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Techstart

Techstart

Venture Capital

Techstart Ventures is a venture capital fund manager operating in Scotland and Northern Ireland.


Recent investments

Seed
£615K

The pre seed round was co led by Techstart Ventures and Nauta Capital to support team expansion and platform development.

"We are thrilled with the opportunities this investment creates to develop Lupovis’ dynamic deception capabilities. Our system uses artificial intelligence to create scenarios which mirror the existing infrastructure of an organisation and engages the attacker into believing they are progressing towards assets of value, turning networks from a flock of sheep to a pack of wolves. We are in a unique position where we have unrivalled data on attacker techniques, methods and behaviour. We will feed this data into our platform, so our customers will always remain one step ahead of attackers, predicting their next move, long before they actually make it."
— Xavier Bellekens, CEO
Pre-Seed
£600K

The pre-seed round was led by Techstart Ventures with participation from a group of angel investors.

"Since our launch in July 2021, the response to our product has surpassed our expectations and confirmed there is a substantial market for our proposition at a time when how we work is changing. Techstart and our other prominent investors are the ideal partners to help us scale to reach a much wider audience and further develop our offering to position us at the forefront of the global talent platform industry."
— Rich Wilson, CEO
Series A
$15.0M

Tiger Global led the Series A round to support team expansion in the United States.

"Cloudsmith was built to tackle the complexity of managing software assets, which is a key challenge for any company to secure their software supply chains. Our service allows our customers to track and control the distribution of any software asset and provides tooling to minimize the risks of utilizing open-source software. It’s a massive problem for the whole industry and our investors, led by Tiger Global, understand the need for a fully managed cloud-native solution that Cloudsmith provides."
— Alan Carson