Northern Gritstone
VC Fund
Leeds, United Kingdom
Northern Gritstone is an investment firm focused on investing in advanced materials, energy, health technology and cognitive computation.
- Total investments:
- 43
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 65%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Northern Gritstone invests in
Stages Northern Gritstone invests in
Countries Northern Gritstone invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.5M–$7M
- Pre-Seed
- $2.7M–$6.2M
- Series A
- $3M–$27M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (21%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (16%)
- Electronics 6 (14%)
- Health Care 6 (14%)
- Biotechnology 5 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (49%)
- Series A 9 (21%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (7%)
- Series D 2 (5%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (5%)
Country
- United Kingdom 31 (72%)
- Singapore 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Duncan Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
|
Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 34 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| SilVia Bio develops technologies to analyze and optimize mammalian cell factories used in biomanufacturing. The company focuses on identifying critical parameters that limit bioproduction yield and product quality in cell systems such as CHO and HEK cells. Its platform provides cell profiling services that generate interpretable data on manufacturing-relevant bottlenecks. Based on these insights, SilVia Bio designs and supplies precision media additives formulated to address specific rate-limiting cellular processes. The offerings are intended for biopharmaceutical and biomanufacturing teams seeking to improve titre, cell performance, and consistency in production processes. SilVia Bio also collaborates with industrial partners to apply its platform within real manufacturing environments. | $4M / Seed / Oct 15, 2026 | ||
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Matter Machine
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Matter Machine is an AI-driven materials discovery company that creates technologies that use materials chemistry, machine learning, and automated experimentation to speed up the discovery and optimization of next-generation materials. | $5.3M / Seed / Oct 12, 2026 | |
| MicroLub produces a fat replacement for lower-calorie plant-based diets. It is cutting-edge innovation to the next generation of protein technology, creating exclusive ingredient solutions that significantly minimize molecular friction. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Cytix develops an AI-powered application security platform that provides continuous security testing across the software development lifecycle. The platform analyzes development changes to identify potential security risks and generates focused testing plans based on the specific vulnerabilities those changes may introduce. Cytix also providesautomated security reviews and targeted micro penetration tests that validate risks in areas such as authentication, authorization, API security, business logic, and other application vulnerabilities. Its platform integrates with development and collaboration tools, including Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Slack, to incorporate security testing into existing workflows. Cytix also offers managed security testing services that combine its automation with human penetration testing expertise. | $7M / Series A / Aug 12, 2026 | ||
| Pixel-Flo is developing a fluidic self-assembly mass transfer process that uses a slot-die mechanism and meniscus forces to continuously position microLEDs onto substrates. This backplane-agnostic technology is designed to assemble red, green, and blue LEDs in a single step for mass-market display manufacturing. | $7M / Seed / Jul 09, 2026 | ||
| Silveray develop affordable large-area direct conversion detectors for the X-ray imaging market. | $6.6M / Series A / Jun 17, 2026 | ||
| Iceotope develops liquid cooling technology for data centers, artificial intelligence infrastructure, and high-performance computing environments. The company designs precision liquid cooling systems that use dielectric fluids to manage heat generated by GPUs, CPUs, memory, storage, and power components within server infrastructure. Its platformreplaces or reduces dependence on traditional air cooling by using sealed liquid-based thermal management architectures for rack-scale and edge computing deployments. The company provides cooling solutions for AI workloads, hyperscale data centers, telecommunications infrastructure, industrial edge computing, and enterprise computing systems. Its product portfolio includes liquid-cooled server systems, rack infrastructure, thermal management platforms, and integrated cooling architectures compatible with existing data center environments.Iceotope also develops thermal management technologies focused on energy efficiency, heat reuse, and reduced water consumption in compute-intensive environments. The company collaborates with hardware manufacturers, semiconductor companies, and infrastructure providers to support the deployment of liquid-cooled computing systems for AI, analytics, and high-density computing applications. | $26M / Series B / May 14, 2026 | ||
| AmpliSi focuses on sustainable porous silicon anodes for lithium-ion batteries, with the goal of replacing graphite to increase energy density. | $2.7M / Pre-Seed / Mar 12, 2026 | ||
| Cytotrait focuses on the development of novel traits for food and agriculture. | $4M / Seed / Mar 09, 2026 | ||
| Optalysys solves the fundamental limitations of conventional computing. Optalysys develops optical AI systems that accelerate the demanding deep learning and pattern recognition tasks at groundbreaking speeds but at a fraction of the energy consumption of traditional computing hardware.Optalysys' embeddable technology will enablesupercomputing capability in Edge and mobile devices. | $30.9M / Series A / Jan 22, 2026 | ||
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FAQ
What does Northern Gritstone invest in?
Northern Gritstone invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Electronics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 43 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Northern Gritstone invest in?
Northern Gritstone typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$7M at Seed, $2.7M–$6.2M at Pre-Seed and $3M–$27M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Northern Gritstone's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Northern Gritstone took part in.
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Who are the partners at Northern Gritstone?
The team at Northern Gritstone includes Duncan Johnson (Chief Executive Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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