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Top 50 Social Startup Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Social Startup Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023

Investor Social United Kingdom investments
Connect Ventures 3
Seedcamp 3
Notion Capital 3
True. 3
Octopus Ventures 3
Ian Hogarth 2
Shan Drummond 2
Nicolas Julia 2
Inventures SA 2
Beringea 2
Richard Fearn 2
Speedinvest 2
Ned Cranborne 2
24 Haymarket 2
Chris Rodman 1
Santander UK 1
Foreword Ventures 1
Investible 1
Big Issue Invest 1
David Giampaolo 1
Don Hoang 1
Eden Block 1
Maria Palma 1
Mike Lobanov 1
Amadeo Brenninkmeijer 1
Jeremy Darroch 1
Claire Nooriala 1
StartUp Health 1
Ascension 1
Ada Ventures 1
Venrex 1
Balderton Capital 1
Simon Franks 1
Vinay Solanki 1
Social Tech Trust 1
Harald McPike 1
Richard Scudamore 1
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) 1
Tiny VC 1
JamJar Investments 1
Paul Forster 1
Richard Lewis 1
kaushal kumar 1
Redrice Ventures 1
Wing Venture Capital 1
Force Over Mass Capital 1
Ian Marchant 1
Roderick Banner 1
Matt Robinson 1
Sustainable Ventures 1

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Connect Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 14 investments in the past 12 months

Connect Ventures invests in the best product-led companies in Europe at seed stage. Categories: Consumer, Health, Fintech, SaaS

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
  • Swallow — A modern pricing platform that separates pricing from the rest of your code. Swallow increases the speed and confidence of pricing changes for greater growth and profitability.
  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
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Seedcamp
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 32 investments in the past 12 months

Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
  • Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
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Notion Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 15 investments in the past 12 months

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
  • Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
  • Statement — Find the right card machine for your business, with good rates and the best features. Search the top providers in minutes, including Worldpay, Barclaycard, Tyl and Teya.
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True.
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

A unique model for investing, innovating & growing

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, France

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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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 36 investments 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

  • Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

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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Ian Hogarth
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Shan Drummond is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Social, Analytics
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Ometria — Ometria’s mission is to build the brain that powers all communication between retailers and their customers. Ometria helps clients leverage data to build detailed customer profiles, and make sure that all messages they send are always relevant, leading to higher engagement and increased revenues.Ometria was founded by four serial entrepreneurs,with combined experience in e-commerce, computer science, mathematics, and SaaS, has been invested in by London’s most prominent entrepreneurs and investors, and is used by top retailers in the UK, Europe, and across the world.
  • Car Throttle — The internet's car community
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Nicolas Julia
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
  • ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
  • Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.
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Inventures SA
VC Fund · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Inventures is a European venture capital fund that builds a better world through a portfolio of investments in sustainable businesses.The firm has two funds: Inventures I & Inventures II.Inventures was created to support early stage smart and innovative European businesses, to support sustainable job growth and empower entrepreneurs.Inventures empowers citizenship co-investments through a crowdfunding platform, MyMicroInvest.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Belgium, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • BiOceanOr — BiOceanOr provides underwater weather stations to measure water quality. Their solutions provide informations from your exploitation in real-time. Receive alerts in real-time and take decisions with their preventive alert system.
  • myskillcamp — Myskillcamp is a digital learning platform and educational design support service. Myskillcamp supports their customers in the digital transformation of their company and the launch of their Digital Learning project. From the audit of needs to the design of engaging educational devices, through a pilot phase, they make a point of honor to adapt thedigital to the specificities of each and give it meaning.With their online platform, businesses can manage their learner communities and connect all their partners in one place. Their tool also allows businesses to structure training spaces by skills, trades, brands within camps. In parallel, businesses can create educational content from scratch, select a map in their marketplace, or plan sessions in-class. Businesses can organize the distribution of their training to a single learner or to a whole group.
  • Octave — A sustainable, cost-effective and reliable energy storage system with second-life batteries from electric vehicles.
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Beringea
VC Fund · Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States · 12 investments 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

  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Israel

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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Richard Fearn
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

  • 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.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 53 investments in the past 12 months

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
  • Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.
  • Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.
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Ned Cranborne
Angel

Ned Cranborne is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Social, Analytics
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Ometria — Ometria’s mission is to build the brain that powers all communication between retailers and their customers. Ometria helps clients leverage data to build detailed customer profiles, and make sure that all messages they send are always relevant, leading to higher engagement and increased revenues.Ometria was founded by four serial entrepreneurs,with combined experience in e-commerce, computer science, mathematics, and SaaS, has been invested in by London’s most prominent entrepreneurs and investors, and is used by top retailers in the UK, Europe, and across the world.
  • Car Throttle — The internet's car community
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24 Haymarket
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months

24Haymarket is an investment network which included several highly-experienced private equity and venture capital investors, seasoned entrepreneurs, and senior operators. Investing up to £5 million in growth companies in the UK and Europe. They invested their own capital in direct alignment with entrepreneurs and actively support their growthagenda and join the board of the companies in which they invest. Since inception in 2011, 24Haymarket has invested in more than 50 high-growth businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • myGwork — The global recruitment & networking hub for LGBTQ+ professionals. Find jobs in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender friendly organisations. Grow your LGBTQ+ professional network. Read the latest LGBTQ+ professional news.
  • 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.
  • Huq Industries — The leading monitoring platform for footfall, dwell, catchment and traffic flows valued by government, retail and real-estate. Used by 50+ councils!
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Chris Rodman
Angel · Solihull, Solihull, United Kingdom

Chris Rodman is a Head of International & Rights Acquisition at Candy Digital.

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Social, Sports
  • Funding Round
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Monterosa Productions — Monterosa is the global leader in audience interaction technology and commerce, providing the platform powering the world’s biggest entertainment and sports properties.We work with BBC, ITV, Sky, CBS, IMG Arena, EA Sports & The English Premier League, World Rugby, Viacom, and many others to provide audiences with better ways to participate intheir favourite TV shows and sports. TV hits include Love Island, X Factor, The Voice and Britain’s Got Talent, where Monterosa tech lies at the heart of the official show apps and interactive experiences across all screens.We help our clients provide game-changing real-time interactivity that grows active, loyal audiences directly. We monetise their attention with commerce and first party data.Our technology is trusted by the world's biggest media organisations and brands to deliver at extreme volumes and securely. Audience experiences include mobile apps, web apps, social media, messaging, and augmented reality.Our creative and delivery teams are award-winning experts in interactivity with TV and sport, and we provide round the clock support to ensure creativity and innovation is matched with reliability and peace of mind.
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Santander UK
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Santander UK plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides personal financial products and services, and corporate and commercial banking services in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company’s Retail Banking segment offers residential mortgage and personal loans, savings and current accounts, and credit cards, as well as a range ofinsurance policies. This segment serves personal banking customers and small businesses through a network of branches and ATMs, as well as through telephonye-commerce, and intermediary channels. Its Corporate Banking segment provides various banking products and services, including loans, bank accounts, deposits, treasury services, invoice discounting...

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Investment focus

  • Media and Entertainment, Fashion, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Snag Tights — Snag. Clothes that fit. We make clothes and tights that are genuinely different sizes, to fit comfortably women of all shapes.
  • Tactus Group — The company has also developed its own brand of virtual reality (VR) equipment and accessories; the Tactus Pique VR camera which allows consumers to use mobile technology to create and view VR footage as well as produce a unique VR experience with immersive video. In addition, through a joint venture Tactus holds the exclusive European licence forFlexwarm, an innovative in-built heating technology for clothing, sleeping bags and muscle warmers which are controlled via a smart device.
  • Statera Energy — Statera Energy is a company that generates, transmissions, and distributes electric energy.
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Foreword Ventures
VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Foreword Ventures is an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Foreword commits to adding value far beyond the small checks they write by devoting time, reputation, and capital to clients' success. Foreword typically invests in the pre-seed and seed stages, but can also invest in Series A and beyond whenthere is an existing relationship with the founder or co-investor.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Trace.Space — Engineers develop complex products 10x faster with Trace.Space. Requirements management for the next generation
  • Yonder — Financial benefits for global teams, set-up in less than 5 minutes. Enrol your team in local health insurance and pensions from local and global providers
  • Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.
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Investible
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 20 investments in the past 12 months

Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • Sherlok — Automated client retention for mortgage brokers, helping them grow their loan book by proactively keeping their existing clients happy and with them forever.
  • BintanGO — Creator Marketing Platform terbaik di Indonesia, lebih dari 40.000 Kreator dan 100 Brand sudah bergabung. Buat campaignmu jadi fleksibel, terlacak dan terukur.
  • Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.
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Big Issue Invest
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

Big Issue Invest empowers sustainable business solutions to deliver real social change.

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Investment focus

  • Charity, Non Profit, Communities
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing, Grant
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • OVO — OVO creates bold, imaginative, and surprising new versions of classic plays and stories.
  • World Media Initiatives — World Media Initiatives is a production company that stands out.
  • Phoenix Social Enterprise — PSE is a social enterprise with a purpose - to help individuals, communities and economies progress and grow, through our range of employment services
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David Giampaolo
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

David Giampaolo is founder and CEO of Pi Capital.Giampaolo previously founded, built and sold several businesses and health club chains in the U.S. and Europe. He has financial interests in several other businesses and industries, working as an investor, advisor, and board member of some of the largest and most successful health and fitnesscompanies in the world, including Fitness First, 24 Hour Fitness, Zumba Fitness, and Zorba India.He is on the board of Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, chairman of Gousto, and senior advisor to AMG (Affiliated Managers Group, Inc.) and BC Partners. Giampaolo is a member of YPO and CEO global business organizations and a trustee of Speakers4Schools.org and Pro Bono Economics.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Marketplace
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Oga — Fun Dance App.
  • Growth Street — Growth Street offers UK businesses a faster alternative to bank overdrafts.They see that many growing businesses need flexibility to manage their cashflow. Whether it’s managing the seasonal cycle of business or balancing invoice payments against outgoings, managing cashflow can take a lot of time, focus and energy. Often balancing the booksmeans delaying payments, leaning on suppliers or juggling costs, which can suck up your time, put pressure on your supplier relationships and generally make businesses less efficient.
  • Vinehealth — Best ePRO data collection tool | Digital patient support programmes for cancer patients | Remote PROMs data collection | Real-world studies | Oncology clinical research | Cancer support app | Cancer companion app for patients self-management | Self-reporting tool f
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Don Hoang
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Venture house dedicated to enabling a new digital future with blockchain

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Gibraltar, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Gensyn — The Gensyn protocol provides hyperscale, cost efficient, compute capacity for all deep learning workloads.
  • Fair.xyz — Fair.xyz is a no-code platform that allows creators to launch end-to-end NFT collections; secure, accessible and fair.
  • Tenderize — Mint validator specific liquid staked MATIC, GRT and LPT that can be swapped, collateralised or used in Defi.
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Maria Palma
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Maria Palma is the General Partner at Kindred Capital VC.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

  • Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
  • Mojo — A men's sexual wellbeing app specialising in psychogenic erection issues.
  • Fung Payments — The regulated Payments Platform unifying crypto and fiat rails. Fung has launched early beta. Sign up to secure your spot.
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Mike Lobanov
Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

At Target Global Mike is focused on investments in the Fintech and E-commerce spaces, as well as overall management of the firm. He also manages the relationships with co-investors who join deals alongside Target Global.Before joining Target Global, Mike worked at one of the largest Russian asset manageres, Alfa Capital, where he wasresponsible for managing $200+ million in assets for Alfa Capital’s 15 largest private clients.Mike holds a bachelor’s degree from the London School of Economics and twice won Russian state competitions in economics and entrepreneurship.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Russian Federation, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
  • XanPool — Buy and Sell Bitcoin around the World with Cash
  • 3Commas — 3Commas provides a platform for cryptocurrency investors to trade with minimal risks, limit losses, and increase profits. 3Commas was founded in 2017 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
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Amadeo Brenninkmeijer
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Amadeo Brenninkmeijer - Senior Partner @ inPositiv

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • ProcessOut — ProcessOut offers a smart router that facilitates international payment solutions and services. It enables its users to find and connect with payment providers and is able to analyze and control its customers’ payment data. ProcessOut offers its services for an annual payment. ProcessOut was founded in 2015 and has offices in New York and Paris.
  • SkyWatch — SkyWatch makes it easy, fast, and affordable to buy commercial satellite imagery for your geospatial needs.
  • Little Black Door — Little Black Door, LBD - The Social Wardrobe A free wardrobe sharing application that enables its users to upload their wardrobe, interact with their fashion items & share them on social networks We’re out to disrupt the way in which we engage with our fashion assets.
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Jeremy Darroch
Angel

Jeremy joined the Company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in 2004 and was appointed CEO in December 2007. He has extensive experience in the retailing and fast-moving consumer goods sectors. Prior to joining the Company, Jeremy was Group Finance Director of DSG International plc (DSG), formerly Dixons Group plc and prior to DSG, he spent 12 yearsat Procter & Gamble in a variety of roles in the UK and Europe. Jeremy is a Non-Executive Director of Burberry Group plc and a Council Member of the National Centre for Universities and Business. He was previously a Non-Executive Director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee of Marks and Spencer Group plc.

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Investment focus

  • Video, Advertising, Internet of Things
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • MindLabs — Live sleep and meditation classes for your mind. Led by experts. Backed by neuroscience. Now available to download on the App Store.
  • Multiverse — We're building an outstanding alternative to university and corporate training via professional apprenticeships
  • Monterosa Productions — Monterosa is the global leader in audience interaction technology and commerce, providing the platform powering the world’s biggest entertainment and sports properties.We work with BBC, ITV, Sky, CBS, IMG Arena, EA Sports & The English Premier League, World Rugby, Viacom, and many others to provide audiences with better ways to participate intheir favourite TV shows and sports. TV hits include Love Island, X Factor, The Voice and Britain’s Got Talent, where Monterosa tech lies at the heart of the official show apps and interactive experiences across all screens.We help our clients provide game-changing real-time interactivity that grows active, loyal audiences directly. We monetise their attention with commerce and first party data.Our technology is trusted by the world's biggest media organisations and brands to deliver at extreme volumes and securely. Audience experiences include mobile apps, web apps, social media, messaging, and augmented reality.Our creative and delivery teams are award-winning experts in interactivity with TV and sport, and we provide round the clock support to ensure creativity and innovation is matched with reliability and peace of mind.
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Claire Nooriala
Angel

Claire Nooriala VP EMEA, Snap Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Mobile, Social
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
  • Quiver — Quiver is a retail tech company that delivers e-commerce orders. Quiver was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in London.
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StartUp Health
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 14 investments in the past 12 months

Organizing and investing in a global army of entrepreneurs committed to achieving health moonshots

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Wellness, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • eddii — eddii is virtual in app character designed to engage people living with diabetes to track and record their health.
  • Medwise.ai — Medwise.ai is the Google for doctors.
  • Pear Suite — Pear Suite enables anyone—community health workers, other healthcare staff, and volunteers—to assess and address the social drivers of health for older adults in a scalable, cost-effective, and person-centered way.
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Ascension
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in the past 12 months

Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
  • ManholeMetrics — We are a multi-award winning sensor and analytics start-up on a mission to stop flooding and bring wastewater into the 21st Century.
  • SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.
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Ada Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in the past 12 months

Ada Ventures is a venture capital fund, backed by entrepreneurs and a group of global, mission-aligned investors. The fund invests in overlooked founders and overlooked markets. Ada Ventures is named after Ada Lovelace, the pioneering computer programmer, and mathematician, who was never recognized during the time she lived for what shecontributed to the advancement of technology and science.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Marketplace, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

  • Wangie — Connect with qualified mental health practitioners, ready and available round the clock.
  • Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
  • Materials Nexus — Accelerating change to net-zero materials
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Venrex
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments 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

  • E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, France

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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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 24 investments 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

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

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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Simon Franks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
  • Oto Health — Take back control of your tinnitus with Oto, the app built by doctors that teaches you how to stop noticing the ringing using clinically proven techniques. Includes CBT, targeted mindfulness, and relaxation. 86% users experience benefits after just 1 month.
  • Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
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Vinay Solanki
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Vinay Solanki is currently Head of Channel 4's Commercial Growth Fund responsible for their “media for equity” investment activity on disruptive digital consumer businesses. The model is focused on providing high quality TV airtime in return for passive equity stakes in typically growth phase companies. Since joining in the Summer of 2015,Vinay has led 10 deals in total, including 6 equity investments in consumer businesses alongside Series A VCs (such as DN Capital, Mangrove Partners, Felix Capital, Octopus Ventures & Accel Partners, amongst others). Vinay is actively seeking interesting and high growth consumer facing companies that might benefit from access to UK TV airtime, and has an active pipeline for 2017. Vinay is a highly experienced strategic advisor in media, digital and consumer businesses with over 15 years’ experience. Prior to Channel 4, Vinay held either M&A, strategy and/or commercial business development positions at Getty Images, Liberty Global, Ingenious Media and Ernst & Young.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Series B, Funding Round, Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
  • WeAre8 — Brands value and pay you for your time, and donate to charity every time you watch a brand ad. Be part of the community that's changing the world.
  • Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.
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Social Tech Trust
VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Social Tech Trust is a UK's leading dedicated investor of socially motivated tech.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Education
  • Seed, Grant, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • TapSOS — TapSOS is an app for a non-verbal method of contacting the emergency services. It will promote inclusivity and help transform the delivery of emergency services.
  • RightsDD — RightsDD is an award winning startup. Use RightsDD's platform to assess and monitor suppliers for slavery risk. Train employees with RightsDD's online and in-person anti-slavery courses. Benefit from specialist consulting.
  • Carers Trust — Carers Trust is a major charity for, with and about carers.
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Harald McPike
Angel · Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas

Harald McPike is a successful quantitative trader and global private investor.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Analytics, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series D
  • United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Imagr — We have built the first vision-only, white-label autonomous checkout solution that retailers can own, operate and scale themselves. Imagr is designed to layer into any supermarket, with no store fit-outs required.The Imagr system is an end-to-end autonomous checkout solution that enables retailers to automate the checkout in their supermarket.The system consists of a mobile Imaging Station - this utilizes our machine learning platform to image products and load them into our system so they are ready to be recognised when put into the trolley. Shopping trolleys fitted with the Halo (home to the lights and cameras that drive our AI platform) recognise items as they go in and out of the trolley without the need for barcodes. A retailers app, retailers can track shopping sessions and manage trolleys. And a shoppers app, for customers to pair with the trolleys, track shopping sessions and checkout. All parts of the Imagr system are designed and built in house by Imagr.
  • Starling Bank — Transform the way you manage your money with Starling Bank. Enjoy personal and business banking online and at your fingertips, always. Apply in minutes.
  • Health Data Analytics Institute — Health Data Analytics Institute is created a predictive platform that transcends the understanding of healthcare data and connects it to quantifiable, actionable information that benefits patients, providers, and society. But we don’t just translate data, we transform it into a continuum of insights — applicable across all touch points in anindividual’s dynamic health journey. It’s deep knowledge that quantifies longevity, health status, health risks, and health costs. But that’s just the start.
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Richard Scudamore
Angel

Richard Scudamore is an English sports executive. He was the Executive Chairman of the English Premier League.

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Social, Sports
  • Funding Round
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Monterosa Productions — Monterosa is the global leader in audience interaction technology and commerce, providing the platform powering the world’s biggest entertainment and sports properties.We work with BBC, ITV, Sky, CBS, IMG Arena, EA Sports & The English Premier League, World Rugby, Viacom, and many others to provide audiences with better ways to participate intheir favourite TV shows and sports. TV hits include Love Island, X Factor, The Voice and Britain’s Got Talent, where Monterosa tech lies at the heart of the official show apps and interactive experiences across all screens.We help our clients provide game-changing real-time interactivity that grows active, loyal audiences directly. We monetise their attention with commerce and first party data.Our technology is trusted by the world's biggest media organisations and brands to deliver at extreme volumes and securely. Audience experiences include mobile apps, web apps, social media, messaging, and augmented reality.Our creative and delivery teams are award-winning experts in interactivity with TV and sport, and we provide round the clock support to ensure creativity and innovation is matched with reliability and peace of mind.
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Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 39 investments in the past 12 months

Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created ​by founders for founders​ to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Health Care
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

  • SATIM — SATIM provides insights based on satellite radar data acquired regardless of weather and day/night time. Using developed software and algorithms SATIM can solve the problem of optimal information extraction from complex SAR imagery.
  • Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
  • Vera — Vera develops an assessment platform to identify and address risks in artificial intelligence and machine learning models. It engages key stakeholders across teams to create data-driven assessments and use data science tools to investigate AI and ML models, helping organizations navigate through uncertainty and protecting companies and individualsfrom risky artificial intelligence systems.
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Tiny VC
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 20 investments in the past 12 months

Backing great companies when they're tiny

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
  • Metergrid — Metergrid is a developer of SaaS products for specific problems in decentralized energy systems. They offer a market-leading automated cloud solution for the profitable realization, management, and billing of tenant power projects and charging infrastructure.
  • 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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JamJar Investments
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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

  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

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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Paul Forster
Angel · 7 investments in the past 12 months

Paul Forster

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Richard Lewis is a Chairman at Earth Blox. Attended University of Glasgow.

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Investment focus

  • Social, Travel, Software
  • Seed, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
  • Make it Social — Make it Social is a social-first creative agency founded by two former Universal Pictures creatives. Specialising in creating and adapting content for social media.
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kaushal kumar
Angel · Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India

kaushal kumar

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Investment focus

  • Social, Fashion, Internet
  • Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Little Black Door — Little Black Door, LBD - The Social Wardrobe A free wardrobe sharing application that enables its users to upload their wardrobe, interact with their fashion items & share them on social networks We’re out to disrupt the way in which we engage with our fashion assets.
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Redrice Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Fashion, Retail, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom

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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Wing Venture Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 15 investments in the past 12 months

Wing Venture Capital primarily invests in technology-based businesses. It emphasizes craftsmanship over volume and engages deeply with founders to help them build companies that matter. The body of work of Wing's team spans more than two decades and dozens of successful early-stage companies, 21 of which went on to achieve billion-dollar-plusoutcomes following IPOs or acquisitions. Its portfolio companies include Cohesity, Gong, Instart Logic, Juvo, Moogsoft, Palerra, Shape Security, and Snowflake.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
  • Gradient — A centralized data platform that enables full organizational observability. Find and manage everything that's going on with your team, products, and customers.
  • Wherobots Inc. — Wherobots provides software solutions to enable every orgranization to drive value from data via geospatial location and time
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in the past 12 months

Force Over mass are reinventing Venture Capital. With over a decade of experience in investing in innovation we are at the forefront of innovation. Introducing FOM 2.0, an unprecedented fund that combines unparalleled liquidity with uncompromised privacy. This unique initiative emphasizes complete transparency and aims to empower our entrepreneurs for success. With expertise in both technology and finance, we comprehensively grasp the complexities of the private markets, enabling us to innovate collaboratively. FOM 2.0 is poised to deliver on its promises of transparency, liquidity, and control.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
  • CUR8 — Even if we do everything else right on reducing emissions, the world still needs to remove up to 220 Gigatonnes of carbon from the atmosphere by 2050
  • SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.
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Ian Marchant
Angel · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom

Ian was Chief Executive of SSE, one of the UK’s leading utility companies and Scotland’s largest industrial company for over ten years. He stepped down from that position in the summer of 2013. Ian is now Chairman of Infinis Energy plc, a renewable energy company; Independent Chairman of the oil services company, the John Wood group and NovaInnovation; as well as holding various advisory and non-executive positions in other organisations. Ian is a renowned and innovative leader in the energy industry, and was welcomed to Synaptec’s advisory board in July 2016.

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Investment focus

  • Energy, Information Technology, Information Services
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Piclo — Piclo develop software to make our electricity grids smart, flexible and sustainable.
  • Labrador — Get paid cash to use less energy. Be notified of when you can switch energy suppliers and save. Automatically be on the cheapest deal available to you, always and for free. Plus, we will match your use to net zero sources for free.
  • USIO Energy
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Roderick Banner
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Rod founded the technology marketing group, Banner Corporation in 1984 and left it in 2009. It had grown to become the largest Business to Business agency in Europe and boasted the best of the world's blue chip tech firms as its clients.Since selling Banner to WPP, Rod became an angel investor - specialising in marketing technologyplayers. Investments include: The Sound Agency, Appinions, EngageSciences, The Filter, EveryOneCounts and Shopa. This sector has proved to be exciting, dynamic and rewarding.Rod has several day jobs, one of which is Forgather - a fresh, new business proposition. Its mission is to build and develop event properties that enhance people’s lives.Rod believes that the power of ‘real life’ experience is often underestimated in an online world. Most social content relates to human interaction and engagement. So Forgather creates events packed with exuberance, intelligence and fun so that participants (both on stage and in the audience) want to be there and want to come back. To complete the offer, the company builds audiences and communities around live events to maximise returns on any investment.Rod is also working on a new proposition - 3LA.com. This business offers digital planning services to help big brand CMOs (and their agencies) grapple with the complex, cluttered landscape of marketing automation technologies, social media platforms and increasing mobile priorities. The company leverages the diverse experience of a global group of highly experienced technologists and marketers and focuses on very pragmatic business outcomes.Specialties: Social media, mobile and marketing automation. 25 plus years in creating tangible, marketing-driven success for technology companies located in EMEA. Architecting brands. Having as much fun as possible - within the law and a good moral compass. Writing Linkedin testimonials.

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Investment focus

  • TV, Music, Video
  • Angel, Series B
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Shopa — Shopa (www.shopa.com) is where shopping gets social, enabling online customers to quickly discover relevant brands and products through other like-minded customers’ recommendation.Pivotal in the evolution of ecommerce, the UK and US-based business is focused on unlocking the opportunities that social commerce brings and monetising the power ofpersonal recommendation through its next-generation social shopping site. Customers who sign up to Shopa create a personal profile where they customise their own product feed for the items and brands they like. They effectively curate their ultimate personalised shopping basket. Making online buying even easier, customers can then make all of their purchases directly on the Shopa site. With the ability to also follow and like other customers, as well as specific brands and products, Shopa provides constantly evolving shopping inspiration. Customers who then share this inspiration even further through their social media channels are rewarded by Shopa each time one of their friends purchase one of their recommended products. Founded in November 2012, Shopa is backed by investment from Notion Capital and Octopus Ventures. The company was named European Start-up of the Year 2013 by IBM.
  • The Filter — Our personalization platform harnesses AI & data science to drive content engagement. 24iQ is available as pre-integrated packages or with additional managed services.
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Matt Robinson
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in the past 12 months

Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Atoa — Accept in-store payments using any UK Bank App. Merchants save up-to 70% versus cards and get paid faster. Sign-up in three minutes.
  • Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
  • Context.ai — Context.ai is product analytics for LLM applications. Understand your users and improve their experiences in your LLM powered products.
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Sustainable Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Welcome to the home of Climate Tech. We are a full service ecosystem empowering sustainable start-ups to scale through community, investment, innovation and workspace.

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Investment focus

  • Renewable Energy, E-Commerce, B2B
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Mykor — Mykor is a climate tech start-up. It decarbonizes the construction industry by manufacturing carbon-negative materials.
  • Windscope — High fidelity wind turbine performance and component health monitoring.
  • Concrete4Change — Concrete4Change (C4C) is a R&D company that is developing a ground-breaking technology to utilise and permanently mineralise CO2 in concrete. C4C technology won a wide range of awards including the United Nations (UN) most innovative Net-Zero technology Climate Challenge Cup at COP26 in Glasgow, Royal Academy of Engineering and UN SDG. C4C ispartly owned by two of the largest concrete manufacturers in the World (Siam Cement Group and Goldbeck GmBH). C4C is running several projects in partnership with the University of Nottingham, University of Sheffield & University of Warwick (total project value of £4 million for 2023-2024).
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