Simon Blakey
About
Simon Blakey is from London Area, United Kingdom. Simon is currently Venture Partner | Senior Advisor at Playfair. Simon also works as Board Member at Cambridge Angels, a job Simon has held since Aug 2023. Another title Simon currently holds is Angel Investor at Cambridge Angels. In Simon's previous role as a Chair of the Investment Committee at Playfair Capital, Simon worked in until Dec 2025. Prior to joining Playfair Capital, Simon was a Trustee and Treasurer at Ian Parry Scholarship and held the position of Trustee and Treasurer. Prior to that, Simon was a Board Director at Chattermill from Feb 2016 to Aug 2022. Simon started working as Board Observer at Vinehealth in Jan 2020. From Jan 2011 to Jul 2020, Simon was Chairman at Specle. Prior to that, Simon was a Member, Advisory Board at Specle Ltd from Apr 2009 to Jan 2011.
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Simon Blakey's current jobs
Cambridge Angels is a group of investors with extensive experience of founding, growing, mentoring and financing early-stage ventures across a wide range of technology sectors including biotechnology, semi-conductors, engineering, software and many others
Ventrata has developed an enterprise-level, mobile-first, point of sales system for attractions, tours and activities that is live across numerous clients in the US, Europe and Asia. Clients include Big Bus Tours, Historic Tours of America and RATP Group.
The Angel CoFund is a private sector entity, established with the dual objectives of providing both direct investment to high potential SMEs, enabling them to unlock their growth potential; & supporting the development of the UK business angel market, by encouraging syndication & best practice. It was designed & established by a consortium of private & public bodies with expertise in business angel investment. [funded by the Regional Growth Fund & the British Business Bank] With an Investment capacity of £100M The fund is able to make initial equity investments of between £100K & £1M in to SMEs alongside strong syndicates of business angels, with an upper limit of 49% of any investment round. It will only make investments alongside Syndicates of business angels, who must be investing in a given business for the first time. Any final decision to invest will be made by the independent Investment Committee of the fund based on the detailed proposals put forward by business angel syndicates.
Avonmore is the private investment vehicle of brothers Simon and Michael Blakey who are seed/early stage equity investors in the UK. Further details: www.avonmoredevelopments.com
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts is an art gallery and museum located on the campus of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. The building, which contains an unrivalled collection of over 3,000 pieces of world art, including many Francis Bacons, Giacomettis and Henry Moores which sit alongside important art from Africa, Asia, North and South America, the Pacific region, medieval Europe and the ancient Mediterranean. It puts on a rolling schedule of important exhibitions of both national and international importance. The Centre is the first major public buildings to be designed by the architect Norman Foster, completed in 1978 and considered an early masterpiece. The building became grade II* listed in 2012
Simon Blakey's past jobs
London-Based Playfair is a generalist pre-seed Venture Capital Fund. Playfair was founded and funded by Angel investor, Fede Pirzio-Biroli. As a result, its distinctive approach takes the best aspects of angel investing - enthusiasm, empathy, hands-on experience and speed of decision-making - with the professionalism of a fund that is able to write larger cheques, make follow-on investments and has a bigger team and wider network of contacts.
Ian Parry was a photojournalist who died while on assignment for The Sunday Times during the Romanian revolution in 1989. He was just 24 years of age. The Ian Parry Scholarship was created in order to build something positive from such a tragic death. Each year they hold an international photographic competition for young photographers who are either attending a full-time photographic course or are under 24. https://www.ianparry.org
Chattermill provides next generation AI text analytics tools for any type of company customer feedback data, be it tweets, customer surveys, reviews or blog posts and then provides clear, actionable metrics in a user-friendly package. It's customers include the likes of Transferwise, Uber, Deliveroo, Nutmeg and Hello Fresh
The Vinehealth app allows people living with cancer to track their symptoms, manage their medications and understand their care.
Specle.net is the UK's leading publisher-verified advert specification website. Its free-to-access, centralised database of tablet, Digital-Out-of-Home and print advert technical specifications allows advertisers to quickly develop, check and deliver campaigns to multiple publishers across many media formats. Specle was sold in an MBO in July 2020.