# Jon Edington

> Jon Edington is a funding round investor at Imperial Innovations backing Artificial Intelligence. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Imperial Innovations](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imperial-innovations)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 45%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jon-edington/25/377/a22

Jon Edington is a funding round investor at Imperial Innovations in London focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Jon joined Imperial Innovations in 2010 from Sovereign Capital, a mid-market buyout firm, where he specialised in transactions in the healthcare services market. Prior to Sovereign Jon spent seven years at 3i where he was a director in the venture capital business and managed a number of technology investments from deal origination through to exit.At Imperial Innovations Jon focuses mainly on software and IT investments. He is on the board of Featurespace, Acunu, JustYoyo, Semetric, Cortexica and Permasense and works with Get Fractal and PSE. Jon’s investment experience includes Nimbus Partners (acquired by Tibco), OST Business Rules (acquired by Microgen), Kavado (acquired by Protegrity), FMS (acquired by Temenos) and City and County Healthcare (acquired by Graphite Capital). Prior to 3i, Jon worked at Deloitte Consulting in London having gained six years’ manufacturing and industrial experience in the US and Japan. Jon has a BEng from Imperial College, London and an MBA from INSEAD.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 36% |
| Software | 3 | 27% |
| Analytics | 3 | 27% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 18% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 4 | 36% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deep Render | Deep Render Ltd. is a spin-out from the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. We are a London based AI start-up that is developing the next generation of media compression algorithms. Our proprietary and patented technology is at the forefront of machine learning research. Furthermore, our Biological Image Compression results arestate-of-the-art, providing at least a 50% efficiency gain over the previous standards | $6.3M | Series A | Mar 29, 2023 |  |
| Garrison Technology | Garrison Technology Limited develops technologies for enterprise cybersecurity needs. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom. It aims to serve the growing enterprise market with its anti-malware product. It wants to address the large and growing enterprise cyber security market. The company has pioneered in ananti-malware product that efficiently sidesteps the highest impact cyber threats to modern organizations, i.e. internet-borne targeted attacks. Due to Garrison’s unique technology, a previously inconceivable brand of ultra-secure internet connectivity, user experience, and enterprise scalability can be achieved. |  | Series B | Oct 15, 2018 |  |
| Featurespace | Featurespace™ is the world leader in Enterprise Financial Crime prevention for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering. Featurespace invented Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and Automated Deep Behavioral Networks, both of which are available through the ARIC™ platform, a real-time machine learning software that risk scores events in more than 180 countriesto prevent fraud and financial crime.ARIC™ Risk Hub uses advanced, explainable anomaly detection to enable financial institutions to automatically identify risk, catch new fraud attacks and identify suspicious activity in real-time. More than 30 major global financial institutions are using ARIC to protect their business and their customers. Publicly announced customers include HSBC, TSYS, Worldpay, NatWest, Contis, Danske Bank, ClearBank, Akbank and Permanent TSB. | $9M |  | May 31, 2016 |  |
| Cortexica Vision Systems | Cortexica is a London based, global service provider of practical AI solutions for businesses. Providing clarity and insight from within the noise around AI, Cortexica delivers world-leading Computer Vision image recognition and search technologies supported by industry specific consultancy.  Working with clients across a range of verticalsincluding retail, media, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals, Cortexica’s technology is robust and flexible and can be integrated to any requirements on any system or platform, including on device. The ability to partner with clients to create AI solutions for their specific needs, from innovation to delivery, ensures maximum benefit and return on investment.  Cortexica was developed from the Bioengineering Department of Imperial College London, and originated from a pioneering research to reverse-engineer the human visual cortex. |  |  | Mar 18, 2015 |  |
| Cortexica Vision Systems | Cortexica is a London based, global service provider of practical AI solutions for businesses. Providing clarity and insight from within the noise around AI, Cortexica delivers world-leading Computer Vision image recognition and search technologies supported by industry specific consultancy.  Working with clients across a range of verticalsincluding retail, media, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals, Cortexica’s technology is robust and flexible and can be integrated to any requirements on any system or platform, including on device. The ability to partner with clients to create AI solutions for their specific needs, from innovation to delivery, ensures maximum benefit and return on investment.  Cortexica was developed from the Bioengineering Department of Imperial College London, and originated from a pioneering research to reverse-engineer the human visual cortex. |  |  | Jun 12, 2014 |  |
| Featurespace | Featurespace™ is the world leader in Enterprise Financial Crime prevention for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering. Featurespace invented Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and Automated Deep Behavioral Networks, both of which are available through the ARIC™ platform, a real-time machine learning software that risk scores events in more than 180 countriesto prevent fraud and financial crime.ARIC™ Risk Hub uses advanced, explainable anomaly detection to enable financial institutions to automatically identify risk, catch new fraud attacks and identify suspicious activity in real-time. More than 30 major global financial institutions are using ARIC to protect their business and their customers. Publicly announced customers include HSBC, TSYS, Worldpay, NatWest, Contis, Danske Bank, ClearBank, Akbank and Permanent TSB. | $3.9M |  | Jun 10, 2014 |  |
| Featurespace | Featurespace™ is the world leader in Enterprise Financial Crime prevention for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering. Featurespace invented Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and Automated Deep Behavioral Networks, both of which are available through the ARIC™ platform, a real-time machine learning software that risk scores events in more than 180 countriesto prevent fraud and financial crime.ARIC™ Risk Hub uses advanced, explainable anomaly detection to enable financial institutions to automatically identify risk, catch new fraud attacks and identify suspicious activity in real-time. More than 30 major global financial institutions are using ARIC to protect their business and their customers. Publicly announced customers include HSBC, TSYS, Worldpay, NatWest, Contis, Danske Bank, ClearBank, Akbank and Permanent TSB. | $3.9M |  | Jun 10, 2014 |  |
| Semetric | Semetric was founded in 2008 by Gregory Mead, Marie-Alicia Chang and Matthew Jeffery. The Chief Technical Officer, Jameel Syed, was a founding member of life sciences data and business analytics company InforSense. Its Executive Chairman, Dr Jeremy Silver, was previously Chief Executive of Sibelius Software and Vice President, new media at EMIGroup in Los Angeles. Executive Vice President, Musicmetric North America, Daniel Savage was previously General Manager of Maverick records and has held positions at Atlantic, Island, and Hollywood Records. |  |  | Jan 23, 2013 |  |
| Acunu | Acunu Analytics offers a platform for low-latency, continuous analytics on big data; powering dashboards and embedded applications to monitor and control environments in manufacturing, telecommunications, media, financial services and other industries where high-velocity data must be analysed in real time.The Cassandra NoSQL database is at thecore of the Acunu offering and Acunu is a very engaged Cassandra contributor donating many of its innovations back to the community. Acunu was founded in 2009 and is backed by some of Europe’s top VC funds. Started by a unique mix of researchers and engineers from Cambridge and Oxford Universities, Acunu has offices in London (near Old Street, London’s “Silicon Roundabout”) and California. |  |  | Sep 19, 2012 |  |
| Featurespace | Featurespace™ is the world leader in Enterprise Financial Crime prevention for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering. Featurespace invented Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and Automated Deep Behavioral Networks, both of which are available through the ARIC™ platform, a real-time machine learning software that risk scores events in more than 180 countriesto prevent fraud and financial crime.ARIC™ Risk Hub uses advanced, explainable anomaly detection to enable financial institutions to automatically identify risk, catch new fraud attacks and identify suspicious activity in real-time. More than 30 major global financial institutions are using ARIC to protect their business and their customers. Publicly announced customers include HSBC, TSYS, Worldpay, NatWest, Contis, Danske Bank, ClearBank, Akbank and Permanent TSB. | $1.9M |  | Jun 12, 2012 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cambridge Angels group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cambridge-angels-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Nesta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nesta-investments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Pentech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pentech-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Cambridge Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cambridge-capital-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dawn Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dawn-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Eden Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eden-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Imperial Innovations

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Imperial Innovations is a technology commercialization and venture capital investor that focuses on technology. Imperial Innovations no longer invests in startups and now functions as the technology-transfer office of Imperial College.Imperial Innovations is focused on commercialising leading UK academic research sourced from the 'goldentriangle' formed between Cambridge, Oxford and London. We are a technology commercialisation company that combines the activities of technology transfer, intellectual property protection and licensing, company incubation and investment. Innovations is focused on commercialising the most promising UK academic research across a broad range of technology sectors, and has developed particular expertise in: therapeutics, medtech, engineering and materials and information communication technology.

5 contacts available at Imperial Innovations.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Parker | Venture Partner | — |
| Graham Hewson | Incubator Manager | — |
| Jon Edington | Partner | — |
| Laura Guida | Head Of Patent And Licence Management | — |
| William Rayner | Company Secretary, General Counsel | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Jon Edington invest in?

Jon Edington invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A 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.

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The most recent investment recorded for Jon Edington closed in Mar 2023. 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.

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