| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.10.2025 | Ewake Secures €2 Million to Revolutionize Software Reliability with AI | Ewake, a Paris-based artificial intelligence firm, secured €2 million in pre-seed funding led by Connect Ventures. This strategic investment fuels Ewake's mission to revolutionize software reliability. The company offers an innovative AI &q... |
| 07.10.2025 | Nexcade exits stealth with $2.5M to automate global freight forwarding | London-based Nexcade, an AI automation company for freight forwarders, has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding and is emerging from stealth. The round was led by Connect Ventures with participation from MMC Ventures, Entropy Industrial ... |
| 07.10.2025 | Ewake secures €2M to boost software reliability with AI agents | Paris-based Ewake, which develops an AI system to improve software reliability, has raised €2 million in a pre-seed round led by Connect Ventures. The round also included participation from 2100 Ventures, Notion Capital, Insiders, 50partner... |
| 20.03.2025 | Украинский венчурный фонд Roosh Ventures инвестировал в лондонский FinTech стартап Prosper | Стартап Prosper, разрабатывающий ИИ-платформу для персонализированного опыта инвестирования, провел венчурный раунд, который возглавил британский венчурный фонд Fuel Ventures. Также в компанию вложились фонды Capital One, World First, Tande... |
| 03.03.2025 | AI for pharmacies: Faks raises €6 million to develop their platform and double their team | Paris-based Faks, a mobile application that helps pharmacists and laboratories collaborate, announced today they have raised €6 million to grow its tech team, develop new products and features, and accelerate its expansion across Europe.
Th... |
| 18.02.2025 | Plain Raises $15M in Series A Funding | Plain, an Altrincham, UK-based provider of a B2B support platform, raised $15m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Battery Ventures joined by Index Ventures and Connect Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operatio... |
| 11.02.2025 | Plain, founded by ex-Deliveroo employees, raises $15M Series A | Plain, a platform for B2B customer support, has raised $15M in Series A funding led by Battery Ventures, with continued participation from Index Ventures and Connect Ventures.
Plain is a customer support platform designed to integrate seaml... |
| 10.02.2025 | Plain raises €14.5 million to develop their collaborative B2B support platform | London-based Plain, a platform innovating B2B customer support, today announced it has raised €14.5 million in Series A funding to develop their AI-powered platform and establish its first U.S. office in San Francisco.
The funding round was... |
| 31.01.2025 | The Shifting Landscape of 3D Printing Investment | The world of 3D printing is evolving. Investors are no longer swayed by shiny new printers or marginal improvements. They want substance. They seek solutions that address real problems. The days of hype-driven investments are fading. A new ... |
| 30.01.2025 | Prosper Raises £4M in Funding | Prosper, a London, UK-based provider of a wealth management platform, raised £4M in funding.
The round was led by Fuel Ventures, with participation from Nick Perrett.
The company intends to use the funds to scale its customer base, launch i... |
| 22.11.2024 | Are You a Great Investor Who Needs Fundraising Support? | London, UK ~
Company:
In a nutshell:
Emerging European VCs can access a free 12-week program featuring top-tier mentoring, LP matchmaking, and fundraising workshops.
Through program backed by industry leaders, Mountside Ventures aims to emp... |
| 14.10.2024 | Mountside Ventures pioneers VC accelerator programme for early-stage managers | Accelerator and early-stage advisory firm Mountside Ventures has announced their inaugural VC accelerator programme to empower emerging VC managers,
New and developing VC firms are consistently among the top 10 performers in the asset class... |
| 13.06.2024 | 13 UK-Based VCs Invested in 15 Romanian Startups, with Seedcamp Leading in Deals | Romania, UK ~
Company:
UK/Romania Business, in cooperation with CMS, Endeavor Romania and How to Web, published their “Technology Report: Understanding and Advancing the UK/Romania Opportunity”.
The report, launched yesterday at the Palace ... |
| 18.04.2024 | Unwritten Raises Millions to Decode Climate Risk for Investors | Unwritten, a climate tech startup, has secured $3.5M in funding to help investors understand how climate change will impact their portfolios. The company, founded by former data leads at Palantir Technologies, uses big data techniques to mo... |
| 15.04.2024 | Unwritten raises $3.5M to quantify climate risk for investors | Unwritten, formerly Dovetail Finance, has raised $3.5M Seed funding to inform investors about how climate change will impact companies in their portfolio.
The company quantifies the impact climate events caused by global warming, incorporat... |
| 10.04.2024 | Torg Revolutionizes Food Sourcing with €2.7M Funding | Berlin-based startup Torg secures €2.7 million in funding to enhance its AI-powered platform, connecting food service suppliers and buyers. With a database of over 100,000 verified suppliers, Torg aims to streamline the sourcing process for... |
| 09.04.2024 | Food sourcing platform Torg raises €2.7M Seed | Berlin-based B2B startup Torg has raised €2.7M for its Seed round for its platform that connects suppliers of food service products with buyers.
Torg provides a digital marketplace in which the company, using machine learning to boost its s... |
| 09.04.2024 | German-based Torg raises €2.7M for its AI-powered product sourcing platform | Read this article in:
Berlin-based Torg, a B2B startup digitising product sourcing to bring buyers and suppliers together, has raised an oversubscribed €2.7M Seed round to transform food & beverage sourcing with its AI-powered platform.... |
| 08.11.2023 | British Patient Capital announces £20m commitment to Connect Ventures’ fourth fund | 05 September 2023 |
| 05.09.2023 | Connect Ventures hits $80M for its next fund, says the Bear market means ‘Product is back, baby!’ | Tempus fugit, as Virgil once put it. It was a full 11 years ago that I first noted the appearance of Connect Ventures, one of the early “new kids on the block” amongst the nascent clutch of European tech VCs in that relatively early era.
Ba... |
| 16.07.2023 | UK-based Outverse raises $6 million to bring AI-powered tools to its community platform, enabling better collaboration and UX for product teams | Community platform Outverse has raised $6 million in a funding round. Founded by Kyran Schmidt, ex Seedcamp, and Ollie Steadman and Jeylani Jeylani, both ex Tab Travel, the SaaS platform is bringing AI-powered tools to community platforms t... |
| 17.05.2023 | Oh for Faks sake, they’ve gone and raised €5 million to digitise pharmacies comms with suppliers | French pharmacies have been digitising their comms with suppliers thanks to Faks’ platform. The Paris-based med-tech has been assisting pharmacies with after-sales operations, keeping all the comms with their suppliers in one place.
Surpris... |
| 31.03.2023 | Iteration X launches collaboration platform with a $4.7 million funding round | Paris-based start-up Iteration X, a collaboration platform, has raised $4.7 million in seed funding to keep working on product development and business development in the US where it has launched.
The round was led by Connect Ventures and i... |
| 27.02.2023 | UK’s data security provider Metomic raises €18.9M to protect sensitive data in SaaS apps | London-based Metomic, a next-generation data security solution for protecting sensitive data in SaaS applications, announced on Wednesday, February 22, that it has raised $20M (approximately €18.92M) in a Series A round of funding.
The roun... |
| 18.08.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Oatside secures $65m for Singapore’s first oat milk, input supplier iProcure scores $10m | Singapore’s first-ever oat milk brand Oatside made headlines this week with news of its sizable Series A round while iProduce landed funds to expand its input distribution tech across Africa. Fashion designer Stella McCartney is helping lau... |
| 03.05.2022 | Checking in with $2 million, Cheq aims to bring hassle-free user experience in crypto | An ever-increasing number of consumers are turning to stable coins as a way of protecting their wealth against hyperinflation that their native currencies may be prone to. Traditional payment infrastructures can be less effective in some re... |
| 31.03.2022 | London-based firm transforming world of deskless work gets Google and Monzo founder backing | Deskless workers make up 80% of the global workforce (over 2.7 billion people). Yet, they have been significantly underserved, with just 1% of funding for enterprise software dedicated to developing technology for employees in frontline job... |
| 16.03.2022 | London-based startup procures $8.2 million to make supply chain management hassle-free and real-time | Despite being core to how all businesses operate, there is far too much friction in the process of procuring goods and services, and companies are often left unaware of the potential risks accompanying their decisions. Taking up the challen... |
| 11.03.2022 | Making forms a little more fun lands $135 million for Barcelona online survey startup Typeform | Barcelona-based conversational interaction platform Typeform, has raised $135 million funding. The Series C round was led by Sofina. Existing investors, including General Atlantic, Index Ventures, Point Nine Capital and Connect Ventures, as... |
| 22.09.2021 | The SEE entrepreneurs started here: Politehnica University of Bucharest | Bucharest, Romania ~
Company:
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
The value of education is immeasurable. Looking forward, choosing a university to pursue is one of the most influencing decisions for one... |
| 15.06.2021 | London’s debt collection startup Ophelos raises $2.3 million in pre-seed investment | London-based debt collection startup Ophelos has raised $2.3 million in pre-seed investment co-led by Connect Ventures and Fly Ventures. The company reports that the pre-seed investment will be used to continue building out its debt managem... |
| 15.06.2021 | Startup Nation Series: The burgeoning startup ecosystem of the United Kingdom | Great Britain has a great history. When we think about the United Kingdom, a few things that instantly come to our mind are the monarchy, the Queen and the beautiful architecture. But did you know that the capital of Britain – London ranks ... |
| 09.04.2021 | TrueLayer, participada por Mouro Capital, cierra una ronda Serie D de $70M liderada por Addition. Acuden Mouro, Anthemis, Connect Ventures, Northzone, Temasek y Tencent, entre otros | 09/04/2021
Nota de prensa
TRUELAYER, PARTICIPADA POR MOURO CAPITAL, RECAUDA $70M EN UNA RONDA LIDERADA POR ADDITION PARA CONSTRUIR LA RED DE OPEN BANKING MÁS VALIOSA DEL MUNDO.
TrueLayer, la plataforma de banca abierta líder en Europa, h... |
| 08.04.2021 | London-based open banking platform TrueLayer raises $70 million in Series D round | London-based TrueLayer has raised $70 million in a Series D round bringing the fintech’s total capital raised to $142 million.
The round was led by new investor Addition, and saw participation from existing investors including Anthemis Grou... |
| 24.11.2020 | Startup ecosystem of London | Startup ecosystem of London |
| 24.11.2020 | Startup ecosystem of London
Numbers and facts
Success stories
What makes London attractive?
Investors
Venture funds
Spaces, hubs, accelerators
Universities
What’s next? | Startup ecosystem of London |
| 24.11.2020 | Стартап-экосистема Лондона | Стартап-экосистема Лондона |
| 30.06.2020 | Connect Ventures Closes Third Fund, at $80M | Connect Ventures, a London, UK-based venture capital firm focused on seed-stage technology investments, closed its third fund, at $80M.
Backers included such LPs as Top Tier Capital Partners, Isomer Capital, British Patient Capital, De Agos... |
| 25.06.2020 | London’s Connect Ventures Closes Its Third Fund At $80 million | 2 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
(Editor’s Note: This is an article written for Tech.eu by Annie Musgrove and shared with Crunchbase News as part of a news-sharing partnership.)
Connect Ventures, a London-based VC firm focused on se... |
| 25.06.2020 | Connect Ventures outs $80M third fund to back ‘product-led’ seed-stage founders | Connect Ventures, the London-based seed-stage VC that was an early investor in Citymapper and Typeform — and more recently backed scaling startups such as Curve and TrueLayer — is announcing a new $80 million fund to continue investing in “... |
| 25.06.2020 | Connect Ventures raises third seed stage fund of $80m | Connect Ventures, the London-based seed VC which has backed the likes of Typeform, Citymapper, Kheiron Medical and Charlie HR, has raised its third fund of $80m.
It’s bringing onboard some top new limited partners (LPs) — including US-based... |
| 25.06.2020 | London’s Connect Ventures closes its third fund at $80 million | Connect Ventures, a London-based VC firm focused on seed-stage investments, has announced a new $80 million (£65 million) fund to support product-led founders across Europe. This third fund was raised from a combination of existing and new ... |
| 25.06.2020 | Connect Ventures just launched a €71 million seed fund to support product-led startups | Today Connect Ventures, a London-based venture capital firm focused on seed-stage technology investments, has announced a new approx. €71 million fund to support product-led founders across Europe. This third fund was raised from a combinat... |
| 25.06.2020 | Connect Ventures announces $80m fund to back founders | Connect Ventures, the London-based venture capital firm focused on seed-stage technology investments, today announces a new $80M (£65M) fund to support product-led founders across Europe.
This third fund was raised from a combination of exi... |
| 06.04.2020 | How (not) to pitch remotely. Ways to wow an investor over video call. | Sitar Teli
, managing partner at London-based venture capital firm Connect Ventures
.
A few weeks ago, I was in Berlin for a conference. This was before the coronavirus crisis hit its current state: no European country was in lockdown, the ... |
| 29.07.2019 | Belgian babysitting app Bsit raises €3 million to go international | Brussels-based startup Bsit raises €3 million in the financing round led by Connect Ventures. Other investors include Kima Ventures and the founders of AngelList, among others. The startup will use this capital to scale its subscription-bas... |
| 24.01.2019 | Rory Stirling, ex-BGF Ventures, has joined London seed VC Connect Ventures | When BGF Ventures, the London-based early-stage venture fund of BGF, had a change in “strategy” in early 2018, seeing partners Harry Briggs, Rory Stirling and Wendy Tan White step down, it was always going to be interesting to see where the... |
| 27.02.2018 | Moltin Raises $8M Series A Round & Appoints New CEO | E-commerce platform Moltin has closed a $8 million Series A round of financing led by Boston-based Underscore VC. Existing European investors Connect Ventures, which is headquartered in London, and Frontline Ventures, which has offices in L... |
| 12.07.2017 | London fintech startup Curve raises $10 million in Series A funding | Curve, a London-based fintech startup, raised $10 million in a Series A financing round. The investors included Santander InnoVentures, Investec, Connect Ventures, Speedinvest, Oxford Capital, Breega Capital, Samos Investments, as well as s... |
| 21.06.2017 | Expense management app Soldo raises $11 million in Series A | Fintech startup Soldo has raised $11 million in a round led by Accel. Connect Ventures, InReach Ventures, U-Start, and R204 Partners also participated.
Soldo has launched cloud-based spend management services for both families and businesse... |
| 17.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 17, 2015 | HelloFresh raised $85M; Kyruus landed $25M; Typeform secured $15M
Advizr, a highly intuitive and automated financial planning application for advisors serving Gen X and Y clients, announces the close of another financing round and adds indu... |
| 19.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 19, 2015 | Cupick raised $120K; Artesian Solutions scored $8M; Knyttan landed $3.2M
Cupick, a platform for visual artists to showcase, share and sell their work, raised a $120,000 seed round of funding through TermSheet.io. Several angel investors fro... |
| - | London’s debt collection startup Ophelos raises $2.3 million in pre-seed investment | London-based debt collection startup Ophelos has raised $2.3 million in pre-seed investment co-led by Connect Ventures and Fly Ventures. The company reports that the pre-seed investment will be used to continue building out its debt managem... |
| - | Taking the pain out of user permissions, London-based Cerbos raises $3.6 million in seed round | London-based Cerbos has raised $3.6 million in a seed funding round. The open-source startup helps scale-ups better manage just who has access to what and when, i.e. user permissions, across the board.
As software companies begin the arduou... |
| - | Partech appoints Keji Mustapha and Simone Riva to senior management team | Partech has announced the addition of two new members to its senior management team. A long time Londoner Keji Mustapha departed Connect Ventures in July of this year and has been appointed to the role of Global Director of Brand & Comm... |
| - | London-based startup procures $8.2 million to make supply chain management hassle-free and real-time | Despite being core to how all businesses operate, there is far too much friction in the process of procuring goods and services, and companies are often left unaware of the potential risks accompanying their decisions. Taking up the challen... |
| - | Checking in with $2 million, Cheq aims to bring hassle-free user experience in crypto | An ever-increasing number of consumers are turning to stable coins as a way of protecting their wealth against hyperinflation that their native currencies may be prone to. Traditional payment infrastructures can be less effective in some re... |
| - | London-based firm transforming world of deskless work gets Google and Monzo founder backing | Deskless workers make up 80% of the global workforce (over 2.7 billion people). Yet, they have been significantly underserved, with just 1% of funding for enterprise software dedicated to developing technology for employees in frontline job... |
| - | Making forms a little more fun lands $135 million for Barcelona online survey startup Typeform | Barcelona-based conversational interaction platform Typeform, has raised $135 million funding. The Series C round was led by Sofina. Existing investors, including General Atlantic, Index Ventures, Point Nine Capital and Connect Ventures, as... |
| - | London-based open banking platform TrueLayer raises $70 million in Series D round | London-based TrueLayer has raised $70 million in a Series D round bringing the fintech’s total capital raised to $142 million.
The round was led by new investor Addition, and saw participation from existing investors including Anthemis Grou... |
