Touchstone Innovations
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Touchstone Innovations is a VC fund in London focused on Health Care and Medical. 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.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 68%
Last updated:
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Industries Touchstone Innovations invests in
Stages Touchstone Innovations invests in
Countries Touchstone Innovations invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 5 (26%)
- Medical 4 (21%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (21%)
- Biotechnology 3 (16%)
- Machine Learning 3 (16%)
Stage
- Funding Round 7 (37%)
- Series B 5 (26%)
- Series A 4 (21%)
- Seed 1 (5%)
- Series C 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Robert Bahns
Investing Partner
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Investing Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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AccelerComm
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AccelerComm is an exciting semiconductor IP-core company that provides solutions to accelerate the next generations of wireless communications (3GPP rel 14, rel 15 and beyond).Their technology solves the bottleneck that would otherwise limit the speed of next generation wireless communication, namely the error correction decoding that isrequired to overcome the effects of noise, interference and poor signal strength. | $26.7M / Series B / Apr 11, 2023 | |
Re:infer
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Re:infer, the Conversational Data Intelligence platform built for the enterprise. Businesses use our platform to optimise customer experience, increase scalability, and improve governance and control. We democratise the power of NLU to transform service.Operated via a zero-code user interface Re:infer allows business, domain experts, and COEdevelopers to create ML or NLP models quickly and at scale.Re:infer is a spinout from UCL, a global centre for artificial intelligence research, is backed by Seedcamp Europe's leading early stage investment fund and some of Europe’s most successful AI entrepreneurs. | $3.5M / Feb 19, 2018 | |
SAM Labs
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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
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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 | |
Featurespace
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Featurespace™ is the world leader in Enterprise Financial Crime prevention for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering. Featurespace invented Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and Automated Deep Behavioral Networks, both of which are available through the ARIC™ platform, a real-time machine learning software that risk scores events in more than 180 countriesto prevent fraud and financial crime.ARIC™ Risk Hub uses advanced, explainable anomaly detection to enable financial institutions to automatically identify risk, catch new fraud attacks and identify suspicious activity in real-time. More than 30 major global financial institutions are using ARIC to protect their business and their customers. Publicly announced customers include HSBC, TSYS, Worldpay, NatWest, Contis, Danske Bank, ClearBank, Akbank and Permanent TSB. | $21M / Oct 04, 2017 | |
ieso
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ieso is a provider of online mental health therapy and develops clinically evidenced assessment and treatment products. ieso's breakthrough discoveries transforms mental healthcare and is revolutionising how the world sees mental health.ieso is building globally scalable digital products and therapeutics for the assessment and treatment ofcommon mood disorders with an additional focus on behaviorally modifiable chronic diseases. | $23.6M / Sep 12, 2017 | |
WaveOptics
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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 | |
Yoyo Wallet
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Yoyo Wallet is a U.K.-based mobile wallet startup that enables its users to pay for their goods with their smartphones. The company currently processes over 150,000 monthly in-store transactions by combining payment and loyalty via an easy scan. It also provides a marketing platform for retailers that enables digital customer engagement in-store.The multi-retailer mobile wallet offers loyalty programs and rewards offerings it can automatically deliver to customers based on buying patterns. Launched in 2013, Yoyo Wallet receives funding from Taavet Hinrikus and TransferWise. | $15.7M / Series B / Jun 26, 2017 | |
Impression Technologies
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Impression Technologies offer a fully tailored service according to your engineering needs from concept to production. We provide the knowledge and expertise to support HFQ® technology, empowering you to transform your project. Our facility, located in Coventry, UK, is fully equipped to carry out in-house prototyping and production runs to supportour HFQ customers and partners. | $3.9M / Series B / Jun 21, 2017 | |
Concirrus
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Concirrus is a leading Insurtech specialising in transforming the future of risk selection, pricing and claims using the latest developments in data analytics, AI, machine learning, and digitalisation. Concirrus' intelligence platform Quest, helps organisations improve loss ratios, reduce operational expense and access increased deal sizes,and new trading relationships. By capturing and understanding customer behaviour, delivering data-rich insights at scale, underwriting teams are empowered to make rapid data-driven decisions. Over 20 market-leading companies including Marsh, Beazley, Hiscox, Chaucer and Willis Re trust Concirrus’ technology to power their risk making decisions. Headquartered in London with international presence, Concirrus has a 100-strong team of experts that specialise in data analytics, AI and machine learning, as well as having a rich understanding of the global insurance market. | $3.9M / Jun 19, 2017 | |
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What does Touchstone Innovations invest in?
Touchstone Innovations invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 19 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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The team at Touchstone Innovations includes Robert Bahns (Investing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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