# Baillie Gifford

> Baillie Gifford is a VC fund in Edinburgh backing Biotechnology and Software. See 212 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 212
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Fund size: $477M
- Last fund: Mar 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/baillie-gifford/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/bailliegifford
- Website: https://www.bailliegifford.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Baillie-Gifford-Co-152587304764159/

Baillie Gifford is an independently owned investment management firm. It is owned and run by 39 of its senior executives, who operate as a partnership, a structure that has endured for over a century and provides stability for clients and motivation for employees. It enables them to manage the business for the future as well as the present, with anemphasis on genuine long-term thinking rather than lurching haplessly between short-term targets.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 21 | 10% |
| Software | 19 | 9% |
| Health Care | 18 | 8% |
| E-Commerce | 15 | 7% |
| Manufacturing | 15 | 7% |

184 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 34 | 16% |
| Series C | 24 | 11% |
| Series E | 24 | 11% |
| Series F | 16 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 14 | 7% |

16 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 72 | 34% |
| Germany | 7 | 3% |
| China | 6 | 3% |
| India | 6 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 3% |

22 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shan Shan | Investment Manager for Private Companies | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shan-shan-4001 |
| Adam Conn | Head of Trading | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-conn |
| Andrew Telfer | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-telfer |
| Anika Penn | Investment Researcher | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anika-penn |
| Brogan Harris | Investment Manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brogan-harris |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Airwallex | Established in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex is a global payments fintech that enables businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.In today’s fast-changing digital era, Airwallex's purpose is to empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders, and by doing so, contribute to the global economy. With technology at its core, Airwallex builta proprietary global financial infrastructure platform to help businesses transact, collect and pay in any foreign currency across 130+ countries and 50+ currencies, without the constraints of the traditional global financial system. | $320M | Series H | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| Stord | Stord is on a mission to migrate supply chains to the cloud—empowering brands to build sophisticated, agile, and integrated supply chains.Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the heart of Atlanta's vibrant tech community, Stord is pioneering the world's first Cloud Supply Chain. The Cloud Supply Chain is the convergence of the digitaland physical elements of logistics. With Stord's Cloud Supply Chain, businesses can build, expand, and optimize their physical supply chain operations across freight, warehousing, and fulfillment, with the speed, flexibility, and ease of modern cloud software. With a single integration, businesses achieve end-to-end visibility into their whole supply chains from a single dashboard and gain access to Stord's network of hundreds of warehouses, fulfillment centers, and carriers.They are a rapidly growing team that is backed by over $125M from leading investors such as Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, BOND, D1 Capital, and more (investors in Amazon, Google, Twitter, and more). They've received awards and recognition from TechCrunch, the Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Fortune, Forbes, Inc., TAG, Atlanta Business Chronicle, and more.The future of supply chains is in the cloud. Come help us help businesses out-deliver their competition with the Cloud Supply Chain. | $250M | Series F | May 26, 2026 |  |
| Astranis | Astranis develops small communications satellites designed for geostationary and other high Earth orbits. The company manufactures software-defined satellites used for broadband connectivity, government communications, navigation resilience, and space-based infrastructure applications. Its MicroGEO platform is built to provide dedicated satellitecapacity for telecommunications providers, enterprises, and public sector organizations serving remote or underserved regions. Astranis also develops satellite systems with onboard propulsion, radiation-hardened electronics, and configurable bandwidth management technologies for mission flexibility. The company operates across spacecraft design, satellite manufacturing, launch coordination, and in-orbit operations through integrated engineering and testing capabilities. Its satellite network solutions support internet connectivity, defense communications, and resilient positioning and navigation services for commercial and government customers. | $300M | Series E | May 06, 2026 |  |
| Merlin Labs | Merlin Labs is building an autonomous infrastructure for the sky above us, enabling goods and eventually people, to fly without pilots. It specializes in the fields of software, transportation, and information technology. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $200M | Post-IPO Equity | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| Quince | Quince is an affordable luxury brand that sells high-quality fashion and home goods at radically low prices— direct from the factory floor. The company has pioneered a manufacturer-to-consumer (M2C) retail model in which factories produce inventory on a near just-in-time basis and ship their goods directly to consumers' doorsteps, cutting outfinancial and environmental waste. Quince is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and partners with more than 50 top manufacturers around the world.Most recently, Quince completed a $77 million Series B upround raise. The investment was led by Wellington Management with participation from GGV Capital, and continuing participation from Basis Set Ventures, Insight Partners, Lugard Road, and 8VC.Visit Quince at quince.com or on Instagram at @onequince. | $500M | Series E | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| Loyal | Loyal is a veterinary biotechnology company that develops pharmaceutical therapies for dogs aimed at extending their healthy lifespan and delaying age-associated diseases. It researches and formulates drug candidates designed to address the biological mechanisms of aging in different dog populations, including senior and large-breed dogs, withproducts progressing through clinical and regulatory pathways. Loyal engages in clinical studies and collaborates with veterinary professionals to advance its therapeutic programs and share scientific insights with the broader field. The company publishes research summaries to support transparency and enable other practitioners to build on its findings. | $100M | Series C | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Zipline International | Zipline is a California-based automated logistics company that designs, manufactures, and operates drones to deliver vital medical products. Zipline's mission is to provide every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies.In 2014, Zipline was created to deliver medicine to those who need it most. Since then, the company hasbuilt the world's fastest and most reliable delivery drone, the world's largest autonomous logistics network, and a truly amazing team. Zipline designs and tests its technology in Half Moon Bay, California. The company assembles the drones and the technology that powers its distribution centers in South San Francisco. Zipline performs extensive flight testing in Davis, California, and operates distribution centers around the planet with teams of local operators. | $800M | Series H | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| PsiQuantum | PsiQuantum develops quantum computing technologies using photonic qubits and silicon photonics to build fault-tolerant quantum computing systems. The company designs quantum hardware, software, and system architectures that support the development and operation of scalable quantum computers. It manufactures quantum photonic chips throughsemiconductor fabrication processes and develops cryogenic infrastructure and quantum algorithms for large-scale computing applications. PsiQuantum also collaborates with research institutions, government organizations, and industry partners on quantum computing research and technology development. Its work focuses on advancing quantum computing capabilities for scientific, industrial, and computational applications. |  |  | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| Toss | Toss is a South Korea-based mobile financial service platform operated by fintech startup Viva Republica.Its application offers peer-to-peer money transfers, manages credit scores and bank accounts, access loan and insurance plans, split bill options, QR payment and other similar services that enable users to manage their finance.Toss wasestablished in 2011 by Seunggun Lee in Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi. |  | Secondary Market | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Faire | Faire is a two-sided marketplace and wholesale platform that helps retailers find and buy unique wholesale merchandise for their stores while helping brands and makers reach local retailers. Faire offers business owners a toolkit of simple tech, data insights, financial terms, and logistics solutions to support the future of local retail.Faire's net 60 payment terms and free returns take the risk out of the wholesale business so that local retailers and independent brands can compete with big-box and ecommerce giants.Faire is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. |  | Secondary Market | Nov 17, 2025 |  |

10 of 212 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Baillie Gifford invest in?

Baillie Gifford invests primarily in Biotechnology, Software and Health Care startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 212 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Baillie Gifford?

The team at Baillie Gifford includes Shan Shan (Investment Manager for Private Companies), Adam Conn (Head of Trading) and Andrew Telfer (CEO), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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