Wild Blue Cohort

Wild Blue Cohort is a network of business angel investors in London who finance the development of early-stage ventures. Members have closed 28 investments to date in B2B tech ventures in diverse verticals, including marketplaces, e-commerce platforms, SAAS, edtech, healthtech, fintech and proptech. Often, they invest alongside top-tier S/EIS Funds, accelerators and VCs, such as Passion Capital, LocalGlobe VC, Forward Partners, Octopus, Downing and Horizon Ventures. Wild Blue is a member of the UK Business Angels Association.

Veronika Patkai

Program Director

22 past transactions

Mayku

Venture Round in 2018
Mayku provides a platform for creators to access machines, materials, and services in order to create their own products. FormBox, Mayku's product, is a desktop-sized vacuum former that allows users to easily create a mold or model of their choice at a low cost. Mayku's other product, the Multiplier, is a machine that uses pressure forming to enable rapid production scaling. Mayku enables the manufacture of products locally, quickly, and affordably by providing creators with the hardware, raw materials, and software required to produce a wide range of items. It accelerates the global shift to local manufacturing.

Trackener

Angel Round in 2018
Trackener Life is a 24/7 intelligent horse-monitoring technology. Our mission is to help the horse owners detect and prevent horses health issues as early as possible. The product is composed of a device worn by the horse both at rest, during transport and during exercising, and of an app where the user can have access to real-time alerts and get all the information they need to know about their horse’s health and behaviour.

Hoxton Analytics

Seed Round in 2018
A cloud computer vision platform and edge camera software for people counting and space analytics. Used to count foot traffic and live occupancy of rooms and buildings, which allows customers in venues, events, museums, and retail to set alerts and optimize how their space is used. Ultimately the stack will enable customers to digitize and automate the processes that take place in the physical world.

Coconut

Seed Round in 2017
Coconut is simple tax and accounting software for sole traders, landlords & their accountants. 'Making Tax Digital for Income Tax' will mean that, from 2024, over four million UK taxpayers will have to do five tax returns a year instead of one; Coconut makes it easy for you to organise your finances, and helps accountants get their clients ready for the change.

Plum Guide

Seed Round in 2017
Plum Guide is not just a booking platform. It's a benchmark for quality. There are 15,000,000+ vacation homes listed online. The choice is overwhelming. The standard is dispiriting. So we created the Plum Guide Award. Our mission is to find and award the best homes out there with our trusted quality mark.

DynamX Medical

Seed Round in 2017
DynamX Medical has developed a reliable and inexpensive precancer screening system for rapid tissue biopsy analysis that can be operated point-of-care by nurses.

PensionBee

Seed Round in 2017
PensionBee is a British online personal pension scheme provider that helps customers combine their old pensions into one easy-to-manage plan. The application enables its users to create profiles, including information on past and present pensions and personal information. It allows them to track pension progress and features a pension calculator to set retirement goals and add new contributions. PensionBee was launched in 2014 by Romi Savova and is based in London. PensionBee is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. With pensions, your capital is at risk.

Trunkaroo

Seed Round in 2017
Trunkaroo is a monthly subscription service for kids. Every month, they design and send you hands-on projects to help children create, discover, imagine and experiment. With a strong focus on making STEAM (Science, Technology Engineering, Art and Math) interesting and magical, their boxes include everything you need for hours of hassle-free fun and learning.

HeadBox

Series A in 2017
HeadBox is a new online marketplace for creative, inspiring and offsite spaces. They are the first platform in the UK to directly link their Guests (corporate and SME bookers) to their Hosts (owners of those creative, inspiring spaces) allowing you to instantly search, book and pay in an easy and seamless way saving time and hassle when planning a Space experience.

Midrive

Series A in 2016
At Midrive, they want to make first-time driving better for everyone. The old way of doing things is broken. 53% of learners fail their first test. Of those who pass, 1 in 5 crash in the first 6 months. That’s unacceptable. Their technology helps learners find top-rated instructors and access pay-as-you-go insurance, so they can pass-first time and ultimately become safer drivers. Since launch, over 300,000 young people in the UK have used their apps, data and tech to gain their independence. They growing quickly and are now available in over 100 towns and cities in the UK, expanding to a new one each week. Recently they were named #19 in the Startup 100, the annual ranking of the most game-changing and exciting new businesses launched in the last three years. They were also named 'Digital Business of the Year' by the Federation of Small Businesses in 2017.

Live Better With

Seed Round in 2016
Live Better With is here to make everyday living a little bit better for the millions of people living with cancer all over the world. Together with the cancer community, they handpick products that help ease symptoms and side effects, and improve the quality of day-to-day life. Uniquely, they group all the products by how someone might be feeling (e.g., “Feeling sick” or “Can’t sleep”), so it’s very easy to discover all the relevant and helpful things that have worked for others with the same need as you.

hometouch

Seed Round in 2016
hometouch is Europe's leading home care marketplace connecting families looking for home care to professional carers nearby. They are backed by Passion Capital, Rocket Internet's GFC and the UK government. Their goal is to build the trust engine for social care, and revolutionise a staid and inefficient industry that is crying out for digital disruption. hometouch was founded by Dr Jamie Wilson, a former NHS dementia specialist, with the mission of fighting the progression of neurodegenerative conditions and supporting people through exceptional brain health focused care. Over three million people in the UK are living with some form of age-related cognitive impairment – and that number is getting bigger every year. It’s one of the worst health crises of their time. They believe their brain health focused care will change how they think about dementia and cognitive decline – not as an inevitable consequence of aging, but something that can be managed and minimised through careful attention to brain health.

HireHand

Angel Round in 2016
HireHand is an intelligent and fuss-free staffing platform for food businesses. HireHand's algorithm learns from each shift to consistently deliver great matches for clients, ensuring continuity and reliability for businesses, and flexibility and variety for hospitality professionals. Working with established London Food businesses such as Patty&Bun, Bleecker Burger, London Cocktail Club and Breddos Tacos, HireHand's talented pool of experienced individuals offer a full range of front and back of house skills. The London-based company also has a social mission, with some of its talent pool coming from disadvantaged backgrounds, and counting as its referral partners organisations such as Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen, The Prince’s Trust, Fight for Peace and Thames Reach. HireHand was founded on 2015.

Trint

Seed Round in 2016
Trint™ is what happens when technology meets opportunity. Jeff Kofman (veteran journalist) and Mark Boas (seasoned web developer) met at the Mozilla Festival in 2013, and quickly realized that the work Mark and his team were doing on media and transcripts could solve a problem that Jeff had long encountered: painstaking transcription of interviews.

hometouch

Seed Round in 2015
hometouch is Europe's leading home care marketplace connecting families looking for home care to professional carers nearby. They are backed by Passion Capital, Rocket Internet's GFC and the UK government. Their goal is to build the trust engine for social care, and revolutionise a staid and inefficient industry that is crying out for digital disruption. hometouch was founded by Dr Jamie Wilson, a former NHS dementia specialist, with the mission of fighting the progression of neurodegenerative conditions and supporting people through exceptional brain health focused care. Over three million people in the UK are living with some form of age-related cognitive impairment – and that number is getting bigger every year. It’s one of the worst health crises of their time. They believe their brain health focused care will change how they think about dementia and cognitive decline – not as an inevitable consequence of aging, but something that can be managed and minimised through careful attention to brain health.

Lexoo

Seed Round in 2015
Lexoo is a marketplace where businesses and in-house legal teams can easily compare and hire talented and forward-thinking lawyers around the wolrd, all pre-screened and vetted by Lexoo. The lawyers are incentivised to compete for work and people can see hundreds of reviews from other businesses. The team of ex-lawyers does the vetting so users will only receive quotes from lawyers that are right for the job. The lawyers are typically former big firm lawyers who now work on a lower overhead basis. The Lexoo solution is easier, more cost-effective, and transparent. Lexoo was founded on 2014 by Daniel van Binsbergen and Chris O’Sullivan. It is headquartered in London.

hometouch

Angel Round in 2015
hometouch is Europe's leading home care marketplace connecting families looking for home care to professional carers nearby. They are backed by Passion Capital, Rocket Internet's GFC and the UK government. Their goal is to build the trust engine for social care, and revolutionise a staid and inefficient industry that is crying out for digital disruption. hometouch was founded by Dr Jamie Wilson, a former NHS dementia specialist, with the mission of fighting the progression of neurodegenerative conditions and supporting people through exceptional brain health focused care. Over three million people in the UK are living with some form of age-related cognitive impairment – and that number is getting bigger every year. It’s one of the worst health crises of their time. They believe their brain health focused care will change how they think about dementia and cognitive decline – not as an inevitable consequence of aging, but something that can be managed and minimised through careful attention to brain health.

SimplyCook

Seed Round in 2015
SimplyCook offers home recipe kits with easy step-by-step guides to cook restaurant-quality food in less than 20 minutes.SimplyCook boxes contain 4 easy to follow recipes and 4 ingredient kits. Each kit is designed to provide perfect taste-containing ingredient blends devised by professional chefs.

Great British Chefs

Seed Round in 2015
Great British Chefs was established to inspire foodie around the world to create amazing dishes and to help them learn various cooking tricks. We work with over 150 of Britain and Italy's Greatest Chefs and have developed over 3,000 recipes with them. We get over 1m visits to the site a month and have 1.3m followers on social media. We work strategically with brands to help them deliver on their objectives and KPIs. We create inspirational content that is designed to inspire consumers to engage with the brand and its story. For a range of our casestudies visit http://www.greatbritishchefs.com/advertise

Loyalzoo

Seed Round in 2015
Loyalzoo provides independent retailers an affordable digital loyalty system to run their own in-store loyalty program. It replaces traditional loyalty cards and runs on most point-of-sale terminals.

Plentific

Seed Round in 2015
Plentific empowers landlords and property managers to deliver more efficient repairs and maintenance services. Plentific is a purpose-driven technology business. Since 2013, the company works with trade professionals and their property partners to transform their processes and the communities they serve. The company's platform and the marketplace is currently in use by landlords and property managers across residential, commercial and social applications throughout the United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Plentific was founded by Emre Kazan and Cem Savas to make it easy to find reliable trade services and manage property repairs and maintenance. The pair believed property management could and should be better - for local trades specialists, property managers and tenants.

Seenit

Seed Round in 2015
Seenit Enterprise is the industry-leading video crowdsourcing solution. It's a unique combination of a people-powered video creation platform and a team of tenacious and creative specialists in storytelling.
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