# Top 50 Social Startup Investors in United Kingdom in May 2026

## Seedcamp
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

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.

## Notion Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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

## True.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail

A unique model for investing, innovating & growing

## Octopus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech

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.

## Connect Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

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

## Richard Fearn
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms

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.

## Ian Hogarth
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

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.

## Shan Drummond
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Social, Analytics

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

## Ned Cranborne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Social, Analytics

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

## Nicolas Julia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Gaming, Financial Services

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.

## Inventures SA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology

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.

## Beringea
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

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

## Speedinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## 24 Haymarket
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

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.

## Matt Robinson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Wing Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Robin Shenfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Social, Sports

Robin Shenfield - CEO @ The Mill

## David Giampaolo
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Marketplace

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.

## Jeremy Darroch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Video, Advertising, Internet of Things

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.

## Claire Nooriala
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Social

Claire Nooriala VP EMEA, Snap Inc.

## Harald McPike
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Information Technology

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

## Richard Scudamore
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Gaming, Social, Sports

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

## Chris Rodman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Solihull, Solihull, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Gaming, Social, Sports

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

## Santander UK
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Fashion, Information Technology

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...

## Foreword Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Investible
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

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

## Big Issue Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Grant
- Focus: Charity, Non Profit, Communities

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

## Don Hoang
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Analytics, B2B, Social

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.

## Eden Block
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology, Software

Venture house dedicated to enabling a new digital future with blockchain

## Maria Palma
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Maria Palma is the General Partner at Kindred Capital VC.

## Mike Lobanov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

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.

## Amadeo Brenninkmeijer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Internet

Amadeo Brenninkmeijer - Senior Partner @ inPositiv

## StartUp Health
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Medical

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

## Ascension
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, FinTech

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

## Ada Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Marketplace, Health Care

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.

## Venrex
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet

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

## Sustainable Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy, E-Commerce, B2B

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.

## Will Neale
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

## Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech

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.

## Marc McCabe
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Big Data, FinTech

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

## Northstar Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Northstar Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in innovative solutions to help solve the most pressing societal issues we have today.  Our ticket sizes range from £100k to £500k into early stage tech companies. We provide added value in leveraging our network of university partners, funders, non-executive directors and talent to supporteach investment.

## CQRS Limited
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Events, Social, Medical

For the angel investor, family office and VCs, CQRS creates opportunities for its investee companies to engage with other potential investors to participate in funding rounds. CQRS and its partners may participate in the financing of some of these businesses. ​CQRS partners represent a diverse talent pool, with an abundance of business experienceand provide perspective on strategy and market context for all investment opportunities. ​CQRS advises entrepreneurs and their business seeking growth through investment, on business planning, legal, organisational, funding and communication challenges. ​You could say we are venture building our pre-seed investee clients, hands on prior to and with any early investment. The dynamics of our network providing a combination of resources produces the most explosive results in order to capture market share quicker.​Register now to join The CQRS extended network of angels, FP and VCs.

## Redbus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Redbus Group is a UK based investment group that invests in early stage ventures and funds or acquires businesses that require restructuring. Redbus Group came into existence as an offshoot of Redbus Film Distribution which was founded in 1997 as a film distribution company. Redbus Film Distribution had rapidly established itself as one of thelargest and most profitable film distributors in the UK. In late 2000 it was sold to Helkon Media AG.Redbus through its subsidiary Filmgroup was the first company in Europe to successfully develop technology to compress and stream moving images over the internet. Between 2000 and 2004 Redbus was the UK's fastest growing company with a compound annual growth rate in-excess of 280%. In 2005 Redbus sold its production and distribution operations to Lionsgate Inc and sold its stake in Lovefilm of which it was co-founder, to Amazon in 2010.Employing an entrepreneurial and disciplined approach, Redbus, either with partners or alone looks for opportunities to leverage off its capital, market knowledge and management resources.

## Richard Lewis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Social, Travel, Software

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

## kaushal kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social, Fashion, Internet

kaushal kumar

## Balderton Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Simon Franks
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Health Care

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.

## Vinay Solanki
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile

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.

## Social Tech Trust
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Education

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

## Tiny VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Backing great companies when they're tiny

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