# Mark White

> Mark White is a seed investor at Midven (Oxford) backing Software and Manufacturing. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Midven](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/midven)
- Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-white-6020222

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 25% |
| Semiconductor | 1 | 25% |
| Data Integration | 1 | 25% |
| Renewable Energy | 1 | 25% |

11 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Astut | Astut revolutionizes AI for high stakes unseen decisions. | $2.1M | Seed | Oct 23, 2025 |  |
| Lineat Composites | 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 | 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 Composites | 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 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SFC Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-funding-club) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [QAI Ventures Fund 1](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-quantum-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Deeptech Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deeptech-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Development Bank of Wales](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/development-bank-of-wales) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [East Innovate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-innovate) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [East X Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-x-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Midven

VC Fund · Birmingham, United Kingdom

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.

5 contacts available at Midven.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Roger Wood | Director/Shareholder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roger-wood-2 |
| Aanisah Begg | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aanisah-begg |
| Alexander Leigh | Investment Committee Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-leigh |
| Andrew Muir | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-muir |
| Giovanni Finocchio | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giovanni-finocchio |

## Similar investors

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund

## FAQ

### 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co