# Mercia Fund Managers

> Mercia Fund Managers is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 140 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Henley In Arden, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 140
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 66%
- Last fund: Dec 2013
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/merciafund
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Mercia_Fund
- Website: https://www.mercia.co.uk
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MerciaPLC

Mercia Fund Managers is a venture capital fund manager with two funds totalling £12.8 million under management. Mercia Fund Managers focuses its efforts on the West Midlands region and benefits from a mixture of public- and private-sector fund investors.Mercia Fund Managers provides venture capital for early-stage technology start-ups that arelocated in the West Midlands. Potential investees must demonstrate their potential for rapid growth and will possess a strong proprietary position with respect to their technology, intellectual property, and products.Mercia Fund Managers is based in central Birmingham and is regulated by the Financial Services Authority. The company is also a member of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.Mercia Fund Managers will typically make an initial investment offer of between £50,000 and £250,000 of venture capital, but has the capacity to follow its money at subsequent investment rounds, up to an overall limit of £1 million of venture capital per company. Later rounds of financing will usually involve syndication with other venture capital investors, often from outside of the West Midlands.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $250k–$2M |
| Series A | $2M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 33 | 24% |
| Health Care | 21 | 15% |
| Biotechnology | 16 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 14 | 10% |
| SaaS | 12 | 9% |

142 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 53 | 38% |
| Funding Round | 38 | 27% |
| Series A | 15 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 10 | 7% |
| Debt Financing | 3 | 2% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 98 | 70% |
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Hungary | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sandy Reid | Investment Director | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sandy-reid |
| Chris Pestell | Investment Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-pestell |
| David Wright | Investment Manager | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-wright-f75d |
| Debbie Sutton | Facilities Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/debbie-sutton |
| Emma Vaux | Office Manager & Executive Assistant | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emma-vaux |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MRC Engineering | MRC Engineering is an independent and standalone Railway Telecoms Design Consultancy in the UK. | $199.9K | Debt Financing | Dec 08, 2025 |  |
| Ben | Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalise benefits and reward.Our secret? Marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee Mastercards and financial infrastructure. That’s how Ben instantly adds employee choice to your existing benefits, unlocks access to hundreds of additional options through Ben Card, all whilesaving you time and money. | $3.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Melius CyberSafe | Melius Cyber continuously monitors an organization's IT network, testing security and protecting it from the latest threats. | $653.4K | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 14, 2024 |  |
| Administrate | Administrate is a comprehensive, configurable training management platform that helps organizations streamline enterprise learning and development. Organize, deliver, plan, automate, analyze, and scale your training program effectively -- all through one system. Deliver multi-modality learner experiences, maximize training resources, anddemonstrate business results with insight-rich reporting. Hundreds of organizations serving millions of learners choose Administrate to manage their training program. | $4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 19, 2024 |  |
| Warwick Acoustics | Warwick Acoustics believe in creating products that are designed from the ground up in order to deliver the best personal audio listening experience available to customers. | $8.8M | Series A | Apr 02, 2024 |  |
| MGISS | MGISS offers software development and consulting services. | $762.8K | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 29, 2024 |  |
| Role Mapper Technologies | Role Mapper Technologies is an HR Technology company that assists businesses in designing and structuring jobs to improve diversity and skills-based hiring. The platform assists HR leaders in redesigning and simplifying organizational job structures in order to prepare for new and future modes of operation. This includes hiring based on skills, aswell as hybrid and flexible working arrangements. | $2.7M | Seed | Dec 20, 2023 |  |
| Kuano | Kuano provides innovative quantum and AI solutions for drug discovery and design. It offers a discovery platform that combines target quantum mapping and AI-led chemistry to enable the faster development of better drug candidates. | $2.2M | Seed | Sep 12, 2023 |  |
| Administrate | Administrate is a comprehensive, configurable training management platform that helps organizations streamline enterprise learning and development. Organize, deliver, plan, automate, analyze, and scale your training program effectively -- all through one system. Deliver multi-modality learner experiences, maximize training resources, anddemonstrate business results with insight-rich reporting. Hundreds of organizations serving millions of learners choose Administrate to manage their training program. | $6.5M |  | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| Workbuzz | Workbuzz is a professional network that allows you to anonymously research, rate and review your peers in the workplace. | $7.9M | Series A | Jun 21, 2023 |  |

10 of 140 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Scottish Investment Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scottish-investment-bank) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [ACF Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-cofund) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Midlands Engine Investment Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/midlands-engine-investment-fund) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Scottish Enterprise](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scottish-enterprise) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [SIS Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sis-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Business Growth Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-growth-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Mercia Fund Managers invest in?

Mercia Fund Managers invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 140 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 Mercia Fund Managers's check size?

Mercia Fund Managers typically joins rounds of $250k–$2M at Seed and $2M–$14M 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 Mercia Fund Managers participates in.

### How do I contact Mercia Fund Managers?

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### Who are the partners at Mercia Fund Managers?

The team at Mercia Fund Managers includes Sandy Reid (Investment Director), Chris Pestell (Investment Director) and David Wright (Investment Manager), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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.

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