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Houghton Street Ventures
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
Houghton Street Ventures is a venture fund founded in partnership with the London School of Economics. It backs LSE alumni, students and faculty who are building companies, and its first fund is fully invested across 25+ LSE-founded companies.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechFintechAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsHoughton Street Ventures lists 17 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (26%), Fintech (19%) and AI & Machine Learning (19%). 46% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, 1Flourish Capital and 1Sharpe Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Houghton Street 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 Houghton Street Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 17. 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 | 50% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 44th | 17 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 66th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 38th | 26% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 26% | 15% |
| Fintech | 19% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 19% | 18% |
| Legal & Compliance | 7% | 2% |
| Space & Defense | 4% | 3% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 4% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 5% |
| Human Resources | 4% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 2 |
| 1Flourish Capital | 1 |
| 1Sharpe Ventures | 1 |
| 8VC | 1 |
| Activant Capital | 1 |
| AlbionVC | 1 |
| Alphawave Group | 1 |
| Anthemis | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers17100%
- 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 togetherCompare Houghton Street 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 Houghton Street Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 20 Oct 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Houghton Street Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Houghton Street Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
17 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andel connects employers and members directly to medication manufacturers to provide affordable medications | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Company Hero provides solutions for autonomous professionals and individual entrepreneurs, including virtual offices, health and insurance services, and other business tools. | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides health insurance services, including doctor consultations, diagnostic tests, and cashless insurance, to individuals and families. | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Firstwork provides AI agents for frontline workforces to automate workforce operations inside existing systems. | AI & Machine LearningHuman Resources | Oct 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| The company provides a platform for brands and agencies to measure, understand, and improve how they're represented inside large language models and AI search. | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Gladys is a home care agency that connects you directly with experienced and vetted carers and helpers to offer support at home. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Golgix develops and provides AI intelligence products for manufacturing | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Heim provides on-demand healthcare services and software for community care | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides account-based marketing services to help clients engage with executives at strategic accounts. | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Milio connects banks and companies to the global market, enabling immediate and secure money transfers without intermediaries or risky compensation schemes. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| SAIZ connects product data with consumer needs for e-commerce, product development, merchandising, and retail | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Scan.com operates a network for medical imaging services | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company helps individuals compare fertility clinics and treatments, and also provides resources for checking NHS eligibility for fertility treatments. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Valpas sets the standard for bed bug safety and turns it into a bookable attribute for hotels | Real Estate & ConstructionLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Vasco provides a revenue context layer for AI agents to help companies analyze and improve their revenue operations | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| WeatherPromise provides a weather guarantee for trips, offering instant payouts if bad weather occurs | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- houghtonstreet.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 20 Oct 2025
- Companies checked
- 17
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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