Pentech

Pentech Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on finding category defining software companies. Their passion is helping founders develop their startup into an internationally successful organisation. They have done this multiple times, partnering with leading VCs, corporations and investment banks along the way. They consider any opportunity capable of becoming a market leader but are most comfortable being the first venture investor, supporting founders through the early stages of proving product and market fit. Their initial investment is likely to be £500K to £2M, with up to £10M invested over the lifetime of the investment. They invest in founders who are ambitious to build a global company, have the passion and ability to attract the best team and who are focused on the data and understand the key drivers in proving and building their business. They support the founders they invest in to develop and grow with their business.

Eddie Anderson

Founding Partner

Craig Anderson

Pentech Partner

Sandy McKinnon

Pentech Partner

Marc Moens

Pentech Partner

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Tiffany Young

Investment Associate

77 past transactions

nPlan limited

Seed Round in 2018
nPlan limited designs and develops artificial intelligence (AI) based construction project management software. The company's solution uses machine learning technology to provide schedule certainty for projects, highlights risks by detecting gaps in the task performance pattern, and suggests execution paths. The software also makes recommendations to address residual issues and provides statistical risk attribution for each individual activity. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Stacker software Ltd

Series A in 2021
Stacker software Ltd provides developers with a modular application platform to build Web applications via clever spreadsheets, animated slide decks and email filters. The company helps customers create application with features common across all Web application and turn them into installable modules. Additionally, the company develops Airportal that allows customers to create portals on top of the Airtable with login for their users and private data. Stacker software Ltd was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

CacheLogic

Series B in 2005
Velocix offers a broad range of advanced digital delivery services for live and on demand streaming video streaming and file download. The globally deployed Velocix Content Delivery Network (CDN) provides an Internet fast lane for large digital assets like video, music, software and games.

FloodFlash

Series A in 2022
FloodFlash enables fairly-priced, no-exclusions, instant-settlement flood insurance. Customers receive a pre-agreed settlement as soon as the FloodFlash sensor detects that waters have exceeded a critical depth. An algorithm is used to set tailored prices meaning that for the first time, personalized and competitive flood policies can be written for the highest-risk locations around the world. Founded in 2017, FloodFlash has raised £2.1m seed investment and is headquartered in London.

Semetric

Venture Round in 2013
Semetric was founded in 2008 by Gregory Mead, Marie-Alicia Chang and Matthew Jeffery. The Chief Technical Officer, Jameel Syed, was a founding member of life sciences data and business analytics company InforSense. Its Executive Chairman, Dr Jeremy Silver, was previously Chief Executive of Sibelius Software and Vice President, new media at EMI Group in Los Angeles. Executive Vice President, Musicmetric North America, Daniel Savage was previously General Manager of Maverick records and has held positions at Atlantic, Island, and Hollywood Records.

Primarybid Limited

Series C in 2022
Primarybid Limited operates an online investment platform that allows private investors to gain access to placings, fund raisings, and IPOs of AIM-listed companies. The company’s platform allows private investors to opportunistically bid for new shares in AIM companies on their own terms. It also provides PrimaryBid, an application that offers the private investor access to equity placings. Primarybid Limited has strategic partnerships with Shore Capital Group; finnCap; and Arden. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

secretsales.com

Venture Round in 2008
Also in the same month the company welcomed further investment from 123Ventures and Partech VI alongside existing shareholders and founders.

Acunu

Venture Round in 2012
Acunu Analytics offers a platform for low-latency, continuous analytics on big data; powering dashboards and embedded applications to monitor and control environments in manufacturing, telecommunications, media, financial services and other industries where high-velocity data must be analysed in real time. The Cassandra NoSQL database is at the core of the Acunu offering and Acunu is a very engaged Cassandra contributor donating many of its innovations back to the community. Acunu was founded in 2009 and is backed by some of Europe’s top VC funds. Started by a unique mix of researchers and engineers from Cambridge and Oxford Universities, Acunu has offices in London (near Old Street, London’s “Silicon Roundabout”) and California.

Monolith AI Limited

Series A in 2021
Monolith AI is a software company using the latest in machine learning and data science, helping engineers to significantly improve the product development process. Monolith enables companies to monetise on their old simulation and test data by using it to anticipate the behaviour of new products. Companies can optimise their R&D process by reducing the numbers of simulations, tests and prototypes required to develop a new product delivering faster and better products.

Causaly

Series A in 2021
Causaly is an AI for Biomedical Cause & Effect discovery, empowering researchers and decision makers to quickly find causal evidence and generate insights from vast amounts of documents. The company is developing a machine-reading platform that turns free-flow text into causal knowledge graphs and applies machine learning to surface new knowledge. This helps users to accelerate their research schedules and improve time-to-insight significantly.

Fanduel Limited

Series A in 2009
FanDuel Inc. operates an online fantasy sports platform that enables users to play fantasy games and win cash prizes. The company provides an online sports platform that enables users to play fantasy football, baseball, hockey, and basketball. It also offers sports betting, racing, and casino games. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. FanDuel Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc.

Rhetorical Systems

Venture Round in 2001
Rhetorical Systems is a technology company, which provides text to speech software and voice synthesis.

CacheLogic

Series C in 2006
Velocix offers a broad range of advanced digital delivery services for live and on demand streaming video streaming and file download. The globally deployed Velocix Content Delivery Network (CDN) provides an Internet fast lane for large digital assets like video, music, software and games.

SeeWhy

Series A in 2004
SeeWhy’s behavioral marketing solutions trigger real-time 1-to-1 marketing campaigns using email, advertising across desktop, mobile and social channels, based on individual customer behaviors. These solutions elevate marketing from irrelevant noise into personal service — extending and differentiating the brand, and stimulating purchase. SeeWhy’s solutions are proven to drive increases in conversion and spending, resulting in an average increase in recovery of 18 percent. SeeWhy’s products deliver return on investment (ROI) that are among the highest in ecommerce, recovering more than US$500 million annually in lost sales for many of the world’s leading companies. Powered by a patented in-memory event processing engine, the SeeWhy suite of real-time eCommerce applications is delivered on-demand. SeeWhy was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Andover, MA. More information can be found at http://www.seewhy.com/.
Nutmeg Saving and Investment Limited, doing business as Nutmeg, provides online investment management services. It builds and manages the portfolio of its clients. The company assists is clients in taking various investment decisions that are related to equities, corporate bonds, gilts, and gold. Nutmeg Saving and Investment Limited was formerly known as Hungry Finance Limited and changed its name to Nutmeg Saving and Investment Limited in May 2012. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in the London, United Kingdom.

Maxymiser

Series B in 2012
On September 10, 2015, Oracle completed the acquisition of Maxymiser. Maxymiser is a leading provider of cloud-based software that enables marketers to test, target and personalize what a customer sees on a Web page or mobile app, substantially increasing engagement and revenue. Maxymiser optimizes over 20 billion customer experiences per month for brands such as HSBC, Lufthansa, Tommy Hilfiger and Wyndham. Oracle Marketing Cloud is already the fastest growing software platform for modern marketers in the world. The addition of Maxymiser to Oracle Marketing Cloud will strengthen the most comprehensive solution to manage marketing programs across all digital channels and across the customer lifecycle.

Eola Ltd

Seed Round in 2021
eola is a place to empower and optimise activity providers’ ability to display and make available their offerings online. Whether they choose to take bookings through an in situ widget, manually through a bookings creator, or our very own marketplace offering, we give full control of their agendas back to them, without the headaches.

Metaforic

Series A in 2008
Metaforic is a leading provider of security software for protection against attack, specializing in providing high performance solutions for embedded, server and mobile security. The core offering is a real time anti-tamper and integrity checking solution for firmware, OS and applications that protects against subversion, theft, malware, tampering or other corruption. Our technology is proven in millions of deployed instances, from consumer deployments through to business devices. Metaforic solutions directly prevent any change to code or data by automatically adding real time security to code that is to be protected. This defeats custom malware and malicious hacking, attacks on rules, configuration and heuristics, firmware modification and application layer hacks. Metaforic offers solutions to industries ranging from financial services to software publishers, games companies to device manufacturers.

GTN

Seed Round in 2018
Bringing a single new drug to the market costs $2.9bn, often delivering an intervention that barely differs from those already in the market. Projections into the future are not promising, with an expected 50% drop in R&D output every nine years. At GTN they are searching the astronomically large space of drug-like molecules with their unique patented technology, Generative Tensorial Networks. Their software combines and builds upon techniques from machine learning and quantum physics to simulate, filter and search for molecules, halving development costs and discovering molecules entirely hidden from view.

Lifebit

Series B in 2021
Lifebit CloudOS is an intelligent genomics platform that understands DNA data and generates meaningful insights like humans do. This offers researchers, and their organisations (ie. top tier pharmas), a highly scalable, modular and reproducible system that automates the analysis processes, learns from the data via AI and provides actionable insights.

Vauban

Seed Round in 2021
Vauban is engineering the wealth containers of tomorrow by digitizing the corporate services sector. As part of its ecosystem, Vauban launched its next-generation fund services platform in early 2017, spanning the hedge fund, private equity, and venture capital fund space. By reimagining fund formation and administration from first principles and engineering an AI Powered-platform, the entire experience –from identifying the appropriate terms of investment to onboarding institutional investors–has become a digital-first, seamless experience. Since launch, emerging fund managers–from quantitative traders to wealth managers and blockchain visionaries–have been able to structure, launch, and administer their funds and other investment vehicles with ease from Vauban’s dashboard. The company is based in London, England and founded by Rémy Astié and Ulric Musset.

OmniPerception

Venture Round in 2005
OmniPerception Ltd., a UK-based computer vision and biometrics company.

PHT Corporation

Series D in 2001
PHT is the market-leading provider of electronic patient reported outcome (ePRO) solutions used in clinical trials around the world and a rapidly growing organization. Their proven LogPad and StudyPad Systems improve data quality while Their robust StudyWorks online portal provides study sponsors, monitors and sites with real-time access to the data. With PHT, biopharmaceutical and medical device companies get better data, more data, and make faster decisions - resulting in successful trials.

Applied Generics

Venture Round in 2001
Applied Generics has developed technology that makes it possible to generate real time road traffic information based on the analysis of mobile network usage and cell-switching. The technology is commercially deployed and has the potential to deliver high quality traffic information at a fraction of the investment normally required to generate traffic information.

nPlan limited

Series A in 2021
nPlan limited designs and develops artificial intelligence (AI) based construction project management software. The company's solution uses machine learning technology to provide schedule certainty for projects, highlights risks by detecting gaps in the task performance pattern, and suggests execution paths. The software also makes recommendations to address residual issues and provides statistical risk attribution for each individual activity. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Causaly

Series A in 2019
Causaly is an AI for Biomedical Cause & Effect discovery, empowering researchers and decision makers to quickly find causal evidence and generate insights from vast amounts of documents. The company is developing a machine-reading platform that turns free-flow text into causal knowledge graphs and applies machine learning to surface new knowledge. This helps users to accelerate their research schedules and improve time-to-insight significantly.

Primarybid Limited

Series A in 2019
Primarybid Limited operates an online investment platform that allows private investors to gain access to placings, fund raisings, and IPOs of AIM-listed companies. The company’s platform allows private investors to opportunistically bid for new shares in AIM companies on their own terms. It also provides PrimaryBid, an application that offers the private investor access to equity placings. Primarybid Limited has strategic partnerships with Shore Capital Group; finnCap; and Arden. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Enigmatec

Series B in 2004
Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. offers automation solutions for physical and virtual resource management. The company offers Execution Management System, an automation solution to implement run book automation solutions that describe the process of cataloguing, codifying, testing, and automating the manual, scripted, and ad hoc procedures used to manage information technology (IT) environments. It offers Enigmatec Virtual Orchestrator, which provides a self-service request user interface that automates IT workflows to provision, configure, allocate, and reclaim virtual resources; Enigmatec Automated Disaster Recovery that creates, deploys, manages, and monitors various aspects of disaster recovery operations; Execution Management System, a solution to automate repetitive scripted or manual tasks; and integrations and adapters for various commercial and in-house technologies. Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. also provides Cloud Lifecycle Management Solution that manages requests and resources that are sourced from internal source and acquired from the cloud. In addition, it offers Rapid Start Program for virtualization management, process audit, and training; and a range of courses, including introductory, intermediate, and advanced classes for developers, integration specialists, system administrators, and IT operators. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in New York, New York.

FloodFlash

Seed Round in 2018
FloodFlash enables fairly-priced, no-exclusions, instant-settlement flood insurance. Customers receive a pre-agreed settlement as soon as the FloodFlash sensor detects that waters have exceeded a critical depth. An algorithm is used to set tailored prices meaning that for the first time, personalized and competitive flood policies can be written for the highest-risk locations around the world. Founded in 2017, FloodFlash has raised £2.1m seed investment and is headquartered in London.

Metaforic

Series B in 2011
Metaforic is a leading provider of security software for protection against attack, specializing in providing high performance solutions for embedded, server and mobile security. The core offering is a real time anti-tamper and integrity checking solution for firmware, OS and applications that protects against subversion, theft, malware, tampering or other corruption. Our technology is proven in millions of deployed instances, from consumer deployments through to business devices. Metaforic solutions directly prevent any change to code or data by automatically adding real time security to code that is to be protected. This defeats custom malware and malicious hacking, attacks on rules, configuration and heuristics, firmware modification and application layer hacks. Metaforic offers solutions to industries ranging from financial services to software publishers, games companies to device manufacturers.

SeeWhy

Venture Round in 2005
SeeWhy’s behavioral marketing solutions trigger real-time 1-to-1 marketing campaigns using email, advertising across desktop, mobile and social channels, based on individual customer behaviors. These solutions elevate marketing from irrelevant noise into personal service — extending and differentiating the brand, and stimulating purchase. SeeWhy’s solutions are proven to drive increases in conversion and spending, resulting in an average increase in recovery of 18 percent. SeeWhy’s products deliver return on investment (ROI) that are among the highest in ecommerce, recovering more than US$500 million annually in lost sales for many of the world’s leading companies. Powered by a patented in-memory event processing engine, the SeeWhy suite of real-time eCommerce applications is delivered on-demand. SeeWhy was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Andover, MA. More information can be found at http://www.seewhy.com/.

DataSine

Series A in 2019
We believe that everyone deserves to be treated as an individual. With a big audience, that may seem impossible. However, with AI, nothing is impossible. We exist to enhance creative marketing through AI data insights. We automatically combine your creativity with our data to tell you what is working, what isn’t and - most importantly - what you can do about it. We are datasine.

CriticalBlue Limited

Series A in 2003
CriticalBlue Limited provides software analysis and optimization services. It offers Prism which is an embedded programming system. The company also develos an application that protects digital assests from cyber attacks. CriticalBlue Limited was formerly known as Adaptive Programmable Silicon Ltd. and changed its name to CriticalBlue Limited in December 2003. The company was incorporated in 2001 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Nutmeg Saving and Investment Limited, doing business as Nutmeg, provides online investment management services. It builds and manages the portfolio of its clients. The company assists is clients in taking various investment decisions that are related to equities, corporate bonds, gilts, and gold. Nutmeg Saving and Investment Limited was formerly known as Hungry Finance Limited and changed its name to Nutmeg Saving and Investment Limited in May 2012. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in the London, United Kingdom.

Fanduel Limited

Series E in 2015
FanDuel Inc. operates an online fantasy sports platform that enables users to play fantasy games and win cash prizes. The company provides an online sports platform that enables users to play fantasy football, baseball, hockey, and basketball. It also offers sports betting, racing, and casino games. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. FanDuel Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc.
Flightman is a developer of an electronic flight bag software used to integrate the aircraft within the Enterprise IT infrastructure. The company provides Electronic Flight Bag software applications. Its software provides a directional exchange of data with the airline's back-office systems and allows the airline to combine user assigned devices together with aircraft devices as well as provide optimized regulatory compliance and total operational efficiency. Flightman’s Solution Suite allows airlines to achieve optimized regulatory compliance, total operational efficiency, and enhanced in-cabin passenger service and revenue opportunities by seamlessly connecting and integrating the aircraft within the Enterprise IT infrastructure. The company also develops Aviation Software Applications which are incorporated in a Service to connect the aircraft to company systems and drive productivity and operational improvements.

CertiVox

Series A in 2011
CertiVox solutions deliver simple, powerful information security to all things Internet (mainframes, too!), protecting business and individual privacy through the cloud and at rest. CertiVox was founded in 2009 to provide technology and services based on a simple belief: that everyone deserves the right to secure their information exchanges simply and easily. CertiVox's leading-edge encryption, key management and identity management solutions are currently in use at hundreds of the world’s leading corporations and used by individuals across the globe to protect their privacy. The companies passion is to create and share unique, cutting-edge cryptographic innovations for enterprise cloud computing and all things Internet. CertiVox are the only company in the global market today that has the technology in place to arm businesses and individuals with easy-to-use certificateless security solutions for any device and platform. Whether you are a business that wants to safeguard your company’s intellectual property, an ISV or SaaS provider that needs to embed cryptography and key management into your application, or an individual who wants to preserve the privacy of your personal data, CertiVox gives you the power to secure your information for all things Internet. CertiVox’s leading-edge solutions – including MIRACL (Multiprecision Integer and Rational Arithmetic C/C++ Library) Cryptographic SDK, on-demand encryption Key Management Service (KMS) and Identity Management Service (IDMS) – enable cloud service providers, independent software vendors (ISVs), communication providers, and smart device and semiconductor manufacturers to secure their voice and data communication solutions with ease. The PrivateSky Secure Information Exchange Service (SIX) gives individuals, businesses and their partners and customers easy-to-use tools to quickly encrypt email, files and documents without complex infrastructure or user burden. Compliance with mandatory encryption and privacy statues has never been easier. The bottom line: CertiVox's revolutionary certificateless cryptography, identity and key management solutions have taken the hassle out of Internet security, making it easy to securely exchange your information in any form, any time.

SeeWhy

Series B in 2009
SeeWhy’s behavioral marketing solutions trigger real-time 1-to-1 marketing campaigns using email, advertising across desktop, mobile and social channels, based on individual customer behaviors. These solutions elevate marketing from irrelevant noise into personal service — extending and differentiating the brand, and stimulating purchase. SeeWhy’s solutions are proven to drive increases in conversion and spending, resulting in an average increase in recovery of 18 percent. SeeWhy’s products deliver return on investment (ROI) that are among the highest in ecommerce, recovering more than US$500 million annually in lost sales for many of the world’s leading companies. Powered by a patented in-memory event processing engine, the SeeWhy suite of real-time eCommerce applications is delivered on-demand. SeeWhy was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Andover, MA. More information can be found at http://www.seewhy.com/.

Primarybid Limited

Series B in 2020
Primarybid Limited operates an online investment platform that allows private investors to gain access to placings, fund raisings, and IPOs of AIM-listed companies. The company’s platform allows private investors to opportunistically bid for new shares in AIM companies on their own terms. It also provides PrimaryBid, an application that offers the private investor access to equity placings. Primarybid Limited has strategic partnerships with Shore Capital Group; finnCap; and Arden. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Travelnest Limited

Seed Round in 2017
Travelnest Limited owns and operates an online platform which allows rental owners advertise their properties online. Travelnest Limited was formerly known as TouristCo Limited and changed its name to Travelnest Limited in October, 2017. Travelnest Limited was founded in 2014 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Lifebit

Series A in 2020
Lifebit CloudOS is an intelligent genomics platform that understands DNA data and generates meaningful insights like humans do. This offers researchers, and their organisations (ie. top tier pharmas), a highly scalable, modular and reproducible system that automates the analysis processes, learns from the data via AI and provides actionable insights.

Enigmatec

Series C in 2007
Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. offers automation solutions for physical and virtual resource management. The company offers Execution Management System, an automation solution to implement run book automation solutions that describe the process of cataloguing, codifying, testing, and automating the manual, scripted, and ad hoc procedures used to manage information technology (IT) environments. It offers Enigmatec Virtual Orchestrator, which provides a self-service request user interface that automates IT workflows to provision, configure, allocate, and reclaim virtual resources; Enigmatec Automated Disaster Recovery that creates, deploys, manages, and monitors various aspects of disaster recovery operations; Execution Management System, a solution to automate repetitive scripted or manual tasks; and integrations and adapters for various commercial and in-house technologies. Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. also provides Cloud Lifecycle Management Solution that manages requests and resources that are sourced from internal source and acquired from the cloud. In addition, it offers Rapid Start Program for virtualization management, process audit, and training; and a range of courses, including introductory, intermediate, and advanced classes for developers, integration specialists, system administrators, and IT operators. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in New York, New York.

Automsoft

Series B in 2002
Automsoft's core product, RAPID, collects, stores and analyses data to enable critical decision making in our customers. It has thousands of installations in Utilities, Life Sciences, Oil and Gas, Food and Beverage, Mining, and Pulp and Paper.

CertiVox

Series A in 2011
CertiVox solutions deliver simple, powerful information security to all things Internet (mainframes, too!), protecting business and individual privacy through the cloud and at rest. CertiVox was founded in 2009 to provide technology and services based on a simple belief: that everyone deserves the right to secure their information exchanges simply and easily. CertiVox's leading-edge encryption, key management and identity management solutions are currently in use at hundreds of the world’s leading corporations and used by individuals across the globe to protect their privacy. The companies passion is to create and share unique, cutting-edge cryptographic innovations for enterprise cloud computing and all things Internet. CertiVox are the only company in the global market today that has the technology in place to arm businesses and individuals with easy-to-use certificateless security solutions for any device and platform. Whether you are a business that wants to safeguard your company’s intellectual property, an ISV or SaaS provider that needs to embed cryptography and key management into your application, or an individual who wants to preserve the privacy of your personal data, CertiVox gives you the power to secure your information for all things Internet. CertiVox’s leading-edge solutions – including MIRACL (Multiprecision Integer and Rational Arithmetic C/C++ Library) Cryptographic SDK, on-demand encryption Key Management Service (KMS) and Identity Management Service (IDMS) – enable cloud service providers, independent software vendors (ISVs), communication providers, and smart device and semiconductor manufacturers to secure their voice and data communication solutions with ease. The PrivateSky Secure Information Exchange Service (SIX) gives individuals, businesses and their partners and customers easy-to-use tools to quickly encrypt email, files and documents without complex infrastructure or user burden. Compliance with mandatory encryption and privacy statues has never been easier. The bottom line: CertiVox's revolutionary certificateless cryptography, identity and key management solutions have taken the hassle out of Internet security, making it easy to securely exchange your information in any form, any time.

secretsales.com

Series C in 2014
Also in the same month the company welcomed further investment from 123Ventures and Partech VI alongside existing shareholders and founders.

Outplay Entertainment

Venture Round in 2012
Outplay Entertainment develops and publishes games for social and mobile platforms. Outplay Entertainment is a games publisher for social and mobile platformsFounded in 2010 by seasoned games industry entrepreneurs, Outplay Entertainment are an exciting, enthusiastic and ambitious new publisher and developer, delivering new IP on the most popular new platforms.

Rapid Mobile

Series A in 2005
Rapid Mobile supports services by presenting a mobile version of their product to reach out to customers. They are currently working with apps, ads, and all forms of digital content.

Lifebit

Seed Round in 2018
Lifebit CloudOS is an intelligent genomics platform that understands DNA data and generates meaningful insights like humans do. This offers researchers, and their organisations (ie. top tier pharmas), a highly scalable, modular and reproducible system that automates the analysis processes, learns from the data via AI and provides actionable insights.

CacheLogic

Series D in 2008
Velocix offers a broad range of advanced digital delivery services for live and on demand streaming video streaming and file download. The globally deployed Velocix Content Delivery Network (CDN) provides an Internet fast lane for large digital assets like video, music, software and games.

Sonaptic

Series A in 2003
Sonaptic Limited (“Sonaptic”) is a provider of advanced micro-acoustic technologies based on more than 12 years of research by Sonaptic’s founders. The acquisition will provide the third part of Wolfson’s AudioPlus™ growth strategy which is aimed at building on Wolfson’s world class position in high fidelity audio semiconductors. The acquisition will enable Wolfson to combine mixed-signal design and acoustic skills to offer advanced active noise cancellation, sound enhancement, 3D sound, and acoustic echo cancellation in combination with its existing high quality, low power audio products for consumer electronic applications. These include Personal Media Players (PMP), mobile handsets, portable gaming consoles, Flat Pannel TVs (FPTV), Portable Navigation Devices (PND) and automotive applications.

Stacker software Ltd

Seed Round in 2019
Stacker software Ltd provides developers with a modular application platform to build Web applications via clever spreadsheets, animated slide decks and email filters. The company helps customers create application with features common across all Web application and turn them into installable modules. Additionally, the company develops Airportal that allows customers to create portals on top of the Airtable with login for their users and private data. Stacker software Ltd was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Digital Fineprint (DFP)

Venture Round in 2019
DFP - Transforming SME underwriting Our award-winning insurance technology helps you collect and manage huge amounts of data about your industry sector to give you the insights you need for better performance. It’s the future of efficient underwriting. The technology we have developed in the form of our powerful data sourcing platform provides insurers with the granular insights on SMEs they would otherwise find difficult, time-consuming and expensive to acquire.

Velsys Limited

Venture Round in 2010
Velsys Limited is a global independent financial technology services provider that delivers FX trading solutions, which enable banks, brokers, and financial institutions to deliver value to their customers. It is capable of supporting large and small financial institutions on a global basis. The company has also developed a core set of FX software applications that have flexible deployment options, including a fully hosted option with a global footprint and have been designed to appeal to mid- and smaller-sized regional banks. Launched in 1996, Velsys Limited is headquartered in Adelaide, Australia with an additional office in London, United Kingdom.

Fanduel Limited

Series D in 2014
FanDuel Inc. operates an online fantasy sports platform that enables users to play fantasy games and win cash prizes. The company provides an online sports platform that enables users to play fantasy football, baseball, hockey, and basketball. It also offers sports betting, racing, and casino games. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. FanDuel Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc.

blinkbox music

Venture Round in 2011
blinkbox music is an ad-supported music streaming service and an integrated MP3 store providing an easy way to listen to music. Its listeners can choose from thousands of stations based around themes such as Top 40 Songs, Ultimate 80s Pop, Dinner Party, or create their own by starting with a song, artist, or genre. Its listeners have the ability to listen to blinkbox music for free on the web, as well as through its mobile and tablet apps on both Android and iOS. Its listeners can even save their favorite stations to their mobile or tablet to listen when they don't have an internet connection. blinkbox music was launched in 2007 and is based in Oxford.

Automsoft

Series C in 2004
Automsoft's core product, RAPID, collects, stores and analyses data to enable critical decision making in our customers. It has thousands of installations in Utilities, Life Sciences, Oil and Gas, Food and Beverage, Mining, and Pulp and Paper.

Deep Render

Seed Round in 2020
Deep Render Ltd. is a spin-out from the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. We are a London based AI start-up that is developing the next generation of media compression algorithms. Our proprietary and patented technology is at the forefront of machine learning research. Furthermore, our Biological Image Compression results are state-of-the-art, providing at least a 50% efficiency gain over the previous standards

Struq

Series A in 2012
Struq is the Ad Personalization Company. Struq enables retailers to deliver personalized display, video and mobile ads to their consumers.’ Struq’s scalable Ad Personalization platform allows advertisers to target new, prospective and existing customers with fully personalized and relevant advertising messages that are dynamically created and entirely customized in real time. As a result, Struq delivers 12 times higher click through rates than standard retargeted ads and generates up to $30 in revenues for every $1 spent in marketing spend. Struq is transforming online advertising, from a generic push communication to a relevant personalized communication, resulting in users seeing ads that are both meaningful and relevant to them.

Musicmetric

Venture Round in 2013
Musicmetric offers detailed analytics and trend forecasting for the music industry. Musicmetric is creating software tools and services using machine learning algorithms designed to measure online buzz and deliver relevant analytics. Their tools enable deep analysis of marketing performance, designed to add efficiency and accurate campaign targeting. Additionally, their software offers predictive trend forecasting for artists, genres and sales within the mainstream label, indie and unsigned sectors of the music industry. The company processes terabytes of raw text daily and performs data mining and classification analysis to generate the data which powers its software products. It is also releasing a suite of free widgets powered by the data generated in the back end, as well as opening an API to allow third parties to build applications on top of the musicmetric data. The customer base includes labels, A&R, managers, promoters and marketing agencies.

CriticalBlue Limited

Series C in 2008
CriticalBlue Limited provides software analysis and optimization services. It offers Prism which is an embedded programming system. The company also develos an application that protects digital assests from cyber attacks. CriticalBlue Limited was formerly known as Adaptive Programmable Silicon Ltd. and changed its name to CriticalBlue Limited in December 2003. The company was incorporated in 2001 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

WE7

Venture Round in 2011
WE7 is a free music app that allows users create a personalized radio station on their mobile phones, by choosing which artists they would like to hear, before the station chooses other similar artists.
Nutmeg Saving and Investment Limited, doing business as Nutmeg, provides online investment management services. It builds and manages the portfolio of its clients. The company assists is clients in taking various investment decisions that are related to equities, corporate bonds, gilts, and gold. Nutmeg Saving and Investment Limited was formerly known as Hungry Finance Limited and changed its name to Nutmeg Saving and Investment Limited in May 2012. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in the London, United Kingdom.

Enigmatec

Series D in 2008
Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. offers automation solutions for physical and virtual resource management. The company offers Execution Management System, an automation solution to implement run book automation solutions that describe the process of cataloguing, codifying, testing, and automating the manual, scripted, and ad hoc procedures used to manage information technology (IT) environments. It offers Enigmatec Virtual Orchestrator, which provides a self-service request user interface that automates IT workflows to provision, configure, allocate, and reclaim virtual resources; Enigmatec Automated Disaster Recovery that creates, deploys, manages, and monitors various aspects of disaster recovery operations; Execution Management System, a solution to automate repetitive scripted or manual tasks; and integrations and adapters for various commercial and in-house technologies. Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. also provides Cloud Lifecycle Management Solution that manages requests and resources that are sourced from internal source and acquired from the cloud. In addition, it offers Rapid Start Program for virtualization management, process audit, and training; and a range of courses, including introductory, intermediate, and advanced classes for developers, integration specialists, system administrators, and IT operators. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in New York, New York.

Rapid Mobile

Series B in 2008
Rapid Mobile supports services by presenting a mobile version of their product to reach out to customers. They are currently working with apps, ads, and all forms of digital content.

Musicmetric

Series A in 2010
Musicmetric offers detailed analytics and trend forecasting for the music industry. Musicmetric is creating software tools and services using machine learning algorithms designed to measure online buzz and deliver relevant analytics. Their tools enable deep analysis of marketing performance, designed to add efficiency and accurate campaign targeting. Additionally, their software offers predictive trend forecasting for artists, genres and sales within the mainstream label, indie and unsigned sectors of the music industry. The company processes terabytes of raw text daily and performs data mining and classification analysis to generate the data which powers its software products. It is also releasing a suite of free widgets powered by the data generated in the back end, as well as opening an API to allow third parties to build applications on top of the musicmetric data. The customer base includes labels, A&R, managers, promoters and marketing agencies.

Fanduel Limited

Series C in 2013
FanDuel Inc. operates an online fantasy sports platform that enables users to play fantasy games and win cash prizes. The company provides an online sports platform that enables users to play fantasy football, baseball, hockey, and basketball. It also offers sports betting, racing, and casino games. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. FanDuel Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc.

Acunu

Series A in 2011
Acunu Analytics offers a platform for low-latency, continuous analytics on big data; powering dashboards and embedded applications to monitor and control environments in manufacturing, telecommunications, media, financial services and other industries where high-velocity data must be analysed in real time. The Cassandra NoSQL database is at the core of the Acunu offering and Acunu is a very engaged Cassandra contributor donating many of its innovations back to the community. Acunu was founded in 2009 and is backed by some of Europe’s top VC funds. Started by a unique mix of researchers and engineers from Cambridge and Oxford Universities, Acunu has offices in London (near Old Street, London’s “Silicon Roundabout”) and California.

Digital Fineprint (DFP)

Venture Round in 2018
DFP - Transforming SME underwriting Our award-winning insurance technology helps you collect and manage huge amounts of data about your industry sector to give you the insights you need for better performance. It’s the future of efficient underwriting. The technology we have developed in the form of our powerful data sourcing platform provides insurers with the granular insights on SMEs they would otherwise find difficult, time-consuming and expensive to acquire.

Maxymiser

Series A in 2009
On September 10, 2015, Oracle completed the acquisition of Maxymiser. Maxymiser is a leading provider of cloud-based software that enables marketers to test, target and personalize what a customer sees on a Web page or mobile app, substantially increasing engagement and revenue. Maxymiser optimizes over 20 billion customer experiences per month for brands such as HSBC, Lufthansa, Tommy Hilfiger and Wyndham. Oracle Marketing Cloud is already the fastest growing software platform for modern marketers in the world. The addition of Maxymiser to Oracle Marketing Cloud will strengthen the most comprehensive solution to manage marketing programs across all digital channels and across the customer lifecycle.

Enigmatec

Series A in 2003
Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. offers automation solutions for physical and virtual resource management. The company offers Execution Management System, an automation solution to implement run book automation solutions that describe the process of cataloguing, codifying, testing, and automating the manual, scripted, and ad hoc procedures used to manage information technology (IT) environments. It offers Enigmatec Virtual Orchestrator, which provides a self-service request user interface that automates IT workflows to provision, configure, allocate, and reclaim virtual resources; Enigmatec Automated Disaster Recovery that creates, deploys, manages, and monitors various aspects of disaster recovery operations; Execution Management System, a solution to automate repetitive scripted or manual tasks; and integrations and adapters for various commercial and in-house technologies. Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. also provides Cloud Lifecycle Management Solution that manages requests and resources that are sourced from internal source and acquired from the cloud. In addition, it offers Rapid Start Program for virtualization management, process audit, and training; and a range of courses, including introductory, intermediate, and advanced classes for developers, integration specialists, system administrators, and IT operators. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in New York, New York.

Fanduel Limited

Series B in 2011
FanDuel Inc. operates an online fantasy sports platform that enables users to play fantasy games and win cash prizes. The company provides an online sports platform that enables users to play fantasy football, baseball, hockey, and basketball. It also offers sports betting, racing, and casino games. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. FanDuel Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc.

Outplay Entertainment

Seed Round in 2010
Outplay Entertainment develops and publishes games for social and mobile platforms. Outplay Entertainment is a games publisher for social and mobile platformsFounded in 2010 by seasoned games industry entrepreneurs, Outplay Entertainment are an exciting, enthusiastic and ambitious new publisher and developer, delivering new IP on the most popular new platforms.

CacheLogic

Series A in 2003
Velocix offers a broad range of advanced digital delivery services for live and on demand streaming video streaming and file download. The globally deployed Velocix Content Delivery Network (CDN) provides an Internet fast lane for large digital assets like video, music, software and games.

Monolith AI Limited

Venture Round in 2019
Monolith AI is a software company using the latest in machine learning and data science, helping engineers to significantly improve the product development process. Monolith enables companies to monetise on their old simulation and test data by using it to anticipate the behaviour of new products. Companies can optimise their R&D process by reducing the numbers of simulations, tests and prototypes required to develop a new product delivering faster and better products.

CriticalBlue Limited

Series B in 2006
CriticalBlue Limited provides software analysis and optimization services. It offers Prism which is an embedded programming system. The company also develos an application that protects digital assests from cyber attacks. CriticalBlue Limited was formerly known as Adaptive Programmable Silicon Ltd. and changed its name to CriticalBlue Limited in December 2003. The company was incorporated in 2001 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Acunu

Seed Round in 2009
Acunu Analytics offers a platform for low-latency, continuous analytics on big data; powering dashboards and embedded applications to monitor and control environments in manufacturing, telecommunications, media, financial services and other industries where high-velocity data must be analysed in real time. The Cassandra NoSQL database is at the core of the Acunu offering and Acunu is a very engaged Cassandra contributor donating many of its innovations back to the community. Acunu was founded in 2009 and is backed by some of Europe’s top VC funds. Started by a unique mix of researchers and engineers from Cambridge and Oxford Universities, Acunu has offices in London (near Old Street, London’s “Silicon Roundabout”) and California.