Connect Ventures
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Connect Ventures is a London-based venture firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies across Europe. They lead or co-lead rounds between $500k and $5m, focusing on sectors like AI, fintech, and deep tech.
Connect Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2012. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in AI, cybersecurity, deep tech and data & infrastructure. Its stated cheque size is $500k-$5m.
“We are product specialists investing in the largest categories including AI, cybersecurity, deep tech, data & infrastructure, fintech, health, and vertical networks.”
— Connect Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- Europe
- Sectors
- AI, cybersecurity, deep tech, data & infrastructure, fintech, health, vertical networks
- Cheque size
- $500k-$5m
- Founded
- 2012
Team, as Connect Ventures publishes it
- Pietro Bezza Managing Partner
- Sitar Teli Managing Partner
- Rory Stirling General Partner
- Mark Pettit CFO
- Claire Walker Head of Marketing
- Amira Naik Head of Finance
- Rosie Cipolla Operations Manager
- Sai Tatireddy Dealflow Ops Analyst
Names and roles exactly as listed on connectventures.co. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 19 co-investors found.
- Inovia Capital 1 shared company: aikido.dev
- Notion Capital 1 shared company: aikido.dev
- Singular 1 shared company: aikido.dev
- WestTech Ventures 1 shared company: aikido.dev
- Project A Ventures 1 shared company: nexcade.ai
- FoodLabs 1 shared company: usetorg.com
- Kima Ventures 1 shared company: upstream.do
- Motier Ventures 1 shared company: upstream.do
- Betaworks 1 shared company: dessn.ai
- StandUp Ventures 1 shared company: dessn.ai
and 9 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Connect Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.connectventures.co/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, people, status
- https://www.connectventures.co/team-members/pietro-bezzapeople
- https://www.connectventures.co/team-members/sitar-telipeople
- https://www.connectventures.co/team-members/rory-stirlingpeople
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