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Haatch

Venture capital

London · Pre-Seed–Series A · 27 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Haatch backs UK founders at the early stage, positioning itself as an operator-led investor that has personally experienced the problems its portfolio companies address. The firm emphasizes real operator support to help founders accelerate quickly, focusing on startups solving deep, painful problems. Its portfolio spans B2B software, AI-driven tools, VR/AI training, ecommerce and sales technology. Haatch highlights the value of investors who have built and scaled businesses themselves, and continues to support companies across multiple rounds. It has worked with over 200 companies on their growth journeys.

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage
Pre-Seed–Series A
Check
$500K – $1M
HQ
London, GB
Leads rounds
Leads
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2013
Last 12 months
6 investments
AUM
$172M
Tracked investments
104

Team · 27 people

from the firm's website & public directories

Founder mafia

3 people who came through Haatch went on to found or lead other companies.

What they invest in

from 77 of 104 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×48SaaS ×46Fintech ×16Enterprise Software ×12Marketing Tech ×12Cybersecurity ×7Sales Tech ×7Data & Infrastructure ×6

HQs:United Kingdom×21United States×7Germany×1France×1India×1Netherlands×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 14 portfolio companies
86%
solo founders
12 of 14 mapped founding teams

Founding team size:solo founder×123 founders×14+ founders×1

Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program

Techstars ×2

Investments · 104 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2026 · 32025 · 62024 · 12023 · 212 dated

Breaking Changebreakingchange.gamesin✓ verified

Breaking Change is building a product for game studios, with references to workflow footage and studio pilots.

Gaming

Co-investorsDevelopment Bank of Wales

HOPLONaihoplonai.comin✓ verified

HOPLONai provides an AI-driven security platform that deploys and integrates protection tools (such as CrowdStrike and Sublime), collects and correlates telemetry across endpoints, email, cloud, identity, and network, and prioritizes risks for response.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS

1Se1se.co

1 Second Everyday is a video diary app that lets users capture short daily clips and automatically compile them into a personal timeline of highlights.

ConsumerMedia & Entertainment

AAZZURaazzur.comin𝕏

AAZZUR provides a platform for creating and integrating financial services, including neo-banking solutions for startups, embedded finance for corporates, and banking-as-a-service infrastructure.

Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSBerlin, DE

Philipp Buschmann(CEO)inMartin Damaske(COO/CFO)inLaura Kerturke(Head of Product)inRichard Unger(CTO)in

Co-investors1818 Venture CapitalGreat Stuff VenturesTechstars

AiApplyaiapply.co

An AI-powered job search platform that streamlines discovery, preparation, and application through personalized matching and application enhancement.

Aigizmoaigizmo.io
Airstrideairstride.aiin

Airstride is a partner relationship management (PRM) platform that helps B2B teams activate partners, register and approve deals, track partner-driven revenue, and pay partners.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

Anomeranomer.bioin
Anomer Bio

A biotech company developing immunotherapies targeting glycans via synthetic sugar therapeutics, initially for difficult-to-treat solid cancers.

Apicontextapicontext.comMar 2026

London

Niall Burns(Director)Lelah Manz(Director)Jamie Beckland(Executive Officer, Director)Nick Denny(Director)David O'Neill(Executive Officer, Director)Mayur Upadhyaya(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsRedbus Ventures

AUDIENCES

A first-party data activation platform enabling advertisers and marketers to navigate privacy regulations while maintaining addressability in digital advertising.

Augmetecaugmetec.comin

Augmetec develops LEIAA, an AI-powered platform for conducting internal and regulatory investigations, offering ethics reporting, investigation templates, automated report generation, document fraud detection, and case collaboration tools.

AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS

Co-investorsFuel Ventures14Peaks Capital

Ballparkballparkhq.comin𝕏

Ballpark operates an AI-powered research platform that conducts large-scale consumer surveys and qualitative interviews simultaneously.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSAmsterdam, NL

Murat Mutlu(Founder)in

Co-investorsBungalow CapitalInreach VenturesConnect Ventures

Betacitbetacit.com

Tacit is a University College London spinout that builds software to consolidate scattered building data, giving facilities management and estates teams live insights into site performance, cost, risk, and Net Zero progress.

AI & Machine LearningClimate TechPropTech

Co-investorsCorallia Ventures

Blueknightblueknight.ioin

Blue Knight provides an M&A intelligence platform built on a company dataset linked to verified transactions, using proprietary algorithms and a reasoning model for market benchmarking and buyer discovery.

AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS

Bodyswapsbodyswaps.coin

Bodyswaps offers a simulator for practising communication skills, letting educators build learning pathways with modules, roleplays, and assessments so students can prepare for real-world conversations.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaSLondon, GB

Co-investorsBoundary CapitalUfi VocTech Trust

Brydge AIbrydgeai.comin

Brydge is an AI-based order processing platform for wholesale operations that ingests order files in any format, extracts line items, validates them against a product catalog, and outputs them in the format required by the customer's ERP, OMS, or WMS.

AI & Machine LearningRetail TechSaaS

BuzzTrailbuzztrail.aiin

BuzzTrail builds AI-powered "Hyperhumans" — video avatars that engage, qualify, and convert inbound sales leads on video calls at scale.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

Capablycapably.aiin𝕏Apr 2025 · $4M

Capably provides enterprise AI automation using agentic AI to handle routine work and support critical tasks, offering a proprietary stack with governance, safety, and industry-tailored automation.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Nicolas Trésegnie(Co-Founder)Rafa Pulido(Chief Executive Officer)

Co-investorsBoost Capital PartnersAraya VenturesAscensionSure Valley VenturesWayra

Carelinelivecarelinelive.comin𝕏

CareLineLive provides all-in-one, cloud-based home care management software with three integrated platforms — a management system for rostering, invoicing and payroll, a carer companion app, and a Care Circle Portal for families — plus MOA Benchmarking compliance tools.

Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS

Josh Hough(Founder & Managing Director)

Certchaincertchain.aiDec 2025

Certchain is a standards-driven competence management platform that defines, verifies, and continuously evidences workforce competence and compliance against regulatory requirements.

AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechHR TechSaaS

Co-investorsUfi VocTech Trust

Choruschorus.aiSep 2025

Marlborough, US

RAYMOND DESABATO, JR.(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardKENNETH HEATER(Director)

Co-investorsSozo Ventures

Close Easycloseeasy.co.uk

CloseEasy provides a system to handle pre-appointment work for firms, replacing PDF document requests and email chasing with a structured process for collecting information from company directors.

Enterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaS

Dataline Labsdatalinelabs.comin

DataLine Labs makes MIRA AI, a data analytics tool that lets business users ask questions in plain English and get back charts, written conclusions, and cited SQL-backed answers drawn from connected data sources like CRMs, databases, spreadsheets, and cloud platforms.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

Co-investorsBritish Business Bank

Debug 10x fastermagentic.aiin𝕏

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-investorsCornerstone VC

Decima2

An AI marketing platform for small businesses using causal AI to measure ROI and build an agentic strategist that automates performance marketing.

Demandgeniusdemandgenius.com
Doflodoflo.comin𝕏Jul 2024

Glow (doflo.com) is an AI automation platform that lets non-technical business teams build workflows using drag-and-drop or text-to-workflow tools, running AI inside controlled, auditable workflow steps with human-in-the-loop approval.

AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaSLondon

William Butler(Executive Officer, Director)Wicher Thomas Maarseveen(Executive Officer, Director)

Dukuduku.aiin

Duku is an AI-agent-based testing tool that explores a product from its URL like real users, maps every state and transition into a coverage graph, and runs automated tests on critical user flows via a GitHub Action on each pull request.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSLondon, GB

Will Lewis(Founder)

Falkinfalkin.comin

Falkin provides scam and fraud protection tools that embed into digital platforms to detect, intercept, and respond to scams before money is transferred.

CybersecurityFintechSaaSLondon, GB

Boaz Valkin(Founder)

Co-investorsBackfuture Ventures, LlcFound CapitalFounders CapitalNotion Capital

Felkfelk.aiin

Felk offers an AI-native web application firewall (WAF) that uses machine learning and threat intelligence to detect and block attacks—including zero-day exploits, DDoS, and malicious bots—against websites, applications, and APIs in real time.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurity

FIORfior.groupin

FIOR is an AI agent enforcement gateway that assigns cryptographic identities to internal and external AI agents and enforces permitted scope on every action before execution, revoking policy breaches in under a millisecond.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareFintech

David Williams(Chairman & CEO)Dr. Barry Childe(CTO)Gareth Evans(CFO)Ayan Ghosh(Chief Business Officer)Jonathan Pope(Chief Commercial Officer)Ben Uprichard(Field CTO)

Flexaflexa.careersin

Flexa is a job and company search platform that lets candidates find roles and employers based on lifestyle preferences and ways of working, including a matching quiz and company culture profiles.

Future of WorkHR TechMarketplaces

Co-investorsAllied Venture PartnersAuxxoForefront VentureRedbus VenturesAda Ventures

Flowstateflowstate.incin

flowstate is a financial operations platform that tracks, attributes, and forecasts AI spending across an organization's human and AI workforce, tying every token to a person, project, and cost centre.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintech

Four/Fourfourfour.aiin

Four/Four is a customer intelligence platform that analyzes customer conversations and feedback across channels to surface patterns, pains, and opportunities for product, growth, and revenue teams.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

frntfrnt.coin𝕏

Frnt provides analytics and optimization tools for live shopping on TikTok Shop, enabling brands to measure performance, analyze audience engagement, and improve conversion through detailed session insights.

Direct to ConsumerE-commerceMarketing TechSaaSLondon, GB

Boran Cakir(Founder)in

Co-investorsTechstarsAntler

Fulfilmentfulfilment.comin

fulfilment.com is a matching platform that helps DTC and ecommerce brands find and compare vetted third-party logistics (3PL) fulfilment providers based on product type, order volume, shipping destinations, and budget.

B2B MarketplacesE-commerceLogistics & Supply Chain

Co-investorsBlackfinch Ventures

Fundinfundin.aiin

Fundin offers an AI bid-writing platform combined with human fundraising managers that helps organisations find and apply for grants and tenders.

AI & Machine LearningSaaS

Hakulabshakulabs.comin

Haku is a sales intelligence platform that builds custom buying signals and ideal customer profiles, then waterfalls through 15+ data providers to find, enrich, and validate contacts and draft outbound messaging.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

Happlhappl.comin𝕏May 2026 · $11M

Happl is an AI-native platform that helps global companies manage, automate, and personalize employee benefits across multiple countries.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR TechInsurTechSaaSLondon, GB

Ben Towers(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Combinator6 Degrees CapitalAscensionPitchdrivePortage VenturesVentures Together

Hull

Atlanta, US

Romain Dardour(Director)Stephane Bellity(Director)Stefan Koenig(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsSerena

hyperGTMhypergtm.comin𝕏

hyperGTM offers a managed 1:1 account-based marketing service that uses AI agents combined with events and direct mail to book meetings with executives at Global 2000 companies.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSales Tech

Co-investorsSarah Smith

Impact Advantage

A SaaS platform that quantifies a company's social, employee, and environmental impact into monetary value, translating sustainability into competitive advantage.

Inicio AIinicio.aiin𝕏Apr 2025

Inicio AI offers Budgie, a specialist conversational AI virtual agent that conducts income and expenditure affordability assessments with consumers 24/7.

AI & Machine LearningFintech

Rachel Curtis(CEO)

Co-investorsAngel AcademeFuture Planet CapitalMint VenturesMorgan Stanley

Innex

An AI platform helping NHS healthcare infrastructure teams navigate complex guidance, meet compliance requirements, and streamline compliance-focused workflows.

Innteloinntelo.comin𝕏Jul 2025

Inntelo AI is an AI-native platform for the hospitality and real estate sectors that combines agentic and conversational AI to handle guest communications, operations and planning, personalisation and upselling, and a customer data platform.

AI & Machine LearningPropTechSaaS

Asif Alidina(Founder)in

Co-investorsAntlerBritish Business BankLook AI Ventures

Insightologyinsightology.ai
Instamoinstamo.co.uk

Instamo offers FastSubmit, a browser-native autofill tool that populates mortgage application fields inside existing lender/intermediary portals, letting advisors review and approve every entry before submission.

FintechSaaS

Iridalabsiridalabs.comin𝕏

Irida Labs builds PerCV.ai, an end-to-end platform and tools to develop and deploy edge Vision AI sensors and solutions, with software suites for use cases such as Industry 4.0 and smart cities.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechIoT

Jammjarjammjar.com

JammJar is an AI-powered admin and CRM platform for UK mortgage advisors that turns client calls into fact finds, checks and packages uploaded documents, and drafts suitability reports and client communications.

AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSLondon, GB

Karl Griffin(Co-Founder & CEO)

Jurniijurnii.io

Jurnii offers an AI-powered benchmarking platform (Jurnii UX and Jurnii 360) that analyzes digital customer experience across usability, performance, and customer journeys, comparing brands against competitors on industry-specific data points.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS

Kinvaultkinvault.comin

Kinvault provides a secure UK-based digital platform and personalised handover service that stores wills, financial, legal, practical and personal information so families and executors can locate and understand a person's affairs after death.

FintechLegalTechSaaS

Landscapelandscape.vcin𝕏

Landscape is an AI platform that helps venture capital firms, angel investors, family offices, and business development teams discover and analyze early-stage private market companies.

AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS

Co-investorsDouble DownMS&AD Ventures

Leafrleafr.comin

Leafr is a marketplace connecting companies with vetted freelance sustainability consultants across disciplines such as carbon accounting, life cycle assessment, ESG reporting, CSRD compliance, climate risk, nature strategy, and fractional CSO leadership.

B2B MarketplacesClimate TechFuture of Work

Letsqalaletsqala.comin𝕏

Qala AI provides a governance control plane that continuously reconciles policy intent with live engineering systems, mapping sensitive data flows across services, APIs, and integrations to detect drift and hidden data exposure.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & Infrastructure

Maatappmaatapp.comin

MAAT is a gym management software for combat sports academies, handling memberships, payments, scheduling, and student sign-ups.

FintechSaaSSports Tech

Marteemartee.aiin

Martee AI provides a machine-learning demand forecasting and ordering platform for food-to-go and fresh food retailers, integrating with POS systems to generate automated production plans and order volumes that reduce waste and improve availability.

AI & Machine LearningFoodTechRetail Tech

Co-investorsGreat Stuff Ventures

Medfinmedfin.aiin

Medfin is an AI-powered business intelligence platform for dental practices that connects practice management software, accounting tools, and plan providers to standardise data into a single source of truth.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthSaaS

Matthew Manin

Co-investorsOctopus VenturesAxilor VenturesBlume VenturesHealthXCapital

Mia AI

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Haatch made?
Haatch has 98 tracked investments, including 9 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does Haatch invest at?
Haatch invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
What is Haatch's typical check size?
Haatch typically writes checks of $500K – $1M.
What sectors does Haatch focus on?
Haatch focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Climate Tech, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, E-commerce, EdTech, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Future of Work, Healthtech, Marketing Tech, Retail Tech, SaaS, Sales Tech.
Where is Haatch located?
Haatch is headquartered in London, GB.
Does Haatch lead rounds?
Yes, Haatch leads investment rounds.
Who does Haatch co-invest with?
Haatch most often shares deals with Cornerstone VC, Great Stuff Ventures, Redbus Ventures, among 36 tracked co-investors.

Media · Podcasts & interviews

featuring the team

Why invest in B2B startups? – Fred Soneya, Haatch SEIS

Wealth Club · Fred Soneya

Why invest in seed-stage B2B companies? Fred Soneya, Haatch | Meet The Investor

Wealth Club · Fred Soneya

Jonathan Keeling - Partner, Haatch: Capital efficiency matters more than ever.

VENTURES with Viraj Acharya · Jonathan Keeling

Investing in seed-stage companies – Fred Soneya, Haatch SEIS Fund

Wealth Club · Fred Soneya

[2022] Mark Bennett, Haatch Ventures SEIS

Wealth Club · Mark Bennett

[2021] Simon Penson, Haatch Ventures SEIS Fund – Meet the manager

Wealth Club · Simon Penson

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Co-investors · 25

Antler

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Both backed · 2
$3M – $10M
Inreach Ventures

InReach Ventures is an early-stage venture firm using its own AI platform to source and back Europe's most promising founders, investing at MVP stage with signs of user engagement.

Both backed · 2
$615K – $2.5M
Notion Capital

Notion Capital is a B2B software-focused venture capital firm built by operators, backing SaaS, cloud and enterprise technology companies.

Both backed · 1
$1M – $100M
Playfair Capital

Playfair Capital is a pre-seed technology investor operating as a generalist fund. The firm focuses on early-stage technology companies.

Both backed · 1
$130K – $1.9M
Ada Ventures

Ada Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs early-stage founders, offering support such as back-up childcare, founder welfare resources, a growth specialist for sales and go-to-market, and a dedicated talent partner to help build teams.

Both backed · 1
Flexa
$317.5K – $1.3M
Fuel Ventures

Fuel Ventures is an investor founded by entrepreneur Mark Pearson that backs fast-growing technology companies, drawing on its team's operational and founding experience to support portfolio companies. It also runs a VCT listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Both backed · 1
$317.5K – $9.5M
Andreessen Horowitz

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.

$500K – $50M
Everywhere Ventures

Everywhere Ventures is an early-stage venture firm, backed by a community of founders and operators as LPs, that writes early checks (including pre-seed) into startups across many sectors and geographies.

$250K
Soma Capital

Soma Capital is a venture capital firm that partners early with founders, emphasizing close relationships and running a fellows program for those just getting started.

$100K – $300K
Atlas Venture

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.

$500K – $1M
Homebrew

Homebrew is an early-stage venture firm backing mission-driven founders, investing its own capital primarily at the pre-seed and seed stages.

$100K – $500K
HV Capital

HV Capital is a European multistage venture capital firm that backs founders from the first check through IPO, investing across consumer, software, deep tech and AI.

$540K – $54M
13 more co-investors

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