How many investments has Volution Ventures made?

Volution Ventures has 22 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.

What stage does Volution Ventures invest at?

Volution Ventures invests at the Series A, Series B, Growth stages.

Where is Volution Ventures located?

Volution Ventures is headquartered in London, GB.

Who does Volution Ventures co-invest with?

Volution Ventures most often shares deals with Venture Founders, Augmentum Fintech, MMC Ventures, among 58 tracked co-investors.

Volution Ventures

Venture capital

London · Series A–Growth · 9 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Volution Ventures targets the underfunded scale-up stage in UK and European technology, viewing it as the most attractive entry point ahead of the next growth cycle. It backs mission-critical FinTech (tokenised assets, digital money, financial market infrastructure) and enterprise software, particularly AI infrastructure for regulated industries. Beyond capital, the firm takes an active role, with Venture Partners who are founders and operators supporting management on go-to-market, sales, fundraising, and international expansion, aiming to turn domestic leaders into global category leaders.

Invests inAI & Machine Learning Crypto & Web3 Enterprise Software Fintech InsurTech LegalTech PropTech Retail Tech SaaS Europe London United Kingdom

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage

Series A–Growth

London, GB

Instruments

Equity

Founded

2021

Last 12 months

1 investment

Tracked investments

Team · 9 people

from the firm's website & public directories

Ed Bardos· Partner· Londonin

Ed Bardos is a co-founder of Volution. He began his career as a corporate finance lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London and Tokyo, then moved in-house at Lehman Brothers and later served as Head of Legal, EMEA, for Neuberger Berman following the MBO of Lehman Brothers' asset management business. In 2012 he left to co-found a hospitality business that grew to four sites, and in 2018 he returned to investing, co-founding Volution.

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James Codling· Managing Partner· Londonin

James Codling comes from an entrepreneurial family with a background in engineering and business, and holds an engineering degree. He began his career in 2000 on the TMT team at JPMorgan financing European 3G and cable rollouts, later moving into private equity at the buyout firm Montagu in 2006. In 2013 he founded his own venture to fund UK SaaS and FinTech companies through their scaling stage, and now works with founders at Volution.

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Jonny Laughton· Partner· Londonin 𝕏

Jonny Laughton was on the founding team of Star, an early UK ISP, in 1995, and later moved to its sister company MessageLabs to expand the UK business across Europe and beyond. After that exit, he founded the Sarum Oncology Fund, which invested in diagnostics and medtech businesses focused on cancer, before returning to B2B SaaS and establishing Armada Ventures to raise institutional capital for Series A and B SaaS companies. His observations about gaps in the funding market shaped the early thinking behind Volution.

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Nick Hoar· Senior Partner· Hong Kong, Hong Kong SARin

Nick Hoar began his career in his family's housebuilding and hospitality businesses, working in hotels, pubs and restaurants before the business was sold. He then spent around 30 years in global asset management, starting on the graduate training program at Fidelity Investments and later working at major firms, where he focused on launching new regions, products and asset classes for institutional and retail investors and recruited and built asset management teams. At Volution he works on the firm's strategy and supporting founders of portfolio companies.

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Nina Foote· Partner· Boston / New Englandin

Nina Foote is part of the team at Volution Ventures, where she works with founders building and scaling technology businesses. Before joining Volution, she spent around thirteen years at Christie's, where she experienced the auction house's shift from legacy systems to fully digital operations, and previously worked at a French software company, an image archive, a wine business and a headhunting firm. At Volution she emphasizes ESG within the firm's growth model.

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Mike Edwards· Investment Director· Londonin

Mike Edwards began his career in mechanical engineering at Rolls-Royce before moving into finance at UBS Investment Bank in London, and then joined Redline Capital as a Venture Investor in 2014. As Investment Director at Volution Ventures, he focuses on companies that have reached an inflection point with product-market fit and traction, helping them scale globally through capital and hands-on support.

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Steve Lemon· Venture Partner· London, England, United Kingdomin

Steve Lemon began his career in financial services and city brokerage before moving into early-stage companies. He helped run the retail business at HIFX, which was later sold to Euronet for £150m, ran a headhunting business, and co-founded Currencycloud. He now works on the investment side at Volution.

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Amy Goodwin· Investor· London

Amy Goodwin manages Volution's existing portfolio of direct and co-investments and takes part in evaluating new investments and follow-on deals. She began her career in strategy consulting at Estin & Co in Paris and London, then worked in UK mid-market private equity at Phoenix Equity Partners as an Origination & Research Analyst and later Investment Manager, covering sectors such as media, technology, and financial services.

Sarah Hanafy· Entrepreneur in Residence, Marketing & Comms· London, England, United Kingdomin

Sarah Hanafy began her career in politics, running election campaigns for MPs and later serving as communications counsel to cabinet ministers in Government. She subsequently led marketing and communications teams at global banks before joining the fintech company Currencycloud, where she grew the marketing team from four to fifty people ahead of the company's acquisition by Visa. Her expertise spans product marketing, demand generation, PR, and communications.

What they invest in

from 17 of 23 portfolio companies

Enterprise Software ×10Fintech ×7SaaS ×7Data & Infrastructure ×5AI & Machine Learning ×4Crypto & Web3 ×3Developer Tools ×2LegalTech ×2

HQs:United Kingdom×6United States×3France×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 8 portfolio companies

75%

solo founders

6 of 8 mapped founding teams

Founding team size:solo founder×62 founders×14+ founders×1

Investments · 23 tracked

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By year:2026 · 1 2023 · 1 2018 · 13 dated

Brightpearlbrightpearl.com in 𝕏

Brightpearl is a retail operating system that automates multi-channel order fulfillment, inventory management, and accounting for merchants and wholesalers.

E-commerceEnterprise SoftwareRetail Tech

Chris Tanner(Founder)in

Co-investorsMMC Ventures Notion Capital Venture Founders

Cognismcognism.com in

Cognism is a B2B sales intelligence platform that provides accurate, compliance-focused contact and company data for revenue and go-to-market teams.

Data & InfrastructureSaaSSales Tech

James Isilay(Founder)in

Co-investorsInnvotec Ltd.PeakSpan Capital Partners South Central Ventures Venture Founders Atlantic Vantage Point AXA Venture Partners +2 more

DeadHappy

Life insurance reinvented to be simpler and built around the customer.

Co-investorsChannel 4 Ventures

Ellipticelliptic.co in 𝕏

Elliptic provides blockchain forensics and compliance investigation tools that help financial institutions trace cryptocurrency transactions across multiple networks and assets to detect illicit activity and generate regulatory reports.

Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechLondon

James Smith(Executive Officer, Director)Thomas Robinson(Director)Adam Joyce(Executive Officer)Tom Robinson(Founder)inSimone Mainiin

BoardEyal Rabinovich(Director)

Co-investorsAlbionVC Digital Currency Group Evolution Equity Partners Middlegame Ventures Mouro Capital Octopus Ventures +11 more

Flagstone

UK savings platform giving savers access to hundreds of savings accounts through one application.

Flagstoneimflagstoneim.com in 𝕏

Flagstone is a UK savings platform that connects individual savers with over 65 banks and 5,000+ financial advisers to help them maximize returns on their deposits.

FintechLondon, GB

Co-investorsKindred Capital OMERS Ventures Venture Founders

Freemarket

Makes moving money across borders safer, faster and easier for businesses.

Fullcirclfullcircl.com in 𝕏acquired by nCino

CybersecurityFintechSaaS

Andrew Yates(Founder)in

Co-investorsAugmentum Fintech Notion Capital Octopus Ventures Venture Founders

Habitohabito.com in 𝕏Acquired

UK digital mortgage broker offering online mortgage advice, applications and switching; acquired by Monzo.

Co-investorsAugmentum Fintech Bootstrap Europe Mosaic Ventures SBI Ventures Europe GmbH

Logicallylogically.ai in 𝕏

Logically builds narrative decision intelligence software that monitors, clusters, and analyzes public and open-source information to detect signals, simulate scenarios, and recommend actions.

AI & Machine LearningDefense TechGovTechSaaS

Co-investorsXTX Markets

Matteomatteo-montanari.com

Freelance web developer specializing in building and developing websites using the ConcreteCMS platform, serving clients internationally on a remote basis.

Developer ToolsParis, FR

Matteo Montanari

Co-investorsVenture Founders

Owneraownera.io in 𝕏

Ownera provides digital infrastructure solutions for capital markets, enabling financial institutions to digitize and operate securities and financial assets using blockchain-based technology.

Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintech

Ami Ben-David(Founder & CEO, Member of the Board)Yuval Carmel(Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer)

Co-investorsPolymorphic Capital

Passfortpassfort.comAcquired

PassFort built software that handled the collection, verification, and storage of due diligence documents for customers and suppliers, drawing on integrated third-party data sources.

Enterprise SoftwareLegalTechLondon, GB

Donald Gillies(CEO)inHenry Irish(Founding CTO)in

Co-investorsEntrepreneur First Episode1 Level Equity OpenOcean

Persuitpersuit.com

PERSUIT provides an intelligence platform that gives enterprises visibility and control over their external legal spend, from matter inception to final invoice.

Enterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaSNew York, US

Jim Delkousis(CEO)

Co-investorsOpenView Venture Partners

Rhino Federated Computingrhinofcp.com inSeries A · Jan 2026 · $11.3M

Rhino Federated Computing provides enterprise software infrastructure enabling organizations to run AI, analytics, and data workflows across distributed data environments while preserving privacy and security.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareBoston, US

Dr. Ittai Dayan inYuval Baror(Founder)

Co-investorsAlleyCorp E12 Venture Capital, Llc Fusion LionBird Mitsui Global Investment Alley Robotics Ventures

Rotageekrotageek.com in 𝕏

Rotageek provides workforce management and scheduling software for rota planning, including demand forecasting, labour modelling, auto-scheduling, time and attendance tracking, and leave management.

AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkHR TechRetail TechSaaS

Chris McCullough(Co-founder)Roy Pounder(Co-founder)Nick Mann(Co-founder)

Co-investorsCalculus Capital Ltd.Venture Founders Calculus Gresham House Gresham House Ventures Mobeus Equity Partners

Runaruna.io in 𝕏Feb 2018

Runa provides a payout infrastructure and API for businesses to send rewards, incentives, and payments globally, including a network of gift cards, bank transfers, and prepaid Visa/Mastercard cards.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSNew York, US

Aron Alexander inTyler Gage(Executive Officer, Director)Daniel MacCombie(Executive Officer, Director)Andrew Timothy Sullican(Executive Officer, Director)Sebastian Dreher(Director)Patrick O'Keefe(Director)

Co-investorsAlbionVC Clocktower Ventures CommerzVentures MaC Venture Capital Redbus Ventures Salica Investments +2 more

Signalsignal-ai.com in

Signal AI develops AI-powered reputation and risk intelligence solutions for corporations.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechMedia & Entertainment

David Benigson(Founder)in

Co-investorsBattery Ventures Frontline Ventures GMG Ventures Highland Europe Manta Ray Ventures Mercuri.vc +2 more

WayhomeSeries A · Apr 2023 · $10M

Helps aspiring homeowners take first steps toward ownership when a mortgage doesn't work.

Wearefreemarketwearefreemarket.com in 𝕏

Freemarket is a cross-border payments and financial infrastructure company that serves banks, payment service providers, and other financial institutions seeking to optimize international money movement.

B2B MarketplacesCrypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechLondon, GB

Alex Hunn(Founder, former CEO)

Co-investorsBaird Capital West Hill Capital Endeavour Ventures Ltd.

Wegiftwegift.io in 𝕏

Runa operates a payout infrastructure and API that lets businesses send rewards and disbursements, including a network of around 5,000 gift cards across 45 countries, bank transfers to over 190 countries via Visa Direct and Mastercard Send, and reloadable Visa/Mastercard prepaid cards.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS

Wriskwrisk.co in 𝕏

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

Co-investorsFlow Capital Mundi Ventures Oxford QBN Capital RLC Ventures

Zopazopa.com

Jaidev Janardanain

Co-investors365.fintech Augmentum Capital Augmentum Fintech Balderton Capital Bessemer Venture Partners Finch Capital+8 more

Exits · 1

IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolio

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Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies

JAXA-Originated Star Signal Solutions Secures ¥450 Million in Seed Funding to Support Space Debris Collision Avoidance

Signal · thebridge.jp · Jul 17, 2026

Flow Labs raises $14M led by AgFunder and Runa Capital to lessen traffic

Runa · axios.com · Jul 16, 2026

Circle Invests In Digital Asset Intelligence Firm Elliptic, Pursues Agentic Regulation | Crowdfund Insider

Elliptic · crowdfundinsider.com · Jul 9, 2026

Gresham House Ventures completes successful exit from AI workforce management firm Rotageek - Gresham House Ventures

Rotageek · greshamhouseventures.com · Jun 9, 2025

Principals & officers · per Companies House

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Edward Peter Bardos

LLP designated member · since 2021

James Robert Codling

LLP designated member · since 2021

Georgina Foote

LLP member · since 2021

Jonathan Laughton

LLP member · since 2021

Stephen Robert Lemon

LLP member · since 2023

Wiltshire Holdings LTD

Corporate LLP member · since 2024

Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Volution Ventures made?: Volution Ventures has 22 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
What stage does Volution Ventures invest at?: Volution Ventures invests at the Series A, Series B, Growth stages.
What sectors does Volution Ventures focus on?: Volution Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Crypto & Web3, Enterprise Software, Fintech, InsurTech, LegalTech, PropTech, Retail Tech, SaaS.
Where is Volution Ventures located?: Volution Ventures is headquartered in London, GB.
Who does Volution Ventures co-invest with?: Volution Ventures most often shares deals with Venture Founders, Augmentum Fintech, MMC Ventures, among 58 tracked co-investors.

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