Gavin Bell
Angel Investor @ NPIF Maven Equity Finance
Manchester, United Kingdom
Gavin Bell is a seed investor at NPIF Maven Equity Finance in Manchester focused on Health Care and Biotechnology. Gavin joined Maven in September 2016 as an Investment Manager based in the Manchester office, responsible for new investments across Greater Manchester and the North of England. Gavin has over 10 years of experience in Private Equity. Prior to joining Maven, he was at NorthEdge Capital in Manchester where he was responsible for both new privateequity investment activity and fundraising. Gavin began his private equity career at Greenpark Capital (now Stepstone), a secondaries private equity fund manager in London investing into private equity funds globally, where he spent 8 years. His prior experience was as an analyst at Schroders in London, where he spent 5 years, and at Bank of New York.Gavin holds a Bsc. (Hons) in Economics from the University of Birmingham and is a CFA Charterholder.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
Last updated:
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Industries Gavin Bell invests in
Stages Gavin Bell invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 4 (33%)
- Biotechnology 3 (25%)
- Life Science 2 (17%)
- Fitness 1 (8%)
- Medical 1 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (33%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (33%)
- Funding Round 3 (25%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Alderley Lighthouse Labs is a laboratory-based testing facility, specializing in human diagnostics. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 27, 2024 | ||
| Alderley Lighthouse Labs is a laboratory-based testing facility, specializing in human diagnostics. | $1.3M / Seed / Aug 14, 2023 | ||
| Biorelate provides biomedical research services. It engages in the research of biomarkers for the diagnosis of prostate cancer; target validation; and new drug development services. Daniel Jamison founded Biorelate in 2014. It has its headquarters in Oldham in the United Kingdom. | $7.8M / Series A / Nov 29, 2022 | ||
| Cryoniss is a life sciences company. They provide a range of temperature-controlled biological sample storage and logistics services, as well as access to samples, to organizations conducting scientific research. | $682.4K / Seed / Jan 17, 2022 | ||
| XR Games (based in Leeds, England) makes both console and mobile Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) games for world famous Intellectual Properties. XR Games is an innovative start-up with Venture Capital funding. | $2M / Aug 16, 2021 | ||
| XR Games (based in Leeds, England) makes both console and mobile Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) games for world famous Intellectual Properties. XR Games is an innovative start-up with Venture Capital funding. | $2.1M / Seed / Aug 16, 2021 | ||
| Blueberry Therapeutics Ltd. is a modern drug discovery and development company which puts people first whether patients, employees, investors or partners. We have created an open, imaginative and fun team environment with a very serious objective: to create new, safer and more effective medicines to treat human disease and make patients feelbetter. Blueberry focuses on the research and development of treatments for inflammatory and infectious diseases. We do this by employing state of the art preclinical research technologies to generate potent selective and safe molecules (peptides, antibodies, small molecules) for clinical development into new effective treatments to benefit patients. By focusing on well validated drug targets and ensuring our candidate molecules have a very low toxicity liability we believe we can mitigate or even avoid two of the major reasons for drug failures in the clinic. | $1.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 08, 2021 | ||
| Healum provides connected software and apps to improve self-management for patients with long term conditions. Healum enables people to cost effectively monitor and understand their physical and mental health. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 25, 2021 | ||
| Flynotes is an innovative digital consent platform, improving patient safety across healthcare. | Seed / Nov 24, 2020 | ||
| Based in Manchester, UK, Hiring Hub is a marketplace platform that helps companies find and work with trusted recruitment agencies, and manage their recruitment suppliers and process in one place, online. | $1.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 16, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
NPIF Maven Equity Finance offers an attractive alternative to bank funding or other forms of traditional finance.
NPIF Maven Equity Finance Contacts
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What does Gavin Bell invest in?
Gavin Bell invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Life Science startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 12 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 Gavin Bell closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 12 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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