# Chris Pestell

> Chris Pestell is a debt financing investor at Mercia Fund Managers backing Big Data and Analytics. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mercia Fund Managers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercia-fund-management)
- Location: Henley In Arden, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2021
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-pestell-17498611
- Website: https://www.mercia.co.uk/team/chris-pestell/

Chris Pestell is a debt financing investor at Mercia Fund Managers in Henley In Arden focused on Big Data and Analytics. Chris joined the Group in 2015 as Investment Director for EV SME Loans and has responsibility for sourcing, structuring and negotiating new investment opportunities. He is an experienced banker with over 30 years’ experience in the profession. EV SME Loans has no geographic or sector restrictions and can invest from £100,000 to £1.0million. Fundingcan be made available for most purposes, with the focus to date being mainly on helping to fund growth and change of ownership situations. Chris is happy to consider opportunities that need funding alongside existing or new lenders or situations where the Fund is the only lender.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 1 | 100% |
| Analytics | 1 | 100% |
| Predictive Analytics | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Solutionpath | Solutionpath’s powerful meaning-based analytics service means you can connect previously disparate unconnected data pools to new sources (such as social media feeds) to create new insights into how users, subscribers, customers, competitors, and employees will react in the future.Solutionpath is delivering insight solutions into the UK HE marketbeing the first commercial institution to offer learning analytics, they are highly commended, with several awards and are highly referenced with several UK deployments, and are already expanding internationally into the US and Australia. | $1.4M | Debt Financing | Jan 06, 2021 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About Mercia Fund Managers

VC Fund · Henley In Arden, United Kingdom

Mercia Fund Managers is a venture capital fund manager with two funds totalling £12.8 million under management. Mercia Fund Managers focuses its efforts on the West Midlands region and benefits from a mixture of public- and private-sector fund investors.Mercia Fund Managers provides venture capital for early-stage technology start-ups that arelocated in the West Midlands. Potential investees must demonstrate their potential for rapid growth and will possess a strong proprietary position with respect to their technology, intellectual property, and products.Mercia Fund Managers is based in central Birmingham and is regulated by the Financial Services Authority. The company is also a member of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.Mercia Fund Managers will typically make an initial investment offer of between £50,000 and £250,000 of venture capital, but has the capacity to follow its money at subsequent investment rounds, up to an overall limit of £1 million of venture capital per company. Later rounds of financing will usually involve syndication with other venture capital investors, often from outside of the West Midlands.

5 contacts available at Mercia Fund Managers.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sandy Reid | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sandy-reid |
| Chris Pestell | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-pestell |
| David Wright | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-wright-f75d |
| Debbie Sutton | Facilities Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/debbie-sutton |
| Emma Vaux | Office Manager & Executive Assistant | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emma-vaux |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Pestell invest in?

Chris Pestell invests primarily in Big Data, Analytics and Predictive Analytics startups, most often at Debt Financing stage. Most of the 1 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 Chris Pestell last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Pestell closed in Jan 2021. Shizune tracks 1 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?

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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