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TSP Ventures
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
TSP Ventures is a UK-based early-stage investor launched in 2019 that backs hard science and environmental technology start-ups. It writes first cheques at pre-seed and seed stages of up to £1m and follows on at Series A, providing hands-on business, commercial and financial support.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsclimate techhard scienceenergyfood and watercritical materialscarbon capture
Your fit with TSP Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsTSP Ventures lists 7 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (36%), AI & Machine Learning (29%) and Education (14%). 67% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside EverQuest Capital Partners, Mercia Ventures and AFI Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name TSP Ventures, 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 | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 12th | 7 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 66th | 36% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| EverQuest Capital Partners | 2 |
| Mercia Ventures | 2 |
| AFI Ventures | 1 |
| Adapt Nation Capital | 1 |
| Aramco Ventures | 1 |
| Archipelago Ventures | 1 |
| BGF | 1 |
| Carbon13 | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7100%
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 36% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 29% | 18% |
| Education | 14% | 7% |
| Climate & Energy | 14% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 7% | 3% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with EverQuest Capital Partners
Compare TSP 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 TSP Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Jul 2026 | Seed |
Round details for TSP Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in TSP Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
7 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Bull Biochar produces biochar, a nutrient and carbon-rich soil additive made from plants, and generates renewable heat through pyrolysis | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| DEScycle recovers metals from domestic waste streams using a proprietary ionometallurgy technology | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| HiiROC has developed a new process for producing affordable clean hydrogen using Thermal Plasma Electrolysis technology. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Plasma2X produces fertilisers, fuels and chemicals from air and water using renewable energy. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Promethean Particles is a specialist in the synthesis and production of metal-organic frameworks | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Reaforma makes carbon-negative cement | Climate & EnergyIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| TaiSan builds next-generation sodium batteries around a novel polymer electrolyte | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jul 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- tspventures.co.uk
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 6 Jul 2026
- Companies checked
- 7
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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