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Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Publishing startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023

Investor Publishing United Kingdom investments
Paul Forster 3
Alexander Edward Chesterman 3
Simon Franks 3
Peter Hinssen 2
Nicolas Julia 2
Cesc Fabregas 1
Adeo Ressi 1
Will Neale 1
Marc McCabe 1
Bootstrapped Debt Financing 1
Megan Kaspar 1
Benjamin Yoskovitz 1
Ciara McElligott 1
Antoine Nussenbaum 1
Joachim Behrendt 1
Sven Fund 1
Federico Pirzio-Biroli 1
Raghav Gupta 1
Daniel Waterhouse 1
Rene Rechtman 1
Christian Faes 1
Carlos Espinal 1
Thomas Leysen 1
Charlie Songhurst 1
David Langer 1
Will Martin 1
Simon Murdoch 1
Ian Hogarth 1
Dave McClure 1
Don Hoang 1
Turi Munthe 1
Andrew Grahame 1
Michele Connolly 1
Mark Thompson 1
Diane Coyle 1
Fritz Demopoulos 1
Nick Mason 1
Paul Field 1
David Walter 1
Stefano Rosso 1
Konstantin Stiskin 1
Andrin Bachmann 1
Nenad Marovac 1
Nicole Junkermann 1
Volker Hirsch 1
Will Brooks 1
Thierry Henry 1
jonathan wright 1
Doug Scott 1
Nicholas Johnston 1

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Paul Forster
Angel · 7 investments in the past 12 months

Paul Forster

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
  • CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
  • finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
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Alexander Edward Chesterman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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

  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Lick — Lick | Paints, Wallpapers and Supplies. Your Room, Covered
  • Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
  • Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.
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Simon Franks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

  • FinTech, Payments, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Australia, United States

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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Peter Hinssen
Angel · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Peter Hinssen is the Co-founder and Partner at nexxworks.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, SaaS, EBooks
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

  • Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
  • Sparkcentral — Consumers today engage with brands and companies on social channels by sending tweets and messages stating their customer service needs openly and publicly. Many companies choose to respond to these consumers via the same channels in order to address their concerns. The Sparkcentral Platform helps customer support teams manage large volumes ofsocial inquiries in a streamlined and efficient manner. The platform pulls in the messages from these social channels and presents them to customer care teams via a secure agent console that automatically assigns the messages to the first available agent. Sparkcentral’s client roster includes Delta Air Lines, Emirates, Netflix, Nordstrom, Dropbox, Uber, and T-Mobile.The company’s client portfolio includes Formerly known as TwitSpark, Sparkcentral was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
  • Rita Personal Data — Collect, view and control your data. Smoothly, and in total privacy.
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Nicolas Julia
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Gaming, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, Israel, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
  • ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
  • Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.
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Cesc Fabregas
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Francesc "Cesc" Fàbregas Soler is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for English club Chelsea and the Spain national team.

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Investment focus

  • Video, Sports, Publishing
  • Seed
  • Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Grabyo — Cloud-native live production, video clipping and editing. Using Grabyo you can collaborate to create video content for every screen.
  • The Football Company — Create your digital fan identity and compete against others worldwide. Collect & win rare NFT items, that you truly own and trade them to earn real profit.
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Adeo Ressi
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States

Adeo Ressi is CEO of the Founder Institute (http://FI.co), a pre-seed startup accelerator that operates in nearly 200 cities worldwide. Adeo has founded or run ten technology businesses, and he has developed a number of innovations that help startup companies. He is passionate about mentoring Founders, space exploration and inspiringpeople to achieve their greatness.

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Investment focus

  • News, AgTech, Aerospace
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Tech.eu — The premier source of European technology news, data, research, analysis and in-depth market intelligence.
  • INTERSTELLAR LAB — autonomous modules for crop cultivation on Earth and life-support in Space
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Will Neale
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Japan, Spain

Portfolio highlights

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

Marc McCabe is a Scout at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Nomad Capital. Prior to this role, Marc was a Business Development Lead and before that, a Team Member of Business and Corporate Development. Previously, Marc was a Partner at SV Angel and an Online Media Associate at Google.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Big Data, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Noloco — Noloco is a no-code platform for teams to instantly create apps powered by their business data. Easily turn Airtable bases and spreadsheets into customer portals or internal tools without code.
  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
  • Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
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Bootstrapped Debt Financing
Angel

Bootstrapped Debt Financing

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Kornem Energy — Kornem Energy provides energy intelligence and mobile-fuel delivery and diesel delivery on demand for the needs of today, tomorrow, and our future.We are eliminating the traditional fuel supply chain infrastructure using IOT & a compact terminal-to-car logistics aggregation, through service, automation and mobility.This enables us todeliver fuel directly to the customers who can request fuel delivery wherever they are, through our mobile app, while bridging the gap between feedstock aggregation, quality-assurance and end-user accessibility.No more expensive real estate, no more extensive supply chain. Just #FuelToYou
  • SymbaSync — SymbaSync™ helps organizations maximize return on employee investment by providing Human Resources Software to source, qualify, and engage employees to populate project teams. SymbaSync’s tools increase employee satisfaction improving employee ownership, engagement, and retention. SymbaSync provides a company with a complete overview of up-to-dateemployee skills, interests, and workplace preferences.
  • Tactii — We do rapid prototyping on machine learning and analytics for small companies. Our main focus is to bring down the budget for small companies and startups who want to explore things in Machine Learning. Affordable Machine Learning for startups and small companies. We are partnering up with various startups and small companies.
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Megan Kaspar
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Megan Kaspar is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Magnetic. She previously worked at MKE as a Managing Partner. Megan Kaspar attended the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Investment focus

  • Publishing, Marketplace, Digital Media
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Croatia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • CYBR Magazine — Buy issues of CYBR Magazine the futurist magazine curating futurism, technology and techwear.
  • Tribute Brand — 51K Followers, 2 Following, 227 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from TRIBUTE BRAND (@tribute_brand)
  • Trustless Media — A new kind of production hub where ideas people care about actually come to life.
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Benjamin Yoskovitz
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Founding Partner at Highline BETA, a startup co-creation and venture development company. Ben is an entrepreneur, product lead, angel investor. He co-authored Lean Analytics.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Reedsy — Reedsy allows authors to find and work with the best publishing professionals: from developmental editors to book cover designers, publicists and translators.
  • Breather — Breather is an app and a provider of space-as-a-service, with a growing network of private workspaces built for productivity. It enables businesses to access flexible workspace by the hour, day, or month. Every space is designed to be comfortable, private, and productive, with plug-and-play technology that ensures that can get to work as soon asthe arrival.Founded by CEO Julien Smith in 2012, the company has grown to include hundreds of locations in 10 major across the globe including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London.
  • CareGuide — We believe good people deserve the best care. Connect with housekeepers, nannies, pet sitters, and elder \ care providers with ease. Trusted and secure.
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Ciara McElligott
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Ciara McElligott is an Investor / Strategic Advisor / NED in human capital/work tech.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • ufurnish.com — ufurnish.com is the home for furniture discovery. Search, discover, compare and shop furniture online across the entire retail market on one website.
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Antoine Nussenbaum
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Antoine is a Partner and member of the founding team of Felix Capital. He currently sits on the boards of TravelPerk, Papier, Frichti, Heetch and Urban Massage.He previously was a Partner at Atlas Global, a private equity fund originally part of GLG Partners. Prior to Felix Capital he has worked closely with various early-stage digital startupsincluding Mirakl, Reedsy, 31Dover, Pave.com and actively helped them launch their businesses. He has also been involved since inception with Huckletree, a fast growing coworking operator dedicated to the European digital community which was started by his wife. Antoine moved to London in 2006 when he joined ABN AMRO as an M&A investment banker. Prior to this he was based in Paris and was part of the founding team of NT Valley, a software business aim at retailers. He started his career as a brand and intangible asset valuation consultant at Sorgem Evaluation.A graduate of ESCP European Business School and University Paris Dauphine, Antoine is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, News
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Reedsy — Reedsy allows authors to find and work with the best publishing professionals: from developmental editors to book cover designers, publicists and translators.
  • Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.
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Joachim Behrendt
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Scorp — "User generated viral video machine " is the definition for Scorp Ads. We convert the power of word of mouth into short selfie-videos. Scorp seeds the message and motivates users to join the conversation on brands' topic with positive association or hype about the brand.Viewers like to consume content that they are interestedin. In Scorp there are wide range of videos that is not just only about comedy or music but also about news, politics, sports, movies&TV shows, celebrities, books-art, food, fashion-beauty and relationships that are created as selfie 15 second videos. Scorp shows users 100s of videos, opinions or approaches on a single topic. The format enables users to discover different point of views.
  • Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
  • Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
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Sven Fund
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

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Investment focus

  • Publishing, Information Technology, Digital Media
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Zapnito — Zapnito is an online community platform that helps organizations connect with their communities. Harness your expertise with our community management software.
  • SciFlow — SciFlow is a comprehensive publishing platform that allows researchers to focus on what is important – their research. We offer an intuitive text editor that helps to focus on writing – not formatting – the document. All co-authors can write, comment and review the same version of the article. With our premium services, we allow researchers tocheck for plagiarism and spelling errors and to translate their text. With one click, the article is exported to a publisher compliant format. Unlike existing text editors, researchers can perform all tasks related to publishing scientific texts with SciFlow on a single platform. Thus, SciFlow saves time and gives the confidence to submit an article to a publisher.
  • Journal of Medical Insight (JoMI) — The Journal of Medical Insight (JOMI) is a surgical journal publishing high-definition, peer-reviewed video articles for surgeons, physicians, and medical students.
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Federico Pirzio-Biroli
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.

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Investment focus

  • Non Profit, Software, Venture Capital
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • Bibblio — Conversion optimization, powered by AI. Increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences, for stronger site metrics and ROI.
  • Brewbot — Brewbot is dedicated to the wonderful world of beer and beerbrewing
  • Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future
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Raghav Gupta
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Raghav Gupta is the President at Butlr. He attended Princeton University.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Squark — Squark's no-code AI SaaS platform and API serves industries like media & entertainment, gaming and casinos, SaaS, and healthcare marketing.
  • Powerspike — Powerspike is a new type of advertising network based on content creators - where any marketer can make their brand famous in a few clicks. Our Endorsement Serving technology automatically buys, executes, and optimizes content creator endorsements - replacing the traditionally lengthy process of RFP’s, human negotiations, and insertion orders.
  • Giggster, Inc. — The better way to book filming locations and event venues. Browse and scout 6,000+ locations, with real reviews and local hosts, and find the perfect space near you.
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Daniel Waterhouse
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months

Daniel joined Balderton as a General Partner in 2013 and he currently sits on the boards of Revolut, ROLI, Lovecrafts, TrademarkNow, Tictail, Thread, and Workable and also works with Instabridge and Curious.AI.Prior to Balderton, Daniel spent 5 years as a partner at Wellington Partners and invested in a number of fast-growing companiesincluding EyeEm, Hailo, YPlan, Bookatable (also a Balderton portfolio company, sold to Michelin), SumAll, Readmill (sold to Dropbox) and Qype (sold to Yelp).Before Wellington, Daniel was a sector partner at 3i where he worked on all of their venture and private equity investments in the internet sector in North America and Europe.And before that, he was at Yahoo! for six years from 1999, covering strategic development and M&A across the European region. He has a PhD and MA in applied mathematics from Oxford University and a Chartered Diploma in Accounting and Finance.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Mapfit — Mapfit was sunset in October 2018. Please see these 16 Google Places API alternatives.
  • Unaric — Unaric buys, builds and grows Salesforce based SaaS companies and is backed by leading global investors.
  • Turbine — Turbine builds a platform to understand the inner mechanisms of cancer, enabling the discovery of novel protein targets, precision biomarkers, and better translation to patients. Turbine uses its proprietary Simulated Cell technology in combination with Artificial Intelligence to build a faster and deeper biological understanding of therapeutictargets or indications, untangling the complexity of cancer.
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Rene Rechtman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

René Rechtman has been a successful part of the media, entertainment and tech environment since 1998 both as an entrepreneur and investor. René has completed three significant exits. Most recently, selling Maker Studios to The Walt Disney Company, prior Goviral to AOL and in 2005 leading Tradedoubler to IPO. René has been listed in Wired Europe’sTop 100 most influential list several times.

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Investment focus

  • Social Media, Events, Guides
  • Funding Round, Angel, Series A
  • Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Tattoodo — Find your next tattoo
  • GameAnalytics — GameAnalytics is one of the world’s most popular analytics tools for games, used by indie developers, games studios, and established publishers around the world. Our network is approaching 100,000 games, which are played by more than 1.2 billion people each month. Since our launch back in 2012, GameAnalytics has received over $8M in funding fromhigh-profile tech investors, including Michael Arrington (Founder of TechCrunch) and Jimmy Maymann (CEO at Huffington Post).In 2016, the company was acquired by the leading mobile advertising company, Mobvista. For more information, visit https://www.gameanalytics.com
  • RFRSH Entertainment — RFRSH Entertainment is an esports marketing and media rights company working with a growing number of the best esports teams - established organisations as well as a new crop of player-owned teams. We are the professional force behind the teams that builds their brand and enhances sports performance to accel teams into top placements. Theyrepresent the team’s commercial and media rights, connecting them with the top brands in the world for sponsorships and marketing agreements.
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Christian Faes
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United Kingdom, Australia, United States

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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Carlos Espinal
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Carlos is Managing Partner at Seedcamp, Europe's seed fund, investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. Carlos hails originally from Latin America and joined Seedcamp in '09 following stints as an Associate at Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and as an engineer forthe Advanced Communications Technologies group of The New York Stock Exchange (SIAC). Carlos runs Seedcamp alongside Reshma Sohoni and is passionate about working closely with founders from their earliest stage, supporting them across everything from finding product-market-fit to setting fundraising milestones - he wrote a successful book on that very topic, The Fundraising Fieldguide. Carlos is frequently listed as one of the most influential voices in tech and VC. You can find Carlos podcasting at 'This Much I Know' where he interviews leading tech voices, innovators, entrepreneurs, investors and operators as they share their stories with Seedcamp's global audience.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Wellness, Cloud Computing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Kern AI — Kern AI offers services in the field of natural language processing that enable a range of interaction modes between humans and machines. They manage natural language products, ETL pipelines, and workflows. The company's contact modes are mail and physical address.
  • Tech.eu — The premier source of European technology news, data, research, analysis and in-depth market intelligence.
  • Telleroo — Better bulk payments. Cut out payment errors. Work more securely. Get payment, accounting systems & finance teams working better together. Save time and hassle.
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Thomas Leysen
Angel

Mr. Thomas Leysen served as the Managing Director of Umicore NV. Mr. Leysen joined Umicore in 1993. Mr. Leysen served as an Executive Vice President of Umicore SA from 1998 to 2000. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Umicore SA from May 10, 2000 to November 2008. He transformed the former Union Minière, a non-ferrous company in aninternational materials-technology group called Umicore. He started his career in the maritime business in Hamburg, London and Tokyo. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Transcor Group from 1983 to 1988. In 1989, he managed the restructuration of the General Trading Cy, a subsidiary of the Société Générale de Belgique. He has been the Chairman of Umicore SA since November 19, 2008. He has been the Chairman of the Board at KBC Group NV, KBC Bank NV and KBC Insurance since October 1, 2011. He serves as Chairman of Corelio NV, Eurometaux, Corelio Media , and European Association of Metals, Eurométaux. He serves as President and Chairman of the BJA.

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Investment focus

  • EBooks, EdTech, Education
  • Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
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Charlie Songhurst
Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 20 investments 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

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

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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David Langer
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

David Langer is the Founding Partner at Lionheart Ventures, a global, seed-stage venture capital firm investing in companies that make humanity more resilient. Our focus areas are climate protection, mental health and financial inclusion.Previously, David was an angel investor in 20+ companies and founder & CEO of Zesty, a healthy corporatecatering company whose mission is to improve the health of humanity. Zesty served 7+ million meals and raised $20MM+ from investors including Index Ventures, Founders Fund and Y Combinator before being acquired by Square in 2018.David’s entrepreneurial career began in 2005 as co-founder & CEO of GroupSpaces, a London-based SaaS company targeting membership groups backed by investors including Index Ventures, Lowercase Capital and Avonmore Developments. In 2010, David was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts for Services to Entrepreneurship.Personally, David is passionate about developing a strong mind and body. He is a certified hatha and yin yoga teacher, experienced meditator and regular attendee of Burning Man, and other transformational events. He is also a hobbyist powerlifter, and previously competed at CrossFit, triathlon and was a national table tennis champion as a child. He has appeared on TV game shows in England including ITV's The Krypton Factor, Channel 4's Countdown and Channel 5's Brainteaser.David studied Mathematics at St Anne's College, Oxford where he was awarded 2nd place in the UK Graduate of the Year competition by Real World Magazine.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Wellness, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Groww — Start Online Investing in Stocks and Direct Mutual Funds with India's Leading Investment and Trading Platform - Groww. Equity Trading, US Stocks, Direct Mutual Funds with Zero-commission.
  • Calm — Relax with Calm, a simple mindfulness meditation app that brings clarity and peace of mind into your life
  • BibliU — BibliU is an innovative learning enablement platform that gives students access to the course materials they need, from etextbooks to courseware and monographs.
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Will Martin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
  • Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
  • Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
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Simon Murdoch
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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

  • E-Commerce, Software, Analytics
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

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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Ian Hogarth
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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

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

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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Dave McClure
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
  • Tribal — Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs whohave built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.
  • Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
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Don Hoang
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Don Hoang is the Partner of Atomico. He previously worked at Revolut as a Vice President of Global Business. Don Hoang attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Analytics, B2B, Social
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Formance — Numary makes it easy to build complex money-moving software with its open-source ledger & Numscript programming language.
  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
  • consola.finance — consola.finance is business-to-business finance and accounting SaaS platform that aims to automate financial processes for Web3 businesses, including bookkeeping, reporting, and analytics.
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Turi Munthe
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Turi manages a significant proportion of NBM’s dealflow, with a particular focus on EMEA. He sits on the boards of NBM portfolio companies in the US, Europe, the Middle East and India.Before joining NBM, Turi advised multiple early and later stage media and media tech companies. In 2012, Turi exited his company Demotix to Bill Gates’ CorbisImages. Demotix, which he founded in 2007, had become the world’s largest network of photojournalists.

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Investment focus

  • Software, News, Computer
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Snap.hr — Sign up to Snap.hr now to get headhunted by 500+ other tech companies
  • The Mill — Award-winning local journalism from Greater Manchester's new quality newspaper - join our free mailing list or support us as a paying member. Click to read The Mill, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
  • Signal AI — Signal AI is an AI-powered business intelligence and media monitoring company that aggregates, analyses, and provides business leaders with insights into digital, print and broadcast media, news, and regulatory data. Signal AI’s machine learning enables businesses to track their competitive landscape, changes to regulation, and monitor theirreputation—empowering them to make smarter, faster business decisions.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
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Andrew Grahame
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Andrew Grahame is a Founder at The Cook & The Thief.He attended St Austell College.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Apps, Beauty
  • Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Jellyfish — We are the industry leaders in the creation of high-performance, multi-language ecommerce content. Learn more about our expertise in Ecommerce Content.
  • Shopological — Shopological is a website and mobile app focusing on men’s and women’s fashion, beauty, and lifestyle as well as providing access to sales and promotional updates aggregated from more than 1,400 fashion and beauty retailers.Registered members receive personalized email reminders whenever their favorite shops or brands have a sale or promotion,allowing them priority access to sell products.Shopological has received The IBM People's Choice Award 2014 and The RBS EnterprisingU Award 2012. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
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Michele Connolly
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Michele Connolly is an EMA Head of Infrastructure, KPMG.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • ufurnish.com — ufurnish.com is the home for furniture discovery. Search, discover, compare and shop furniture online across the entire retail market on one website.
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Mark Thompson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Mark Thompson became President and Chief Executive Officer of The New York Times Company on November 12, 2012. He is responsible for leading the company’s strategy, operations and business units.Thompson has been instrumental in accelerating the pace of The Times’s digital transformation. Under his leadership, The Times became the first newsorganization in the world to pass the one million digital-only subscription mark. The company has also introduced a new era of international growth, launched an industry-leading branded content studio and invested in virtual reality, producing some of the most celebrated work in this emerging medium.Before joining the Times Company, Thompson served as Director-General of the BBC from 2004, where he reshaped the organization to meet the challenge of the digital age, ensuring that it remained a leading innovator with the launch of services such as the BBC iPlayer. He also oversaw a transformation of the BBC itself, driving productivity and efficiency through the introduction of new technologies and bold organizational redesign.Thompson joined the BBC in 1979 as a production trainee. He helped launch “Watchdog” and “Breakfast Time,” was an Output Editor on “Newsnight,” and was appointed Editor of the “Nine O’Clock News” in 1988 and of “Panorama” in 1990. He became Controller (programming and scheduling chief) for the TV network BBC2 and Director of Television for the BBC before leaving the BBC in 2002 to become C.E.O. of Channel 4 Television Corporation in the United Kingdom.In the autumn of 2012, he was a visiting professor of rhetoric and the art of public persuasion at the University of Oxford. His book “Enough Said: What’s Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?,” which is based on the lectures he gave at Oxford, was published in the U.K. and U.S. in September 2016. Thompson was educated at Stonyhurst College and Merton College, Oxford.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • GPTZero — Covered by >100 media outlets, GPTZero is the most advanced AI detector for ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard. Check up to 50000 characters for AI plagiarism in seconds.
  • The Mill — Award-winning local journalism from Greater Manchester's new quality newspaper - join our free mailing list or support us as a paying member. Click to read The Mill, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Diane Coyle
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge.

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Investment focus

  • News, Publishing
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • The Mill — Award-winning local journalism from Greater Manchester's new quality newspaper - join our free mailing list or support us as a paying member. Click to read The Mill, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Fritz Demopoulos
Angel

Fritz Demopoulos has been an entrepreneur and investor within the media and internet industries for over 10 years. He co-founded Qunar.com, China's largest travel internet company; and Shawei.com, China's largest sports internet company. Fritz also had senior positions at Netease and The News Corporation.

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Hospitality, Tourism
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Germany, Spain, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • Tourlane — Discover the world's most enchanting destinations and exciting hideaways on your perfect vacation. At Tourlane, our Travel Experts make planning your trip of a lifetime easy and worry-free.
  • BibliU — BibliU is an innovative learning enablement platform that gives students access to the course materials they need, from etextbooks to courseware and monographs.
  • TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy the world's largest travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
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Nick Mason
Angel

Nicholas Berkeley Mason, CBE is an English drummer and founder member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Social Media, B2B
  • Series A, Seed
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • LICKD — Music licensing for video Creators on YouTube & Facebook. Making music available for everyone to use, without compromise.
  • Lightful — Lightful helps nonprofits and charities develop the skills, tools and confidence to build trust and gain support online
  • Disciple — Bring your people, memberships, and content together in your own fully-branded and private community platform.
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Paul Field
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

CEO EMEA, TouchCast. Partner, bMuse. Director, Higgaboom. Advisor, Dugout. Advisor to Amaliah and Lead Investor. Board Member and Investor, Inn Style Ltd. Investor, The Memo. Ignite Accelerator Investor and Mentor. Free Word Board Member. Consultant. Ex Daily Mail executive

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Investment focus

  • Art, Women's, Internet
  • Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • AMALIAH — Amaliah is dedicated to amplifying the voices of Muslim women. Led by a passion to empower individuals through their identity, our work seeks to surface the many different voices and experiences within our community. We create content for Muslim women that aims to shape thought and act as a tool for cultural change.
  • The Memo — The feel good baby edit to make big decisions, easy. Shop best selling, trusted and adored baby and maternity essentials. Free delivery over $99!
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David Walter
Angel · Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

David Walter is founder of Use Space Manchester, a new co-working hub in Ardwick, Manchester.

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Investment focus

  • Computer, Internet, PC Games
  • Angel
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • By Gamers For Gamers — Made up entirely of gamers, we are a team that is dedicated to bringing you the best PC gaming and tech content possible.
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Stefano Rosso
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Stefano was born on June 1st, 1979 in Marostica (Vicenza) in North East Italy. After high school in Bassano del Grappa, he left Italy to pursue his studies at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, where he completed a BA in International Trade and Marketing. He began his work experience outside the family company, collaborating with brandslike ZooYork, part of the Ecko Unlimited group. Stefano returned to Italy in 2005 with a new challenge: he began his professional experience at Diesel, working in different areas of the company (from production to marketing), to become eventually Strategic Brand Alliances Director, planning and managing the brand’s collaborations in diverse fields. His latest projects were a limited edition sneakers series with adidas Originals, and the partnership with Ducati.In July 2011, Stefano Rosso has left Diesel for a new position challenge: he is currently Director of Corporate Development for OTB (Only the Brave) Group, the holding which incorporates Diesel, Maison Martin Margiela, Viktor & Rolf, and Staff International (an Italian company manufacturing and distributing licensed prêt-à-porter brands DSquared2, Just Cavalli, Vivienne Westwood and Marc Jacobs Menswear, as well as the group’s own brands Maison Martin Margiela and Viktor&Rolf). Stefano Rosso loves and plays soccer, and he is president of the Bassano soccer team. He loves snowboarding and motorcycling, and he is into contemporary and street art and the whole digital world.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Video, Beauty
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

  • Heat — Discover the new, immersive way to shop designer fashion and high end streetwear for both men and women on HEAT. Off-White, Palm Angels and more may be included in the HEAT mystery box.
  • CYBR Magazine — Buy issues of CYBR Magazine the futurist magazine curating futurism, technology and techwear.
  • The Fabricant — A digital fashion house leading the fashion industry towards a new sector of digital-only clothing.
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Konstantin Stiskin
Angel · Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus

Konstantin Stiskin is the Co-Founder and Supervisory Board member at Finom.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Apps, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Genotek — The company delivers genetic tests that help people to live healthier (predisposition tests), save lives (inherited deseases) and help in family planning (carrier screening).
  • Play Piper — The Piper Computer Kit is the ultimate D.I.Y. computer-building experience, for ages 8-13. Build a REAL computer from start to finish while playing Minecraft: Raspberry Pi Edition to learn how to code and make STEAM connections to the real-world.
  • Mobalytics — The all-in-one gaming companion that analyzes your performance and gives you insights to level up your game.
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Andrin Bachmann
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Andrin brings his entrepreneurial spirit and investment experience to Piton. He was a co-founder of Glocalnet, which became Sweden's 3rd largest consumer telecom service provider and was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange before being acquired by Telenor. Following this, he was a partner at M/C Venture Partners - one of the leadingprivate equity investors in the US telecom services space. He was also one of two principals establishing an investment company that became QXL Ricardo PLC's largest shareholder in 2005, and was instrumental in the transformation of QXL leading to its sale to Naspers for around $1.9 billion.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
  • Seed, Series B, Series C
  • United Kingdom, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Bibulu — Connect with 5-star sitters and dog walkers near you who offer dog boarding, dog walking, house sitting, or doggy day care. Book and pay securely.
  • Dala — Your workplace has the answer. Just ask Dala for it.
  • Koru Kids — Koru Kids is a building better childcare services, starting with nanny sharing in London. The team behind Koru Kids has a background in childcare (their own and other people's), healthcare and tech startups. Their company name is Koru Kids, company number is 10047637, and their HQ is 110 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2LS. 'Koru Kids'is a registered trademark (UK00003153316). They are registered with the Information Commissioners' Office (registration number ZA181818), and also affiliated with the Financial Conduct Authority's Innovation Hub. They are grateful for the ongoing support (financial and moral!) of Camden Council.
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Nenad Marovac
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Nenad Marovac has more than 25 years of venture capital and private equity investment experience in the technology and media sectors.Nenad is the Founder and Managing Partner of DN Capital. Prior to DN Capital, Nenad was a Partner at Advent International in London, where he focused on TMT investments.Nenad focuses on investments inmarketplaces, software as a service (SAAS), fintech, consumer mobile applications and digital health companies. Amongst his select investments are Shazam Entertainment (sold to Apple), Auto1 (largest online marketplace for used cars), Apsmart (acquired by Thomson Reuters), Datanomic (acquired by Oracle), Endeca, (acquired by Oracle), Eve Sleep (IPO London), Happn, Hometogo, Hostmaker, Joblift, Mister Spex, Performance Horizon Group, Purplebricks (IPO London), Tbricks (acquired by Orc) and Quandoo (acquired by Recruit Holding). Nenad is also the Chair of Invest Europe and an active member of YPO in London and Berlin.Nenad received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Shopping
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Germany, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Reedsy — Reedsy allows authors to find and work with the best publishing professionals: from developmental editors to book cover designers, publicists and translators.
  • GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
  • Annelutfen.com — Annelutfen is a full price online shop for baby products (0-12) in Turkey. Annelutfen offers the widest selection (18.000 SKUs), fast delivery (1-3 days), and best in class user experience.
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Nicole Junkermann
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Nicole Junkermann is the Founder at NJF Capital.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Analytics
  • Seed, Series C, Funding Round
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.
  • Tausendkind — Tausendkind is the Children's Clothing Online Store for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, good friends - simply for those who wish to bestow a baby or small child is not only with children's and baby fashion. They have also a variety of other ways to discover beautiful gifts and necessities for your children. Likewise, you always getusing Their unique service that offers you advice and assistance, not only to issues relating to children's fashion the right answer. You will find thousands of child lovingly chosen children's and baby clothing that gives maximum comfort and your offspring will accompany you faithfully through the first months of life. The range also includes in addition to the children's fashion, fashion toy for young and old, well-known brands such as Brio and Haba, to smaller brands like Janod and Lilliputiens. The everyday life of families with young children living apart from children's clothing and toys but especially of practical accessories, not only parents in many situations in daily life to help with the little ones. Useful changing pads, hot water bottles and scrims, and practical items for soothing babies, such as mobile or music boxes, all this and much more can be found at their Baby Accessory again. If you are looking for products on special occasions is safe in their baby gifts find category - for baptism, birth, Christmas and Co. there with us something suitable, whether baby fashion, toys and accessories, you will always find a suitable gift.
  • Soundtrack Your Brand — Soundtrack Your Brand is a Spotify joint venture and the exclusive provider of Spotify Business and Spotify Enterprise. We connect brands and fans, and our vision is to grow the music market and thereby support artists, so that they can give the world more great music
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Volker Hirsch
Angel · Macclesfield, Cheshire East, United Kingdom

Volker Hirsch is the Chief Commercial Officer of Medicines Discovery Catapult. He previously worked at Bibblio as a Chairman & Investor. Volker Hirsch attended the University of Hamburg.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Apps, EdTech
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Wonde — Wonde operates a platform that provides schools with the tools to manage their school data. Its solution allows schools to control their school data; approve, decline, and monitor those who integrate with their data; and receive monthly reports and manage the application. The company’s solution also allows developers to view the status of existingintegrations and request access to new school data, as well as school data integration. In addition, it offers reporting tools to the school senior leadership team. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  • Pi-Top — pi-top is a fast-growing ed-tech company with a unique vision to increase access to coding, robotics and AI through project-based learning.pi-top’s mission is to inspire a generation of makers by giving young people STEAM-related hard skills (e.g. coding and circuitry) and in-demand soft skills (e.g. communication, critical thinking andproblem-solving) that they will need in a rapidly changing world.pi-top’s award-winning hardware and software ecosystem is used around the world thousands of homes, maker spaces and schools, blending physical computing and project-based learning with Computer Science and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) education. With its latest product ecosystem educators and students get to design, code and make anything they can imagine.
  • The Link App — The Link App drives businesses forward through on-demand and secure communications between legal professionals and their clients.
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Will Brooks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
  • Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
  • Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
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Thierry Henry
Angel

Thierry Daniel Henry is a retired French professional footballer who played as a forward. He played for Monaco, Juventus, Barcelona, New York Red Bulls and spent eight years at Arsenal where he is the club's all-time record goalscorer.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Video, Sports
  • Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Grabyo — Cloud-native live production, video clipping and editing. Using Grabyo you can collaborate to create video content for every screen.
  • HomeCourt — HomeCourt is a mobile app that uses AI to record and track basketball shots, makes, misses, and location.
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jonathan wright
Angel

jonathan wright

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Investment focus

  • Printing, Publishing, Packaging Services
  • Funding Round
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Reel Label Solutions — Label Printing Specialists
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Doug Scott
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Doug Scott is Founder at Potential.co

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Investment focus

  • Advertising, B2B, Event Promotion
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Campus — Live courses with top professors.
  • Ricochet.ai — Deep learning tools for sales development teams
  • Citruslabs — Citruslabs provides a simple and affordable way to prove your products actually work. We offer clinical trials for dietary supplements, skincare & cosmetic products, health foods, medical devices, pet products, CBD products, and biotech companies. It has never been easier to create research-backed product claims.
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Nicholas Johnston
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Nicholas Johnston

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Investment focus

  • News, Coffee, Organic
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • CRU Kafe — Here at CRU Kafe our mission is simple, to deliver the finest Organic coffee from around the world, in the convenience of a Nespresso® friendly capsule. We care about the big picture, and that means Fairtrade partnerships, eco-firendly packaging and honest customer relationships.
  • The Mill — Award-winning local journalism from Greater Manchester's new quality newspaper - join our free mailing list or support us as a paying member. Click to read The Mill, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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