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ACF Investors

Venture Capital

Investment firm that backs UK growth companies.


Recent investments

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 and 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