Imbiba
imbiba.com Direct investor
Imbiba is a UK-based investment firm that provides growth capital to companies in education, healthcare, lifestyle, and technology sectors. It focuses on supporting founders with strategic counsel and has backed over 20 companies.
Imbiba is a private equity firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It invests directly in companies, at growth, in education, healthcare, lifestyle and technology. Its stated cheque size is up to £15m or €15m. 20 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We provide capital – up to £15m or €15m – to help the most innovative and dynamic UK and Irish companies across education, healthcare, lifestyle and technology sectors to scale.”
— Imbiba, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Stage
- Growth
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- UK, Ireland
- Sectors
- education, healthcare, lifestyle, technology
- Cheque size
- up to £15m or €15m
- Portfolio
- 20 companies
Team, as Imbiba publishes it
- Darrel Connell Managing Partner
- Lizzie Ryan Managing Partner
- Ian Banks CFO & Partner
- Heidi Duckworth Operating Partner
- Simon Wheeler Partner & Co-founder
- Kieran Sherlock Partner & Property Director
- Andrew Maxwell Operating Partner
- John Connell Partner & Co-founder
- Brian Phillips Partner & Chairman of Investment Committee
- Nick-Raj Birdi Senior Investment Manager
- Andrew Guest Investment Associate
- Tom Richards Associate & Direct Origination Lead
Names and roles exactly as listed on imbiba.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. 1 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Beringea 1 shared company: farmerj.com
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Imbiba publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.imbiba.com/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, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.imbiba.com/teampeople
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Record 2975 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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