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Sure Valley Ventures

Venture capital

London · Seed–Series A · 5 people tracked

Also known as SVV (Sure Valley Ventures)

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Investment thesis

SVV is an entrepreneur-led venture capital firm that invests in high-potential AI software companies across the UK and Ireland. Founded by former entrepreneurs turned investors, the firm leverages decades of operating experience to identify and partner with strong founding teams. SVV has backed AI-driven companies since 2017, supporting them through their growth journeys with follow-on investment at later stages. The firm emphasizes a 'founders backing founders' approach, bringing hands-on operational insight to its portfolio. It targets opportunities in AI across sectors such as data security, telematics, and B2B software, and continues to support companies through scaling and exits.

Source: firm website, verified Oct 2, 2026.

Stage
Seed–Series A
HQ
London, IE
Leads rounds
Leads
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2017
Last 12 months
4 investments
Tracked investments
57
Unicorns
1
IPOs
1
Acquisitions
1

Team · 5 people

from curated & public directories
Brian Kinane· Co-Founder

What they invest in

from 35 of 57 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×30SaaS ×18Enterprise Software ×15Deep Tech ×7Fintech ×6Cybersecurity ×5Developer Tools ×5Data & Infrastructure ×4

HQs:United Kingdom×8Ireland×4United States×4Australia×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 9 portfolio companies
56%
solo founders
5 of 9 mapped founding teams

Founding team size:solo founder×52 founders×24+ founders×2

Investments · 57 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2026 · 32025 · 42024 · 12023 · 12022 · 22019 · 12018 · 113 dated

Unity Technologiesunity.comin𝕏NYSE: U

Unity is a cross-platform real-time development engine and creation platform used by content creators and developers to build games and interactive experiences for mobile, PC, console, and extended reality (XR) devices.

AdTechCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareGamingSan Francisco, US

David Helgason(Founder)inJoachim Ante(Founder)Nicholas Francis(Founder)inMatthew Bromberg(CEO and President)in

Co-investorsDeepwater Asset ManagementEdge VCEQUIAMEvolution VC PartnersGP BullhoundiGlobe Partners+18 more

CameraMaticscameramatics.comin𝕏✓ verified

CameraMatics develops a cloud platform for fleet vehicle operations management that integrates IoT data to help fleet operators reduce risks including insurance and staged accidents.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareIoTLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationSaaSDublin, IE

Mervyn O'Callaghan(Founder)inSimon Murray(Founder)in

Co-investorsBlume EquityEnterprise IrelandIreland Strategic Investment FundPuma Private EquitySalica Investments

Momntummomntum.aiin𝕏✓ verified

Momntum builds an AI-powered workflow automation platform designed to modernize call center operations and customer service for businesses.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS

Keith WealleansBrian Kenny

Animotiveanimotive.comin𝕏

Animotive is a virtual production software platform that enables educational institutions and enterprises to teach motion capture, real-time rendering, and virtual production workflows.

Creator EconomyEdTechGamingMedia & EntertainmentSaaS

Astut Seedastut.co.uk

Astut develops a hybrid AI system for supporting high stakes unseen decisions (HSUD), where organisations face one-off, irrevocable strategic choices with no prior outcomes to learn from.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise Software

Pete Grindrod(CEO)Sharon Whiteside(Head of Data & Analytics, CTO)

Co-investorsFuture Planet CapitalUK Innovation & Science Seed Fund

Audrey AItryaudrey.aiin

Audrey builds AI tools to automate manual, repetitive audit work, freeing auditors to focus on judgment-driven responsibilities.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS

Ryan Loughran(Co-founder)inDavid Burke(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsDelta PartnersEnterprise Ireland

Audrey AIaudreyai.com

David Burke(Founder)Ryan Loughran(Founder)

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)inRafa Pulido(Chief Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsBoost Capital PartnersAscensionHaatchMasiaRLC VenturesAraya Ventures+1 more

Capturcaptur.aiinNov 2023

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

Co-investorsAscensionMMC VenturesRally Ventures Management, LlcRLC VenturesTwo Culture CapitalAscension Ventures

Caseycaseyinsure.cominApr 2026 · $1.8M

Casey Insure uses technology to help businesses find appropriate insurance coverage across more than 100 insurance carriers at competitive prices.

FintechInsurTechSan Francisco, US

Maximilian Thoelen(Founder)inNico Hänggi(Founder)inPascal Küng(Founder)in

Co-investorsOrange CollectiveRedstoneY Combinator20VCBlast.ClubDelta Partners+5 more

Disseqtdisseqt.aiin𝕏

Disseqt builds an AI assurance layer that provides runtime governance for production AI agents, combining pre-production simulation, runtime enforcement, and continuous compliance with an automatically generated audit trail.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechDublin, IE

Manish Atri(CTO & Co-Founder)in

Co-investorsDelta Partners

Elelemelelem.aiin

Elelem provides an AI-powered on-site answer tool that responds to visitor questions to increase conversion and retain traffic lost to AI search, and offers an "elelem Score" to measure AI citation quality.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS

Everyangleeveryangle.aiin

Co-investorsFurthr VC

Floxmindfloxmind.comin

FloxMind provides a hardware-agnostic intelligence platform for orchestrating robotic automation in warehouses, serving third-party logistics providers and brands.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainRobotics

Yanwen Chen(Co-Founder & CEO)inQuirino Zagarese(Co-Founder & CTO)in

Co-investorsAtlas Ventures (UK)Heartfelt CapitalPrequel Ventures

Inephanyinephany.com𝕏

Inephany develops Paramorph, a foundation model for neural network optimisation that dynamically adjusts hyperparameters and training behaviour at runtime to improve convergence, scalability, and system performance.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsLondon, GB

John Torr(Founder)

Co-investorsAmadeus Capital Partners

Ittybitittybit.cominJun 2024

Ittybit builds a private, searchable media library that lets teams index their video content and extract structured data from it.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsMedia & Entertainment

Co-investorsGMG VenturesMercuri.vcOxford

Jaidjaid.ioinDec 2022 · $3.7M

Jaid offers an AI-based "Agentic Case Manager" that interprets unstructured client communications such as emails, extracts data, and turns them into structured, auditable case-management workflows.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintech

Co-investorsProject Voice Capital Partners

Jenticjentic.comin𝕏Jan 2025

Jentic offers a platform for assessing APIs and deploying them into production, aimed at developers and technical teams.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Dorothy Creaven(Founder)Michael Cordner(Founder)Sean Blanchfield(Founder)Tilman Schaefer(Founder)

Co-investorsMS&AD VenturesShuttle FundTechOperators Venture Capital

LandVaultlandvault.ioJan 2018Acquired

Landvault builds, hosts and monetises immersive 3D and metaverse experiences for brands and governments.

Joe Bachle-Morris(Founder)Samuel Huber(Founder)

Co-investorsColopl NextDIP CapitalFounders FactoryFounders Factory NYNotion CapitalElefund+2 more

Literal Labsliteral-labs.aiin𝕏Jun 2025

Literal Labs develops logic-driven AI technology, positioning its work as an alternative approach to machine learning.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechIoT

Noel HurleyinLeon FeddeninProfessor Alex YakovlevProfessor Rishad Shafik

Co-investorsGMG VenturesMercuri.vcNorthern Gritstone

Mirrormirror.xyz𝕏Dec 2025

Paragraph is a publishing platform with an integrated AI agent that automates content creation, editing, and distribution across multiple channels including blogs, newsletters, social media, and landing pages.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomySaaS

Denis Nazarov(Founder)

Co-investors2050A.Capital VenturesCatcherVCFourth Revolution Capital (4RC)IDEO CoLab VenturesIOSG Ventures+11 more

Mirrorsecuritymirrorsecurity.io

Mirror Security provides a security layer for AI systems built on fully homomorphic encryption, allowing models and agents to compute on encrypted data without decrypting it, with cryptographic identity, runtime policy enforcement, and tamper-evident audit trails.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeep TechDublin, IE

Aditya Narayana K(Founder)Krishna Kamal Palakaluri

Overpathoverpath.aiin𝕏

Overpath builds AI teammates for sales revenue execution, connecting to calls, emails, calendar, and CRM to give reps and managers live deal context and guidance on what to do next.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

Co-investorsElkstone Capital Partners

Precogprecog.comin𝕏

Precog provides automated data integration (ELT) using multi-dimensional algebra and AI-powered schema detection to transform complex object data from APIs, SaaS applications, and IoT platforms into business-ready data.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechBoulder, US

Jeff Carr(Founder)inMatthew Bellows(Chief Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsCircadian VenturesFirstMile VenturesGreater Colorado Venture FundMatchstick VenturesRange VCStreamlined Ventures+4 more

PreCog Systemsprecogsystems.co.uk

PreCog Systems builds a GDPR-compliant data analytics platform that processes structured and unstructured data to detect anomalies and unusual behaviour for security and threat-response use cases.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & Infrastructure

Purpletransformpurpletransform.comin𝕏

SIYTE is an AI platform that connects cameras, sensors, drones and operational systems into a single intelligence layer that detects, correlates and responds to events in real time.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareIoT

Ralioralio.coinApr 2026 · $2.5M

Ralio provides a trust and safety layer that sits between AI agents and existing payment rails, verifying agent identity and intent, enforcing spend limits and approval rules, and logging every transaction before money moves.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintech

Ghali(Cofounder & CEO)

Co-investorsAdelineAntlerLove VenturesMMC VenturesSeed X

Ralioralio.ai

Ghali Bennani Laafiret(Founder)Leonardo Rosales(Founder)

Co-investorsAntlerSeed X

Retinizeretinize.com𝕏Mar 2022

RETìníZE builds Animotive, a VR SaaS tool that uses spatial computing, generative AI, and real-time rendering to simplify and lower the cost of 3D animation production.

AI & Machine LearningMedia & EntertainmentSaaS

Phil Morrow(Co-founder)inJack Morrow(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsClarendon Fund Managers Ltd.Innovation UlsterQUBISTechstart Ventures

Smarttech247smarttech247.com

Smarttech247 provides red teaming and penetration testing services that simulate advanced adversary tactics to assess how well organizations can detect, respond to, and recover from sophisticated threats.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Stylusstylus.comin

Stylus provides cross-industry trends intelligence, expert trend analysis, and forecasts delivered through a research platform with AI research assistance and dedicated member support.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaS

Marc Worth(Founder)inDominic Bristowin

Co-investorsHaatch

Stylusstylus.educationin𝕏

Stylus is an AI-powered assessment tool for English writing that lets students keep writing on pen and paper while the platform reads handwriting and scores work against nearly 100 criteria spanning KS1 to KS3.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaS

VividQvividq.comin𝕏

VividQ develops computational holography software, including an end-to-end holographic software framework and algorithms for high-quality holographic displays.

Deep TechGamingHardwareCambridge, GB

Aleksandra PedraszewskainTom Durrantin

Co-investorsAPEX VenturesCambridge Angels groupMiyako CapitalUTECUTokyo Innovation Platform Co. Ltd.Foresight Group+1 more

Vizgardvizgard.com

Vizgard builds platform-agnostic AI vision software that adds autonomous threat detection and tracking to defence and security cameras, drones, and sensors.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDefense Tech

Alex Kehoe

Co-investorsOxford Investment Opportunity Network (OION)

Vologramsvolograms.comin𝕏

Co-investorsAtlantic Bridge Ventures

Vortexiqvortexiq.aiin𝕏

Vortex IQ is an AI operating system for ecommerce teams that detects revenue leaks and missed growth opportunities across a store's connected stack, then diagnoses the cause and prepares approval-gated, reversible fixes.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail TechSaaS

Jaiganesh Vanasubramanian(Founder)Sambit Patra(Founder)Susant Patro(Founder)

Wiawia.ioin

Wia provides IoT data collection infrastructure for buildings and logistics facilities, enabling remote meter reading and building system integration across multiple data sources without requiring on-site engineering.

AI & Machine LearningCleantechData & InfrastructureEnergyEnterprise SoftwareIoTPropTechSaaS

Work Houndworkhound.com𝕏Jun 2019

WorkStep (WorkHound) is an AI-powered employee engagement platform for frontline and distributed workforces, offering surveys, AI-generated responses to feedback, targeted communications, and predictive insights.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSChattanooga, US

Max Farrell(CEO)inAndrew Kirpalani(Executive Officer, Director)Elizabeth Engel(Director)

Co-investorsDivide by ZeroDynamo VenturesGrand VenturesLevel EquityLifeSci Venture PartnersLightyear+2 more

Xyloxylo.bioin𝕏Jul 2026

Xylo develops mechanism-based drug therapies targeting psychiatric and neurological disorders using computational and rational drug design approaches.

BiotechDeep TechDigital HealthHealthtechSydney, AU

Joshua Ismin(Co-founder, President)inDr. Sam Banister(Co-founder, Chief Scientific Officer)

Co-investorsPalo Santo VCRadar VenturesTenmileXEIA Venture PartnersCapitalTCommon Magic

Zenosinteractivezenosinteractive.comin

ZENOS creates software for 3D virtual production and immersive experiences in sports, gaming, and esports.

AI & Machine LearningGamingMedia & EntertainmentSaaS

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

ArtomaticAstutGetvisibilityHeyBieiheartpsychManamindNovaleahNow&PeacePurple TransformRecurviaRENTSixxySmarttechSoukVividwidaZenos

Exits · 2

1 IPOs · 1 acquisitions · showing 1

Unity TechnologiesNYSE: U

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Sure Valley Ventures made?
Sure Valley Ventures has 57 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited, including 7 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does Sure Valley Ventures invest at?
Sure Valley Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
What sectors does Sure Valley Ventures focus on?
Sure Valley Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Media & Entertainment, SaaS.
Where is Sure Valley Ventures located?
Sure Valley Ventures is headquartered in London, IE.
Does Sure Valley Ventures lead rounds?
Yes, Sure Valley Ventures leads investment rounds.
Who does Sure Valley Ventures co-invest with?
Sure Valley Ventures most often shares deals with Ascension, Concept Ventures, Haatch, among 38 tracked co-investors.

Media · Podcasts & interviews

featuring the team

Barry Downes | Sure Ventures & Sure Valley Ventures Investor Morning | March 2019

Sure Valley Ventures · Barry Downes

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