Tramlines Ventures

About

Tramlines Ventures is a London-based early-stage venture firm and accelerator founded in April 2025 by Albert Azis-Clauson and Daniel Lanyon. The firm targets domain expert founders, operators with 10–20 years of industry experience, and backs them with pre-seed capital, a 24-month structured accelerator programme, and an AI transformation platform designed to industrialise specialist knowledge into scalable, AI-native businesses.

Investment Focus

Tramlines backs pre-seed AI-native services companies founded by experienced domain experts in fintech, enterprise tech, and AI. The fund deliberately avoids generalist or first-time technical founders in favour of operators who have spent decades inside the industries they are now disrupting. Portfolio sectors to date include funeral industry infrastructure, financial operations, AI deployment platforms, recruitment performance software, and power electronics.

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Fund

Tramlines Fund I completed its first close in June 2026, targeting a final close of ~$12.7M USD (£10M). The fund will back 30 pre-seed companies with ~$320K USD (£250K) first cheques over three years. LPs include family offices, exited founders, and experienced private market investors.

Separately, the Tramlines management company completed a ~$2.5M USD (£2M) seed round at a ~$28.6M USD (£22.5M) pre-money valuation in June 2026, its second fundraise since launching, following a ~$1.27M USD (£1M) round in April 2025 at an ~$10.2M USD (£8M) valuation.

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Leadership

Albert Azis-Clauson is Founder and CEO, a serial CEO, chair, investor, and consultant with over a decade of experience building early-stage companies. He studied at UCL.

Daniel Lanyon is Co-Founder and Fund Lead, a former founding partner and Editor-in-Chief of AltFi with deep expertise across fintech, venture capital, and asset management.

Craig Donaldson is Chair and commercial lead for the portfolio, founding CEO of Metro Bank, which he built from scratch and took through a £1.6 billion IPO before stepping down in 2019.

Glen Robinson is Managing Director of the AI Platform, having resigned from Microsoft UK where he served as National Technology Officer, advising the UK Government on technology strategy and regulation.

Andrew Winters leads the Accelerator, formerly a Managing Partner in Deloitte's Technology and Digital advisory practice and COO of NEOM's Technology and Digital subsidiary.

Erica Young serves as Director of Networks, bringing experience from Anthemis, Atomico, and the Newton Venture Program. Ashleigh Gardner is Chief of Staff and Director of Operations, and Andrea Madaschi serves as CFO.

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Investment Strategy

Tramlines invests £250K at pre-seed into domain expert founders, then runs them through a 24-month hands-on accelerator focused on revenue-first growth, capital efficiency, and structured pathways to profitability. The AI Transformation Platform, led by Glen Robinson, functions as an orchestration layer that converts industry-specific operational knowledge into agent-based systems, deployed across each portfolio company. The firm targets 6–8 companies per fund across fintech, AI, and enterprise tech, and explicitly avoids founders chasing venture hype in favour of operators with deep domain knowledge and a clear commercial thesis.

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Notable Investments