Andy Davis

10x10. Investing in Black Founders.

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Investor in Residence | Google for Startups
Jul 2020
A problem isnt truly solved until its solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone. Check out our career opportunities at goo.gle/3DLEokh
Board Member
Mar 2019
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2023
Investment Advisor and Board Member
Jun 2023
Through funding, unrivalled know-how and a global network of industry expertise, we partner with next-gen founders seeking to start or scale the drinks brands of the future. To date, Distill Ventures has invested +$300M in 35 founder-led brands. Our current public portfolio includes: *New World Whisky* 🥃 Stauning Whisky, one of Europe’s standout new whiskies from Denmark. 🥃 Starward Whisky, a distinctive Australian whisky, exclusively matured in Australian wine barrels. 🥃 Westward Whiskey, a leading American single malt whiskey inspired by the Pacific Northwest’s craft beer traditions. 🥃 Kanosuke Distillery, makers of Japanese single malt and blended whisky. *No & Low* Ritual Zero Proof, the first spirit alternative distilled in America. *Acquisitions by Diageo to date* Kikori Whiskey exited our accelerator programme and entered the Diageo portfolio in 2018. Belsazar, a German aperitif, integrated into the Diageo portfolio in 2018. Seedlip, the world’s first non-alcohol distilled spirits brand, exited into the Diageo portfolio in 2019. —————————————————— THE PRE-ACCELERATOR In 2021, Distill Venture committed to increasing diversity within the industry by launching the Pre-Accelerator, an initiative dedicated to early-stage founders from underrepresented communities. Our recent Pre-Accelerator cohort introduced Jackson McCrea Whiskey and Ume Plum Liqueur to the portfolio ————————————————— WORKING ALONGSIDE DIAGEO We operate independently with backing from Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks company. Diageo provides investment funding, as well as resources and access through its network of experts. If youre building a drinks brand of the future and want to know how acceleration works for drinks brands, visit www.distillventures.com.
2022
Advisory Board Member
Apr 2022
The Pathway Fund is a new initiative founded in 2022 to catalyse opportunities for Black and Minoritised communities, across England, through social investment.
2020
Investor in Residence | Google for Startups
Jul 2020
A problem isnt truly solved until its solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone. Check out our career opportunities at goo.gle/3DLEokh
Investor in Residence
Mar 2020
We are accelerating the UKs startup ecosystem. Follow us to find out about new accelerators, funding opportunities and support programmes as they are announced. With our extensive network of partners, experts, and investors, we collaborate to offer programmes to take your business to the next level. Programmes we currently or recently delivered include: - The Turing Innovation Catalyst Manchester AI Accelerator, supporting the next generation of AI-first startups in Greater Manchester. - TEAM SY, offering tech pre-accelerator and accelerator programmes targeted at founders and startups based in South Yorkshire. - Machine Learning Academy, training non-technical startup leaders in the fundamentals of machine learning and AI. - Cancer Tech Accelerator, supporting the commercialisation of new technologies in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. - Barclays Eagle Labs Funding Readiness Programme, helping entrepreneurs demystify the funding landscape and providing founders with the skills and knowledge they need to fund their business growth. - CAP AI, supporting AI startups to gain access to computational power, resources and talent that they would not normally be able to find or afford, enabling them to move their businesses forward.
2019
Angel Programme 2020
Dec 2019
Atomico is the founder-built European venture capital firm. We partner with the most ambitious entrepreneurs using technology to rewire the world, better. Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström launched Atomico in 2006 with the belief that entrepreneurs are the ultimate gamechangers for positive transformation across the most critical aspects of our society and economy. Starting in Europe, the firm’s mission is to further their global progress, with a platform offering unmatched support from the early stage to scale. 130 of Europe’s most ambitious founders have partnered with Atomico, including Aiven, Bird, DeepL, Hinge Health, Jobandtalent, Klarna, Lilium, Pipedrive, Stripe, Supercell and Wellhub. Atomicos team of investors and operational leaders are drawn from some of the most successful technology companies in the world, including Skype, Google, Twitter and Wise.
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