Kal El-Wahab

Senior Portfolio Manager at BlueCrest Capital Management

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2021
VC🌍 United Kingdom
17
Total investments
10
Early stage
4
Mid stage
1
Late stage
12y
Years active

Portfolio

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Angel Investor (Seed)
Jul 2021
Crezco makes payments cheaper and faster, but no less convenient. Via either our no-code checkout, payment links or API, over 5,000 businesses, from new start-ups to established enterprises, are benefitting from improved revenue, profits and cashflow using Crezco for their payments. Crezco leverages innovative account-to-account technology to eliminate the unnecessary costs and frictions of trading, so businesses can grow, markets can develop and economic progress can be enjoyed everywhere.
Angel Investor (Pre-seed)
Apr 2021
Run impactful mentoring, learning and inclusion programs at scale to improve employee performance and retention. Explore what Qooper can do for your initiatives.
Angel Investor (Series B)
Mar 2021
Cutover interconnects your teams and technologies through Collaborative Automation, enabling you to successfully manage your IT disaster recovery, cloud migration, and release strategies. Take the risk and cost out of IT operations, make fewer mistakes, increase automation, have more capacity, and reduce manual work.
Angel Investor (Seed)
Mar 2021
We are Patch, and we believe in a better balance between our health, communities, environment and work. Work Near Home and spend more time near to where you live and near to what you love. Vote for our next location here > www.patch.work/register Read about our vision here > https://medium.com/patchplaces/introducing-work-near-home-why-im-building-patch-a30bef5903df
early stageHospitality
Angel Investor (Pre-seed)
Jan 2021
Pallo is the all-in-one financial management platform for business and personal finances. Pallo provides freelancers, side-hustlers and small-business owners financial clarity, tools for immediate challenges, and support for long-term financial prosperity.
Angel Investor (Pre-seed)
Sep 2020
The BKwai analytics platform delivers structural health insights for infrastructure assets, groundworks and construction projects. By analysing multi-sourced site monitoring data, BKwai pinpoints asset movement, and helps identify root cause of change. Combining the ability to overlay multiple data sets as well as data-driven forecasting; BKwai offers invaluable insights beyond standard site monitoring solutions.
Angel Investor (Pre-Seed)
Oct 2019
Picnic is a micro-social app — an antidote to big social that gives groups of friends a space to chat, keep hold of memories and create feel-good content together. We believe that re-calibrating social media away from the passive consumption of strangers content towards conversations with friends represents the most exciting opportunity in tech today. Our ambition is not simply to build the most compelling social app on the market. It’s to deliver on the original promise of social media, and build a product that makes the world better friends.
Board Member of the Global Startup Committee
Jul 2019
An affiliated partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI), the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF) aims to ease access to finance for businesses from startup to scaleup to exit, with the ultimate goal of generating economic development, jobs and more social justice worldwide. To achieve this goal, WBAF is now, for the first time, raising its first own investment fund of USD 10M (the WBAF Angel Investment Fund), which will be an international co-investment platform to invest in the startups and scaleups of the Global Fundraising Stage (GFRS); it will incorporate a mix of private, public and non-profit sources for the benefit of startup ventures looking for smart finance. • The ultimate goal is to create a high-quality portfolio with some of the world’s most promising startups and scaleups and, at the same time, create opportunities for co-investment and follow-on investments. • Another goal is to connect the best startups with the best angel investors, making it possible for them to benefit from the know-how, mentorship and networks of qualified investors. The WBAF Angel Investment Fund is designed to capitalise on the worldwide growth in entrepreneurial activity and venture financing for startups and scaleups and to benefit from WBAF’s extensive network of global investors, including angel investors, private equity funds, co-investment platforms, wealth management institutions, family offices, VCs and acceleration centres.
Angel Investor (Pre-Seed)
Mar 2019
Welcome to Wardrobe Freedom. We believe great clothes should be enjoyed, not consumed. So we loan week-to-weekend wear, on a monthly subscription.
Angel Investor (Pre-Seed)
Nov 2018
Smarter Supplements designed for body and mind to help you Reach Your Heights. Created by scientists, trusted by experts, 125,000+ happy customers and counting.
Angel Investor (Pre-Seed)
Jan 2018
At hiber we believe in local trades businesses. Our vision is to partner with trades businesses to make them and their families thrive. Our software, and support services give local trades the tools to succeed, more time to spend on what matters to them and additional features they can pass onto their own customers. Operating across the UK and with a head office in London, hiberians are passionate about achieving our vision and having a positive impact on thousands of trades businesses and their customers alike.
Angel Investor (Seed)
May 2017
We’re a tech company helping our customers achieve their goals when they’re feeling financially squeezed. Auden Money helps our customers unlock a new relationship with their money so they can plan, budget and save to do the things that matter the most to them. We help them access money when they need it through a range of short- and medium-term loans. They’re designed to be socially responsible and when we can’t lend to people, we’ll do our best to help point them in the right direction. We also let them check any benefits they could be eligible for with our Auden Benefits calculator – as we know it can be tough for people to work out what they’re owed. By doing this we’re helping our customers use the money they have to focus on the things they really care about. Our team is based in the heart of Manchester and we support hybrid working. If you’re interested in joining our mission, please email us JoinUs@auden.co.uk or visit https://www.auden.com/careers
Angel Investor (Seed)
Dec 2015
The leading AI-powered up-skilling platform. We build AI products for professionals and learning organizations. Trusted by over 3 million users and 10,000+ customers, weve raised $5.5M from the first VCs in ServiceTitan and Duolingo to solve the global up-skilling problem.
Angel Investor (Seed+Series A)
Mar 2015
Bulb provides 100% renewable electricity to homes across the UK, France, Spain and Texas and 100% carbon offset gas in the UK. We supply green energy as standard, with fair, transparent pricing, and technology to help our members manage and reduce their energy use. We were the first energy supplier in the UK to become a certified B Corp and are proud to be working to show how business can be a force for good.
early stageUtilities
Angel Investor
Aug 2014
At Crowdcube, we believe in the power of funding with impact. Behind 20 of the most popular crowdfunding campaigns of all time, we are Europe’s leading equity crowdfunding platform — empowering founders to raise the capital they need to make a lasting difference in the world. Our platform provides an innovative approach to fundraising, connecting ambitious entrepreneurs with a vibrant community of investors who are passionate about supporting meaningful ventures. Having worked with the likes of Monzo, ZOE, Qonto, Heura, what3words and more, we want to help take your business to the next level. Risk Warning: Investing in start-ups and early stage businesses involves risks, including illiquidity, lack of dividends, loss of investment and dilution, and it should be done only as part of a diversified portfolio. Crowdcube is targeted exclusively at investors who are sufficiently sophisticated to understand these risks and make their own investment decisions. You will only be able to invest via Crowdcube once you are registered as sufficiently sophisticated.
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2026
Senior Portfolio Manager
Apr 2026
BlueCrest Capital Management was founded in 2000, focused on fixed income macro trading. The firm has now developed into one of the largest global alternative asset managers, with offices in London, Geneva, Jersey, Dubai,New York, Miami and Singapore.
2021
Angel Investor (Seed)
Jul 2021
Crezco makes payments cheaper and faster, but no less convenient. Via either our no-code checkout, payment links or API, over 5,000 businesses, from new start-ups to established enterprises, are benefitting from improved revenue, profits and cashflow using Crezco for their payments. Crezco leverages innovative account-to-account technology to eliminate the unnecessary costs and frictions of trading, so businesses can grow, markets can develop and economic progress can be enjoyed everywhere.
Angel Investor (Pre-seed)
Apr 2021
Run impactful mentoring, learning and inclusion programs at scale to improve employee performance and retention. Explore what Qooper can do for your initiatives.
Angel Investor (Series B)
Mar 2021
Cutover interconnects your teams and technologies through Collaborative Automation, enabling you to successfully manage your IT disaster recovery, cloud migration, and release strategies. Take the risk and cost out of IT operations, make fewer mistakes, increase automation, have more capacity, and reduce manual work.
Angel Investor (Seed)
Mar 2021
We are Patch, and we believe in a better balance between our health, communities, environment and work. Work Near Home and spend more time near to where you live and near to what you love. Vote for our next location here > www.patch.work/register Read about our vision here > https://medium.com/patchplaces/introducing-work-near-home-why-im-building-patch-a30bef5903df
early stageHospitality
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2014–2021 · 17 investments
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