Duncan Johnson
Chief Executive Officer @ Northern Gritstone
Duncan Johnson is a seed investor at Northern Gritstone focused on Software and Health Care. Duncan Johnson is the Chief Executive Officer at Northern Gritstone.
- Total investments:
- 34
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 76%
Last updated:
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Industries Duncan Johnson invests in
Stages Duncan Johnson invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (24%)
- Health Care 5 (15%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (15%)
- Electronics 4 (12%)
- Life Science 4 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 18 (53%)
- Series A 9 (26%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (6%)
Investments
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| SilVia Bio develops technologies to analyze and optimize mammalian cell factories used in biomanufacturing. The company focuses on identifying critical parameters that limit bioproduction yield and product quality in cell systems such as CHO and HEK cells. Its platform provides cell profiling services that generate interpretable data on manufacturing-relevant bottlenecks. Based on these insights, SilVia Bio designs and supplies precision media additives formulated to address specific rate-limiting cellular processes. The offerings are intended for biopharmaceutical and biomanufacturing teams seeking to improve titre, cell performance, and consistency in production processes. SilVia Bio also collaborates with industrial partners to apply its platform within real manufacturing environments. | $4M / Seed / Oct 15, 2026 | ||
| MicroLub produces a fat replacement for lower-calorie plant-based diets. It is cutting-edge innovation to the next generation of protein technology, creating exclusive ingredient solutions that significantly minimize molecular friction. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Cytix develops an AI-powered application security platform that provides continuous security testing across the software development lifecycle. The platform analyzes development changes to identify potential security risks and generates focused testing plans based on the specific vulnerabilities those changes may introduce. Cytix also providesautomated security reviews and targeted micro penetration tests that validate risks in areas such as authentication, authorization, API security, business logic, and other application vulnerabilities. Its platform integrates with development and collaboration tools, including Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Slack, to incorporate security testing into existing workflows. Cytix also offers managed security testing services that combine its automation with human penetration testing expertise. | $7M / Series A / Aug 12, 2026 | ||
| Pixel-Flo is developing a fluidic self-assembly mass transfer process that uses a slot-die mechanism and meniscus forces to continuously position microLEDs onto substrates. This backplane-agnostic technology is designed to assemble red, green, and blue LEDs in a single step for mass-market display manufacturing. | $7M / Seed / Jul 09, 2026 | ||
| Silveray develop affordable large-area direct conversion detectors for the X-ray imaging market. | $6.6M / Series A / Jun 17, 2026 | ||
| AmpliSi focuses on sustainable porous silicon anodes for lithium-ion batteries, with the goal of replacing graphite to increase energy density. | $2.7M / Pre-Seed / Mar 12, 2026 | ||
| Cytotrait focuses on the development of novel traits for food and agriculture. | $4M / Seed / Mar 09, 2026 | ||
| Optalysys solves the fundamental limitations of conventional computing. Optalysys develops optical AI systems that accelerate the demanding deep learning and pattern recognition tasks at groundbreaking speeds but at a fraction of the energy consumption of traditional computing hardware.Optalysys' embeddable technology will enablesupercomputing capability in Edge and mobile devices. | $30.9M / Series A / Jan 22, 2026 | ||
| IVFmicro is a Microfluidic systems for delivering fertility treatment, and optimize methods for Assisted Reproduction Technologies. | $4.7M / Pre-Seed / Dec 15, 2025 | ||
| Sitehop is a technology company that develops cutting-edge cyber-security and networking solutions. Sitehop's custom FPGA solutions are used to optimize and accelerate cloud/telco networks. | $10M / Series A / Oct 09, 2025 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Northern Gritstone
Northern Gritstone is an investment firm focused on investing in advanced materials, energy, health technology and cognitive computation.
Northern Gritstone Contacts
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Chief Executive Officer
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What does Duncan Johnson invest in?
Duncan Johnson invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 34 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Duncan Johnson closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 34 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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