Portfolio
A growing showcase of founders and companies backed by the York Angels community.
FitTech
The ultimate HYROX workout tracker built by athletes for athletes.
At ROXFIT, the mission is simple: TRACK | TRAIN | TRIUMPH. The app helps athletes measure every rep, plan every session, and pace every race with confidence.
Born in York and fuelled by a passion for competitive fitness, ROXFIT was launched in 2024 by long-time friends Ben Wilson and Joey Allott.
Causal AI
AI that understands how to improve your outcomes.
At Causa, we believe that trust needs to be the backbone of technology.
That’s why Causa is committed to causal AI: advanced, transparent, trustworthy, and accountable.
Causa provides CausaDB, a cloud-native platform for CausalOps using causal AI. It is designed to be integrated quickly and easily without expertise in every layer of the stack.
Agritech
We model crops from plant, to farm, to planet.
Fairfield Vision supports farmers in promoting sustainable agriculture and reducing waste. By integrating AI from individual plants to the national scale, the team aims to reduce costs, pesticide use, habitat loss, and carbon footprint.
After work applying computer vision to detect disease in cocoa trees, the team combined expertise in agriculture, computer vision and AI to develop and deploy HiveSight.
Workplace wellbeing
Get your team moving with an epic virtual challenge.
Initially founded by University of York friends, Toby Cannon and Michael McCreadie, to help them stay active during lockdown, the app has now helped over 25,000 people with their fitness goals.
Physical inactivity is associated with 1 in 6 deaths in the UK and is estimated to cost the UK £7.4 billion annually. Myles is used by private sector companies as well as the NHS to increase staff physical activity levels, resulting in a healthier, happier workforce.
The app connects with your favourite fitness tracker and allows you to record over 100 different activities and sports. It then uses gamification and powerful social dynamics to help people form healthy habits and start behaviour change.
Wealth data
Data infrastructure that powers the future of wealth management.
Fuze is building the data infrastructure that powers the future of wealth management. Financial advisers, wealth managers and fintechs struggle with fragmented systems and disconnected data.
Fuze connects to banks, investment platforms, pension providers and digital asset sources through a single integration, then normalises and enriches data to create a trusted view of client finances.
Bioinformatics
Morf helps biologists to focus on biology.
MORF-Bio helps biologists focus on biology. Its intuitive online platform turns big data into actionable insights, providing interactive plots underpinned by biological knowhow.
Designed by biologists for biologists, MORF expedites R&D, bringing sustainable solutions, novel foods, and medical advances to market sooner.
Logistics
Yard management software for faster trailer turnaround.
YardOps is a yard management system that replaces radios and spreadsheets with live visibility across the yard. Teams get real-time control of bookings, gatehouse traffic, shunter coordination, dock management and driver communication.
Built to fit any yard, YardOps runs on existing hardware, is priced by trailer journey, and typically pays for itself within 12 months.
Food & Drink
Lower-sugar dark hot chocolate for calm and focus.
80Noir Ultra is building Europe’s first luxury functional chocolate platform, transforming chocolate from an occasional indulgence into a premium daily ritual for wellbeing, hospitality and performance.
Its flagship innovation, CocoaPod by 80Noir®, is redefining premium hot chocolate through a proprietary pod system designed for existing Nespresso® Original compatible machines, while the business also develops future sustainable pod technologies and circular cocoa innovations.
Supported by York Angels, the company is progressing technical validation with leading engineering and formulation partners ahead of hospitality pilots, retail expansion and international growth.
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