTalent .

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Commerce/Shopping, Sales/Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Romania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • 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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Duncan Jennings
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Duncan Jennings is the Investor and Board Member at Motorway.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketplace, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $860k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

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.
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Sherry Coutu
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Sherry Coutu is an angel investor and serves on the boards of companies, charities and universities.As an entrepreneur, Sherry established and successfully sold two businesses in the financial services industry. The first (acquired by Euromoney plc) has operations in more than 70 countries. The second was floated in 2000 on London and Nasdaqand the company was valued at more than $1 billion before being acquired (by AMP plc). Sherry is active in early stage investing and has raised several rounds of venture capital and public equity totaling more than $200 million.Sherry has decades of experience serving companies which range from fast growth private early stage to public and boards with turnover of more than £ 1 bn.She is a frequent public speaker, a national judge of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards, and presents regularly at the top business schools. She specialises in consumer, internet, information services and clean energy.Current university affiliations include Cambridge University and Harvard Business School. Charitable / Government affiliations include the Prince's Trust, Cancer Research UK and NESTA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Media and Entertainment, Commerce/Shopping
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Romania, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
  • Topia — The Topia Global Talent Mobility platform enables businesses to deliver mobility as part of a broader talent and business strategy with enhanced employee experiences. This drives competitive advantage by ensuring the right people in the right place at the right time. The Topia platform automates the entire global talent mobility process, fromscenario-based planning, compliance risk management, expat payroll, reporting and more. Topia powers global talent mobility programs for many of the world's most trusted brands, including Schneider Electric, Dell, Veolia, Equinor, AXA.
  • DueDil — FullCircl is a Customer Lifecycle Intelligence (CLI) platform for customer-facing channels in B2B financial services. Better business, faster.
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Alan Morgan
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Austria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$4M; Angel $369k–$7M; Series A $2.9M–$9.8M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 9fin — Everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one platform. Our full suite of high yield data products is loved by Investment Banks, Sales & Trading, Law Firms, Asset Managers and Hedge Funds.
  • Connectd — Online platform underpinned by smart matching technology directly connecting the UK’s leading Founders, Investors & NAMs.
  • Froots — Froots.io is an online wealth manager that helps people to afford things that are considered for the lucky few. Whether one aspires an early retirement or a top education for their children, froots helps them to achieve their long-term financial objectives by tailoring a goal based .
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Nigel Knowles
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Sir Nigel Knowles is a former Global Co-Chairman and Senior Partner of DLA Piper, having served as Global Co-CEO and Managing Partner for nearly twenty years before. He is credited with DLA Piper’s remarkable growth, leading the firm through a series of merges and taking the firm from its regional origins to the global firm it is today. He receiveda knighthood in 2009 in recognition of his services to the legal industry.In 2015, Legal Business awarded Sir Nigel a "Lifetime Achievement Award" and in April 2016 Sir Nigel was given the Financial News "Editor's Choice" award for lifetime achievement.Sir Nigel is Chairman of Sheffield City Region LEP and a Trustee of The Prince's Trust. He was High Sheriff of Greater London 2016/17.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketplace, Real Estate
  • Stage:Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $3.7M–$4.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OneDome — Find, buy or sell property in one place with OneDome. Property search, mortgages, conveyancing and estate agents, we cover every step of the property journey.
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Carmen Busquets
Angel · 3 investments in United Kingdom Marketplace startups

Carmen Busquets - Founder @ CoutureLab

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lyst — Lyst is a global fashion search platform used by 70 million shoppers every year. Offering over 4 million fashion products from 11,000 of the world’s leading fashion brands and stores, Lyst brings together the widest inventory in luxury and contemporary fashion online. The company has raised $60 million to date, and is backed by range of all-starinvestors including 14W (Moda Operandi, Reformation), Accel Partners (Facebook, Spotify), Balderton (Yoox Net-A-Porter Group), Draper Esprit, part of the Draper Venture Network (Hotmail, Skype), and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and Tory Burch.
  • Destree — Destree is a ready-to-wear and accessories label.
  • Meadowlark Media — Meadowlark Media is a content company focused on sports.
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Marketplace Angel investor funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 181 deals from 256 investors.

256
investors
in United Kingdom Marketplace startups
181
deals
in United Kingdom Marketplace startups
$1.1M
median round
in United Kingdom Marketplace startups
9%
lead investors
lead at least one round
42%
Seed
most common funding stage

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