Stride VC

Stride VC is a venture capital firm based in London, England, focusing on seed stage startups. Established in 2018, the firm provides funding and support to early-stage companies to help them grow and succeed in their respective industries.

Fred Destin

Founder

72 past transactions

Alena

Seed Round in 2022
Alena uses neuroscience-based games to assess the user’s behaviour and identify thinking patterns that drive key mental health disorders. Using this deeper understanding, Alena suggests the most optimal intervention and dynamically adapts to the user's changing needs. Alena was founded in 2019 in London bringing together leading figures from the world of computational neuroscience, psychiatry and user-centric innovation. You can learn more about Alena on our website: www.alena.com

Front of the Pack

Seed Round in 2020
Pet wellness, reimagined.

Front of the Pack

Series A in 2021
Pet wellness, reimagined.

Purchasely

Seed Round in 2021
Purchasely is the only In-App Subscription SaaS platform from build to interface, compliant with mobile, TV and Apps Stores guidelines. Purchasely gives Marketers full control and ease to increase and retain cross-channel subscribers — in days instead of weeks. Subscription platform, In-App Purchases, App Marketing, Monetization, Lifecycle

Wishop SAS

Private Placement in 2019
Wishop SAS designs and develops a mobile application which offers cooking recipe ingredients. The platform allows users to choose the recipe, provides ingredients, and delivers it to the users. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Paris, France.

WhenThen

Pre Seed Round in 2020
WhenThen allows you to create and automate your payment flows.

Anotherblock

Seed Round in 2023
Anotherblock provides a blockchain-based platform to decentralize music rights connecting non-fungible tokens to royalty rights.

Zefir

Seed Round in 2021
Vesta is the new way to move for homeowners looking to buy and sell at the same time. Vesta gives homeowners the certainty of a home sale, so they can confidently buy and move into the new home, while we safely list and sell their current home on the market. Our commitment to our customers is to be the safest, easiest, and most certain sale. Vesta was founded by Louis Lambert and Remy Fabre, two engineers who previously co-founded Metabrain (1st non-invasive brain interface bridging the gap between humans and technology) and a cryptocurrency microfund. Remy worked at PAI Partners and sourced capital from 126 investors from 27 countries to raise PAI's latest fund of €5.1 billion. Louis is deeply rooted in real estate through his family and studied artificial intelligence at Columbia University with a focus on Machine Learning. Vesta is backed by Third Kind Venture and Edward Lando.

Dishpatch

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Dispatch is a finish-at-home meal kit platform that claims to bring the best of London’s ‘world-beating’ food scene to homes across the UK

Strapi

Seed Round in 2019
Strapi is an open-source software helping developers to easily build, deploy, and manage APIs. Its open-source headless CMS provides backend functionality for applications and gives developers the freedom to use the tools of their choice for front-end frameworks. It’s called headless because the frontend is not part of the CMS, but there’s an API for content to show up on different devices. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France.

Northflank

Seed Round in 2020
Northflank Ltd. develops a next generation hosting cloud platform. It also develops platform as a service via application programming interface. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Bene Bono

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bene Bono is an organic producer that offers a variety of seasonal products from their fields. They purchased cheap vegetables directly from farmers, allowing farmers to sell their rejected product in exchange for money, offering customers access to reasonably priced organic produce, and reducing overall food waste.

Jow

Seed Round in 2019
Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking. Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

WhenThen

Seed Round in 2021
WhenThen allows you to create and automate your payment flows.

Cleverea

Seed Round in 2021
Cleverea is the P&C neoinsurer for the millennial generation. We focus on a B2B2C distribution strategy with partners like neobanks, insurers/insurtechs, brokers, airlines, etc. We conceptually design, technologically develop and stretegically distribute highly disruptive insurance products across the whole customer journey.

Unibuddy

Series B in 2021
Unibuddy Limited provides a platform to connect students to the recruiters in various universities. The platform enables students to talk to each other to see which university is a better fit for them. The products offered are, unibuddy platform, unibuddy live, and unibuddy on UCAS. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Impala

Private Placement in 2019
Impala allows products to securely connect to hotel systems using a clean and well-documented JSON API. It is an easy-to-understand, universal REST API to connect to many hotel systems. It also uses bank-grade security, is fully GDPR-compliant, and uses geographically diverse hosting. Impala was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in London, England.

Footium

Seed Round in 2022
Footium is a web3 Football management game that allows players to become the owner, manager and scout for their very own metaverse football club, and earn prizes based on their success!

Huboo

Series B in 2021
Huboo Technologies Limited operates as a multi-channel fulfillment service provider for e-commerce business. The company delivers vitamins, CBD oils, headphones, bingo tickets, electronic bagpipes, antiques, coffee, electronics, clothes, and beauty products. It serves startups, subscription businesses, and individuals selling niche and boutique products. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bath, United Kingdom.

Hofy

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

Huboo

Series A in 2020
Huboo Technologies Limited operates as a multi-channel fulfillment service provider for e-commerce business. The company delivers vitamins, CBD oils, headphones, bingo tickets, electronic bagpipes, antiques, coffee, electronics, clothes, and beauty products. It serves startups, subscription businesses, and individuals selling niche and boutique products. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bath, United Kingdom.

Impala

Series A in 2019
Impala allows products to securely connect to hotel systems using a clean and well-documented JSON API. It is an easy-to-understand, universal REST API to connect to many hotel systems. It also uses bank-grade security, is fully GDPR-compliant, and uses geographically diverse hosting. Impala was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in London, England.

Unibuddy

Series A in 2019
Unibuddy Limited provides a platform to connect students to the recruiters in various universities. The platform enables students to talk to each other to see which university is a better fit for them. The products offered are, unibuddy platform, unibuddy live, and unibuddy on UCAS. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Cazoo

Private Placement in 2019
Cazoo is a developer of an online used car marketplace designed to transform the way people buy, finance, or rent used cars. The platform enables customers to purchase a used car online and have it delivered to their door and provides a free 90-day warranty and roadside assistance, enabling the customers to embrace the simplicity of the online convenience, free delivery, and 7-day money-back guarantee. Alexander Edward Chesterman founded the company in London, England in 2018.

Pando

Seed Round in 2020
Pando is an essential tool for teamwork and secure collaboration. It is designed to benefit anyone working in health and social care, working in a team, with a need to share sensitive information and images securely.

Onsi

Seed Round in 2020
Collective Benefits is the first of its kind; an insurtech platform specifically made for the 6M self-employed workers in the UK. Our products make it easy for companies to offer meaningful protections that attract, retain and reward their self-employed workforce. Built from the ground-up for gig workers, we provide benefits like sick pay, mental health support, accident cover, wellness packages, and exclusive perks - all previously inaccessible to the self-employed.

Bene Bono

Series A in 2024
Bene Bono is an organic producer that offers a variety of seasonal products from their fields. They purchased cheap vegetables directly from farmers, allowing farmers to sell their rejected product in exchange for money, offering customers access to reasonably priced organic produce, and reducing overall food waste.

Kraaft

Seed Round in 2023
Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.

Hofy

Series B in 2022
Our platform enables your business to bring out-of-the-box home offices and on-site services to one employee or thousands – in just a couple of clicks.

Bother

Seed Round in 2022
Bother operates as an online grocery delivery startup.

Sedna

Series B in 2021
SEDNA is smart team communication software that unifies all messages, data, and documentation to help you focus on the work that matters. By aligning teams through action-based communication, SEDNA drastically reduces email volume and creates more efficient, productive, and collaborative workflows across organizations.

Runa

Series A in 2020
Businesses from every walk of life use rewards to acquire, retain and thank customers but the current process is broken. Sending rewards, incentives and non-cash payouts is manual, expensive, time-consuming and error-prone. WeGift changes this. Operating in more than 30 countries, in 22 languages, 20 currencies, with over 700 brand partners, and hundreds of clients, like Perkbox, Sodexo, New Look and Halfords among others, WeGift’s cloud-based, open API solutions allow businesses to transfer value to consumers, in real-time and globally. Established in 2016, WeGift is backed by leading entrepreneurs and investors.

Zefir

Series A in 2022
Vesta is the new way to move for homeowners looking to buy and sell at the same time. Vesta gives homeowners the certainty of a home sale, so they can confidently buy and move into the new home, while we safely list and sell their current home on the market. Our commitment to our customers is to be the safest, easiest, and most certain sale. Vesta was founded by Louis Lambert and Remy Fabre, two engineers who previously co-founded Metabrain (1st non-invasive brain interface bridging the gap between humans and technology) and a cryptocurrency microfund. Remy worked at PAI Partners and sourced capital from 126 investors from 27 countries to raise PAI's latest fund of €5.1 billion. Louis is deeply rooted in real estate through his family and studied artificial intelligence at Columbia University with a focus on Machine Learning. Vesta is backed by Third Kind Venture and Edward Lando.

Bene Bono

Seed Round in 2022
Bene Bono is an organic producer that offers a variety of seasonal products from their fields. They purchased cheap vegetables directly from farmers, allowing farmers to sell their rejected product in exchange for money, offering customers access to reasonably priced organic produce, and reducing overall food waste.

Cazoo

Venture Round in 2019
Cazoo is a developer of an online used car marketplace designed to transform the way people buy, finance, or rent used cars. The platform enables customers to purchase a used car online and have it delivered to their door and provides a free 90-day warranty and roadside assistance, enabling the customers to embrace the simplicity of the online convenience, free delivery, and 7-day money-back guarantee. Alexander Edward Chesterman founded the company in London, England in 2018.

TechWolf

Series A in 2022
TechWolf BV provides artificial intelligence based workforce planning services. The company provides human capital management with HR-software. TechWolf BV was founded in 2017 and is based in Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Belgium.

Screenloop

Seed Round in 2022
Screenloop is a hiring intelligence platform that allows you to source candidates, analyze interviews, and automate the reference process.

Cazoo

Private Placement in 2018
Cazoo is a developer of an online used car marketplace designed to transform the way people buy, finance, or rent used cars. The platform enables customers to purchase a used car online and have it delivered to their door and provides a free 90-day warranty and roadside assistance, enabling the customers to embrace the simplicity of the online convenience, free delivery, and 7-day money-back guarantee. Alexander Edward Chesterman founded the company in London, England in 2018.

Knowunity

Series A in 2022
Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.

Onsi

Series A in 2021
Collective Benefits is the first of its kind; an insurtech platform specifically made for the 6M self-employed workers in the UK. Our products make it easy for companies to offer meaningful protections that attract, retain and reward their self-employed workforce. Built from the ground-up for gig workers, we provide benefits like sick pay, mental health support, accident cover, wellness packages, and exclusive perks - all previously inaccessible to the self-employed.

Forward Clinical Limited

Private Placement in 2020
Forward Clinical Limited offers an app to support complex communications for clinical teams. Its app is used for instant messaging between teams and individuals; creating patient lists and tasks to share with teams; recording, sharing, and updating works; and connecting instantly with colleagues at hospital and across the United Kingdom. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Strapi, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Strapi, Inc. develops Strapi, an open-source and Node.js based content management framework to create APIs. Its solutions include blog and editorial, brand, and catalogue websites. The was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

Oliva Health

Seed Round in 2022
Oliva Therapy is an online therapy for busy people. It makes mental healthcare a natural part of modern daily life by removing the fear and uncertainty from the clinical, complex process of seeking care. Make real progress towards goals with expert-curated therapists, personalized matching by certified experts, focused one-hour sessions, and a hassle-free online experience. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

Cazoo

Private Placement in 2020
Cazoo is a developer of an online used car marketplace designed to transform the way people buy, finance, or rent used cars. The platform enables customers to purchase a used car online and have it delivered to their door and provides a free 90-day warranty and roadside assistance, enabling the customers to embrace the simplicity of the online convenience, free delivery, and 7-day money-back guarantee. Alexander Edward Chesterman founded the company in London, England in 2018.

Pando

Seed Round in 2018
Pando is an essential tool for teamwork and secure collaboration. It is designed to benefit anyone working in health and social care, working in a team, with a need to share sensitive information and images securely.

BonBot

Seed Round in 2021
BonBot is a Food & Beverages company.

Sessions

Seed Round in 2022
Sessions is a platform for one-of-a-kind meetings and webinars. Sessions provides marketers and sales professionals with everything they need to avoid the Frazzle and conduct effective meetings that constantly wow with a combination of automatic scheduling, video conferencing, embedded files, and apps that keep everything on schedule.

DeepOpinion

Seed Round in 2022
DeepOpinion is delivering the future of text analysis/NLU for the industry. With DeepOpinion Studio and AutoNLU framework it is democratizing state-of-the-art natural language understanding for everyone - business users, developers and data scientists. DeepOpinion offers a growing library of pretrained models with world-leading accuracy as well as a range of tools to use them in production and create custom models - from DeepOpinion Studio and AutoNLU framework to an enterprise stack for on-premise deployments.

Cazoo

Venture Round in 2020
Cazoo is a developer of an online used car marketplace designed to transform the way people buy, finance, or rent used cars. The platform enables customers to purchase a used car online and have it delivered to their door and provides a free 90-day warranty and roadside assistance, enabling the customers to embrace the simplicity of the online convenience, free delivery, and 7-day money-back guarantee. Alexander Edward Chesterman founded the company in London, England in 2018.

Accountable

Series A in 2021
Accountable S.A. provides real-time tax optimization solutions. The company provides banking, accounting, and tax advisory services for freelancers, consultants, and architects through its software application. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Huboo

Private Placement in 2020
Huboo Technologies Limited operates as a multi-channel fulfillment service provider for e-commerce business. The company delivers vitamins, CBD oils, headphones, bingo tickets, electronic bagpipes, antiques, coffee, electronics, clothes, and beauty products. It serves startups, subscription businesses, and individuals selling niche and boutique products. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bath, United Kingdom.

Northflank

Private Placement in 2020
Northflank Ltd. develops a next generation hosting cloud platform. It also develops platform as a service via application programming interface. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

FOTP US Inc

Private Placement in 2020
FOTP US Inc produces dog supplement products. The company provides the one, move, and harmony products. FOTP US Inc was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

The Voucher Market Limited

Private Placement in 2019
The Voucher Market Limited develops and operates an e-commerce solution, Savvee, that generates eGift codes on demand from any brand. The solution enables retailers to launch digital giftcards and businesses to payout using the issued giftcards. The Voucher Market Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Runa

Series A in 2019
Businesses from every walk of life use rewards to acquire, retain and thank customers but the current process is broken. Sending rewards, incentives and non-cash payouts is manual, expensive, time-consuming and error-prone. WeGift changes this. Operating in more than 30 countries, in 22 languages, 20 currencies, with over 700 brand partners, and hundreds of clients, like Perkbox, Sodexo, New Look and Halfords among others, WeGift’s cloud-based, open API solutions allow businesses to transfer value to consumers, in real-time and globally. Established in 2016, WeGift is backed by leading entrepreneurs and investors.

Unibuddy

Venture Round in 2020
Unibuddy Limited provides a platform to connect students to the recruiters in various universities. The platform enables students to talk to each other to see which university is a better fit for them. The products offered are, unibuddy platform, unibuddy live, and unibuddy on UCAS. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Forward Clinical Limited

Private Placement in 2018
Forward Clinical Limited offers an app to support complex communications for clinical teams. Its app is used for instant messaging between teams and individuals; creating patient lists and tasks to share with teams; recording, sharing, and updating works; and connecting instantly with colleagues at hospital and across the United Kingdom. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Cazoo

Seed Round in 2018
Cazoo is a developer of an online used car marketplace designed to transform the way people buy, finance, or rent used cars. The platform enables customers to purchase a used car online and have it delivered to their door and provides a free 90-day warranty and roadside assistance, enabling the customers to embrace the simplicity of the online convenience, free delivery, and 7-day money-back guarantee. Alexander Edward Chesterman founded the company in London, England in 2018.

Collective Society Ltd

Private Placement in 2020
Collective Society Ltd provides freelancing work services. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Zefir

Venture Round in 2024
Vesta is the new way to move for homeowners looking to buy and sell at the same time. Vesta gives homeowners the certainty of a home sale, so they can confidently buy and move into the new home, while we safely list and sell their current home on the market. Our commitment to our customers is to be the safest, easiest, and most certain sale. Vesta was founded by Louis Lambert and Remy Fabre, two engineers who previously co-founded Metabrain (1st non-invasive brain interface bridging the gap between humans and technology) and a cryptocurrency microfund. Remy worked at PAI Partners and sourced capital from 126 investors from 27 countries to raise PAI's latest fund of €5.1 billion. Louis is deeply rooted in real estate through his family and studied artificial intelligence at Columbia University with a focus on Machine Learning. Vesta is backed by Third Kind Venture and Edward Lando.

Oliva Health

Seed Round in 2023
Oliva Therapy is an online therapy for busy people. It makes mental healthcare a natural part of modern daily life by removing the fear and uncertainty from the clinical, complex process of seeking care. Make real progress towards goals with expert-curated therapists, personalized matching by certified experts, focused one-hour sessions, and a hassle-free online experience. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

Qargo

Seed Round in 2022
Qargo provides cloud-based transportation management software for automated logistics management. Its features include auto-import PDF, pricing engine, container load management, shipment planning, invoice and accounting management, etc. The company's contact modes are by mail, phone, and physical address.

Knowunity

Series A in 2023
Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.

TechWolf

Series B in 2024
TechWolf BV provides artificial intelligence based workforce planning services. The company provides human capital management with HR-software. TechWolf BV was founded in 2017 and is based in Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Belgium.