Investors in EdTech

Building adult skills for work

Welcome to Ufi Ventures. We are the UK’s specialist investor in EdTech for adults; giving people and businesses the skills needed for work, now and in the future.


Leveraging our experience in the development of vocational technology to build adults' skills for work, we invest our own capital in early-stage companies looking for seed investment.

  • £5.0m

    EdTech investment to date

  • 17

    companies in our portfolio

  • 1m+

    people in the UK positively impacted

  • 1,500

    organisations working with our portfolio companies

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Key learnings from VocTech market activity - Q4 2023

The latest report from Ufi Ventures and Tyton Partners, exploring the investment landscape for EdTech and vocational technology.

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"As a specialist investor in edtech and adult learning it's great to have Ufi as an investor in Learnerbly. They have a deep understanding of our space and have been super supportive throughout our journey from seed to our Series A. They continue to provide advice and support through their Board observership as well as on an adhoc basis."

Rajeeb Dey MBE, Founder and CEO, Learnerbly

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    Building the future of adult learning and work in the UK.

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Who do we invest in?

We look to invest in companies with the ambition to make a positive impact in line with our Theory of Change, using VocTech, to:

  • Help adults in the UK to access and progress in work through improved skills
  • Help employers in the UK to improve their business performance through improving the skills of their workforce
  • Grow the VocTech sector by demonstrating attractive financial returns from investing in it

We are building a portfolio of around twenty companies.

Our support

We help our portfolio companies in four key ways:

  1. We provide further financial investment and fundraising support
  2. We are a mission-driven investor, aligned with the mission of our portfolio companies, with deep market intelligence from Ufi’s wide portfolio of projects and investments
  3. We provide engaged support from one of our Venture Partners, with access to regular market intelligence insight
  4. We provide access to the Ufi expert pool, and wider network in vocational technology

Our co-investors have included:
Triple Point; Beringea; Haatch; Midven; Playfair Capital; and others.

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