# Houghton Street Ventures: portfolio, investments and team > Houghton Street Ventures is a vc firm based in United Kingdom. 2 investments on record, 1 in the last 12 months, latest Oct 2026. Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/houghton-street-ventures (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) United Kingdom · [Investor](https://millionrounds.com/investors) # Houghton Street Ventures Last cheque observed Oct 2026; 2 cheques on record. Email VC firm Deploying now Last fund $1.9M, Oct 2023 Pre-seed Seed Series A Humanities Social_sciences Technology Follow Houghton Street Ventures and see its new cheques in your feed. [Start following](https://millionrounds.com/login?join=1&why=follow&next=%2Ffund%2Fhoughton-street-ventures) Deploying now **100%** of best year **1** **cheques in 12 months**, 2 on record Since the last cheque **15** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec Median round **$9.8M** Cheque size, as they say **$500K – $2.5M** Rounds led **0 of 2** Pitch Houghton Street Ventures ## Houghton Street Ventures highlights - 01 1 cheques in the last 12 months - 02 Mostly Seed and Series A: 100% of its rounds ## What they do > We are Houghton Street Ventures, a venture fund founded in partnership with the London School of Economics. From their own website - **Type:** VC firm (from a list, unverified) - **Cheque size:** $500K – $2.5M as they say - **Stages:** Pre-seed Seed Series A Series B - **Sectors:** Humanities Social_sciences Technology - **Based in:** London, United Kingdom - **Cold pitches:** Accepted ## The record Every round we can evidence, newest first **2 appearances** - **2026** 1 round - **Oct** **[Firstwork](https://millionrounds.com/company/firstwork)** Series A · US · Bharat Fast **$15M** With 7 others - **2025** 1 round - **Oct** **[Andel](https://millionrounds.com/company/andel)** Seed · US · AlleyWatch **$4.5M** With 5 others An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor. ## The team We hold **5** people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them. ## What they claim to have backed From their own portfolio page (on their website) **6** of 6 we have independently watched raise [Link](https://millionrounds.com/company/link)[Link](https://millionrounds.com/company/link)[Link](https://millionrounds.com/company/link)[Link](https://millionrounds.com/company/raylo)[Link](https://millionrounds.com/company/link)[Pitch](https://millionrounds.com/company/pitch) Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded. Latest fund on file **$1.9M** raised in Oct 2023 From its SEC filing. Nothing newer is on file yet. ## The cheque Pre-seed Seed Series A Median round joined **$9.8M** the round, not its cheque Led 0 of 2 rounds **0%** - **Said size:** $500K – $2.5M - **Sole investor:** Never alone - **Last cheque:** Oct 2026 Rounds by stage said on their site - Seed said *1* - Series A said *1* - Pre-seed said *-* - Series B said *-* Cheques by month Led Joined Dec 2023 Nov 2026 **Pitching Houghton Street Ventures?** Put them on your fundraising board with this record on the card, and follow them to hear when they write a new cheque. Add to your CRM *→* ## Recently backed The latest companies Houghton Street Ventures put money into. [**Andel** $4.5M · Oct 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/andel) ## Quick answers about Houghton Street Ventures ### What does Houghton Street Ventures invest in? Houghton Street Ventures invests most often at Seed and Series A (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Humanities, Social_sciences and Technology. ### How active is Houghton Street Ventures? 2 investments on record, 1 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Oct 2026. ### What has Houghton Street Ventures invested in recently? Its most recent investments on record: Firstwork (Series A, Oct 2026) and Andel (Seed, Oct 2025). ### How big are Houghton Street Ventures's cheques? The median round it joins is $9.8M. It says it writes cheques of $500K to $2.5M. ### Is Houghton Street Ventures investing now? Yes: it is actively investing, with 1 investments in the last 12 months. ### What kind of investor is Houghton Street Ventures? Houghton Street Ventures is a VC firm based in London, United Kingdom. ### Has Houghton Street Ventures raised a new fund? Its latest fund filing with the SEC was in Oct 2023, reporting $1.9M raised. ### Does Houghton Street Ventures take cold pitches? Yes: its own website says it reads unsolicited pitches. ## Raising now? Find the investors who back rounds like yours, and keep every conversation on one fundraising board. Find similar investorsOpen your CRM Built from the rounds we watched, its filings and its own website, refreshed every night. [How we count](https://millionrounds.com/methodology) · [Report a correction](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=houghton-street-ventures) · [Is this your firm? Claim it](https://millionrounds.com/claim?org=houghton-street-ventures)