James Black

Anthropic

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Investor & Board Observer
2024
Kittl’s Mission is: Taking out the friction in professional design. Were empowering creativity, redefining the category of professional graphic design today. For a long time professional graphic design has been dominated by large and complex solutions that required years of training to learn. Kittl is here to change that. With a platform that offers the depth of a desktop tool and an ease-of-use that sparks joy and creativity. Leveraging state of the art technology in software development and AI, Kittl has grown to millions of users and continues to innovate in design. With offices in Berlin, London and Dusseldorf we are a diverse team of 100 creators - hailing from 20+ nationalities & growing. Join us here: https://www.kittl.com/career
Investor
2022
Pigment is a business planning platform built for agility and scale. It connects people, data, and processes in one elegant, feature-rich platform that allows planners in every department to prepare for any eventuality. Industry-leading companies like Unilever, Merck, Klarna, Webhelp, Figma and Poshmark use Pigment every day, allowing them to confidently make more informed business decisions. Book your demo today 👉 https://www.pigment.com/contact We’re hiring! Check out our job openings: https://www.pigment.com/careers
Investor & Board Observer
2021
Taxbit is the premier AI-enabled information reporting and analytics platform built by tax experts to simplify regulatory compliance for the digital economy. Trusted by leading crypto brokers, Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, and governments, Taxbit automates complex reporting and seamlessly enables scalable and audit-ready compliance worldwide.
Investor & Board Observer
2021
Superhuman Platform: AI-native email and calendaring for high-performing teams.⚡️Fly through your inbox, be more responsive to what matters most, and collaborate faster than ever before. Superhuman helps teams save four hours per person, every single week.
Investor
2021
Come join the team responsible for creating the future of fantasy football, baseball, and basketball. If youre looking to run fast, have an immediate impact from day 1, and work with smart/creative people -- Sorare is for you! We are hiring for roles both in Paris & in the US.
Investor
2021
Productiv is the only SaaS Management Platform built for bringing teams together. From new purchase requests to renewals, and everything in between, IT, procurement, and finance work in Productiv to align around trusted data, get AI powered insights, collaborate, make smarter decisions, and have confidence in every investment, at scale. This employee-centric, data-driven approach combines billions of employee app usage data-points with vendor contract and organizational data, to provide companies like Uber, Okta, and Carta with the most comprehensive view of their SaaS applications. Its the all-in-one SaaS management platform that gives business leaders actionable insights for better decisions throughout the entire SaaS-lifecycle. Founded in 2018 and backed by Accel, IVP, and Norwest Venture Partners, Productiv is on a mission to unlock the most value from your SaaS portfolio at scale.
Investor & Board Observer
2021
Hello Heart is the digital leader in preventive heart health. We provide members with a connected blood pressure monitor and AI-driven digital coaching app. Through human-centric design, members receive actionable insights around healthy eating, activity, and can track key heart metrics like blood pressure and cholesterol unique to each person and consistent with clinical guidelines. By building a habit of monitoring heart health, members create sustained lifestyle changes. Validated in peer-reviewed studies, Hello Heart members achieve significant reductions in blood pressure over a sustained period. Founded in 2013, Hello Heart is a member of the American Heart Association’s Innovators’ Network and trusted by leading Fortune 1000 employers, national health plans and pharmacy benefit managers. Visit www.helloheart.com for more information.
Investor
2020
Aiven is the trusted open source data platform for everyone. Through Aiven, developers can do what they do best: create applications. Meanwhile, Aiven does what we do best: manage cloud data infrastructure. We enable customers to drive business results from open source data technologies that trigger true transformations on a global scale. Aiven provides managed open source data technologies, such as PostgreSQL®, Apache Kafka® and OpenSearch®, on all major clouds. Most recently, Aiven achieved a $3B valuation and has now raised $420M total funding backed by its investors Atomico, Earlybird, Eurazeo, IVP, Lifeline, Salesforce Ventures, and World Innovation Lab. Aiven is headquartered in Helsinki and has hubs in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto. To learn more about Aiven, visit https://aiven.io.
Experience · 13 entries
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Investments (8)
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2025
Capital Markets & Corporate Development
Jun 2025
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
2024
Investor & Board Observer
2024
Kittl’s Mission is: Taking out the friction in professional design. Were empowering creativity, redefining the category of professional graphic design today. For a long time professional graphic design has been dominated by large and complex solutions that required years of training to learn. Kittl is here to change that. With a platform that offers the depth of a desktop tool and an ease-of-use that sparks joy and creativity. Leveraging state of the art technology in software development and AI, Kittl has grown to millions of users and continues to innovate in design. With offices in Berlin, London and Dusseldorf we are a diverse team of 100 creators - hailing from 20+ nationalities & growing. Join us here: https://www.kittl.com/career
2022
Investor
2022
Pigment is a business planning platform built for agility and scale. It connects people, data, and processes in one elegant, feature-rich platform that allows planners in every department to prepare for any eventuality. Industry-leading companies like Unilever, Merck, Klarna, Webhelp, Figma and Poshmark use Pigment every day, allowing them to confidently make more informed business decisions. Book your demo today 👉 https://www.pigment.com/contact We’re hiring! Check out our job openings: https://www.pigment.com/careers
2021
Investor & Board Observer
2021
Taxbit is the premier AI-enabled information reporting and analytics platform built by tax experts to simplify regulatory compliance for the digital economy. Trusted by leading crypto brokers, Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, and governments, Taxbit automates complex reporting and seamlessly enables scalable and audit-ready compliance worldwide.
Investor & Board Observer
2021
Superhuman Platform: AI-native email and calendaring for high-performing teams.⚡️Fly through your inbox, be more responsive to what matters most, and collaborate faster than ever before. Superhuman helps teams save four hours per person, every single week.
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