Finance Durham Fund
VC Fund
Durham, United States
Finance Durham Fund is a VC fund in Durham focused on Manufacturing and Software. The Finance Durham Fund invests in ambitious businesses to help them fulfil their growth potential, providing financial, strategic and operational input as required. The Fund will support businesses across County Durham which are aiming to scale up, create jobs and add economic prosperity to the region.
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 58%
Last updated:
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Industries Finance Durham Fund invests in
Stages Finance Durham Fund invests in
Countries Finance Durham Fund invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Manufacturing 5 (19%)
- Software 2 (8%)
- Electronics 2 (8%)
- Product Design 2 (8%)
- Building Material 2 (8%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 11 (42%)
- Funding Round 6 (23%)
- Seed 5 (19%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
- Series C 1 (4%)
Country
- United Kingdom 19 (73%)
- United States 2 (8%)
Investments
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aXenic are leaders in optical modulators for satellite and aerospace communications. | $674.2K / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 06, 2025 | |
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The Social Company is an agency that provides social media marketing, advertising, and content creation services for businesses. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 30, 2025 | |
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SST Group
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SST Group is a newly developed engineering group formed by Dyer. | $2.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 19, 2025 | |
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Magnitude Biosciences is a biotechnology firm combine experience in ageing research, the nematode C. elegans and automation. | $946K / Seed / May 27, 2025 | |
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Power Roll Limited was established to develop and commercialise its highly innovative proprietary energy storage and energy generation technologies. Power Roll technologies exhibit a range of significant benefits and advantages over existing technologies such that it is likely that the technology can prove extremely disruptive across a wide rangeof applications and markets. Power Roll has a strong intellectual property portfolio, with 15 different patent families already established. These patent families are spread across all three technologies with five directly related to Energy Storage, nine related to Solar PV and one focusing on the nano-barrier technology. | $5.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 14, 2024 | |
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iPac has been created to offer innovative packaging solutions to the food processor and retailer. iPac has extensively researched the key drivers required and is concentrating on the 4 major trends - Food Waste, Function, Environment, Appeal and Impact. iPac has a team of experienced professionals ready to advise and solve your food packagingchallenges. The key members of their team have a vast knowledge of the food industry gained in some of the leading organisations. | $1.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 12, 2024 | |
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Power Roll Limited was established to develop and commercialise its highly innovative proprietary energy storage and energy generation technologies. Power Roll technologies exhibit a range of significant benefits and advantages over existing technologies such that it is likely that the technology can prove extremely disruptive across a wide rangeof applications and markets. Power Roll has a strong intellectual property portfolio, with 15 different patent families already established. These patent families are spread across all three technologies with five directly related to Energy Storage, nine related to Solar PV and one focusing on the nano-barrier technology. | $1.3M / Jul 06, 2023 | |
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The Storage Place operates as a carbon neutral fulfilment firm. | $497K / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 18, 2023 | |
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Pragmatic is a ultra-low-cost flexible electronics. Their flexible integrated circuits (FlexICs) are thinner than human hair and can be invisibly embedded in objects, enabling innovators to create novel solutions to everyday problems that are not practical with conventional electronics.Designers can create their own application-specific flexibledevices using our FlexIC Foundry® service at a fraction of the cost and time required for traditional silicon circuits, opening up multiple new markets.We also offer standard FlexIC products that extend proven applications such as RFID and NFC into mass market use cases, enabling the potential for trillions of smart objects that can engage with consumers and their environments.All FlexICs are manufactured on our revolutionary FlexLogIC® production system, a highly scalable manufacturing model for cost-effective high-volume production, achieved with orders of magnitude lower capital investment and operating cost compared to a traditional silicon IC fab.Our novel, differentiated technology is being adopted by a growing base of global companies across diverse markets, including consumer goods, retail, healthcare, pharmaceutical, gaming and security.Pragmatic is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with our first billion-unit production facility in Sedgefield. Shareholders include Cambridge Innovation Capital, Arm and Avery Dennison. | $35M / Series C / Dec 14, 2022 | |
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Plexus Innovation’s GUARDIAN technology remotely monitors and measures temperature, CO2, humidity, and water systems, enabling insight-driven decisions, reduction of energy use, and provision of real-time data for use in compliance reporting. The system also provides automated alerts to highlight potential health risks or failing assets thatotherwise may be overlooked. | $576.2K / Seed / Jul 22, 2022 | |
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FAQ
What does Finance Durham Fund invest in?
Finance Durham Fund invests primarily in Manufacturing, Software and Electronics startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Funding Round stage. Most of the 26 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 Finance Durham Fund last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Finance Durham Fund closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 26 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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