Bento Capital

We are an angel community of 100+ startup operators investing in high growth Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups

Where some of our investors are from

Revolut
Google
Scale AI
Uber
Deliveroo

For Investors

  • As a member of Bento Capital, you join a community of startup operators and investors who are interested (and excited!) to invest into early stage startups. You get access to invest deal by deal (from as little as $1,000) into high growth early-stage companies across across Europe and US. Importantly we give you the access but you decide if you want to invest or not.

    We also provide access to investment educational resources so you can start learning the ins and outs of investing into startups.

  • We welcome you to apply to our community if you are interested in angel investing into high growth, high potential startups. Typically our members run or work at startups so have some understanding of how startup funding works and what it’s like to run or work in one.

  • We primarily invest in Pre-seed and Seed stages across Europe and US with a focus on Marketplace, Fintech and AI companies. We aim to invest in companies with diverse and female founders.

    When assessing companies and founders what we look for is a strong founder-problem fit, product differentiation and defensibility and that the team is doing the right things for traction to get from 0 -> 1.

  • Once you are accepted into the community, you’ll be added to our email list and sent links to join our Slack and Whatsapp groups. When we launch a deal (approximately 1 deal a month), we’ll reach out across those channels with the investment opportunity, associated pitch materials and investment link. We will also organize and host a pitch meeting with the founders which is an opportunity for you to ask any questions. If you decide to participate in the deal, you need to complete your registration to invest and transfer your investment amount.

  • When we invest into each startup, we do so as an angel syndicate meaning we pool smaller individual angel tickets (yours and many others) into one larger investment vehicle allowing us to participate in the funding round of the company in question alongside institutional investors.

    In this way, Bento Capital lowers the barrier to entry to angel investing and are able to provide access to investment opportunities previously only available to much larger VC firms.

For Founders

  • Founders choose to work with Bento Capital because we are a collective community of 100+ startup operators who have battle-tested experience in some of the highest growth startups across Europe and US. Apart from capital, we bring a wealth of operator experience and network to help support our founders on their growth journey.

  • We primarily invest in Pre-seed and Seed stages across Europe and US with a focus on Marketplace, Fintech and AI companies. We aim to invest in companies with diverse and female founders.

    When assessing companies and founders what we look for is a strong founder-problem fit, product differentiation and defensibility and that the team is doing the right things for traction to get from 0 -> 1.

  • No, we are an angel syndicate of startup operators who provide both capital and guidance developed from our hands-on operator experience in some of the fastest growing startups across Europe and US.

    We pool funding from our community to invest a single ticket into your startup. We are one line on your cap table, keeping it clean while bringing the benefits of having many experienced operators that you can draw on.

  • Once you apply, a member of the team will review your company and pitch and if we think it’s interesting for us and the community we’ll reach out to get to know you and what you’re building a bit more. The next stage is then typically to organize a short pitch with the community so you get a chance to share your vision and to ask any questions. Generally the process end to end can take as little as 14 days but closer to 21 days.

  • We typically invest initial checks of £50K-£100K at Pre-seed and Seed stages with a requirement of a minimum £25K allocation from participating startups.