Participated · Series B · Feb 2026

Lawhive positions itself as an AI-native law firm, marrying experienced human lawyers with proprietary agentic AI that automates routine legal tasks and streamlines workflow. The platform is designed to make everyday legal services more accessible and affordable for consumers by boosting lawyers’ operational performance. Led by CEO Pierre Proner, the company has quickly expanded its footprint in the United States and now operates in 35 states. An Austin office anchors its current U.S. presence, and a new New York location is being launched to support further growth. Headquartered in London, Lawhive plans to channel fresh capital into accelerating U.S. expansion and continued product development. The firm’s AI capabilities are central to its competitive differentiation, enabling scale without a proportional increase in headcount. Management emphasizes that this technology-first approach underpins their vision of a more efficient, consumer-centric legal services market.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2023

Kinnu is a London-based "learning space" startup that has built an AI-powered learning engine to shift curricula away from content creators and towards individual learners. The company employs generative AI to adapt experiences to each learner and to enable interdisciplinary connections across subjects. Its approach emphasizes the science of learning and personalized assessment, with founders framing the system as designed to understand learning better than traditional models. Kinnu's stated mission is to give everyone the power to learn anything and to make mastery a choice. Financially, Kinnu raised $6.5 million in a new funding round and previously announced a $2.4 million pre-seed, bringing total funding to just shy of $9 million. The founding team—Christopher Kahler, Abraham Müller and Hanna Celina—brings prior experience from Qriously (acquired by Brandwatch), Google, Futurelearn and Deliveroo.

Led · Series A · Sep 2021

Octopus Network provides a multi-chain cryptonetwork designed to bootstrap and run Web3 application-specific blockchains (appchains). Led by founder Louis Liu and based in Tokyo, the platform targets developers building Substrate-based and other Web3 teams. The company plans to launch its mainnet in September and its first appchain, DeBio (a decentralized biomed network), in October. Octopus raised $5M in a Series A to accelerate growth and expand operations. The Octopus Foundation will directly fund 20 appchain projects each year, granting them up to $1M in total per year. Its Octopus Accelerator Program offers open and composable courses and seminars to Substrate developers and Web3 teams worldwide. Octopus Network builds base-layer infrastructure that lets projects publish independent blockchains (appchains) with flexible on-demand shared security, out-of-the-box cross-chain interoperability, and infrastructure services such as explorers, API endpoints, and indexers. The platform aims to reduce the capital expenditure for launching an appchain by two orders of magnitude, lowering costs from millions to tens of thousands of dollars. The team is focused on enabling a new wave of Web3 applications to develop in a cost-effective, scalable, and secure manner. The company is using its recent seed funding to build out the base-level infrastructure for Octopus Network and support appchains preparing to deploy. Financially, Octopus completed a $3 million seed round and previously received a $1 million strategic investment from the NEAR Foundation. The project communicates updates via Discord and Twitter and positions itself as complementary to NEAR Protocol.

Participated · Series C · Jul 2021

Founded in 2015, Tide delivers an integrated financial ecosystem that lets small and medium-sized enterprises open business accounts, make payments, raise invoices, sync with accounting software and access credit products from one app. The company also supports company formation and ongoing compliance, positioning itself as a full-service operating system for businesses. Tide employs 1,395 people (December 2023) and focuses on automating back-office tasks to reduce administrative friction for its customers. To date it has raised $181 million across equity and debt, giving the firm a £958 million valuation as of September 2025. With fresh capital, management plans to deepen SME lending capabilities, accelerate international expansion and broaden its embedded finance offerings. The platform’s future roadmap includes scaling customer acquisition and investing further in technology infrastructure to support profitable growth.