# Longwall Venture

> Longwall Venture is a VC fund backing Biotechnology and Health Care. See 50 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Harwell, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 50
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 34%
- Fund size: $101M
- Last fund: Nov 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/longwall-venture-partners-llp
- Website: http://www.longwallventures.com/

Longwall Venture is a VC fund in Harwell focused on Biotechnology and Health Care. Longwall Ventures LLP is a venture capital firm specializing in growth capital, early stage, and start-up investments. It targets investing in science including physical science, life science, healthcare, security, media, business software, engineering, and technology companies based in United Kingdom. Longwall Ventures LLP was founded in 2011 andis based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $637k–$5.6M |
| Series A | $2.4M–$16M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 13 | 26% |
| Health Care | 8 | 16% |
| Medical Device | 7 | 14% |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 10% |
| Medical | 4 | 8% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 11 | 22% |
| Seed | 9 | 18% |
| Series A | 7 | 14% |
| Series B | 7 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 10% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 24 | 48% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Philippines | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Denny | Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-denny |
| Matthew Frohn | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-frohn |
| Rebecca Todd | Investment Director | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rebecca-todd |
| Michael Penington | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-penington |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lightcast Discovery | Lightcast uses a microfluidic platform to make advances towards unique clinical approaches, new therapies, and innovative products.The company's mission is to push the boundaries of complex cell analysis. Using the Lightcast platform, the company is working with major pharmaceutical companies and leading academic institutes to enable them todiscover more. The Lightcast platform allows precise and highly flexible independent control of thousands of droplets. By combining droplets containing different cells, reporters or other reagents we can perform complex workflows without the need to manipulate cells by hand.Lightcast Discovery was founded in 2019 by Cameron Frayling. | $27M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| OrganOx | OrganOx Limited was founded in 2008 to exploit normothermic preservation technology invented by Prof Peter Friend and colleagues and further developed by Prof Constantin Coussios at the University of Oxford. | $160M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 24, 2025 |  |
| Kinomica | Kinomica is a proteomic-data science and diagnostics company specializing in cell signalling. Kinomica offers KScanTM, a powerful suite of advanced proprietary bioinformatics and phosphoproteomics analytical methods that can provide direct activity measurements of multiple endogenous kinases and comprehensive cell signalling network coverage. | $5.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| Biofidelity | Biofidelity developed a revolutionary molecular diagnostic assay that enables the rapid detection of target DNA sequences. Biofidelity’s mission is to improve and extend patients’ lives by enabling early detection of disease and better targeting of treatments with applications spanning oncology, prenatal testing, infectious disease, and organtransplant monitoring.Biofidelity was founded in 2019 and is headquartered of Cambridge, England. | $24M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| Wayland Additive | Wayland Additive Limited is a West-Yorkshire based company pushing the boundaries of electron beam 3D printing. Wayland’s goal is to develop, manufacture and sell metal Additive Manufacturing (“AM” – 3D printing) machines to industrial end-users such as major players in the aerospace and medical industries. | $5.3M | Series A | Jan 23, 2024 |  |
| Lightcast Discovery | Lightcast uses a microfluidic platform to make advances towards unique clinical approaches, new therapies, and innovative products.The company's mission is to push the boundaries of complex cell analysis. Using the Lightcast platform, the company is working with major pharmaceutical companies and leading academic institutes to enable them todiscover more. The Lightcast platform allows precise and highly flexible independent control of thousands of droplets. By combining droplets containing different cells, reporters or other reagents we can perform complex workflows without the need to manipulate cells by hand.Lightcast Discovery was founded in 2019 by Cameron Frayling. | $49.8M | Series B | Aug 17, 2023 |  |
| Wayland Additive | Wayland Additive Limited is a West-Yorkshire based company pushing the boundaries of electron beam 3D printing. Wayland’s goal is to develop, manufacture and sell metal Additive Manufacturing (“AM” – 3D printing) machines to industrial end-users such as major players in the aerospace and medical industries. | $6M | Series B | Apr 19, 2023 |  |
| Wayland Additive | Wayland Additive Limited is a West-Yorkshire based company pushing the boundaries of electron beam 3D printing. Wayland’s goal is to develop, manufacture and sell metal Additive Manufacturing (“AM” – 3D printing) machines to industrial end-users such as major players in the aerospace and medical industries. | $5.7M | Series A | Apr 19, 2023 |  |
| Caristo Diagnostics | Caristo Diagnostics is revolutionizing cardiovascular diagnostics and risk prediction with its advanced, AI-based CT imaging analysis tools. | $16.3M | Series A | Apr 17, 2023 |  |
| Kinomica | Kinomica is a proteomic-data science and diagnostics company specializing in cell signalling. Kinomica offers KScanTM, a powerful suite of advanced proprietary bioinformatics and phosphoproteomics analytical methods that can provide direct activity measurements of multiple endogenous kinases and comprehensive cell signalling network coverage. | $1.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 29, 2023 |  |

10 of 50 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Longwall Venture invest in?

Longwall Venture invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Medical Device startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 50 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 Longwall Venture's check size?

Longwall Venture typically joins rounds of $637k–$5.6M at Seed and $2.4M–$16M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Longwall Venture participates in.

### How do I contact Longwall Venture?

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### Who are the partners at Longwall Venture?

The team at Longwall Venture includes David Denny (Partner), Matthew Frohn (Partner) and Rebecca Todd (Investment Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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