Top 50 Music Startup Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023
Top 50 Music Startup Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023
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Northstar Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in innovative solutions to help solve the most pressing societal issues we have today. Our ticket sizes range from £100k to £500k into early stage tech companies. We provide added value in leveraging our network of university partners, funders, non-executive directors and talent to supporteach investment.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
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- IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
- MarraBio — MarraBio Ltd. is a spin out company from Newcastle University using engineered bacterial protein polymers to provide bioactivity to cells at the industrial scale in the cultivated meat sector and beyond.
- 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.
Hotspur Capital is a financial organization.
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- Software, Location Based Services, Mobile
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States
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- Femeda — Femeda provides groundbreaking technology for the treatment of urinary incontinence for women worldwide. Get in touch today to find out more.
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- Greengage Lighting — Poultry lighting and poultry sensors for precision livestock farming, scheme compliance and animal welfare
Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders
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- Software, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Italy
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- HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
- ManholeMetrics — We are a multi-award winning sensor and analytics start-up on a mission to stop flooding and bring wastewater into the 21st Century.
- SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.
Playfair Capital is an early-stage fund that commits to companies early and with conviction. Based in London, Playfair combines the best aspects of angel investing with a focused fund, to invest in truly ambitious founders, wherever they are in the world. Playfair takes a sector-agnostic approach and investments span deep tech, SaaS, marketplacesand B2B companies. We’ve backed the founders of more than 60 companies including Mapillary (acq. Facebook), CryptoFacilities (acq. Kraken), Omnipresent, Orca AI, Ravelin, sprout.ai, Thought Machine, Trouva and Vinehealth.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Israel
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- Umedeor — uMed is a technology platform embedded across a global network of healthcare providers that automates the process of building prospective, protocolized patient registries. This enables sites to participate in dozens of programmes simultaneously without increasing overhead or burden on staff. For life science companies, uMed provides access toregulator quality data, where patients within those datasets can be compliantly re-engaged to support the aims of R&D and post-market teams
- Ascento — Secure, maintain, and inspect outdoor assets by reducing the intervention times and augmenting data capturing capability.
- Continuum Industries — Continuum Industries is a developer of Optioneer, the leading software for linear infrastructure optioneering.
Peter is clearly way more than a global music legend. He divides his time and energy between his music, humanitarian projects, business investments and his family.He became an investor and advisor to The Filter in 2006 and brings with him a clear vision of a need for smart filters to help us make sense of a world with too many choices. Workingwith Peter is inspiring – his passion and creativity help drive and motivate the team.
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- Music, TV, Supply Chain Management
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Belgium, United States
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- Tumelo — Tumelo is an impact-focused financial technology firm. Our mission is to enable retail investors and pension members to create and benefit from a more sustainable investment system. We do this by partnering with investment and pension providers, enabling them to provide their customers with transparency over the companies they own and ashareholder voice on issues they care about, such as gender equality or climate change. Our solution is white-label software delivered via APIs and/or a user dashboard. Our software integrates with existing investment platforms improving customer engagement, acquisition and retention for providers.
- Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
- Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
SFC Capital, the UK's most active seed investor (PitchBook, 2020), provides capital and support to British startups. By combining its Angel Network and Seed Funds, SFC has created a unique model that allows investors to get exposure to SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, either directly or through a diversified portfolio curated and managedby SFC’s expert team. In 2020, SFC received a £10m allocation from Business Investments as part of the Regional Angels Programme in support of SFC's mission to back promising early-stage companies from every corner of the UK.SFC Capital is an Appointed Representative of SFC Capital Partners Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 736184).
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
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- Odore — Our platform enables the world's leading brands to sample their products more effectively.
- Decently — Decently provides the world a better place by developing advanced digital products. Decently mission is to improve lives through innovative digital product.
- TrainThis.AI — TrainThis.AI revolutionizes the way you manage and coach your team. Say goodbye to wasting hours on call reviews and email reading just to provide feedback on a fraction of the work. The company's real-time feedback system empowers your reps to receive continuous input on their work, eliminating poor-quality outcomes and maximizing thebenefits of ongoing feedback.
We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.
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- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
- Awell Health — Ollie is a vast library of over 100 interface blocks with complete Webflow CMS integration. Build beautiful websites in less time than ever.
- Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
- Worldover — Cosmetic compliance made simple
- Class Companion — Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.
Universal Music Group offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide. It discovers and develops songwriters, and owns and administers copyrights to musical compositions for use in recordings, public performances, and related uses such as films and advertisements; and sells artist and music branded products through multiplesales points including online, fashion retail, and live performances worldwide.
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- Music, Mobile, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom
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- PIAS — [PIAS] is a family of independent record labels. We champion and support artists from around the world across an unrivalled international network run by passionate music lovers.
- VenewLive — VenewLive is a live performance streaming platform delivering on-stage magic to global music fans virtually.
- R.e.m. Beauty — R e m beauty is established to provide the resources which need to bring most vivid, unlimited, and creative aspirations to reality.
Armilar Venture Partners is Portugal's leading venture capitalist. An independent VC with a 20-year-old history, a high-performance track record and an international footprint, Armilar is a deep-tech investor in ICT, HealthTech and CleanTech.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Portugal, United States, United Kingdom
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- Appentra — The first static code analyzer that increases the performance of C/C++ code. Write hardware-friendly code that runs faster on modern hardware.
- StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!
- Miles in the Sky — Embark on a journey with Miles to upgrade your learning experiences. Our unique model provides a better way to increase learner engagement and improve knowledge retention.
Cambridge Innovation Capital backs life sciences and technology companies with an affiliation to Cambridge, Europe’s capital for innovation. As a preferred investor for the University of Cambridge, they have unparalleled access to investment opportunities in the ecosystem.Since our inception in 2013, they have raised £275 million to invest indisruptive, deep-tech businesses in sectors including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, quantum technologies, autonomous systems, therapeutics, medtech/diagnostics, digital health, and genomics/proteomics.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
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- Riverlane — Riverlane's mission is to make quantum computing useful far sooner than previously imaginable, starting an era of human progress as significant as the industrial and digital revolutions.
- Mosaic Therapeutics — Mosaic Therapeutics is reshaping the interface of computational and experimental medicine to power new medicines for patients.
- Complement Therapeutics — Turning powerful new Complement System insights into innovative treatments Developing the next generation of complement medicines [chevron-down] Turning powerful new Complement System insights into innovative treatments Developing the next generation of complement medicines [chevron-down] Geographic atrophy (late dry age-related macular degeneration) is a chronic eye condition that affects millions - and for which there is
Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- BoomFi — All-in-one solution to send, accept and convert crypto payments. Fast multi-chain crypto and fiat settlement. Get started today.
- Eyeball Games — Eyeball Games operates as a gaming studio set up by the original creators of 8 Ball Pool, serial entrepreneurs and degens.
- Trident Digital — Trident Digital is restoring market liquidity by providing the next-generation digital asset platform that addresses issues with access, security, and capital efficiency. It allows lenders and borrowers to connect transparently and not rely on a central counterparty.
John Taysom started the Reuters Venture Capital Fund in Palo Alto in 1995 making 82 investments in internet and web infrastructure and services including Verisign, UltraDNS, Digimarc, ZeroKnowledge and Intertrust. He was a member of the Board of Digimarc pre and post its Nasdaq IPO, a Board member at Intertrust and a Board member at TIBCO throughits Nasdaq IPO. To date, seventeen of his investments have achieved an IPO.John acquired the Fund in an MBO in 2002. Now London-based with a seed portfolio of thirty US and UK start-ups; one has achieved an IPO and several have been acquired by Experian, Linkedin, Tesco, BMC and others.In 2011 and 2012 John took a Fellowship at Harvard to work on privacy issues and holds EU and US patents on a method of improving privacy online. For 2015 John is a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy and a Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, at UCL. He is a member of the Board of the Web Science Trust; chairs Performance Horizon, a fast growing UK startup; is a Governor at Hurstpierpoint College; and runs a small farm in Devon.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
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- LGN — LGN's edge AI management software puts you in complete technical and financial control of your edge AI systems.
- Tenyks — Tenyks gives Computer Vision Engineers the insights to build more reliable models faster! Collaborate to identify and fix dataset issues. Improve data quality. Boost model performance. No more wondering in the dark.
- Worldr — Worldr is a private, secure and compliant team communication app. While the user experience was designed to be extremely simple and effective, the back-end was architected to be deployable as if it were an in-house application.Worldr is a solution for larger companies, and especially regulated ones, who may not able to use third-partycollaboration applications because of 1) the threat to their data security and 2) lack of Compliance transparency.With 150 companies already signed up for our Beta, ranging from small startups to teams within major banks, Worldr is fully publicly launching in 2021.Please find the landing page at worldr.com
FirstMark is an early-stage venture capital firm in New York City. We back and accelerate founders of iconic and industry-defining companies.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
- Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
- Synthesia — Create AI videos by simply typing in text. Make engaging videos for e-learning, customer onboarding, etc. No need for actors, cameras or audio equipment.
Warner Music Group is a major music company with interests in recorded music, music publishing and artist services
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- Music, Media and Entertainment, Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- OP3N — Founded in 2021 as a subsidiary of EST Media Holdings, OP3N is the global Web3 superapp that serves as a one-stop-shop for all communication, connection and commerce with on-chain interactions in a simple unified interface. With a mission to create a more frictionless, decentralized and democratized creator economy on a global scale, OP3Nconsolidates the tools needed to mint, share and engage with digital goods and digital tokens into one vertical stack. OP3N’s leadership team leverages its cross-industry expertise from the entertainment, gaming and tech ecosystems, to lay the foundations for a new era of community-driven, inclusive entertainment while bringing everyone together on a journey into Web3. OP3N is co-led by media executive, artist, and serial entrepreneur Jaeson Ma, who has a successful track record launching companies including EST Studios, Stampede Ventures, East West Ventures, and 88rising, and who’s raised capital and advised on transactions totaling over $1 billion; and Eric Tu, an award-winning development executive who’s worked with major brands including Nike, Beats by Dre and Google, and as an Executive Producer with Bjork, Radiohead, Kendrick Lamar and more. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit: https://op3n.world.OP3N’s portfolio of projects includes a partnership with Tokyo fashion label AMBUSH; an intergalactic children’s book from Grimes; a partnership with entertainment icon Simon Fuller to produce an innovative musical film with the global pop group Now United; and the “Maybe You’re the Problem” music video from the singer-songwriter Ava Max, directed by the celebrated music video director Joseph Kahn.
- move.ai — Move.ai provides motion capture platforms and tools to enable augmented and extended reality productions using AI and computer vision.
- Magneton Music Group — Magneton Music Group is a Hungarian record label.
Emerge Education is a European seed fund investing in founders solving the $8.5tn skills gap. Emerge provides founders with unrivalled education sector insights, as they're the only fund backed by the world’s foremost education entrepreneurs.
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- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- Edurino — Edurino is an e-learning platform that introduces digital learning responsibly and playfully for children aged 4-8+.
- Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.
- Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.
Lorenz Bogaert is the Founder and Director of FixForm.
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- SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Belgium, United Kingdom, United States
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- Tribboo — Project management platform for construction SMEs
- Bizzy — All up-to-date information you need for the most transparent & reliable view on your business world.
- 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.”
ESRG Investments specializes in a vast range of financial services. The group is able to offer independent and integrated cross border financial structuring. It plans and implements concepts for institutional clients and investors that require tailor-made solutions reflecting their specific requirements. ESRG specializes in mutual funds based intax neutral jurisdictions, UK taxation, UK pension administration, film bridge financing, property, land development, sports and leisure, and media.
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- Music, Video, Gaming
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- amBX — amBX lighting control software creates smart lighting for commercial buildings. Our SmartCore system allows remote building management for emergency lighting control, lighting building integration and vertical farming connectivity.
We are here for those who dare to imagine: imagine a fairer, more prosperous world, achieved through the power of creativity.
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- Software, Mobile, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Covatic — We help media companies deliver private-by-design, addressable advertising and marketing without exposing personal data.
- V9 Group — V9 Group is a group of technology and payment experts.We're problem solvers. We identify markets with issues and using our thinking and experience…we challenge, innovate and disrupt them. Two sectors we've been focusing on are retail and payments. And we have developed products that are not only disrupting these sectors... they’rerevolutionising them.
- Huey Games — Huey Games is a Ga me developer providing smart porting service for various consoles.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
- Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
- Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.
Matt Jellicoe
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- Audio, Music, Digital Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
Sony Music is a United States music corporation owned and operated by Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony Corporation. It is a global music company with a roster of current artists that includes both local and international superstars, as well as a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordingsin history. In 1929, the enterprise was first founded as American Record Corporation (ARC) and, in 1938, was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation, following ARC's acquisition by CBS. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records. In 1987, SCA bought the company and, in 1991, renamed it SME. In 2004, SME and Bertelsmann Music Group merged as Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
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- Music, Digital Media, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Japan, Germany
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- MakersPlace — MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators. The company enables creators to protect and sell authentic and unique editions of digital creations. The company connects creators with fans and collectors worldwide through a marketplace and network of partners. Creators are ableto sign and set a limited supply on the work while delivering proof of authenticity, ownership. and scarcity on the blockchain.With MakersPlace, creators are able to better capture the full underlying value of the digital work.MakersPlace was founded on 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
- Slip.stream — The world's largest creator safe music library built for creators. One subscription gives you unlimited downloads, for unlimited channels, on unlimited digital platforms. Royalty free. No takedowns.
- Tiger Media — tigermedia develop media for children as they should be: child-friendly, safe and with a lot of heart
Since 1999, Acton Capital invests in tech-enabled business models to create value for the long run. We support world-class teams on their way to market leadership.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Germany, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Klaus — Hypergrowth companies use Klaus to run an effective customer service QA process, coach agents, and boost retention.
- Henchman — Effortlessly find the clauses you’re looking for by applying our AI to your existing contracts.
- ECO Group — Eco is a supplier of consumer products. They create structures for increased growth and profitability within the group companies.
TAG Group is an award-winning global, independent event and corporate travel management company
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- SaaS, Audio, Music
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- IRIS Audio Technologies — IRIS Listen Well is bringing back living sound and enabling the world to Listen Well.
David has worked for IMI Plc, Lazard and KPMG.His early career at IMI Titanium was as a research and development metallurgist developing superconductors and titanium alloys. From 1986-2002, David worked at Lazard, where he became a Partner and the Managing Director running the TMT group in London. While there he gained a wide variety ofexperience in Corporate Finance, M&A, debt restructuring and equity capital markets based on over a decade of transactions in the TMT sectors. From 2004-2011, David was a Senior Director of KPMG Corporate Finance focusing on Business development and relationship building with medium to large corporations in the Telecom and Technology sectors.David is an active investor in early stage private technology companies and is a member of Cambridge Angels. His current portfolio consisting of 14 companies includes: Truphone , We7 , Grapeshot, Trigger (WebMynd), Ionscope, Centrix and Arachnys.
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- Music, Internet, Software
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Hadean — Hadean are a venture backed tech startup providing the most simple and secure platform for cloud native development. Intuitive and developer friendly, the Hadean Platform provides a friction free route to a cloud-native infrastructure. It lets you write applications once and deploy anywhere, taking care of setup, configuration, scaling, securityand more.Hadean have developed two flagship applications. Aether Engine provides distributed load balancing for agent-based simulations, while Muxer is a network model that utilises distributed edge networks. The result is spatial simulations of unparalleled size and complexity, where thousands of concurrent users can join and interact. Hadean have found traction in gaming, healthcare, virtual events and defence with industry leading companies such as Microsoft, Minecraft and CAE.
- Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.
- Focal Point Positioning — We create revolutionary technologies that can upgrade the capability of all GNSS systems worldwide. Powered by Supercorrelation, the only receiver-level software to provide angle of arrival of radio signals, significantly improving the accuracy, reliability and energy consumption of standard GNSS receivers
Peter Bartlett
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- Audio, Music, Digital Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
Parkwalk is a London-based fund management firm. Parkwalk invests in UK technology companies that have IP backing and freedom to operate, generally spun out of UK universities. Their funds seek to generate capital gains for their investors, enhanced by the attractive tax relief provided by EIS. Parkwalk entered this investment sector in 2009,anticipating a wave of tax-efficient incentives launched by the UK Government to stimulate innovative emerging technology companies and thereby help drive economic growth.Parkwalk utilises academic, technology transfer, venture capital and personal networks developed over many years to gain access to the highest calibre deal-flow. In 2017 Parkwalk joined forces with IP Group plc, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company that is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IPO. As at March 2019 the combined group has net assets of £1.2bn.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Philippines
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- RoboK — A Cambridge University spin-out building cost-effective 3D sensing software technology
- Mogrify — Mogrify is pioneering a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapy and transforming the development of ex vivo cell therapy.
- PharmEnable — Designing the next generation of small molecule drugs. Replicating the specificity of biologics in the scalable form of a small molecule.
Yasin Sebastian Qureshi is the Co-Founder of KlickOwn and the Founder and former CEO of Varengold Bank. At the age of 29 he was the youngest person ever in Germany to obtain a license to run an investment bank. He is also the founder and former CEO of The NAGA Group AG www.naga.com as well as the founder of AQUA Digital Rising www.aquarising.com.He is an entrepreneur, investor and film producer born in Germany and based in London. His investments range from finance, to Internet and media.
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- Audio, Music, Digital Media
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Haglit —
- Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
Colin McInnes
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- Audio, Music, Digital Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
John Michaelis
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- Audio, Music, Digital Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
- Writer — Accelerate growth across every team with the most secure AI platform. We customize generative AI to your workflows, not the other way around.
- Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Ojjeh Family Fund is the family investment fund founded by the Oijeh Family.
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- SaaS, Audio, Music
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- IRIS Audio Technologies — IRIS Listen Well is bringing back living sound and enabling the world to Listen Well.
Windcrest Partners is a venture capital firm that offers private equity investment services to firms in the energy, network, games, healthcare administration, and internet technology industries. It was founded in 1967 and is based in New York.
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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom
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- Wyng — Wyng helps innovative brands launch engaging digital experiences to grow their audience, collect zero-party data, and drive sales.
- Festicket — Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travelers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,000+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 2,000 suppliers for accommodation andtravel packages.
- GoodData — GoodData is a leading composable data and analytics platform. Build, embed, and scale analytics on demand, with zero vendor lock-in.
WndrCo is a holding company that acquires, operates, and develops businesses at the intersection of technology and media.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Writer — Accelerate growth across every team with the most secure AI platform. We customize generative AI to your workflows, not the other way around.
- Ello — Ello is an app-based reading coach that listens to your child read from real books, teaches and motivates them, and transforms them into enthusiastic readers.
- Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
Venture Capital
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- Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Delic — Your space for sound, from idea to release. Built by Musicians, Delic is the collaboration and release management platform to build your music future.
- Biscuit Tin — If you passed away tomorrow would your family know where to find your end of life wishes or important documents? Biscuit Tin can help!
- Journee — We'll match you with an exciting trip and take care of everything. One 15 minute form. That's all we need. Go on a trip as adventurous as you.
Andrew Gault is tech startup founder with 20 years in technology; investor since 2012Ex-CTO with 14 patents issued & 28 filed. Started life at the European Space Agency, then co-founded GAIKAI in 2008 raising $45m from Benchmark, NEA and Intel; exiting to Sony for $380m. A Scotsman living on the West Coast since 2008, Andrew has an extensiveSilicon Valley network.Specialisms include: AR/VR, robotics, video tech/computer imaging and gaming.
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- Software, Information Technology, Augmented Reality
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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- Juggle Jobs — We help professionals work flexibly
- Banked — A Banking Platform for Young People that engenders healthy financial habits and rewards healthy activity.All built around a contactless payment and activity tracking smartwatch.Financial Institutions coupled with Wearable Devices “should” own the Internet of Things, .yet they are too large, unwieldy and slow moving to capitalise on thisadvantage. Banked will be the key indexer of the user in a network of connected things.
- Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.
Andrew J Scott, Founding Partner – based in London & San Francisco. 20 years in technology, founder of 6 startups; investor since 2014.As founder launched the world’s first location based social network (Playtxt 2001; patented), online digital news archive (BritishPathe.com, 2002), trust graph/recommendation engine using machine learning(Rummble, 2007; patented). In-between did strategy consulting for VCs and Corporates including Astra Zeneca, AT&T and Alcatel Lucent.Andrew is also co-founder of ICE, a non-profit global network of tech founders and investors, established in 2009.Specialisms include: D2C, social & market networks, B2B SaaS and quantum computing.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
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- Aerovolt — Installing smart aircraft chargers at grass strips, aerodromes and regional airports.
- Juggle Jobs — We help professionals work flexibly
- Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.
an early-stage investment firm making long-term bets on contrarians and leveraging the knowledge and network across sectors. We back mission-driven founders working on positively disruptive deep technologies.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Estonia
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- Fhenix — End-to-End Encrypted Web3 Fhenix is the first blockchain powered by fully homomorphic encryption to bring Computation Over Encrypted Data to EVM smart contracts Join us Learn more A new, encrypted web is waiting for you Truly functional markets require end-to-end encryption. Fhenix rises to the challenge by unlocking unprecedented encryption capabilities in the public blockchain
- SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Cognaize — Cognaize, an Intelligent Document Processing company, automates unstructured data with hybrid intelligence. Our data-centric AI platform facilitates meaningful cooperation of AI and humans.
FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Finance East Limited delivers funding for businesses based in the East of England region.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
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- Seriously Low Carb — Award Winning. Consumer brand of choice. Real food that's Keto and Low Carb friendly. The home of the Seriously Low Carb Loaf, the Seriously Low Carb Pizza and now lots of other products too.
- Laserthrust — Laserthrust is developing and producing a 3D-printed, super-cavitating electric craft capable of traveling from Norwich, UK, to Amsterdam. The company's marine goods are made completely of recycled and recyclable FDM 3D-printed materials, with a particular emphasis on TPU-based materials.
- Luxury Cottages — Find a luxury holiday cottage to rent in the UK. Our handpicked holiday homes at Luxury Cottages are carefully selected by our luxury travel experts.
Pentech Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on finding category defining software companies. Their passion is helping founders develop their startup into an internationally successful organisation. They have done this multiple times, partnering with leading VCs, corporations and investment banks along the way. They consider any opportunitycapable of becoming a market leader but are most comfortable being the first venture investor, supporting founders through the early stages of proving product and market fit. Their initial investment is likely to be £500K to £2M, with up to £10M invested over the lifetime of the investment.They invest in founders who are ambitious to build a global company, have the passion and ability to attract the best team and who are focused on the data and understand the key drivers in proving and building their business. They support the founders they invest in to develop and grow with their business.
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- Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
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- FloodFlash — Finding commercial flood insurance can be tough. Control your costs and your recovery with new rapid-payout flood insurance.
- PrimaryBid — PrimaryBid is a technology platform that allows everyday investors fair & equal access to investing in public companies raising capital.
- Vauban — Vauban is a tech company reshaping the world of private investing. The platform makes it easier, faster, and more cost-effective for anyone to co-invest in private companies. With Vauban, you can easily create your Syndicate online, start sharing your deal flow and let your network co-invest with you in startups. Vauban has automated the SPV &funds setup process.
We are a venture incubator that wants to exploit the extraordinary human capital of the new digital entrepreneurship. From design to ready-to-market, up looking for new partners and capital, we create value along the entire continuum of mentoring: direct investment , skills qualified and specialized network support the growth of new businesses oftomorrow. With our deal flow , we are able to select innovative ideas with high potential with a business model that minimizes the investment risk and guarantee the success on the market.
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- Internet, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States, Philippines
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- Pixies — Pixies is a Startup that design solutions for Autonomous Cities and a more sustainable future of our planet. Merging Urban Design, Robotics and AI, we believe that urban spaces can now become able to take care of themselves.
- Alokino Gelato — Alokino Gelato produces plant-based and preservative-less artisanal ice creams.
- Nimai Digital Company — Think. Create. Make it happen.
Max Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on investing in the TMT, consumer Internet, and intelligent hardware fields.
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- CRM, E-Learning, Business Intelligence
- Series B, Seed, Series A
- China, United Kingdom
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- Muniao — Muniao is an online booking platform for short-term rental.
- Huoxingren Julebu — Huoxingren Julebu is a STEAM education and training provider company.
- Orange Interaction — Orange Interaction provides internet catering solutions and integrates multiple business systems such as CRM, marketing, BI and e-commerce.
Marcus Watson
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- Audio, Music, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Audoo — Audoo is a music-technology company revolutionising the landscape for public performance royalty collection through accurate, real-world data.
- Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.
- Magical Mushroom Company — We harness the natural flexibility and strength of mycelium, the material structure of fungi, to grow protective packaging at any scale by combining it with agricultural waste such as hemp, cork and sawdust.
Lumia is an expansion-stage VC firm partnering with forward-thinking US and European innovators expanding internationally for breakout growth. Lumia employs a hands-on strategy, working closely with management teams by pairing Silicon Valley insights and contacts with global knowledge sharing and relationships to propel companies throughexpansion-stage challenges and opportunities.It prefers to invest in internet and software companies with a focus on SaaS, mobile, cloud computing, infrastructure, and big data. It typically invests between $3 million and $30 million in companies with greater than $10 million annualized net sales. Lumia also invests in select early stage opportunities via its "Telescope" program. The company focuses on investing in primary and secondary transactions and in common and preferred shares. Lumia Capital was founded by Martin Gedalin in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco.
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- Software, Mobile, Marketplace
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
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- Auna — Auna engages in health care and wellness services.
- Kitopi — Kitopi is a managed cloud kitchen platform that partners with restaurants to grow their business and expand their delivery reach.
- Naked Labs — Naked Labs is a Silicon Valley-based startup focused on3D scanning, computer vision, and human-centered design. It uses infrared light to capture a 3D body model, which is visualized on the Naked app. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
Veridian Ventures is an angel syndicate offering carefully curated investment opportunities to their network of Investor Members.
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- Music, Hardware, Software
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- GridDuck — By providing an online dashboard connected to wireless sensors and switches (such as CT Clamps), that are affordable and easy to install, we help customers save energy everyday.
- Lirica — Lirica is a mobile app to learn languages with the power of music.
Oli Farago Founder & CEO at Coyote Software. He attended Culford School during 1996-2002.
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- Real Estate, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, South Africa
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- Maroo — The smartest way to pay for your wedding
- HyperionDev — Accelerate your career with a online coding bootcamp. Learn to code in just 3 - 6 months.
- 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.
CEO at SHOW4ME.
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- Music, Events, Music Streaming
- Angel
- United Kingdom
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- Show4me — Show4me Music Interaction Network is an all-in-one system for DIY musicians, artists signed to labels and their fans as well as for record labels, concert promoters and other music industry professionals. The network gives essential tools for direct artist and fan interaction and music monetization, such as: • Annual subscription• Concertcrowdfunding • Music crowdfunding• Music sales All tools are combined on a single music-related network to give artists a decent reward and genuine appreciation for their art. The annual subscription model itself opens space for artists to make up to 300 times higher income compared to music streaming. And by applying a powerful combination of all toolkits, musicians can organize concerts and shows, sell music without financial risks and losses as well as build and manage successful music careers; fans can take part in the creative process of music creation of their favorite artists; and record labels and concert promoters can use Show4me to promote their artists. Show4me is the project of the UK-based company Wefuture Ltd. It has started and operated since 2015 as a concert crowdfunding platform until the board has decided to expand it into a complete music interaction network to open broader opportunities for the musicians. The goal of Show4me is to level the playing field for musicians and give the opportunity to get a fair reward for their art by building a close relationship with their fans through Show4me direct interaction model. With Show4me, every artist gets equal chances to get noticed, gain fame and recognition and make a true life-long living as a full-time musician.
At Miroma Ventures we take a hands-on, operations-focused approach, leveraging our industry-leading marketing expertise to actively work alongside management
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- Advertising, Apps, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Denmark
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- Bruvi — Bruvi is a breakthrough single-serve coffee system, with patent pending technology and proprietary, eco-friendly B-Pods®. Bruvi brews filter coffee, true espresso and Americanos, as well as the first cold brew from a single-serve brewer. Bruvi will offer sustainably sourced craft coffee from house brands and from some of the most popular third waveroasters.
- New Stance — New Stance is a full service influencer talent marketing and partnership activation agency in London specialising in the Sports & Entertainment sectors.
- ROAM — ROAM is a global community for the next generation adventurer.
Angel Investment Network is a London-based investment company founded in 2004 whose aim is to connect entrepreneurs and investors. Today they have 35+ angel networks worldwide covering over 80 countries. They have over 150,000 investor members and over 600,000 entrepreneurs have signed up to use their services.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Denmark, India
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- WAU BIKE — Introducing the WAU X, the long range eBike with indicators and brake lights. Featuring a 100 mile range, smart APP and remote locking system. Finance available.
- BASANIZOMAI — We are a new social network, based on humor
- Here We Flo — Shamelessly natural and sustainable period care, sensitive bladder and sexual wellness care - so you can feel crazy confident and empowered in life's messiest moments. Only natural, never harmful, always adorable. B Corp Certified.
Samos Investments is a private equity investor with a focus on high-growth European businesses.Samos invests across a range of sectors including digital media, e-commerce, retail, financial services, energy and natural resources.Samos takes a proactive approach with its portfolio companies, working alongside many of the US and Europe’s topventure funds, family offices and private investors.The Samos Partners are also active angel/seed investors.
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Kenya, Spain
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- Jude — Hey, we're Jude. A healthcare start-up on a mission is to bring bladder care into the mainstream.
- VIEVE — Shop award-winning and high-performance makeup by expert MUA Jamie Genevieve; bestselling primer, brushes, lip glosses, eyeshadows & more. Vegan & cruelty free.
- Lantum — Lantum is an end to end staffing platform enabling healthcare organisations to operate.Clinics use Lantum to manage their freelance physicians and also to find new ones via a marketplace of high quality vetted physicians. Lantum allows clinics to perform compliance checks on physicians as well as rate them and pay them fast.Lantum alsoprovides a toolkit for freelance physicians enabling them to manage their working lives and do their taxes and send The idea came to CEO and founder Melissa Morris while working at Mckinsey in the Healthcare Practice. She since left and went to work for NHS London to get a better idea of what healthcare organisations need.
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