# Clydesdale Bank

> Clydesdale Bank is a VC fund in Glasgow backing Software and SaaS. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clydesdale-bank/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/clydesdalebank
- Website: https://secure.cbonline.co.uk/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clydesdalebank

Clydesdale Bank is a VC fund in Glasgow focused on Software and SaaS. Clydesdale Bank provides a full range of commercial banking services for retail and institutional customers. The Bank offers savings accounts, telephone banking, insurance, investment management, loans, credit cards, cash management accounts, financial planning, mortgage, and internet banking.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Post-IPO Debt | $70M–$158M |
| Debt Financing | $1.7M–$3.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 30% |
| SaaS | 1 | 10% |
| Gaming | 1 | 10% |
| FinTech | 1 | 10% |
| Finance | 1 | 10% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 5 | 50% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 2 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 60% |
| United States | 3 | 30% |
| Germany | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ross Goodwin | Associate Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ross-goodwin-2 |
| Stephen Fahy | Senior Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephen-fahy |
| Andrew Stirrat | Associate Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-stirrat |
| David Hayers | Head of Growth Finance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-hayers |
| Nick Edgar | Senior Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-edgar-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| iomart Group | iomart Group is a cloud hosting platform that designs, delivers, and manages any cloud platform to meet specific business objectives. | $157.9M | Post-IPO Debt | Jun 30, 2025 |  |
| Bristow Group | Bristow Group is a provider of helicopter services to the worldwide offshore energy industry based on the number of aircraft operated and one of two helicopter service providers to the offshore energy industry with global operations. Bristow Group has transportation operations in the North Sea, Nigeria and the United States Gulf of Mexico, and inmost of the other offshore energy producing regions of the world, including Alaska, Australia, Brazil, Russia and Trinidad. Bristow Group conducts its business in one segment: Helicopter Services. The Helicopter Services segment operations are conducted primarily through five business units: Europe, West Africa, North America, Australia, and Other International. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012, the Company generated 82% and 93% of its consolidated operating revenue and business unit operating income, respectively, from operations outside of the United States. | $69.9M | Post-IPO Debt | Jan 24, 2024 |  |
| Juniper Education | Juniper Education is a provider of world-class pupil tracking software, training and professional services to the education sector. |  | Debt Financing | Jan 11, 2021 |  |
| Nano Interactive | Nano Interactive was founded in 2014 by Carl & Christian, two former executives of ValueClick (now Conversant) after identifying an opportunity to develop an ad tech business focused on the emerging search and intent based targeting sector.Following a recent growth investment, the business is in a high growth stage expanding across EMEA withoffices in Starnberg, Hamburg, London, Paris, Warsaw and Belgrade. | $6.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 07, 2020 |  |
| Corero Network Security | Corero Network Security is dedicated to improving the security of the Internet through the deployment of its innovative First Line of Defense® DDoS protection solutions. Corero SmartWall® Threat Defense System provides their customers with real-time protection against a continuously evolving spectrum of DDoS attacks that have the potential toimpact any Internet connected business. Corero provides the opportunity to enhance defense-in-depth security architectures with an important additional layer of security capable of inspecting traffic arriving from the Internet and alerting and or blocking attack traffic before it impacts your environment.The goal of the Corero First Line of Defense DDoS protection solution is to protect the customer’s network infrastructure, online services and confidential data against DDoS attacks. Corero solutions are designed to be always on providing automatic attack mitigation with continuous threat visibility and network forensics. The Corero First Line of Defense solution provides comprehensive, real-time DDoS protection against the latest breed of attacks, including network and application layer DDoS attacks, volumetric, multi-vector attacks and access attempts from IP addresses with a bad reputation or from unwanted geo-locations. These varied cyber-threats have the potential to challenge traditional network security defenses and compromise networks.With varied mitigation bandwidth licensing options, Corero provides the most comprehensive peer-point protection, at industry disrupting economic scale. Corero real-time DDoS protection can be obtained at a fraction of traditional solutions. |  | Post-IPO Equity | May 03, 2018 |  |
| Invenias | Invenias is the world’s leading cloud-based platform for executive and strategic hiring. With offices and hosting centers across EMEA, the US and Asia, Invenias supports thousands of users across fifty countries. Our customers include executive search firms, strategic recruitment firms, in-house executive recruitment teams, and executive talentorganizations within Private Equity and Venture Capital firms. We enable our customers to fulfil search assignments more effectively, build stronger relationships with their clients and candidates, and transform the productivity of their operations. Customers love our easy to use desktop and mobile applications, and our cloud-based platform which removes complexity and cost. We are passionate about designing innovative applications that are incredibly simple, intuitive and easy to use and that blend seamlessly with your favourite desktop, mobile and web applications such as Microsoft Office. This drives full adoption and full participation of users across your teams and organisation. | $1.7M | Debt Financing | Apr 19, 2016 |  |
| DisplayLink | DisplayLink develops hardware and software solutions to enable easy connectivity between monitors, virtual reality HMDs and computing devices over standard interfaces such as USB, Ethernet, and wireless networks. DisplayLink’s enterprise technology increases productivity and ease-of-use in the multi-display workspace and is deployed to millions ofusers through globally branded PC products. DisplayLink’s XR solution enables a fully immersive, cable-free experience for virtual reality users. | $10.4M |  | Sep 10, 2012 |  |
| Contura | Contura is a privately owned, international, specialist pharmaceutical company with a key focus on urology and urogynaecology. | $3.3M | Debt Financing |  |  |
| HelloSoda | Hello Soda build world class products that make data driven decisions accessible across the Enterprise.With a current focus on credit markets, gaming, recruitment and insurance their specialist treatment of BIG, Smart, Linked and Social data delivers consumer insights like never before. Their mission is to remain at the forefront of the datarevolution, and to deliver innovations that harness the full power of that data so that they can all make better decisions. |  | Debt Financing |  |  |
| ResponseTap | ResponseTap came about over a few beers in a university bar, and a conversation between Ross and Richard about the disconnect between online and offline customer journeys. Within two years, they had launched their campaign level tracking project, the first in Europe to be integrated with Google Analytics. Two years later and visitor level trackingwas live, the business had 100 customers and ResponseTap had joined the Telegraph's Tech Start-Up 100 most promising techology start-ups in Europe. Today, having raised £4m in funding, the business has 80 staff, 50 new customers every month, offices in London, Manchester and Atlanta, and billions of web visits, phone calls and associated transactions processed every day. |  | Debt Financing |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Yorkshire Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yorkshire-bank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Atlas Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlas-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cipio Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cipio-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DAG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dag-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Molten Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-esprit) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Clydesdale Bank invest in?

Clydesdale Bank invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Gaming startups, most often at Debt Financing and Post-IPO Debt stage. Most of the 10 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 Clydesdale Bank's check size?

Clydesdale Bank typically joins rounds of $70M–$158M at Post-IPO Debt and $1.7M–$3.3M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Clydesdale Bank participates in.

### How do I contact Clydesdale Bank?

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### Who are the partners at Clydesdale Bank?

The team at Clydesdale Bank includes Ross Goodwin (Associate Director), Stephen Fahy (Senior Director) and Andrew Stirrat (Associate Director), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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