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10 London Family Offices Investing in Startups (2026)

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Here are ten active family offices from our database that are based in London and invest in startups, along with their websites:

  1. Ferguson Partners Family Office
    Ferguson Partners Family Office is an independent private investment office in London representing its principals along with a select group of families, entrepreneurs, and semi-governmental organisations. It offers bespoke services to build, preserve, and transfer wealth across generations, with each client managed independently. The firm ensures its investments adhere to socially responsible investment criteria.
  2. IPQ Capital
    IPQ Capital is the family office of the Pathiraja Fryland Møller family, based in London. The firm focuses on long-term, scalable results, allocating capital across asset classes and equity sectors. Its systematic investment strategy aims to generate sustainable, long-term returns.
  3. IT Capital
    IT Capital is a London-based investment firm whose team brings extensive software engineering experience. It focuses on pre-seed to Series A tech and innovation startups across the UK and Ireland.
  4. Kessler family office
    Kessler Family Office is a traditional family office based in London that focuses on technology, supporting and scaling early-stage companies. It also engages with social enterprises and philanthropic ventures.
  5. MVK Group Holdings
    MVK Group Holdings is a London-based family office dedicated to strengthening inter-generational ties alongside market-beating investment returns. It structures its investment vehicles to give the next generation a hands-on learning environment, offering direct exposure to portfolio companies to develop their skills throughout and beyond the investment period.
  6. Outrun Ventures
    Outrun Ventures is a London-based angel investment firm focused on fintech founders from Series Seed through Series A and beyond. It defines fintech broadly, spanning payments, lending, regulation, insurance, legal, and proptech, and backs founders tackling archaic systems, inflated costs, and inefficient operations.
  7. PAX Holdings
    PAX Holdings is a London-based family office originating in 1999, when it began with early-stage investments in digital financial services. It now invests across leisure and gaming, leisure-related real estate, gaming technology, social media and messenger services, digital consumer retailing, asset management platforms, and the wine and spirits sector.
  8. Puffin Point
    Puffin Point is a London-based investment firm whose portfolio spans a wide range of industry sectors, including recruitment, hotel and leisure, aviation, motorsport, marketing, and e-commerce.
  9. Rivertrade
    Rivertrade is a London-based family office specializing in seed and early-stage capital for national and international private businesses. Founded by John Kinder in 2000 as a private investment company, it has backed past investments in sports, entertainment, music, and the production and trading of sugar.
  10. Rushworth Investments
    Rushworth Investments is a London-based multi-family investment office that helps entrepreneurial clients build wealth through long-term direct investment programmes and individual deals. As specialists in both public and private markets, the firm builds diversified portfolios aligned with each client's objectives and risk tolerance.

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