Ash (Ashish) Puri

Partner | Growth Equity | Technologist | ex-Entrepreneur

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 23 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom20+ investmentsInvested this year
23
Total investments
6
Early stage
5
Mid stage
7
Late stage
18y
Years active

Portfolio

20 investments · sorted by recency
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Angel Investor
Nov 2025
Cassi: Superstrategy – probabilistically optimised, superforecasted decisions.
Angel Investor
Mar 2023
HEAT is a shopping platform for a digital generation. Disrupting the fashion industry with innovative, immersive e-commerce experiences, we launched our luxury streetwear mystery box #HEATBOX in 2019 as a solution to reduce waste in the industry – and now we’re ready to do more. Think gamification, AI-driven personalisation and interactive drops. Sounds interesting? WERE HIRING! - Join us.
Angel Investor
Nov 2022
Our ambition is to play a key role in tackling climate change, by enabling green chemistry for every industry. We do this by creating the most general and efficient technology platform for chemical production that the world has ever seen. That’s a big claim, but we can stand behind it. By bio-upgrading the chemical industry with our cell-free biomanufacturing platform, we can produce the products that modern society relies on in a truly sustainable way. The technology platform utilises nature’s catalysts, enzymes, by combining the power of biology with the efficiency of the chemical industry in a best-of-both-worlds solution. EnginZyme is recognised as a Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum and backed by Sofinnova Partners, Industrifonden, SEB Greentech VC, Bunge Ventures, Almi Invest GreenTech Fund, and Navigare Ventures.
Board Observer
Jun 2022
Visby Medical is transforming the order of diagnosis and treatment for infectious diseases so clinicians can test, talk with, and treat the patient in a single visit. The Company developed a proprietary technology platform that is the world’s first instrument-free, single-use PCR platform that fits in the palm of your hand and rapidly tests for serious respiratory and sexually transmitted infections.
Investor
Aug 2021
Dataiku is the Platform for AI Success, the enterprise orchestration layer for building, deploying, and governing AI. In a single environment, teams design and operate AI agents, analytics, and machine learning with the transparency, collaboration, and control enterprises require. For more than a decade, Dataiku has helped organizations turn data, analytics, and AI into measurable business value. As the market has evolved from analytics to machine learning to generative AI and agents, Dataiku has enabled customers to stay ahead—operationalizing new technologies while maintaining stability, governance, and trust. Sitting above data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and AI services, Dataiku connects the full enterprise AI stack, enabling organizations to run AI across multi-vendor environments with centralized governance and oversight, at scale. Today, many of the world’s leading companies rely on Dataiku to deploy AI applications and agents in some of the most complex and highly regulated environments — turning AI into an enduring source of performance, competitive advantage, and long-term business value.
Board Observer
Jun 2021
Founded in 2015, wefox is a European insurtech driven by a single purpose: Empowering Insurance - driving the digital transformation of the insurance industry and facilitating seamless collaboration among all stakeholders.
late stageInsurance
Angel Investor
Feb 2021
Cliff.ai is now part of Quantive. Quantive is the world’s leading Strategy Execution Platform based on the OKR management methodology. By embedding strategic context, priorities, and progress into the day-to-day, Quantive creates organizations that excel at execution. With over 2,000 global customers across enterprises, not-for-profits, startups, and governments, Quantive helps todays businesses accelerate growth and transformational change by creating better visibility and organizational alignment.
Investor
Dec 2020
Satispay powers payments for the people - help you send, receive and save money, whichever side of the exchange you stand. Launched in 2015 as a European payment network, becoming an Italian unicorn in 2022 was a significant milestone for us. But what truly matters is our dedication to simplifying payments for individuals and businesses alike, making life easier for everyone. As part of our commitment, were proud to offer innovative services like our meal vouchers, which streamline benefits for employers and promote local businesses. Within our community of 4 million consumers and 300,000 merchants, were more than just numbers; were a diverse team of over 600+ talented professionals from various backgrounds, shaping the future of payments in Europe. Interested in joining us? Explore our open positions: wed love to connect with you!
Investor
Oct 2020
Bird delivers. From Uber to Netflix, we connect the most trusted businesses to billions of customers every day.
Angel Investor
Jul 2018
NumberEight is a global leader in privacy-first data solutions. Our ID-less technology specializes in transforming untapped signals into actionable audience insights with advanced AI to power omnichannel curation and targeting.
Investor / Board Observer
Jan 2018
Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover desirable, affordable secondhand fashion. With over 35 million registered users, we’re on a mission to make fashion circular - encouraging more people to choose secondhand and extend the lives of their clothes, redefining fashion consumption. We believe that the secret to making fashion more circular - at scale - is by offering the most inspiring and accessible alternative to new, making it easy for people to choose resale over retail. Sitting at the intersection of style, value, and sustainability, we want Depop to be the most exciting place for anyone to engage with fashion and trends in a more circular way. Powered by a team of over 400 people, our company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York and Manchester. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company. Depop is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage individuals from underrepresented communities to apply, and collaborate with our Talent Team to ensure broader outreach. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We’re continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us. Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.
Investor
Jul 2017
Onfido, an Entrust company, makes digital identity simple. We make it easy for people to access services by digitally verifying them using its Real Identity Platform. The platform allows businesses to tailor verification methods to individual user and market needs in a no-code, orchestration layer – combining the right mix of document and biometric verifications, trusted data sources, and passive fraud signals to meet their risk, friction and regulatory requirements. Onfido Atlas™ AI powers the platform’s fully-automated, end-to-end identity verification. Developed in-house for over 10 years, it’s how Onfido ensures its analysis is fair, fast and accurate.
Board Observer
Jun 2016
*Were aware of some scam job ads by people pretending to be from Attest. Heres some more information on this: bit.ly/CareersMessage Attest is the consumer research platform that puts trustworthy insights in more peoples hands. By combining the best bits of research technology and human expertise, we make it simple and fast for anyone to uncover opportunity with consumer data. Brands like Unilever, Santander, Walgreens/Boots, Sainsburys, Trustpilot, JCDecaux and more rely on us to cut through the noise and deliver facts. On our self-serve platform, you can survey 125 million consumers in 58 countries in minutes; they answer your burning questions in 48 hours on average. So you can back every decision, from big picture to every day, with real-world evidence. Because when you know how your target consumers are changing, acting, feeling and buying, you always know your next move is the right one.
early stageMarket Research
Board Observer
Dec 2015
AimBrain is a #BIDaaS (Biometric Identity as-a-Service) platform. Connectivity to the platform is via open-source SDKs and an API; businesses and developers can go trial-to-deployment with 1,000 free API calls a month, on our free platform AimBrain On Demand. Our approach combines 100% proprietary passive (anomaly detection and behavioural) and active (voice, facial and combined face/audio/lip movement) authentication modules to verify the user, not the device. The cloud model lets companies authenticate their users across any channel and any device, to reduce fraud and improve the security experience.
Board Observer
Jan 2015
Were making UK Estate Agency better. Since formation in 2010 we have sold over £5bn worth of property and saved property sellers over £30 million in fees. Estate agency has long awaited disruption to the mystique of finding buyers and guiding people through the home moving process. Emoov.co.uk are innovating the property industry by providing a fair cost solution to selling across England, and Wales. The same result (actually, better) for a fee that is several times less than the high street, typically. We combine technology with great people to sell houses better, faster and for a greater price than the high street.
mid stageReal Estate
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Board (11)
2025
Angel Investor
Nov 2025
Cassi: Superstrategy – probabilistically optimised, superforecasted decisions.
2023
Angel Investor
Mar 2023
HEAT is a shopping platform for a digital generation. Disrupting the fashion industry with innovative, immersive e-commerce experiences, we launched our luxury streetwear mystery box #HEATBOX in 2019 as a solution to reduce waste in the industry – and now we’re ready to do more. Think gamification, AI-driven personalisation and interactive drops. Sounds interesting? WERE HIRING! - Join us.
2022
Angel Investor
Nov 2022
Our ambition is to play a key role in tackling climate change, by enabling green chemistry for every industry. We do this by creating the most general and efficient technology platform for chemical production that the world has ever seen. That’s a big claim, but we can stand behind it. By bio-upgrading the chemical industry with our cell-free biomanufacturing platform, we can produce the products that modern society relies on in a truly sustainable way. The technology platform utilises nature’s catalysts, enzymes, by combining the power of biology with the efficiency of the chemical industry in a best-of-both-worlds solution. EnginZyme is recognised as a Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum and backed by Sofinnova Partners, Industrifonden, SEB Greentech VC, Bunge Ventures, Almi Invest GreenTech Fund, and Navigare Ventures.
Board Observer
Jun 2022
Visby Medical is transforming the order of diagnosis and treatment for infectious diseases so clinicians can test, talk with, and treat the patient in a single visit. The Company developed a proprietary technology platform that is the world’s first instrument-free, single-use PCR platform that fits in the palm of your hand and rapidly tests for serious respiratory and sexually transmitted infections.
2021
Investor
Aug 2021
Dataiku is the Platform for AI Success, the enterprise orchestration layer for building, deploying, and governing AI. In a single environment, teams design and operate AI agents, analytics, and machine learning with the transparency, collaboration, and control enterprises require. For more than a decade, Dataiku has helped organizations turn data, analytics, and AI into measurable business value. As the market has evolved from analytics to machine learning to generative AI and agents, Dataiku has enabled customers to stay ahead—operationalizing new technologies while maintaining stability, governance, and trust. Sitting above data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and AI services, Dataiku connects the full enterprise AI stack, enabling organizations to run AI across multi-vendor environments with centralized governance and oversight, at scale. Today, many of the world’s leading companies rely on Dataiku to deploy AI applications and agents in some of the most complex and highly regulated environments — turning AI into an enduring source of performance, competitive advantage, and long-term business value.
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