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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Marketplace startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fuel Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | London, England, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Nova Growth Capital | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Xploration Capital | Early Stage Venture, Seed | London, England, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Envestors | Early Stage Venture, Seed | London, England, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Nosara Capital | Early Stage Venture | London, England, United Kingdom, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Marketplace 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).
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 Marketplace Investors & Funds (United Kingdom)
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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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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Xploration Capital
ploration backs ambitious founders building next-generation platforms, digital ecosystems and SaaS companies worldwide. We go at great length to study markets, gain consumer and competitive insights and market intelligence. This enables us to identify hidden opportunities and be a knowledgeable, and valuable partner to early stage companies We are hands on, where founders need us the most and we support our best portfolio companies in subsequent rounds, making us a meaningful partner and a long term partner Xploration Capital is founded by a group of dreamers, idealists and in some way misfits. With more than 50 years of combined experience in investing, consutling and fudraising for entrepreneurs and companies from early stages to IPO, we decided to embark on an Xploratory journey into the future. We deeply care about how life is going to look like for next generations, as Lincoln once said, “The best way to predict your future, is to create it”, so we decided to make our lives mission in helping those who want to change the world – succeed. We have invested, exited and advised on more than US$5 billion worth of transactions, helping some of the most iconic companies launch, sacale and exit
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Consumer, Consumer Applications, Content Creators, E-Commerce Platforms, Marketplace, SaaS, Sustainability, Virtual Workforce, Virtual World
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Envestors
Envestors’ digital investment platform brings together entrepreneurs and investors across geographies, communities and sectors – creating the single marketplace for early stage investment in the UK. We partner with accelerators, incubators and angel networks to provide a white-label platform empowering them to promote deals, engage investors and connect to other networks. Founded in 2004, we have helped more than 200 high growth businesses raise more than £100m through our own private investment club. Envestors is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Funding Platform, Marketplace, Venture Capital
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Sova VC
Sova VC is an international investor focused on backing and building ambitious and disruptive technology companies. Its initial fund, launched in January 2021, targets early-stage (Late Seed and Series A) companies, with a particular focus on B2B and B2B2C marketplaces and software platforms. Its Liquidity Fund, launched in January 2022, provides flexible solutions to the direct secondary market allowing early-stage shareholders and investors in high growth technology companies to realise early returns. Sova VC Marketplace Fund Early stage We typically invest at Late Seed and Series A stages, and our initial investment will commonly be in the range of €1.5-2 million, growing to as much as €4 million in a single portfolio company. Sova VC Liquidity Fund Late stage We typically invest between £1-7 million to acquire equity in growth stage companies where early shareholders – such as founders , CEOs, managers, business angels, employees and other early-stage investors – wish to obtain partial or full pre-exit liquidity.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Health Care, Information Services, Information Technology, Internet, Marketplace, SaaS, Software
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