Haatch Ventures

Haatch is a Stamford, Lincolnshire-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Scott Weavers-Wright and Fred Soneya. The two co-founders met at Kiddicare.com, an online baby care retailer that Weavers-Wright co-founded and grew into one of the UK's largest e-commerce businesses before selling it to Morrisons for £70 million in 2011. Haatch invests strategically at pre-seed and opportunistically at seed in B2B SaaS companies solving deep operational pains, with the stated goal of accelerating companies to their first £1 million in ARR and building the infrastructure to reach £10 million and beyond. The firm manages £80 million-plus in AUM for the 2024/25 tax year and leads rounds. Haatch operates SEIS funds deploying approximately £350K average cheques across 40-plus companies per year, and EIS funds investing approximately £500K average cheques across up to 16 companies per period. The portfolio spans 116 companies, with 103 in tech, 85 in enterprise B2B, 78 in software, and 44 or more in SaaS, valued at £800 million-plus. British Business Investments committed up to £10 million to Haatch in September 2022. The firm achieved four profitable exits in 2025: Re-flow (acquired by Kester Capital in March 2025, returning 6.55x), CareLineLive (acquired by Accel-KKR in May 2025), Tangible Markets (fintech SEIS exit), and a fourth undisclosed exit. Partners include founding partners Weavers-Wright and Soneya, along with Mark Bennett and Jonathan Keeling. Haatch charges no founder fees and positions itself as a genuine operator-investor, drawing on the founders' experience building a scaled e-commerce business to add practical strategic guidance alongside capital. The firm targets 200 or more portfolio companies as it continues to grow its SEIS and EIS vehicles.