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Osney Capital

Witney, Oxfordshire, UK · Invests in UK; North America · Website

Thesis

The UK's cyber ecosystem is one of the country's greatest untapped strengths. Osney Capital provides specialist capital to back the next wave of UK cyber founders and build globally significant cybersecurity companies. They combine deep cybersecurity domain expertise, venture experience (125+ seed investments), and fund structuring knowledge.

Likely not a fit for

No non-cybersecurity investments. No late-stage deals. No companies outside UK/Canada geographic focus.

How they invest

Lead or follow
Usually leads
Warm intro
Not required
Involvement
Takes a board seat
Fund status
Actively deploying
Assets under mgmt
$64M
Decision process
Partnership vote

Partners & team

3 contacts on file

JW

Joshua Walter

General PartnerFounding Partner · Primary contact

+ Pitch
AC

Adam Cragg

PartnerPartner

+ Pitch
PW

Paul Wilkes

PartnerPartner

+ Pitch

Portfolio

RefuteSecurity Cyber

Refute fights disinformation on behalf of your organisation, detecting and responding to campaigns at the speed of the attackers. The company uses AI-powered technology to combat the rising threat of disinformation, particularly in the context of hybrid warfare.

AisyHealthcare Digital

Aisy.io is a company providing recovery services.

OvermindHealthcare Digital

Overmind provides digital automation solutions specifically designed for the healthcare sector, integrating intelligent algorithms to streamline processes and enhance operational efficiency.

PloyEnterprise Software

Ploy is the first AI powered autonomous identity platform, that ensures everyone has the right access at the right time, completely automated.

HuntbaseSecurity Cyber

Huntbase is a threat hunting platform developed by security experts. It focuses on hypothesis-driven investigations and federated search.

Aviel TechnologiesSecurity Cyber

AVIEL Intelligence provides AI-driven solutions to prevent Authorized Push Payment (APP) fraud, leveraging a combination of artificial and human intelligence to identify and stop scams in real-time.

SitehopSecurity Cyber

Sitehop provides low latency, quantum-ready network solutions that utilize FPGA technology to enhance cybersecurity and data protection.

MindgardSecurity Cyber

Mindgard provides automated AI red teaming and security testing solutions to help organizations secure their AI models and systems against vulnerabilities and attacks.

OnSecuritySecurity Cyber

OnSecurity provides AI-augmented penetration testing services that combine human expertise with AI-driven automation to deliver faster, more accurate security assessments. Their CREST-approved platform offers continuous vulnerability scanning, threat intelligence, and customizable testing features.

RevEng.AISecurity Cyber

RevEng.AI is an artificial intelligence and cybersecurity company building foundational AI for detecting threats and weaknesses in software. The revolutionary AI model, named BinNet, can identify and label fragments of computer code found anywhere within organizations' software supply chain.

ESProfilerSecurity Cyber

ESProfiler is a Security Stack Intelligence Platform that provides continuous visibility and decision intelligence for security stacks, helping organizations optimize their security investments and manage their security tools effectively.

SeedataSecurity Cyber

Seedata.io offers an automated deception platform that plants, maintains, and monitors decoy assets throughout an organization's infrastructure to detect and respond to cyber threats effectively.

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Research briefRead more
Osney Capital Research Investment Thesis Osney Capital is the UK's first specialist cybersecurity seed fund, focused exclusively on backing early-stage UK cyber companies. Founded in 2024 by Joshua Walter, Adam Cragg, and Paul Wilkes — all Oxford MBA alumni — the firm believes the UK's cyber ecosystem is one of the country's greatest untapped strengths and that specialist capital is needed to buil

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