The London Fund

The London Fund is a venture capital firm based in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2003. It specializes in investing in high-growth companies with significant intellectual property, particularly in emerging technologies. The firm provides early-stage and growth capital ranging from USD $200,000 to USD $20 million, aiming to bridge the gap between incubators and Series A funding. The London Fund collaborates closely with entrepreneurs to identify, extend, and defend their technology, focusing on creating a defendable position for their intellectual property assets. With a team that boasts strong operational and entrepreneurial backgrounds, the firm emphasizes the importance of disruptive companies and offers clear pathways to successful exits. The experience of its partners, which includes numerous exits and IPOs, underpins their approach to building businesses while maintaining a low cost of capital. This commitment to developing and protecting quantifiable intellectual property distinguishes The London Fund from other investors.

Jack McDermott

Portfolio Partner

14 past transactions

Engin Sciences

Seed Round in 2023
Engin Sciences develops AI-Driven HR software that plugs into existing job boards, giving companies access to a virtual talent management system for hourly jobs, allowing HR managers to gamify the job application process on any site, quickly evaluating applicants, engaging and routing viable candidates to the jobs to which they’re best suited. Saving time and reducing churn, Engin saves companies thousands of dollars in HR personnel expenses.

Price.com

Seed Round in 2023
Price.com develops a money savings platform used for comparison shopping, cashback, coupons, price history, and price alerts. The platform provides a free cross-platform experience for consumers. Its patented, AI-powered matching algorithm enables real-time discovery of new, white-label, used, local, refurbished, and rental products, taking comparison shopping to new heights. Price.com is available as a desktop and mobile website, browser extension, native app, and chatbot. RJ Rain founded Price.com in San Francisco, California in 2016.

Honeydrop

Seed Round in 2022
Honeydrop is an active lifestyle brand that infuses the incredible natural benefits of honey into health and wellness products. The company's beverages include purifying, nourishing juices blended with raw, local, antibacterial honey. Honeydrop provides 1% of its profits to local beekeepers around the country to help in the fight against Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), an epidemic that threatens the global bee population.

Engin Sciences

Seed Round in 2021
Engin Sciences develops AI-Driven HR software that plugs into existing job boards, giving companies access to a virtual talent management system for hourly jobs, allowing HR managers to gamify the job application process on any site, quickly evaluating applicants, engaging and routing viable candidates to the jobs to which they’re best suited. Saving time and reducing churn, Engin saves companies thousands of dollars in HR personnel expenses.

coupond co

Seed Round in 2021
coupond drives revenue in complex markets (e.g. cannabis, alcohol). Competition forces 10%+ of GMV and 50%+ of cannabis transactions to be discounted; launching promos can take 90+ days. coupond enables fast promo planning, reporting, and reconciliation for brands and retailers, generating fees for each redeemed coupond—now tracking $120M+ GMV, and earning a part of revenue as each industry grows.

Everyrealm

Venture Round in 2021
Everyrealm is a digital real estate vehicle that invests in virtual worlds through NFTs. They invest in, manage, and develop assets including NFTs, virtual real estate, metaverse platforms, gaming, and infrastructure.

Gryphon Digital Mining

Private Equity Round in 2019
Gryphon Digital Mining is a global regulatory compliance technology company. Akerna’s service offerings include MJ Platform, Leaf Data Systems, and solo sciences tech platform. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

EdCast

Series C in 2018
EdCast offers a unified SaaS platform powering end-to-end employee experience journeys, spanning learning, skilling and career mobility. Its award-winning platform is used internationally by organizations ranging from large Global 2000 companies to small businesses and government organizations. With EdCast’s platforms, our customers are able to attract, develop and retain a high-performance and future-ready workforce. EdCast’s offerings include its Talent Experience Platform and MyGuide Digital Adoption Platform. EdCast is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award recipient. EdCast's enterprise customers include Dell, Diageo, Danone, Genpact, Spotify, Standard Chartered Bank, ANZ Bank, CHRISTUS Health and NASSCOM, among many others.

Solo Sciences

Seed Round in 2018
Solo Sciences brings consumers, creators, and retailers into a single loop where transparency is established and trust is developed. This system is intended to enable distributors to verify the origin of their products. The company's system is the first cryptographically secure cannabis product authentication system that uses a mobile app

Good&Co

Seed Round in 2014
In a nutshell, think of Good.Co as "Myers Briggs meets LinkedIn". Even during the early (IP development and science evolution) phase, our platform has amassed 1.5M+ profiles, 21M+ friends, 15m+ questions answered, and 1,200+ company cultures decoded + several enterprise deals. Good.Co has already become the largest psychometric database in the world. The combination of a playful experience & potent science helps us solve quantify and solve the biggest problem facing people and companies today - retention & hiring for culture-fit. Our mission is to unlock the power of teams by helping employees find their superpowers through science & peer-driven insights. MASHABLE: See how well your personality matches companies and employees FASTCOMPANY: Want a work environment that makes you happy? Find your culture fit with any company! USNEWS: Don't let the fun behind the questions let you think there isn't any science behind it. PANDODAILY: The job-hunting lovechild of eHarmony and LinkedIn

Good&Co

Seed Round in 2013
In a nutshell, think of Good.Co as "Myers Briggs meets LinkedIn". Even during the early (IP development and science evolution) phase, our platform has amassed 1.5M+ profiles, 21M+ friends, 15m+ questions answered, and 1,200+ company cultures decoded + several enterprise deals. Good.Co has already become the largest psychometric database in the world. The combination of a playful experience & potent science helps us solve quantify and solve the biggest problem facing people and companies today - retention & hiring for culture-fit. Our mission is to unlock the power of teams by helping employees find their superpowers through science & peer-driven insights. MASHABLE: See how well your personality matches companies and employees FASTCOMPANY: Want a work environment that makes you happy? Find your culture fit with any company! USNEWS: Don't let the fun behind the questions let you think there isn't any science behind it. PANDODAILY: The job-hunting lovechild of eHarmony and LinkedIn

DRAFT

Seed Round in 2011
DRAFT is a daily fantasy sports company (DFS). On DRAFT, players do simple drafts (unlike the salary cap format) just like the ones they do at the beginning of their season long leagues, but lasting one day or week, and taking only minutes to complete. DRAFT brings DFS back to what it should have been, a simple, fair and fun game, that was designed for this regulatory environment -- with player's chances of winning on DRAFT being almost 3X better than on FanDuel or DraftKings. DRAFT is backed by Upfront Ventures, The Chernin Group and more.

StarStreet

Seed Round in 2010
StarStreet is a provider of a platform to play fantasy sports for money. It provides a stock-market styled platform enabling users to buy and sell shares on players, and to cash out at season's end. The platform is operable in the U.S. and Canada and provides contest opportunities in Major League Baseball (MLB), National Football League (NFL), and Canadian Football (CFB) leagues.

Plej

Series A in 2003
Plej is a software provider that helps retailers and affinity groups leverage traditional payment networks to develop and implement innovative new marketing programs. PLEJ's technology augments existing payment processing infrastructures and offers merchants easily configurable, rules-based merchandising solutions, such as stored-value and credit cards with user- specific properties, enhanced security, and automatic inclusion in extra value programs.
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