Shaping the Future of Work

 
 

Our Mission

Positively Impacting 10 Million Workers by Investing In Ambitious Startups Changing the Future of Work.

Our portfolio companies deliver worker-centric solutions that make this possible.

Whether it’s through providing access to work opportunities, improving career development, enhancing diversity and inclusion, providing financial stability, supporting wellbeing, or fostering flexibility, worker-centric transformation is possible.

Our portfolio provides solutions that add up to positive impact for workers and improved value for employers.

 
 

Engage: connecting workers and employers

 

Enable: with digital tools and improved skills

 
 

Empower: through independent work and flexibility

 

Our Approach

We Are High-Conviction, Hands-On Investors to Early-Stage Companies.

We establish relationships throughout the venture lifecycle and apply different investment strategies and support depending on the stage of the business.

NoBa Spark

Idea stage to launch.

Hands-on 0-1 support.

Supporting new business model innovation. Collaborating with our portfolio.

Highly Selective.

NoBa Spring

Pre-seed investments.

From early build to product market fit.

Supporting early client build and product market fit journey.

10-12 per year.

NoBa Scale

Seed investments including leading rounds.

From Product to Growth.

Supporting scalability and providing active board involvement.

1-2 per year plus follow-on.


We encourage shared learning and synergies across our portfolio, and provide relevant advice and hands-on value-add in the following areas:

Team development & leadership alignment


Commercial strategy


Go-to-market & sales process build


Product & technology strategy


Governance & business process development


 
 
 
 

“The Future of Work is here, and it demands urgent innovation and digitisation of current solutions and work models to promote flexibility and create an environment of opportunities, fairness, and inclusivity for all workers”

Vanesa Pazos | Partner

 
 

Our Values

Our Values Guide the Culture We Want to Create Across NoBa and Our Portfolio

It’s essential we embody our values, practice what we preach and create an example for the venture ecosystem to walk the talk.

Honesty

Always be open and honest - with each other and your stakeholders.

Collaborative

Work collectively to deliver the best outcomes. Demand the best from ourselves and from each other to create a fun and productive workplace.

Difference Makers

Take pride in your work. Take risks at times to achieve common goals. Create positive social impact and deliver greater success for everyone.

Flexible/Agile/Adaptable

Apply pragmatism with flexibility to address challenges quickly and effectively.

Disruptive

Do not accept the status quo just because this is the way people are used to working. Challenge yourself in order to make the biggest impact and progress.



Our Team

Two Decades of Success Leading, Building and Scaling Tech-Enabled Businesses.

 
 

Kevin Fuller

Founding Partner

Vanesa Pazos

Founding Partner

Matt Shaw

Manager

 
 
 

Our Investments

Disrupting and Shaping the Future of Work.

Provides enterprises with a digital marketplace for personalised mental health and wellbeing products, services, and content, to meet the needs of employees

Offers affordable wellbeing benefits to everyone, whether self-employed, part of a company, or for a client through a digital platform.

Empowers professionals to build and establish portfolio careers through a community platform, skills & accreditation programmes, and work opportunities.

Enables managers to gain key insights into employee sentiment and feedback, driving actionable improvements across the entire organisation.

Leverages AI to provide an interview platform that enhances data-driven hiring and streamlines recruitment processes.

Providing digital worker verification services for organisations in regulated sectors with a worker led approach.

Revolutionising workforce talent management through the use of digital credentials to manage skills and to complete compliance requirements.

Enables smarter onboarding of deskless workers with a video-first, mobile-first micro-training platform.

 
 

We are proud supporters of:

 
 
 

 

NoBa Halo Investment Club

Angel Investing with a Difference


 

An Investment Club to Protect, Guide and Empower the Future of Work.

We nurture innovative startups with purpose, offering strategic support, mentorship, and resources.

Investing with us is about more than money.

It's a journey to a brighter working future.

Join a growing group of 60+ angel investors focused on early stage (pre-seed and seed) businesses positively transforming the future of work.

 

Connect

Join a growing community of investors, experts, leaders and founders, all engaged in the future of work and solutions that empower the workforce

Contribute

Always more than just capital - the Halo investor group are active, help guide and support companies and founders and become their greatest advocates

Deliver Impact

Focused on opportunities linked to NoBa’s key themes of no barriers, supporting diverse founders and enabling access to work

 

Actively run by NoBa to curate opportunities, manage admin and coordinate input into portfolio investments.

  • Great Opportunities - Curated, focused deal flow. We see 500 opportunities a year and put forward the best 20-30. SEIS and EIS qualifying.

  • Unique Access - Access opportunities not generally available to other investors - extra capacity, differentiated valuation, preferred terms.

  • Complete Flexibility - Pick and choose the opportunities and investment timing that work for you.

  • Simple Platform - Opportunities, reporting, documents, admin all in one place.


Contact Us

Get In Touch

We are building a community of engaged advisors, experts and investors to support and participate in tech-enabled businesses driving change and creating the Future of Work.

NoBa Capital
Screenworks, Highbury Grove,
London N5 2EF

info@nobacap.com