Vala Capital

Vala Capital is a venture capital firm based in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2016 by entrepreneur Jasper Smith and industry veteran James Faulkner. The firm specializes in investing in seed and early-stage companies across various sectors, including B2B, commercial products, manufacturing, gaming, and technology. As one of the UK's largest venture builders, Vala Capital actively supports founders from the initial concept to exit, providing not only financial backing but also mentorship and access to a global network of entrepreneurs and strategic partners. This approach enables portfolio companies to enhance their competitive edge in the global market.

James Faulkner

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Asker Fawmy

Co-Founder and Finance Director

Jane Holland

Co-Founder and COO

Lian Michelson

Investment Director

John Oliver

Investor

George Robinson

Investment Associate

Jasper Smith

Co-Founder and Chairman

Jonathon Spanos

Head of Venture Investment

9 past transactions

FuturePlus

Seed Round in 2023
FuturePlus is an innovative platform that provides a benchmark sustainability score for where you are now and provides the roadmap and a quantifiable measure of where you want to be in the next three years.

HackCapital

Pre Seed Round in 2022
HackCapital emerged from the world’s largest Food and Climate community to open elite climate investing to the mass affluent. HackCapital aims to become the platform of choice for the next generation of climate investors, backing founders with the scalable solutions we needed yesterday. Simply put: Top notch angel investors funding the top 1% of climate startups from Stealth to Series A

Sennen

Venture Round in 2022
Sennen Tech LTD is a London-based company that specializes in developing asset management software for the renewable energy sector. Founded in 2015, Sennen's software provides an operational framework for managing power generation projects and their respective portfolios. The software enhances the reliability and productivity of renewable energy assets by facilitating the deployment and operation of infrastructure in clean energy. It also streamlines the tracking and optimization of construction and maintenance activities, including the management of vessels and personnel, by utilizing real-time updates. This enables asset operators to optimize resource use and improve overall production outcomes.

Sust Global

Seed Round in 2021
Our AI-powered geospatial platform empowers you to quantify climate-related risk and capture sustainable value. This enables you to understand, quantify and mitigate forward-looking losses, create new climate-resilient products, and go beyond climate disclosure and reporting practices.

Qualis Flow

Seed Round in 2021
Qualis Flow Limited is a construction technology company based in London, United Kingdom, established in 2018. It offers the Q.Flow platform, which enables construction teams to track, analyze, and respond to environmental risks effectively. By integrating data from external systems, the platform connects traditional data with the Internet of Things, facilitating automated data collection and analysis. This capability allows contractors and major projects to manage their social and environmental impact, improve communication with stakeholders, and respond to environmental changes. Qualis Flow aims to help contractors save time, reduce costs, and enhance their local reputations, and it is currently collaborating with early adopters during its development phase.

Good Club

Venture Round in 2020
Good Club, also known as Food Clubs, operates an online platform that facilitates the purchase of organic and ethical groceries in groups directly from wholesalers. Founded in 2018 and based in London, the company aims to revolutionize grocery shopping by minimizing waste and reducing the environmental impact associated with everyday grocery purchases. It offers a variety of products across several categories, including food, household items, drinks, and personal care products. Good Club has introduced reusable packaging and delivery boxes, which are collected from customers after use, cleaned, and prepared for reuse, further emphasizing its commitment to sustainability.

pirkx

Seed Round in 2020
Pirkx is an online platform that offers an affordable way to provide benefits to workers. It makes benefits accessible not just to permanent employees, but also to contracted workers, freelancers and people working in the gig economy.

PlayWorks

Corporate Round in 2019
PlayWorks is pioneering post-app-store mobile games across social networks and messaging apps. The huge growth in platforms such as Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Apple iMessage and WhatsApp and their universal adoption of games has created the world's largest gaming platform with over 3Bn potential monthly users. With partnerships in place with Facebook, Comcast, LG, Roku and many others, and a massive catalog of live games, PlayWorks is a trusted leader at the forefront of this new revolution. Led by an exceptional team of gaming industry veterans who have successfully created and sold numerous games companies PlayWorks is capitalizing on the changing landscape in the lucrative games market.

Shackleton

Seed Round in 2016
Shackleton is here to inspire and equip our clients to go out and experience the world’s most extreme and incredible places. Our mission is to create expedition-grade performance products with the highest levels of craftsmanship and luxury refinement, as demanded by a wide variety of adventurers from record-breaking explorers to ultra-travellers, frequent flyers and city breakers.
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