Midlands Engine Investment Fund

Established in 2017, the Midlands Engine Investment Fund facilitates equity and debt investments to support small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) across the West Midlands and East & South East Midlands. Collaborating with ten Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), it aims to stimulate regional economic growth by providing over £250 million in investment.

Roger Wood

Managing Director

Past deals in Birmingham

Grid Edge

Venture Round in 2025
Grid Edge develops AI-driven energy management software for commercial and public buildings. Its cloud-based platform predicts and optimizes building energy loads by integrating with building energy management systems and smart meters. Using hybrid deep learning and data analytics, the solution forecasts energy demand and allocates resources to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions while turning on-site technologies into more efficient, revenue-ready assets. The company aims to help building owners and operators manage energy profiles proactively, enhancing grid participation through intelligent control of energy distribution.

FlashAcademy®

Debt Financing in 2022
FlashAcademy® is the UK's No.1 EAL platform supporting 1,000+ schools and over 250k+ individuals to accelerate English language acquisition. Our award-winning technology helps to accelerate English language acquisition with curriculum content from over 48+ home languages, on any device. Based in Birmingham, UK, our incredibly talented, fast-growing team here at Learning Labs are on a mission is to ensure that schools have the tools to create EAL learning superstars. We believe in accessible learning that provides equal opportunities for learners to fulfil their academic potential and develop better social relationships.

Linear Diagnostics

Venture Round in 2021
Linear Diagnostics develops a proprietary diagnostic platform technology that enables rapid, simultaneous detection of multiple targets using a single reagent. Its core innovation, linear dichroism, facilitates molecular diagnostics tests across various sectors, including infectious diseases and food safety.

Hams Hall

Debt Financing in 2020
Hams Hall is a Birmingham based sustainable energy provider.

Linear Diagnostics

Venture Round in 2019
Linear Diagnostics develops a proprietary diagnostic platform technology that enables rapid, simultaneous detection of multiple targets using a single reagent. Its core innovation, linear dichroism, facilitates molecular diagnostics tests across various sectors, including infectious diseases and food safety.

Rent Chief

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2018, Rent Chief develops an online platform for property investors, landlords, and lettings agents. It automates routine tasks like tenant sourcing and trade services, provides sector regulation updates, and offers mortgage and insurance products.

Covatic

Funding Round in 2018
Covatic develops broadcast personalization software and a consumer insights platform that enables on-device personalization for applications. Incorporated in 2016, the company is based in Birmingham, United Kingdom, with an additional office in London. Its platform provides an on-device software development kit that leverages trusted first-party and offline consented data to create contextual audience segments, helping media companies deliver relevant advertising while strengthening user trust and complying with privacy regulations.

Adapttech

Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2015, Adapttech is a biomedical company based in Birmingham, UK. It develops smart wearable technologies aimed at improving the quality of life for individuals with physical limitations, particularly those who have experienced lower limb loss. The company's innovative products include the INSIGHT Scanner for creating 3D socket models, the INSIGHT Wearable for real-time bio-data collection, and the INSIGHT App for accessing results anytime.
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