Nesta
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Nesta is an innovation foundation headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
- Total investments:
- 35
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 60%
- Fund size:
- $4.8M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Nesta invests in
Stages Nesta invests in
Countries Nesta invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Grant
- $60k–$415k
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $3.1M–$11M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 7 (20%)
- Health Care 5 (14%)
- Medical 4 (11%)
- Non Profit 4 (11%)
- Renewable Energy 4 (11%)
Stage
- Grant 14 (40%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (14%)
- Funding Round 4 (11%)
- Seed 3 (9%)
- Series A 3 (9%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Hook
Senior Investment Director
|
Senior Investment Director | Total investments: 57 | Find email | |
Francesca Bria
Senior Advisor and Senior Project Lead
|
Senior Advisor and Senior Project Lead | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ravi Gurumurthy
Chief Executive Officer
|
Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Tom Cahill-Jones
Partnerships Manager, Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
|
Partnerships Manager, Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
David Puttnam
Founding Chairman
|
Founding Chairman | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Furbnow is a climatetech starup provides home improvement services. | $3.3M / Seed / Jul 23, 2026 | ||
| TSL has built an online learning platform that recruits and trains a global community of online teachers from across emerging markets to make online one-to-one learning accessible to children around the world. Central to TSL's model is the creation of intelligent tutor training programmes to manage performance at scale. In parallel, the TSLplatform hosts learning programmes that integrate the best of digital resources and assessment with one-to-one tuition, designed to target specific student markets by subject, age or curricula. Tuition is a $200bn global industry that tends to serve the wealthy minority. TSL's goal is to serve the under-served majority, aligning a social mission with the greatest market opportunity. | $5.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 29, 2026 | ||
| Mixergy Ltd. offer a cost-effective solution to save energy and facilitate more renewable power generation through grid balancing. Mixergy tanks achieve better utilisation of solar PV and heat pumps. | $15.4M / Mar 04, 2025 | ||
| DEScycle is a startup that deploys next generation metals processing infrastructure to recover metals from waste streams, such as e-waste. Their mission is to turn domestic waste streams into sovereign metal supply. | $12.9M / Series A / Nov 18, 2024 | ||
| Anaphite is a manufacturer of electrodes by replacing energy-intensive wet processes with scalable, low-carbon dry-coating technology. | $13.9M / Series A / Sep 27, 2024 | ||
| Nandi Proteins Limited is a sales, marketing, IP and licensing company spun out of Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh in 2001. The company was established to exploit patented process technology and know how to improve the functional properties of common proteins such as whey, egg and soy. The company's objective is to become a market leader inthe field of denatured protein technology and to deliver significant growth via direct trading of its value added proteins and a licensing approach with significant industry partners. | $662.8K / Convertible Note / Aug 27, 2024 | ||
| Renewabl is a unique platform that enables the rapid and secure achievement of decarbonisation targets by directly matching clean energy certificates from real wind and solar farms on a 24/7 basis. | Seed / Jul 25, 2024 | ||
| Electron is a London based energy technology company, unlocking value in decarbonising energy systems by enabling granular, market-based interactions, designed by the users themselves. Electron is a market platform as a service, used by network operators, distributed energy resources, and others to trade and optimise the combined use of networkcapacity and zero carbon, zero marginal cost power. | $5M / Sep 19, 2023 | ||
| Martee’s revolutionizing workplace nutrition with a fully managed, self-serve healthy meals and snacks solution. | Pre-Seed / Jun 29, 2023 | ||
| Mixergy Ltd. offer a cost-effective solution to save energy and facilitate more renewable power generation through grid balancing. Mixergy tanks achieve better utilisation of solar PV and heat pumps. | $11.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 27, 2023 | ||
| See all 35 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Nesta invest in?
Nesta invests primarily in Education, Health Care and Medical startups, most often at Grant and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 35 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 Nesta's check size?
Nesta typically joins rounds of $60k–$415k at Grant and $3.1M–$11M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nesta participates in.
How do I contact Nesta?
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Who are the partners at Nesta?
The team at Nesta includes Alex Hook (Senior Investment Director), Francesca Bria (Senior Advisor and Senior Project Lead) and Ravi Gurumurthy (Chief Executive Officer), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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