Downing

Downing Ventures is a division of Downing LLP. They invest venture capital into early and growth stage technology businesses. Our belief is that technology now forms an integral part of the everyday lives of consumers, corporations and governments. Further, they believe that they are now experiencing the benefits of the second wave of technology development, which is now based on sound infrastructure. Investing into this trend, they look for: Visionary entrepreneurs, with the ability to execute as well as dream. Large (potential) addressable markets. Distinct product / service advantages. Limited adoption risk for customers. They seek to invest 250,000 to 5 million per company. They will invest in seed-stage deals and Series A deals, and then look to continue to support those companies through phases of subsequent growth. Fundamentally, they back entrepreneurs. They are supportive, hopefully helpful, investors.

Christopher Charles Allner

Partner and Chairman of Investment Committee

William Barker

Investment Professional

Jonathan Boss

Partner

Will Brooks

Healthcare Investment Director

Nick Carter

Investment Manager

Daniel Cheung

Principal

Colin Corbally

Partner and Head of Renewables

Jack Eadie

Partner

David Freeder

Investment Director

Kathy Gromotka

Principal

Mark Gross

Partner

Nick Hawthorn

Fund Manager

Michael John Hughes

Investment Director

Steven Kenee

Investment Director

Richard Lewis

Partner

Chris Lewis

Partner and CFO

James Lynch

Investment Manager

Kostas Manolis

Partner and Head of Unquoted Investments

Laoise Mcgarry

Portfolio Director

Sean Moore

Investment Director

James Nettleton

Principal

Will Orde

Director

Will Orde

Principal

Tom Phillips

Investment Director

David Phillips

Portfolio Director

Matt Pierce

Healthcare Principal

John Pilbeam

Construction Director

Ben Richmond

Investment Manager

Martin Robertson

Head of Portfolio and Investment Director

Warren Rogers

Partner

Ayushman Sen

Investment Manager

Mehal Shah

Investment Manager

Neil Shillito

Fund Manager

Ed Simpson

Partner

Gemma Smith

Investment Manager – Product Specialist

David Martin Smith

Investment Manager

Kouj Tambara

Principal

Vaggelis Tsesmelidakis

Investment Director

Grant Leslie Whitehouse

Head of VCT Hub and Partner

Alyx Wood

Fund Manager

233 past transactions

Glisser

Venture Round in 2015
Glisser ‘socialises presentations’ through a simple app. Presenters or event organisers can push slides to audience devices one at a time as they are presented. Attendees can then write on them, mark them up and take them away just like a printed slide deck, but in electronic format. Glisser also integrates slide-by-slide ‘like’ voting, audience questions, Twitter, as well as polling and feedback slides integrated seamlessly within the original deck.

LoyaltyLion

Venture Round in 2016
LoyaltyLion Ltd. operates an online platform that enables small stores to reward their customers on their signups, comments, reviews, referrals, purchases, and more. Its platform also allows stores to create their own social loyalty programs; get insights on their customers, stores, and programs’ performance; and reward their customers for referrals via Facebook, Twitter, and emails. LoyaltyLion Ltd. was formerly known as Prizgo Limited and changed its name to LoyaltyLion Ltd. in July 2013. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Habu

Seed Round in 2016
Habu develops and provides an application platform for space and event management solutions. Its ecosystem management tool caters to multi-room venues. It offers analytics, reporting, room utilization, and booking solutions. The company caters to meeting rooms, conference spaces, studios, events, hot-desks, and co-working environments. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom.

EdPlace

Venture Round in 2015
EdPlace Limited, doing business as EdPlace.com, provides online tutorial services. It offers tools that assist parents in their child's learning. The company provides teachers, comprehensive coverage of the topics in English, maths, and science as well as content that is aligned with national curriculum for students. It offers its products through desktop and mobile application. EdPlace Limited was founded in 2010 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Touchlight Genetics

Venture Round in 2014
Touchlight Genetics Ltd., a biotechnology company, operates in the fields of DNA therapies and DNA technology. The company develops proTL, a synthetic DNA platform to manufacture doggybone closed linear DNA without the requirement for bacterial fermentation. It offers its solutions for various applications in the areas of veterinary vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, cancer/gene therapy, allergy treatment, RNAi therapies, and stem cell reprogramming. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Leatherhead, United Kingdom.

LIGNIA Wood Company

Venture Round in 2018
LIGNIA is the company is helping to tackle issues around the limited supplies of legal and sustainable hardwoods

Channel Mum

Venture Round in 2018
The video network, which bills itself as the “honest face of parenting” for millennial mothers.The platform is described as ‘YouTube’s friendliest – and most honest – community for mums’ bringing together thousands of parenting videos in one easy to navigate site where vloggers and businesses alike are able to work with Channel Mum to get in front of their target audiences. Siobhan leads a talented media team with parenting experience and created Channel Mum by gathering together a group of established vloggers to share their experiences of motherhood.

Spirable

Private Placement in 2018
Spirable owns and operates a platform that allows brands to create video content. The company offers data, including customer relationship management (CRM), social audience data, data data, and live contextual. It offers its services to industries, such as retail, CPG, travel, sports betting, telecommunication, and agencies. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

LoyaltyLion

Venture Round in 2015
LoyaltyLion Ltd. operates an online platform that enables small stores to reward their customers on their signups, comments, reviews, referrals, purchases, and more. Its platform also allows stores to create their own social loyalty programs; get insights on their customers, stores, and programs’ performance; and reward their customers for referrals via Facebook, Twitter, and emails. LoyaltyLion Ltd. was formerly known as Prizgo Limited and changed its name to LoyaltyLion Ltd. in July 2013. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

LIGNIA Wood Company

Private Placement in 2018
LIGNIA Wood Company engages in the manufacture and distribution of solid wood, hardwood, and fire retardant cladding products for indoor and outdoor applications. It sells its products through distributors. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Barry, United Kingdom.

Flock

Seed Round in 2016
Flock was founded in 2015 on the conviction that insurance was no longer fit for purpose in our fast-moving, hyper-connected world. Their mission is to make the world a safer, smarter place by bridging the gap between the insurance industry of today and the emerging technologies of tomorrow. The London based Insurtech began in the commercial drone industry where they launched Europe's first pay-as-you-fly drone insurance product, using real-time data (like population density and wind speed) to quantify, insure, and mitigate drone flight risks.They now have insure thousands of innovative drone operations globally, from agricultural surveyors to NHS medical delivery flights. Flock's technology has now helped thousands of pilots around the world to fly safer, reducing their risk exposure by 15% on average. Flock recently expanded into the rapidly evolving world of commercial motor fleets with a division focused on connected vehicles. Modern fleets change on a daily basis; expanding, contracting, and adopting the latest technology. They need an insurance policy that’s as agile and data-driven as they are. The world is becoming increasingly connected and autonomous, bringing both amazing opportunities and complex risks. As the insurer of the future, Flock aims to not only pay claims when incidents occur; they help customers understand and mitigate their own risks, to avoid things going wrong in the first place.

Smart Matrix

Venture Round in 2016
Smart Matrix is a medical device manufacturing company that specializes in wound care, regenerative medicine, and medical devices. It focuses on commercializing products based on a proprietary platform technology developed by the Restoration of Appearance and Function Trust. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in England, United Kingdom.

Miappi

Venture Round in 2015
Consumer-generated content is one of the most trusted forms of marketing and it has become a key component of brands’ marketing strategies. Miappi is a patent-pending, AI enabled SaaS platform that empowers brands to discover authentic consumer stories, manage the digital rights to that content and to distribute the most impactful media to marketing channels and ecommerce. Miappi also saves brands money. Marketing teams can tap into an always-on stream of great content, meaning brands spend less time and budget creating or commissioning their own content.

Virtuoso

Series A in 2021
SpotQA develops a next-gen digital QA platform to enable users to deliver tomorrow’s QA and test automation solutions today. It offers advanced web and mobile QA automation solutions and services, enabled by innovations and powered by cutting edge technologies and a team of QA experts. The company helps users build better quality software faster and more frequently, with fewer defects. SpotQA was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in London.

e.fundamentals

Series A in 2018
Category growth for CPG leaders delivering digital shelf analytics and insights to the world's leading brands.

The Electrospinning Company

Private Placement in 2019
The Electrospinning Company is a leading edge provider of electrospun nanofibre innovations, developing solutions to industrial challenges. They also work closely with academic research groups to develop novel nano-scale fibres and coatings for scientific research.

Flock

Seed Round in 2016
Flock was founded in 2015 on the conviction that insurance was no longer fit for purpose in our fast-moving, hyper-connected world. Their mission is to make the world a safer, smarter place by bridging the gap between the insurance industry of today and the emerging technologies of tomorrow. The London based Insurtech began in the commercial drone industry where they launched Europe's first pay-as-you-fly drone insurance product, using real-time data (like population density and wind speed) to quantify, insure, and mitigate drone flight risks.They now have insure thousands of innovative drone operations globally, from agricultural surveyors to NHS medical delivery flights. Flock's technology has now helped thousands of pilots around the world to fly safer, reducing their risk exposure by 15% on average. Flock recently expanded into the rapidly evolving world of commercial motor fleets with a division focused on connected vehicles. Modern fleets change on a daily basis; expanding, contracting, and adopting the latest technology. They need an insurance policy that’s as agile and data-driven as they are. The world is becoming increasingly connected and autonomous, bringing both amazing opportunities and complex risks. As the insurer of the future, Flock aims to not only pay claims when incidents occur; they help customers understand and mitigate their own risks, to avoid things going wrong in the first place.

MoveGB

Venture Round in 2018
MoveGB They are a company on the Move! Originally founded in Bath, UK in 2013, They are now one of the fastest growing fitness companies in the world. Their founder is one of the world's leading experts in exercise adherence and created Move based on the science of how to make staying healthy and happy easier.

Spirable

Private Placement in 2019
Spirable owns and operates a platform that allows brands to create video content. The company offers data, including customer relationship management (CRM), social audience data, data data, and live contextual. It offers its services to industries, such as retail, CPG, travel, sports betting, telecommunication, and agencies. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Happiour

Venture Round in 2015
Happiour Limited operates a daily food and drink application in London. Its application allows users to discover local offers happening at various street eateries, independent restaurants, bars, and cafes nearby. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom. As of October 16, 2017, Happiour Limited operates as a subsidiary of The Global Voucher Group Limited.

Limitless

Private Placement in 2019
Limitless enables businesses to connect customers with qualified experts to solve customer service enquiries on-demand, providing a faster and better service for significantly less cost. Expert responses and customer feedback then train our AI systems to automate low value queries overtime. The platform is live in over 20 countries and major clients include Microsoft, Unilever and Sage. Current investors include Unilever Ventures, Downing Ventures and Albion Capital.

Zenstores

Seed Round in 2016
Zenstores is a platform to propel online sellers to ecommerce greatness. Its powerful Dispatch shipping software and Insights sales reports get ecommerce businesses running faster, smoother and more profitably. The Zenstores platform provides access to powerful, accessible products that simplify the time-intensive processes of selling online. Zenstores Dispatch saves users hours every day by automating the booking of courier services and printing delivery labels. Zenstores Insights gives online sellers a central view of their sales performance and enables them to pinpoint what’s driving their business growth.

Open Bionics

Private Placement in 2019
Brunel Hand is a robotic hand with nine degrees of freedom for researchers. They use 3D printing to make their devices customized for each customer and accessible by anyone! They're developing the perfect medical grade materials to give their hands the right strength and grip and to make them last.

MoveGB

Venture Round in 2017
MoveGB They are a company on the Move! Originally founded in Bath, UK in 2013, They are now one of the fastest growing fitness companies in the world. Their founder is one of the world's leading experts in exercise adherence and created Move based on the science of how to make staying healthy and happy easier.

Duel

Seed Round in 2020
Duel is a Brand Advocacy Platform that enables purpose-led brands to drive organic growth and retention through word-of-mouth and advocacy. The Duel platform scales management of the brand’s relationship with thousands of their advocates through Advocacy Programs that engage, retain and drive word-of-mouth sales. The platform combines different advocacy tools (including challenges, UGC, referrals, loyalty, affiliates and surveys), under one platform so brands can build rich, customer membership clubs and VIP programs with airline style ‘status’ tiers, groups and segmentation. Spun out from Daredevil Project mobile app and game studio by world-record breaking adventurer and former brand ambassador, Paul Archer, and viral games developer, Panagiotis Tsarouchis, the Duel team is made up of psychologists, brand experts and community builders from companies including Amazon and Lululemon. Committed to working with brands that put people and the planet over profit, Duel is demystifying word-of-mouth marketing to breaking brands’ reliance on digital advertising and other short-term marketing practices to build brand movements and deliver long-term growth. The platform is used by brands such as Rab, Lowe Alpine, Monica Vinader, King of Shaves, Frugi and Mud Jeans and has consulted with over 450 brands including Amex, Travelex, M&S, Philips, Boots, Schuh and TopShop.

Masters of Pie

Seed Round in 2020
Masters of Pie Limited, a technology firm, develops product lifecycle management software using virtual and augmented reality software for manufacturing and wider enterprise solutions. The company’s products include a series of virtual reality updates and enhancements for computer-aided design (CAD). It develops a technology platform that enables industrial designers and production line experts to load their 3D data into a virtual meeting space to collaborate with colleagues in real-time. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

ABAKA Holdings

Series A in 2019
ABAKA Holdings Ltd. operates an intelligent savings platform that gives employers the potential to improve the financial wellbeing of their workforce. The company offers ABAKA, a platform that enables employers to improve employee benefits awareness, directly communicate and engage with their staff, and helps to put employees in control of deciding what they need and when. Its platform helps employees develop their own financial knowledge levels by providing them with timely financial guidance and personalized nudging. ABAKA Holdings Ltd. has a strategic partnership with Avaloq Group AG. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Arecor

Venture Round in 2018
Arecor is a leader in developing superior biopharmaceuticals through the application of its innovative formulation technology platform. Arecor is leveraging this platform to develop a portfolio of proprietary products enabling improved treatments for diabetes care via the innovative reformulation of approved proteins and peptides. In addition to its internal product portfolio, Arecor partners with leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies to deliver superior reformulations of their proprietary products, which would otherwise not be possible using conventional formulation science.

Craft

Seed Round in 2016
Craft is a machine-learning powered data and analytics platform building the “Source of Truth” on companies and mapping the global economy. The company organizes financial, operating and human capital data from thousands of sources to provide comprehensive, up-to-date sector and company profiles, ranging from early-stage to the largest companies in the world, with analytics and tools such as signal alerts, trends and benchmarking.

Hummingbird Technologies

Series A in 2018
Hummingbird Technologies Limited, an artificial intelligence company, develops solutions using imagery and data analytics from satellite, drone, plane, and robot technology. It offers Hummingbird, a drone-enabled data and imagery analytics solution that provide farmers with high-resolution maps of their crops at critical decision-making junctions in the season. The company also provides crop stress detection, detection of diseases, weed grass mapping, nutrient management mapping, as well as yield prediction and plant counting in row crops for cereals, potatoes, soybean, sugar beet, and rape/canola oilseeds. It serves agriculture sector. Hummingbird Technologies Limited was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Spotnight

Venture Round in 2015
3 Kinds of Ice is an addictive restaurant and event finder that will save you a load of time faffing about trying to decide where’s the best place to eat/drink or dance. We’re no bog-standard listings app - we’ve cut through the clutter, handpicking only the places that make you go ‘wow’, using mouthwatering picture and video stories that are made to be shared. Behind the incredibly simple interface lies a sophisticate recommendation algorithm able to predict what people will want to do.

E Fundamentals (Int) Limited

Private Placement in 2019
E Fundamentals (Int) Limited owns and operates an e-commerce analytics platform that delivers return on intelligence. The company's solution includes the 8 fundamentals dashboard, which monitors, gathers, and scores products performance data and generates reports for online retailers and brands. Its Smart Start service provides insights related to customer reviews, online strategies, and activation planning. In addition, the company enables clients to put the insights generated into action through insights actioned service. Furthermore, it educates sales and marketing teams as well. E Fundamentals (Int) Limited was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Firefly Learning

Private Placement in 2019
Firefly Learning Ltd develops and operates an online tool that brings together teachers, students, and parents to help students learn more. It helps teachers make marking, students tracking, resource sharing, and keeping parents in up to date; enables students to learn independently and collaboratively; and engages parents and helps them involve with their child's education. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Spotnight

Seed Round in 2014
3 Kinds of Ice is an addictive restaurant and event finder that will save you a load of time faffing about trying to decide where’s the best place to eat/drink or dance. We’re no bog-standard listings app - we’ve cut through the clutter, handpicking only the places that make you go ‘wow’, using mouthwatering picture and video stories that are made to be shared. Behind the incredibly simple interface lies a sophisticate recommendation algorithm able to predict what people will want to do.

Miappi

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Consumer-generated content is one of the most trusted forms of marketing and it has become a key component of brands’ marketing strategies. Miappi is a patent-pending, AI enabled SaaS platform that empowers brands to discover authentic consumer stories, manage the digital rights to that content and to distribute the most impactful media to marketing channels and ecommerce. Miappi also saves brands money. Marketing teams can tap into an always-on stream of great content, meaning brands spend less time and budget creating or commissioning their own content.

LoyaltyLion

Seed Round in 2014
LoyaltyLion Ltd. operates an online platform that enables small stores to reward their customers on their signups, comments, reviews, referrals, purchases, and more. Its platform also allows stores to create their own social loyalty programs; get insights on their customers, stores, and programs’ performance; and reward their customers for referrals via Facebook, Twitter, and emails. LoyaltyLion Ltd. was formerly known as Prizgo Limited and changed its name to LoyaltyLion Ltd. in July 2013. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Baby2Body

Seed Round in 2017
Baby2Body is the number one app for women to keep healthy and happy during and after pregnancy. The app is a fully automated health, fitness and wellbeing coaching platform for pregnant women and mothers, helping women to optimize their health and wellbeing. Based on multiple data points from each user, they use machine learning and proprietary, evidenced based content, to deliver personalised information and lifestyle advice: fitness, nutrition, psychological and emotional wellbeing and updates on the growth and development of their baby. Backed by science and expert -led, the company has reached over a million women in 100 countries, and continues to grow.

Smart Matrix

Venture Round in 2016
Smart Matrix is a medical device manufacturing company that specializes in wound care, regenerative medicine, and medical devices. It focuses on commercializing products based on a proprietary platform technology developed by the Restoration of Appearance and Function Trust. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in England, United Kingdom.

MIP Diagnostics

Venture Round in 2020
MIP Diagnostics Limited develops molecularly imprinted polymers (MIP) and nanoMIPs/plastic antibodies. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Bedfordshire, United Kingdom.

LIGNIA Wood Company

Venture Round in 2018
LIGNIA is the company is helping to tackle issues around the limited supplies of legal and sustainable hardwoods

Miappi

Venture Round in 2016
Consumer-generated content is one of the most trusted forms of marketing and it has become a key component of brands’ marketing strategies. Miappi is a patent-pending, AI enabled SaaS platform that empowers brands to discover authentic consumer stories, manage the digital rights to that content and to distribute the most impactful media to marketing channels and ecommerce. Miappi also saves brands money. Marketing teams can tap into an always-on stream of great content, meaning brands spend less time and budget creating or commissioning their own content.

CaseHub

Seed Round in 2015
CaseHub crowdsources big legal battles that consumers cannot afford. The company works on an opt-in basis. It takes a payout of the winnings or settlement. It finds legal battles that have harmed millions of consumers. It finds the victims and organize finance for each case. CaseHub was founded on 2014 and is based on London.

Zenstores

Seed Round in 2015
Zenstores is a platform to propel online sellers to ecommerce greatness. Its powerful Dispatch shipping software and Insights sales reports get ecommerce businesses running faster, smoother and more profitably. The Zenstores platform provides access to powerful, accessible products that simplify the time-intensive processes of selling online. Zenstores Dispatch saves users hours every day by automating the booking of courier services and printing delivery labels. Zenstores Insights gives online sellers a central view of their sales performance and enables them to pinpoint what’s driving their business growth.

Vivacity Labs

Grant in 2017
Vivacity Labs Ltd. provides hyper-local data for smart cities and intelligent transport systems. It offers services for smart cities, such as car parking sensing, bus occupancy sensing, and traffic monitoring; and intelligent monitoring and data provision in the areas of road transport, including traffic monitoring and cyclists. The company also provides services to generate deep insight about the operations of rail management, such as predictive management and long-term analytics. In addition, it offers video analytics services, such as extracting relevant data from video feeds to provide genuine insight; and data feeds across API access or online interfaces in the areas of detailed speed, counts, heat maps, and prediction. Vivacity Labs Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Zyper

Seed Round in 2017
Zyper is a machine learning-led community marketing software that helps brands connect with their fans, and fans connect with each other. The platform wants to re-create social networks for brands by connecting them to their top fans to drive engagement, insights, and sales. It enables brands to identify and engage with their top 1% of fans and build a community of active brand advocates. Zyper was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

ABAKA Holdings

Private Placement in 2019
ABAKA Holdings Ltd. operates an intelligent savings platform that gives employers the potential to improve the financial wellbeing of their workforce. The company offers ABAKA, a platform that enables employers to improve employee benefits awareness, directly communicate and engage with their staff, and helps to put employees in control of deciding what they need and when. Its platform helps employees develop their own financial knowledge levels by providing them with timely financial guidance and personalized nudging. ABAKA Holdings Ltd. has a strategic partnership with Avaloq Group AG. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Closed Loop Medicine

Series A in 2021
Closed Loop Medicine (CLM) is a new breed of therapeutics company focused on care pathways, outcomes and the provision of dynamic personalised regimens. The company combines proven drugs with proprietary digital therapeutics enabling the digitisation and data capture of an entire care continuum. CLM has a pipeline of regimes in development that integrate Digital + Drug + Device for the treatment of some of the biggest challenges facing 21st century health systems - sleep disorders, hypertension, chronic pain and diabetes.

Touchlight Genetics

Venture Round in 2017
Touchlight Genetics Ltd., a biotechnology company, operates in the fields of DNA therapies and DNA technology. The company develops proTL, a synthetic DNA platform to manufacture doggybone closed linear DNA without the requirement for bacterial fermentation. It offers its solutions for various applications in the areas of veterinary vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, cancer/gene therapy, allergy treatment, RNAi therapies, and stem cell reprogramming. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Leatherhead, United Kingdom.

Arecor

Private Placement in 2018
Arecor is a leader in developing superior biopharmaceuticals through the application of its innovative formulation technology platform. Arecor is leveraging this platform to develop a portfolio of proprietary products enabling improved treatments for diabetes care via the innovative reformulation of approved proteins and peptides. In addition to its internal product portfolio, Arecor partners with leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies to deliver superior reformulations of their proprietary products, which would otherwise not be possible using conventional formulation science.

Vivacity Labs

Series A in 2021
Vivacity Labs Ltd. provides hyper-local data for smart cities and intelligent transport systems. It offers services for smart cities, such as car parking sensing, bus occupancy sensing, and traffic monitoring; and intelligent monitoring and data provision in the areas of road transport, including traffic monitoring and cyclists. The company also provides services to generate deep insight about the operations of rail management, such as predictive management and long-term analytics. In addition, it offers video analytics services, such as extracting relevant data from video feeds to provide genuine insight; and data feeds across API access or online interfaces in the areas of detailed speed, counts, heat maps, and prediction. Vivacity Labs Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Invizius

Private Placement in 2019
Invizius Ltd., a medical technology company, develops H-Guard technology, a product to address the side effects of hemodialysis and fewer cardiovascular complications. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Kinderly

Seed Round in 2015
Kinderly develops software for early years’ education to help childcare professionals comply with government regulation, to improve communication with parents, and to encourage a fun learning environment at home. It is based in London, England.

Hummingbird Technologies

Private Placement in 2019
Hummingbird Technologies Limited, an artificial intelligence company, develops solutions using imagery and data analytics from satellite, drone, plane, and robot technology. It offers Hummingbird, a drone-enabled data and imagery analytics solution that provide farmers with high-resolution maps of their crops at critical decision-making junctions in the season. The company also provides crop stress detection, detection of diseases, weed grass mapping, nutrient management mapping, as well as yield prediction and plant counting in row crops for cereals, potatoes, soybean, sugar beet, and rape/canola oilseeds. It serves agriculture sector. Hummingbird Technologies Limited was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Masters of Pie

Seed Round in 2018
Masters of Pie Limited, a technology firm, develops product lifecycle management software using virtual and augmented reality software for manufacturing and wider enterprise solutions. The company’s products include a series of virtual reality updates and enhancements for computer-aided design (CAD). It develops a technology platform that enables industrial designers and production line experts to load their 3D data into a virtual meeting space to collaborate with colleagues in real-time. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

3 Kinds of Ice

Seed Round in 2015
3 Kinds of Ice gives you daily talking points about awesome places to go out in your city. Where they go out it says a lot about us. 3 Kinds of Ice helps you find out about the most innovative, quirky and exciting things to do in your city.

Movivo

Venture Round in 2017
Movivo allows users to cover the cost of their mobile minutes by completing surveys, crowdsourced tasks, and downloading new mobile apps. Movivo allows users to discover new mobile content and to earn free airtime to top up mobile phone. Movivo integrates with telecoms operators and constantly adding new partners from around the world to provide this service.

Genetrainer

Venture Round in 2017
Genetrainer is a website that provides a personalized fitness plan for users based on their genes. Genetrainer provides online training plans, exercises and advice personalized to the user by using their DNA, thus helping them to find the fastest route to achieving their individual training goals. Genetrainer stays up to date with the user's fitness level through connection to a range of popular devices and apps, combining lifestyle and genetics to give you the fastest route to achieving your individual training goals.

Baby2Body

Venture Round in 2016
Baby2Body is the number one app for women to keep healthy and happy during and after pregnancy. The app is a fully automated health, fitness and wellbeing coaching platform for pregnant women and mothers, helping women to optimize their health and wellbeing. Based on multiple data points from each user, they use machine learning and proprietary, evidenced based content, to deliver personalised information and lifestyle advice: fitness, nutrition, psychological and emotional wellbeing and updates on the growth and development of their baby. Backed by science and expert -led, the company has reached over a million women in 100 countries, and continues to grow.

DiA Imaging Analysis

Venture Round in 2021
DiA Imaging Analysis provides advanced AI-based ultrasound analysis smarter and accessible. It solves the two main challenges clinicians face when using ultrasound: acquiring the right image and automatically analyzing it, to find clinical abnormalities that today they are struggling to find visually. DiA's automated tools can be easily be added into any ultrasound device or healthcare IT system, just like an App. The company holds FDA/CE Clearances for its cardiac toolbox, generating revenues and having thousands of users around the world.

Limitless

Seed Round in 2017
Limitless enables businesses to connect customers with qualified experts to solve customer service enquiries on-demand, providing a faster and better service for significantly less cost. Expert responses and customer feedback then train our AI systems to automate low value queries overtime. The platform is live in over 20 countries and major clients include Microsoft, Unilever and Sage. Current investors include Unilever Ventures, Downing Ventures and Albion Capital.

Cambridge Touch Technologies Ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
Cambridge Touch Technologies, Ltd. develops next-generation UltraTouch technology for smart devices such as smartphones, tablets, automotive and industrial applications. Combining a proprietary AI engine running sophisticated signal processing algorithms with an advanced Piezoelectric Force Film, UltraTouch enables the world’s simplest all-in-one touch and force sensor architecture that delivers superior functionality at lower cost, and scales to all device sizes and shapes (including curved and foldable)

Spacious Ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
Spacious Ltd. operates as platform that connects people with office space to those looking for office space. The company’s platform allows users to search, compare, and book spaces. It serves freelancers, creative agencies, startups, bigger businesses, and office providers. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Glisser

Seed Round in 2016
Glisser ‘socialises presentations’ through a simple app. Presenters or event organisers can push slides to audience devices one at a time as they are presented. Attendees can then write on them, mark them up and take them away just like a printed slide deck, but in electronic format. Glisser also integrates slide-by-slide ‘like’ voting, audience questions, Twitter, as well as polling and feedback slides integrated seamlessly within the original deck.

Glisser

Venture Round in 2014
Glisser ‘socialises presentations’ through a simple app. Presenters or event organisers can push slides to audience devices one at a time as they are presented. Attendees can then write on them, mark them up and take them away just like a printed slide deck, but in electronic format. Glisser also integrates slide-by-slide ‘like’ voting, audience questions, Twitter, as well as polling and feedback slides integrated seamlessly within the original deck.

Smart Matrix

Venture Round in 2018
Smart Matrix is a medical device manufacturing company that specializes in wound care, regenerative medicine, and medical devices. It focuses on commercializing products based on a proprietary platform technology developed by the Restoration of Appearance and Function Trust. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in England, United Kingdom.

Goonhilly Earth Station

Funding Round in 2014
Goonhilly Earth Station is a satellite communication teleport that provides telecommunication services. It offers satellite antenna services, including satellite communications teleport, satellite tracking and telemetry, earth station verification and assistance, launch and early operations support, very small aperture terminals, deep space communications, and radio astronomy services.

Hubble

Series A in 2019
Hubble makes renting office space easy. It is an online marketplace to match those looking to rent office space with those who have it. They focus on co-working, shared offices and private serviced offices within specific hubs in London. They wrap the entire transaction to allow businesses to search across all office types, pay your rent, sign your contract and satisfy all your office needs in just a few clicks. Their platform means that they allow tenants and office providers to find each other quickly and easily. Moreover, they reduce the admin burden to create even more value for both sides of the market.

Ayar Labs

Private Placement in 2020
Ayar Labs, Inc. develops optical interconnect chiplets and lasers. It offers TeraPHY, a high-density electronic-photonic chiplet and monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO I/O) solution. The company also provides SuperNova, a multiwavelength, multi-port light source that supplies the continuous wave (CW) light that powers TeraPHY. Its products are used in various industry verticals, such as artificial intelligence and high performance computing, cloud computing and telecommunications, aerospace and military, and light detection and ranging. Ayar Labs, Inc. was formerly known as OptiBit Inc. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Emeryville, California with an additional office in Santa Clara, California.

Imagen

Private Placement in 2019
Imagen Ltd designs and develops media archive management solutions. The company offers Imagen2, a media asset management and publishing system; ImagenCloud, a cloud based system to manage and publish videos and images; and Orbital, a compliance recording system. Its clientele include Ministry of Defence, The Police, The BBC, ITN, The Imperial War Museum, British Telecom, and British Pathe. Imagen Ltd was formerly known as Cambridge Imaging Systems Limited and changed its name to Imagen Ltd in August 2015. The company was founded in 1991 and is based in Willingham, United Kingdom.

Miappi

Seed Round in 2016
Consumer-generated content is one of the most trusted forms of marketing and it has become a key component of brands’ marketing strategies. Miappi is a patent-pending, AI enabled SaaS platform that empowers brands to discover authentic consumer stories, manage the digital rights to that content and to distribute the most impactful media to marketing channels and ecommerce. Miappi also saves brands money. Marketing teams can tap into an always-on stream of great content, meaning brands spend less time and budget creating or commissioning their own content.

Glisser

Venture Round in 2018
Glisser ‘socialises presentations’ through a simple app. Presenters or event organisers can push slides to audience devices one at a time as they are presented. Attendees can then write on them, mark them up and take them away just like a printed slide deck, but in electronic format. Glisser also integrates slide-by-slide ‘like’ voting, audience questions, Twitter, as well as polling and feedback slides integrated seamlessly within the original deck.

Natter

Venture Round in 2015
Natter Network Ltd. develops a social platform that allows users to post three word messages and a hashtag with the people users follow. The company was formerly known as Natter Three Words Ltd. and changed its name to Natter Network Ltd. in November 2015. Natter Network Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Bath, United Kingdom.

Papier

Private Placement in 2019
Papier Limited designs and prints customized cards and invitations. It offers birthday, thank you, congratulations, love, sympathy, photo, and other occasional cards; seasonal cards; and wedding, birthday party, kids party, party, anniversary, photo, and other invitation cards. The company also provides stationary, as well as photo products. In addition, it operates digital printing studios. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Trouva

Series A in 2017
Trouva, launched in September 2015, is the marketplace for bricks and mortar independent shops, selling unique homeware and lifestyle products from hundreds of shops and boutiques. Trouva bridges online and offline in retail to offer click and collect, 1-hour delivery, and worldwide shipping in a single seamless platform. Trouva is one of the most exciting e-commerce start-ups in Europe, backed by amazing VC and Angel Investors whose successes include Secret Escapes, Net-A-Porter, and Farfetch (BGF Ventures, Octopus Investments, C4 Ventures, Index Ventures & LocalGlobe).

BridgeU

Series A in 2017
BridgeU Limited operates cloud based platform that supports university preparation journey for students and advisors. Its platform supports students applying to the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, and Hong Kong. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Sevenoaks, United Kingdom.

StarStock

Venture Round in 2017
StarStock Ltd. owns and operates an online drinks marketplace which connects suppliers to wholesalers, pubs, shops, bars, and restaurants nationwide. The company offers lagers, ales and bitters, craft, ciders, wines, spirits, flavored alcoholic drinks, and soft drinks. StarStock Ltd. was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Kinderly

Venture Round in 2016
Kinderly develops software for early years’ education to help childcare professionals comply with government regulation, to improve communication with parents, and to encourage a fun learning environment at home. It is based in London, England.

Adaptix Ltd

Venture Round in 2014
Adaptix Limited designs and manufactures 3D radiology imaging equipment for X-ray imaging applications. It offers a technology for producing a miniaturized flat panel X-ray source that can be integrated into a manufacturers existing product line. The company’s solutions are used in bedside chest imaging, extremity imaging, dental imaging, and breast imaging. Adaptix Limited was formerly known as Radius Diagnostics Ltd and changed its name to Adaptix Limited in February 2015. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Distributed

Venture Round in 2022
We believe that businesses achieve more when they are focused on outcomes. We believe the next generation of top tier talent want more control and more variety in their working lives. That’s why we founded Distributed. We’ve all been contractors who that have helped businesses move faster, and we’ve all hired contractors on behalf of businesses. The system was broken and we’re setting out to create a world where businesses can focus on defining outcomes that will provide meaningful futures for them and their customers, and where top tier talent can define where, when and how they would like to work. We built our platform to allow companies to deliver digital outcomes faster, and to a higher standard than ever before by utilising an AI powered global workforce. Using proprietary Natural Language Processing and Applied Machine Learning on top of our data sets we’re able to immediately cost any outcome a customer requires and assemble the very best Elastic Team for the job. Our workflow and dedicated project managers make sure that our customers have a permanent point of contact with their team, and are there to ensure the very best delivery experience possible. The Distributed platform harnesses the power of an Elastic global workforce to allow companies to move faster and with greater control over cost than ever before. Digital technologies, their applications and interdependencies are growing at an unprecedented rate, creating a huge demand for specialist skillsets. This will result in a global talent shortage of around 130M tech workers by 2022. The Distributed platform allows businesses to combat this shortfall by utilising a global talent pool powered by AI to ensure that they can continue to grow and innovate despite the increasing cost and scarcity of specialist digital talent. The biggest market shift that Distributed will enable will be the shift from asset focused organisations to outcome focused organisations. We now have the technology to connect complex supply with complex demand through the understanding of rich data. This enables the commoditization of digital assets both from a code and a human capital standpoint allowing organisations to focus on defining outcomes that will deliver meaningful futures for their business. Outcomes over assets.

Parsable

Series D in 2020
Parsable empowers industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety. The Parsable Connected Worker Platform transforms static, paper-based procedures into mobile and interactive work instructions, enabling workers to leverage multimedia formats and collaborate in real time. With Parsable, companies gain unprecedented insight into human work by capturing essential data to improve their operations at scale. A partner of the World Economic Forum, Parsable is trusted by top global companies in the manufacturing and energy industries including consumer packaged goods, resources and chemicals, packaging and building materials, and automotive and aerospace.

Touchlight Genetics

Venture Round in 2015
Touchlight Genetics Ltd., a biotechnology company, operates in the fields of DNA therapies and DNA technology. The company develops proTL, a synthetic DNA platform to manufacture doggybone closed linear DNA without the requirement for bacterial fermentation. It offers its solutions for various applications in the areas of veterinary vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, cancer/gene therapy, allergy treatment, RNAi therapies, and stem cell reprogramming. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Leatherhead, United Kingdom.

Flock

Seed Round in 2018
Flock was founded in 2015 on the conviction that insurance was no longer fit for purpose in our fast-moving, hyper-connected world. Their mission is to make the world a safer, smarter place by bridging the gap between the insurance industry of today and the emerging technologies of tomorrow. The London based Insurtech began in the commercial drone industry where they launched Europe's first pay-as-you-fly drone insurance product, using real-time data (like population density and wind speed) to quantify, insure, and mitigate drone flight risks.They now have insure thousands of innovative drone operations globally, from agricultural surveyors to NHS medical delivery flights. Flock's technology has now helped thousands of pilots around the world to fly safer, reducing their risk exposure by 15% on average. Flock recently expanded into the rapidly evolving world of commercial motor fleets with a division focused on connected vehicles. Modern fleets change on a daily basis; expanding, contracting, and adopting the latest technology. They need an insurance policy that’s as agile and data-driven as they are. The world is becoming increasingly connected and autonomous, bringing both amazing opportunities and complex risks. As the insurer of the future, Flock aims to not only pay claims when incidents occur; they help customers understand and mitigate their own risks, to avoid things going wrong in the first place.

Volo

Venture Round in 2017
Volo collects data and intelligence from all over the commerce ecosystem, online & offline, and uses AI to provide real-time actionable insights. By combining search, social, purchase and customer data, Volo makes intelligent recommendations to brands and retailers which improve their revenues, customer satisfaction and audience reach. Volo was established in 2006 to serve multichannel ecommerce businesses and has grown exponentially since, processing over $1.5 billion of trade since 2010. The company’s customers include Superdry, Office, Dixons Carphone, ProCook and BMW.

Glownet

Series A in 2018
Glownet provides RFID contactless solutions for the live event industry, principally music festivals, and has developed the leading fully-integrated platform on the market. The solution combats ticket fraud, reduces queues, slashes transaction times, increases spend per head, cuts staffing costs at gates and bars and controls staff theft. It also gives promoters transparency on vendor sales and provides customer segmented profiling on purchasing behaviours. Launched in 2012, the business delivers cashless payment, entry management, social media engagement and customer insight solutions using RFID. Glownet has deployed its fully cashless services at over 500 events across 40 countries worldwide. Clients include Live Nation, Sonar and many more major music festival organisers. The team has also worked with brand partners such as Pernod Ricard, Spotify, Paypal, Maserati to enhance the live event experience.

Invizius

Series A in 2019
Invizius Ltd., a medical technology company, develops H-Guard technology, a product to address the side effects of hemodialysis and fewer cardiovascular complications. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Anker Shipping Ltd

Private Placement in 2018
Anker Shipping Ltd offers water freight transportation services. The was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Happiour

Seed Round in 2015
Happiour Limited operates a daily food and drink application in London. Its application allows users to discover local offers happening at various street eateries, independent restaurants, bars, and cafes nearby. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom. As of October 16, 2017, Happiour Limited operates as a subsidiary of The Global Voucher Group Limited.

Empiribox

Venture Round in 2017
Empiribox Limited supplies science equipment and teaching resources to ensure that teachers have the tools to easily do engaging and inspirational science throughout the year. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Didcot, United Kingdom.

Glisser

Venture Round in 2017
Glisser ‘socialises presentations’ through a simple app. Presenters or event organisers can push slides to audience devices one at a time as they are presented. Attendees can then write on them, mark them up and take them away just like a printed slide deck, but in electronic format. Glisser also integrates slide-by-slide ‘like’ voting, audience questions, Twitter, as well as polling and feedback slides integrated seamlessly within the original deck.

Daredevil Project Limited

Private Placement in 2020
Daredevil Project Limited owns and operates a platform for customer advocacy marketing automation. Its platform allows users to engage customers post-purchase and reward them for creating visual testimonials; drive re-engagement; and collect authentic visual testimonials which are human and machine learning moderated; and curate content automatically by allowing customers to vote on the most preferred visual testimonials. Further, the company's solution turns customers into digital storefronts; shares customers' visual testimonials across traditional and dark social networks; attracts new customers with SKU tagged shoppable customer testimonials; drives traffic to product pages; converts drive sales from newly referred customers; and lowers cost-per-acquisition. Furthermore, the company enhances product pages with authentic and informative visual testimonials for all products in online store; transforms standard product pages with product testimonial galleries from customers; increases traffic-to-sale conversions; increases browsing session time; and reduces returns by providing shoppers with more visual product information. In addition, it offers customer preference insights from content used across marketing stack and can be plugged into advertising units. The company caters to e-commerce industry, brands, and retailers. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Kinderly

Venture Round in 2017
Kinderly develops software for early years’ education to help childcare professionals comply with government regulation, to improve communication with parents, and to encourage a fun learning environment at home. It is based in London, England.

Firefly Learning

Venture Round in 2020
Firefly Learning Ltd develops and operates an online tool that brings together teachers, students, and parents to help students learn more. It helps teachers make marking, students tracking, resource sharing, and keeping parents in up to date; enables students to learn independently and collaboratively; and engages parents and helps them involve with their child's education. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Ethical Power

Seed Round in 2011
Initially Ethical Power was solely a rooftop solar panel supplier and installer. We have since evolved to become UK market leaders in the financing, development, construction and maintenance of renewable energy projects. Our expanding and knowledgeable team aims to build the highest quality generators available in the UK market, focused on producing extremely high yield in terms of power generated. Ethical Power was founded by Tom Kneen, who remains CEO, with a strong senior team alongside him. Ethical Power are operating proudly under a company name that demands the highest of standards, cementing our place as a successful company with a long-term vision in a highly competitive renewables market.
The Electrospinning Company is a leading edge provider of electrospun nanofibre innovations, developing solutions to industrial challenges. They also work closely with academic research groups to develop novel nano-scale fibres and coatings for scientific research.

Miappi

Venture Round in 2016
Consumer-generated content is one of the most trusted forms of marketing and it has become a key component of brands’ marketing strategies. Miappi is a patent-pending, AI enabled SaaS platform that empowers brands to discover authentic consumer stories, manage the digital rights to that content and to distribute the most impactful media to marketing channels and ecommerce. Miappi also saves brands money. Marketing teams can tap into an always-on stream of great content, meaning brands spend less time and budget creating or commissioning their own content.

Glownet

Private Placement in 2018
Glownet provides RFID contactless solutions for the live event industry, principally music festivals, and has developed the leading fully-integrated platform on the market. The solution combats ticket fraud, reduces queues, slashes transaction times, increases spend per head, cuts staffing costs at gates and bars and controls staff theft. It also gives promoters transparency on vendor sales and provides customer segmented profiling on purchasing behaviours. Launched in 2012, the business delivers cashless payment, entry management, social media engagement and customer insight solutions using RFID. Glownet has deployed its fully cashless services at over 500 events across 40 countries worldwide. Clients include Live Nation, Sonar and many more major music festival organisers. The team has also worked with brand partners such as Pernod Ricard, Spotify, Paypal, Maserati to enhance the live event experience.

Masters of Pie

Private Placement in 2020
Masters of Pie Limited, a technology firm, develops product lifecycle management software using virtual and augmented reality software for manufacturing and wider enterprise solutions. The company’s products include a series of virtual reality updates and enhancements for computer-aided design (CAD). It develops a technology platform that enables industrial designers and production line experts to load their 3D data into a virtual meeting space to collaborate with colleagues in real-time. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Hummingbird Technologies

Series B in 2019
Hummingbird Technologies Limited, an artificial intelligence company, develops solutions using imagery and data analytics from satellite, drone, plane, and robot technology. It offers Hummingbird, a drone-enabled data and imagery analytics solution that provide farmers with high-resolution maps of their crops at critical decision-making junctions in the season. The company also provides crop stress detection, detection of diseases, weed grass mapping, nutrient management mapping, as well as yield prediction and plant counting in row crops for cereals, potatoes, soybean, sugar beet, and rape/canola oilseeds. It serves agriculture sector. Hummingbird Technologies Limited was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Exonar

Series A in 2019
Exonar Limited develops information intelligence software products. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Newbury, United Kingdom.

Open Bionics

Series A in 2019
Brunel Hand is a robotic hand with nine degrees of freedom for researchers. They use 3D printing to make their devices customized for each customer and accessible by anyone! They're developing the perfect medical grade materials to give their hands the right strength and grip and to make them last.