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Avonmore Developments

UK seed and pre-seed investor backing business-to-business and deep-technology start-ups

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About Avonmore Developments

Avonmore Developments is a seed and early-stage investor set up in 2000 by Simon and Michael Blakey. It provides pre-seed and seed equity, mainly to UK-based business-to-business and deep-tech start-ups with strong growth potential.

It invests from its own resources and also brings in wealthy individuals, family offices and venture funds to build larger syndicates.

What Avonmore Developments offers

  • Pre-seed and seed equity — first funding for young technology firms.
  • Syndicate building — introductions to co-investors for bigger rounds.
  • Asian market knowledge — reach through Cocoon Capital, launched by Michael Blakey in 2016.

Who it works with

The firm looks for management teams with deep sector knowledge, some proven demand, defensible technology and a business-to-business sales focus. It prefers UK companies but also considers European ones.

Key facts

  • Founded: 2000
  • Portfolio: over 45 early-stage companies across more than 75 funding rounds
  • Current UK portfolio: 19 companies
  • Wider reach: investments across Southeast Asia

Profile written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Sep 2026.

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