Haatch

Haatch Ventures LLP is a venture capital firm and incubator based in Stamford, United Kingdom, founded in September 2013 by Scott Weavers-Wright, Elaine Weavers-Wright, and Fred Soneya. The firm focuses on early-stage investments, particularly in technology sectors such as software as a service (SaaS), artificial intelligence, and retail technology. Haatch specializes in providing growth capital to startups at the pre-seed and seed stages, typically investing between £100,000 and £300,000 while participating in rounds up to £2 million. In addition to financial support, the firm offers strategic guidance and networking opportunities to enhance the prospects of success for its portfolio companies. Haatch also manages an EIS fund aimed at investing in scalable and disruptive business models, particularly those that have achieved early market traction and are seeking support to scale to Series A.

Mark Bennett

Partner

Jeremy Luzinda

Principal

Simon Penson

Partner

Fred Soneya

Co-Founder, Partner

Elaine Weavers-Wright

Co-Founder

Scott Weavers-Wright

Co-Founder and Partner

Charlie Weavers-Wright

Associate

Past deals in Pre Seed Round

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

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.

SkillReactor

Pre Seed Round in 2022
SkillReactor is scalable and cost effective online platform that provides problem based learning and work experience for developers, while serving as an effective evaluation tool for recruiters & employers.

Ningi

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Ningi is a fintech company that offers software-as-a-service solutions tailored for small and medium-sized financial advice firms in the UK. The company's platform is designed to enhance financial planning by integrating client portals and customer relationship management tools into a cohesive system. This full-stack advisor technology facilitates efficient, automated, and algorithmic financial recommendations, helping advisors streamline their operations and improve client experiences. By modernizing business processes through digital tools and automation, Ningi aims to significantly enhance operational efficiency and reduce systemic risks within financial advisory practices.

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.

Nuon AI

Pre Seed Round in 2022
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.

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.

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.

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.

&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.

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.

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.

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.

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.