Alex Hook
Senior Investment Director @ Nesta
London, United Kingdom
Alex Hook is a funding round investor at Nesta in London focused on Biotechnology and Software. Alex joined NESTA in June 2008. He makes and manages investments in the Cleantech, Engineering and Healthcare sectors.Alex started his career in the creative industries before joining Foursome Investments in 1999.During his time at Foursome, Alex was involved in multiple transactions, across a number of sectors and geographies, with apredominant focus on early-stage environmental technology businesses. Alex also managed Foursome’s early-stage fund, the FourVision Fund LP.
- Total investments:
- 53
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries Alex Hook invests in
Stages Alex Hook invests in
Countries Alex Hook invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 9 (17%)
- Software 8 (15%)
- Manufacturing 7 (13%)
- Medical 6 (11%)
- Medical Device 6 (11%)
Stage
- Funding Round 27 (51%)
- Seed 7 (13%)
- Series A 5 (9%)
- Series B 5 (9%)
- Series C 2 (4%)
Country
- United Kingdom 30 (57%)
- United States 4 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Renewabl
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Renewabl is a unique platform that enables the rapid and secure achievement of decarbonisation targets by directly matching clean energy certificates from real wind and solar farms on a 24/7 basis. | Seed / Jul 25, 2024 | |
Electron
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Electron is a London based energy technology company, unlocking value in decarbonising energy systems by enabling granular, market-based interactions, designed by the users themselves. Electron is a market platform as a service, used by network operators, distributed energy resources, and others to trade and optimise the combined use of networkcapacity and zero carbon, zero marginal cost power. | $5M / Sep 19, 2023 | |
Airex
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Airex is a smart ventilation control that builds intelligent air ventilation units using atmospheric sensors and cloud algorithms. The company develops a retrofit smart ventilation control system that controls the airflow through air-bricks. Through it, owners will benefit from decreased energy bills, warmer homes, enhanced thermal comfort, healthyhome, and minimal disturbance without compromising on air quality. The smart algorithms allow automatic air flow regulation while taking into account local weather and air quality data.Airex was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in London. | $3.2M / Series A / Dec 12, 2022 | |
Naked Energy
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Naked Energy has developed an innovative hybrid solar technology generating combined heat and power.The versatile, modular design of Virtu® places crystalline photovoltaic cells in an evacuated solar thermal collector. For any given area more of the sun’s energy is converted into heat and electricity (80% of the 1000W/m2 available) thanksto the patented heat transfer mechanism.Thermal and electrical outputs are optimized irrespective of geographic or climatic conditions. With the isothermally cooled PV cells protected from the environment, Virtu® is especially suited to harsh high-insolation markets.Naked Energy is in the final stages of preparing for commercial launch to address global applications for domestic, commercial and industrial customers. Virtu® is both disruptive and scalable. | $1.2M / Series B / Dec 05, 2022 | |
Featurespace
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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. | $21M / Oct 04, 2017 | |
Six to Start
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Six to Start is an independent game developer based in London, specializing in story-like games and game-like stories. Their latest games include Zombies, Run!, the world's bestselling smartphone fitness app, and The Walk, the first smartphone fitness game funded by the UK's Department of Health. | Jun 01, 2017 | |
eoSemi
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eoSemi is an emerging privately-funded semiconductor product company based in South Yorkshire.Shrinking electronic systems are placing significant pressure on traditional timing and frequency devices to reduce in size without compromising performance - something they cannot do easily or cheaply.eoSemi is a new technological transformation.It meets head-on the challenges of size-vs-performance, with an enabling technology that allows for creation of far more compact designs, and that facilitates new classes of product and application. | Jun 01, 2017 | |
Dialog Devices
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Dialog Devices develops optical technologies to help meet the overwhelming demand for better healthcare. Its advanced opto-electronic technology is revolutionizing the way medical conditions are diagnosed and monitored; improving the health and well-being of people around the world.The company is also advancing additional applications for thistechnology including post-operative monitoring of peripheral interventions and diabetic neuropathy assessment. | Jun 01, 2017 | |
Design LED Products
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Design LED is an internationally regarded LED lighting system technology business. The company is taking unique and innovative products to a global lighting market, which itself is growing rapidly on the back of international government and environmental legislation and increasing consumer demand for low energy, highly differentiated and low costlighting solutions.Their passion for the LED lighting technology combined with their ambition to change the way they think about lighting products as a whole has been their driving motivator since Design LED was founded back in 2004. With their strategic partners they have the opportunity to make their vision a reality by providing their incredible LED Light Tiles to an international lighting design and engineering community. | Jun 01, 2017 | |
Orthogem
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Orthogem develops and manufactures synthetic bone grafts. Its patented Tripore technology platform has enabled the creation of a pipeline of SBG's formulated for a variety of clinical applications, ranging from spinal to oral cranial facial surgery. Orthogem's products include TriPore Granules, TriPore MPA, and TriPore Blocks. Wei Lofounded it in 2001, with its headquarters in Nottingham in the United Kingdom. | Jun 01, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About Nesta
Nesta is an innovation foundation headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Nesta Contacts
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Alex Hook
Senior Investment Director
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Francesca Bria
Senior Advisor and Senior Project Lead
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Ravi Gurumurthy
Chief Executive Officer
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Tom Cahill-Jones
Partnerships Manager, Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
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David Puttnam
Founding Chairman
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FAQ
What does Alex Hook invest in?
Alex Hook invests primarily in Biotechnology, Software and Manufacturing startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 53 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Alex Hook last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Alex Hook closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 53 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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