Oliver Kicks

General Partner @ Concept Ventures

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2025
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Pre-seed Investor
Apr 2025
Dex is for exceptional people who build exceptional things. We connect exceptional Software Engineers with venture-backed Start-ups and Scale-ups in London. Few roles. Fewer candidates. Better matches. We are curated. We only offer a rigorously selected set of roles from the best organisations. Every opportunity is vetted. We are transparent. We insist on full transparency on salary, terms and package from the get-go. Giving you confidence that things really are the way they seem. We are long term. Dex stays with you throughout your career across promotion cycles, frustration peaks and surfacing big opportunities. Treat your job search like production (not a sandbox). Brief Dex to find the roles actually worth your time.
Pre-seed Investor
Apr 2025
We help businesses manage their operations more efficiently and seamlessly, providing fast and precise services so nothing slips through the cracks.
Pre-seed Investor
Jun 2024
Arondite is a defence technology building the foundational software and AI to power the autonomous age. Were hiring world-class engineers who share our values and who want to make a difference. If youre interested in joining us then check out the latest roles on our website.
Pre-seed Investor
Apr 2024
Anam is a cutting-edge AI platform providing photorealistic, expressive personas that enhance customer experiences across industries. Whether its customer support, sales, education, or healthcare, Anam offers AI avatars that seamlessly integrate with your product. Create your personalized AI persona now.
Pre-seed Investor
Jun 2022
ElevenLabs is transforming human-technology interaction with AI research and products. ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale. ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages. ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models. These platforms are powered by our leading AI research. We developed the first human-like AI voice model, then expanded into dubbing, transcription, music, sound effects, and speech-to-speech. We serve millions of users and thousands of businesses from the fastest growing startups to the largest enterprises like Harvey, Deutsche Telekom and Meta.
Pre-seed Investor
Oct 2020
Were on a mission to bring the worlds live events to virtual spaces. Powered by video 3.0 technology, we have developed an end-to-end solution that captures 3D video in real-time that can be livestreamed into virtual worlds.
Experience · 9 entries
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Investments (6)
2025
Pre-seed Investor
Apr 2025
Dex is for exceptional people who build exceptional things. We connect exceptional Software Engineers with venture-backed Start-ups and Scale-ups in London. Few roles. Fewer candidates. Better matches. We are curated. We only offer a rigorously selected set of roles from the best organisations. Every opportunity is vetted. We are transparent. We insist on full transparency on salary, terms and package from the get-go. Giving you confidence that things really are the way they seem. We are long term. Dex stays with you throughout your career across promotion cycles, frustration peaks and surfacing big opportunities. Treat your job search like production (not a sandbox). Brief Dex to find the roles actually worth your time.
Pre-seed Investor
Apr 2025
We help businesses manage their operations more efficiently and seamlessly, providing fast and precise services so nothing slips through the cracks.
2024
Pre-seed Investor
Jun 2024
Arondite is a defence technology building the foundational software and AI to power the autonomous age. Were hiring world-class engineers who share our values and who want to make a difference. If youre interested in joining us then check out the latest roles on our website.
Pre-seed Investor
Apr 2024
Anam is a cutting-edge AI platform providing photorealistic, expressive personas that enhance customer experiences across industries. Whether its customer support, sales, education, or healthcare, Anam offers AI avatars that seamlessly integrate with your product. Create your personalized AI persona now.
2023
Partner
Jul 2023
We are Europe’s largest dedicated pre-seed fund at $88M. We champion both first-time and repeat founders with conviction, leading or co-leading pre-seed rounds with cheques of up to $1.5M. We are sector-agnostic but stage-specialists, laser-focused on being one of your very first conversations. It is never “too early” to partner with globally ambitious European founders. Founded by industry outsiders, we understand the challenges of starting from scratch and the importance of being flexible, founder-first partners. We can shape or join your earliest rounds and have the capacity to follow-on through Series A and beyond, providing the long-term support required to scale into multi-billion-dollar outcomes. We are always eager to meet Europe’s most ambitious entrepreneurs. If you’re building something bold, apply via our website: www.conceptventures.vc.
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