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Ada Ventures
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
Ada Ventures is a pre-seed venture capital fund that invests in European founders building businesses for a better human future. It invests £250k to £1mn in first funding rounds, typically before clear signs of product-market fit, and leads most of its investments.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsinclusive investingclimateeconomic empowermenthealthy ageingpre-seeddefensible technology
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Or find every investor that fitsAda Ventures lists 51 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 19 funding rounds, 5 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 78% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (21%), AI & Machine Learning (18%) and Enterprise Software (9%). 70% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Entrepreneurs First, Seedcamp and Antler.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Ada Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Ada Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 18 companies; its own site lists 51. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 6% |
| Seed | 78% |
| Series A | 17% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 6 | 1 |
| '26 | 12 | 4 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 84th | 51 companies |
| Recent activity | 96th | 12 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 84th | 83% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 95th | 25% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 18th | 21% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 21% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 9% | 8% |
| Education | 9% | 7% |
| Human Resources | 7% | 1% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| Fintech | 7% | 12% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Entrepreneurs First | 4 |
| Seedcamp | 4 |
| Antler | 3 |
| Ascension | 3 |
| Selvedge Venture | 3 |
| Blitzscaling Ventures | 2 |
| Episode 1 | 2 |
| Form Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5098%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company12%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Entrepreneurs First
Compare Ada Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Ada Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Nov 2026 | Seed | |
| 7 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 21 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 24 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 19 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 20 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 16 Jul 2026 | Seed Led |
Round details for Ada Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Ada Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
51 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AcouBatt uses acoustic-emission monitoring for batteries | Industrial & Manufacturing | Sept 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Aerska develops RNA medicines to treat diseases of the brain | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Alcolase develops an enzyme supplement to break down alcohol in the stomach for people with alcohol intolerance | Healthcare & Biotech | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Alvie provides health coaching and expert support to help people recover from medical conditions | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Back.Tech helps retailers verify returns, reduce fraud, speed up refunds, recover margin, and route returned inventory to the best outcome. | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Bilanc measures the return on investment for software development and provides insights into engineering output and AI contributions. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| BlakBear detects spoilage of food items by measuring gases released from them | Food & AgricultureFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Boundless offers Employer of Record services for global hiring and management of employees and independent contractors | Human ResourcesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Carbometrics is creating a continuous metabolic monitor called i-CAM for various applications. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cascade provides strategy software for planning and execution | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Customuse creates 3D game assets with AI in seconds | GamingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| ESTHER is a fintech platform powering inclusive, transparent cash and voucher aid with integrated social services for last-mile impact. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Flexa helps users find and discover companies and job openings | Human ResourcesEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| FloxMind coordinates robots in warehouses as a managed platform | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Aug 2024Seed | Page + round | |
| Frolo provides a community and dating platform for single parents | Healthcare & BiotechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Gizmo provides an app for learning with features such as flashcard makers, quizzes, and summarizers. | Education | Apr 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Greenworkx provides an all-in-one skills platform for organisations powering the energy transition | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Huboo offers flexible fulfilment solutions for eCommerce businesses | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Interfaze builds models for deterministic tasks such as OCR, audio understanding, and structured data extraction. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Interhuman AI processes voice, face, and body language from a single video stream to build socially intelligent AI products | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Aug 2025Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- adaventures.com
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 6 Aug 2024
- Companies checked
- 51
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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