Robert Whitby-Smith

Partner at AlbionVC

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 22 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2024
VC🌍 United Kingdom20+ investments
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Investor and board observer
Jun 2024
Our mission is to modernise the investment industry by making it accessible, intelligible and client centric. We deliver digital first solutions to simplify investor communication and redefine how investment managers engage with their clients. This is made possible by our investment communication platform that brings investment firms and their clients together across the entire client journey by delivering accurate data, consistent reporting and a superior client experience from one single platform.  We are changing how investment managers deliver information to their investors and how their investors interact with them and that information in a digital age. Headquartered in London, we have built long term partnerships with investment managers in the UK, Europe and North America.
Investor
Jun 2024
Collaborate with your buyers in one centralised and trackable digital space, from first call to deal close and beyond. Imagine one link where you can consolidate sales content, video recordings, demo recordings, mutual action plans, proposals, forms/surveys, e-signature & more. Move your prospect along the buyer journey from outreach to post-demo, to proposal and then closed-won... All within one centralised space. 5000+ of the best revenue teams globally are seeing: - 28% Reduction in sales cycle time from first outreach to deal close - 13% Increase in closed won opps - 34% reduction in time to onboard new customers Get more revenue, quicker.
Investor
Apr 2024
⚡️ Kato is the only truly digital data exchange and collaboration platform for commercial property. From lead to lease faster than ever before. 🚀 Bring everyone in. Get everything done.
Investor and board observer
Mar 2024
Treefera empowers organizations to fortify their supply chains and build resilience through first-mile visibility. Powered by a proprietary AI-enabled data fabric to analyze both spatial and temporal data, Treefera delivers real-time sourcing, risk, and compliance insights at unparalleled speed and accuracy. Founded in 2022, Treefera works with enterprises globally to mitigate exposure to operational and environmental risks, strengthen continuity amid volatility, and as a result, enable supply chains that are not only more resilient, but inherently more responsible - delivering benefits for business and the planet. Learn more at treefera.com.
Investor
Dec 2023
We envision a future where every company in the food industry has the power to see ahead — anticipating risks, disruptions, and opportunities across their entire supply chain before they happen. By creating digital twins of products and ingredients down to farm level, Mondra will enable organizations to test scenarios, predict outcomes, and make decisions that protect both resilience and reputation. In this future, supply chains are not only efficient and compliant but also regenerative, reducing their impact on the climate and helping to restore ecosystems. Our vision is a world where food businesses operate with clarity and foresight, creating systems that support sustainable growth, protect the planet, and secure food for generations to come. Our Mission At Mondra, our mission is to transform the food industry by creating digital twins of products and their supply chains — from farm to shelf. We empower retailers and suppliers with the data, insights, and tools they need to build resilient, transparent, and sustainable food systems. By helping organizations reduce impact, optimize sourcing, and meet compliance demands, we’re driving measurable change for people, profit, and planet.
Investor
Nov 2022
PetsApp provides a client communication and digital payments solution for veterinary clinics, enabling them to better engage with pet owners and better advocate for their patients. Our product includes role-based text chat, with the potential to engage the capabilities of the entire veterinary team, as well as video consultation and payment processing capabilities. We want to help clinics better serve pets and their owners without asking more of already stretched veterinary teams.
Investor
Nov 2022
Elevating mobile gaming through Advanced Analytics. Your partner for precision forecasting & strategic decision-making.
Investor and board observer
Nov 2022
AI for code: Diffblues first product, Cover, automatically writes regression unit tests for your code allowing you to ship higher quality software, faster.
Investor
May 2022
Debt collection’s broken. We’re here to fix it, so everybody wins. We’re a fintech startup with unique technology that uses machine learning and behavioural science to get people debt-free and organisations paid back. Got a debt challenge? Drop us a line at info@ophelos.com
Investor and board observer
Jul 2021
Gravitee is how you can finally manage event streams and agentic AI as securely and easily as traditional APIs – and bring together all your APIs in one place, no matter the gateway, broker or agent. Companies want to share more event-driven data than ever, but constant constraints – from security concerns to inflexible tech, to a lack of discoverability and more – keep getting in the way. But when you can bring all your APIs together, build your API program without limits, and be ahead of where APIs are going, you can hold nothing back. That’s why 100+ global organizations rely on Gravitee, and it’s why we’re a leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for API management.
Investor and board observer
Jul 2021
Based in the cloud, Brytlyt offers the world’s first all-in-one serverless platform that brings in-database AI to GPU-accelerated analytics and visualisation. We aim to empower the next generation of data scientists and decision makers across several major sectors: telecoms, finance, oil & gas, logistics, genomics, retail and more. Instant insight and effortless deep learning are at the core of what we do. We don’t think that it should take hours to query a complex dataset, and it shouldn't take the best part of your week to train an intuitive AI model. We also think that maintaining your models after deployment should be as straightforward as possible. Brytlyt can help you dive into deep learning and manage MLOps more effectively than ever before. Or, it can just add some power to your existing visualisations to bring insight, instantly. With our platform, you can retrieve invaluable insights from your data in milliseconds.
Investor and board observer
May 2021
Deliver data-driven investment decisions, faster, with greater transparency and at scale with our next-generation machine-learning technology. Accelex allows investors and servicers in alternative assets to quickly and easily acquire, extract and analyze investment data. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, Accelex allows clients to automate the accessing, extracting, organizing and analyzing of data from alternative investment portfolios. This offers clients a more complete picture of investments from the overall portfolio all the way down to the underlying assets. Accelex is headquartered in London with offices in Paris, Luxembourg, New York and Toronto. For more information please visit: www.accelextech.com
Investor and board observer
Apr 2020
TransFICC is an e-trading technology company, providing connectivity and workflow solutions for banks and asset managers operating in the Fixed Income and Derivatives markets. Its "One API for eTrading"​ product provides clients with an alternative to maintaining connectivity with multiple e-trading venues. By delivering low-latency, scalable and secure connectivity, TransFICC resolves the issues of market fragmentation, market data throughput, and increased regulation. TransFICC does three things: - It translates Execution Venue API’s to a single API. Clients connect once to TransFICCs unified API, and TransFICC manages connectivity with the electronic venues from that point. - It uses low-latency, scalable and secure technology, essential to keep pace with price updates and not get beaten to a trade by high frequency trading firms. - It provides timestamps for price and order messages. Measured in microseconds, timestamps record when data arrives at the bank or asset manager, helping to provide an audit trail, which supports Best Execution.
Investor
Feb 2020
Concirrus' Quest platform empowers Underwriters and Brokers with new insights and rating factors that help innovate, improve performance, and drive down operating costs. Insights include proprietary behavioural data from predictive models that significantly outperform traditional risk assessment and underwriting techniques in the insurance market. Find out more at www.concirrus.com For vacancies, visit www.concirrus.com/careers
Investor and board observer
Apr 2019
Limitless is the future of Customer Service Engagement. Our on-demand cloud platform and app is transforming the way businesses deliver customer service by offering their most loyal customers the opportunity to earn money and rewards for helping the brands they love. Limitless helps companies engage with customers, employees and partners in an entirely new way. Limitless empowers companies to scale support quickly, reduce cost and improve customer experience, by turning customers, who believe in their products and know them best, into trusted brand ambassadors, and rewarding them for providing great customer service on-demand. Limitless connects to companies CRM and Community platforms to cleverly route appropriate enquiries to its customer brand ambassadors. Brand Ambassadors can then engage with other customers whenever and wherever they choose via our on-demand app. Why not trust your brand ambassadors and turn them into your biggest assets. For more information visit www.limitlesstech.com
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2024
Investor and board observer
Jun 2024
Our mission is to modernise the investment industry by making it accessible, intelligible and client centric. We deliver digital first solutions to simplify investor communication and redefine how investment managers engage with their clients. This is made possible by our investment communication platform that brings investment firms and their clients together across the entire client journey by delivering accurate data, consistent reporting and a superior client experience from one single platform.  We are changing how investment managers deliver information to their investors and how their investors interact with them and that information in a digital age. Headquartered in London, we have built long term partnerships with investment managers in the UK, Europe and North America.
Investor
Jun 2024
Collaborate with your buyers in one centralised and trackable digital space, from first call to deal close and beyond. Imagine one link where you can consolidate sales content, video recordings, demo recordings, mutual action plans, proposals, forms/surveys, e-signature & more. Move your prospect along the buyer journey from outreach to post-demo, to proposal and then closed-won... All within one centralised space. 5000+ of the best revenue teams globally are seeing: - 28% Reduction in sales cycle time from first outreach to deal close - 13% Increase in closed won opps - 34% reduction in time to onboard new customers Get more revenue, quicker.
Investor
Apr 2024
⚡️ Kato is the only truly digital data exchange and collaboration platform for commercial property. From lead to lease faster than ever before. 🚀 Bring everyone in. Get everything done.
Investor and board observer
Mar 2024
Treefera empowers organizations to fortify their supply chains and build resilience through first-mile visibility. Powered by a proprietary AI-enabled data fabric to analyze both spatial and temporal data, Treefera delivers real-time sourcing, risk, and compliance insights at unparalleled speed and accuracy. Founded in 2022, Treefera works with enterprises globally to mitigate exposure to operational and environmental risks, strengthen continuity amid volatility, and as a result, enable supply chains that are not only more resilient, but inherently more responsible - delivering benefits for business and the planet. Learn more at treefera.com.
2023
Investor
Dec 2023
We envision a future where every company in the food industry has the power to see ahead — anticipating risks, disruptions, and opportunities across their entire supply chain before they happen. By creating digital twins of products and ingredients down to farm level, Mondra will enable organizations to test scenarios, predict outcomes, and make decisions that protect both resilience and reputation. In this future, supply chains are not only efficient and compliant but also regenerative, reducing their impact on the climate and helping to restore ecosystems. Our vision is a world where food businesses operate with clarity and foresight, creating systems that support sustainable growth, protect the planet, and secure food for generations to come. Our Mission At Mondra, our mission is to transform the food industry by creating digital twins of products and their supply chains — from farm to shelf. We empower retailers and suppliers with the data, insights, and tools they need to build resilient, transparent, and sustainable food systems. By helping organizations reduce impact, optimize sourcing, and meet compliance demands, we’re driving measurable change for people, profit, and planet.
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