Kevin is co-founder and general partner at Outward VC, alongside holding non-executive directorships at Peppy and Moneyline-UK. He previously served as managing partner at Beacon Capital and spent over a decade in corporate banking and capital markets at Investec.
Andi operates as a principal and investor at Outward. Alongside this role, the employment history includes venture capital investments and board observer positions across multiple companies.
Outward and Triple Point Ventures co-led the pre-seed round, which will fund team expansion and platform development.
"I know from first-hand experience how broken infrastructure intelligence is today: fragmented data, noisy feeds, and taped-together workflows, where 'real-time' detection often means static daily updates in practice. Enterprises cannot keep up by patching together narrow intelligence feeds while the internet changes beneath them. That is why we built Infrawatch from the ground up: to turn one of the most underutilised aspects of cybersecurity into a practical defence layer that empowers defenders to act earlier and stop threats before they reach their customers, users or systems."
The financing round was led by AlbionVC with ongoing backing from Outward and Form Ventures.
"The market demand for Firenze’s solution has exceeded our expectations and as a result our vision has got more and more ambitious. We, therefore, felt now was the right time to take on further capital to accelerate our plans. When seeking a partner to work with for this next phase of growth Jay and Albion stood out."
The pre-seed round was led by Outward VC and will support team expansion and international growth.
"Strategic procurement is one of the last frontiers for true automation because so much of it remains powered by intuition. Throughout my previous roles, I saw just how much instinct drives results, but also how much time is wasted and how much value is being left on the table because instinct alone can only go so far. Our goal at Monq isn’t to replace that judgment but to amplify it. By empowering procurement teams with strong, actionable, data-driven and intelligent insights, we’re giving enterprises the speed, clarity and confidence to negotiate at an entirely new scale while unlocking billions in hidden deal flow, value and efficiency before that value is lost to the company."
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