# Simon Emary

> Simon Emary is a funding round investor at Your VC backing Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Your VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/growthdeck)
- Location: Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Oct 2018
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-emary-82a7672/

Simon Emary is a funding round investor at Your VC in Milton Keynes focused on Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing. Simon has venture capital experience from both sides of the fence, as an experienced investor and as a director of VC backed technology businesses. A Stanford MBA, Simon was a founding partner of Hotbed, which became the UK’s leading private investor. He is also an FCA who has specialised in corporate finance with Grant Thornton and as anindependent advisor.

## Investment focus

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 1 | 50% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CFP Composites | CFP Composites Ltd (formerly known as Carbon Fibre Preforms) is based in Dudley in the West Midlands, operating from a 28,000 square foot factory configured on a modular basis allowing for low-cost, rapid expansion. Offering a unique range of carbon fibre composite materials for extreme high temperature applications. CFP Composites’ technologyenables composite materials to be produced significantly quicker, making the materials a commercially viable alternative to metal solutions. | $2.4M |  | Oct 31, 2018 |  |
| CFP Composites | CFP Composites Ltd (formerly known as Carbon Fibre Preforms) is based in Dudley in the West Midlands, operating from a 28,000 square foot factory configured on a modular basis allowing for low-cost, rapid expansion. Offering a unique range of carbon fibre composite materials for extreme high temperature applications. CFP Composites’ technologyenables composite materials to be produced significantly quicker, making the materials a commercially viable alternative to metal solutions. | $1M | Equity Crowdfunding | Jul 26, 2018 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Midven](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/midven) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Your VC

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Growthdeck provides tax-efficient and growth investment opportunities to an expanding network of sophisticated private investors, partners and introducers. They carry out professional due diligence, provide ongoing and extensive business support and develop a close relationship with their investors. They also regularly host networking events thathelp connect growth businesses with sophisticated investors from across the world.Growthdeck attracts a wide range of growth businesses looking to raise money. But only the best will make it through their stringent due diligence process before being presented to the investor network. Their investment team has decades of combined experience in private equity (with the likes of 3i, Hotbed and Rockpool Investments). Growthdeck also retains a panel of high profile sector experts who provide unrivalled experience in assessing the quality of potential opportunities. They also provide hands-on support to their investee businesses throughout the lifetime of their involvement - from raise through to exit.

4 contacts available at Your VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gary Robins | Co-founder and Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-robins |
| Ian Zant-Boer | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-zant-boer |
| James Wrighton | Co-founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-wrighton |
| Simon Emary | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-emary |

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## FAQ

### What does Simon Emary invest in?

Simon Emary invests primarily in Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing startups, most often at Funding Round and Equity Crowdfunding stage. Most of the 2 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 Simon Emary last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Simon Emary closed in Oct 2018. Shizune tracks 2 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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