Emerge Fund II.

About Emerge Fund II.

Emerge Fund II. is a venture capital firm based in United Kingdom, focusing on Pre-Seed stage investments. The fund actively supports founders building innovative solutions in AI/ML, Digital Education Consumer, providing strategic guidance and capital to help startups scale.

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited Kingdom

Funding StagePre Seed

Industry Focus

Ai Ml

Digital Education Consumer

Investor Signals Profile

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Sweet Spot

Pre-seed HCD founder targeting global category leadership

human capital development

HR tech / workforce ops

edtech / learning

diverse founding teams

pre-seed & seed AI tools

Bullish Signals

Venture Partners from OpenAI, Duolingo, HiBobexternal

Active female founder office hours programexternal

Diverse teams thesis backed by dataexternal

$75M dedicated pre-seed HCD fundwebsite

100+ operator venture partners networkwebsite

KfW Capital LP — institutional backingwebsite

Portfolio includes Kinfolk, Colossyan, Multiversewebsite

Kinfolk raised $7.2M seed — agentic AI HRwebsite

EDURINO Series B — €17M edtech milestonewebsite

Checks $500K–$2.5M — true pre-seed rangewebsite

Deep market maps: talent, language, career AIwebsite

Contrarian Signals

Niche focus may limit deal flowexternal

Community-heavy, access may be gatedexternal

HCD consolidation risk (Deel/Zavvy pattern)website

Smaller fund — limited follow-on capacitywebsite

Founder Do's

Build in human capital development (HCD)

Target global category leadership

Female founder? Apply to office hours

Leverage 100+ operator community post-investment

Show ambition to scale internationally

Founder Don'ts

Don't pitch outside HCD vertical

Don't skip community / network events

Don't ignore operator Venture Partners

Key GPs & Partners

Zara Zaman

Partner / GP (active on LinkedIn)

diversity-focusedcommunity builderoperator-connected

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Fund Overview

Fund Size$56M

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Key People

Nic Newmann

Zara ZamanPartner / GP (active on LinkedIn)