Blenheim Chalcot

They have since built over 40 businesses in a variety of sectors, including IT services and outsourcing, financial services, education, travel, software, sport and media. Today, their companies have sales of over £350m and employ in excess of 3000 people. Working with entrepreneurs and co-founders, they continue to create and build businesses in these sectors, often from the ground up. They have developed a number of principles that determine the businesses and industries they engage in. They look for high growth, potentially large industry sectors, typically undergoing some market, technology or regulatory discontinuity, where they can build scalable platforms that satisfy a significant customer need, resulting in strong and sustainable margins.

Manoj Badale

Founding Partner

CM

Charles Minden

Founding Partner

WR

William Rainsford

CFO

21 past transactions

Modulr

Series C in 2022
Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.. It enables users to automate payment flows, embed payments into the platform, and build new payment products and services themselves from a single API. Modulr has direct access to the Bank of England and claims to facilitate a fast experience that digital customers demand. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.

Modulr

Venture Round in 2020
Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.. It enables users to automate payment flows, embed payments into the platform, and build new payment products and services themselves from a single API. Modulr has direct access to the Bank of England and claims to facilitate a fast experience that digital customers demand. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.

Hive Learning Software Limited

Venture Round in 2018
Hive Learning is an award-winning peer learning platform. Our approach uses peer accountability to create deep emotional connections with learning and embed lasting culture change. We create peer learning programmes, specialising in inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership development; and peer learning networks - best practice communities that scale knowledge sharing to drive innovation. This formula helps organisations radically accelerate the adoption of culture-critical skills at scale. Hive Learning is proud to count the likes of Legal & General, the 30% Club, and Deloitte among its customers. Visit www.hivelearning.com to learn more.

Contentive Ltd

Seed Round in 2013
Contentive is a digital marketing company specialising in B2B publishing and lead generation. By offering a range of advanced digital marketing services and technology, we help our clients grow their businesses online by reaching new audiences and generating high volumes of qualified leads and customers.

Brightbridge Ventures

Acquisition in 2016
Brightbridge Ventures is a U.K.-based venture capital firm focused on investments in FinTech companies.

SalaryFinance

Venture Round in 2017
Salary Finance is on a mission to help millions of people across the globe live happier, healthier financial lives. They partner with employers to offer financial wellbeing benefits that help improve employee retention and productivity. Salary Finance offer simple savings, access to their salary as it is earned, and affordable loans - all underpinned by accessible, engaging financial education. By helping employees manage debt, build a savings habit and access earned pay, they have created a more accessible alternative to traditional financial services providers.

Instrumental

Venture Round in 2018
Instrumental uses machine learning to discover emerging talent, predominantly for the music and entertainment industry. Our proprietary platform, TalentAI, is the leading online scouting tool used by record labels, music publishers, live promoters, book publishers and a select number of consumer brands to identify high value artists and creators for commercial partnerships. Clients include Warner Music, Universal Music, Live Nation, Pan Macmillan and NBC Universal.

Fospha

Venture Round in 2018
Fospha develops online software to interact and understand customer behavior. Its software features include consumption based analytics, geo targeting, retargeting, open profile communities, customer experience insight tools, end to end customer experience management, and visitor value optimization. It serves customers in marketing, retail, publishing, and educational markets. The company is based in London, United Kingdom.

OpenWrks

Seed Round in 2018
OpenWrks is an Information Technology Company.

Modulr

Venture Round in 2019
Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.. It enables users to automate payment flows, embed payments into the platform, and build new payment products and services themselves from a single API. Modulr has direct access to the Bank of England and claims to facilitate a fast experience that digital customers demand. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.

Accelerate Places

Seed Round in 2015
Accelerate Places Ltd offers co-working spaces. The company provides hands-on business mentoring support for SMEs by offering advice on accounting, tax, legal, finance, and human resource. It also hosts networking and learning events to bring the co-working community together. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Liberis Limited

Debt Financing in 2018
Liberis is a business financial services provider that aims to improve small businesses' access to finance. It delivers finance solutions directly to small businesses and provides a scalable, finance platform for partners to help them build more valuable relationships with their small business customers. Since its founding, Liberis has helped over 10,000 small businesses worldwide, providing them with over £300m in funding and supporting 82,000 jobs. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in London, England.

Code Kingdoms

Seed Round in 2014
Code Kingdoms is an online platform for kids to learn to code. We believe that kids should be given the opportunity to learn one of the essential creative skills for the 21st century - code literacy. They should have the chance to be creative with code and use it to build things they love. We built our code editor so that kids can ‘mod’ existing games, build their own and program hardware using the best technology available.

iJento

Acquisition in 2016
iJento is a technology company that helps data driven organizations integrate and analyze their customer information across multiple channels and devices. The company helps major brands and businesses including Allianz, FT.com, RBS and Tesco get direct access to their visitor data and gain sophisticated insights into customer behavior, interests and intent at the individual level. iJento is an international company operating in the UK, USA and Australia.

WooWho

Seed Round in 2013
WooWho was an alternative online dating website focused on offline human interaction versus online messaging, surveys, and matchmaking algorithms.

Modulr

Venture Round in 2018
Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.. It enables users to automate payment flows, embed payments into the platform, and build new payment products and services themselves from a single API. Modulr has direct access to the Bank of England and claims to facilitate a fast experience that digital customers demand. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.

SalaryFinance

Series B in 2018
Salary Finance is on a mission to help millions of people across the globe live happier, healthier financial lives. They partner with employers to offer financial wellbeing benefits that help improve employee retention and productivity. Salary Finance offer simple savings, access to their salary as it is earned, and affordable loans - all underpinned by accessible, engaging financial education. By helping employees manage debt, build a savings habit and access earned pay, they have created a more accessible alternative to traditional financial services providers.

Bijou Commerce

Venture Round in 2016
Bijou Commerce’s mission is to transform the way retailers, brands and publishers engage, retain and monetize their customers on mobile. Retail customers are going mobile, but many retailers haven’t worked out how to turn high volumes of engagement on mobile into conversions. Every retailer knows they should have a great mobile website, but many aren't aware of how mobile apps can drive engagement and revenue from their most loyal customers - and most aren't taking advantage of technologies - like personalization algorithms and push notifications - that are proven to drive revenue and engagement on mobile. For retailers who are convinced of the value of a mobile app, getting one to market that’s properly integrated with their existing systems, scalable and future proofed can be difficult. Bijou Commerce solves this by providing high performing mobile apps as a cloud solution, allowing retailers to launch deeply integrated apps without major disruption to their tech roadmap. Bijou integrates deeply into retailers' existing e-commerce systems via easy-to-install plugins, and synchronises the all the key product, stock, order and user information in real time. This way retailers can avoid costly and frustrating data discontinuity between website and apps, and get to market quickly.

SalaryFinance

Series C in 2019
Salary Finance is on a mission to help millions of people across the globe live happier, healthier financial lives. They partner with employers to offer financial wellbeing benefits that help improve employee retention and productivity. Salary Finance offer simple savings, access to their salary as it is earned, and affordable loans - all underpinned by accessible, engaging financial education. By helping employees manage debt, build a savings habit and access earned pay, they have created a more accessible alternative to traditional financial services providers.

Tully

Seed Round in 2019
Tully exist to help everyone with debts.

ClearScore

Seed Round in 2015
ClearScore is one of the leading FinTech businesses in the UK. They want to help everyone make better financial decisions, starting with free access to their credit score and report. With ClearScore, you can handle everything to do with credit in one place. From checking your credit report and score to learning how to manage your money, They’re constantly innovating to make their offering as clear and beautiful as possible. And it’s all free, forever. They have over 6 million users, are the UK’s no.1 credit checking service and are rapidly expanding.