Sam Huxtable, CFA

Founder & Managing Partner, Waterspring Ventures | Backing early-stage Welsh businesses with global ambitions @ Seed & Series A.

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 4 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
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Investor & Board Observer
Jan 2025
Distil is an AI-driven data and analytics platform that turns raw data into business intelligence. From uncovering your best customers to delving into marketing effectiveness, from restaurant analytics to ecommerce insights - if you’ve got the data, Distil’s got the insights. Transform your data from an expensive, time-consuming challenge into a powerful goal-achieving asset.
Investor & Board Observer
Feb 2024
Hexigone Inhibitors manufactures ‘chemically intelligent’ corrosion inhibitors. Intelli-ion® AX1 completely replaces or co-blends with heavy metal, phosphate and toxic chromates with cost-effect, high performance, sustainable anti-corrosive additives. The corrosion inhibiting technology – Intelli-ion – protects in a unique way by using intelligent micro reservoirs that make the coatings responsive to the environment, triggering the release of the inhibitor ‘on demand.’ Intell-ion is also offered as a drop in replacement to current formulations – making it an economically sound chrome-free alternative, both in the manufacturing process and by protecting end products for longer.
Investor & Board Observer
Sep 2023
tourhub - An Instagram inspired Adventure and Touring Platform - hundreds of thousands of global tours and adventures available to book. 🌍
Investor & Board Member
Apr 2023
Operati will revolutionise the way that SMEs manage estimating and project planning. Were busy building something special, so please follow us for updates.
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2025
Investor & Board Observer
Jan 2025
Distil is an AI-driven data and analytics platform that turns raw data into business intelligence. From uncovering your best customers to delving into marketing effectiveness, from restaurant analytics to ecommerce insights - if you’ve got the data, Distil’s got the insights. Transform your data from an expensive, time-consuming challenge into a powerful goal-achieving asset.
2024
Investor & Board Observer
Feb 2024
Hexigone Inhibitors manufactures ‘chemically intelligent’ corrosion inhibitors. Intelli-ion® AX1 completely replaces or co-blends with heavy metal, phosphate and toxic chromates with cost-effect, high performance, sustainable anti-corrosive additives. The corrosion inhibiting technology – Intelli-ion – protects in a unique way by using intelligent micro reservoirs that make the coatings responsive to the environment, triggering the release of the inhibitor ‘on demand.’ Intell-ion is also offered as a drop in replacement to current formulations – making it an economically sound chrome-free alternative, both in the manufacturing process and by protecting end products for longer.
2023
Investor & Board Observer
Sep 2023
tourhub - An Instagram inspired Adventure and Touring Platform - hundreds of thousands of global tours and adventures available to book. 🌍
Investor & Board Member
Apr 2023
Operati will revolutionise the way that SMEs manage estimating and project planning. Were busy building something special, so please follow us for updates.
2021
Founder & Managing Partner
Mar 2021
Waterspring Ventures was established in 2021 by a group of entrepreneurs, investors, and advisors who have witnessed first-hand how difficult it is for early-stage Welsh businesses to raise funding. The venture capital firm is on a mission to help rebalance this regional funding mismatch, aiming to create a fairer version of venture capital. Waterspring invests in early-stage Welsh companies with strong potential to create high productivity, high wage, highly skilled jobs in local communities. It invests between £100-£500k in EIS eligible businesses with a revenue of £100k-£1m.
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