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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Venture Capital startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Par Equity | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Pentech Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Archangels | Grant, Seed | Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Seed Haus | Seed | Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
SIS Ventures | Seed, Venture | Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, 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 Venture Capital Seed investors in Edinburgh. 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 Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Edinburgh)
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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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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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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Seed Haus
Seed Haus is a community of entrepreneurs, values-driven investors, and makers. They invest in early-stage founders. They have invested in some incredible founders that are building startups across: Cybersecurity, Robotics, HealthTech, IoT/Wearables, Logistics, MarTech, and AdTech. They are agnostic in their approach but limit their selves to the pre-seed stage where they believe they can add maximum value. They have developed an amazing stable of extremely talented founders that are on hand to help each other build best-in-class startups.
Stages: Seed
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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SIS Ventures
SIS Ventures has been created with the overall aim of supporting and growing high impact organisations through access to mission-aligned investment. SIS Ventures has a goal of becoming the go to investor and partner for social entrepreneurs. The fund will offer conventional financial returns alongside social and/or environmental returns by investing either equity or debt into purpose driven companies.
Stages: Seed, Venture
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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