Catapult Ventures
VC Fund
Leicester, United Kingdom
Catapult Ventures is a VC fund in Leicester focused on Health Care and Biotechnology. 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 pounds in revenue. Their administration team is equally experienced with each member having more than 10 years experience in a venture capital environment.
- Total investments:
- 105
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Catapult Ventures invests in
Stages Catapult Ventures invests in
Countries Catapult Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $150k–$5.6M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $370k–$5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 25 (24%)
- Biotechnology 23 (22%)
- Medical 14 (13%)
- Pharmaceutical 14 (13%)
- Software 13 (12%)
Stage
- Funding Round 46 (44%)
- Seed 20 (19%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 9 (9%)
- Series A 7 (7%)
- Series B 4 (4%)
Country
- United Kingdom 71 (68%)
- United States 10 (10%)
- Israel 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chris Spencer
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Corinne Lawrence
Group Financial Controller
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Group Financial Controller | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
David Whitcombe
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
David Whitcombe
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Duncan Cameron
Chief Financial Officer & Director
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Chief Financial Officer & Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anello Photonics is a technology company developing a silicon photonic optical gyroscope to navigate, position, and motion track autonomous applications in challenging GPS-jammed and spoofed environments. The company's technology portfolio spans over 28 issued patents, and over 44 pending patents, and includes an AI-based sensor fusion engine.It serves the robotics, defense, construction, agriculture, and autonomous vehicles industries. | Series B / Nov 18, 2024 | ||
| Pickle Robot is a low cost, collaborative package handling robot that automates several key tasks along the e-commerce supply chain.Package handling is a physically demanding job with extremely high rates of turnover. The rising costs of shipping, comprised of 2/3rds labor, have become a major bottleneck to continued growth in e-commerce.Dill is the first robot from the Pickle Robot Company. It works multiple shifts, communicates with its human collaborators, and is rapidly developing new skills in handling e-commerce parcels: such as loading/unloading of feeder trucks, palletizing/depalletizing, and preloading of last mile delivery vans, trucks, and parcel cars. | $50M / Series B / Nov 11, 2024 | ||
| Path Robotics designs robotic welding systems that incorporate AI and machine learning for enhanced precision and adaptability. These systems automate repetitive tasks, enabling manufacturers to increase productivity while minimizing upfront costs. The company addresses workforce challenges in the manufacturing sector through effective automationsolutions. | $100M / Series D / Oct 14, 2024 | ||
| CroBio is a biotechnology company developing microbial soil amendments that help crops withstand drought and improve fertilizer efficiency. CroBio's developed microbes produce a cellulose biomaterial around plant roots, creating a sponge-like matrix that enhances water retention, nutrient uptake, and soil biodiversity. This technology enablesfarmers to reduce nutrient runoff and input costs while improving yields sustainably. With operations in the UK, USA, and Brazil, and partnerships with leading agribusinesses and research institutions, CroBio is scaling biological solutions to transform global agriculture. | $1.6M / Seed / Apr 23, 2024 | ||
| Pencil Biosciences aims to develop a novel, programmable genome-modulation tool that overcomes the challenges associated with the technologies currently available. | $7.3M / Seed / Sep 28, 2023 | ||
| Time is precious and for patients with the most common brain tumour, glioblastoma, the value of that time really comes into focus when they are suddenly hit with the news there is no cure and that they have just one year to live. Current treatment options are not good enough and come at a huge cost to the quality of that remaining time. Ourco-founder Dr Richard Fu recognised this and was frustrated not only by the lack of treatments available for his brain tumour patients but also by major design flaws in newer electrotherapy approaches. Working together with Dr Chris Bullock, a biomedical engineer arising from Manchester's world-class materials research centres, they formed an elegant solution designed to optimise patient life-expectancy and quality of life. Together they formed QV Bioelectronics, and since then, their ground-breaking research has received over $425k in financial awards from several UK institutions, including Innovate UK and the National Institute for Health Research in the UK. The technology core patent has been filed, with full FTO. Additionally, alongside Dr Fu's expertise, the clinical advisory board contains some of Britain's top neurosurgeons who are helping to input into the feedback of the technology design. Our aim is to double patient life expectancy compared to standard treatment without impacting quality of life, so patients can focus on what matters. Join us at QV Bioelectronics, in pioneering a better option for terminal cancer patients. | $2.4M / Seed / Jan 10, 2023 | ||
| Salvaging the past to build the future- Stealth Startup | $5.6M / Seed / Dec 08, 2022 | ||
| Pickle Robot is a low cost, collaborative package handling robot that automates several key tasks along the e-commerce supply chain.Package handling is a physically demanding job with extremely high rates of turnover. The rising costs of shipping, comprised of 2/3rds labor, have become a major bottleneck to continued growth in e-commerce.Dill is the first robot from the Pickle Robot Company. It works multiple shifts, communicates with its human collaborators, and is rapidly developing new skills in handling e-commerce parcels: such as loading/unloading of feeder trucks, palletizing/depalletizing, and preloading of last mile delivery vans, trucks, and parcel cars. | $26M / Series A / Nov 15, 2022 | ||
| Strella biotech is a revenue-generating food supply chain company that provides data to optimize the produce supply chain via patented proprietary sensing technology. It specializes in the fields of supply chain management and big data.Strella was founded in 2018 by Jacob Jordan and Katherine Sizov and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,United States. | $8M / Series A / Jun 07, 2022 | ||
| Salvaging the past to build the future- Stealth Startup | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Nov 12, 2021 | ||
| See all 105 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Catapult Ventures invest in?
Catapult Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Medical startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 105 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Catapult Ventures invest in?
Catapult Ventures typically joins rounds of $150k–$5.6M at Seed and $370k–$5M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Catapult Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Catapult Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Catapult Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Catapult Ventures?
The team at Catapult Ventures includes Chris Spencer (Venture Partner), Corinne Lawrence (Group Financial Controller) and David Whitcombe (Venture Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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