Vlad Tropko

Investing in the Future of UK SMEs | Bridging the gap between Venture-scale Strategy and Traditional Business Values

📍 United Kingdom, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 26 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2025
VC🌍 United Kingdom20+ investments
26
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8
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12y
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May 2025
Eloquent AI is the first AI Operator built specifically for financial services to automate complex, regulated customer service operations beyond frontline support. Our AI Operator learns to securely navigate your existing systems simply by observing your standard operating procedures—automating up to 96% of tasks without any engineering effort. Automate complex, multi-party workflows—unfreeze accounts, handle AML/KYC checks, adjust repayments, or update claim statuses without escalations. Ensure compliance effortlessly, with our proprietary LLM, Oratio trained specifically on your financial regulations for secure, auditable interactions. Integrate seamlessly—connect AI directly to your CRM, databases, and support platforms for chat, voice and email support.
Investor
Jan 2025
TRIVER provides small businesses with instant capital in a click. Using Open Banking data and AI models, we are revolutionising how small businesses can access finance.​ Our API-first platform is designed to be embedded with the digital service providers of the real economy (accounting software, digital banks, procurement software, etc.). We serve small businesses from any industry, enabling a broad range of partners to offer a flexible capital solution to their small business clients without complexity. ​
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Dec 2024
Redefining Banking - Capstack Technologies is the first integrated operating system for banks enabling cooperation across banks and other financial services institutions in order to drive profitability and asset diversification
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Nov 2024
Stop writing long, boring software manuals. Guidde is the AI adoption platform that instantly transforms your everyday workflows into step-by-step video documentation. Learning complex software like Salesforce or SAP does not have to be a bottleneck. With Guidde, a user simply records their screen. Our generative AI automatically turns that recording into a rich, easily digestible video guide that lives directly inside the apps where your team is already working.
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Oct 2024
Neo is a leading financial technology company that’s building a more rewarding financial experience — empowering more Canadians to take control of their future. We’re reimagining spending, savings, investments, and mortgages with intuitive, accessible financial tools that help customers get more value out of every dollar they earn, save, and spend. Recognized as Canada’s #1 Startup by LinkedIn for two years in a row, we work with local retailers, large enterprises, and financial institutions to transform the future of financial services. Interested in working at Neo? Join us as we continue to lead the way in the future of finance.
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Apr 2024
Kastle is a workflow automation tool for mortgage lenders and servicers. Our cutting-edge technology automates sales, collections, and customer service interactions, enhancing operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. By reducing the reliance on human call center agents, Kastle allows mortgage companies to manage high call volumes, qualify leads effectively, and drive portfolio retention and origination
Investor
Jul 2023
SAPI builds, tailors and manages custom credit products, enabling payment companies to help their merchants. Our mission is to provide liquidity for the global payment ecosystem.
Angel Investor
May 2023
We’re Nominal — the agentic AI platform built for modern finance. Nominal helps finance teams automate financial consolidation, intercompany eliminations, reconciliations, and reporting across complex, multi-entity structures — without changing their GL or ERP setup. Our AI agents handle the work spreadsheets weren’t built for, from revenue and accrual workflows to period-end processes. Nominal integrates directly with your systems and is up and running in days — no engineering required.
Angel Investor
Nov 2021
The worlds only personalised marketplace for secondhand apparel and accessories. We use technology to make shopping secondhand easy and style-led.
Angel Investor
Nov 2021
Think of us as the Quickbooks for all things ESG. Our smart platform connects to your financial, HR and other data sources, then quickly collects, analyses and reports on it – to international accounting standards. The end result? ESG data and reports that everyone can trust. Which is why we’re recommended by accountants, and loved by small businesses.
Investor
Aug 2021
Honest builds financial products that people love.
Angel Investor
Mar 2021
TULU is a tech-enabled amenity designed to elevate the resident experience. Our self-service smart units offer on-demand access to premium rentals—like Dysons, e-scooters, and gaming consoles—alongside convenience shopping and printing. With no build-out required and full operational management included, TULU helps properties increase engagement, improve retention, and drive NOI.
Angel Investor
Jan 2021
A NickNack is a platform for organizations, with a set of tools to engage their teams and employees beyond the project management. NickNack is a platform for people who value fun at the workplace. Download NickNack and you will never have to search the web for that fun engaging team activity ever!
Angel Investor
Oct 2020
Alma Angels is a diverse and active community with a bold mission: Generate $1 trillion in women-led wealth by 2050. Since 2020, we have brought together and trained over 500 angel investors who have invested into 200+ women (co)founders building tech or IP-rich ventures with global ambitions. These companies have gone on to raise more than £300m to date. Alma Angels is committed to training 10,000 angels and backing 10,000 women founders by 2035.
Investor
Jun 2020
The freelance platform that values and respects the best talent. Everything we do is designed to help brilliant, ambitious people do their best work together.
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2026
Founder & CEO
Jan 2026
Ambervale Capital is an entrepreneurial investment firm focused on acquiring, growing, and enhancing exceptional businesses across the UK
2025
Investor
May 2025
Eloquent AI is the first AI Operator built specifically for financial services to automate complex, regulated customer service operations beyond frontline support. Our AI Operator learns to securely navigate your existing systems simply by observing your standard operating procedures—automating up to 96% of tasks without any engineering effort. Automate complex, multi-party workflows—unfreeze accounts, handle AML/KYC checks, adjust repayments, or update claim statuses without escalations. Ensure compliance effortlessly, with our proprietary LLM, Oratio trained specifically on your financial regulations for secure, auditable interactions. Integrate seamlessly—connect AI directly to your CRM, databases, and support platforms for chat, voice and email support.
Investor
Jan 2025
TRIVER provides small businesses with instant capital in a click. Using Open Banking data and AI models, we are revolutionising how small businesses can access finance.​ Our API-first platform is designed to be embedded with the digital service providers of the real economy (accounting software, digital banks, procurement software, etc.). We serve small businesses from any industry, enabling a broad range of partners to offer a flexible capital solution to their small business clients without complexity. ​
2024
Investor
Dec 2024
Redefining Banking - Capstack Technologies is the first integrated operating system for banks enabling cooperation across banks and other financial services institutions in order to drive profitability and asset diversification
Investor
Nov 2024
Stop writing long, boring software manuals. Guidde is the AI adoption platform that instantly transforms your everyday workflows into step-by-step video documentation. Learning complex software like Salesforce or SAP does not have to be a bottleneck. With Guidde, a user simply records their screen. Our generative AI automatically turns that recording into a rich, easily digestible video guide that lives directly inside the apps where your team is already working.
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