Playfair Capital
Simon Blakey is the current Chairman of the Investment Committee at Playfair Capital. Prior to this, they were Managing Director at Avonmore Developments Ltd for 22 years and 7 months. Simon has also served as Chair of the Investment Committee at Angel CoFund for 7 years and 10 months, and as a Board Director at Ventrata for 5 years and 8 months.
Simon has been involved in the arts and culture sector for many years, serving as a Board Member at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts for 22 years. Simon is also a Trustee and Treasurer of the Ian Parry Scholarship, which provides financial support to young photojournalists.
The team of Simon Blakey, Chairman of the Investment Committee, is composed of himself as well as Joe Thornton (Partner), Elise Congram (Founders Studio & Office Manager), Jeevan Sunner (Associate), Henrik Wetter-Sanchez (Associate), Fede Pirzio-Biroli (Founding Partner & Chairman), and Andrew Sheffield (Analyst).
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Playfair Capital
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Playfair is a sector agnostic fund focused exclusively on pre-seed investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making six investments a year out of its third $70m fund and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Our 78% Series A graduation rate is ~3x industry average. Playfair has backed 100+ companies since 2013, including Thought Machine, Orca AI, Protex AI, StackOne and Nory.