We back founders building the technologies that redefine industries.

IMS Digital Ventures is the venture-building arm of IMS Group. We trade the IMS Labs technology stack for meaningful equity, put an operator on every board, and stand behind each company with a global family-office network. The cheque is the smallest part of the deal.

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The thesis

We bring proprietary IP, an operator who has built before, and a route to the first customers — everything it takes to compress years off the path from MVP to moat. Builders, not venture capitalists.

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What we back

Core platform technologies.

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Blockchain solutions Ownership & settlement
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Enterprise technology Mission-critical systems
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FinTech Financial infrastructure
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SaaS Vertical software
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Tokenised marketplaces Liquid secondary markets
Portfolio

Operator-led companies across cybersecurity, real estate, supply chain and tokenised markets. The model, working.

Full portfolio
01 Blacklight AI AI Cybersecurity 02 IMS Sports Capital Sports & Entertainment 03 Property Raptor Real Estate CRM 04 Wayland Integrated Technology Dual-Use Technologies
Our model

Equity for technology.

Founders inherit the platform without rebuilding it, and we take a meaningful equity position. Every company gets the same commitments from day one.

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Skin in the game More than a cheque — Group resources, engineering and people committed to every company.
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Operator-led, always At least one operating partner on every company, from the board down.
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We back the future Evergreen backing — we hold through cycles toward category leadership, with no fund clock.
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Impact-led geography We go where the technology creates real impact — not where the office happens to sit.
From our founder

The next generation of operators won’t wait for permission to build. They have the vision — what they need is a partner who brings the technology and the bench, and holds for the long haul. That is the company we set out to be.

Anastasios Papadopoulos · Founder & CEO
IMS Labs

Built once, deployed everywhere.

The technology platform every company inherits on day one — Cortex for investment workflows, Nimbus for commerce, Onyx for tokenisation. The same engine runs our own diligence.

Cortex · Nimbus · Onyx
Insights

Latest thinking.

Venture Building
UK creates three times as many unicorns than the US for every dollar in seed and early-stage VC investment 10 Oct 2025
Company News
IMS DV establishes its presence in the UAE 2 May 2024

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Tell us what you’re building. We’ll bring the rest.

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Three divisions, one platform — IMS Digital Ventures, IMS Labs and IMS Sports Capital. If you’re building at the frontier of your industry, let’s talk.

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