Top 50 Manufacturing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in October 2023
Top 50 Manufacturing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in October 2023
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Parkwalk is a London-based fund management firm. Parkwalk invests in UK technology companies that have IP backing and freedom to operate, generally spun out of UK universities. Their funds seek to generate capital gains for their investors, enhanced by the attractive tax relief provided by EIS. Parkwalk entered this investment sector in 2009,anticipating a wave of tax-efficient incentives launched by the UK Government to stimulate innovative emerging technology companies and thereby help drive economic growth.Parkwalk utilises academic, technology transfer, venture capital and personal networks developed over many years to gain access to the highest calibre deal-flow. In 2017 Parkwalk joined forces with IP Group plc, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company that is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IPO. As at March 2019 the combined group has net assets of £1.2bn.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Philippines
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- RoboK — A Cambridge University spin-out building cost-effective 3D sensing software technology
- Mogrify — Mogrify is pioneering a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapy and transforming the development of ex vivo cell therapy.
- PharmEnable — Designing the next generation of small molecule drugs. Replicating the specificity of biologics in the scalable form of a small molecule.
Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
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- Software, Information Technology, Computer
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Brazil
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- Plotbox — Award winning Cemetery and Crematory management software that enables world class death care facility operations. Fully integrated software and true digital mapping solve long standing problems and accelerates business development. Various packages available.
- Partful — Make sure customers get the right parts first time, every time with digital 3D parts catalogue software and digital work instructions.
- Manus Neurodynamica — Manus Neurodynamica is a triage device to support early diagnostics in Parkinson's disease.
Development Bank of Wales is formed in 2001 by the Welsh Assembly Government. Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.
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- Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- United Kingdom, Australia, United States
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- CanSense — CanSense is a developer of an inexpensive and scalable blood test intended for early diagnosis of bowel cancer.
- Stratigens — Talent intelligence software| external people analytics | Diversity, location planning and skills data to inform strategy | Data based decision making
- 2B Enterprising — 2B Enterprising offers an enterprise education program for primary schools that aims to inspire next generation and foster an entrepreneurial mindset.
Our Entrepreneurship team (formerly the Scottish Investment Bank) helps you find sources of finance, engage with funders and secure investment to grow your business.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, France
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- Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
- IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
- Administrate — Manage 100% of enterprise training operations with configurable training management software, designed to scale with your organization.
IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and createvalue out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Australia
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- AccelerComm — Our patented, market-leading IP solutions for 4G and 5G are configurable for quick, high-performance implementations across a wide range of applications.
- Deep Render — Deep Render Ltd. is a spin-out from the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. We are a London based AI start-up that is developing the next generation of media compression algorithms. Our proprietary and patented technology is at the forefront of machine learning research. Furthermore, our Biological Image Compression results arestate-of-the-art, providing at least a 50% efficiency gain over the previous standards
- Crescendo Biologics — Crescendo Biologics is a new Cambridge-based company whose vision is to deliver next-generation antibody therapeutics based on novel class-leading platforms.The focus of the company is on developing platforms that will address key issues in generating high-affinity, soluble, human VH antibody fragments. These are the smallest fragments thatretain antibody binding, and have many desirable properties as potential therapeutics. Crescendo will then utilise these platforms for product development of in-house targets or in partnership with other companies.
Oxford Technology's SEIS fund and EIS fund enable private investors to access high growth technology startup opportunities and support UK innovation. SEIS and EIS tax reliefs offer downside protection, whilst gains can be tax free.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
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- OxCan — Enabling curative cancer treatment through early detection
- Machine Discovery — Machine Discovery is a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing new machine learning technology. We leverage proprietary neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations — and we do it with minimal data and 99.9% fidelity.
- MitoRx Therapeutics — Developing revolutionary mitochondrial-protective therapeutics which reverse mitochondrial dysfunction to arrest decline in muscular dystrophy and neurodegeneration. MitoRx Therapeutics' first-in-class first-in-target platform has potential to arrest the progression of some of the most challenging diseases.
Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Jersey
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- Previsico — Previsico is a spinOut company from Loughborough University specialising in modelling flooding in real-time, using weather predictions to make street-level flood nowcasts and forecasts. The company's mission is to be the leading global provider of cutting-edge flood prediction that saves lives and livelihoods.Its FloodMap Live producesround the clock street-level flood risk predictions and analytics. Uniquely, these are continuously modelled and updated using a combination of different weather forecasts. This allows the company to map the likelihood of short and long-term surface water events in real-time to the street level.
- Looper Insights — Looper Insights - Optimizing Content and App Placement Across Connected TV Devices. The market leader in analytics on Connected TV devices.
- We Are Fulfilment — We Are Fulfillment is an e-commerce company that provides warehousing and management services.
UKI2S, formally the Rainbow Seed Fund, is an investment fund backed by the government, providing seed funding to science & technology start-ups and SMEs
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
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- Machine Discovery — Machine Discovery is a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing new machine learning technology. We leverage proprietary neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations — and we do it with minimal data and 99.9% fidelity.
- Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool
- Laverock Therapeutics — Laverock Therapeutics is developing a gene silencing platform for the creation of programmable, allogeneic cell therapies.
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.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Israel
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- MetCloud — METCLOUD is a next generation, cyber security & cloud platform provider. Contact our team today for pioneering cyber security solutions!
- When in Rome — We bring you craft wines made by small, independent producers and sold in convenient, eco-friendly bag-in-boxes at a great price with free delivery.
- Medmin Group Limited — Medmin is building a group of healthcare businesses that will transform private medical treatment for the uninsured and the clinicians that treat them. We are developing a network of clinics across the UK, grouping clinicians together into branded, condition focussed clinics that patients can easily identify online. The clinics will provide care toour "Get Well Soon" patients and also undertake work for insured and self-pay patients requiring other procedures and treatments.
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) is an initiative launched by the government-owned British Business Bank.It is a key part of the government’s ‘Northern Powerhouse’ vision, which aims to end the historic North / South divide and create economic prosperity in the North of England on par with London and the South East.Thegovernment firmly believes that SMEs form the foundation of the region’s future growth. NPIF therefore aims to nurture regional entrepreneurship by providing investment and support for small and medium businesses between 2016 and 2021. NPIF's funding will support new and growing SMEs, create jobs and encourage and attract additional private sector investment.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- Konektio — With over 20+ years of industrial IoT experience - Konektio's condition-based and energy-monitoring solutions keep your machines running.
- AssetCool — AssetCool is a thermal metaphotonics company. It produces photonic coatings and materials that enhance the functionality of electrical networks.
- Biorelate — Biorelate provides biomedical research services. It engages in the research of biomarkers for the diagnosis of prostate cancer; target validation; and new drug development services. Daniel Jamison founded Biorelate in 2014. It has its headquarters in Oldham in the United Kingdom.
BGF invests in hundreds of businesses from an evergreen balance sheet. But we offer more than just growth capital. Find out what makes us different.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
- United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
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- Avoca Clinic — The Avoca Clinic is Ireland's only plastic surgery clinic. Our World Class Consultants are all Irish Medical Council Registered. Book a free consultation today
- Stellar Omada — Stellar Omada delivers leading business & digital transformation that exceeds expectations in a constantly changing world. Contact us.
- Machine Discovery — Machine Discovery is a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing new machine learning technology. We leverage proprietary neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations — and we do it with minimal data and 99.9% fidelity.
Oxford Sciences Innovation is the world’s largest university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companiestaking on challenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
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- Navenio — Navenio is a software technology company that provides location-based services for indoor environments via mobile applications. Its solution provides an improvement on other indoor localization technologies, having the ability to locate people without the need for implementing, managing, or surveying any new building hardware such as beacons orwi-fi. Navenio’s intelligent workforce solution unlocks significant improvements in the efficiency and workflow of staff and teams through automation that is carefully driven from real-world best practice.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Oxford, England.
- AlveoGene — Welcome to AlveoGene Transforming Rare Respiratory Disease Outcomes Using Inhaled Gene Therapy More information
- Sitryx Therapeutics — Sitryx is a biopharmaceutical company focused on regulating cell metabolism to develop first-in-class disease modifying therapeutics in immuno-oncology and immuno-inflammation. The company was co-founded by a team of world-leading scientists from the United States and Europe who have contributed significantly to the field of immunometabolism.Sitryx was founded in 2018 with seed funding from SV Health Investors and raised $30 million Series A funding from an international syndicate of specialist investors including SV Health Investors, Sofinnova Partners, Longwood Fund and GSK. The company has a pipeline of projects at multiple stages of drug discovery. Sitryx is headquartered in Oxford, UK.
FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Finance East Limited delivers funding for businesses based in the East of England region.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
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- Seriously Low Carb — Award Winning. Consumer brand of choice. Real food that's Keto and Low Carb friendly. The home of the Seriously Low Carb Loaf, the Seriously Low Carb Pizza and now lots of other products too.
- Laserthrust — Laserthrust is developing and producing a 3D-printed, super-cavitating electric craft capable of traveling from Norwich, UK, to Amsterdam. The company's marine goods are made completely of recycled and recyclable FDM 3D-printed materials, with a particular emphasis on TPU-based materials.
- Luxury Cottages — Find a luxury holiday cottage to rent in the UK. Our handpicked holiday homes at Luxury Cottages are carefully selected by our luxury travel experts.
Venrex Investment Management is a UK-based venture capital firm that backs creative Founders to launch and build innovative businesses.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, France
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- Integral — Compliantly connecting health data as securely and as quickly as possible.
- HUG — Discover new artists, and access innovative creator-friendly education. Earn rewards for celebrating and curating your favorite artists!
- KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
MEIF is an investment firm that operates equity and debt investment towards growth capital. The firm aims to transform the finance landscape for smaller businesses in the Midlands and to realize the region’s potential to achieve economic growth through enterprise. It is a collaboration between the British Business Bank and ten Local EnterprisePartnerships (LEPs) in the West Midlands and East and South East Midlands. MEIF provides over £250m of investment to boost small and medium business (SME) growth in the Midlands.
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- Health Care, Manufacturing, Software
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Thailand
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- Capri Healthcare Ltd — Capri Healthcare is an organization driven by the vision of turning NHS Digital first strategy into reality by bringing digital innovation into the working of GP Practices. We lead healthcare organisations into the Digital Era by redesigning and developing patient centric online channels, reducing the NHS burden. We pride ourselves in offering arange of technology-driven innovative solutions to the healthcare industry driving your digital agenda.
- Medmin Group Limited — Medmin is building a group of healthcare businesses that will transform private medical treatment for the uninsured and the clinicians that treat them. We are developing a network of clinics across the UK, grouping clinicians together into branded, condition focussed clinics that patients can easily identify online. The clinics will provide care toour "Get Well Soon" patients and also undertake work for insured and self-pay patients requiring other procedures and treatments.
- School of Coding — School of Coding, We teach coding through our after-school clubs and at our education Centre. We teach coding to children from the age of 6
The Cambridge Angels are a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in internet, software, technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors in the Cambridge (UK) area and throughout the UK.Typical funding requirements thatthe Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £50,000 to £500,000 - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have received more than £1m in funding from their Members over several funding rounds.Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
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- Molymem — Molymem enhances the performance of filtering membranes used in separation processes including desalination and the removal of industrial contaminants.
- Silveray — Silveray develop affordable large-area direct conversion detectors for the X-ray imaging market.
- Five Alarm Bio — Five Alarm Bio is a drug discovery company. Five Alarm intends to use discoveries to provide secure and efficient remedies for a variety of age-related illnesses and limitations. Five Alarm Bio is creating a small molecule strategy to strengthen the body's defense against aging.
Scotland's business advice, support and funding agency. Explore our products and services to find the right support for your business and apply online today.
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- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Grant, Funding Round, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Japan
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- Pneumagen — Pneumagen focuses on developing glycan targeted carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs) as a new universal therapeutic modality for the treatment of respiratory tract infections (RTIs) and cancer. Founded in 2016, the Company is a spin-out from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and has access to world-class scientific expertise and capabilitiesin glycobiology.
- Microplate Dx — Microplate Dx is a developer of diagnostic technology aimed at significantly reducing fatalities caused by drug-resistant infections.Microplate Dx, an award-winning spinout company from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, focuses on creating innovative diagnostic solutions to combat the significant global health challenge of antimicrobialresistance. Their technology revolves around the ingenious concept of employing highly sensitive biosensor electrodes, enhanced with miniaturized hydrogel deposits containing various antibiotics tailored to the specific infection being detected. The primary mission of Microplate DX is to proactively prevent and manage the proliferation of antimicrobial resistance on a global scale.
- Rapscallion Soda — Award Winning, Fresh Fruit, Low Calorie Soft Drinks, Handmade in Scotland. Fresh batches made weekly. Free UK Mainland Delivery. International Shipping. Ginga Ninja | Burnt Lemon | Dry Lime | Scottish Rhubarb Soda | Scottish Strawberry Soda | Cranachan Soda | Blueberry Soda Love soda. Hate hangovers. Drink local.
Mercia Equity Finance is a regional investor that focuses initially on uncovering the hidden value. It uses both of its managed funds and its proprietary capital to invest across four distinct asset classes: venture, private equity, and debt, referred to as their 'Complete Capital Solution’. It aspires to be the first choice for investors,investees, and employees, and, by aspiring to be the first choice, they believe that Mercia will deliver superior returns for business owners, shareholders, and fund investors alike.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Envoke — The engagement Platform for your Virtual Instrument.
- Invincibles Studio — We're an independent games studio, making exceptional football games for mobile devices that have been downloaded over 50 million times.
- Productive Machines — We create digital twins of the milling process to identify vibrations and then automatically personalize the tool path parameters to eliminate chatter. Our customers get to the best part, faster, the first time.
We invest venture capital in to globally ambitious companies which have the potential to deliver a significant return to our investors
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
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- novosound — Novosound is an award winning Scottish sensors company utilising thin-film processes to eliminate conventional limitations in ultrasound sensors.
- Snappy Shopper — Order your favourite products from your local convenience store, for delivery from as little as 30 minutes with Snappy Shopper. Your every day essentials are only a click away - order your grocery delivery online or through our app.
- Sofant Technologies — Sofant is developing a low cost RF MEMS technology that solves power consumption and heat problems in high frequency phased array antenna systems.
Techstart Ventures is a leading investor of seed capital across Scotland and Northern Ireland. they are a trusted partner to ambitious founders on their journey to success.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Ireland
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- Enzai — Enzai's AI governance platform allows you to build and deploy AI with confidence. Measure your progress in AI responsibility, and get actionable steps with our 3-minute maturity assessment.
- MDD systems — MDDSystems provides high-quality consultancy and design services in Sensor measurement, Data monitoring, and recording, Wireless data transmission, Data analysis, Project Management. ,
- Continuum Industries — Continuum Industries is a developer of Optioneer, the leading software for linear infrastructure optioneering.
Oxford Science Enterprises a university-partnered venture firm, investing in early-stage life science, AI & software, and deep tech.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
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- Archangel Lightworks — Archangel Lightworks is integrating space and air assets using laser communication.
- Grey Wolf Therapeutics — By targeting the ERAP proteases in the antigen presentation pathway Grey Wolf aims to change the neoantigen repertoire in cancer.
- Quantum Motion — One Hundred Qubits is Interesting. One Million is World-changing
Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Hungary
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- CanSense — CanSense is a developer of an inexpensive and scalable blood test intended for early diagnosis of bowel cancer.
- Workbuzz — Issue employee engagement surveys with WorkBuzz - a fast, simple, and flexible platform with expert consultancy. Try it now!
- Centuro Global — Centuro Global helps you go global.We help startups, scaleups & corporates enter new markets around the world. All your international expansion needs are serviced from one platform, whether you need legal support, tax & accounting, HR, opening a bank account or finding office space, we can assist across the board.Our innovativeplatform, Centuro Connect, contains blueprints on how to do business in over 150 countries, provides live chat advice, and access to local experts around the world. Instead of losing time undertaking Google searches for relevant information and identifying trusted, cost-effective service providers, find all your solutions through Centuro Connect.Come to us for services including; Legal, Immigration, Intellectual Property, Scaling & Expansion, New Market Entry, Tax & Accounting and much more.Receive advice, find service providers, investors and like minded individuals, and seamlessly grow your business.Book a free consultation with us: www.centuroglobal.com
Maven is one of the UK's leading private equity and investment firms. We provide essential capital and expertise to help businesses unlock their potential.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- MarraBio — MarraBio Ltd. is a spin out company from Newcastle University using engineered bacterial protein polymers to provide bioactivity to cells at the industrial scale in the cultivated meat sector and beyond.
- Power Roll — Power Roll has reinvented solar to generate energy anywhere and everywhere, using any surface.
- Laverock Therapeutics — Laverock Therapeutics is developing a gene silencing platform for the creation of programmable, allogeneic cell therapies.
Established in 1992. Archangels is the oldest continuously operating business angel syndicate in the World. Investing in IP-rich tech & life sciences companies in Scotland, UK.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
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- Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
- Cytomos — Cytomos develops and provides integrated, predictive analytics systems for intelligent bioprocessing in biopharma and cell therapy domains.
- Administrate — Manage 100% of enterprise training operations with configurable training management software, designed to scale with your organization.
Equity Gap is a group of private individuals set up to invest in and support emerging and growing businesses based in Scotland
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- Information Technology, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Shot Scope — The official Shot Scope website. Golf watches, range finders and performance tracking that help lower your score and handicap. Buy direct online today!
- PneumoWave — Empowering Intervention and Prevention for Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression
- Vector Photonics — Vector Photonics is a spin-out company from the University of Glasgow and is based in Glasgow, Scotland, one of the UK and world’s Optical and Photonics centres of excellence.
IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London-based VC firm that invests in ‘deep tech’ companies capable of dominating their respective markets on a global scale. Initial investments at Seed and Series A range from £0.5m to £10m, with capacity for follow-on investment up to £30m through the Growth Fund. The team has achieved over 30 exits including toApple, Huawei, Google and Oracle.
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- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
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- Mindgard — Mindgard rapidly uncovers cyber threats against Artificial Intelligence. Our product empowers businesses to securely deploy their mission-critical AI within an everchanging cyber landscape.
- Signaloid — Signaloid provides efficient computing hardware and software technologies to quantify, transmit, and track data uncertainty in computations.
- AccelerComm — Our patented, market-leading IP solutions for 4G and 5G are configurable for quick, high-performance implementations across a wide range of applications.
Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
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- Odore — Our platform enables the world's leading brands to sample their products more effectively.
- Supportwave — NerdApp offers online or on-site tech support for your home or small business. Just sign up and book a Nerd instantly or schedule at your convenience!
- Fantastic Days — Fantastic Days is a beauty social intelligence platform provider.
BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders at Seed in Europe. Welcome to Different.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
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- Hoxton Farms — Based in London, UK, Hoxton Farms is growing real animal fat – without animals. The company combines cell biology and mathematical modelling to produce cultivated fat as an ingredient for the meat alternatives industry.
- Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.
- Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
An Enterprise Investment Scheme (“EIS”) that will invest into early-stage, unquoted companies that are developing disruptive technology and pioneering innovations. The Fund represents a collaboration between Foresight Group and the Williams Advanced Engineering business (part of the Williams Group). Foresight will be launching and managing theFund.
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- Information Technology, Semiconductor, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- MIRICO — Detect, localise and quantify emissions with MIRICO's revolutionary technology. Find out how we can help you with your gas monitoring today.
- Phlux Technology — Phlux is a photonics company developing innovative light detector and imaging systems. Spun out from the University of Sheffield in September 2020, Phlux is developing high performance infrared sensors for LIDAR, fibre sensing and imaging systems.
- Cambridge GaN Devices — Cambridge GaN Devices develops transistors designed to bring widespread adoption of GaN technology in consumer electronics.
A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund
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- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Israel, Germany
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- m3ter — We enable software companies to intelligently deploy all usage-based scenarios whether they charge by subscription, consumption, or a hybrid pricing model.
- Vitaance — Vitaance is a new insurtech start-up in the life insurance industry. We aim to improve people's quality of life through financial, emotional and physical wellbeing, by creating smart, fair and responsible insurance products enabled by technology. We want to democratize access to life insurance and to a healthier lifestyle.
- Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030
SFC Capital, the UK's most active seed investor (PitchBook, 2020), provides capital and support to British startups. By combining its Angel Network and Seed Funds, SFC has created a unique model that allows investors to get exposure to SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, either directly or through a diversified portfolio curated and managedby SFC’s expert team. In 2020, SFC received a £10m allocation from Business Investments as part of the Regional Angels Programme in support of SFC's mission to back promising early-stage companies from every corner of the UK.SFC Capital is an Appointed Representative of SFC Capital Partners Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 736184).
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
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- Odore — Our platform enables the world's leading brands to sample their products more effectively.
- Decently — Decently provides the world a better place by developing advanced digital products. Decently mission is to improve lives through innovative digital product.
- TrainThis.AI — TrainThis.AI revolutionizes the way you manage and coach your team. Say goodbye to wasting hours on call reviews and email reading just to provide feedback on a fraction of the work. The company's real-time feedback system empowers your reps to receive continuous input on their work, eliminating poor-quality outcomes and maximizing thebenefits of ongoing feedback.
YFM Equity Partners is an independent private equity business owned by its senior management and investment team. They invest up to £10 million of equity through offices in Leeds, London, Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield.
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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Belgium
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- Xapien — Xapien delivers automated insight reports on companies and individuals in minutes, so you can make informed business decisions quickly and with confidence.
- Workbuzz — Issue employee engagement surveys with WorkBuzz - a fast, simple, and flexible platform with expert consultancy. Try it now!
- GEEIQ — GEEIQ enables businesses of every shape and size to navigate and engage the metaverse. Our platform helps identify opportunities and create data-led virtual strategies in Web3, gaming and virtual environments.
Newable helps businesses thrive through funding, professional support and premises. Unleashing potential, building resilience & championing growth.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
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- Delta g — Delta g Limited is a quantum technology and gravity gradiometry company. A spin-out from the University of Birmingham our technology has applications in industries as varied as civil engineering, infrastructure, defence, rail, navigation and resource exploration. Experts from science, engineering an
- EarSwitch — Empowering new ways to control and connect with the world through in-ear biometric switch and sensor technology
- RAB Microfluidics — We diagnose early signs of failure in lubricated machinery and prevent equipment failure using our patented microfluidic technology and AI technology.
Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
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- Camena Bioscience — Camena Bioscience is a synthetic biology company that develops tools to engineer new synthetic biology applications. It has engineered new nucleic acid synthesis technology which improves the quality and speed of synthesis. Its multi-enzymatic technology takes one approach to DNA, RNA, and XNA synthesis, offering increased accuracy over existingPhosphoramidite synthesis technology.Camena Bioscience was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge.
- Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT) — NPT is a cleantech company that has developed a revolutionary process technology called REFNOVA. REFNOVA allows customers to converts non-food plant residues into sustainable products such as biochar, activated carbon, biofuel, biopolymers and biochemicals. Our products help customers replace fossil based products and enable decarbonisation.
- Send — We're transforming commercial insurance software with our composable SaaS platform, which seamlessly scales and flexes to cover everything your team needs.
Low Carbon Innovation Fund is a venture capital fund, providing equity finance for SME’s based wholly or partially in the East of England.The Fund is supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). It uses £20.5M from the ERDF which will be matched with over £30M private sector investment – generating a total of over £50M ofinvestment in the East of England. So far the Fund has invested over £8.5M alongside £26M private co-investment in 26 investments.Turquoise International manages the Fund on behalf of the Adapt Low Carbon Group at the University of East Anglia (UEA). The Fund builds on the region's world class low carbon economy and is the largest European Regional Development Fund-funded project in the region. The Low Carbon Innovation Fund was launched in September 2010 and will run until December 2015.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland
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- Adaptavate — Our purpose is to help the construction industry adapt to change, by mainstreaming the production, manufacturing and availability of world leading low carbon building materials.
- RideTandem — Tandem turns local transport providers into smart shuttles for work, education and more. The smart way to move your community.
- Jiva Materials — Established in September 2017, Jiva Materials is a sustainability start-up based in London, UK. Through material science, Jiva Materials strives to question the manufacturing methods of our modern technology. Using naturally derived products, Jiva Materials is attempting to rebuild these industries from the bottom up.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Spain
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- RoboK — A Cambridge University spin-out building cost-effective 3D sensing software technology
- Tenzo — Tenzo is a restaurant analytics and AI forecasting platform for restaurants, pubs and cafes. Tenzo makes running restaurants easy with full data visibility.
- Riverlane — Riverlane's mission is to make quantum computing useful far sooner than previously imaginable, starting an era of human progress as significant as the industrial and digital revolutions.
Longwall Ventures invests in innovative, UK based, early stage companies in the healthcare, science and engineering sectors
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- Biotechnology, Medical Device, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, Philippines
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- Wayland Additive — Wayland Additive Limited is a West-Yorkshire based company pushing the boundaries of electron beam 3D printing. Wayland’s goal is to develop, manufacture and sell metal Additive Manufacturing (“AM” – 3D printing) machines to industrial end-users such as major players in the aerospace and medical industries.
- Caristo Diagnostics — Coronary Artery Inflammation causes heart attacks. We detect and measure coronary inflammation and plaque on CCTA with CaRi-Heart technology
- Lightcast Discovery — Flexible control over droplet number, occupancy, location and movement. Enabling efficient, multi-step workflows with unprecedented flexibility.
The UCL Technology Fund is dedicated to investing in intellectual property commercialisation opportunities arising from UCL’s world-class research base, focusing in particular on the physical and life sciences. The Fund supports UCL in achieving the full potential of innovations that have prospects for outstanding societal and market impact, rightthrough the development journey from initial proof of concept to practical commercial application.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States
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- Hazy — Hazy is a UCL AI spin out backed by Microsoft and Nationwide. Our core product is synthetic data - data generated artificially using machine learning techniques, that retains the statistical properties of the real data and can be safely used for analytics and innovation without compromising customers privacy and confidential information. We do itby capturing patterns in the raw data to generate completely synthetic 'hazy' data that maintains the statistical value of the original. This means businesses can unlock their data for innovation freely with safer and faster data provisioning on demand and no compliance, security or privacy risks and procurement delays.
- Gaussion — Gaussion is revolutionising batteries by utilising magneto-electrochemistry.
- Tenpoint Therapeutics — Tenpoint Therapeutics is a biotechnology company pursuing vision-restoring engineered cell-based therapeutics.
The team behind Catapult Ventures are among the most experienced venture capital investors in the UK.Their experience spans a range of sectors from healthcare and pharmaceuticals to luxury consumer brands, manufacturing and software, as well as all stages: from start-ups and pre-revenue IP developers to company floatation and billions of poundsin revenue. Their administration team is equally experienced with each member having more than 10 years experience in a venture capital environment.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Israel
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- Pickle Robot — We make robots that unload trucks without retrofitting the warehouse
- Urban Machine — Salvaging the past to build the future- Stealth Startup
- Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool
Here at SEP we specialise in investment for high growth companies across a range of technology sectors. Partnering with you to fuel growth.
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- Software, Energy, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Dohop — Dohop is an award-winning technology provider founded in Iceland with 15 years’ experience in developing innovative solutions in the field of aviation and travel. Its core technology is focused on creating connecting itineraries. Being at the forefront of digital innovation in the field of interline technology, Dohop has developed solutions forforward-thinking airlines, alliances, and airports all around the globe, including easyJet, Transavia, Eurowings, Jetstar Group, Gatwick Airport, and SkyTeam.
- Tyk — Our API Management platform is fast, scalable, modern. Including an open source API Gateway, Analytics, Dev Portal and Dashboard.
- Cresset — Cresset is software and services for small molecule discovery and design.
Woodford Investment Management is a privately owned investment firm manages equity mutual funds. At Woodford, they don’t want to be just another fund management company. They want to create something different and better for their investors and they feel strongly that existing and potential clients are entitled to understand what they are doingwith their money.As investors, they are active, engaged, long-term, disciplined, diligent and focused. That’s a lot of things to say about their selves but each word is important in helping you to understand how they manage money – they will explain in more detail as they move along.Their investment approach and process are focused on value discovery, not price discovery. They believe that financial markets are inherently inefficient and that, through disciplined and diligent analysis, they can identify investment opportunities where market prices do not reflect long-term fundamental value. By exploiting this pervasive market characteristic, they believe they can create real long-term value for their investors.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
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- Inivata — Inivata is a clinical cancer genomics company harnessing the emerging potential of circulating DNA analysis to improve testing and treatment for oncologists and their patients.Unlike conventional invasive biopsies, Inivata detects and analyses genomic material from a cancer patient’s cell-free, circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) which can be collectedthrough a simple blood sample. This non-invasive approach – a liquid biopsy – offers a revolution in how cancer is detected, monitored, and treated.
- Revolut — Open a free account in minutes right from your phone, and make your money go further
- Atom Bank — Savings accounts, a range of mortgages & business loans, you'll find it all with Atom bank. App-based and designed to be hassle-free. Download the app today.
We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.
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- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
- Awell Health — Ollie is a vast library of over 100 interface blocks with complete Webflow CMS integration. Build beautiful websites in less time than ever.
- Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool
HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, serves millions of customers through its three Global Businesses.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Israel
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- Mirakl — Mirakl offers the industry’s advanced enterprise marketplace SaaS platform. With Mirakl, organizations across B2B and B2C industries can launch marketplaces faster, grow bigger, and operate with confidence as they exceed rising customer expectations. Platforms are the new competitive advantage in eCommerce, and the world’s most trusted brandschoose Mirakl for its comprehensive solution of technology, expertise, and the Mirakl Connect ecosystem to unlock the power of the platform business model for them. As a result, companies like ABB, Astore by AccorHotels, Best Buy Canada, Carrefour, Catch, Changi Airport, Darty, The Kroger Co., Leroy Merlin, Maisons du Monde, Metro, and Toyota Material Handling gain the speed, scale, and agility to win in the changing eCommerce landscape. For more information: www.mirakl.com.
- Varo Energy — VARO Energy is an integrated oil refiner and supplier serving North West Europe, safely and efficiently. Varo Energy is investing in this market by building a network of refineries, storage tanks and distribution channels to secure the reliable supply of oil products for heating, transportation, construction and the petrochemical industry in NorthWest Europe.
- Sai Silks (Kalamandir) — Sai Silks Kalamandir Limited (SSKL), a renowned retail textile conglomerate established in 2005 by Mr. Chalavadi Naga Kanaka Durga Prasad.
Cambridge Innovation Capital backs life sciences and technology companies with an affiliation to Cambridge, Europe’s capital for innovation. As a preferred investor for the University of Cambridge, they have unparalleled access to investment opportunities in the ecosystem.Since our inception in 2013, they have raised £275 million to invest indisruptive, deep-tech businesses in sectors including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, quantum technologies, autonomous systems, therapeutics, medtech/diagnostics, digital health, and genomics/proteomics.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
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- Riverlane — Riverlane's mission is to make quantum computing useful far sooner than previously imaginable, starting an era of human progress as significant as the industrial and digital revolutions.
- Mosaic Therapeutics — Mosaic Therapeutics is reshaping the interface of computational and experimental medicine to power new medicines for patients.
- Complement Therapeutics — Turning powerful new Complement System insights into innovative treatments Developing the next generation of complement medicines [chevron-down] Turning powerful new Complement System insights into innovative treatments Developing the next generation of complement medicines [chevron-down] Geographic atrophy (late dry age-related macular degeneration) is a chronic eye condition that affects millions - and for which there is
The Clean Growth Fund, London, invests in companies focussed on driving clean growth in the low carbon economy.
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- Manufacturing, Energy, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
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- HydRegen — HydRegen is a biotechnology company that provides sustainable solutions for chemical manufacturing. HydRegen was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom.
- Futraheat — Very high temperature heat pumps are key to revolutionising how industry heat demands are met. Futraheat compressor technology achieves 250C waste heat recovery
- Arda Biomaterials — Arda Biomaterials transforms waste feedstocks into smarter, circular biomaterials for fashion, home goods, automotive and more.
Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders
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- Software, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Italy
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- HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
- ManholeMetrics — We are a multi-award winning sensor and analytics start-up on a mission to stop flooding and bring wastewater into the 21st Century.
- SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.
Brilliant Ideas. Brilliant People. Brilliant Minds.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Funding Round, Convertible Note, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
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- Captura — Captura mission is globally scalable carbon capture to support a sustainable future for the climate.
- Regent — We build all-electric, passenger-carrying, wing-in-ground-effect vehicles to service coastal routes with technology available today.
- Queen of Raw — Queen of Raw is a global marketplace with AI-powered supply chain software to eliminate and monetize textile waste, tracking and analyzing data to keep unused raw materials out of landfills and turn pollution into profit. An integrated dashboard allows its customers to visualize savings to their bottom- and top-lines as well as to the environmentby the actions they take across the Queen of Raw platform. Queen of Raw has helped 400,000+ users save millions of dollars—and more than a billion gallons of water.Queen of Raw is powered by mmx (http://www.materiamx.com/).
Force Over mass are reinventing Venture Capital. With over a decade of experience in investing in innovation we are at the forefront of innovation. Introducing FOM 2.0, an unprecedented fund that combines unparalleled liquidity with uncompromised privacy. This unique initiative emphasizes complete transparency and aims to empower our entrepreneurs for success. With expertise in both technology and finance, we comprehensively grasp the complexities of the private markets, enabling us to innovate collaboratively. FOM 2.0 is poised to deliver on its promises of transparency, liquidity, and control.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
- CUR8 — Even if we do everything else right on reducing emissions, the world still needs to remove up to 220 Gigatonnes of carbon from the atmosphere by 2050
- SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.
Angels Den is an angel-led investment platform that connects fast-growing companies with experienced investors.
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- E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States, Finland
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- AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
- OnCare — Home care software | care management system
- SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.
We bring bold ideas to life to change the world for good.
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- Biotechnology, Medical Device, Medical
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
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- Citymart — Citymart powers cities to deliver services that work. Following best practices developed with leading cities around the world, Citymart connects cities and revolutionizes the way cities frame needs, complete procurements, and improve service delivery. Over 100 cities in 35 countries have adopted Citymart tools and methods to-date.
- Featurespace — 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.
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