Andy Barrow

Venture Capital | Angel | NED | CTO

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2024
VC🌍 United Kingdom
7
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5
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2
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0
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Portfolio

7 investments · sorted by recency
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Sep 2024
Poolhouse is an innovative, tech-enabled entertainment company set to transform the traditional game of pool. Founded by Steve and Dave Jolliffe, creators of Topgolf, Poolhouse combines patented interactive technology with a vibrant, vintage Las Vegas-inspired ambiance. Our unique venues offer immersive pool experiences alongside world-class food and beverage offerings, curated in collaboration with globally acclaimed hospitality leaders. Poolhouse is backed by a $34 million seed investment from prominent global venture capital and strategic partners.
Investor
Jun 2024
Turn runaway cloud spend into predictable savings. Cloud Capital delivers finance-grade cloud forecasting, margin-protecting savings, and full commitment liability coverage in one platform. Built for CFOs, trusted by CTOs.
Investor
Sep 2022
Our mission at Naturecan is to offer a natural, organic alternative to common health complaints such as chronic aches and pains, through our premium, safe and effective hemp derived CBD. Enabling people to lead happier, healthier, pain free lives. We’ve combined cutting edge science and rigorous quad-tested lab protocols to create high performance, consistent CBD products. We are committed to continuing to provide you with the best quality, pure CBD products available in the market.
mid stageRetail
Investor / Advisor
Aug 2022
Do what you love. Own what you do. Right where you are. CLICK makes it easy to support and benefit from the content you love, right where you already are. We believe the hundreds of millions of creators and supporters deserve their fair share of the value they create. CLICK empowers everyone with a fun, easy, and secure way to support and earn from original content. CLICK combines the universality of social media and the power of blockchain technology so that anyone can benefit from the time and attention they lend to promoting digital content. Don’t just spend time on social media, invest time - and earn the return you deserve. Gain sustainable passive income on CLICK. #Post2Earn #Creators1st #Scroll2Earn
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Dec 2021
The ultimate F1® racing experience designed to make you feel like a champion. F1® Arcade brings all the excitement, glamour and thrills of Formula 1® with full-motion racing simulators, incredible food & cocktail menus and an electric atmosphere creating the perfect social gaming experience.
early stageHospitality
Advisory Board Member / Investor
Oct 2021
PolyScale.ai is an AI-driven database cache. Using smart caching, it improves query performance, lowers network latency and makes global data access and scale engineering a breeze, both on premise and at the edge.
Investor
Jul 2021
Airspeeder is the world’s first racing series for hydrogen-electric flying cars. Our mission will accelerate eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) advanced aviation technology through intense sporting competition. This mobility revolution, underpinned by future tech will transform urban air mobility (UAM), global logistics and even medical applications with a clean-air electric vehicle (EV) solution. Our racing multicopters are developed at our advanced aerospace engineering hub in Adelaide, South Australia by Alauda Aeronautics engineers drawn from elite motorsports, automotive, aviation and even FPV drone, electric plane, electric vehicles and passenger drone backgrounds. Airspeeder’s vision will deliver the most exciting and future focused motorsport on the planet. Following our successful 2022 inaugural unmanned season, elite pilots will take to the skies to race prop-to-prop while navigating electronically governed racetracks in the skies above some of the most visually arresting scenery in the world. Join us.
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2025
Managing Director, Ventures
Nov 2025
PXN Group is the combination of two of the North’s best fund managers (Praetura Ventures and Par Equity) coming together to create an investor that the region deserves. With offices in Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds and London, we deliver world-class investment programmes – including EIS, VCT, Business Relief, Natural Capital and later-stage capital – at scale to help build the Northern economy. We support ambitious founders via our PXN Ventures brand and financial advisers & investors via PXN Investments, which are both brands in the PXN Group. In addition to raising and investing private capital, PXN Group is trusted by a long list of institutions, including the British Business Bank (via its NPIF II fund and Regional Angels programme), Bruntwood SciTech and various combined local authorities. www.pxngroup.co.uk
2024
Investor
Sep 2024
Poolhouse is an innovative, tech-enabled entertainment company set to transform the traditional game of pool. Founded by Steve and Dave Jolliffe, creators of Topgolf, Poolhouse combines patented interactive technology with a vibrant, vintage Las Vegas-inspired ambiance. Our unique venues offer immersive pool experiences alongside world-class food and beverage offerings, curated in collaboration with globally acclaimed hospitality leaders. Poolhouse is backed by a $34 million seed investment from prominent global venture capital and strategic partners.
Investor
Jun 2024
Turn runaway cloud spend into predictable savings. Cloud Capital delivers finance-grade cloud forecasting, margin-protecting savings, and full commitment liability coverage in one platform. Built for CFOs, trusted by CTOs.
2023
General Partner
Jan 2023
PXN Ventures is the venture capital arm of PXN Group, formed as a result of two of the North’s best fund managers (Praetura Ventures and Par Equity) coming together to create an investor that the region deserves. With offices in Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds and London, we deliver world-class investment programmes at scale to help build the Northern economy, supporting founders across a diverse range of sectors, including deep tech, life sciences and software. PXN Ventures is committed to backing early-stage founders across the North of the UK, with a long and growing list of northern success stories in our portfolio that have received early backing from PXN, including Modern Milkman, Phlo, AccessPay, Street Group and Advanced Electric Machines. As well as its EIS, VCT and institutional funds, including the GMC Life Sciences Fund II, PXN Ventures is the North West fund manager for the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II, which is managed on behalf of the British Business Bank. Founder in Scotland? Follow https://www.linkedin.com/company/pxnventuresscotland
2022
Investor
Sep 2022
Our mission at Naturecan is to offer a natural, organic alternative to common health complaints such as chronic aches and pains, through our premium, safe and effective hemp derived CBD. Enabling people to lead happier, healthier, pain free lives. We’ve combined cutting edge science and rigorous quad-tested lab protocols to create high performance, consistent CBD products. We are committed to continuing to provide you with the best quality, pure CBD products available in the market.
mid stageRetail
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