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Blackfinch Ventures
Venture capital · Cheltenham, United Kingdom · Europe
Blackfinch Ventures invests in UK high-growth small businesses through EIS portfolios and a VCT, the Blackfinch Spring VCT. It supports portfolio companies from investment through development to exit.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing
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Or find every investor that fitsBlackfinch Ventures lists 54 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 8 funding rounds, 4 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 88% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (17%), Industrial & Manufacturing (16%) and Healthcare & Biotech (10%). 89% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Praetura Ventures, 1818 Venture Capital and Britbots.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Blackfinch 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 Blackfinch Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 8 companies; its own site lists 54. 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 | 0% |
| Seed | 88% |
| Series A | 13% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 6 | 3 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 86th | 54 companies |
| Recent activity | 89th | 6 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 85th | 88% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 80th | 11% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 7th | 17% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 17% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 16% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 10% | 15% |
| Human Resources | 8% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 8% | 3% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Media & Entertainment | 7% | 4% |
| Fintech | 5% | 12% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Praetura Ventures | 5 |
| 1818 Venture Capital | 4 |
| Britbots | 2 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 2 |
| Empirical Ventures | 2 |
| Foresight Ventures | 2 |
| Haatch | 2 |
| Juno Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5296%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company24%
- 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 Praetura Ventures
Compare Blackfinch 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 Blackfinch Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 19 Aug 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 12 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 13 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 24 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 25 Jul 2025 | Seed | |
| 9 Apr 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Blackfinch Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Blackfinch Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
54 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adia Thermal makes heat pumps work on the radiators you already have | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Apitronix develops and provides real-time processor solutions for safety-critical systems | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company connects networks in space with networks on the ground using laser communication systems. | Space & DefenseCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Arctech Innovation develops and tests products for pest and vector control and disease detection across various health sectors. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Beings helps businesses deploy AI into their existing workflows | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an AI audio content management system for publishers. | Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| BookingLive provides online booking software for businesses and government entities. | Healthcare & BiotechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Bracket provides treasury intelligence products for cash management and foreign exchange portfolio management. | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Brooklyn Solutions automates supplier management, streamlining post-contract processes with AI-driven policy and governance. | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
Human ResourcesEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | |||
| CheMastery applies Process Chemistry to seamlessly connect R&D and manufacturing, enabling precise control of chemical processes across both discovery and repetitive synthesis. | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Cogniss powers digital health products that reach people at scale by enabling health experts and organisations to create advanced patient-facing digital healthcare products without development resources. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Comparesoft compares B2B software options for businesses | Enterprise SoftwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Culture Shift provides a workplace reporting and compliance platform | Human ResourcesLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Currensea offers a travel debit card for hassle-free spending abroad | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cyclr provides embedded integration infrastructure for SaaS, services and AI-ready products. | Space & DefenseFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| DiPOLE Systems Ltd develops and deploys world-leading lasers to drive innovation in advanced manufacturing, defence, security and energy | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Apr 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Edozo helps valuation teams work faster and more profitably by streamlining workflows and eliminating manual tasks. | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| The company helps find and compare third-party logistics (3PL) providers for ecommerce brands | E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Futr provides AI-powered co-pilots for advanced customer communications | Human ResourcesEducation | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- blackfinch.ventures
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 9 Apr 2025
- Companies checked
- 54
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