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Playfair Capital
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
Playfair Capital is a London-based venture capital fund that invests exclusively at pre-seed stage, typically as the first institutional investor, writing cheques from £100k to £1.5m. It makes around six investments a year, leads or co-leads rounds, and reserves capital for follow-on support through Series A.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsgeneralisttechnologypre-seedfemale founders
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Or find every investor that fitsPlayfair Capital lists 63 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 12 funding rounds, 7 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 46% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (32%), E-commerce & Marketplaces (9%) and Fintech (8%). 39% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Air Street Capital, Entrepreneurs First and Founderful.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Playfair Capital, 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 Playfair Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 11 companies; its own site lists 63. 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 | 36% |
| Seed | 46% |
| Series A | 18% |
| 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 | 3 | 0 |
| '26 | 8 | 6 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 89th | 63 companies |
| Recent activity | 93th | 8 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 84th | 82% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 85th | 14% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 58th | 32% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 98th | 13 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 32% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 9% | 6% |
| Fintech | 8% | 12% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 6% | 3% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Air Street Capital | 5 |
| Entrepreneurs First | 5 |
| Founderful | 4 |
| Amadeus Capital Partners | 3 |
| CircleRock Capital | 3 |
| Episode 1 | 3 |
| Haatch | 3 |
| Octopus Ventures | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6298%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company12%
- 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 Air Street Capital
Compare Playfair 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 Playfair Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 4 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 8 Jun 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 23 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 27 Jan 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Playfair Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Playfair Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
63 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AeroCloud provides airport management software solutions to help airports streamline processes and enhance efficiency | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Appear Here rents shops, markets and pop up stores in cities around the world. | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Ascento provides autonomous robotics services to secure and maintain outdoor assets | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Aseon Labs provides autonomous infrastructure for autonomous vehicles, including charging, cleaning and inspecting services. | Mobility & LogisticsAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Astral Systems provides irradiation services and produces medical isotopes among other things. | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| The company turns ordinary earbuds into health sensors using artificial intelligence to monitor vital signs | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bryo designs software for technical sales to streamline complex industrial sales processes | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Continuum AI provides affordable artificial intelligence services with a focus on privacy | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Crypto Facilities operates a cryptocurrency multilateral trading facility for trading futures on cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Eccasion sells used electric cars directly to customers through an online auction, without the involvement of a dealer. | E-commerce & MarketplacesMobility & Logistics | Apr 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Exclaim provides compliance software for risk, audit, and governance management | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Exclaim Robotics builds robots to maintain AI data centers by performing tasks such as replacing failed components and routine rack maintenance. | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| FENKA Robotics rents cleaning and service robots | Robotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Fusionality provides measurement, control, and data systems for fusion device operations | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Sept 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Dayjob provides AI scheduling services for waste management companies | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| YASO provides an AI-powered operating system for global brands to operate ecommerce in China | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| HEKA provides digital engineering and avionics solutions for the aerospace industry | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Hullabalook provides visual commerce technology for retailers | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Jack & Jill brings an AI agent to each side of the job market, helping people find the right roles and companies find the right people | Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Kyra delivers end-to-end influencer marketing campaigns for global brands | Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- playfair.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 13 Dec 2024
- Companies checked
- 63
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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