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