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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for EdTech startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nova Growth Capital | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Ufi Ventures | Early Stage Venture | London, England, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Digital Education | Early Stage Venture, Seed | London, England, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Cool Initiatives | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
edvinca | Early Stage Venture, Seed | London, England, United Kingdom, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top EdTech Early Stage Venture 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).
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- Executive leadership
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- Innovation
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Top EdTech Investors & Funds (United Kingdom)
Nova Growth Capital
Nova Growth Capital is an award-winning fund that invests in disruptive SEIS & EIS companies. Allowing investors to take advantage of a growth-focused and diversified investment portfolio. Its deal flow comes exclusively from its Cofoundery Nova, a venture builder that has seen 36.5% growth in its portfolio year on year for 12 years. Nova employs 100+ startup experts to actively source and grow their portfolio of tech enabled, disruptive SEIS & EIS companies. The fund is an opportunity to invest alongside Nova Cofoundery Limited (“Nova”) in their portfolio of early-stage companies. The Fund, therefore, seeks to benefit from co-investing with experienced partners. Investment Strategy: The Nova Growth Capital fund invests in ideas stage and early stage startups, without any capital investment from the founder. Nova’s programme will take the founder from an initial idea to discovering its market and building the product. Nova mentors, explores, validates & scales founders and their ideas. The Fund seeks to offer investors a diversified exposure of a minimum of ten investee companies each of which is engaged in solving industry problems with the use of a digital solution. It is envisaged that each subscription will be deployed across each investee company on a diversified basis, at the discretion of Nova Growth Capital Limited and Sapphire Capital Partners. Nova seeks to leverage appropriate technology to source and mentor potential founders. This gives Nova the capability to perform real “in-person” due diligence on their entrepreneurs before it co-invests, it allows Nova to understand and model the performance funnel and gives Nova control of deal flow. Nova typically sees over 25 opportunities per investment that are made. SEIS & EIS tax incentive: The companies the fund invest in are expected to be SEIS-EIS-qualifying, which makes Nova Cofoundery SEIS & EIS Fund SEIS-EIS suitable for qualifying clients who would potentially benefit from the following tax reliefs: – Up to 30% income tax relief (50% for SEIS) – Tax-free investment growth – Capital gains deferral (or 50% capital gains tax exemption for SEIS) – Inheritance tax relief – Loss relief We are proud that in the 12 years we have been building ventures through the Nova Cofoundery, we have invested in everything we have co-founded. Now private investors are able to invest alongside the Nova Group through our SEIS and EIS fund.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Apps, EdTech, FinTech, Hardware, Health Care, Marketplace, Medical, Retail Technology, Software, Wellness
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Ufi Ventures
The UK’s specialist investor in VocTech ventures, investing between £150k and £1m in seed-stage companies that are building digital technologies to give people and businesses the skills needed for work, now and in the future.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Corporate Training, E-Learning, EdTech, Education, Finance, Human Resources, Impact Investing, Training, Venture Capital
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Digital Education
Digital Education is an educational publisher that captures opportunities in the consumer online education markets. It operates a software development center in Timisoara that enables engineers to build various products in the area of digital education. Digital Education was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in London, England.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Banking, E-Learning, EdTech, Education, Insurance, Venture Capital
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edvinca
Founded in 2017, edvinca is the first investment company dedicated exclusively to Educational Technology (EdTech). edvinca is the fruit of a joint venture between Hambro Perks, a growth investment firm based in London, and DLF Venture, a family-owned holding company based in Luxemburg. At edvinca, our aim is to help EdTech startups make large-scale impact. We are active investors who like to think global. We invest in early stage companies that we grow alongside their founders. We offer follow-on funding and deploy permanent capital to address our long-term vision. With the development of technology and artificial intelligence, the Factory Model of Education designed for the Industrial Revolution is now obsolete. The current educational system needs to reflect the World we live in. By leveraging technology in Education, edvinca aims to: • empower students to master 21st Century skills and be fulfilled in their future professional lives, • help institutions follow digital trends and better cater for today’s needs, support teachers with digital tools set to foster innovation, communication, and collaboration skills, • give corporates access to well-trained graduates who have the skills they require. At edvinca, we therefore focus on: • Digital Content Creation and Delivery • Extra-Curricular Distributed Learning • Program Adequacy: Learning-to-Employment Our Portfolio Companies include: • Pi-Top (project-based Computer Science and STEM learning tools) • Kortext (digital textbook platform) We are constantly looking for other exciting projects to invest in, and often at opportunities to create synergies between our portfolio companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: EdTech, Education, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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