| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.06.2025 | Valla: A Legal Lifeline for Workers in the UK | In a world where justice often feels like a luxury, Valla emerges as a beacon of hope. This Edinburgh-based legal tech startup has recently secured £2 million in seed funding, a financial boost aimed at democratizing access to employment la... |
| 03.06.2025 | Edinburgh-based LawTech Valla Secures £2M Funding | Legal platform Valla has secured £2 million in seed funding to ‘democratise access to justice for millions across the UK.’
Leading the funding round was Ada Ventures, alongside Active Partners and Portfolio Ventures. Techstart Ventures, who... |
| 23.05.2025 | UK’s PISCES: A New Dawn for Private Investment | The UK government has just opened a new door for private companies. This door is called PISCES, short for Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System Sandbox. It’s a fresh stock market designed for private firms. Think of it... |
| 23.05.2025 | UK Launches PISCES: A New Era for Private Investments | The UK government has taken a bold step into the future of finance. This week, it unveiled the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System Sandbox, or PISCES. This innovative platform aims to reshape the landscape for privat... |
| 16.05.2025 | UK unveils PISCES private stockmarket to boost startups, employee share options, and IPO pipeline | This week, the UK government announced legislation for Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System Sandbox (PISCES) – an innovative new type of stock market for private companies that will boost the growth companies of the f... |
| 08.11.2024 | The Future of Venture Capital: Embracing Change and Diversity | Venture capital is at a crossroads. The landscape is shifting, and the old guard is being challenged. New tools and voices are emerging, demanding a more inclusive and efficient approach to funding startups. The call for change is loud and ... |
| 07.11.2024 | Streamline your startup pitch with Ada Ventures' AI review tool, AdaGPT | If you're a startup reading this you've probably pitched a VC and then waited a really long time for feedback. When you do receive feedback, it may be in response to fundamental errors in your application that send you back to step 1.
But n... |
| 06.11.2024 | “Dead man’s shoes. Older VCs need to move to the side,” says top VC | A top VC has called for older male VCs in leadership positions to move aside and make way for a younger, more diverse workforce in venture capital.
Zoe Peden, partner at Ananda Impact Ventures, an impact VC fund, made the call on the Tech.e... |
| 31.10.2024 | Nailing VC Investment: A UK Startup Strategy Discover key strategies to win over investors, prove your market fit, and secure the funding your startup needs to thrive. | Securing venture capital (VC) for your startup can feel like a daunting process, but with insights from seasoned investors and founders who've successfully navigated the VC world, the path to success becomes much clearer. Here's how you can... |
| 06.08.2024 | London-based PHINXT Robotics raises €2.3 million to redefine warehouse automation | PHINXT Robotics, an AI-led robotics software company, has secured €2.3 million in an oversubscribed funding round led by Sure Valley Ventures with participation from Ada Ventures, Heartfelt and Atlas Ventures.
PHINXT has developed a decentr... |
| 13.03.2024 | Inclusive Alpha: Ada Ventures Leading the Way | Ada Ventures has closed an oversubscribed £63 million second fund, attracting institutional LPs like The Export and Investment Fund of Denmark, The University Of Edinburgh, Molten Ventures, and Legal & General Capital. The fund's commit... |
| 13.03.2024 | Ada Ventures Closes Second Fund, at GBP63M | Ada Ventures, a London, and Bristol, UK-based venture capital firm backing breakthrough ideas, closed a second fund, at GBP63M to back a diverse cohort of early-stage founders.
Institutional investors backing Fund II included the British Bu... |
| 12.03.2024 | Ada Ventures closes €73.7 million second fund to continue backing “Inclusive Alpha” founders | - |
| 12.03.2024 | Inclusion in practice: Ada Ventures closes oversubscribed £63M Fund II | Today Ada Ventures closes an oversubscribed £63 million second fund from institutional LPs. New LPs in Fund II include The Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO), The University Of Edinburgh, Molten Ventures, and Legal & General C... |
| 12.03.2024 | UK’s Ada Ventures closes €73.8M second fund to support “Inclusive Alpha” founders: Know more | Read this article in:
London-based Ada Ventures, an inclusive venture firm, has announced the final close of a £63M (approximately €73.83M) fund, the second fund from the firm, to support a diverse group of early-stage founders.
Institution... |
| 11.03.2024 | Inclusivity-focused VC Ada Ventures pulls in $80M for second fund | U.K.-based Ada Ventures is an unusual VC. Instead of just talking about SaaS or AI, it hunts down founders addressing inclusivity and diversity. Instead of confusing LPs with this methodology, it’s attracted them, thus hitting the $80 milli... |
| 28.11.2023 | AI finally brings personalization to edtech | Personal companions for teachers and students, learning through games, and more in edtech with AI
Personalization has been the hot topic since marketers realized that people have to like ads. Ironically, it was the smart machine that made p... |
| 26.07.2023 | UK’s Materials Nexus raises €2.3M to discover, develop sustainable climate material | Read this article in:
London-based Materials Nexus, a deeptech company that processes quantum calculations, announced on Wednesday that it has raised £2M (approximately €2.33M) in a fresh round of funding.
The company says the funds will be... |
| 28.06.2023 | UK solar solutions start-up Glowb gets a glow up with £1.2 million | UK-based start-up Glowb is offering simple solar energy and battery solutions for homeowners bringing 'trust, transparency and simplicity for homeowners, making light work of the whole process for customers'. It was founded in 2022 by Sarah... |
| 10.05.2023 | Could Odin be Europe’s answer to AngelList? | Most U.S.-based tech investors are likely familiar with smaller-ticket investor marketplaces AngelList and Carta. In Europe, Germany’s Bunch and the UK’s Vauban (acquired by by US-based Carta last year) have attempted to do similar job. But... |
| 05.05.2023 | UK’s MultiOmic Health secures €5.7M for its AI-enabled precision drug discovery platform | London-based Multiomic Health, a company building an AI-enabled precision therapeutics discovery platform for metabolic syndrome diseases, announced on Thursday, May 4, that it has secured £5M (approximately €5.71M) in a Seed extension roun... |
| 05.01.2023 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Liberation Labs’ $20m seed round, Deere unveils robotic fertilizer system | This week, precision fermentation company Liberation Labs announced the final close of a large seed round and John Deere introduced more autonomy into its farming equipment. Elsewhere, food waste startup Alterpacks raised $1 million while g... |
| 12.10.2022 | 6 investors share where they draw the line when it comes to ethical issues | The venture capital industry doesn’t have the best track record when you’re talking about ethics.
Like most professions involving power and wealth, venture capital also sometimes attracts people for whom doing the right thing isn’t a concer... |
| 04.10.2022 | Ada Ventures Launches Second Fund; Holds £36M First Close | Ada Ventures, a London, and Bristol, UK-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with breakthrough ideas solving society’s biggest problems, reached a £36m first close of its second fund.
The investors in Ada Ven... |
| 04.10.2022 | In 2019 this VC decided to invest in diverse founders. Three years later it’s already starting a second fund | It feels like an eon has passed since the launch in 2019 of Ada Ventures, as a European VC that decided to invest in normally unrepresentative groups and sectors, like women or POC founders, as well as tech which improves society. Its $34 m... |
| 04.10.2022 | Early stage VC house Ada Ventures goes for round two with £36 million at first close | After having backed Huboo, Organise, MOONHUB, SideQuest, and Spill, London’s Ada Ventures is restocking the shelves and going for round two, announcing their second fund with a £36 million at first close.
From its first fund, Ada hosts a po... |
| 04.10.2022 | Ada Ventures launches Fund II following €41M first close; plans to continue fixing deal-sourcing in VC | London-based Ada Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, announced on Tuesday that it has reached a £36M (approximately €41M) first close of its second fund – Fund II.
The investors in Ada Venture Fund II include the British Business... |
| 12.09.2022 | 15 U.K.-Based Venture Capital Investors Supporting Underrepresented Founders | These 15 U.K.-based angels and venture capital investors are worth following on the topic of ... [+] investment in underrepresented foundersVARIOUS |
| 25.04.2022 | On a moonshot mission to turbocharge VR workplace training, Moonhub lands with $2.6 million | As a response to the ‘great resignation’ trend that has emerged from higher levels of social disconnection over the past two years, organisations are increasingly adopting a people-oriented approach to support employee retention and engagem... |
| 17.02.2022 | Backed by science and delivered by artists, SPOKE raises £1.1 million in order to improve GenZ mental health | London-based Spoke has raised £1.1 million in a pre-seed round led by Ada Ventures. Far from alone in the mindfulness app space, where Spoke stands apart from the crowd is in the fact that the startup is using music as the primary driver, a... |
| 29.09.2021 | Toothfairy’s virtual dentist app raises £3M seed round led by ADA Ventures and Slingshot | Platforms for dentists are booming right now as many governments gradually make it harder to access dentistry via social care, especially in the U.K. But the most lucrative market is cosmetic dentistry, and this is where startups are often ... |
| 26.07.2021 | “I will not kill my plants today” e-commerce startup Sproutl raises £6.5 million in seed funding | Building upon the gardening renaissance in full bloom, London’s Sproutl has raised £6.5 million in seed funding. The platform provides a curated marketplace of gardening products and plants, and perhaps more importantly, a resource dedicate... |
| 29.06.2021 | Here’s how Ireland’s Boundless lets you employ anyone anywhere; raises €2.5M to expand and double its team | The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the rise in remote working and as a number of people have moved back to their home countries, and as restrictions are being lifted, countries they have always wanted to live in.
As a result, employers are se... |
| 29.06.2021 | International employment platform Boundless raises €2.5 million | Whether employers like it or not, the pandemic has opened all of our collective eyes to the attractiveness of remote working. Moreso, these employers have realised that they must offer remote-first jobs in order to attract top talent. Howev... |
| 16.06.2021 | Britain's tech industry needs to address its gender gap and invest in women | Writing in City AM, Check Warner, Partner at Ada Ventures, and Alexsis de Raadt St James, founder and managing partner at Merian Ventures, a UK-US venture fund that invests in female-led technology, discuss the need to engage the brightest ... |
| 24.03.2021 | Oxford Medical Products raises €1.3 million for its safe weight loss tech, led by Ada Ventures | Dr Camilla Easter, CEO of Oxford Medical Products
Oxford Medical Products (OMP) has raised €1.3 million in seed investment to develop a safe and affordable weight loss capsule, which uses the same mechanism of action as a gastric balloon, b... |
| 11.02.2021 | Which Funds Are Funding Black Founders? (And How Can You Get Some?) | Black founder getting funded.getty |
| 05.02.2021 | Tickr, which allows retail investors to back impact companies, secures $3.4M from Ada Ventures | Tickr, an app that allows U.K. consumers to make financial investments based on their impact on society and the environment, has secured £2.5 million ($3.4 million) in funding lead by Ada Ventures, a VC which focuses on “impact” startups. T... |
| 12.12.2020 | How to find your next VC | Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Subsc... |
| 11.12.2020 | Tech startups weekly: Two space startups raise big money; ‘father of the iPod’ backs Carl Pei’s new venture; Ada Ventures closes its €41.2M fund, and more | As a part of a weekly roundup, here is a list of some of the most important tech startups that have hit the headlines in Europe this week.Sunlight secures €4.9M to make high-performance cloud a reality
British, Cambridge-based developer of ... |
| 09.12.2020 | Ada Ventures Closes $50M Fund | London, UK-based seed venture capital firm Ada Ventures closed its first fund, at $50m.
The British Business Bank is the cornerstone investor in the fund through its Enterprise Capital Funds (ECF) program, which supports new and emerging VC... |
| 09.12.2020 | London-based Ada Ventures closes £37M fund to back overlooked founders in underserved markets | Back in December 2019, Ada Ventures launched a $34 million (approx £25.2 million) fund, aiming to invest in overlooked founders and overlooked markets. And today, the London-based VC closed its first fund at $50 million (approx £37.1 millio... |
| 08.12.2020 | Ada Ventures closes first fund at $50M, investing in diverse founders tackling society’s problems | A year ago this week Ada Ventures — a UK/Europe focused VC with an ‘impact twist’ aiming to invest in diverse founders tacking societal problems — launched on stage at Techcrunch Disrupt. (You can watch the video of that launch below).
Toda... |
| 07.07.2020 | Organise, a platform for worker rights, raises £570K seed funding led by Ada Ventures | Organise, a U.K. startup that has built a platform to help workers organise and campaign for better rights, has raised £570,000 in seed funding.
The round is led by Ada Ventures, fitting into the VC firm’s remit to back “overlooked markets ... |
| 12.12.2019 | This UK VC firm raises €30.6M to push diversity, pledges to invest in overlooked founders and market | Headquartered in London, Ada Ventures has recently secured €30.6 million funding led by British Business Bank’s (BBB) Enterprise Capital Funds’ programme as its cornerstone investor.
Other investors include US-based Bluesky Capital, Dubai’s... |
| 11.12.2019 | Ada Ventures to invest in overlooked founders and customer segments with brand new $34 million fund | Ada Ventures, a brand new Berlin-based VC firm, has raised $34 million for its first fund, intended for “overlooked founders who are building companies for under-served customer groups.” Inspired by Ada Lovelace, the computer science pionee... |
| 10.12.2019 | Ada Ventures launches with a $34M fund aimed at super-charging diverse global founders | According to Atomico’s recent “State of European Tech, 2019” — widely considered by the European tech industry to be a reliable annual study — at present, 92 in every 100 dollars invested in Europe goes to all-male teams, 83% founders are w... |
| - | E-commerce fulfillment provider Huboo raises £60 million | Bristol-based e-commerce fulfillment platform Huboo has raised £60 million in a Series B round. This healthy dose of dosh adds on to the £14 million the startup brought home last year in their Series A round. This newest round is expected t... |
| - | Backed by science and delivered by artists, SPOKE raises £1.1 million in order to improve GenZ mental health | London-based Spoke has raised £1.1 million in a pre-seed round led by Ada Ventures. Far from alone in the mindfulness app space, where Spoke stands apart from the crowd is in the fact that the startup is using music as the primary driver, a... |
| - | “I will not kill my plants today” e-commerce startup Sproutl raises £6.5 million in seed funding | Building upon the gardening renaissance in full bloom, London’s Sproutl has raised £6.5 million in seed funding. The platform provides a curated marketplace of gardening products and plants, and perhaps more importantly, a resource dedicate... |
| - | International employment platform Boundless raises €2.5 million | Whether employers like it or not, the pandemic has opened all of our collective eyes to the attractiveness of remote working. Moreso, these employers have realised that they must offer remote-first jobs in order to attract top talent. Howev... |
| - | On a moonshot mission to turbocharge VR workplace training, Moonhub lands with $2.6 million | As a response to the ‘great resignation’ trend that has emerged from higher levels of social disconnection over the past two years, organisations are increasingly adopting a people-oriented approach to support employee retention and engagem... |
