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Founders Factory
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
Founders Factory is a venture builder and investor that builds and funds startups, operating a venture studio, sector-focused accelerator programmes and venture funds. It backs early-stage founders with capital, an operations team and access to corporate partners.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfintechindustrialshealthdeep techventure studioaccelerator
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Or find every investor that fitsFounders Factory lists 257 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 15 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 64% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (23%), Fintech (11%) and Healthcare & Biotech (10%). 44% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Mercuri, G-Force and Creative Destruction Lab.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Founders Factory, 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 Founders Factory's whole history. Rounds on record name 15 companies; its own site lists 257. 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 | 14% |
| Seed | 64% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 21% |
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 | 7 | 2 |
| '26 | 8 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 99th | 257 companies |
| Recent activity | 95th | 10 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 83th | 79% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 55th | 2% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 29th | 23% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 99th | 17 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 23% | 18% |
| Fintech | 11% | 12% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 10% | 15% |
| Education | 9% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| Media & Entertainment | 5% | 4% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Mercuri | 15 |
| G-Force | 11 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 7 |
| Haatch | 5 |
| Ascension | 4 |
| Collaborative Fund | 4 |
| Creator Fund | 4 |
| Y Combinator | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers24896%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company94%
- 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 togetherCompare Founders Factory 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 Founders Factory| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 31 Aug 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 13 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 29 Jul 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 1 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 16 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 12 Feb 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 29 Jan 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Founders Factory
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Founders Factory's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
257 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company offers a book subscription box service in the United Kingdom. | Enterprise SoftwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
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| Acre provides mortgage and protection software for intermediaries | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
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| Aggero analyzes videos to provide insights and predictive scores to improve their performance | Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| AGRA Farming Technologies produces crops in indoor farms sustainably and at a lower cost than traditional field farming. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Alegra provides services for businesses | Enterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops a platform for hyperpersonalized biostimulants in agriculture | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Alomana provides an enterprise AI application platform that automates various business operations using AI agents | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company delivers customized, data-driven, dynamic ads on the world's largest audio platforms. | Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| anatomē sells sleep and fragrance products | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Armada Technologies develops and installs a system to improve operational efficiency for shipowners | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| AtmoCooling develops and implements large-scale microclimate cooling technology for various industries such as agriculture, energy, and infrastructure. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Autonomous Labs builds infrastructure at the intersection of AI and Web3, enabling developers to create intelligent, autonomous agents that can execute on-chain transactions and manage DeFi strategies | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
Developer ToolsAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
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| Aykua handles the complexity of FMLA, disability, and accommodation forms for clinics, allowing them to focus on patient care. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
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| Beep brings AI automation to financial data, streamlining operations and transforming customer service. | Fintech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- foundersfactory.com
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Feb 2025
- Companies checked
- 257
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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