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Active Partners portfolio
Active Partners has 4 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 1 investment in the last 12 months.
About this page
It is a venture capital firm based in London, GB, founded in 2004. It led 1 of the 3 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Subdial's $20M Series B+ round in November 2026, alongside Stuart Hennell and Gresham House Ventures. By category, its portfolio leans toward Consumer and social (2) and Commerce and retail (1). It has co-invested with Stuart Hennell, Gresham House Ventures and White Star Capital.
About Active Partners
What Active Partners invests in
- Consumer and social · 2 · 50%
- Commerce and retail · 1 · 25%
- Education · 1 · 25%
- Health and bio · 1 · 25%
- Media and content · 1 · 25%
Active Partners recent investments
| Company | Round | Date | Alongside |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series B+ · $20M | Stuart Hennell, Gresham House Ventures (lead) | ||
| Series A · $15M | Coalition Capital, Emerge VC, White Star Capital (lead) +1 | ||
| Seed · $5.3M · lead | Matt Barker, John Ayton, Christian Woolfenden |
How Active Partners invests
Active Partners portfolio companies
SSubdial$20MSeries B+ · Nov 2026
MMyEdSpace$15MSeries A · Sep 2025
OOurRitualbacker
UUnravelbacker
| Company | Round with Active Partners | Total raised | Latest raise |
|---|---|---|---|
Commerce and retail |
Series B+ · $20M | $27.2M | Nov 11, 2026 Series B+ |
Education |
Series A · $15M | $15M | Jul 13, 2026 Series A |
Health and bio |
backer | $5M | Jul 23, 2024 Seed |
Consumer and social |
backer | $7M | Apr 3, 2025 Series A |
Most frequent co-investors
SStuart Hennell1 shared round · last Nov 11, 2026
GGresham House Ventures1 shared round · last Nov 11, 2026
WWhite Star Capital1 shared round · last Sep 29, 2025
CCoalition Capital1 shared round · last Sep 29, 2025
EEmerge VC1 shared round · last Sep 29, 2025
EEducapital1 shared round · last Sep 29, 2025
- MMatt Barker1 shared round · last Dec 15, 2021
- JJohn Ayton1 shared round · last Dec 15, 2021
CChristian Woolfenden1 shared round · last Dec 15, 2021
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Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Consumer and social).
How this is counted
Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.
Share is of the 3 rounds on Recent Funding that name Active Partners. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.
Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Active Partners, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/active-partners (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.