Chris James

Backing enterprise AI, physical AI and AI infrastructure at Quadri

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Jan 2026
Trase is an agentic platform that delivers and operationalizes end-to-end autonomous Agents and Agent applications at scale. Trase’s initial focus is on complex, highly regulated industries, enabling enterprises in healthcare, national security, and energy to create and deploy autonomous turn-key agents into existing infrastructure in a compliant, safe, secure and cost-effective manner.
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Dec 2025
Powering resilient, sovereign, and future-ready cloud operations. emma is a next-generation cloud management platform built to give organizations full control over their multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures — from hyperscalers to EU regional clouds and AI-optimized infrastructure. With emma, you can deploy, manage, and optimize your entire cloud ecosystem from a single, unified interface. emma combines deep infrastructure visibility with AI-driven automation and cost governance (FinOps) — enabling teams to scale faster, stay compliant, and maintain sovereignty over their data. Whether you’re running mission-critical workloads across environments or seeking more predictable cloud economics, emma helps you stay resilient, sovereign, and future-proof. We’re a proud Series A company backed by leading venture capital firms, including Smartfin, RTP Global, CircleRock Capital, and AltaIR Capital—partners who share our vision of an open, intelligent, and connected cloud future.
Investor (Series A, B)
Nov 2025
Corgi is building the first AI financial infrastructure company. For information about Corgis ETFs, visit www.corgifunds.com
Investor (Pre-Series A)
Oct 2025
Themis aims to reduce the global impacts of financial crime through a powerful combination of technology innovation, insightful reporting and training, and enhanced intelligence. Our award-winning AML software helps organisations understand strategic threats through an ESG and socio-economic lens and protects customers, staff, suppliers, and shareholders from criminal risk or associations. Financial Crime Risk Management. Simplified
Investor (Series B)
May 2025
We believe the best working experience is one where machines do the heavy lifting and people do the problem solving. Founded by an exceptional cast of robotics and machine learning experts, Pickle Robot is a pioneer in Physical AI for supply chain applications. Today our robots autonomously unload trucks, trailers, and import containers at human-scale or better performance. We are laser focused on automating truck unloading using generative AI, machine learning, computer vision, advanced sensors, and industrial robotics to deliver engineered products customers rely on.
Investor (Series A)
Feb 2025
Modulate is a frontier AI voice company pioneering new AI architecture, Ensemble Listening Models (ELM), a new approach to AI that monumentally outperforms foundation model LLMs on accuracy and cost. Velma 2.0, Modulate’s ELM for understanding voice conversations, is #1 ranking on conversational understanding leaderboards.
Investor (Series A)
May 2024
Our Vision: To sustainably build humanitys future by orchestrating and automating machines. Tenderd is an AI powered analytics platform for fleet operations. It helps companies increase Utilization of their capital equipment and vehicles, optimize logistics and maintenance, reduce fuel consumption, and carbon emissions during operations. But we dont stop there! We use innovative technology and transform equipment, vehicles or vessels to "smart" machines using equipment specific metrics to understand machines better. We are working with some of the largest E-commerce, Logistics, Energy and Construction companies across the globe in helping them reduce their operational cost using actionable insights and intelligence using AI. Download our Mobile App: http://www.tenderd.com/get/track. CONTACT Website: www.tenderd.com Email: info@tenderd.com CAREERS Email us at: careers@tenderd.com
Investor (Series A)
May 2024
Allstacks is an agentic platform for product and software development. With purpose-built solutions with agents operating in the same context across the lifecycle you define the right work, keep the delivery on track, and report on the outcomes. Product Studio is your daily home to ideate, define, refine, and share requirements and specs with technical clarity so you and your dev teams build the right things, faster and cheaper. Allstacks makes sense of your agentic software delivery, grounded in actual activity, with agents to surface risk, measure AI impact, and recommend optimizations.
Investor (Seed)
Feb 2024
Tipple allows alcohol brands to sell directly to consumers across 11 European countries. We handle taxes and logistics allowing you to focus on growing your brand.
Investor (Pre-Series A, Series A)
Nov 2023
AudioStack is a London/Barcelona/New York City based software company. AudioStack.ai is the worlds leading infrastructure for fully automated, scalable AI audio production. By connecting cutting edge technologies such as text to speech, music, AI-based post production or versioning, audio brands and agencies can build complex audio production workflows in a breeze. For the first time, audio assets can be created in real-time - unlocking completely new use cases that are faster, addressable at scale and more cost-effective than ever before.
Investor (Series A, B)
Oct 2023
SwiftConnect connects identity and physical access, enabling secure, scalable entry across your environment. Whether your users rely on traditional plastic credentials or modern mobile devices, we unify your access systems into one connected, intelligent network. We replace friction with fluidity, delivering effortless user experience, less administrative overhead, and smarter control – all through an open, flexible platform that avoids lock-in and keeps you in control, connecting people to the right place at the right time.
Investor (Seed)
Oct 2023
FYMA helps maximize commercial real estate value generation through better occupancy and human activity analytics. We partner with CRE developers, owners and asset managers in the Nordics, the UK and the US. FYMA works with existing hardware, delivering more data, value and insights with fastest integration on the market.
Experience · 17 entries
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Investments (13)
Founder (3)
2026
Investor
Jan 2026
Trase is an agentic platform that delivers and operationalizes end-to-end autonomous Agents and Agent applications at scale. Trase’s initial focus is on complex, highly regulated industries, enabling enterprises in healthcare, national security, and energy to create and deploy autonomous turn-key agents into existing infrastructure in a compliant, safe, secure and cost-effective manner.
2025
Investor
Dec 2025
Powering resilient, sovereign, and future-ready cloud operations. emma is a next-generation cloud management platform built to give organizations full control over their multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures — from hyperscalers to EU regional clouds and AI-optimized infrastructure. With emma, you can deploy, manage, and optimize your entire cloud ecosystem from a single, unified interface. emma combines deep infrastructure visibility with AI-driven automation and cost governance (FinOps) — enabling teams to scale faster, stay compliant, and maintain sovereignty over their data. Whether you’re running mission-critical workloads across environments or seeking more predictable cloud economics, emma helps you stay resilient, sovereign, and future-proof. We’re a proud Series A company backed by leading venture capital firms, including Smartfin, RTP Global, CircleRock Capital, and AltaIR Capital—partners who share our vision of an open, intelligent, and connected cloud future.
Investor (Series A, B)
Nov 2025
Corgi is building the first AI financial infrastructure company. For information about Corgis ETFs, visit www.corgifunds.com
Investor (Pre-Series A)
Oct 2025
Themis aims to reduce the global impacts of financial crime through a powerful combination of technology innovation, insightful reporting and training, and enhanced intelligence. Our award-winning AML software helps organisations understand strategic threats through an ESG and socio-economic lens and protects customers, staff, suppliers, and shareholders from criminal risk or associations. Financial Crime Risk Management. Simplified
Investor (Series B)
May 2025
We believe the best working experience is one where machines do the heavy lifting and people do the problem solving. Founded by an exceptional cast of robotics and machine learning experts, Pickle Robot is a pioneer in Physical AI for supply chain applications. Today our robots autonomously unload trucks, trailers, and import containers at human-scale or better performance. We are laser focused on automating truck unloading using generative AI, machine learning, computer vision, advanced sensors, and industrial robotics to deliver engineered products customers rely on.
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