Robert Diamond

Co-owner and CEO, Identicare

📍 London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 19 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2022
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Jul 2022
Karshare is creating a more sustainable, shared future, where having a car is seen as a choice not a necessity. The UK’s first car sharing platform aimed solely at serving communities within their neighbourhoods and at airport locations, we enable those with cars to share theirs, and those without to quickly and easily rent one from someone nearby. Car sharing means fewer cars need to be produced each year, and less congestion in our towns and cities - which both reduce carbon emissions and will play a key role in our transition to net zero. Our smart technology and contactless process combined with a mission to empower local communities will help to define our tomorrow and enable a world to do more, with less.
Investor
Jan 2022
Paleo Ridge was established in 2014 and has been on an incredible journey to become our industries leader in high quality raw dog food, widely renowned as offering the highest quality Raw pet food products available on the market today. Alongside this we have become well known for our ethical stance and environmental focus, innovating at every junction.
late stageManufacturing
Seed Investor
Jan 2021
Founded in 2019, Get Set Pet set out to do the right thing for our pets. By providing independent and informed help and advice, we’re here to help your pet live its best life. Our team of pet experts provide a wide array of help and advice. From choosing the best food for your puppy, to which training tool is best and everything in between. With first class customer service, top notch delivery and a handpicked range of quality products, Get Set Pet is the ultimate online destination for pet supplies.
early stageRetail
Investor
Jan 2020
Sook provides brands with Space to Connect with their audience in the hyper-relevant moments that matter - on their terms. No landlords, no long leases, just fully flexible, customisable spaces that suit your needs, for everything from an experiential activation and living adverts, to a live streaming event, and from an influencer event to a product launch. Whatever your goals are for connecting with your audience in 2023, we’ll have the perfect space for you. 🚀RETAIL WEEK TOP 10 GLOBAL TECH STARTUP 2020 & 2021 🚌TfL CONNECTED RETAIL WINNER 🏪EGI FUTURE OF REAL ESTATE AWARD FINALIST 📰THE SPECTATOR INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR S/L 🥇REVO GOLD AWARD SHORTLIST
early stageRetail
Investor
Sep 2019
Splend provides eco-friendly and affordable cars to on-demand drivers, so they can focus on earning an income. For over seven years, we’ve been helping drivers earn more, improve their ratings, and enjoy their jobs. How do we do that? By offering an unrivalled level of support for our customers. We’re more than a car supplier. We provide resources and a community for drivers wanting to be their best. From dedicated support to advanced training and rewards, we help our customers take control of their careers with our flexible plans. Splend was founded in Sydney in 2015. As on-demand driving became part of modern society, we expanded to nine cities across Australia, the Americas, and Europe, and grew our global team to over 150 employees. We’ve helped students, retirees, former refugees, and single parents find work they love, which fits their lifestyle. We take pride in everything our members and teams achieved so far, and we’re only just getting started.
Investor / NED
Oct 2017
beut is a curated interiors store for “life’s (beut.) iful things”. A beut product should be a statement! indeed our products should be the focal point of your space, turn heads and start conversations. We strive to ensure these statements are top quality, design-led, value for money and have choices for any interior spaces. Of course, our products make perfect gifts that you will love giving. We meticulously source the freshest and best products from the UK, Europe and beyond. As a result, we have created an eclectic mix of classic and contemporary designer goods, all of which offer something that bit different. Iconic designers like Tom Dixon are offered alongside handcrafted artisan products from designers you might not find anywhere else.
Investor / Advisor
Oct 2017
Cazana provides comprehensive, real-time automotive data spanning the entire lifecycle of a vehicle for Car Dealers, Vehicle Insurers, Vehicle Manufacturers, Vehicle Finance and Vehicle Leasing. We deliver insights that empower our clients to make informed, data-driven decisions. We provide extensive vehicle data and derived intelligence to the insurance and wider automotive sectors, offering the largest and most comprehensive view of both the new and used car markets. We use real-time, unbiased automotive data for every step of a vehicle’s lifecycle so that clients have access to transparent and complete data sets that prioritise accuracy, reducing risk and uncertainty. Offering unparalleled data depth, ingesting over 800,000 unique VRNs on a daily basis, we enable our clients to utilise accurate, real-time valuations and unique, vehicle-specific provenance data. Our vehicle data covers the ‘whole market’ with over one billion unique data points for complete data transparency, providing unprecedented insight and forecasting from market trends to individual vehicle value and risk.
Investor
Oct 2017
Digme is a leading, premium boutique Cycle, HIIT and Yoga brand offering the best group exercise classes in four studios across London and online. Within Cycle, Digme offers three concepts: Rhythm, Ride and Perform. This means we'll always have something to suit your taste. Join a workout that packs a punch at our Covent Garden studio with Combat HIIT. Our market-leading, vinyasa Yoga is offered across five of our studios in Bank and Covent Garden.
Investor
Jan 2017
Bringing Garages and Drivers Together With so much confusion surrounding servicing types and garage pricing, BookMyGarage makes comparing like-for-like deals from over 8,500 garages & main dealers simple. Our comparison site is the easiest and most transparent way to compare MOT, service & repair deals, allowing drivers to easily make an informed decision and book online. Compare based on the measures that matter most to you; price, distance, reviews & ratings, or additional services offered. Just enter your vehicle reg and post code to instantly compare deals and start saving! The company is headquartered at 1000 Lakeside, Portsmouth.
Shareholder
2017
Turbo-charge your management agility & responsiveness! Did you know? Matching supply and demand is HARD. Just in the US, there are $2+ trillion of inventory: $1.43 per $1 of sales. We think it is at least $200 billion too much. Imagine: what if you could learn every day from data which is larger than Amazon? No need to imagine! Every day, Evo tracks billions of people, products, locations and sales. We go-live in weeks completing SAP, Oracle or any other systems: - De-average daily decisions: observe customer pull in real-time - Evolve towards market-responsive: auto-selecting the highest-margin solution - Upgrade with 6 integrated products: daily delivery of Inventory, Price and Customer decisions Our client examples show it works. Even Harvard Business School and Microsoft have studied our clients’ cases. World-class analytics impact: significant, sustainable, scientific. Do you see management responsiveness as a strategic priority?
Investor
May 2016
Beautiful Clothes for Gorgeous Girls - ilovegorgeous. Beautiful range of fun & feminine, vintage inspired girls and babies clothes for Spring Summer 2015 - Dresses, Separates, Accessories and stunning Bridesmaid, Flowergirls and Communion range.
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Oct 2015
Chilango is a restaurant company serving up Londons Best Burritos. When it comes to our food, good enough never is. We insist on using the very best quality, fresh ingredients that we can get our hands on and every mouthful must deliver a stampede of Mexican flavours. It certainly seems to be paying off… We’re thrilled to have been voted No.1 Mexican Restaurant in London by Zagat, London’s Best Burritos by Time Out and Harden’s Survey, Top 10 Healthiest High Street Chains by Men’s Health, and #4 in Condé Nast Traveller’s “Best Chain Restaurants Around the World”!
late stageRestaurants
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2022
Investor
Jul 2022
Karshare is creating a more sustainable, shared future, where having a car is seen as a choice not a necessity. The UK’s first car sharing platform aimed solely at serving communities within their neighbourhoods and at airport locations, we enable those with cars to share theirs, and those without to quickly and easily rent one from someone nearby. Car sharing means fewer cars need to be produced each year, and less congestion in our towns and cities - which both reduce carbon emissions and will play a key role in our transition to net zero. Our smart technology and contactless process combined with a mission to empower local communities will help to define our tomorrow and enable a world to do more, with less.
Investor
Jan 2022
Paleo Ridge was established in 2014 and has been on an incredible journey to become our industries leader in high quality raw dog food, widely renowned as offering the highest quality Raw pet food products available on the market today. Alongside this we have become well known for our ethical stance and environmental focus, innovating at every junction.
late stageManufacturing
2021
Limited Partner
Oct 2021
Venrex is an early-stage venture capital fund manager primarily backing technology-enabled businesses in consumer industries. We were the earliest stage backers of Charlotte Tilbury, Revolut, 365Scores, Orlebar Brown, Opus Energy and Maven Clinic, and early investors in Rippling, Just Eat, Notonthehighstreet.com, Mumsnet and ME+EM. Founded in 2002, we have offices in London and New York If you are looking for investment, we’d love to hear from you. Please send us a message telling us about you, your business, and why you believe it will succeed. Unfortunately, due to high volume of contacts, we’re unable to respond to every application but we will try our best to get back to you.
Investor
Sep 2021
At Car & Classic, we help individuals and dealers buy and sell classic and specialist vehicles online. We are the largest free-to-list site in the UK as well as being the largest classic/specialist site in Europe
Seed Investor
Jan 2021
Founded in 2019, Get Set Pet set out to do the right thing for our pets. By providing independent and informed help and advice, we’re here to help your pet live its best life. Our team of pet experts provide a wide array of help and advice. From choosing the best food for your puppy, to which training tool is best and everything in between. With first class customer service, top notch delivery and a handpicked range of quality products, Get Set Pet is the ultimate online destination for pet supplies.
early stageRetail
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