# Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in United Kingdom in May 2026 ## Paul Forster - Relevant deals: 38 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial, IT ## Taavet Hinrikus - Relevant deals: 32 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial, IT Founder and CEO @ Wise ## Will Neale - Relevant deals: 29 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial, Software, IT Founder @ Grabyo Investor (LP) @ Passion Capital Investor (LP) @ Latitude ## Charlie Songhurst - Relevant deals: 27 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, IT, Data and Analytics Advisor @ Bear Robotics ## Reece Chowdhry - Relevant deals: 24 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: Software, Financial, Commerce/Shopping Founder & CEO @ RLC Ventures ## Jonathan Milner - Relevant deals: 24 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Science/Engineering, Biotechnology, Health Care Chairman & Co-founder @ Axol Bioscience Non-Executive Director @ SyndicateRoom Co-Founder @ Milner Centre for Evolution Ambassador @ Natural History Museum Founder @ Abcam ## Matt Robinson - Relevant deals: 23 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial, Payments CEO @ Nested Founder @ GoCardless ## Simon Franks - Relevant deals: 20 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Commerce/Shopping, Financial Director @ Redbus Ventures Chairman @ Franks Family Foundation ## Michael Bristow - Relevant deals: 19 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Software, Internet Managing Partner @ Growth Strategy ## Charles Delingpole - Relevant deals: 17 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial, Payments, Software Founder & CEO @ ComplyAdvantage ## Tom Hulme - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, IT, Data and Analytics General Partner @ GV ## Eileen Burbidge - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Financial, Internet Co-Founder & Partner @ Passion Capital Founder @ White Bear Yard Director @ Marshmallow ## Stefan Glänzer - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Media and Entertainment, Financial Founder @ White Bear Yard Founding Partner @ Passion Capital Chairman / Co-Founder @ Rebate Networks ## Carlos Gonzalez- Cadenas - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial, IT Partner @ Index Ventures ## Michael Birch - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment Founder @ Monkey Inferno Co-Founder @ 1% of Nothing Founding Partner @ PROfounders Capital Co-Founder @ Birthday Alarm Founder @ The Battery ## Brent Hoberman - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Data and Analytics Co-Founder & General Partner @ Firstminute Capital Co-Founder @ 01 Founders Co-Founder and Chairman @ Karakuri Co-Founder and Non Executive Director @ MADE Co-Founder @ AccelerateHER Executive Chairman and Co-Founder @ Founders Factory Chairman & Co-founder @ Founders of the Future Co-Founder @ Grip Chairman and Co-Founder @ SmartUp.io Co-Founder @ Founders Keepers Executive Chairman and Co-Founder @ Founders Forum ## Stuart Marks - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, IT, Professional Services Founder and Chairman @ L Marks Director @ a2om international Founder @ JLab ## Andy Phillipps - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Commerce/Shopping, Media and Entertainment, Financial Non Executive Director @ Thought Machine Non Executive Director @ Prodigy Finance Investment Partner @ PROfounders Capital Non Executive Director @ Trainline Fellow in Entrepreneurship @ Cambridge Judge Business School ## Chris Mairs - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Science/Engineering, Software, Commerce/Shopping Venture Partner @ Entrepreneur First Non-executive Director @ Akoova Venture Partner @ Beacon Capital Non-executive Director @ Akoova ## Julien Codorniou - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, Commerce/Shopping Lecturer - UEFA MIP @ UEFA Vice President @ Workplace by Facebook ## Tim Dempsey - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial, IT Managing Partner @ Epiphany Capital ## Edward Lando - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, IT, Financial Co-Founder & CEO @ Goody Managing Partner @ Pareto Holdings Co-Founder @ Horizons School of Technology Founder @ Alpha Co-Founder @ Conduit First investor @ Catalina Crunch ## Steve Pankhurst - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Data and Analytics, Apps ## Christian Faes - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial, Software, Lending and Investments Exec Chair & Co-Founder @ LendInvest Founder @ Faes & Co ## James Meekings - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Financial, Health Care ## Ed Wray - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial, Software, Apps Director & Non-executive Director @ Funding Circle Director @ LMAX Group ## Alan Morgan - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Financial, Software, Data and Analytics Chairman, Co-Founder @ MMC Ventures Non Exec Director @ Small World Financial Services Group ## Eric Nadalin - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial, Lending and Investments CTO @ tru.ID ## William Tunstall-Pedoe - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Data and Analytics, AI Fellow @ Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) Founder & Chief Product Officer @ Evi ## Matt Clifford - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Science/Engineering, Data and Analytics Co-Founder & CEO @ Entrepreneur First Council Member (non-exec director) @ Innovate UK Trustee @ Kennedy Memorial Trust Co-founder and NED @ Code First: Girls ## Will Brooks - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures ## Will Martin - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures ## Simon Murdoch - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Analytics Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits. ## Theo Osborne - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, E-Commerce Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital. ## Tom Singh - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS Tom Singh OBE is the Founder of New Look, a leading UK entrepreneur and active private investor with family interests spanning: retail, technology, real estate, renewable energy sectors and private equity. He currently holds the position of Non-Executive Board Member for New Look with over 900 stores worldwide which he founded in 1969.Inaddition to his responsibilities at New Look, Tom is a founding member of: the Social Investment Task Force, the Chairman of the UK Advisory Council for the British Asian Trust, and is a Trustee of the Pakhar Foundation. Tom is an active philanthropist and social investor and in recent years, has taken an increasing interest in the world of technology. ## David Murray-Hundley - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Automotive, Financial Services David Murray-Hundley aka The Grumpy Entrepreneur™ is a technology geek and entrepreneur at heart.CEO and Co Founder of Pario Ventures. www.parioventures.com . I invest alongside the majority of Pario Ventures investments. David was inspired by the movie “War Games” at the age of 8 and commercially released his first game for the BBC Micro atjust 11 years old.David went on to study Artificial Intelligence when people thought it was just about Terminator and in his early 20s was part of the team that delivered the worlds first Web Ecommerce B2B platform with Barclays and Chase Manhatten.For the rest of his 20s David helped develop the first smart card readers for Credit Cards with Dione and was part of the founding team for Commerce One in Silicon Valley who became the top stock on Nasdaq (Ecommerce) during the dotcom boom at $22bn valuation.Also built the Internets first Automotive Market Place Exchange for General Motors forming part of Covisint. He was bankrupt by the time he was 30. “A good thing”, he says and later went on to build and be part of building a number of companies and has had a number of exits in recent years as well as Reid Hoffman awarding David Linkedin European Business Leader Of The Year.David is a company chairman, director, advisor and mentor. He invests in and works with a number of startups and scaling companies not just in technology. Technology key focus is Consumer Fintech, E-Commerce, Artificial Inteligence and Automotive and Motorsport Technology Also, following in the footsteps of his one of his inspirations, John Harvey-Jones, he spends a lot of time troubleshooting businesses. ## Serge Chiaramonte - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce Serge Chiaramonte ## Alexander Edward Chesterman - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services Alex Chesterman is the founder and CEO of Cazoo. He was the Founder & CEO of ZPG Plc, a FTSE-250 listed company. Previously Alex co-founded Lovefilm, Europe's leading digital movie rental business, which was successfully sold to Amazon. Alex is also one of the UK's most active tech angel investors having backed dozens of early stagedigital startups and was awarded an OBE for services to services to digital entrepreneurship in 2016. ## Jeremy Yap - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests in the Europe, North America, and Israel. ## Michael Pennington - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B. Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers. ## Andrew Weisz - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Education, Apps Andrew Weisz - Partner @ Weisz Investments ## Chris Adelsbach - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures ## Errol Damelin - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010. ## Guy Westlake - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Logistics, E-Commerce, GPS Guy is an entrepreneur and investor who’s experienced online/technology businesses at pretty much every level – from 1-man startup to global multinational. He is Co-founder & CEO at Lavanda in London. Guy knows what it means to roll your sleeves up and get your hands dirty, whilst understanding the need to establish scalable processes thatcan support rapid growth. He is passionate about culture and working with exceptional people to build innovative businesses that create meaningful value. He speaks Spanish, French and Italian. Studied at the ESCP Europe and University of Bristol. His interests are UX, e-commerce, web 2.0, social media, cloud computing, analytics, ECM, Business process management, web content management, software, business solutions, strategic marketing, consultancy, innovations, cinema, music, literature, current affairs, entrepreneurship, start-ups. ## Richard Fearn - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe / -Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger) - Equity Markets - Real Estate - FX - Commodity - Bonds - Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT - Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories: - Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint - Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi - D2C / B2C - Food & Beverages - Pharma - Media & Entertainment ## Vishal Amin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, Health Care Vishal Amin ## 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. ## Guillaume Glaunès - Type: Angel - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Apps Angel Investor ## Lorenzo Franzi - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: SEM, Apps, Software Lorenzo is Co-Founder & Managing Director of ZipJet. ZipJet is an urban pick-up & delivery service for laundry & dry cleaning in London and Berlin. Previously, Lorenzo worked with McKinsey & Company as a consultant. Prior to McKinsey, he worked with Voice.ee a micro polling start up. Lorenzo started-off his professional career at JPMorgan in London. Lorenzo holds an MBA from INSEAD and Msc in Finance from the University of Maastricht. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co