# Northern Venture Capital Trust

> Northern Venture Capital Trust is a VC fund backing Software, SaaS and Food and Beverage. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Northern Venture Capital Trust is a VC fund focused on Software and SaaS. Northern Venture Capital Trust

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 63% |
| SaaS | 3 | 38% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |
| Pet | 1 | 13% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 38% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 25% |
| Seed | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pimberly | Pimberly is an innovative, cloud-based, SaaS PIM (Product Information Management), DAM (Digital Asset Management) and Workflow platform. It has been designed to handle unlimited numbers of SKUs and data feeds so is perfect for manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Pimberly seamlessly manages all product data, assets and attributes within afast, scalable, modern browser experience. This enables you to have automatic interfaces with suppliers, customers, resellers, websites, new routes to market and internal systems. | $8.9M | Series B | Oct 26, 2021 |  |
| Tutorful | Tutorful is an online education company. They help parents and students across the UK to find their perfect private tutor for, across every subject and every age. Moreover, Tutorful has grown to have over 8,000 tutors teaching thousands of lessons each week, across the whole of the UK.Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Sheffield,United Kingdom. | $4.2M | Series A | Sep 13, 2021 |  |
| Pure Pet Food | Pure Pet Food is dehydrated gently by blowing warm air over the ingredients to remove moisture and preserve them. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 03, 2021 |  |
| Clarilis | Clarilis is a provider of drafting automation solutions to Legal Services that make the drafting process simpler, secure, and far more efficient. Clarilis platform allows you to quickly and easily capture your firm or legal department best drafting techniques and extend them consistently across your entire practice. The repetitive and proceduralaspects of drafting are automated, making the drafting process straightforward and far more efficient while ensuring complete consistency and quality control. They’ve ensured that using their platform doesn’t mean you lose your individual drafting style. Clarilis allows you to capture your firm’s templates and precedents, ensuring that every member of your practice applies them efficiently. | $7.9M | Series B | Aug 03, 2020 |  |
| Nutshell Software | Nutshell Software provides a platform for businesses to create their own functional mobile apps in minutes – with no coding necessary. | $1.5M | Seed | May 22, 2020 |  |
| Enate | Enate is a UK-based company with a global outlook that provides a SaaS-based technology platform to simplify service orchestration.Enate’s Robotic Service Orchestration (RSO) platform enables the delivery and management of services across both the digital and human workforce. It creates a strong foundation for transformation to digital services,regardless of the maturity of automation within the business or what RPA, AI or cognitive technology is in play. The system enables delivery of services from multiple locations to local standards whilst maintaining visibility and control, including the automation of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs), aligned to a detailed cost and productivity reporting capability. | $2.7M | Series A | May 05, 2020 |  |
| Oddbox | Oddbox is London's first and only wonky and surplus veg box delivery scheme. Oddbox is a social impact business fighting food waste in UK’s farms with innovative solutions and our first solution is London’s first wonky fruit and veg box scheme. We buy fresh, wonky & surplus produce for a fair price directly from local farms and marketsand deliver them in a weekly subscription box scheme to South London's homes and Central London's offices at 30% cheaper than similar box services. We donate 10% of our produce to charities that fight food poverty | $3.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 18, 2020 |  |
| SHE Software | Fast growing provider of SaaS health and safety software solution, operating across EMEA, North America and ANZ. The Health, Safety & Risk industry is undergoing a major transition, triggered by cloud computing, AI, pervasive wireless connectivity and predictive analytics. The potential to have a major impact on working people’s lives ishuge. SHE Software is leading this transformation and has something very special. Our team has embedded our deep understanding of our customers' world into what we believe is the very best health and safety cloud platform. And we have seen all of them. Our customers are selecting SHE because their peers confirm the major productivity and assurance improvements we deliver, because our world class mobile technology ensures high engagement and because we provide a future-proof platform for upcoming IoT & AI innovations. | $9M | Series B | Feb 27, 2020 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercia-equity-finance) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mercia Fund Managers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercia-fund-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Frog Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frog-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gresham House Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gresham-house-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mercia Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercia-asset-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mercia Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercia-technologies) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Northern Venture Capital Trust invest in?

Northern Venture Capital Trust invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Northern Venture Capital Trust last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Northern Venture Capital Trust closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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