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Ventures Currently Entertaining Investor Discussions

Investment information for these companies is only intended for High Net Worth Investors, Sophisticated Investors or participants in the Joint Enterprise of Venture.Community

Investors should be a member of the Venture.Community investment syndicate before proceeding to secure full details. Capital at Risk, these are not FCA regulated investments.

Impact Driven Ticketing Company

Tickets For Good provides unsold tickets to key workers and low income families for a small booking charge, helping stadium owners and artists maximise their revenues and attendance.

Raising a substantial seed round, closing now.

3D Printing Technology Company

AddParts offer digital spare parts stores for pharma and food production lines with regulatory compliance.

Raising a pre-seed round

Manufacturing Technology Company

Stirlight are revolutionising welding and joining with their technology that aids in strength, quality and light-weighting of metallic joints.

Raising a pre-seed round

MRI AI Technology Company

Revolutionising MRI and AI capabilities with quantitative imaging technology.

Raising a substantial seed round.

Cleantech Company

Raised pre-seed round

FutureGreens are 10x'ing anerobic digestion technology turning food and organic waste into energy 10x more efficiently

Entertaining investor interest in a future Seed Round

Digital Infrastructure / Cleantech / AI

Grids of Edge Data Centres for AI infiltrating major metropolitan environments by establishing synergies with existing buildings and operators.

Entertaining interest from HNWI Angel SEIS/EIS investors with particular interest to real estate in Zone 1 London or German cities.

Data/AI/ML Deep Tech SaaS

Providing accurate predictions from small data sets for EPOS and management systems supplying to multi-outlet retail/hospitality businesses.

Entertaining short term HNWI angel SEIS/EIS investments for Q1 '26 where there is value-add

Building relationships and pitching sophisticated investors for a seed round in Q1 '26

Deep Tech AI/Simulation/Optimisation SaaS

The world leaders in machining dynamics providing AI & simulation driven optimisations to CAM for milling machines.

Raised £2.3m in Seed

Building relationships with Pre-A and Series A investors for a growth fundraise late 2025/early 2026.

Deep Tech AI Robotics/Dev tools

Providing SDKs for robotics that enable a single I/O framework and development environment across multiple platforms, brands and form factors. Integrated ultra low latency communications and inverse kinematics.

£4m Seed raised