Andrea Roda

Technology investor

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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2024
Powering the API World. No AI without APIs. Kong enables any company to become an API-first company. Kong’s unified cloud native API platform is easy to use and works in any environment — unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and boosting performance of APIs and microservices at scale.
Investor
2024
Photoroom is the worlds #1 AI Photo Editor. Our mission: to put the power of great images into more peoples hands. Photoroom elevates businesses through amazing photography. We use AI to make photo-editing feel easy and delightful, and the end results look pro. Since launching in 2019, PhotoRoom has been downloaded over 150 million times worldwide with a 4.7-star rating from 1+ million reviews. Photoroom was also named Editors Choice by both Google and Apple for 2023.
Investor
2022
TestGorilla is a talent discovery platform that helps employers worldwide find and hire top talent based on proven skills. With access to over 2 million pre-vetted, skills-validated candidates, plus science-backed assessments and bias-tested AI evaluation tools, we give employers a fairer, more predictive way to scale hiring and build high-performing teams. Thousands of organizations rely on TestGorilla, united by our mission to put one billion people into their dream roles through skills-based hiring. Tap into the world’s largest skills‑tested talent pool today.
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2020
AUTO1 Group is Europe’s leading digital automotive platform for buying and selling used cars online. We offer a quick and easy way for consumers and professional car dealers across Continental Europe to sell and buy used cars at haggle-free prices through our established platforms. We offer the largest selection of used cars in more than 30 countries, across more than 80 brands and all price points. AUTO1 Group sold over 615,000 vehicles via our websites and apps in 2019. We have a strong team focused on building the leading used car business across Europe. We are a founder-led business with an entrepreneurial spirit, longstanding industry experience, the proven ability to scale the business and a lasting commitment to our mission. For more information please visit www.auto1-group.com. Imprint: https://www.auto1-group.com/imprint/ AUTO1.com www.auto1.com wirkaufendeinauto.de www.wirkaufendeinauto.de Autohero www.autohero.com
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2020
Contentsquare is the all-in-one experience intelligence platform designed to be easily used by anyone that cares about digital journeys. With our flexible and scalable platform, you quickly get a deep understanding of your customers’ whole online journey.  Our AI-powered insights provide those “ah ha” moments you need to deliver the right digital experiences. You get to work faster and smarter, with the confidence to know what to do next to improve. Leading brands use Contentsquare to grow their business, deliver more customer delight, and move with greater efficiency in a constantly changing world. Our insights optimize the experience on over 1.3 million websites worldwide.
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2020
We’re on a mission to get people out more. We’ve always believed that a gig can change lives. So in 2014, we created a platform for fans to experience more of the shows they love. From music legends and world-renowned festivals to underground club nights and artists who are just starting out, we search high and low to bring fans around the world incredible live shows and streams. Want to know more? www.dice.fm.
Investor
2018
Ola is India’s largest mobility platform and one of the world’s largest ride-hailing companies, serving 250+ cities across India, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. The Ola app offers mobility solutions by connecting customers to drivers and a wide range of vehicles across bikes, auto-rickshaws, metered taxis, and cabs, enabling convenience and transparency for hundreds of millions of consumers and over 1.5 million driver-partners. Ola’s core mobility offering in India is supplemented by its electric-vehicle arm, Ola Electric; India’s largest fleet management business, Ola Fleet Technologies and Ola Skilling, that aims to enable millions of livelihood opportunities for Indias youth. With its acquisition of Ridlr, India’s leading public transportation app and investment in Vogo, a dockless scooter sharing solution, Ola is looking to build mobility for the next billion Indians. Ola also extends its consumer offerings like micro-insurance and credit led payments through Ola Financial Services and a range of owned food brands through India’s largest network of kitchens under its Food business. Ola was founded in 2011 by Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati with a mission to build mobility for a billion people. For more details, visit www.olacabs.com/media
Investor
2018
We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything and earn their way. Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now. The idea for Uber was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We’ve grown into a global platform powering flexible earnings and the movement of people and things in ever expanding ways. We’ve gone from connecting rides on 4 wheels to 2 wheels to 18-wheel freight deliveries. From takeout meals to daily essentials to prescription drugs to just about anything you need at any time and earning your way. From drivers with background checks to real-time verification, safety is a top priority every single day. At Uber, the pursuit of reimagination is never finished, never stops, and is always just beginning.
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2018
Lemonade is digital insurance built on social impact. That means you can sign up instantly to cover your stuff, home, pets, family and car all within one app. It also means your unused premiums are donated to a charity of your choice through Lemonade’s Giveback, which has given over $4 million to non-profit organizations around the world. See how we’re changing insurance, starting with everything.
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Investor
2017
Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading superapp, offering a suite of services consisting of deliveries, mobility, financial services, enterprise and others. Grabbers come from all over the world, and we are united by a common mission: to drive Southeast Asia forward by creating economic empowerment for everyone. At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which explains our mission and the operating principles on how we can achieve it together. We call these principles the 4Hs: Heart We work together as OneGrab to serve communities in Southeast Asia Hunger We work to understand ground truths and drive improvements, big and small Honour We keep our word and steward our resources wisely to build and sustain trust Humility We are a constant work-in-progress, and we never stop learning to get better
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2017
Kabbage from American Express has innovated a data and technology platform to help American Express move “Beyond the Card” and provide U.S. small businesses digital cash flow solutions, including online business checking accounts with 1.3% APY on balances up to $500,000, online payments to get paid faster, business analytics to forecast and track cash flow 24/7, and flexible lines of credit up to $250,000. Kabbage uses real-time data and automation to provide an integrated suite of financial tools empowering small businesses to spend less time on their books and more time on building thriving businesses. Twitter: http://twitter.com/kabbageinc Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KabbageInc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kabbageinc/ Learn more about Kabbage: https://www.kabbage.com/why-kabbage
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2017
SoFi is a values-driven company on a mission to help our members get their money right. We create modern financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better, so that they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions—from owning a home to saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, and more. CFL #6054612; NMLS #1121636 (www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org) Advisory services through SoFi LLC, a registered investment advisor. SoFi Checking and Savings is offered through SoFi Bank, N.A. Member FDIC. SoFi Money™ is offered through SoFi Securities LLC, member FINRA/SIPC.
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2017
DiDi Global Inc. is the world’s leading mobility technology platform. It offers a wide range of app-based services across Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa, as well as in Central Asia and Russia, including ride hailing, taxi hailing, chauffeur, hitch and other forms of shared mobility as well as auto solutions, food delivery, intra-city freight and financial services. DiDi provides car owners, drivers and delivery partners with flexible work and income opportunities. It is committed to collaborating with policymakers, the taxi industry, the automobile industry and the communities to solve the world’s transportation, environmental and employment challenges through the use of AI technology and localized smart transportation innovations. DiDi strives to create better life experiences and greater social value, by building a safe, inclusive and sustainable transportation and local services ecosystem for cities of the future.
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2024
Investor
2024
Powering the API World. No AI without APIs. Kong enables any company to become an API-first company. Kong’s unified cloud native API platform is easy to use and works in any environment — unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and boosting performance of APIs and microservices at scale.
Investor
2024
Photoroom is the worlds #1 AI Photo Editor. Our mission: to put the power of great images into more peoples hands. Photoroom elevates businesses through amazing photography. We use AI to make photo-editing feel easy and delightful, and the end results look pro. Since launching in 2019, PhotoRoom has been downloaded over 150 million times worldwide with a 4.7-star rating from 1+ million reviews. Photoroom was also named Editors Choice by both Google and Apple for 2023.
2022
Investor
2022
TestGorilla is a talent discovery platform that helps employers worldwide find and hire top talent based on proven skills. With access to over 2 million pre-vetted, skills-validated candidates, plus science-backed assessments and bias-tested AI evaluation tools, we give employers a fairer, more predictive way to scale hiring and build high-performing teams. Thousands of organizations rely on TestGorilla, united by our mission to put one billion people into their dream roles through skills-based hiring. Tap into the world’s largest skills‑tested talent pool today.
2021
Investment Principal
2021
Balderton is a multistage venture firm with 25 years of experience supporting Europe’s best founders from Seed to IPO. We have both early and growth funds and invest across the technology sector.
2020
Investor
2020
AUTO1 Group is Europe’s leading digital automotive platform for buying and selling used cars online. We offer a quick and easy way for consumers and professional car dealers across Continental Europe to sell and buy used cars at haggle-free prices through our established platforms. We offer the largest selection of used cars in more than 30 countries, across more than 80 brands and all price points. AUTO1 Group sold over 615,000 vehicles via our websites and apps in 2019. We have a strong team focused on building the leading used car business across Europe. We are a founder-led business with an entrepreneurial spirit, longstanding industry experience, the proven ability to scale the business and a lasting commitment to our mission. For more information please visit www.auto1-group.com. Imprint: https://www.auto1-group.com/imprint/ AUTO1.com www.auto1.com wirkaufendeinauto.de www.wirkaufendeinauto.de Autohero www.autohero.com
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