David Cross

Chief Investment Officer

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 7 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2022
VC🌍 United Kingdom
7
Total investments
1
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4
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2
Late stage
9y
Years active

Portfolio

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Mar 2022
Sportable is a data and analytics company that leverages proprietary data collection hardware to deliver unique insights to the team sports ecosystem. Our portable ‘solution in a suitcase’ democratises high-speed, high-fidelity insights from ball and players tracking at all levels of the team sports pyramid, which in turn drives deeper fan engagement, gamifies player performance, and revolutionizes game dynamics – all while creating new revenue streams for teams, leagues, and their commercial partners. Sportable has extensive operations across five major sports; football, American football, AFL, rugby union and rugby league. Driving this success has been Sportable’s ability to leverage cost effective and flexible hardware and accurate ball tracking to provide sports leagues with a turnkey solution that solves critical challenges in officiating, fan engagement and performance verticals. Today, the business is partnered with eight global ball manufacturers. Currently our global footprint consists of operations and offices in the UK, North America, Australia and South Africa.
Investor
Mar 2022
Sportable is a data and analytics company that leverages proprietary data collection hardware to deliver unique insights to the team sports ecosystem. Our portable ‘solution in a suitcase’ democratises high-speed, high-fidelity insights from ball and players tracking at all levels of the team sports pyramid, which in turn drives deeper fan engagement, gamifies player performance, and revolutionizes game dynamics – all while creating new revenue streams for teams, leagues, and their commercial partners. Sportable has extensive operations across five major sports; football, American football, AFL, rugby union and rugby league. Driving this success has been Sportable’s ability to leverage cost effective and flexible hardware and accurate ball tracking to provide sports leagues with a turnkey solution that solves critical challenges in officiating, fan engagement and performance verticals. Today, the business is partnered with eight global ball manufacturers. Currently our global footprint consists of operations and offices in the UK, North America, Australia and South Africa.
Investor
May 2021
Rap Tech Studios is a mobile app developer building products that help people, whatever their background, pursue their passion for music. Using the latest advances in mobile music technology, we enable aspiring and established hip hop artists to record and distribute their tracks, participate in mobile rap tournaments, get followers and quality feedback from our close-knit community, and progress in their rapping skills. All they need is an iOS or Android smartphone! On Rap Fame, our flagship app with 15M + downloads, some of the most prolific artists have over 1M listens of their tracks. The app has become a global platform that helps support and develop young people from aspiring artists into tomorrow’s rap stars. Our users have been signed by independent labels or even huge players like Universal Music! The power of Rap Fame’s community has been recognized in partnerships with brands, including O2 Telefonica, Sony Music, Netflix, Audiomack and Huawei. Rap Fame has achieved the following in a very short space of time: Apple Store: ’App of the day” in 163 countries Google Play: Featured app - #1 Rap App Co-branded tournaments with O2 (Telefonica company), Signature Tracks (award-winning Grammy producers) and Netflix, World of Tanks, and more. We welcome partnerships with brands that resonate with the values and interests of our loyal hip-hop community. We offer an ideal way to connect with them on an emotional level by organizing a branded mobile rap tournament. Feel free to reach out if you feel that this is right for your brand.
mid stageMusicians
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Oct 2020
Hexarad is the only end-to-end radiology solution. The Hexarad Platform consists of ReportRad, our award-winning Teleradiology solution built by Radiologists, and OptiRad, our market-leading software solution to oversee, organise and optimise your Radiology department.
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Oct 2020
Shaping the future of Extended Reality by empowering everyone to be Creators and Explorers within one connected XR world. eyeora is a game-changing technology company that is redefining how Extended Reality content is created, shared, experienced and monetised. Born out of a passionate belief in the power of XR to enhance everyday life, eyeora has created a social XR platform that brings together XR ‘Creators’ and ‘Explorers’ on one connected network. Driving content creation for the platform is eyeora’s turnkey studio that gives entertainers, influencers, athletes, businesses, rights holders and educators all the tools they need to connect and engage with their audience through the ultimate experiential medium of XR. No high-entry costs, no coding, and no lengthy post-production – its Extended Reality made simple. eyeora’s VR app is available on the following stores: AppStore, Google Play Store, Oculus and Pico. Driving content creation for the platform is our turnkey ‘studio’, that gives entertainers, athletes, brands, rights holders, influencers, businesses and educators all the tools they need to connect and engage with their audience through the ultimate experiential medium of XR. No high-entry costs, no coding, no lengthy post-production – its Extended Reality made simple.
Investor
Sep 2020
The leading online platform for the discovery of beautiful coloured gemstones wherever they are found, available in our catalogue and brought to life by jewellery designers around the world. Customers in 60 countries can find their Perfect Stone loose, set or create bespoke jewellery. Customers buy direct from the trade at the best prices. Gemstones can be verified before shipment and must match their cataloguing, or they can be returned. Fifteen Gembridge Ambassadors, all leading figures in the coloured gemstone industry, represent Gembridge and all our members worldwide. Gembridge is a commercial member of CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, and is a member of the ICA, the International Colored Gemstone Association. Visit gembridge.com and find your perfect stone.
Investor
Jul 2017
We are award-winning online safety pioneers, creating healthier tech. For over a decade, weve led AI innovation to protect children online. Now, with HarmBlock, were resetting the Internet to nurture the next generations development.
Experience · 11 entries
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Investments (7)
2022
Investor
Mar 2022
Sportable is a data and analytics company that leverages proprietary data collection hardware to deliver unique insights to the team sports ecosystem. Our portable ‘solution in a suitcase’ democratises high-speed, high-fidelity insights from ball and players tracking at all levels of the team sports pyramid, which in turn drives deeper fan engagement, gamifies player performance, and revolutionizes game dynamics – all while creating new revenue streams for teams, leagues, and their commercial partners. Sportable has extensive operations across five major sports; football, American football, AFL, rugby union and rugby league. Driving this success has been Sportable’s ability to leverage cost effective and flexible hardware and accurate ball tracking to provide sports leagues with a turnkey solution that solves critical challenges in officiating, fan engagement and performance verticals. Today, the business is partnered with eight global ball manufacturers. Currently our global footprint consists of operations and offices in the UK, North America, Australia and South Africa.
Investor
Mar 2022
Sportable is a data and analytics company that leverages proprietary data collection hardware to deliver unique insights to the team sports ecosystem. Our portable ‘solution in a suitcase’ democratises high-speed, high-fidelity insights from ball and players tracking at all levels of the team sports pyramid, which in turn drives deeper fan engagement, gamifies player performance, and revolutionizes game dynamics – all while creating new revenue streams for teams, leagues, and their commercial partners. Sportable has extensive operations across five major sports; football, American football, AFL, rugby union and rugby league. Driving this success has been Sportable’s ability to leverage cost effective and flexible hardware and accurate ball tracking to provide sports leagues with a turnkey solution that solves critical challenges in officiating, fan engagement and performance verticals. Today, the business is partnered with eight global ball manufacturers. Currently our global footprint consists of operations and offices in the UK, North America, Australia and South Africa.
2021
Investor
May 2021
Rap Tech Studios is a mobile app developer building products that help people, whatever their background, pursue their passion for music. Using the latest advances in mobile music technology, we enable aspiring and established hip hop artists to record and distribute their tracks, participate in mobile rap tournaments, get followers and quality feedback from our close-knit community, and progress in their rapping skills. All they need is an iOS or Android smartphone! On Rap Fame, our flagship app with 15M + downloads, some of the most prolific artists have over 1M listens of their tracks. The app has become a global platform that helps support and develop young people from aspiring artists into tomorrow’s rap stars. Our users have been signed by independent labels or even huge players like Universal Music! The power of Rap Fame’s community has been recognized in partnerships with brands, including O2 Telefonica, Sony Music, Netflix, Audiomack and Huawei. Rap Fame has achieved the following in a very short space of time: Apple Store: ’App of the day” in 163 countries Google Play: Featured app - #1 Rap App Co-branded tournaments with O2 (Telefonica company), Signature Tracks (award-winning Grammy producers) and Netflix, World of Tanks, and more. We welcome partnerships with brands that resonate with the values and interests of our loyal hip-hop community. We offer an ideal way to connect with them on an emotional level by organizing a branded mobile rap tournament. Feel free to reach out if you feel that this is right for your brand.
mid stageMusicians
2020
Investor
Oct 2020
Hexarad is the only end-to-end radiology solution. The Hexarad Platform consists of ReportRad, our award-winning Teleradiology solution built by Radiologists, and OptiRad, our market-leading software solution to oversee, organise and optimise your Radiology department.
Investor
Oct 2020
Shaping the future of Extended Reality by empowering everyone to be Creators and Explorers within one connected XR world. eyeora is a game-changing technology company that is redefining how Extended Reality content is created, shared, experienced and monetised. Born out of a passionate belief in the power of XR to enhance everyday life, eyeora has created a social XR platform that brings together XR ‘Creators’ and ‘Explorers’ on one connected network. Driving content creation for the platform is eyeora’s turnkey studio that gives entertainers, influencers, athletes, businesses, rights holders and educators all the tools they need to connect and engage with their audience through the ultimate experiential medium of XR. No high-entry costs, no coding, and no lengthy post-production – its Extended Reality made simple. eyeora’s VR app is available on the following stores: AppStore, Google Play Store, Oculus and Pico. Driving content creation for the platform is our turnkey ‘studio’, that gives entertainers, athletes, brands, rights holders, influencers, businesses and educators all the tools they need to connect and engage with their audience through the ultimate experiential medium of XR. No high-entry costs, no coding, no lengthy post-production – its Extended Reality made simple.
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