RLC Ventures
Venture capitalLondon · Pre-Seed–Series B · 2 people tracked
Investment thesis
RLC Ventures (operating a pre-seed offering called Concept) backs founders at the earliest stage, writing first cheques of up to $1.5m without requiring traction or market consensus. Its philosophy treats pre-seed as a deliberate focus rather than a placeholder, prioritizing conviction and early belief in founders. The firm emphasizes streamlined, standard term sheets so founders can focus on building instead of negotiating. It also highlights a 'founders backing founders' model, in which roughly 70% of its portfolio entrepreneurs have become investors in the fund, creating a network where successful founders support the next generation.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 16, 2026.
Team · 2 people
from the firm's website & public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 29 of 45 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×20SaaS ×15Enterprise Software ×9Developer Tools ×5Gaming ×4Data & Infrastructure ×3HR Tech ×3Advanced Manufacturing ×2
HQs:United Kingdom×4United States×2
Investments · 45 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathLed by Caoimhe Murphy (ex-Hubspot & Synthesia, CEO).
Led by Nino D'Adhemar, serial founder and CEO.
Archestra is an open-source, self-hosted platform for building and running AI agents, providing agentic chat, server-side sandboxed agent runtimes, an MCP orchestrator on Kubernetes, permission-aware RAG, LLM/MCP proxies with secret management, security guardrails, and observability.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Founded by Aneesh Varma, an exited founder.
Arondite builds AI and software solutions for defence and government customers, drawing on technical and operational expertise from the military, defence contractors, and technology sector.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDefense TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Will Blyth(Co-founder & CEO)inRob Underhill(Co-founder & CTO)in
Founded by Nick D'Alosio, serial founder with 2 exits.
Associated with Nic Tresegnie, CTO (ex-Epic & Superawesome).
Founding chairman Felix Leuschener, serial founder.
Concept is a pre-seed venture capital fund that invests up to $1.5m in first funding rounds for early-stage founders, with a focus on Europe.
Dash Games develops casual mobile games, starting with Puzzle Punks, a player-versus-player match-3 game for iOS and Android.
Gaming
Dex is an AI-powered recruiting platform that matches software engineers with relevant job opportunities through curated role recommendations and direct access to hiring teams, eliminating traditional application processes.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS
Paddy Lambros(CEO & Co-founder)
Digital Iron is an AI platform for heavy machinery aftersales teams, offering tools for troubleshooting, parts lookup, job quoting, and identifying recurring service issues.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningSaaS
ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company that builds voice generation and audio processing platforms for creating human-like voice interactions with technology.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Mati Staniszewski(Founder & CEO)
Landmark Games develops games, as indicated by its branding and mission statement on the website.
Gaming
Founded by Ross Targett, a 2x exited founder who sold to Roblox.
Ontik provides a platform for trade suppliers that automates invoice chasing, payment collection, and reconciliation across SMS, email, and letter, syncing settled payments back to the customer's ERP.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
PeopleForce is an HR management platform that automates tasks such as onboarding, offboarding, time tracking, applicant tracking, performance reviews, and employee engagement surveys.
Future of WorkHR TechSaaS
Playgap provides a predictive AI SDK for mobile game developers that identifies likely payers in real time and promotes in-app products instead of standard ads during ad requests.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningGamingLondon
Luke Aviet(Director)Dzmitry Roznouski(Director)
Playter is a payments platform that lets businesses use credit funding to add flexible payment terms to their bills and offer flexible terms to their own customers.
FintechSaaS
Skiller Whale delivers intensive micro-workshops led by expert practitioners to help engineering teams develop skills through hands-on learning and experiential education.
Developer ToolsEdTechEnterprise SoftwareHR Tech
Hywel Carver(Founder)in
Sohar Health is a front-end revenue cycle management platform that uses technology and machine learning to automate insurance claims processing for healthcare providers.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechNew York City, US
Dr Ashish Mandavia MD(Founder)inLucas Gordon(Founder)inAshish Mandavia(MD)in
Superlinked builds SIE, an open-source inference engine that runs specialized AI models on shared GPUs, enabling organizations to reduce API costs and improve control over their AI infrastructure for search and document processing workloads.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
DanielBen
Track Titan is a sim racing coaching platform that records players' in-game telemetry and uses guided Coaching Flows to identify where they lose time on a lap and how to correct it.
AI & Machine LearningGamingSports Tech
Vsim builds simulation technology and software for robotics, letting AI agents learn to solve complex tasks in accurately simulated worlds much faster than before.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRobotics
Verax provides a platform to help enterprises securely adopt generative AI, offering real-time visibility, governance, and policy enforcement across AI usage while maintaining compliance and data protection.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Leo Feinberg(Co-founder & CEO)inOren Gev(Co-founder & CTO)in
Founded by Michelle Lu & Kier Storey, ex-NVIDIA PhDs.
Waypoint is a commodity trading and data platform for procuring fertilisers and commodity chemicals in international markets, offering integrated multimodal freight, operations, documentation, and financing.
B2B MarketplacesLogistics & Supply ChainNew Materials
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesDex · thesaasnews.com · Jun 2, 2026
Captur · londonstockexchange.com · Mar 11, 2026
Arondite · trysignalbase.com · Sep 29, 2025
Sohar Health · finance.yahoo.com · Sep 23, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does RLC Ventures invest at?
- RLC Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B stages.
- What is RLC Ventures's typical check size?
- RLC Ventures typically writes checks of $1.5M.
- What sectors does RLC Ventures focus on?
- RLC Ventures focuses on Enterprise Software, Marketing Tech, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is RLC Ventures located?
- RLC Ventures is headquartered in London, GB.
- Does RLC Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, RLC Ventures leads investment rounds.


