# Dominic Keen

> Dominic Keen is a seed investor at Britbots (London) backing Manufacturing and Hardware. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Britbots](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-growth-robotics)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominickeen/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/dominickeen?lang=en
- Website: https://x.com/dominickeen?lang=en

Dominic Keen is a seed investor at Britbots in London focused on Manufacturing and Hardware. Dominic is a successful British entrepreneur and founder of Britbots. Having previously floated the software business that he founded on the London Stock Exchange, he now helps exciting ventures to maximise their growth potential. His fascination with all things robotic drives an impassioned evangelism of the field.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 23% |
| Hardware | 2 | 15% |
| Robotics | 2 | 15% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| Health Care | 2 | 15% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 69% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 23% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 62% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Point Zenith |  | $635K | Seed | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Altered Carbon Ltd | Humankind has enabled computers to hear, see and touch. Altered Carbon is a graphene gas sensor company, ready to be the first to bring the sense of smell to the connected world.AC is Harnessing the properties of graphene to create a truly passive, solid-state sensor, better suited to IoT and Industry 4.0 these sensors have the potential todisrupt the traditional performance against cost trade-off currently offered by the gas sensor market. The company combines AI with sensor arrays allowing "design to fit" for specific purposes, suitable for solving expensive industry problems, such as edible food waste in the UK, a loss of around £12.5 Billion a year. AC has a market-ready sensor for detection of nitrogen oxide, with ammonia and CO2 at the prototype stage, with several multinationals intent on implementing the first generation sensors into a range of applications.Company milestones have been achieved by a core team of 6 based in the 'The Bristol Robotics Laboratory technology Incubator' and financed to date by sales [of our IoT communications hardware. Development challenges have been met by our world-class R&D partners 'The national Physical Laboratory' and 'Health-tech hub bristol'. AC begin an early-stage investment round shortly. |  | Seed | Oct 18, 2023 |  |
| Zelim | Zelim is a technology company that specializes in unmanned search, rescue and recover people with the help of technology. |  | Seed | Oct 17, 2023 |  |
| EarSwitch | EarSwitch is an advancement in in-ear technology that improves how people interact with their surroundings and works to speed up applications in interactive and medical technology worldwide. |  | Seed | May 16, 2023 |  |
| Rad Propulsion | Rad Propulsion is a manufacturer and distributor of a wide range of electric marine propulsion products, throttles, and tags. |  | Seed | Aug 24, 2022 |  |
| Muddy Machines | Muddy Machines is working on field robots to help farms manage labor-intensive crops by completing the fieldwork. | $1.8M | Seed | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| Albion Technologies |  | $1.1M | Seed | Jan 24, 2022 |  |
| Hydrologiq | Hydrologiq provides the easiest, fastest, and lowest-risk way to access clean, off-grid, hydrogen-generated electricity.Hydrogen power made easy. We are accelerating the transition to Net Zero by ending the use of the diesel generator and replacing them with clean hydrogen-powered alternatives! At Hydrologiq we make it easier, faster and lowerrisk to deploy hydrogen powered generators. Through our platform and on-site service support bring the market together to simplify a complex hydrogen supply chain to power off-grid machinery. We provide a fully managed solution for all hydrogen powered plant needs, taking the headache out of transitioning to hydrogen.Deploying hydrogen is hard, we make it easy. The hydrogen supply chain is currently in its infancy and non-standard. We offer greater reliability, security, and standardisation to end users accessing hydrogen. For end users they can deploy faster, cheaper, and at lower risk, with Hydrologiq. For the supply chain we lower the barriers to market access by providing them a route to market as well as removing customer pain points that would prevent a sale. We bring the vertical integration needed without a single company needing to be completely vertically integrated. | $890.9K | Pre-Seed | Jan 12, 2022 |  |
| Muddy Machines | Muddy Machines is working on field robots to help farms manage labor-intensive crops by completing the fieldwork. | $496.4K | Pre-Seed | May 20, 2021 |  |
| Muddy Machines | Muddy Machines is working on field robots to help farms manage labor-intensive crops by completing the fieldwork. | $458K | Angel | Apr 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SFC Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-funding-club) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AI and Robotics Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ai-and-robotics-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cobrey Farms](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cobrey-farms) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Empirical Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/empirical-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Newable Private Investing](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/newable-private-investing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Britbots

VC Fund

The forthcoming decade looks certain to herald a golden age for robotics with genius technologies making their way out of the lab and into all of their daily lives. Britbots has been established to act as a mouthpiece for brilliant inventors based in the UK whose robots now are ready to start actuating in the real world. They help roboticsbusinesses to grow by identifying field trial opportunities with early-stage customers and also by arranging the funding needed for their expansion. Additionally we are available to media organisations and governmental institutions to provide comment and insight from the perspective of the entrepreneurs who are driving this robotic revolution.

1 contacts available at Britbots.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dominic Keen | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dominic-keen |

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## FAQ

### What does Dominic Keen invest in?

Dominic Keen invests primarily in Manufacturing, Hardware and Robotics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 Dominic Keen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dominic Keen closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 13 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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