Top 35 Sporting Goods VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in October 2023

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

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• AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
• OnCare — Home care software | care management system
• SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.

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• Dexla — Build B2B apps quickly with an AI-powered front-end software engineer. Type in what your company does and watch Buck build your app for you.
• RideTandem — Tandem turns local transport providers into smart shuttles for work, education and more. The smart way to move your community.
• Greenspark — Turn your e-commerce business into a force for good, increase sales and engage your customers in climate action with Greenspark.

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• Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
• Terralayr — Terralayr uses software to collect energy grid-scale storage, which will be required as we strive to make renewable energy more efficient and lucrative.
• Lindus Health — Lindus Health. From recruitment to delivery, we accelerate clinical trials. Our mission is to make health research accessible for everyone, everywhere.

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• CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
• Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
• Translucent — Translucent is next-gen accounting software.

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• Mundimoto — Mundimoto is a motor cycle trading platform.
• Yendo — Our mission is to provide everyone with the most accessible, most affordable, and most transparent credit by leveraging their vehicles.
• Exponential Exchange — Exponential Exchange is designing contemporary commodities and brokered financial products.

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• Shot Scope — The official Shot Scope website. Golf watches, range finders and performance tracking that help lower your score and handicap. Buy direct online today!
• PneumoWave — Empowering Intervention and Prevention for Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression
• Vector Photonics — Vector Photonics is a spin-out company from the University of Glasgow and is based in Glasgow, Scotland, one of the UK and world’s Optical and Photonics centres of excellence.

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• Mesh — The ONLY Email Security Platform purpose-built for MSPs with Best-In-Class Machine Learning Powered Detection, and a revolutionary centralized management console (MSP Hub)
• Manna Drone Delivery — Drone delivery made simple
• Bluedrop Medical — Thermal and visual assessment in a single scan. Award winning, patented design.

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• TruePlayers — Trueplayers is a computer game development company that specializes in mobile games. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Falmouth, Cornwall.
• Intelligent AI — Global location intelligence that helps you measure, predict and mitigate property risks in real-time.
• Jet Engineering System Solutions — Delivering pop up, floating maritime 5G communications for a safe and secure, sustainable, smart operational, global blue economy.

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• OSSTEC — OSSTEC is bringing advanced technology to the operating room with metal 3D printed bone healing implants. The orthopaedic implants emulate natural bone structure and address high failure rates of existing implants, keeping patients who suffer with osteoarthritis healthy, active and enjoying life.
• STAXY Ltd — STAXY is creating a sustainable future for travel by providing corporates and organisations with a mobility-as-a-service platform that enables employees and communities access to low-cost and convenient modes of transport.
• TasteIndex — TasteIndex offers a simple system for consumers to find the products they love, with a recommendation system that is based on sensory intent science, chemical data, and AI. TasteIndex leverages the power of pattern recognition to effectively match supply and demand and is on a mission to become a global standard on taste for food and beverageproducts.

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• YesRef — The easy way to find and pay referees
• Fanslide — Fanslide develops a live in-play fantasy football application.
• Hotel Manager — Hotel Manager is the platform for delivering modern experiences to guests, wherever they are. Launch and build your hotel app in no time and manage your growth easily. All in one platform with zero technical knowledge required.

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• Easology — New easy to use tablets - Samsung Galaxy easology. Easology makes your tablet easy with large text, big buttons, clear menus + more.
• Evidenced — Evidenced is your interviewing copilot, guiding your team to the most accurate hiring decision with fewer interviews.
• Toolbox — London-based startup simplifying the renovation experience for homeowners. We take care of every step of the process. Free bathroom design consultation, fixture and fitting sourcing & installation of your dream bathroom.

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

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• Matchday — We build games for 5B football fans, featuring your favorite players. Official partner of FIFA and FIFPRO.
• Steady Energy — Steady Energy aims to decarbonize the energy-intensive heating industry starting with residential and district heating.
• Hubble Network — a Satellite network connecting billions of bluetooth devices. GLOBALLY.

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• Odore — Our platform enables the world's leading brands to sample their products more effectively.
• Decently — Decently provides the world a better place by developing advanced digital products. Decently mission is to improve lives through innovative digital product.
• TrainThis.AI — TrainThis.AI revolutionizes the way you manage and coach your team. Say goodbye to wasting hours on call reviews and email reading just to provide feedback on a fraction of the work. The company's real-time feedback system empowers your reps to receive continuous input on their work, eliminating poor-quality outcomes and maximizing thebenefits of ongoing feedback.

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• 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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• novosound — Novosound is an award winning Scottish sensors company utilising thin-film processes to eliminate conventional limitations in ultrasound sensors.
• Snappy Shopper — Order your favourite products from your local convenience store, for delivery from as little as 30 minutes with Snappy Shopper. Your every day essentials are only a click away - order your grocery delivery online or through our app.
• Sofant Technologies — Sofant is developing a low cost RF MEMS technology that solves power consumption and heat problems in high frequency phased array antenna systems.

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• Upvest — Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API. Upvest brings together everything that’s required to offer a broad range of investment products on the website and app. They are connected to the world’s leading asset providers and exchanges to provide the bestinvestments, at the best prices and execution speed.
• PrimaryBid — PrimaryBid is a technology platform that allows everyday investors fair & equal access to investing in public companies raising capital.
• ThreatFabric — Our Fraud Risk Suite enables safe & frictionless payment journeys by combining our renowned threat intel with device/behavioral/identity risk management.

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• Commhoist — Commhoist provide safe, right first time, rapid & cost-effective telecom logistics. Give us a call today and talk to us and see how we can help.
• Jellyfish Pictures — Founded in 2001, Jellyfish Pictures is a BAFTA, Emmy and Annie award winning global Animation and Visual Effects (VFX) studio.
• Total Integrated Solutions — TIS is an independent systems integrator, specialising in driving digital transformation and integration across the life safety, security and communications industry.

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• Pickle Robot — We make robots that unload trucks without retrofitting the warehouse
• Urban Machine — Salvaging the past to build the future- Stealth Startup
• Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool

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• Agilitas Sports — Agilitas Sports operates as a sportswear and athleisure solutions platform.
• Onward Technologies —
• Jagsonpal Pharmaceuticals —

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• Prevayl — Prevayl describes itself as a cutting-edge sports performance brand looking to empower consumers with their own biometric data by bringing together a “premium, discreet aesthetic with a seamless user experience” through wearable health technology.

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• GoJoe — Ditch the step challenge apps and employee engagement platforms and boost inclusivity and engagement with GoJoe.The employee engagement and wellbeing app that people actually use.

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• OxCan — Enabling curative cancer treatment through early detection
• Axle Energy — Connect home energy assets with flexibility incentives. Lower costs and lower CO2.
• Runna — Runna is your personalized running coach. With tailored training plans, world-class coaching and an in-app community to help you achieve your goals, whether you're training for a faster 5k or your first marathon. Download Runna today.

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• Pneumagen — Pneumagen focuses on developing glycan targeted carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs) as a new universal therapeutic modality for the treatment of respiratory tract infections (RTIs) and cancer. Founded in 2016, the Company is a spin-out from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and has access to world-class scientific expertise and capabilitiesin glycobiology.
• Microplate Dx — Microplate Dx is a developer of diagnostic technology aimed at significantly reducing fatalities caused by drug-resistant infections.Microplate Dx, an award-winning spinout company from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, focuses on creating innovative diagnostic solutions to combat the significant global health challenge of antimicrobialresistance. Their technology revolves around the ingenious concept of employing highly sensitive biosensor electrodes, enhanced with miniaturized hydrogel deposits containing various antibiotics tailored to the specific infection being detected. The primary mission of Microplate DX is to proactively prevent and manage the proliferation of antimicrobial resistance on a global scale.
• Rapscallion Soda — Award Winning, Fresh Fruit, Low Calorie Soft Drinks, Handmade in Scotland. Fresh batches made weekly. Free UK Mainland Delivery. International Shipping. Ginga Ninja | Burnt Lemon | Dry Lime | Scottish Rhubarb Soda | Scottish Strawberry Soda | Cranachan Soda | Blueberry Soda Love soda. Hate hangovers. Drink local.

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• Atom Switch — Atom Switch is an independent developing studio providing design, development, and consulting for mobile and web apps, games, advertising.
• Loric Games — Loric Games operates as a gaming studio that offers players story-driven experiences. The company aims to inspire players that seek adventure within fantastical worlds that are brought to life through shared story-driven experiences.
• Incredibuild — Incredibuild accelerates your development on-prem and the cloud to give you shorter builds, faster iterations, and better products.

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• 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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• Milbotix — Revolutionising Dementia Care with SmartSocks
• SolarisKit — SolarisKit are developers of the world's first flat-packed, self-assembled solar collectors for heating water. Our modern and attractive solar heating solutions are ideally suited for homes and buildings seeking to lower their energy costs and carbon emissions. The SolarisKit solar collector is idea
• Zak Mobility — Zak Mobility is a proprietary wheel technology that integrates a hub motor and suspension within the wheel. It supports key drivers for the move to new types of urban transport, last-mile delivery, and adventure or utility vehicles.

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

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• Fittamamma — Award winning maternity activewear, postnatal workout clothes and nursing sports bras from FittaMamma. High impact sportswear proven to support your changing body to help you move through motherhood. Including maternity gymwear, maternity running clothes, buggy running and maternity yoga
• Curio Spirits — Curio Spirits is the home of a range of artisan, hand-crafted spirits that include the award-winning Wild Coast Gin, Coyaba Rum and vodkas.

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• Bringly — Sustainable & carefee multi-carrier urban delivery partner. You don't have to chose between the benefits of a delivery platform or a carrier. Enjoy the best of both to provide the most sustainable, fast & affordable last mile delivery options.Our shipping network of bicycle couriers and electric vehicles makes it possible to deliver quickly, locally and CO2-neutral.
• Vianova — Vianova is a platform for managing connected and shared mobility in the urban public realm. It helps cities better manage their urban space, starting with mobility services. Along with the benefits of new mobility solutions, cities face growing challenges as they integrate fast-developing modes of transportation. Its company's technology helpscities and mobility operators better collaborate and communicate, in order to foster more liveable and breathable streets.
• ChargeX — ChargeX provides electric car charging solutions. Tobias Wagner, Michael Masnitza, and Johannes Engeln founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany.

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• Living Optics — Living Optics is commercializing next generation imaging technology which leverages a compact camera system based on breakthroughs in hardware design and software processing.
• Phlux Technology — Phlux is a photonics company developing innovative light detector and imaging systems. Spun out from the University of Sheffield in September 2020, Phlux is developing high performance infrared sensors for LIDAR, fibre sensing and imaging systems.
• Cambridge GaN Devices — Cambridge GaN Devices develops transistors designed to bring widespread adoption of GaN technology in consumer electronics.

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

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• Asaren — The First DNA Test Service at Affordable Prices, Diversity of Reports About Lifestyle is displayed in an Easy-to-Under App. You Can Get it Only in Asa Ren
• IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
• Peek Home — Peek Home provides sketch plans, prices and planning advice for people who are puzzled by the process of creating their perfect home. All we need is your house number & postcode - no home visit needed.

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• Kinsetsu — Organisations are continually challenged to find better ways to manage processes. Traditional approaches are being pushed to their limits.
• CV6 Therapeutics — CV6 Therapeutics is a drug development company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel therapies for the treatment of human diseases.
• GenoMe Diagnostics — GenoME Diagnostics - We are developing a blood test for an earlier and more accurate diagnosis of ovarian cancer.GenoME Diagnostics .