Tiny VC

Tiny VC is a venture capital firm based in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2017. The firm focuses on early-stage investments, particularly in pre-seed to seed-stage technology startups throughout Europe. By concentrating on this early investment phase, Tiny VC aims to support innovative entrepreneurs and help them grow their businesses in the competitive technology landscape.

Sandra Lyness

Partner

53 past transactions

Kota

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Kota is a developer of an employee benefits platform that automates health insurance and retirement benefits. Its integrated solution collaborates with insurance and investment providers to streamline the creation and management of health, dental, vision, and pension plans for employees within minutes. The platform offers employers the ability to allocate health budgets and pension contributions by region, significantly reducing the time and cost associated with traditional, paper-based administrative processes. Additionally, it empowers employees by giving them greater control over their healthcare and savings options.

Ordio

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Digital food industry revolution. Ordio is optimizing the entire food industry value chain from vertical order management to digital timeclocking & smart employee scheduling.

Flourish Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Flourish Labs is a purpose-driven startup combining cutting edge mental health science and technology to foster flourishing and good mental health.

Hiphops.io

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Hiphops allows users to safely automate their change release process using adaptive approvals, triggers, and real-time risk analysis. For a more streamlined and efficient release procedure, the organization employs adaptive approvals, triggers, and automated risk assessments. It safeguards production without slowing down developers.

Lighthouse Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Lighthouse is an open metaverse navigation engine that enables the search for places, events, friends, creators, assets, and experiences across and within virtual worlds. Through its portal, Lighthouse empowers users to find trending activities, build groups of friends to explore the metaverse, see where their NFTs are usable and follow the work of specific brands and creators. Lighthouse powers its solution by directly integrating with the virtual worlds for which it provides searchability capabilities. F

Flowty

Seed Round in 2022
Flowty is a peer-to-peer (P2P) collateralized NFT lending marketplace that enables borrowers to access liquidity using Flow-based NFTs as collateral and lenders to generate interest income by funding loans secured by NFTs.

Audyo

Seed Round in 2022
Intelligent audio for the internet. In just one line of code, Audyo makes any publication listenable.

Tilo

Seed Round in 2022
TiloDB is a serverless, graph-like entity-resolution database technology that was originally developed for a consumer credit bureau active in eCommerce risk and fraud prevention. The technology addresses several big challenges: how to connect, and deduplicate high-volume, high-velocity data from disparate sources to individual entities, in real-time, in a manner that still allows high speed search performance and alerting with low variable costs.

Twain

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Twain is a developer of artificial intelligence-powered technology aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of outreach messages for sales teams. Its software allows users to paste their messages into a specialized editor, which quickly provides recommendations based on outreach best practices. This technology helps users craft compelling openings, avoid filler words, and include clear questions, ultimately improving response rates. By focusing on clarity and conciseness, Twain enables clients to create persuasive outreach communications that yield better engagement. The company is backed by prominent investors and has attracted the attention of several successful founders, emphasizing its commitment to innovation and user-centric solutions.

Softr

Series A in 2022
Softr is the easiest no-code platform to create powerful websites & web-apps from Airtable, in 10 minutes. No coding. No learning curve. With Softr, you can build dynamic web-apps like Listings, Memberships, Events Directory, Online Courses, Online Communities, E-Commerce, Job Boards, Upvoting Sites, Services Marketplace and more.

Wolf3D

Series A in 2021
Wolf3D specializes in creating realistic 3D avatars for virtual and augmented reality applications, utilizing advanced 3D scanning technology that can be accessed via smartphones. Founded in 2014 and based in Tallinn, Estonia, with an additional office in Los Angeles, the company aims to enhance interpersonal connections in virtual environments. Wolf3D has deployed its scanning technology in various public venues, including airports and museums, allowing individuals to create custom avatars for use in gaming and other immersive experiences. In addition to gaming, the company's solutions cater to multiple industries, contributing to advancements in 3D printing and custom mannequin creation.

Audvice

Seed Round in 2021
Audvice is an audio-based learning & collaboration tool to communicate & educate on-demand.

Cerbos

Seed Round in 2021
Cerbos is a software company that makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage. Cerbos provides plug-and-play collaborative authorization of permissions.

Oja

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Oja is a marketplace transforming access to everything ethnic & cultural via eco-friendly delivery and fulfilled by local stores. We harness technology to make the global, local. Oja collates local ethnic minority grocery stores across the UK so that no matter where you are you can have access to ethnic and specialist products you recognise. Whether African, Asian, Eastern European, Jewish; Oja offers a platform for any independent ethnic or specialist store to grow their online offering with same-day delivery.

fina

Seed Round in 2021
HeyFina is building a new Fintech experience enabling women to make smart, long-term decisions around their financial well-being. Backed by science, designed for real people.

Akeero

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an automated security design platform designed to help cloud-native environments. The company's platform identifies threats on a real-time basis using a comprehensive analysis engine and provides a number of mitigating controls that get implemented on the basis of severity, enabling organizations to automate the identification of security requirements for their cloud-based infrastructure architectures.

Checkstep

Seed Round in 2021
CheckStep provides a AI-powered Trust & Safety and UGC management software to online platform worldwide. It enables company to manage the full policy management life-cycle.

GraphCDN

Seed Round in 2021
Peace of mind for your GraphQL API. Reduce your origin traffic by up to 95% with our GraphQL edge cache and never worry about scaling again. Our GraphQL edge cache serves cached query results to your users all around the world in milliseconds. If a mutation changes some data, the smart purging automatically invalidates any cached query that contains that data. Scaling, inspecting and securing GraphQL APIs has always been a struggle in projects we worked on. As much as we love GraphQL for allowing us to ship good products very quickly, no traditional CDN can cache GraphQL APIs. We had to build custom caching solutions from scratch, which distracted us for weeks and the caches never worked as well as we needed them to.

Knowunity

Seed Round in 2021
Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.

deepset

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We are building the next enterprise search engine fueled by NLP and open-source. Building on top of latest NLP research we leverage question answering & transfer learning to provide granular, semantic search results tailored to different domains.

Stateful

Pre Seed Round in 2021
ActiveCove gives you personalized analytics about how you code, allowing you to experiment, measure and advance your craft.

Fyma

Seed Round in 2020
Urban vision factory - getting value out of computer vision using machine learning. SAAS for urban tech companies.

DePoly

Pre Seed Round in 2020
DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. We expect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.

Amie

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Amie builds a joyful productivity app. And combines to-dos and your tocalendar in one place.

Amie

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Amie builds a joyful productivity app. And combines to-dos and your tocalendar in one place.

Payhawk

Seed Round in 2020
Payhawk Limited offers a comprehensive spending software designed to streamline expense management, payments, and corporate card usage for businesses. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in Sofia, Bulgaria, the company focuses on simplifying the entire spending lifecycle for financial officers and business owners. Its platform automates the collection and analysis of receipts, invoices, and card transactions, allowing businesses to maintain budget control without the need for paperwork. Payhawk's innovative solution includes a paperless corporate card that integrates seamlessly with existing banking services, offering real-time expense tracking, automated data extraction, and reporting features to enhance financial oversight.

Anytype

Seed Round in 2020
Anytype Inc. offers operating system for new internet. It provides software solutions, which gives privacy and data ownership to users. The company as founded in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

n8n

Seed Round in 2020
n8n GmbH is a Berlin-based company that specializes in developing an open, self-hostable workflow automation tool. Founded in 2019, n8n offers a platform that allows users to automate repetitive tasks by integrating third-party web applications and custom in-house tools. Its node-based system enables the creation of multi-step workflows, facilitating the synchronization of data and the automation of daily activities. The platform is designed to simplify complex processes by connecting disparate systems, enhancing productivity for its users. Additionally, n8n provides documentation and hosting services, allowing for easy extension and customization of its automation capabilities.

Emma

Seed Round in 2020
Emma Technologies LTD. develops a banking application which helps consumers avoid overdrafts, find and cancel subscriptions, track debt, and save money. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Scoodle

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Scoodle Ltd is a London-based company that has developed an application designed to connect students with tutors across various subjects. The platform allows students to pose questions, receive answers from qualified tutors, and subsequently book lessons or join classes. Founded in 2016, Scoodle aims to enhance accessibility to quality education by enabling tutors from different regions, such as an Arabic expert in Egypt, to offer classes to a global audience. Additionally, the content created by tutors on the platform remains available, providing ongoing educational benefits to students even after the classes conclude.

Speechly

Seed Round in 2019
Speechly create voice interfaces for professional tools and services using deep learning and natural language processing technologies.

Biloba

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Biloba operates a telemedicine platform focused on pediatrics, providing parents with easy access to healthcare professionals. The service allows parents to connect with pediatricians via text or video consultations on a subscription basis, available daily from 8 am to 10 pm. This platform is designed to facilitate quick and effective communication regarding children's health, enabling parents to receive timely answers to their medical inquiries. Biloba aims to support both parents and healthcare professionals by streamlining the consultation process in pediatric care.

Modulz

Seed Round in 2019
Modulz, Inc. is a Dublin-based company that specializes in developing a visual editor designed for creating and building digital products without the need for coding. Founded in 2018, Modulz aims to bridge the gap between digital product teams by providing a platform that allows users to design and document their design systems efficiently. The software features a production-ready component library and tools for exporting design systems to popular design applications such as Sketch, Figma, and Framer. By facilitating collaboration among teams, Modulz helps organizations streamline their design processes, ultimately saving time and resources.

Vinehealth

Seed Round in 2019
Vine Health provides intelligent digital technology to support people going through cancer treatment to manage their care, using a combination of behavioural science and AI.

Finimize

Series A in 2019
Finimize Limited operates a platform dedicated to providing accessible financial news and insights for everyday individuals. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, the company aims to demystify finance by presenting complex information in a clear and concise manner. By enhancing financial literacy, Finimize empowers its users to make informed decisions about their financial futures. It has grown to become one of the largest and most engaged finance communities globally, fostering a space where users can easily understand and engage with financial topics.

Meeshkan

Seed Round in 2019
Meeshkan Oy, founded in 2017 and based in Espoo, Finland, specializes in developing software tools for modern software development workflows, focusing on machine learning applications. The company offers an interactive machine learning platform that allows developers to seamlessly integrate automated testing within their applications. This platform is designed to automatically write, execute, and report tests, thereby helping to identify and resolve bugs while improving code quality. Additionally, Meeshkan provides a ChatOps bot that enables developers to manage machine learning models through existing collaborative workflows, facilitating tasks such as monitoring, deploying, and testing without latency. Overall, Meeshkan aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of machine learning model management and application testing.

Fairmint

Seed Round in 2019
Fairmint Inc. creates a cloud-based web application that facilitates funding for companies through Continuous Securities Offerings. This platform allows private companies to raise capital and transition towards public offerings by connecting them with potential investors. Founded in 2018 and initially based in Sheridan, Wyoming, Fairmint later established its headquarters in San Francisco, California.

Synthesia

Seed Round in 2019
Synthesia Ltd. develops artificial intelligence driven video production platform to create high-end videos. The company’s video synthesis platform allows to create high-end videos for many applications, including personalized advertising, corporate communications, and e-learning. Its platform synchronizes the lip movements in a video to a new dialogue track, which enables video content to be translated into foreign languages, widening distribution channels. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Graphext

Seed Round in 2019
Graphext Labs, S.L. is a Madrid-based company that offers a platform designed to transform digital data feeds into actionable insights. By simplifying complex data analysis, Graphext enables users to conduct tasks that traditionally required programming skills in languages such as Python or R. The platform bridges the gap between machine learning and visual analytics, making it accessible for a broader audience to create and analyze information contexts effectively.

Supervaisor

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Supervaisor builds deep learning technology to improve our safety in traffic.

Donut

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Donut is a financial technology company that facilitates wealth building through its innovative platform focused on decentralized finance (DeFi). Founded in 2018 and dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin, Donut offers users a straightforward and reliable method to access both fixed and variable yields. The platform effectively bridges traditional finance and DeFi, providing a fast mobile onramp experience that is designed to be accessible, educational, and transparent. By prioritizing user experience, Donut enables individuals to save and earn competitive yields, making it easier for them to explore new financial opportunities.

Farewill

Venture Round in 2019
Farewill is a will writer and funeral and direct cremation provider which leverages a platform to simplify complex processes, avoids legal jargon and hidden fees. It is a provider of an all-in-one financial and legal services platform used to deal with all paperwork after death. It enables clients to manage their wills online using simple and affordable digital tools through round-the-clock customer service operations. Farewill was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.

Span

Angel Round in 2019
Span Health Limited, a digital care provider, which to help reduce body fat, blood sugar, alleviate brain fog, cravings and others symptoms. It provides care services for polycystic ovary syndrome, fatty liver disease, irritable bowel syndrome, and diabetes. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

BuffaloGrid

Seed Round in 2018
BuffaloGrid is a multi award-winning company with a mission to bring power and connect the next billion, helping frontier market smartphone users to use their phones more often and for more. We serve the billions of overlooked customers who with access to mobile digital services could improve their quality of life and business activities.

Airtm

Series A in 2018
Airtm is an online platform that facilitates monetary transactions, allowing individuals to send, receive, or save money in a USD-denominated account. Founded in 2015, the company aims to help users, particularly in developing regions, manage currency devaluation and access financial services. Airtm connects clients with certified cashiers, who assist in depositing or withdrawing funds, earning a commission for their services. The platform operates as an e-wallet integrated with over 300 bank and e-money systems through a peer-to-peer network, enabling users to hold their funds in either dollars or cryptocurrency and conduct transactions both domestically and internationally. With headquarters in Mexico City and San Francisco, Airtm is a registered money service business in the United States.

Mytos

Seed Round in 2018
Cytera CellWorks, a biotechnology platform, builds machines that automate growing mammalian cells for biotech. Based in London, England, the company was founded by Ignacio Willats and Ali Afshar.

Lifebit

Seed Round in 2018
Lifebit Ltd is a London-based company that operates a genomic platform, specializing in a cloud-based cognitive system designed for DNA data management. Founded in 2017, Lifebit CloudOS utilizes artificial intelligence to automate data analysis and generate meaningful insights, akin to human interpretation. The platform provides researchers and pharmaceutical organizations with a scalable, modular, and reproducible system, facilitating cloud storage and collaboration. By learning from the data, Lifebit aims to enhance research capabilities and streamline the analysis process, ultimately delivering actionable insights to its users.

Spot

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Spot is a company that designs and develops a mobile application for cryptocurrency portfolio and market tracking. Founded in 2018 and based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, Spot allows users to manage their cryptocurrencies by importing data from public addresses, exchange accounts, and manual transactions. The application features built-in algorithms that analyze user holdings and help maximize revenues across various cryptocurrency exchanges. Spot aims to innovate the way value is transmitted through the use of decentralized protocols.

Quantive

Seed Round in 2018
Quantive develops a sophisticated software platform designed to assist organizations in managing objectives and key results (OKRs) and key performance indicators (KPIs). Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in Sofia, the company helps businesses align their strategies with execution by integrating seamlessly with existing information technology systems, such as customer relationship management and marketing automation tools. The platform enables users to set, manage, and measure goals effectively, providing real-time tracking of progress through over 150 pre-built data connectors. Additionally, Quantive’s software enhances employee engagement by fostering goal alignment and facilitating meaningful conversations. By offering robust data management and analytics capabilities, the platform supports performance management and strategic decision-making, ultimately driving revenue growth and organizational alignment.

ThinkSono

Pre Seed Round in 2018
ThinkSono Ltd is a London-based company that specializes in developing software for diagnosing deep vein thrombosis (DVT) at the point of care. Founded in 2016, the company has created an automatic diagnostic system that utilizes deep learning technologies. This innovative system guides healthcare professionals in placing a portable ultrasound scanner on the skin to capture images of underlying blood vessels. The software then analyzes these images, allowing doctors to make a DVT diagnosis within ten minutes, significantly enhancing the efficiency of patient care.

Journeyman

Seed Round in 2017
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