Perry Blacher

Advisor and Investor

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom
11
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1
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12y
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Investor and Board Member
Feb 2021
Volt is the new leader in real-time payments. Our next-generation payment network unites domestic schemes to a single harmonised standard. Global, instant and interoperable, it’s driving the shift to an era where real time is the only time.
Board Observer (acquired by Apple)
Aug 2020
Credit Kudos is an Open Banking credit reference agency. We help credit providers make better decisions using better data. Built on top of Open Banking data, our suite of innovative products enable commercial and consumer lenders to automate decisioning, responsibly increase acceptances, and reduce risk. Credit Kudos is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority and integrated with leading lenders and brokers, including Curve, Admiral, Atom bank, LendInvest, and CarFinance 247.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Unlocking the full potential of ambitious businesses worldwide with $5k-$20m of purpose-built working capital. Todays fast-growing businesses need a capital provider that keeps pace with their ambitions. Traditional financing options are slow, cumbersome, and often out of reach. Thats why we built Wayflyer. Our unique technology can assess your growth potential to deliver tailored financing options in minutes, not months. Since launching in April 2020, weve deployed over $6 billion to 6,000+ businesses globally, backed by leading investors like QED, Left Lane Capital and DST Global. Were a fast-growing, venture-backed startup with big ambitions. From our offices in Dublin, London, Berlin, New York, Charlotte and Sydney, were serving consumer brands, retail outlets, software companies, service providers and beyond.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Say hello to Dext, the advanced bookkeeping automation platform that eliminates much of the manual work that slows you down. At Dext, we believe that accurate, real-time data is the lifeblood that drives smarter and timely financial decisions and we are committed to empowering businesses, accountants and bookkeepers to thrive through innovative technology that simplifies the accounting process. As the world leader in bookkeeping automation, Dext’s AI is trained on over 1 billion receipts and invoices and extracts financial data with 99.5% accuracy. There’s a reason that over 12,000 bookkeeping and accounting firms and 700,000 businesses like yours trust and rely on us every day for the insights they need to stay healthy and scale. Dext liberates our customers to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow and to focus on what truly matters to them.
Investor and Advisor
Jan 2019
Payhawk is the finance orchestration platform that unifies global spend management with intelligent automation and real-time payments. Our solution combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable, and procure-to-pay in a single platform — eliminating manual processes that slow companies down. Unlike solutions that force a trade-off between powerful controls and great user experience, Payhawk delivers both, enabling finance teams to drive efficiency and growth while maintaining control. Headquartered in London with 9 offices across Europe and the US, Payhawk serves mid-market and enterprise companies in 32+ countries.
Investor and Advisor
Oct 2017
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
Board Member
Jun 2017
Habito will get you the best mortgage possible. Fast, transparent and impartial - we’ll take care of it. Using a unique combination of cutting edge technology and industry-leading mortgage experts, homebuyers can, for the first time, be sure they are getting the best deal for them. Whether you’re a first-time buyer, you’re moving, remortgaging, or simply taking back control of your finances, a mortgage is a big decision - it’s no surprise that 4 out of 5 people seek advice from a broker. Unlike a traditional broker, our technology analyses every mortgage on the market from over 70 lenders to find the best one for you in seconds. Once we find you the right mortgage, we’ll be with you every step of the way. You’ll have a dedicated mortgage expert who will keep you updated with the progress of your application from start to finish, and will always be on the end of the phone or live chat to answer your questions. Sign up from any connected device, 24/7 - we’ll find you the best match and manage your entire mortgage application, all online in record time.
Investor and Advisor
Nov 2016
Tide helps SMEs save time (and money) in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions from invoicing to accounting. Tide is transforming the small business banking market with over 1.6 million globally across the UK, India, Germany and France. Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data-driven decisions to help SMEs save both time and money. Tide facts: > Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs > Over 1.6 million members: 800,000 UK and 800,000 in India and growing rapidly > Over $200 million raised in funding > Over 2500 Tideans globally - we’re diversity champions! > We have offices in Central London, with a member support and technology centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centres in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram and New Delhi, India
Investor and Advisor
Feb 2016
Curve is on a mission to simplify the way people spend, send, see and save money. We are focused on an ambitious opportunity fuelled by a couple of trends starting to play out in the market, from fragmentation of financial services to new convergence layers for the customer experience. We believe the end-game will be a connected world of money, tailored individually for each customer. We’re building this end game - an Operating System for Money. For more details see https://www.curve.app
Angel Investor
Sep 2014
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2021
Investor and Board Member
Feb 2021
Volt is the new leader in real-time payments. Our next-generation payment network unites domestic schemes to a single harmonised standard. Global, instant and interoperable, it’s driving the shift to an era where real time is the only time.
2020
Board Observer (acquired by Apple)
Aug 2020
Credit Kudos is an Open Banking credit reference agency. We help credit providers make better decisions using better data. Built on top of Open Banking data, our suite of innovative products enable commercial and consumer lenders to automate decisioning, responsibly increase acceptances, and reduce risk. Credit Kudos is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority and integrated with leading lenders and brokers, including Curve, Admiral, Atom bank, LendInvest, and CarFinance 247.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Unlocking the full potential of ambitious businesses worldwide with $5k-$20m of purpose-built working capital. Todays fast-growing businesses need a capital provider that keeps pace with their ambitions. Traditional financing options are slow, cumbersome, and often out of reach. Thats why we built Wayflyer. Our unique technology can assess your growth potential to deliver tailored financing options in minutes, not months. Since launching in April 2020, weve deployed over $6 billion to 6,000+ businesses globally, backed by leading investors like QED, Left Lane Capital and DST Global. Were a fast-growing, venture-backed startup with big ambitions. From our offices in Dublin, London, Berlin, New York, Charlotte and Sydney, were serving consumer brands, retail outlets, software companies, service providers and beyond.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Say hello to Dext, the advanced bookkeeping automation platform that eliminates much of the manual work that slows you down. At Dext, we believe that accurate, real-time data is the lifeblood that drives smarter and timely financial decisions and we are committed to empowering businesses, accountants and bookkeepers to thrive through innovative technology that simplifies the accounting process. As the world leader in bookkeeping automation, Dext’s AI is trained on over 1 billion receipts and invoices and extracts financial data with 99.5% accuracy. There’s a reason that over 12,000 bookkeeping and accounting firms and 700,000 businesses like yours trust and rely on us every day for the insights they need to stay healthy and scale. Dext liberates our customers to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow and to focus on what truly matters to them.
2019
Investor and Advisor
Jan 2019
Payhawk is the finance orchestration platform that unifies global spend management with intelligent automation and real-time payments. Our solution combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable, and procure-to-pay in a single platform — eliminating manual processes that slow companies down. Unlike solutions that force a trade-off between powerful controls and great user experience, Payhawk delivers both, enabling finance teams to drive efficiency and growth while maintaining control. Headquartered in London with 9 offices across Europe and the US, Payhawk serves mid-market and enterprise companies in 32+ countries.
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