Tom Canning

Partner at Beacon VC | Series A/B Investor | Agentic AI

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2025
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Jun 2025
Definely is a leading provider of LegalTech solutions for drafting, reviewing, and understanding legal documents. Our products, delivered as a Microsoft Word add-in, integrate into a lawyers existing workflow and allows users to access the information, such as definitions or clause references, both within and across multiple documents, needed to understand the clause or provision being worked on without ever losing context.
Investor
Mar 2024
Employer of Record and compliance for your global or remote team. Onboard, pay, and manage employees and contractors. Best pricing. Same-day onboarding. Available in 185+ countries.
Investor
Feb 2022
Cognism is the leading provider of European B2B data and sales intelligence. Ambitious businesses of every size use our platform to discover, connect, and engage with qualified decision-makers faster and close more deals. Headquartered in London with global offices, Cognism’s contact data and contextual signals are trusted by thousands of revenue teams to eliminate the guesswork from prospecting. Following multiple successful funding rounds and the acquisition of Mailtastic (2020), an email signature solution provider, and Kaspr (2022), a Paris-based sales prospecting tool, there has never been a more exciting time to join us. Please review our current vacancies on here or for more information check out our Careers Page on our website, linked below.
Board Observer and Investor
Feb 2022
We teach machines to understand how people behave so that any human/machine interaction is safe, efficient and – most importantly – more human. By combining novel deep learning, behavioural psychology and statistical AI, we’ve developed powerful and ethical computer-vision software that predicts human decision-making. This means we can quickly, safely and accurately provide context around interactions between people and machines, whether it’s a consumer device, home appliance, vehicle, gaming equipment or any automated machine. We help you make better-informed decisions – just connect our Behaviour AI platform to your camera for real-time insights, or give us access to your video footage for crucial historical analytics. We do all of this whilst prioritising individual privacy with our ethical AI technology. Our solutions: Telematics - Understand the cause of incidents with usable video insight for accurate insurance reporting and decreased vehicle downtime with speedy, accurate and usable scene reconstructions for post-incident reporting. Traffic Analysis, Monitoring and Management - we enable traffic monitoring and management providers to enrich current intelligent transport systems (ITS) by spotting multiple traffic patterns sooner - making confident decisions faster. ADAS - Our behaviour AI technology can enhance your ADAS solution by improving driver safety monitoring, vehicle tracking and navigation with precision decision making, allowing for more conservative safety mechanisms, with proven reduction in false positives. Health and Safety - We offer health and safety service providers an extra layer of superior safety enhancement, making it easier and faster to to identify the riskiest incidents happening across hazardous sites. Connect with Humanising Autonomy Twitter: https://humanising.link/Twitter YouTube: https://humanising.link/Youtube Subscribe to our newsletter: https://humanising.link/newsletter-subscribe
Board Observer and Investor
Feb 2022
At Zinklar, we want to bring consumers’ voice to the heart of the day-to-day decision-making for all kinds of organizations and teams. We want to make access to consumer insights of quality accessible to marketing and research professionals who put the consumer at the center of their work, whether they are experts in consumer insights or not. We want to empower and guide them in managing research projects that contribute to developing their professional careers and leading the success of their brand.
late stageMarket Research
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Jan 2022
At Lifebit, were pushing forward the frontiers of health and knowledge by democratising access to omics data. We enable all researchers, whether novice or advanced, to run complex analyses and generate meaningful insights fast. Lifebit CloudOS is the world’s first federated genomics platform for unified and secure research over distributed big data - wherever data resides. From top tier pharmaceutical organisations to global research institutes to genetics companies and more, Lifebit CloudOS leads the way with our best-in-class UX/UI, seamless integration to open-source tools, marketplace of proprietary ones, powerful cohort browser, and advanced AI functionality. At Lifebit, we are open source pioneers, innovators redefining our industry. Our driving mission - to revolutionise bioinformatics and biomedical data analysis forever. We are growing fast and looking for more superstars to join our team.
Investor
Jan 2022
Crimson supports students from around the world to become world-class leaders. What started 10 years ago as an admissions consultancy helping Kiwi students get into the world’s top colleges has turned into an ecosystem of online education products that allow students around the world to accelerate their studies from pre-primary to postgraduate. Through rapid innovations in product and tech, we have scaled our impact and supercharged the education careers of over 100,000 students from more than 60 countries. Services include in-depth US, UK, EU and Australian university admissions support, Australia and New Zealand medical school admissions support, local curriculum tutoring, and extracurricular mentoring. Visit the Crimson Education website to learn more about our network, our edtech platforms and free resources for families.
Experience · 9 entries
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2026
Startup Mentor
Feb 2026
Endeavor is a mission-driven, global organization leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement. Founded on the belief that job creation, innovation, and overall prosperity flourish where there is robust support for high-impact entrepreneurs, Endeavor supports over 2,000 high-impact entrepreneurs at the “scale-up” stage. We offer a best-in-class seal of approval, an unrivaled personal and professional network, frictionless co-investment capital, and peer-to-peer idea exchange in a truly global setting. Endeavor’s ultimate aim is a more equitable and prosperous future for everyone.
2025
Investor
Jun 2025
Definely is a leading provider of LegalTech solutions for drafting, reviewing, and understanding legal documents. Our products, delivered as a Microsoft Word add-in, integrate into a lawyers existing workflow and allows users to access the information, such as definitions or clause references, both within and across multiple documents, needed to understand the clause or provision being worked on without ever losing context.
2024
Investor
Mar 2024
Employer of Record and compliance for your global or remote team. Onboard, pay, and manage employees and contractors. Best pricing. Same-day onboarding. Available in 185+ countries.
2022
Investor
Feb 2022
Cognism is the leading provider of European B2B data and sales intelligence. Ambitious businesses of every size use our platform to discover, connect, and engage with qualified decision-makers faster and close more deals. Headquartered in London with global offices, Cognism’s contact data and contextual signals are trusted by thousands of revenue teams to eliminate the guesswork from prospecting. Following multiple successful funding rounds and the acquisition of Mailtastic (2020), an email signature solution provider, and Kaspr (2022), a Paris-based sales prospecting tool, there has never been a more exciting time to join us. Please review our current vacancies on here or for more information check out our Careers Page on our website, linked below.
Board Observer and Investor
Feb 2022
We teach machines to understand how people behave so that any human/machine interaction is safe, efficient and – most importantly – more human. By combining novel deep learning, behavioural psychology and statistical AI, we’ve developed powerful and ethical computer-vision software that predicts human decision-making. This means we can quickly, safely and accurately provide context around interactions between people and machines, whether it’s a consumer device, home appliance, vehicle, gaming equipment or any automated machine. We help you make better-informed decisions – just connect our Behaviour AI platform to your camera for real-time insights, or give us access to your video footage for crucial historical analytics. We do all of this whilst prioritising individual privacy with our ethical AI technology. Our solutions: Telematics - Understand the cause of incidents with usable video insight for accurate insurance reporting and decreased vehicle downtime with speedy, accurate and usable scene reconstructions for post-incident reporting. Traffic Analysis, Monitoring and Management - we enable traffic monitoring and management providers to enrich current intelligent transport systems (ITS) by spotting multiple traffic patterns sooner - making confident decisions faster. ADAS - Our behaviour AI technology can enhance your ADAS solution by improving driver safety monitoring, vehicle tracking and navigation with precision decision making, allowing for more conservative safety mechanisms, with proven reduction in false positives. Health and Safety - We offer health and safety service providers an extra layer of superior safety enhancement, making it easier and faster to to identify the riskiest incidents happening across hazardous sites. Connect with Humanising Autonomy Twitter: https://humanising.link/Twitter YouTube: https://humanising.link/Youtube Subscribe to our newsletter: https://humanising.link/newsletter-subscribe
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