# Noble Fund Managers

> Noble Fund Managers is a VC fund backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 4 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Nov 2008
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clear-info-analytics-noble-group-/
- Website: https://www.noblegp.com/

Noble Fund Managers is a VC fund in London focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Noble is an independent investment bank dedicated to mid and small cap companies. Noble offers financial advisory services to corporate and institutional clients together with research, sales and sales trading services. Noble is an investment bank providing a unique range of professional services to fast growth small/mid cap companies andinvestment vehicles. Noble's history goes back to 1980. The company has over 120 employees based in Edinburgh and London.Noble provides services to over 200 clients through its three operating companies. All three operating companies are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Noble & Company acts as adviser, sponsor and broker to over 40 companies with values of between £2m and £250m. Noble Corporate Management provides a range of professional business services to over 150 companies from start ups to those with values of over £400m. Noble Fund Managers manages six investment funds ranging in size between £10m and £100m.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 50% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 50% |
| Mobile | 1 | 25% |
| FinTech | 1 | 25% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 50% |
| France | 1 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Grant | Team Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-grant |
| Angus Macpherson | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angus-macpherson |
| Ben Thomson | Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-thomson |
| David Potter | Non Executive Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-potter |
| Henry Chaplin | CEO investment management | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henry-chaplin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Staccato Communications | Staccato Communications, Inc. offers ultra wideband wireless enabled devices for the wireless USB, Bluetooth, and Internet protocol connectivity to the personal computing, consumer electronics, and mobile phone industries. Its products include single-chip integrated circuits, device adapter and device module design kits, reference design kits,wireless USB development kits, and streaming services development kits. The company also provides Ripcord Software, which provides a software stack for variety of ultra wide band applications, as well as includes installers, firmware, middleware, drivers, customization tools, and firmware upgrade tools. Staccato Communications’ products are used in various applications, such as printers, camera, mass storage devices, portable media players, wireless docking, wireless projectors, Web cameras, wireless HDTV, wireless speakers, set top boxes, wireless displays, purchasing content, sharing content, and personal servers. Staccato Communications, Inc. was formerly known as Discrete Time Communications, Inc. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in San Diego, California. | $20M |  | Nov 20, 2008 | http://www.staccatocommunications.com |
| Ipanema Technologies | Ipanema helps enterprises to guarantee the application performance to each user whatever the IT complexity. CIOs recover control of their applications and dynamically adapt to new usages. They easily manage their strategic IT transformations including Unified Communications, SaaS and Cloud applications, they embrace social media and BYOD and takefull advantage of their hybrid networks while reducing their IT expenses. | $7M |  | Aug 18, 2008 | http://www.ipanematech.com |
| Garlik | Garlik are leading technology innovators and digital identity experts set up by the founders of the UK online banks Egg (part of Citi) and First Direct (part of HSBC). With our range of products and services we aim to help individuals stay safe from online crime. Specialties Internet, Online Crime, Digital Identity | $5M |  | Jun 01, 2008 | http://www.garlik.com |
| InforSense | InforSense, Ltd. provides enterprise business intelligence and reporting software. Its products include core technology, such as InforSense Platform that enables organizations to integrate, automate, and visualize data sources, information, and analysis processes to deliver predictive insights. Its core technology products also include VisualSense,advanced analytics, reporting, TextSense, document explore, automation, workflow library, In-Oracle edition, Siebel edition, and virtual machine. The company also provides Life Science Applications products, such as ClinicalSense, a clinical research software application for cohort identification for clinical researchers; GenSense that enables the analysis of data from the latest generation of high-throughput genotyping platforms; Translational Research solution that provides a framework to integrate and analyze clinical, patient specimen, and experimental data for clinical translational research; BioSense that provides an interactive analytics environment for designing and executing bioinformatics solutions ranging from sequence analysis to microarray informatics and remote database annotation; and ChemSense that provides a vendor-neutral environment for designing and executing cheminformatics solutions. In addition, it offers business intelligence products and solutions, such as asset management, credit risk, CRM analytics, operational risk, and Siebel edition datasheet solutions. Further, the company provides consulting, workshop, and training services. The company serves pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consumer goods, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and communications companies. It has operations in the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, and Japan. InforSense, Ltd. was founded in 1999 and is based in London, the United Kingdom with additional offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Shanghai, China. As of June 2009, InforSense Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of ID Business Solutions Ltd. | $10M |  | Oct 25, 2006 | http://www.inforsense.com |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [3i Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3i-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AllegisCyber](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allegis-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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- [Bay Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bay-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cipio Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cipio-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Noble Fund Managers invest in?

Noble Fund Managers invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Funding Round 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.

### How do I contact Noble Fund Managers?

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

The team at Noble Fund Managers includes Adam Grant (Team Member), Angus Macpherson (Director) and Ben Thomson (Chairman), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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