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Top 50 Manufacturing Startup Investors in United Kingdom

Last updated: Jul 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Manufacturing startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Manufacturing Startup Investors in United Kingdom

Investor	Manufacturing United Kingdom investments
Parkwalk Advisors	33
Business Growth Fund	27
Par Equity	24
Foresight Group	22
Development Bank of Wales	19
Scottish Investment Bank	18
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund	17
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund	17
Oxford Technology Management	17
Midlands Engine Investment Fund	15
Midven	15
IP Group	15
Oxford Science Enterprises	14
The FSE Group	14
Venrex	13
Scottish Enterprise	13
SFC Capital	13
Cambridge Angels group	12
Oxford Science Enterprises	12
Techstart Ventures	12
Kelvin Capital	11
NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance	11
SOSV	10
Mercia Fund Managers	10
Maven Capital Partners	10
BACKED VC	10
Longwall Venture	10
IQ Capital	10
Newable Private Investing	10
Equity Gap	10
Archangels	10
Mercia Asset Management PLC	9
Fuel Ventures	9
Innovate UK	8
Kindred Capital	8
YFM Equity Partners	8
Catapult Ventures	8
Foresight Williams	8
Low Carbon Innovation Fund	8
Future Planet Capital	7
Amadeus Capital Partners	7
Octopus Ventures	7
HSBC	7
7percent Ventures	6
Woodford Investment Management	6
Beringea	6
Scottish Equity Partners	6
Clean Growth Fund	6
UCL Technology Fund	6
Ascension	5

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Parkwalk is a London-based fund management firm. Parkwalk invests in UK technology companies that have IP backing and freedom to operate, generally spun out of UK universities. Their funds seek to generate capital gains for their investors, enhanced by the attractive tax relief provided by EIS. Parkwalk entered this investment sector in 2009,anticipating a wave of tax-efficient incentives launched by the UK Government to stimulate innovative emerging technology companies and thereby help drive economic growth.Parkwalk utilises academic, technology transfer, venture capital and personal networks developed over many years to gain access to the highest calibre deal-flow. In 2017 Parkwalk joined forces with IP Group plc, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company that is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IPO. As at March 2019 the combined group has net assets of £1.2bn.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Psyomics — Technology to support better mental health assessment - accelerating patients to the right care pathway, first time.
Oxford Endovascular — Oxford Endovascular are developing a novel treatment for treating brain aneurysms. The Oxford technology uses a special laser-cut metal alloy which has a shape-memory. It can be posted into a catheter during surgery, inserted into the brain and opened up into a tiny tube mesh (‘flow diverter’) that fits into the natural shape of the blood vessel.This diverts the blood away from the aneurysm, allowing it to heal.
Cambridge Electric Cement — Cambridge Electric Cement is a sustainable cement start-up. Its breakthrough process co-recycles steel and cement to produce a low carbon, circular cement product that offers very low emissions[1], circular, and scalable alternative to existing cement production.

BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tevalis — Tevalis specialises in electronic point of sale systems in the hospitality, leisure and gaming sectors. Tevalis offers fully integrated EPOS hardware and software systems, designed to handle the demanding pressures of the hospitality industry.
Eventmaster — EventMaster is a ticketing platform. It also provides vital technology support to various national sports organizations.
NewGen — NewGen is a social-first creative and creator agency that stands at the intersection of culture, creators and community.

Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Computer
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Cyacomb — Cyacomb has created a ground-breaking digital forensic tool helping law enforcement, cloud companies and social media to fight against harmful online content.
Artus — Artus is a revolutionary heating and air conditioning product. Applications include residential, commercial and high-precision environments.
iGii — Integrated Graphene enable better products with a revolutionary design for manufacture process producing the world's highest quality pure 3D Graphene Foam, Gii.

Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Jersey

Portfolio highlights

Cavero Quantum — A quantum-safe symmetric cryptographic key solution built to last
Lepide — Combine identity and data security into a single solution for powerful data protection, threat detection/response, and compliance reporting.
Sprint Electric — Sprint Electric produces digital motor control solutions. Their product includes pl/x series, jl/x series, pl/xd series, open chassis-mount dc drives, and ancillary items. They offer customer support through email and phone contact.

Development Bank of Wales is formed in 2001 by the Welsh Assembly Government. Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hope Macy — Hope Macy is a dynamic and expanding financial technology company. Its primary focus is on consumers who require additional security in managing their money, as well as those in the subprime sector.
Validient — Onboard Clients With Confidence - Automated Compliance Software, AML and due diligence solutions. Empower your business.
Peppercorn — Peppercorn is an insurance company that engages in auto insurance and financial services. The company uses technology to create smarter customer service experiences that give more control to customers, starting with car insurance. Peppercorn uses cutting-edge conversational AI to change the whole car insurance experience.

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Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
Administrate — Manage 100% of enterprise training operations with configurable training management software, designed to scale with your organization.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) is an initiative launched by the government-owned British Business Bank.It is a key part of the government’s ‘Northern Powerhouse’ vision, which aims to end the historic North / South divide and create economic prosperity in the North of England on par with London and the South East.Thegovernment firmly believes that SMEs form the foundation of the region’s future growth. NPIF therefore aims to nurture regional entrepreneurship by providing investment and support for small and medium businesses between 2016 and 2021. NPIF's funding will support new and growing SMEs, create jobs and encourage and attract additional private sector investment.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ulemco — ULEMCo are pioneers of dual fuel technology enabling commercial vehicles to convert the fuel they run on to include Hydrogen - 0151 525 0540
Cellerate — Cellerate is a pioneer in the development and manufacturing of advanced automated solutions for battery research and technology scaling. They specialize in developing engineering solutions that improve the quality, performance, and endurance of energy storage systems, thereby promoting a more sustainable future. Our cutting-edge portfolio includessystems for automated material handling, tailored cell assembly, and industrial processing.
Robinvalley — Here in Robin Valley we pride ourselves on Eco-friendly handmade jewellery because it never goes out of style. Our sustainable and playful jewellery collections, from animals to plants, art music to science, daily life to fantasy. No matter what hobbies or interests we have something for you.

UKI2S, formally the Rainbow Seed Fund, is an investment fund backed by the government, providing seed funding to science & technology start-ups and SMEs

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wave Photonics — Wave Photonics utilizes computational techniques to accelerate integrated photonics product designs.The company is developing a platform that provides optimized designs and streamlined integration between the supply chain using a software tool for predicting the performance and variation of a component for a given fabrication process and anoptimizer to generate a foundry-specific component library.Wave Photonics is headquartered in Bristol, Bristol.
Vector Photonics — Vector Photonics is a spin-out company from the University of Glasgow and is based in Glasgow, Scotland, one of the UK and world’s Optical and Photonics centres of excellence.
Presymptom Health — Presymptom Health is a pioneering medtech company that creates diagnostic tests to detect illnesses earlier to help save lives.

Oxford Technology's SEIS fund and EIS fund enable private investors to access high growth technology startup opportunities and support UK innovation. SEIS and EIS tax reliefs offer downside protection, whilst gains can be tax free.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

OxCan — Enabling curative cancer treatment through early detection
Machine Discovery — Machine Discovery is a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing new machine learning technology. We leverage proprietary neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations — and we do it with minimal data and 99.9% fidelity.
MitoRx Therapeutics — Developing revolutionary mitochondrial-protective therapeutics which reverse mitochondrial dysfunction to arrest decline in muscular dystrophy and neurodegeneration. MitoRx Therapeutics' first-in-class first-in-target platform has potential to arrest the progression of some of the most challenging diseases.

MEIF is an investment firm that operates equity and debt investment towards growth capital. The firm aims to transform the finance landscape for smaller businesses in the Midlands and to realize the region’s potential to achieve economic growth through enterprise. It is a collaboration between the British Business Bank and ten Local EnterprisePartnerships (LEPs) in the West Midlands and East and South East Midlands. MEIF provides over £250m of investment to boost small and medium business (SME) growth in the Midlands.

Investment focus

Health Care, Manufacturing, Software
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Lexverify — Lexverify uses artificial intelligence to detect potential legal and compliance concerns in communications. It assists businesses in proactively avoiding legal and regulatory concerns by harnessing the power of AI. Their objective is to make technological communication a benefit rather than a problem.
CyberQ Group — Work with an award winning cyber security service provider and ensure your business remains resilient to any cyber attacks.
Centaur Robotics — Centaur believes mobility needs re-imagining to provide a real advantage for everyday human needs. Our vision is to challenge thinking through design and technology to create superhuman technology - that provides extra-ordinary mobility fit for humans in the 21st Century.

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Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Lexverify — Lexverify uses artificial intelligence to detect potential legal and compliance concerns in communications. It assists businesses in proactively avoiding legal and regulatory concerns by harnessing the power of AI. Their objective is to make technological communication a benefit rather than a problem.
Nylahs Naturals — Shop our award-winning all-natural hair care products, designed to redefine the haircare standard for afro-textured hair.
Strolll — Strolll Neurotechnology

IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and createvalue out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

AccelerComm — Our patented, market-leading IP solutions for 4G and 5G are configurable for quick, high-performance implementations across a wide range of applications.
Crescendo Biologics — Crescendo Biologics is a new Cambridge-based company whose vision is to deliver next-generation antibody therapeutics based on novel class-leading platforms.The focus of the company is on developing platforms that will address key issues in generating high-affinity, soluble, human VH antibody fragments. These are the smallest fragments thatretain antibody binding, and have many desirable properties as potential therapeutics. Crescendo will then utilise these platforms for product development of in-house targets or in partnership with other companies.
Enterprise Therapeutics — Enterprise Therapeutics is a drug discovery company dedicated to the researchand development of novel therapies for the treatment of respiratory diseases.In diseases such as cystic fibrosis, asthma and COPD the lungs become congested with mucus leading to difficulty in breathing. New disease modifying therapies that target the underlyingmechanisms of mucus congestion will reduce the frequency of lung infections and improve patient quality of life.

Oxford Science Enterprises is the university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companies taking onchallenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Amber Therapeutics — Developing intelligent bioelectrical therapies that can adapt, respond and learn from each person's individual physiology
Oxford Endovascular — Oxford Endovascular are developing a novel treatment for treating brain aneurysms. The Oxford technology uses a special laser-cut metal alloy which has a shape-memory. It can be posted into a catheter during surgery, inserted into the brain and opened up into a tiny tube mesh (‘flow diverter’) that fits into the natural shape of the blood vessel.This diverts the blood away from the aneurysm, allowing it to heal.
Grey Wolf Therapeutics — By targeting the ERAP proteases in the antigen presentation pathway Grey Wolf aims to change the antigen repertoire in cancer.

FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Finance East Limited delivers funding for businesses based in the East of England region.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Amutri — Visually communicate design and engineering with high quality 3D experiences that are instantly useful.
Neuronostics — At Neuronostics we are reimagining the way neurological conditions are diagnosed, treated, and monitored with the power of mathematical modelling
Signapse — Using artificial intelligence to build automatic sign language translation with a photo-realistic synthetic signer. Built on world-leading research and solving challenging technical problems that have a genuine social good.

Venrex Investment Management is a UK-based venture capital firm that backs creative Founders to launch and build innovative businesses.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Waymap — Waymap provides the world’s only navigation app that guides both indoors and outdoors. Waymap is a high-technology business that was founded to address the navigation needs of visually impaired persons. Their vision is to provide an inclusive navigation app, driven by cutting-edge technology.
Niyyah — The goal of Niyyah is to give consumers a guided approach to comprehending the Quran in a way that is understandable, significant, and useful. With its short material, tailored suggestions, and gamified elements like leaderboards and prizes, it fits in easily with its users' everyday routines and gives them insight into the Quran'steachings and practical application of faith.
StructureFlow — StructureFlow is the innovative visual modeling platform for professional services, transforming how stakeholders think and communicate.

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Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Mirna — Mirna is a veterinary diagnostics company that specializes in the development of veterinary disease testing technology.
Aurora Avionics — Accelerating launch-vehicle development with flexible and modular avionics platforms.
Vector Photonics — Vector Photonics is a spin-out company from the University of Glasgow and is based in Glasgow, Scotland, one of the UK and world’s Optical and Photonics centres of excellence.

SFC Capital, the UK's most active seed investor (PitchBook, 2020), provides capital and support to British startups. By combining its Angel Network and Seed Funds, SFC has created a unique model that allows investors to get exposure to SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, either directly or through a diversified portfolio curated and managedby SFC’s expert team. In 2020, SFC received a £10m allocation from Business Investments as part of the Regional Angels Programme in support of SFC's mission to back promising early-stage companies from every corner of the UK.SFC Capital is an Appointed Representative of SFC Capital Partners Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 736184).

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Lemon — Lemon helps you manage your SaaS subscriptions for free, and save money by discovering wasted spend.
Unibloom World — Unify targets with operational projects, make scenario simulations with cost impact in real time, compare new ideas, optimise actions and turn it into actionable projects with clear financial, regulations and business impact. Release burden from Sustainability Teams!
Blue Skies Space — Blue Skies Space provides access to space science data from low-cost space missions.

The Cambridge Angels are a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in internet, software, technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors in the Cambridge (UK) area and throughout the UK.Typical funding requirements thatthe Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £50,000 to £500,000 - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have received more than £1m in funding from their Members over several funding rounds.Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

BugBiome — Reinventing Pest Control. Protecting People, Animals, and the Planet
Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases
Monument Therapeutics — Monument Therapeutics is a biotechnology company intended to develop drugs to treat serious diseases of the central nervous system.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Theolytics — Theolytics is a biotechnology company harnessing viruses to combat cancer. A step-change in the oncolytic viral therapy field, our phenotypic screening Platform enables the discovery and development of efficacious, targeted candidates suitable for intravenous delivery and optimised for a chosen patient population. In addition to advancing aninternal Pipeline of programs spanning both solid and liquid tumours, we are establishing select strategic partnerships to expand and accelerate pipeline development.
Oxford Endovascular — Oxford Endovascular are developing a novel treatment for treating brain aneurysms. The Oxford technology uses a special laser-cut metal alloy which has a shape-memory. It can be posted into a catheter during surgery, inserted into the brain and opened up into a tiny tube mesh (‘flow diverter’) that fits into the natural shape of the blood vessel.This diverts the blood away from the aneurysm, allowing it to heal.
Grey Wolf Therapeutics — By targeting the ERAP proteases in the antigen presentation pathway Grey Wolf aims to change the antigen repertoire in cancer.

Techstart Ventures is a leading investor of seed capital across Scotland and Northern Ireland. they are a trusted partner to ambitious founders on their journey to success.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
Sensoteq — We specialise in wireless sensor solutions for remote machine health monitoring. Sensoteq's technology enables predictive maintenance of industrial applications, preventing costly downtime and increasing efficiency.
Continuum Industries — Continuum Industries is a developer of Optioneer, the leading software for linear infrastructure optioneering.

We invest venture capital in to globally ambitious companies which have the potential to deliver a significant return to our investors

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

novosound — Novosound is an award winning Scottish sensors company utilising thin-film processes to eliminate conventional limitations in ultrasound sensors.
Snappy Shopper — Order your favourite products from your local convenience store, for delivery from as little as 30 minutes with Snappy Shopper. Your every day essentials are only a click away - order your grocery delivery online or through our app.
Sofant Technologies — Sofant is developing a low cost RF MEMS technology that solves power consumption and heat problems in high frequency phased array antenna systems.

Mercia Equity Finance is a regional investor that focuses initially on uncovering the hidden value. It uses both of its managed funds and its proprietary capital to invest across four distinct asset classes: venture, private equity, and debt, referred to as their 'Complete Capital Solution’. It aspires to be the first choice for investors,investees, and employees, and, by aspiring to be the first choice, they believe that Mercia will deliver superior returns for business owners, shareholders, and fund investors alike.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Suiso — Suiso is developing a breakthrough microwave-driven pyrolysis process which generates Hydrogen by decarbonising Natural/Bio Gas. Ventured backed and based in Sheffield UK, Suiso is a winner of the BEIS Low Carbon H2 Supply scheme. It plans to deliver shipping container sized Hydrogen generators, with a capacity to provide of up to 1,000kg ofHydrogen daily. A competitive benchmarking exercise, in the BEIS study, has confirmed that Suiso will have the lowest cost of H2 in a number of key H2 applications and lower Carbon emissions than grid powered electrolysis. By producing Hydrogen at the point of use, Suiso eliminates the expensive distribution costs incurred by large scale centralised H2 producers, one of the primary obstacles to the widespread adoption of Hydrogen. Suiso’s process reduces CO2 emissions by 97%+ versus steam methane reforming, utilizes 80% less energy than electrolysis and has very low equipment capital costs making it one of the most affordable Hydrogen production technologies. Suiso captures the Carbon in the Natural/Bio-Gas in the form of solid Carbon Black which has significant commercial value in the production of tyres, batteries, inks, other applications.
Envoke — The engagement Platform for your Virtual Instrument.
Invincibles Studio — We're an independent games studio, making exceptional football games for mobile devices that have been downloaded over 50 million times.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NovoNutrients — NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and additives for food and feed by developing proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems.
OncoPrecision — We're developing personalized assays to determine the most suitable medication for cancer therapy at the patient level. Through our proprietary Drug Activity and Resistance Test, oncologists will be able to make data-driven decisions regarding cancer therapy selection based on patient-derived samples. Our goal is to democratize access toPrecision Oncology and improve cancer patients' lives.
Sodex Innovations — Sodex Innovations is a company which is specialized in developing assistance-systems and automating-kits for excavators

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

Kuano — Kuano provides innovative quantum and AI solutions for drug discovery and design. It offers a discovery platform that combines target quantum mapping and AI-led chemistry to enable the faster development of better drug candidates.
MGISS — Independently advising on the smarter use of Geospatial data, technology and the digital transformation of field operations.
Workbuzz — Give your Everyday Heroes a voice with employee engagement surveys. Our flexible and simple survey platform reaches all employees, wherever they are. Book a demo now!

Maven is one of the UK's leading private equity and investment firms. We provide essential capital and expertise to help businesses unlock their potential.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Carcinotech — Carcinotech has pioneered the development of assay-ready, 3D-bioprinted tumours derived from patient biopsies for oncology drug development.
Metrion Biosciences — Metrion Biosciences is a Contract Research Organization (CRO) that is located in the world renowned Cambridge biocluster.
McKenzie Intelligence Services Ltd — We deliver actionable intelligence on a global scale, empowering informed decision making for insurance and commercial clients across the world

BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders at Seed in Europe. Welcome to Different.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Lopay — Lopay gives you more control, more flexibility, and instant access to the money you earn.
0G Labs — The Fastest Modular AI Chain
Smart Transactions — Smart Transactions is a protocol designed to execute transactions.

Longwall Ventures invests in innovative, UK based, early stage companies in the healthcare, science and engineering sectors

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical Device, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Biofidelity — Unleashing the potential of genomics to transform the world we live in through transformational technologies that remove the noise from genomic analysis.
Wayland Additive — Wayland Additive Limited is a West-Yorkshire based company pushing the boundaries of electron beam 3D printing. Wayland’s goal is to develop, manufacture and sell metal Additive Manufacturing (“AM” – 3D printing) machines to industrial end-users such as major players in the aerospace and medical industries.
Lightcast Discovery — Flexible control over droplet number, occupancy, location and movement. Enabling efficient, multi-step workflows with unprecedented flexibility.

IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London-based VC firm that invests in ‘deep tech’ companies capable of dominating their respective markets on a global scale. Initial investments at Seed and Series A range from £0.5m to £10m, with capacity for follow-on investment up to £30m through the Growth Fund. The team has achieved over 30 exits including toApple, Huawei, Google and Oracle.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Baseimmune — Baseimmune data-driven vaccine design
Neurovalens — Neurovalens delivers innovative solutions in the field of neuroscience, bioscience and neurophysiology.Neurovalens has received support from Invest NI under the European Union’s Investment for Growth and Jobs Programme. The project, recorded on the ERDF beneficiaries’ website, will be implemented over the next one year, undertaking research anddevelopment activities aimed at improving the competitiveness of the business.
Wobble Genomics — Wobble Genomics specializes in maximizing RNA and DNA sequencing efficiency for the discovery and detection of nucleic acid biomarkers.

Newable: Helping over 20,000 businesses thrive annually with tailored financial products, advice, and flexible workspace solution

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Delta g — Delta g Limited is a quantum technology and gravity gradiometry company. A spin-out from the University of Birmingham our technology has applications in industries as varied as civil engineering, infrastructure, defence, rail, navigation and resource exploration. Experts from science, engineering an
Weldfast — Weldfast is a manufacturer and supplier of welding consumables, abrasives, chemicals, premium gas equipment, and safety products.
EarSwitch — Empowering new ways to control and connect with the world through in-ear biometric switch and sensor technology

Equity Gap is a group of private individuals set up to invest in and support emerging and growing businesses based in Scotland

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mirna — Mirna is a veterinary diagnostics company that specializes in the development of veterinary disease testing technology.
Ulemco — ULEMCo are pioneers of dual fuel technology enabling commercial vehicles to convert the fuel they run on to include Hydrogen - 0151 525 0540
Vector Photonics — Vector Photonics is a spin-out company from the University of Glasgow and is based in Glasgow, Scotland, one of the UK and world’s Optical and Photonics centres of excellence.

Established in 1992. Archangels is the oldest continuously operating business angel syndicate in the World. Investing in IP-rich tech & life sciences companies in Scotland, UK.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
1inhaler — 1inhaler operates as a developer of drug delivery device.
iGii — Integrated Graphene enable better products with a revolutionary design for manufacture process producing the world's highest quality pure 3D Graphene Foam, Gii.

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Camena Bioscience — Camena Bioscience is a synthetic biology company that develops tools to engineer new synthetic biology applications. It has engineered new nucleic acid synthesis technology which improves the quality and speed of synthesis. Its multi-enzymatic technology takes one approach to DNA, RNA, and XNA synthesis, offering increased accuracy over existingPhosphoramidite synthesis technology.Camena Bioscience was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge.
Axis Spine Technologies — Axis Spine Technologies is building an expert team to develop highly differentiated products that provide meaningful improvements in patient care.
Send — Streamline the underwriting process with Send's innovative commercial insurance platform. Our underwriting workbench is designed to automate time-consuming manual tasks so you can focus more on data-driven underwriting.

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Lunio — Drive performance marketing efficiency by cutting out invalid traffic across all paid marketing channels. Reach more users with the same ad spend.
Eleos — Get income protection insurance online with Eleos. All policies include 24x7 Virtual GP, gym discounts and other benefits.
StudioSpace — StudioSpace provides brands with on-demand access to the world’s best specialist digital and marketing services. Our platform users benefit from a single umbrella contract to access all of our agencies, enabling maximum choice without complexity in procurement or onboarding delays.

Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation .

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nuclera — Nuclera makes biology accessible through desktop enzymatic protein and gene synthesis. Nuclera has since grown to fifty-seven employees across two continents as the Company delivers on its founders’ vision to make biology accessible to everyone through desktop bioprinting. With desktop bioprinting, researchers and scientists will be empowered totake control of biology through streamlined access to a next-day supply of proteins and genes.
AgriSound — Agri-tech company specialising in advanced sound analysis for monitoring insects.
Fuse Diagnostics — Fuse Diagnostics vision is to give lab quality diagnostic information wherever it is required through innovative, quick, low-cost testing.

A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
LabGenius — Finding the next generation of drugs with machine learning, synthetic biology and laboratory automation
Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives

YFM Equity Partners is an independent private equity business owned by its senior management and investment team. They invest up to £10 million of equity through offices in Leeds, London, Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Workbuzz — Give your Everyday Heroes a voice with employee engagement surveys. Our flexible and simple survey platform reaches all employees, wherever they are. Book a demo now!
GEEIQ — GEEIQ gives you a complete overview of the esports and gaming industry. Gain full access to sponsorship and demographic data on esports teams, tournaments and streamers. Identify lucrative opportunities and optimise your strategy.
Psychology Tools — Psychology Tools publishes evidence-based resources to improve your therapy and save you time. Download CBT worksheets.

The team behind Catapult Ventures are among the most experienced venture capital investors in the UK.Their experience spans a range of sectors from healthcare and pharmaceuticals to luxury consumer brands, manufacturing and software, as well as all stages: from start-ups and pre-revenue IP developers to company floatation and billions of poundsin revenue. Their administration team is equally experienced with each member having more than 10 years experience in a venture capital environment.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

CroBio — Crobio presents an environmentally sustainable solution for reducing global water consumption and preventing agricultural drought.
QV Bioelectronics — Manchester-based start-up QV Bioelectronics is developing innovative electrotherapy devices for the treatment of certain types of brain tumours.
Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool

An Enterprise Investment Scheme (“EIS”) that will invest into early-stage, unquoted companies that are developing disruptive technology and pioneering innovations. The Fund represents a collaboration between Foresight Group and the Williams Advanced Engineering business (part of the Williams Group). Foresight will be launching and managing theFund.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Semiconductor, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Living Optics — Living Optics is commercializing next generation imaging technology which leverages a compact camera system based on breakthroughs in hardware design and software processing.
Phlux Technology — We develop, manufacture and supply innovative communication and vision components
Cambridge GaN Devices — Cambridge GaN Devices develops transistors designed to bring widespread adoption of GaN technology in consumer electronics.

Low Carbon Innovation Fund is a venture capital fund, providing equity finance for SME’s based wholly or partially in the East of England.The Fund is supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). It uses £20.5M from the ERDF which will be matched with over £30M private sector investment – generating a total of over £50M ofinvestment in the East of England. So far the Fund has invested over £8.5M alongside £26M private co-investment in 26 investments.Turquoise International manages the Fund on behalf of the Adapt Low Carbon Group at the University of East Anglia (UEA). The Fund builds on the region's world class low carbon economy and is the largest European Regional Development Fund-funded project in the region. The Low Carbon Innovation Fund was launched in September 2010 and will run until December 2015.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Adaptavate — Adaptavate is leading the carbon change in the construction industry
weekly.shop — Weekly.Shop is a shopping basket for groceries and supplies products in refillable containers, which collects, washes, and reuses.Weekly.Shop is a couriering order by electric vehicles to customers in the surrounding areas
Archipelago Technology — Archipelago's patented rotating drum inkjet technology facilitates high-speed, controllable coating of substrates using paints and adhesives.

Brilliant Ideas. Brilliant People. Brilliant Minds.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Convertible Note
United Kingdom, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Captura — Captura mission is globally scalable carbon capture to support a sustainable future for the climate.
You. Smart. Thing. — Our travel demand management platform generates personalised low-carbon travel plans that enhance visitor experience & increase revenues.
Armada Technologies — Armada Technologies created the world's first Passive Air Lubrication technology. This award-winning technology operates in a passive mode and allows for discrete control of system output while completely decoupling system lubrication from ship speed. In doing so, PALS can provide appropriate boundary layer aeration under every operatingstate.

Amadeus Capital Partners, Venture Capital For Technology Companies. We Back Entreprenuers To Win. Contact Our Experienced Team Of Investors Today

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series B, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Sitehop — Sitehop is a technology company creating innovative solutions for cyber-security and networking. Sitehop utilizes its custom FPGA solutions to optimize and accelerate cloud/telco networks.
Secondmind — Helping automotive engineers design better cars, faster.
Photonic — We are building a new world through scalable, fault-tolerant quantum technologies.

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

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Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
Swiipr Technologies — Restore passenger and staff confidence with contactless solutions post Covid 19/ SARS by embracing Swiipr’s mobile and web technology solutions for issuing; Welfare for disruption, compensation, crisis, staff, operational expenses and more! Automate and streamline operations. Reduce paper and plastic consumption. Reduce human touch points andgo contactless

HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, serves millions of customers through its three Global Businesses.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
United Kingdom, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Minute Media — We are a digital-first media company with a global footprint, bringing passion to life with proprietary technology that powers best-in-class content and advertising partnerships.
Neoen — Neoen is an independent energy company, develops, finances, builds, and operates power plants based on renewable energies in France, Portugal, Australia, Mexico, Egypt, and El Salvador. It operates solar, wind, and biomass power plants. The company, through its subsidiaries, also specializes in the development of marine renewable energy projects inFrance; supports photovoltaic project developers and investors in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of solar power plants in France and abroad; and develops solar and wind farms.
Red Engine — Red Engine is a Hospitality Company

Venture X is our top-notch financial investment firm Webflow Template created for modern VC and investor firms looking for a dark mode website design.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

KAIKAKU — Creating a world where you get served by the friendliest people with food that hits that "wow" every time. Automating the boring and doubling down on the "hospitality" part of food service using modular robotics. Advised by the Ex-CDO of Subway, Ex-CSO of Mars Inc, Ex-MD of Caffè Nero and VC-backed.
Space DOTS — The first modular pico-labs for active in-space testing of advanced materials, from LEO to Cis-lunar and Interplanetary orbits.
Orangewood Labs — Orangewood Labs is focused on automating mundane human jobs through Easy-to-use, collaborative and tele-operable robotic arms for Industries

Woodford Investment Management is a privately owned investment firm manages equity mutual funds. At Woodford, they don’t want to be just another fund management company. They want to create something different and better for their investors and they feel strongly that existing and potential clients are entitled to understand what they are doingwith their money.As investors, they are active, engaged, long-term, disciplined, diligent and focused. That’s a lot of things to say about their selves but each word is important in helping you to understand how they manage money – they will explain in more detail as they move along.Their investment approach and process are focused on value discovery, not price discovery. They believe that financial markets are inherently inefficient and that, through disciplined and diligent analysis, they can identify investment opportunities where market prices do not reflect long-term fundamental value. By exploiting this pervasive market characteristic, they believe they can create real long-term value for their investors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Inivata — Inivata is a clinical cancer genomics company harnessing the emerging potential of circulating DNA analysis to improve testing and treatment for oncologists and their patients.Unlike conventional invasive biopsies, Inivata detects and analyses genomic material from a cancer patient’s cell-free, circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) which can be collectedthrough a simple blood sample. This non-invasive approach – a liquid biopsy – offers a revolution in how cancer is detected, monitored, and treated.
Revolut — Join 40+ million customers globally using Revolut to send money to 160+ countries, hold up-to 36 currencies in app, spend in 150+ currencies, and manage their money.
Atom Bank — Savings accounts, a range of mortgages & business loans, you'll find it all with Atom bank. App-based and designed to be hassle-free. Download the app today.

Beringea is an international investor in high growth US & UK businesses. With expertise in multiple sectors we are at the forefront of emerging trends.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

AccessPay — AccessPay develops and offers cloud-based payment and cash management solutions. The company’s cloud-based service provides ease of integration with any ERP, TMS, or other back-end systems. It also enables the straight-through processing of domestic and international payments via BACS, FPS, CHAPS, and SWIFT. By connecting an organization’s backoffice systems with its banks and providing a consolidated view of all banking relationships, AccessPay gives corporate enterprises real-time visibility of all cash balances and offers a detailed analysis, which helps financial professionals maximize the use of working capital. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Gorilla — We empower Energy Retailers in pricing, forecasting and reporting with data-driven solutions in boosting speed and flexibility.
Iceberg Data Lab — Iceberg Data Lab is a fintech firm that develops assessment tools and provides environmental data solutions to financial institutions.

At SEP we specialise in investment for high growth companies across a range of technology sectors. Partnering with you to fuel growth.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Dohop — Dohop is an award-winning technology provider founded in Iceland with 15 years’ experience in developing innovative solutions in the field of aviation and travel. Its core technology is focused on creating connecting itineraries. Being at the forefront of digital innovation in the field of interline technology, Dohop has developed solutions forforward-thinking airlines, alliances, and airports all around the globe, including easyJet, Transavia, Eurowings, Jetstar Group, Gatwick Airport, and SkyTeam.
Tyk — Our API Management platform is fast, scalable, modern. Including an open source API Gateway, Analytics, Dev Portal and Dashboard.
Cresset — Cresset is software and services for small molecule discovery and design.

The Clean Growth Fund, London, invests in companies focussed on driving clean growth in the low carbon economy.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rendesco — We help achieve sustainability goals by providing clean energy technology solutions including ground source heat pumps and geothermal heat network systems.
Oriole Networks — Oriole Networks is a new company that improve the performance of AI systems and speed up data centers while substantially lowering energy usage for a more sustainable future.
Clean Food Group — Clean Food Group provides sustainable ‘CLEAN’ alternatives to these fats and oils, ranging from liquid oils like soybean to hard fats like palm oil, cocoa butter, and milk fat. Clean Food Group produces sustainable food ingredients that are better for our environment and health without compromising on teste or performance.

The UCL Technology Fund is dedicated to investing in intellectual property commercialisation opportunities arising from UCL’s world-class research base, focusing in particular on the physical and life sciences. The Fund supports UCL in achieving the full potential of innovations that have prospects for outstanding societal and market impact, rightthrough the development journey from initial proof of concept to practical commercial application.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

EpilepsyGTx — EpilepsyGTx is a late-stage biotech company exploring cutting-edge gene therapies to improve the management of focal refractory epilepsy (FRE).
Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
Oriole Networks — Oriole Networks is a new company that improve the performance of AI systems and speed up data centers while substantially lowering energy usage for a more sustainable future.

Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders.Run by an experienced and diverse team of successful entrepreneurs, we have been relentlessly dedicated to finding the UK’s best Seed-stage startups since 2014.Ascension benefits from the active industry connections essential forthe sourcing and development of deal-flow and due diligence. The team has co-invested with the UK’s leading angels and VCs, key to securing follow-on funding as the portfolio businesses move to their next stage of growth.We believe in building an inclusive, community driven brand that can benefit the wider UK tech ecosystem and strive to work with conviction, integrity, humour, and humility.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Happl — Connect your remote and in-person employees with Tahora.
HealthKey — HealthKey is a platform that connects employers and insurers with health providers.
Nebu~Flow — Nebu~Flow develops the next generation of nebulisers to enable the delivery of life changing treatments.

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