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

## Female Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Internet

Female Founders Fund is a seed stage venture fund that invests exclusively in female-founded companies. We believe strongly in the exponential power of exceptional female talent. We invest in e-commerce, media, platforms, advertising and web-enabled services businesses.

## Development Bank of Wales
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology

Development Bank of Wales is formed in 2001 by the Welsh Assembly Government. Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.

## Felix Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage

A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class

## Marek Gumienny
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Privacy

Marek Gumienny - Non Executive Director @ Sharedband Limited

## Coral Reef IO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Social Network

Coral Reef is an investor in technology and creativity. 

## Robin Knox
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Social Network

Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.

## Ryan Petersen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

## Ville Vesterinen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods

Co-founder and CEO at Grey Area.

## Hotspur Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Location Based Services, Mobile

Hotspur Capital is a financial organization.

## Partech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

## Eduardo Ronzano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Eduardo Ronzano is the Founder of KelDoc.

## Sweet Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Software, Mobile

Sweet is the King.com (Candy Crush) founders' investment fund. We are passionate about funding the next generation of entrepreneurs focused on creating a positive impact through consumer technology.

## Northstar Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Philipp Moehring
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

Philipp is an earliest stage technology investor in Berlin.
He invested in more than 100 companies across various sectors, including open source software, ML/AI enabled SaaS, and deep tech from synthetic biology to materials science.

## Index Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

## MOHARA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Marketing, Advertising, Financial Services

MOHARA is a digital product agency, enabling entrepreneurs and corporates to fulfil their potential by applying our ten years of software product expertise to craft innovative and disruptive digital products.

## Andy Chung
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Machine Learning

Andy Chung is the Partner and Founder of Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company. He previously worked at AngelList as a Partner. Andy Chung attended University of Cambridge.

## Angels Den
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software

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

## Paul Walton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Social Network

Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.

## Deepali Nangia
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Wellness

Deepali Nangia

## Greycroft
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Venture capital and technology investments

## Ventura Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Ventura Capital is an investment firm focused on late-stage high-growth companies in global technology sectors.
It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

## Gobi Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet

Gobi Partners is the most interconnected Pan-Asian venture capital firm with US$1.5 billion in assets under management (AUM). Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, the firm supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets.Founded in 2002, Gobi has raised 15 funds to date, invested inover 350 startups and nurtured 10 unicorns. Gobi has grown to 15 locations across key markets in Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Manila, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore and Surabaya.As a Participant of the United Nations Global Compact, Gobi Partners is committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption to ensure long-term value creation and sustainability across our portfolio.

## Den Christian Bocassa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Social Media, Social Network

Den Christian Bocassa is the CEO and Founder at Ethereum Enterprises.

## Closed Loop Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New City, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Recycling, Supply Chain Management, Artificial Intelligence

We Invest in the Circular Economy, a New Economic Model Focused on a Profitable and Sustainable Future.

## Backstage Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Backstage Capital is a venture capital fund investing in the best startups led by underrepresented founders in the U.S. The firm was founded in 2015 by Arlan Hamilton and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, United States.

## Abdo Achkar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stanford, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Abdo Achkar is the Founder & CEO at Sowlutions.

## ITOCHU Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce

The history of ITOCHU Corporation (hereinafter "ITOCHU") dates back to 1858 when the Company's founder Chubei Itoh commenced linen trading operations. Since then, ITOCHU has evolved and grown over 150 years into a sogo shosha, engaging in domestic trading, import/export, and overseas trading of various products such as textiles,machinery, information and communications-related products, metals, products related to oil and other energy sources, general merchandise, chemicals, and provisions and food. In addition, ITOCHU has made multifaceted investments in insurance agencies, finance, construction, real estate trading, and warehousing as well as operations and businesses incidental or related to those fields.

## Wayra
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

## Hambro Perks Ltd.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Secondary Market, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Financial Services

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.

## Phil Boddy
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Apps, FinTech

Phil is an experienced equity derivatives broker working for Sunrise Brokers LLP, part of the BGC Partners Group. He is also an Angel Investor focused on post-seed early ventures.

## NuVX Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software

Company’s strategy is to assemble a diversified portfolio of investments in leading deep tech technology companies.

## S4C Digital Media
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: TV, Internet, Software

S4C is the only Welsh language television channel in the world. As a public service broadcaster, it commissions independent producers from across Wales to make the majority of its programmes. ITV Cymru Wales is also commissioned to produce programmes. BBC Cymru Wales provides around 10 hours of programming per week for S4C, including the news anddaily soap Pobol y Cwm, funded out of the licence fee.S4C broadcasts over 115 hours of programmes each week, including sport, drama, music, factual, entertainment and events, across a range of platforms, including online. S4C offers comprehensive services for children: Cyw for younger viewers, Stwnsh for older children and programmes for teenagers. And the programmes are available in HD on Sky and Freesat in Wales and across the UK.Since April 2013, most of S4C's income comes from the licence fee via the BBC Trust with a proportion coming from the UK government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). S4C also has some powers to generate its own commercial income, for example, through advertising sales.

## APX
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.

## Seedrs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech

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

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

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

## 24 Haymarket
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Tudor Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series D
- Focus: Software, Internet, Telecommunications

Founded in 1980 by Paul Tudor Jones II, the firm currently manages $21 billion. The firm's investment strategies include global macro trading, fundamental equity investing in the U.S. and Europe, emerging markets, venture capital, commodities, event driven strategies and technical trading systems."

## 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.

## True Global Ventures (TGV)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Enterprise Software

True Global Ventures is a unique, international, early-stage vehicle formed by the world's leading technology entrepreneurs-turned-angel-investors. True Global Ventures leverages the personal networks and expertise of its founders to support the next generation of superstar entrepreneurs.Founded by Dušan Stojanović, awarded BusinessAngel of the Year in Europe in 2013 and nominated as one of the top four angels in 2009 by the European Business Angel Network, the True Global Ventures team includes entrepreneur-angels from mainly Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Silicon Valley and New York. With every partner having deep startup operating experience and successful exits as entrepreneurs, as well as the investment expertise that comes from having completed prior to True Global Ventures a combined total of over 350 angel investments, True Global Ventures gives new meaning to the term 'smart money'.They do invest money but on top of the money they are specialised in 5 areas: 1. Bringing in Customers and Partners 2. Internationalise the company 3. Help refinance the company with introductions of traditional VC, Loans and Private Equity Firms 4. Help acquiring companies as well as exiting the company 5. Recruiting in general and especially of engineers.True Global Ventures typically invests from USD 100 000 to USD 600 000 into very early stage companies lead exclusively by serial entrepreneurs, and then provides them with hands-on assistance and access to the extensive personal networks of the True Global Ventures partners. The investment vehicule is focused on highly scalable Internet, software and mobile applications, with companies that are headquartered in Silicon Valley, New York, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, and who can make optimal use of the international perspective that True Global Ventures brings to the table. True Global Ventures does not invest in Hardware, Cleantech and Medtech.

## Sonder Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Sonder Capital invests in teams and technologies that can transform healthcare in the medical device, diagnostic and healthtech sectors. We are Foundational Investors – we commit our energy and capital early to guide and support companies from inception to acquisition or IPO. We look for big ideas that will change lives.

## Veddis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Consumer Electronics

Veddis is an investment advisory firm that seeks to create value through sourcing tailored investment decisions that meet the right criteria of asset class, risk profile, and geography. They currently manage a portfolio of carefully selected companies which specialise in technology, health & wellbeing and retail. Their sophisticated planningprocess provides their clients access to global investment vehicles free from bias, and has culminated in a longstanding record of superior returns. As a truly independent company, every decision they make is solely with the investors’ interests in mind.

## Quiet Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Move the world forward with quiet capital. We are builders who invest in remarkable founders from day zero.

## Brigitte Baumann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Education, Health Care

Brigitte is the Founder of Go Beyond Early Stage Investing, www.go-beyond.biz, (see video) . Go Beyond enables novice & experienced, small & large investors, to access angel investing as an asset class through its unique platform, tools, training and expert angels. Go Beyond works with individual investors, family offices, professionalgroups/associations and corporations. Go Beyond operates in Europe and the US. Its team is comprised of seasoned business angels and is the subject of a Harvard Business School case. Brigitte is a Business Angel since 2003 and has received The European Investor of the Year from EBAN in May 2015. Brigitte is President Emeritus of EBAN, the European trade association for Business Angels and Seed Funds www.eban.org Brigitte Chairs Young Presidents Organization’s www.ypo.org global Angel Investing group.

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

kaushal kumar

## Theo Osborne
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, E-Commerce

Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.

## Fuel Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

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

## 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.

## Miller Research (UK) Ltd
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newport, Newport, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Social Media

Miller Research (UK) is a consultancy working to create and support sustainable communities across the UK.

## Bogdan Iarovoi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
- Focus: Internet, SaaS, Software

Bogdan Iarovoi is a Managing Partner of SmartHub Investments.

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