Love Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage UK companies.
Portfolio
19
companies
Banked
Building a next-generation global payment network for consumers and merchants.
Bourn
Bourn provides a modern alternative to the business overdraft for growing enterprises.
Connect Earth
Connect Earth builds environmental data infrastructure for the financial sector.
Detected
Detected provides business onboarding intelligence for global payment companies and marketplaces.
HomeCooks
HomeCooks connects independent food creators with customers through a dedicated nationwide marketplace.
Jove
Jove provides digital insurance and compliance platforms for contractors and small businesses.
Konfir
Konfir provides instant employment and income verification services.
Least
Least delivers a digital leasing platform that streamlines commercial property negotiations.
Mintago
Mintago provides a comprehensive financial wellbeing platform for employers and employees.
My Emissions
My Emissions provides carbon measurement and labelling technology for the food sector.
Prolo
Streamlining construction procurement and credit for small contractors.
Residently
Residently develops a proptech platform to digitise the rental experience.
Round
Round provides financial infrastructure and automation for corporate finance teams.
Secret Spa
Secret Spa provides at-home beauty and wellness treatments through an on-demand booking platform.
Tembo
Digital mortgage platform helping customers bridge the affordability gap to buy homes.
Unbox
Unbox provides infrastructure and management tools for social commerce.
Verna
Verna provides software that helps businesses turn biodiversity reports into actionable nature restoration projects.
Wayhome
Wayhome offers a gradual homeownership model for residential property buyers.
pirkx
pirkx provides accessible health and wellbeing benefits for workers through a digital platform.
John Lunn
FinTech Advisor
Marcus Love
General Partner
Marcus is co-founder and general partner at Love Ventures. He also acts as a board observer for several companies following earlier institutional sales experience.
LinkedInJules Pancholi
Venture Advisor
Triple Point Ventures led the oversubscribed seed round to support growth in product development and go-to-market operations.
"For decades, SME contractors have been penalised by a lack of price transparency and inefficient ordering, often paying a premium simply because they lack the time and purchasing power of the Tier-1 giants,"
The seed round was led by Alstin Capital with backing from Backed, Love Ventures, and existing investors.
"Round was started after the founders saw both sides of the problem first-hand. Incumbents were too slow and constrained to evolve, while challengers built powerful but isolated tools. Nothing connected, leaving businesses to manage money across fragmented systems. With AI now able to execute workflows end to end, Round was built to unify it into a single system"
The London-based NatureTech startup secured $4m to scale its platform and deploy new artificial intelligence tools for nature recovery.
"As threats to the natural world become more urgent, any organisation dependent on land – whether directly or through their supply chain – has a business resilience need to invest in nature recovery."
The funding round includes a strategic minority investment from NatWest Group alongside other backers.
"2025 has been a year of validation, proving that SMEs and their funding partners need a more modern, data-driven approach to working capital. This investment round is a huge vote of confidence. It shows that established banks see the same opportunity we do: to bring liquidity closer to the point of need and help businesses fund growth more dynamically. Our goal is to reinvent the business overdraft for SMEs. When working capital flows easily, businesses invest, hire, and grow. That’s how we make finance work for the real economy again."
The seed round was led by Mercuri with backing from Love Ventures and Notion Capital.
"Every major social platform is becoming shoppable, and every global brand will need infrastructure to make social commerce deliver. We know from our experience at TikTok Shop both the scale of the opportunity and the structural challenges enterprises face. Unbox is building the platform to power sustainable growth in this new channel, helping the world’s biggest brands sell through social with confidence."
