Hichem F.

Co-founder PEVio | Applied Intelligence for Private Equity | 25 years across Morgan Stanley, Barclays & institutional capital markets | NED & Board Adviser

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 26 investments📅 22 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2023
VC🌍 United Kingdom20+ investments
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Nov 2023
Manufacturers the UKs first self-warming baby bottle. Designed & manufactured in the UJ and distributed worldwide. At the touch of a button, yoomi warms babys feed to the natural temperature of breastmilk in just 60 seconds.
Investor / advisory Board
May 2023
Jiva.ai is an AI company that uses a model fusion first approach to machine learning to provide a sophisticated platform that enables multi-modal AI. Allowing non-technical users to iteratively grow, evolve and deploy models based on their data for real-world use. We are primarily focused on healthcare. Our primary use-cases are (1) prostate cancer diagnosis from MRI images (2) bone fracture diagnosis in emergency care situations from X-ray (3) predicting liver disease susceptibility. Jiva.ai is funded by both equity investors and public grants.
Investor
Dec 2022
Brickflow is a digital marketplace for specialist property finance. We connect brokers & developers with lenders to source the best value development loans, quickly and easily. Compare development finance & bridging loans from 80+ lenders and secure a DIP today at www.brickflow.com
Investor
Sep 2022
Mintago is the all-in-one platform for businesses that want to invest in their team’s financial wellbeing. We’re simplifying the world of finance for employees — bringing everything they need together, into a single hub. With Mintago, your employees can access our comprehensive mix of benefits and learning resources, alongside pensions, salary sacrifice schemes and more — all from one place. We’re building a home for financial wellbeing, helping your people make smarter choices and do more with their money. At Mintago we recognise that financial data is sensitive and private, and we’re committed to protecting it. As part of our commitment, we’re happy to announce that we’re now ISO27001:2022 certified.
Investor
Jun 2020
The future of data-driven sleep & health coaching is here. Sign up for early access.
Investor
Oct 2019
Bold Health is a virtual therapeutic care provider revolutionizing the treatment of gastrointestinal conditions through comprehensive patient-centric care. We empower individuals to superior results for their digestive health through personalized, end-to-end care programs that include telehealth services supported by a multidisciplinary care team. With an integrated digestive care platform, Bold Health combines medication, nutrition, behavioral and lifestyle interventions, remote monitoring, and proprietary digital therapeutic programs that help reduce gut symptoms, improve productivity and emotional well-being, while cutting the total costs of care. Bold Health partners with self-insured employers and health plans to deliver the world’s most convenient, effective, and efficient GI care with patients at its core.
Investor
Jul 2019
Clara is a visualisation company, we help businesses understand their data. We can visualise any tabular data in way that makes it more usable and understandable. Comprehend disparate spreadsheets in an interactive visual format. Not all data is suited to a spreadsheet! Our tools are used for project management, visualising transactions for AML, understanding networks of companies and constellations of investors, interactive scatter plots and organigramms.
Investor
Apr 2019
In todays era of unpredictable global events, navigating currency markets has grown notably challenging. This led to the creation of our innovative platform, designed to empower companies in mitigating risk and optimizing profits by automating FX processes. Our platform offers real-time monitoring of currency markets, equipping companies with invaluable insights and actions that can affect the bottom line directly.
Investor / Board member
May 2018
Zeipt provides the smart receipt. Introducing a new and revolutionary way of post-purchase communication. We would love to hear from you! Contact our Head of Partners Oscar at oscar@zeipt.com or for other inquiries contact@zeipt.com Zeipt is providing the smart receipt that bridges the gap between physical and digital financial services. Our solution enables retailers and others to automatically send their receipts from the checkout and to the digital interface of the consumer's choice. Finally replacing paper receipts for good. By using the smart receipt, you’re unlocking a new and revolutionary way of post-purchase communication from the checkout and beyond. This will enhance the consumer experience, build relationships and trust, and in the end provide happy and recurring consumers. Read more, sign up, or contact us at www.zeipt.com Would you like to know how paper receipts affect our planet and its people? Learn more at www.thezeiptproject.com and find out why paper receipts need to be eliminated.
Investor / Board member
May 2018
The Zeipt Project is a research project that shows the impact of the receipt on our planet and its inhabitants. Zeipt is our solution to these problems. We aim to expose the negative impact of paper receipts. By eliminating the need to print receipts on paper, we will reduce the amount of paper waste. Learn more about the Zeipt Project and why we should eliminate paper receipts here www.thezeiptproject.com Connect with our solution at Zeipt’s main page www.zeipt.com
Investor
Feb 2018
FIRST VODKA DESIGNED TO BE MIXED WITH WATER CHANGING THE WAY PEOPLE DRINK Vita is born for those that aim to drink responsibly. Those that don´t want to restrain themselves from enjoying the pleasure of drinking a delicious, fresh and light-bodied cocktail with a unique organic citrus essence. Those that seek for a spirit that when mixed with water or soda water the end flavor results delightful and worth their time. Those that want to move on and believe - just like us - that we are finally in the end of the soft drink era.
Investor
Nov 2017
Vervs mission is clear: to eliminate the 4% of global energy waste from inefficient heating and cooling systems while offering AI-driven predictive maintenance. With 13 global patents, Verv stands as a pioneer in this field, serving a diverse clientele of sustainability leaders and engineering heads. Verv is at the forefront of climate control innovation and supporting the built environment in making its mark in driving efficiency and achieving Net Zero targets.
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Nov 2017
Rightangled is a Gphc and CQC registered Medtech company, based in Hammersmith, London and specialised in personalised medicine. Having launched various products in the "at-home" testing market, the company is now moving into the online pharmacy space with a core focus on quality, affordability, and speed of delivery. Rightangled's mission is to enable the use of digital technologies to accelerate the delivery of personalised healthcare to the masses.
Investor
Nov 2017
Download the SmartPlant App: Apple: https://apple.co/2n35hZ1 Android: bit.ly/2nkv65j SmartPlant App helps people of all levels care for plants they own. Connecting customers, retailers, breeders, growers and progragators through horticultural expertise, SmartPlant has a network of over 150 plant experts from around the world as well as the latest technology to identify plants and provide monthly tailored care notifications for plants. SmartPlant is the first app to provide barcode scanning technology that allows customers to scan plants directly at their home retailer. This technology is available to all our partners and gives them the ability to promote their products directly on the app. SmartPlant is also currently available through Amazon Echo (Alexa) in the UK, rolling out in other countries soon. With monthly care instructions, product recommandation and expert chat available to all, you don't have to be an expert to own plants. You just need a smartphone and the SmartPlant App.
Investor
Oct 2017
Money Dashboard is a personal financial assistant that shows you exactly where money goes and helps you make better decisions. Use it to connect to all your current accounts, savings accounts and credit cards from whichever institutions you bank with, all together in one secure place. Money Dashboard is the only place which gives you the true view of your finances, so you can keep an eye on your day-to-day spending, and monitor whether you’re earning more than you’re spending, and making efficient use of any credit. It even lets you know if you’re likely to have any spare money left to spend at the end of the month. And for those who want to save, Money Dashboard uses your past spending patterns to predict future outgoings and potential savings so you can budget realistically for the future.
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2025
Founder
Aug 2025
PEVio is a purpose-built Applied Specialised Intelligence (ASI) platform for private equity and private markets. It delivers auditable, explainable decision intelligence across the full investment lifecycle, from due diligence through portfolio oversight to exit. Designed as decision infrastructure rather than a generic AI tool, PEVio augments professional judgement in high-stakes Investment Committee environments. It is trained on 1,800+ institutional due diligence questions across core PE decision domains, producing IC-ready analysis that reflects how experienced investors assess risk and return. Each deployment becomes proprietary to the fund, adapting to its investment thesis and decision patterns. The result is faster, lower-cost diligence with transparent reasoning, source-linked evidence, and full audit trails that decisions can be explained, defended, and revisited with confidence.
2023
Board Member
Nov 2023
Manufacturers the UKs first self-warming baby bottle. Designed & manufactured in the UJ and distributed worldwide. At the touch of a button, yoomi warms babys feed to the natural temperature of breastmilk in just 60 seconds.
Investor / advisory Board
May 2023
Jiva.ai is an AI company that uses a model fusion first approach to machine learning to provide a sophisticated platform that enables multi-modal AI. Allowing non-technical users to iteratively grow, evolve and deploy models based on their data for real-world use. We are primarily focused on healthcare. Our primary use-cases are (1) prostate cancer diagnosis from MRI images (2) bone fracture diagnosis in emergency care situations from X-ray (3) predicting liver disease susceptibility. Jiva.ai is funded by both equity investors and public grants.
2022
Investor
Dec 2022
Brickflow is a digital marketplace for specialist property finance. We connect brokers & developers with lenders to source the best value development loans, quickly and easily. Compare development finance & bridging loans from 80+ lenders and secure a DIP today at www.brickflow.com
Co-Founder / managing director
Oct 2022
Currently working on something new and very exciting
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