# Roger Wood

> Roger Wood is a funding round investor at Midven backing Energy, Retail and Shopping. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Midven](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/midven)
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Dec 2021
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/roger-wood/1/b9a/5b3

Roger Wood is a funding round investor at Midven focused on Energy and Retail. Roger joined Midven in June 2004. He is a Director of the Company and Fund Principal, and Investment Committee member, of the Advantage Growth Fund. Roger also has responsibility for Compliance and Marketing.He trained as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse. Following a secondment into their Corporate Finance department he spent 7years as a Corporate Finance adviser with Ernst & Young and Bentley Jennison, focusing on small and medium sized private company transactions. Roger has a degree in Industrial Economics from Nottingham University.Roger has particular expertise in positioning businesses for exit and identifying the right time to sell.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 1 | 11% |
| Retail | 1 | 11% |
| Shopping | 1 | 11% |
| Software | 1 | 11% |
| Training | 1 | 11% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 4 | 44% |
| Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 22% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WELL Training | WELL Training create transformational leadership and management development programmes through effective, results-driven training for individuals and organisations. | $825.6K | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 08, 2021 |  |
| Lazy Flora | azy Flora delivers hassle-free container gardens to busy people in the UK, on subscription. We take all the effort out of having a beautiful outdoor space, year round. Expertise on tap, no more weekend trips to the garden centre. | $687.9K | Seed | Apr 13, 2021 |  |
| Linear Diagnostics | Linear Diagnostics Limited (LDL) is a diagnostics company based on a novel technology that allows wide range of molecular diagnostics tests to be carried out using a simple optical system. The technology provides significant advantages over the current state of the art allowing a more rapid detection of multiple targets using a single simplereagent | $1.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 24, 2021 |  |
| Eyoto | Eyoto produces a range of software services such as image processing, computer vision, eye-tracking, and artificial intelligence. | $3.3M |  | Jan 12, 2021 |  |
| Eyoto | Eyoto produces a range of software services such as image processing, computer vision, eye-tracking, and artificial intelligence. | $3.4M | Series A | Jan 12, 2021 |  |
| Utility Stream | Utility Stream offers gas, electricity and water procurement and technology services. |  |  | Sep 09, 2020 |  |
| Utility Stream | Utility Stream offers gas, electricity and water procurement and technology services. |  | Seed | Sep 09, 2020 |  |
| Online Poundshop | Online Poundshop is an online-only, 24 hour, single priced retailer.Since launch in February 2014, Poundshop.com has created a new online shopping solution for customers keen to take advantage of pound shop savings. The huge range of everyday household essentials including cleaning products, batteries, toiletries, kitchen items, snacks, treatsand toys is now available with the convenience of home delivery. We are based in Exeter, Devon.In October 2014, the managerial and marketing teams of the UK’s 2 premier online single price retailers, Poundshop.com and Hereforapound.com joined forces. More exciting plans are only a few clicks away starting with our brand new look website and bigger than ever range of pound shop favourites! |  |  | Oct 29, 2019 |  |
| Halo X Ray Technologies | HALO X-ray Technologies has been spun out of the Imaging Science Group at Nottingham Trent University and the Cranfield Forensic Institute at Cranfield University. We are developing commercially-focused OEM X-ray diffraction solutions based on novel and patented Focal Construct Technology that provides platform capability across a wide range ofapplication areas. Their initial focus lies in the development of HALO solutions for the aviation security and the medical systems markets. We have strong ties to the aviation sector through a long and prestigious research and development programme that has previously realised novel divergent beam X-ray technology (developed and marketed through various incumbent suppliers such as 3DX-ray Ltd) and kinetic depth systems (developed and marketed through Astrophyscis Inc) as 3rd party solutions. We have a clear focus on medical systems and we are currently part of a consortium recentlly awarded an EPSRC grant on Point-of-Care High Accuracy Fracture Risk Prediction. This is an exciting project and we look forward to working with our partners in developing HALO technology for this market. |  |  | May 16, 2019 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Future Planet Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-planet-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [The Future Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-future-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mercia Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercia-technologies) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Midlands Engine Investment Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/midlands-engine-investment-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mercia Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercia-asset-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rainbow-seed-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Midven

VC Fund · Birmingham, United Kingdom

Midven is a specialist venture capital company providing investment to fast growing small and medium sized enterprises ("SMEs"), run by an energetic, experienced and hands-on team of investment managers.

5 contacts available at Midven.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Roger Wood | Director/Shareholder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roger-wood-2 |
| Aanisah Begg | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aanisah-begg |
| Alexander Leigh | Investment Committee Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-leigh |
| Andrew Muir | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-muir |
| Giovanni Finocchio | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giovanni-finocchio |

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## FAQ

### What does Roger Wood invest in?

Roger Wood invests primarily in Energy, Retail and Shopping startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 9 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 Roger Wood last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Roger Wood closed in Dec 2021. Shizune tracks 9 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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