# British Design Fund

> British Design Fund is a VC fund backing Manufacturing and Health Care. See 47 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 47
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 72%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/britishdesignfund
- Website: https://britishdesignfund.co.uk/

British Design Fund is a VC fund in London focused on Manufacturing and Health Care. British Design Fund supports enterprise and innovation in the UK by investing in, and supporting, early-stage, well-designed, product businesses. The Fund works with extraordinary entrepreneurs with scalable products who are ready to accelerate growth and build long term value and thriving stand-out businesses.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for British Design Fund. Shizune tracks 2 team members at British Design Fund. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/british-design-fund?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $133k–$1.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $123k–$1M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $190k–$650k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 15 | 32% |
| Health Care | 8 | 17% |
| Medical Device | 5 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 9% |
| Medical | 3 | 6% |

72 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 30 | 64% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 19% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 42 | 89% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Damon Bonser | Founder & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/damon-bonser-a6cd |
| Damon Bonser | Founder & CEO | 35 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/damon-bonser |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LabCycle | LabCycle is the world's first company to recycle hazardous plastic waste from laboratories (service) as well as the first to create 100% recycled laboratory consumables (product). Working with public and private labs, we are driving the circular economy of lab plastics to reduce the 5.5m tonnes of lab waste annually. A few highlights of ourprogress to date: • Proven impact - saving 90% of CO2 emissions & 93% energy compared to current alternatives: incineration and autoclave (LCA available upon request).• Technological validation creating the world's first 100% circular lab consumables including petri dishes, test tubes and more.• Secured commercial contracts with the NHS, several private companies and also universities. We are raising £1.5m to scale our patent pending technology to serve our growing demand after over 150+ organic expressions of interests following our feature in BBC news. The funding will establish the first automated decontamination system of our network, recycling over 350 tonnes annually, saving over 1000+ tonnes of carbon. | $238K | Seed | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Cordon Technologies | Cordon Technologies manufactures Cost-effective, environmentally sensitive, vineyard automation solutions. | $1.3M | Seed | Jun 09, 2026 |  |
| SmartyPlants | SmartyPlants is an IT and Internet firm developing a plant sensory tool for the monitoring. | $260.1K | Seed | Feb 03, 2026 |  |
| Fresh Check | Fresh Check is a simple sticker that you put inside the packaging of food that changes colour when your food has actually gone off, not when the use-by date says so. | $201.4K | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 16, 2025 |  |
| NasoGastric Feeding Solutions | NasoGastric Feeding Solutions are dedicated to revolutionizing enteral access by providing clinicians with better tools to safely place lifesaving Naso/orogastric feeding and decompression tubes. | $657.6K | Seed | Nov 11, 2025 |  |
| Sages | Sages is a manufacturing company that develops natural dyes from food waste. Sages was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in London, United Kingdom. | $250K | Seed | Oct 30, 2025 |  |
| Flomark | The Flomark™ is a new IV administration set that easily, intuitively and reliably shows flow rate. | $408.9K | Seed | Jun 12, 2025 |  |
| Zeus Sleep | Zeus Sleep is a health-tech company that offers treatments for sleep disorders. | $199.4K | Seed | May 07, 2025 |  |
| ManholeMetrics | ManholeMetrics is an IoT sensors and analytics start-up on a mission to end flooding and bring wastewater into the 21st Century. We empower infrastructure asset owners and operators with the data and insights to anticipate and proactively respond to flooding. | $650K | Seed | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Matoha Instrumentation | Matoha Instrumentation is a manufacturing company that produces material identification devices. | $1.9M | Seed | Apr 10, 2025 |  |

10 of 47 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [7percent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/7-percent) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SOSV HAX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hax-accelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Imperial College London](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imperial-college-london) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Angel Academe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-academe) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Archipelago Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archipelago-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does British Design Fund invest in?

British Design Fund invests primarily in Manufacturing, Health Care and Medical Device startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 47 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is British Design Fund's check size?

British Design Fund typically joins rounds of $133k–$1.3M at Seed, $123k–$1M at Pre-Seed and $190k–$650k at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds British Design Fund participates in.

### How do I contact British Design Fund?

Public channels for British Design Fund include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at British Design Fund?

The team at British Design Fund includes Damon Bonser (Founder & CEO) and Damon Bonser (Founder & CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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