Investors / United Kingdom / Bloc Ventures
Bloc Ventures
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
Bloc Ventures is a specialist deep tech investor that backs entrepreneurs building products across cloud, connectivity, data science and security. It is structured as a permanent capital company, investing for the long term with its investors onboard as shareholders, and provides hands-on support and commercial introductions to portfolio companies.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintech
In its own wordsdeep techcloudconnectivitydata sciencesecurityai
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Or find every investor that fitsBloc Ventures lists 10 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (35%), Cybersecurity (24%) and Fintech (18%). 100% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside 10x Group, Creative Destruction Lab and Future Energy Ventures.
No funding round on record names Bloc Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Bloc Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 10. 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 35% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 24% | 4% |
| Fintech | 18% | 12% |
| Space & Defense | 6% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 6% | 6% |
| Enterprise Software | 6% | 8% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers10100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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.
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 23th | 10 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 65th | 35% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Bloc Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
10 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AccelerComm delivers high-performance, error-resilient physical layer solutions for 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN). | Space & DefenseCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Arteris is a leading provider of system IP for the acceleration of system-on-chip development across today's electronic systems. | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Crypta Labs designs and manufactures quantum random number generators and provides custom integration services for hardware manufacturers. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Helix Geospace develops and manufactures antennas and systems for resilient and precise Position, Navigation, and Timing applications. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Mindtrace develops and implements AI technology for smart manufacturing, particularly in computer vision and defect detection. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Paytia provides secure payment solutions for contact centers and other industries | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Shield IoT provides cybersecurity services for IoT, OT, and cyber physical systems | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| YellowDog manages the full workload lifecycle, combining a powerful scheduler with a dynamic orchestration engine tuned for provisioning cloud at massive scale across providers and regions. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Yordex makes it easy for any business to issue their own cards and virtual IBANs | Fintech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- blocventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 10
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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