Playfair Capital

Playfair Capital is an early-stage investment fund based in London, dedicated to supporting ambitious founders globally. The firm adopts a sector-agnostic approach, investing in a diverse range of industries, including deep tech, SaaS, marketplaces, and B2B companies. By merging the advantages of angel investing with a structured fund, Playfair Capital provides substantial backing to innovative startups. The fund has supported the founders of over 50 companies, demonstrating its commitment to fostering entrepreneurial talent and driving growth in various sectors.

Simon Blakey

Investor

Federico Pirzio-Biroli

Founding Partner, Investment Committee Member & Chairman

Andrew Sheffield

Associate

Chris Smith

Managing Partner

Jeevan Sunner

Principal

Joseph Thornton

Partner

Henrik Wetter-Sanchez

Partner

131 past transactions

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 Limited develops AI powered machine learning tools to enable characterization, tracking, and automated sorting of waste. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Continuum Industries

Seed Round in 2020
Continuum Industries has developed a technology that is changing the way planners and engineers design and deliver infrastructure projects. Our AI-driven product lets users automate their existing design process for infrastructure projects, capture as much geospatial and engineering detail as they want, and iterate through millions of design options to find the best ones. The core is our optimisation engine, which sits in the cloud. It’s powered by evolutionary algorithms, a soft type of artificial intelligence. The beauty of it is that users can build their own design rules into the engine and retain full control over the way it works.

Sprout.ai

Series A in 2021
AI powered Claims Automation & Fraud Filtering for Insurance Sprout.ai's Benefits: - Reduce settlement times with 50% - Increase fraud detection with 15% - Reduce operational costs with 70$ - Zero impact on IT roadmap - Industrial grade security Working with insurance players in USA, UK & Europe

Mapillary

Seed Round in 2015
Mapillary AB operates an online street-level imagery platform that scales and automates mapping through collaboration, cameras, and computer vision. The company enables users to collect photos that are combined into a collective street level photo view through tools, such as smartphones and action cameras. It offers updated maps, automated mapping, mapillary driver, desktop uploader, and command line tools. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Malmö, Sweden. As of June 18, 2020, Mapillary AB operates as a subsidiary of Facebook, Inc.

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 B in 2014
DueDil Limited owns and operates an online platform that combines sources of company information to enable other companies make data-informed decisions. It offers a unified platform to provide companies with better information about other businesses to contextualize and navigate the relationships between sets of data. The company also offers CBILS Eligibility and Endpoint assessment for businesses for Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) and the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS). The company's solution enables its users to find, verify, manage, monitor, and connect business relationships. Its solution is used by various teams, such as sales, marketing, research, procurement, compliance, and credit risk. DueDil Limited was formerly known as Bantr Ltd. and changed its name to DueDil Limited in October 2010. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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

Spotted Zebra

Seed Round in 2023
Operator of a skill-based talent assessment platform intended to help companies solve the skills-gap crisis by becoming skills-based organizations. The company's platform collects and structures vast skills data from across the entire workforce, and its apps deliver the day-to-day operational requirements of a skills-based organization, supporting high-stake people decisions at scale with skills-based hiring, succession planning, and reskilling, its analytics dashboard delivers unprecedented, real-time insights to C-suites and HR (human resources) leaders, enabling strategic skills-based decision-making across the entire organization.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kyra

Private Placement in 2019
Kyra TV publishes videos online. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Mapillary

Series A in 2016
Mapillary AB operates an online street-level imagery platform that scales and automates mapping through collaboration, cameras, and computer vision. The company enables users to collect photos that are combined into a collective street level photo view through tools, such as smartphones and action cameras. It offers updated maps, automated mapping, mapillary driver, desktop uploader, and command line tools. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Malmö, Sweden. As of June 18, 2020, Mapillary AB operates as a subsidiary of Facebook, Inc.

FullCircl

Series C in 2018
DueDil Limited owns and operates an online platform that combines sources of company information to enable other companies make data-informed decisions. It offers a unified platform to provide companies with better information about other businesses to contextualize and navigate the relationships between sets of data. The company also offers CBILS Eligibility and Endpoint assessment for businesses for Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) and the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS). The company's solution enables its users to find, verify, manage, monitor, and connect business relationships. Its solution is used by various teams, such as sales, marketing, research, procurement, compliance, and credit risk. DueDil Limited was formerly known as Bantr Ltd. and changed its name to DueDil Limited in October 2010. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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.

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.

Gluru

Seed Round in 2016
Kare is an advanced analytical & predictive user data software company, making unstructured user data smart, accessible and useful in the moment of need. Consumers or teams use Kare software-as-a-service to save time, collaborate more efficiently and in the case of enterprise increase productivity & sales. Using advanced proprietary natural language processing and machine learning algorithms the Kare engine is able to process, create & connect billions of recommendations from users or teams unstructured data sources securely and privately providing instant actionable insight into the pulse of your unstructured data.

Orca AI

Series A in 2021
Orca AI advances the maritime industry by providing intelligent navigation solutions, preventing collisions and saving lives. We ensure safety in waterways and deep waters by staying committed in our vision to reduce human-caused errors through intelligent automated vessels.

Unmade

Seed Round in 2015
Unmade Limited designs and delivers knitwear, scarves, and jumpers for men and women. Its products are available through its store in London, as well as online in the United Kingdom and internationally. Unmade Limited was formerly known as Knyttan Limited and changed its name to Unmade Limited in September 2015. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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.

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

Admedo

Series A in 2014
Admedo is a self-serve online advertising platform. The admedo platform saves you time and improves the performance of your campaigns, with all the transparency that you need to make clear decisions Admedo was independently founded in the UK, in 2013, by online advertising experts Nick Moutter and Laura Bowen. Now a global company, with offices in the US and Europe, and a multinational team based at their HQ in London, they are all working towards the same goal: a simple, honest, and inclusive future for programmatic advertising. Admedo is the only fully transparent Programmatic Marketing Platform on the market with all the tools needed in one UI at one cost.

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.

Sprout.ai

Seed Round in 2020
AI powered Claims Automation & Fraud Filtering for Insurance Sprout.ai's Benefits: - Reduce settlement times with 50% - Increase fraud detection with 15% - Reduce operational costs with 70$ - Zero impact on IT roadmap - Industrial grade security Working with insurance players in USA, UK & Europe

Seldon

Seed Round in 2016
Seldon Technologies Ltd. operates an open-source machine learning deployment platform. Its Seldon Deploy, which enables data science specialists to move into production more easily with compliance, also offers audit trails and approvals along with detailed explanations. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Shoreditch, United Kingdom.

Learnerbly

Seed Round in 2017
Learnerbly develops an online workplace learning platform. Its platform help users to create company-specific playlists to share knowledge internally, upload internal content to a specific area, and create internal events; and empower their people to own the development, guides them towards the learning opportunities, and supports them in applying their learnings. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Numerai

Venture Round in 2016
Numerai is a new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists. It uses its cryptocurrency to incentivize tens of thousands of anonymous data scientists around the world to collaborate to create predictive models in history. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ClipDis

Seed Round in 2015
ClipDis is a video mashup generator that transforms ordinary messages into a sequential series of micro-clips from popular movies, and YouTube and music videos. Users can simply type a message, with emoticons included, and ClipDis matches each word or emoticon with a micro-clip, in sequential order. If the user isn't happy with some of the micro-clips picked by the system, they can lock in the ones they do like and keep searching for others, or even take a selfie video of themselves to fill in the holes or replace a word, until they are satisfied with the entire mashup. ClipDis is compatible with Twitter, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Slack, Vine and Whatsapp. Through a specially crafted Kik AI chat bot, Kik users can simply send a message to ClipDisBot, and the bot instantly replies to the user with an audible mashup video of the user's original message. The video can then be shared with Kik users or across other social platforms.

Sightec

Seed Round in 2018
Sightec is dedicated to solving the myriad technical problems posed by computer vision & AI as it relates to autonomous flights. The Company's solutions combine sophisticated proprietary algorithms with deep learning technology that put very powerful and complex vision systems into a cost-effective, lightweight package that requires minimal processing power and energy to run. Sightec Offering's benefits include: Safe Mobility: * Vision-based Orientation & Navigation (GPS-free) * Safe & Accurate Landing Real-time Inspection: * Autonomous Detection & Tracking of ground and aerial objects * Real-time Monitoring & Inspection of critical infrastructure

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.

Admedo

Venture Round in 2013
Admedo is a self-serve online advertising platform. The admedo platform saves you time and improves the performance of your campaigns, with all the transparency that you need to make clear decisions Admedo was independently founded in the UK, in 2013, by online advertising experts Nick Moutter and Laura Bowen. Now a global company, with offices in the US and Europe, and a multinational team based at their HQ in London, they are all working towards the same goal: a simple, honest, and inclusive future for programmatic advertising. Admedo is the only fully transparent Programmatic Marketing Platform on the market with all the tools needed in one UI at one cost.

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.

Hullabalook

Seed Round in 2016
Hullabalook offers e-commerce retailers with a plugin that assists their customers to search, filter, and find products in a short period of time. It enables consumers to find products through visualizations and banners, and find similar products with on-page carousels and linked pages. Hullabalook offers tools that enable retailers to improve their e-commerce sites and its user experience to increase their sales. The company is partnered with TrueStart. Hullabalook was founded by Barny Darby and Bryony Elliott in February 2016. It is headquartered in London, England.

Stripe

Series C in 2015
Businesses on Stripe rank access to capital as their biggest obstacle to growth. Traditional lenders aren’t set up to serve internet businesses, typically requiring lengthy applications, complex collateral obligations, and fixed payment schedules. They built Stripe Capital to cut through the red tape. Their goal is to provide access to fast, flexible financing that helps online businesses invest in growth.

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.

SensorFlow Ltd

Private Placement in 2019
SensorFlow Ltd develops sensors and proprietary network that works on energy efficiency for buildings. The company provides a wireless IoT solution that monitors, analyses, and automates room environment. Its products include occupancy sensor, split unit smart thermostat, smart thermostat, flow meter and pipe temperature sensors, energy meter, and door sensor. It serves hotels, factories, schools, and hospitals. The company is based in Singapore.

Omnipresent

Series A in 2021
Omnipresent Group Limited provides local employment, payroll, and benefits services for international teams. It employs international teams through compliant employment contracts; handles payrolls, including local taxes and cross border payments; and ensures international team has access to full benefits package. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Omnipresent

Private Placement in 2020
Omnipresent Group Limited provides local employment, payroll, and benefits services for international teams. It employs international teams through compliant employment contracts; handles payrolls, including local taxes and cross border payments; and ensures international team has access to full benefits package. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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.

Good&Co

Seed Round in 2013
Good&Co Labs Inc. develops a self-discovery engine and social network application for professionals looking for happiness and meaning in their careers, relationships, and personal lives. It offers Culture Fit Jobs, a culture-fit jobs application that take the quizzes to better understand natural strengths and preferences; and Good&Co Teamwork, an application for personality assessments to help improve collaboration with co-workers and work efficiently. Good&Co Labs Inc. was formerly known as MANAGEUP.ME and changed its name to Good&Co Labs Inc. in June 2013. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; London, United Kingdom; and Lviv, Ukraine.

Trouva

Series A in 2017
Trouva, launched in September 2015, is the marketplace for bricks and mortar independent shops, selling unique homeware and lifestyle products from hundreds of shops and boutiques. Trouva bridges online and offline in retail to offer click and collect, 1-hour delivery, and worldwide shipping in a single seamless platform. Trouva is one of the most exciting e-commerce start-ups in Europe, backed by amazing VC and Angel Investors whose successes include Secret Escapes, Net-A-Porter, and Farfetch (BGF Ventures, Octopus Investments, C4 Ventures, Index Ventures & LocalGlobe).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mobius Motors

Series A in 2018
Mobius Motors Ltd. designs, manufactures, and sells vehicles for the African mass market. Its vehicles are used for transporting heavy cargo, over rough and degraded terrains, as well as in public transport, and goods delivery. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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.

Orca AI

Venture Round in 2024
Orca AI advances the maritime industry by providing intelligent navigation solutions, preventing collisions and saving lives. We ensure safety in waterways and deep waters by staying committed in our vision to reduce human-caused errors through intelligent automated vessels.

Spotted Zebra

Series A in 2023
Operator of a skill-based talent assessment platform intended to help companies solve the skills-gap crisis by becoming skills-based organizations. The company's platform collects and structures vast skills data from across the entire workforce, and its apps deliver the day-to-day operational requirements of a skills-based organization, supporting high-stake people decisions at scale with skills-based hiring, succession planning, and reskilling, its analytics dashboard delivers unprecedented, real-time insights to C-suites and HR (human resources) leaders, enabling strategic skills-based decision-making across the entire organization.

Umedeor

Series A in 2023
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

Continuum Industries

Venture Round in 2022
Continuum Industries has developed a technology that is changing the way planners and engineers design and deliver infrastructure projects. Our AI-driven product lets users automate their existing design process for infrastructure projects, capture as much geospatial and engineering detail as they want, and iterate through millions of design options to find the best ones. The core is our optimisation engine, which sits in the cloud. It’s powered by evolutionary algorithms, a soft type of artificial intelligence. The beauty of it is that users can build their own design rules into the engine and retain full control over the way it works.

Valarian Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Worldr is a private, secure and compliant team communication app. While the user experience was designed to be extremely simple and effective, the back-end was architected to be deployable as if it were an in-house application. Worldr is a solution for larger companies, and especially regulated ones, who may not able to use third-party collaboration applications because of 1) the threat to their data security and 2) lack of Compliance transparency. With 150 companies already signed up for our Beta, ranging from small startups to teams within major banks, Worldr is fully publicly launching in 2021. Please find the landing page at worldr.com

Mapillary

Private Placement in 2018
Mapillary AB operates an online street-level imagery platform that scales and automates mapping through collaboration, cameras, and computer vision. The company enables users to collect photos that are combined into a collective street level photo view through tools, such as smartphones and action cameras. It offers updated maps, automated mapping, mapillary driver, desktop uploader, and command line tools. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Malmö, Sweden. As of June 18, 2020, Mapillary AB operates as a subsidiary of Facebook, Inc.

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.

Nory AI

Seed Round in 2021
Skueeze is a management information tool, developed as a direct response to the founder’s experiences in launching a medium scale, fast/casual restaurant chain. A mobile-first solution, designed with the day-to-day running of an SME food and beverage business in mind, Skueeze supports management in controlling their inventory, purchasing, and profitability.

Omnipresent

Series B in 2022
Omnipresent Group Limited provides local employment, payroll, and benefits services for international teams. It employs international teams through compliant employment contracts; handles payrolls, including local taxes and cross border payments; and ensures international team has access to full benefits package. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Good&Co

Seed Round in 2013
Good&Co Labs Inc. develops a self-discovery engine and social network application for professionals looking for happiness and meaning in their careers, relationships, and personal lives. It offers Culture Fit Jobs, a culture-fit jobs application that take the quizzes to better understand natural strengths and preferences; and Good&Co Teamwork, an application for personality assessments to help improve collaboration with co-workers and work efficiently. Good&Co Labs Inc. was formerly known as MANAGEUP.ME and changed its name to Good&Co Labs Inc. in June 2013. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; London, United Kingdom; and Lviv, Ukraine.

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.

AeroCloud

Seed Round in 2021
Airport Operations

Orca AI

Seed Round in 2019
Orca AI advances the maritime industry by providing intelligent navigation solutions, preventing collisions and saving lives. We ensure safety in waterways and deep waters by staying committed in our vision to reduce human-caused errors through intelligent automated vessels.

Thought Machine

Series B in 2020
Thought Machine Group Limited develops and provides Vault, a cloud native core banking platform which runs data in real time within the system automating data analytics and regulatory reporting. Its platform provides services, such as smart contracts, databases, data analytics, workflows, banking operations website, customer application programming interface (API), website ,and mobile application, customer data management, and integrations. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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.

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.

Nory AI

Seed Round in 2023
Skueeze is a management information tool, developed as a direct response to the founder’s experiences in launching a medium scale, fast/casual restaurant chain. A mobile-first solution, designed with the day-to-day running of an SME food and beverage business in mind, Skueeze supports management in controlling their inventory, purchasing, and profitability.

Andela

Series A in 2015
Andela is a global talent network that connects companies with engineering talent in emerging markets. Hundreds of leading companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, and ViacomCBS leverage Andela to scale their engineering teams quickly and cost-effectively. A distributed organization spanning four continents, Andela is backed by investors including Generation Investment Management, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Spark Capital, and Google Ventures.

Valarian Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
Worldr is a private, secure and compliant team communication app. While the user experience was designed to be extremely simple and effective, the back-end was architected to be deployable as if it were an in-house application. Worldr is a solution for larger companies, and especially regulated ones, who may not able to use third-party collaboration applications because of 1) the threat to their data security and 2) lack of Compliance transparency. With 150 companies already signed up for our Beta, ranging from small startups to teams within major banks, Worldr is fully publicly launching in 2021. Please find the landing page at worldr.com

Vinehealth

Seed Round in 2021
Vine Health provides intelligent digital technology to support people going through cancer treatment to manage their care, using a combination of behavioural science and AI.

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.

Hassle.com

Series A in 2014
Hassle is a free to the consumer, destination web site that puts together buyers and sellers of home based services such as cleaners, tutors, personal trainers, and driving instructors. It enables the consumer to search for a vetted provider, read ratings and reviews, and instantly book and pay for a service. They have started with domestic cleaners, providing real time order fulfilment for busy customers across London.

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.

Nory AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Skueeze is a management information tool, developed as a direct response to the founder’s experiences in launching a medium scale, fast/casual restaurant chain. A mobile-first solution, designed with the day-to-day running of an SME food and beverage business in mind, Skueeze supports management in controlling their inventory, purchasing, and profitability.

AeroCloud

Seed Round in 2020
Airport Operations

Kalo

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

Trouva

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Trouva, launched in September 2015, is the marketplace for bricks and mortar independent shops, selling unique homeware and lifestyle products from hundreds of shops and boutiques. Trouva bridges online and offline in retail to offer click and collect, 1-hour delivery, and worldwide shipping in a single seamless platform. Trouva is one of the most exciting e-commerce start-ups in Europe, backed by amazing VC and Angel Investors whose successes include Secret Escapes, Net-A-Porter, and Farfetch (BGF Ventures, Octopus Investments, C4 Ventures, Index Ventures & LocalGlobe).

Being Technologies Ltd

Private Placement in 2020
Being Technologies Ltd., doing business as Thought Machine, develops a cloud-based banking software. The company provides Vault, which enables banking systems to manage users, accounts, savings, loans, mortgages, and other financial products. It offers machine learning algorithms that provide analysis and categorize transactions; allows applications to safely and securely connect to an existing bank account; enables users to develop banks facing applications and Websites; and allows application developers to write applications for personal finance. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Oradian

Venture Round in 2018
Oradian d.o.o. operates as a Software-as-a-Service provider that develops software solutions that enable financial inclusion. The company offers Instafin, a management information system that delivers core banking needs. It serves microfinance banks, credit unions, and corporations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and internationally. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Zagreb, Croatia.

Continuum Industries

Private Placement in 2020
Continuum Industries has developed a technology that is changing the way planners and engineers design and deliver infrastructure projects. Our AI-driven product lets users automate their existing design process for infrastructure projects, capture as much geospatial and engineering detail as they want, and iterate through millions of design options to find the best ones. The core is our optimisation engine, which sits in the cloud. It’s powered by evolutionary algorithms, a soft type of artificial intelligence. The beauty of it is that users can build their own design rules into the engine and retain full control over the way it works.

Recycleye

Seed Round in 2020
Recycleye Limited develops AI powered machine learning tools to enable characterization, tracking, and automated sorting of waste. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Mixlr

Seed Round in 2011
Mixlr Ltd. provides broadcasting services for live audios across the web, iPhone, iPad, Android, and mobile devices. It enables bands, musicians, and DJs to share and stream live performances to their fans. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Mobius Motors

Private Placement in 2019
Mobius Motors Ltd. designs, manufactures, and sells vehicles for the African mass market. Its vehicles are used for transporting heavy cargo, over rough and degraded terrains, as well as in public transport, and goods delivery. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Mobius Motors

Venture Round in 2015
Mobius Motors Ltd. designs, manufactures, and sells vehicles for the African mass market. Its vehicles are used for transporting heavy cargo, over rough and degraded terrains, as well as in public transport, and goods delivery. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Dojo

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.

Mobius Motors

Private Placement in 2018
Mobius Motors Ltd. designs, manufactures, and sells vehicles for the African mass market. Its vehicles are used for transporting heavy cargo, over rough and degraded terrains, as well as in public transport, and goods delivery. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Koala

Seed Round in 2020
Koala is born from our frustration with the traditional travel insurance sector. We’re swapping out high commissions, low customer value and bad practices for simplicity, fairness and customer satisfaction. We envisage a world where when things go wrong, everyone should travel like a VIP and everything is taken care of. If you miss a flight, we'll be here for you. If you lose your luggage? Still here for you. No hidden fees. No bullshit. Just like your own personal travel assistant.

Ravelin

Private Placement 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.

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

Lantum

Series A in 2016
Lantum Limited operates a platform that allows practice managers to find and book locum general practitioners. Its platform allows general practitioners and practices to manage sessional bookings and invoices without agencies; and get invites from practice managers for work. The company was formerly known as Network Locum Ltd. and changed its name to Lantum Limited in July 2017. Lantum Limited was founded in 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Sightec

Private Placement in 2019
As of February 25, 2013, Sightec (Israel) Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Pongr, Inc. Sightec (Israel) Ltd. develops image resolution and enhancement software. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Try.com

Seed Round in 2012
Try Technologies, Inc. operates a Website that lets users to test-drive clothes from various online stores at home for free. Try Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Shop Like a Man Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Onfleet

Seed Round in 2015
Onfleet, Inc. owns and operates an online platform that simplifies the communication of locations between people and businesses. It enables businesses to manage and analyze their delivery operations. The company includes a web dashboard; APIs; driver applications for iOS and Android; customer notifications; and ETAs and map that let recipients track their orders in real time. Its clients include food, beverage, and grocery delivery businesses as well as local couriers. Onfleet, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.