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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Financial Services 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 | ||
Northstar Ventures | Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, 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 |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services Seed investors in United Kingdom. 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 Financial Services Investors & Funds (United Kingdom)
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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Northstar Ventures
Northstar Ventures has been supporting entrepreneurs in the North East of England since 2004. It is looking for strong teams with great ideas – ideas that will drive high growth, scalable businesses. As the North East’s leading early stage investor, Northstar makes and manage investments into a wide range of innovative ventures, and its investment managers have a wealth of experience supporting new and growing businesses. Northstar was a launch partner to Accelerated Digital Ventures, a £150m UK-wide venture platform backing digital technology businesses. Aside from these funds, Northstar Ventures also manages the North East Social Investment Fund, investing in social enterprises working across the North East.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, 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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Par Equity
Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Scottish Investment Bank
They help companies to identify appropriate sources of finance, engage with funders and secure the investment they need to grow their business. They work closely with their portfolio companies to strengthen their management teams, make connections and accelerate growth. Their work also involves aiming to increase the supply of finance for businesses in Scotland. they want to help Scottish SMEs with growth and export potential to get this finance. Apart from supporting Scottish businesses, they also work with UK and international investors. This includes working with business angels, angel syndicates, venture capital groups and corporate investors. They operate across Scotland in partnership with Highlands and Islands Enterprise. Because their work supports and stimulates the SME funding market in Scotland, what they do supports the delivery of the Scottish Enterprise business plan.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Banking, Finance, Financial Services
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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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Ascension
Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders. Run by an experienced and diverse team of successful entrepreneurs, we have been relentlessly dedicated to finding the UK’s best Seed-stage startups since 2014. Ascension benefits from the active industry connections essential for the sourcing and development of deal-flow and due diligence. The team has co-invested with the UK’s leading angels and VCs, key to securing follow-on funding as the portfolio businesses move to their next stage of growth. We believe in building an inclusive, community driven brand that can benefit the wider UK tech ecosystem and strive to work with conviction, integrity, humour, and humility.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Amadeus Capital Partners
Amadeus Capital is a global technology investor that invests in technology companies at all stages, from seed to venture buyout; they also buy stakes from other investors or founders, to ensure that companies and entrepreneurs have the runway they need to succeed. They invest in a broad variety of sectors including enterprise and infrastructure software, consumer and business services, medical technology and healthcare IT, and cleantech and resource efficiency. It has the imagination to see where new businesses can be created and the technical insight, operational experience and global network to help entrepreneurs make their vision a reality. The Company was founded in 1997 and since has backed more than 130 companies and raised over $1bn for investment.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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IP Group
IP Group’s core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and create value out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group’s extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Intellectual Property
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Apax Partners
Apax Partners is an independent global partnership focused solely on long-term investment in growth companies. Funds advised by Apax Partners typically invest in large companies with an enterprise value between €1bn and €5bn. The Funds invest in four sectors: Tech & Telco, Services, Healthcare, and Consumer. Releasing potential is at the heart of everything they do. Whether it’s identifying potential investments, growing their portfolio companies or realising their value at the right time, their strategy is geared to releasing potential. Throughout over 30 years since the raising of the first fund, the company has successfully invested across all investment stages, and through several complete economic cycles. The firm’s current success is rooted in a culture that has always been outward looking, pioneering and committed to growing businesses. The deep understanding of the four sectors in which it invests has been at the core of Apax Partners’ strategy, giving it early access to investment opportunities and an ability to quickly add value to portfolio companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, 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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Entrée Capital
Entrée Capital provides multi-stage funding for innovative start-ups and companies all over the world. Entrée Capital was founded by successful entrepreneurs with a track record of having successfully invested and exited over twenty businesses on five continents in the past decade. They have offices in London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Enterprise, Financial Services, Infrastructure, Venture Capital
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Development Bank of Wales
Development Bank of Wales is formed in 2001 by the Welsh Assembly Government. Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.
Stages: Debt, Seed
Location: Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Banking, Commercial, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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83North
83North is a global venture capital firm with more than $1.8B million under management. The firm invests across all stages of consumer and enterprise companies and backed some of the fast-growing category leaders. 83North has two main offices in London and Herzliya.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Consumer, 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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Oxford Capital Partners
Established in 1999, Oxford Capital is an experienced technology venture capital investor based in London and Oxford. They focus on investing in a diversified portfolio of high potential pure technology and technology enabled start-up businesses. Oxford Capital currently manages capital on behalf of private investors, family offices, endowments, pension funds, and other institutional investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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The FSE Group
FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group. All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Finance East Limited delivers funding for businesses based in the East of England region.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Non Profit, 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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Downing Ventures
Downing Ventures is a division of Downing LLP. They invest venture capital into early and growth stage technology businesses. Our belief is that technology now forms an integral part of the everyday lives of consumers, corporations and governments. Further, they believe that they are now experiencing the benefits of the second wave of technology development, which is now based on sound infrastructure. Investing into this trend, they look for: Visionary entrepreneurs, with the ability to execute as well as dream. Large (potential) addressable markets. Distinct product / service advantages. Limited adoption risk for customers. They seek to invest 250,000 to 5 million per company. They will invest in seed-stage deals and Series A deals, and then look to continue to support those companies through phases of subsequent growth. Fundamentally, they back entrepreneurs. They are supportive, hopefully helpful, investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, 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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Maven Capital Partners
Maven Capital Partners is an independent alternative asset manager, with over £415m of assets under management. Maven was formed in 2009 after a buyout of the Aberdeen Asset Management private equity business, and operates from a nationwide network of regional offices. They provide flexible equity and loan finance packages to UK SMEs, on behalf of a range of client funds, as well as funding for well-researched property development projects. They also offer attractive investment opportunities for investors including tax-efficient investment into VCTs, and direct co-investment in private equity and property transactions. Maven is one of the UK’s most active private equity managers in the lower mid-market, investing for a range of client funds including six Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and a number of regionally focused funds delivering equity and debt finance. They offer a range of flexible funding solutions for entrepreneurial SMEs at any stage of the business growth cycle, with the ability to commit as little as £100,000 of development capital or as much as £15 million to support an MBO.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Funding Platform, Venture Capital
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Baillie Gifford
Baillie Gifford is an independently owned investment management firm. It is owned and run by 39 of its senior executives who operate as a partnership, a structure which has endured for over a century and which provides stability for clients and motivation for employees. It enables them to manage the business for the future as well as the present, with the emphasis on genuine long–term thinking rather than lurching haplessly between short term targets. Baillie Gifford is unique in the UK in being a large-scale investment business that has remained an independent private partnership. This ownership structure has allowed them to keep their efforts focused entirely on their clients and their investments.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Grant, Late Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Post Ipo, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Asset Management, Finance, Financial Services
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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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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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Oxford Technology Management
Oxford Technology Management was founded by Lucius Cary, and since 1983 has specialised in making and managing investments in start-up and early stage technology-based businesses with high growth prospects. The OTM team are all scientists or engineers by background, and understanding the technology is the starting point for any investment that they may make. The Investment policy of Oxford Technology Management is to construct a portfolio of investments with the following characteristics: unlisted, UK based, technology businesses investments typically in the range of £100,000 – £2,000,000, although it can then invest similar amounts in subsequent rounds in most cases located within easy reach of Oxford to allow a more ‘hands on’ management strategy It is expected that approximately half of the funds will be invested in early stage companies (those which have achieved some initial sales) and the balance in start-up companies which are at an earlier stage.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Mercia Fund Managers
Mercia Fund Managers is a venture capital fund manager with two funds totalling £12.8 million under management. Mercia Fund Managers focuses its efforts on the West Midlands region and benefits from a mixture of public- and private-sector fund investors. Mercia Fund Managers provides venture capital for early-stage technology start-ups that are located in the West Midlands. Potential investees must demonstrate their potential for rapid growth and will possess a strong proprietary position with respect to their technology, intellectual property, and products. Mercia Fund Managers is based in central Birmingham and is regulated by the Financial Services Authority. The company is also a member of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. Mercia Fund Managers will typically make an initial investment offer of between £50,000 and £250,000 of venture capital, but has the capacity to follow its money at subsequent investment rounds, up to an overall limit of £1 million of venture capital per company. Later rounds of financing will usually involve syndication with other venture capital investors, often from outside of the West Midlands.
Stages: Private Equity, Seed
Location: Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Life Science, Venture Capital
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Unilever Ventures
Unilever Ventures is the venture capital and private equity arm of Unilever. They invest in young, promising companies, accelerating growth by providing access to Unilever’s global ecosystem, assets and expertise. They are looking for tomorrow’s world-beaters in Personal Care and Digital. They provide access to a company with unrivalled global reach. On any given day, two billion people use Unilever products to look good, feel good and get more out of life. With more than 400 brands focused on health and wellbeing, no company touches so many people’s lives in so many different ways. Unilever Ventures works closely with The Unilever Foundry to provide technology innovators with access to paid pilot projects, mentorship and growth financing.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Techstart Ventures
Techstart Ventures is a leading investor of seed capital across Scotland and Northern Ireland. they are a trusted partner to ambitious founders on their journey to success.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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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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IQ Capital
IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London-based VC firm that invests in ‘deep tech’ companies capable of dominating their respective markets on a global scale. Initial investments at Seed and Series A range from £0.5m to £10m, with capacity for follow-on investment up to £30m through the Growth Fund. The team has achieved over 30 exits including to Apple, Huawei, Google and Oracle.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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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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Midven
Midven is a specialist venture capital company providing investment to fast growing small and medium sized enterprises (“SMEs”), run by an energetic, experienced and hands-on team of investment managers.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Cambridge Angels group
Cambridge Angels is a group of more than 60 high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in Cambridge, London, Oxford and throughout the UK.
Typical funding requirements that Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £150k to £1.5m – although it is worth noting that several of our portfolio companies have raised significant follow-on funding from our Members and our venture capital partners over several funding rounds.
Our Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, 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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Oxford Sciences Innovation
Oxford Sciences Innovation is the world’s largest university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companies taking on challenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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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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The North West Fund
The North West Fund is a £155m evergreen investment fund established to provide debt and equity funding to small and medium sized enterprises in the North West of England. The Fund will address an identified gap in the lending, venture capital and private equity markets. The Fund is managed by North West Business Finance Limited, an independent private sector company.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Warrington, Warrington, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, 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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Catapult Ventures
The team behind Catapult Ventures are among the most experienced venture capital investors in the UK. Their experience spans a range of sectors from healthcare and pharmaceuticals to luxury consumer brands, manufacturing and software, as well as all stages: from start-ups and pre-revenue IP developers to company floatation and billions of pounds in revenue. Their administration team is equally experienced with each member having more than 10 years experience in a venture capital environment.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, 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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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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Pario Ventures
Pario works with entrepreneurs, CEOs, and business owners to identify and implement an exit strategy for the founder or shareholder. Pario Ventures is also active in investment for the startup, scale phase, and then pre IPO. It was founded in 2010 by Kevin Doyle and David Murray-Hundley and is based in London, England, the United Kingdom with also an office in New York and Brussels.
Stages: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Automotive, Blockchain, Drones, Fashion, Financial Services, Medical, Non Profit, Oil and Gas, Software, Space Travel
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Forward Partners
Forward-thinking capital for the UK’s next top tech businesses. Forward invests in exceptional startups through venture funding, focusing on pre-seed and seed stage investments in eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI. Forward’s latest proposition, Advances, lends cash to growing businesses – letting them borrow against their revenues without the need to sell equity. All businesses funded by Forward get exclusive access to their in-house Studio team, leveraging expertise across product development, digital marketing, branding and much more. Forward’s portfolio includes Lexoo – an AI-powered legal outsourcing solution; Patch Plants, the leading online UK plant store; Ably a technology company that builds realtime infrastructure for the internet; Apexx, a global payments platform that consolidates providers to improve retail conversion; Cherryz, an eCommerce company focused on essentials and Koru Kids, a childcare company revolutionising nanny sharing. Forward was founded in 2013 by Nic Brisbourne.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Playfair Capital
Playfair Capital is an early-stage fund that commits to companies early and with conviction. Based in London, Playfair combines the best aspects of angel investing with a focused fund, to invest in truly ambitious founders, wherever they are in the world. Playfair takes a sector-agnostic approach and investments span deep tech, SaaS, marketplaces and B2B companies. We’ve backed the founders of more than 60 companies including Mapillary (acq. Facebook), CryptoFacilities (acq. Kraken), Omnipresent, Orca AI, Ravelin, sprout.ai, Thought Machine, Trouva and Vinehealth.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: 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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Future Planet Capital
Future Planet Capital is the global impact-led venture capital firm built to back growth companies from the world’s top universities and research ecosystems. The group manages $380m for institutional investors and has invested in over 300 companies, with 60 successful exits. It’s portfolio is built around breakthrough technologies solving global challenges in Climate, Health, Education, Sustainable Growth and Climate Change.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, Impact Investing, 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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Equity Gap
Equity Gap is a group of private individuals set up to invest in and support emerging and growing businesses. The group are particularly interested in assisting young companies that have achieved the SMART award and businesses that have gone through a pre investment commercialisation process. They will consider other high growth companies but they must demonstrate a strong market and a clear investment exit strategy. Companies that Equity Gap invest in will be provided with ongoing business expertise and continuing support. Funding will typically be between £20,000 and £500,000. Where possible this will all be from Equity Gap, however they may work with other syndicates and Scottish Enterprise Co-Investment Fund to achieve the required funds. They meet once per month in central Edinburgh. At the meetings they usually have 2 presentations from companies, discuss current investments and review plans that they have received and circulated in the past month.
Stages: Seed
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services
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UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund is backed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Fund’s partners are 9 publicly funded research bodies, including STFC, BBSRC, NERC and Dstl. The Fund is independently managed by venture capital specialist Midven. They help build companies from great science developed in laboratories, science and technology campuses and synthetic biology. They hold investments in some of the UK’s most innovative companies, in areas as diverse as novel antibiotics, research into Alzheimer’s disease, “green” chemicals and airport security.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Biotechnology, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Outlier Ventures
Established in 2014, Outlier Ventures was one of the first VC firms dedicated to investing in the emerging crypto ecosystem. Since launching its Base Camp accelerator in 2019, Outlier Ventures has received over 5,000 applications for its highly sought after virtual accelerator and has helped raise over $250 million in seed funding for its growing portfolio of 100+ high-profile projects from across the world, such as Crucible and Biconomy. In addition, Outlier Ventures has supported the launch and growth of several billion-dollar crypto economies including Fetch.ai, Boson Protocol, Secret Network, Blox Move, Swash and DIA Data. Their portfolio includes notable projects across DeFi, NFTs and blockchain infrastructure with a focus on emergent Metaverse use cases such as NFT-based digital couture fashion brands, avatar marketplaces, decentralized music publishing platforms, play-to-earn games, augmented reality social positioning protocols, and more. In the last year, Outlier Ventures has expanded its Base Camp program to partner with leading protocols such as Filecoin / IPFS, Polygon, and Polkadot to host dedicated accelerator programs for these Web3 ecosystems. Through its blockchain agnostic approach, Outlier Ventures has achieved record growth, doubled its cohort intake year after year, and is on target to accelerate well over 100 startups in 2022, making it one of the most active investors in the space by deal volume and the most active Metaverse accelerator globally. Since its inception, Outlier Ventures has always viewed its portfolio as an open stack of technologies that contribute to a new web paradigm, referred to as Web3, based on principles that prioritize the sovereignty of the user, their data and digital wealth, over platform and shareholder supremacy. In January of 2021, Outlier Ventures published its thesis on the imminent arrival of the Metaverse, outlining how Web3 would serve as an operating system for an Open Metaverse.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech, Gaming, Information Technology, Internet, Software
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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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Pentech Ventures
Pentech Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on finding category defining software companies. Their passion is helping founders develop their startup into an internationally successful organisation. They have done this multiple times, partnering with leading VCs, corporations and investment banks along the way. They consider any opportunity capable of becoming a market leader but are most comfortable being the first venture investor, supporting founders through the early stages of proving product and market fit. Their initial investment is likely to be £500K to £2M, with up to £10M invested over the lifetime of the investment. They invest in founders who are ambitious to build a global company, have the passion and ability to attract the best team and who are focused on the data and understand the key drivers in proving and building their business. They support the founders they invest in to develop and grow with their business.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) is an initiative launched by the government-owned British Business Bank. It is a key part of the government’s ‘Northern Powerhouse’ vision, which aims to end the historic North / South divide and create economic prosperity in the North of England on par with London and the South East. The government firmly believes that SMEs form the foundation of the region’s future growth. NPIF therefore aims to nurture regional entrepreneurship by providing investment and support for small and medium businesses between 2016 and 2021. NPIF’s funding will support new and growing SMEs, create jobs and encourage and attract additional private sector investment.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Banking, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
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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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Nesta Ventures
Nesta Ventures is a venture capital arm of NESTA specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. The company seeks to invest in seed, startup, early stage, growth, and expansion companies. It invests in medium term equity, quasi-equity, and debt investments. Nesta seeks to invest in all legal structures from registered charities to companies limited by shares and private companies. The firm also prefers to invest in technology companies with a focus on engineering, information and communications technology software, information and communications technology hardware, healthcare, and cleantech. For the initial investment, the firm acts either as a lead investor in the company or part of a syndicate of co-investors. It prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. For fund of fund investments, the firm invests in early stage funds as a limited partner or co-investor. It may also act as a cornerstone investor. It does not provide grants of any kind.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Cambridge Innovation Capital
Cambridge Innovation Capital backs world-leading life sciences and technology companies with an affiliation to Cambridge, Europe’s leading capital for innovation. As a preferred investor for the University of Cambridge, we have unparalleled access to investment opportunities in the ecosystem. Since our inception in 2013, we have raised £275 million to invest in disruptive, deep-tech businesses in sectors including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, internet of things, quantum technologies, autonomous systems, therapeutics, medtech/diagnostics, digital health and genomics/proteomics.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Intellectual Property, Venture Capital
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Praetura Ventures
Praetura have been supporting SMEs since 2011, raising capital and investing in the early stages of business life cycles. We have a strong track record in past performance and have developed a reputation for being a supportive and proactive investor who injects more than just capital. We can evidence the value from our differentiated approach both from investment returns and testament from our portfolio companies. Our partnered entrepreneurs embrace the shoulder to shoulder Praetura approach and utilise our experience and resource to maximise their businesses’ potential.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: 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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Eden Ventures
Eden Ventures invests in technology companies in the telecommunications software, enterprise software, digital media, e-commerce, internet and mobile sectors in the UK and Ireland. At Eden, they address the funding gap between business angels and later stage venture capitalists, providing investment appropriate for the needs of an investee company and its stage of development. As a seed investor they are prepared to ‘take the early risk’ but they also have enough capacity in their funds to support their companies to significant exits. They have helped their entrepreneurs attract world-class investors such as Bessemer, Canaan Partners, Highland, Index, Intel Capital, Matrix, Ribbit Capital, TCV and Union Square Ventures into follow-on rounds.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, 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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Archangels
Originally formed in 1992 and based in Edinburgh, Archangels is a prominent business angel syndicate which has been at the forefront of early stage investing in Scotland for more than two decades. Today, Archangels comprises more than 60 investor members and typically co-ordinates the investment of more than £10 million per year in early stage Scottish companies. Their business ethos is underpinned by four fundamental pillars, which are to: – Give something back – Help young Scottish companies – Generate attractive investment returns, and – Have fun The Archangels syndicate predominantly invests in companies from the technology, software and life sciences sectors – three markets in which Scotland produces a wealth of talent. The syndicate and its executive team have wide experience in diverse business sectors and disciplines to help and support the creation and development of young companies to maximise investor return.
Stages: Grant, Seed
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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REV
REV is a global venture capital partnership. They are backed by one of the world’s largest content, technology and analytics companies, RELX Group. Their mission is to help build companies that can transform their markets through the application of data, technology and analytics. Since 2000 they have invested over $200m in Big Data, Digital Health, Internet and Enterprise Technology companies. They have been early investors in disruptive category leaders like Palantir, Healthline, Babbel and Netli. Their portfolio of companies is part of a large, extended family of businesses that also includes the entire Reed Elsevier Group. Collaboration is actively encouraged and supported. Their focus is high growth, internet, media & technology businesses based in the US, Europe or Israel. Their typical sectors include: new media, mobile, big data & analytics, healthcare information & software and groundbreaking analytic technologies. They will invest at any stage of a company’s development, from early/seed stage to growth capital and whatever their initial capital investment, they remain committed to helping the company achieve market leadership. They are a global investor active in all the major western venture capital hubs – San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin and Tel Aviv. Their largest portfolio cluster is in California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Business Development, 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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Enterprise Ventures
Enterprise Ventures (EV) is a leading providers of venture capital and early stage finance to SMEs in England and Wales, and one of the few able to provide both equity and debt funding. EV has a wide range of investment funds which it manages on behalf of investor clients from both the private and public sector. It invests sums of up to £2million in businesses at all stages of development, from pre-revenue & proof of concept, through to MBO/MBI opportunities and development and replacement capital. EV is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and are full members of the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Samos Investments
Samos Investments is a private equity investor with a focus on high-growth European businesses. Samos invests across a range of sectors including digital media, e-commerce, retail, financial services, energy and natural resources. Samos takes a proactive approach with its portfolio companies, working alongside many of the US and Europe’s top venture funds, family offices and private investors. The Samos Partners are also active angel/seed investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Retail, 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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Fabric Ventures
Fabric Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in scalable decentralized networks. It is a VC fund backed by OpenOcean and Firestartr. Moreover, Fabric Ventures is building on OpenOcean’s peerless open source pedigree and Firestartr’s background in seed investing and blockchain focus, and is backing the boldest projects forming the foundation of the ‘Fourth Age of Open Source’.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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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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Data Pitch
Data Pitch is a European Commission-funded startup accelerator that is being launched with the aim of connecting established businesses and organizations with lots of data with startups that might be able to help them unlock the value of the info they hold and thereby tackle industrial and societal challenges.
Stages: Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Data Integration, Financial Services
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Illuminate Financial
Illuminate Financial is a venture capital firm backing companies that solve problems in financial services. Building an enterprise software company and selling solutions into financial institutions is hard. We have deep domain expertise, the right industry network and are a trusted partner to our portfolio companies as we help guide them through the early stages of their journey.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: B2B, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, FinTech, 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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Spark Ventures
SPARK Ventures, formerly NewMediaSpark, is an early-stage venture capital investor in Europe, providing equity investment to high growth technology, media and healthcare companies in the UK and Europe. SPARK Ventures has been investing in early-stage businesses for 12 years and has a wealth of expertise in backing and developing companies from start-up through to eventual trade sale or IPO.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, 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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Emerge Education
Emerge Education is a European seed fund investing in founders solving the $8.5tn skills gap. Emerge provides founders with unrivalled education sector insights, as they’re the only fund backed by the world’s foremost education entrepreneurs.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Corporate Training, E-Learning, Education, Employment, Financial Services, Higher Education, Training, Universities, Venture Capital, Vocational Education
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Renaissance Capital Partners
Renaissance Capital Partners is a private company established in 2008 to invest funds in high-growth, innovative, and entrepreneurial businesses and also built environment projects.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Low Carbon Innovation Fund
Low Carbon Innovation Fund is a venture capital fund, providing equity finance for SME’s based wholly or partially in the East of England. The Fund is supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). It uses £20.5M from the ERDF which will be matched with over £30M private sector investment – generating a total of over £50M of investment in the East of England. So far the Fund has invested over £8.5M alongside £26M private co-investment in 26 investments. Turquoise International manages the Fund on behalf of the Adapt Low Carbon Group at the University of East Anglia (UEA). The Fund builds on the region’s world class low carbon economy and is the largest European Regional Development Fund-funded project in the region. The Low Carbon Innovation Fund was launched in September 2010 and will run until December 2015.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Norwich, Norfolk, 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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Cambridge Capital Group
Cambridge Capital Group (CCG) is a leading business angel group of 70+ investors who have been investing in hi-tech businesses for more than a decade. CCG was formed in the Autumn of 2000 and has been backing tech start-ups in the region ever since. Their members have invested several millions of pounds into more than 30 live portfolio companies in the Cambridge technology cluster. Membership is an application process, normally following introductions by existing members. Their partner networks are Anglia Capital Group and CCG International, both of which benefit from deal flow developed in Cambridge, Europe’s leading hi-tech cluster.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services
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Martlet Capital
Martlet Capital is an early-stage investor based in Cambridge, providing patient capital to deep technology and life science startups with high growth potential. They seek to support entrepreneurs with value beyond capital. They have experience of helping companies scale from first-round through to exit. Visit their website to take a look at how we work and their investment focus.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services
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Breed Reply
Breed Reply, Reply’s active operational investor, funds and supports the development of early-stage companies in the Internet of Things (IoT) in Europe and the USA. Based in London, with operational offices in Germany and Italy, Breed Reply supports entrepreneurs and young talent by quickly bringing new ideas to the market. This is done via three fundamental services: funding at early-stage level; active operational involvement with significant know how transfer of business, managerial and technological expertise; and go-to-market support through the extensive Reply network. Breed Reply’s focus is the Internet of Things over all markets, with their current portfolio in Health, Fitness & Wellness, Smart Building & Cities, Security, Industrial IoT, Big Data, Platforms and Drones.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Consulting, Financial Services, Information Technology, Internet of Things
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MPGI
MPGI is a private holding that invests in disruptive technology companies globally. Its portfolio companies have collectively raised over US$ 2.5 billion in capital, employ over 8,000 people and have operations in 30 countries across six continents.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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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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