Nicholas Richards

"Ship Shape is the Venture Capital Search Engine. Ship Shape is a Search Engine that lets you search individual investors at VC firms, portfolio companies and investment entities. Our results compress the research time required to draw up a well-informed investor shortlist from 183 days to a matter of seconds, dramatically improving the chances of a warm response to outreach. Because we index unstructured data, you can find the investors interested in a specific field. Ship Shape provides you with evidence, in addition to the firms portfolio of other investments. This gives you confidence, clarity and certainty that you are speaking with the right person. Ship Shape is the Welsh Fintech Start-up of the Year 2021."

We’re a multi-award-winning wills, probate and funerals company, with a mission to change the way the world deals with death. We create beautifully designed and easy to use products - with customers at the heart of everything we do. We’re a team of 65 people and since 2016 we’ve helped raise more than £800m in pledged legacy income for over 1,000 organisations. Our backgrounds are diverse; what brings us together is our passion for what we do. Based in a beautiful office by the canal in Haggerston (East London), we’re backed by some of Europe’s most exceptional investors - from the founders of Transferwise and Zoopla to Kindred Capital, Augmentum Fintech & Highland Europe. We’re changing the way the world deals with death by making it easy for people to plan ahead for their funerals or organise someone else’s. We want our customers to feel confident in making meaningful decisions. This is an unusual, fascinating, and emotional area to work in. So if you’re up for a big challenge, we’d love to meet you. Here are some of the things we’re most proud of since starting in 2016: - raised over £800 million in charity pledges - rated 4.9/5 on Trustpilot with over 14,000 reviews - formed major national partnerships with organisations across the charity, insurance, and mortgage industries such as Macmillan, Cancer Research UK and Samaritans. 🏆 And we’ve won a few awards too: - British Wills And Probate Awards, Will Writing Firm of the Year 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 - British Wills And Probate Awards, Probate Provider of the Year 2021, 2020 - Good Funeral Awards, Low-Cost Funeral Provider of the Year 2022, 2021 and Funeral Information Provider of the Year 2021 - Start-Ups 100, 3rd Most Disruptive and Innovative UK Start-Up 2021 - Best Employer & Runner Up Best CEO, Fintech Awards 2020 -Client Care Initiative of the Year, Modern Law Awards 2020

Gone are the days of manually consolidating selling reports and editing endless excel sheets and PDFs. We remove the manual tasks involved in sell-out reporting, arming your team with the information and time needed to proactively manage your wholesale business.

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Odin lets anyone, anywhere launch and run a private investment firm online - think Shopify for Venture Capital and Private Equity. We handle the full back office stack end to end, flexibly: legal structuring, investor onboarding, KYC/AML, payments, tax, reporting, and exits. We administer over $500m in assets, covering investments from pre-seed to pre-IPO. This includes household names like OpenAI and SpaceX but also new companies focusing on tons of cool things like: - Next-gen micronuclear reactors - Atmospheric CO₂ removal at gigaton scale - Asteroid mining - Space-based manufacturing (fiber, alloys, pharmaceuticals) - Crazy biotech eg. wet computers based on human neurons We believe capital is one of the most powerful tools for shaping the world - and more people should be putting it to work. We also have a strong conviction that some of the best capital allocators do not fit the “traditional mould” of a VC or private equity investor. If youve got sector expertise in an interesting field, youve never been an VC / PE investor before but youve thought about it, feel free to reach out.

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Titanbay is Europe’s fastest-growing private markets infrastructure provider, offering asset managers and distributors a simpler, more controlled way to deliver private markets. Our integrated platform, together with our AIFM, combines technology, operations and regulatory oversight to support the full lifecycle of private market funds across Europe. From structuring and onboarding to capital flows, reporting and compliance, we provide the infrastructure partners need to launch, scale and manage sophisticated investment programmes. Whether your focus is raising capital, distributing funds or expanding your private markets offering, Titanbay streamlines complexity and enhances operational efficiency, enabling you to prioritise your clients and long-term growth.

AP Ventures is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in London. Our specialist team is dedicated to investing in advanced technology companies which contribute to decarbonisation and global net-zero. The hydrogen value chain is a key focus of the fund and we have been investing in hydrogen since 2013; we currently invest in 25 hydrogen technology portfolio companies.

Hollyport is a manager of global private equity assets. We acquire tail-end portfolios of mature private equity assets in the secondary market, enabling long standing investors in the asset class to realise non-core investments. Hollyport was formed in 2006. The partners have collectively over 100 years experience in private equity. We use this extensive knowledge and experience to structure transactions to meet the specific needs of all relevant stakeholders. Our investors comprise institutions, family offices, endowments and sophisticated high net worth individuals.

"Ship Shape is the Venture Capital Search Engine. Ship Shape is a Search Engine that lets you search individual investors at VC firms, portfolio companies and investment entities. Our results compress the research time required to draw up a well-informed investor shortlist from 183 days to a matter of seconds, dramatically improving the chances of a warm response to outreach. Because we index unstructured data, you can find the investors interested in a specific field. Ship Shape provides you with evidence, in addition to the firms portfolio of other investments. This gives you confidence, clarity and certainty that you are speaking with the right person. Ship Shape is the Welsh Fintech Start-up of the Year 2021."

We’re a multi-award-winning wills, probate and funerals company, with a mission to change the way the world deals with death. We create beautifully designed and easy to use products - with customers at the heart of everything we do. We’re a team of 65 people and since 2016 we’ve helped raise more than £800m in pledged legacy income for over 1,000 organisations. Our backgrounds are diverse; what brings us together is our passion for what we do. Based in a beautiful office by the canal in Haggerston (East London), we’re backed by some of Europe’s most exceptional investors - from the founders of Transferwise and Zoopla to Kindred Capital, Augmentum Fintech & Highland Europe. We’re changing the way the world deals with death by making it easy for people to plan ahead for their funerals or organise someone else’s. We want our customers to feel confident in making meaningful decisions. This is an unusual, fascinating, and emotional area to work in. So if you’re up for a big challenge, we’d love to meet you. Here are some of the things we’re most proud of since starting in 2016: - raised over £800 million in charity pledges - rated 4.9/5 on Trustpilot with over 14,000 reviews - formed major national partnerships with organisations across the charity, insurance, and mortgage industries such as Macmillan, Cancer Research UK and Samaritans. 🏆 And we’ve won a few awards too: - British Wills And Probate Awards, Will Writing Firm of the Year 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 - British Wills And Probate Awards, Probate Provider of the Year 2021, 2020 - Good Funeral Awards, Low-Cost Funeral Provider of the Year 2022, 2021 and Funeral Information Provider of the Year 2021 - Start-Ups 100, 3rd Most Disruptive and Innovative UK Start-Up 2021 - Best Employer & Runner Up Best CEO, Fintech Awards 2020 -Client Care Initiative of the Year, Modern Law Awards 2020

Carta powers interconnectivity in private markets — uniting data, people, and workflows in one connected system. We connect founders, investors, and limited partners through software purpose-built for private capital. Trusted by 50,000+ companies in 160+ countries, Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence. Carta’s Fund Administration platform supports 8,500+ funds and SPVs, representing nearly $185B in assets under management, with tools designed to enhance the strategic impact of fund CFOs. Carta has been included on the Fortune Best Large Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance and Best Workplaces in the Bay Area lists, Forbes’ list of the Worlds Best Cloud Companies, Fast Companys Most Innovative list, Inc.s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list, and is certified as a Great Place to Work for 2025-2026 (3 years running!). For more information, visit carta.com.

Gone are the days of manually consolidating selling reports and editing endless excel sheets and PDFs. We remove the manual tasks involved in sell-out reporting, arming your team with the information and time needed to proactively manage your wholesale business.

SigmaOS is a whole new browser experience ✨ It make it easy for you to be fast and better at what you do on the Internet!