29
Total investments
17
Early stage
6
Mid stage
1
Late stage
15y
Years active
Portfolio
25 investments · sorted by recency
All investments
Early stage
Mid stage
Late stage
S
Lead Investor and Board Observer
May 2021
SENTZ HARD SELTZER - the 1st Hard Seltzer in the UK to feature a blend of added minerals (Calcium, Magnesium and Potassium) and fruits of provenance.
A premium 100% natural low-calorie alcoholic drink for the growing community of discerning drinkers looking to live a vibrant lifestyle. A light and refreshing drink that allows consumers to have a good time guilt-free... makes SENTZ.
We’re unapologetically particular about the food we consume, why should our choice of alcoholic drinks be any different?
DRINK BETTER: Guilt-free fun!
We designed SENTZ, our fruity alcoholic sparkling water, with today’s discerning drinker in mind. Where most pre-prepared alcoholic drinks are full of additives, carbs and calories, SENTZ is different. Weve balanced calcium, magnesium and potassium with high-quality, 100% natural ingredients to create a deliciously different alcoholic alternative. Boasting zero sugar, zero carbs, its gluten free and vegan too. (4% ABV and 28 calories per 100ml).
SUPPORT LOCAL: British Spring Water!
We’re independent, honest and extremely proud of our British roots. We manufacture SENTZ in Britain and we’ve gone to great lengths to use sparkling British spring water which is filtered through the Oolitic Limestone of the Cotswold Hills, south west England.
DRINK WITH PURPOSE: 19L clean drinking water pledged for every can sold!
We couldn’t create SENTZ without acknowledging the many communities throughout the world without basic access to clean, fresh drinking water. For every can of SENTZ sold we pledge 19L of clean drinking water to communities in need.
We are on a mission to change the perception that ‘low calorie alcoholic drinks have to taste bad or be full of sugar or artificial ingredients’. We provide our community with an alcoholic alternative that tastes amazing and is fully transparent on ingredient sourcing, nutritional information and impact on the planet; so they can make an informed decision and have a good time guilt-free.
Z
Lead Angel investor and Board Observer
Nov 2020
ZOKRI helps companies around the world use OKRs to deliver strategies and achieve game-changing results with our training and technology. We can help you learn and embed OKRs, achieve strategy awareness, goal alignment and accelerate value creation.
- Improve the way you think about, communicate and measure goal achievement.
- Help employees feel connected to your company goals and strategy.
- Make priorities clear, and make filtering demands easier – saying ‘no’.
- Optimise value creation by doing the right things and measuring the value.
- Increase focus and guide critical decision making.
- Improve alignment and show employees how they contribute – their impact.
- Enable more autonomous decision making and give people freedom to work out the best way of achieving goals.
- Provide a transparent view on progress and context for wider decision making.
- Accelerate learning cycles with deliberate experimentation and learning loops.
Angel Investor
Oct 2020
Zwings is a community-first micromobility innovator. We have emerged as Britain’s leading operator for e-scooter and e-bike rental schemes, working closely with cities, communities and businesses to tackle the need for sustainable, convenient and affordable modes of travel across urban areas and campuses in the UK.
At Zwings, we strive to help communities and businesses in the UK to reimagine the way they can travel, building a new culture of shared mobility and providing solutions to the challenges of urban living.
Zwings believes that towns and cities thrive when people are connected and support one another; being conscious of our natural surroundings is integral to leading a happy, healthy and well-balanced life.
If you are interested in promoting responsible healthy living, sustainable travel, and are looking to partner with Zwings to transform the way we get around safely, email us via support@zwings.co.uk.
Investor
Mar 2020
Allegrow, is the #1 platform for inbox placement. We take your email outreach to a new level as you leverage our technology to optimise your sender reputation and inbox placement - Helping your emails reach the priority inbox, not the spam folder.
Investor
Oct 2019
Infogrid is changing the world through building intelligence. Our AI-powered platform gathers and analyses data from the smartest IoT technology to drive our mission of making every building healthy, efficient and sustainable.
Investor
Sep 2019
Gophr is a delivery tech company that’s reimagining same day delivery to make it work better for everyone involved; the businesses who need things delivered, their customers, and the couriers delivering to those customers.
That’s what great delivery looks like to us, and that’s what sits at the heart of our vision; to give all businesses access to great same day delivery and all couriers access to great businesses.
Investor
Dec 2018
Coconut’s simple tax app helps self-employed people track income, send invoices, categorise expenses, and work out how much tax you owe in real-time.
And through the Coconut Portal, accountants can get instant access to all of their clients’ real-time accounting information, whenever they need it.
Advisory Board Member and Lead Investor
Nov 2018
While the experiential shift is highly noticeable (78% of millennials would now choose experiences over products), experiences are not easy to find, activities are never joined up and treated like simple commodities.
QuestHunter joins different activities into gamified experiences, helps people to find an experience they would really enjoy and book it without additional fees.
Investor
Aug 2018
The workplace pension that works better for everyone.
Weve cancelled ‘complicated’, done away with ‘difficult’ and banished ‘boring’. Our pension experience is one everyone can actually enjoy, helping employees improve their financial wellbeing and businesses grow faster.
Angel Investor
Apr 2018
Our mission is to ensure corporates & SMEs aren’t wasting money & time on their business travel.
Most companies are overspending on travel by 20-40% - we help them to save that, without having to change any of their existing travel tools. This is typically achieved through complimenting your travel tool with discounted corporate travel programs & adding a specialised group booking service.
The outcome? Significant savings, less time wasted & no change of tooling.
We’re backed by Lakestar, Kima Ventures, Stride.VC and Latitude who’ve also backed Airbnb, Spotify, Trivago, Travelperk, Zoopla, Monzo, and Deliveroo.
Angel Investor
Apr 2018
We are Terrafend - scientists, engineers, and problem-solvers united by a simple belief: industrial cleaning must no longer come at the cost of people or the planet. For too long, harmful solvents, caustics, and outdated processes have defined the industry. We set out to change that. Over the past decade, we’ve pioneered patented, water-based technology that delivers safer, smarter, and more sustainable cleaning - without compromise.
Today, we stand alongside some of the world’s largest manufacturers, in automotive, aerospace, coatings, marine, and heavy industry - helping them transform how they clean, protect their people, and reduce their environmental impact. But we’re more than a technology company. We are a sustainability partner, driving meaningful change by cutting waste, lowering emissions, and enabling industries to shift toward circular, responsible operations that meet today’s demands without sacrificing tomorrow.
B
Angel investor
Feb 2018
Brismo brings efficiency to the market in loans, enabling loan originators to create credible performance metrics, and investors to deploy capital more productively and cost effectively.
We have the broadest market coverage, working with originators of loans - from SME and consumer, to real estate and receivables - and providing market leading performance metrics to a range of investor clients.
Since launching in the UK in 2014 our methodology has gained traction globally. We now cover over 65% of UK and European marketplace lending, over 50% of US marketplace lending, and are extending coverage to additional geographies, origination models, and loan types.We recently expanded into ‘direct lending’ and have also created metrics dedicated to reviewing the performance of real estate lenders.
We are the sole providers of a standardised, like for like comparable, loan performance track record enabling for standardised measurement of both return and risk. Our geographic performance indices have gained traction amongst investors seeking to benchmark loan investment performance and represent the only way to measure the performance of the asset class.
We support our clients in meeting their business goals. Loan originators can create meaningful, verified performance metrics, giving them wider access to capital, reducing their cost of funding, and fulfilling regulatory obligations. Meanwhile Investors can deploy capital more productively with enhanced returns, lower costs, and mitigation of risks.
Angel Investor
Mar 2017
Cybertonica uses Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to manage risk and fraud, increasing trust and growing frictionless banking and m/e-payments globally. Cybertonica’s service increases conversion and sales by up to 25% while managing card-not-present and other categories of fraud at world-class compliant standards. Our goal is to build Trust in Transaction.
Cybertonica has won numerous distinctions and awards since its product came to market, including the “Best Use of Payments Data Award” at Emerging Payments Awards 2018 and the “Best Data Analytics and Science Award” at Merchant Payments Ecosystem Awards 2018. Cybertonica also was named finalist for the “FinTech Start-up of the Year Award” at EWPN Awards 2019 and received the “Best New Back Office Innovation Award” at the Emerging Payments Awards 2017.
Our new ScreenWiZe™ product adds device risk management through SDKs (iOS and Android) to the mobile authentication and malware prevention capabilities of our customers whether banks, acquirers, merchants or transactions security. We are PSD2 ready and GDPR compliant. Cybertonica’s vision is for a world of frictionless transaction and trust in 99.9% of transactions. Visit cybertonica.com to join us and build the future of Trust in Transaction.
Advisory Board Member and Investor
Mar 2017
At KYMIRA®, we are redefining the boundaries of wearable technology to optimise human performance, accelerate recovery, and enhance wellbeing. Founded in 2013 by injured athlete and biochemist Tim Brownstone, KYMIRA was born from a NASA-inspired vision: harnessing infrared light to stimulate cellular regeneration and healing.
Our patented infrared textiles are backed by 10 peer-reviewed clinical studies and used globally by elite athletes, defence units, medical professionals, and wellness seekers. Whether its performance wear for Premier League clubs, recovery solutions for NHS Trusts, or sleepwear for everyday wellness, KYMIRA delivers innovation with impact.
We operate across:
Professional Sport – enhancing performance, recovery, and injury prevention.
Medical & Healthcare – supporting rehabilitation, diagnostics, and chronic condition management.
Defence & Tactical – enabling physiological resilience and recovery in extreme environments.
Wellness & Lifestyle – improving sleep, circulation, and everyday vitality.
We sell our infrared performance, recovery, sleep and leisurewear, via B2B partnerships, channel distribution, and direct-to-consumer through our global e-commerce platform.
KYMIRA reinvests its proceeds into next-generation, innovative human-centred research, working with trusted institutions including the UK & European Space Agencies, Innovate UK, and leading worldwide universities. With 6 patents, 3 trademarks, and multiple trade secrets to our name.
Current focuses include ongoing infrared research, and cutting-edge nano and microelectic production techniques for e-textiles, for diagnostic and monitoring across a range of health conditions including movement, rehabilitation, cardiac, and foetal.
Our mission: to be at the forefront of human-centred innovation, regenerating health and unlocking human potential.
Angel Investor
Dec 2016
The Sandpit is a business builder for startups focused on marketing technology. We provide hands-on sales and marketing, strategic and operational support, to promote revenue growth, so that the tech founders can focus entirely on perfecting their product.
We are commercial co-founders.
Our Portfolio Companies include:
- DeepCrawl, the worlds most comprehensive website crawler
- weseethrough, a tech-driven market research company
- A Million Ads, dynamic creative and personalisation for digital audio
- iadbox, a mobile marketing platform for user engagement and channel monetisation
- Publish Check, quick, simple editorial analytics
- SoPost, a new innovative way of product sampling
- SoDash, a social customer service platform
- Sandpit Lab, an innovation lab
- Batn, the worlds first Twitter takeover
- Zamoosh, a tool to capture stoppable product opportunities on TV (currently in prototype)
- Powermeeter, the simplest video interviewing software solution
Offices in London, New York and San Jose (Costa Rica).
Show all 25 investments ↓
Experience · 33 entries
All (33)
Investments (29)
Founder (2)
Board (3)
2021
S
Lead Investor and Board Observer
May 2021
SENTZ HARD SELTZER - the 1st Hard Seltzer in the UK to feature a blend of added minerals (Calcium, Magnesium and Potassium) and fruits of provenance.
A premium 100% natural low-calorie alcoholic drink for the growing community of discerning drinkers looking to live a vibrant lifestyle. A light and refreshing drink that allows consumers to have a good time guilt-free... makes SENTZ.
We’re unapologetically particular about the food we consume, why should our choice of alcoholic drinks be any different?
DRINK BETTER: Guilt-free fun!
We designed SENTZ, our fruity alcoholic sparkling water, with today’s discerning drinker in mind. Where most pre-prepared alcoholic drinks are full of additives, carbs and calories, SENTZ is different. Weve balanced calcium, magnesium and potassium with high-quality, 100% natural ingredients to create a deliciously different alcoholic alternative. Boasting zero sugar, zero carbs, its gluten free and vegan too. (4% ABV and 28 calories per 100ml).
SUPPORT LOCAL: British Spring Water!
We’re independent, honest and extremely proud of our British roots. We manufacture SENTZ in Britain and we’ve gone to great lengths to use sparkling British spring water which is filtered through the Oolitic Limestone of the Cotswold Hills, south west England.
DRINK WITH PURPOSE: 19L clean drinking water pledged for every can sold!
We couldn’t create SENTZ without acknowledging the many communities throughout the world without basic access to clean, fresh drinking water. For every can of SENTZ sold we pledge 19L of clean drinking water to communities in need.
We are on a mission to change the perception that ‘low calorie alcoholic drinks have to taste bad or be full of sugar or artificial ingredients’. We provide our community with an alcoholic alternative that tastes amazing and is fully transparent on ingredient sourcing, nutritional information and impact on the planet; so they can make an informed decision and have a good time guilt-free.
2020
Z
Lead Angel investor and Board Observer
Nov 2020
ZOKRI helps companies around the world use OKRs to deliver strategies and achieve game-changing results with our training and technology. We can help you learn and embed OKRs, achieve strategy awareness, goal alignment and accelerate value creation.
- Improve the way you think about, communicate and measure goal achievement.
- Help employees feel connected to your company goals and strategy.
- Make priorities clear, and make filtering demands easier – saying ‘no’.
- Optimise value creation by doing the right things and measuring the value.
- Increase focus and guide critical decision making.
- Improve alignment and show employees how they contribute – their impact.
- Enable more autonomous decision making and give people freedom to work out the best way of achieving goals.
- Provide a transparent view on progress and context for wider decision making.
- Accelerate learning cycles with deliberate experimentation and learning loops.
Angel Investor
Oct 2020
Zwings is a community-first micromobility innovator. We have emerged as Britain’s leading operator for e-scooter and e-bike rental schemes, working closely with cities, communities and businesses to tackle the need for sustainable, convenient and affordable modes of travel across urban areas and campuses in the UK.
At Zwings, we strive to help communities and businesses in the UK to reimagine the way they can travel, building a new culture of shared mobility and providing solutions to the challenges of urban living.
Zwings believes that towns and cities thrive when people are connected and support one another; being conscious of our natural surroundings is integral to leading a happy, healthy and well-balanced life.
If you are interested in promoting responsible healthy living, sustainable travel, and are looking to partner with Zwings to transform the way we get around safely, email us via support@zwings.co.uk.
Investor
Mar 2020
Allegrow, is the #1 platform for inbox placement. We take your email outreach to a new level as you leverage our technology to optimise your sender reputation and inbox placement - Helping your emails reach the priority inbox, not the spam folder.
2019
Investor
Oct 2019
Infogrid is changing the world through building intelligence. Our AI-powered platform gathers and analyses data from the smartest IoT technology to drive our mission of making every building healthy, efficient and sustainable.
Show all 33 entries ↓
Investment activity
2011–2021 · 29 investments
Recent (last 2 years)Earlier
