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Acurable

Series A in 2022
Acurable is a MedTech start-up headquartered in London. Acurable commercializes a wearable medical device able to accurately diagnose and manage respiratory conditions in a non-invasive way. Its award-winning patented technology is a major engineering innovation and the product of 10 years of research at Imperial College London. Acurable's medical devices has more accurate readings than current solutions, enabling automated diagnosis and drastically reducing misdiagnosis. It is non-invasive and requires no training, enabling home use without the assistance of a specialist or a visit to the hospital, which significantly lowers overall costs. Acurable aims to understand human biosignals so well that nobody dies of a treatable condition ever again.

Disperse.io

Series B in 2022
Disperse.io is a VC-backed artificial intelligence construction startup focused on improving on-site productivity. Its goal is to not just be part of the current wave of construction innovation upstarts but to ultimately reimagine the way building projects are delivered and operated. Disperse aims to help construction firms create cultures focused on learning and consistent delivery. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.

Dexory

Seed Round in 2022
Dexory captures real-time insights of warehouse operations using fully autonomous robots and Artificial Intelligence. Dexory is paving the way for AI and robotics to completely transform the world of logistics, automating data collection and building digital twin technology that unlocks insights across all levels of warehouse operations. It is a platform that delivers real-time information for the receiving, storing, and dispatch stages, allowing companies unprecedented access to their operations. The fully autonomous mobile and modular robots measure, track, and find goods across warehouses without workflow disruption. The data is fed real time into digital twins, allowing logistics and warehouses to quickly respond to operational challenges they face on a daily basis.

Fung Payments

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Fung Payments is a Payment Service Provider offering Embedded Payments solutions for Vertical SaaS companies such as EV Charging, PropTech and Accounting Tech.

how.fm

Seed Round in 2022
how.fm is transforming manual laborers’ onboarding and training processes through digitalization. The platform enables warehouse operators to onboard, upskill, and support their workers every day.

Paddle

Series D in 2022
Paddle is a platform that takes makes it incredibly simple to sell apps, games and other digital products. We think that creators should be allowed to focus on building awesome products, so we handle all of the boring things like payments, analytics, customer support and VAT so that they can do just that. Using Paddle's software development kits, developers can easily set up trial versions, licensing mechanisms, in-app purchases and even track performance & usage with Paddle’s in-app analytics technology -- all under a single dashboard.

Verve

Series C in 2022
Verve is a global leader in word-of-mouth sales within the live entertainment industry, utilizing networks of advocates to promote events and experiences. By incentivizing these advocates with rewards like free tickets and backstage passes, Verve effectively drives sales for over 500 events across more than 40 countries. The company collaborates with various prominent partners, including major ticketing platforms such as Ticketmaster and Eventbrite, to enhance its offerings. Through its innovative peer-to-peer sales and marketing software, Verve has established itself as a trusted name in the sector, focusing on creating authentic connections within the live entertainment marketplace.

Gravity Sketch

Series A in 2022
Gravity Sketch is powering design teams that need to think, collaborate, and create in three dimensions. They build intuitive multi-platform tools to radically improve the efficacy and efficiency of developing 3D products. Their energy is focussed entirely on their customers - removing friction from their archaic workflows, helping enhance and expedite their creative intent, and ultimately, making collaboration in cross-functional teams faster and more cost-effective. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in London, England.

Gaia

Series A in 2022
Gaia combines reproductive health data with financial technology to make IVF treatments more accessible, affordable, and personal.

m3ter

Seed Round in 2022
M3ter’s Pricing Operations Platform powers every variation of usage-based pricing for companies at all stages of growth. By plugging into your existing systems, M3ter ingests and enriches usage data, applies pricing of any complexity, and generates error-free bills in real-time, enabling you to deliver great customer experiences and accelerate revenue growth. Integrate usage, pricing, and account data. M3ter provides your engineers with a low-code solution to ingest, enrich, and store usage data at scale. Don’t worry about aggregating data or adding pricing and billing logic ahead of ingest; you can apply that flexibly in M3ter later. And with powerful native integrations, you can easily connect and sync your existing finance and sales systems. Automate billing operations: Automatically apply pricing and billing logic of any complexity, making it easy to calculate bills and recognize revenue at scale. Improved workflows free up valuable finance resources, revenue leakage is eliminated, and customers have a great experience with bills they can trust and usage data they can access in real-time. Align teams around the same data: With access to real-time usage data, sales, and customer success teams are empowered to grow or save accounts at just the right time. Product and engineering can add pricing to the product with usage and spend dashboards. Finance planning and analysis teams can better forecast and make informed business decisions. Optimise pricing faster: Launch new products and add-ons. Easily assess, test, and deploy pricing and packaging changes. Empower sales teams to design custom pricing to win more deals, fostering pricing innovation and accelerating revenue. Trust in industry support: A pricing transformation requires a both technological and cultural change within your company. They have first-hand experience with what this entails, and their expert team is committed to helping at every step of your implementation.

Lottie

Seed Round in 2022
Lottie is to empower care seekers and to lead the global transformation to modern and sustainable care.

Hofy

Venture Round in 2021
Our platform enables your business to bring out-of-the-box home offices and on-site services to one employee or thousands – in just a couple of clicks.

Mojo

Seed Round in 2021
Mojo is a men's sexual well-being app specializing in psychological sexual issues. It has created a subscription service to support men's sexual well-being by providing on-demand access to dedicated therapies — collaborating with professional psychosexual therapists to provide online courses that are billed as providing a longer-term solution to male sexual health problems rather than simply popping some blue pills. Individuals can use the Mojo app to get instant access to DIY exercises and techniques from world-class sexual wellness professionals. Mojo aims to encourage men to reclaim their erections and have their sexual problems resolved without resorting to medication first.

Rezilion

Series A in 2021
Rezilion automatically secures the software you deliver to customers, making it easier than ever before for teams to detect, prioritize and remediate software vulnerabilities. Powered by core Dynamic SBOM technology and deployed agentlessy, Rezilion works across your stack, helping you to know what software is in your environment, what is vulnerable, and what is actually exploitable in runtime, so you can focus on what matters, remediate automatically, and free up more dev time to build. DISCOVER - Discover all software components in your environments, from Dev to Prod, on-prem and cloud, hosts, containers and IoT devices. AGGREGATE - Enrich and consolidate scan results from multiple tools in a single dashboard for a complete view of your software attack surface. PRIORITIZE - Filter out non exploitable vulnerabilities that are in software components that aren'y executed in runtime (an 85% reduction). REMEDIATE - Cluster vulnerabilities to eliminate multiple problems at once and automatically execute remediation work to save teams time.

Vault Platform

Series A in 2021
Vault Platform is the operating system for corporate integrity - an all-in-one speak up, case management, and ethics data platform

Scarlet

Seed Round in 2021
Scarlet enables organizations and regulators to constantly deploy software in a secure manner by combining technology and human knowledge. Scarlet develops a new platform for software firms and regulators alike, allowing them to design and monitor products in a continuous and scalable manner.

Paddle

Series C in 2020
Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payments fragmentation, meaning a faster, safer, cheaper and, overall, better option. We have over 230+ talented employees serving over 3000 software sellers in 245 territories globally. Backed by investors including FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North, Paddle aims to define the next wave of B2B SaaS leaders.

LabGenius

Series A in 2020
LabGenius is a biopharmaceutical company developing protein therapeutics using a machine learning-driven evolution engine. Its protein engineering platform integrates several bleeding-edge technologies from the fields of machine learning, synthetic biology, and robotics.

Farmstand

Seed Round in 2020
Farmstand's mission is to improve human health by delivering nutritious meals to businesses at fast-food prices. www.eatfarmstand.com At Farmstand, we believe nutritious food needs to be affordable for all. Our founder grew up working-class and is also a cancer survivor so every aspect of our business was designed to make nutritious meals accessible to all. We chef-prepare Farmstand-branded meals efficiently, price them affordably, and then deliver them to businesses who sell them to their customers who just need to reheat them. Farmstand is the digital McDonald's of nutritious meals. Take a stand with Farmstand. Impact: Certified B Corp. Certified London Living Wage employer. Certified Net Zero Carbon (in process). Fully aligned with the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and we’re focusing on 3: SDG 3. Good health & wellbeing. SDG 12. Responsible production and consumption. SDG 13. Climate action. Values: We are all co-workers. Recruit based on our values and behaviours. 100% of our team own equity. We also guarantee a zero gender pay gap.

Ori Biotech

Series A in 2020
Ori Biotech is a developer of a manufacturing platform used to help patients get access to lifesaving treatments. Ori has developed a proprietary, flexible manufacturing platform that closes, automates, and standardizes manufacturing allowing therapeutics developers to further develop and bring their products from pre-clinical process development to commercial-scale manufacturing. The company aims to speed up the innovation of cell and gene therapies through the manufacturing platform it is bringing to market.

Gravity Sketch

Seed Round in 2020
Gravity Sketch is powering design teams that need to think, collaborate, and create in three dimensions. They build intuitive multi-platform tools to radically improve the efficacy and efficiency of developing 3D products. Their energy is focussed entirely on their customers - removing friction from their archaic workflows, helping enhance and expedite their creative intent, and ultimately, making collaboration in cross-functional teams faster and more cost-effective. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in London, England.

Braintrust

Seed Round in 2020
Braintrust is a blockchain-powered freelancer marketplace that connects technical and design talents with organizations. The marketplace that the company offers a user-controlled talent network that provides enterprises with highly skilled technical and design talent that they need. It connects organizations directly to top tech talent, offering 40-70 percent savings by removing middlemen. The company charge a flat 10 percent project fee and talent keep 100 percent of their revenue. Braintrust aims to build a talent platform that disrupts traditional hiring methods and aligns incentives and redistributes value to talent and organizations. Adam Jackson, Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski, and Brian Flynn co-founded Braintrust in San Jose, California in 2018.

Hofy

Seed Round in 2020
Our platform enables your business to bring out-of-the-box home offices and on-site services to one employee or thousands – in just a couple of clicks.

how.fm

Seed Round in 2020
how.fm is transforming manual laborers’ onboarding and training processes through digitalization. The platform enables warehouse operators to onboard, upskill, and support their workers every day.

Farewill

Venture Round in 2020
Farewill is a will writer and funeral and direct cremation provider which leverages a platform to simplify complex processes, avoids legal jargon and hidden fees. It is a provider of an all-in-one financial and legal services platform used to deal with all paperwork after death. It enables clients to manage their wills online using simple and affordable digital tools through round-the-clock customer service operations.

PQShield

Seed Round in 2020
PQShield pioneers post-quantum cryptography solutions, securing global technology infrastructures with hardware, software, and cloud-based quantum-safe implementations, and leading standardization efforts worldwide. The company is advancing cybersecurity by developing innovations that secure sensitive data and communications against future quantum computing threats, ensuring robust digital-age security amid evolving technology.

Gaia

Seed Round in 2020
Gaia combines reproductive health data with financial technology to make IVF treatments more accessible, affordable, and personal.

Dexory

Seed Round in 2020
Dexory captures real-time insights of warehouse operations using fully autonomous robots and Artificial Intelligence. Dexory is paving the way for AI and robotics to completely transform the world of logistics, automating data collection and building digital twin technology that unlocks insights across all levels of warehouse operations. It is a platform that delivers real-time information for the receiving, storing, and dispatch stages, allowing companies unprecedented access to their operations. The fully autonomous mobile and modular robots measure, track, and find goods across warehouses without workflow disruption. The data is fed real time into digital twins, allowing logistics and warehouses to quickly respond to operational challenges they face on a daily basis.

Flagstone

Series B in 2020
Flagstone's simple, secure online platform gives you access to hundreds of deposit accounts from 37 banks through a single application, empowering you to earn more interest income and reduce risk.

FiveAI

Series B in 2020
FiveAI is a computer software company that provides a software platform designed for providing a solution in urban mobility in public transport to complex urban environments. Its platform is designed for Autonomous Vehicles, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence to develop self-driving software. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

Ori Biotech

Seed Round in 2020
Ori Biotech is a developer of a manufacturing platform used to help patients get access to lifesaving treatments. Ori has developed a proprietary, flexible manufacturing platform that closes, automates, and standardizes manufacturing allowing therapeutics developers to further develop and bring their products from pre-clinical process development to commercial-scale manufacturing. The company aims to speed up the innovation of cell and gene therapies through the manufacturing platform it is bringing to market.

Pave

Series A in 2019
Pave's mission is to improve credit health for millions of consumers by offering the world’s best credit builder. The Pave app provides active bill payments support and personalised, targeted actions to improve credit health most efficiently. Pave has over 300,000 customers and is backed by early investors in N26 and the founders of Monzo and Indeed, and was voted the Best Credit Building Product in 2021 by customers in the Consumer Credit Awards and the Best New Personal Finance App in 2021 by Moneynet.

Rezilion

Seed Round in 2019
Rezilion automatically secures the software you deliver to customers, making it easier than ever before for teams to detect, prioritize and remediate software vulnerabilities. Powered by core Dynamic SBOM technology and deployed agentlessy, Rezilion works across your stack, helping you to know what software is in your environment, what is vulnerable, and what is actually exploitable in runtime, so you can focus on what matters, remediate automatically, and free up more dev time to build. DISCOVER - Discover all software components in your environments, from Dev to Prod, on-prem and cloud, hosts, containers and IoT devices. AGGREGATE - Enrich and consolidate scan results from multiple tools in a single dashboard for a complete view of your software attack surface. PRIORITIZE - Filter out non exploitable vulnerabilities that are in software components that aren'y executed in runtime (an 85% reduction). REMEDIATE - Cluster vulnerabilities to eliminate multiple problems at once and automatically execute remediation work to save teams time.

Verve

Series B in 2019
Verve is a global leader in word-of-mouth sales within the live entertainment industry, utilizing networks of advocates to promote events and experiences. By incentivizing these advocates with rewards like free tickets and backstage passes, Verve effectively drives sales for over 500 events across more than 40 countries. The company collaborates with various prominent partners, including major ticketing platforms such as Ticketmaster and Eventbrite, to enhance its offerings. Through its innovative peer-to-peer sales and marketing software, Verve has established itself as a trusted name in the sector, focusing on creating authentic connections within the live entertainment marketplace.

Disperse.io

Series A in 2019
Disperse.io is a VC-backed artificial intelligence construction startup focused on improving on-site productivity. Its goal is to not just be part of the current wave of construction innovation upstarts but to ultimately reimagine the way building projects are delivered and operated. Disperse aims to help construction firms create cultures focused on learning and consistent delivery. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.

Beit

Seed Round in 2019
Beit designs and implements an algorithm for solving a relevant NP-complete class of problems using Quantum Computers, getting speedups better than quadratic, guaranteed by theory. Beit focuses on Hamiltonian cycle problem. NP-complete problems are abstractions relevant for many real world problems encountered in logistics, manufacturing, and warehousing at scale. Beit is headquartered in Kraków, Poland.

Puraffinity

Seed Round in 2019
Puraffinity specialises in the design and development of precision materials, and has developed a sustainable novel adsorbent capable of removing highly challenging pollutants from contaminated water and wastewater. The technology utilises advanced supramolecular chemistry methods to functionalise sustainable materials designed to bind target chemicals. The company is at the forefront of developing solutions for overcoming imminent water quality challenges, whilst sustainable and positive environmental impact lies at the heart of the company’s ethos.

Flagstone

Series A in 2019
Flagstone's simple, secure online platform gives you access to hundreds of deposit accounts from 37 banks through a single application, empowering you to earn more interest income and reduce risk.

Daye

Seed Round in 2019
Daye is a gynecological health company that creates products and services for vaginal treatment. Its tampon-based at-home vaginal microbiome screening kit allows women to test themselves at their leisure. The kit is intended to screen for vaginal infections such as thrush and bacterial vaginosis (BV), as well as disruptions to the microbiome, which could put women at risk of STIs, gynecological cancers, and fertility and IVF complications. Daye will also launch a comprehensive digital platform for gynae health, with the goal of reducing pain, shame, and wasted time for women as they navigate their health journey from their first period to menopause. The company was founded in 2017

Vault Platform

Seed Round in 2019
Vault Platform is the operating system for corporate integrity - an all-in-one speak up, case management, and ethics data platform

Globechain

Seed Round in 2019
Globechain is an online reuse platform that connects businesses, charities, and people to enable them to reuse unwanted items within a global supply chain network, creating a waste audit and social impact value for members.

Farewill

Venture Round in 2019
Farewill is a will writer and funeral and direct cremation provider which leverages a platform to simplify complex processes, avoids legal jargon and hidden fees. It is a provider of an all-in-one financial and legal services platform used to deal with all paperwork after death. It enables clients to manage their wills online using simple and affordable digital tools through round-the-clock customer service operations.

Pave

Seed Round in 2018
Pave's mission is to improve credit health for millions of consumers by offering the world’s best credit builder. The Pave app provides active bill payments support and personalised, targeted actions to improve credit health most efficiently. Pave has over 300,000 customers and is backed by early investors in N26 and the founders of Monzo and Indeed, and was voted the Best Credit Building Product in 2021 by customers in the Consumer Credit Awards and the Best New Personal Finance App in 2021 by Moneynet.

Paddle

Series B in 2018
Paddle is a platform that takes makes it incredibly simple to sell apps, games and other digital products. We think that creators should be allowed to focus on building awesome products, so we handle all of the boring things like payments, analytics, customer support and VAT so that they can do just that. Using Paddle's software development kits, developers can easily set up trial versions, licensing mechanisms, in-app purchases and even track performance & usage with Paddle’s in-app analytics technology -- all under a single dashboard.

Mrs Wordsmith

Series A in 2018
Mrs Wordsmith is the world’s most innovative vocabulary programme. They combine data science and creativity to illustrate the 10,000 words that matter for academic success. Launched in 2016 in London, Mrs Wordsmith is one of the fastest-growing, VC backed startups in the UK. They help young people learn efficiently through engaging content from the Hollywood artists behind Madagascar. Their words are carefully selected and curated by Cambridge University data scientists to ensure that children learn the words they will come across at school and in the books they read. Loved by teachers, parents and students.

Animal Dynamics

Series A in 2018
At Animal Dynamics they know that nature’s evolved designs are more efficient, elegant and powerful than anything yet built by man. However, the last decade has seen revolutions in analytical technology that allow us to evaluate high-performance animals to a previously unachievable degree, and use cutting-edge science to understand the fundamental mechanisms underlying this performance. AD does not simply attempt to replicate the high-performance natural designs, but marries fine-engineering skills with a deep understanding of the fundamental mechanisms, to produce revolutionary machines that will change the shape of the future, taking inspiration from their environment in order to protect it, and capable of performance beyond anything currently found in nature or engineering.

Jiminy

Seed Round in 2018
Jiminy helps you keep an eye on your child and alerts you at signs of trouble, so you can be there when they need you.

Huggg

Seed Round in 2018
From new starter surprises to anniversary rewards, and seasonal treats that recognise the modern, diverse workforce, gifts play an important role in building a great company culture. Huggg’s gifting platform enables you to choose, personalise and share the perfect gifts to recognise colleagues, boost happiness and enhance employee experience in just a few clicks. Removing the typical "what do I send?" and "where do I send it?" headaches, Huggg transforms a 3-month process into a 3-minute one - even making it possible to fully automate gift scheduling, so you never miss a birthday again. Offering high quality, best in class gifts for moments big and small, Huggg delivers them digitally in a way that feels just as good as giving and getting a real life gift. It’s gifting thoughtfully, made simple. Backed by Kindred Capital, Saatchinvest and a Forbes ‘One to Watch’, Huggg has big ambitions but we won't expose them here for all to see.

Disperse.io

Venture Round in 2017
Disperse.io is a VC-backed artificial intelligence construction startup focused on improving on-site productivity. Its goal is to not just be part of the current wave of construction innovation upstarts but to ultimately reimagine the way building projects are delivered and operated. Disperse aims to help construction firms create cultures focused on learning and consistent delivery. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.

Paddle

Series B in 2017
Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payments fragmentation, meaning a faster, safer, cheaper and, overall, better option. We have over 230+ talented employees serving over 3000 software sellers in 245 territories globally. Backed by investors including FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North, Paddle aims to define the next wave of B2B SaaS leaders.

LabGenius

Seed Round in 2017
LabGenius is a biopharmaceutical company developing protein therapeutics using a machine learning-driven evolution engine. Its protein engineering platform integrates several bleeding-edge technologies from the fields of machine learning, synthetic biology, and robotics.

Verve

Series A in 2017
Verve is a global leader in word-of-mouth sales within the live entertainment industry, utilizing networks of advocates to promote events and experiences. By incentivizing these advocates with rewards like free tickets and backstage passes, Verve effectively drives sales for over 500 events across more than 40 countries. The company collaborates with various prominent partners, including major ticketing platforms such as Ticketmaster and Eventbrite, to enhance its offerings. Through its innovative peer-to-peer sales and marketing software, Verve has established itself as a trusted name in the sector, focusing on creating authentic connections within the live entertainment marketplace.

Acurable

Seed Round in 2017
Acurable is a MedTech start-up headquartered in London. Acurable commercializes a wearable medical device able to accurately diagnose and manage respiratory conditions in a non-invasive way. Its award-winning patented technology is a major engineering innovation and the product of 10 years of research at Imperial College London. Acurable's medical devices has more accurate readings than current solutions, enabling automated diagnosis and drastically reducing misdiagnosis. It is non-invasive and requires no training, enabling home use without the assistance of a specialist or a visit to the hospital, which significantly lowers overall costs. Acurable aims to understand human biosignals so well that nobody dies of a treatable condition ever again.

Snap

Seed Round in 2017
Snap is a new “on-demand” coach service. Just tell us where you want to go from, and go to, and when. they match you up with others, in your area, who want to make a similar trip and as soon as there's enough demand, match you with a local, top quality coach operator- Snap!

FiveAI

Series A in 2017
FiveAI is a computer software company that provides a software platform designed for providing a solution in urban mobility in public transport to complex urban environments. Its platform is designed for Autonomous Vehicles, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence to develop self-driving software. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

Mrs Wordsmith

Seed Round in 2017
Mrs Wordsmith is the world’s most innovative vocabulary programme. They combine data science and creativity to illustrate the 10,000 words that matter for academic success. Launched in 2016 in London, Mrs Wordsmith is one of the fastest-growing, VC backed startups in the UK. They help young people learn efficiently through engaging content from the Hollywood artists behind Madagascar. Their words are carefully selected and curated by Cambridge University data scientists to ensure that children learn the words they will come across at school and in the books they read. Loved by teachers, parents and students.

CrowdJustice

Seed Round in 2017
CrowdJustice allows communities to band together to access the courts to protect their communal assets – like their local hospital – or shared values – like human rights. CrowdJustice pages are optimized to collect as many pledges as possible. Millions of pounds have already been raised through CrowdJustice to fund various kinds of legal action.

Qriously Technologies

Venture Round in 2017
Qriously is a data and research platform that accesses the mindset of billions of people all over the world by asking questions on mobile devices. Answers to those questions are used to unearth valuable insights and engage relevant audiences. Qriously was founded in 2010 and is currently headquartered in London with offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Kalo

Series A in 2017
Kalo launched in 2015, letting companies easily onboard, manage, talk with, and pay their external workers. Since then, a customers from internet to fashion -- including Google, Asos, IDEO and AirBnB -- have been able to throw away their tangle of spreadsheets and invoice emails, and work together with their freelancer and vendor teams in a clean, beautiful experience.

Find Circles

Seed Round in 2016
Find Circles is a app that intended to help people to share same sort of problems in a group.

Farewill

Seed Round in 2016
Farewill is a will writer and funeral and direct cremation provider which leverages a platform to simplify complex processes, avoids legal jargon and hidden fees. It is a provider of an all-in-one financial and legal services platform used to deal with all paperwork after death. It enables clients to manage their wills online using simple and affordable digital tools through round-the-clock customer service operations.

Verve

Seed Round in 2016
Verve is a global leader in word-of-mouth sales within the live entertainment industry, utilizing networks of advocates to promote events and experiences. By incentivizing these advocates with rewards like free tickets and backstage passes, Verve effectively drives sales for over 500 events across more than 40 countries. The company collaborates with various prominent partners, including major ticketing platforms such as Ticketmaster and Eventbrite, to enhance its offerings. Through its innovative peer-to-peer sales and marketing software, Verve has established itself as a trusted name in the sector, focusing on creating authentic connections within the live entertainment marketplace.

Paddle

Series A in 2016
Paddle is a platform that takes makes it incredibly simple to sell apps, games and other digital products. We think that creators should be allowed to focus on building awesome products, so we handle all of the boring things like payments, analytics, customer support and VAT so that they can do just that. Using Paddle's software development kits, developers can easily set up trial versions, licensing mechanisms, in-app purchases and even track performance & usage with Paddle’s in-app analytics technology -- all under a single dashboard.

Animal Dynamics

Seed Round in 2016
At Animal Dynamics they know that nature’s evolved designs are more efficient, elegant and powerful than anything yet built by man. However, the last decade has seen revolutions in analytical technology that allow us to evaluate high-performance animals to a previously unachievable degree, and use cutting-edge science to understand the fundamental mechanisms underlying this performance. AD does not simply attempt to replicate the high-performance natural designs, but marries fine-engineering skills with a deep understanding of the fundamental mechanisms, to produce revolutionary machines that will change the shape of the future, taking inspiration from their environment in order to protect it, and capable of performance beyond anything currently found in nature or engineering.

FiveAI

Seed Round in 2016
FiveAI is a computer software company that provides a software platform designed for providing a solution in urban mobility in public transport to complex urban environments. Its platform is designed for Autonomous Vehicles, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence to develop self-driving software. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

Kalo

Series A in 2016
Kalo launched in 2015, letting companies easily onboard, manage, talk with, and pay their external workers. Since then, a customers from internet to fashion -- including Google, Asos, IDEO and AirBnB -- have been able to throw away their tangle of spreadsheets and invoice emails, and work together with their freelancer and vendor teams in a clean, beautiful experience.

Wholi

Seed Round in 2016
Wholi is a collection of lists of people for the startup community in London. It is solving people search online using a combination of web-scale data gathering, indexing, natural language processing, machine learning, and graph networks.

Tapdaq

Series A in 2016
Tapdaq helps mobile developers to maximize their revenue with unbiased ad mediation, and retain their most valuable users through powerful cross-promotion campaigns. It also monetizes on autopilot, or take advantage of direct network deals and provides a powerful set of server-side features that are trusted by thousands of the world's top publishers. Tapdaq provides app developers with the easiest and efficient way of mediating premium demand partners. Tapdaq was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

UNMADE

Seed Round in 2015
Unmade are changing fashion design and manufacture. By controlling industrial knitting machines in a new way, the startup can make a different garment every time turning these machines into 3D printers for clothes, but using high quality, natural fibres instead. Launching this winter in Somerset House, Unmade gives customers the chance to remix the work of prominent artists and designers to create their dream jumper that is then made in front of them. Customers can also see their designs on models before sending to knit with Unmade’s unique preview technology. No-one else has been able to offer custom production in knitwear due to the high programming cost. Unmade’s patent-pending technologies remove this cost and makes one-off production possible at a similar cost to local mass production. Through Unmade, brands can then offer bespoke, customised or limited edition knitwear to their customers. Using the same machines as major brands such as Burberry or Benetton, Unmade is running factory trials early next year to prove their technologies at an industrial scale. Unmade’s long-term aim is to create a platform and marketplace through which brands and small designers can offer custom clothing to their customers and taking the mass custom production of knitwear to an industrial level.

Kalo

Seed Round in 2015
Kalo launched in 2015, letting companies easily onboard, manage, talk with, and pay their external workers. Since then, a customers from internet to fashion -- including Google, Asos, IDEO and AirBnB -- have been able to throw away their tangle of spreadsheets and invoice emails, and work together with their freelancer and vendor teams in a clean, beautiful experience.
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