# Crescent Capital

> Crescent Capital is a VC fund in Belfast backing Manufacturing and Medical. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belfast, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/crescent-capital-ni-ltd
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/crescentcapital
- Website: http://www.crescentcapital.co.uk
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crescentcapital/

Crescent Capital is a Belfast based venture capital fund manager. Their primary investment focus is with Northern Ireland based companies operating in the information technology, life sciences, and manufacturing sectors. Since 1995 Crescent Capital has been supporting and building high-grade venture backed companies in Northern Ireland.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $524k–$4.5M |
| Series B | $2.6M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 20% |
| Medical | 2 | 13% |
| Software | 2 | 13% |
| Consulting | 2 | 13% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 13% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 27% |
| Series B | 4 | 27% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 13% |
| Debt Financing | 2 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 47% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 27% |
| Lebanon | 1 | 7% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bob McGowan-Smyth | Investment Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-mcgowan-smyth |
| Colin Walsh | Founder & Chief Executive | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colin-walsh |
| Deirdre Terrins | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deirdre-terrins |
| Ed Finnegan | Finance Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-finnegan |
| Oonagh McIntaggart | Office Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oonagh-mcintaggart |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Keystone Agency Partners | Keystone Agency Partners is a consulting firm that specialises in insurance brokerage. They assist agencies in regularly creating value through strategic acquisitions, organic growth, and long-term collaboration. | $330M | Debt Financing | Jan 16, 2024 |  |
| PayHalal | Islamic Fintech in internet payments gateway space and ewallet issuing space . Services include merchant acquiring. We are licensed by Malaysian Central Bank for merchant acquiring. PayHalal offers PSaaS for Islamic Digital Banks and payment gateways in the halal space. | $4.5M | Seed | Apr 27, 2023 |  |
| Ostaz | Ostaz is an education technology (EdTech) company focused on delivering AI-powered personalized tutoring services across the Middle East, particularly in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon. The platform connects students with qualified tutors while using artificial intelligence to improve tutor-student matching and educational outcomes. | $1.8M | Seed | Sep 27, 2020 |  |
| Right Revenue | Right Revenue is a brand new cloud based revenue product providing detailed analytics and accurate rate forecasting.Right Revenue offers a system that is user-friendly, flexible and most importantly, accurate – helping you make those all important decisions on pricing – all with the goal of increasing profitability.Designed by a Revenue Managerwith over 20 years experience, our modular system allows you to tailor-make your revenue journey. | $524K | Seed | Dec 19, 2019 |  |
| Photonic Measurements | Photonic Measurements is provide solutions for the measurement of UV254 in all applications within the drinking and waste water treatment, industrial effluent, receiving water and environmental testing, amongst others. Photonic Measurements range of UV254 products allow for the measurement of UV254 and its surrogates TOC, DOC, COD and BOD that fityour application needs. | $524K | Seed | Dec 19, 2019 |  |
| Integrity Marketing Group | Integrity Marketing Group provides product design, proven marketing systems, and profitability into today’s top-selling products. They bring together the needs of insurance companies and major distribution channels by providing product design, proven marketing systems, and profitability into today’s top-selling products. Their expertise in thesenior market allows us to partner with some of the largest insurance carriers in the nation. They strive to continually bring value to our business partners by designing proprietary products, offering exclusive marketing systems and having a proven track record of successful new products. | $945M | Debt Financing | Sep 16, 2019 |  |
| Photonic Measurements | Photonic Measurements is provide solutions for the measurement of UV254 in all applications within the drinking and waste water treatment, industrial effluent, receiving water and environmental testing, amongst others. Photonic Measurements range of UV254 products allow for the measurement of UV254 and its surrogates TOC, DOC, COD and BOD that fityour application needs. | $917K | Seed | Dec 20, 2018 |  |
| Axis Three | Axis Three is the market leader and pioneer of 3D surgical simulation tools for the cosmetic surgery market. Through its partnership with Siemens and its ground-breaking simulation software based on physics-driven tissue typing, Axis Three promises to create the new standard for 3D predictive surgical simulation. | $3.3M |  | Jun 20, 2009 |  |
| Fusion Antibodies | Fusion Antibodies specializes in production of high quality humanized monoclonal antibodies and antibody engineering projects. The company has the knowledge and expertise to build and deliver a bespoke package of the services people need to achieve outstanding results. Using the technology, the sequences of the antibody variable domains whichdetermine its binding specificity are incorporated into human donor sequences creating a panel of full length humanized antibodies for expression. Fully humanized monoclonal antibodies are an essential step in the progression of your drug to the clinic and the in-house expertise at Fusion Antibodies ensures its success.All of Fusion Antibodies services are offered on a fee-for-service basis and is flexible on the elements of the project people would like included. Fusion Antibodies have strong links with the several partners around the globe, allowing it to deliver a complete bespoke package, at an incredible price.Fusion Antibodies was founded on 2001 and is based in Belfast, United Kingdom. | $2.5M |  | Jul 26, 2007 |  |
| Lagan Technologies | Lagan Technologies Ltd. designs and delivers enterprise case management solutions to government agencies primarily in North America and Europe. Its solutions include Enterprise Case Management software, an integrated case management solution for government organizations; Lagan 311, a performance solution for 311 call centers; Lagan Human Services,an integrated case management solution for human services agencies; and Lagan Department of Motor Vehicles Solution, a tool for managing the processes and records associated with driver licensing, driver history, identity verification, vehicle registration, titling, and inspections. The company's services also include project management, consultancy, installation, testing, integration, education and training, skills transfer, support, and maintenance. It serves advocates and councils in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Belfast, the United Kingdom with additional offices in London, the United Kingdom; Chicago, Illinois; and Washington, District of Columbia. | $11.2M | Series B | Jun 01, 2006 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Clarendon Fund Managers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clarendon-fund-managers) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Techstart Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Enterprise Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-equity-limited) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Invest Northern Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/invest-northern-ireland) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [QUBIS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qubis) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Crescent Capital invest in?

Crescent Capital invests primarily in Manufacturing, Medical and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Crescent Capital's check size?

Crescent Capital typically joins rounds of $524k–$4.5M at Seed and $2.6M–$11M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Crescent Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Crescent Capital?

Public channels for Crescent Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 Crescent Capital?

The team at Crescent Capital includes Bob McGowan-Smyth (Investment Director), Colin Walsh (Founder & Chief Executive) and Deirdre Terrins (Investment Manager), among 6 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 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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