Participated · Seed · Jun 2025

Valla, founded in 2022 by Danae Shell, builds an AI-enabled platform to make employment-law support more accessible to workers. The product lets users collect evidence, generate documents (for example Tribunal claims), track issues, and purchase coaching packages where legal experts coach them through each stage. A generative‑AI engine acts as a background legal secretary—briefing coaches, taking notes, and handling admin and reminders. Since launch the company says more than 12,000 workers have successfully brought complaints and negotiated settlements through the platform. Valla plans to expand its product beyond employment law into small claims and tenancy, then broaden into other geographies, with the U.S. and Europe already under consideration. The company will use the new capital to boost marketing, build relationships with worker unions and insurers, and add more AI features to the platform.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2023

Slinger operates a job marketplace for the hospitality sector, listing shifts and facilitating payments and hiring to make it easier for workers to find work and for businesses to fill roles. The platform emphasizes fair pay and simplicity for hospitality workers and employers. The company will use the new funding for product development, paid acceleration, and team growth. Slinger reports organic traction, with over 10,000 shifts added to the platform and more than £1m paid out to hospitality workers in the past two years. The business is led by founder Theo and is based in London, UK.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2021

Breakroom operates a crowdsourced peer-review platform tailored to hourly and shift workers, aggregating ratings and workplace data on policies like sick leave, safety and shift flexibility. The service draws on inputs from roughly 160,000 workers and profiles over 1,400 UK employers. Founders Anna Maybank, James Weiner and Tom Taylor position the product as an analogue to Glassdoor for frontline roles in sectors such as logistics, hospitality and retail. The startup says it uses peer reviews to surface higher-quality jobs and help employers compete on job quality. Breakroom plans to use its latest funding to gather more ratings across the UK market and grow its team to expand coverage. The platform already highlights employer-level differences — for example, distinguishing supermarkets on break policies and notice of shifts — to help workers make informed choices.