Check and I launched Ada Ventures, a £38M VC fund that invests in overlooked founders and markets, on the 11th December 2019, almost exactly two years ago to the day. To say its been an amazing ride so far would be a huge understatement for both of us. This role…

Earlier in 2021, Ada Ventures led a pre-seed round into Yuty, a personalised beauty-matching tool powered by proprietary AI. We’re thrilled to have been joined by our friends at Venrex in the round. Yuty is the brain-child of the amazing Simi Lindgren, who approached my Partner Check in December 2020…

Along with our friends Slingshot Ventures in Amsterdam, we’re super excited to have lead the £3M Seed round Deepak and Kian at Toothfairy, as report yesterday in Techcrunch. Ada Co-led the pre-seed round, alongside Unicorn factory Seedcamp, last year. Toothfairy is what happens when two highly entrepreneurial and award-winning dentists…

Ada Ventures has invested into the pre-seed round at SPOKE, a new mental health technology that uses music to access our brains in calming and uplifting ways. …

In a round led by our friends at Ascension Ventures, Ada has invested in the pre-seed financing of Mirthy, an interactive community for over 55 year olds. Via the Mirthy platform, users can lead or participate in a huge array of live-streamed activities from cooking to pilates and history lectures. …

Today we’re thrilled to announce our investment in Boundless, the awesome remote employee platform out of Dublin! Boundless was founded by an all-star team of Dee (CEO), Emily (CTO) and Eamon (CSO), who come out of the Dublin tech community, and are building a truly global company, operating in the…

Check and I have had many “o wow!” moments over the past couple of years, and here’s another big one we wanted to share with you. In yet another pinch-ourselves event, the amazing Xun Ning Choong has joined Ada Ventures as Head of Operations! At Ada, Xun will be helping…

As the investing world was engrossed in the Gamestop retail investors vs. the hedge fund titans of Wall St, Ada Ventures closed our latest investment in what could be described as the antidote to this high risk madness — Tickr! Tickr is an impact investment app for individuals who want…

We’re proud and excited to have led the seed round for R.grid and to be supporting the amazing Dr. Amber Hill in her highflying healthtech startup . R.grid has built machine learning based software for medical research. Projects in this sector are complex, highly regulated exercises that involve many stakeholders…