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Cornerstone

Cornerstone

Angel

Cornerstone Partners is an angel network focused on supporting black and diverse founding teams across the UK with investments between £25k and £100k.


Recent investments

Series A
£5.6M

The Series A round was led by Octopus Ventures with backing from angels and institutional investors.

"Before we built Definely, lawyers that needed to access information and understand contracts would use Ctrl+F keys, multiple windows, scroll through hundreds of pages, or simply print out documents so that they could reference all the information in one place. As someone who is visually impaired, you can imagine the challenge this represented for me."
— Feargus MacDaeid, Co-Founder
Pre-Seed
£500K

Fuel Ventures led the pre-seed round, which will fund product development, marketing, and team expansion.

"We’re looking forward to working with Theo, the founder of Slinger, a platform that addresses the UK’s hospitality worker shortage by connecting the UK’s 10.3 million frontline workers to Living Wage opportunities."
— Mariama Boumanjal, Black Founders Fund Manager for Europe and Africa
Seed
£1.5M

The seed round was led by Praetura Ventures with backing from Cornerstone VC and SFC Capital.

"Sticky offers a no-code low-code solution that helps businesses innovate at speed. We help our customers see their physical space as an asset and as a way to make more money. The future of physical spaces is well debated but at Sticky there is no debate about their future or value – they are where we all live and work."
— Priscilla Israel
Seed
£1.5M

The investment round was led by Praetura Ventures with backing from Cornerstone VC and SFC Capital.

"Sticky offers a no-code low-code solution that helps businesses innovate at speed. We help our customers see their physical space as an asset and as a way to make more money. The future of physical spaces is well debated but at Sticky there is no debate about their future or value – they are where we all live and work."
— Priscilla Israel, Co-founder
Seed
£25.0K

Cornerstone Partners has led a seed round into PlusHeat to fund research, recruitment and marketing.

"We’re excited to be working with Cornerstone Partners and Michael De Giorgio beyond this round to establish PlusHeat as a modern, tech-enabled challenger brand in the home maintenance and emergency space. Working with Cornerstone has been a real pleasure and we feel the partnership are the perfect cultural fit to get behind our young, passionate and diverse team."
— Jay Jacobson-Kudzodzi, Co Founder