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Chroma Ventures
Venture capital · Dundee, United Kingdom · Europe
Chroma Ventures is an investment firm established by Paddy Burns and Chris van der Kuyl, created in 2021 as the investment arm of 4J Studios. It makes flexible investments of typically £500,000 to £5m, often across multiple rounds from seed stage onwards, and takes board roles in portfolio businesses.
Invests inEnterprise SoftwareGaming
In its own wordstechnologydataearly-stagescale-upsscotlanduk
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Or find every investor that fitsChroma Ventures lists 10 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Enterprise Software (28%), Gaming (17%) and AI & Machine Learning (11%). 57% of its companies are based in Scotland. It invests most often alongside Aqua-Spark, Gresham House Ventures and Mercia Ventures.
No funding round on record names Chroma Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Chroma 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Software | 28% | 8% |
| Gaming | 17% | 1% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 11% | 18% |
| Education | 11% | 7% |
| Fintech | 11% | 12% |
| Media & Entertainment | 6% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Food & Agriculture | 6% | 3% |
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 | 45th | 28% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Chroma 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ace Aquatec develops and provides aquaculture products and technologies for fish farming and marine protection | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Ant Workshop is a tiny indie video game developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. | Enterprise SoftwareGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| Blippar lets you create augmented and extended reality experiences with or without code. | EducationEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Broker Insights provides data-driven decision-making tools for brokers and insurers in the commercial insurance market | FintechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Chroma Developments identifies opportunities and brings together the best creative minds, construction experts and project management to deliver award-winning property projects. | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| LVP organizes video game competitions and provides event production and audiovisual production services | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Parsley Box delivers ready meals to customers' doors. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company offers loan funding and business support for social enterprises, charities and community groups. | FintechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Stormcloud Games develops indie games, including 3D action platformers and educational games for various platforms | Enterprise SoftwareGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| Team17 develops indie games | Enterprise SoftwareGaming | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- chroma.ventures
- 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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