Craig Akal

Venture Investor

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 26 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 United Kingdom20+ investments
26
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4
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8
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8
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3y
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Portfolio

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Jan 2025
BizCrunch helps acquisition entrepreneurs, search funds and holdcos originate better deals, get to conversation faster and build trust with owners. We turn messy public records and fragmented data sources into decision-ready company profiles, so you can see the story behind the numbers at a glance. What you can do with BizCrunch • Find off-market opportunities that actually fit your mandate • See five-year performance in one view: revenue, profit, assets, liabilities, shareholders and charges • Shortlist and qualify fast with clear financial signals and powerful smart filtering • Reach owners with letter outreach and targeted emails • Track weekly changes: accounts filed, PSC updates and other material events • Evaluate Seller-Verified Listings for higher-signal conversations • Run diligence in a secure VDR with document requests, permissions and versioning Why teams choose us • Founder-friendly outreach that preserves relationships and reputation • Simple workflows and fast onboarding, no manual required • Built for buy-side realities, not just dashboards Who we serve • Acquisition entrepreneurs and self-funded buyers • Search fund principals and interns • Holdco builders and small-cap investors • Boutique advisors working buy-side If you want fewer tabs, clearer targets and more credible first conversations with owners, BizCrunch keeps you moving. Start a free trial today, or book a quick walkthrough with one of the team. Our goal is your acquisition success, so lets work together and make that happen, faster.
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Jan 2025
Kotini exists to help estate agents champion their brand and deliver the onboarding experience today’s clients expect. For too long, onboarding has been an underwhelming part of the sales journey. Agents have to juggle contracts, compliance checks, payments, property information and more across multiple systems, slowing the process and draining time. While clients are chasing their tails across multiple emails and separate systems to start working with you. We believe it should be effortless. With Kotini, it is. Agents can bring every step of the journey, including contracts, AML and ID checks, payments, title documents, and property information, into a single, seamless branded flow. No duplication. No chasing. No compromise on compliance. Its not just about saving time. It’s about enabling agents to focus on whats important: building relationships, winning instructions, and moving sales forward. Kotini empowers agencies to uphold their standards, protect their reputation, and deliver a professional, modern service that feels as simple as online shopping or banking. Today, hundreds of agents across the UK, from independents through to national brands, use Kotini to reduce friction in property transactions, speed up onboarding, and deliver a seamless client experience. If you want to raise the bar and stand out, Kotini is for you.
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Jan 2025
Boulevard is empowering the future of E-commerce & Logistics, with expertise in Marketplaces and Innovative Technology. 🚀 Boulevard is a Marketplace Super Seller, selling a diverse and vast range of products from globally recognised brands across major e-commerce platforms. 🚀 Boulevard is a Drop Ship Enabler, granting online retailers with access to a range of 1M products, enriched product data and exceptional drop shipping capabilities to list and grow sales
late stageRetail
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Aug 2024
Gotobeat is the infrastructure powering modern live events—predicting demand and automating promotion, ticketing, pricing, and operations so live music can scale as repeatable infrastructure.
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Aug 2024
We specialize in growing a vibrant online presence for your clients cybersecurity businesses through LinkedIn Theme Pages, offering engaging organic content. Well build a fresh audience from scratch, presenting them with daily, attention-grabbing cyber content to pique their interest and engagement. Once this audience is established, your business development team will have a steady stream of warm leads to follow up on! On LinkedIn, creativity is often in short supply among cybersecurity companies, but we can provide an abundance of it. Interested in learning how we can assist you? Feel free to reach out via email at ian@cyberoff.com Or drop Ian Murphy a DM here on LinkedIn! #cyberai #contentmarketing #growth #fun #cyber
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Jun 2024
At Kiroku, we believe that dentists should focus on the work they were trained to do and not waste time on boring admin tasks. That’s why we’re helping over 2,500 dentists across the world to make documentation effortless. In increasingly litigious and private medical settings, professionals have to choose between their personal lives and the documentation their jobs require. Our intelligent note-taking software allows users to add only the relevant details in a timely fashion, either using voice note technology or clickable workflows. Kiroku also completes sections of your notes based on the previously provided information. It helps you create associated letters, consent and documentation in just a few clicks. Powered by AI, we make recommendations and build workflows that adapt as you use Kiroku. Our AI will audit your notes or generate letters, and action points or highlight conflicting information in your notes to make you more compliant. With clinicians spending a quarter of their day writing notes, Kiroku can cut this by two-thirds. Saving over 2 hours a week, you can now complete notes before your patient has left the room. Founded in 2017 by a dentist and a machine-learning engineer, Kiroku was born out of the stress of writing endless clinical notes instead of treating patients. We are a small team, but growing fast, with our seed round raised in October 2021. Over 8 million sets of notes have been written in Kiroku to date. If you want to hear more, drop us a message!
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May 2024
We make moving home easier with Home Setup, Utility Management and Void Energy technology. API solutions for FinTechs and PropTechs, with CRM integrations for estate & letting agencies. Rated Excellent on Trustpilot with over 2,000 reviews and a Proud B Corp since 2018 🌍
late stageReal Estate
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May 2024
The award-winning alternative investment platform specialised in Art. - Startup100 Index 2024 - Tech Nation Raising Start 2023 -
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Jan 2024
LDC is an omni channel route to market and intelligence platform for the most sustainable and cutting edge fashion and lifestyle brands. Its fast growing physical and digital platforms allow brands to market test online and offline in sub-markets across the globe. Consumers can discover + embrace conscious consumerism while acquiring truly sustainable & exclusive items created by brands laser focused on solving the climate crisis. The LDC platform leverages data to provide brands with real time customer insights. This fuels effective and efficient growth expansion into the right markets and towards the right customers in an otherwise competitive and expensive D2C landscape. www.lonedesignclub.com | @LoneDesignClub
late stageRetail
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Jan 2024
docStribute® is a technology solutions provider that specialises in distilling complex problems into elegantly simple solutions. We combine deep industry expertise and legacy in the financial sector with a future focussed approach that delivers best business practice made perfect. Founded in 2019, docStribute® was awarded a Smart Grant by Innovate UK, whose mandate is to invest in, “the best game-changing and commercially viable innovative or disruptive ideas”.
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Dec 2023
At Add to Event our mission is to help the world to celebrate better events by seamlessly connecting anyone planning an event with their perfect suppliers. We believe that we can radically simplify the process of finding, booking and managing event suppliers which will lead to better events throughout the world, from fantastic festivals to wonderful weddings. Were now firmly established as the UKs #1 marketplace for event services, helping hundreds of thousands of people to organise events and thousands of businesses to thrive.
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Dec 2023
Reboxed gives an out of the box branded solution for retailers and businesses looking to embrace sustainability. Embedding our circular economy solutions with trusted partners to distribute to their customers or employees.
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Dec 2023
Welcome to our national window cleaning company! We are a franchise organisation that is dedicated to providing top-quality window cleaning services to both residential and commercial customers. With years of experience in the industry, we have developed a reputation for excellence and customer satisfaction. In addition to our commitment to excellence, we also offer opportunities for growth within our organization. We are always looking for dedicated and hardworking individuals who are interested in joining our team as franchisees. Our team uses the latest techniques and equipment to ensure a thorough and streak-free clean for every job. We are fully insured and adhere to all safety standards to provide peace of mind for our customers. We are also dedicated to being environmentally friendly. We use eco-friendly cleaning products and recycle all of our water to reduce our carbon footprint. Thank you for considering us for your window cleaning needs. We look forward to serving you and helping you see the world more clearly!
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Oct 2023
At Naurt, we believe in accuracy and consistency. To speed up your deliveries, we provide optimal parking and delivery entrance location data. We have helped delivery companies increase their delivery capacity by 16% without expanding their cost base. Start today with our API to access hundreds of millions of data points and improve your ETA, route planning, and navigation tools with precise final destination data. Experience the time saved by drivers and the improved customer experience by creating a Naurt account today.
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Jan 2025
BizCrunch helps acquisition entrepreneurs, search funds and holdcos originate better deals, get to conversation faster and build trust with owners. We turn messy public records and fragmented data sources into decision-ready company profiles, so you can see the story behind the numbers at a glance. What you can do with BizCrunch • Find off-market opportunities that actually fit your mandate • See five-year performance in one view: revenue, profit, assets, liabilities, shareholders and charges • Shortlist and qualify fast with clear financial signals and powerful smart filtering • Reach owners with letter outreach and targeted emails • Track weekly changes: accounts filed, PSC updates and other material events • Evaluate Seller-Verified Listings for higher-signal conversations • Run diligence in a secure VDR with document requests, permissions and versioning Why teams choose us • Founder-friendly outreach that preserves relationships and reputation • Simple workflows and fast onboarding, no manual required • Built for buy-side realities, not just dashboards Who we serve • Acquisition entrepreneurs and self-funded buyers • Search fund principals and interns • Holdco builders and small-cap investors • Boutique advisors working buy-side If you want fewer tabs, clearer targets and more credible first conversations with owners, BizCrunch keeps you moving. Start a free trial today, or book a quick walkthrough with one of the team. Our goal is your acquisition success, so lets work together and make that happen, faster.
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Jan 2025
OpenPlays purpose is build Technology for a Healthier World. We want to provide the digital tools that integrate with tech innovators, to access local active communities and build personalised positive health behaviours. Our journey began 10 years ago developing a marketplace for people to find and book sports facilities. Soon realising the industry was calling out for disruption, our health technology solution evolved to create an ecosystem that mobilises populations to get active and live a healthy life. The appetite continues to grow, and we now power a range of operators, educators and communities across the globe!
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Jan 2025
Kotini exists to help estate agents champion their brand and deliver the onboarding experience today’s clients expect. For too long, onboarding has been an underwhelming part of the sales journey. Agents have to juggle contracts, compliance checks, payments, property information and more across multiple systems, slowing the process and draining time. While clients are chasing their tails across multiple emails and separate systems to start working with you. We believe it should be effortless. With Kotini, it is. Agents can bring every step of the journey, including contracts, AML and ID checks, payments, title documents, and property information, into a single, seamless branded flow. No duplication. No chasing. No compromise on compliance. Its not just about saving time. It’s about enabling agents to focus on whats important: building relationships, winning instructions, and moving sales forward. Kotini empowers agencies to uphold their standards, protect their reputation, and deliver a professional, modern service that feels as simple as online shopping or banking. Today, hundreds of agents across the UK, from independents through to national brands, use Kotini to reduce friction in property transactions, speed up onboarding, and deliver a seamless client experience. If you want to raise the bar and stand out, Kotini is for you.
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Jan 2025
Boulevard is empowering the future of E-commerce & Logistics, with expertise in Marketplaces and Innovative Technology. 🚀 Boulevard is a Marketplace Super Seller, selling a diverse and vast range of products from globally recognised brands across major e-commerce platforms. 🚀 Boulevard is a Drop Ship Enabler, granting online retailers with access to a range of 1M products, enriched product data and exceptional drop shipping capabilities to list and grow sales
late stageRetail
2024
Investor
Aug 2024
Gotobeat is the infrastructure powering modern live events—predicting demand and automating promotion, ticketing, pricing, and operations so live music can scale as repeatable infrastructure.
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