We play fair by founders

Giving you an unfair advantage, to take you from where you are to where you want to be

We’re a sector agnostic fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed investing

92% of our portfolio recommend working with us

Story

We look for visionary founders, with hustle, heart and humility, who see the world, not as it is, but as it could be

78% of our companies have successfully raised a Series A round

Portfolio

We combine financial capital, emotional intelligence and a willingness to do whatever’s required

Because we know it takes more than funding for a startup to survive and thrive; the right support goes beyond writing cheques

Thesis

We’re an ecosystem player here for the long-term

It’s a step towards the tomorrow we all want to live in

Content

We’re committed to readdressing the gender imbalance in venture, by breaking down barriers and opening doors

Collaboration is Queen: Our female founder network has collectively raised £600m

Female Founders

We believe that access to VC should be open and based on merit, we review each and every application

It’s never too early for an initial conversation

Pitch us

We play fair by founders

Giving you an unfair advantage, to take you from where you are to where you want to be

We’re a sector-agnostic fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed investing

92% of our portfolio recommend working with us

Story

We look for visionary founders, with hustle, heart and humility, who see the world, not as it is, but as it could be.

78% of our companies have successfully raised a Series A

Portfolio

We combine financial capital, emotional intelligence and a willingness to do whatever’s required.

Because we know it takes more than funding for a startup to survive and thrive; the right support goes beyond writing cheques

Thesis

We’re an ecosystem player here for the long-term

It’s a step towards the tomorrow we all want to live in

Content

We’re committed to readdressing the gender imbalance in venture, by breaking down barriers and opening doors

Collaboration is Queen: Our female founder network has collectively raised £600m

Female Founders

We believe that access to VC should be open and based on merit, we review each and every application

It’s never too early for an initial conversation

Pitch us

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Henrik Wetter Sanchez

General Partner

Henrik has been a founder, an angel investor and an investment banker, and he enjoys being a deliberate generalist.



Henrik studied French, Spanish and Portuguese at Cambridge and graduated with a first in 2017. During his degree, he founded a tech startup, a social enterprise and began angel investing through crowdfunding platforms. His social navigation and discovery startup RendezVu grew to over a thousand global users and access-led tutoring marketplace The Oxbridge Initiative was live in six countries. Henrik started angel investing in 2015 and has built a portfolio of >40 investments, including Monzo (2016), Revolut (2017), Freetrade (2017) and Pod Point (IPO 2021).

Henrik’s professional career started in private equity at Ardian while living in Paris on his year abroad. After graduation, he joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the investment banking division where he worked on UK M&A and IPO deals for two years.

Henrik joined Playfair for the launch of Fund II in 2019 and has since led seven investments in new companies and enjoys actively supporting their founders on and off their boards. He also helped found Playfair’s D&I initiative: Female Founder Office Hours and now runs it with the team. He was recently named as one of Sifted’s Top 30 Young Venture Capitalists.

Outside of Playfair, you can find Henrik on the tennis court, in the mountains or deep in a book.


Areas of interest


Enterprise Software

AI & ML

Fintech

Marketplaces

Portfolio companies