Simon Barnes
Managing Partner @ Tate & Lyle Ventures
Simon Barnes is a funding round investor at Tate & Lyle Ventures focused on Biofuel and Agriculture. Dr. Barnes is a founder of Circadia Ventures LLP and managing partner of Tate & Lyle Ventures LP, a London-based fund backed by the global food ingredients company Tate & Lyle. He has extensive prior experience in life sciences venture capital with Atlas Venture and GIMV Venture Capital and is a plant biochemist by training.
- Total investments:
- 1
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- Lead investor:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Biofuel 1 (100%)
- Agriculture 1 (100%)
- Biotechnology 1 (100%)
- Pharmaceutical 1 (100%)
Investments
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| Allylix, Inc., an early stage biotechnology company, develops terpene products and their derivatives for the flavor and fragrance, food ingredient, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and biofuel markets. Its products comprise nootkatone, which is a grapefruit flavor that is used in fruit juices and citrus flavored sodas. The company also developssesquiterpenes that are part of aroma chemical segment of the flavor and fragrance market; and production platforms for pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and agricultural markets. Allylix, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in San Diego, California with research and development laboratories in Lexington, Kentucky. | $18.2M / Mar 12, 2012 |
Co-Investors
About Tate & Lyle Ventures
Tate & Lyle Ventures is a £25M venture capital fund focused on investing in high growth companies in the fields of renewable ingredients, food technologies, biomaterials and industrial processing technologies. Their cornerstone investor is Tate & Lyle PLC, one of the world's leading renewable ingredients companies focused oninnovation and product development in these sectors.They are proactive investors investing practically as well as financially by supporting the management teams they back with experience, strategy and networks. They prefer to work as lead investors but occasionally work as syndicate members alongside other investors such as business angels, venture capital funds and corporate investors.They can invest in businesses around the world. They invest in technology-based businesses across food science and technology. They generally make an initial investment of £1-2M followed by further amounts of follow-on investment. They consider smaller investments and seed deals when the business is on a very steep growth curve leading to greater capital requirements.
Tate & Lyle Ventures Contacts
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David Atkinson
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What does Simon Barnes invest in?
Simon Barnes invests primarily in Biofuel, Agriculture and Biotechnology startups, most often at Funding Round stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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