The UK’s top 25 VCs: a guide from Sifted’s journalists

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For early-stage founders in Europe (at seed and Series A) it’s often hard to know where to turn and how to tell a good venture capital firm from a less good venture capital firm.
Focus: Invests in startups from seed to Series A.
Focus: Invests across the US and Europe in startups from seed to venture to growth.
Founded by Eileen Burbidge, Robert Dighero and Stefan Glaenzer in 2011, Passion Capital has now funded 70 early-stage tech startups, backing over 100 founders who have grown their teams to include over 1,000 team members.
Notably, it was an early investor in Monzo, the darling of the UK’s fintech scene, and has been identified by Dealroom as one of the venture capital funds with top-quartile conversion rates between seed and Series A.
It recently came first place in Dealroom’s ranking of the most active UK-based venture capital funds at Series A, having led 17 rounds between 2014 and 2018.
Focus: Invests in startups at Series A.
Octopus Group was founded in 2000 as a fund management company, before later spawning a VC division — Octopus Ventures.
The fund has since become one of the biggest and most active in Europe, with £1.2bn in assets and nearly 100 companies under its belt.
While some venture capital funds like Forward Partners and Daphni try to stand out from the pack by offering their companies access to various kinds of business consultants, Accel puts more emphasis on the value of its networks.
Latest fund size: $575m (May 2019) — Accel’s sixth fund for early-stage European companies.
Focus: Early-stage companies (typically at the Series A round).
Focus: European tech companies at Series A and beyond.
Focus: European software companies at Series A across Europe.
Hoxton Ventures takes pride in the fact that it does little-to-no PR, hasn’t announced its latest fund (raised a year ago) or its four most recent investments, and rarely attends conferences or demo days

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