Nick Paulson-Ellis

CEO & Founder, The Sports Edit | Scaling M&S Sportswear

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2022
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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We invest £100k-500k cheques in UK-based Fintech, Insurtech, B2B SaaS, and Enterprise Software companies raising Pre-Seed to Series A rounds. The PV Angel Fund is backed by a great mix of investors leading UK angels, successful founders, C-level execs, and corporate NEDs who co-invest alongside the fund and provide strategic support to our portfolio companies. We have raised funding for and invested in some great companies- Fintech - Smart Pension - Credit Kudos - Simudyne - Pensionbee - Penfold - Apexx - Bricklane - Coinfloor - Funding Xchange - Wealth Kernel - Griffin - Xelix - Origin B2B/SaaS - Impala - Attest - Ably - Shipamax - Rotageek - Avora - Veratrak - Metis Labs - Clausematch - KisanHub - Barac - Breedr - Continuum - IAND Insurtech - Bought By Many - Marshmallow - Flock - Digital Fineprint - Cazana - Nimbla - Bikmo - Sprout.ai - Equipsme - Urban Jungle Consumer/Marketplaces - OLIO - Mindful Chef - Lexoo - Patch -Different Dog - Much Better Adventures - Lick Home Digital Health - Thriva - Elvie - my recovery - uMed - Span Deep Tech - Tractable - Synthesized - Xihelm - Foundries.io - Genus AI - AltViz - Rainbird
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2022
Investor (LP)
Apr 2022
We invest £100k-500k cheques in UK-based Fintech, Insurtech, B2B SaaS, and Enterprise Software companies raising Pre-Seed to Series A rounds. The PV Angel Fund is backed by a great mix of investors leading UK angels, successful founders, C-level execs, and corporate NEDs who co-invest alongside the fund and provide strategic support to our portfolio companies. We have raised funding for and invested in some great companies- Fintech - Smart Pension - Credit Kudos - Simudyne - Pensionbee - Penfold - Apexx - Bricklane - Coinfloor - Funding Xchange - Wealth Kernel - Griffin - Xelix - Origin B2B/SaaS - Impala - Attest - Ably - Shipamax - Rotageek - Avora - Veratrak - Metis Labs - Clausematch - KisanHub - Barac - Breedr - Continuum - IAND Insurtech - Bought By Many - Marshmallow - Flock - Digital Fineprint - Cazana - Nimbla - Bikmo - Sprout.ai - Equipsme - Urban Jungle Consumer/Marketplaces - OLIO - Mindful Chef - Lexoo - Patch -Different Dog - Much Better Adventures - Lick Home Digital Health - Thriva - Elvie - my recovery - uMed - Span Deep Tech - Tractable - Synthesized - Xihelm - Foundries.io - Genus AI - AltViz - Rainbird
2015
CEO & Founder
Aug 2015
Here at The Sports Edit, we believe good things come to those who sweat. We offer a carefully curated selection of the most stylish and innovative sportswear in the world, all centered around inspiring women to get out there, get sweaty and master their chosen activity. We launched in late 2015 in a (cold) garage in London with enough space for four people. Fast forward to February 2022, and Marks and Spencer plc, the UK’s largest clothing retailer, took a majority stake in The Sports Edit. We remain an independently run, entrepreneurial business, still managed by the same founding team, but we now have the resources of M&S behind us, enabling us to accelerate our mission to inspire movement and improve customers lives through fitness. There are three pillars in which we operate: Curation, Content and Community. We scour the globe to find brands and products that blend style, high performance and enduring quality and then offer a unique curated edit of these. We sell over 40+ different sportswear brands, including On Running, Adidas, Nike, Alo, Beyond Yoga, Girlfriend Collective, M&S Goodmove and FP movement. We produce content that supports your wellness journey and our blog is a trusted source for active lifestyles. Lastly, We are building a fitness community that strives to be supportive, knowledgeable, inclusive, friendly and fun.
early stageRetail
2012
Espirito Santo Investment
Non-Executive Director
Jun 2012
2010
CEO, India
Aug 2010
Haitong Bank is part of Haitong Securities Co. Ltd, a leading investment bank and securities firm in China and a first-mover Chinese financial services company operating across 5 continents and 14 countries, including the global financial hubs of Shanghai, Hong Kong, New York, London, Tokyo and Singapore. Haitong Bank is an EU regulated Bank incorporated in Lisbon, Portugal, with a presence in Spain, Brazil, Poland, UK, France and Macau. Haitong Bank offers a combination of expertise in structured finance, capital markets, M&A advisory, fixed income, corporate derivatives and asset management, connecting clients with global opportunities. To know more about us, please visit us at www.haitongib.com
1999
Equity Research & Sales
1999
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