Houghton Street Ventures
houghtonstreet.com Direct investor
Houghton Street Ventures is a venture fund founded in partnership with the London School of Economics. It invests in early-stage companies founded by LSE alumni, students, and faculty, and also offers access to deal-by-deal SPV investments.
Houghton Street Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in humanities, social sciences and technology. 5 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We back LSE founders who are building companies that harness the power of the humanities , social sciences and technology .”
— Houghton Street Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- global
- Sectors
- humanities, social sciences, technology
- Portfolio
- 5 companies
Team, as Houghton Street Ventures publishes it
- Adam French Partner
- Hannah Leach Partner
- David Houghton Principal
Names and roles exactly as listed on houghtonstreet.com. 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. 30 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Salica Investments 2 shared companies: even.in, saiz.io
- AlbionVC 1 shared company: geosurge.ai
- Boost Capital Partners 1 shared company: geosurge.ai
- Octopus Ventures 1 shared company: geosurge.ai
- Play Ventures 1 shared company: geosurge.ai
- Founders Factory 1 shared company: scan.com
- Hard Yards Global 1 shared company: scan.com
- YZR Capital GmbH 1 shared company: scan.com
- Arāya Ventures 1 shared company: hypergtm.com
- Haatch Ventures 1 shared company: hypergtm.com
and 20 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Houghton Street Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://houghtonstreet.com/name, is_investor, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence, layer
- https://houghtonstreet.com/invest/layer
- https://houghtonstreet.com/portfolio/invests_in_geographies, portfolio_count
- https://houghtonstreet.com/team/people
Record 8547 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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