Bloc Ventures
Venture capitalLondon · Seed–Late Stage · 12 people tracked
Investment thesis
Bloc is a specialist deep tech investor that backs ambitious entrepreneurs building products spanning cloud, connectivity, data science and security, technologies with the potential to impact multiple industries. Its portfolio comprises companies pushing boundaries in areas such as AI, wireless connectivity and supercomputing. The team is made up of engineers and technology enthusiasts with decades of business-building experience at companies including Arm and Vodafone, and they leverage their operational expertise and commercial relationships to help startups realise their potential. Bloc invests in teams it believes in, technology it is enthusiastic about, and markets it values.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 12 people
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What they invest in
from 10 of 20 portfolio companiesDeep Tech ×6AI & Machine Learning ×4Hardware ×3Cybersecurity ×2Enterprise Software ×2SaaS ×2Advanced Manufacturing ×1Cloud Computing ×1
HQs:United Kingdom×3United States×3
Investments · 20 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2020 · 12015 · 12 dated
Arteris licenses interconnect IP and software products used in system-on-chip design, serving semiconductor and electronics customers in the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
Deep TechHardwareSemiconductorsCampbell, US
K. Charles Janac(President and Chief Executive Officer)Craig Forrest(Chief Technology Officer)Amy Miller(General Counsel)Kent Orthner(Vice President of Engineering)Stephane Mehat(Chief Financial Officer)David Mertens(Worldwide Vice President of Sales)
Co-investorsQualcomm VenturesVentech10x FoundersSEI Ventures
UK developer of 5G physical layer and channel coding IP for satellite non-terrestrial networks, spun out of the University of Southampton.
Co-investorsParkwalk AdvisorsIQ Capital
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersCenterview Capital TechnologyCRV (Charles River Ventures)Matrix
Co-investorsOxford Investment Opportunity Network (OION)
Evolving Systems provides software solutions for telecom operators (CSPs), including service activation (Tertio), number management, an AI-driven campaign management marketplace, and customer engagement and marketing decisioning tools.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
San Francisco, US
Amir Haleem(Executive Officer, Director)Rob Chandhok(Executive Officer, Director)Shawn Fanning(Director)
BoardJoichi Ito(Director)Bruce Armstrong(Director)Andrew Wheeler(Director)
Helix Geospace develops patented helical GNSS antennas (Dielectrix) and anti-jamming CRPx technology for resilient Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) applications.
Deep TechDefense TechHardware
Co-investorsFuture Planet CapitalUK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
Improbable is a venture builder and technology company that creates and scales ventures in AI, Web3, and the metaverse, drawing on over a decade of experience in large-scale multiplayer technology and virtual worlds.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Deep TechCambridge, GB
Herman Narula(Founder)Rob Whitehead(Co-founder)Aaron Alexander Neale(Executive Officer)Patrick Andrew Timoney(Executive Officer)Samuel Mark Kalnins(Executive Officer)Peter Richard Lipka(Chief Operating Officer)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzHorizons VenturesTemaseka16z cryptoConversion CapitalDigital Currency Group+2 more
Mindtrace builds computer-vision AI using its Brain-Sense framework, which processes visual information from minimal data through unsupervised few-shot and continuous learning.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareManchester, GB
Chery Golden(Director)Hoon Mo Chung(Executive Officer, Director)Hoon Chung(CEO)Hossein Yassaie(Chairman)
BoardHossein Sir Yassaie(Director)
MobileIron develops a mobile-centric, zero trust platform for unified endpoint management (UEM) that controls access to business resources.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US
Ajay Mishra(Founder)inSuresh Batchu(Founder)inLaurel Finch(Executive Officer)Robert Tinker(Executive Officer, Director)Aaref Hilaly(Director)Matthew D. Howard(Director)
Co-investorsEastlink Capital PartnersFIRSTFLOOR CAPITALNorwest Venture PartnersRuna CapitalToba CapitalWing+3 more
Shield-IoT offers ShieldEdge, an agentless AI SaaS platform that provides asset visibility, threat detection, and regulatory compliance for connected edge devices across IoT, OT, and IT networks.
CybersecurityIoTSaaS
Co-investorsFuture Energy VenturesJoule VenturesNextLeap VenturesTachles VC
Qualcomm Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of Qualcomm, investing in early- to growth-stage technology companies across AI, automotive, mobile, enterprise and data center, and smart systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep Tech
YellowDog provides on-demand, large-scale compute orchestration across cloud and on-premise resources, enabling workloads such as drug discovery to run on supercomputer-scale infrastructure.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeep Tech
Co-investorsBristol Private Equity Club
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioArterisNASDAQ: AIP
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Arteris · aol.com · Aug 13, 2026
YellowDog · yellowdog.ai · Mar 25, 2025
Principals & officers · per Companies House
what is this? ⓘDirector · American · since 2017
Director · British · since 2018
Director · British · since 2021
Director · British · since 2017
Director · British · since 2021
Director · British · since 2017
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Bloc Ventures made?
- Bloc Ventures has 22 tracked investments, 3 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
- What stage does Bloc Ventures invest at?
- Bloc Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth, Late Stage stages.
- What is Bloc Ventures's typical check size?
- Bloc Ventures typically writes checks of $1.3M – $6.3M.
- What sectors does Bloc Ventures focus on?
- Bloc Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Quantum Computing, Semiconductors.
- Where is Bloc Ventures located?
- Bloc Ventures is headquartered in London, GB.
- Who does Bloc Ventures co-invest with?
- Bloc Ventures most often shares deals with Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, CRV (Charles River Ventures), among 27 tracked co-investors.
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