Robbie Vann-Adibé

NED; Chairman; Investor, Advisor

📍 United States, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 27 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025
Operator-angel🌍 United States
11
Total investments
5
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0
Mid stage
1
Late stage
27y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor
Mar 2025
Our software products are the beating hearts of businesses. Abingdon Software Group provides a range of mission critical software and services to various industries including healthcare, aviation, travel, telecoms, maritime, and local government. We grow our business organically, as well as through acquisitions.
Advisor Investor
Apr 2024
Were building the decentralised framework to integrate rewards, micro-transactions, revenue splitting and new business models into your apps.
Investor
Mar 2024
Apricus is building a national distributed solar development platform and IPP through a roll up, scale and exit strategy. The strategy is an enhanced version 2.0 of the strategy already deployed by Apricus founders, who previously built, scaled and exited a national solar development platform delivering a 6x returns to investors in 3 years.
Investor/Advisor
Feb 2021
Upside was Intelligent Cashback as an API, enabling fintechs and everyday apps to provide their users with frictionless cashback. Upside used Open Banking data to hyper-personalise offers. Spend data is highly predictive which enabled Upside to create valuable insights to API customers and retailers. As of February 2022, Upside became part of Cheddar. Users of Cheddar can now get paid effortlessly from friends, family and colleagues direct to their bank account, as well as get paid cashback from their favourite (and new) brands. Available free as a consumer app on both Apple and Android.
Board Member
May 2007
Method creates digital products. Our strategists, designers, and engineers thrive in simplifying the complex, crafting experiences that improve lives and transform businesses. We help companies build what’s next: understanding customer needs, discovering new opportunities, accelerating time to market, and driving digital transformation. Together with GlobalLogic, we offer concierge service and enterprise-scale across more than 60 locations in 22 countries.
late stageDesign Services
Seed Investor
2002
Investor
2000
At Pole Star, we develop pioneering maritime intelligence technologies to protect our customers’ vessels, people, reputation, and financial investments. Since 1998, we have pushed the limits of innovation, working with governments and businesses across the supply chain to mitigate the growing threats to ships, supply chains, cargo, territorial waters and, most importantly, lives within the maritime infrastructure and beyond. Our wide range of solutions are designed specifically to enable time-critical decisions and mitigate risk across all facets of maritime activity - from cross-border trade, to sustainability risk, the monitoring of territorial waters, and everything in-between.
Investor Advisor
2000
At the heart of the global marketplace are the billions of transactions that happen every day. There are multiple human touch-points between Buyers and Suppliers — each of which cost time and the possibility of human error. Increasing demands for compliance bring ever more intricate regulation. In response, businesses today are searching for ways to streamline and become more agile. Trusted, passionate and proven, Tungsten Network makes the digitisation of commerce faster, easier and smarter between Buyers and Suppliers around the world. Our network has built a community with over half the Fortune 500 and is easing the accounts payable process with higher visibility, greater insights and unprecedented speed. The future of the global marketplace is here.
Experience · 17 entries
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Investments (11)
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Board (2)
2025
Investor
Mar 2025
Our software products are the beating hearts of businesses. Abingdon Software Group provides a range of mission critical software and services to various industries including healthcare, aviation, travel, telecoms, maritime, and local government. We grow our business organically, as well as through acquisitions.
2024
Advisor Investor
Apr 2024
Were building the decentralised framework to integrate rewards, micro-transactions, revenue splitting and new business models into your apps.
Investor
Mar 2024
Apricus is building a national distributed solar development platform and IPP through a roll up, scale and exit strategy. The strategy is an enhanced version 2.0 of the strategy already deployed by Apricus founders, who previously built, scaled and exited a national solar development platform delivering a 6x returns to investors in 3 years.
2021
Investor/Advisor
Feb 2021
Upside was Intelligent Cashback as an API, enabling fintechs and everyday apps to provide their users with frictionless cashback. Upside used Open Banking data to hyper-personalise offers. Spend data is highly predictive which enabled Upside to create valuable insights to API customers and retailers. As of February 2022, Upside became part of Cheddar. Users of Cheddar can now get paid effortlessly from friends, family and colleagues direct to their bank account, as well as get paid cashback from their favourite (and new) brands. Available free as a consumer app on both Apple and Android.
2020
Founder, CEO
Jun 2020
Inpulsus is a born-digital consulting firm that helps companies transform their marketing to achieve optimum audience engagement and business outcomes. We put influence at the center of our client’s marketing strategy to help teams work in more integrated, efficient and impactful ways.
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