Charlie Songhurst

Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.

Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skype acquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.

Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
26
Charlie Songhurst has made 26 investments. Their most recent investment was on Oct 31, 2016, when Encore Musicians raised £560K.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Dec 6, 2022 Flow Engineering Seed $8.50M Aerospace Detail
Jun 15, 2022 DLC.link Pre-seed $826K Cryptocurrency Detail
May 5, 2022 Januar Seed €6M Cryptocurrency Detail
Mar 23, 2022 prePO Seed $2.10M Blockchain Detail
Aug 2, 2021 Flow Engineering Seed Aerospace Detail
May 26, 2021 Skiff Seed $3.70M Information Technology Detail
Sep 7, 2020 Lokalise Series A $6M Cloud Infrastructure Detail
May 1, 2020 Treyd Pre-seed $360K Financial Services Detail
Mar 12, 2020 Anytype Seed $1.20M Blockchain Detail
Jan 1, 2020 Wrk Seed $12.50M Information Technology Detail
Dec 19, 2018 Layer1 Seed $2.10M Bitcoin Detail
Nov 29, 2018 Aztec Seed $2.10M Blockchain Detail
Oct 12, 2018 Kojo Seed $4.16M Commercial Detail
Jan 15, 2018 Zinier Series A $8M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Nov 21, 2017 Overclock Labs, creators of Akash Network Seed $1.31M Cloud Infrastructure Detail
Oct 1, 2017 Flow Engineering Pre-seed Aerospace Detail
Jun 19, 2017 AimBrain Series A £4M Biometrics Detail
Jun 1, 2017 Bear Robotics Angel $750K Artificial Intelligence Detail
Oct 31, 2016 Encore Musicians Seed £560K Communities Detail
Aug 15, 2016 Onfido Series Unknown FinTech Detail
Jul 1, 2016 Grove Collaborative Series A $5.10M Consumer Goods Detail
Apr 14, 2016 Onfido Series B £10.01M FinTech Detail
Nov 4, 2015 Karat Seed $2.30M Information Technology Detail
May 14, 2015 HelixNano Convertable Note $100K Artificial Intelligence Detail
Sep 17, 2014 Peerspace Seed $2M Collaborative Consumption Detail
Sep 16, 2013 Flexe Seed $6.50M Cloud Computing Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
1
Charlie Songhurst has 1 current jobs including Advisor at Bear Robotics , .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Bear Robotics Advisor Jun 1, 2017 Detail