Concept Ventures

Europe HQ Pre-seed

01 · Thesis & focus

Concept Ventures is the UK's largest dedicated pre-seed fund - purpose-built for founders in the earliest moments of their journeys. We invest £500,000 - £1,500,000 in first rounds. Never too early.

Cheque range
£500k – £1.5M
Stages
Pre-seed
Avg deals / year
12.0
Leads rounds
Yes
HQ
40 Grosvenor Garden Mews S, London. SW1W 0LD
Fund type
Venture fund
Last fund raised
2026-10 · 65000000

02 · Recent publicly announced deals

Oshen Seed · Aug 2026 · $5M total raised ↗

Oshen develops autonomous ocean monitoring robots for persistent, real-time data collection across vast marine areas.

ElevenLabs Series D · Jun 2026 · $792M total raised ↗

The main product is an AI audio platform that generates realistic and contextually-aware speech and sound effects for audiobooks, games, and social media.

Archestra.AI Seed · Jun 2026 · $13.3M total raised ↗

The company offers an enterprise platform for building and managing AI agents, featuring a self-hosted, open-source architecture.

Dex Seed · Apr 2026 · $8.9M total raised ↗

Dex provides a platform that connects software engineers with unadvertised job opportunities at venture-backed startups and scale-ups.

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