162UK pre-seed & seed investors.
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Pre-seed firm (leads $500K–$2M rounds) guaranteeing funds in 10 business days via Pre-Seed Fast Track, offering serial-founder, operator, and Ph.D.-level technical expertise for biobanking, robotics, bio tooling.
Focusing on pre-seed and seed companies building ambitious solutions to widespread problems, 7Percent writes $250k-$2m cheques alongside other angel investors or trusted founder-friendly VCs.; ➡️7percent invests in early-stage tech startups in any sector. They’re great because: t
Leads concentrated pre-seed and seed B2B SaaS rounds outside Silicon Valley as a hands-on lead investor, founded by ex-B2B SaaS founders who exited, targeting capital-disciplined founders with proven traction.
Invests at early-stage (UK consumer, £200k–£1m) and growth (£3–15m) stages, takes board seats and runs structured brand-purpose exercises measuring NPS, reviews and repeat purchase to intensively partner founders.; Failory UK VC summary row: founded 2003, investments 49, lead inv
Early-stage venture firm and venture studio that builds groundbreaking companies.
Pitchkit pre-seed stage page: Afore Capital listed as United States VC; stages Pre-seed; cheque €500k - €2M.; Pre-seed specialist backing pre-traction, pre-formation founders with $500k–$1M+ checks, issuing founder-name term sheets and running a Founder-in-Residence (including un
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London-based founder-led syndicate backing UK and European pre-seed and seed startups.
UK-based deeptech-focused venture firm — invests at seed and growth.
Invests at seed in ai-ml, b2b-saas, hrtech. 2 rounds tracked.
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Listed on VC Sheet source https://www.vcsheet.com/sheet/the-vcs-that-lead-seeds-at-top-multi-stage-funds.
Pitchkit UK country page: Angel Capital Scotland listed as United Kingdom Angels; stages Seed, Series A; cheque €50k - €2M.; Pitchkit seed stage page: Angel Capital Scotland listed as United Kingdom Angels
Join 21,000+ investors backing the top 4% of UK startups. Access vetted, tax-efficient (SEIS/EIS) investment opportunities and exclusive pitch events. Show more... Investment focus E-Commerce, Mobile, Software Seed, Funding Round, Angel United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Seed-stage, three Latin American immigrant partners lead/co-lead $500K–$2.5M checks, take ≥50% of rounds, target overlooked U.S. markets (Seattle, Salt Lake City, Miami), and speak with founders every 48 hours.
Pitchkit UK country page: Anthemis listed as United Kingdom VC; stages Seed, Series A; cheque €3M - €45M.; Pitchkit seed stage page: Anthemis listed as United Kingdom VC; Anthemis backs early-stage startups at the intersections of industry, technology and society, deploying finan
Pre-seed (first $250K–$2M) investor for technical founders building enterprise data, AI infrastructure and security; founder-led AI engineer providing whole-stack perspective, AI-native experiments and Sand Hill Road graduation track record.
UK impact-focused early-stage VC — backs SEIS/EIS companies improving health and planet.
Stealthy investor across frontier sectors (space, biotech, AI) making sub-$500K average checks into technically complex startups with exceptional defensibility and operational guidance from GP Rob Ness’s 2% Rule.
Seed-stage firm using psychometrics and structured data to archetype founders and model outcomes, with a quantitative sourcing engine (GitHub spikes, big-tech departures) and hands-on GTM and model-building support.
Pre-seed-focused lead firm operating as a collective product-studio of creative technologists with hardware/frontier-tech experience, deeply building companies via recruiting, product strategy, early culture and pattern recognition for physical‑digital startups.
Early-stage fintech investors composed entirely of ex-fintech founders/operators, offering tactical product, go-to-market, and regulatory guidance, with a high-visibility founding partner who drives disproportionate deal flow.
➡️ BGF Growth Capital invests in early-stage companies and SMEs across sectors. They’re great because: they’re one of the UK and Ireland’s most active VCs. They don’t give exit deadlines; instead they empower companies to do things their way, in their own time. Notable companies
Focuses on fintech–commerce intersections to advance the economic yield of financial innovation, leveraging an LP network of C-suite leaders and family offices for customers, distribution and follow-on capital.
Partners can unilaterally approve investments; the firm open-sources its operating manual and uses data-driven outreach that proactively identifies and emails hundreds of future founders.
Britbots offer early-stage investment to UK-based robotics, automation and AI companies.; ➡️Britbots invests in UK-based robotics, automation, and AI companies once they have started to demonstrate commercial traction. They’re great because: they focus on productivity-enhancing a
Relationship-driven firm that backs founders seed-to-growth, makes contrarian bets in capital‑intensive frontier areas (orbital manufacturing, nuclear space, defense), and brings partners' FinTech and applied‑AI/data‑science experience from companies like Affirm.
Cambridge-based angel network of senior tech executives and entrepreneurs backing early-stage UK companies.
Early-stage, first-money-in partner for technically ambitious founders transforming the physical world (energy, defense, infrastructure, space, advanced manufacturing), underwriting high technical and regulatory risk.
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures Show more... Investment focus FinTech, Financial Services, Software Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
London-based seed fund backing product-led companies in B2B and consumer.
Led by DataRobot’s founder (built $6B+ AI company), the team uses a proprietary AI platform to invent and incubate in Physical AI, AI Production Gap, and AI for Good.
Pitchkit seed stage page: Costanoa Ventures listed as United States VC; stages Seed, Series A; cheque €920k - €9.2M.; Early-stage missing middle investor taking concentrated 10–15%+ stakes in ~35 deals, providing hands-on support via monthly board meetings, sales-call participati
Pitchkit seed stage page: Cowboy Ventures listed as United States VC; stages Seed, Series A; cheque €920k - €4.6M.; Seed-stage investor leveraging Aileen Lee's data-driven, category-shaping framework and a Mustang Fund structure that enables concentrated follow-on support for bre
Pitchkit seed stage page: Craft Ventures listed as United States VC; stages Seed, Series A; cheque €2M - €50M.; Led by repeat unicorn operators from the PayPal Mafia and iconic startups, they offer a metrics-driven B2B SaaS playbook and transparent investment framework with quant
European seed fund backing deeply technical B2B and AI companies.
European multi-stage VC investing across UK and the Nordics.
Uses computational simulations to build concentrated ~10–15 portfolios of next-generation financial institutions (insurance, payments, asset management), targets 5x net in 14-year funds, and publishes playbooks with fintech operating experience.
Efficiently gets founders priority introductions to deeptech VCs by explaining your startup after a deck review and connects you with deeptech angel founders, including the CEOs of Solugen and Astranis.
Operates a Sage model where CEOs and serial founders embed as hands-on operators, sometimes interim leaders, hatch and prototype startups internally, and bring hundreds of millions in follow-on capital.
Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds. Show more... Investment focus Software, Health Care, Biotechnology Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing United Kingdom, Austr
➡️ Downing Ventures invests in tech companies across the globe in the enterprise, healthcare and deep tech sectors. They’re great because: they have a lot of expertise in their core sectors that they use to support founders. Notable companies in their portfolio include: Trouva an
Seed-stage, engineering-first lead investor that backs software infrastructure startups taking technical risk, offering deep technical diligence and first-principles architecture and systems audits alongside founders.
Seed-stage UK fund backing technical founders solving big problems with software and AI.
Equity Gap is a group of private individuals set up to invest in and support emerging and growing businesses based in Scotland Show more... Investment focus Software, Information Technology, SaaS Seed, Funding Round, Series A United Kingdom
Pre-seed deeptech co-investor that writes many fast $25K checks, partnering alongside top firms, offering speed, broad frontier-domain expertise (AI, robotics, space, biotech) and deeptech credibility.
Bi‑continental, decentralized NY and Warsaw teams run a dedicated CEE-to-Japan commercialization channel—partners relocated from Japan to Warsaw to connect CEE deep‑tech with Japanese multinationals.
Pitchkit seed stage page: FJ Labs listed as United States VC; stages Seed, Series A; cheque €50k - €5M.; Founded by Fabrice Grinda and Jose Marin, they focus on marketplaces and network-effect businesses, holding the world’s largest marketplace portfolio with 30+ investments that
Pre-seed AI-only investor anchored to 50+ founders/operators from Anthropic, NVIDIA and OpenAI who run pre-seed funds, delivering 5× deal flow, focused partner attention (8–10 investments), and Boston–NYC research-to-enterprise links.
Failory UK VC profile. Foresight Group manages private equity and infrastructure investments for a range of clients, from large institutions to individual retail investors. Their strategy is defined by a strong ESG focus, backing smaller companies and real assets to help create a
London-based applied-AI fund backing UK pre-seed and seed founders.
Pitchkit pre-seed stage page: Freestyle Capital listed as United States VC; stages Pre-seed, Seed; cheque €230k - €1.4M.; Pitchkit seed stage page: Freestyle Capital listed as United States VC; Seed-stage backers taking ~15% at seed and doubling down via opportunity funds on winn
UK pre-seed and seed investor backing high-growth tech companies.
➡️Future Planet Capital invests in tech and life science companies from leading research centres. They focus on climate change, education, health, sustainable growth and security. They’re great because: they’re committed to creating a lasting impact. Their network provides access
Community-first LGBTQIA+/Allies syndicate of 4,000+ members offering hands-on portfolio support, recruiting underrepresented investors, an annual showcase of venture-backed LGBTQIA+ founders, and a jobs board with 10,000+ live roles.
Failory UK VC summary row: founded 2023, investments 1, lead investments —.
A borderless, Rocket-backed venture arm with offices in 16 cities and five partners, offering founders in emerging and secondary markets experienced support for simultaneous multi-continent scaling from day zero.
Early-stage fund run by active founders and operators still building companies, with 300+ teams invested, nine unicorns, multiple IPOs/M&A, 70% diverse, and over a third outside the U.S.
Seed-stage, nearly two-decade-old firm that writes small initial checks ($50k–$500k) as first investor to pre-traction founders, offering low-noise support and cross-sector expertise across consumer and infrastructure.
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