Robert Bahns
Investing Partner @ Touchstone Innovations
London, United Kingdom
Robert Bahns is a Series A investor at Touchstone Innovations in London focused on Energy and Sensor. Robert Bahns is the Director of Technology Ventures at Imperial Innovations where he focusses on investments in the hardware and materials sectors. Robert has over fifteen years' experience in venture capital and prior to joining Innovations was a Director in the technology investment team at Nomura International plc, where he ledinvestments in the communications and electronics sectors. Robert trained as an electronics engineer and worked in Japan for Pioneer Electronics Corporation, both in R&D and in establishing the company’s first UK manufacturing facility. Robert is on the board of CCS, GKN-Evo eDrive Systems, Impression Technologies, Plaxica, Drayson Wireless, Sub Salt Solutions and Oxford Biotrans. Robert has an MBA from Insead and an Electrical Sciences degree from the University of Cambridge.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 80%
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Industries Robert Bahns invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 1 (20%)
- Sensor 1 (20%)
- Education 1 (20%)
- Wearables 1 (20%)
- Commercial 1 (20%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (40%)
- Series B 2 (40%)
- Funding Round 1 (20%)
Investments
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| Silicon Microgravity Limited is a spin-out from Cambridge University. The underpinning sensor technology was developed through a collaboration with BP plc and provides a breakthrough in the management of oil and gas reservoirs. The technology has been developed in Cambridge University’s Nanoscience Centre primarily funded by BP and Innovate UK. | $7M / Jun 11, 2018 | ||
| SAM Labs provides everything you need to deliver the most engaging STEAM learning experience to your classroom. It seamlessly connects software and hardware with lesson plans that cover a wide variety of subjects, making learning about coding accessible, experimental, interactive and fun.SAM Labs kits are bursting with wireless electronic blocksthat each have a personality of their own. From lights to motors to sliders to buzzers, every Bluetooth-enabled block can connect to the others via the app to do something different. Press a button to turn a light on! Use a light sensor to activate an alarm! With the app, students can code the behaviours of blocks in any way they can imagine, enabling them to make anything from simple reactions to complex creations in minutes.Students can use SAM Labs to design, write and debug programs, applying sequencing, selection and iteration. They will use logical reasoning to write algorithms, incorporating variables, inputs and outputs. Using the blocks and app, they will learn to control and simulate physical systems. | $6.3M / Series A / Nov 14, 2017 | ||
| Oxford Biotrans Ltd is committed to commercialising new enzymatic routes to high value speciality chemicals based on its patented cytochrome P450 enzyme technology. The company is supported by over 15 years of research by Dr Luet Lok Wong from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. The first products to market will be flavours andfragrances. The technology also has applications in the production of pheromones, pharmaceuticals and other speciality chemicals. | $2.8M / Series B / Oct 10, 2017 | ||
| WaveOptics is a designer and manufacturer of diffractive waveguides for wearable Augmented Reality (AR) devices. The company aims to be the key optical component in wearable augmented reality devices. WaveOptics was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. | $15.7M / Series B / Jul 17, 2017 | ||
| Oxford Biotrans Ltd is committed to commercialising new enzymatic routes to high value speciality chemicals based on its patented cytochrome P450 enzyme technology. The company is supported by over 15 years of research by Dr Luet Lok Wong from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. The first products to market will be flavours andfragrances. The technology also has applications in the production of pheromones, pharmaceuticals and other speciality chemicals. | $3.3M / Series A / Aug 04, 2015 |
Co-Investors
About Touchstone Innovations
Touchstone Innovations create, build and invest in pioneering technology companies and licensing opportunities developed from outstanding scientific research focusing on the ‘Golden Triangle’ of London, Cambridge and Oxford.Their robust strategy and fully integrated business model, proven over many years, begins with original idea and extendsthrough intellectual property (IP) protection, company formation, seed funding, incubation, scale-up and supportive investment.This provides us with a unique insight into leveraging early-stage research and turning it into substantial, high-quality, well-managed and well-funded commercial businesses.They help scientists and entrepreneurs to commercialise their idea by protecting and licensing intellectual property, leading the formation of new companies, recruiting high-calibre management teams and providing and supporting investment.They provide continuity of funding from start-up to scale-up, with initial investments from seed stage onwards. They remain an active investor throughout the lifetime of their portfolio companies, with the majority of their investment each year going into businesses they have lived with and understood for some time. This strategy substantially de-risks investment scale-up in their portfolio companies.Touchstone Innovations is at the forefront of UK early-stage technology investment. Alongside their co-investors they have leveraged over £1.5 billion to help drive high technology innovation in the UK.
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What does Robert Bahns invest in?
Robert Bahns invests primarily in Energy, Sensor and Education startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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