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Elbow Beach Capital
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
Elbow Beach Capital is a London-based venture investor that backs UK technology companies whose products improve customer outcomes while decarbonising industries. It invests pre-seed to seed, typically £0.5–2 million initially with follow-on reserves, and works with portfolio companies on commercialisation and hiring.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEducation
In its own wordsclimate techdecarbonisationclean technologyindustrial productivitysustainabilityuk innovation
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Or find every investor that fitsElbow Beach Capital lists 10 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 8 funding rounds, 5 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (26%), AI & Machine Learning (26%) and Education (16%). 86% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside British Business Bank, Empirical Ventures and Science Creates Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Elbow Beach Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 17% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 50% |
| 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 | 1 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 5 | 4 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 23th | 10 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 100th | 50% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 40th | 26% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 26% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 26% | 18% |
| Education | 16% | 7% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 5% | 1% |
| Consumer | 5% | 3% |
| Food & Agriculture | 5% | 3% |
| Climate & Energy | 5% | 1% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| British Business Bank | 5 |
| Empirical Ventures | 2 |
| Science Creates Ventures | 2 |
| Ascension Ventures | 1 |
| Blue Wire Capital | 1 |
| Bonfire Ventures | 1 |
| Calderion | 1 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 1 |
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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with British Business Bank
Compare Elbow Beach Capital 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 Elbow Beach Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 8 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 7 Apr 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 16 Jan 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Round | |
| 8 Sept 2025 | Series A | |
| 13 Mar 2024 | Series A Led |
Round details for Elbow Beach Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Elbow Beach Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
10 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allye provides battery energy storage and rapid EV charging solutions for grid-constrained sites | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Anaphite Limited develops and applies dry coating technology for battery manufacturing. | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Mar 2024Series A | Page + round | |
| Fieldwork Robotics is developing the world’s first autonomous raspberry harvesting robot. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Apr 2026Series A · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Ionech harnesses natural energy and transforms it into clean, reliable power using its technologies, providing sustainable solutions to reduce dependence on traditional energy sources. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jan 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Maeving manufactures and sells electric motorbikes directly to consumers | Mobility & LogisticsConsumer | Sept 2025Series A · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Munro Vehicles designs and manufactures electric utility vehicles | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Neela Biotech transforms diverse waste streams into locally produced, sustainable fuels and chemicals through AI-driven Controlled Microbial Upcycling | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| sees.ai captures structured, high-quality inspection data at network scale, ready for processing in any format that integrates with established data processing and asset management systems. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Upp Technologies Group provides AI-powered PPC management services for retail and ecommerce businesses | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| WASE maximises biogas production with its next-generation waste-to-energy technology | AI & Machine LearningFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- elbowbeach.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 13 Mar 2024
- 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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