Volker Hirsch

Technology entrepreneur & investor, NED/Chair, Mentor & Coach

📍 Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 23 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2018𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Angel Investor
Mar 2018
Built by lawyers for lawyers, The Link App was created to finally fix customer service and transform the client experience provided by law firms. We’re driving businesses forward through on-demand, secure communications and digital onboarding between legal professionals and their clients. Our innovative and easy-to-use platform gives firms the tools to work smarter, not harder. Progressive law firms have already seen the results. Their new differentiator? An innovative client experience.
Angel Investor
Jan 2018
Official Audio Partner of World Book Day. Yoto is an interactive audio platform for kids. We make carefully connected audio players that kids control without using a screen, and offer a huge catalogue of the worlds best childrens audio that inspires a love of stories, music, creative play and learning.
Angel Investor
Oct 2017
Enroly’s platform automates the offer-to-arrival arrival process for universities, their international students and global education agents.
early stageHigher Education
Angel Investor
Jan 2017
Aula is the Learning Experience Platform for Higher Education. Where the LMS brought university content online, Aula makes it easy to bring great learning experiences online. Unlike other solutions, we focus entirely on bringing the community to the core of the learning experience and taking the pain out of learning design to ease the transition to active learning. We have the pleasure of working with some of the world's most ambitious institutions, such as Coventry University, the University of Glasgow, Portland State University, Birmingham City University and Ravensbourne. 👋 Book a demo on our website: https://aula.education/ 👋
Angel Investor
Sep 2016
Wonde is a leading provider of cloud-based school data management that connects educators and pupils with learning applications and classroom tools in a simple and secure way. Wonde extracts data (i.e. student, teacher and parent records) from within a school, stores it in the cloud and then provides third party applications access to relevant, secure, up to date data. Third party applications need to access school data to both set-up and keep their software up-to-date. Rather than individually integrating with every school, Wonde provides an efficient method of data integration which requires only one integration. This saves companies time, money and valuable resources; allowing them to grow faster and focus on their core product. When it comes to schools, Wonde ensures they are able to manage access to their data, giving them greater visibility and control over what information is accessed by third parties. This ensures they’re compliant with their data protection obligations. Schools also now only need to maintain one external connection to their school data, rather than a connection to each software application they use.
Angel Investor
Aug 2015
Recurrence has built the 21st century version of the traditional business case study the Gamulation™, serving two industries bridging the gap between talent and opportunity. We apply leading edge, patented technology in both enterprise and university, allowing our users to take the next logical jump forward to identify and develop high potential talent in boardrooms and classrooms. Our platform allows both enterprises and educational organizations to engage and educate users while gaining valuable, and actionable information about the learners. We enable organizations to make better decisions when implementing organizational change, making internal and external hiring decisions and executing employee developmental programs. We have created this technology through years of research and development and then field tested our platform in more than 50 prestigious universities from around the world. The Recurrence team brings decades of expert experience from the academic, enterprise and game development disciplines to ensure that our clients receive state of the art technology, academic rigor and actionable data.
early stageE-learning
Angel Investor
Apr 2015
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Angel Investor
Jan 2015
Founded in 2014, pi-top is one of the fastest-growing ed-tech companies with a unique vision to increase access to coding and technical education through project-based learning. pi-top’s mission is to inspire a generation of learners by giving young people STEAM-related hard skills (e.g. coding and circuitry) and in-demand soft skills (e.g. communication, critical thinking and problem-solving) that they will need in a rapidly changing world. pi-top’s award-winning hardware and software ecosystem is used around the world thousands of homes, maker spaces and schools, blending physical computing and project-based learning with Computer Science and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) education. With its latest product, pi-top [4], educators and students get to design, code and make anything they can imagine.
Experience · 23 entries
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2025
Partner
Apr 2025
Brainworks is a venture capital firm that leverages the latest AI technologies to invest in, operate, and scale native-AI companies that themselves use AI to address meaningful global challenges. Our goal is to leverage new AI capabilities across all investment, company operations and service development functions to lower investment risk and equity dilution, improve capital efficiency and returns, and accelerate time-to-exit.
2024
Mentor
Aug 2024
We are accelerating the UKs startup ecosystem. Follow us to find out about new accelerators, funding opportunities and support programmes as they are announced. With our extensive network of partners, experts, and investors, we collaborate to offer programmes to take your business to the next level. Programmes we currently or recently delivered include: - The Turing Innovation Catalyst Manchester AI Accelerator, supporting the next generation of AI-first startups in Greater Manchester. - TEAM SY, offering tech pre-accelerator and accelerator programmes targeted at founders and startups based in South Yorkshire. - Machine Learning Academy, training non-technical startup leaders in the fundamentals of machine learning and AI. - Cancer Tech Accelerator, supporting the commercialisation of new technologies in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. - Barclays Eagle Labs Funding Readiness Programme, helping entrepreneurs demystify the funding landscape and providing founders with the skills and knowledge they need to fund their business growth. - CAP AI, supporting AI startups to gain access to computational power, resources and talent that they would not normally be able to find or afford, enabling them to move their businesses forward.
2019
Co-Founder
Oct 2019
Digital Hive is a co-working and events space for creative and digital professionals. It's a space for businesses big and small to work, connect with new people and make amazing things happen. We're more than an office, we're a place for your business to call home.
early stageHospitality
Co-Founder
Jun 2019
Curioso Games is an independent development studio on a mission to spark curiosity through memorable mobile games. We reimagine genres and explores themes, that bring like-minded people together through the fun of gaming. We work closely with publishers, other developers and brands to build games across mobile platforms and technologies. From hypercasual to branded VR experiences, our team has worked on games that have been loved by millions of players all over the world.
early stageComputer Games
2018
Partner / Venture Partner
Sep 2018
Amadeus Capital Partners is a global technology investor. Since 1997, the firm has raised over $1bn for investment and used it to back more than 180 companies. With vast experience and a great network, Amadeus’ team of investors and entrepreneurs share a passion for the transformative power of technology. Pioneering businesses we’ve backed include cyber security vendor ForeScout (NASDAQ:FSCT); Graphcore, innovators in intelligent microprocessors; IVF genetic testing company, Igenomix; the first single-chip Bluetooth solution, CSR (acquired by Qualcomm); IndiaMART, the B2B online marketplace (NSE: INDIAMART) and speech recognition company VocalIQ (acquired by Apple).
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