Playfair Capital

Playfair Capital is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2013, specializing in early-stage investments with a contrarian approach. The firm focuses on pre-seed technology companies and operates across various sectors, including fintech, health tech, cybersecurity, and computer vision, primarily in the UK and Europe. Playfair adopts a high conviction, low volume investment strategy, typically making 6-8 investments each year. This approach allows the firm to dedicate significant time and resources to support its portfolio companies post-investment. Over the years, Playfair has invested in more than 70 companies, including notable names such as Thought Machine, Andela, and Mapillary.

Georgia Foster

Partner

Federico Pirzio-Biroli

Founder and Chairman

Henrik Wetter Sanchez

General Partner

Andrew Sheffield

Associate

Smith, Chris

Managing Partner

Jeevan Sunner

Principal

91 past transactions

Nory

Seed Round in 2023
Nory is the all-knowing restaurant management system that learns the behind the scenes of your business. Helping you forecast sales, plan labour & optimise your inventory.

Spotted Zebra

Seed Round in 2023
Spotted Zebra is a provider of a skills-based workforce management platform aimed at helping organizations align their talent with the skills necessary for future challenges. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools that enables businesses to manage skills data effectively, assess workforce capabilities, and identify critical skill gaps. By leveraging granular, employee-level data through its Skills Cloud, Spotted Zebra empowers senior executives to make informed decisions regarding hiring, talent development, and internal mobility. This approach not only enhances organizational performance but also fosters diversity and a positive workplace culture, ultimately enabling clients to build a skilled and agile workforce.

Protex AI

Series A in 2022
Proactive Safety Powered by AI. 24/7 unsafe event capture, revolutionising how enterprise EHS teams make proactive safety decisions

Passionfruit

Seed Round in 2022
Passionfruit is bringing together the next generation of leading independent marketing talent and providing a digital home where they can work, learn and earn, so startups and enterprises can work with them on-demand.

Cauldron

Seed Round in 2022
Cauldron aim is to create a Worldbuilding is the art form that is foundational to everything at Cauldron. We want people to truly feel they can not only escape into our worlds, but through the advances of Web3, be a part of them.

Omnipresent

Series B in 2022
Omnipresent Group Limited is a company that specializes in providing local employment, payroll, and benefits services for international teams. Founded in 2019 and based in London, it enables businesses to hire remote teams worldwide by ensuring compliance with local employment laws and regulations. The company manages payroll processes, including local taxes and cross-border payments, while also offering comprehensive benefits packages to employees. By streamlining human resource support and onboarding, Omnipresent allows companies to focus on their core operations while effectively managing their global workforce. As a fully remote organization, it is dedicated to enhancing the experience of international teams and fostering a sense of belonging among employees.

Cauldron

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Cauldron aim is to create a Worldbuilding is the art form that is foundational to everything at Cauldron. We want people to truly feel they can not only escape into our worlds, but through the advances of Web3, be a part of them.

Qureight

Seed Round in 2022
Qureight is an imaging analytics company. It also aims to develop a new improved and streamlined version of its analytical platform – harnessing the ability of AI and advanced processing tools to gain new insights into respiratory diseases such as Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) and lung cancer.

Skiller Whale

Seed Round in 2022
Skiller Whale changes what organisations are capable of through live team coaching. This means coaching that is targeted to individual skill gaps for a strategic outcome. Small group sessions are led by an expert engineer who gives individual feedback. No time is spent on skills that people already have, or don’t need for their work - every hour is useful.

Vinehealth

Seed Round in 2021
Vinehealth develops a digital application focused on enhancing oncology patient outcomes through the integration of data science and behavioral science. This patient-centric technology allows individuals battling cancer to effectively track, manage, and comprehend their treatment journey. By utilizing behavioral science principles, Vinehealth's application generates valuable patient-reported data, which can inform healthcare delivery, drug development, and research. This personalized support not only aids patients but also equips clinicians with a comprehensive understanding of patient experiences, facilitating tailored healthcare services.

Passionfruit

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Passionfruit is bringing together the next generation of leading independent marketing talent and providing a digital home where they can work, learn and earn, so startups and enterprises can work with them on-demand.

Recycleye

Seed Round in 2021
Recycleye is a developer of digital tools designed to detect and provide analytics on waste management. The company's tools specialize in machine learning tools to enable smarter characterization, ubiquitous tracking, and automated sorting of waste, enabling users to accelerate the transition towards a circular economy. Recycleye was established on September 23, 2019 in London, England by Victor Dewulf.

Valarian Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
Valarian delivers advanced data sovereignty infrastructure engineered to safeguard sensitive data for commercial enterprises and government institutions. Our solution is built to empower customers with full data sovereignty, leveraging strategic localisation, granular access controls, and thorough auditability. Amid rising geopolitical and cyber threats, Valarian fortifies critical operations, enhancing resilience, securing privileged communications, and protecting IP and trade secrets. In this way, we empower corporate and government entities to innovate and compete globally with unwavering confidence. To learn more, visit valarian.com.

Sprout.ai

Series A in 2021
Sprout.ai, the advanced claims automation solution, harnesses the power of Contextual AI to revolutionise the insurance experience for global insurers and their consumers alike. The solution leverages proprietary Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies to deliver significantly reduced claim settlement times, increased fraud detection and industrial grade security to insurers. The solution is already deployed across three continents focusing on the property, motor and health insurance verticals. www.sprout.ai.

Orca AI

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2018 by a team of Navy veterans, Orca AI, a maritime tech startup, empowers shipping companies to enhance their operational safety, efficiency, and sustainability through a single AI and computer-vision-based operations platform. By October 2024, 900 vessels have been booked, and 550 installations have already been completed. The platform is trusted by key industry players across various shipping segments, including MSC, Seaspan, Maran Tankers / Angelicoussis Group, NYK, and Marubeni. The company has raised a total of $38 million in funding over two rounds from US, UK, and Israeli VCs and employs 80 people across its offices in London, Athens, Singapore, and Tel Aviv.

Nory

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Nory is the all-knowing restaurant management system that learns the behind the scenes of your business. Helping you forecast sales, plan labour & optimise your inventory.

Omnipresent

Series A in 2021
Omnipresent Group Limited is a company that specializes in providing local employment, payroll, and benefits services for international teams. Founded in 2019 and based in London, it enables businesses to hire remote teams worldwide by ensuring compliance with local employment laws and regulations. The company manages payroll processes, including local taxes and cross-border payments, while also offering comprehensive benefits packages to employees. By streamlining human resource support and onboarding, Omnipresent allows companies to focus on their core operations while effectively managing their global workforce. As a fully remote organization, it is dedicated to enhancing the experience of international teams and fostering a sense of belonging among employees.

Recycleye

Seed Round in 2020
Recycleye is a developer of digital tools designed to detect and provide analytics on waste management. The company's tools specialize in machine learning tools to enable smarter characterization, ubiquitous tracking, and automated sorting of waste, enabling users to accelerate the transition towards a circular economy. Recycleye was established on September 23, 2019 in London, England by Victor Dewulf.

Umedeor

Seed Round in 2020
uMed is a technology platform embedded across a global network of healthcare providers that automates the process of building prospective, protocolized patient registries. This enables sites to participate in dozens of programmes simultaneously without increasing overhead or burden on staff. For life science companies, uMed provides access to regulator quality data, where patients within those datasets can be compliantly re-engaged to support the aims of R&D and post-market teams

AeroCloud

Seed Round in 2020
AeroCloud Systems designs cutting-edge IT technologies for the aviation industry.

Omnipresent

Seed Round in 2020
Omnipresent Group Limited is a company that specializes in providing local employment, payroll, and benefits services for international teams. Founded in 2019 and based in London, it enables businesses to hire remote teams worldwide by ensuring compliance with local employment laws and regulations. The company manages payroll processes, including local taxes and cross-border payments, while also offering comprehensive benefits packages to employees. By streamlining human resource support and onboarding, Omnipresent allows companies to focus on their core operations while effectively managing their global workforce. As a fully remote organization, it is dedicated to enhancing the experience of international teams and fostering a sense of belonging among employees.

Thought Machine

Series B in 2020
Thought Machine is a fintech company focused on transforming core banking through innovative cloud-native technology. The company addresses the challenges posed by outdated IT infrastructure that many banks rely on, which hinders their capacity for innovation and customer service. Its primary product, Vault, is a comprehensive retail banking platform designed with a microservice API architecture that can be easily configured to meet the specific needs of various banks. By enabling banks to modernize their systems, improve user experiences, and enhance data analysis capabilities, Thought Machine aims to facilitate a significant evolution in the banking sector, fostering a more efficient and responsive financial environment.

Koala

Seed Round in 2020
Koala is a French insurtech company focused on revolutionizing travel insurance by offering a streamlined and customer-centric approach to flight disruption coverage. By automating all operations, Koala provides instant compensation to travelers in the event of delayed or canceled flights, as well as issues related to baggage delivery. The company monitors clients' journeys to ensure timely assistance, eliminating the challenges commonly associated with traditional travel insurance, such as hidden fees and lengthy claims processes. Koala aims to enhance the travel experience by ensuring that travelers can travel with confidence, knowing they will receive prompt support when needed.

Dorm

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Oneday’s mission is to create the next 1 Billion entrepreneurs in the world. As technology drives down the cost of starting a business, more people are launching a business than ever before. But 85% of these businesses are failing, and existing products are failing to help. We solve this issue by creating technology that automates large parts of the business launch process, and merging it with university integrations that allow our members to earn university credits as they build their businesses.

Continuum Industries

Seed Round in 2020
Continuum Industries enables power, utility, and renewables companies to instantly visualize, analyze, and assess routing options for power lines, cables, and pipelines. They are the providers of enterprise software for infrastructure planning. They also provide solutions for electricity transmission, renewable energy developers, and hydrogen networks.

Sprout.ai

Seed Round in 2020
Sprout.ai, the advanced claims automation solution, harnesses the power of Contextual AI to revolutionise the insurance experience for global insurers and their consumers alike. The solution leverages proprietary Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies to deliver significantly reduced claim settlement times, increased fraud detection and industrial grade security to insurers. The solution is already deployed across three continents focusing on the property, motor and health insurance verticals. www.sprout.ai.

Vinehealth

Seed Round in 2019
Vinehealth develops a digital application focused on enhancing oncology patient outcomes through the integration of data science and behavioral science. This patient-centric technology allows individuals battling cancer to effectively track, manage, and comprehend their treatment journey. By utilizing behavioral science principles, Vinehealth's application generates valuable patient-reported data, which can inform healthcare delivery, drug development, and research. This personalized support not only aids patients but also equips clinicians with a comprehensive understanding of patient experiences, facilitating tailored healthcare services.

Umedeor

Pre Seed Round in 2019
uMed is a technology platform embedded across a global network of healthcare providers that automates the process of building prospective, protocolized patient registries. This enables sites to participate in dozens of programmes simultaneously without increasing overhead or burden on staff. For life science companies, uMed provides access to regulator quality data, where patients within those datasets can be compliantly re-engaged to support the aims of R&D and post-market teams

SensorFlow

Series A in 2019
SensorFlow is a Singapore government-funded company who make smart energy-efficient hotels a reality. Their wireless room automation & energy management solutions are flexible, easy to install and have provided proven energy savings of up to 30% per room per year. Their goal is to make the world a greener place and develop new innovative, affordable sustainable solutions.

Orca AI

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2018 by a team of Navy veterans, Orca AI, a maritime tech startup, empowers shipping companies to enhance their operational safety, efficiency, and sustainability through a single AI and computer-vision-based operations platform. By October 2024, 900 vessels have been booked, and 550 installations have already been completed. The platform is trusted by key industry players across various shipping segments, including MSC, Seaspan, Maran Tankers / Angelicoussis Group, NYK, and Marubeni. The company has raised a total of $38 million in funding over two rounds from US, UK, and Israeli VCs and employs 80 people across its offices in London, Athens, Singapore, and Tel Aviv.

Sightec

Seed Round in 2018
Sightec specializes in developing visual intelligence technology for autonomous flights, leveraging computer vision and artificial intelligence to enhance safety and efficiency in unmanned aerial missions. The company's product suite offers camera-based visual situational awareness that operates day and night, facilitating navigation, ground object detection, and 3D change detection without reliance on GPS. Their flagship product, NavSight, serves as a GPS-free aerial navigation system, utilizing advanced machine vision and AI to process camera feeds for visual positioning in GPS-denied environments. Sightec's diverse clientele includes governments, original equipment manufacturers, integrators, and service providers across various sectors such as aerospace, public safety, security, inspection, and delivery. The company aims to fully realize the potential of the autonomous flight market by providing a lightweight and cost-effective visual situational awareness solution that can augment or ultimately replace human pilots.

Ravelin

Series B in 2018
Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud by examining customer behavior data and spotting fraudsters while there is still time to block them. The company imports a client’s visitor, registration, and payment data in real-time, via an API, inspects data using an AI, identifies and blocks fraudsters, and enables systems to prevent such crimes in the future.

FullCircl

Series C in 2018
FullCircl offers a customer lifecycle intelligence platform aimed at enhancing business operations for companies in regulated industries, particularly within B2B financial services. The platform provides comprehensive access to company intelligence, drawing from various online data sources related to markets, organizations, and individuals. It equips financial institutions with actionable insights and near real-time records of companies and their shareholders. By enabling clients to efficiently identify and engage the right customers, assess risks swiftly for faster onboarding, and anticipate client needs, FullCircl supports firms in overcoming customer lifecycle challenges and fostering long-term relationships with clients.

Mapillary

Series B in 2018
Mapillary AB is an online platform based in Malmö, Sweden, that focuses on street-level imagery and mapping through collaboration and computer vision. Founded in 2013, the company allows users to collect and share photos taken with various cameras, which are then combined to create a comprehensive visual representation of locations around the world. This imagery contributes to improved maps, urban development, and advancements in the automotive industry. Mapillary provides a range of tools, including automated mapping solutions, privacy features, and imagery tagging, to facilitate the collection and utilization of street-level images. With contributions exceeding 500 million images from individuals and organizations globally, Mapillary aims to enhance understanding of diverse locations and make this valuable data accessible to clients and partners such as the World Bank and Toyota Research Institute. As of June 2020, Mapillary operates as a subsidiary of Facebook, Inc.

Oradian

Venture Round in 2018
Oradian is a fintech company helping financial institutions reach rural and remote customers in emerging markets. Oradian offers a cloud-based core banking platform delivered through a Software as a Service model, allowing financial institutions to easily digitise their products and operations in order to scale efficiently. Our global community is made up of over 80 financial institutions in 12 countries serving several million end clients. Oradian is a dedicated team of experts from over 20 nationalities, brought together to deliver best practice, develop innovative technological solutions, and support our goal of financial inclusion. Our aim is to think bigger and go further.

Mobius Motors

Series A in 2018
Mobius Motors sells affordable vehicles designed specifically for the needs of developing world consumers. We aim to change millions of lives by providing the appropriate transport to mobilise rural Africa. Our vision is a more connected, more prosperous Africa.

Trouva

Series A in 2017
Trouva is a SaaS-enabled online marketplace connecting customers with unique homeware, fashion, and lifestyle items from boutiques. The platform aims to help brick-and-mortar stores extend their reach by offering their products online. The platform offers a diverse range of items, from home décor to clothing, making it a go-to for customers seeking distinctive, high-quality products that aren't easily found in large online retailers.

FullCircl

Series B in 2017
FullCircl offers a customer lifecycle intelligence platform aimed at enhancing business operations for companies in regulated industries, particularly within B2B financial services. The platform provides comprehensive access to company intelligence, drawing from various online data sources related to markets, organizations, and individuals. It equips financial institutions with actionable insights and near real-time records of companies and their shareholders. By enabling clients to efficiently identify and engage the right customers, assess risks swiftly for faster onboarding, and anticipate client needs, FullCircl supports firms in overcoming customer lifecycle challenges and fostering long-term relationships with clients.

Learnerbly

Seed Round in 2017
Learnerbly assists with the development of people at work by curating learning and development opportunities to accelerate professional growth. Its platform helps forward thinking businesses such as likes of Ideo, Curve, goCardless.

Appear Here

Series B in 2017
Appear Here is an online marketplace for retail space. Since the company was founded in 2012, it has facilitated the opening of over 10,000 stores in the UK, US, and France. Appear Here has raised a total of $21.4 million in VC funding from the previous backers of Spotify, Pinterest, Hailo and Trivago.

Starship Technologies

Seed Round in 2017
Starship Technologies is a robotics company building fleets of self-driving delivery robots designed to deliver goods locally within 30 minutes. The robots drive autonomously 99% of the time to make safe and environmentally friendly curb-side deliveries from a local hub. They also offering people convenient new services that improve everyday life. Starships Technologies robots are equipped with a sensor suite that includes cameras, GPS, and inertial measurement units. The company's aim is to fundamentally reshape how goods are shipped and delivered, and make local delivery, ultimately, free. It also enables a new era of instant delivery that works around your schedule at much lower costs. Starships Technologies was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Hullabalook

Seed Round in 2016
Hullabalook Ltd is a London-based company that specializes in developing a product discovery application aimed at enhancing the e-commerce experience for retailers and consumers. Founded in February 2016 by Barny Darby and Bryony Elliott, Hullabalook offers a plugin that allows customers to efficiently search, filter, and discover products. The plugin features visualizations, banners, and on-page carousels that help users find similar products quickly. By utilizing analytical techniques to visualize product descriptions and analyze data, Hullabalook aims to improve the user experience on e-commerce sites, ultimately driving sales for retailers. The company collaborates with partners such as TrueStart to further its mission of optimizing product discovery in the online marketplace.

gluru

Seed Round in 2016
gluru is a software company based in London that specializes in advanced analytical and predictive user data solutions. Its flagship product, Kare, transforms unstructured user data into smart and accessible insights, enabling users to utilize information effectively at crucial moments. The Kare software-as-a-service aims to enhance efficiency for both consumers and teams, ultimately boosting productivity and sales for enterprises. By leveraging proprietary natural language processing and machine learning algorithms, the Kare engine processes and connects vast amounts of data, offering secure and private access to actionable insights that reflect the underlying trends and needs of users.

Ravelin

Series A in 2016
Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud by examining customer behavior data and spotting fraudsters while there is still time to block them. The company imports a client’s visitor, registration, and payment data in real-time, via an API, inspects data using an AI, identifies and blocks fraudsters, and enables systems to prevent such crimes in the future.

CryptoFacilities

Seed Round in 2016
Crypto Facilities Ltd. is a financial services firm that operates a regulated trading platform for digital assets, including bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Barking, United Kingdom, the company specializes in providing risk management and trading solutions such as futures and options. Its platform allows users to conduct online transactions, manage price risk, and trade various digital tokens. Customers can open and verify accounts by submitting identification and addresses, after which they can deposit bitcoins for trading. As of early 2019, Crypto Facilities operates as a subsidiary of Payward, Inc.

Lantum

Series A in 2016
Lantum Limited operates an online platform that streamlines the staffing process for healthcare organizations by connecting practice managers with locum general practitioners. Founded in 2011 and based in London, Lantum facilitates the management of sessional bookings and invoices, allowing clinics to efficiently handle their freelance physicians without relying on agencies. The platform offers features such as compliance checks, payment tracking, and a marketplace for vetted physicians, ensuring that clinics can quickly find suitable professionals. Additionally, Lantum provides tools for freelance physicians to manage their work and finances effectively. The concept for Lantum originated from CEO Melissa Morris's experience in healthcare consulting and her subsequent work with NHS London, which informed her understanding of the sector's needs.

Festicket

Series B in 2016
Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travelers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,000+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 2,000 suppliers for accommodation and travel packages.

Pronto Technology

Series A in 2016
Pronto, we care deeply about the meals we deliver to you. We want them to be very good; for you, the community and the environment. All our healthy meals are freshly cooked from scratch, just like at home - they won’t see the inside of a freezer.

Stratajet

Series A in 2016
Founded in 2011 by Jonathan Nicol, a pilot-turned computer scientist-turned commercial pilot-turned entrepreneur who, frustrated by the archaic and inefficient state of the modern private jet business, decided to do something about it. Their vision is to change the way people travel by making the world’s supply of private jets more accessible. They are dedicated to helping operators achieve maximum efficiency, whilst driving down the price of private jet travel by adapting existing empty legs to suit customers.

Numerai

Venture Round in 2016
Numerai is a new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Mapillary

Series A in 2016
Mapillary AB is an online platform based in Malmö, Sweden, that focuses on street-level imagery and mapping through collaboration and computer vision. Founded in 2013, the company allows users to collect and share photos taken with various cameras, which are then combined to create a comprehensive visual representation of locations around the world. This imagery contributes to improved maps, urban development, and advancements in the automotive industry. Mapillary provides a range of tools, including automated mapping solutions, privacy features, and imagery tagging, to facilitate the collection and utilization of street-level images. With contributions exceeding 500 million images from individuals and organizations globally, Mapillary aims to enhance understanding of diverse locations and make this valuable data accessible to clients and partners such as the World Bank and Toyota Research Institute. As of June 2020, Mapillary operates as a subsidiary of Facebook, Inc.

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.

Seldon

Seed Round in 2016
Seldon is a developer of a machine learning deployment platform that streamlines the data science workflow for engineering teams. The company's software enhances the transition from research and development to production, significantly improving efficiency. Seldon's platform utilizes prototyping algorithms to process data and can transform machine learning models into production-ready REST and GRPC microservices. This capability allows data scientists to accelerate data interpretation and deployment. Seldon's clientele includes major enterprises across various sectors, such as technology, pharmaceuticals, automotive, finance, and retail. Additionally, the company engages in open-source projects focused on model serving, explanations, and monitoring, contributing to its widespread adoption in the industry.

Jukedeck

Venture Round in 2015
Jukedeck is developing an artificially intelligent music composer - a system that writes original music completely on its own. Jukedeck is based on state-of-the-art technology they are building that brings artificial intelligence to music composition and production. They are training deep neural networks to understand music composition at a granular level, so that they can build tools to aid creativity.

CHRONEXT

Series B in 2015
CHRONEXT is a full-service platform for luxury watch trading. At CHRONEXT, you can buy watches, sell watches, and service watches in their in-house certified watchmaking atelier. In addition to brand new models, they offer pre-owned and vintage timepieces, all of which have undergone inspection for quality and authenticity in their watchmaking atelier.

Vinaya

Seed Round in 2015
Vinaya is focused on merging human science with technological innovation to enhance wellbeing in the digital age. The company designs internet-connected jewelry, including Bluetooth-enabled rings, bracelets, and necklaces. These products are crafted to subtly notify wearers of calls and messages through vibrations, addressing issues related to stress and hyper-connectivity. Vinaya's mission emphasizes the importance of technology in fostering a better and more human experience. The first product, ALTRUIS, exemplifies this vision by filtering smartphone notifications to help individuals manage their digital interactions more effectively.

Lantum

Seed Round in 2015
Lantum Limited operates an online platform that streamlines the staffing process for healthcare organizations by connecting practice managers with locum general practitioners. Founded in 2011 and based in London, Lantum facilitates the management of sessional bookings and invoices, allowing clinics to efficiently handle their freelance physicians without relying on agencies. The platform offers features such as compliance checks, payment tracking, and a marketplace for vetted physicians, ensuring that clinics can quickly find suitable professionals. Additionally, Lantum provides tools for freelance physicians to manage their work and finances effectively. The concept for Lantum originated from CEO Melissa Morris's experience in healthcare consulting and her subsequent work with NHS London, which informed her understanding of the sector's needs.

Locatable

Venture Round in 2015
Locatable is made up of a team of young property enthusiasts building awesome tools to make managing your home a breeze. Locatable is your home online. Locatable is a platform for the home with a suite of tools to help you make every day decisions better and faster than ever before. Splittable, our newest addition to the Locatable family, is a super simple app for splitting costs with your housemates. They're working tirelessly and keeping in constant touch with people just like you to make the reality of managing your home better with a suite of cutting edge digital tools to add to your home management arsenal. As your needs evolve, so too will the Locatable platform...so please let them know if you've got any problems, ideas or any feedback.

acasa

Seed Round in 2015
acasa is a web, iOS and Android app helping the world’s growing population of young renters renters live better together. acasa allows you to set-up, manage, split and pay your bills. Founded in the Open Data Institute in 2014, acasa (originally Splittable) is backed by some of the leading technology investors Europe. The company is run by young property enthusiasts with a collective passion for improving the lives of householders. Find out more about the company at www.helloacasa.com

Trouva

Seed Round in 2015
Trouva is a SaaS-enabled online marketplace connecting customers with unique homeware, fashion, and lifestyle items from boutiques. The platform aims to help brick-and-mortar stores extend their reach by offering their products online. The platform offers a diverse range of items, from home décor to clothing, making it a go-to for customers seeking distinctive, high-quality products that aren't easily found in large online retailers.

Ravelin

Seed Round in 2015
Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud by examining customer behavior data and spotting fraudsters while there is still time to block them. The company imports a client’s visitor, registration, and payment data in real-time, via an API, inspects data using an AI, identifies and blocks fraudsters, and enables systems to prevent such crimes in the future.

ClipDis

Seed Round in 2015
ClipDis is a video mashup generator that transforms text messages into a series of micro-clips sourced from popular movies, YouTube, and music videos. Users can input their text, including emoticons, and ClipDis matches each element with corresponding micro-clips. If users are not satisfied with the selections, they have the option to lock in preferred clips and continue searching for alternatives, or they can create personalized content by taking selfie videos to replace or enhance specific words. The platform is compatible with various social media and messaging services, including Twitter, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Slack, Vine, and WhatsApp. Additionally, through an AI chatbot on Kik, users can send messages to ClipDisBot, which generates an audible video mashup in response, allowing for easy sharing across Kik and other social platforms.

Swipe

Seed Round in 2015
Swipe helps you make quick, beautiful, responsive presentations and lets you broadcast them in real-time to anyone, on any device, anywhere in the world. Swipe turns your presentations into conversations, by putting your content in the hands of your audience and lets you interact with real-time polls for a more modern, engaged, two-way presentation experience. Rebuilt from the ground up with the tools to help save you time and make better presentations.

Stripe

Series C in 2015
Stripe, Inc. is a global technology company that provides application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools designed to facilitate online payment processing for businesses. Its comprehensive platform includes solutions for payments, subscriptions, fraud detection, and data analytics, among others. Stripe's offerings, such as Stripe Connect for routing payments, Stripe Radar for fraud prevention, and Stripe Checkout for seamless transaction processes, cater to a diverse clientele ranging from startups to established enterprises. The company also addresses financing challenges faced by online businesses through Stripe Capital, which offers fast and flexible funding options. With operations in multiple countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Singapore, Stripe aims to simplify financial infrastructure and support the growth of internet-based businesses, thereby contributing to the overall economic landscape of the digital economy. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Stripe has established partnerships with leading technology firms to enhance its service capabilities.

Andela

Series A in 2015
Andela operates the world’s largest private marketplace of skilled digital talent. Its adaptive hiring model gives companies greater flexibility to quickly deploy skilled talent based on need. The company’s exclusive AI-powered platform, Andela Talent Cloud, optimizes the process of finding the right talent and getting projects started fast. Clients can select individual roles or engage fully managed teams up to 66% faster at 30-50% less cost than traditional approaches. Andela’s seasoned hiring professionals manage all the groundwork associated with borderless hiring, from compliance and payroll to talent management. Andela’s diverse talent ecosystem spans over 135 countries, including untapped markets like Africa and Latin America, and is highly skilled in advanced technologies to support Application Development, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud & DevOps, Data Engineering, and more. The world’s best brands trust Andela, including GitHub, Mastercard Foundry, and Mindshare.

UNMADE

Seed Round in 2015
Unmade is a startup innovating in the fashion industry by transforming the way knitwear is designed and produced. By utilizing advanced technologies to control industrial knitting machines, Unmade enables the creation of unique garments on demand, akin to 3D printing but with high-quality natural fibers. Launching in Somerset House, the company allows customers to remix designs from renowned artists and see their creations visualized on models before production. This capability is made possible through Unmade's unique preview technology, which significantly reduces the programming costs traditionally associated with custom knitwear. As a result, brands can offer bespoke, customized, or limited edition knitwear at a cost comparable to local mass production. Unmade aims to establish a platform that connects brands and independent designers with customers seeking personalized clothing, thus advancing the mass customization of knitwear to an industrial scale.

Kalo

Seed Round in 2015
Kalo, established in 2015, provides a platform that simplifies the onboarding, management, communication, and payment processes for companies utilizing external workers. The service targets a diverse range of industries, allowing clients such as Google, Asos, IDEO, and Airbnb to streamline their operations. By replacing cumbersome spreadsheets and invoice emails, Kalo offers a user-friendly experience for organizations to collaborate effectively with their freelancers and vendors.

Onfleet

Seed Round in 2015
Onfleet is a B2B software company that specializes in last-mile delivery logistics. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every month for thousands of businesses around the world. Onfleet's customers range from food and beverage delivery services to laundry and dry cleaning, pharmaceutical, retail and e-commerce delivery businesses. The company's product includes a web-based dispatch dashboard for routing, tracking, dispatching, and analytics, intuitive iOS and Android apps for drivers, automated customer notifications and real-time driver tracking, and a robust RESTful API. Onfleet was founded in 2012 by a team of engineers at Stanford University.

tray.io

Seed Round in 2015
Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators. Tray.io believes that any organization can and should automate. With the Tray Platform, citizen automators throughout organizations can easily automate complex processes through a powerful, flexible platform, and can connect their entire cloud stack thanks to APIs. With Tray.io’s visual workflow builder, customers can create automation to drive their business processes without writing a single line of code.

Dojo App

Seed Round in 2015
Dojo is a mobile app that helps in finding leisures in the area. The app helps thousands of young Londoners find cool places to eat, drink, and visit in their city. Dojo was founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, England.

Mapillary

Seed Round in 2015
Mapillary AB is an online platform based in Malmö, Sweden, that focuses on street-level imagery and mapping through collaboration and computer vision. Founded in 2013, the company allows users to collect and share photos taken with various cameras, which are then combined to create a comprehensive visual representation of locations around the world. This imagery contributes to improved maps, urban development, and advancements in the automotive industry. Mapillary provides a range of tools, including automated mapping solutions, privacy features, and imagery tagging, to facilitate the collection and utilization of street-level images. With contributions exceeding 500 million images from individuals and organizations globally, Mapillary aims to enhance understanding of diverse locations and make this valuable data accessible to clients and partners such as the World Bank and Toyota Research Institute. As of June 2020, Mapillary operates as a subsidiary of Facebook, Inc.

Mobius Motors

Venture Round in 2015
Mobius Motors sells affordable vehicles designed specifically for the needs of developing world consumers. We aim to change millions of lives by providing the appropriate transport to mobilise rural Africa. Our vision is a more connected, more prosperous Africa.

Appear Here

Series A in 2014
Appear Here is an online marketplace for retail space. Since the company was founded in 2012, it has facilitated the opening of over 10,000 stores in the UK, US, and France. Appear Here has raised a total of $21.4 million in VC funding from the previous backers of Spotify, Pinterest, Hailo and Trivago.

Festicket

Series A in 2014
Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travelers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,000+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 2,000 suppliers for accommodation and travel packages.

Admedo

Series A in 2014
Admedo is a self-serve online advertising platform that focuses on enhancing transparency and control in programmatic advertising. Founded in 2013 in the UK by Nick Moutter and Laura Bowen, the company has expanded to become a global entity, with offices in the US and Europe and a team based in London. The Admedo platform streamlines advertisement creation, sales, and management, allowing advertisers to handle their programmatic advertising in-house. It offers a fully transparent marketing platform with all necessary tools integrated into a single user interface, aimed at simplifying the advertising process and improving campaign performance.

Hassle.com

Series A in 2014
Hassle is an online marketplace based in London that connects consumers with providers of home-based services, including cleaners, tutors, personal trainers, and driving instructors. The platform allows users to search for vetted service providers, read ratings and reviews, and instantly book and pay for services online. Initially focusing on domestic cleaning, Hassle aims to streamline the process for busy customers by offering real-time order fulfillment, making it easier for them to access reliable home services.

FullCircl

Series B in 2014
FullCircl offers a customer lifecycle intelligence platform aimed at enhancing business operations for companies in regulated industries, particularly within B2B financial services. The platform provides comprehensive access to company intelligence, drawing from various online data sources related to markets, organizations, and individuals. It equips financial institutions with actionable insights and near real-time records of companies and their shareholders. By enabling clients to efficiently identify and engage the right customers, assess risks swiftly for faster onboarding, and anticipate client needs, FullCircl supports firms in overcoming customer lifecycle challenges and fostering long-term relationships with clients.

Birdback

Venture Round in 2014
Birdback is a card-linking platform that connects offers & loyalty programs directly to customers’ payment cards. Publishers and advertisers can now connect digital marketing to offline sales, to more effectively drive and track in store transactions, right down to SKU-level. Because Birdback’s technology is built on the existing payments infrastructure, it’s easy and quick to integrate and partnerships with Zanox Group and Quidco have already put it in the hands of retailers around the world.

Storybricks

Seed Round in 2014
Storybricks is a platform that lets gamer developers add emotions and complex behaviors to game characters. It works alongside game studios to integrate a toolset into online games like MMORPGs. This is what developers are saying: "Storybricks is important -- perhaps the most important new technology in MMORPG development in many years -- because it provides the technological foundation for creating characters with emotional depth in computer-mediated gameworlds.

Trouva

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Trouva is a SaaS-enabled online marketplace connecting customers with unique homeware, fashion, and lifestyle items from boutiques. The platform aims to help brick-and-mortar stores extend their reach by offering their products online. The platform offers a diverse range of items, from home décor to clothing, making it a go-to for customers seeking distinctive, high-quality products that aren't easily found in large online retailers.

Appear Here

Seed Round in 2013
Appear Here is an online marketplace for retail space. Since the company was founded in 2012, it has facilitated the opening of over 10,000 stores in the UK, US, and France. Appear Here has raised a total of $21.4 million in VC funding from the previous backers of Spotify, Pinterest, Hailo and Trivago.

Good&Co

Seed Round in 2013
Good&Co Labs Inc. is a developer of a self-discovery engine and social networking application aimed at helping professionals find fulfillment in their careers and personal lives. The company offers tools such as Culture Fit Jobs, which assists users in understanding their strengths and preferences through quizzes, and Good&Co Teamwork, which provides personality assessments to enhance collaboration among coworkers. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Boston, London, and Lviv, Good&Co has amassed a significant user base, boasting over 1.5 million profiles and an extensive psychometric database. This platform combines engaging user experiences with scientific assessment to address challenges in employee retention and hiring by ensuring cultural compatibility between individuals and organizations.

Clarify

Seed Round in 2013
The world has moved beyond text. That simple understanding is at the heart of what we’re doing at Clarify (formerly OP3Nvoice). Ever since the invention of the Gutenberg press human knowledge has been preserved and communicated in text. The digital explosion has changed this. Now video and audio technologies enable the capture and storage of information in quantities that are mind-boggling. Just think of the huge volume of phone calls or conference videos that are recorded every day.

FullCircl

Series A in 2013
FullCircl offers a customer lifecycle intelligence platform aimed at enhancing business operations for companies in regulated industries, particularly within B2B financial services. The platform provides comprehensive access to company intelligence, drawing from various online data sources related to markets, organizations, and individuals. It equips financial institutions with actionable insights and near real-time records of companies and their shareholders. By enabling clients to efficiently identify and engage the right customers, assess risks swiftly for faster onboarding, and anticipate client needs, FullCircl supports firms in overcoming customer lifecycle challenges and fostering long-term relationships with clients.

ToucanBox

Seed Round in 2013
ToucanBox delivers packages of educational and inspirational activities that are suitable for children. It offers a box of stimulating, educational, and inspirational activities to children aged 3-8. Each box is put together by educational experts to help motivate and engage children, as well as develop key skills essential to a child's progression. Every toucanBox includes all the materials required to create 1,2 or 4 projects, a set of easy-to-follow instructions and a reading book to encourage children to investigate a variety of topics. A new theme is delivered to the child monthly or bi-weekly, bursting with fresh ideas to inspire children.

Festicket

Seed Round in 2013
Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travelers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,000+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 2,000 suppliers for accommodation and travel packages.

Admedo

Venture Round in 2013
Admedo is a self-serve online advertising platform that focuses on enhancing transparency and control in programmatic advertising. Founded in 2013 in the UK by Nick Moutter and Laura Bowen, the company has expanded to become a global entity, with offices in the US and Europe and a team based in London. The Admedo platform streamlines advertisement creation, sales, and management, allowing advertisers to handle their programmatic advertising in-house. It offers a fully transparent marketing platform with all necessary tools integrated into a single user interface, aimed at simplifying the advertising process and improving campaign performance.

Blottr

Venture Round in 2013
Blottr is a people powered news service that enables anyone to capture, report and collaborate on news as it happens around them, from mobile to web instantly. Having many people contribute to the same story is a powerful way of reporting and consuming news.

Try.com

Seed Round in 2012
Try.com give people the power to try clothes at home. Try clothes from your favorite online stores for free.The Try Button lets you checkout from any online retailer without paying a penny.Once the goods arrive, you get 7 days to decide what to keep or return.

Mixlr

Seed Round in 2011
Mixlr Ltd. is a London-based company that provides a platform for live audio broadcasting, enabling users to share and stream performances in real-time. Established in 2010, Mixlr caters to a diverse range of content creators, including musicians, DJs, sports teams, online radio stations, and podcasters. The platform allows broadcasters to engage with their audience through live audio streaming, facilitating interaction with fans and listeners. It is accessible across various devices, including web browsers and mobile platforms such as iPhone, iPad, and Android, supporting millions of unique listeners each month.

FullCircl

Seed Round in 2011
FullCircl offers a customer lifecycle intelligence platform aimed at enhancing business operations for companies in regulated industries, particularly within B2B financial services. The platform provides comprehensive access to company intelligence, drawing from various online data sources related to markets, organizations, and individuals. It equips financial institutions with actionable insights and near real-time records of companies and their shareholders. By enabling clients to efficiently identify and engage the right customers, assess risks swiftly for faster onboarding, and anticipate client needs, FullCircl supports firms in overcoming customer lifecycle challenges and fostering long-term relationships with clients.
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