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Cornerstone VC
Venture capitalLondon · Pre-Seed–Series A · 12 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Cornerstone VC aims to build an open venture environment where tech founders from any background can approach the firm at any time for feedback. It places strong emphasis on team quality and diversity as a key determinant of investment decisions. The firm invests across health tech, carbon tech, supply chain and logistics, proptech and infrastructure, enterprise software, machine learning/AI, fintech, edtech and skills, networks and marketplaces, online communities, web 3.0, social, adtech and martech. It backs companies from pre-seed through pre-Series A and actively follows its money as companies grow.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 12 people
from the firm's website & curated & public directories
What they invest in
from 25 of 27 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×13SaaS ×13Fintech ×9Enterprise Software ×6Digital Health ×4Healthtech ×4Marketing Tech ×3Marketplaces ×3
HQs:United Kingdom×12United Arab Emirates×1United States×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 16 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×72 founders×9
Where their founders studiedfrom 18 founders with education data
University of Warwick ×3EPFL ×2University of Oxford ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 17 founders with field-of-study data
Economics ×7Engineering ×5Business & Management ×4Computer Science ×3Finance & Accounting ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 20 founders with career history
Goldman Sachs ×4Butlr ×2Deutsche Bank ×2Google ×2Idiap Research Institute ×2Meta ×2Perfocal ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 27 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 42024 · 32023 · 210 dated
Aster provides patient management software and agentic AI voice tools for healthcare providers.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Co-investorsCake VenturesEverywhere VenturesOctopus VenturesCambrian VenturesIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)Sequoia Capital+2 more
Audiomob provides audio ad formats that let brands and artists reach users inside mobile apps across streaming, social media, podcasts, and gaming.
AdTechGamingMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentLondon, GB
Christian Facey(Founder)inWilfrid Obeng(Founder)in
Co-investorsDigerati InvestmentsFlucas VenturesHoaQKube VCLightspeed Venture PartnersMakers Fund+2 more
Bracket provides a treasury management platform that connects to banks and ERPs to consolidate financial data and automate workflows, offering cash visibility, FX exposure capture, hedging insights, and forecasting.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSUK, GB
Co-investorsFailup VenturesBlackfinch Ventures
By Rotation is a fashion rental platform that allows consumers to rent designer clothing and lend or monetize their own wardrobes.
Circular EconomyConsumerMarketplaces
Eshita Kabra(Founder)in
Co-investorsRedrice VenturesSie VenturesTrue.Cherry VenturesClosed Loop PartnersTrue Global Ventures
Capsa builds an AI platform for private capital firms that indexes a firm's documents, communications, and decisions into a single knowledge layer to support due diligence and investment analysis.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Danyal ÖzdüzencilerinCallum Downiein
Co-investorsAdelineAntlerOutward VCTrueSight Ventures
Checkboard provides a verified digital identity platform that enables users to authenticate across multiple services without repeatedly submitting identity documents.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Co-investorsBeringeaDeepbridge Capital
ComplyStream builds AI-native compliance and financial-crime operations software, including agentic workflows for KYB/KYC onboarding, fraud detection, and dispute resolution in B2B payments.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Kartik Dabbiru(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsAscension
Definely is an AI-powered legal technology platform that helps legal teams create, draft, and review contracts.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS
Nnamdi Emelifeonwu(Co-Founder and CEO)inFeargus MacDaeid(Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesCRE Venture CapitalM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Octopus VenturesRaine
Evaro provides a white-label healthcare platform that lets consumer brands and healthcare companies add prescription treatment services, handling clinical consultations, prescription fulfilment, aftercare, and regulatory compliance.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaSNorwich, GB
Dr Thuria Wenbar(CEO & Co-founder)Dr Oskar Wenbar(COO & Co-Founder)
Co-investorsAlbionVCExceptional VenturesLifeX VenturesSimplyhealth Ventures
AI-powered image generation platform that learns a brand's visual style from sample images and generates on-brand illustrations, variations, and animated assets.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing Tech
Tonia Samsonova(Founder)in
Co-investorsInreach VenturesSpeedinvestXTX Markets
FLAIR provides equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) education for schools and Trusts, including self-directed e-learning courses for staff and a full EDI curriculum with lesson plans for Key Stages 2-5.
EdTechImpact & Social GoodLondon, GB
Cristian Mercado Gallardo(Founder)
Co-investorsHoxton VenturesSamos Investments
Gladys operates an online platform that connects families directly with local carers and helpers for at-home elderly and social care, cutting out agency overheads to lower costs for families and increase carer pay.
B2B MarketplacesDigital HealthHealthtechMarketplacesBristol, GB
George Robinson(CEO)inAlex(Chief Operating Officer)
Co-investorsAntlerEmbryo VenturesUfi VocTech TrustExceptional VenturesHoughton Street Ventures
Healthtech1 offers Bookable, a patient booking and care-navigation tool that helps GP practices in the UK surface appointment availability, register and navigate patients, and grow their patient list with reduced administrative work.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaSLondon, GB
Raj Paul(Founder)inPeter Huang(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorEight CapitalMoonfire Ventures
Jarvis is a pension and retirement planning platform that helps UK workers, contractors, and individuals estimate their real retirement age and the lifestyle they can afford.
FintechSaaS
Co-investorsAscension VenturesTokio Marine Future Fund
Leeroo builds Uniforge, a platform that uses autonomous AI agents to connect enterprise data, resolve it into actionable models, and act on insights without requiring manual ETL pipeline development.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareLondon, GB
Alireza Mohammadshahi(Founder)inMajid Yazdani(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
Litehaus provides an AI-powered intelligence platform that analyzes property parcels worldwide, integrating zoning, planning, regulatory, and financial data to help investors and developers quickly assess land development opportunities.
AI & Machine LearningPropTech
Co-investorsExplorer InvestmentsLong Journey Ventures
Magentic makes FlowLens, a browser tool and MCP server that records bugs — capturing video, network requests, console logs, user actions, storage state, and system info — and packages them into a single shareable link for developers and AI coding agents.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Co-investorsHaatch
Monq builds an AI-powered intelligence tool for procurement teams, identifying negotiation leverage, monitoring supply risks, and providing market intelligence to help negotiate deals faster and at better terms.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSLondon, GB
Yasin B.(Founder)in
Co-investorsOctopus VenturesOutward VCRevo CapitalPortfolio Ventures
Passionfruit is a B2B marketing agency that produces content, short-form video, and runs in-person events for enterprise and high-growth clients.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaSNew York, US
Raffi Salama(Founder)in
Co-investorsFJ LabsPortfolio Venturesfirstminute capitalPlayfair CapitalSeaya
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Ryft is a UK-based, FCA-regulated payment services provider offering embedded payment infrastructure for marketplaces, platforms and omnichannel businesses, with features like automated split payments, seller onboarding, recurring billing, escrow and transaction monetisation.
FintechMarketplacesSaaSUK, GB
Co-investorsEdenBaseSFC CapitalRedbus VenturesThe SidebySide PartnershipVictorumBessemer Venture Partners+1 more
Smart Bricks provides analytical intelligence and advisory services to institutional real estate investors to support their investment decision-making.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureFintechPropTechDubai, AE
Co-investorsTechstarsNVIDIA500 GlobalDuke Capital PartnersNetwork VCSouth Loop Ventures+3 more
Sprive is a fintech app that helps UK mortgage holders pay off their debt faster by automating overpayments from everyday shopping with partnered retailers.
B2B MarketplacesFintechUnited Kingdom, GB
Saad Hashim(Founder)inJinesh Vohra(CEO)in
Co-investorsActive PartnersAscensionChannel 4 VenturesTwo MagnoliasVelocity Capital Advisors
Sticky provides a developer-friendly payments platform that embeds commerce and checkout directly into existing business software and applications.
E-commerceFintechSaaS
Co-investorsNorthzoneDawn CapitalPraetura VenturesSFC Capital
Storia is a journaling app that uses guided prompts (check-in, gratitude, daily reflection) and an AI companion to help users process emotions and track their emotional wellbeing.
AI & Machine LearningMental HealthWellness & Fitness
Elizabeth(Founder)
Co-investorsSixth Sense Ventures
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
ForkForgePlusheat
Exits · 1
1 acquisitionsAsteracq. by Elation
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesSmart Bricks · thesaasnews.com · Jun 23, 2026
Bracket · finsmes.com · Feb 12, 2026
Monq · eu-startups.com · Nov 26, 2025
Litehaus · finsmes.com · Jun 2, 2025
Leeroo · ycombinator.com · May 29, 2025
Sprive · finsmes.com · Apr 30, 2025
Ryft · pymnts.com · Apr 9, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Cornerstone VC made?
- Cornerstone VC has 27 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited, including 5 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Cornerstone VC invest at?
- Cornerstone VC invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Cornerstone VC's typical check size?
- Cornerstone VC typically writes checks of $317.5K.
- What sectors does Cornerstone VC focus on?
- Cornerstone VC focuses on AdTech, AI & Machine Learning, Climate Tech, Consumer, Crypto & Web3, EdTech, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Future of Work, Healthtech, Logistics & Supply Chain, Marketing Tech, Marketplaces, PropTech, Retail Tech, SaaS, Social.
- Where is Cornerstone VC located?
- Cornerstone VC is headquartered in London, GB.
- Does Cornerstone VC lead rounds?
- Cornerstone VC typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Cornerstone VC co-invest with?
- Cornerstone VC most often shares deals with Octopus Ventures, Ascension, Haatch, among 45 tracked co-investors.
Co-investors · 17
Octopus Ventures is a founder-focused European venture capital firm that backs mission-driven startups across seven core sectors, investing from idea stage through growth with a focus on pre-seed to Series A.
SFC Capital is a UK-based early-stage investor operating SEIS and EIS tax-efficient funds and an Angel House membership programme, backing seed-stage startups.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, known for pioneering the platform model with a large team of operators supporting founders across stages.
Everywhere Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that writes pre-seed checks and is backed by a community of founder and operator LPs.
firstminute capital is an early-stage venture fund providing the first institutional cheque to European founders building global technology companies across AI and deep tech.
Playfair Capital is a pre-seed technology investor operating as a generalist fund. The firm focuses on early-stage technology companies.
Ascension Ventures manages capital and presents itself as an investor connected to a large health system network, referencing hundreds of acute care hospitals and a substantial employee base.
Seaya Ventures is a venture capital firm with offices in Madrid and Mexico City that invests in technology companies in Europe and Latin America. The firm focuses on early-stage entrepreneurs building companies with global expansion potential.
Sterling Road is an early-stage investor that provides first-check capital and hands-on coaching to founders, typically starting with a $50k day-one investment and following on in later rounds.
Cake Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in companies addressing demographic change and serving emerging internet user populations. The firm focuses on early-stage technology companies in this space.
Atlas Venture is a life sciences venture capital firm with three decades of experience investing in and building biotech and medical innovation companies, including startups launched from its own incubator.
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