Will Sheldon

Partner at Expedition Growth Capital

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026
VC🌍 United KingdomInvested this year
18
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Portfolio

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Apr 2026
Mit Nesto gestalten wir die digitale Zukunft der Personalplanung. Als führende Softwarelösung für automatisierte Dienst- und Einsatzplanung in Quickservice, Gastronomie, Hotellerie und Freizeitbetrieben sorgt Nesto dafür, dass die richtigen Menschen zur richtigen Zeit am richtigen Ort sind – zuverlässig, effizient und ganz ohne Excel-Chaos oder Papierpläne. Unsere Künstliche Intelligenz prognostizieren den Personalbedarf stunden- und tagesgenau. Schon beim Planen werden Über- oder Unterbesetzungen sichtbar. Durch die Analyse von Live-Daten erkennt Nesto mögliche Engpässe frühzeitig – bevor sie entstehen. Das Ergebnis: weniger Stress, mehr Planbarkeit und eine stärkere Performance im operativen Alltag. Denn gute Planung stärkt nicht nur den Betrieb – sondern vor allem die Menschen, die ihn tragen. Impressum: https://nesto-software.de/impressum Datenschutzerklärung: https://nesto-software.de/datenschutzerklaerung Nesto Software GmbH / Tullastr. 58 / 76131 Karlsruhe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Karlsruhe Eingetragen im Amtsgericht Mannheim (HRB 728842) Geschäftsführung: Felix Kaiser USt-IdNr: DE315310095
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2024
The platform for a new energy world.🚀🌍 The epilot cloud software supports utilities, grid operators and solution providers in the energy transition. epilot helps you to optimize and scale your sales, service, grid and implementation processes - both of which are essential for a successful energy transition. We believe that the path to greater climate protection requires a digital foundation that simplifies the sale and technical implementation of renewable and energy-efficient solutions as well as all associated grid processes. Whether you are an energy solutions provider, utility or grid operator: with epilot, you can simplify and scale your business despite complex products, services and processes. With customers, employees and partners in one platform, you combine modern customer experiences with efficient collaboration management, time-saving automation of processes and much more. 👉 As a complete solution or modular 👉 No programming knowledge required, 100% no-code basis 👉 Tailor-made templates for your use case for a quick start 👉 360-degree transparency for all process participants in one platform 👉 Cloud solution with the highest data protection and security standards We look forward to exchanging ideas with you! 😊
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2023
Rentman is a global software company providing SaaS solutions for the events and media production industry, based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Rentman’s easy-to-use cloud software is used by over 250.000 professionals to plan and manage their rental projects from start to finish. Rentman integrates all essential features for managing media projects in an easy, accessible tool. It allows you to efficiently manage your crew and equipment from one place and ensure nothing falls through the cracks. With our software, companies can keep an overview of all their projects, at all times. Rentmans software is used in more than 100 countries and available in various languages.
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2023
Factbird helps Manufacturers maximize their performance through manufacturing intelligence from Operator to Process Engineer to Plant Manager. We help customers to gather, manage, and analyze production data from any machine or process to improve operations. Manufacturing data can be analyzed in real time to detect quality issues, downtime, or bottlenecks and identify opportunities to increase productivity. Factbird empowers the manufacturing shop floor with structured data for anyone involved in production.
late stageManufacturing
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2022
Cyera is the industry-leading AI Security Platform. As AI transforms how data is created, accessed, and used, Cyeras mission is to enable global enterprises to adopt AI at scale by securing the data that fuels it. The platform provides organizations with precise visibility, and intelligent controls to secure data everywhere - at rest, in motion, and in use, whether used by humans or agents. Valued at $9 billion and backed by more than $1.7 billion in funding from top-tier investors including Accel, Blackstone, Cyberstarts, Georgian, Lightspeed, and Sequoia, Cyera is trusted by a growing number of Fortune 1000 companies adopting AI across their enterprise at scale.
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2021
Genesis Global enables financial markets organizations to innovate at speed through a software application development platform, prepackaged solutions and deep expertise in capital markets and financial services. In supercharging developers to rapidly deliver high-performance, resilient and secure applications, Genesis replaces the buy vs. build challenge with a buy-to-build solution. The Genesis platform is designed with flexibility and performance at its core, providing developers with the frameworks, integrations and components required to automate manual workflows, enhance legacy systems and build entirely new applications. Featuring a resilient, real-time service-oriented architecture, Genesis excels across the performance envelope of low-latency, high-throughput and high-scalability, powering mission-critical applications at the world’s leading financial institutions. Strategically backed by Bank of America, BNY Mellon and Citi, Genesis Global has offices in Miami, New York, Charlotte, London, São Paulo, Dublin and Bengaluru.
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2021
Our mission is to enable freelancers and entrepreneurs to get the best insurance at the best price. Insurance that is fair, fast and flexible. And above all, insurance that is tailored to your needs. All at the touch of a button. Insify today serves thousands of customers across Europe. As we grow, we’ll continue disrupting and changing the market. Restoring trust by providing freelancers with insurance that can be relied on. Zero paperwork. No long contracts. Just super-fast, 100% online insurance, whenever and wherever they need it.
early stageInsurance
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2020
Databand.ai built the industrys first proactive data observability platform that isolates data errors as early as data integration and triages issues to alert relevant stakeholders before theres a crisis. Contact us to learn more. Forbes list of "Top 25 Machine Learning Startups" to look out for in 2021! https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2021/01/10/top-25-machine-learning-startups-to-watch-in-2021-based-on-crunchbase/?__twitter_impression=true&s=08&sh=2c1a916b4038
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2020
Our mission is to keep small business in business. When we started Melio, we wanted to build more than an efficient Accounts Payable tool. We wanted to build a service that helps small businesses keep up with business. A B2B payments experience that not only saves time but also significantly improves cash flow. A payment workflow so simple it helps businesses focus on their customers, not their back office.
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2020
Taxdoo is a fast and sustainably growing company based in Hamburg, Germany. Since our foundation in 2016 we consider ourselves to be translators of the agile world of e-commerce and tax compliance, translating complex regulations into simple processes. Our cloud-based solution enables online merchants, tax consultants and marketplaces within Europe to focus on what matters most: the success of their company in global competition. Among other features, Taxdoo handles the VAT processes in foreign EU countries and the UK automatically and securely via a single platform. Through the automated collecting, monitoring and evaluation of the transaction data, our system recognizes the respective VAT liabilities in Europe and prepares them clearly, incl. who is liable for VAT, VAT amount and country of taxation.
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2019
The leader in people-centric cyber resilience.
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2016
Visit: https://www.linkedin.com/company/adenza
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2015
Darktrace is a global leader in AI cybersecurity, providing the essential cybersecurity platform to secure organizations today and for an ever-changing future. Darktrace AI learns from each businesss unique data in real time, detecting threats and intervening against attacks with precision and speed. We are a diverse and inclusive team of over 2,400 employees, each playing a crucial role in protecting nearly 10,000 organizations and communities worldwide from known, unknown, and novel cyber-threats.
Experience · 21 entries
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Investments (18)
2026
Investor
Apr 2026
Mit Nesto gestalten wir die digitale Zukunft der Personalplanung. Als führende Softwarelösung für automatisierte Dienst- und Einsatzplanung in Quickservice, Gastronomie, Hotellerie und Freizeitbetrieben sorgt Nesto dafür, dass die richtigen Menschen zur richtigen Zeit am richtigen Ort sind – zuverlässig, effizient und ganz ohne Excel-Chaos oder Papierpläne. Unsere Künstliche Intelligenz prognostizieren den Personalbedarf stunden- und tagesgenau. Schon beim Planen werden Über- oder Unterbesetzungen sichtbar. Durch die Analyse von Live-Daten erkennt Nesto mögliche Engpässe frühzeitig – bevor sie entstehen. Das Ergebnis: weniger Stress, mehr Planbarkeit und eine stärkere Performance im operativen Alltag. Denn gute Planung stärkt nicht nur den Betrieb – sondern vor allem die Menschen, die ihn tragen. Impressum: https://nesto-software.de/impressum Datenschutzerklärung: https://nesto-software.de/datenschutzerklaerung Nesto Software GmbH / Tullastr. 58 / 76131 Karlsruhe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Karlsruhe Eingetragen im Amtsgericht Mannheim (HRB 728842) Geschäftsführung: Felix Kaiser USt-IdNr: DE315310095
2025
Investor
2025
ThreatSpike is a UK-headquartered cybersecurity and IT services company transforming how organisations manage IT and security. Its fixed-price subscription replaces outdated MSPs with proactive support, strategic planning, and security, helping customers avoid rising costs, poor service, and burnout of internal teams. The solutions include: ThreatSpike Red – unlimited human-led penetration testing, including red teaming and threat simulations. ThreatSpike Blue – an all-in-one detection and response platform with 24/7 SOC and deep telemetry. ThreatSpike Black – fully managed IT services that deliver modern infrastructure, expert helpdesk, and strategic planning. ThreatSpike addresses real-world challenges: overdependence on a few key internal resources, unresponsive MSPs with limited hours, and poor visibility into whether IT is actually improving or staying secure. With a single team, one contract, and no surprise costs, ThreatSpike helps organisations in hospitality, retail, logistics, and manufacturing stay secure, supported, and ahead of the curve.
2024
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2024
The platform for a new energy world.🚀🌍 The epilot cloud software supports utilities, grid operators and solution providers in the energy transition. epilot helps you to optimize and scale your sales, service, grid and implementation processes - both of which are essential for a successful energy transition. We believe that the path to greater climate protection requires a digital foundation that simplifies the sale and technical implementation of renewable and energy-efficient solutions as well as all associated grid processes. Whether you are an energy solutions provider, utility or grid operator: with epilot, you can simplify and scale your business despite complex products, services and processes. With customers, employees and partners in one platform, you combine modern customer experiences with efficient collaboration management, time-saving automation of processes and much more. 👉 As a complete solution or modular 👉 No programming knowledge required, 100% no-code basis 👉 Tailor-made templates for your use case for a quick start 👉 360-degree transparency for all process participants in one platform 👉 Cloud solution with the highest data protection and security standards We look forward to exchanging ideas with you! 😊
2023
Investor
2023
Rentman is a global software company providing SaaS solutions for the events and media production industry, based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Rentman’s easy-to-use cloud software is used by over 250.000 professionals to plan and manage their rental projects from start to finish. Rentman integrates all essential features for managing media projects in an easy, accessible tool. It allows you to efficiently manage your crew and equipment from one place and ensure nothing falls through the cracks. With our software, companies can keep an overview of all their projects, at all times. Rentmans software is used in more than 100 countries and available in various languages.
Partner
2023
Expedition is a software & AI specialist growth equity firm, with offices in London and Boston. Expedition partners with ambitious, rapidly growing companies that have achieved significant traction with little or no external funding. The firm brings capital for growth initiatives and shareholder liquidity, highly relevant operational expertise, and a trusted track record of respectfully partnering with founders on their path to category leadership.
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