Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023
Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023
| Investor | Recruiting United Kingdom investments |
|---|---|
| Paul Forster | 4 |
| Will Martin | 3 |
| Will Brooks | 3 |
| Stefan Ciecierski | 3 |
| Chris Bruce | 2 |
| Simon Murphy | 2 |
| Michael Whitfield | 2 |
| Steve Perry | 2 |
| Rajan Navani | 2 |
| Jimmy Braimah | 2 |
| Peter Preston | 2 |
| Stuart Marks | 2 |
| Sir Terry Leahy | 2 |
| Mandeep Singh | 1 |
| Catherine Lenson | 1 |
| Simon Ramery | 1 |
| Mehmet Yilmaz | 1 |
| Richard Fearn | 1 |
| Duncan Jennings | 1 |
| David Craig | 1 |
| Graham Clempson | 1 |
| Nevzat Aydın | 1 |
| Ference Brose | 1 |
| Carlos Gonzalez- Cadenas | 1 |
| Oliver Black | 1 |
| Kingsley Duffy | 1 |
| Stephen Warrington | 1 |
| Neha Tanna | 1 |
| Carlos Domingo | 1 |
| Kevin Beales | 1 |
| Orkhan Abdullayev | 1 |
| Thomas Regier | 1 |
| Kıvanc Semen | 1 |
| Derek Jacobson | 1 |
| Joshua Cornelius | 1 |
| Rod Leefe | 1 |
| Vivek Kumar | 1 |
| Rudy Kadoch | 1 |
| Giles Phelps | 1 |
| Ian Dyke | 1 |
| Mike Kershaw | 1 |
| Shakil Khan | 1 |
| Nick Kingsbury | 1 |
| Selcuk Gerger | 1 |
| Jenny Ervine | 1 |
| Yoann Turpin | 1 |
| Alex Macdonald | 1 |
| David Haye | 1 |
| Catherine Lenson | 1 |
| David Blake | 1 |
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Paul Forster
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
- CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
- finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Stefan Ciecierski
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- SaaS, Video, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Willo — Interview anyone, anywhere for free. GDPR compliant one-way video interviews that can be set up in minutes. Trusted in over 100 countries - free to start.
Chris was a benefit consultant when he co-founded Thomsons. His role spans every aspect of the business, from engaging with clients to the development of DarwinTM software. This means he is in close contact with HR and benefit specialists globally, understanding the changing benefit landscape.
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- Recruiting, Internet, Human Resources
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Unmind — Unmind is a workplace mental health platform. We empower employees to measure, understand, and improve their mental wellbeing.
- HowNow — HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.
- HR DataHub — HR DataHub operates as an HR data benchmarking platform for organizations to tackle issues that are right at the top of the boardroom agenda.
Simon Murphy Entrepreneur & Investor
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- Consumer Goods, Retail, Mobile
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Pieter Pot — Verpakkingsvrij boodschappen doen bij online supermarkt Pieter Pot. Makkelijk aan huis geleverd in herbruikbare statiegeldpotten. Pot leeg? Dan vullen we hem opnieuw. Met onze verpakkingsvrije bezorgdienst verminderen we de hoeveelheid afval en CO2. Waarom zou je nog verpakkingen kopen?
- Seat Unique — Seat Unique is an online marketplace to buy official hospitality packages and VIP tickets to live sports, music, and cultural events.
- The Smart Container Company — The Smart Container Company is the team behind KegTracker and BeverEDGE, a first-to-market IoT device and platform that instantly turns kegs into SMART containers. Our technology tracks real-time location, volume, temperature, and motion for each keg and delivers actionable insights that enable transparency and zero.
Michael Whitfield - Chairman @ hundo.careers
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- Recruiting, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Unmind — Unmind is a workplace mental health platform. We empower employees to measure, understand, and improve their mental wellbeing.
- Involve.ai — involve.ai helps you prevent churn, grow revenue, and deliver amazing customer outcomes.
- HR DataHub — HR DataHub operates as an HR data benchmarking platform for organizations to tackle issues that are right at the top of the boardroom agenda.
Steve is an Economist by training with a Ph.D. in econometrics. After 3 years at the TSB Bank, ultimately as Group Economist, Steve joined Visa Europe where he held several Executive positions: Head of Strategy, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Digital Officer and finally, Founder & CEO Visa Europe Collab (Visa’sInnovation Centre). Steve is an experienced Executive and Non-Executive Director & Chairman, particularly in fintech and Data Analytics.
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- SaaS, Video, Software
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Willo — Interview anyone, anywhere for free. GDPR compliant one-way video interviews that can be set up in minutes. Trusted in over 100 countries - free to start.
Rajan Navani - CEO & Founder @ JetSynthesys
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- Art, Coffee, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Peepul Tree — Peepul Tree is a platform for the hand-made artisanal works. Peepul Tree celebrates the rich and varied legacy that these artisans carry.
- Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.
- Assiduus Global — We are a trusted Global E-commerce partner and accelerator, a unified platform helping to Build and Scale E-commerce Brands Globally. Reach us Now!
Jimmy Braimah
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- SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Goodtalent — Goodtalent.io is a cloud-based social talent marketplace for companies to crowdsource, screen, hire and pay software engineering talents globally, for full-time, remote, and contract roles.
Peter Preston
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- SaaS, Video, Software
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Willo — Interview anyone, anywhere for free. GDPR compliant one-way video interviews that can be set up in minutes. Trusted in over 100 countries - free to start.
Stuart Marks is a successful entrepreneur who has built and sold four businesses over the past 25 years. They have spanned several sectors including CRM, location-based services and digital media. Every company applied innovation to challenge existing business models.Stuart has worked with a diverse and international customer-base includingSainsbury’s, British Airways, Unilever, Vodafone, BMW and various government agencies across the world. His previous company, ITIS Holdings plc, was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was Europe’s leading provider of real-time traffic information and connected car technology.The first company to commercialize crowdsourced data from GPS devices and mobile phone networks, Stuart sold the firm in 2011 to Washington-based INRIX before going on to establish L Marks to invest in the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
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- Software, Information Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Urbix — Urbix is producing a management dashboard for municipalities to manage their data and processes to ensure that decisions are made based on hard evidence which is readily available in an easy to understand format.
- WeFiFo — WeFiFo launched in 2016 and is a multi-award-winning platform that enables enthusiastic home cooks, Supper Club hosts and professional chefs to share their food with paying guests. WeFiFo is Airbnb for the kitchen table but offers much more than just a marketplace. Designed to encourage and empower talented cooks to monetise their kitchen skills,WeFiFo offers a sophisticated infrastructure allowing hosts to up-skill and earn a transformative income with flexible working hours and rewards. WeFiFo also supports professional chefs who don't want the risk of a bricks and mortar restaurant but want to feed a new audience. Anyone can sign up and join in, hosts are not pre-screened or curated, but ratings and reviews help guests choose between the multitude of events on offer – from novice cooks to award winning chefs at the top of their game. They are the online destination to discover exciting experiential dining near you and their platform promotes, insures and inspires cooks and chefs of all abilities to take the next step on their food journey while keeping hosts and guests safe every step of the way.
- Orbital Witness — Instant property insight - Liberation for everyone involved in property transactions.
Sir Terry Leahy joined Cheshunt, England-based Tesco in 1979 and held marketing positions at the retailer before becoming commercial director of fresh foods in 1986 and a member of the board in 1990. Leahy was appointed Chief Executive of Tesco plc in March 1997.Leahy received a Knighthood for services to food retailing in the 2002 New YearHonours. He was voted as Britain’s Most Admired Leader (2005 and 2006) by Management Today, recognized by the Wall Street Journal and CNBC as European Business Leader of the Year (2005), and named European Businessman of the Year by Fortune (2004). A Guardian Unlimited Politics panel found him to be the most influential non-elected person in Britain in 2007.Leahy is a Director on the Liverpool Vision Regeneration Board and a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council.In 2010 he received the Daily Telegraph’s Award for a Decade of Excellence in Business, a Lifetime Achievement award from Director Magazine, and was voted Business Person of the Year by the Sunday Times.Sir Terry Leahy retired from Tesco in March 2011.
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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sirenum — Sirenum is a cloud-based platform for managing the staff lifecycle for agencies, recruiters and organisations who rely on staff for operational purposes.Sirenum is built on a highly agile technology platform, which allows us to connect with other service providers for functions not yet in the system. This trick allows us to deliver features thatthey would not otherwise have, if a client requires these features up front. Once significant demand for a particular feature becomes apparent, they may decide develop that feature in house, replacing the outside vendor and retaining additional profits.Sirenum is geared towards employers who operate complex workforces of shift workers. Sirenum is particularly suited to the Staffing, Railway, Aviation, Construction, Hospitality, Healthcare, Home care, Deliveries, Logistics and Transportation. Operators in these sectors typically have hundreds or thousands of employees.
- SYNALOGiK — Synalogik helps organisations improve efficiency and slash costs through automated data aggregation when multiple data sources are required.
- Uptime | Knowledge Hacks — Thousands of life lessons extracted from the world's best books, courses, documentaries, and podcasts - packed into 5 minute Knowledge Hacks.
Founder and former CEO at Trouva (backed by Index Ventures & exited to LON:MADE). He is now an Angel Investor & Advisor, and a Board Member at Amnesty International. He was previously an investor at BC Partners, one of Europe’s largest Private Equity funds, investors in Intelsat, Foxtons (where Mandeep was on the board), and Chewy. Prior tothat he was a strategy consultant at OC&C and graduated in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge. He set up his first startup in his bedroom as a teenage coder.
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- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 11x.ai — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
- TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
- Sourcerie — Discover the best products for you, based on reviews from people just like you.
Catherine is an investor, board director and executive coach. She is based in London and works globally.She is an experienced international C-suite executive with a strong track record in the People, DE&I and ESG fields. Together with Jonathan Lenson. she invests in exceptional early-stage tech companies across the UK, US and Israel, andbrings in-depth previous board experience as both an executive and non-executive director.She writes and speaks on topics including the future of work, corporate culture and purpose, diversity and inclusion, and work/life integration.As part of her coaching practice, she is the first UK-based facilitator to be certified in the Fair Play method. Catherine was the first female Managing Partner appointed at SoftBank Investment Advisers, the world’s largest technology investment firm with $175 billion under management in the two SoftBank Vision Funds and SoftBank Latin America Funds. As the founding Chief People Officer for five years (2017-2022), she led the HR, ESG and Real Estate teams globally.An experienced and trusted executive coach at C-suite level, she worked with companies within the Vision Fund portfolio on leadership, talent, DE&I, ESG, and operating challenges, including as a Board Director.Catherine built SBIA’s ESG practice and designed its strategy for Social Impact. She led SoftBank’s early stage venture funds focused on diverse founders, including the $100m+ SB Opportunity Fund (US) and Emerge (EMEA), including as an Investment Committee member.Catherine is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (Class of 2021) and a founding member of Sustainability30 (which brings together Chief Sustainability Officers from 30 of the world’s leading companies).She spent the formative years of her career at UBS AG, Switzerland’s leading financial services firm, and is proud to have progressed from intern to Managing Director in the same firm. In her final role there, she led Reward for UBS across the UK and EMEA region.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Fertifa — Fertifa is an innovative employer benefit solution making fertility care more accessible and affordable.The company works with employers to offer a valuable employee benefit which bridges the gap between an employer and their employees when dealing with the sensitivity and privacy of employees’ reproductive issues. It also offers guidance andadvice, next-generation fertility treatment, and access to a range of holistic services for the best chance of success. The company was founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom.
- Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
- Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.
Simon has worked in investment banking and corporate finance for nearly 20 years and from this has a strong insight into opportunities and challenges currently facing the market participants in wealth management. Simon started his career in leveraged finance and moved into corporate finance advisory where he helped companies raise debt and equitycapital as well as provided strategic advice for fast-growing businesses and start-ups. Simon has helped a number of innovative new businesses launch and grow and has seen first-hand the disruption to the financial services sector as established players are impacted by legacy costs, increased regulation, new entrants and better technologies.
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- Mobile, Employment, Recruiting
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SonicJobs — Apply to your dream position with just one click, with the magic of AI. Sign up with SonicJobs today!
Mehmet Yilmaz is the Co-Founder of Freeletics.
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- Health Care, Hospital, Recruiting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Bloom — Bloom empowers everyone to be their own therapist through interactive video-guided therapy sessions.
- TalentGrid.io — Join a network of the best developers & get matched with full-time software developer roles all around the world. No irrelevant offers!
- Bloom Health Partners — Bloom Health Partners has been shutdown.
Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.
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- Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
- Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
- Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.
Duncan Jennings is the Investor and Board Member at Motorway.
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- Marketplace, Software, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Motorway — With so many ways to sell your car, it can be overwhelming. At Motorway, we’re focused on building the best way. Our vision is to build a better car market for everyone.Transparent and straightforward in all that we do, our smart technology matches our customers’ cars with a nationwide network of verified dealers.This enables those dealers tobuy vehicles direct from private sellers using our fully-online sales platform, with hundreds of cars successfully sold every day.Reducing time and effort on all sides, we help everyone get the right deal quickly. It all, just, works.In our first 4 years, we've helped over 2.5 million car owners value and sell their car. We've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun.
- Otta — Only matches tailored to your preferences. Only the most exciting, innovative and fast-moving companies.
- Console — A free weekly email digest of the best tools for developers.
David Craig joined Refinitiv as Founding CEO and Board Member in 2018. David Craig is President of the Financial & Risk business of Thomson Reuters.Previously, Craig served as President of Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance and had been the company’s Chief Strategy Officer.Craig also served as Chief Strategy Officer ofThomson Reuters UK Limited.He joined the company in 2007 from McKinsey & Company where he was a Partner in the Global Business Technology Office, advising banks, technology and media companies, as well as co-leading the global IT Strategy Practice and the Outsourcing and Offshoring Practice.Prior to McKinsey, he was a Senior Principal and Partner at American Management Systems.He is a graduate of the University of Bristol. Craig also serves as a Trustee of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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- Software, Film, SaaS
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- onkho — onkho is practice management with fully integrated email. CRM, workflow, email and documents all integrated, in one place and shared across the whole team.
- Big Couch — Big Couch was co-founded by Maria Tanjala and Irina Albita in 2014, they have established a reputation as a fintech startup in the film industry, working on an innovative co-finance model which has been helping film producers fund their films in the UK, Europe and NY since 2015. In 2017 Big Couch partnered with leading computer scientists atImperial College London to develop a new, decentralised and transparent product for revenue allocation and distribution. This product is called FilmChain. FilmChain is being built on the Ethereum platform and will provide real-time information, lower friction and increase revenues for the films stakeholders. The prototype will be running film projects by August 2018.
Graham Clempson has over 30 years of experience in the Private Equity and Credit Markets, from the development of the European Leveraged Finance and High Yield Markets and as a principal in many of the largest Complex Secondary Private Equity Transactions over the past decade.In partnership with Coller Capital, Graham is Chairman of 3 PrivateEquity Funds in the UK, US and France, and serves as an Advisory Board member to MidOcean Partners (US) and Pearl Diver Capital (UK).Prior to founding Quartic Capital, Graham was Co-Founder and European Managing Partner of MidOcean Partners, and DB Capital Partners, and CEO of Morgan Grenfell Private Equity, following roles as Co-head of European Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust Company.Graham is Chairman of Pilotlight (www.pilotlight.org.uk) , a business mentoring Charity in the UK. He has an MA in Law from Oxford University.
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- Software, Information Services, Retail Technology
- Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Link Big — Nadav Raviv Portfolio: UXR, UI/UXD, PD.
- Fixtuur — DigitalBridge is a Visual Commerce platform that provides retailers and brands with a new way to showcase their products to customers through real-time 3D and Augmented Reality.
- Headstart — Pack your pipeline with potential. Screen thousands of candidates instantly and improve DEI. 90% applicant completion rate.
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Normod — Normod is a digital brand that provides modular and customizable furniture services.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Rafinera Cloud Kitchen — The Rafinera Cloud Kitchen operates various brand, last-mile satellite restaurants where these are finished once ordered, delivered very quickly, and provided at a very high service level. Our consumers adore the great flavors of the comfort food brands that we own and operate.
Ference Brose is the Chief Technology Officer at DataGuard. He is the owner and CEO at buzzjective, CTO, and Co-Founder of Takhfifan / Netbarg. Previously he was a co-founder of idvos (acquired by identity TM, now IDnow) and Albus White (acquired). He also worked as a tech management consultant at Planet Sports, Scarosso, Monoqi.
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- Recruiting, Human Resources, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TalentGrid.io — Join a network of the best developers & get matched with full-time software developer roles all around the world. No irrelevant offers!
Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas is the Partner at Index Ventures. He previously worked as a Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPO/CTO) at GoCardless.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PetsApp — A mobile-first veterinary telemedicine platform enabling veterinary clinics to offer text chat and video consultations to pet owners
- Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.
- Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.
Oliver Black
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- Recruiting, Human Resources
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- HR DataHub — HR DataHub operates as an HR data benchmarking platform for organizations to tackle issues that are right at the top of the boardroom agenda.
Kingsley Duffy is the Owner and CEO at SLovar. He previously worked as the Founder and CEO of HostelBookers. Mr. Duffy is a British-national entrepreneur. He was also the reason why HostelBookers merged with Web Reservations International (WRI) in 2013 because Mr. Duffy is sitting on the Board of Directors of WRI.
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- Events, Recruiting, Advertising
- Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TalentPool — TalentPool is a Talent Matching Platform connecting talented recent graduates with up to 5 years’ experience with great opportunities at start-ups and SMEs. They specialise in 4 key sectors: Graduate, Marketing, Operations and Sales. Their innovative matching engine takes the pain out of hiring and being hired. They know about the stress for jobseekers of applying to countless employers. And they also know about the challenges faced by employers wanting to speak to the right candidates.
In 2006 Stephen joined Carbon as Non-Executive Chairman. He has a wide knowledge of the financial services industry and extensive experience leading professional services businesses and consulting to top management in various multinationals. He is a Partner of a leading consulting firm and previously held the role of director of group strategy ata major UK international bank. Stephen holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Banking and International Finance from City University Business School (now Cass) in London. Stephen is a keen amateur actor and enjoys tennis.
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- Events, Recruiting, Advertising
- Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TalentPool — TalentPool is a Talent Matching Platform connecting talented recent graduates with up to 5 years’ experience with great opportunities at start-ups and SMEs. They specialise in 4 key sectors: Graduate, Marketing, Operations and Sales. Their innovative matching engine takes the pain out of hiring and being hired. They know about the stress for jobseekers of applying to countless employers. And they also know about the challenges faced by employers wanting to speak to the right candidates.
Neha is a medical doctor in London. Neha spent years as a General Practitioner before transitioning to the Life Sciences industry, where she held various roles in pharmaceutical companies. She holds an MBA from London Business School, where she fell in love working with entrepreneurs and startups. She has since worked with a startup med-techcompany, as well as several accelerators and VCs in the healthcare space, most recently with a global venture builder with a focus on early-stage tech companies. Neha is an angel investor, loves tennis and dance, and is a strong advocate for personal fitness and nutrition. She also has a soft spot for wildlife and conservation.
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- Internet, Software, Recruiting
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
Carlos Domingo is the Founder & CEO at Securitize.
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- Social Media, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bag on Board — Bag on Board partners with airlines to offer their passengers a service to check-in their bags from anywhere in the city.
- Startupxplore — Startupxplore is a premium startup investment platform that allows unexperienced and time-savvy investors to diversify their portfolio by co-investing with a group of top-level investors with a proven track record on startup investment.
- Albora Technologies — High-precision geolocation open ecosystem that delivers accurate positioning coordinates ubiquitously, specially addressing problems in challenging environments.
Kevin Beales - Founder & CEO @ Refract
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- Software, SaaS, Drones
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fuuse — Fuuse is an electric vehicle charge point management system that enables your chargers to deliver more for you and your drivers.
- Fuuse — Creating efficiencies, reducing costs and striving for lower emissions in transport, logistics and supply chain through innovation.
- Altitude Angel — Altitude Angel delivers solutions which enable the safe integration and use of drones and UAVs into international airspace.
Orkhan Abdullayev is a CEO / Co-Founder at Payrails.
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- Recruiting, Human Resources, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TalentGrid.io — Join a network of the best developers & get matched with full-time software developer roles all around the world. No irrelevant offers!
Thomas Regier is a Founder and CEO at DataGuard. He earned a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University.
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- Recruiting, Human Resources, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TalentGrid.io — Join a network of the best developers & get matched with full-time software developer roles all around the world. No irrelevant offers!
Kivanc Semen is a Founder and CEO at DataGuard. He is a former CEO in the technology sector (since 2009), programmer, and IT / process consultant for SMEs and corporations (2005-2009) with a focus on data protection and IT security.
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- Recruiting, Human Resources, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TalentGrid.io — Join a network of the best developers & get matched with full-time software developer roles all around the world. No irrelevant offers!
Derek Jacobson
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- FinTech, Finance, Internet
- Series A, Debt Financing
- United Kingdom
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- Tempo — Tempo provides job match and job search solutions to help you find the perfect job. Our intuitive platform makes it easy to find the right job for you.
- Prodigy Finance — Get a student loan from Prodigy Finance without collateral or co-signer, to study at one of 1000+ schools around the world.
Joshua Cornelius is the Co-Founder at Freeletics.
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- Health Care, Hospital, Recruiting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Bloom — Bloom empowers everyone to be their own therapist through interactive video-guided therapy sessions.
- TalentGrid.io — Join a network of the best developers & get matched with full-time software developer roles all around the world. No irrelevant offers!
- Bloom Health Partners — Bloom Health Partners has been shutdown.
Rod Leefe
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- Mobile, Employment, Recruiting
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SonicJobs — Apply to your dream position with just one click, with the magic of AI. Sign up with SonicJobs today!
Vivek Kumar
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- Mobile, Employment, Recruiting
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SonicJobs — Apply to your dream position with just one click, with the magic of AI. Sign up with SonicJobs today!
Rudy Kadoch
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- Recruiting, Staffing Agency
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Job Protocol — By incentivizing anyone to refer top talent, Web3 companies hire faster through Job Protocol. Attach referral bounties to your open roles and unclock the open recruiting economy.
Giles Phelps
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- Internet, Education, Recruiting
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Digital Profile — Our vision is to establish the world’s best community for tech & devs to share, learn, and build their skills & careers. Built on our values of control, privacy & transparency
Ian Dyke
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- Recruiting, Human Resources
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- HR DataHub — HR DataHub operates as an HR data benchmarking platform for organizations to tackle issues that are right at the top of the boardroom agenda.
Mike Kershaw - SVP of Sales & Marketing @ Renegade Tool Company
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- Software, Recruiting, Staffing Agency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Ryde — Ryders is a last-mile delivery business that puts people and planet first.
- Syft — Choose the fastest way to find temporary work that fits your lifestyle. Your life. Your work. Your choice.
Shakil Khan is currently Head of Special Projects at Spotify, where he is also personal advisor to founder and CEO Daniel Ek. He has had a number of online businesses in the UK since 2000, was part of the founding team at buy.at, which was acquired by AOL, and he recently founded CoinDesk, a bitcoin news site.Shak has done extensive volunteerwork as an ambassador for charity: water, having helped raise millions of dollars for clean and safe drinking water. He is also a keen supporter and friend of Pencils of Promise, who build schools for those most in need.Having lived in China, Shak speaks Chinese (as well as English, Urdu, Punjabi, and Danish) and currently divides his time between London, San Francisco, New York and airport lounges.Shak is an investor in BitPay, Spotify, Top10, Duedil and YPlan. Shak was also an investor and mentor to Nick D'Aloisio who built and sold Summly, a news curation app that was sold to Yahoo in March 2013.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Otta — Only matches tailored to your preferences. Only the most exciting, innovative and fast-moving companies.
- Thingtesting — Explore thousands of new online brands and share your honest reviews so everyone on the internet can shop better. Discover the best brands in personal care, home decor, clothing, food, tech and more.
- Founders Pledge — Home | Founders Pledge
Nick Kingsbury has 30 years experience in business, of which 12 was in the role of CEO for two software companies, and 7 was as Sector Partner for the international venture capital company 3i.Nick is an experienced international software entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He started his career with one of the leading UK software houses beforefounding his own company, Software Support Limited, in the mid 1980s which grew to become a leading systems integration company for Workflow applications. In 1996 this business merged with Staffware plc which then IPO’d on the London market. With Staffware Nick was Senior VP for International Business Development and Marketing. In 1999 Nick joined the international venture capitalist, 3i plc, for which he was Sector Partner for the software and internet sector. 3i invested over $500m in 150 software companies across Europe, the US and Asia, of which Nick was personally involved in many. His role was to develop 3i’s investment strategy and to advise on new investments. He also worked with existing investee companies with their strategic development, notably through partnership with the leading IT players worldwide. He served on the board of three 3i companies, Propero, the virtualisation company, sold to VMWare, Metastorm, the leading Business Process Management company (as observer) and the security software company Chronicle Solutions where he was also interim CEO.Nick left 3i in 2007 and now advises a number of companies on their corporate and funding strategies. He currently serves on the boards of several private and public companies. See engagements for more information.Kingsbury Ventures has access to a network of specialist associates covering media, electronics and other industries.
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- Software, Security, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United Kingdom, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- BlackCurve — We help eCommerce businesses make pricing decisions
- Pickr — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
- Tailored.to — Tailored is a personal shopping assistant making tedious product search history.We've organised the entire web's wisdom about products. We know what every product is best for.Users tailor products to their own needs by answering a few insightful questions about the category.They receive the best three products for theirpersonal needs. Test us at www.tailored.to.We make money by powering 100% personalised (and GDPR compliant) advertising to them on behalf of brands.Publishers can host Tailored in relevant editorial to receive a share of this new advertising revenue.Learn more http://marketing.tailored.to/ Revenue comes from advertising, brand partnerships and product sales. This is shared with our host publishers.We've huge interaction rates when Tailored is added to lifestyle content. A significant percentage of readers are tailoring products to their own needs (thereby sharing their personal buying needs so that we can automatically serve personalised retargeted advertising). Tailored is scalable across product categories, publishers and geographies. We can be added to any content. Get in touch! martin@tailored.to
Selcuk Gerger is a co-founder and the COO of Prisync, a competitor tracking application for e-commerce companies. Prior to that, he served as a corporate communications specialist at Gerger Group. Gerger holds a master’s degree in marketing communications from Istanbul Bilgi University.
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- Recruiting, Human Resources, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TalentGrid.io — Join a network of the best developers & get matched with full-time software developer roles all around the world. No irrelevant offers!
Jenny Ervine
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- Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FutureMatch — We enable organisations to make smarter sourcing and hire decisions through using analytics, machine learning and AI. MyPAM -> Measure and Analyse Talent Using analytics –> Predict & Improve Recruitment Processes with AI and ML = Achieve Right Talent, Right Fit for the Right Roles with ML and AI
Yoann Turpin is the Co-Founder & Head of BD at Wintermute. Yoann Turpin attended at EDHEC Business School.
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- Blockchain, SaaS, Recruiting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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- CodeMonk — CodeMonk is your one stop solution to find pre-vetted tech talent, hire them as individual contractors or on permanent basis, and pay them from a single dashboard.
- Altitude — Actively managed collateralised loans
Alex MacDonald is Co-Founder of Velocity Mobile Limited and serves as its Co-Chief Executive Officer. Alex MacDonald was a Turnaround Chief Executive Officer in his previous career at a privately owned industrial group. He managed the acquisition, optimisation and growth of multinational manufacturing companies, ranging in size from $50 - $150m insales. He also has front-line experience managing restaurants and bars in France and is passionate about creating the perfect dining experience.
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- Software, Mobile, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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- Goodloans — Our AI-powered embedded lending platform de-risks lending to your customers and helps you to grow your business.
- Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
- NuBreed Hotels — Pushing accommodation for the events industry forward.
David Haye is a British professional boxer.
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- Software, Logistics, Recruiting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Syft — Choose the fastest way to find temporary work that fits your lifestyle. Your life. Your work. Your choice.
- NuBreed Hotels — Pushing accommodation for the events industry forward.
- Snap It Limited — On demand deliveries for tradespeople
Catherine is an investor, board director and executive coach. She is based in London and works globally.She is an experienced international C-suite executive with a strong track record in the People, DE&I and ESG fields. Together with Jonathan Lenson. she invests in exceptional early-stage tech companies across the UK, US and Israel, andbrings in-depth previous board experience as both an executive and non-executive director.She writes and speaks on topics including the future of work, corporate culture and purpose, diversity and inclusion, and work/life integration.As part of her coaching practice, she is the first UK-based facilitator to be certified in the Fair Play method. Catherine was the first female Managing Partner appointed at SoftBank Investment Advisers, the world’s largest technology investment firm with $175 billion under management in the two SoftBank Vision Funds and SoftBank Latin America Funds. As the founding Chief People Officer for five years (2017-2022), she led the HR, ESG and Real Estate teams globally.An experienced and trusted executive coach at C-suite level, she worked with companies within the Vision Fund portfolio on leadership, talent, DE&I, ESG, and operating challenges, including as a Board Director.Catherine built SBIA’s ESG practice and designed its strategy for Social Impact. She led SoftBank’s early stage venture funds focused on diverse founders, including the $100m+ SB Opportunity Fund (US) and Emerge (EMEA), including as an Investment Committee member.Catherine is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (Class of 2021) and a founding member of Sustainability30 (which brings together Chief Sustainability Officers from 30 of the world’s leading companies).She spent the formative years of her career at UBS AG, Switzerland’s leading financial services firm, and is proud to have progressed from intern to Managing Director in the same firm. In her final role there, she led Reward for UBS across the UK and EMEA region.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Fertifa — Fertifa is an innovative employer benefit solution making fertility care more accessible and affordable.The company works with employers to offer a valuable employee benefit which bridges the gap between an employer and their employees when dealing with the sensitivity and privacy of employees’ reproductive issues. It also offers guidance andadvice, next-generation fertility treatment, and access to a range of holistic services for the best chance of success. The company was founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom.
- Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
- Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.
David Blake is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Degreed, a firm that helps anyone score and validate their lifelong education from any source. He also serves as a contributor to MOOCS.com. Prior to this, Blake was a NEW.edu Launch Consultant with UniversityNow and a founding member of Zinch, a social networking site connecting students to amyriad of study and professional opportunities.
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- Software, Education, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Stellic — Stellic provides next generation degree management tools for your entire campus - students, advisors, administrators and leaders - with one goal in mind. A better path to academic success.
- Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
- Sounding Board, Inc — Sounding Board: Tech-driven, human-centric leadership development. Join us to bridge leadership gaps, shape tomorrow's leaders, and drive business outcomes.
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