Mark White
Director @ UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
Oxford, United Kingdom
Mark White is a seed investor at UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund in Oxford focused on Software and Manufacturing. Mark joined Midven in August 2006 and is Investment Director and Investment Committee member of the Rainbow Seed Fund.Mark has over twenty years experience in investment with extensive periods in UK investment banking and emerging markets, including raising and managing a R100m fund in South Africa. Most recently, Mark led thetransformation of NESTA’s investment operations, building it into the most active technology seed investor in the UK. Mark holds an MBA from London Business School and a degree in English from Oxford University.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
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Industries Mark White invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 1 (25%)
- Manufacturing 1 (25%)
- Semiconductor 1 (25%)
- Data Integration 1 (25%)
- Renewable Energy 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Astut revolutionizes AI for high stakes unseen decisions. | $2.1M / Seed / Oct 23, 2025 | ||
| Lineat is a manufacturer of fiber tape products. The company's carbon fiber tapes are manufactured using aligned formable fiber technology. It designed a closed-loop water circulation system to improve LCA. | $1.8M / Seed / Oct 15, 2024 | ||
| Wave Photonics utilizes computational techniques to accelerate integrated photonics product designs.The company is developing a platform that provides optimized designs and streamlined integration between the supply chain using a software tool for predicting the performance and variation of a component for a given fabrication process and anoptimizer to generate a foundry-specific component library.Wave Photonics is headquartered in Cambridge, UK | $5.7M / Seed / Jun 20, 2024 | ||
| Lineat is a manufacturer of fiber tape products. The company's carbon fiber tapes are manufactured using aligned formable fiber technology. It designed a closed-loop water circulation system to improve LCA. | $861.8K / Seed / Apr 26, 2022 |
Co-Investors
The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund is backed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Fund’s partners are 9 publicly funded research bodies, including STFC, BBSRC, NERC and Dstl. The Fund is independently managed by venture capital specialist Midven. They help build companies from great science developed in laboratories, science and technology campuses and synthetic biology. They hold investments in some of the UK’s most innovative companies, in areas as diverse as novel antibiotics, research into Alzheimer’s disease, “green” chemicals and airport security.
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund Contacts
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Alexander Leigh
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Andrew Muir
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Mark White
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Oliver Sexton
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What does Mark White invest in?
Mark White invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Semiconductor startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 4 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 Mark White closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 4 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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