Haatch

Haatch is an early-stage investment firm founded in September 2013 by Scott Weavers-Wright, Elaine Weavers-Wright, and Fred Soneya. The firm focuses on providing capital and support to innovative startups, particularly in the technology sector, including SaaS, retail, and mobile. Haatch seeks to invest in companies that demonstrate scalable and disruptive business models, typically targeting those with a minimum viable product (MVP) and some early market traction. The firm operates under the Haatch Angel brand and its EIS fund, Haatch Ventures, offering investments ranging from £100,000 to £300,000, and participating in funding rounds up to £2 million. In addition to financial backing, Haatch emphasizes the importance of mentorship and networking opportunities to enhance the potential for success among the entrepreneurs it supports. Based in Stamford, United Kingdom, Haatch aims to identify and nurture game-changing startups that can achieve significant growth.

Mark Bennett

Partner

Jeremy Luzinda

Principal

Simon Penson

Partner

Fred Soneya

Co-Founder, Partner

Elaine Weavers-Wright

Co-Founder

Charlie Weavers-Wright

Associate

166 past transactions

UnderstockMe

Pre Seed Round in 2021
UnderstockMe is a B2B platform for surplus food: we connect producers and suppliers of quality British food to sell surplus stock to commercial users such as caterers, bars and restaurants. The service model allows crowdsourced requests from smaller buyers to be passed on to producers as wholesale orders, cutting down on inefficiencies in the traditional supply chains and fighting food waste.

Plend

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We live in an unprecedented age of low and sometimes negative interest rates – yet 74% of credit scores in the UK are locked out from accessing them. Our solution is a ‘person-to-person’ Social Lending Marketplace that will allow borrowers to tell their story via our comprehensive on-boarding and verification system. Lenders, can then scroll through our ‘marketplace’ of lending campaigns to decide which borrowers they want to back with their investment, safe in the knowledge that they can sell their loan at any time, and have the added protection of the ‘Provision System’ that will cover missed or delayed payments.

Diode

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Diode is a tech start-up that builds tools to make electric vehicle infrastructure easy to implement for everyone.

trumpet

Pre Seed Round in 2022
How many hours do your sales and marketing teams waste creating personalising sales decks? Create personalised, trackable, beautiful, collaborative, centrally-located online sales pods in minutes. The sales PDF is dead. Think Squarespace + Canva + Slack, all combined to help you close more deals, faster. How? With: Advanced analytics so you can track when pods have been opened and shared by customers In-pod chat so you can communicate back and forth with customers to keep the conversation alive. No more messy email threads. Your own content hub where you can update pods anytime with recommended content and top-performing templates powered by AI Sign up to our limited waitlist today, start blowing your own trumpet and stand out from the crowd. ------------------------------ trumpet is the first startup to be launched by Horseplay Ventures, which is run by Nick Telson and Andrew Webster. After building DesignMyNight for 10 years, they became aware of how much time salespeople spent designing personalised sales decks that were often never opened, nor tracked. After connecting with Rory Sadler, a SaaS-enthusiast and experienced sales leader at Hotjar, they worked together on how to tackle this widespread problem. trumpet soon became their brainchild and having spoken to over 150 salespeople and founders in the B2B SaaS space, the idea officially launched in January 2022, with a product launch date of March 2022

Nuon AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Intelligent insurance software. Nuon's patent-pending Artificial Intelligence (AI) optimises insurance pricing so insurers can adapt to market conditions in an instant, maximising premium income and helping to drive down loss ratios. Delivered by cloud based API's, integration with insurers existing systems and processes is low friction, providing a low risk opportunity for insurers to take advantage of the benefits of AI.

Tooth Fairy

Seed Round in 2021
Tooth Fairy was awarded App of the Year, connecting patients to dentists through its patent pending technology

Loma

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Despite consumer demand, brands are struggling to tap into the resale market due to unreliable pricing. In fact, mispricing costs resellers a staggering $33 billion annually. That's where our resale pricing prediction AI comes in. With this technology, we can accurately track and predict the resale value of an entire product range, down to the model number. This breakthrough has the potential to revolutionize the resale industry, making it more profitable for everyone, from local thrift shops to multi-billion dollar companies.

Plateaway

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Plateaway is a foodie’s dream and is a marketplace for meal kits bringing the UK’s largest and most established high street restaurants as well as the best independents onto one platform and is delivered straight to your door. Our partners kits contain secret restaurant ingredients, with instructions and are conveniently delivered to your door for you to cook at home. Perfect to prepare with a loved one, family or to send to your colleagues or clients as a gift. Plateaway partners with amazing restaurants across the UK and offers exclusive meal kits from the likes of the Hard Rock Cafe, Homeslice, Carluccios, Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK), Patty & Bun, Shake Shack, Randy's Wingbar and Island Poké.

Codices Interactive

Seed Round in 2021
Codices develop new tools and formats for live interactive gameshows.

&Soda

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Producer of alcoholic beverages intended to offer gluten-free flavored drinks. The company's beverages are prepared using triple distilled vodka, soda water, and fruit flavors, enabling customers to get sugar-free, natural and vegan beverages with zero carbs and a refreshing taste.

Chill-Chain

Seed Round in 2023
Chill-Chain is a logistics company that offers temperature-controlled logistics and transportation services for companies.

Auddy

Seed Round in 2021
Our partners create exceptional and original podcasts.We create commercial opportunity.Together we create a new kind of audio business. Founded in London in 2020, Auddy publishes, markets and distributes the best in original podcast and audio shows globally and with a bespoke country-by-country approach. Auddy offers unparalleled benefits to its creators, providing them with creative freedom, funding, marketing and promotional support while also utilizing the very best in analytics-driving technology. Auddy is the only podcast publisher to pay royalties and it makes sure that the creator is a true partner in this respect. Auddy delivers rich listener data and meaningful insights to advertisers and creators. Auddy publishes high quality content with broad appeal to large audiences. In the UK, this is validated by our choice of Global as our local co-marketing, distribution and hosting partner.

Eleanor

Seed Round in 2021
ELEANOR ENTERPRISES LTD develops and delivers custom built guest experience booking and management online platform for resorts. The platform allows resorts to make their services and experiences accessible and bookable wherever and whenever their guests want them to be. It allows guests to start pre-planning and pre-booking their experiences and activities from the moment they have a confirmed reservation, such as restaurant reservations, spa bookings, excursions, and scuba diving are managed from this platform. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Stamford, United Kingdom.

CareLineLive

Seed Round in 2021
CareLineLive is a next-generation, cloud-based software solution for the fragmented but growing market of domiciliary care services. CLL provides a comprehensive suite of products to service-providers to enable them to manage carer rostas efficiently, communicate with carers securely and bill accurately with a full audit trail.

Slip

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Slip aims to create an omnichannel and frictionless experience for Retailers and their customers.

Buymie

Venture Round in 2022
Buymie Technologies Limited operates a mobile application for on-demand groceries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Poplar Studio

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Poplar is a platform that provides 3D and AR campaigns on demand. Poplar activates a new generation of global 3D/AR creators and provides collaborative tools that make AR production affordable and quick.

Denturly Limited

Seed Round in 2022
The denture market has remained unchanged for close to 50 years. Clients require 5-6 dentists visits and outcomes are frequently poor with 82% of users expressing dissatisfaction with the outcome. Denturly is the first consumer brand for dentures leveraging dental network partnerships, 3D printing technologies and subscription based services to make living with dentures easier for our clients.

Denturly Limited

Pre Seed Round in 2021
The denture market has remained unchanged for close to 50 years. Clients require 5-6 dentists visits and outcomes are frequently poor with 82% of users expressing dissatisfaction with the outcome. Denturly is the first consumer brand for dentures leveraging dental network partnerships, 3D printing technologies and subscription based services to make living with dentures easier for our clients.

Advanced Commerce

Seed Round in 2021
A revolutionary new merchandising platform, designed to provide retailers with all the tools they need to merchandise their sites effectively. The Company has a vision to bring Enterprise-level merchandising to small and mid-tier retailers. The platform contains a lot of new and innovative features, packaged within an easy to use intuitive interface, and will we believe become the gold standard for merchandising.

Neutrally Health

Pre Seed Round in 2022
We're rebuilding the way we eat, move, sleep and manage stress for better health outcomes. Using wearable CGM and AI we build bespoke health improvement journeys for every user struggling with lifestyle-led health decline.

PepTalk

Seed Round in 2021
Real-world, holistic wellbeing your employees will thank you for. We are obsessed with delivering fun, engaging wellbeing programmes to workplaces to help take care of busy humans. Our holistic wellbeing philosophy is simple. We believe that small daily changes + layer over time = transformational change. Our focus? Fitness, nutrition and mindset. Our mission is to change your world, one PepStep at a time!

Odin

Seed Round in 2021
Odin is a social investment platform, to democratise access to venture capital by allowing users to invest in indices, funds and syndicates from £1000.

Deazy

Seed Round in 2020
Deazy scout out the finest, best value development teams and put them through their paces so you don’t have to. Great teams. Competitive prices. Less stress. Stop hitting snooze and start building your digital dream!

Bodyswaps

Seed Round in 2020
Bodyswaps is a platform that empowers organizations of all sizes to upskill their workforce for the new world of work, rapidly, cost-effectively and at scale. The solution leverages VR, AI and Behavioral Science to combine the effectiveness of roleplay with the scalability of digital solutions. It simulates realistic workplace scenarios to let learners practice their soft skills with virtual characters using their own voice, and provides them with automated personalised recommendations. Bodyswaps was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England (UK).

Avion

Private Placement in 2020
Avion Ltd develops a user story mapping tool. The company’s tool helps identify dependencies and uncover gaps in plans. Avion Ltd was formerly known as Avion Apps Ltd and changed its name to Avion Ltd in March 2019. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Codices Interactive

Seed Round in 2020
Codices develop new tools and formats for live interactive gameshows.

Deazy

Seed Round in 2019
Deazy scout out the finest, best value development teams and put them through their paces so you don’t have to. Great teams. Competitive prices. Less stress. Stop hitting snooze and start building your digital dream!

Poplar Studio

Seed Round in 2020
Poplar is a platform that provides 3D and AR campaigns on demand. Poplar activates a new generation of global 3D/AR creators and provides collaborative tools that make AR production affordable and quick.

Eleanor

Seed Round in 2020
ELEANOR ENTERPRISES LTD develops and delivers custom built guest experience booking and management online platform for resorts. The platform allows resorts to make their services and experiences accessible and bookable wherever and whenever their guests want them to be. It allows guests to start pre-planning and pre-booking their experiences and activities from the moment they have a confirmed reservation, such as restaurant reservations, spa bookings, excursions, and scuba diving are managed from this platform. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Stamford, United Kingdom.

Elevaate

Seed Round in 2014
Elevaate Limited operates an online platform that enables open trading environment between site owners and partners to solve the problem of partner program scale, consumer product discovery, and revenue growth. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Stamford, United Kingdom. As of October 30, 2018, Elevaate Limited operates as a subsidiary of Quotient Technology Inc.

Buymie

Series A in 2020
Buymie Technologies Limited operates a mobile application for on-demand groceries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Iterate.ai

Seed Round in 2014
Iterate Studio, Inc., doing business as Iterate.ai, provides an AI based platform and related services to various industries worldwide. It offers Iterate.ai, a self-service platform, which includes an AI-based search, enterprise challenges, and startup success stories that monitors everything ranging from IoT to deep learning to app-less mobility solutions to virtual POS. The company also provides Iterate's Studio, a services arm of Iterate.ai that discovers, curates, and validates emerging tech for corporations. Iterate Studio, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Denver, Colorado with an additional office in San Jose, California.

The Bunch

Seed Round in 2020
The Bunch was set up by recent graduates who were fed up of being taken advantage of by utility companies. The company was founded as Easy Student Living in Leeds in 2016 taking on its first customers in May 2017. Since then the company has expanded, with over 3000 customers onboard for 2019/2020. The company rebranded in May 2019 to become The Bunch in order to stay in touch with the long term goals of the company – being able to provide a service for ANYONE living in shared accommodation.

Pijon

Seed Round in 2015
Pijon is a NYC-based technology company that creates experiences which keep loved ones better connected, and the company began carrying out this mission by re-imagining care packages. Pijon has 10,250+ members that they've sold over 27,000 PijonBoxes to. PijonBoxes are reaching college students across 1,400+ campuses in every single state. On the backend, Pijon provides brands with the preeminent marketing platform that gets them direct access to 18-23 year old who are just now developing affinity with brands.

FF Poplar Limited

Private Placement in 2019
FF Poplar Limited provides an online platform for Augment reality content creation. The company offers its products to brands and creators for creation of content or application. FF Poplar Limited was founded in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

FF Poplar Limited

Private Placement in 2020
FF Poplar Limited provides an online platform for Augment reality content creation. The company offers its products to brands and creators for creation of content or application. FF Poplar Limited was founded in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

1 Second Everyday

Seed Round in 2019
1 Second Everyday is a private diary app that creates a movie that includes everyday lives. It is a video diary that makes it easy to take a day to day moments and create a meaningful movie of a life story. It is awarded by Webby Award as Best Use of Mobile Camera. It was launched in 2011 and is based in New York.

quester

Pre Seed Round in 2023
quester is the ultimate platform to share & discuss resources. Imagine Discord meets Google Bookmarks, but with the ability to create your own playlists of any online content and gamified libraries with others who share your passions!

RoEx

Seed Round in 2023
RoEx is an online platform and API that uses artificial intelligence to mix multitrack audio, stems, speech, videos, and podcasts. Allowing anyone of any skill level or budget to produce professional sounding audio in a matter of minutes. They offer solutions to companies of all sizes in content creation as well as musicians and content producers. RoEx is headquartered in London, England and was founded in 2022.

PepTalk

Seed Round in 2022
Real-world, holistic wellbeing your employees will thank you for. We are obsessed with delivering fun, engaging wellbeing programmes to workplaces to help take care of busy humans. Our holistic wellbeing philosophy is simple. We believe that small daily changes + layer over time = transformational change. Our focus? Fitness, nutrition and mindset. Our mission is to change your world, one PepStep at a time!

Advanced Commerce

Seed Round in 2022
A revolutionary new merchandising platform, designed to provide retailers with all the tools they need to merchandise their sites effectively. The Company has a vision to bring Enterprise-level merchandising to small and mid-tier retailers. The platform contains a lot of new and innovative features, packaged within an easy to use intuitive interface, and will we believe become the gold standard for merchandising.

The Bunch

Venture Round in 2022
The Bunch was set up by recent graduates who were fed up of being taken advantage of by utility companies. The company was founded as Easy Student Living in Leeds in 2016 taking on its first customers in May 2017. Since then the company has expanded, with over 3000 customers onboard for 2019/2020. The company rebranded in May 2019 to become The Bunch in order to stay in touch with the long term goals of the company – being able to provide a service for ANYONE living in shared accommodation.

Advanced Commerce

Seed Round in 2022
A revolutionary new merchandising platform, designed to provide retailers with all the tools they need to merchandise their sites effectively. The Company has a vision to bring Enterprise-level merchandising to small and mid-tier retailers. The platform contains a lot of new and innovative features, packaged within an easy to use intuitive interface, and will we believe become the gold standard for merchandising.

Plend

Seed Round in 2022
We live in an unprecedented age of low and sometimes negative interest rates – yet 74% of credit scores in the UK are locked out from accessing them. Our solution is a ‘person-to-person’ Social Lending Marketplace that will allow borrowers to tell their story via our comprehensive on-boarding and verification system. Lenders, can then scroll through our ‘marketplace’ of lending campaigns to decide which borrowers they want to back with their investment, safe in the knowledge that they can sell their loan at any time, and have the added protection of the ‘Provision System’ that will cover missed or delayed payments.

Capua

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Capua is a recruiting company that focuses on young talent. They allow users to find matching jobs based on their skills, job category, locations, and more. They are a data-driven organization that optimizes the recruitment process for professional career candidates.

Thingtrax

Seed Round in 2023
ThingTrax Ltd. provides Software-as-a-Service based connected manufacturing solutions that allow customers to connect and monitor legacy machines with the cloud for real time configuration, monitoring, and control. Its solution includes a data capture device for capturing data from various protocols; Microsoft Azure based Internet of Things solution that provides data capturing capability from various ThingTrax data capturing devices; machine learning modules to analyze data and provide operational insights; and features to control and configure machine parameters. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Ashford, United Kingdom.

Auddy

Seed Round in 2022
Our partners create exceptional and original podcasts.We create commercial opportunity.Together we create a new kind of audio business. Founded in London in 2020, Auddy publishes, markets and distributes the best in original podcast and audio shows globally and with a bespoke country-by-country approach. Auddy offers unparalleled benefits to its creators, providing them with creative freedom, funding, marketing and promotional support while also utilizing the very best in analytics-driving technology. Auddy is the only podcast publisher to pay royalties and it makes sure that the creator is a true partner in this respect. Auddy delivers rich listener data and meaningful insights to advertisers and creators. Auddy publishes high quality content with broad appeal to large audiences. In the UK, this is validated by our choice of Global as our local co-marketing, distribution and hosting partner.

CareLineLive

Venture Round in 2023
CareLineLive is a next-generation, cloud-based software solution for the fragmented but growing market of domiciliary care services. CLL provides a comprehensive suite of products to service-providers to enable them to manage carer rostas efficiently, communicate with carers securely and bill accurately with a full audit trail.

Beings

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Beings Digital is a broadcasting and media production firm that provides live event streaming and video on demand hosting solutions

Flexa.

Seed Round in 2024
Flexa Ltd offers on-line recruitment and employment information service. It offers a job platform that allows candidates to find companies that offer a flexible work environment, including flexible hours, work from home options, and dog friendly offices. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Hackney, United Kingdom.

Auddy

Seed Round in 2024
Our partners create exceptional and original podcasts.We create commercial opportunity.Together we create a new kind of audio business. Founded in London in 2020, Auddy publishes, markets and distributes the best in original podcast and audio shows globally and with a bespoke country-by-country approach. Auddy offers unparalleled benefits to its creators, providing them with creative freedom, funding, marketing and promotional support while also utilizing the very best in analytics-driving technology. Auddy is the only podcast publisher to pay royalties and it makes sure that the creator is a true partner in this respect. Auddy delivers rich listener data and meaningful insights to advertisers and creators. Auddy publishes high quality content with broad appeal to large audiences. In the UK, this is validated by our choice of Global as our local co-marketing, distribution and hosting partner.

Poplar Studio

Seed Round in 2022
Poplar is a platform that provides 3D and AR campaigns on demand. Poplar activates a new generation of global 3D/AR creators and provides collaborative tools that make AR production affordable and quick.

Slip

Seed Round in 2024
Slip aims to create an omnichannel and frictionless experience for Retailers and their customers.

Codices Interactive

Seed Round in 2022
Codices develop new tools and formats for live interactive gameshows.

Orbital

Seed Round in 2021
We make remote work better. Orbital's distance-based audio system creates natural pockets of conversation for groups of all sizes. Get the feeling of being in the same room, have breakaway chats, and broadcast your screens without video call burnout. One link with no download required.

Vue Pay

Seed Round in 2021
Connecting people to exchange and trade knowledge, skills or talent. Share it for free or get paid, it’s up to you. From fitness coaches to plumbers, children’s entertainers to hobbyists and everything in between. Seek out what you are looking for or set yourself up as a broadcaster and get earning. No Ads No Trolls No Data mining. VuePay empowers by connecting people to exchange their knowledge, skills or talent whilst enabling a secure way to earn from the process. Our platform is based on the principals of empowerment, equality, accountability, transparency and ethical business practices. Features Free Live Streams, Premium Group Live Streams, Premium 1-2-1 Live Streams, Search Feature

Marvel

Seed Round in 2013
Bringing the world's ideas to life. Started as a side-project in 2013, we're now home to nearly 2 million individuals and teams around the world who use Marvel to make ideas a reality.

Orbital

Pre Seed Round in 2022
We make remote work better. Orbital's distance-based audio system creates natural pockets of conversation for groups of all sizes. Get the feeling of being in the same room, have breakaway chats, and broadcast your screens without video call burnout. One link with no download required.

Baseplus

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Baseplus combines deep machine learning and data analysis to create bespoke, fragrance-free, sustainable and vegan personalised skin care products.

Ningi

Seed Round in 2023
Ningi provides software-as-a-service to small & medium sized financial advice firms in the UK. Our software is already helping firms modernise their business; using automation & digital tools to 10x efficiency and customer experience.

Bodyswaps

Seed Round in 2022
Bodyswaps is a platform that empowers organizations of all sizes to upskill their workforce for the new world of work, rapidly, cost-effectively and at scale. The solution leverages VR, AI and Behavioral Science to combine the effectiveness of roleplay with the scalability of digital solutions. It simulates realistic workplace scenarios to let learners practice their soft skills with virtual characters using their own voice, and provides them with automated personalised recommendations. Bodyswaps was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England (UK).

Dose

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Dose is a Mental Fitness Club that aims to help people improve their behavioral skills and reach their full potential.

Keaze

Seed Round in 2021
Search smarter, move faster That’s what all buyers want, right? We think so too. The team behind Property Booking have launched an exciting, dynamic, digital experience aimed at first time buyers looking to get on the property ladder. We understand shared ownership, but we know you’re the experts. That’s why we’ve teamed up with affordable home ownership providers to create a new era of sales and marketing for our sector. Not just making it better, but making it work for you and your buyers.

Buymie

Series A in 2020
Buymie Technologies Limited operates a mobile application for on-demand groceries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.