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Haatch is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage growth-focused digital companies.

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Haatch Ventures

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01.09.2013

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Private

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Founded in 2013, Haatch Ventures invests in technology companies including smart devices, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and mixed reality sectors. They use their significant venture capital relationships to help provide funding and support to portfolio businesses from product development to marketing to FTSE 100 introductions. They look for startups that exhibit highly scalable and disruptive models for growth, with their sweet spot being an MVP with some early traction in the market requiring investment to scale to Series A. Haatch Ventures provides experienced support, advice, and network opportunities to maximize the chances of success for their portfolio companies. Their SEIS & EIS funds enable investors to benefit from their knowledge and experience of investing in disruptive UK technology while taking advantage of significant tax reliefs under the SEIS & EIS scheme.
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Elaine Weavers-Wright
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Elaine is all about the end customer and is constantly challenging our startups around customer experience. Elaine also brings her buying & commercial knowledge into our retail startups and works closely with them to develop commercial, scalable solutions. Elaines extensive background in Kiddicare as a partner involved directing all parts of the business, with a specific focus on buying, commercial & customer service across thousands of products & millions of orders whilst keeping every customer happy.

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Scott Weavers-Wright
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Scott Weavers-Wright

Scott is best-known for founding one of Britain’s largest e-commerce businesses Kiddicare.com which was subsequently acquired in cash for £70m, by Morrisons, one of the UK’s largest supermarkets. Reaching 6th on the Retail-Week Power List, Scott is regarded by many as one of the UK’s most innovative business professionals in retail. After the Kiddicare acquisition, Scott became Managing Director and Chief Architect for Morrisons.com and has a wealth of experience in building and scaling large e-commerce businesses across the UK, most notably Kiddicare.com. Founding Haatch, Scott has invested in, and developed businesses in the areas of ad tech, B2B SaaS (software as a service) and retail tech within the FMCG market including Elevaate, founded in 2014, enabling supplier monetisation programs across retailer websites.

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Fred Soneya
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Fred was responsible for a number of high profile, large-scale innovation projects across one of the UK’s largest e-commerce businesses Kiddicare.com and post-acquisition, supermarket giant Morrisons. Fred created award-winning, digital customer experiences bridging the online-offline gap in one of the UK’s largest grocers, Morrisons. This included the launch of browse and order points, mobile payments and electronic shelf edge labels powered by early stage technology companies. To achieve this Fred worked with cutting edge early stage technology start-ups to integrate and piece together award-winning customer experiences. Co-founding Haatch in 2013, Fred runs the investment process end-to-end and works with portfolio businesses in advisory and board roles.

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Sophie Weavers-Wright

Sophie Weavers-Wright

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Jeremy Luzinda

Jeremy Luzinda

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Kate Cooper

Kate Cooper

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Samantha Hughes

Samantha Hughes

Investment Operations

Hannah Purser

Hannah Purser

Accounts & Operations

Simon Penson

Simon Penson

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Mark Bennett

Mark Bennett

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