Derek Brooks

Principal @ 2150 | To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2023
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Investor
Aug 2022
Helium Health is the largest provider of full-service technology solutions for all healthcare stakeholders in emerging markets. The foundation of which is our SaaS based electronic medical records/hospital management information system (EMR/HMIS). We are on a quest to improve global health efficiencies and outcomes using data and technology. Find out more at http://heliumhealth.com
Investor
Apr 2022
Founded in 2021 with the vision of making financial access a right, ABHI is a neobank of the future that promotes financial inclusivity across emerging markets. What began with Earned Wage Access (EWA), empowering employees to access their earned salaries instantly, has evolved into a comprehensive suite of finance solutions, including Payroll Processing, Payroll Financing, and SME Financing. In just four years, ABHI has grown from addressing a critical gap in Pakistan’s financial accessibility to partnering with over 5,000 companies and empowering the lives of 1,000,000 people across the region. The company has expanded into the UAE, KSA, and most recently, Oman through a partnership with Daud Group of Companies, a milestone that further strengthens ABHI’s mission to make financial wellness inclusive and accessible across the MENAP region. Further solidifying its impact on Pakistan’s financial sector, ABHI, in partnership with TPL, has acquired FINCA Microfinance Bank. This acquisition marks a transformative step towards expanding microfinance services and deepening financial inclusion in the country. ABHI’s impact and innovation have earned global recognition, including being named the first fintech in the MENAP region to receive the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer 2023 Award, as well as accolades from Hub71 and Endeavor. It has also been listed among the Future 100 companies in the UAE and has recently been selected for Mastercard’s Start Path Small Business program. In 2025, ABHI marked another historic milestone as the first fintech from Pakistan invited to participate in Davos. From Pakistan to the Gulf, ABHI continues to lead the embedded finance revolution, driving economic growth, enabling financial independence, and creating lasting social impact for millions. Get in touch with us: 🌎 https://abhi.co/ 🇵🇰 https://abhi.com.pk/ 🇦🇪 https://abhi.ae/ 🇸🇦 https://abhi.sa/ 🇴🇲 https://abhi.om/
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Jan 2021
BlueNalus mission is to be the global leader in cell-cultured seafood, providing consumers with great tasting, healthy, safe and trusted seafood products, that support the sustainability and diversity of our ocean. Consumers worldwide have become increasingly aware of the challenges that exist in our fishing and seafood industry. BlueNalu will disrupt the current industry practice, in which fish are farmed or wild-caught in our oceans and seas. Instead, we will produce real seafood products directly from fish cells, in a way that is healthy for people, humane for animals, and sustainable for our planet.
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Sep 2020
La solution de fidélité écoresponsable qui fait gagner du temps et revenir tous vos clients. 👇🚀🌱 Nos missions : ✅ Recréer du lien entre les commerces de proximité et leurs clients en privilégiant linteraction humaine. ✅ Réenchanter lexpérience clients par le biais doutils digitaux ✅ Redonner du pouvoir dachat local aux consommateurs 🧑‍💻📲 1️⃣ Une plateforme web qui permet aux commerçants : 👉 De gagner du temps 👉 D’améliorer leur visibilité 👉 D’augmenter leur rétention (Saviez-vous que seulement 5% de rétention augmente les chiffres d’affaires de 25% à 95% 🤫). 2️⃣ Une application qui augmente considérablement l’expérience client en magasin. En 1 seconde lors du passage en caisse, les clients peuvent : 👉 Créer / s’identifier à leurs comptes clients 👉 Cumuler des points de fidélité 👉 Centraliser leurs cartes de fidélité digitale 👉 Recevoir et centraliser leurs reçus digitaux (#écologique) 👉 Recevoir des offres personnalisées Pour l’ensemble de nos partenaires sur une seule application mobile ! #Vivonslocal #commercelocal #relationclient #personnalisation #fidélité #promos #offlinedata #IA #centralisation #AppMobile #SaaS #reçusdigitaux #écologique
Investor
Dec 2018
Cue is a healthcare technology company that puts consumers in control of their health information and places diagnostic information at the center of care. Cues mission is to empower people to live their healthiest lives through personalized, proactive, and informed healthcare. Cue enables people to manage their health through real-time, actionable, and connected health information, offering individuals and their healthcare providers easy access to lab-quality diagnostics anywhere, anytime, in a device that fits in the palm of the hand. Cues first-of-its-kind COVID-19 test was the first FDA-authorized molecular diagnostic test for at-home and over-the-counter use without a prescription and physician supervision. Cue was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Diego. For more information, please visit www.cuehealth.com. Fraudulent Recruitment Alert: Please be aware of fraudulent job opportunities and offers not affiliated with Cue Health. For a list of current opportunities, please visit: https://cuehealth.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/cuehealth
Experience · 10 entries
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2023
Principal
May 2023
2150 is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies that seek to sustainably reimagine and reshape cities and the industries that power them. 2150 is part of Urban Partners, a platform of vision-aligned, differentiated, investment strategies shaped around urban problem solving.
Investor
Feb 2023
Blackrock Neurotech is a team of the world’s leading engineers, neuroscientists, and visionaries. Our mission is simple: We want people with neurological disorders to walk, talk, see, hear, and feel again. We’re engineering the next generation of neural implants, including implantable brain-computer interface technology that restores function and independence to individuals with neurological disorders. Join us in changing lives today. Connect with us: Join Our Team | https://bit.ly/3bCsXRv LinkedIn | https://bit.ly/3PfifOL Twitter | https://bit.ly/3PfifOL Instagram | https://bit.ly/3bMaYrW Facebook | https://bit.ly/3JRc2av Clinical Trials | https://bit.ly/3A8QPWm Our site | https://blackrockneurotech.com Additional information: As the world leader in BCI tech, our pioneering neuroscience tools push the boundaries of research and empower innovation across more than 500+ global institutional partners, restoring function in patients suffering from neurological disease (ALS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s), dysfunction (epilepsy, pain, brain trauma), and paralysis disorders. Our systems can be optimized from the ground up to handle even the most challenging applications. Our BCI is the most sophisticated and long-tested human BCI, interfacing with the brain and empowering independence in those with paralysis & other neurological disorders since 2004. In fact, dozens of patients have used our BCI for a collective 30,000+ days to regain freedom through movement and communication. Our first commercial BCI, MoveAgain, received a Breakthrough Designation from the FDA in 2021 and is expected to be commercially available in 2023. Join us in changing lives today.
2022
Investor
Aug 2022
Helium Health is the largest provider of full-service technology solutions for all healthcare stakeholders in emerging markets. The foundation of which is our SaaS based electronic medical records/hospital management information system (EMR/HMIS). We are on a quest to improve global health efficiencies and outcomes using data and technology. Find out more at http://heliumhealth.com
Investor
Apr 2022
Founded in 2021 with the vision of making financial access a right, ABHI is a neobank of the future that promotes financial inclusivity across emerging markets. What began with Earned Wage Access (EWA), empowering employees to access their earned salaries instantly, has evolved into a comprehensive suite of finance solutions, including Payroll Processing, Payroll Financing, and SME Financing. In just four years, ABHI has grown from addressing a critical gap in Pakistan’s financial accessibility to partnering with over 5,000 companies and empowering the lives of 1,000,000 people across the region. The company has expanded into the UAE, KSA, and most recently, Oman through a partnership with Daud Group of Companies, a milestone that further strengthens ABHI’s mission to make financial wellness inclusive and accessible across the MENAP region. Further solidifying its impact on Pakistan’s financial sector, ABHI, in partnership with TPL, has acquired FINCA Microfinance Bank. This acquisition marks a transformative step towards expanding microfinance services and deepening financial inclusion in the country. ABHI’s impact and innovation have earned global recognition, including being named the first fintech in the MENAP region to receive the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer 2023 Award, as well as accolades from Hub71 and Endeavor. It has also been listed among the Future 100 companies in the UAE and has recently been selected for Mastercard’s Start Path Small Business program. In 2025, ABHI marked another historic milestone as the first fintech from Pakistan invited to participate in Davos. From Pakistan to the Gulf, ABHI continues to lead the embedded finance revolution, driving economic growth, enabling financial independence, and creating lasting social impact for millions. Get in touch with us: 🌎 https://abhi.co/ 🇵🇰 https://abhi.com.pk/ 🇦🇪 https://abhi.ae/ 🇸🇦 https://abhi.sa/ 🇴🇲 https://abhi.om/
Advisor
Jan 2022
Blue Vision Capital is a Montreal based climate tech venture capital firm launched in 2022 by Meir Rabkin whose mission is to invest in seed stage innovative, disruptive, and breakthrough startups that can demonstrate a measurable and meaningful positive impact in solving our climate crisis all the while generating attractive venture scale returns. Our aims is to respond to climate issues by targeting investment themes that will revolutionize the next decade of clean technology innovations. Our focus sectors are: renewable energy, mobility, agriculture (ag-tech), and circular economy.
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