Our Portfolio

We've invested or taken stakes in a number of game-changing companies that are transforming public services for the better.

Birdie

GovStart

Health, Social Care

2019

Birdie is a technology care companion transforming the way we look after the elderly living at home

Visit the Birdie website →

Coursematch

GovStart

Education

2019

Coursematch reinvents access to higher education, connecting students direct to providers.

Visit the Coursematch website →

Adzuna

GovStart

Employment & work

2017

Adzuna is the straight-shooting job search engine that helps you zero in on the right role

Key People:

Andrew Hunter, Co-Founder

Visit the Adzuna website →

Apolitical

Wider Portfolio

Media

Apolitical is the first global platform for government that helps public servants find the ideas, experts and partners they need to solve the hardest challenges facing our societies. Our mission is to help make governments work better for citizens everywhere.

Key People:

Lisa Witter

Visit the Apolitical website →

applied

Wider Portfolio

Recruitment

Applied’s recruitment platform helps you hire fairer, faster, and retain hires for longer

Key People:

Kate Glazebrook

Visit the applied website →

Calipsa

Calipsa is video analytics software with a difference. Using the latest deep learning technology, Calipsa’s cloud-based False Alarm Filtering Platform removes up to 85% of false alarms, making it a global leader in false alarm reduction.

Visit the Calipsa website →

Cap Collectif

GovStart

Citizen engagement, Local Government

2019

Cap Collectif helps public decision makers take advantage of collective intelligence through citizen consultations.

Visit the Cap Collectif website →

Cera

GovStart

Social Care

2017

Cera is a technology-enabled care provider, delivering quality, consistent and transparent care for adults of all ages in the comfort of their own homes.

Visit the Cera website →

Cinapsis

GovStart

Health

2019

Brilliantly simple to use Advice & Guidance platform for clinicians.

Visit the Cinapsis website →

Commnex

GovStart

Financial Services, Local Government

2019

CommneX is Germany's first marketplace for municipal finances

Visit the Commnex website →

Convaise

GovStart

Workforce & Productivity

2019

Convaise is a chatbot solution that allows citizens to communicate with public institutions and halve the time spent filling out forms

Visit the Convaise website →

Echo

Exited

Health

Echo is a simple, free and secure app that lets you order NHS prescriptions and get medication delivered to your door.

Visit the Echo website →

Eyn

GovStart

Cyber Security, Digital Identity

2017

Eyn transforms your smartphone into a real time biometric identity verification device.

Visit the Eyn website →

Pando

GovStart

Health

2018

Pando is an essential tool for teamwork and secure collaboration in health and social care.

Visit the Pando website →

FreeUp

Exited

Financial Services

2018

FreeUp is an ethical Fintech business that allows employees to access salary advances quickly and at low cost

Key People:

Reuben Saxon, CEO

Visit the FreeUp website →

Futr.

GovStart

Customer Services, Workforce & Productivity

2018

Futr is a platform which allows chatbots to augment internal and external systems saving time and money in everyday customer service and administration.

Visit the Futr. website →

GoodBox

GovStart

Third Sector

2018

GoodBox is a social impact start-up providing contactless payment devices, for charitable donations.

Visit the GoodBox website →

Headlight AI

GovStart

defence, Security, Transport & Mobility, Utilities

2018

Headlight AI is an adaptive sensing and mapping technology that enables service robots in harsh conditions - underwater, underground, in darkness or fog.

Visit the Headlight AI website →

Kraydel

GovStart

Social Care

2018

Kraydel links elderly people to their relatives and carers, helping to keep them independent for longer

Visit the Kraydel website →

Manty

GovStart

Administration & Back Office, Local Government

2019

Visit the Manty website →

mush

GovStart

Health

2019

Mums who use Mush can find friends who live nearby with kids the same age, arrange meetups, get advice from parenting experts and fellow mums on the topics keeping them awake at night.

Visit the mush website →

Element

GovStart

Communication, Workforce & Productivity

2020

World-class decentralised, secure communication. Element enable governments, businesses and individuals to run their own secure communication infrastructure, while interconnecting via the global Matrix network.

Key People:

Matthew Hodgson, CEO & CTO

Amandine Le Pape, COO

Visit the Element website →

Novoville

GovStart

Local Government

2017

novoville is a Citizen Engagement Platform that bridges the gap between citizens and their local governments. It is all about getting everybody involved and empowering people to change the cities they live in.

Visit the Novoville website →

Patchwork

GovStart

Health

2018

Patchwork connects healthcare workers with bank shifts-saving the NHS millions, and keeping clinicians happy. Your best work starts here!

Key People:

Anas Nader, CEO

Visit the Patchwork website →

Pockit

GovStart

Financial Services

2017

Pockit is building a bank focussed on providing financial services to unbanked and financially underserved consumers

Visit the Pockit website →

Polyteia

GovStart

Administration & Back Office, Local Government

2019

The smart governance platform for cities and towns.

Visit the Polyteia website →

Red Sift

GovStart

Cyber Security

2017

Red Sift’s OnDMARC cybersecurity product uses AI and data analysis to help organisations block phishing attacks

Visit the Red Sift website →

Sentient Machines

GovStart

Customer Services

2018

Our advanced AI-powered platform reads and tracks emotions throughout customer interactions by analysing both lexical and acoustic sentiment - so what is being said, but more importantly how it is being said.

Visit the Sentient Machines website →

Strawberry energy

GovStart

Local Government

2018

Strawberry energy is developing solar powered urban furniture for smart and sustainable cities. Our mission is to enhance people’s experience in public spaces and provide them with energy and connectivity on the go. Strawberry’s smart street furniture brings the Internet of Things to outdoor public spaces that people visit daily, improving urban living by making cities smarter and more convenient to live in.

Visit the Strawberry energy website →

Valerann

GovStart

Transport & Mobility

2019

Valerann is an end-to-end system installed on the road itself. Using different sensors, a unique algorithm, and a communication system tailored to the road’s unique requirements, the system provides real-time information to drivers and road operators. This includes danger recognition, instant accident prevention, optimal traffic flow adjustments, and autonomous cars guidance and support. Valerann system provides all these solutions in one product.

Visit the Valerann website →

Vialytics

GovStart

Local Government, Transport & Mobility

2019

Vialytics uses artificial intelligence applied to video footage to enable better roads

Visit the Vialytics website →

Vinehealth

GovStart

Health

2019

The Vinehealth app allows people living with cancer to track their symptoms, manage their medications and understand their care. We put cancer patients back in control of their treatment.

Key People:

Rayna Patel, Co-Founder & CEO

Georgina Kirby, Co-Founder & CTO

Visit the Vinehealth website →

Alcuris

GovStart

Social Care

2020

Alcuris has developed Memo; an assistive technology platform that prolongs the independence of older/vulnerable individuals, provides reassurance of their wellbeing to friends and family as well as actionable insight to local authorities and care professionals.

Key People:

Alex Nash, Founder and Managing Director

Visit the Alcuris website →

Coplug

GovStart

Administration & Back Office

2020

Coplug has developed SidM Systems, a powerful spatial analytics digital platform that supports services and infrastructure planning across cities.

Key People:

Visit the Coplug website →

Zencity

GovStart

Local Government

2020

Zencity uses advanced AI to provide local government agencies with actionable insights about their communities' needs and priorities based on discourse in digital channels.

Visit the Zencity website →

Deployed

GovStart

Workforce & Productivity

2020

Deployed is a productivity platform, supporting users to write performance focused Statements of Work (SoW) with Suppliers.

Visit the Deployed website →

TympaHealth

GovStart

Health

2020

TympaHealth are the developers of a mobile ear health clinic which combines high definition otoscopy, hearing screening tests, and ear wax removal, onto one portable device.

Visit the TympaHealth website →

Eva Health Technologies

PUBLIC venture

Health

2020

Eva Health Technologies is one of the leading suppliers of practice management systems for GP surgeries in the NHS. The team create powerful health information systems that help medical professionals to work as effectively as possible, improving patient care.

Key People:

Maddy Phipps-Taylor, CEO

Visit the Eva Health Technologies website →

Aleph Alpha

GovStart

Security

2020

Aleph Alpha is Heideleberg start-up that develops strong AI (AGI) technology made in Europe and makes it available to customers and partners in security-critical environments. Founded by Experts at the forefront of AI research in Silicon Valley and with extensive experience in innovation, Aleph Alpha setting the pace for the machine learning models of tomorrow.

Visit the Aleph Alpha website →

GovMind

GovStart

Consulting

2020

GovMind develops an insights service that systematically captures and structures information on GovTech solutions and their providers. The solutions are then mapped according to the functitoning of public administrations. Our goals is to make the GovTech ecosystem transparent and accessible for administrations in this way.

Visit the GovMind website →

Vianova

GovStart

Transport & Mobility

2020

Vianova is the leading platform for managing connected and shared mobility in the urban public realm. Vianova helps cities better manage their urban space, starting with mobility services. Along with the benefits of new mobility solutions, cities face growing challenges as they integrate fast-developing modes of transportation. Our company's technology helps cities and mobility operators better collaborate and communicate, in order to foster more liveable and breathable streets.

Visit the Vianova website →

Matterway

GovStart

Workforce & Productivity

2020

Every day, employees have to use inefficient and clunky software to get their work done. This kills productivity and motivation. Matterway's unique Task Acceleration Platform eliminates digital friction, without complex process or IT changes. This increases productivity by 3-5x, reduces employee frustration, and accelerates work at scale.

Visit the Matterway website →

Cyan Forensics

GovStart

Online Safety

2019

Cyan Forensics builds and sells new technologies to help law enforcement, social media companies, and cloud providers to find and block harmful content from paedophiles and terrorists.

Visit the Cyan Forensics website →

Unblur

GovStart

Policing

2019

Unblur is building the first intelligent assistant to help public emergency services to be faster and safer

During disasters, Emergency Services need information to make critical decisions. Unblur helps first responders to make those decisions thanks to IRIS, the first assistant for field teams that combines all insights needed to make faster & better decisions.

Visit the Unblur website →