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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in United Kingdom (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in United Kingdom Retail startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Kingdom Retail startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Venrex
VC Fund
12 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $425k–$16M
Foresight Group
VC Fund
9 United Kingdom, United States, Jersey Private Equity, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Health Care $614k–$136M
Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
7 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $277k–$3.7M
Angels Den
VC Fund
6 United Kingdom, United States, Finland Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Mobile, Software $31k–$688k
Mobeus Equity Partners
VC Fund
6 United Kingdom, United States Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Retail $2.6M–$11M
Praetura Ventures
VC Fund
6 United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $338k–$4.5M
The FSE Group
VC Fund
6 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Debt Financing, Seed Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $61k–$1.8M
True.
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail $61k–$10M
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, FinTech, Financial Services $3.5M–$85M
Seedrs
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, United States, Portugal Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $37k–$3.4M
Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Series A, Private Equity Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $1.2M–$28M
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, FinTech $1.2M–$45M
Forward Partners
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $307k–$15M
Livingbridge
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, Ireland, India Private Equity, Seed Software, Information Technology, Consulting $4.9M–$57M
Active Partners
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore Series A, Seed Retail, E-Commerce, Marketplace $1.2M–$49M
Monte Carlo Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Spain Seed, Series A Medical Device, Artificial Intelligence, Medical $165k–$9.3M
Gresham House Ventures
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia Series A, Series B Machine Learning, Software, Artificial Intelligence $3.1M–$11M
Hummingbird Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Turkey, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $600k–$50M
LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund
4 Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $40k–$54M
Hambro Perks Ltd.
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Secondary Market, Series A Health Care, Software, Financial Services $600k–$12M
MMC Ventures
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, France Series A, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $1M–$19M
Paul Forster
Angel
4 United Kingdom, Germany, Spain Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $750k–$9.9M
JamJar Investments
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage $700k–$20M
Jeroen Sibia
Angel
3 United Kingdom Angel Retail, Shopping, Social Shopping $1.8M–$2.1M
Nigel Wray
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
Simon Murdoch
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Software, Analytics $96k–$21M
Jenson Funding Partners
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Marketplace $90k–$829k
Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $492k–$12M
Redrice Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Fashion, Retail, E-Commerce $983k–$3.9M
Atomico
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.3M–$150M
Will Martin
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $614k–$3.1M
NVM Private Equity
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States Series A, Private Equity Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $2.7M–$12M
Richard Fearn
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms $600k–$4.9M
Downing Ventures
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Series A, Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $516k–$13M
LDC
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands Private Equity, Secondary Market Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $10M–$55M
Beringea
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Israel Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1.6M–$18M
South Central Ventures
VC Fund
3 Serbia, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $32k–$5.4M
DN Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $111k–$24M
Highland Europe
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, France, United States Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $11M–$161M
Will Brooks
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $614k–$3.1M
Calculus Capital
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Series A, Post-IPO Equity Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $2.9M–$9M
Tom Singh
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, SaaS $369k–$5.5M
Ballpark Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, China Seed, Angel, Series A Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile $20k–$1.9M
Concept Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $184k–$3.3M
Adam Balon
Angel
2 United Kingdom Series A, Series B Food and Beverage, CRM, Video
Wealth Club
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $1.2M–$5.5M
Calibrate Management
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $934k–$10M
Hoxton Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $1.5M–$25M
Fig VC
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed Software, Financial Services, Retail $1.2M–$2M
IW Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom Private Equity, Seed E-Commerce, Restaurants, Fashion $983k–$5.8M
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Venrex
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Venrex Investment Management is a UK-based venture capital firm that backs creative Founders to launch and build innovative businesses.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $775k–$5M; Pre-Seed $425k–$2.3M; Series A $3.3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Integral — Compliantly connecting health data as securely and as quickly as possible.
  • HUG — Discover new artists, and access innovative creator-friendly education. Earn rewards for celebrating and curating your favorite artists!
  • KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
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Foresight Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Jersey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Seed $614k–$14M; Private Equity $2M–$136M
  • Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Previsico — Previsico is a spinOut company from Loughborough University specialising in modelling flooding in real-time, using weather predictions to make street-level flood nowcasts and forecasts. The company's mission is to be the leading global provider of cutting-edge flood prediction that saves lives and livelihoods.Its FloodMap Live producesround the clock street-level flood risk predictions and analytics. Uniquely, these are continuously modelled and updated using a combination of different weather forecasts. This allows the company to map the likelihood of short and long-term surface water events in real-time to the street level.
  • Looper Insights — Looper Insights - Optimizing Content and App Placement Across Connected TV Devices. The market leader in analytics on Connected TV devices.
  • We Are Fulfilment — We Are Fulfillment is an e-commerce company that provides warehousing and management services.
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 32 in the past 12 months

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 141
  • Round size: Seed $799k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $277k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $123M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Odore — Our platform enables the world's leading brands to sample their products more effectively.
  • Supportwave — NerdApp offers online or on-site tech support for your home or small business. Just sign up and book a Nerd instantly or schedule at your convenience!
  • Fantastic Days — Fantastic Days is a beauty social intelligence platform provider.
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Angels Den
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Angels Den is an angel-led investment platform that connects fast-growing companies with experienced investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$688k; Angel $74k–$332k
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
  • OnCare — Home care software | care management system
  • SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.
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Mobeus Equity Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Mobeus is a leading equity investor in UK-based SMEs. We partner with talented and determined management teams of businesses with strong growth potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Retail
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Series A $2.6M–$11M; Series B $6.1M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 87% lead, 13% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Intralink — Your international expansion made fast, easy and cost effective
  • MyTutor — MyTutor provides secondary school learners with online access to over 7,000 Russell Group university students, reducing the time, hassle and cost of finding a subject expert locally.Lessons take place in their innovative online lesson space, which allows parents to substitute expensive tutors coming to their house, for live, one-to-one sessionswith young, bright and successful undergraduates. If the pupil forgets something, every session is recorded, so they can play it back after.They also partner with schools and universities to provide larger contracts for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. School teachers stay up-to-date with the programme through a personalised online dashboard.The company has grown at 3x YoY for the last three years, with 200,000+ bookings and applications from 50,000 tutors. At the same time quality has been maintained, with 70,000+ 5* reviews and every tutor personally interviewed.MyTutor was founded by Robert Grabiner, Bertie Hubbard and James Grant.
  • Lace Partners — LACE Partners are a leading HR and Payroll transformation consultancy. We're able to support organisations with strategy through to execution.
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Praetura Ventures
VC Fund · Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 14 in the past 12 months

Praetura Ventures has been supporting entrepreneurs with more than money since 2011. Click to find out more about how we can help businesses and investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $338k–$4.1M; Series A $1.2M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Covatic — We help media companies deliver private-by-design, addressable advertising and marketing without exposing personal data.
  • Decently — Decently provides the world a better place by developing advanced digital products. Decently mission is to improve lives through innovative digital product.
  • Percayso Inform — Percayso provides insurers with access to a wide range of data sources, allowing them to form a more comprehensive view of their customers.
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The FSE Group
VC Fund · Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 7 in the past 12 months

FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Finance East Limited delivers funding for businesses based in the East of England region.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 133
  • Round size: Seed $307k–$1.8M; Debt Financing $61k–$430k
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Seriously Low Carb — Award Winning. Consumer brand of choice. Real food that's Keto and Low Carb friendly. The home of the Seriously Low Carb Loaf, the Seriously Low Carb Pizza and now lots of other products too.
  • Laserthrust — Laserthrust is developing and producing a 3D-printed, super-cavitating electric craft capable of traveling from Norwich, UK, to Amsterdam. The company's marine goods are made completely of recycled and recyclable FDM 3D-printed materials, with a particular emphasis on TPU-based materials.
  • Luxury Cottages — Find a luxury holiday cottage to rent in the UK. Our handpicked holiday homes at Luxury Cottages are carefully selected by our luxury travel experts.
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True.
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

A unique model for investing, innovating & growing

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $61k–$6.2M; Pre-Seed $289k–$3M; Series A $6.1M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $338M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Fable — Fable Home dinnerware brings people together for love, laughter, and storytelling by delivering gorgeous cutlery, tableware, and glassware at affordable prices.
  • Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
  • Awe Inspired — We believe in fine jewelry as a vehicle for empowerment. Shop our collection of goddess necklaces, coin necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and more.
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 24 in the past 12 months

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 305
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$23M; Series B $8M–$85M; Series C $8M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $600M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
  • Writer — Accelerate growth across every team with the most secure AI platform. We customize generative AI to your workflows, not the other way around.
  • Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
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Seedrs
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $37k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $37k–$465k; Equity Crowdfunding $145k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shoorah — Shoorah is a fresh and comprehensive wellbeing app that helps you support your mental health and nourish your wellbeing.
  • Taylor & Hart — Taylor & Hart's mission is to create and deliver engagement rings that allow people to truly express themselves in a way that captures the emotions they feel for each other.- Offering over 100,000 ethically sourced GIA graded diamonds to choose from.- Winner of "Best New Jeweler 2014" and nominated for numerous otherawards.- Crowd-fundeded through Seedrs twice raising over $500,000- Notable mentions in the Telegraph, Guardian, Elle, Glamour, Forbes, FT- Customer rating of over 9.6/10 from over 120 reviews.- Team members based in London, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria- Transacted over $2m over the last 12 months.- Set a pink diamond on the inside of every ring as a trademark
  • Splint Invest — Splint Invest is a B2B2C platform, where customers can buy tokens of alternative investments. Combining smart contracts, DLT and AI, we tokenize real-world assets effortless and fully automated.
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 28 in the past 12 months

BGF invests in hundreds of businesses from an evergreen balance sheet. But we offer more than just growth capital. Find out what makes us different.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 220
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$16M; Private Equity $5.4M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Avoca Clinic — The Avoca Clinic is Ireland's only plastic surgery clinic. Our World Class Consultants are all Irish Medical Council Registered. Book a free consultation today
  • Stellar Omada — Stellar Omada delivers leading business & digital transformation that exceeds expectations in a constantly changing world. Contact us.
  • Machine Discovery — Machine Discovery is a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing new machine learning technology. We leverage proprietary neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations — and we do it with minimal data and 99.9% fidelity.
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 36 in the past 12 months

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 273
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.1M; Series A $2.5M–$15M; Series B $5.9M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
  • Awell Health — Ollie is a vast library of over 100 interface blocks with complete Webflow CMS integration. Build beautiful websites in less time than ever.
  • Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool
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Forward Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Forward Partners is a venture capital firm in London specialising in technology businesses focused on eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Seed $307k–$3.5M; Series A $2.5M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • PocDoc — Smart health in your hands
  • APEXX — The APEXX payment gateway consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.
  • Makers — Start your tech journey in 16 weeks. Become a software developer, data engineer, cloud or quality engineer. Remote or hybrid options!
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Livingbridge
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Livingbridge is an independent private equity firm, based in the UK, the US and Australia. They have £1 billion ready to invest over the next 5 years and they invest anywhere from £2 million to £70 million in fast-growing companies. The Livingbridge team have been backing businesses together for twenty years.They have done it over a hundredtimes, turning many into household names both at home and abroad. They understand that for business owners it’s more than just business. They get growth.With UK offices in London, Birmingham and Manchester and an Australian office in Melbourne, Livingbridge have teams on the ground locally who can provide support to their portfolio companies on a daily basis.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Consulting
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Private Equity $4.9M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.6B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • T-Pro — T-Pro is a world leading document and patient workflow manahement platform for heathcare. Powered by state of the art AI speech technology, T-Pro reduces the burden of documentation for clinicians and automates patient noting and correspondence workflows.
  • CitNOW Group — Created to leverage innovation and help retailers and manufacturers deliver an outstanding customer experience, CitNOW Group is driven by the vision to transform the way the automotive world communicates.
  • Direct Ferries — Direct Ferries is an online platform that provides a selection of ferry routing information to its users.The platform allows its users to compare ferry crossings in its search and find fairs associated with them at the time of travel. Its network covers ports in Europe, with crossings available throughout Africa, Asia, Australia, North America,and South America. Furthermore, it allows its users to choose routes, as well as ferry deals information on their selected routes.
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Active Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Active Partners is a consumer-focused investment firm that partners with visionary founders to build the iconic brands of tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$49M; Series A $1.2M–$9.8M
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $123M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • MEplace — MEplace creates a new approach to children’s wellbeing and preschool education. MEplace was founded in 2019 and was headquartered in England, UK.
  • Taylor & Hart — Taylor & Hart's mission is to create and deliver engagement rings that allow people to truly express themselves in a way that captures the emotions they feel for each other.- Offering over 100,000 ethically sourced GIA graded diamonds to choose from.- Winner of "Best New Jeweler 2014" and nominated for numerous otherawards.- Crowd-fundeded through Seedrs twice raising over $500,000- Notable mentions in the Telegraph, Guardian, Elle, Glamour, Forbes, FT- Customer rating of over 9.6/10 from over 120 reviews.- Team members based in London, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria- Transacted over $2m over the last 12 months.- Set a pink diamond on the inside of every ring as a trademark
  • Glowb — Looking for trusted solar panel installers and solar battery installers in Central England? We can help homeowners transition to solar energy.
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Monte Carlo Capital
VC Fund · Monaco, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Monte Carlo Capital was founded in 2009 by former investment banker Ian Sosso, winner of the 2019 “Best European Early Stage Investor” award from EBAN, the Brussels-based European trade association for business angels representing the 30,000 European angel community with a presence in 50 countries. Monte Carlo Capital combines the best featuresof business angels and venture capital. We invest via fund and via SPVs. We have been the Lead in many of our investments and are increasing our Co-Investments with some of the world’s leading VCs. Typical investments start at pre-seed/seed and we regularly follow on to Series A & Series B rounds. Monte Carlo Capital invests across sectors, including Saas, Fintech, DeepTech and Health Care, in the US, Europe and the UK.Our solo managing partner was a former investment banker, spending most of his career in Asia and the UK. He retired about 15 years ago, and set up his own angel group. After being quite successful, he decided to launch the fund (January this year).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical Device, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $165k–$9.3M; Series A $1.3M–$8.9M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HomeOptions — Home ownership redefined - We pay homeowners to be their future real estate broker.
  • Auriga Space — Next-generation space launch company providing frequent, sustainable and affordable transport to low Earth orbit
  • Immersive Fox — Immersive Fox develops a text-to-video B2B service to generate video content for companies remotely. It also creates AI-generated microlearning videos from any text for learning management systems and corporate communication.
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Gresham House Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Gresham House Ventures is a growth equity investor, working with exceptional entrepreneurs and investing in high growth businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Machine Learning, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Series A $3.1M–$11M; Series B $3.3M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cognassist — Cognassist is the UK's #1 edtech SaaS platform, focused on helping every learner reach their full potential.
  • Branchspace — Branchspace empowers airlines and travel retail brands of any size reinvent digital retail with next-generation solutions.
  • Mable Therapy — Speech Therapy and Counselling for children, teens and schools. Find out more about the services we provide here at Mable Therapy.
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Hummingbird Ventures
VC Fund · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 4 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Turkey, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$24M; Series A $1M–$35M; Series B $2M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
  • Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
  • Bright Money — A new system for financial planning to delete debt and build wealth. Pay Down Debt Faster, Build Savings and Boost your Credit Score.
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LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 4 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

LAUNCHUB is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$1.2M; Series A $1.4M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $75M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
  • Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.
  • Kubeark — Kubeark powers scalable, rapid, and compliant SaaSification and software lifecycle management.
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Hambro Perks Ltd.
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Hambro Perks partner with founders and entrepreneurs to support growth businesses at all stages of investment cycle. Hambro Perks has specialised and dedicated investment teams, working across a number of funds. In addition to their flagship Venture, EIS and co-investment funds, Hambro Perks offers a number of specialist differentiated investmentstrategies, including Hambro Perks Environmental Technology, Special Situations, and Access, which invests in venture secondaries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$2.8M; Series A $5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Medwing — MEDWING serves as the most trusted and convenient platform for finding opportunities and working in healthcare. From temporary to permanent staffing, we simplify hiring, allowing healthcare professionals to do what they do best -- care. MEDWING Berlin-based company wants to empower healthcare candidates to work in a way that suits their individuallifestyles and to support hospitals and care facilities in recruiting and human resource management.
  • Paytrix — Access the best payments infrastructure around the world, all through a single platform.
  • Vedanta Biosciences — Vedanta Biosciences is a developer of immunotherapies designed to treat immune-mediated and infectious diseases. The company's immunotherapies include a suite of proprietary assays to select pharmacologically potent strains, vast proprietary datasets from human interventional studies, and facilities for cGMP-compliant manufacturing ofrationally-defined bacterial consortia in powder form, enabling physicians to access live bacteria drug to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases easily.It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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MMC Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

MMC is a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high-growth UK companies. Our mission is to be involved in the creation of the global industry-leading companies of tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 166
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.4M; Series A $1.8M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $123M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • PocDoc — Smart health in your hands
  • APEXX — The APEXX payment gateway consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.
  • measurable.energy — Machine Learning and hardware platform to eliminate wasted energy and GHG emissions in buildings
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Paul Forster
Angel · 4 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Paul Forster

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.6M; Series A $2.9M–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
  • CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
  • finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
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JamJar Investments
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

JamJar Investments is a venture capital firm that invest in high growth consumer brand businesses in both digital and non-tech.Its combination of operational, commercial and brand experience was honed over 14 years taking innocent from scratch to sale to Coca Cola for north of half a billion £. That journey means the company understand thejourney of entrepreneurs, the highs the lows, the challenges and some of the solutions. JamJar is the consumer Venture Capital fund run by the innocent drinks founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$6.1M; Series A $3.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cuure — We are building a great and honest company that delivers personalized vitamins and food supplements to everyone so they improve their daily wellness and consciousness
  • Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
  • Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
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Jeroen Sibia
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Jeroen Sibia

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Shopping, Social Shopping
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $1.8M–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cornerstone — Cornerstone is a regular delivery service of razor blades and shaving supplies for men. Its service include German-engineered razors and British-blended skincare products. Cornerstone was founded in January 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
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Nigel Wray
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino's Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors.Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community.Nigel still calls the area home, too - having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Glassette — Discover and collect beautiful, curated homeware from the best brands in the UK. Shop thoughtfully, live joyfully.
  • Get A Drip — All of our Drips and Booster Shots are administered by our medical staff, consisting of GMC registered Doctors and NMC registered Nurses.
  • Stubben Edge — Financial services for a new generation. Sign up free to sell better financial products, cheaper, faster and to more people with Flightdeck
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Simon Murdoch
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Analytics
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $135k–$2M; Series A $96k–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
  • Peek Home — Peek Home provides sketch plans, prices and planning advice for people who are puzzled by the process of creating their perfect home. All we need is your house number & postcode - no home visit needed.
  • Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
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Jenson Funding Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 14 in the past 12 months

Invest in Jenson EIS & SEIS Funds. Supporting Growth Capital. Diverse Portfolio of investment. Deployment in current tax year.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Marketplace
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $90k–$829k; Pre-Seed $184k–$393k
  • Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $64M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Tesel — Tesel has a big ambition to get all ESG services and companies hanging out in the same place. We connect businesses who understand that ESG is essential to commercial success, not just a box to be ticked, and we bring them together in our marketplace.
  • RezKit — RezKit is a travel booking systems helps shopkeepers and online retailers can operate efficiently and profitably thanks to a wide variety of instruments at their disposal.
  • Swoperz — Swoperz is a shopping outlet where kids between the ages of 6 and 16 can exchange garments at any time.
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Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Maven is one of the UK's leading private equity and investment firms. We provide essential capital and expertise to help businesses unlock their potential.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Seed $492k–$5M; Series A $2.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 72% lead, 28% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • MarraBio — MarraBio Ltd. is a spin out company from Newcastle University using engineered bacterial protein polymers to provide bioactivity to cells at the industrial scale in the cultivated meat sector and beyond.
  • Power Roll — Power Roll has reinvented solar to generate energy anywhere and everywhere, using any surface.
  • Laverock Therapeutics — Laverock Therapeutics is developing a gene silencing platform for the creation of programmable, allogeneic cell therapies.
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Redrice Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

We support Founders creating premium consumer brands, platforms and related tech solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Retail, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $983k–$3.5M; Series A $2.5M–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • SKNUPS — Digital Fashion Collectibles Platform
  • Luna Daily — Microbiome balancing body care for all skin, even your most intimate. Head, vulva, knees and toes. On a mission to connect women of all ages and stages to each other and their entire bodies.
  • By Rotation — Rent over 25000+ designer fashion items online from our free app. Discover luxury designer dresses, clothing, bags and accessories from your trending favorite brands.
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Atomico
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 176
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$24M; Series B $7M–$100M; Series C $10M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
  • Strise — Strise is signaling a new era of enterprise software and organizational change, transforming how companies work and empowering individual growth through knowledge. We believe in the AI-enabled financial institution without data silos where users and data are working together to solve even the most complex business problems.
  • Opna — Opna is a financing platform for climate projects that remove carbon and protect natural ecosystems. Opna offers data, proprietary risk assessments, and efficient capital structures, helping companies to translate net-zero committed capital from financial institutions, and corporates into direct financing across a project's lifecycle.
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Will Martin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $614k–$2.8M; Series A $2.1M–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
  • Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
  • Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
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NVM Private Equity
VC Fund · Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

NVM Private Equity Limited is an independently-owned firm of venture capital managers with over 20 years experience of investing in UK businesses. They manage five investment funds, four of which are Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and their funds under management exceed £175 million.They are a long-established investor focused on the UK regions,primarily targeting small management buy-outs and growth investment in businesses that are led by high quality incumbent management teams.They have a wide range of skills, interests and backgrounds. That means they bring a thorough and rounded approach to the investment process. They live and work in the UK regions, so are entrenched within their local business communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Series A $3.7M–$8.6M; Private Equity $2.7M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sorted Group — Leading delivery management platform for carrier management and post-purchase CX. Range of eCommerce delivery solutions for retailers. Book your demo.
  • CurrentBody.com — CurrentBody is the first company to recognise one of the fastest growing trends in the world of beauty. With modern innovation allowing manufacturers to create devices that mimic the on-site devices used by professionals in salons, spas, and clinics, CurrentBody has brought together a complete selection available for home use technology.
  • YorkTest — YorkTest is an award-winning food intolerance & allergy testing company, optimising health and wellbeing with our range of health tests. Order online...
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Richard Fearn
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$1.8M; Series A $1.6M–$4.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
  • Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
  • Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.
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Downing Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

The opportunity for institutional investors to access leading UK early stage healthtech businesses

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Seed $516k–$3.3M; Series A $2.5M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • TidalSense — CRiL was formed in April 2013 specifically to develop innovative medical devices to diagnose and manage respiratory conditions. They have been building a platform technology, N-Tidal, based on the measurement and analysis of tidal breathing CO2 throughout the entire breath.
  • Qkine — Growth Factors made for stem cells Animal-free We control every step of protein manufacture ensuring all our products are completely animal-free Total transparency Stringent purity and bioactivity testing data for all proteins - know what you are giving your cells Protein innovation Our R&D team
  • FundamentalVR — Implement a customized, flexible, and cost-effective training solution to accelerate the rollout of your medical device, surgical robotic system, or product.
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LDC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

For over 40 years, LDC has been the trusted investment partner for ambitious management teams. We invest in a diverse range of businesses across every region and sector of the UK economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Private Equity, Secondary Market
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Private Equity $10M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sedex — At Sedex, it is our goal to help businesses consistently improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) results by providing data-driven insight, tools, and services.
  • UniHomes — UniHomes showcase the best all-inclusive student homes across the UK. View & compare student accommodation with bills included.
  • Star Live — From world tours, brand activations and record-breaking feats of engineering to complex turnkey solutions for major sporting, entertainment and cultural events, Star Live makes it happen.
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Beringea
VC Fund · Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Beringea is an international investor in high growth US & UK businesses. With expertise in multiple sectors we are at the forefront of emerging trends.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Series A $1.6M–$7M; Series B $3.5M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Commonplace — Commonplace is an online citizen engagement platform. We help you to engage with more community members, collect their ideas and make better places.
  • Flywheel.io — Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT.
  • Social Value Portal — Backed the National TOMs Framework, Social Value Portal helps organisations measure, report and enhance their social value.
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South Central Ventures
VC Fund · Belgrade, Vojvodina, Serbia · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

South Central Ventures is dedicated to investments in startups, small and medium globally oriented technology companies in SE Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Serbia, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $32k–$1.1M; Series A $321k–$5.4M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AdScanner — AdScanner made its mission to empower data-driven TV advertising to increase effectiveness, transparency, speed, reduce manual, complicated, delayed reports and also to make TV more interconnected and comparable with digital channels. Our approach is to combine proprietary technologies and data.
  • Pixyle.ai — Pixyle.ai’s image recognition software detects fashion items in images. It's accurate and integrates seamlessly with any tech stack.The company help fashion retailers deliver visual AI solutions that allow shoppers to visually search for products and get relevant similar product recommendations on their e-commerce platforms, improving bothcustomer engagement and conversion rates. Their automatic tagging and business intelligence solutions enable retailers to save time, reduce costs, and make smarter decisions.
  • Mily Technologies — Mily Tech is a delivery analytics platform tailored for last-mile deliveries. It collects your data and gives it spatial context to help you quickly understand when, where and what happens on the field.
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DN Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 10 in the past 12 months

DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 220
  • Round size: Seed $111k–$7M; Series A $1.6M–$17M; Series B $7.5M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Cubyn — Cubyn picks your stuff up at your place, packages it and ships it for you to any destination worldwide. Cubyn allows any e-retailer to benefit from the power supply of an Amazon from her living room, without obligation.
  • Aibidia — Discover the Aibidia TXM Platform and our digital transfer pricing applications, eliminating billions of euros in tax inefficiencies and risks.
  • 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.
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Highland Europe
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Highland Europe invests in rapidly growing European internet, mobile, and software companies that address large market opportunities and have over €10 million in annualized revenues. They can provide acquisition finance or lead secondary transactions as well as making primary investments. Their capital enables management teams to accelerate growthand build a lasting, valuable business.Highland Europe was launched in 2012 and closely collaborates with Highland Capital Partners, an independent global venture capital firm with a twenty-seven year investment experience and offices in Boston and Palo Alto.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Series B $15M–$54M; Series C $11M–$161M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • PVcase — We are on a mission to fight climate change through software. We are fulfilling this aim by creating seamlessly integrated solar technology solutions for companies of all sizes to help them design, estimate and optimize commercial and utility scale solar assets, wherever they may be.
  • Oritain — Oritain has harnessed the power of science to provide businesses with a traceability system unlike anything else.
  • Nothing — Nothing is a London-based company removing the barriers between people and technology to create a seamless digital future.
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Will Brooks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $614k–$2.8M; Series A $2.1M–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
  • Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
  • Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
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Calculus Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

At Calculus Capital they are specialists in creating and managing tax efficient private equity funds for the individual. Funds that are ideal for today's market - offering generous tax benefits, and significant growth potential within a sensible risk profile.They look to make £2-5 million investments in established companies with provenmanagement teams and a successful product or service. Their entrepreneurial flair, combined with their experience and sound commercial judgement has resulted in a diversified investment portfolio and an impressive track record. In June 2013 Calculus Capital was top ranked in the prestigious Martin Churchill Tax Efficient Review for the 6th year in a row. The Government has recently shown its support for EIS funds, by maintaining the five generous tax benefits and widening the scope of EIS investments. These changes benefit Calculus Capital's rigorous and proven strategy. As a result they are experiencing their strongest pipeline of prospective investments yet.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Post-IPO Equity
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Series A $3.1M–$6.5M; Post-IPO Equity $2.9M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wazoku — Wazoku - Where Innovation Works Wazoku
  • Optalitix — Optalitix's data driven products and expertise allow you to move your models to the cloud and improve underwriting efficiency.
  • Arctic Shores — Unearth meaningful, job-relevant insights through our candidate assessments. A new type of behaviour based assessment that's powered by neuroscience.
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Tom Singh
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Tom Singh OBE is the Founder of New Look, a leading UK entrepreneur and active private investor with family interests spanning: retail, technology, real estate, renewable energy sectors and private equity. He currently holds the position of Non-Executive Board Member for New Look with over 900 stores worldwide which he founded in 1969.Inaddition to his responsibilities at New Look, Tom is a founding member of: the Social Investment Task Force, the Chairman of the UK Advisory Council for the British Asian Trust, and is a Trustee of the Pakhar Foundation. Tom is an active philanthropist and social investor and in recent years, has taken an increasing interest in the world of technology.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $369k–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fabacus — We are a leading data and technology business with a unique data service designed to digitally-transform the licensing industry. Contact us today.
  • Finboot — Finboot is the dynamic SaaS company behind MARCO, the enterprise-grade suite of blockchain applications and middleware solutions for value and supply chains
  • Heights — We provide the daily nutrients, knowledge and network you need to elevate your cognitive potential and brain health. Learn more!
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Ballpark Ventures
VC Fund · Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Ballpark Ventures is a small, boutique fund investing in early stage technology startups. Their partners are all successful entrepreneurs and at this stage, investing their own money.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$1.9M; Series A $615k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Silverback.ai — eRated (http://erated.co) creates a single identity for e-commerce sites, allowing online buyers and sellers to utilize their already existing reputation everywhere they go. By using a universal identity, sellers are able to operate in more marketplaces, reach more customers and increase their conversion rates and sales as they nolonger need to re-build their reputation (ratings, reviews and comments) in each site. eRated uses a widget displayed in partner sites that aggregates and summarizes the sellers ratings and feedback earned across various marketplace, increasing user trust.The founders are all veterans of elite Israeli army tech units and alumni of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program (Israel's most prominent student accelerator program).
  • Adludio — Adludio is the AI-powered platform that delivers interactive mobile advertising. By using data to design your ad creative, and algorithms to optimize your campaigns, Adludio makes sure you win the battle for brand attention.
  • Pronto Technology — Pronto, we care deeply about the meals we deliver to you. We want them to be very good; for you, the community and the environment. All our healthy meals are freshly cooked from scratch, just like at home - they won’t see the inside of a freezer.
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Concept Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Concept Ventures is the UK's largest pre-seed fund. Founded in 2018, the firm has backed over 45+ companies changing how we Work, Play and Learn and focused only at the pre-seed stage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $184k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $275k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
  • Browse AI — Monitor any webpage for changes. Download any data on the web as a spreadsheet. Turn any website into an API.
  • ElevenLabs — Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice.
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Adam Balon
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Mr. Commercial. Was the innocent co-CEO & sales director who led the international expansion to exit. Ex McKinsey UK & Jo'burg and former Virgin marketing manager. St John's college, Cambridge- economics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, CRM, Video
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoota — Scoota is an online advertising technology company that enables advertisers to create, activate, measure and optimise brilliant brand campaigns at scale.We offer a single programmatic platform for the creation and delivery of rich, high-impact formats via open real-time bidding and private marketplaces, without compromising creative executionor brand safety.Our technology includes a unique campaign delivery system that pre-reads an ad space in real-time so that the right creative is delivered into the right ad unit without the need for pre-testing and independent site integration.We care about and invest in an open and long-term approach, enabling partners to work with us through integration with their own systems of choice, or via our platform whether as a self-serve solution, or a fully managed service.Scoota was founded in London in 2008 and employs more than 40 people. In 2015, we won best overall programmatic technology at The Drum Digital Trading Awards and Silver for Best Ad Tech Provider at the 2015 British Media Awards.
  • Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
  • Simba Sleep — One Mattress. Five Layers of Comfort. Tailored to Suit All. Bringing together experience & technology so that your mattress gives you the best night's sleep.
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Wealth Club
VC Fund · Bristol, Bristol, City of, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

UK's leading investment service for high net worth and sophisticated investors. Tax-efficient investments, free guides, and exclusive investment opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.5M; Series A $1.8M–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fabacus — We are a leading data and technology business with a unique data service designed to digitally-transform the licensing industry. Contact us today.
  • SolasCure — Our proprietary technology leverages biomimicry and evidence-based medicine to treat patients with chronic wounds.
  • Filament AI — We're experts in applied AI. We help organisations leverage AI and Machine Learning technologies. We are dedicated to growing our clients' AI capability.
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Calibrate Management
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Calibrate is focused on long-duration capital investments. Our firm belief is that having a longer timeline for investing will generate superior returns. We do not believe in short term solutions.Our ethos is to operate with integrity and to add value across the spectrum of the investment cycle.Our mission is to provide the means to support,sustain, and enhance stakeholder value; to generate an environment aligned with value creation.Our business is founded upon our core values and a measured approach to risk management as our name suggests.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $934k–$2.2M; Series A $1.8M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KisanHub — KisanHub Agri-Food Supply Chain Software helps Producer Groups to transform their supply chain and improve margins with greater visibility and data driven insights. With all your supply and procurement data together in one convenient dashboard, you can better predict supply and make the most of demand. Choose from a suite of software modules thatwork seamlessly to provide fast access to crop progress, weather information, satellite imagery, stock levels and delivery schedules.
  • Staff Heroes — Staff Heroes is the #1 On Demand Booking Platform for Temporary Staff, providing quality vetted workers to over 1000 Hospitality, Event and Venue businesses in London and transforming the traditional agency industry.Staff Heroes removes the middleman giving Businesses control and transparency with as much or little control as they wish.Businesses have the option to view Worker profiles and ratings allowing the creation of favourite pools of workers. Vice versa workers are able to rate Businesses based on their experience.Staff Heroes works with many large businesses such as Four Seasons, Hilton, BBC, ISS, Servest, Virgin Atlantic, Youngs, Aramark, Delaware North as well as with over 1'200 SMEs who have signed up to the platform since launch.Staff Heroes empowers Heroes (workers), allowing them to have control of where and when they work and creating a more democratic working environment with reward and gamification to incentivise loyalty.Staff Heroes was founded by Laurent Gibb in December 2015; and is headquartered in London, England.
  • Funding Xchange — Funding Xchange is transforming and connecting the SME funding eco-system through digital eligibility and affordability assessment tools. Funding Xchange built its leading technology platform by connecting businesses with more than 70 funders to access indicative offers in 3 minutes and money in businesses’ bank accounts in 10 minutes.Funding Xchange’s Marketplace provides access to finance where businesses are engaging with their finance. Using its API-led technology, Funding Xchange is embedding its Marketplace in the largest Price Comparison Websites like MoneySuperMarket, delivering custom marketplaces to banks like NatWest and Monzo, integrating finance solutions in advisory platforms like Enterprise Nation and finance available within accounting software and payment providers own eco-system. Through FXE Technologies, the business white-labels its intelligent SME lending tools for banks, funders and brokers. Clients are able to deploy white-labelled, digitally-led customer journeys and market-facing intermediary portals, transforming operating costs and increasing look-to-book ratios while also empowering active portfolio risk management.The tools are powered by real-time access to validated transactional data and leverage insights into risk analytics and underwriting across a broad spectrum of SME funding solutions. The eligibility and affordability tools deliver the benefits of digital transformation without the risk of complex and costly technology projects. Funding Xchange was founded in 2014 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom.
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Hoxton Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups, 14 in the past 12 months

Hoxton Ventures focuses on startups that either disrupt existing industries or invent entirely new market categories. Hoxton typically invests between $500,000 and $5 million into pre-seed, seed, and Series A stage companies, and follows its capital through the life of the company. The firm is based in London and invests all across Europe.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.6M; Series A $4.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $215M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
  • Graphext — Graphext is a no-code platform for business intelligence helping you to build powerful data science projects.
  • Pear Bio — Pear Bio uses organ-on-a-chip and computer vision technology to recreate, visualize, and compute the human tumor microenvironment and its effects on cancer progression. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London.
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Fig VC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

Fig VC is a venture capital group providing a pragmatic new approach to supporting and investing in high-growth early-stage companies.Founded five years ago, Fig brings together exciting early-stage companies and experienced, value-added investors.Fig receives more than 2,000 approaches a year from companies seeking funding. It does not focuson a particular sector and invests across a wide range of industries by engaging industry experts as active advisors. The current portfolio contains fitness equipment manufacturers, neuroscience attention analytics, Software as a Service (SaaS), food & beverage companies and medical devices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Retail
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Smartr365 — A complete end-to-end mortgage and protection platform to connect advisors, introducers and home buyers.
  • When You Move — When You Move founders, Peter and Simon experienced first hand the frustrations with the conveyancing process. For all parties: the estate agent, the mortgage broker, the conveyancer and the end-customer, obstacles stood in the way of a smooth, successful journey. Current panels aren’t the answer. Estate agents and brokers still spend valuable timechasing for updates, conveyancers are overwhelmed by another system that sits outside their daily workflow, and often referral fees don’t even materialise.Peter and Simon believed that with the right technology, everyone can profit from working better, together. When You Move has been developed in consultation with the industry and with leading SaaS engineers, to create a connected client journey. It improves communication, facilitates introductions and increases profits.
  • Live Better With — Get products, support, and practical information to help you navigate everyday life with your health condition.
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IW Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United Kingdom Retail startups

IW Capital is a private investment house offering both debt and equity investment opportunities into scaling SMEs with immense growth potentialIW Capital focuses on originating, structuring, managing and leading tax-efficient investment and senior debt opportunities for their expansive network of high net-worth individuals, ultra-high net-worthindividuals, family offices, wealth managers and IFAs. With an executive team boasting over 50 years’ collective experience in SME investment, IW Capital is renowned for its leading expertise in tax-efficient equity investment and providing debt funding to SMEs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Restaurants, Fashion
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $983k–$5.8M; Private Equity $1.5M–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • SITU LIVE — Situ Live is a new model for experiential retail. An immersive physical to digital retail platform that enables brands to economically bring products to market. The venues will be inspirational destinations where consumers can discover and choose new innovation that is tailored to their lives. All the products and services will be demonstrated liveand brought to life through cross-category storytelling. While Situ Live’s digital platform will offer a wider selection of brands, making it easy to compare products and facilitate an effortless path to purchase.Situ Live's first venue is located at Westfield London, White City.
  • Ubamarket — Ubamarket is a tech startup that provides a retail shopping app. The application enables users to scan items as they shop, receive automatic loyalty, and checkout without waiting in line. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London, England.
  • SaveMoneyCutCarbon — We help businesses and now homeowners take practical steps to be more sustainable, cutting energy & water bills, resulting in reduced carbon emissions.
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Retail Investor funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 528 deals from 604 investors.

604
investors
in United Kingdom Retail startups
528
deals
in United Kingdom Retail startups
$3.2M
median round
in United Kingdom Retail startups
39%
lead investors
lead at least one round
25%
Seed
most common funding stage
74/26
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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