Virgin

Virgin Group is a diverse investment company that operates across various sectors, including leisure, travel, tourism, mobile, broadband, television, radio, music, finance, and health. The company emphasizes the importance of value for money, quality, innovation, and customer experience, believing that these elements contribute to its success. Virgin Group empowers its employees to deliver exceptional service and frequently collaborates with partners to leverage skills and expertise from different industries. This approach helps to create and nurture successful businesses under the Virgin brand, which is recognized globally. The company aims to drive positive change in business practices while seeking new investment opportunities that align with its core values.

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Marker Learning

Series A in 2023
Marker Learning provides a telepsychology platform that makes learning disability assessments and personalized action plans accessible for schools and families. The licensed psychologists at Marker have received specialized training to work with both children and adults up to the age of 50.

Lightyear

Series A in 2022
Lightyear is an investment platform across 22 European countries. It provides retail customers and businesses the ability to manage their money and grow wealth through stocks, funds and cash interest products. The company focuses on making investing accessible and understandable with an award-winning design and low fees. Lightyear's team is based across London and Tallinn and is made up of former Wise, Revolut & Robinhood employees. Lightyear UK is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 987226).

Sesame

Series B in 2022
Sesame is an award-winning company that offers Americans quality, convenient health care at half the typical price. The company's AI-enabled marketplace eliminates insurance, allowing healthcare providers to compete on quality, accessibility – and pricing. It is the official telehealth partner of Costco.

Zero Acre Farms

Series A in 2022
Zero Acre Farms is a food company that aims to end the food industry's dependence on destructive vegetable oils. It provides an improved alternative, produced by microorganisms and fermentation.

Wayve

Series B in 2022
Wayve develops a fully autonomous driving system for autonomous vehicles. It uses end-to-end deep learning to create artificial intelligence capable of complex driving, which can scale across diverse urban environments. Wayve operates a fleet of electric vehicles fitted for autonomous operation and technology development. It is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Virgin Orbit

Post in 2021
Virgin Orbit focuses on providing launch services for small satellites. Virgin Orbit operates LauncherOne, a flexible launch service for commercial and government-built satellites. It focuses on dedicated launches of small satellites (smallsats). Virgin Orbit develops vehicles to fly private astronauts, research experiments, and satellites into space—democratizing access to space for the benefit of life on Earth.

Virgin Voyages

Venture Round in 2021
Virgin Voyages is a lifestyle travel brand offering cruise vacations across different destinations. Its services offer luxury cruise ship travel services, suites, and entertainment services to provide its customers with adventurous places and experiences.

Printify

Series A in 2021
Printify is the world's most famous print-on-demand platform designed to help anyone with an internet connection unlock the freedom that comes with opening your own online business. And because it’s completely risk free, more than 10 million people have signed up to open their stores! We created Printify so that anyone can create great products, drive sales, and unlock their freedom. Printify has been on a steep growth curve since 2015, and now with more than 700 employees, three offices, and an amazing diverse team spread around Europe, we’re continuing to go from strength to strength. The Financial Times has ranked us as a Best Startup Employer for the last 4 years in a row, and we’re headquartered in Riga with investment backing from Richard Branson, Index Ventures, and some of the best angel investors from Silicon Valley and beyond.

LifeQ

Series A in 2021
Our Dream is to empower everyone to delay aging, optimize your health, harness more energy, reduce the probability of disease, and understand why and how your body is changing, right now! It is in your power to be your biologically younger self. Our Missions is to enable consumers to make better decisions to live healthier lives through optimizing health, and be in a position to make smarter, informed, health decisions. We will do this by giving you a 360-degree personalized health mirror, along with the tools, tailored recommendations, and business partners that cover every aspect of your health.

LoanSnap

Series B in 2021
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Instrucko

Seed Round in 2020
Instrucko is an established one-to-one language learning platform.

LoanSnap

Series B in 2020
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Box Of Intimates

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Box of Intimates is the world's first online personal lingerie shopping service for women. It claims to have over 4,000 registered users in Europe and USA. An AI-aided quiz collects & analysis users' size, preferences and tastes with the help of personal stylists. Subscribers receive a curated naughty or nice lingerie box along with matching accessories chosen for them each month.

ServBetter

Debt Financing in 2019
ServBetter is a next-gen service marketplace that connects customers and service providers in more than 80 high-demand local, hyper-local and virtually delivered services. It offers customers the flexibility of choosing from four different modes of service delivery, all available through a single platform. With ServBetter, customers have greater control over how they get things done, giving them the power to choose the method that works best for them. Additionally, providing an integrated service management system to help providers enhance their productivity and revenue.

Sofar Sounds

Series C in 2019
Sofar Sounds is a global community creating space where music matters. Founded in London in 2009, Sofar brings guests and artists together in unique locations, without the distractions that plague other live events. Sofar shows begin as a secret: guests sign on for three unnamed performances at undisclosed locations, hosted by community members in everyday spaces — from living rooms and rooftops, to retail stores. Through the transformation of these spaces into captivating venues, Sofar serves as a platform for artists to connect with engaged audiences in cities around the world. Sofar invites guests to discover new artists, spaces, people, neighborhoods and cities, whether at home or abroad, creating an inclusive and accessible global community where people make genuine connections. To learn more about Sofar Sounds, check us out at www.sofarsounds.com or follow the conversation on social media at @sofarsounds or using #sofarsounds.

LoanSnap

Series A in 2019
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

LoanSnap

Series A in 2018
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Yoyo

Series A in 2018
wiGroup is a SaaS provider that has developed leading Loyalty & Rewards and mCommerce products. Through these, we enable clients to deliver solutions that increase engagement, retention, sales, basket size, speed of checkout, and frequency of spend. Our tech is currently used by retailers, brands, insurance companies, banks, quick service hospitality restaurants, and a host of other businesses looking to deliver value through mobile. The platform was launched in 2007 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

BitPay

Venture Round in 2018
BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations. It offers RESTful API, a bitcoin paymet gateway API; and native payment protocol support, signed payment request, direct payment communication, and BIP 73 support solutions. BitPay also provides Copay, a bitcoin wallet solution with Intel hardware security integration that allows users with hardware-level protection, including private key generation, transaction signing, and private keys. It has a strategic processing relationship with Aliant Payment Systems, Inc. Anthony Gallippi and Stephen Pair founded BitPay on May 1, 2011. It has its headquarters in Atlanta in Georgia.

Virgin Hyperloop

Venture Round in 2017
Virgin Hyperloop is a developer of a transportation technology used to deliver fast, direct, and sustainable transportation at scale. Its technology is a first-generation vehicle system that makes trains go as fast as 760 miles per hour and utilizes a vacuum tube designed for transportation of people and cargo that enables companies to have direct movement of freight and people to travel quicker from origin to destination. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Wise

Series E in 2017
Wise provides a core money transfer product, along with a borderless account for its audience of ex-pats, freelancers, and travelers, which holds over £2 billion in current deposits. The company features like automated identification verification, online and in-app technical assistance, and estimations of when money transfers will arrive, products and services that meet the needs of clients. Wise was established in 2011 by Kristo Kaarmann and Taavet Hinrikus in London, England.

Classcraft

Venture Round in 2017
Classcraft is an online educational RPG game. It helps teachers manage their classes and make lessons more engaging. The game is available for Android, iOS, OS X, Chrome, and Windows platforms. It was founded by Lauren Young, Devin Young, Shawn Young, and Devin Young.

UPSIDE Foods

Series A in 2017
UPSIDE Foods (formerly known as Memphis Meats) develops meat produced directly from animal cells without the need to raise and slaughter actual animals. This approach requires significantly less water, land, and energy than conventional meat production, enabling consumers to enjoy meat that is clean, humane, and free of harmful chemicals. Co-founded and led by Dr. Uma Valeti in 2015, UPSIDE Foods is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Blockchain.com

Series B in 2017
Blockchain.com operates a comprehensive platform that enables users to buy, hold, and utilize cryptocurrencies, aiming to create an accessible financial system for the internet. With over 50 million users, it offers a straightforward method for engaging with digital currencies, including features for trading, sending, receiving, securing, and borrowing them. The platform also includes a widely used explorer for tracking crypto market activities and an exchange that facilitates fast trading experiences. Additionally, Blockchain Ventures, supported by Blockchain.com, invests in distributed ledger technology (DLT) projects that foster societal benefits and advance the industry, promoting innovative applications of DLT beyond financial services. Overall, Blockchain.com seeks to revolutionize the financial landscape by enabling quick transactions without intermediaries and providing essential tools for real-time market insights.

CreativeLive

Series B in 2017
CreativeLive, Inc. is an online education platform based in Seattle, Washington, that focuses on providing live streaming courses in various creative disciplines, including photography, video, design, business, audio, music, and crafting. Founded in 2010 by photographer Chase Jarvis and entrepreneur Craig Swanson, CreativeLive allows users to participate in free live classes taught by renowned instructors, including bestselling authors and award-winning professionals. The platform also offers the option to purchase courses for on-demand viewing, ensuring that users can enhance their skills at their convenience. With over ten million students and three billion minutes of video consumed, CreativeLive has established itself as a leading resource for creative entrepreneurs. The company has been profitable since its inception and has distributed millions of dollars to its instructors.

Capsule

Series A in 2017
Capsule Corporation is an innovative online pharmacy established in 2015 and headquartered in New York, New York. It aims to transform the pharmacy industry by providing a streamlined and personalized experience for patients, healthcare providers, insurers, and manufacturers. Capsule's platform facilitates the online retail of pharmaceutical products through a user-friendly application that focuses on creating customized outcomes for its users. The company emphasizes the importance of human connection in healthcare, recognizing that behind the complexities of the system, there are individuals in need of care and support. Capsule has successfully raised significant funding from prominent investors, enabling it to further its mission of enhancing the pharmaceutical experience through technology and dedicated service.

Ring

Series D in 2017
Ring is an outdoor home security company that provides homeowners a line of preventative outdoor security doorbells and cameras. It is on a mission to reduce crime in neighborhoods and empower consumers by creating a Ring of Security around homes and communities with its suite of smart home security products: Ring Video Doorbell, Ring Video Doorbell Pro, Ring Stick Up Cam, and the new Ring Floodlight Cam. With these security devices, Ring has created the neighborhood watch for the digital age and continues to prevent burglaries and keep homes around the world safe. The company was established in 2012 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

auticon

Venture Round in 2016
auticon is the first German company to exclusively employ autistic people as software testers and offer their services (Software-Tests) on the free market. This innovative approach gives the client the advantage of special high-quality workmanship.

Outpost

Venture Round in 2016
Outpost enables truly interactive games that are as fun to watch as they are to play.

Codecademy

Series C in 2016
Codecademy is a free web and mobile-based platform that teaches employable digital skills to millions of users worldwide. Through its platforms, learners discover concepts such as HTML/CSS, Javascript/jQuery, Python, Ruby, PHP, and APIs by actually building things and getting constant feedback from peers. Codecademy is an entirely new, networked approach to learning in which you interact with students across the globe, build amazing projects.

Virgin Australia

Post in 2016
Virgin Australia Airlines is Australia's second-largest airline as well as the largest by fleet size to use the Virgin brand. The airline has hubs in Auckland, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney served by a fleet of 106 machines travelling to over 50 destinations. Its online platform enables users to plan and books flights while scoring on deals and special offers as well accessing the velocity frequent flyer program. The airline has grown to directly serve 29 cities in Australia from hubs in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, using a fleet of narrow-body Boeing and Embraer jets; and Airbus and Boeing widebody jets. After several years operating as a low-cost carrier it improved its services to become a ""New World Carrier"", essentially a business model which offers the ""guest"" the choice of purchasing a ticket with aspects of the ""no frills"" approach of low-cost carriers or paying a little more to receive services more in line with full-service airlines, to compete more effectively with Qantas in the business travel market. In 2011, it took this strategy further by introducing new uniforms; new catering options on board; new widebody aircraft to compete with Qantas on Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney services; and the concurrent introduction of business class. Virgin Australia Airlines was co-founded by Richard Branson in 2000 and is headquartered in Bowen Hills, Brisbane.

Ring

Series C in 2016
Ring is an outdoor home security company that provides homeowners a line of preventative outdoor security doorbells and cameras. It is on a mission to reduce crime in neighborhoods and empower consumers by creating a Ring of Security around homes and communities with its suite of smart home security products: Ring Video Doorbell, Ring Video Doorbell Pro, Ring Stick Up Cam, and the new Ring Floodlight Cam. With these security devices, Ring has created the neighborhood watch for the digital age and continues to prevent burglaries and keep homes around the world safe. The company was established in 2012 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

M-KOPA

Venture Round in 2015
M-KOPA provides connected asset financing solutions for underbanked customers. Its platform combines digital micropayments and IoT connectivity to offer access to products including solar lighting, televisions, fridges, smartphones, financial services, and more.

Ring

Series B in 2015
Ring is an outdoor home security company that provides homeowners a line of preventative outdoor security doorbells and cameras. It is on a mission to reduce crime in neighborhoods and empower consumers by creating a Ring of Security around homes and communities with its suite of smart home security products: Ring Video Doorbell, Ring Video Doorbell Pro, Ring Stick Up Cam, and the new Ring Floodlight Cam. With these security devices, Ring has created the neighborhood watch for the digital age and continues to prevent burglaries and keep homes around the world safe. The company was established in 2012 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Doctor On Demand

Series B in 2015
Doctor On Demand is a video telemedicine company, offering on-demand and scheduled visits with US-licensed healthcare providers via any smartphone, tablet, or computer. It focuses on providing solutions for employers, health plans, retail clinics, and health systems. With solutions for employers, health plans, retail clinics, and health systems, Doctor On Demand is redefining the industry with top-rated customer experience, highest clinical standards, and implementation and customer success directors, as well as 24/7 customer support. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Rescale

Venture Round in 2015
Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations. The high-performance computing cloud platform delivers intelligent computing for digital R&D and enables more than 300 customers from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises to accelerate design cycles and time to market. Rescale gives research scientists and engineers the ability to run their simulation and artificial intelligence workloads on the cloud provider of their choice, using specialized hardware architectures and software templates optimized for their use cases, without any set-up or maintenance. Investors such as Initialized Capital, Keen Venture Partners, SineWave Ventures, Data Collective, ITV Ventures, Jump Capital, and M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), as well as Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Quiet Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Translink Capital, Two Roads Group, Y Combinator, Hitachi Ventures, Nautilus Venture Partners, NVIDIA, Republic Labs, and Samsung Catalyst Fund backs Rescale. In 2011, Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie headquartered the company in San Francisco, California.

ZOZI

Series C in 2015
ZOZI designs and develops a web-based bookings, payments, and customer management software for tour, activity, and event businesses. It offers introductory flight lessons, vineyard tours and wine tasting by horseback, diving for abalone, ice climbing frozen waterfalls, celebrity and athlete experiences, and various accessible adventures. The company also provides weekend getaways and vacation packages for customers. ZOZI was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.

OneWeb

Series A in 2015
OneWeb LLC is focused on developing a global communications network through a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites designed to provide high-speed, low-latency internet access worldwide. Founded in 2012 and based in McLean, Virginia, the company aims to deliver connectivity solutions for various sectors, including broadband, government, and cellular backhaul. By utilizing its interconnected satellite network, OneWeb offers mobility solutions for industries such as aviation, maritime, automotive, and rail transport. The company's satellite launches began in February 2019, and by March 2020, it had successfully deployed 74 of the planned 648 satellites, positioning itself as a key player in enhancing global internet access.

Virgin Pulse

Series B in 2015
Virgin Pulse, part of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, designs technology that cultivates good lifestyle habits for your employees. Configured to complement your culture, our technology, and the overall well-being experience we deliver, drives superior outcomes for your people and your business. Virgin – one of the world’s most recognized and respected brands – is known for creating unrivaled consumer experiences. Conceived in 1970 by Branson, the brand believes in insatiable curiosity, smart disruption, heartfelt service, and delightful experiences.

Tradesy

Series B in 2015
Tradesy is a peer-to-peer marketplace, providing a platform for buying and selling fashion. Brands available on the site include Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Chanel, Gucci, Prada, Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Balenciaga, Chloe, and more. Sellers get a free shipping kit when their item sells. They can print a prepaid label and ship using their own materials. Tradesy receives support from iconic investors such as Richard Branson and John Doerr, and it has been covered by Good Morning America, The Today Show, The New York Times, TIME, USA Today, and more. Tradesy was launched by Tracy DiNunzio, Sash Catanzarite, and John Hall on October 24, 2012. The company's headquarters are in Santa Monica, California.

Wise

Series C in 2015
Wise provides a core money transfer product, along with a borderless account for its audience of ex-pats, freelancers, and travelers, which holds over £2 billion in current deposits. The company features like automated identification verification, online and in-app technical assistance, and estimations of when money transfers will arrive, products and services that meet the needs of clients. Wise was established in 2011 by Kristo Kaarmann and Taavet Hinrikus in London, England.

OneWeb

Seed Round in 2015
OneWeb LLC is focused on developing a global communications network through a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites designed to provide high-speed, low-latency internet access worldwide. Founded in 2012 and based in McLean, Virginia, the company aims to deliver connectivity solutions for various sectors, including broadband, government, and cellular backhaul. By utilizing its interconnected satellite network, OneWeb offers mobility solutions for industries such as aviation, maritime, automotive, and rail transport. The company's satellite launches began in February 2019, and by March 2020, it had successfully deployed 74 of the planned 648 satellites, positioning itself as a key player in enhancing global internet access.

Change.org

Series C in 2014
Change.org is the world’s largest social change platform with over 150 million users in 196 countries. Change.org empowers anyone, anywhere, to create the change they want to see. On Change.org, people everywhere are starting campaigns, mobilizing supporters, and working with decision-makers to drive solutions. Change.org is a certified B-corporation, a new class of companies dedicated to positive impact. Investors include Bill Gates, Arianna Huffington, Ev Williams, Richard Branson, Reid Hoffman, and the Omidyar Network, started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

Blockchain.com

Series A in 2014
Blockchain.com operates a comprehensive platform that enables users to buy, hold, and utilize cryptocurrencies, aiming to create an accessible financial system for the internet. With over 50 million users, it offers a straightforward method for engaging with digital currencies, including features for trading, sending, receiving, securing, and borrowing them. The platform also includes a widely used explorer for tracking crypto market activities and an exchange that facilitates fast trading experiences. Additionally, Blockchain Ventures, supported by Blockchain.com, invests in distributed ledger technology (DLT) projects that foster societal benefits and advance the industry, promoting innovative applications of DLT beyond financial services. Overall, Blockchain.com seeks to revolutionize the financial landscape by enabling quick transactions without intermediaries and providing essential tools for real-time market insights.

Sidecar

Series C in 2014
Sidecar Technologies provides B2B delivery transportation network in the world. It is building the world's most convenient and affordable transportation network created for and powered by everyday people. All drivers are pre-vetted for safety and are free to give rides whenever they want. Sidecar safety system includes driver background checks, driver and rider rating systems, GPS tracking features, and the ability to share details of your trip in real-time. Sidecar was founded in San Francisco in 2011 and currently operates in ten cities and has facilitated more than half a million rides.

3D Robotics

Venture Round in 2014
3DR makes advanced drone technology easily accessible to the construction, mining, and surveying industries for use in data analysis. It helps users in land mapping and site scanning services in collecting accurate aerial data of the Jobsite, turning urns the drone photos into maps, models, point clouds, and providing comprehensive onboarding and ongoing support, enabling clients to take the batter and informed decisions related to construction sites. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Doctor On Demand

Series A in 2014
Doctor On Demand is a video telemedicine company, offering on-demand and scheduled visits with US-licensed healthcare providers via any smartphone, tablet, or computer. It focuses on providing solutions for employers, health plans, retail clinics, and health systems. With solutions for employers, health plans, retail clinics, and health systems, Doctor On Demand is redefining the industry with top-rated customer experience, highest clinical standards, and implementation and customer success directors, as well as 24/7 customer support. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Wise

Series B in 2014
Wise provides a core money transfer product, along with a borderless account for its audience of ex-pats, freelancers, and travelers, which holds over £2 billion in current deposits. The company features like automated identification verification, online and in-app technical assistance, and estimations of when money transfers will arrive, products and services that meet the needs of clients. Wise was established in 2011 by Kristo Kaarmann and Taavet Hinrikus in London, England.

Tradesy

Series B in 2014
Tradesy is a peer-to-peer marketplace, providing a platform for buying and selling fashion. Brands available on the site include Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Chanel, Gucci, Prada, Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Balenciaga, Chloe, and more. Sellers get a free shipping kit when their item sells. They can print a prepaid label and ship using their own materials. Tradesy receives support from iconic investors such as Richard Branson and John Doerr, and it has been covered by Good Morning America, The Today Show, The New York Times, TIME, USA Today, and more. Tradesy was launched by Tracy DiNunzio, Sash Catanzarite, and John Hall on October 24, 2012. The company's headquarters are in Santa Monica, California.

BitPay

Series A in 2014
BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations. It offers RESTful API, a bitcoin paymet gateway API; and native payment protocol support, signed payment request, direct payment communication, and BIP 73 support solutions. BitPay also provides Copay, a bitcoin wallet solution with Intel hardware security integration that allows users with hardware-level protection, including private key generation, transaction signing, and private keys. It has a strategic processing relationship with Aliant Payment Systems, Inc. Anthony Gallippi and Stephen Pair founded BitPay on May 1, 2011. It has its headquarters in Atlanta in Georgia.

CreativeLive

Series B in 2013
CreativeLive, Inc. is an online education platform based in Seattle, Washington, that focuses on providing live streaming courses in various creative disciplines, including photography, video, design, business, audio, music, and crafting. Founded in 2010 by photographer Chase Jarvis and entrepreneur Craig Swanson, CreativeLive allows users to participate in free live classes taught by renowned instructors, including bestselling authors and award-winning professionals. The platform also offers the option to purchase courses for on-demand viewing, ensuring that users can enhance their skills at their convenience. With over ten million students and three billion minutes of video consumed, CreativeLive has established itself as a leading resource for creative entrepreneurs. The company has been profitable since its inception and has distributed millions of dollars to its instructors.

Clinkle

Series A in 2013
Clinkle’s goal is to modernize the way people transact, by creating a next generation payment platform that will change the way people pay for things. Based in San Francisco, the company is planning to introduce its mobile wallet for day-to-day transactions within the next year.

FREE NOW

Series B in 2012
FREE NOW (formerly mytaxi) is a leading mobility provider. FREE NOW currently operates in London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Derby and Leicester. With two requests every second, FREE NOW directly connects passengers and drivers with just two taps of the app. FREE NOW is part of the mobility joint venture between BMW and Daimler, formed in February 2019. In July 2016, mytaxi announced the merger with Hailo, the leading taxi app in the UK and Ireland - an important step towards becoming Europe's largest e-hailing app.

Codecademy

Series B in 2012
Codecademy is a free web and mobile-based platform that teaches employable digital skills to millions of users worldwide. Through its platforms, learners discover concepts such as HTML/CSS, Javascript/jQuery, Python, Ruby, PHP, and APIs by actually building things and getting constant feedback from peers. Codecademy is an entirely new, networked approach to learning in which you interact with students across the globe, build amazing projects.
The Virgin Group is a leading international branded investment company and one of the world's most recognized and respected brands. Conceived in 1970 by Sir Richard Branson, the Virgin Group has gone on to grow successful businesses in sectors ranging from mobile telephony and media to transportation, travel, financial services, hotels, health and fitness, as well as renewable technologies and space tourism. Virgin has created more than 400 branded companies worldwide, employing approximately 50,000 people, in 29 countries. Its Global branded revenues in 2010 exceeded £11.5 billion (approx. US$18.5 billion).

Block

Series C in 2011
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) (formerly Square, Inc.) is a technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy.

Pikum

Series A in 2008
Backed by First Round Capital and Virgin, Pikum is a new kind of betting game created and played between friends online. It can be played for fun, or where possible, money. It's simple, social, fun, and hopes to capitalize on people's love of predicting, debating, and bragging when they're right.

CircleLending

Acquisition in 2007
CircleLending launched in 2001 and pioneered the business of managing person-to-person loans within a social network. The company received a majority stake investment and was acquired by the Virgin Group in 2007. It was renamed Virgin Money, part of the global Virgin Money brand. Virgin Money (UK) entered the banking industry with the acquisition of Church House Trust in 2010 and Northern Rock in 2011.
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