We are so happy to announce that long-time collaborator Michael Tefula has joined the Ada Ventures team as an Investor-in-Residence. Check and I have known Michael for a long time. He came on board at Ada Ventures as a Venture Partner in 2020 and joined the second cohort of Ada…

Ada Ventures has led a £2m investment round in Materials Nexus, an AI company which finds replacements for composite materials, metallic compounds and rare earths. It was founded by Jonathan Bean, a physicist based at the University of Cambridge. Materials Nexus is a unique deep-tech company, with the potential to…

Our latest investment out of Fund 2 is under our Climate theme: Greenworkx! This is a pre-seed stage company, building a marketplace for training and jobs in the green economy. The company was founded my Mat Ilic and Richard Ng who lead a team that has deep domain and relevant…

Today we are delighted to share that Ada Ventures led a £2.3M seed round for BlakBear, a London-based food quality technology business. Joining us in this round were Green Circle Capital (NYC), Ponderosa Ventures (London), Tom Sturgess (CA) and Remus Capital (Boston). BlakBear has developed patented sensor technology that is…

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. …