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AlbionVC

AlbionVC

Venture Capital

AlbionVC invests in B2B software and healthcare companies at Series A, drawing on more than two decades of venture experience. It operates as the technology investment arm of Albion Capital Group.

Portfolio

16

companies

AUM

£500M

under management


Portfolio companies

Elliptic

Elliptic

Elliptic provides cryptoasset risk management and blockchain analytics for financial institutions.

Gravitee.io

Gravitee.io

Gravitee.io develops an open source API management platform for enterprise software ecosystems.

Accelex

Accelex

Accelex delivers data acquisition, analytics, and reporting solutions for private markets investors.

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Healios

Healios operates a digital mental health platform for children and young people.

Panaseer

Panaseer

Panaseer provides a continuous controls monitoring platform for enterprise security.

WeGift

WeGift

WeGift provides a digital payouts platform that automates corporate rewards and incentives.

Solidatus

Solidatus

Solidatus builds data lineage and metadata management software for large enterprises.

Limitless

Limitless

Limitless provides an AI-driven gig customer experience platform for global brands.

uMed

uMed

Research technology platform automating clinical studies and patient registries for healthcare providers.

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Seldon

Seldon provides open-source DevOps tools for managing and monitoring machine learning models.

uMotif

uMotif

Software platform provider for decentralised clinical trials and patient data capture.

Quantexa

Quantexa

Quantexa provides contextual decision intelligence software for enterprise data management.

TransFICC

TransFICC

TransFICC supplies low-latency connectivity and workflow services for fixed income and derivatives markets.

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Credit Kudos

Challenger credit bureau using open banking to transform credit assessment.

Speechmatics

Speechmatics

Speechmatics provides automatic speech recognition software for business applications.

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Clear Review

Clear Review offers a cloud-based platform for continuous employee performance management.


Team

Emil Gigov

Emil Gigov

Emil is a partner at AlbionVC and an investor at kennek. He also holds board and observer roles across education, care and technology companies.

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Ed Lascelles

Partner

Ed brings venture capital and investment banking experience from roles at AlbionVC, ING Barings, and Charterhouse Securities.

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David Grimm

David Grimm

Investment Director

David is a partner at AlbionVC and serves on the boards of Oriole Networks and Intrinsic, alongside observation roles at Gaussion, Carbon Re, and Humanloop.

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Andrew Elder

Deputy Managing Partner

Nadine Torbey

Nadine Torbey

Investor

Nadine is a partner at AlbionVC, where she also serves as a board member and investor across multiple portfolio companies.

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Ed Lascalles

Partner

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Christoph Ruedig

Partner

Christoph is a partner at AlbionVC. He holds board positions at several companies, including Oviva and Proveca Ltd.

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Jay Wilson

Jay Wilson

Investor and Board Member

Jay is a partner at AlbionVC, focusing on fintech and B2B data investments. He serves as an investor and board director across several companies including Bound, Infact, OpenTrade, Peppy, and Toqio.

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Cat McDonald

Cat McDonald

Investor

Cat is a partner at AlbionVC, following investment banking experience at Goldman Sachs and founding EG Jewellery.

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Paul Lehair

Paul Lehair

Investor

Paul brings investment experience from AlbionVC alongside operating and financial background from Citymapper and Viagogo. He previously worked in M&A at Citi.

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Recent investments

Series C
£43.7M

Evolution Equity Partners led the Series C financing round, with backing from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and existing investors.

"At Elliptic, we help financial institutions, from crypto exchanges to the world's leading banks, embrace cryptoassets more safely. This fundraising round is an endorsement of the opportunity for cryptoassets in the financial industry – and our absolutely critical role in the ecosystem."
— Simone Maini, CEO
Series A
$11.0M

The Series A round was co-led by AlbionVC and Oxx to support international expansion and team growth.

"Businesses that can make full use of their data are more successful. So effective API management is becoming a core competence. The challenge for IT teams is to connect the existing data silos, plus emerging streamed data sources, and enable these to be shared in a consistent way, secured in line with best practices and easily governed. Gravitee.io offers the richest open source functionality to make that process effortless for developers and system architects. In AlbionVC and Oxx we have found partners who recognise the value that effortless API control brings to digital enterprises. With their backing, we can accelerate our mission to bring open source control of API ecosystems to the global developer community."
— Rory Blundell, CEO
Seed
£3.5M

Illuminate Financial and AlbionVC co-led the seed round to support product development and client acquisition.

"We are delighted to welcome Illuminate Financial, AlbionVC, Expon and SixThirty to the Accelex family and are confident that their contribution will be key to the firm’s positive trajectory"
— Franck Vialaron, CEO
Series A
£7.0M

The funding round was led by InHealth Ventures with backing from AlbionVC to scale digital therapy provision.

"The UK is facing a mental health crisis. Demand far outsrips supply and technology has a vital role to play in closing that gap. We’re immensely proud of the lives we’ve already changed through Healios. This funding will help us reach more families in need and enable us to develop further sector-leading interventions and therapies. By bringing together clinical experts and giving them the tools to reach their patients regardless of where they are, we are closing the access gap which has plagued mental health provision for far too long."
— Rich Andrews, Founder and CEO
Series B
$26.5M

AllegisCyber Capital led the financing round with participation from a roster of new and existing investors.

"The emergence of Continuous Controls Monitoring as a new cybersecurity category demonstrates a 'coming of age' for cybersecurity. Cyber is the existential threat to the global digital economy. All levels of the enterprise, from the CISO, to Chief Risk Officer, to the Board of Directors are demanding comprehensive visibility, transparency and hard metrics to assess cyber situational awareness. Panaseer has demonstrated itself as the leader in this critical new category and we are excited to be working with the team to further advance its leadership role in this essential market."
— Bob Ackerman, Founder and Managing Director
Series A
£14.0M

AlbionVC led the Series A round with participation from enterprise clients HSBC Ventures and Citi.

"Solidatus was built to revolutionise the data economy. The completion of Series A is confirmation that we’ve engineered the right solution to meet the complex needs of data-rich and regulated organisations, delivering a modern, agile and scalable solution. We are looking forward to working alongside our investors to accelerate the delivery of organisational transformation and control to new markets and clients with the same level of commitment to the highest standards of service that are key to the Solidatus offering."
— Philip Dutton, Co-founder
Series B
£7.3M

The financing round was led by Redline Capital with participation from Genesys, AlbionVC, and Unilever Ventures.

"COVID-19 has seen many businesses face massive disruption, but GigCX has been a saving grace in business continuity while also opening up new possibilities for flexible working. This new partnership is at the heart of empowering anyone, anywhere on the planet to provide customer service for brands they love, and that is something we are truly proud of."
— Megan Neale
Seed
£3.7M

The seed follow-on round was backed by a consortium including AlbionVC, Delin Ventures, and Playfair Capital.

"Our technology can support healthcare providers in finding appropriate patients to participate in medical research including large scale patient registries which usually demands laborious, manual processes on top of their already complex and heavy workloads."
— Matt Wilson, Founder and CEO
Series A
£6.0M

AlbionVC led the Series A extension round to support infrastructure expansion and product development.

"Historically businesses had to spend thousands of hours a year manually buying and distributing digital rewards. WeGift helps companies intelligently automate this process to power new customer acquisition and retention campaigns. We give them instant access to a huge choice of rewards and payouts, an ever-growing network of more than 700 brand partners, across 30 markets and 20 currencies. We are disrupting a broken market on a global scale, and this investment, together with our partnerships with Albion VC, Unilever Ventures, SAP.iO Fund and Stride.vc, is an instrumental step forward in achieving our vision."
— Aron Alexander, Founder and CEO
Series A
£7.1M

The round was co-led by AlbionVC and Cambridge Innovation Capital to support commercial expansion and research.

"There’s never been a greater need to effectively deploy ML models in enterprise, and this fresh capital injection will ensure our customers have the tools they need to achieve their goals."
— Alex Housley, CEO and founder
Series C
£51.2M

Evolution Equity Partners led the Series C financing alongside participation from British Patient Capital, ABN AMRO Ventures, Dawn Capital, AlbionVC, HSBC and Accenture Ventures.

"We are thrilled that Evolution Equity Partners and British Patient Capital will be joining our team, alongside the strategic investment from ABN AMRO Ventures. Together with the continued trust and commitment from our existing investors, we will drive the next phase of Quantexa’s growth. We are seeing a huge demand for our platform to support multiple applications across our core markets in financial services and within new industry sectors. This investment will accelerate our product innovation roadmap and enable us to invest further into Europe, North America and Asia Pacific regions, as well as expand into new locations."
— Vishal Marria, CEO
Seed
£5.0M

AlbionVC leads Series A round in challenger credit bureau Credit Kudos.

"In these challenging times, it’s more important than ever that people have access to the right financial products. We believe open banking will soon be the standard for credit assessments and, as the first regulated Credit Reference Agency with the capability to measure creditworthiness using open banking data alone, we are in a fantastic position to provide a service that is needed now more than ever."
— Freddy Kelly, CEO
Series A
£6.4M

The investment round was led by AlbionVC with backing from IQ Capital.

"We’ve invested heavily into our product and machine learning capabilities to provide our customers with what we believe is the best speech recognition technology on the market. We recognise that businesses are increasingly aware of the importance of unlocking their voice data and utilising it for core business functions such as compliance, analytics, training and improving customer experience. This latest investment opens up not only global expansion but the opportunity for new product development and traction in new markets."
— John Milliken, Chief Executive Officer