Phoenix Court
Venture capitalLondon · Pre-Seed–Late Stage · 17 people tracked
Investment thesis
Phoenix Court is a multi-stage investment company backing exceptional founders with uncommon belief from day one through to public markets. It operates three stage-focused funds: LocalGlobe, its seed fund backing Europe's most ambitious founders from the outset; Latitude, its breakout-stage fund supporting high-growth companies at Series B and beyond; and Solar, its scale-stage fund partnering late private rounds into public markets. The firm aims to accompany founders across the full journey while giving them freedom and trust, stepping in with hands-on support when asked.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 17 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 6 of 19 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×3Enterprise Software ×3Deep Tech ×2Fintech ×2B2B Marketplaces ×1Biotech ×1Consumer ×1Cybersecurity ×1
HQs:United Kingdom×2United States×2
Investments · 19 tracked
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At-Bay provides cyber insurance and risk management technology for businesses of all sizes, combining insurance products with cybersecurity expertise and monitoring to help companies prevent and manage digital risks.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareInsurTech
Rotem Iram(Co-founder & CEO)Roman Itskovich(Co-founder & Chief Risk Officer)
A complete community platform.
Phoenix Court is a multi-stage venture capital investment firm backing founders across pre-seed, seed, breakout, and scale stages.
Motorway is a marketplace platform where individual sellers list vehicles and over 8,000 verified car dealers compete to purchase them, helping sellers achieve better prices for their cars.
B2B MarketplacesDirect to ConsumerLogistics & Supply ChainMarketplacesMobility & TransportationSector AgnosticBrighton, GB
Tom Leathes(Founder)Harry Jones(Founder)Alex Buttle(Founder)
Parsed trains and deploys specialized large language models tailored to a customer's domain and workflow, using an evaluation-first, continual-learning approach aimed at outperforming general-purpose models while being cheaper and faster.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise Software
Mudith Jayasekara(Co-founder & CEO)Charles O'Neill(Co-founder & CSO)Max Kirkby(Co-founder)Paras Stefanopoulos(CTO)
Payments company aiming to make payments free.
Corporate travel management solution offering comprehensive oversight and optimization of company travel needs.
Exits · 2
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioFigmaNYSE: FIGParsedacq. by Baseten
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesLightspeed · techcrunch.com · Aug 5, 2026
Motorway · total-croatia-news.com · Jul 2, 2026
Melio · blog.mexc.com · Jul 2, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Phoenix Court invest at?
- Phoenix Court invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage stages.
- What sectors does Phoenix Court focus on?
- Phoenix Court focuses on Impact & Social Good, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Phoenix Court located?
- Phoenix Court is headquartered in London, GB.
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Co-investors · 58
LocalGlobe is part of a multi-generational Phoenix Court platform that backs companies from pre-seed through public markets, founded by the Klein family who are considered founders of European seed investing with multi-decade relationships across the European tech ecosystem. The fund operates from a physical founder village at Phoenix Court in London and focuses on backing unconventional entrepreneurs in specific geographic neighbourhoods, having been among the earliest institutional backers of European outliers like Wise, Zoopla, and Citymapper.
Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs from early stages through every stage of growth, publishing investment roadmaps across multiple technology sectors.
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm known for backing bold, contrarian bets in world-class teams that can reshape entire industries.
Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs founders across the globe, investing in the people behind ideas from early through later stages.
Founder Collective is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on seed and pre-seed investments across all sectors.
Balderton Capital's portfolio page listing companies it has backed across stages, sectors, and geographies, primarily in Europe.
Andreessen Horowitz's Strategic Partnerships page describes collaborations that connect its portfolio companies with established institutions to help scale and deploy their technology.
Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in companies building transformative technologies.
Craft Ventures is a venture capital firm founded and run by former founders, operators, and investors who provide startups with hands-on support, senior talent access, and proven scaling playbooks.
Greylock Partners is a venture capital firm that backs founders at the earliest stages, often as their first investor before a product exists.
Techstars is a startup accelerator and early-stage investor that funds ambitious founders and provides capital, mentorship, and access to a global network of investors, operators, and corporate partners.
Redpoint Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 1999 by former partners from leading venture firms, focusing on early-stage technology companies across multiple sectors. The firm leverages its partners' technology investment experience and an extensive network of entrepreneurs and industry contacts to support portfolio company growth.
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Uncork CapitalBenchmarkSV AngelFirst Round CapitalUberCoatue ManagementTrue VenturesDST GlobalAtomicoUnion Square Ventures (USV)SciFi VCFreestyle CapitalKapor CapitalFlybridge Capital PartnersInovia CapitalPractical Venture CapitalIA VenturesAbstract VenturesLowercase CapitalSocial LeverageUpfront VenturesGSV AccelerationEntree CapitalBetaworks Ventures Management, LlcOutlander VCWorklife Ventures8-Bit CapitalViola VenturesTarget GlobalValar Ventures LlcKohlberg Kravis Roberts9Yards Capitalfirstminute capitalOctopus VenturesVitalStage Ventures.406 VenturesActon CapitalWestern Technology InvestmentCambridge Innovation CapitalExpon CapitalBoltCSC Venture CapitalGPO FundLaunchCapitalGovtech FundLool Ventures
Firms observed investing alongside Phoenix Court, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Phoenix Court's recorded portfolio.
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