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Fullbrook Thorpe Investments

PESeries A+Growth

Fullbrook Thorpe Investments LLP is an independent private equity fund founded in 2015 and based in Derbyshire, providing equity and debt funding of £0.5 million to £5 million to ambitious SMEs across the UK. The firm invests directly and as co-investor alongside other private equity businesses, with a diverse portfolio spanning pharmaceuticals, financial services, leisure, manufacturing, and property.

Greater Manchester Investment Fund

GovernmentSeedSeries A+GrowthGrantmaker

The Greater Manchester Investment Fund is a series of public investment funds operated by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), providing loans and equity of between £250,000 and £5 million to businesses creating jobs in the region. The fund also invests in commercial property and residential development, having deployed over £1.2 billion across businesses, property, and infrastructure since its launch in 2015.

Guinness Ventures

VCSeries A+

London-based VC firm offering EIS, VCT and SEIS tax-efficient investments into UK Series A scale-ups across consumer, business services and healthcare.

Intrepid Growth Partners

VCSeries A+Foreign

Growth-stage VC firm backing machine intelligence companies, with offices in Toronto and London; led PhysicsX's $300M Series C.

JRJ Group

PESeries A+Growth

JRJ Group is a partner-led global private equity investment firm founded in 2009 and headquartered in London, with a core focus on the financial services sector. The firm provides capital, deep operational expertise, and strategic guidance to mid-sized European businesses, working closely with management teams to build long-term growth platforms.

Juno Capital

VCSeedSeries A+

Juno Capital is a London-based specialist alternative asset manager and investment syndicate, founded in 2011, that provides capital to a network of wealthy individuals and family offices. The firm focuses on venture investment in UK-based B2B SaaS businesses at the seed and scale-up stage, with investment tickets typically ranging from £1 million to £6.2 million.

Kennet Partners

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

Kennet Partners is a London-headquartered venture capital firm founded in 1997 that focuses exclusively on bootstrapped and capital-efficient B2B SaaS technology companies in Europe and the US. The firm typically provides the first external funding to founder-owned software businesses and has over €1.3 billion in cumulative assets under management across six funds. Kennet also maintains offices in Silicon Valley and Frankfurt.

Lake House

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

Lake House is a privately held investment company founded in 1995, with offices in London and Hong Kong. The firm is industry agnostic and has been involved in projects and investments in excess of US$15 billion across 15 countries, focusing on real estate, media, technology, transportation, and internet sectors. It invests in distressed, turnaround, and fast-growing innovative companies.

Lavender Ventures

VCSeries A+

London-based pre-seed and seed stage venture capital firm investing in female health and wellbeing (femtech) companies.

Longwall Ventures

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+

Longwall Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2008 and based at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, with over 18 years of experience commercialising UK academic research in deep technology. The firm manages four funds targeting start-up and early-stage companies across advanced manufacturing, clean energy, defence, life sciences, and space, investing between £500k and £2m per company, with a British Business Bank cornerstone commitment of £50m anchoring Fund 4's £100m target.

Ludgate Environmental Fund

PESeries A+GrowthVC

Ludgate Environmental Fund is a Jersey-domiciled closed-ended investment company that was listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange from 2007, managed by Ludgate Investments Ltd in London. The fund exclusively invested growth capital in environmentally sustainable companies with a focus on e-mobility, energy transition, and decarbonisation; the AIM listing was cancelled in 2017 and the fund entered an orderly wind-down, though Ludgate Investments Ltd continues as an FCA-regulated investment manager in the cleantech space.

Manta Ray Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+

Manta Ray Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in London, founded in 2017, that partners with mission-driven founders building companies to address significant global challenges using advanced technologies. The firm invests with patient capital across a broad range of sectors including AI, biotech, healthcare, fintech, and deep tech.

Manulife Ventures

VCSeries A+GrowthForeign

Manulife Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Manulife Financial Corporation, a Canadian multinational insurance and financial services company. The team backs early- and growth-stage North American B2B SaaS, FinTech, and InsurTech startups, typically investing at Series A and Series B stage.

Marchmont Ventures

VCSeedPre-Seed

Marchmont Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based at Marchmont House in the Scottish Borders, investing in companies that support sustainability, creativity, the arts, crafts, heritage protection, and land management. The firm backs purpose-driven enterprises and early-stage digital businesses with a long-term investment horizon.

Mark McDermott

PersonPre-SeedSeedAngel

Co-founder and former CEO of ScreenCloud (digital signage SaaS), angel investor backing UK tech startups including Voxmind.

Mayfair

VCSeries A+

Mayfair

Meltwind Advisory

VCSeries A+

Cambridge-based investment advisory firm founded by Abcam's Jonathan Milner, backing early-stage life science tools, therapeutics, and medtech companies.

Montreux Capital Management

PEGrowth

Montreux Capital Management is a boutique alternative investment firm founded in 2010 and based in Surrey, United Kingdom. It serves as investment adviser to the Montreux Healthcare Fund, which deploys a buy-and-build strategy to acquire and grow specialist care businesses across the United Kingdom, with a focus on adult care for those with acquired brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and learning disabilities.

NW Brown Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+

NW Brown Ventures was the venture capital investment arm of NW Brown & Co, a Cambridge-based wealth management and financial advisory firm founded in 1974. The venture arm made a small number of early-stage investments in UK technology and life sciences companies, with its last recorded investment in 2008. The parent company, NW Brown & Co, was acquired by Brown Shipley in 2019 and the venture arm appears to have been dormant for many years prior.

Neptune Investment Management

PEGrowth

Neptune Investment Management was an independent UK-based active fund manager founded in 2002 in Hammersmith, West London, offering a range of global, income, regional, and emerging market funds. The firm was acquired by Liontrust Asset Management in October 2019, with all Neptune funds subsequently rebranded under the Liontrust name and its investment team absorbed as the Liontrust Global Equity team. Neptune no longer exists as an independent entity.

OG Venture Partners

VCSeries A+GrowthForeign

O.G. Venture Partners is a venture capital fund backed by Eyal Ofer's Ofer Global, investing primarily at Series B and C stages in fast-growing technology startups. The fund focuses on sectors including gaming, logistics, AI, and SaaS, with particular strength in Israeli and global technology companies. It manages multiple funds totalling over $400 million, with a global office in London and an Israeli office in Tel Aviv.

Odysseus Investments

VCSeries A+GrowthPE

Odysseus Investments is the venture capital and private equity arm of Reech Corporations Group, founded in 2015 and publicly launched in 2020, and headquartered in London. The firm focuses on driving the digitisation of traditional finance, insurance, and real estate sectors, partnering with businesses that have proven models set to benefit from technology, financial structuring, or scaling expertise.

Oxford Early Investments

VCPre-SeedSeed

Oxford Early Investments (OEI) was an angel network operating under the OION Ltd group — the same umbrella as the Oxford Investment Opportunity Network (OION) and Thames Valley Investment Network (TVIN) — providing investors with access to investment opportunities at an earlier stage than those presented to OION, typically in companies seeking between £20,000 and £150,000. The network is permanently closed.

Paul Forster

PersonPre-SeedSeedAngel

Co-founder and former CEO of Indeed.com; now a prolific UK angel investor with 90+ portfolio companies across fintech, AI, and health tech.