Ali Ramadan

Ali has extensive corporate experience covering the entire business life cycle. He is deeply knowledgeable about angel, seed, venture and growth capital financings, as well as cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Ali’s diverse client base includes startups, high-growth companies, and institutional and corporate investors. He has particular insight on the technology sector, working across cutting-edge industries such as artificial intelligence (AI), climate tech, fintech, foodtech, healthtech, proptech and digital media.

Ali’s representative venture capital work experience includes advising:

• LabGenius, a UK drug discovery startup using machine learning to find and design antibody therapies to treat cancer, on its 35 million pounds Series B financing led by M Ventures and its Series A extension financing led by Atomico*
• ExpressionEdits, a biotechnology company focused on optimising protein expression through AI and proprietary intronization technology, on its $13 million seed financing co-led by Octopus Ventures and redalpine*
• Qargo, a transport management company, on its Series A financing led by Balderton Capital*
• Creandum on various financings, including its investments in Unitary, Lindus Health, Scarlet, Packfleet and SEON*
• ETF Partners on its investment in the $75 million Series C financing of quantum error correction technology company Riverlane*
• Relay, a tech-enabled delivery network, on its $10 million seed financing led by Project A*
• Lowercarbon Capital on its $10 million Series A financing of Breathe Battery Technologies, a state-of-the-art control software that uses adaptive algorithms which consider the unique and evolving condition of every battery*
• Volt, a global real-time payments platform, on its $60 million Series B financing led by IVP*
• Connect Earth, an environmental data company, on its $5.6 million seed financing led by Gresham House Ventures*
• Ai Build, a fast-growing London-based software as a service (SaaS) company, on its $8.5 million Series A financing led by Superseed, ACT Venture Partners, Atlas Ventures and Seedcamp*
• Borderless, a workplace migration platform, on its 2.5 million pounds seed financing led by Backed VC*
• Supercritical, a carbon-removal marketplace, on its $13 million Series A financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners*
• Gensyn, a London based blockchain startup, on the completion of its $43 million Series A financing led by a16z crypto*
• Plain, a London-based startup developing an API-first tool to help companies provide streamlined support for customer service teams, on its $6 million seed financing led by Index Ventures and Connect Ventures*
• Octopus Ventures and BGF on their investment in a 40 million pounds Series C financing round for Orbex*
• Octopus Ventures on various financings, including its investments in NanoSyrinx, HelloSelf, ORCA Computing, Unlikely AI, Whirli, ThoughtRiver, Vitesse PSP and KatKin*
• Index Ventures on various financings, including investments in Sourceful, Rooser and incident.io, as well as its investment in Dream Games as part of a $255 million Series C financing*
• Better Dairy on completing a 1.6 million pounds seed financing led by Happiness Capital and on its $22 million Series A financing led by redalpine and Vorwerk*
• Hoxton Farms, a cultivated fat company, on completing a 2.7 million pounds seed financing led by Founders Fund and its $22 million Series A financing led by Collaborative Fund and Fine Structure Ventures*
• Cleo on its $44 Million Series B financing round led by EQT Ventures and its $70 million Series C financing led by Sofina*
• Spoon Guru, a food tech company providing tailored nutritional advice, on its Series A financing led by W23*
• Omnipresent Group, a tech-enabled platform that handles the complexity of international employment for clients, on its $2 million seed financing led by Playfair Capital and Episode 1 and its $120 million Series B financing led by Kinnevik and Tencent*
• Sensat, which creates digital representations (or ‘digital twins’) of real-world locations, on its $10 million Series A financing led by Tencent and its $20.5 million Series B financing led by National Grid Partners*
• Mashroom, a unique end-to-end property-letting platform, on completing a 4 million pounds convertible loan note financing*
• Navenio, a hospital workforce AI platform, on its 9 million pounds Series A financing led by QBN Capital*
• ING Ventures on its $5 million investment in the Series B round of Eigen Technologies, a global provider of natural language processing technology*
• Hoxton Ventures on completing a 5 million pounds investment into host kitchen tech provider Kbox Global*
• Fidelity International Strategic Ventures on leading a $10 million Series A financing in the compliance technology and data analytics company SteelEye
• Smedvig Capital on completing a $10 million Series A investment in restaurant intelligence platform Yumpingo*
• Skew, a cryptocurrency real-time data analytics company, on a $2 million seed financing led by firstminute capital and its 4 million pounds Series A financing led by Octopus Ventures*
• Kitch, a company building delivery-first virtual kitchens, on a 1 million euros pre-seed financing round led by Seedcamp and Mustard Seed Maze*

Ali’s representative M&A work experience includes advising:

• Otta, a job search platform that matches people to jobs based on their preferences, goals and personality, on its sale to Welcome to the Jungle*
• Profile Pensions, a UK digital pension adviser, on its proposed acquisition by Moneyfarm*
• Captify, a search intelligence platform, on its sale to SFW Capital Partners*
• Skew Ltd. on the sale of its entire issued share capital to Coinbase Global for a total consideration satisfied in cash and Coinbase stock*
• Rimilia Holdings Ltd. and its shareholders on the sale of 100% of its issued share capital to BlackLine Systems for a total consideration of $120 million*

* Representation handled prior to joining Cooley.