Samos Investments

The firm is run by Charles Cecil (Chairman), Ned Cranborne (Partner), Shan Drummond (Partner) and June Angelides MBE (Principal). Samos's website describes the partners as taking a proactive approach with portfolio companies and notes that the Samos Partners are also active angel and seed investors.

Samos combines an institutional venture practice with the personal angel and seed investing activity of its partners. This dual-track approach creates a sourcing network that reaches European founders at pre-seed and seed stages, often before larger Series A funds become aware of a company. The firm co-invests alongside prominent US and European venture funds.

No. Samos is structured as a venture capital investor — an asset manager that deploys capital into high-growth European businesses. The firm's website does not disclose a family-office origin or a single source of wealth, and it presents itself as an institutional venture practice.

Samos invests from seed through growth stages. Its portfolio includes pre-seed rounds (Round Treasury raised £1.6 million in a pre-seed round), Series A (Code First Girls raised £4.5 million in a Series A), Series C (Papier's $50 million Series C), and later-stage growth rounds (Curve's $95 million funding to expand to the U.S.). The partners' own angel activity focuses on seed and start-up stages.

Samos focuses on high-growth European businesses, primarily in the United Kingdom and continental Europe. Portfolio companies are headquartered across London, Stockholm, and other European tech hubs. The firm co-invests with top US and European venture funds, but its direct investment footprint is European.