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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 19 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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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