Scholar's Ridge Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($500K–$2.5M Checks)
Scholar's Ridge Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Cambridge, UK investing in Other, SaaS. The firm typically writes $500K–$2.5M checks and has 1 portfolio company in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$2.5M
- Portfolio
- 1 company on record
- Partners
- 8 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, SaaS
- HQ
- Cambridge, UK
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-06-08
Pre-Seed, Seed
$500K – $2.5M
1+ companies
8 partners
Investment Thesis
Scholar's Ridge Ventures invests in transformational academic and research tools seeking to democratize access and streamline processes.
How Scholar's Ridge Ventures invests
Scholar's Ridge Ventures is a vc firm based in Cambridge, UK. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, SaaS. It does not invest in Consumer.
Scholar's Ridge Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$2.5M per investment.
Scholar's Ridge Ventures has backed 1 company in our records, including ResearchGate+.
Partners & Team
Akriti Dokania
Partner
Derrick Lee
Chief Financial Officer
Yousuf Khan
Partner
Karen Brewer
Director of Investor Relations
Pat Kenealy
Venture Partner
Emma Carter
GP
Lorra Stone
Chief Financial Officer
Mark Gavigan
Management Technology Professional Services
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (1)
Other
ResearchGate+
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $2.5M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Akriti Dokania, Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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