Nesta Impact Investments
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Nesta Impact Investments is a VC fund in London focused on Education and Health Care. They want to see the power of innovation and technology used to solve major social problems, bringing the benefits of innovation to everyone in society. They help to do this by investing in ventures with inclusive and scalable innovations that are run by outstanding entrepreneurs. They are an experienced team of sector experts, venture capitalists,impact investors and evaluators backed by a strong, innovative institution - Nesta.
- Total investments:
- 40
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
- Fund size:
- $60M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Nesta Impact Investments invests in
Stages Nesta Impact Investments invests in
Countries Nesta Impact Investments invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $262k–$2.5M
- Series A
- $520k–$10M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $407k–$2.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 12 (30%)
- Health Care 5 (13%)
- SaaS 4 (10%)
- Internet 4 (10%)
- Software 4 (10%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 8 (20%)
- Seed 7 (18%)
- Series A 6 (15%)
- Series B 4 (10%)
- Funding Round 4 (10%)
Country
- United Kingdom 22 (55%)
- Sweden 1 (3%)
- Australia 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lisa Barclay
Investment Director
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Investment Director | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Julia Groves
Investment Committee member
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Investment Committee member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Manish Miglani
Investment Director
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Investment Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Nathan Elstub
Chief Investment Officer & Executive Director of Investments
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Chief Investment Officer & Executive Director of Investments | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Gaia Learning
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World class education for neurodivergent children and edtech gaialytics platform. A registered Cambridge International School online, ADHD Friendly School accredited by the ADHD Foundation with network of skilled online educators offers personalised virtual classrooms and customised learning materials and experiences enabling children to study theBritish national curriculum on the go, at their own pace from anywhere with an internet and mobile device. | $535.1K / Seed / Jul 14, 2026 | |
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Gaia Learning
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World class education for neurodivergent children and edtech gaialytics platform. A registered Cambridge International School online, ADHD Friendly School accredited by the ADHD Foundation with network of skilled online educators offers personalised virtual classrooms and customised learning materials and experiences enabling children to study theBritish national curriculum on the go, at their own pace from anywhere with an internet and mobile device. | $719.6K / Seed / Oct 07, 2024 | |
martee ai
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Through the power of AI, Martee is unlocking drastically improved demand forecasting accuracy for food businesses. We’re addressing the sector-wide pain of forecasting consumer demand – which overpriced fresh products, restrictive ultra-processed options & empty ready-to-eat shelves are all symptoms of (in addition to the food waste we hear alot about). At the core of our ML models, and simple BI interface, our (often overlooked) north star metric is availability on-shelf.Towards our vision of a data-enabled food system with reliable hyper-local availability of the products people want, we’re arming businesses with the tools they need to grow sales and customer satisfaction, without creating excessive food waste | $631.1K / Pre-Seed / Mar 28, 2024 | |
Aira
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Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company. | $158.7M / Series B / Jan 15, 2024 | |
WeWALK
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WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service. | $2.6M / Nov 29, 2022 | |
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WeWALK
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WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service. | $2.5M / Seed / Nov 29, 2022 | |
BibliU
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BibliU provides colleges and universities with digital content management, automation, and analytics platform. BibliU’s solution puts digital textbooks, courseware, and monographs at the fingertips of all students. Working with thousands of publishers and OER providers to deliver millions of digital resources, BibliU combines academic freedom withinnovative affordability and automation. | $15M / Series B / Jun 09, 2022 | |
MEL Science
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MEL Science is an educational startup focused to change early science education with a combination of up-to date technologies and hands on experience. Our main products are monthly subscription to chemistry kits and chemistry lessons in VR for schools. | $15M / Series B / Dec 01, 2020 | |
Skin Analytics
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Skin Analytics build a digital history of your skin so that you and your doctor can measure, track and ultimately understand your skin. Meaning you have the tools to take control and ultimately improve your skin health.Their patent-pending algorithms measure how the skin is changing from smartphone images to identify, inform and evaluatetreatment options across a range of consumer health and clinical skin conditions.Which means they build digital platforms that personalise skin health so people can control their skin health rather than be controlled by it.They’re focused on delivering a series of skin health products over the next 3 years ranging from consumer to clinical. | $5.2M / Series A / Sep 08, 2020 | |
Empiribox
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Empiribox has identified a number of issues and elements that impact on the quality of science teaching currently offered at primary schools across the UK and internationally. | $2.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 29, 2020 | |
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FAQ
What does Nesta Impact Investments invest in?
Nesta Impact Investments invests primarily in Education, Health Care and SaaS startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Seed stage. Most of the 40 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 Impact Investments's check size?
Nesta Impact Investments typically joins rounds of $262k–$2.5M at Seed, $520k–$10M at Series A and $407k–$2.5M 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 Impact Investments participates in.
How do I contact Nesta Impact Investments?
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Who are the partners at Nesta Impact Investments?
The team at Nesta Impact Investments includes Lisa Barclay (Investment Director), Julia Groves (Investment Committee member) and Manish Miglani (Investment Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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