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David Barbour

Private Equity Investor │ Chair at HeadBox Solutions │ Adviser to family offices on private asset portoflios

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 4 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Chair & Investor
Mar 2025
HCI transform pathways of care with digital information. By producing digital solutions that engage with patients and clinicians to improve patient education, we work with health care organisations to make significant reductions in outpatient appointments and are one of only a few digital health organisations that have been awarded a national NHS contract. Spanning multiple specialties including cardiology, maternity, physiotherapy, and podiatry, we have helped achieve an annual saving in one NHS Trust alone of £350,000. One such solution is our CONNECTPlus app that is the only co-morbidity tool that allows hospitals to support patients to manage their multiple conditions remotely and in one place. In addition to information provision, CONNECTPlus provides patients with the ability to record and track their symptoms, medications and appointments. This supports enhanced compliance, remote management and enables patient-initiated follow-up. HCI has also produced and implemented the largest collection of health and care information videos in the UK and plays a key part in developing new technological solutions for the NHS, including the national health and care video library made free for NHS use during COVID-19 by NHSX.
Chair & Investor
Aug 2024
HeadBox is the easy way to plan meetings and events with confidence. Our software products, namely headbox.com, Lead Feed and HeadBox Business, allow our customers to book, manage and deliver everything in one place - no long searches, no hidden costs, no stress. As the UK’s fastest-growing event tech brand backed by Guinness Asset Management and Deepbridge Capital, we are on a mission to bring people and spaces together to make brilliant things happen, everywhere. We now employ a growing team of 65 HeadBoxers, based in Shoreditch, London In 2018, HeadBox was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Tech Track "Ones to Watch" as well as being listed in Startups UK Top 100, ranking at #9 in 2020. Our Products HeadBox Stop searching and let the perfect venue find you! Get fast personalised responses from available venues that match what youre looking for. We are challenging outdated venue marketplaces that just arent working. Lead Feed No more waiting! Leads youll love at your fingertips. Access a live feed of relevant leads and book them your way, commission free. HeadBox Business The next generation of meetings and events management. HeadBox Business allows your team to plan, book and manage all of your events in one place, with the visibility for you to stay in control.
late stageEvents Services
Investor
Sep 2019
Sweet Analytics, at the centre of all your data. Sweet connects with all the marketing platforms that you know and love and brings it all under one roof. Helping you understand customer retention and acquisition to drive your business forward. What we do... Customer Data To understand your customers you first need to understand all their interactions. Armed with a deep understanding of each of our customers, Sweet Analytics can help you to reach them more effectively with our unique personalisation tools. Single Customer View At the heart of Sweet Analytics is one of the most advanced Single Customer Views in the market. Using all available integrations we build a complete customer profile for all interactions with your brand, which are made readily available through our dashboards. Sweet Tracker™ Our proprietary technology allows us to unify browsing behaviour with Single Customer View, providing impartial attribution and linking sales to web interactions. With the ability of real-time interventions and cross-device tracking we can deliver personalised customer journeys. Attribution Tackling the Holy Grail of marketing Sweet provides the single point of truth between the reality of sales and the mendacity of marketing platforms. Helping you more accurately judge the ROI of your marketing investment.
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2025
Pallant Capital Limited
CIO
Sep 2025
late stage
Chair & Investor
Mar 2025
HCI transform pathways of care with digital information. By producing digital solutions that engage with patients and clinicians to improve patient education, we work with health care organisations to make significant reductions in outpatient appointments and are one of only a few digital health organisations that have been awarded a national NHS contract. Spanning multiple specialties including cardiology, maternity, physiotherapy, and podiatry, we have helped achieve an annual saving in one NHS Trust alone of £350,000. One such solution is our CONNECTPlus app that is the only co-morbidity tool that allows hospitals to support patients to manage their multiple conditions remotely and in one place. In addition to information provision, CONNECTPlus provides patients with the ability to record and track their symptoms, medications and appointments. This supports enhanced compliance, remote management and enables patient-initiated follow-up. HCI has also produced and implemented the largest collection of health and care information videos in the UK and plays a key part in developing new technological solutions for the NHS, including the national health and care video library made free for NHS use during COVID-19 by NHSX.
2024
Chair & Investor
Aug 2024
HeadBox is the easy way to plan meetings and events with confidence. Our software products, namely headbox.com, Lead Feed and HeadBox Business, allow our customers to book, manage and deliver everything in one place - no long searches, no hidden costs, no stress. As the UK’s fastest-growing event tech brand backed by Guinness Asset Management and Deepbridge Capital, we are on a mission to bring people and spaces together to make brilliant things happen, everywhere. We now employ a growing team of 65 HeadBoxers, based in Shoreditch, London In 2018, HeadBox was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Tech Track "Ones to Watch" as well as being listed in Startups UK Top 100, ranking at #9 in 2020. Our Products HeadBox Stop searching and let the perfect venue find you! Get fast personalised responses from available venues that match what youre looking for. We are challenging outdated venue marketplaces that just arent working. Lead Feed No more waiting! Leads youll love at your fingertips. Access a live feed of relevant leads and book them your way, commission free. HeadBox Business The next generation of meetings and events management. HeadBox Business allows your team to plan, book and manage all of your events in one place, with the visibility for you to stay in control.
late stageEvents Services
2021
Investor
Jul 2021
The Brompton bike was conceived as a product to help improve city living. It has established itself as the ideal choice for all those who are living or interacting with cities. The bike can be folded to a third of its size in a matter of seconds and is small enough to be taken on all forms of public transport. In fact, 42 Bromptons can fit in one car parking space! The Brompton bike was first designed by Andrew Ritchie in 1975 opposite the Brompton Oratory in South Kensington, hence the name. The first prototypes were all designed and built in Andrew’s flat and while they were rough and crude, the majority of the key design features were already evident, such as the pivoting rear triangle that allows the rear wheel to fold underneath. Andrew looked for support from various banks and bike manufacturers, but none were willing to support his dream. Julian Vereker, an entrepreneur and the owner of an early Brompton prototype, joined Andrew in 1985 and helped to provide the money which put Brompton into full time production for the first time in 1988. Fast forward to 2016, and Brompton now offers 16.5 million combinations on the bike, every one of which is still made by hand in London. It is now estimated that there are over 80,000 Brompton bikes in London. Three-time winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, the company sells over 45,000 bikes in 44 countries around the world every year. Sales have been growing at a fast rate with the help of Brompton Junction retail stores in London, Barcelona, Munich, Beijing, Milan, Hamburg, Shanghai, Chengdu, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Kobe.
2019
Investor
Sep 2019
Sweet Analytics, at the centre of all your data. Sweet connects with all the marketing platforms that you know and love and brings it all under one roof. Helping you understand customer retention and acquisition to drive your business forward. What we do... Customer Data To understand your customers you first need to understand all their interactions. Armed with a deep understanding of each of our customers, Sweet Analytics can help you to reach them more effectively with our unique personalisation tools. Single Customer View At the heart of Sweet Analytics is one of the most advanced Single Customer Views in the market. Using all available integrations we build a complete customer profile for all interactions with your brand, which are made readily available through our dashboards. Sweet Tracker™ Our proprietary technology allows us to unify browsing behaviour with Single Customer View, providing impartial attribution and linking sales to web interactions. With the ability of real-time interventions and cross-device tracking we can deliver personalised customer journeys. Attribution Tackling the Holy Grail of marketing Sweet provides the single point of truth between the reality of sales and the mendacity of marketing platforms. Helping you more accurately judge the ROI of your marketing investment.
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