Passion Capital Investments
Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators applying their experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. They are Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero.
They have been personally involved in the largest European technology exits of the past decade, including the biggest exits of the year for 4 of the past 10 years by market value (Ricardo.de acquired by QXL, Skype purchased by Ebay, Last.fm acquired by CBS, and QXL/Tradus acquired by Naspers) and want to be involved in many more.
They believe that the critical differentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders.
They are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe. As an example of this, White Bear Yard is their own hub for activities, ambitions and energy and where have fun in the process.
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Thread
Series A in 2015
Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes. The platform offers a combination of human stylist and machine learning algorithms, where they receive personalized information from human stylists and suggestions from an algorithm that understands the customer's preferences over time, helping men to dress well without having to go shopping.
Tide Platform Limited
Series A in 2017
Tide’s mission is to help SMEs save time (and money) in the running of their businesses. The Tide platform not only offers business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable administrative solutions, such as full integration with accounting systems. Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. Tide is now the emerging leader in SME challenger banking in the UK. Tide believes that truly serving SMEs well requires relentless focus on their needs. That is why Tide is SME only.
Tray.io, Inc
Seed Round in 2012
Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators.
Tray.io believes that any organization can and should automate. With the Tray Platform, citizen automators throughout organizations can easily automate complex processes through a powerful, flexible platform, and can connect their entire cloud stack thanks to APIs.
With Tray.io’s visual workflow builder, customers can create automation to drive their business processes without writing a single line of code.
HomeTouch Care Ltd.
Seed Round in 2017
HomeTouch Care Ltd. develops a software that enables users to find elderly and personal care. The company’s products include hometouch Connect that enables users to choose and control the carer, and hometouch Assist that offers fully managed live-in care service. Its services include dementia care, disability care, post-operative and post-discharge care, live-in and overnight care, elderly care, respite care, and palliative care. It enables users to select their carer by viewing their video profile, reading customer reviews, assessing the carer’s experience and skills, and interviewing them face to face beforehand. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
HomeTouch Care Ltd.
Seed Round in 2015
HomeTouch Care Ltd. develops a software that enables users to find elderly and personal care. The company’s products include hometouch Connect that enables users to choose and control the carer, and hometouch Assist that offers fully managed live-in care service. Its services include dementia care, disability care, post-operative and post-discharge care, live-in and overnight care, elderly care, respite care, and palliative care. It enables users to select their carer by viewing their video profile, reading customer reviews, assessing the carer’s experience and skills, and interviewing them face to face beforehand. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Nested
Seed Round in 2016
At Nested, their Mission is to give home-sellers certainty over their property sale from day one, without compromising on price. They do this by advancing what you need to buy your new home, whilst they sell your old one for the best possible price.
Selling a home is one of the most stressful things you do in life. It's all-to-common to experience unclear valuations, broken chains and untrustworthy estate agents. they'were bringing a refreshing approach to this broken industry, removing the uncertainty for home sellers, providing best-in-class service and helping their customers secure their dream home on their timeline.
Spotahome
Series A in 2016
Spotahome, S.L. provides an online platform that allows direct booking of accommodation of more than one month for people planning to move abroad. The company’s platform offers property descriptions and photos to tenants allowing them to make an informed decision about housing before arriving to the country; and access to high quality tenants to the landlords. It serves people who are working or studying abroad in Spain or Italy. The company is based in Madrid, Spain.
Monzo Bank Limited
Series F in 2019
Monzo Bank Limited operates as a bank. The company offers current, business, joint, and individual savings accounts; and overdrafts and loans in the United Kingdom, and the United States. It also offer online banking through its mobile application. Monzo Bank Limited was formerly known as FOCUS FS LIMITED and changed its name to Monzo Bank Limited in October 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 ad is based in London, United Kingdom.
Lulu
Venture Round in 2011
Lulu is the smart girl's app for private reviews and recommendations of guys. Onlulu.com was acquired by Berez Media - a marketing and technology firm for marketers and agencies.
Poly AI
Series A in 2021
PolyAI is a London-based company that develops a machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence.
Spotahome
Venture Round in 2021
Spotahome, S.L. provides an online platform that allows direct booking of accommodation of more than one month for people planning to move abroad. The company’s platform offers property descriptions and photos to tenants allowing them to make an informed decision about housing before arriving to the country; and access to high quality tenants to the landlords. It serves people who are working or studying abroad in Spain or Italy. The company is based in Madrid, Spain.
Cazana
Venture Round in 2017
Using big data and predictive analytics, Cazana analyses millions of automotive transactions daily to assess the value and risk associated with every vehicle on the road. Cazana's systems are used by manufacturers, finance companies, dealerships, and insurers globally. Companies use Cazana's data to provide vehicles to the modern automotive consumer who wants to access, not own their vehicles.
Thread
Seed Round in 2013
Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes. The platform offers a combination of human stylist and machine learning algorithms, where they receive personalized information from human stylists and suggestions from an algorithm that understands the customer's preferences over time, helping men to dress well without having to go shopping.
Urban
Series B in 2019
Urban is a wellness service platform used to offer an online wellness appointment portal for booking at-home treatments.
The company's platform makes it easy to book treatments such as massage, beauty, personal training, and osteopathy. It seeks to democratize wellness by making wellness rituals accessible in urban cities and making balance an integral part of the cosmopolitan urban lifestyle. Customers can choose between trusted and pre-vetted practitioners by viewing detailed profiles with personal bios, ratings, and reviews while the practitioners take home 72% of bookings.
Jack Tang and Giles Williams co-founded Urban in London, England in 2014.
Marshmallow
Series B in 2021
Marshmallow Financial Services Limited, trading as Marshmallow, operates as a motor vehicle insurance company. It provides car insurance products and services for residents moving out of the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
GoCardless Limited
Series E in 2019
GoCardless is the global leader in recurring payments. GoCardless' global payments network and technology platform take the pain out of getting paid for businesses with recurring revenue. More than 40,000 businesses worldwide, from multinational corporations to SMBs, transact through GoCardless each month, and the business processes $10bn of payments each year. GoCardless now has four offices in the UK, France, Australia, and Germany.
Sugar
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Cazana
Venture Round in 2016
Using big data and predictive analytics, Cazana analyses millions of automotive transactions daily to assess the value and risk associated with every vehicle on the road. Cazana's systems are used by manufacturers, finance companies, dealerships, and insurers globally. Companies use Cazana's data to provide vehicles to the modern automotive consumer who wants to access, not own their vehicles.
EyeEm
Seed Round in 2011
EyeEm Mobile GmbH operates as a photography community and platform company globally. It offers EyeEm, a place for photographers of various abilities to share, interact, and learn about taking pictures on various devices, as well as attracts brands and media that want to feature photos in magazines, digital media, and advertising. The company’s API gives developers access to various albums and photos. EyeEm Mobile GmbH was founded in 2011 and is based in Berlin, Germany with talent in San Francisco and New York.
TrueCircle
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Screenloop
Seed Round in 2022
Focal Point Positioning Ltd.
Series B in 2017
Focal Point Positioning Ltd. develops a smartphone-based sensor fusion, machine learning, and signal processing suite to provide satellite positioning capabilities in areas that have until now been unreachable. The company also provides consultancy in the fields of positioning, navigation, and timing to solve problems in the areas of GNSS, GPS-denied positioning, and new quantum technologies for sensing and positioning. It serves defense, security, aerospace, autonomy, telecoms, smartphone tracking, retail and logistics, indoor GNSS, E-911 and E-112, and high integrity GNS markets. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Reach Robotics Limited
Seed Round in 2016
Reach Robotics is creating the next gaming platform by combining Robotics, Gaming and AR. This means video game characters in real life that appear to be alive and can engage in various game modes, unlocking lots of potentials.
The robots they make are more than connected toys, they are consistently evolving entertainment platforms. Their flagship product, MekaMon, has propelled us to the forefront of consumer robotics and they continue to evolve to ensure the future is always within reach.
Toothpick
Seed Round in 2012
Toothpick is free, fast and smart and the concept is refreshingly simple. By giving patients the freedom to compare and book appointments at local dental practices online, and our dentists to monetise their diaries to the full, we create efficiency and a modern consumer experience in a traditional industry. With a range of products for membership and medical organisations, we also license and sell our technology to membership and medical organisations who have a forward-thinking view of making their services visible to the public.
Monzo Bank Limited
Series G in 2021
Monzo Bank Limited operates as a bank. The company offers current, business, joint, and individual savings accounts; and overdrafts and loans in the United Kingdom, and the United States. It also offer online banking through its mobile application. Monzo Bank Limited was formerly known as FOCUS FS LIMITED and changed its name to Monzo Bank Limited in October 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 ad is based in London, United Kingdom.
Butternut Box
Venture Round in 2021
Butternut Box is a direct to consumer pet wellness company.
Freshly prepared dog food.
Cooked like you would at home.
Delivered in perfect portions.
We are always looking for talented people to join the Butternut squad. If you love dogs as much as we do, please get in touch.
Weav Music, Inc.
Convertible Note in 2016
Weav Music, Inc. develops a software, which helps users to create and mix music tracks. It offers Weav Run, a user facing application that provides engineered songs by matching the beats of the music with user’s steps. The company also provides Weav Mixer, which helps to design and create music tracks and a Weav Player software development kit that can be embedded into any third party application and allows artists to feel and respond to a listener's movements. Weav Music, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Brooklyn, New York with an additional office in London, United Kingdom.
Vinetrade
Seed Round in 2012
Vinetrade is a platform for building and managing wine portfolios. We make it easy for collectors, investors and merchants to buy, sell and track the value of fine wine online.
Vinetrade was founded by two entrepreneurs with a passion for wine and wine investment who were frustrated with the limitations of existing online services. With most merchants still communicating mainly by email or telephone, they decided that it was time that the wine market should have the kind of easy to use, self-service, online tools that they wanted to use themselves.
Vinetrade will bring much-needed transparency to the market so that investors can be sure of the value of their trades. Vinetrade also does away with the percentage-based trading fee that can cost a seller 10-20% of each case sold, and uses a fixed fee model.
Daybridge Software Limited
Seed Round in 2020
Daybridge Software Limited, trading as Daybridge, develops and operates a calendar app for the people in the United Kingdom. The company’s product is used to structure the day how users like; mix events, tasks, and notes together in the same place; manage life, work, and everything in between; create a space for the trip; sort out an itinerary and helps to minimize jetlag; and connect the calendar to other products and services. Daybridge Software Limited was formerly known as Ribbon Research Limited and changed its name to Daybridge Software Limited in August 2020. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Poly AI
Series A in 2019
PolyAI is a London-based company that develops a machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence.
Warren
Seed Round in 2020
Warren is a complete self-service cloud platform for regional infrastructure service providers. Functionally rich, technologically modern and architecturally reliable turnkey commercialisation solution packaged as a service and driven by your success to compete in the global landscape.
Xihelm Limited
Venture Round in 2016
Xihelm Limited develops city infrastructure management software. It offers solutions for producing city maps using artificial intelligence. Xihelm Limited was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Xelix
Seed Round in 2019
Xelix is an AI-powered P2P platform that layers on top of ERP system(s) to safeguard businesses against overpayment errors and fraudulent attacks. This helps finance teams detect errors that would be missed by internal controls, whilst reducing the workload required to monitor exceptions. Xelix also Insight provides finance teams both retrospective reporting and forward-looking forecasting in the areas of spend analysis, working capital management and supplier payment performance.
Lassie
Seed Round in 2021
Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
Grndhouse
Seed Round in 2021
laZook
Seed Round in 2012
laZook operates a distributed commerce platform made up of existing marketplaces, e-commerce stores, and blogs.
The company’s platform serves as an integral part of online strategies for brands giving them access to a distribution network of online retailers without sacrificing control over their pricing and brand image; and provides brands with real-time sales data.
The company also operates a network of fulfillment centers that facilitate to pick, pack, and dispatch orders globally. Its platform enables sellers to sell products such as children’s toys, beauty products, and products related to the technology sector.
laZook was founded in 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Screenloop
Seed Round in 2021
Vicampo
Series C in 2016
Vicampo GmbH engages in online sale of wine. The company is based in Mainz, Germany.Vicampo operates a marketplace for wines that allows users to buy directly from wineries. The company has selected over 25,000 experienced and emerging winemakers from Germany who ship their wines directly to customers. The quality of wines is tested not only by the company’s experts but also by the customers who are asked to reviewproducts.
Car Throttle
Seed Round in 2015
Car Throttle was started in 2009 after founder Adnan Ebrahim realised there was no online platform for people like him: young, millennial car enthusiasts. Dubbed ‘Buzzfeed for cars’, the site quickly evolved into a vibrant community serving millions of users - called CTzens - who follow the brand on its apps and major social media platforms.
Car Throttle creates and distributes engaging car content and works closely with advertisers looking to reach a valuable audience. Their investors include the minds behind AOL, Facebook, Skype and MailOnline.
CultureAI Ltd
Seed Round in 2021
Nested
Series A in 2017
At Nested, their Mission is to give home-sellers certainty over their property sale from day one, without compromising on price. They do this by advancing what you need to buy your new home, whilst they sell your old one for the best possible price.
Selling a home is one of the most stressful things you do in life. It's all-to-common to experience unclear valuations, broken chains and untrustworthy estate agents. they'were bringing a refreshing approach to this broken industry, removing the uncertainty for home sellers, providing best-in-class service and helping their customers secure their dream home on their timeline.
Xelix
Series A in 2022
Xelix is an AI-powered P2P platform that layers on top of ERP system(s) to safeguard businesses against overpayment errors and fraudulent attacks. This helps finance teams detect errors that would be missed by internal controls, whilst reducing the workload required to monitor exceptions. Xelix also Insight provides finance teams both retrospective reporting and forward-looking forecasting in the areas of spend analysis, working capital management and supplier payment performance.
Smarkets Limited
Venture Round in 2011
Smarkets Limited operates a Web-based person-to-person betting exchange platform. It allows its users to bet directly with other users on sporting events, political elections, and celebrity marriages. The company also offers a browser-based stock market game for products sold on Amazon.com. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Monzo Bank Limited
Series G in 2020
Monzo Bank Limited operates as a bank. The company offers current, business, joint, and individual savings accounts; and overdrafts and loans in the United Kingdom, and the United States. It also offer online banking through its mobile application. Monzo Bank Limited was formerly known as FOCUS FS LIMITED and changed its name to Monzo Bank Limited in October 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 ad is based in London, United Kingdom.
Limejump Limited
Series A in 2017
Limejump is a next generation, technology-driven utility providing aggregation, Power Purchase Agreements, PPA, trading and supply services to their customers. Limejump's technology empowers businesses and generators to become active energy market participants, generate new revenue streams and contribute towards a greener energy future.
Limejump connects customers with National Grid’s demand response programmes where generators are paid to ramp up or ramp down their energy export and businesses are compensated to shift or reduce their energy usage to help restore grid balance.
Loopcam
Seed Round in 2012
Create fun videos easy! Loopcam is a free iPhone app that lets people express themselves through unique filters and stickers.
Its built-in social network is packed with creative influencers, celebrities and leading world media.
Hullabalook
Series A in 2022
Hullabalook offers e-commerce retailers with a plugin that assists their customers to search, filter, and find products in a short period of time. It enables consumers to find products through visualizations and banners, and find similar products with on-page carousels and linked pages.
Hullabalook offers tools that enable retailers to improve their e-commerce sites and its user experience to increase their sales. The company is partnered with TrueStart.
Hullabalook was founded by Barny Darby and Bryony Elliott in February 2016. It is headquartered in London, England.
Remato Eesti OÜ
Seed Round in 2021
Remato is a Software-as-a-service for managing micro, small, and medium-sized construction businesses' that currently mainly rely on papers, excels, and endless email threads to operate. Remato helps by greatly simplifying & improving the management of tools, people, and projects.
Lassie
Series A in 2022
Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
Narrative AB
Seed Round in 2012
Narrative is an innovative market leader in wearable cameras and intelligent image analysis. The Narrative Clip is an automatic, stamp-sized camera that the user clips on to her clothes to capture photos and location data without conscious interaction. Narrative’s image analysis service analyzes the photos and data and serves the user with her most meaningful and memorable moments in a mobile app photo stream.
Narrative was founded by Martin Källström, Oskar Kalmaru, Björn Wesén and Simon Pantzare, Sebastian Björkelid March 1, 2012. It is headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, with additional offices in Sweden (Stockholm and Lund) and the United States (San Francisco). As of April 2014, the company has 45 employees.
Xelix
Seed Round in 2017
Xelix is an AI-powered P2P platform that layers on top of ERP system(s) to safeguard businesses against overpayment errors and fraudulent attacks. This helps finance teams detect errors that would be missed by internal controls, whilst reducing the workload required to monitor exceptions. Xelix also Insight provides finance teams both retrospective reporting and forward-looking forecasting in the areas of spend analysis, working capital management and supplier payment performance.
Weav Music, Inc.
Series A in 2019
Weav Music, Inc. develops a software, which helps users to create and mix music tracks. It offers Weav Run, a user facing application that provides engineered songs by matching the beats of the music with user’s steps. The company also provides Weav Mixer, which helps to design and create music tracks and a Weav Player software development kit that can be embedded into any third party application and allows artists to feel and respond to a listener's movements. Weav Music, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Brooklyn, New York with an additional office in London, United Kingdom.
Salv
Seed Round in 2019
Salv develops the anti-money laundering (AML) platform that helps banks find and cease financial crime. The platform enables financial institutions to detect crime, without damaging the experience of real customers. Salv was founded in 2018 and is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
Fronted Holding Ltd
Seed Round in 2020
Fronted Holding Ltd develops an online platform for offering rental services. It pays rental deposits upfront, allows the users to pay it back in manageable amount, and also helps renters finance their deposits. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Show My Homework
Seed Round in 2013
Show My Homework is a global technology startup that develops sophisticated homework software to answer questions that existing technology could not answer. It was created to make students feel independent and empowered to manage time. For teachers, the company wants to give a tool that requires no effort to learn one that would be more valuable as time goes by.
Show My Homework was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London.
Uberchord Engineering
Seed Round in 2016
Uberchord Engineering GmbH develops an application for guitar heads. Its application listens to client’s guitar play, and provides instant feedback and adapts to client’s personal progress; and provides real-time chord recognition, chord library, chord trainer, chord collections, chord transposition, and tuner. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.
Spotahome
Seed Round in 2015
Spotahome, S.L. provides an online platform that allows direct booking of accommodation of more than one month for people planning to move abroad. The company’s platform offers property descriptions and photos to tenants allowing them to make an informed decision about housing before arriving to the country; and access to high quality tenants to the landlords. It serves people who are working or studying abroad in Spain or Italy. The company is based in Madrid, Spain.
On Device Research
Seed Round in 2010
On Device Research Limited, a mobile Internet company, provides mobile surveys and research panels for research agencies and the mobile industry. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
GoCardless Limited
Series A in 2013
GoCardless is the global leader in recurring payments. GoCardless' global payments network and technology platform take the pain out of getting paid for businesses with recurring revenue. More than 40,000 businesses worldwide, from multinational corporations to SMBs, transact through GoCardless each month, and the business processes $10bn of payments each year. GoCardless now has four offices in the UK, France, Australia, and Germany.
Ravelin
Seed Round in 2015
Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud by examining customer behavior data and spotting fraudsters while there is still time to block them. The company imports a client’s visitor, registration, and payment data in real-time, via an API, inspects data using an AI, identifies and blocks fraudsters, and enables systems to prevent such crimes in the future.
Quix.ai
Seed Round in 2021
Quix is the in-memory data stream processing platform for Python professionals looking to build real-time data-driven applications.
Monzo Bank Limited
Series E in 2018
Monzo Bank Limited operates as a bank. The company offers current, business, joint, and individual savings accounts; and overdrafts and loans in the United Kingdom, and the United States. It also offer online banking through its mobile application. Monzo Bank Limited was formerly known as FOCUS FS LIMITED and changed its name to Monzo Bank Limited in October 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 ad is based in London, United Kingdom.
wireWAX Ltd
Venture Round in 2011
WIREWAX is the multi-award-winning technology powering the world’s interactive video. We’re driven by the fundamental belief that video should be as connected and accessible as the rest of the information on the internet. Utilizing a powerful combination of computer vision and artificial intelligence, we help brands, creative agencies and broadcasters create highly engaging video experiences.
Opensignal, Inc.
Series A in 2014
Opensignal, Inc. provides a mobile application that crowd-sources data on the performance and coverage of wireless networks around the world. It offers Opensignal app, a mobile application that help users to improve their mobile and Wi-Fi signal, recommend the best mobile operator in any area, and help others get better signal; and WifiMapper, a Wi-Fi database that enables users to find free Wi-Fi based on various hotspots. It serves mobile network operators, telecom equity analysts, and regulators. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Laguna Hills, California.
Birdback Limited
Venture Round in 2014
Birdback is a card-linking platform that connects offers & loyalty programs directly to customers’ payment cards. Publishers and advertisers can now connect digital marketing to offline sales, to more effectively drive and track in store transactions, right down to SKU-level.
Because Birdback’s technology is built on the existing payments infrastructure, it’s easy and quick to integrate and partnerships with Zanox Group and Quidco have already put it in the hands of retailers around the world.
DueDil Limited
Seed Round in 2011
DueDil Limited owns and operates an online platform that combines sources of company information to enable other companies make data-informed decisions. It offers a unified platform to provide companies with better information about other businesses to contextualize and navigate the relationships between sets of data. The company also offers CBILS Eligibility and Endpoint assessment for businesses for Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) and the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS). The company's solution enables its users to find, verify, manage, monitor, and connect business relationships. Its solution is used by various teams, such as sales, marketing, research, procurement, compliance, and credit risk. DueDil Limited was formerly known as Bantr Ltd. and changed its name to DueDil Limited in October 2010. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Mixlr Ltd.
Seed Round in 2011
Mixlr Ltd. provides broadcasting services for live audios across the web, iPhone, iPad, Android, and mobile devices. It enables bands, musicians, and DJs to share and stream live performances to their fans. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Tide Platform Limited
Seed Round in 2016
Tide’s mission is to help SMEs save time (and money) in the running of their businesses. The Tide platform not only offers business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable administrative solutions, such as full integration with accounting systems. Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. Tide is now the emerging leader in SME challenger banking in the UK. Tide believes that truly serving SMEs well requires relentless focus on their needs. That is why Tide is SME only.
Spotahome
Series A in 2017
Spotahome, S.L. provides an online platform that allows direct booking of accommodation of more than one month for people planning to move abroad. The company’s platform offers property descriptions and photos to tenants allowing them to make an informed decision about housing before arriving to the country; and access to high quality tenants to the landlords. It serves people who are working or studying abroad in Spain or Italy. The company is based in Madrid, Spain.
Spotahome
Angel Round in 2015
Spotahome, S.L. provides an online platform that allows direct booking of accommodation of more than one month for people planning to move abroad. The company’s platform offers property descriptions and photos to tenants allowing them to make an informed decision about housing before arriving to the country; and access to high quality tenants to the landlords. It serves people who are working or studying abroad in Spain or Italy. The company is based in Madrid, Spain.
EyeEm
Series A in 2013
EyeEm Mobile GmbH operates as a photography community and platform company globally. It offers EyeEm, a place for photographers of various abilities to share, interact, and learn about taking pictures on various devices, as well as attracts brands and media that want to feature photos in magazines, digital media, and advertising. The company’s API gives developers access to various albums and photos. EyeEm Mobile GmbH was founded in 2011 and is based in Berlin, Germany with talent in San Francisco and New York.
Burrow
Seed Round in 2017
Burrow makes mortgages delightfully digital, accompanied by expert human advice. They believe that the process of getting a mortgage should be simple and delightfully digital and that it should be fast, transparent, low-cost, and online. Burrow’s mission is to make that happen.
The UK mortgage market is worth over £250 billion a year and the housing market is a hugely important part of our society and economy. Yet the process of getting a mortgage - the biggest purchase we make, is still a painfully face-to-face, offline, paper-based process.
That’s why Burrow is re-engineering the mortgage process from the ground up. The company is using technology to make it faster and frustration-free, and humans to make it friendly and personable.
Monzo Bank Limited
Series C in 2017
Monzo Bank Limited operates as a bank. The company offers current, business, joint, and individual savings accounts; and overdrafts and loans in the United Kingdom, and the United States. It also offer online banking through its mobile application. Monzo Bank Limited was formerly known as FOCUS FS LIMITED and changed its name to Monzo Bank Limited in October 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 ad is based in London, United Kingdom.
Readmill
Series A in 2012
Readmill, a Berlin, Germany-based social and shareable reading platform. Led by CEO Henrik Berggren, Readmill allows users to highlight parts of an ebook, share these highlights with friends and start discussions around them. The company also announced partnerships with six major independent stores including Leanpub, Readlists, Free-ebooks.net, Jottify, OR Books, Publit, and Bibliocrunch.
Hullabalook
Seed Round in 2016
Hullabalook offers e-commerce retailers with a plugin that assists their customers to search, filter, and find products in a short period of time. It enables consumers to find products through visualizations and banners, and find similar products with on-page carousels and linked pages.
Hullabalook offers tools that enable retailers to improve their e-commerce sites and its user experience to increase their sales. The company is partnered with TrueStart.
Hullabalook was founded by Barny Darby and Bryony Elliott in February 2016. It is headquartered in London, England.
Monzo Bank Limited
Series B in 2016
Monzo Bank Limited operates as a bank. The company offers current, business, joint, and individual savings accounts; and overdrafts and loans in the United Kingdom, and the United States. It also offer online banking through its mobile application. Monzo Bank Limited was formerly known as FOCUS FS LIMITED and changed its name to Monzo Bank Limited in October 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 ad is based in London, United Kingdom.
Digital Shadows
Series C in 2019
Digital Shadows identifies unwanted exposure, protect against external threats, and minimize digital risk. The company's product Digital Shadows SearchLight helps to minimize these risks by detecting data loss, securing the online brand, and reducing the attack surface.
Digital Shadows has proven that their digital risk management service is incredibly valuable, providing my security teams with context, prioritization, recommended actions, and even remediation options to dramatically reduce risk to Sophos.
The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Limejump Limited
Seed Round in 2015
Limejump is a next generation, technology-driven utility providing aggregation, Power Purchase Agreements, PPA, trading and supply services to their customers. Limejump's technology empowers businesses and generators to become active energy market participants, generate new revenue streams and contribute towards a greener energy future.
Limejump connects customers with National Grid’s demand response programmes where generators are paid to ramp up or ramp down their energy export and businesses are compensated to shift or reduce their energy usage to help restore grid balance.
GoCardless Limited
Series C in 2016
GoCardless is the global leader in recurring payments. GoCardless' global payments network and technology platform take the pain out of getting paid for businesses with recurring revenue. More than 40,000 businesses worldwide, from multinational corporations to SMBs, transact through GoCardless each month, and the business processes $10bn of payments each year. GoCardless now has four offices in the UK, France, Australia, and Germany.
PROWLER.IO
Series A in 2017
Founded in 2016 with a mission to empower people in business to make better decisions, Secondmind - The Decisions Company - is underpinned by years of award-winning, practical artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) research, performed by a team of world-class researchers, data scientists and ML engineers. Secondmind closes the gap between people and AI, and supercharges decision-making with the Secondmind Decision Engine, an intuitive and insightful software platform that helps people in industries from supply chain to automotive predict, plan, influence outcomes, manage risk, and make complex decisions with ease and confidence. Secondmind is backed by leading venture funds including Amadeus Capital, Atlantic Bridge, and Cambridge Innovation Capital, among others.
Dashbird
Seed Round in 2018
Dashbird helps developers to deliver bullet-proof and fast serverless applications by offering actionable insights and debugging features. It makes software and app development quicker, leaner and helps to optimize costs.
Dashbird uses Cloudwatch logs in order to offer in-depth analytics and the 2 minute setup doesn't require any code changes.
Wedo Shopping
Venture Round in 2013
Wedo is a selection of curated stores operating in specific niches which aim to be the first destination for online shoppers.
Wedo is a fast growing London based startup company which owns a number niche stores offering a huge selection of bedroom furniture and accessories to those across the UK.
With the aim of being the number one destination for home furniture and possibly other sectors, Wedo is made up of a combination of experienced and young "intrapreneurs" from online sectors and internet retailers.
The Wedo Values:
1. Love what you do
2. Be interesting, not perfect
3. Be the go-to people
4. Make yourself at home
5. Focus on simplicity
Spotahome
Series B in 2018
Spotahome, S.L. provides an online platform that allows direct booking of accommodation of more than one month for people planning to move abroad. The company’s platform offers property descriptions and photos to tenants allowing them to make an informed decision about housing before arriving to the country; and access to high quality tenants to the landlords. It serves people who are working or studying abroad in Spain or Italy. The company is based in Madrid, Spain.
Vicampo
Series A in 2013
Vicampo GmbH engages in online sale of wine. The company is based in Mainz, Germany.Vicampo operates a marketplace for wines that allows users to buy directly from wineries. The company has selected over 25,000 experienced and emerging winemakers from Germany who ship their wines directly to customers. The quality of wines is tested not only by the company’s experts but also by the customers who are asked to reviewproducts.
Narrative AB
Series A in 2013
Narrative is an innovative market leader in wearable cameras and intelligent image analysis. The Narrative Clip is an automatic, stamp-sized camera that the user clips on to her clothes to capture photos and location data without conscious interaction. Narrative’s image analysis service analyzes the photos and data and serves the user with her most meaningful and memorable moments in a mobile app photo stream.
Narrative was founded by Martin Källström, Oskar Kalmaru, Björn Wesén and Simon Pantzare, Sebastian Björkelid March 1, 2012. It is headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, with additional offices in Sweden (Stockholm and Lund) and the United States (San Francisco). As of April 2014, the company has 45 employees.
Tide Platform Limited
Convertible Note in 2018
Tide’s mission is to help SMEs save time (and money) in the running of their businesses. The Tide platform not only offers business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable administrative solutions, such as full integration with accounting systems. Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. Tide is now the emerging leader in SME challenger banking in the UK. Tide believes that truly serving SMEs well requires relentless focus on their needs. That is why Tide is SME only.
Spill App
Seed Round in 2019
Spill App Limited designs and develops mobile application software. The company’s mobile application allows employees of companies to connect with counselors to consult about their mental health issues. Spill App Limited was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Mendeley
Series A in 2009
Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com) is a global research collaboration and networking platform. Their apps help scientists organise, share, and discover new research. Since their launch in 2009, Mendeley has grown to more than 3 million users in 180 countries and institutional customers including Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. Their users collaborate in hundreds of thousands of groups and have collectively uploaded more than 500 million documents - creating one of the largest research databases in the world. This data, available via the Mendeley API (http://dev.mendeley.com), powers more than 200 exciting new third-party applications that are making science more social and open.
Digital Shadows
Series B in 2016
Digital Shadows identifies unwanted exposure, protect against external threats, and minimize digital risk. The company's product Digital Shadows SearchLight helps to minimize these risks by detecting data loss, securing the online brand, and reducing the attack surface.
Digital Shadows has proven that their digital risk management service is incredibly valuable, providing my security teams with context, prioritization, recommended actions, and even remediation options to dramatically reduce risk to Sophos.
The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Lendable
Seed Round in 2014
Lendable is a lending platform. When you borrow money, it comes straight from an investor. Unlike banks, who hand out loans from piles of cash they look after on behalf of savers. Their platform is super-fast (you’ll see in a moment), and makes lending as hassle- free as possible. It’s a matter of a few clicks and you get your quote. Unlike banks, who require paperwork and run expensive branch networks.
Wickr
Series A in 2014
Wickr Inc. provides a mobile communication application that provides military-grade encryption of text, picture, audio, and video messages. The company offers Wickr secure communication channels for private messaging and mainstream collaboration platforms; and Wickr Me, a private messenger for individuals, small independent teams, and large enterprises. Its application is used by reporters, sources, senators, cops, freedom fighters, doctors, patients, lawyers, bankers, military personnel, boards, billionaires, celebrities, college students, royalty, feds, investors, and teens in the United States and internationally. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Urban
Series A in 2016
Urban is a wellness service platform used to offer an online wellness appointment portal for booking at-home treatments.
The company's platform makes it easy to book treatments such as massage, beauty, personal training, and osteopathy. It seeks to democratize wellness by making wellness rituals accessible in urban cities and making balance an integral part of the cosmopolitan urban lifestyle. Customers can choose between trusted and pre-vetted practitioners by viewing detailed profiles with personal bios, ratings, and reviews while the practitioners take home 72% of bookings.
Jack Tang and Giles Williams co-founded Urban in London, England in 2014.
GoCardless Limited
Seed Round in 2012
GoCardless is the global leader in recurring payments. GoCardless' global payments network and technology platform take the pain out of getting paid for businesses with recurring revenue. More than 40,000 businesses worldwide, from multinational corporations to SMBs, transact through GoCardless each month, and the business processes $10bn of payments each year. GoCardless now has four offices in the UK, France, Australia, and Germany.
Reach Robotics Limited
Series A in 2017
Reach Robotics is creating the next gaming platform by combining Robotics, Gaming and AR. This means video game characters in real life that appear to be alive and can engage in various game modes, unlocking lots of potentials.
The robots they make are more than connected toys, they are consistently evolving entertainment platforms. Their flagship product, MekaMon, has propelled us to the forefront of consumer robotics and they continue to evolve to ensure the future is always within reach.
ChAI
Seed Round in 2019
ChAI help mitigate commodity price volatility for buyers and sellers of commodities by forecasting their prices using both traditional and alternative data (including satellite and maritime) and the latest in AI techniques over time horizons of one day to one year.
Our vision is to provide SME manufacturers with the same price risk mitigation tools that are currently only available to their larger peers.
We use state-of-the-art AI methods on a large number of alternative and established data sources in order to make our price predictions on a full cross-section of commodities. We don’t believe in applying AI blindly, which is why we provide confidence limits to our predictions and base our forecasting on the economic theory of supply and demand.
Pinipa Ltd
Seed Round in 2015
Pinipa Ltd. operates a cloud-based engagement tool for projects. Its platform provides targeted stakeholder updates; enables stakeholders to communication and involve in conversation; demonstrates progress; offers insight on engagement analytics; view portfolio of projects and manage visibility, privacy, and access; integrate with PPM applications; and send updates to other platforms. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
GoSquared
Angel Round in 2011
GoSquared is a platform where businesses can understand and communicate with their customers. GoSquared combines analytics, CRM, live chat, and marketing automation in one seamless platform.
The company's mission is to help businesses convert more visitors into customers.
GoCardless Limited
Series D in 2017
GoCardless is the global leader in recurring payments. GoCardless' global payments network and technology platform take the pain out of getting paid for businesses with recurring revenue. More than 40,000 businesses worldwide, from multinational corporations to SMBs, transact through GoCardless each month, and the business processes $10bn of payments each year. GoCardless now has four offices in the UK, France, Australia, and Germany.
Focal Point Positioning Ltd.
Seed Round in 2015
Focal Point Positioning Ltd. develops a smartphone-based sensor fusion, machine learning, and signal processing suite to provide satellite positioning capabilities in areas that have until now been unreachable. The company also provides consultancy in the fields of positioning, navigation, and timing to solve problems in the areas of GNSS, GPS-denied positioning, and new quantum technologies for sensing and positioning. It serves defense, security, aerospace, autonomy, telecoms, smartphone tracking, retail and logistics, indoor GNSS, E-911 and E-112, and high integrity GNS markets. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Butternut Box
Series B in 2019
Butternut Box is a direct to consumer pet wellness company.
Freshly prepared dog food.
Cooked like you would at home.
Delivered in perfect portions.
We are always looking for talented people to join the Butternut squad. If you love dogs as much as we do, please get in touch.
Urban
Seed Round in 2015
Urban is a wellness service platform used to offer an online wellness appointment portal for booking at-home treatments.
The company's platform makes it easy to book treatments such as massage, beauty, personal training, and osteopathy. It seeks to democratize wellness by making wellness rituals accessible in urban cities and making balance an integral part of the cosmopolitan urban lifestyle. Customers can choose between trusted and pre-vetted practitioners by viewing detailed profiles with personal bios, ratings, and reviews while the practitioners take home 72% of bookings.
Jack Tang and Giles Williams co-founded Urban in London, England in 2014.
Digital Shadows
Series A in 2015
Digital Shadows identifies unwanted exposure, protect against external threats, and minimize digital risk. The company's product Digital Shadows SearchLight helps to minimize these risks by detecting data loss, securing the online brand, and reducing the attack surface.
Digital Shadows has proven that their digital risk management service is incredibly valuable, providing my security teams with context, prioritization, recommended actions, and even remediation options to dramatically reduce risk to Sophos.
The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Vicampo
Series B in 2015
Vicampo GmbH engages in online sale of wine. The company is based in Mainz, Germany.Vicampo operates a marketplace for wines that allows users to buy directly from wineries. The company has selected over 25,000 experienced and emerging winemakers from Germany who ship their wines directly to customers. The quality of wines is tested not only by the company’s experts but also by the customers who are asked to reviewproducts.
Pusher Ltd.
Seed Round in 2011
Pusher Ltd. provides a hosted API service for adding real-time bi-directional functionality via WebSockets to Web and mobile apps, or other Internet connected devices. It offers a suite of libraries to use within applications, including a JavaScript client library for Web and HTML5 apps. The company also supplies functionality, such as authentication mechanisms for private channels, and presence functionality for keeping track of who’s online; and provides tools for debugging applications. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom. As of December 16, 2020, Pusher Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of MessageBird B.V..
Butternut Box
Seed Round in 2017
Butternut Box is a direct to consumer pet wellness company.
Freshly prepared dog food.
Cooked like you would at home.
Delivered in perfect portions.
We are always looking for talented people to join the Butternut squad. If you love dogs as much as we do, please get in touch.
DueDil Limited
Series B in 2014
DueDil Limited owns and operates an online platform that combines sources of company information to enable other companies make data-informed decisions. It offers a unified platform to provide companies with better information about other businesses to contextualize and navigate the relationships between sets of data. The company also offers CBILS Eligibility and Endpoint assessment for businesses for Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) and the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS). The company's solution enables its users to find, verify, manage, monitor, and connect business relationships. Its solution is used by various teams, such as sales, marketing, research, procurement, compliance, and credit risk. DueDil Limited was formerly known as Bantr Ltd. and changed its name to DueDil Limited in October 2010. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Flattr AB
Seed Round in 2012
Flattr is a micropayment and micro-donation system that enables its users to financially support their favorite content creators.
Users of Flattr are able to pay a small amount every month and click Flattr buttons on sites to share the money they paid among those sites.
Flattr was launched by Peter Sunde and Linus Olsson in March 2010. It is based in Malmo, Sweden.
HomeTouch Care Ltd.
Seed Round in 2016
HomeTouch Care Ltd. develops a software that enables users to find elderly and personal care. The company’s products include hometouch Connect that enables users to choose and control the carer, and hometouch Assist that offers fully managed live-in care service. Its services include dementia care, disability care, post-operative and post-discharge care, live-in and overnight care, elderly care, respite care, and palliative care. It enables users to select their carer by viewing their video profile, reading customer reviews, assessing the carer’s experience and skills, and interviewing them face to face beforehand. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Poly AI
Seed Round in 2017
PolyAI is a London-based company that develops a machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence.
Dashbird
Seed Round in 2020
Dashbird helps developers to deliver bullet-proof and fast serverless applications by offering actionable insights and debugging features. It makes software and app development quicker, leaner and helps to optimize costs.
Dashbird uses Cloudwatch logs in order to offer in-depth analytics and the 2 minute setup doesn't require any code changes.
Fertifa
Seed Round in 2020
Fertifa is an innovative employer benefit solution making fertility care more accessible and affordable.
The company works with employers to offer a valuable employee benefit which bridges the gap between an employer and their employees when dealing with the sensitivity and privacy of employees’ reproductive issues. It also offers guidance and advice, next-generation fertility treatment, and access to a range of holistic services for the best chance of success.
The company was founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom.
Kovert Designs
Seed Round in 2015
VINAYA’s mission is to combine human science with technological innovation to create both hardware and software products that improve wellbeing in the digital age. We believe in a future where technology enables you to feel better and be more human.
Our first product ALTRUIS is a collection of designer wearable technology tackling stress and hyper-connectivity by filtering your smartphone notifications.
Wine in Black
Series C in 2015
Wine in Black GmbH retails wine online. It offers red wine, white wine, champagne, sparkling wine, rose wine, and sweet wine. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Berlin, Germany. As of December 31, 2019, Wine in Black GmbH operates as a subsidiary of Viva Wine & Spirits Ab.
PROWLER.IO
Series B in 2019
Founded in 2016 with a mission to empower people in business to make better decisions, Secondmind - The Decisions Company - is underpinned by years of award-winning, practical artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) research, performed by a team of world-class researchers, data scientists and ML engineers. Secondmind closes the gap between people and AI, and supercharges decision-making with the Secondmind Decision Engine, an intuitive and insightful software platform that helps people in industries from supply chain to automotive predict, plan, influence outcomes, manage risk, and make complex decisions with ease and confidence. Secondmind is backed by leading venture funds including Amadeus Capital, Atlantic Bridge, and Cambridge Innovation Capital, among others.
Butternut Box
Series A in 2018
Butternut Box is a direct to consumer pet wellness company.
Freshly prepared dog food.
Cooked like you would at home.
Delivered in perfect portions.
We are always looking for talented people to join the Butternut squad. If you love dogs as much as we do, please get in touch.
Tripbirds AB
Seed Round in 2012
Tripbirds AB allows users to see and access 'travel related' updates online through their social networks. The company enables users to discover places and get recommendations from friends to plan a trip; and share information on favorite places. It also provides information on friends who have been there and the places they visited by collecting checkins and photos from Facebook, Foursqaure, and Instagram. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
TruckTrack Inc.
Seed Round in 2014
TruckTrack Inc. provides SaaS solutions for the trucking industry. It provides dispatching LTL/TL management, and creates invoice and driver payroll. It also offer mobile application to track drivers. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Belgrade, Serbia.
Urban
Seed Round in 2014
Urban is a wellness service platform used to offer an online wellness appointment portal for booking at-home treatments.
The company's platform makes it easy to book treatments such as massage, beauty, personal training, and osteopathy. It seeks to democratize wellness by making wellness rituals accessible in urban cities and making balance an integral part of the cosmopolitan urban lifestyle. Customers can choose between trusted and pre-vetted practitioners by viewing detailed profiles with personal bios, ratings, and reviews while the practitioners take home 72% of bookings.
Jack Tang and Giles Williams co-founded Urban in London, England in 2014.
Reward Cloud Ltd
Seed Round in 2017
Reward Cloud is a real time gift card network that is opening up a new world of opportunity for brands and partners.
DueDil Limited
Series A in 2013
DueDil Limited owns and operates an online platform that combines sources of company information to enable other companies make data-informed decisions. It offers a unified platform to provide companies with better information about other businesses to contextualize and navigate the relationships between sets of data. The company also offers CBILS Eligibility and Endpoint assessment for businesses for Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) and the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS). The company's solution enables its users to find, verify, manage, monitor, and connect business relationships. Its solution is used by various teams, such as sales, marketing, research, procurement, compliance, and credit risk. DueDil Limited was formerly known as Bantr Ltd. and changed its name to DueDil Limited in October 2010. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Lulu
Seed Round in 2013
Lulu is the smart girl's app for private reviews and recommendations of guys. Onlulu.com was acquired by Berez Media - a marketing and technology firm for marketers and agencies.
Opensignal, Inc.
Series B in 2018
Opensignal, Inc. provides a mobile application that crowd-sources data on the performance and coverage of wireless networks around the world. It offers Opensignal app, a mobile application that help users to improve their mobile and Wi-Fi signal, recommend the best mobile operator in any area, and help others get better signal; and WifiMapper, a Wi-Fi database that enables users to find free Wi-Fi based on various hotspots. It serves mobile network operators, telecom equity analysts, and regulators. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Laguna Hills, California.
Finimize Limited
Seed Round in 2016
Finimize Limited operates a platform that offers financial news for everyday people. It demystifies finance by making financial news easy to understand, succinct, and relevant to its readers for enhancing their financial literacy. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.
Hullabalook
Venture Round in 2017
Hullabalook offers e-commerce retailers with a plugin that assists their customers to search, filter, and find products in a short period of time. It enables consumers to find products through visualizations and banners, and find similar products with on-page carousels and linked pages.
Hullabalook offers tools that enable retailers to improve their e-commerce sites and its user experience to increase their sales. The company is partnered with TrueStart.
Hullabalook was founded by Barny Darby and Bryony Elliott in February 2016. It is headquartered in London, England.
Smarkets Limited
Series A in 2013
Smarkets Limited operates a Web-based person-to-person betting exchange platform. It allows its users to bet directly with other users on sporting events, political elections, and celebrity marriages. The company also offers a browser-based stock market game for products sold on Amazon.com. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Adludio Limited
Series A in 2016
Adludio Limited, an advertising company, develops high-impact interactive advertising solutions for the mobile generation. The company offers touch-enabled, gesture-based digital advertising works across mobile and touch-screen devices. It partners with international publishers and brands. Adludio Limited was formerly known as Future Ad Labs Limited and changed its name to Adludio Limited in November 2014. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Ginmon GmbH
Venture Round in 2016
Gimmon offers automated investment services to its clients.
Gimmon enables its users to determine their investment profile and adapt their strategy according to their preferences. Once determined, an automatic depot will be created, implementing its users’ investment strategies. The portfolio will then continue to be optimized. Its technology portfolio consists of dynamic risk management and anticyclical investment.
Gimmon was founded in 2014 by Raphael Vosen, Lars Reiner, and Ulrich Bauer and is based in Frankfurt.
Opensignal, Inc.
Seed Round in 2012
Opensignal, Inc. provides a mobile application that crowd-sources data on the performance and coverage of wireless networks around the world. It offers Opensignal app, a mobile application that help users to improve their mobile and Wi-Fi signal, recommend the best mobile operator in any area, and help others get better signal; and WifiMapper, a Wi-Fi database that enables users to find free Wi-Fi based on various hotspots. It serves mobile network operators, telecom equity analysts, and regulators. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Laguna Hills, California.
Monzo Bank Limited
Series D in 2017
Monzo Bank Limited operates as a bank. The company offers current, business, joint, and individual savings accounts; and overdrafts and loans in the United Kingdom, and the United States. It also offer online banking through its mobile application. Monzo Bank Limited was formerly known as FOCUS FS LIMITED and changed its name to Monzo Bank Limited in October 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 ad is based in London, United Kingdom.
LIFT99
Seed Round in 2018
Founders' success is often defined by their physical location. Tapping into top startup ecosystems need expensive relocation and time. LIFT99 connects startup founders across borders by sharing unique knowhow through an invite-only online platform. Founders connect over burning topics like fundraising, entering new markets, hiring, etc. LIFT99 supports founders across their lifecycle and uses behavioral and company data to provide the highest value to founders.
The online platform is supported by physical co-growing centers in emerging markets (CEE) and founder-focused events.
Ravelin
Series B in 2018
Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud by examining customer behavior data and spotting fraudsters while there is still time to block them. The company imports a client’s visitor, registration, and payment data in real-time, via an API, inspects data using an AI, identifies and blocks fraudsters, and enables systems to prevent such crimes in the future.
Digital Shadows
Seed Round in 2013
Digital Shadows identifies unwanted exposure, protect against external threats, and minimize digital risk. The company's product Digital Shadows SearchLight helps to minimize these risks by detecting data loss, securing the online brand, and reducing the attack surface.
Digital Shadows has proven that their digital risk management service is incredibly valuable, providing my security teams with context, prioritization, recommended actions, and even remediation options to dramatically reduce risk to Sophos.
The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Monzo Bank Limited
Series A in 2016
Monzo Bank Limited operates as a bank. The company offers current, business, joint, and individual savings accounts; and overdrafts and loans in the United Kingdom, and the United States. It also offer online banking through its mobile application. Monzo Bank Limited was formerly known as FOCUS FS LIMITED and changed its name to Monzo Bank Limited in October 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 ad is based in London, United Kingdom.
Property.Works
Seed Round in 2016
Property.Works is a marketplace for commercial property, bringing transparency and discovery to a traditionally murky industry. We're levelling the playing field for small and mid-sized enterprises who are seeking to self-serve their property requirements. While doing so we're becoming great marketing partners to commercial agencies.
Tide Platform Limited
Convertible Note in 2018
Tide’s mission is to help SMEs save time (and money) in the running of their businesses. The Tide platform not only offers business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable administrative solutions, such as full integration with accounting systems. Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. Tide is now the emerging leader in SME challenger banking in the UK. Tide believes that truly serving SMEs well requires relentless focus on their needs. That is why Tide is SME only.
Open Risk Exchange
Venture Round in 2016
Open Risk Exchange operates an online portal offering free credit scores for registered businesses in the United Kingdom with an API on request for users requiring high volume programmatic access to the scores. Open Risk Exchange was formerly known as TypeScore Ltd. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Narrative AB
Series B in 2014
Narrative is an innovative market leader in wearable cameras and intelligent image analysis. The Narrative Clip is an automatic, stamp-sized camera that the user clips on to her clothes to capture photos and location data without conscious interaction. Narrative’s image analysis service analyzes the photos and data and serves the user with her most meaningful and memorable moments in a mobile app photo stream.
Narrative was founded by Martin Källström, Oskar Kalmaru, Björn Wesén and Simon Pantzare, Sebastian Björkelid March 1, 2012. It is headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, with additional offices in Sweden (Stockholm and Lund) and the United States (San Francisco). As of April 2014, the company has 45 employees.
Swipe
Seed Round in 2015
Swipe helps you make quick, beautiful, responsive presentations and lets you broadcast them in real-time to anyone, on any device, anywhere in the world. Swipe turns your presentations into conversations, by putting your content in the hands of your audience and lets you interact with real-time polls for a more modern, engaged, two-way presentation experience. Rebuilt from the ground up with the tools to help save you time and make better presentations.
Ravelin
Series C in 2020
Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud by examining customer behavior data and spotting fraudsters while there is still time to block them. The company imports a client’s visitor, registration, and payment data in real-time, via an API, inspects data using an AI, identifies and blocks fraudsters, and enables systems to prevent such crimes in the future.
Monzo Bank Limited
Seed Round in 2015
Monzo Bank Limited operates as a bank. The company offers current, business, joint, and individual savings accounts; and overdrafts and loans in the United Kingdom, and the United States. It also offer online banking through its mobile application. Monzo Bank Limited was formerly known as FOCUS FS LIMITED and changed its name to Monzo Bank Limited in October 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 ad is based in London, United Kingdom.
Adludio Limited
Series A in 2014
Adludio Limited, an advertising company, develops high-impact interactive advertising solutions for the mobile generation. The company offers touch-enabled, gesture-based digital advertising works across mobile and touch-screen devices. It partners with international publishers and brands. Adludio Limited was formerly known as Future Ad Labs Limited and changed its name to Adludio Limited in November 2014. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
GoCardless Limited
Series B in 2014
GoCardless is the global leader in recurring payments. GoCardless' global payments network and technology platform take the pain out of getting paid for businesses with recurring revenue. More than 40,000 businesses worldwide, from multinational corporations to SMBs, transact through GoCardless each month, and the business processes $10bn of payments each year. GoCardless now has four offices in the UK, France, Australia, and Germany.
Pronto Technology
Series A in 2016
Pronto, we care deeply about the meals we deliver to you. We want them to be very good; for you, the community and the environment.
All our healthy meals are freshly cooked from scratch, just like at home - they won’t see the inside of a freezer.
PROWLER.IO
Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2016 with a mission to empower people in business to make better decisions, Secondmind - The Decisions Company - is underpinned by years of award-winning, practical artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) research, performed by a team of world-class researchers, data scientists and ML engineers. Secondmind closes the gap between people and AI, and supercharges decision-making with the Secondmind Decision Engine, an intuitive and insightful software platform that helps people in industries from supply chain to automotive predict, plan, influence outcomes, manage risk, and make complex decisions with ease and confidence. Secondmind is backed by leading venture funds including Amadeus Capital, Atlantic Bridge, and Cambridge Innovation Capital, among others.
Car Throttle
Seed Round in 2013
Car Throttle was started in 2009 after founder Adnan Ebrahim realised there was no online platform for people like him: young, millennial car enthusiasts. Dubbed ‘Buzzfeed for cars’, the site quickly evolved into a vibrant community serving millions of users - called CTzens - who follow the brand on its apps and major social media platforms.
Car Throttle creates and distributes engaging car content and works closely with advertisers looking to reach a valuable audience. Their investors include the minds behind AOL, Facebook, Skype and MailOnline.
Ravelin
Series A in 2016
Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud by examining customer behavior data and spotting fraudsters while there is still time to block them. The company imports a client’s visitor, registration, and payment data in real-time, via an API, inspects data using an AI, identifies and blocks fraudsters, and enables systems to prevent such crimes in the future.
DueDil Limited
Angel Round in 2012
DueDil Limited owns and operates an online platform that combines sources of company information to enable other companies make data-informed decisions. It offers a unified platform to provide companies with better information about other businesses to contextualize and navigate the relationships between sets of data. The company also offers CBILS Eligibility and Endpoint assessment for businesses for Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) and the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS). The company's solution enables its users to find, verify, manage, monitor, and connect business relationships. Its solution is used by various teams, such as sales, marketing, research, procurement, compliance, and credit risk. DueDil Limited was formerly known as Bantr Ltd. and changed its name to DueDil Limited in October 2010. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Marshmallow
Seed Round in 2018
Marshmallow Financial Services Limited, trading as Marshmallow, operates as a motor vehicle insurance company. It provides car insurance products and services for residents moving out of the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
EyeEm
Series B in 2015
EyeEm Mobile GmbH operates as a photography community and platform company globally. It offers EyeEm, a place for photographers of various abilities to share, interact, and learn about taking pictures on various devices, as well as attracts brands and media that want to feature photos in magazines, digital media, and advertising. The company’s API gives developers access to various albums and photos. EyeEm Mobile GmbH was founded in 2011 and is based in Berlin, Germany with talent in San Francisco and New York.