Our portfolio is a window into the future, shaped by founders building the HumanOS - systems that help people learn, work, and adapt continuously

Zen Educate is a tech-enabled staffing platform matching schools with the right educators, fast. By automating substitute and support staff hiring, Zen helps schools run smoothly, reduce agency spend, and ensure students get consistent, high-quality cover when it matters most.

We backed Zen because the team combines rare ambition with world-class execution. Substitute teaching is a huge, underserved market, and Zen is solving it with a simple, scalable product: getting the right teacher to the right classroom at the right time, while saving schools money and paying educators more. With strong momentum in the UK and the US, Zen is building the category-defining platform for flexible school staffing.

Since Brighteye led Zen’s Series A in 2019, the company has scaled from London to major cities across the UK and the US, expanded into new staffing verticals. To date, Zen has saved schools over £20m in the UK alone, and is now expanding internationally, including into the US, Australia, with a team and trajectory that still feel like day one.

Hack The Box is a leading gamified cybersecurity upskilling, certification, and talent assessment platform enabling individuals, businesses, government institutions, and universities to sharpen their offensive and defensive security expertise.

We invested in Hack The Box because it is redefining how cybersecurity skills are built, measured and deployed. By combining ultra-realistic, game-based learning with talent assessment and certification, Hack The Box addresses the weakest link in cyber defence: the human element. With the world’s largest hacking community, strong traction with enterprises and governments, and a gamer-first product that creates real network effects, the company stands out as the category-defining platform for cyber-ready teams.

Hack The Box has built the world’s largest global hacking community, with millions of members, and is trusted by leading blue-chip enterprises and government organisations across the US, Europe and APAC.

Sdui Group, a leading European provider of cloud-based administrative software for K-12 schools and nurseries.

Besides the large opportunity set in broad patterns of digitisation, we also saw in Daniel (CEO) a unique founder with drive, insight and determination that was extremely impressive in a first-time founder who started this first company of his fresh out of school. He has been able to mobilise an extremely talented and experienced team across product, sales, marketing, tech and management that are helping him construct the juggernaut he has the ambition to build.

Sdui Group serves tens of thousands of institutions across Europe, and is continuing to expand into new regions. The company has developed into a leading provider of cloud-based software that enables digital communication and administration for schools and educational institutions across Europe.

Ornikar has reinvented driver education in France. In under a decade, it has become the country’s leading platform for learning to drive, combining high-quality online theory with a marketplace of independent instructors, and extending its relationship with learners through a dedicated insurance product for young drivers.

We invested in Ornikar because it seized a once-in-a-generation regulatory shift and used it to reinvent how people learn to drive. The team built a two-sided marketplace that delivers increible value on both sides: learners pay far less and pass more often, while instructors earn more with higher utilisation. With category leadership already established when we invested, early network effects in motion and a clear path to owning the market, Ornikar stood out as the platform capable of defining driver education for the next two decade.

Ornikar has become the dominant driver education platform in France, helping millions of learners pass their driving exams faster and at a fraction of the traditional cost. Building on this trusted relationship, the company has expanded into insurance, now covering tens of thousands of young drivers and extending its impact well beyond the exam itself.