# Future Planet Capital

> Future Planet Capital is a VC fund backing Biotechnology and Health Care. See 186 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 186
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 6%
- Fund size: $23M
- Last fund: Mar 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-planet-capital/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/future_planet
- Website: https://futureplanetcapital.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/futureplanetcapital

Future Planet Capital is a VC fund in London focused on Biotechnology and Health Care. Future Planet is an impact-led venture capital firm that invests in technology and life science companies from leading research centres

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $688k–$5.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 34 | 18% |
| Health Care | 26 | 14% |
| Software | 17 | 9% |
| Medical | 14 | 8% |
| Manufacturing | 14 | 8% |

150 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 52 | 28% |
| Funding Round | 30 | 16% |
| Convertible Note | 27 | 15% |
| Series A | 24 | 13% |
| Series B | 11 | 6% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 113 | 61% |
| United States | 11 | 6% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Singapore | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Guy Pengelley | Investment Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guy-pengelley-dbac |
| Douglas Hansen-Luke | founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/douglas-hansen-luke |
| Hassan Mahmudul | VC Investor | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hassan-mahmudul |
| Lyle Pentith | Portfolio Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-phillips-2ce1 |
| Oliver Sexton | Head of Life Science | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oliver-sexton |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Unloq AI | Unloq AI creates embedded, co-created technologies that link your business objectives to actual AI-enabled execution. | $1.2M | Seed | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| Nourished | Nourished is an award-winning tech start-up disrupting the nutrition industry with their 3D-printed vitamin stacks, which are completely tailor-made to each individual user. With their patented 3D printing manufacturing techniques and unique vegan encapsulation formula, Nourished is able to combine seven different high-impact nutrients, superfoods,and vitamins into one delicious gummy stack. Using 100% plastic-free packaging and only premium, sugar-free, and vegan ingredients. Nourished is as good for the Earth as it is for their customers. | $18.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 09, 2026 |  |
| K3 Metrology | K3 Metrology is a specialist metrology company commercialising laser‑based 3D coordinate measurement technology developed at the National Physical Laboratory. The company’s platform is designed to provide high‑accuracy, uncertainty‑aware dimensional data in large‑volume industrial environments, supporting inspection and assembly processes inadvanced manufacturing. Its systems integrate into production workflows where traceable measurements are required across complex geometries and large structures. The technology is applied in sectors such as aerospace, defence, and nuclear, where dimensional integrity and process control are critical. | $3.7M | Seed | May 14, 2026 |  |
| XFuel | XFuel is a fuel company that provides green and clean fuels to distributors and consumers. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palma de Mallorca, Baleares. | $20M | Series A | Jan 27, 2026 |  |
| Nourished | Nourished is an award-winning tech start-up disrupting the nutrition industry with their 3D-printed vitamin stacks, which are completely tailor-made to each individual user. With their patented 3D printing manufacturing techniques and unique vegan encapsulation formula, Nourished is able to combine seven different high-impact nutrients, superfoods,and vitamins into one delicious gummy stack. Using 100% plastic-free packaging and only premium, sugar-free, and vegan ingredients. Nourished is as good for the Earth as it is for their customers. | $672.5K | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Maeving | A new ear of beautiful, classically-styled electric motorcycles. | $10.8M | Series A | Sep 06, 2025 |  |
| SugaROx | SugaROx works on the development of biostimulants aimed at assisting farmers in optimizing productivity on each unit of agricultural land and enhancing the resilience of crop systems in the face of adverse weather conditions, such as drought. | $1.3M | Seed | Aug 19, 2025 |  |
| Inicio AI | Inicio AI is a SaaS platform that builds the conversational AI driven tool that helps in income and expenditure assessment. | $1.7M | Seed | Apr 15, 2025 |  |
| 52 North Health | 52 North Health aims to improve healthcare with a medical device that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to determine the risk of neutropenic sepsis for patients undergoing chemotherapy. | $6M |  | Dec 03, 2024 |  |
| Silveray | Silveray develop affordable large-area direct conversion detectors for the X-ray imaging market. | $5.1M | Seed | Nov 18, 2024 |  |

10 of 186 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rainbow-seed-fund) — VC Fund, 30 deals together
- [Midlands Engine Investment Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/midlands-engine-investment-fund) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Parkwalk Advisors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parkwalk-advisors) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Oxford Science Enterprises](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oxford-sciences-innovation) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Equinor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equinor-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Oxford Science Enterprises](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oxford-science-enterprises) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Future Planet Capital invest in?

Future Planet Capital invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Software startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 186 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 Future Planet Capital's check size?

Future Planet Capital typically joins rounds of $688k–$5.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Future Planet Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Future Planet Capital?

Public channels for Future Planet 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 Future Planet Capital?

The team at Future Planet Capital includes Guy Pengelley (Investment Director), Douglas Hansen-Luke (founder) and Hassan Mahmudul (VC Investor), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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