Cliff Hinrichs

Venture Investor | ex-Google | INSEAD MBA

📍 United Kingdom, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019
VC🌍 United Kingdom
8
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14y
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Seed Investor
Jan 2019
We’re making and selling medicines at fixed, transparent profit margins to provide an affordable option for patients left behind by market and regulatory forces. We are working to end unnecessary drug shortages in the United States.
Non Executive Board Member
Feb 2018
Okami was founded in 2016 originally focusing on creating smart products for a balanced and vibrant life through reaching the best version of themselves. We believe in the old mantra "You are what you eat"​ but we would add "it's also important to have some fun"​. Okami is supported by a strong investor base from FMCG-focused private equity, venture capital, and multiple experienced advisors.
Non Executive Board Member
Jan 2018
The Marketplace of Marketplaces - Creating the next generation transaction platform of aggregated on-demand businesses to surface within publisher websites, directories, apps and technologies.
Seed Investor
2016
Consumers want fully immersive and frictionless experiences, and expect brands to deliver the best, most personalised and distinctive engagement campaigns. Railsr is passionate about enabling brands to build relevant finance experiences to drive customer engagement and loyalty. It believes that the embedded finance economy is a fundamentally different way of creating relationships between companies and consumers. Railsr has created a unique category within the financial services industry: embedded finance experiences. It has developed this to enable its customers to help the financial consumer, to deliver greater inclusion and freedoms. Railsr is a pioneer of a new way of looking at how financial services can empower and liberate. It offers a new approach for brands to harness the power of embedded finance through a low cost turnkey platform. It delivers embedded finance into a brands digital journey, designed as a vertically integrated financial ecosystem, starting at the central bank, or payment scheme (e.g. Visa), and ending with a fully embedded digital experience. Visit railsr.com and find out how we can help you or contact us via our form: www.railsr.com/start-your-experience During Covid-19 the financial industry has seen an increase of suspected fraud cases. If you have, or suspect you have been a victim please know that we treat all claims seriously and will do our best to help. Please contact us via email: support@railsbank.com or visit www.railsr.com/support as we are not able to discuss via social media. We also advise you to report this case to the Police in your jurisdiction. If you are in the UK, you can do this using the Action Fraud website; https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/reporting-fraud-and-cyber-crime
Seed Investor
2016
Sharegain is the global fintech that pioneered retail-optimized Fully Paid Lending, also known as Securities Lending as a Service (SLaaS). We empower retail-facing financial institutions to offer Fully Paid Lending to their underlying clients with real-time inventory visibility, automated exception handling, and institutional-grade execution. Our fully paid lending platform can replace or be used in conjunction with legacy systems through a single, scalable solution—compressing time-to-revenue and eliminating the need for additional operational overhead. Built for flexibility, our custodian-agnostic infrastructure integrates seamlessly with existing systems. We reduce operational burdens and mitigate the increasing costs associated with running fully paid or securities lending programs. Sharegain’s white-glove legal and regulatory support enables compliance with evolving frameworks like Rule 10c-1a and SFTR. Our Opt-In Hub and retail-first user experience expertise puts client expectations first, unlocking new revenue streams for institutions, more passive income opportunities for clients, and future-proofs your lending program for the next generation. Visit our website to learn more about what we offer: https://sharegain.com/ Important disclosures apply: https://sharegain.com/disclosures/
Seed Investor & Board Advisor
2014
AgFunder is a Bay Area VC firm investing in exceptional and bold entrepreneurs who are aiming to build the next generation of great food tech and agtech companies. AgFunder has $170m AUM and invests pre-seed to Series A with $500k - $5m checks. AgFunder also runs AgFunderNews (AFN) a publication which has a full time media team, with nearly 5,000 article written. To learn more we can be reached at info@agfunder.com
Seed Investor
2013
Xola provides cloud-based software that makes it simple for businesses to manage reservations in real time from any channel—bookings made in-person, over the phone, through their company website, on Xola’s vendor mobile app, with local resellers, and online travel agents that are integrated with Xola. The tours and activities landscape is incredibly fragmented, comprised largely of SMBs with limited access to modern business tools. As a result, these companies suffer from operational deficiencies and often fall short of their economic potential. Not only is this a problem for local providers but also for tour resellers like Viator, Groupon, Kayak and others. Xola’s reservation software fills this vital distribution gap and helps tour operators accelerate their growth with its cloud-based and easy-to-use tools. The tours and activities industry is worth $120 billion globally, and with Xola, tour providers and resellers can tap into this immense market unlike ever before. Were not the only ones that recognize the importance of powerful software in this industry. Stephen Ambrose of Steadfast Venture Capital argues that in travel technology, “the back end is really the emerging opportunity... One reason it is exciting is that it is not crowded, not noisy.” Xola is growing quickly and is looking for top performers to help us serve the business needs of tens of thousands of tour and activity companies worldwide.
Seed Investor
2012
One of the fastest growing telecom operators in the Asia-Pacific, MyRepublic has operations across Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia, and is set to expand further into the region. Our vision is to be the world’s largest enabler of deep, meaningful and trusted relationships between customers and products through a highly scalable connectivity franchise model. With our uniquely scalable and centralised framework enabling the seamless delivery of layered services, MyRepublic has become a leader in the digital transformation for the telecom sector, one that is set to play out over the next decade in one of the most exciting regions of the world.
Experience · 14 entries
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Investments (8)
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2019
Seed Investor
Jan 2019
We’re making and selling medicines at fixed, transparent profit margins to provide an affordable option for patients left behind by market and regulatory forces. We are working to end unnecessary drug shortages in the United States.
2018
Venture Partner
Dec 2018
Welcome to the official legacy page of FoundersLane, now under the Creative Dock brand. As a company focused on corporate venture building, we are proud of our accomplishments over the years and we thank our team, clients, and partners for supporting us on this incredible journey. Though this page may be inactive, our mission and values continue to live on under the Creative Dock brand, and we look forward to continuing to drive innovation and corporate venture building in the future.
Venture Partner
Oct 2018
Fuse Venture Partners invests into Series A, B and C stage technology enabled companies in Europe. We typically look for businesses that generate revenues of millions (or more), have close proximity to the end customer (i.e. marketplaces, e-commerce, logistics), demonstrate a clear competitive advantage, have barriers to entry and the potential to scale organically and / or inorganically. We invest and become your partner and advisor to achieve step-change growth. Please send all requests to ventures@fuse.partners
Non Executive Board Member
Feb 2018
Okami was founded in 2016 originally focusing on creating smart products for a balanced and vibrant life through reaching the best version of themselves. We believe in the old mantra "You are what you eat"​ but we would add "it's also important to have some fun"​. Okami is supported by a strong investor base from FMCG-focused private equity, venture capital, and multiple experienced advisors.
Non Executive Board Member
Jan 2018
The Marketplace of Marketplaces - Creating the next generation transaction platform of aggregated on-demand businesses to surface within publisher websites, directories, apps and technologies.
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