# Ian Wilson

> Ian Wilson is a venture - series unknown investor at Northeast Venture Fund ( NEVF ) backing Software. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Northeast Venture Fund ( NEVF )](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northeast-venture-fund-nevf)
- Location: Newcastle, Australia
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 82%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-wilson-712a0a1a
- Website: https://www.mercia.co.uk/people-and-culture/people/ian-wilson/

Ian Wilson is a venture - series unknown investor at Northeast Venture Fund ( NEVF ) in Newcastle focused on Software and Video. Ian joined the Group in 2017 and is Fund Principal for the North East Venture Fund. He is focused on early-stage and technology investments and covers Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $415k–$621k |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $338k–$1.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 27% |
| Video | 1 | 9% |
| Fitness | 1 | 9% |
| Consumer | 1 | 9% |
| Database | 1 | 9% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 36% |
| Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Angel | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 36% |
| Singapore | 1 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Melius CyberSafe | Melius Cyber continuously monitors an organization's IT network, testing security and protecting it from the latest threats. | $338.3K | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 03, 2025 | https://meliuscyber.com/ |
| Melius CyberSafe | Melius Cyber continuously monitors an organization's IT network, testing security and protecting it from the latest threats. | $653.4K | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 14, 2024 | https://meliuscyber.com/ |
| Melius CyberSafe | Melius Cyber continuously monitors an organization's IT network, testing security and protecting it from the latest threats. | $620.7K | Seed | Apr 25, 2023 | https://meliuscyber.com/ |
| Haystack | Haystack Built for techies who are fed up with the age-old recruitment approach, Haystack is a data insights and careers marketplace that uncovers opportunities based on your interests, values and tech stack. | $602.3K | Seed | Aug 17, 2022 | https://www.haystackapp.io |
| Melius CyberSafe | Melius Cyber continuously monitors an organization's IT network, testing security and protecting it from the latest threats. | $415.2K | Seed | Jul 13, 2022 | https://meliuscyber.com/ |
| Shine Interview | Shine Interview is a fully customizable, highly secure, enterprise-level video-based recruitment platform that facilitates a remote-first end-to-end recruitment process for enterprises, SMEs, and recruitment firms. Their aim is to make the recruitment process easier, whilst improving the candidate and client journey, and the platform has beenproven to cut the time and cost of hiring by up to 70%. They work with many household names and support users in over 85 countries. | $1.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 09, 2022 | http://www.shineinterview.com |
| 3DEO | 3DEO’s patented metal additive manufacturing technology can make high-quality metal parts with drastically lower manufacturing costs, complex or traditionally impossible designs, immediate turnaround times. The company manufactures complex stainless steel parts for customers with a variety of applications from a wide range of industries. | $1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 19, 2021 | http://www.3deo.co |
| BuzzAR | BuzzAR connects, delights, entertains 1 billion users by 2025. | $100K | Angel | May 31, 2021 | https://happytoon.app/ |
| Ibex Innovations | IBEX Innovations Limited (IBEX) was founded by Dr Gary Gibson in 2010 and really took off in 2011, after investment to develop and commercialise an innovative X‑ray detector technology capable of generating high sensitivity materials information from standard X-ray detectors.The IBEX technology has developed rapidly from an initial concept tofully engineered solutions, and the company is now seeing increasing commercial adoption in security, electronics, food inspection and medical markets.IBEX employs a team of highly-skilled and dedicated scientists, engineers and business professionals at its modern facilities on NETPark, Sedgefield, UK. Details of the Board of Directors can be found HERE.The company is working with the Mathematics Department at Durham University on development of the core technology and maintains close links with both the Newcastle‑upon‑Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust and the South Tees NHS Trust to validate medical imaging applications of the IBEX technology.The development of IBEX is being supported by venture‑capital funding from Northstar Ventures, IP Group and Nordson Incorporated, more information about them can be found HERE. IBEX is also grateful for financial support through grants from InnovateUK and the European Commission. | $500K | Venture - Series Unknown | May 20, 2020 | https://ibexinnovations.co.uk |
| Applied Monitoring | Applied Monitoring is a company that is developing an innovative healthcare and fitness monitor . | $618K |  |  | http://www.appliedmonitoring.co.uk |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Finance Durham Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finance-durham-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IP Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ip-group-plc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mercia Fund Managers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercia-fund-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mercia’s EIS funds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercia-s-eis-funds) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [North East Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/north-east-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [North-East Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/north-east-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Northeast Venture Fund ( NEVF )

VC Fund · Guwahati, India

Northeast Venture Fund, is a dedicated venture fund for entrepreneurs, startups and early-stage companies from Northeast India.

1 contacts available at Northeast Venture Fund ( NEVF ).

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mr.Nickson Sharma | Investment Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mr-nickson-sharma |

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## FAQ

### What does Ian Wilson invest in?

Ian Wilson invests primarily in Software, Video and Fitness startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Seed stage. Most of the 11 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 Ian Wilson's check size?

Ian Wilson typically joins rounds of $415k–$621k at Seed and $338k–$1.6M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ian Wilson participates in.

### How do I contact Ian Wilson?

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### When did Ian Wilson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ian Wilson closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 11 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?

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