Haatch

What is Haatch?

Haatch is a venture capital firm that specializes in Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A investments. They are industry-agnostic, focusing primarily on digital and software startups through all sectors and models.

Haatch provides investment opportunities via multiple funds, including SEIS (Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme) and EIS (Enterprise Investment Scheme) funds, and is active across a range of industries such as Media, FinTech, Retail, Sales, Cosmetics, IoT, A.I., HealthTech, Web Security, Gaming, Future Of Work, Food & Beverage, Insurance, Messaging, Payments, Healthcare, Mobility, and Consumer goods.

Haatch makes investments with a minimum of £100,000, a maximum of £5,000,000, and a sweet spot of £1,500,000. Their headquarters are at Blackfriars Street, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 2BW, GB.

Haatch's investment thesis hinges on startups that can demonstrate early traction and proof points. Through the Haatch EIS Fund, they invest in 4-6 Seed-Stage B2B businesses with at least £10,000 in monthly recurring revenue. The Haatch SEIS Fund invests in a portfolio of 10-15 pre-seed technology companies at their earliest stages.

Additionally, the firm collaborates with Crowdcube to provide diversified SEIS portfolios making angel investing more accessible to retail investors. The firm also operates Haatch ESAIF and a £10 million fund in partnership with British Business Investments to fuel growth in startup ecosystems.

Haatch supports founders in hitting their first £1 million ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) and suggests strategies for reaching £10 million-plus. They look for B2B SaaS solutions that solve significant industry pains or create impactful operational changes, demanding evidence of value from their prospective investments.

Haatch's focus includes addressing (deep) pains felt in the present, understanding defined customer personas, achieving market-product fit, and then striving for product-model fit and model-channel fit. Haatch prides itself on being an award-winning Pre-Seed fund with a strong network and resources for both investors and founders.

What they say:

Haatch are strategic pre-seed and opportunistic seed investors that invest in B2B SaaS companies solving deep pains in the present and/or creating massive impact for organisations. We offer both EIS & SEIS funds to investors. We've invested in 100+ businesses across the UK, Europe, UAE & US.

What we look for: We invest in UK-based B2B SaaS pre-seed or seed stage start-ups. Haatch is industry-agnostic with a portfolio across applied AI, consumer, data infrastructure, edtech, fintech, future of work, healthtech, HRtech, media, product tools, proptech, retail-tech, sales enablement, and vertical SaaS. Our focus centres around evidence that the business is solving a deep pain or evidence of creating a massive impact for the customer alongside proof-of-value with a defined buyer.

How we help: We accelerate pre-seed B2B SaaS companies to their first £1m ARR and build the infrastructure to get to £10m+. We’re experts in founder-led-sales and building early sales teams. Haatch's team consists of successful founders with over £200m combined exits, leading companies from inception to exit and responsible for more than £1bn+ revenue generation.