Zinc
zinc.vc Direct investor
Zinc is a venture builder and investor that supports early-stage science-for-impact ventures in health and environment. It provides funding, hands-on support, and access to talent and networks, focusing on the first two years of a venture's life.
Zinc is an investor headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in health, environment, deep tech and AI. Its stated cheque size is up to £250k.
“Zinc backs exceptional entrepreneurs starting and building Science-for-Impact ventures in the UK.”
— Zinc, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture studio
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- UK
- Sectors
- health, environment, deep tech, AI, climate, food, mental health, therapeutics
- Cheque size
- up to £250k
Team, as Zinc publishes it
- Paul Kirby Managing Partner
- Ella Goldner Managing Partner
- Saul Klein Board Member
- Claire Hankey Finance Director
- David Herbada Venture Partner
- Eleanor Ford Chief People Officer
- Emilie Syed Investment Principal
- Kate Hyslop Head of Marketing
- Lily Mcfarlane Partner, Product
- Mark Bailey Venture Partner
- Martin Sellers Head Venture Partner, Environment
- Natalie Pankova Partner, Health & Life Sciences
Names and roles exactly as listed on zinc.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. 36 co-investors found.
- 7wireVentures 1 shared company: notion.site
- ANOBAKA 1 shared company: notion.site
- Auxxo Beteiligungen GmbH 1 shared company: notion.site
- Axevil Capital, LLC 1 shared company: notion.site
- Blackbird Ventures 1 shared company: notion.site
- Bonfire Ventures 1 shared company: notion.site
- byFounders 1 shared company: notion.site
- Calm/Storm Ventures 1 shared company: notion.site
- Compound Advisors, LLC 1 shared company: notion.site
- Davidovs Venture Collective 1 shared company: notion.site
and 26 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Zinc publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.zinc.vc/name, type, description, status, confidence
- https://www.zinc.vc/pre-seed-investment/is_investor, layer, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://innovationpartners.zinc.vc/hq_country, hq_city
- https://www.zinc.vc/portfolio-companies/sectors
- https://www.zinc.vc/team/people
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Record 6994 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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