Playfair Capital
Playfair Capital

Playfair Capital

2013Venture Capital2 portfolioUnited Kingdom

About

Playfair is a generalist fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+ companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary and Omnipresent.

Key facts

At-a-glance profile data

Website
playfair.vc
Type
Venture Capital
Headquarters
United Kingdom
Portfolio companies
2
Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Cheque size
$300K to $3M
Sector focus
Drones
Autonomous
Maritime
Analytics
Shipping

Recent investments

Recent funding rounds Playfair Capital took part in
DateCompanyRoundAmount
31 Jul 2025DawnGuardPre-Seed$3M
24 May 2024Orca AISeries B$24M
11 Jan 2024Albatross AISeed$2M
21 Apr 2021Orca AISeries A$13M
24 Jul 2019Thought MachineUndisclosed round$83M
31 Mar 2019SightecSeed$2M
1 Mar 2018Thought MachineSeed$25M
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Frequently asked

What companies has Playfair Capital invested in?

Playfair Capital has invested in DawnGuard, Orca AI, Albatross AI, Thought Machine, Sightec.