7TWO

7TWO

7TWO was established in 2009 by Matthew Linsey and Nick Corcoran, both alumni of Citi's European technology investment banking practice. The firm emerged during the post-financial-crisis venture vacuum and built its early reputation by backing UK and European founders at Seed and Series A stages. It operates as a privately held investment partnership rather than a venture fund, with the founding partners deploying capital drawn from a tight circle of entrepreneurs and family-office backers. The firm pursues a concentrated enterprise-technology mandate across Europe, with known activity spanning enterprise software, fintech, digital health, and applied AI. 7TWO typically writes initial cheques of £500,000 to £2 million and reserves significant capital for follow-on rounds. Observed portfolio positions include GoCardless, the London-based recurring-payments platform the firm backed before its 2014 Series A; Onfido, the identity-verification company that exited to Entrust in 2024; and Tessian, the human-layer security firm sold to Proofpoint in 2023. The partnership also co-invests regularly alongside London-stage peers such as Notion Capital, Dawn Capital, and LocalGlobe. 7TWO maintains a deliberately compact operating footprint from its London base. The partnership has not publicly disclosed its total committed capital, and the founding duo remains the visible investment committee — a structure that is increasingly rare among European VC firms their vintage. In a notable operational move, the firm participated in the secondary sale of Onfido shares to TPG in 2020, an event that surfaced in public filings and confirmed 7TWO's early entry into the deal. Structurally, 7TWO is not a classic limited-partner fund. It blends elements of a family-office-style evergreen pool with the disciplined cheque-writing cadence of an institutional seed fund. This hybrid capital base — neither a traditional rolling fund nor a single-principal family office — gives it an unusual tolerance for holding periods that can stretch beyond ten years, a profile that differentiates it from peers constrained by conventional fund-life limits and LP redemption pressure.