Avantika Gupta

Principal at Type One Ventures

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2021
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Nov 2021
Thingtrax is a complete solution for manufacturing leaders to improve operational performance by engaging people at every level to embrace a high-performance culture. Our Integrated Product Suite includes: - An executive dashboard delivering real-time data on all aspects of production, measured against key performance indicators and relevant benchmarks. - A collaboration suite providing a structure for Daily Management meetings built on best practices for continuous improvement and problem-solving. - A data capture suite, utilising software and hardware to display real-time productivity data, including OEE for individual machines and true line view. Manual processes can be captured using our camera based Vision AI system.
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Aug 2021
The Duel Brand Advocacy Platform enables brands to mobilize and manage entire communities of social affiliates, content creators and micro-influencers to acquire customers and drive revenue at scale. It also measures the true ROI of advocacy and its impact on Social Commerce, in comparison to ads. Committed to working with brands that put people and the planet over profit, Duel is Bcorp Certified and breaks a brand’s reliance on digital advertising through its Social Affiliate and Brand Ambassador programs. Founded by world-record breaking adventurer and former brand ambassador, Paul Archer, and viral games developer, Panagiotis Tsarouchis, the Duel team is made up of psychologists, brand experts and community builders from companies including Amazon and Lululemon. The platform is used by brands such as Charlotte Tilbury, Monica Vinader, Mint Velvet, NEOM Organics, ELEMIS and more, with the team having consulted with hundreds of other brands.
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Jul 2021
Focussing predominantly within the crop insurance industry, we turn months of manual assessment into minutes of automated analysis. Our accurate and efficient analysis, available on a global scale, is used by the crop insurance industry to support insurance policies and validate claims data.
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May 2021
Space Forge is a global company looking to lead the clean industrial revolution by harnessing space. Space Forge Ltd operates from headquarters in the UK, and through its independent entity, Space Forge US. We are developing fully reusable satellites that are designed for manufacturing next generation super materials in space for return to Earth to be used to help move to low carbon technologies.
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Mar 2021
QLM Technology Ltd is a UK-based photonics technology and analytics company with operations in England, Wales and California. QLM has developed a unique, patented Quantum Gas Lidar that can detect, visualize, locate and accurately quantify emission rates of greenhouse gases (GHGs), enabling customers to identify their largest GHG emitters for remediation in the most cost-effective manner. QLM’s lidar technology is inherently scalable to low cost at high volume, enabling wide deployment.
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Mar 2021
NuVision® is a tissue therapies company that provides amniotic membrane solutions to patients with ocular conditions. Our team work with Ophthalmologists, Optometrists, Contact Lens Opticians and Specialist nurses to provide our groundbreaking treatments to patients in a primary and secondary care setting. NuVision is a spin-out from the University of Nottingham.
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Mar 2021
Robin is leading the shift to the New Legal with our Legal Intelligence Platform, a powerful combination of AI and human expertise that allows you to unlock the value hidden in your contracts. We make contracts simple by helping businesses to reduce manual work, manage risk, and access scalable growth through smarter, faster legal operations.
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Jan 2021
RAB-Microfluidics is a Research & Development company developing cutting-edge microfluidic technology to solve oil analysis problems. For too long, stationary laboratories have been the way to test and analyse oil samples, however, oil analysis does not have to be static and one dimensional. We believe this process should be dynamic like everything else around us, that’s why we are revolutionising oil testing and analysis services by making conventional laboratory procedures mobile, rapid and routine. Our innovation is driven by the needs of our customers in oil & gas, aerospace & defence, processing & manufacturing, power generation, transport and maritime industries. Our microfluidic technology invention is the product of a decade-long research from world recognised college of Physical Science at the University of Aberdeen. RAB-Microfluidics is strategically located at the heart of this citadel of technological expertise, being the pioneering developer of microfluidic technology for oil applications in Europe. We have unparalleled world class expertise in development of microfluidic technology at out behest working with award winning product development partners in the United Kingdom. Our advisory team has over 60 years’ worth of experience and expertise in knowledge underpinning our technology, business development and commercialisation.
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Oct 2020
Elemendar develops Artificial Intelligence which reads cyber threat reports (CTI) authored by humans and instantly translates them into industry-standard machine-readable and actionable data. This saves cyber analysts and security departments hours of work a day and removes the "vulnerability gap" created by delayed understanding of new and dangerous cyber threats. Selected for the Telecoms Councils Innovation Showcase (2020) Finalist for SC Magazine Europe Awards, Best Emerging Technology (2020) Shortlisted for the Accenture Blue Tulip Awards (2020) Exhibited at NCSC Cyber Accelerator stand in the 3 Counties Defence and Security Expo (2019) Selected for Machine Intelligence Garage - Digital Catapult (2019) Selected for Cyber 101 - Digital Catapult (2019) Presented "Get the benefit you deserve from Threat Intelligence"​ at the Infosecurity Europe Cyber Innovation Showcase (2019) Exhibited in the DCMS Innovation Zone at Infosecurity Europe (2019) Selected for LORCA Cohort 3 (2019) Named one of Top 3 Most Innovative UK Cybersecurity SMEs at Pitchfest 2019 (2019) Selected for the DCMS cybersecurity Pitchfest (2019) Finalist of NTT Data Open Innovation Contest (2019) Winner of Innovation2Company / OMV challenge (2018) Alumni of the first GCHQ / NCSC Cyber Accelerator powered by Wayra (2017)
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Mar 2020
Kluster is the leading revenue analytics and forecasting platform for scaling technology businesses. We help revenue leaders hit target, every quarter by providing them with the playbook to plan, engineer, and execute their revenue strategy like the best technology businesses in the world. Hundreds of revenue teams use Kluster to deliver powerful forecasts, close their rep productivity gap, and inform a stronger go-to-market strategy. Head to https://kluster.com to find out how Kluster powers every meaningful revenue meeting, today.
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Mar 2020
Vaticle is a team of people driven to empower engineers to solve complex problems. We are the creators of the strongly-typed database, TypeDB, and its query language, TypeQL. Our technology helps organisations in various industries, including Life Sciences, Defence & Security, Financial Services and Robotics, to build intelligent systems that tackle complex problems. From financial analytics to drug discovery, cyber threat detection to robotics disaster recovery, our technology empowers engineers around the world to tackle a higher order of complexity in data and knowledge.
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2022
VP, UK and Europe
Apr 2022
Inspired by astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev’s method for measuring a civilizations level of technological advancement (the Kardashev scale), Type One Ventures has the goal of advancing humanity closer to a technologically advanced Type One Civilization. We are a venture capital fund investing in Seed and Series A startups with operational expertise, capital, and industry resources. The startups we invest in have dynamic teams and are building technical products with the capability to progress humanity forward. At Type One, we help founders harness their superpowers so they can change the world.
2021
Investor
Nov 2021
Thingtrax is a complete solution for manufacturing leaders to improve operational performance by engaging people at every level to embrace a high-performance culture. Our Integrated Product Suite includes: - An executive dashboard delivering real-time data on all aspects of production, measured against key performance indicators and relevant benchmarks. - A collaboration suite providing a structure for Daily Management meetings built on best practices for continuous improvement and problem-solving. - A data capture suite, utilising software and hardware to display real-time productivity data, including OEE for individual machines and true line view. Manual processes can be captured using our camera based Vision AI system.
Investor
Aug 2021
The Duel Brand Advocacy Platform enables brands to mobilize and manage entire communities of social affiliates, content creators and micro-influencers to acquire customers and drive revenue at scale. It also measures the true ROI of advocacy and its impact on Social Commerce, in comparison to ads. Committed to working with brands that put people and the planet over profit, Duel is Bcorp Certified and breaks a brand’s reliance on digital advertising through its Social Affiliate and Brand Ambassador programs. Founded by world-record breaking adventurer and former brand ambassador, Paul Archer, and viral games developer, Panagiotis Tsarouchis, the Duel team is made up of psychologists, brand experts and community builders from companies including Amazon and Lululemon. The platform is used by brands such as Charlotte Tilbury, Monica Vinader, Mint Velvet, NEOM Organics, ELEMIS and more, with the team having consulted with hundreds of other brands.
Investor
Jul 2021
Focussing predominantly within the crop insurance industry, we turn months of manual assessment into minutes of automated analysis. Our accurate and efficient analysis, available on a global scale, is used by the crop insurance industry to support insurance policies and validate claims data.
Investor
May 2021
Space Forge is a global company looking to lead the clean industrial revolution by harnessing space. Space Forge Ltd operates from headquarters in the UK, and through its independent entity, Space Forge US. We are developing fully reusable satellites that are designed for manufacturing next generation super materials in space for return to Earth to be used to help move to low carbon technologies.
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