Mark White
Investment Director @ Midven
Oxford, United Kingdom
Mark White is a seed investor at Midven 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%
Last updated:
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Industries Mark White invests in
Stages Mark White invests in
Countries Mark White invests in
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
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Astut revolutionizes AI for high stakes unseen decisions. | $2.1M / Seed / Oct 23, 2025 | |
Lineat Composites
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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
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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 | |
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Lineat Composites
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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
About Midven
Midven is a specialist venture capital company providing investment to fast growing small and medium sized enterprises ("SMEs"), run by an energetic, experienced and hands-on team of investment managers.
Midven Contacts
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Roger Wood
Director/Shareholder
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Aanisah Begg
Investment Manager
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Alexander Leigh
Investment Committee Member
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Andrew Muir
Investment Director
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Giovanni Finocchio
Investment Manager
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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.
When did Mark White last invest?
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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