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July 5, 2024

The UK’s most active early-stage investors

Meet the investors backing the most UK startups at pre-seed, seed and Series A

2023 wasn’t a good year for early-stage deal count in UK tech. There were 2.7k pre-seed, seed and Series A deals, according to Dealroom; the lowest figure since 2016 and a long drop from the 4.1k deals done in the heady days of 2021.

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SFC's Joseph Zipfel (chief investment officer), Stephen Page (chief executive officer) and Angelika Burawska (chief operating officer).
Joseph Zipfel (chief investment officer), Stephen Page (chief executive officer), Angelika Burawska (chief operating officer)
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The Future Planet Capital team
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Some of the Octopus Ventures team sat at a bench outside, on a terrace.
Some of the Octopus Ventures team
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The Seedcamp team
The Seedcamp team
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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