# Neil Crabb

> Neil Crabb is a seed investor at Frontier IP Group plc (London) backing Solar and Medical. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Frontier IP Group plc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frontier-ip-group-plc)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-crabb-502a1/

Neil Crabb is a seed investor at Frontier IP Group plc in London focused on Solar and Medical. Neil Crabb is Chief Executive of Frontier IP. He co-founded Sigma Capital Group plc and has considerable experience as an investor and director of a wide range of technology and university spin-out companies. He was previously an investment manager at Duncan Lawrie Ltd. with responsibility for a range of managed portfolios investing in smaller UKcompanies and unquoted technology companies, prior to which he spent four years with Equitable Life Assurance Soc., latterly as investment analyst managing investments in UK small companies and larger stocks in the electronics sector. Neil is an approved person under FSMA.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Solar | 1 | 25% |
| Medical | 1 | 25% |
| Power Grid | 1 | 25% |
| Electronics | 1 | 25% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 25% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 75% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CamGraPhIC | CamGraPhIC designs, develops, and manufactures next-generation photonic circuits for telecoms and datacoms. | $27M | Series A | Mar 24, 2025 |  |
| GraphEnergyTech | GraphEnergyTech focuses on the power of graphene for solar cells. It created and filed patents for a unique technology to integrate graphene electrodes into solar cells, replacing silver and other precious metals while maintaining or boosting power conversion efficiency and reliability. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2024 |  |
| Pulsiv | PulsiV Solar Ltd. develops inverters for use in solar power generation setups. | $1.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 08, 2022 |  |
| Cambridge Raman Imaging | Cambridge Raman Imaging is developing a microscope which uses graphene to modulate ultra-short pulses of light to diagnose and track cancer tumours. | $1.4M | Seed | May 24, 2022 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CDP Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cdp-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Aramco Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aramco-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Indaco Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/indaco-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Join Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/join-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NATO Innovation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nato-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bosch Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-bosch-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Frontier IP Group plc

VC Fund · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Frontier IP Group plc is an AIM listed UK based specialist asset management group whose focus and purpose is to provide consultancy services to assist universities and research organisations in the commercialisation of intellectual property arising from their research.Their business model is to apply deep Intellectual Property commercialisationexpertise to building a portfolio of successful companies. Their team works with a range of universities and sources of deal flow and continues to develop new sources of IP from both formal and informal relationships.Their resource intensive approach is to be selective in their engagement with portfolio companies during their life cycle. Effort is focused on and resource applied to those companies where the Group holds a significant equity stake and where Frontier’s expertise and access to capital can be applied to accelerate delivery and growth – their Core Portfolio. The make-up of this Core Portfolio will change over time as need and demand changes.

2 contacts available at Frontier IP Group plc.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Neil Crabb | Chief Executive | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neil-crabb |
| Jackie McKay | Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jackie-mckay |

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## FAQ

### What does Neil Crabb invest in?

Neil Crabb invests primarily in Solar, Medical and Power Grid startups, most often at Seed and Pre-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 Neil Crabb last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Neil Crabb closed in Mar 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?

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