Playfair Capital
playfair.vc Direct investor
Playfair Capital is a London-based venture capital firm that invests exclusively at pre-seed stage in UK and European startups. It focuses on generalist technology and typically leads or co-leads rounds, with cheque sizes ranging from £100k to £1.5m.
Playfair Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2013. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in generalist technology. Its stated cheque size is £100k-£1.5m cheques. £57m Fund 3 under management, as it reports.
“We invest exclusively at pre-seed in startups across the UK & Europe.”
— Playfair Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- UK, Europe
- Sectors
- Generalist technology
- Cheque size
- £100k-£1.5m cheques
- Founded
- 2013
- Assets under management
- £57m Fund 3
Team, as Playfair Capital publishes it
- Alex Jundi Visiting Analyst
- Andrew Sheffield Principal
- Anouska Moss Executive Assistant
- Chris Smith Managing Partner
- Deanne Saunders Receptionist & Office Manager
- Felix Neubeck Associate
- Henrik Wetter Sanchez General Partner
- Lucia Polverino Associate
- Matt Gill Chief Financial Officer
- Federico Pirzio-Biroli Founding Partner & Chairman
- Simon Blakey Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on playfair.vc. 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. 72 co-investors found.
- Episode 1 Ventures 4 shared companies: jackandjill.ai, omnipresent.com, refute.com, stackone.com
- Air Street Capital 4 shared companies: mapillary.com, numer.ai, ravelin.com, starship.xyz
- Molten Ventures 3 shared companies: appearhere.co.uk, qureight.com, valarian.com
- Seedcamp 3 shared companies: trezy.io, thosebeyond.io, oradian.com
- Kinnevik 2 shared companies: nory.ai, omnipresent.com
- AlbionVC 2 shared companies: umed.io, seldon.io
- Metaplanet 2 shared companies: kyra.com, starship.xyz
- Beringea 2 shared companies: lantum.com, learnerbly.com
- Notion Capital 1 shared company: protex.ai
- Balderton Capital 1 shared company: appearhere.co.uk
and 62 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Playfair Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://playfair.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, description, aum, status, confidence
- https://playfair.vc/thesis.phpinvests_in_geographies, sectors, cheque_size
- https://playfair.vc/portfolio.phpthesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://playfair.vc/pre-seed-funding.phpfounded
- https://playfair.vc/team.phppeople
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