Chris Morgan

Investor at BGF

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 5 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2024
Operator-angel🌍 United Kingdom
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Board Member
Oct 2024
Blacklock is a modern version of the Great British Chophouse. We aim to serve the best meat our fair land has to offer, for the best value for money, by people who genuinely care about making peoples experiences memorable. We work from a simple philosophy that everyone who walks through our doors leaves happy. That goes for our guests but most importantly, the teams of people that come to work at Blacklock every day. Our culture puts our team first and the care and development of all Blacklockers at the heart of everything we do. We offer jobs that are challenging and exciting with decent pay and benefits and invest heavily in training to build careers that can take you far within our great industry. The core of our ethos is people development, sustainability and leave a positive mark on society and the environment. 📍 London | Manchester (coming soon)
late stageRestaurants
Board Member
Apr 2023
Sliide provides a suite of mobile services that help companies get more from the mobile economy. The suite, powered by its Accessware personalization technology, provides users with easy access to news, search, rewards and other essential services, complementing whats included with a device’s operating system. Sliide is distributed through carriers and device manufacturers, allowing partners to differentiate their offering, increase customer loyalty, and generate new revenue streams. Through its partnerships with the largest mobile carriers globally, the Sliide Suite is an essential part of the mobile experience for tens of millions of users a month. The company is based in London with offices in New York.
Investor
Sep 2018
BGF is the UK and Irelands most active growth investor, backing ambitious businesses with minority investment to help them scale on their own terms. Since 2011, we have invested more than £5bn in 650+ businesses across every region and sector. Today, with more than £3.5bn in assets under management, we continue to support a range of growing companies across early-stage and growth-stage. Through our 15 offices across the UK and Ireland, were close to the businesses we back, combining local insight with national scale to build trusted partnerships with entrepreneurs and management teams. Beyond investment, our portfolio companies benefit from the expertise of our 200+ strong team, as well as dedicated value creation support spanning talent, operational expertise and our Scale community – including a network of more than 8000+ experienced business leaders, sector specialists and board-level non-executives. Learn more: BGF UK: https://www.bgf.co.uk BGF Ireland: https://www.bgfireland.ie/
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2024
Board Member
Oct 2024
Blacklock is a modern version of the Great British Chophouse. We aim to serve the best meat our fair land has to offer, for the best value for money, by people who genuinely care about making peoples experiences memorable. We work from a simple philosophy that everyone who walks through our doors leaves happy. That goes for our guests but most importantly, the teams of people that come to work at Blacklock every day. Our culture puts our team first and the care and development of all Blacklockers at the heart of everything we do. We offer jobs that are challenging and exciting with decent pay and benefits and invest heavily in training to build careers that can take you far within our great industry. The core of our ethos is people development, sustainability and leave a positive mark on society and the environment. 📍 London | Manchester (coming soon)
late stageRestaurants
Board Member
Sep 2024
ER Productions is an award-winning laser/laser system and special effects specialist with credits spanning high profile events, advertising, television and international concert tours. Constantly pushing the envelope when it comes to the ongoing development, manufacture and sourcing of cutting-edge laser products, the company has one of the largest collections of laser solutions worldwide and can offer highly competitive rates to its clients. With offices in the UK, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Australia and USA, ER Productions is perfectly placed to deliver systems and show-stopping displays around the world.
2023
Board Member
Apr 2023
Sliide provides a suite of mobile services that help companies get more from the mobile economy. The suite, powered by its Accessware personalization technology, provides users with easy access to news, search, rewards and other essential services, complementing whats included with a device’s operating system. Sliide is distributed through carriers and device manufacturers, allowing partners to differentiate their offering, increase customer loyalty, and generate new revenue streams. Through its partnerships with the largest mobile carriers globally, the Sliide Suite is an essential part of the mobile experience for tens of millions of users a month. The company is based in London with offices in New York.
2022
Board Member
Feb 2022
At Snipple we produce, create and deliver high quality animation. We do this in an environment that nurtures and celebrates creativity, drives excellence and ensures everyone feels proud to be part of the team. This has been our ethos since we launched 10 years ago. And will be for the years to come. We are an industrious bunch! With a reputation for delivering brilliant work on time and in budget. We offer everything from start to finish, including legal, finance, development, pre and post production and anything else required. We have a company-wide passion for creativity and a commitment to delivering the best work for clients and our Philippines studio is a state of the art production facility based in Manila. We look after each other and ensure a happy and healthy work environment. We feel proud that people enjoy working with us. Our UK team has more than 70 years combined experience. Our studio has delivered more than 50 series across multiple genres and IP. We are proud to work with some of the biggest networks out there, from Warner Bros to Dreamworks, to Nickelodeon to Disney and many more.
2018
Investor
Sep 2018
BGF is the UK and Irelands most active growth investor, backing ambitious businesses with minority investment to help them scale on their own terms. Since 2011, we have invested more than £5bn in 650+ businesses across every region and sector. Today, with more than £3.5bn in assets under management, we continue to support a range of growing companies across early-stage and growth-stage. Through our 15 offices across the UK and Ireland, were close to the businesses we back, combining local insight with national scale to build trusted partnerships with entrepreneurs and management teams. Beyond investment, our portfolio companies benefit from the expertise of our 200+ strong team, as well as dedicated value creation support spanning talent, operational expertise and our Scale community – including a network of more than 8000+ experienced business leaders, sector specialists and board-level non-executives. Learn more: BGF UK: https://www.bgf.co.uk BGF Ireland: https://www.bgfireland.ie/
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