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ACF Investors

ACF Investors

Venture Capital

ACF Investors is a privately managed venture capital fund that invests in high-potential small and medium-sized enterprises across the United Kingdom alongside business angels.

Portfolio

12

companies

AUM

£50.0M

under management


Portfolio companies

Howbout

Howbout

Howbout develops a social planning application that streamlines scheduling for groups of friends.

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Oxford Medical Simulation

Oxford Medical Simulation provides virtual reality healthcare training using artificial intelligence.

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BMLL

BMLL supplies granular order book data and analytics to capital market participants.

Veremark

Veremark

Veremark offers a digital platform for global pre-employment screening and career credentials.

Oxford Drug Design

Oxford Drug Design

Oxford Drug Design develops novel cancer therapeutics using a proprietary computational and machine learning platform.

Adapttech

Adapttech

Adapttech develops wearable biomedical technologies to improve the quality of life for people with physical limitations.

BLOK

BLOK

Hybrid fitness studio and digital training platform combining physical spaces with online classes.

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HUBX

HUBX operates a digital deal syndication platform for banks and brokerage firms.

SnapDragon Monitoring

SnapDragon Monitoring

SnapDragon Monitoring provides digital brand protection tools to identify and remove counterfeit goods.

Kuano

Kuano

Kuano develops quantum and artificial intelligence tools to model enzymes and accelerate drug discovery.

SG

Scene Group

Scene Group develops animation software for motion designers.

Axis Spine Technologies

Axis Spine Technologies

Axis Spine Technologies develops the next generation of modular anterior spinal implant technology.


Team

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Tim Mills

Managing Partner

GW

George Whitehead

Partner

PF

Paul Fauset

Partner

PF

Paul Faucet

Partner


Recent investments

Seed
£1.9M

The London-based startup raised £1.9m from a syndicate including ACF Investors and Supernode Global to fuel international expansion and product development.

"Let’s face it – making plans with friends can be draining. The faff of finding a time that works for everyone and then agreeing what you’re doing and where you’re doing it usually stops the majority of plans from happening."
— Neil Tanna, CEO
£2.1M

The investment round was supported by ACF Investors and Nicolaus Henke to fuel US growth and product development.

"We see this funding as an opportunity to supercharge our growth and rapidly increase the number of healthcare professionals around the world who have access to our training."
— Michael Wallace, CEO
Series B
$26.0M

The financing round was led by Nasdaq Ventures, FactSet and IQ Capital, with support from existing investors.

"We are absolutely delighted to have secured USD 26 million in our Series B funding round. The investment is testament to the increasing need for more sophisticated tools to understand how markets truly behave and drive performance. Our granular Level 3 data and analytics capabilities help market participants unlock the full potential of the predictive power of historic pricing data and make more informed decisions."
— Paul Humphrey, CEO
Seed
£7.1M

The Series A round was led by Stage 2 Capital with participation from Samaipata and existing investors.

"Effective pre-employment screening and candidate vetting are critical considerations for business operations, compliance, and risk management. Yet, around the world, these processes are highly manual and often delayed, inaccurate, or incomplete."
— Anubhav Maheshwari, Partner
Series A
£2.2M

The financing round was backed by ACF Investors, o2h Ventures, Jonathan Milner, and R42 Group.

"This latest funding will enable us to build on and accelerate our successful computational design-led discovery focus. We are excited to be playing a pivotal role in the innovation of oncological treatments leading to better outcomes for cancer patients worldwide. Our groundbreaking new approach stands to be initially validated by the proof-of-concept studies. We are achieving rapid progress not only with our industry-leading drug discovery programme, but also our proprietary AI platform. This has led to increasing interest from third parties in our machine learning capabilities, so we are keen to capitalise on this demand and establish a commercial effort in this area"
— Alan Roth, CEO
Series A
£2.3M

The biomedical startup has closed a £2.3m Series A round backed by Mercia Asset Management, ACF Investors, Wren Capital and Wealth Club.

"Adapttech brought its first product to market during 2021, successfully securing a number of sales. We are delighted to be supporting the team with a follow-on investment to continue to scale the business and build out the product portfolio."
— Stephen Windsor, Investment Director
Series A
£1.1M

The follow-on funding will support platform adoption and commercial growth.

"Banks are embracing end-to-end execution and better customer experience across the value chain. The front-end deal syndication process is the logical next step in terms of digitisation in capital markets. We look forward to working with Mandalore Partners and ACF Investors on delivering platform adoption in this space."
— Axel Coustere, Co-founder
Seed
£2.0M

The pre-employment screening platform raised £2m in follow-on funding to scale its credential verification services.

"Veremark’s aim is to help companies hire with greater confidence. Our platform is about bringing speed, simplicity and security to the hiring market. It doesn’t matter whether you are hiring in Bermondsey, Bangalore or Baltimore – we enable companies to check the claims and credentials of those they are looking to bring onboard into their companies. We see this round as an initial stepping stone in the start of transforming the overall ‘Trust’ market and build a new category around credential management to drive greater efficiency in the hiring market and beyond"
— Daniel Callaghan, CEO
Seed
£1.2M

The Edinburgh based brand protection firm secured backing from ACF Investors, Mercia, and Scottish Enterprise to advance its technology.

"Sometimes out of adversity comes opportunity, and SnapDragon is testament to that. We are helping brands to remove fakes from sale online: protecting revenues, reputations and, most importantly, the end consumer. What brands may not realise is that sales made from counterfeits fund organised crime, such as trafficking – and nobody wants a fake of their brand funding illicit trade. In identifying fakes online, and removing them from sale on the pertinent platforms, we prevent their visibility and subsequent purchase, export, import and distribution."
— Rachel Jones, Founder and Head Dragon
Seed
£1.0M

The seed round was backed by ACF Investors, o2h Ventures, and angel investors to fund team expansion and platform development.

"With this investment, our investors have affirmed the strength of our technology and its commercial potential. Building upon years of research, this funding will drive the development of our platform, facilitate the rollout of our own range of therapeutics and expand our team. As our recent collaboration with the UCL Drug Discovery Institute has shown, we are beginning to have a potent effect on the pharmaceutical industry and I am looking forward to the many ways in which we can make a decisive contribution to medicine worldwide"
— Vid Stojevic, Co-Founder CEO
Seed
£600K

The seed round was led by Playdemic founders Paul Gouge and Alex Rigby alongside ACF Investors.

"Since Cavalry’s release in August 2020 we’ve been blown away with the variety and quality of work being produced by our global community. This capital will help us further accelerate Cavalry’s development and to explore new ways for us to enable animators, designers and marketers to meet the demands of an ever-expanding media landscape."
— Chris Hardcastle, CEO
Seed
£2.2M

The medtech start-up has raised £2.2m from ACF Investors and Mercia to fund its American market launch and product pipeline.

"I am really pleased to work with ACF for a second time to bring their support to Axis Spine. It is a great example of the UK ecosystem supporting fantastic entrepreneur-led medtech companies and I am delighted to assist Jon and the Axis team take their superior products to market and to build out the underlying platform."
— Simon Cartmell