Investors / Iona Star
Iona Star
Venture capital
Iona Star is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies building the enabling layers of the AI era, such as data pipelines, inference systems, payment rails and intelligence platforms. It describes itself as an active partner that works with portfolio companies to strengthen foundations, accelerate commercial execution and prepare them for scale.
Invests inFintechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsaidata infrastructureenterprise softwarefintechpaymentsdeveloper tools
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Or find every investor that fitsIona Star lists 10 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Pre-seed, 25% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (30%), AI & Machine Learning (25%) and Enterprise Software (5%). 50% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Clarendon Fund Managers, Emergent Ventures and Flintlock Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Iona Star, 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 Iona Star's whole history. Rounds on record name 4 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.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 25% |
| Seed | 25% |
| Series A | 25% |
| Series B | 25% |
| 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 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 2 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 23th | 10 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 99th | 40% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 52th | 30% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Clarendon Fund Managers | 1 |
| Emergent Ventures | 1 |
| Flintlock Capital | 1 |
| Mouro Capital | 1 |
| OIF Ventures | 1 |
| Techstars | 1 |
| VMG Partners | 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 30% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 25% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 5% | 8% |
| Consumer | 5% | 3% |
| Gaming | 5% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Developer Tools | 5% | 0% |
| Media & Entertainment | 5% | 4% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Clarendon Fund Managers
Compare Iona Star 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 Iona Star| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 6 Jul 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 20 Oct 2025 | Series B | |
| 13 Aug 2025 | Series A Led |
Round details for Iona Star
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Iona Star'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AkashX provides a database and query language for cognitive processing and artificial intelligence | AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| BXNK provides global financial infrastructure products and solutions for payments, lending, and liquidity provision | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Craxel is a software company that solves the problem of organizing enormous volumes of data so that it can be found, connected and used at the speed decisions are made. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| CUBIG builds the AI-Ready Data Operating Layer that turns sensitive, fragmented, and unusable data into AI-Ready, operable data. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Aug 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Hyperlayer provides a programmable banking platform that allows banks to build and launch financial products without replacing their existing infrastructure. | FintechFintech | Oct 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| INQDATA manages large capital markets time-series datasets with purpose-built APIs for efficient retrieval and complex processing at query time. | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Kavara designs, engineers, deploys, and scales web applications, SaaS platforms, custom software, and AI-powered systems. | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| OriginalVoices builds and utilizes a network of digital twins representing real people to provide human insights at scale | AI & Machine LearningConsumer | Sept 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| The company extracts and delivers training-ready datasets from video games for the development of world models and embodied AI. | AI & Machine LearningGaming | Jul 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Zitcha provides a retail media platform that helps optimize margin, sell-through, and media margin for retailers | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- ionastar.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 13 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 10
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