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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 72 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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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