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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Finance startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
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Startupbootcamp | Seed, Venture | London, England, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Seedcamp | Early Stage Venture, Seed | London, England, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
3i Group | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | London, England, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
SFC Capital | Early Stage Venture, Seed | London, England, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Balderton Capital | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed | London, England, United Kingdom, Europe |
At SeedRound we track over 200,000 investors and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these firms. We use this directory of investors to highlight top employees, LP’s and funding organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top Finance Seed investors in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Finance Investors & Funds (London)
Startupbootcamp
Startupbootcamp is a global network of industry-focused startup accelerators that provides investment and mentorship services. Startupbootcamp facilitates this mentorship-driven model by providing startups with essential tools during a 3-month accelerator program. The company provides €15,000 towards living expenses for the team during the program, 6 months co-working space, over €450,000 in sponsored services and the platform to pitch to over 400 investors at Investor Demo Day. Startupbootcamp was founded in 2010 and operates in cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, Miami, New York, Cape Town, Dubai, Istanbul, London, Chengdu, Rome and Mumbai
Stages: Seed, Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Seedcamp
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 unicorns Revolut, 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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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3i Group
3i is a British private equity group that has billions under management. For over 65 years we’ve invested in supporting people who start, grow, change and buy businesses; delivering significant power to the people they work with through their knowledge, experience and global network of relationships. Ultimately, we’re driven by their strong sense of values. They form close partnerships with the companies they invest in and they build strong relationships based on integrity, trust and mutual respect. 3i’s ability to create value in its portfolio companies has always been underpinned by the differentiated scale of its international resources, knowledge and networks. However, they also recognise the role of specialist resource in driving superior performance. With a track record in delivering innovative value creation solutions, they have developed a highly-effective approach. Working collaboratively, their aim is simple: to give management the tools they need to build lasting capabilities and competitive advantage.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Banking, Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology, Infrastructure, Venture Capital
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SFC Capital
SFC Capital, the UK’s most active seed investor (PitchBook, 2020), provides capital and support to British startups. By combining its Angel Network and Seed Funds, SFC has created a unique model that allows investors to get exposure to SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, either directly or through a diversified portfolio curated and managed by SFC’s expert team. In 2020, SFC received a £10m allocation from Business Investments as part of the Regional Angels Programme in support of SFC’s mission to back promising early-stage companies from every corner of the UK. SFC Capital is an Appointed Representative of SFC Capital Partners Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 736184).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Balderton Capital
Balderton Capital they invest in companies with seeking investment .
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Service Industry, Venture Capital
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Octopus Ventures
For the people and ideas that will change the world, because we believe you can build a better tomorrow by investing in it. We can back you at every stage of your journey, from ideas on a page through to IPO. Each year we deploy more than £200 million across five areas where we see maximum potential for impact: health, fintech, deep tech, consumer and B2B software. With many years of experience and expertise investing in each of these areas, our team can help our portfolio companies scale at speed. For us, investment is about more than money. Being truly invested is about giving time, energy and focus; working with founders to give them the best chance of success. It means a shared commitment to solving the big problems that matter. We’ve backed the likes of ManyPets, Cazoo, Depop, Elvie and WaveOptics, while others have gone on to join forces with the world’s largest businesses. We are based in London and New York with a network of partners across the U.S and Asia.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Northzone
Northzone is a venture capital fund with a perspective shaped by lives as entrepreneurs. Established in 1996, they have raised over €1.5 billion in funds and partnered with the founders of Spotify, Avito, iZettle, Klarna, Hopin, and hundreds of others to build category-defining businesses.The firm has offices across the Nordics, London, and New York, it works around the clock to connect its companies with customers, business partners, and key talent on a truly international scale.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Finance, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Anthemis Group
Anthemis Group is a global platform that cultivates change in the financial system by investing in, growing, and sustaining businesses committed to resiliency, transparency, access and equity. Founded in 2010, our deep understanding of markets and models, passion for emerging technology and values inspire everything we do. By creating fertile ground for a diverse group of startups, investors, entrepreneurs, institutions, academics, and visionaries to converge, we believe we can solve the financial systems’ most pressing challenges faster, better and for the benefit of all.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Bethnal Green Ventures
Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) is Europe’s leading early-stage tech for good VC. BGV invests in ambitious teams using technology to tackle pressing social and environmental challenges, helping them launch and scale their businesses through their flagship Tech for Good programme and providing opportunities for follow-on funding and life-long support. Since 2012, BGV invested in over 140 businesses, of which more than half are still active, successfully blending purpose with profit, tackling 15 out of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Bethnal Green Ventures is a certified BCorp based in London, fuelling the maturing movement of Tech for Good.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services
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Molten Ventures
Molten Ventures (formerly Draper Esprit) is one of the most active venture capital firms in Europe, developing and investing in disruptive, high growth technology companies. We believe it is our role to support the visionary entrepreneurs who will invent the future. We fuel their growth with our ‘energy’ in the form of truly patient capital, access to international networks and decades of experience building businesses. Currently, Molten Ventures is a shareholder in a diverse portfolio of companies including Revolut, UiPath, Trustpilot, Ledger, and Graphcore. For more information please visit: www.moltenventures.com
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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MMC Ventures
MMC Ventures is an investment firm that invests in technology companies at Seed and Series A. MMC commits to a deep understanding of each company’s underlying technology and business model to help make better decisions and be more effective partners. Transformative technology companies MMC has backed to date include Gousto, Interactive Investor, NewVoiceMedia, Signal AI, Bloom & Wild, and Peak.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Venrex
Venrex is a VC firm that backs creative founders to launch and build innovative businesses. 43% of investments have a female founder or co founder.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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RTP Global
RTP Global is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology investments. It supports young companies with strategic know-how and a broad global network. RTP Global has invested in companies founded in more than ten countries across Europe, Asia, and North America. Six early-stage investments became multi-billion public companies: Yandex, EPAM, Delivery Hero, RingCentral, Datadog, and Ozon. RTP Global has offices in New York, London, and Bangalore.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, FinTech, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Passion Capital
Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators applying their experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. They are Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero. They have been personally involved in the largest European technology exits of the past decade, including the biggest exits of the year for 4 of the past 10 years by market value (Ricardo.de acquired by QXL, Skype purchased by Ebay, Last.fm acquired by CBS, and QXL/Tradus acquired by Naspers) and want to be involved in many more. They believe that the critical differentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders. They are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe. As an example of this, White Bear Yard is their own hub for activities, ambitions and energy and where have fun in the process.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Notion Capital
Notion is an entrepreneur-led venture capital firm that focuses on high potential businesses in the Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) markets. It is an early-stage venture fund that focuses mainly on technology and cloud computing markets. The firm helps European tech companies fulfill their potential and achieve a massive scale. Notion invests early when it can build strong relationships and help to shape the future success of its companies. Notion Capital was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in London, England.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
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Hambro Perks Ltd.
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 investment strategies, including Hambro Perks Environmental Technology, Special Situations, and Access, which invests in venture secondaries.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Nauta Capital
Nauta Capital is a Venture Capital firm investing in early stage technology companies. Main areas of interest include B2B Software propositions, disruptive Digital Media companies, and enabling technologies for Mobile and the Internet. Nauta has over €300 million under management and invests across Europe. Nauta operates from London (UK), Barcelona (Spain) and Munich (Germany).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: B2B, Finance, Software, Venture Capital
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Frontline Ventures
Wherever you are on your journey we have the fund to help you expand EXPERTS IN EXPANSION Founders see what the world misses. In fast pursuit of opportunity, you make critical decisions with little certainty. We get it, because we’ve been there. Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline X is a growth-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion. WE’VE LEARNED IT THE HARD WAY As a team of entrepreneurs, we have built many businesses, many ways. And as a venture fund, we’ve helped tens of founders and CEOs cross the pond. We’ve scaled too – with team members in Dublin, London and San Francisco. Today, our team, LPs and advisors represent senior leadership at many of the world’s most successful B2B companies (Think: Segment, Stripe, Looker, Linkedin, Airtable, Google and Workday – to name a few). Collectively, we can add value when founders need it most – at company defining moments. CAPITAL IS CHEAP Look around; the venture market is drowning in noise. Hundreds of funds and millions of blogposts – all claiming to “add value” left and right. We believe that capital is cheap, and we know that value-add is not made equal. Our focus is clear; we back challengers with global ambition, and we dedicate our time to helping them fly higher – faster. Our experience makes us knowledgeable. Our global network makes us unique. Want more detail or first-hand accounts? we are happy to introduce you to our founders. SYMBIOSIS In nature, the best things work together. We see the landscape ahead and can warn you of the risks, while you stay strong and focused on your goals. Indispensable; that’s how we see our relationship.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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RebelBio
RebelBio is the London based team of the venture capital firm SOSV. RebelBio specializes in pre-seed investments in BioTech, HealthTech & Life Sciences. It invests broadly in science-based, tech-enabled early stage startups. RebelBio backs 16 companies per year through its 3 months investment programme. During that time founders receive pre-seed funding and hands-on support from the VC team, working closely to de-risk and fast track the growth of their companies. After the programme, startups can get follow-on investment from RebelBio’s fund SOSV, and support to its founders over the following years.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Biotechnology, Finance, Life Science, Venture Capital
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7percent Ventures
Next generation early stage tech investing, bridging Europe and the USA. 7percent Ventures invest in early stage tech startups which represent billion dollar opportunities. They are not interested in startups which iterate a market, they are interested in startups that transform them. Change is the prerequisite of disruption. To monopolize a market they believe you must fundamentally disrupt it. To do that, you must have a product which solves a painful problem in a better way than existing solutions or serves a need that is not currently being satisfied. They are sector agnostic, although they do not invest in areas that they do not understand or where they cannot add value. They will not invest in any business –however good it might be—which is not a billion dollar opportunity. Your startup must doing something which is scalable enough in a large enough market for a future valuation of $1bn to be possible.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Techstars London Accelerator
The Techstars Accelerator program in London focuses on a wide range of tech startups. Home to a thriving international community of tech, founders, innovators and investors, London is an epicenter of startup activity. Ranked as the #6 strongest startup ecosystem in the world, London is known as a powerful location for startups. Founders are flocking to London to start their business and to learn from the incredible mentor community there.
Stages: Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance
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London Co-Investment Fund
The stated aim of LCIF is not to fund London tech businesses that otherwise would not get funded but rather to enable those who can raise, to raise significantly more so that they have a sufficient money, time and resources to prove their business model. This way London based tech startups will be more able to raise their next round of funding and thereafter become the great tech companies that London so wants and requires. The London Co-Investment Fund was launched by the Deputy Mayor of London on the 4th December at City Hall. LCIF six co-investment partners has been selected based on their excellent track records of investing and supporting early stage tech businesses in London.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Connect Ventures
Connect Ventures is a venture capital firm specialized in investments in seed, startup, series A, and early-stage companies. They are passionate about the power of product to transform people’s lives, on a massive scale. They fundamentally believe that products made with love and loved by many are crucial factors for success and scale. So they have created a distinctive VC firm that is singularly focused on Founders who are instinctive about product. They are a lean, collegial and partner-driven firm. Yes or no, right or wrong, fit or unfit. It’s binary. All in. They are here to work for their Founders. Only they can build the business. Their role is to be the ones they can rely on. To give them tough love, hard truths and solid backup. Their promise is to enable them to realise theirs.
Stages: Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Firstminute Capital
Firstminute Capital is a European seed fund based in London. Moreover, Firstminute invests in European early-stage tech companies. The firm was founded in 2017 by Brent Hoberman and Spencer Crawley.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars – London
Powered by Techstars (http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/techstars), this is a 13-week programme run by a full-time, dedicated Techstars team specialising in FinTech. In this time, 10 startups will work intensely on key challenges faced by the banking industry. Successful applicants will get: – A seed investment of $20k from Techstars – $100k optional convertible note from Techstars – A network of high-profile mentors – Office space in New York, London, Tel Aviv and Cape Town – Support from thousands of mentors and a huge global network – Opportunity pitch at Investor Demo Day and join the global Techstars community
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
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Worth Capital
The founders of Worth Capital, plus a small network of associates, invest in strong founders that have created an innovative proposition based on unique market insight, where there is potential to build a loved brand. Generally this is early-stage equity investment up to £400,000 and is only for businesses based in the UK.
Stages: Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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QVentures
QVentures sources, screens, and invests in top-tier start-ups from Seed to Series B. Our investors consist of Family Offices, Institutional Investors, UHNWIs, and Cashed-out Entrepreneurs. We look for disruptive companies with a proven product-market fit, set to scale from Seed to Series B. We focus on Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, Consumer Tech, FinTech, AdTech, EdTech, InsurTech and HealthTech and more. We look for quality management teams, large addressable markets, proven traction, sustainable business models, route to scale and quality investors. To apply for investment, please fill out this short form to be reviewed: https://qventures.typeform.com/to/zZPOWf
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Funding Platform, Venture Capital
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Fuel Ventures
Fuel Ventures is a technology fund focusing on marketplaces, fintech, platforms, and SaaS startups in the UK. The Fuel Ventures Portfolio (the “Fund”) invests at the most lucrative early stages of internet technology companies that have exceptional growth potential and substantial returns can be achieved. The Fund focuses on marketplaces, platforms, and SaaS business models, identifying investments in seed and growth stages. Bringing together great entrepreneurs into an environment of innovation, collaboration, and support in RocketSpace in the heart of London. We provide a unique combination of mentorship, experience, and access to the investment required to drive a business and ideas to success. Founded in 2015 by entrepreneur and investor Mark Pearson, Fuel Ventures is focused on bringing a unique approach to early-stage investment.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Marketplace, SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
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Newable Private Investing
Newable Ventures is a private investment group that connects early-stage investors with high-growth scale-up companies. They provide Private Investors, Family Offices, and Corporate Investors the opportunity to invest in potentially high-growth early-stage knowledge-intensive companies. Many of their Investors not only invest in the companies they present but also work alongside them as Lead Investors to help them unleash their potential. Having been in operation for over 30 years they have developed an extensive ecosystem of investors, co-investors, and partners who they work with to ensure they have an extensive pipeline of early-stage companies to work with. Investors are able to attend their Investor Events to meet entrepreneurs directly or invest in their Funds for a more passive approach. Typically they invest in UK-based innovative companies who qualify for investment under the Enterprise and/ or Seed Enterprise Investment Schemes.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Angels Den
AngelsDen is an equity crowdfunding platform that gives investors access to pre-vetted SMEs. The company also holds free business funding clinics for entrepreneurs to discuss funding and business growth plans with business funding experts. And provides various offline pitch events such as speedfunding events, where entrepreneurs present short elevator pitches to numerous investors on a one-to-one basis. Founded in 2007, the company is based in the United Kingdom.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Crowdfunding, Finance, FinTech
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Advent Venture Partners
Advent Venture Partners is one of Europe’s most successful growth and venture capital investors in market-leading tech and life sciences businesses. They have designed their strategy, teams and funds so they can focus on backing a select few companies. They pride their selves on establishing true partnerships with entrepreneurs in order to build valuable businesses together.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Life Science, Venture Capital
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Episode 1
Episode1 Ventures is a London based venture capital fund set up to invest in early-stage technology companies based in the UK. It was created with a mixture of public and private money, including backing from a number of entrepreneurs including Alex Chesterman of Zoopla Property Group. It is one of the UK Government’s Enterprise Capital Funds – set up to support fund managers who invest in small, high-growth businesses. The £12.5 million of private investment was matched with £25 million of public money. Episode 1 Ventures invests in seed and Series A rounds of up to £2m in software-driven businesses with the potential to transform industries. They’ve been entrepreneurs theirselves so provide a frank and fast approach to investing and they like to play a very hands-on supportive role in growing the businesses they back. They look for entrepreneurs with relevant experience ambitious to change their sector. They like to see that they can hire world-class talent and delegate to them effectively, and that they really know the customers and understand the problem. They also like entrepreneurs that are data-driven. But above all they like people with passion and ambition, that can execute at speed and overcome significant hurdles along the way. They are building a portfolio of companies that are using software technology to disrupt their chosen marketplaces. It is a diverse group across a range of industries, but with two common themes – a great founder and a big market. They also like to invest once a company has launched their product and has some clients they can reference. Revenues are usually from zero to £50k per month when they first invest. They like to play an active role in helping the companies that they invest in, at least until their companies have secured one or more later financing rounds. They want to help entrepreneurs turn their early stage ventures into fast growing companies built to grow into significant and valuable entities. They see every investment as a partnership. Indeed, they share their office with a number of portfolio companies so they work very closely with them.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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JamJar Investments
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 the journey 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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Initial Capital
Initial Capital is an investor in seed and early-stage technology companies with a focus on games, consumer services and technology enablers. They are not a traditional VC fund – they are a group of serial entrepreneurs who invest their own money and actively partner with world class teams to build global category winners. Based out of London and Silicon Valley, they have played a key part in growing companies. Early stage fund raising is not just about money. It’s about finding the best team around you to help with the ups and downs of the business and get ongoing advice on everything from product and tech to recruitment and growth. They know because they have been there.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Hoxton Ventures
Hoxton Ventures focuses on startups that either disrupt existing industries or invent entirely new market categories. Hoxton typically invests between $500,000 and $5 million into pre-seed, seed, and Series A stage companies, and follows its capital through the life of the company. The firm is based in London and invests all across Europe.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Pi Labs
Pi Labs is Europe’s first and most active proptech focused VC having built a portfolio of 50+ companies globally since its launch in 2015. The firm is committed to backing the next generation of proptech entrepreneurs by investing in pre-seed to Series A early stage ventures that are shaping the future of our built world. This mission has seen Pi Labs invest in various leading proptech businesses including Landtech, OfficeApp, HubbleHQ and many more. Pi Labs also runs a world-leading annual 15-week accelerator designed specifically for a carefully selected group of PropTech startups solving the property industry’s biggest challenges.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Innovation Management, Venture Capital
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Crane Venture Partners
Crane is a London based VC firm investing and building seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep technology businesses across Europe. Our strategy is to support founders in building and executing their go-to-market strategy.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Talis Capital
Talis Capital is an investment firm that supports and invests in early-stage technology companies. It strategically in early-stage technology companies with global potential. Talis has invested over $600 million worth of transactions since 2009 and the portfolio includes Darktrace, Onfido, iwoca, Pirate Studios, Luminance, Threads, Ynsect and Oh My Green. Focused on building long-term partnerships, Talis leverages its network to give some of the world’s most innovative startups the opportunity to thrive. For more, see www.taliscapital.com.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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PROfounders Capital
PROfounders Capital is a London-based venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage technology-enabled businesses across Europe. They have the great privilege of being backed by a group of experienced investment partners who have collectively founded, built and exited some of Europe’s most successful technology businesses. They invest across a number of sectors including Mobile, Travel, E-Commerce, FinTech, B2B SaaS any many more, but with a strict focus on companies that use technology to improve pain points for businesses or consumers.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Kindred Capital
Kindred is an early stage venture capital fund based in London that practices equitable venture. Kindred aligns ambitions and achievements with the portfolio. In structure and in spirit. Every single founder that the company backs will become a co-owner of the fund.
Stages: Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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True.
True invests in consumer businesses that are changing the way people live through its funds dedicated to investing in innovators and those who are reimagining their industries. Investing up to £100 million, through its private equity fund — is only one part of what True does for its partners. True is a value-add investor that nurtures brands supporting them with everything from access to emerging technologies, to extraordinary collaboration opportunities from across True’s community. True also invests between £100k and £5m in digital-first, breakout brands that represent the future of consumer behaviour when they’re at pre-seed to Series A stage. We also invest in the retail and consumer technologies which will enable consumer progress — and disrupt the way business has been done to date.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Charlotte Street Capital
Charlotte Street Capital they invest in B2B (business-to-business) software, B2B (business-to-business) services, and B2C (business-to-consumer) software products and services.
Stages: Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Service Industry, Venture Capital
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Calculus Capital
At Calculus Capital they are specialists in creating and managing tax efficient private equity funds for the individual. Funds that are ideal for today’s market – offering generous tax benefits, and significant growth potential within a sensible risk profile. They look to make £2-5 million investments in established companies with proven management teams and a successful product or service. Their entrepreneurial flair, combined with their experience and sound commercial judgement has resulted in a diversified investment portfolio and an impressive track record. In June 2013 Calculus Capital was top ranked in the prestigious Martin Churchill Tax Efficient Review for the 6th year in a row. The Government has recently shown its support for EIS funds, by maintaining the five generous tax benefits and widening the scope of EIS investments. These changes benefit Calculus Capital’s rigorous and proven strategy. As a result they are experiencing their strongest pipeline of prospective investments yet.
Stages: Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Manta Ray Ventures
Manta Ray Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund backing mission-driven founders that provides flexible and patient capital, leveraging time, resources, and networks resources and networks as far as possible to support its portfolio companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Firestartr
Firestartr helps the most promising digital entrepreneurs take their companies from seed stage to Series A and beyond. Beyond providing capital, they draw on their entrepreneurial successes and senior operational experience with leading technology companies to support sustainable growth in their portfolio. Their deep domain expertise, combined with an unrivalled network of advisors, enable us to make meaningful connections at the right time and propel companies with hands-on support.
Stages: Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Funding Platform, Internet, Software
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RLC Ventures
RLC Ventures backs extraordinary founders and helps them excel exponentially, from idea to exit. We invest in early-stage and scalable tech companies that are set to shape the future of Finance, Entertainment and B2B software. We are always looking to meet with ambitious and promising entrepreneurs, please apply for funding via our website: https://rlc.ventures/ Award-winning: RLC was the winner of 2018 UKBAA (UK Business Angel Association) Best New Entrant– “One to Watch” and RLC Ventures Founder, Reece Chowdhry, was named in the Financial Times “Top 100 BAME Leaders in Tech”. RLC Ventures was also shortlisted Best Newcomer for EISA (Enterprise Investment Scheme Association) Awards 2018. Team: RLC Ventures Advisory Team includes has exited over £1bn of investments and has grown companies from SMEs to listed companies. Social Impact Venture Pledge: We are the only venture capital firm that pledges to commit a portion of exit profits to important social causes of the founder’s choice. This aligns our investment with the socially responsible values held by our founders to make a positive impact on society.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Enterprise, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Services, Gaming, Venture Capital
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Samaipata
Samaipata is an early-stage pan-European VC. The fund was created by two entrepreneurs, José del Barrio, co-founder of the leading food-delivery platform in Spain, sold to Rocket Internet for $100 million and Eduardo Díez-Hochleitner, senior executive, Business Angel and current Chairman at MásMóvil, sold to KKR for €5bn in 2020. Samaipata invests in digital platforms with network effects at Seed stage across Europe. They back mission-driven entrepreneurs who are striving to build the next European unicorn! If you’re a early stage European platform founder, share your pack here https://samaipata.typeform.com/to/k43fN6
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Entrepreneurs Fund
Entrepreneurs Fund provides early stage and growth financing alongside active support to entrepreneurial teams. Their current areas of investment focus are Life-sciences, Water, Materials and Automotive Technology.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Post Ipo, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Stride.VC
Stride.VC is a venture capital firm targeting seed stage startups. Founded in 2018, the firm is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Avonmore Developments
Avonmore Developments is the family office of Simon and Michael Blakey that focuses on investments into seed and early-stage businesses, primarily in the UK and Europe. Avonmore has been operating sin 2000 and has invested in over 40 different businesses in over 80 funding rounds. Michael Blakey now runs Singapore-based seed fund Cocoon Capital (www.cocooncap.com) that invests in early stage businesses across SE Asia. Simon Blakey is a member of Cambridge Angels, Chairs the Investment Committee of Playfair Capital (www.playfaircapital.com) and is on the investment committee of the Angel CoFund (www.acfinvestors.com/angel-cofund/) Avonmore’s approach to deals is hands-on: mobilising other angel investors, working actively with entrepreneurs post-deal, and coordinating further funding rounds.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Angel Investment Network
Angel Investment Network is a London-based investment company founded in 2004 whose aim is to connect entrepreneurs and investors. Today they have 35+ angel networks worldwide covering over 80 countries. They have over 150,000 investor members and over 600,000 entrepreneurs have signed up to use their services.
Stages: Convertible Note, Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Funding Platform
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Arts Alliance
Arts Alliance is a venture capital organisation supporting a growing network of entrepreneurs. They have a “hands on approach” to investment and provide both creative talent and strategic advice to Portfolio Companies in the technology and services, and communications sectors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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InMotion Ventures
InMotion Ventures is Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital fund. We invest in early-stage technology companies that change the face of transportation, and deliver unique travel experiences. They are based in London and invest globally.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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AI Seed
Every year they invest £100,000 each in up to 20 early-stage startups using the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning to build great products and businesses that solve real world problems. In exchange for the investment, they look to receive 5-10% equity. We’re able to lead rounds and help startups raise more through introductions to their network of angels and VCs.
Stages: Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Giant Ventures
Giant Ventures Global is a multi-stage, thesis-driven firm seeking systemic change across four themes which include environment, cities, health and wellbeing, and financial inclusion. The firm backs purpose-driven technology founders solving the world’s biggest challenges. It focuses on creating a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient planet.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Insurtech Gateway
The insurance industry has so many barriers to entry, founders often run out of energy and money just trying to get in. The Gateway is a one-stop-shop for founders, where they can get underwriting paper, investment capital and advice on how to design and build their startup, all surrounded by great insurance partners. The Gateway fund supports the portfolio post incubation, to Series A and beyond. “The Gateway are our insurance sherpas, guiding us through the wilderness of insurance” Mark Musson, co-founder, Humn.ai (Gateway portfolio company) Insurers often struggle to innovate within their own businesses, the Gateway enable insurers to do this in a safe environment. They facilitate insurers, technology partners and insurtechs to get to know each other and work together, over the whole duration of building a business. The Gateway would like to meet early-stage founders with game-changing ideas or products, and progressive (re)insurers who are interested in collaboration.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, FinTech, Incubators, Insurance, InsurTech
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InReach Ventures
InReach Ventures is scaling early stage investment across Europe through software. The mission of InReach Ventures is to create and use proprietary software to scale early stage investment across Europe and develop a new model of investing that ensures full alignment between investors and entrepreneurs.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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L Marks
L Marks are innovation specialists and early stage investors. Thery work with some of the worlds’ best-known brands, including, BMW Group, Lloyd’s of London, Arsenal F.C., and EDF Energy to identify the challenges in their business and create bespoke partnership and scouting projects. Having created 40 innovation labs across a variety of sectors, L Marks is the UK’s largest operator of corporate accelerators and has exported its methodology into Europe, Japan, and the US. Founded in 2012 by serial entrepreneur Stuart Marks, and led by Chief Executive, Daniel Saunders, L Marks builds bridges between corporates seeking to innovate and young companies looking to scale with disruptive tech and systemic guidance. They help nurture these opportunities for improvement into innovative solutions to sustain the future longevity of business. They work in partnership with corporates who are passionate about innovation and want to provide an environment in which young companies can flourish. They seek to invest in the participating companies – a unique approach that ensures that their interests are aligned with those of their partners and every programme is results-driven.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Information Technology, Innovation Management, Management Consulting, Venture Capital
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Angular Ventures
Angular is a specialist venture capital firm, that seeks to back companies that are enterprise-oriented with deep technology, global ambition, and outstanding founding teams with domain expertise. The firm was founded in 2018 by Gil Dibner and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Apis Partners
Apis Partners is a PE asset manager focused on Financial Institutions and related Business Services (FS) in growth markets. It is managed by a tried-and-tested team, who have worked together for over 20 years with extensive expertise in FS growth markets and garnered in the leading firms in both private equity and investment banking. From the outset, Apis Partners can count on extensive industry-specialized human capital and resources. In addition to the core team, the operating partner network consists of 20+ financial services professionals, on-the-ground presence in 5 countries and an extended network of 27 partner companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Walking Ventures
Walking Ventures is a seed fund which invests in early-stage Internet and other technology startups based in Europe. The fund is a private vehicle controlled by Tim Jackson, a leading figure in the European technology scene as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, angel investor, commentator and technology journalist.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Venture Capital
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Angel Academe
Angel Academe is a fast-growing and award-winning angel investor network. They help female founders and co-founders who can already demonstrate some early success with their tech startup to access a unique pool of engaged, mainly female investors. Their investors are successful entrepreneurs, operators and senior leaders and they’ve collectively invested in over 45 startups and scaleups since 2014 through 70+ funding rounds, helping them raise over £100m from angels, VCs and family offices to continue to grow their med tech, clean tech, fin tech and enterprise software businesses.
Stages: Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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Winton Ventures
Winton Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Winton Group that invests in companies that operate in the cybersecurity, energy and environment, and data science-driven healthcare sectors. It leverages Winton’s extensive experience and in-house expertise in data science to make better investment decisions and to support actively its portfolio companies. It began operation in 2015, with its headquarters in London in the United Kingdom.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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MOHARA
MOHARA is a digital product development agency, founded in 2014, with offices in London, Brighton, Bangkok, Cape Town, Manila and Dallas. MOHARA works with start-ups and corporate businesses as an innovation delivery partner, bringing their clients’ ideas to life and enabling them to flourish. They follow a robust user-centred process, ensuring they validate assumptions and de-risk development. What separates MOHARA from others is taking an equity stake in exchange for their skills and experience, bringing start-ups into the virtual incubator. This makes the business unique, and quite literally invested in clients’ success.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Consulting, Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology, Internet, Mobile, Software, Venture Capital, Web Design, Web Development
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Startupbootcamp IoT London
Startupbootcamp IoT’s mission is to make the journey of building a connected hardware startup clearer, shorter, and more successful for entrepreneurs. This is done through a 3-month acceleration program run once a year in London. The program gives up to 10 startups access to a global network of business mentors, hardware professionals, corporate partners, potential customers, and investors. With workshops, one-to-one sessions and events, each startup is able to call upon daily support from the Startupbootcamp team on areas including business development, finance and marketing. Co-working space with a fast prototyping lab, and £15,000 for expenses, are provided. Startups from across the world are able to apply to Startupbootcamp IoT, but they must be developing an ‘internet of things’ device and have at least two co-founders in the team. On joining the program there is a 6% equity share.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Internet of Things
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Hikma Ventures
HV will act as an instrument of strategic growth in broadening Hikma’s offerings; it will allow Hikma to tap into opportunities in the growing digital health space.HV will invest in companies where Hikma’s expertise can accelerate revenue growth and enhance value creation by providing ventures with access to the resources of a multinational pharmaceutical company.We will invest in companies at all stages of development, including start-ups, spinouts, and consortia investments.Our initial investment size is up to $5 million per round. HV will look at global opportunities but with a focus on the US and the Middle East & Africa (MEA). We seek to actively partner with the management teams of portfolio companies to realize the potential of their products and technologies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Venture Capital
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Digital Science
Digital Science is a technology company serving the needs of scientific research. They provide software that makes the research process simpler and more efficient so that everyone can work smart and discover more. Their technology helps solve problems for researchers, institutions, publishers and funders.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Grant, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Software
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Start Capital
Start Capital is a global seed and early stage investment company. They are looking for fast-growth companies with visionary entrepreneurs looking to create and serve tomorrow’s needs. Start Capital is an active investor and assists startups in their fundraising. Beyond capital, early-stage companies need guidance and support. They provide it with their expertise and a strong network to assist their startups. From consumer internet and digital media to biotechnology, they are looking for opportunities that will improve and disrupt their industries.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Wild Blue Cohort
Wild Blue Cohort is a network of business angel investors in London who finance the development of early-stage ventures. Members have closed 28 investments to date in B2B tech ventures in diverse verticals, including marketplaces, e-commerce platforms, SAAS, edtech, healthtech, fintech and proptech. Often, they invest alongside top-tier S/EIS Funds, accelerators and VCs, such as Passion Capital, LocalGlobe VC, Forward Partners, Octopus, Downing and Horizon Ventures. Wild Blue is a member of the UK Business Angels Association.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services
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Clearly Social Angels
Clearly Social Angels (CSA) is ClearlySo’s angel network dedicated to businesses that create positive social change; the first of its kind in the UK. The number of companies with social impact at the heart of their business model is growing. CSA is a group of active, committed and experienced investors in the UK accelerating capital into extraordinary businesses. Members meet in central London on a monthly basis to discover some of the country’s most inspiring social entrepreneurs with compelling and innovative solutions to social and environmental problems. To learn more about CSA – including details on how you can get involved – head over to the dedicated CSA website at https://www.clearlyso.com/investors/individual-investors/.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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EMV Capital
EMV Capital Ltd (EMVC) is a London-based award-winning investor focused on B2B companies in the industrial high-tech, energy, circular economy, smart cities and transportation sectors and healthcare. EMVC’s investments in UK, Israel and the US cover a range of technologies including robotics and AI, machine learning, materials science, IoT, advanced engineering, power electronics and Health-Tech. EMVC’s model is to develop a customized investment strategy for each company, combining its network of investors from Family Offices, Wealth Managers, Institutional VC investors and Corporate VC funds. EMVC recognizes the benefits of corporate engagement for early-stage technology companies, with EMVC’s team having led and structured investments alongside some of the world’s leading corporations, including ABB, Philips Lighting (Signify), Saint-Gobain, Evonik Industries, and Flex. Where appropriate, EMVC can help companies fast-track their investment readiness through its ecosystem of advisors and service providers. EMV Capital was acquired by NetScientific in September 2020, and remains a fully-owned subsidiary. Founded by Dr. Ilian Iliev, EMVC has a unique multidisciplinary team with expertise in venture investment, industry engagement, corporate development, corporate finance and M&A. EMVC understands the importance and value of environmental sustainability and ethical investment principles, reflecting this within its investment thesis. EMV Capital is an exclusive advisor to the EMVC Evergreen EIS Fund. EMV Capital Limited is an appointed representative of Sapphire Capital Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. EMV Capital is the winner of ‘Best EIS Newcomer 2018’ at the EIS Association Awards and the winner of ‘Industry Rising Star‘ at the Growth Investor Awards 2019.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Startup Campus
Startup Campus is a decentralized global brand with four key pillars: Incubation, Consulting, Investment and Education. Startup Campus offers a solution to the most significant issue of local start-up ecosystems, the need for the recruitment of new start-ups. Beyond the continous provision of recruits, the program is capable of preparing start-ups for investments with its support services. Startup Campus is a global program for innovative businesses from the idea phase to global market entry. With an international team and an extensive partner network, they provide training and education, incubation, international market entry and investment services in 7 major cities (London, Berlin, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Budapest) of the world.
Stages: Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Consulting, Finance, Venture Capital
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Supernode Global
Supernode Global is an early-stage VC that invests in companies whose technologies will fundamentally change the media landscape. The firm brings an exceptional understanding of media and has unparalleled access to the European and U.S. media ecosystem. SG invests at the earliest stage and aims to follow on into later rounds, providing successful companies with continuity of investment and strong signalling to the market, as well as financial security. In addition, RNV is building a global community focused on media- tech innovation by connecting builders, funders, buyers, and partners, called Supernode. Through Supernode, RNV’s portfolio companies will have direct access to our network of experts and partners, a diversified pool, investors across all stages of growth, peer-to-peer support, and a range of highly curated events.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Nexus Investment Ventures
Nexus Investment Ventures is an FCA-regulated corporate finance business, helping companies to raise capital, and through this helping a circle of like-minded HNW/sophisticated individuals to find attractive early and scale up stage UK businesses for direct venture growth investments often qualifying for government-sponsored EIS/SEIS incentives. NIVL is a subsidiary of the Nexus Group, who manages a range of businesses in multiple sectors. Including Primary Health Properties Plc (PHP), Investor Publishing, The Pine Fund, CODE-LDN, and the International Opera Awards.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
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Blenheim Chalcot
They have since built over 40 businesses in a variety of sectors, including IT services and outsourcing, financial services, education, travel, software, sport and media. Today, their companies have sales of over £350m and employ in excess of 3000 people. Working with entrepreneurs and co-founders, they continue to create and build businesses in these sectors, often from the ground up. They have developed a number of principles that determine the businesses and industries they engage in. They look for high growth, potentially large industry sectors, typically undergoing some market, technology or regulatory discontinuity, where they can build scalable platforms that satisfy a significant customer need, resulting in strong and sustainable margins.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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New Wave Ventures
New Wave Ventures is a privately owned fund seeking the opportunity to invest for the long term in companies with significant growth potential. Their target initial investment is £500,000 to £2,000,000. They invest their own money without the need for external investors or borrowings. They are not driven by the need to service interest charges or to dispose of their investments by an artificial deadline. They do not believe in using leverage to boost their returns. They are willing to co-invest with like-minded investors, although their preference is to be the sole investor alongside owner-managers.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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NEON Adventures
NEON Adventures is a single family office with interests across technology, property, lifestyle and philanthropy.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Property Management, Venture Capital
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Cass Entrepreneurship Fund
The Cass Entrepreneurship Fund is a £10m venture capital fund based at Cass Business School in London. Initial investments range between £100k and £500k and they invest early stage revenue generating businesses. They support revenue-generating businesses with financial investment and broader resources needed to deliver early commercial growth. A new £10m Fund was launched in 2016, and continues to actively invest in new businesses. The Cass Entrepreneurship Fund was set up with the generous support of Peter Cullum, CBE. A successful entrepreneur and alumnus of Cass Business School, Peter’s vision for a hub that provides practical support to growing businesses and entrepreneurs has enabled the rapid growth of many new businesses from the Cass network and broader early-stage UK company ecosystem.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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IronCapital
The First Investment Fund Dedicated To Subscription Based Digital Services. They fund early stage start-ups and help ambitious teams develop growth profitable online businesses. IronCapital will invest 10M€ over 5 years, focusing on early stage investments, from Seed to Series A, providing 100K€ to 300K€ per company.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Envestors
Envestors’ digital investment platform brings together entrepreneurs and investors across geographies, communities and sectors – creating the single marketplace for early stage investment in the UK. We partner with accelerators, incubators and angel networks to provide a white-label platform empowering them to promote deals, engage investors and connect to other networks. Founded in 2004, we have helped more than 200 high growth businesses raise more than £100m through our own private investment club. Envestors is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Funding Platform, Marketplace, Venture Capital
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Round Hill Ventures
Round Hill Ventures is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of venture capital and technology investment. The company is driven by its mission is to be at the forefront of property technology innovation in Europe.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Real Estate, Venture Capital
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North East Technology Fund
North East Technology Fund invests in technology businesses which are based in, or are willing to relocate to North East England. They aim to provide flexible investment structures in the form of equity and mezzanine debt to businesses at all stages of their development. They have invested from as little as £50k in start up businesses to seven figure seed investments and have co-invested in multi-million pound series A transactions. The Fund is aimed at technology businesses located, or those whose substantial operations are, in North East England. They also seek to invest in businesses that are willing to relocate to the region. Their investment range is £50,000 to £1,250,000 at the initial round with follow on finance available. They will gladly co-invest with other institutional, private or corporate investors acting either in a lead capacity or as a syndicate participant. They are able to invest at all stages of business development, from seed to development capital, and will consider investing in most types of technology.
Stages: Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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10x Value Partners
10x Value Partners is one of the world‘s best early stage investment firms based on blended IRR. We make selected investments in companies where we can move the needle and provide an unfair advantage to the business.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Eterna Capital
Eterna Capital is poised to play a key role in shaping the future of blockchain technology by supporting its growth while giving its investors access to the market.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Blockchain, Finance, Financial Services
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m8 Capital
m8 Capital is a London-based venture capital firm that funds mobile technology companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Earlymarket
Earlymarket LLP is a family office with an investment arm dedicated to early-stage technology start-ups. We operate within four themes: the Energy Transition, Future of Agriculture, Personalised Healthcare and IoT & Connectivity themes. We are pro-active and involved as an investor, and from experience we have found the best time to have a meaningful impact is in the early stages of a company. Our spectrum of investment for early stage start-ups is, therefore, from Pre-Seed to Series A.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Deep Knowledge Group
Deep Knowledge Group is a consortium of commercial and non-profit organizations active on many fronts in the realm of DeepTech and Frontier Technologies (AI, Longevity, FinTech, GovTech, InvestTech), ranging from scientific research to investment, entrepreneurship, analytics, media, philanthropy and more.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Grant, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology, Market Research, Software, Venture Capital
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Veddis
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 planning process 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.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Post Ipo, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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Medra Capital
Medra Capital is a private investment company providing seed and follow-on funding for start-ups. As well as backing in-house ventures under their own direction, they are particularly interested in opportunities in technology, manufacturing, energy and sustainability, and peer-to-peer markets, where their team’s expertise adds most value. More often than not, they choose to invest in innovations that promote sustainability and minimise impact to the environment. These include energy saving, asset sharing, green technology, and re-using. Having said that, when they come across ideas that they find particularly appealing, they may invest without a sustainability angle.
Stages: Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Annection
Annection aims to bring the expertise of investment, research and company building into one place to create more value to the ecosystem of innovation.
Stages: Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Incubators
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NCL Technology Ventures
NCL is a specialist investment manager and advisory boutique that acts as a commercialisation engine for disruptive technology SMEs. NCL started in 2010 as Narec Capital, a joint venture with the UK’s National Renewable Energy Centre. Its primary purpose was to commercialise the IP that came through the centre of excellence, on behalf of UK Plc. NCL exploits the commercialisation stage funding gap by identifying truly high potential technologies and providing them with both the resource and institutional investment capital required to turn them into high performing SMEs. They are true venture managers with an inherent technology backbone. Guided by a highly experienced investment committee and leading scientific advisory board, NCL have deployed over $55M into the health sector, as a lead investor, over the last 3 years.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Health Care, Venture Capital
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Argus Capital
Argus Capital is a private equity firm management company based in Central and Eastern Europe. ARGUS was established to make private equity investments in Central and Eastern Europe (the “Region”) and was one of the first private equity firms to establish a network of offices in the Region. ARGUS is supported by leading institutional investors and family offices from Europe, North America and the Middle East.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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Apsara Capital
Apsara Capital is an investment firm that focuses on the water sector. Apsara Capital is a member of the British Venture Capital Association and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Post Ipo, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Big Issue Invest
Big Issue Invest is the UK’s first ‘social merchant bank,’ by social entrepreneurs, for social entrepreneurs. As a social enterprise ourselves, we understand how good businesses can achieve great things.” Nigel Kershaw – Chair, The Big Issue Group.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing
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Richmond Park Partners LLP
Richmond Park Partners (RPP) is an independent, global corporate finance advisor with just one line of business – giving unbiased, independent financial advice to clients. They are free from conflicts, arising from multiple clients in an industry or dependence on financing and trading.
Stages: Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Ingenious Media
Ingenious Media is an one of the largest independent investors in the UK’s creative sector, they partner with companies and individuals in the film, television and live entertainment sectors to bring great ideas to life. They do this through their unique blend of industry knowledge, access to a diverse range of capital sources and exceptional execution capability. They have invested in excess of £8 billion in the sector and have a long and successful track record of collaboration with first class international partners, including Fox Searchlight, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Miramax, Open Road, Working Title, Film4, Warner Bros., Pathé, BBC, ITV, Endemol and Lionsgate. They have one of the most experienced teams of independent professionals in the UK dedicated to the analysis and commercial negotiation of media opportunities and are always looking for new opportunities to work with industry partners.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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Manzanita Capital
Manzanita Capital invest in products they love and which they are proud to introduce to new markets. They expect their entrepreneurs to be their partners. They are highly selective when making acquisitions because they lavish individual attention and support on their companies. They use their experience in international retail and branding and their financial expertise and resources to guide their management teams into new products or markets. They aspire to be long term shareholders and believe that active participation at board level builds value.
Stages: Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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