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Wayra UK portfolio
Wayra UK has 3 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.
About this page
It is a corporate venture investor based in London, GB, founded in 2011. Its most recent investment on record is Raylo's $8M Series A round in July 2022, alongside Macquarie Capital, Octopus Ventures and Houghton Street Ventures. By category, its portfolio leans toward Fintech (2) and Consumer and social (2). It has co-invested with Octopus Ventures, Macquarie Capital and Houghton Street Ventures.
About Wayra UK
What Wayra UK invests in
- Fintech · 2 · 67%
- Consumer and social · 2 · 67%
- Health and bio · 1 · 33%
- Commerce and retail · 1 · 33%
- Sales and marketing · 1 · 33%
- Data and analytics · 1 · 33%
How Wayra UK invests
| Stage | Deals | Capital in rounds |
|---|---|---|
| Series A | 2 100% | $13.4M |
Wayra UK portfolio companies
| Company | Round with Wayra UK | Total raised | Latest raise |
|---|---|---|---|
Fintech |
Series A · $8M | $23.3M | Jan 27, 2026 Series B+ |
Fintech |
Series A · $5.4M | $285.4M | Jul 10, 2025 Series B+ |
Sales and marketing |
backer | undisclosed | — |
Most frequent co-investors
OOctopus Ventures1 shared round · last Jul 1, 2022
MMacquarie Capital1 shared round · last Jul 1, 2022
HHoughton Street Ventures1 shared round · last Jul 1, 2022
LLG Technology Ventures1 shared round · last Oct 11, 2021
PPlug and Play1 shared round · last Oct 11, 2021SSurge1 shared round · last Oct 11, 2021
BBossa Invest1 shared round · last Oct 11, 2021
GGO Ventures1 shared round · last Oct 11, 2021
SSingtel Innov81 shared round · last Oct 11, 2021
II2BF Global Ventures1 shared round · last Oct 11, 2021
RRakuten Ventures1 shared round · last Oct 11, 2021
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Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Fintech).
How this is counted
Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-09, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.
Share is of the 2 rounds on Recent Funding that name Wayra UK. 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 Wayra UK, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/wayra-uk (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.
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