Tao T.

ex-Alipay | Fintech Investor & Advisor

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2024
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Seed Investor
Aug 2024
PARSIQ - go-to backend for #web3 applications We are a full-suite data network used to build the backend for all #web3 dApps & protocols.
Investor
May 2024
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
Angel Investor
Feb 2023
As pioneers at the intersection of sustainability and finance, our white-label carbon accounting infrastructure empowers the financial industry to drive decarbonisation initiatives. Our carbon measurement technology enables you to provide Carbon-Measurement-as-a-Service (CMAAS) to your clients to proactively address portfolio emissions, stay ahead of regulation, boost revenue, and mitigate climate risk. Featuring AI emissions auto-categorisation, as well as spend- and activity-based carbon emissions calculations, our data models provide effortless and complete emissions calculations that are granular and scalable. Empower your customers in making informed choices by integrating our software.
Angel Investor
Jul 2022
AI-native due diligence and monitoring, built for institutions.
Angel Investor
Nov 2021
Connectd is a people-first platform connecting startups and scaleups with experienced fractional executives and strategic advisors. Using AI-powered insights and smart matching technology, we help ensure the right experts are placed with the right companies, so both sides can grow with confidence. In a world shaped by transformative technology, we provide a human-centred ecosystem where companies access the guidance they need to scale, and senior leaders find meaningful, flexible work that puts their experience to powerful use. Since 2019, Connectd has facilitated over 35,000 connections across the UK and US, helping both sides of the ecosystem succeed: startups and scaleups gain trusted leadership at pivotal moments, and senior leaders and executives build dynamic, rewarding fractional careers.
Private Investor
Oct 2021
We’re on a mission to inspire and empower businesses to accelerate global action on climate. Our passionate community of over 16,000 businesses has so far funded over 94 million trees and avoided over 4 million tCO2e since 2019. We’re B Corp certified and have been recognised in the top 5% of B Corps globally for governance and environment. We were also named in LinkedIn’s Top 15 Startups of the Year in 2022. We can give your business the right tools, information, and advice for each stage of the journey to net-zero. From calculating your carbon footprint, to reducing your emissions, to funding high-quality climate action, to sharing your impact. Start making a difference today. For your business. For our planet.
Angel Investor
Jul 2020
We’re on a mission to transform employee health and wellbeing. We started by tackling the underserved areas of healthcare that others overlook - like Menopause, Fertility, Pregnancy & Parenthood, Men’s Health, and Women’s Health. Our trusted, clinically-led services are delivered by specialist nurse practitioners via our app, offering personalised support when it’s needed most. From one-on-one consultations to on-demand resources, we empower people to take control of their health with expert guidance every step of the way. But we didn’t stop there. We listened to feedback from clients who wanted more visibility and engagement with benefits - and we’re excited to say we’ve responded in a big way. In Jan 2025, we are launching the Peppy Employee Benefits Platform, an all-in-one benefits platform, powered by AI, delivering an incredible hyper-personalised employee experience. Not only does it make benefits simpler to manage, but it also delivers a hyper-personalised experience, ensuring employees receive the right support exactly when they need it. With Peppy, you get the best of both worlds: expert, clinically-led health services through our app, alongside an AI-powered benefits platform that harmonises and simplifies benefits management.
Angel Investor
Feb 2019
XTransfer is a one-stop cross-border financial and risk management service company that specializes in helping SMEs reduce the barrier and cost of global expansion and enhance their global competitiveness. Headquartered in Shanghai, it has branches in Chinas major foreign trade cities such as Hong Kong, Shenzhen and has set up offices in major export destinations including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Singapore, and the Netherlands. To date, XTransfer has obtained local payment licenses in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Australia. XTransfer partners with well-known international banks and financial institutions. XTransfer has built a global multi-currency settlement network along with a data-based, automated, internet-powered, and intelligent risk management infrastructure, providing foreign trade collections, multi-currency networks, risk management services, customer relationship management and other integrated solutions. XTransfer has connected large financial institutions with SMEs through technology, helping them enjoy the same level of cross-border financial services as multinational corporations.
Angel Investor
Sep 2017
Bud makes every financial decision simple by turning transactional data into rich customer insight
Experience · 12 entries
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Investments (9)
Founder (1)
2024
Seed Investor
Aug 2024
PARSIQ - go-to backend for #web3 applications We are a full-suite data network used to build the backend for all #web3 dApps & protocols.
Investor
May 2024
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
2023
Angel Investor
Feb 2023
As pioneers at the intersection of sustainability and finance, our white-label carbon accounting infrastructure empowers the financial industry to drive decarbonisation initiatives. Our carbon measurement technology enables you to provide Carbon-Measurement-as-a-Service (CMAAS) to your clients to proactively address portfolio emissions, stay ahead of regulation, boost revenue, and mitigate climate risk. Featuring AI emissions auto-categorisation, as well as spend- and activity-based carbon emissions calculations, our data models provide effortless and complete emissions calculations that are granular and scalable. Empower your customers in making informed choices by integrating our software.
Founder
Jan 2023
Early-stage Fintech and x-Tech investment across the UK, Europe, MNA, and APAC regions
2022
Angel Investor
Jul 2022
AI-native due diligence and monitoring, built for institutions.
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