# Ashwin Kumaraswamy

> Ashwin Kumaraswamy is a seed investor at Mercia Asset Management backing Software. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mercia Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercia-asset-management)
- Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwinkk/?originalSubdomain=uk

Ashwin Kumaraswamy is a seed investor at Mercia Asset Management in Manchester focused on Software and Machine Learning. Ashwin Kumaraswamy - Investment Director @ Mercia Asset Management

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 75% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 50% |
| Computer | 1 | 25% |
| Robotics | 1 | 25% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mindtech | Mindtech's Data Ops Platform is designed to massively reduce the time ML engineers spend collecting and curating training data for AI computer vision applications. The platform is highly automated with embedded functionality, leveraging AI and Mindtechs unique Configurable DNA technology, to support use cases in multiple industries' suchas Smart City (transportation, traffic, and people management) Smart Places (manufacturing, retail, construction, hospital, and office environments) and Smart Machines (robotics, automotive, marine and UAV).Mindtech's Data Ops Platform analyses the customers training data and then automates the creation of new synthetic training data including pixel accurate annotations from environments representative of the customers deployment environment. Fast, flexible, repeatable, delivering hi fidelity images Mindtech's Data Ops Platform is the ultimate solution to delivering high performance, production ready AI models for computer vision. | $5.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 16, 2024 |  |
| Thalia Design Automation | Thalia Design Automation Ltd. operates as a semiconductor electronic design automation (EDA) company that provides software solutions to assist in the design of analog and mixed signal integrated circuits. | $2.7M |  | Jul 19, 2023 |  |
| Logically | Logically combines artificial intelligence with expert analysts to reduce the individual, institutional, and societal damage caused by misleading and deceptive online discourse. Working with governments and organisations around the world, Logically's unique combination of artificial and expert intelligence means we can apply scale and nuanceto the problems of mis- and disinformation, detecting, triaging, and responding to issues, as well as predicting and preventing emerging threats. | $24M | Series A | Mar 16, 2022 |  |
| Logically | Logically combines artificial intelligence with expert analysts to reduce the individual, institutional, and societal damage caused by misleading and deceptive online discourse. Working with governments and organisations around the world, Logically's unique combination of artificial and expert intelligence means we can apply scale and nuanceto the problems of mis- and disinformation, detecting, triaging, and responding to issues, as well as predicting and preventing emerging threats. | $3.1M | Seed | Jul 13, 2020 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [XTX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xtx-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amazon Alexa Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amazon-alexa-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Deepbridge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepbridge-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Edge VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edge-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercia-equity-finance) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mercia Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercia-technologies) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Mercia Asset Management

VC Fund · Henley In Arden, United Kingdom

Mercia Asset Management invest across four distinct asset classes of venture, private equity and debt, referred to as our ‘Complete Capital Solution.Mercia Asset Management ision is to be the first choice for investors, investees and employees and, by aspiring to be the first choice, we believe that Mercia will deliver superior returns for businessowners, shareholders and fund investors alike.

5 contacts available at Mercia Asset Management.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aaron Lawson-Clark | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-lawson-clark-d240 |
| Ashwin Kumaraswamy | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashwin-kumaraswamy |
| Brijesh Roy | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brijesh-roy |
| Clive Downward | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clive-downward |
| Graham Davies | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/graham-davies-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Ashwin Kumaraswamy invest in?

Ashwin Kumaraswamy invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 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 Ashwin Kumaraswamy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ashwin Kumaraswamy closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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