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RLC Ventures

Venture capital

London · Pre-Seed–Series B · 2 people tracked

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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.

Stage
Pre-Seed–Series B
Check
$1.5M
HQ
London, GB
Leads rounds
Leads
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2016
Tracked investments
45

Team · 2 people

from the firm's website & public directories
Gloria Yu· COO

COO associated with portfolio company Fabra.

What they invest in

from 29 of 45 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×20SaaS ×15Enterprise Software ×9Developer Tools ×5Gaming ×4Data & Infrastructure ×3HR Tech ×3Advanced Manufacturing ×2

HQs:United Kingdom×4United States×2

Investments · 45 tracked

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Anam

Led by Caoimhe Murphy (ex-Hubspot & Synthesia, CEO).

Anam.aianam.aiin𝕏

Anam builds real-time interactive AI avatars that replicate human appearance and behavior for use in employee and customer-facing applications.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSLondon, GB

Caoimhe Murphy(Co-Founder and CEO)Ben Carr(Co-Founder & CTO)

Antidote

Led by Nino D'Adhemar, serial founder and CEO.

Archestraarchestra.ai

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

Architecttryarchitect.comin𝕏

Architect provides an AI agent that installs on a company's website with one line of code to answer visitor questions, personalize pages in real time, and help convert visitors into buyers.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS

ArgoX

Founded by Aneesh Varma, an exited founder.

Argoxyzargoxyz.com
Aronditearondite.comin

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

Axon Capital

Founded by Nick D'Alosio, serial founder with 2 exits.

Capably

Associated with Nic Tresegnie, CTO (ex-Epic & Superawesome).

Capturcaptur.aiin

Captur provides on-device image validation and scoring against user-defined policies for field teams and enterprises.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Charlotte Bax(Founder)in

Carpata

Founding chairman Felix Leuschener, serial founder.

Cliffcliff.ai
Conceptconcept.vc

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.

Condensecondense.live
Dash Gamesdashgames.coin

Dash Games develops casual mobile games, starting with Puzzle Punks, a player-versus-player match-3 game for iOS and Android.

Gaming

Dexmeetdex.ai

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)

Digitalirondigitaliron.comin

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

ElevenLabselevenlabs.ioin

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)

Emperiaemperiavr.comin𝕏

Emperia offers a no-code platform for creators, studios and enterprises to build and deploy cross-device virtual worlds and 3D virtual stores from game-engine models, running on web and spatial computing devices.

E-commerceRetail TechSaaS

Fabrafabra.comin

Fabra is a browser-based 3D product design platform for creating apparel and physical goods, letting users drag and drop materials, Pantone colors, prints, and graphics with realistic lighting.

Advanced ManufacturingRetail TechSaaS

FAQ’sconceptvc.notion.site
Gendogendo.aiin

Gendo builds a collaborative AI rendering platform that lets architects and designers turn sketches into photorealistic renders, swap materials, and apply style transfers on a shared canvas for team iteration and client approval.

AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechSaaS

Hrharriethrharriet.comin

Harriet is a control plane for deploying AI across an organisation, letting teams configure, audit, and govern AI tools through one gateway with thousands of MCP connectors.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Jigcarjigcar.comin

Jigcar offers an AI-powered transport management system (TMS) built specifically for moving vehicles, providing scheduling, routing, and planning optimisation.

AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS

Landmark Gameslandmark.gamesin

Landmark Games develops games, as indicated by its branding and mission statement on the website.

Gaming

James Older(Founder)inDave Burpitt(Founder)in

LFG

Founded by Ross Targett, a 2x exited founder who sold to Roblox.

Mindmaxmindmax.itin𝕏

MindMax is an interactive learning app that delivers conversational, AI-driven lessons where users can ask questions in real time, choose topics and expert "teachers," and have content adapt and personalize to their interests.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerEdTech

Ontikontik.io

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

PeopleForcepeopleforce.ioin𝕏

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

Playgapplaygap.io

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)

Playterplayter.co

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

Psyrin
Skiller Whaleskillerwhale.comin𝕏

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 Healthsoharhealth.comin𝕏

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

Spectingaspectinga.com
Superlinkedsuperlinked.comin𝕏

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

Symbesymbe.coin

Symbe offers a business case platform for value-based B2B sales and go-to-market teams to build and automate ROI-focused business cases.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

Tracktitantracktitan.io

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

Treeferatreefera.com
V Sim.Cov-sim.co.uk

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

Veraxverax.aiin

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

Vsim

Founded by Michelle Lu & Kier Storey, ex-NVIDIA PhDs.

Waypointcommoditieswaypointcommodities.comin

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

Wriskwrisk.coin

Wrist provides customer-centric, data-driven insurance experiences, including subscription-based insurance products and real-time analytics tools for insurance partners.

Data & InfrastructureInsurTechLondon, GB

Darius Kumana(Founder)in

Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies
Dex Raises €4.52M Seed

Dex · thesaasnews.com · Jun 2, 2026

Trysignalbase

Arondite · trysignalbase.com · Sep 29, 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.

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