Jess Bartos

Partner @ Notion Capital

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2026
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Investor & Board Observer
May 2026
Pivot is the AI operating system for procurement, giving finance and procurement teams the structure, clarity, and velocity to operate under increasing pressure. It automates workflows, ensures full spend visibility, and ties decisions to financial reality, giving AI a foundation strong enough to carry the routine load. Thats how lean teams at companies like DoorDash, Lemonade, and Wolt run procurement with the control, speed, and coordination that once required three times the headcount. Natively integrated with all your tools, fueled by AI, and built around a top-notch UX, Pivot solves the adoption problem within your company, makes all support teams collaborate seamlessly, and provides procurement teams with powerful tools to extract data and make meaningful decisions. Pivots end-to-end platform is powering leading companies worldwide.
Investor & Board Observer
Mar 2026
Our mission is to forge industrial acceleration. We are the manufacturing company for critical industries. We serve customers in aerospace, defence and energy across the United States and Europe. Our team has experience from the military, government, large enterprises and a successfully exited technology business. We were founded in 2024 and are headquartered in London. Our mission is to forge industrial acceleration.
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Investor
Jan 2026
From vulnerability management to penetration testing, secure everything you build, host, and run with Aikido. Your software security HQ. Built for teams of any size, Aikido helps organizations ship secure software –trusted by Revolut, Deel, The Premier League, Tines, n8n, SoundCloud, and 50k more organizations. Aikido gets developers back to building.
Investor
Nov 2025
We’re the leading frontier AI research lab, continuously building the most advanced technology that shapes the visual understanding of the world. Our team pioneered Stable Diffusion, Stable Video Diffusion, and FLUX.1 and 2 – benchmarks in the evolution of generative AI. Today, these foundations power millions of creations worldwide, from individual artists to enterprise applications. Our most recent models power a wide range of products – turning imagination into reality with precision, speed, and creative control.
Investor & Board Observer
Jan 2025
We believe that every worker has the right to go home safe every day. We also believe that every employer should provide a duty of care in order for this to happen. At Protex AI, were helping enterprise EHS teams to revolutionise how they make proactive safety decisions that help contribute to a safer work environment. Our AI-powered technology is enabling businesses to gain greater visibility of unsafe behaviours in their facilities. The privacy-preserving platform plugs into existing CCTV infrastructure and uses its computer vision technologies to capture unsafe events autonomously in settings such as warehouses, manufacturing facilities and ports.
Angel Investor
Jun 2024
The open source AI SRE for autonomous incident investigation. Tracer investigates incidents before they you get pinged, filtering noise, correlating evidence across your stack, and producing an evidence-based RCA for the issues that actually matter. Tracer is built for SRE and platform engineering teams who are tired of endless loops. With graphs of your workflows, infrastructure, and telemetry, Tracer builds a complete picture of your systems, separating what matters from what doesn’t. With Tracer, multiple AI agents troubleshoot in parallel, test multiple root-cause hypotheses at once, and start investigating before your team even opens the alert.
Investor
Jun 2024
E-Space is a global space company focused on bridging Earth and space with the most sustainable low earth orbit (LEO) network that is expected to reach over one hundred thousand multi-application communication satellites to help businesses and governments securely and affordably access the power of space to solve problems on Earth. Founded by industry pioneer Greg Wyler, E-Space is focused on democratizing space and transforming industries by bringing down the cost of space-based communications, raising the level of satellite system resiliency and setting a new standard in sustainable space infrastructure that will effectively minimize and reduce space debris and destruction while preserving access to space for future generations.
Investor
Mar 2024
ElevenLabs is transforming human-technology interaction with AI research and products. ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale. ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages. ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models. These platforms are powered by our leading AI research. We developed the first human-like AI voice model, then expanded into dubbing, transcription, music, sound effects, and speech-to-speech. We serve millions of users and thousands of businesses from the fastest growing startups to the largest enterprises like Harvey, Deutsche Telekom and Meta.
Investor & Board Observer
Mar 2024
Odigos uses eBPF to automate the implementation of distributed tracing. It is the only technology that is able to deliver automatic context propagation for fully accurate distributed tracing in OpenTelemetry, allowing customers to use Odigos with any observability tool.
Investor
Jun 2022
* 250 Promising Fintechs 2022&2021 - CB Insights * 57 Most Exciting Fintechs - Business insider * #1 in Payments & Commerce - Visa and Citi Backed by the best of fintech, Balance is a B2B payments experience company offering the first online checkout built for businesses. Were always looking for great people to join us - reach out to jobs@getbalance.com
Investor
Dec 2021
Miro is the AI Innovation Workspace that brings teams and AI together to plan, co-create, and build the next big thing, faster. Serving more than 100 million users across 250,000 customers, Miro empowers cross-functional teams to flow from early discovery through final delivery on a shared, AI-first canvas. With the canvas as the prompt, Miros collaborative AI workflows keep teams in the flow of work, scale shifts in ways of working, and drive organization-wide transformation.
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2026
Investor & Board Observer
May 2026
Pivot is the AI operating system for procurement, giving finance and procurement teams the structure, clarity, and velocity to operate under increasing pressure. It automates workflows, ensures full spend visibility, and ties decisions to financial reality, giving AI a foundation strong enough to carry the routine load. Thats how lean teams at companies like DoorDash, Lemonade, and Wolt run procurement with the control, speed, and coordination that once required three times the headcount. Natively integrated with all your tools, fueled by AI, and built around a top-notch UX, Pivot solves the adoption problem within your company, makes all support teams collaborate seamlessly, and provides procurement teams with powerful tools to extract data and make meaningful decisions. Pivots end-to-end platform is powering leading companies worldwide.
Investor & Board Observer
Mar 2026
Our mission is to forge industrial acceleration. We are the manufacturing company for critical industries. We serve customers in aerospace, defence and energy across the United States and Europe. Our team has experience from the military, government, large enterprises and a successfully exited technology business. We were founded in 2024 and are headquartered in London. Our mission is to forge industrial acceleration.
early stageManufacturing
Investor
Jan 2026
From vulnerability management to penetration testing, secure everything you build, host, and run with Aikido. Your software security HQ. Built for teams of any size, Aikido helps organizations ship secure software –trusted by Revolut, Deel, The Premier League, Tines, n8n, SoundCloud, and 50k more organizations. Aikido gets developers back to building.
2025
Investor
Nov 2025
We’re the leading frontier AI research lab, continuously building the most advanced technology that shapes the visual understanding of the world. Our team pioneered Stable Diffusion, Stable Video Diffusion, and FLUX.1 and 2 – benchmarks in the evolution of generative AI. Today, these foundations power millions of creations worldwide, from individual artists to enterprise applications. Our most recent models power a wide range of products – turning imagination into reality with precision, speed, and creative control.
Partner - Growth Investments
Sep 2025
Notion Capital is a Venture Capital investing firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud, with more than 100 investments to date. We support our exceptional founders on their extraordinary journeys, with life time capital and a value-add platform.
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