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Top 50 Medical Device Startup Investors in United Kingdom in January 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Medical device startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Medical device companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Medical Device Startup Investors in United Kingdom in January 2025

Investor Medical Device United Kingdom investments
Parkwalk Advisors 20
Mercia Fund Managers 14
Newable Private Investing 13
Mercia Asset Management 12
Archangels 12
SOSV 12
Scottish Enterprise 11
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund 11
SyndicateRoom 10
Deepbridge Capital 10
Oxford Technology Management 10
Catapult Ventures 10
Scottish Investment Bank 10
Kelvin Capital 9
Longwall Venture 8
Northstar Ventures 8
Development Bank of Wales 8
Midven 7
SFC Capital 7
Clarendon Fund Managers 7
Techstart Ventures 7
Innovate UK 6
IP Group 6
Nesta Ventures 6
Mercia Asset Management 6
TRICAPITAL 5
The FSE Group 5
KHP Ventures 5
Oxford Investment Consultants LLP 5
Angels in MedCity 5
Business Growth Fund 4
Midlands Engine Investment Fund 4
The North West Fund 4
Empirical Ventures 4
Oxford Science Enterprises 4
Barwell Plc 4
Octopus Ventures 4
VentureFounders 4
Tern 4
Angels 5K 4
Eos 4
Wren Capital 3
Invesco 3
Salica 3
Novartis Venture Fund 3
Esperante Ventures 3
SR One 3
Downing Ventures 3
Cambridge Innovation Capital 3
Oxford Investment Opportunity Network 3
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Parkwalk Advisors VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 16 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
  • Diffblue — Diffblue Cover uses next generation autonomous AI to automate unit testing so that Java development teams can build better applications faster
  • Ikarovec — Ikarovec is developing novel gene therapies to treat major ophthalmic indications.
  • illumion — Illumion develops high-throughput optical tools to accelerate battery material development
Mercia Fund Managers VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.
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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 surveys. Our flexible and simple survey platform reaches all employees, wherever they are. Book a demo now!
Newable Private Investing VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Newable: Helping over 20,000 businesses thrive annually with tailored financial products, advice, and flexible workspace solution
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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
Mercia Asset Management VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Netacea — Netacea takes a smarter approach to bot management. Intent Analytics™ powered by machine learning quickly and accurately distinguishes bots from humans to protect websites, mobile apps and APIs from automated threats while prioritising genuine users. Actionable intelligence with data-rich visualisations empowers you to make informed decisions aboutyour traffic. The Netacea approach offers incredible speed, accuracy and transparency, solving the growing problem of credential stuffing and account takeover at scale. The technology is designed to complement existing controls such as WAF rulesets, rate limiting and threat databases to provide a deep analysis of all website visitors, actionable intelligence and real-time threat.The Netacea approach continuously monitors your web traffic to pinpoint the difference in automated bot activity vs genuine visitors, keeping you ahead of evolving bot threats. Choose to automatically block, redirect or challenge automated attacks in real-time, or receive alerts notifying you of potential threats. With access to rich dashboards and data, you can easily identify and stop account takeover attempts early in the attack chain.Learn more at www.netacea.com
  • Semble — The integrated clinical system for managing your patients' medical data and admin tasks.
  • Locate Bio — Locate Bio is a regenerative medicine development company focused on orthobiologics. Locate Bio exists to help surgeons improve the lives of people with debilitating spinal conditions. We are curious about what is possible, but ground all our work in robust scientific evidence. We relentlessly pursue high-value opportunities with clear unmetclinical needs.
Archangels VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
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.
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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.
SOSV VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 75 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Scottish Enterprise VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 25 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Grant, Funding Round, Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Bettii Pod — Bettii Pod is a pioneering FemTech start-up that creates a one-of-a-kind menstruation cup and disc washer for use in public restroom stalls.Bettii Pod's primary product, the menstrual cup/disc washer, is a step forward in normalizing discussions about menstruation and increasing availability to eco-friendly menstrual choices.
  • Kaly Group — KALY is like an intriguing group based on the description, it appears to be a collective of individuals with diverse interests and passions—innovators, sailors, and nature enthusiasts—coming together with a shared mission of exploration and discovery.
  • Concinnity Genetics — Concinnity designs unique RNA-based gene control systems that enable the precise control of gene therapies to improve safety.
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund VC Fund · Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 14 investments in the past 12 months
UKI2S, formally the Rainbow Seed Fund, is an investment fund backed by the government, providing seed funding to science & technology start-ups and SMEs
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ikarovec — Ikarovec is developing novel gene therapies to treat major ophthalmic indications.
  • Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets
  • iFast Diagnostics — iFAST is addressing the Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing market, reducing the spread of antimicrobial resistance.
SyndicateRoom VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Our EIS and SEIS funds gives investors access to some of the UK's most promising startups. The Access EIS Fund co-invests with leading angel investors to build diversified portfolios based on data, while our SEIS fund lets investors back pre-seed B2B SaaS companies selected and fostered by leading fund Founders Factory.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Heatio — Heatio provides affordable renewable energy to homeowners.
  • 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!
  • FinCrime Dynamics — Our mission is to help make the world’s financial system safer through rapid deployment of effective AI for financial crime analytics, enabled by enriched synthetic data that captures the dynamics of fraud and money laundering and loads them into tailor-made scenarios that explore diverse threats that financial organisations are exposed to.Thisgoal has taken us to the forefront of Synthetic Data and Fincrime Analytics, and we are proud to have in our team people that have helped shape the state-of-the-art of these fields.Keywords: Finacial services, AML, Synthetic Data, Fintech, Machine learning, Big data, Simulation, Fraud Analytics, Compliance
Deepbridge Capital VC Fund · Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Deepbridge is a different kind of investment manager. They work closely with financial advisers and investors to design innovative products, ranging from investment in technology growth companies to asset-backed renewable energy projects. They also partner with innovative and committed management teams to help UK based companies realise theirpotential and become successful leading-edge businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • AI-Sight — AI-Sight is a startup that is developing an AI diabetic retinal screening system to deliver WHO-recommended diabetic eye screening services.
  • Microplate Dx — Safeguarding against the spread of antimicrobial resistance worldwide.
  • GenoMe Diagnostics — GenoME Diagnostics - We are developing a blood test for an earlier and more accurate diagnosis of ovarian cancer.GenoME Diagnostics .
Oxford Technology Management VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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
  • CryoLogyx — Assay Ready Cells - Discover CryoLogyx's advanced cryopreservation solutions, optimized for cell-based assays in drug discovery. Simply thaw with cell culture medium, and they are ready for use within 24 hours post-thaw.
  • Metacarpal — Metacarpal design upper-limb prosthetics without compromise. We aim to make the most robust, functional hand prosthesis that people love wearing because it works so effectively and looks so beautiful. Be proud to show your artificial side!
Catapult Ventures VC Fund · Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Path Robotics — We create manufacturing robots that autonomously scan, position, and weld your parts without the need for skilled welders or robot programmers.
  • Pickle Robot — We make robots that unload trucks without retrofitting the warehouse
  • Anello Photonics — Anello Photonics is founded by pioneers in silicon photonics and inertial navigation. The patented Anello SiPhOG gyroscope offers an affordable mass-market sensor with true Optical Gyroscope performance. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley and funded by leading venture capital firms.
Scottish Investment Bank VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • 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.
Kelvin Capital VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We invest venture capital in to globally ambitious companies which have the potential to deliver a significant return to our investors
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Chromacity — Chromacity manufacture the next generation of ultrafast lasers. Discover our fixed wavelength femtosecond lasers and picosecond OPOs.
  • Biotangents — Biotangents develops veterinary diagnostic tests to detect infectious diseases in livestock (bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD), mastitis, bovine respiratory disease (BRD), brucellosis) using our highly adaptable molecular diagnostic technology, Moduleic Sensing.
  • 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.
Longwall Venture VC Fund · Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Longwall Ventures invests in innovative, UK based, early stage companies in the healthcare, science and engineering sectors
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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.
Northstar Ventures VC Fund · Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • FAT32 — FAT32 is at the forefront of compliance automation, transforming the way businesses satisfy regulatory requirements.
  • onHand — The volunteering and climate impact platform for businesses and individuals. Help your local communities and have global impact.
  • Positive Support For You — Positive Support For You is a social enterprise dedicated to empowering adults with learning disabilities, providing tailored support to help them achieve greater independence, confidence, and inclusion in society.
Development Bank of Wales VC Fund · Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom · 24 investments in the past 12 months
Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Amped PCR — Explore Amped PCR's advanced DNA amplification solutions for precise molecular diagnostics. Trusted by food safety authorities and biotech companies. Learn more
  • Coffi Lab — Dog friendly independent coffee shops, inspired by our love of coffee & labs. In Monmouth, Marlborough & Abergavenny. Proud Supporter of Guide Dogs UK.
  • Stable Resources — We are Stable. We pioneer new ways for teams to collaborate and innovate with technology being the enabler.
Midven VC Fund · Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Midven is a specialist venture capital company providing investment to fast growing small and medium sized enterprises ("SMEs"), run by an energetic, experienced and hands-on team of investment managers.
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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.
  • Bendi — Bendi. Sustainability as a service. Tools tailor-made for fashion brands & retailers.
  • Get Well Soon — Established in 2018 by a prominent colorectal surgeon in the UK, Get Well Soon is a vital division of the Medmin Group, a leading medical enterprise headquartered in the West Midlands. Over the past five years, we have grown into one of the largest assemblies of medical practitioners in the UK. Recognizing the urgency for certain patients, weacknowledge that waiting is not always feasible. Even without private medical insurance, access to private healthcare remains a viable option. However, determining the cost of self-paying for treatment can often be convoluted and challenging. This is where Get Well Soon excels, providing clarity and assistance in navigating the complexities of self-payment for medical services.
SFC Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 48 investments in the past 12 months
Discover the UK's leading SEIS Fund, offering tax-efficient investments in innovative startups. Join thousands of savvy investors and raise capital for your business with SFC Capital.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Vulse — Vulse is a B2B content creation platform that combines bespoke post ideas and a unique scoring system to help you produce relevant, timely, and shareable content.
  • Amped PCR — Explore Amped PCR's advanced DNA amplification solutions for precise molecular diagnostics. Trusted by food safety authorities and biotech companies. Learn more
  • Implement AI — Implement AI provides managed AI agent solutions and teams of virtual workers via its AI Agent Platform, offering SMEs cost-effective, enterprise-grade solutions to amplify human potential, optimise productivity, and drive growth.
Clarendon Fund Managers VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Clarendon Fund Managers is a venture capital fund manager based in Belfast, focused on co-investments with business angel and private investor lead deals. It manages £42.5m of regional VC Funds in Northern Ireland including the £30m Co-Investment Fund and has invested in over 60 companies since it began investing in 2001.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Needi — Needi is a retail company with an e-commerce platform specializing in gift shops. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Manchester, United Kingdom.
  • Stora — Experience self storage software that lets you launch faster, sell more, save time, and stay lean. Automated web sales, facility management + marketing in one.
  • Axial3D — Leading the way with the latest 3D imaging, models, and devices
Techstart Ventures VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Needi — Needi is a retail company with an e-commerce platform specializing in gift shops. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Manchester, United Kingdom.
  • Loadar — Loadar is an online transport management system that optimizes the relationship between shippers and carriers. Easily work with your trusted carriers, enjoy cost efficiency, and have control over your transportation process. Free for Shippers.
  • Axial3D — Leading the way with the latest 3D imaging, models, and devices
Innovate UK VC Fund · Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom · 60 investments in the past 12 months
Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation .
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Mulder — Mulder provides blockchain-based, end-to-end traceability for medical devices, enhancing patient safety and manufacturer accountability.
  • SmartKem — SmartKem is a high tech enterprise developing an exciting new technology platform focusing on high performance/high value organic semiconductor materials that can be €˜printed to form electronic circuits onto lightweight, rugged and low cost polymer films. Based in the world-class Optic Technium centre, North Wales, SmartKem's mainobjective is to respond to the demand for low cost, low weight, low energy, rugged electronics. The SmartKem team has proven expertise and experience in the fields of organic semiconductors, specialist ink technology, printing and electronic device construction and was a recent winner of the inaugural Oxford Venturefest gold award for '€˜British Technology Innovation of the Year'.
  • New Wave Biotech — New Wave Biotech's AI Downstream Process Optimization Software empowering SynBio innovators to get to market quicker, better and at lower cost. By simulating bioprocesses, techno economic analysis and auto optimisation, we help precision fermented alternative protein and other industrial biotechnology products improve yield and scale production.
IP Group VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Diffblue — Diffblue Cover uses next generation autonomous AI to automate unit testing so that Java development teams can build better applications faster
  • Microbiotica — Microbiotica is a developer of human microbiome therapeutics intended to discover and develop live bacterial therapeutics and biomarkers. The company's therapeutics identify gut bacteria linked to phenotype with unprecedented precision, enabling researchers to phenotype before testing of candidate bacteria in advanced human in vitro and invivo models.
  • MISSION Therapeutics — Deubiquitylating enzymes: multiple drug opportunities across therapeutic areas
Nesta Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
We bring bold ideas to life to change the world for good.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Medical Device, Medical
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Citymart — Citymart powers cities to deliver services that work. Following best practices developed with leading cities around the world, Citymart connects cities and revolutionizes the way cities frame needs, complete procurements, and improve service delivery. Over 100 cities in 35 countries have adopted Citymart tools and methods to-date.
  • Featurespace — Featurespace™ is the world leader in Enterprise Financial Crime prevention for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering. Featurespace invented Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and Automated Deep Behavioral Networks, both of which are available through the ARIC™ platform, a real-time machine learning software that risk scores events in more than 180 countriesto prevent fraud and financial crime.ARIC™ Risk Hub uses advanced, explainable anomaly detection to enable financial institutions to automatically identify risk, catch new fraud attacks and identify suspicious activity in real-time. More than 30 major global financial institutions are using ARIC to protect their business and their customers. Publicly announced customers include HSBC, TSYS, Worldpay, NatWest, Contis, Danske Bank, ClearBank, Akbank and Permanent TSB.
  • Radio Physics Solutions — Radio Physics Solutions is a security and investigation company that specializes in the fields of real-time concealed threat detection, Up to 30m Distance, autonomous, and unobtrusive. It specializes in providing early warning of threats concealed under peoples’ clothes, and so reduce the number of casualties caused by terrorists and criminalsglobally at schools, train stations, airports, government and military installations, tourist attractions and entertainment venues.Radio Physics Solutions was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
Mercia Asset Management VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Flabba — Flabba offers video communications with integrated functionality and workflows that help companies solve practical, operational & commercial problems. They also reduce the carbon footprint of recruitment and save companies time and money. Providing video-enabled, business apps with innovative features that boost productivity, visibility, andprofitability.
  • The One Point — The One Point is a single point of contact for managed technology offering IT support, Business Mobiles, VoIP, Connectivity, Print and Digital Services.
  • SERG Technologies — SERG Technologies is re-defining the way we interact with technology by creating reliable and functional wearables that can be used for activity tracking, monitoring health and fitness, and gesture recognition for smart devices.Our unique sensors detect tiny, subconscious movements that indicate a wearer’s intent, we turn these into controlsignals for everything from TV’s to smart prosthetics, resulting in almost instant response times. We are also developing new tools to allow Parkinson's patients to track their symptoms, providing vital new information to their doctors, leading to long term improvements to the efficacy their treatment.SERG was founded to make the gesture control of technology accessible for everyone and easier to use than ever before.
TRICAPITAL VC Fund · Melrose, Scottish Borders, The, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
The TRICAPITAL Syndicate is a business angel cohort of entrepreneurs, CEOs and business leaders who have founded, funded and built companies
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • HonuWorx — HonuWorx is a technology company providing autonomous systems aimed at lowering both expenses and the environmental impact of operating robotic systems. The company's software technology is an edge-cloud architected communications and control platform that enables geographically distributed stakeholders to see data, collaborate, supervise, andcontrol robotic systems that are beyond line-of-sight.
  • Sellmyartworks — EzelDotz - Buy and Sell Contemporary Art Online | Art Marketplace. Curated collection of Sculptures, Limited Editions and Originals.
  • Heero Technologies — Heero Technologies, the leading independent energy platform for making net zero homes a reality
The FSE Group VC Fund · Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Wilder Sensing — Wilder Sensing is a nature technology business that uses artificial intelligence to quantify biodiversity changes.
  • Cybaverse — Cybaverse is a CREST accredited Managed Security Service Provider: Penetration Testing, Monitoring Detection and Response, Cyber Essentials.
  • Green Power Solutions — Green Power Solutions is a progressive business committed to providing innovative, environmentally friendly energy solutions. Green Power Solutions maintains our technology satisfies current demands while creating a more environmentally friendly future. With real-time monitoring, sophisticated analytics, and seamless integration, our flagshipproduct, the 3MS platform, is revolutionizing off-grid asset management and providing genuinely green, potent solutions to companies all over the world.
KHP Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in the past 12 months
KHP Ventures is an investment firm that provides innovative ideas for healthcare.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • deepc — The Radiology AI Platform - Your effortless access to AI
  • PocDoc — PocDoc is a pioneer in the field of smartphone-based fast disease testing.
  • iFast Diagnostics — iFAST is addressing the Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing market, reducing the spread of antimicrobial resistance.
Oxford Investment Consultants LLP VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
xford Investment Consultants LLP ("OIC") advises Thompson Taraz, the Investment Manager of Oxford Technology and Innovations EIS Fund ("OTIF"). OIC is an Appointed Representative of Stoneware Captial LLP, which is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom.The focus of OIC research ison University of Oxford spin out companies.Over the last fifteen years Oxford has produced a string of world-class spin-out companies. It is our belief that the next generation of world-class Oxford businesses is just waiting to be discovered.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Diffblue — Diffblue Cover uses next generation autonomous AI to automate unit testing so that Java development teams can build better applications faster
  • Caristo Diagnostics — Our AI powered CaRi-Heart technology uncovers coronary inflammation, atherosclerosis, and plaque progression on cardiac CT. Learn more about our award-winning technology
  • Oxford Quantum Circuits — We deliver Enterprise ready quantum solutions that are hybrid workload ready
Angels in MedCity VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Angels in MedCity is a partnership between MedCity, London Business Angels and Angels4LifeSciences. The programme aims to introduce new people to investing and investing in the healthcare/life sciences sector via investor workshops and introduce business angels to investment opportunities from highly-selected and trained companies.With aparticular focus on drug therapies, digital health and medical device technologies, Angels in MedCity brings potential investors together with life sciences experts in a programme aimed at both people who are new to investing and experienced investors who have little or no experience in the life sciences sector. The aim is to build investor understanding in the life sciences sector and support life sciences companies to gain funding to commercialise their ideas.Angels in MedCity has created a community of investors supported through a programme of investor workshops. Using case studies and tips from experienced investors in the field, the workshops explain how to identify and structure a good deal in the life sciences sector, as well as provide expert advice on tax breaks and legal issues.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Atelerix — Discover Atelerix's hypothermic hydrogels for eco-friendly, reliable cell preservation and ambient temperature shipping. Ensure fresh, viable cell samples today.
  • Clustermarket — The intuitive lab management system for all academic research facilities and industrial laboratories that need to efficiently manage equipment bookings.
  • DynamX Medical — DynamX Medical has developed a reliable and inexpensive precancer screening system for rapid tissue biopsy analysis that can be operated point-of-care by nurses.
Business Growth Fund VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 35 investments in the past 12 months
BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
  • United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sulmara — Innovation for a sustainable energy future | Sulmara
  • Besseges — ValvesTubesFittings.com launched in 2015 as the online arm of Besseges VTF and has become one of the leading online pipeline suppliers.
  • Miracle Design & Play — Miracle Design & Play specializes in designing and installing playgrounds for children.
Midlands Engine Investment Fund VC Fund · Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Manufacturing, Software
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • Get Well Soon — Established in 2018 by a prominent colorectal surgeon in the UK, Get Well Soon is a vital division of the Medmin Group, a leading medical enterprise headquartered in the West Midlands. Over the past five years, we have grown into one of the largest assemblies of medical practitioners in the UK. Recognizing the urgency for certain patients, weacknowledge that waiting is not always feasible. Even without private medical insurance, access to private healthcare remains a viable option. However, determining the cost of self-paying for treatment can often be convoluted and challenging. This is where Get Well Soon excels, providing clarity and assistance in navigating the complexities of self-payment for medical services.
  • Purple Transform — Purple Transform operates as an artificial intelligence company. Purple Transform improves decision accuracy with digital intelligence.
  • Mechtech Automation Group — Mechtech Automation Group is an automation manufacturing company that provides reconfigurable robotics and advanced services.
The North West Fund VC Fund · Warrington, Warrington, United Kingdom
The North West Fund is a £155m evergreen investment fund established to provide debt and equity funding to small and medium sized enterprises in the North West of England. The Fund will address an identified gap in the lending, venture capital and private equity markets.The Fund is managed by North West Business Finance Limited, an independentprivate sector company.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom, 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
  • CynapseDx — CynapseDx develops analytical technologies for the detection of aggregated protein biomarkers in the blood of people suffering from a neurodegenerative disease, such as alzheimer or parkinson disease. They engage in oligomeric and aggregated forms of protein biomarkers and have demonstrated that our assays can measure these forms of biomarkerproteins, when testing real patient blood samples.
  • Perfectus Biomed — They are a microbiological services provider that provide our clients with a research based approach to microbiological testing, whilst recognising the client’s need for a rapid turnaround and a personalised service. We specialise in bespoke assays with a primary focus on biofilm testing.They appreciate that not all products are appropriate forstandard testing assays and therefore we work closely with our clients to develop methods that are suitable for the testing of novel products.They offer an extremely customer focused service that includes regular feedback, consultancy, method development and report writing. In addition we produce conference abstracts and posters based on the data we produce.
Empirical Ventures VC Fund · Bristol, Bristol, City of, United Kingdom · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Empirical Ventures supports innovative approaches to critical problems in the fields of biotechnology and life sciences.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Biotechnology, Medical Device
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Silveray — Silveray develop affordable large-area direct conversion detectors for the X-ray imaging market.
  • MintNeuro — MintNeuro is pioneering the use of semiconductor technology in next-generation neural implants.
  • Exciting Instruments — Exciting Instruments Limited is a joint company founded in Sheffield that combines the software prowess of Bulldozer Limited with Dr. Timothy Craggs' knowledge of single molecules. Through the use of cloud connectivity and real-time data visualisation, we are a genuine science and software partnership on a mission to assist you in streamliningthe procedure for creating discoveries in biophysics, life sciences, drug discovery, and medical diagnostics.
Oxford Science Enterprises VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • natcap — We support the world's leading companies to prioritise, measure and act on nature impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities.
  • FluoRok — By employing our patented technology, we can produce fluorochemicals without the production of toxic and highly dangerous hydrofluoric acid
  • Iota Sciences — Discover automated single-cell handling tools and related services to accelerate your route to breakthrough discoveries in cell biology
Barwell Plc VC Fund
Barwell is a privately-funded venture capital company that is based in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • MGB Biopharma — MGB Biopharma Limited is a biopharmaceutical company established to develop a completely new class of anti-infective medicines based upon compounds which are DNA Minor Groove Binders (MGB)The company has an exceptionally experienced team from both pharma and biotech sectors and is dedicating its focus initially to the development of smallmolecules with specific antibacterial efffects against resistant bacteriaBy selecting a new class of antibacterial, the company believes the novel mode of action should prove to be very potent against bacteria as these target organisms will lack any inherent resistance, unlike that typically facing new drugs which are the result of modifications from existing classes of drugs used to treat bacterial infection
  • Connect-In Ltd — Connect-In Ltd. stands for innovative Bluetooth IoT solutions, sustainable development, and state-of-the art design. Their sensors are built to be long lasting and power efficient (lasts 1-4 years on replaceable coin cell batteries) to make IoT understandable, accessible, and affordable, and to power the next generation of the Internet of Things.
  • Lamellar Biomedical — Lamellar Biomedical Ltd was established in June 2007 when the founding Directors of the Company, recognising the considerable therapeutic potential of Lamellasomes™, acquired the intellectual property rights to the technology.
Octopus Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 25 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
  • NanoSyrinx — NanoSyrinx is an award-winning, discovery stage biotechnology company based in the UK. We are using synthetic biology approaches to develop protein nanosyringes as a completely novel modality for intracellular delivery of protein and peptide biologic drugs.
  • Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers
VentureFounders VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Volution is a UK based Venture Capital firm. We back ambitious Fintech and SaaS businesses, ready to accelerate their growth to Series B and beyond.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zopa — Zopa is a P2P money lending service that allows lenders and borrowers to deal directly with one another, cutting out the banks who act as middlemen. It works in the following way: the company first categorizes borrower credit grades with an A*, A, B, C, or Y rating; then lenders make offers that vary by money amount and time period for persons witha certain credit grade, and borrowers can then agree the aggregate offered rate.Zopa takes on such responsibilities as distributing money between parties, completing the legal paperwork, performing borrower identity/credit checks, and employing a collections agency that chases missed payments for the lender.Zopa also mitigates risk for lenders by enforcing monthly direct debit repayment, making borrowers sign a legal contract, and allowing lenders to lend small chunks of money to individual borrowers (i.e. someone lending £1000 would have their money spread across say, 100 borrowers).The company itself makes money by charging a fixed fee for borrowers and a 1% annual fee for lenders.Zopa has received public acclaim as well, having been awarded CNET Technology Awards' 2006 Internet Innovation of the Year, the 2007 Webby Award for Best Banking/Bill-Paying Website, the 2008 Webby Award for Financial Services, the Banker 2007 Award for Best Internet Project, and Moneywise 2009 Awards for Best Customer Service and Best Personal Loan.One of the three initial members of the UK's Peer-to-Peer Finance Association, together with FundingCircle and RateSetter. Other P2P lending services include
  • DeadHappy — DeadHappy is an insurtech company that provides digital pay-as-you-go life insurance services. It specializes in offering flexible life insurance policies that are designed to be cheaper, easier, and better than existing traditional providers. Its offerings include pricing insurance based on current circumstances and the option to add furthercoverage on a rolling basis.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Leicester, England.
  • Lightpoint Medical — Lightpoint is developing miniaturized imaging and sensing tools for advanced robot-assisted cancer surgery.
Tern VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Looking for an IoT investor for your start up or early stage company? Tern PLC is a venture capitalist working alongside ambitious entrepreneurs in the Internet of Things (IoT) space to deliver strategic IoT investment to grow your company.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Konektio — Optimize equipment performance and reduce downtime with AssetMinder's predictive maintenance and IoT solutions. Monitor energy usage and enhance operational efficiency seamlessly.
  • FundamentalVR — A strategic partner helping med-device leaders solve the Competency @ Scale Gap todrive commercial success.
  • Talking Medicines — Discover AI-powered HCP and Patient intelligence for healthcare marketing with Talking Medicines. Drug-GPT delivers actionable insights, revolutionizing AI in pharma marketing with advanced HCP and Patient analytics.
Angels 5K VC Fund · Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Southern Angel Investors Club, combining Surrey investors Club & Angels 5K, are entrepreneurs who understand what new businesses need.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Celixir — Celixir is a developer of regenerative medicines created to change the lives of patients in need. The company's medicines consists of iMP cells, platelet lysate and PML cells to treat patients with ischaemic heart disease, injured tendons near the surface of the skin and mild to moderate heart failure respectively, enabling medical researchersto discover breakthrough medicines that aim to change the standard of medical care for patients.
  • Novastone Media — With its unique asymmetric technology, novastone puts you directly where your clients want to talk to you.
  • Geektastic — Geektastic guarantees hiring teams only meet high calibre candidates. Our technical code challenges quickly identify the most talented software engineers.
Eos VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Eos invests in, & commercialises, science & technology, from local seed-stage to global scale, with a focus on improving lives.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Chromacity — Chromacity manufacture the next generation of ultrafast lasers. Discover our fixed wavelength femtosecond lasers and picosecond OPOs.
  • Biotangents — Biotangents develops veterinary diagnostic tests to detect infectious diseases in livestock (bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD), mastitis, bovine respiratory disease (BRD), brucellosis) using our highly adaptable molecular diagnostic technology, Moduleic Sensing.
  • Concinnity Genetics — Concinnity designs unique RNA-based gene control systems that enable the precise control of gene therapies to improve safety.
Wren Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Wren is an angel investor in science, engineering and software. They founded Wren in 2011 and have invested in 50 companies so far.Wren is well known in the early stage investment community and has co-invested with a wide range of both angel and institutional investors. From software and semiconductors to genome editing, and from medical devicesto satellites, they are interested in sectors where technical ingenuity and hard work can produce long term value. They look for people with a deep understanding of their markets. The founders they invest in are smart and they get things done.Wren typically invests £50,000 to £200,000 per funding round. Difficult problems take time to solve, so they are patient with their investments. Their aim is to get deals done and they take a pragmatic approach to doing so.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
  • PharmEnable — At PharmEnable Therapeutics we access the inaccessible. We are re-imagining small molecule therapeutics through AI.
  • Bastion Therapeutics — Bastion Therapeutics - Enhancing Tregs To Restore Balance In Inflammatory Disorders Treg cell therapy for inflammatory disorders and autoimmune diseases.
Invesco VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Learn about Invesco through our latest stories, financials, and news.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Funding Round, Series C, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Mynd — Find, finance, buy, lease, manage, and sell single-family rental homes in 25 markets through our industry-leading apps and dashboards.
  • Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.
  • Franklin Energy Services — Franklin Energy combines solution implementation with global supply chain management, data, and technology to drive innovation and change our energy future.
Salica VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zeotap — Discover the next-generation Customer Data Platform, built for a privacy-first future
  • Aevi — Aevi are in-person payment orchestration experts. Fully flexible - no matter what system you use we bring all of your payments together. Set your payments free.
  • Bumper — Split the cost of your car repairs and servicing into manageable monthly instalments with 0% interest. Fix it. Split it. Sorted.
Novartis Venture Fund VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Our primary focus is on the development of novel therapeutics and platforms. We balance the therapeutic focus with investments in medical devices, diagnostics or drug delivery systems. In our investments we look for unmet need and clinical impact, novel proprietary science and understanding of mechanism, management and board experience and capitalefficiency in the program.We prefer to have our initial investment at the early stage to build the company and follow with additional investment in pace with the company:tm:s progress. We continue our approach of larger focused investments and anticipate total investments up to USD 30 to 50 mio per company over its life, but it can be as little as 100'000 USD to get started. We will increase our activities to lead or co-lead deals further and remain open to participate in larger syndicates. SectorsNew therapeutics & platformsMedical devices/implantsDiagnostics/biomarkersDrug delivery/biopolymersGeographyUSA/CanadaEuropeSwitzerlandAsia/Pacific
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Oculis — The Oculis drug delivery platform consists of a novel technique to facilitate drug absorption to both anterior and posterior parts of the eye. The advantage is a drug delivery system where diseases of the posterior part of the eye can be treated with a simple topical application. The Oculis drug delivery platform allows diseases such as DME(diabetic macular edema) at the posterior part of the eye to be treated with a non-invasive topical application. Furthermore, the technique has been demonstrated to allow diseases at the anterior part of the eye to be treated with a reduced number of topical applications compared to conventional eye-drops.
  • CatalYm — Catalym develops antibodies against a placental factor which is overexpressed by various tumour types.
  • Mediar Therapeutics — Mediar Therapeutics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company developing antibody-based therapeutics to halt fibrosis in a variety of organ systems, including lung, liver, kidney, and skin.
Esperante Ventures VC Fund · Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
A corporate venture investment company focussed on investing in mid to late stage clinical stage therapeutics development companies in North America and Europe
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Amlo Biosciences — From ground-breaking research to revolutionary prognostics and diagnostics AMLo Biosciences is translating ground-breaking research in cancer biomarkers int ...
  • Acousia Therapeutics — Acousia Therapeutics GmbH is a privately held biotech company based in Tübingen, Germany. Acousia has experience and expertise in identifying and developing small molecule drug candidates for the treatment of hearing loss.Sensory hair cells are the key cells for hearing in the inner ear. Acousia`s approach will help to replace lost hair cells bycellular regeneration originating from supporting cells.ASpherecousia is developing drugs for local application, which will restore hearing in patients who have lost their hearing ability induced by various reasons, e.g. noise trauma, treatment with ototoxic drugs or sudden deafness. In addition, these therapies will have the potential to treat the age-related decrease in hearing capacity.
  • Spiral Therapeutics — Spiral Therapeutics is a clinical stage pharmaceutical company delivering novel therapies for hearing loss. Through the use proprietary therapeutics and drug delivery technologies, Spiral is building a pipeline of advanced therapies in a field with large unmet needs and no approved therapies. Spiral’s lead candidate, LPT99, reached the clinic inDecember 2018. Spiral was launched in early 2016 and is headquartered in Brisbane, CA.
SR One VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months
SR One Capital Management is a leading trans-Atlantic biotech venture capital firm that partners with top entrepreneurs, scientists and investment partners to seek to build elite biotechnology companies. Our mission is to translate ground-breaking technologies into next generation medicines to benef
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Nomic — Nomic develops a proteomic technology platform designed to understand, detect, and treat diseases with DNA nanotechnology. NPlex's platform and research provides cost-effective measurement of protein data with sample, fits seamlessly within industry cytometers for high-throughput analysis, and development of custom protein panels.It allowsnanotechnology developers and businesses to bring improvement in existing instrument, workflow, and bring automation in the system.
  • Antag Therapeutics — Antag Therapeutics operator of a biotechnology company intended to develop metabolic and anti-obesity therapeutic drugs.The company specializes in the development of peptide-based GIP receptor antagonist in order to monitor dietary-related metabolic diseases through the infusion, enabling the healthcare industry to decrease blood flow and lipiduptake in adipose tissue in an efficient manner.
  • Avenzo Therapeutics — Developing the next generation of oncology therapies for patients.
Downing Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
The opportunity for institutional investors to access leading UK early stage healthtech businesses
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • TidalSense — CRiL was formed in April 2013 specifically to develop innovative medical devices to diagnose and manage respiratory conditions. They have been building a platform technology, N-Tidal, based on the measurement and analysis of tidal breathing CO2 throughout the entire breath.
  • Qkine — Growth Factors made for stem cells Animal-free We control every step of protein manufacture ensuring all our products are completely animal-free Total transparency Stringent purity and bioactivity testing data for all proteins - know what you are giving your cells Protein innovation Our R&D team
  • FundamentalVR — A strategic partner helping med-device leaders solve the Competency @ Scale Gap todrive commercial success.
Cambridge Innovation Capital VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Cambridge Innovation Capital backs life sciences and technology companies with an affiliation to Cambridge, Europe’s capital for innovation. As a preferred investor for the University of Cambridge, they have unparalleled access to investment opportunities in the ecosystem.Since our inception in 2013, they have raised £275 million to invest indisruptive, deep-tech businesses in sectors including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, quantum technologies, autonomous systems, therapeutics, medtech/diagnostics, digital health, and genomics/proteomics.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Forefront RF — Forefront RF tunable duplexer aims to expand the accessibility and global market reach of all mobile devices by simplifying RFFE design.
  • Microbiotica — Microbiotica is a developer of human microbiome therapeutics intended to discover and develop live bacterial therapeutics and biomarkers. The company's therapeutics identify gut bacteria linked to phenotype with unprecedented precision, enabling researchers to phenotype before testing of candidate bacteria in advanced human in vitro and invivo models.
  • T-Therapeutics — T-Therapeutics is a expertise in mouse genome engineering, deep expertise in biopharmaceutical drug development, single cell genomics, machine-learning and structural biology, anchored in a culture of creativity and collaboration. .
Oxford Investment Opportunity Network VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
OION is part of the OION Ltd group of angel networks. OION Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority; reference number 564525.Established in 1994 as one of the UK’s first business angel networks, OION has an interest in companies with a strong barrier to entry, often patented, but with all having a strong vision forgrowth and seeking investment from £200k to ~£2 million.The group also includes Thames Valley Investment Network (TVIN) and Oxford Early Investments (OEI). TVIN was established in 2003 targeting companies with a focus on first mover advantage and technology including FMCG, web, digital media, green-technology. Companies are typically seeking investment between £150k to £750k.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • OSSTEC — OSSTEC is bringing advanced technology to the operating room with metal 3D printed bone healing implants. The orthopaedic implants emulate natural bone structure and address high failure rates of existing implants, keeping patients who suffer with osteoarthritis healthy, active and enjoying life.
  • Aura — Aura exists to celebrate what's most important in life. Let's think about life together, and plan a funeral that truly reflects those you love.
  • Cognitant Group Ltd — We are award-winning patient engagement specialists. We believe that engaging and empowering patients improves health outcomes, delivers efficiencies to health services and helps life sciences achieve their goals.
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