# Nesta

> Nesta is a VC fund in London backing Education and Health Care. See 35 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 35
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 60%
- Fund size: $5M
- Last fund: Oct 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/165148/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/nesta_uk
- Website: http://www.nesta.org.uk/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nesta.uk

Nesta is an innovation foundation headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Nesta. Shizune tracks 6 team members at Nesta. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/nesta-5?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $432k–$3.3M |
| Grant | $59k–$412k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 7 | 20% |
| Health Care | 5 | 14% |
| Medical | 4 | 11% |
| Non Profit | 4 | 11% |
| Renewable Energy | 4 | 11% |

61 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 14 | 40% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 17% |
| Seed | 3 | 9% |
| Series A | 3 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 9% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Hook | Senior Investment Director | 53 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-hook |
| Francesca Bria | Senior Advisor and Senior Project Lead | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francesca-bria |
| Ravi Gurumurthy | Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ravi-gurumurthy |
| Tom Cahill-Jones | Partnerships Manager, Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-cahill-jones |
| David Puttnam | Founding Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-puttnam-fe84 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Furbnow | Furbnow is a climatetech starup provides home improvement services. | $3.3M | Seed | Jul 23, 2026 |  |
| Third Space Learning | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Martee’s revolutionizing workplace nutrition with a fully managed, self-serve healthy meals and snacks solution. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 29, 2023 |  |
| Mixergy | 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 |  |

10 of 35 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Barclays Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barclays-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Green Angel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/green-angel-syndicate) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [EDP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edp-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kiko Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kiko-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Maven Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maven-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Midven](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/midven) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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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 Funding Round 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 $432k–$3.3M at Seed and $59k–$412k at Grant. 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?

Public channels for Nesta include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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.

### 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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