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Stephen Zinser

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Portfolio companies

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Embargo

Embargo provides a digital loyalty and ordering platform for hospitality businesses.

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Wordnerds

Wordnerds provides artificial intelligence software that turns unstructured text into customer insights.


Recent investments

£2.6M

The funding will support further product development and sales growth following rapid adoption across the hospitality sector.

"Our mission is to level the playing field for hospitality SMEs keen to grow their revenues and scale we do that by giving them access to the kind of tools typically reserved for global enterprises. This investment is not just a vote of confidence in our product and growth to date, but also in the scale of the opportunity ahead. With strong foundations, a growing international footprint, and a clear product roadmap, we’re perfectly positioned to become the go-to platform for hospitality businesses worldwide."
— Frederick Szydlowski, Co-founder
£1.6M

The funding round was backed by Northstar Ventures, early-stage investors and a grant from Innovate UK.

"We are very pleased to be providing further investment into Wordnerds, including a commitment from the new Northstar EIS Growth Fund. The team at Wordnerds has developed a sophisticated, market leading AI-enabled product which provides rapid and incisive analysis to consumer facing businesses. They have an impressive list of customers and have grown significantly since our initial investment. This round of funding will help them to grow their commercial and product development teams, which will enable Wordnerds to scale at pace. We’re excited to work with the team on the next stage of their development."
— Tom O’Neill, Investment Manager