Max Whicher

Co-Founder @ Spin | Investor, Board Trustee, Panel Member

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025
VC🌍 United KingdomInvested this year
13
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7
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Portfolio

12 investments · sorted by recency
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Investor
Oct 2025
Overnight oats, done right. No junk, no nonsense—just gut-loving goodness in every spoonful. Packed with real ingredients, 1 billion live cultures, and bold flavours. No added sugar, no artificial rubbish—just easy, feel-good fuel for busy mornings. Wake up to something better.
Board Member
Sep 2025
At Tiny Studios, we focus on pushing creative boundaries with our tailored team, treasuring craft over churn. We go beyond the screen, working with good people and brands to build long-lasting and sustainable relationships. We are proud of what we make together and have commitment to your cause. How about it? Tell your story the Tiny way.
Board Member
Jan 2025
At Be A Bear we are audience obsessed. We believe that every business needs a strong fan base to succeed which is why we treat every brand like it’s a media owner. In today’s climate it’s imperative to own your audience, and we do this with brands using owned, paid and earned channels. Using a mix of organic channel management, advertising, talent partnerships and audience development, we build mid to long term strategies for success.
Investor
Apr 2022
Luxury Running Apparel for the Pursuit of Suffering
early stageRetail
Investor
Jul 2021
Janji makes performance apparel designed for running, built to bring the world around us closer together.
Investor
Nov 2020
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.
Investor
Jun 2020
We’re building an assistant manager that turns fantasy players into fantasy pros and brings the thrill of every game even closer. With Drafthound, fantasy players can set a competitive team in 5 minutes, improve their team each week with personalised suggestions and follow their team’s victories, defeats and achievements in real-time and with their friends and competitors.
Investor
May 2020
buttermilk skincare are specialists in skin care, bringing you the very best of beauty products from Korea and all over Asia.
Investor (Exited)
Dec 2018
The Active Kollection is an elite fashion forward active wear brand bringing together the best independent retailers.
Angel Investor
Aug 2017
Full Funnel Ventures is a UK based investment fund seeking companies and founders with ideas that hold great potential. We are a team of experienced entrepreneurs, open to opportunities and pitches from all sectors and locations. We focus primarily on seed & pre-seed investment rounds. We specialise in the following areas: Markets: Media, Tech, Travel, Ecommerce Geo: UK, US, China, India
Investor
Aug 2017
Unleashing Flavour! Cold Brew Coffees For Your Everyday. We produce a range of healthier, lower sugar and more natural cold brew coffee drinks. Get Cool Cold Brew from Amazon, Muscle Food, Whole Foods Market and many more!
early stageFood & Beverages
Investor
Aug 2017
Welcome to Tea Venture Limited ; The Holding Company of the brand NOVELTEA. NOVELTEA aims to disrupt the alcoholic industry by introducing a distinctive product-portfolio around the concept of tea. Vincent and I, both co-founders and directors of Tea-Venture Limited, introduce NOVELTEA in April 2017 to UK’s alcohol market. We are currently backed up by Newcastle University’s Rise-Up Foundership Programme, which is supporting high-growth start-up businesses. Based on extensive market research with our target group, NOVELTEA passed the concept stage, in which sales meetings with retail as well as hospitality businesses have shown high interest from both sales channels. As a result, NOVELTEA aims to exploit its first-mover advantage in the UK by disrupting the RTD, wine and spirit market; an industry with an overall value of £27bn in the UK. After successful expansion with- in the UK, further areas of growth have been identified; geographical expansion, portfolio-extension, and the introduction of further brands under the Tea Venture Limited umbrella.
early stageFood & Beverages
Experience · 18 entries
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Investments (13)
Founder (5)
Board (2)
2025
Investor
Oct 2025
Overnight oats, done right. No junk, no nonsense—just gut-loving goodness in every spoonful. Packed with real ingredients, 1 billion live cultures, and bold flavours. No added sugar, no artificial rubbish—just easy, feel-good fuel for busy mornings. Wake up to something better.
Board Member
Sep 2025
At Tiny Studios, we focus on pushing creative boundaries with our tailored team, treasuring craft over churn. We go beyond the screen, working with good people and brands to build long-lasting and sustainable relationships. We are proud of what we make together and have commitment to your cause. How about it? Tell your story the Tiny way.
Board Member
Jan 2025
At Be A Bear we are audience obsessed. We believe that every business needs a strong fan base to succeed which is why we treat every brand like it’s a media owner. In today’s climate it’s imperative to own your audience, and we do this with brands using owned, paid and earned channels. Using a mix of organic channel management, advertising, talent partnerships and audience development, we build mid to long term strategies for success.
2022
Investor
Apr 2022
Luxury Running Apparel for the Pursuit of Suffering
early stageRetail
2021
Investor
Jul 2021
Janji makes performance apparel designed for running, built to bring the world around us closer together.
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