Playfair Capital
Pre-seed only investor backing UK and European founders, with follow-on support through Series A
- Venture capital
- London
- Type
- Venture capital
- Based in
- London
- Stages
- Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B+
- Sector focus
- Fintech, Healthtech, Climate & Energy, SaaS & B2B, Mobility, Consumer, Media & Gaming
- Cheque size
- Above €3M
- Fund size
- £57m (Fund 3)
- Founded
- 2013
- Website
- playfair.vc
Playfair Capital is a London venture capital firm that invests exclusively at pre-seed in the UK and Europe, currently from its £57m third fund. It makes around six new investments a year and reserves about 60% of the fund for follow-on, with capacity to put up to £5m into a single company.
Cheques range from £100k in angel rounds to £1.5m for larger pre-seed rounds, and the firm always co-invests with other funds or angels. Playfair has been investing since 2013 and reports that its founders have raised more than $3bn in follow-on funding, with a 78% pre-seed to Series A graduation rate.
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