Aaron Archer

Partner
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About Aaron

Aaron is a partner in the emerging companies and venture capital practice in London. Aaron provides a pragmatic, hands-on approach to helping high-growth often disruptive companies and investors in these companies navigate through a company’s life cycle from initial structuring through to exit and beyond, including all the various types and stages of financings, M&A, and general corporate governance and advisory in between.

Aaron is a member of the BVCA model documents committee, a member of Diversity VC’s advisory board, and a presenter and mentor at various accelerator and business programs. Aaron was also one of the four lawyer task-force selected by the UK government to devise and implement the Future Fund, the government backed initiative to provide funding for UK start-ups during the COVID pandemic.

Aaron represents companies and investors across a broad range of industries, and has acted on some of the UK’s most high-profile investments including those into Deliveroo, Monzo, Cazoo, Bloom & Wild, Improbable, Hopin, Synthesia, and Multiverse. Aaron’s clients and other investor representations include:

  • 20VC
  • Accel
  • Air Street Capital
  • Andreessen Horowitz
  • Atomico
  • Cledara
  • Codat
  • Felix Capital
  • Gay Times
  • General Catalyst
  • Glorify
  • Inkey List
  • Lapse
  • Lightspeed
  • LocalGlobe
  • Mention Me
  • Manual
  • Molten
  • Nauta Capital
  • Northzone
  • Nourished
  • Peppy
  • ai
  • Redsift
  • Runa
  • Shieldpay
  • Sofinnova
  • Stable
  • VC
  • Synthesia
  • Unmind
  • Wagestream

Education

College of Law, Guildford
LPC, 2001

University of Reading
LLB, 2000

Court admissions

England and Wales

Rankings and accolades

The Legal 500 UK: Next Generation Partner - Venture Capital (2022)
Chambers & Partners (UK): Leading Individual - Venture Capital Investment (2022)