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 England

Chill-Chain

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

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

Bodyswaps

Seed Round in 2022
Bodyswaps is a London-based platform established in 2018 that focuses on enhancing workforce skills through immersive training solutions. By integrating virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and behavioral science, Bodyswaps offers organizations a cost-effective and scalable method for upskilling employees. The platform simulates realistic workplace scenarios, allowing learners to practice soft skills with virtual characters while using their own voices. This interactive approach facilitates personalized learning experiences and provides automated recommendations to support skill development. Bodyswaps serves both corporate and educational sectors, delivering off-the-shelf training modules aimed at fostering deep and lasting behavioral change to improve individual and organizational performance.

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.

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.

Stackt

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Stackt is a tech platform that provides on-demand Moving & Storage services.

Slip

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Slip is a developer of a digital receipt application that enhances the payment transaction experience by leveraging digital wallets. The app allows users to view and manage all their receipts in one centralized location, promoting a paperless approach by generating receipts through QR code scanning. By focusing on an omnichannel and frictionless experience, Slip aims to streamline interactions between retailers and their customers, making it easier for users to access their purchase information without the need for physical receipts.

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.

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.

Lean Kitchen Network

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Lean Kitchen Network operates a virtual kitchen network designed to enhance efficiency and sustainability in food preparation. This network is customized to meet the specific needs of various brands, taking into account factors such as scale, product offerings, and location. By implementing systems for continuous improvement, customer focus, and quality control, Lean Kitchen Network enables businesses to standardize and automate their processes. This approach not only facilitates the preservation of fresh and high-quality food but also supports the creation of ecological kitchens, contributing to a more sustainable food service industry.

Aventus Platform

Seed Round in 2021
Aventus Platform is enables insurance businesses to create a seamless customer experience for any insurance line, through any channel.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Keaze

Seed Round in 2021
Keaze is a real estate platform designed to assist first-time buyers in navigating the property market, particularly through shared ownership options. By collaborating with affordable home ownership providers, Keaze aims to enhance the sales and marketing processes in the sector. The platform offers a personalized search experience tailored to users' specific needs and circumstances, making it easier for home seekers to find suitable properties. Additionally, Keaze provides a suite of digital tools that streamline the home-buying journey, ensuring that buyers have access to relevant information and options that support their aspirations of homeownership.

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.

Avion

Seed Round 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.

Vue Pay

Seed Round in 2020
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

Bodyswaps

Seed Round in 2020
Bodyswaps is a London-based platform established in 2018 that focuses on enhancing workforce skills through immersive training solutions. By integrating virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and behavioral science, Bodyswaps offers organizations a cost-effective and scalable method for upskilling employees. The platform simulates realistic workplace scenarios, allowing learners to practice soft skills with virtual characters while using their own voices. This interactive approach facilitates personalized learning experiences and provides automated recommendations to support skill development. Bodyswaps serves both corporate and educational sectors, delivering off-the-shelf training modules aimed at fostering deep and lasting behavioral change to improve individual and organizational performance.

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!

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.

Vue Pay

Seed Round in 2020
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

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

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.

Snapd App

Seed Round in 2014
Snapd is a brand new app that lets you send snaps to friends and capture their reaction. The two images are saved together in a social feed.

Marvel

Seed Round in 2013
Marvel is a company that enables individuals and teams to transform their ideas into reality through its mobile and web prototyping platform. Founded in 2013, Marvel has grown significantly, attracting nearly 2 million users who leverage its services to create prototypes without the need for coding. The platform is designed to streamline the design process, making it accessible for people at various skill levels to bring their concepts to life efficiently.