Backed VC

Backed VC is a London-based venture capital firm established in 2015, focusing on investing in exceptional founders at the Seed stage across various sectors, including biotechnology, fintech, and advanced manufacturing. The firm emphasizes a human-centric approach, providing an extensive support system designed to foster the development of founders as company operators and leaders. Backed VC utilizes its Founder Experience Platform and an energetic portfolio community to assist entrepreneurs in critical areas such as talent management, business development, fundraising, and international expansion. Founded by Andre de Haes and Alex Brunicki, Backed VC has made notable investments in companies like Hutch, Thought Machine, and LabGenius, among others.

de Haes, Andre

Founder

Hopkins, Tom

COO

63 past transactions

Flow Engineering

Seed Round in 2022
Flow is the first engineering data platform built for agile engineering teams. Flow helps teams stay integrated with the correct data, regardless of which tool they are working in.

Legl

Series B in 2022
Legl is a B2B SaaS platform enabling law firms to run their operations digitally – from streamlined onboarding, compliance, and payment tools to giving management critical business insights and their clients a service worthy of 2021.

Pillar

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Pillar is an all-in-one mobile platform helping global citizens break down credit borders. Credit histories are siloed from country to country making it hard for the nomads of this world to access new financial products when settling in a new country. Pillar's credit cards are designed for people with little to no credit score, such as expats settling in a new country.

Verve

Series C in 2022
Verve is a global leader in word-of-mouth sales within the live entertainment industry, utilizing networks of advocates to promote events and experiences. By incentivizing these advocates with rewards like free tickets and backstage passes, Verve effectively drives sales for over 500 events across more than 40 countries. The company collaborates with various prominent partners, including major ticketing platforms such as Ticketmaster and Eventbrite, to enhance its offerings. Through its innovative peer-to-peer sales and marketing software, Verve has established itself as a trusted name in the sector, focusing on creating authentic connections within the live entertainment marketplace.

Amenitiz

Series A in 2022
We created Amenitiz because we believe technology is the key to making success and profitability accessible to every hotelier in the world - whether they are in the heart of Paris or in the Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia. Our mission is to build an all-in-one platform to help owners grow and manage their vacation properties by making attracting guests, managing bookings and crafting exceptional experiences, simple and easy. We invite you to be part of our growing community and help us redefine the future of online hospitality together.

Footium

Seed Round in 2022
Footium is a web3 Football management game that allows players to become the owner, manager and scout for their very own metaverse football club, and earn prizes based on their success!

Crypto Unicorns

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Crypto Unicorns is a Web3 game development and research and development studio.

Phytoform

Seed Round in 2021
Phytoform Labs is a biotechnology company which aims to help breeders to cut down plant breeding times from decades to years using new gene editing technologies. Predictably evolving plants will maximise yields for breeders and improve the economics of breeding for customers.

Amenitiz

Seed Round in 2021
We created Amenitiz because we believe technology is the key to making success and profitability accessible to every hotelier in the world - whether they are in the heart of Paris or in the Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia. Our mission is to build an all-in-one platform to help owners grow and manage their vacation properties by making attracting guests, managing bookings and crafting exceptional experiences, simple and easy. We invite you to be part of our growing community and help us redefine the future of online hospitality together.

Unstoppable Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Unstoppable Finance is building a next-gen crypto wallet to bring DeFi to retail investors globally.

Cala

Seed Round in 2021
They are building the first fully robotic pasta restaurant to transform cost structure and experience of fast-casual restaurants. That’s why they created Cala, to bring lunch into a new era and in your plate in less than a minute. It just need a 3m2 kitchen to serve very quickly 800 meals per hour cooked with fresh and organic ingredients.

Sky Mavis

Series B in 2021
Sky Mavis is a technology company that specializes in developing decentralized applications and services, primarily focusing on the gaming sector. As a blockchain studio, it creates virtual worlds that feature player-owned economies, allowing gamers to engage in trading digital assets. Through its innovative approach, Sky Mavis empowers players by providing them with economic freedom, enabling the buying and selling of collectibles within these digital environments. The company's commitment to building practical applications and interactive experiences positions it as a significant player in the intersection of gaming and blockchain technology.

Afrocenchix

Seed Round in 2021
Afro haircare is a $42B market and it’s growing fast. But the big players don’t understand the customers or their problems. We’ve had those problems, and our customer centric, data driven approach at Afrocenchix has helped us to formulate, manufacture & sell over 65,000 bottles of our safe, effective products so far. Our award-winning products and featured in top publications such as Vogue, and on the Indy Best lists and have an average 4.7 star review from 1000s of customers. We’re just getting started.

FabricNano

Series A in 2021
FabricNano is a cell-free biomanufacturing company that develops biocatalysts to unlock the future of biochemistry.

THIS

Series A in 2021
THIS is a plant-based meat brand that provides alternative meat products for meat lovers. The company's products are made of plant-based ingredients that are fortified with vitamin B12 and iron, enabling meat lovers to get the real feel of having meat-based products and satisfy their tastes without killing animals.

Foundries.io

Series A in 2021
Foundries.io delivers secure, over-the-air updatable software platforms for embedded product development. The company provides best-in-class software platforms with lifetime support for building and maintaining connected devices.

Ochre Bio

Seed Round in 2021
Ochre Bio develops genomic medicines to rejuvenate donors' livers before transplant, so that everyone who needs a new liver gets one. They use genomics to find and shut down over-active genes driving disease and then go directly to testing therapies in discarded donor livers that keep alive outside of the body. Ochre Bio is within the heart of Oxford’s biotech innovation hub. Their scientific roots can be traced back to over 15 years leading liver genomics research and experience in bringing advanced therapies to market.

Sky Mavis

Series A in 2021
Sky Mavis is a technology company that specializes in developing decentralized applications and services, primarily focusing on the gaming sector. As a blockchain studio, it creates virtual worlds that feature player-owned economies, allowing gamers to engage in trading digital assets. Through its innovative approach, Sky Mavis empowers players by providing them with economic freedom, enabling the buying and selling of collectibles within these digital environments. The company's commitment to building practical applications and interactive experiences positions it as a significant player in the intersection of gaming and blockchain technology.

Legl

Series A in 2021
Legl is a B2B SaaS platform enabling law firms to run their operations digitally – from streamlined onboarding, compliance, and payment tools to giving management critical business insights and their clients a service worthy of 2021.

Hoxton Farms

Seed Round in 2021
Based in London, UK, Hoxton Farms is growing real animal fat – without animals. The company combines cell biology and mathematical modelling to produce cultivated fat as an ingredient for the meat alternatives industry.

Flexciton

Series A in 2021
Flexciton is an optimisation technology company that has developed a genuinely unique solution to radically improve the efficiency and productivity of fab manufacturing processes using cutting-edge AI technology. Flexciton enables more semiconductor wafers to be produced for the same cost, faster. Since being founded in May 2016, Flexciton has rapidly expanded to a team of 45, the majority of whom are engineers and researchers with deep tech expertise. Manufacturing is critical to the human race; everything around us is manufactured. Human innovation has been enabled by manufacturing innovation. Manufacturing has stagnated because innovation has reached the limit of what human intelligence alone is capable of. Further innovation demands Artificial Intelligence. The company's vision is to bring Flexciton optimization technology to every factory in the world to enable manufacturing to operate at a level never before possible.

Hoxton Farms

Seed Round in 2020
Based in London, UK, Hoxton Farms is growing real animal fat – without animals. The company combines cell biology and mathematical modelling to produce cultivated fat as an ingredient for the meat alternatives industry.

Harbr

Series A in 2020
The Harbr data commerce platform powers new revenue streams and accelerates data businesses. It provides a branded data storefront, to deliver a refined customer experience, and the ability to collaboratively build high-value, customized data products. Build and scale your data business with Harbr. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England.

THIS

Equity Crowdfunding in 2020
THIS is a plant-based meat brand that provides alternative meat products for meat lovers. The company's products are made of plant-based ingredients that are fortified with vitamin B12 and iron, enabling meat lovers to get the real feel of having meat-based products and satisfy their tastes without killing animals.

Thought Machine

Series B in 2020
Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking. Its mission is to cure one of the banking industry's primary problems: its reliance on outdated IT infrastructure. Nearly every bank is stuck on a legacy IT platform, which cripples their ability to innovate and give their customers the type of service they deserve. The company provides a solution to this is Vault: a complete retail banking platform that is capable of being configured easily to suit the needs of any bank. They have built Vault from the ground up as a cloud-native, microservice API architecture platform. Thought Machine has a deep culture of engineering excellence, and they believe it is this which delivers a solution compelling enough to engender a seismic shift in the banking industry.

Harbr

Funding Round in 2020
The Harbr data commerce platform powers new revenue streams and accelerates data businesses. It provides a branded data storefront, to deliver a refined customer experience, and the ability to collaboratively build high-value, customized data products. Build and scale your data business with Harbr. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England.

Banked

Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2018 with offices in Palo Alto, London, Sydney, Melbourne and Vilnius, Banked is a global payments network that enables a transparent, secure and real-time payment process. Built on modern banking rails, the company provides a comprehensive platform that allows for maximum flexibility across account-to-account payments. By reinventing the legacy transaction process, Banked eliminates costly fees and powers financial fluidity.

unrd

Venture Round in 2020
unrd is creating a new genre of entertainment by combining Hollywood quality plots with mobile storytelling techniques.
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THIS

Seed Round in 2020
THIS is a plant-based meat brand that provides alternative meat products for meat lovers. The company's products are made of plant-based ingredients that are fortified with vitamin B12 and iron, enabling meat lovers to get the real feel of having meat-based products and satisfy their tastes without killing animals.

Verve

Series B in 2019
Verve is a global leader in word-of-mouth sales within the live entertainment industry, utilizing networks of advocates to promote events and experiences. By incentivizing these advocates with rewards like free tickets and backstage passes, Verve effectively drives sales for over 500 events across more than 40 countries. The company collaborates with various prominent partners, including major ticketing platforms such as Ticketmaster and Eventbrite, to enhance its offerings. Through its innovative peer-to-peer sales and marketing software, Verve has established itself as a trusted name in the sector, focusing on creating authentic connections within the live entertainment marketplace.

Foundries.io

Seed Round in 2019
Foundries.io delivers secure, over-the-air updatable software platforms for embedded product development. The company provides best-in-class software platforms with lifetime support for building and maintaining connected devices.

Medal

Series A in 2019
Medal is a short-form gaming video clips platform used to share digital game clips and highlights with gamers. Its platform helps to capture the final seconds of gameplay utilizing completely different recording mechanisms that can be shared on the application that provide clips of live streams and that enable users to share their skills and get an enjoyable experience. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Naarden, North-Holland.

FabricNano

Seed Round in 2019
FabricNano is a cell-free biomanufacturing company that develops biocatalysts to unlock the future of biochemistry.

Harbr

Seed Round in 2019
The Harbr data commerce platform powers new revenue streams and accelerates data businesses. It provides a branded data storefront, to deliver a refined customer experience, and the ability to collaboratively build high-value, customized data products. Build and scale your data business with Harbr. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England.

Flexciton

Seed Round in 2019
Flexciton is an optimisation technology company that has developed a genuinely unique solution to radically improve the efficiency and productivity of fab manufacturing processes using cutting-edge AI technology. Flexciton enables more semiconductor wafers to be produced for the same cost, faster. Since being founded in May 2016, Flexciton has rapidly expanded to a team of 45, the majority of whom are engineers and researchers with deep tech expertise. Manufacturing is critical to the human race; everything around us is manufactured. Human innovation has been enabled by manufacturing innovation. Manufacturing has stagnated because innovation has reached the limit of what human intelligence alone is capable of. Further innovation demands Artificial Intelligence. The company's vision is to bring Flexciton optimization technology to every factory in the world to enable manufacturing to operate at a level never before possible.

Banked

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2018 with offices in Palo Alto, London, Sydney, Melbourne and Vilnius, Banked is a global payments network that enables a transparent, secure and real-time payment process. Built on modern banking rails, the company provides a comprehensive platform that allows for maximum flexibility across account-to-account payments. By reinventing the legacy transaction process, Banked eliminates costly fees and powers financial fluidity.

Invisible

Seed Round in 2018
Invisible Technologies Inc. develops and operates a platform that automates business operations. It provides an agent that offers services, such as scheduling a meeting, lead sourcing, lead generation, booking a reservation, managing reservations, onboarding a team member, inventory upkeep, record management, web scrapping, verifying a lead, lead qualification, and record management. Invisible Technologies Inc. was formerly known as Socrates X Inc. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Garten

Seed Round in 2018
Garten is a health food company that delivers food directly to a company’s doors. Offering healthy office snacks including vegan, gluten-free, organic, and non-GMO options, the company aims to empower the workplace and lead people to make healthier, smarter choices across nutrition, exercise, rest, detox, and overall wellbeing. Ohmygreen offers a one-stop shopping experience that incorporates budget management, office stocking, and food delivery. There are three services to choose from when signing up: Zen, Bliss, or Nirvana. Each of these services is data-driven and food-focused while every service is customized to meet the needs of the client. The company's mission is to empower people to live healthy and blissful lives. Founder Michael Heinrich was inspired in his youth in Berlin, Germany where his Grandmother cultivated an organic garden and served hearty home-cooked meals. As a medical doctor, she would emphasize that if you want to stay healthy eat directly from the garden. Michael took this to heart and started Oh My Green.

UNMADE

Venture Round in 2018
Unmade are changing fashion design and manufacture. By controlling industrial knitting machines in a new way, the startup can make a different garment every time turning these machines into 3D printers for clothes, but using high quality, natural fibres instead. Launching this winter in Somerset House, Unmade gives customers the chance to remix the work of prominent artists and designers to create their dream jumper that is then made in front of them. Customers can also see their designs on models before sending to knit with Unmade’s unique preview technology. No-one else has been able to offer custom production in knitwear due to the high programming cost. Unmade’s patent-pending technologies remove this cost and makes one-off production possible at a similar cost to local mass production. Through Unmade, brands can then offer bespoke, customised or limited edition knitwear to their customers. Using the same machines as major brands such as Burberry or Benetton, Unmade is running factory trials early next year to prove their technologies at an industrial scale. Unmade’s long-term aim is to create a platform and marketplace through which brands and small designers can offer custom clothing to their customers and taking the mass custom production of knitwear to an industrial level.

CloudNC

Series A in 2018
CloudNC develops advanced software that enables factories to autonomously manufacture precision parts. Precision manufacturing is fundamental to every aspect of modern life - without it, there are no cars, aircraft, or ships. No mobile phones or computers. No houses or hospitals, no factories or power plants. No food. In the modern world, virtually nothing can be made without precision parts. And yet, the manufacturing industry has been slow to modernize and adopt the innovations that are shaping the future. CloudNC's mission is to automate manufacturing and create a clean and sustainable industrial revolution that accelerates humanity. They’re building the autonomous factories of the future to make manufacturing 10x more efficient, sustainable and faster than anything today. They’re reimagining manufacturing, making it more efficient and productive than ever before, and opening a unique opportunity for investors to transform a $150bn industry. CloudNC elevates an entire industry and put manufacturing back at the cutting edge.

Technology Will Save Us

Series A in 2018
They are on a mission to spark the creative imagination of young people using hands on technology. Their award winning make-it-yourself kits and digital tools help kids (and the adults that love them) to make, play, code and invent using technology. They started small, around their kitchen table, and have now built a company of 28 passionate designers, educators, engineers and problems solvers – obsessed with inspiring kids and empowering parents to become creators of technology. They have 6 different make it yourself kits and hundreds of digital tools and projects to support kids in learning through play. They have sparked the imaginations of kids in over 87 countries around the world. They work closely with children to design their kits, engaging in large scale research projects before beginning on design & manufacture.

Harbr

Seed Round in 2018
The Harbr data commerce platform powers new revenue streams and accelerates data businesses. It provides a branded data storefront, to deliver a refined customer experience, and the ability to collaboratively build high-value, customized data products. Build and scale your data business with Harbr. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England.

Optimal Agriculture

Seed Round in 2017
We are a team of engineers, plant scientists and greenhouse veterans on a mission to secure our food system for the future by deploying AI-operated, sustainable greenhouses outside every city on Earth. Optimal-powered greenhouses will provide billions of people with fruit and vegetables in a way which is resilient to extreme weather conditions caused by climate change and using a fraction of the water that is currently needed to provide our food. Our proprietary technology has achieved industry leading yield and resource-efficiency. Thousands of sensors collect data on the crop and growing environment in real-time - everything from outside temperature to root zone humidity. This data is used to make growing decisions optimised to increase yield and taste whilst minimising resource consumption. Growing decisions are implemented autonomously by controlling hundreds of actuators including heating systems, cooling systems, LED lighting and irrigation systems.

LabGenius

Seed Round in 2017
LabGenius is a biopharmaceutical company developing protein therapeutics using a machine learning-driven evolution engine. Its protein engineering platform integrates several bleeding-edge technologies from the fields of machine learning, synthetic biology, and robotics.

Verve

Series A in 2017
Verve is a global leader in word-of-mouth sales within the live entertainment industry, utilizing networks of advocates to promote events and experiences. By incentivizing these advocates with rewards like free tickets and backstage passes, Verve effectively drives sales for over 500 events across more than 40 countries. The company collaborates with various prominent partners, including major ticketing platforms such as Ticketmaster and Eventbrite, to enhance its offerings. Through its innovative peer-to-peer sales and marketing software, Verve has established itself as a trusted name in the sector, focusing on creating authentic connections within the live entertainment marketplace.

Flexciton

Seed Round in 2017
Flexciton is an optimisation technology company that has developed a genuinely unique solution to radically improve the efficiency and productivity of fab manufacturing processes using cutting-edge AI technology. Flexciton enables more semiconductor wafers to be produced for the same cost, faster. Since being founded in May 2016, Flexciton has rapidly expanded to a team of 45, the majority of whom are engineers and researchers with deep tech expertise. Manufacturing is critical to the human race; everything around us is manufactured. Human innovation has been enabled by manufacturing innovation. Manufacturing has stagnated because innovation has reached the limit of what human intelligence alone is capable of. Further innovation demands Artificial Intelligence. The company's vision is to bring Flexciton optimization technology to every factory in the world to enable manufacturing to operate at a level never before possible.

Armada Interactive

Seed Round in 2017
They are trying to create a new kind of mobile gaming experience, one where the player is challenged as well as entertained; where mobile accessibility is not a shortcut for lower quality.

Hutch

Series A in 2017
Hutch is entirely focused on making the best action-packed, visually stunning racing games that can be played and enjoyed by anyone, anywhere on Mobile. Their head office is in London and they are growing teams in Brighton and Nova Scotia, Canada. They design and build their free to play game services from instinctive, aspirational ideas and they take stock of the good and bad from a wide group of games, communities and digital experiences. Over time their games are iterated, moulded and sculpted from the feedback of their players, they use their player data to assist creativity, not replace it. They always strive to improve and are incredibly tough on theirselves about meeting their values, they encourage constant team learning as a vital part of the way they make better games, you're expected to share with your team the good and the bad days and they empower their teams to solve problems, you manage your own time. Ideas are free flowing but execution is challenging so they like to keep their teams small and simple and lastly they think Hutchies have a curious nature to ask why things work and how things can be better, that makes working at Hutch such a fun place to be.

Thought Machine

Seed Round in 2016
Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking. Its mission is to cure one of the banking industry's primary problems: its reliance on outdated IT infrastructure. Nearly every bank is stuck on a legacy IT platform, which cripples their ability to innovate and give their customers the type of service they deserve. The company provides a solution to this is Vault: a complete retail banking platform that is capable of being configured easily to suit the needs of any bank. They have built Vault from the ground up as a cloud-native, microservice API architecture platform. Thought Machine has a deep culture of engineering excellence, and they believe it is this which delivers a solution compelling enough to engender a seismic shift in the banking industry.

Verve

Seed Round in 2016
Verve is a global leader in word-of-mouth sales within the live entertainment industry, utilizing networks of advocates to promote events and experiences. By incentivizing these advocates with rewards like free tickets and backstage passes, Verve effectively drives sales for over 500 events across more than 40 countries. The company collaborates with various prominent partners, including major ticketing platforms such as Ticketmaster and Eventbrite, to enhance its offerings. Through its innovative peer-to-peer sales and marketing software, Verve has established itself as a trusted name in the sector, focusing on creating authentic connections within the live entertainment marketplace.

Boiler Room

Venture Round in 2016
Hosting intimate shows in over 40 countries, they live stream and archive performances, championing emerging musical talent and uniting the disparate audiences underserved in the digital age. Their audience of over 1.5m active subscribers provides a promotional platform for artists unavailable elsewhere online, whilst the Boiler Room brand has become a trusted curatorial voice across multiple genres. Boiler Room provides online music fans with access to remote music scenes otherwise unavailable to them offline whilst showcasing emerging artists before any other mass distribution platform. They currently generate revenue through partnerships with brands attracted by their audience reach and cultural credibility. Their vision is to grow Boiler Room into the leading global music discovery platform and a mass community of highly-engaged music fans.

Andium

Convertible Note in 2016
Andium is an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) company that builds a smarter world and empowers leaders to create meaningful change. Andium is a revolutionary software platform that brings the intelligence of modern computing to devices as small as your fingernail, providing a level of technological sophistication previously unavailable in such cost-effective and power-efficient hardware.

Armada Interactive

Seed Round in 2016
They are trying to create a new kind of mobile gaming experience, one where the player is challenged as well as entertained; where mobile accessibility is not a shortcut for lower quality.

The Family

Venture Round in 2016
The Family is an investment firm focused on supporting entrepreneurs through education, strategic advantages, and financial capital. It aims to establish a comprehensive service infrastructure for startups in Europe. The firm adopts a model where it takes a 5% equity stake in exchange for long-term support, facilitating the growth and development of its portfolio companies. Currently, The Family oversees over 200 active companies across major European cities, including London, Paris, and Berlin. Notable companies in its portfolio include Captain Train, which was acquired by Trainline, Algolia, and Payfit.

Technology Will Save Us

Seed Round in 2015
They are on a mission to spark the creative imagination of young people using hands on technology. Their award winning make-it-yourself kits and digital tools help kids (and the adults that love them) to make, play, code and invent using technology. They started small, around their kitchen table, and have now built a company of 28 passionate designers, educators, engineers and problems solvers – obsessed with inspiring kids and empowering parents to become creators of technology. They have 6 different make it yourself kits and hundreds of digital tools and projects to support kids in learning through play. They have sparked the imaginations of kids in over 87 countries around the world. They work closely with children to design their kits, engaging in large scale research projects before beginning on design & manufacture.

Jukedeck

Venture Round in 2015
Jukedeck is developing an artificially intelligent music composer - a system that writes original music completely on its own. Jukedeck is based on state-of-the-art technology they are building that brings artificial intelligence to music composition and production. They are training deep neural networks to understand music composition at a granular level, so that they can build tools to aid creativity.

NStack

Angel Round in 2015
NStack is a platform which connects data sources, predictive models, and internal tools together so users can rapidly create actions which increase the value of customers. It helps data scientists run more experiments by enabling them to deploy Python models and build analytics workflows in minutes. NStack is headquartered in London, England.

Dispatchr

Seed Round in 2015
Dispatchr is an enterprise mobile workforce management start-up that provides sophisticated predictive workforce management system. The start-up also offers solutions in the areas of fire management, maintenance & construction management, vegetation management, emergency management, and asset management. Dispatchr delivers powerful technology including integrated weather, vegetation, and grid impact analysis, predictive analytics based on large-scale, geospatial computations, smart, secure and easy-to-use mobile platform, and analytics-powered mobile fleet management system. Dispatchr was founded in 2013and is based in San Francisco, California, USA.

Gumbug

Seed Round in 2015
Gumbug is a mobile games studio based in London. In this new digital age we've got loads of glass walls, beanbags and post-it notes.

UNMADE

Seed Round in 2015
Unmade are changing fashion design and manufacture. By controlling industrial knitting machines in a new way, the startup can make a different garment every time turning these machines into 3D printers for clothes, but using high quality, natural fibres instead. Launching this winter in Somerset House, Unmade gives customers the chance to remix the work of prominent artists and designers to create their dream jumper that is then made in front of them. Customers can also see their designs on models before sending to knit with Unmade’s unique preview technology. No-one else has been able to offer custom production in knitwear due to the high programming cost. Unmade’s patent-pending technologies remove this cost and makes one-off production possible at a similar cost to local mass production. Through Unmade, brands can then offer bespoke, customised or limited edition knitwear to their customers. Using the same machines as major brands such as Burberry or Benetton, Unmade is running factory trials early next year to prove their technologies at an industrial scale. Unmade’s long-term aim is to create a platform and marketplace through which brands and small designers can offer custom clothing to their customers and taking the mass custom production of knitwear to an industrial level.

Kalo

Seed Round in 2015
Kalo launched in 2015, letting companies easily onboard, manage, talk with, and pay their external workers. Since then, a customers from internet to fashion -- including Google, Asos, IDEO and AirBnB -- have been able to throw away their tangle of spreadsheets and invoice emails, and work together with their freelancer and vendor teams in a clean, beautiful experience.

Bidvine

Seed Round in 2015
Bidvine is an online platform that connects customers looking for jobs with professionals. It is a marketplace to hire local service professionals across home care, wellness, events, and learning.
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