Mercia Fund Managers

Mercia Fund Managers is a venture capital fund manager based in central Birmingham, specializing in early-stage technology companies within the West Midlands region. The firm manages multiple funds, including the Mercia Funds and the Mercia Growth EIS Fund, which allows private investors to participate in a diversified portfolio of high-growth technology firms benefiting from various tax reliefs. With a focus on companies demonstrating strong growth potential and proprietary technology, Mercia typically invests between £50,000 and £250,000 in initial funding, with the capacity to contribute up to £1 million in total across subsequent investment rounds. The firm benefits from a combination of public and private sector investors and is regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Additionally, Mercia Fund Managers is a member of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, highlighting its commitment to the venture capital industry.

Paul Devlin

Investment Manager

Mike Hayes

Investment Director

Rob Johnson

Investment Director

Andrew Oldfield

Investment Manager

Chris Pestell

Investment Director

145 past transactions

Moonshot

Series A in 2021
Moonshot designs technologies and methodologies to reach people both engaging in and affected by a range of online harms, including disinformation, human trafficking, gender-based violence, and child sexual exploitation and abuse. Moonshot has delivered threat monitoring and analysis, digital campaigns, tailored interventions, and a range of other services in over 57 countries and 33 languages, for governments, tech companies, and international organizations. Its clientele includes the Department of Homeland Security, USAID, the US Department of State, the UK Home Office, and companies such as Facebook and Google.

Cyan Forensics

Seed Round in 2016
CYAN FORENSICS Ltd. develops and markets tools for digital forensics in law enforcement. Its tools are prepared to extract digital fingerprints from an existing database of contraband; and used to scan seized computers, hard drives, and media devices (or forensic images of them) for contraband, as well as deliver results from those devices. The company’s tools provide results that allow forensic analysts to focus their investigative efforts on devices that yield useful evidence; avoid wasting time on devices that do not contain anything incriminating; and detailed evidence for use in court. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Milkalyser

Seed Round in 2017
Milkalyser Ltd develops automated fertility management system for dairy farmers. It develops tracker to measure the fertility of cows. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Exeter, United Kingdom.

SnapDragon Monitoring

Venture Round in 2021
SnapDragon Monitoring Limited develops brand protection software solutions. The company provides managed and self service solutions. It has product as Swoop, a software for brand protection. SnapDragon Monitoring Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

OneUp Sales

Seed Round in 2021
OneUp Sales is a sales management & motivation platform built for inside sales teams. The platform makes use of sales activity data from any source to drive gamified competitions, real-time TV leaderboards, and streamlined reporting for managers.

Oxford Genetics

Venture Round in 2015
Oxford Genetics Ltd is a UK based biotechnology company specialising in the production of versatile cloning plasmids for research in academic and biotechnology institutions. they also provide custom cloning and DNA synthesis. All of their products are free of intellectual property restrictions.

Invizius

Seed Round in 2018
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.

4D Biomaterials

Seed Round in 2021
4D Biomaterials develops novel solutions for the targeted and controlled regeneration of human tissue.

Adludio

Series A in 2021
Adludio Limited, an advertising company, develops high-impact interactive advertising solutions for the mobile generation. The company offers touch-enabled, gesture-based digital advertising works across mobile and touch-screen devices. It partners with international publishers and brands. Adludio Limited was formerly known as Future Ad Labs Limited and changed its name to Adludio Limited in November 2014. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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.

Aceleron

Venture Round in 2020
Aceleron Limited develops and transforms end-of-life batteries from electric cars into energy storage batteries. The company collects lithium battery wastes, tests and grades batteries for reuse, and offers modular battery assembly hardware. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Hayes, United Kingdom.

Quick Reach

Venture Round in 2019
Quick Reach is an innovative Powered Access Company with a wealth of experience in the plant industry. We will offer you an individual, honest and professional hire service. They add the personal touch to business, talking common sense rather than sales jargon. Our dedicated team have a vast amount of experience in this industry and will ensure that you have peace of mind – keeping you informed every step of the way.

Notify Technology

Seed Round in 2018
Neurophth is a research and development company of gene therapies in ophthalmic disease, which is located in Wuhan Biolake. With Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) as the breakthrough point, the company has completed the clinical trial of the gene therapy in LHON with the largest sample size in the world, and has explored in the field of other genetic diseases. The research results have been recognized by a number of national invention patents and PCT.

Optellum

Series A in 2022
Optellum Ltd develops AI clinical decision support software for lung cancer diagnosis and treatment. Optellum Ltd was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Genba Digital

Seed Round in 2017
Genba Digital is a pioneering global supply chain platform providing operational and technical logistics services ensuring efficient and secure delivery of various forms of digital software through a worldwide network of publishers and etailers. Driven by quality and innovation with a unique understanding of the global digital marketplace, we offer a B2B logistics platform and services aimed to deliver automation and efficiency required for the delivery of digital software. We currently work with over 50 partners specialising in video gaming and have ambitious plans to extend our content, services and technology to our clients.

Miotify

Seed Round in 2017
MIOTIFY Ltd. develops software and online toolkit to boost the quality of digital health applications. The company's system allows both developers and non-IT staff to create applications within a guided framework to help them build in quality from the start and auto-generate evidence to include in a submission for regulatory approval. MIOTIFY Ltd. provides new data to enable medics to monitor patients remotely and gather insights to inform their treatment. MIOTIFY Ltd. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Windsor, United Kingdom.

Adapttech

Venture Round in 2021
Adapttech LTD, a biomedical company, develops smart and wearable technologies to improve the quality of life of people with physical limitations. The company’s products include INSIGHT Scanner that creates a 3 dimensional model of the socket in less than 90 seconds, INSIGHT Wearable gathers bio data in real-time between the stump and the socket, and INSIGHT App that allows access to results anytime. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Customer Clever

Seed Round in 2015
Customer Clever Ltd. provides cloud based biometric solutions that are designed to give businesses the customer intelligence they need. It offers a customer clever system that provides detailed reports covering critical issues, such as number of visitors by day (hour/min/sec) by location; demographic of visitors (age, gender, and ethnicity); exclusion of false counting by removal of staff or double counting; and trend analysis and segmentation. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Tamworth, United Kingdom.

Intelligent Health

Seed Round in 2018
Intelligent Health makes physical activity a way of life through expertly delivered, measurable campaigns with long-term, community-wide benefits. Getting people physically active not only improves health and wellbeing, it also saves public money and improves our environment. Changing behaviour isn’t easy, but our knowledgeable, innovative approach makes it possible – and fun.

ParkCloud

Venture Round in 2018
ParkCloud was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category of International Trade. Queen's Awards winners are selected by the Queen herself based on recommendations from the Prime Minister and board of judges. Considered to be the highest accolade available to UK businesses, the award recognises ParkCloud's extraordinary growth and success in the past few years.

Elmtronics

Seed Round in 2020
Elmtronics Limited designs, develops, and installs electric vehicle charging points. It offers public charging stations and electric car charging points at home and for business. It provides AC charging, DC charging, OLEV grants, and load balancing. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Consett, United Kingdom with additional office in Bristol, Manchester, Middlesex, and Edinburgh.

InoCardia

Venture Round in 2014
Inocardia is a Coventry University spinout focused on the provision of Contract Research Services via the development of assays targeted at the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors. Inocardia has developed the ‘work-loop’ model as a pre-clinical myocardial assay assessing cardiac contractility in normal, diseased and ageing myocardium in order to determine the cardiovascular safety of lead pharmaceutical compounds. The Coventry University work-loop assay is the only relevant in-vitro human model of cardio-toxicity available worldwide. Both the pharmaceutical industry and regulators recognise that contractility assessment is currently fraught with problems.

RCS Doors

Venture Round in 2018
RCS is a manufacturer and supplier of industrial, commercial and domestic roller shutters.

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.

Solutionpath Limited

Debt Financing in 2021
Solutionpath’s powerful meaning based analytics service mean you can connect previously disparate unconnected data pools to new sources (such as social media feeds) to create new insights in how users, subscribers, customers, competitors and employees will react in the future. Solutionpath are delivering insight solutions in to the UK HE market being the first commercial institution to offer learning analytics, they are highly commended, with several awards and are highly referenced with several UK deployments and are already expanding internationally in to the US and Australia.

MIP Diagnostics

Seed Round in 2017
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.

Pertinax Pharma Ltd.

Venture Round in 2018
Pertinax Pharma Limited develops slow release technology for chlorhexidine for medical, dental, and veterinary use. The company's product is used as a filler for composite materials such as polyurethane, silicone, cements, and hydrogels, as a component of liquids, creams, and emulsions for topical application, and as a component of coatings for metals, polymers, and glasses. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom.

No Yetis Allowed

Venture Round in 2014
No Yetis Allowed Ltd operates as a game studio that develops character driven mobile apps. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Caterham, United Kingdom.

Allegrow

Seed Round in 2020
Allegrow turns your B2B prospecting team into a machine with sales automation. We give you an end to end platform which combines business intelligence with automatic outreach campaigns.

Texere Publishing

Venture Round in 2015
Texere creates compelling stories in science, technology and medicine. Use us to increase engagement in your company or organization. They develop and deliver customized print, digital, audio and media content for companies, patient organizations and regional development agencies, helping them improve services and strengthen relationships with their client base. Texere partners with clients who wish to provide valued products to their customers. They develop the editorial content, handle design and production, target the audience and generate reports for clients.

ProAktive

Debt Financing in 2018
ProAktive is a business adviser providing integrated insurance, risk management, and HR solutions to companies of all sizes, in a variety of sectors. They also provide Private Client insurance services for those individuals who require something a little different. It reduces the burdens of management thereby freeing them to grow their businesses. Jon Whiteley formed the company in 1975 in Doncaster, Doncaster.

MabLyte

Seed Round in 2013
Mablyte Limited produces kits for biological analysis of monoclonal antibodies. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in the United Kingdom.

Sugdens

Venture Round in 2018
Sugdens is the designer and manufacturer of Hotplate plants.

Chromition

Grant in 2018
Chromition Limited develops and supplies photoluminescent, semiconductor, and dielectric nanoparticle solutions for commercial applications. Its solutions include Luminspheres, which are multi-colored photoluminescent polymer nanoparticles used for bio-imaging, anti-counterfeit, and lighting applications; Elecspheres that are semiconductor polymer nanoparticle aqueous inks used in displays, electronics, lighting, solar cells, and sensors; and Dielecspheres, which are high-k dielectric films that enables electronic devices to operate at ultra-low voltages and low power. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Manchester, United Kingdom.

GeckoLabs

Venture Round in 2019
Today, GeckoEngage offers two products — both still focused around freeing HigherEd teams to focus on high-impact activities. Institutions can now communicate with students one-to-one, and at scale, with our AI-powered conversational messaging platform, Chat. Our clients consolidate all their messaging channels into a single, team-managed inbox. And then, using our customizable bots, they capture leads, answer questions and register event attendees on autopilot, 24/7. Our visit experience platform enables schools to create sophisticated, multi-channel event playbooks, designed to take students from curious inquirers through to enrolled students. Combining key pre-event, on-the-day and post-event activities within a single platform showcases your school as a modern, responsive institution whilst providing your Admissions team with powerful tools to run streamlined, impactful events.

PHARMASEAL

Series A in 2019
PHARMASEAL was born in 2016 with the mission to create a digital platform that enables their customers to increase control of their clinical trials and accelerate product development. PHARMASEAL is developing the first B2B control platform for biopharmaceutical companies to manage their enterprise clinical trials.

Thalia Design Automation

Series A in 2014
Thalia Design Automation Ltd. operates as a semiconductor electronic design automation (EDA) company that provides software solutions to assist in the design of analog and mixed signal integrated circuits.

Streamline Computing

Venture Round in 2008
Streamline Computing Ltd. provides high performance computing (HPC) clusters and services in the United Kingdom. It offers integrated compute, storage, and visualization solutions; tried and tested HPC systems; and system integration, consulting, and support services. The company sells hardware and software products; and components, including switches and host bus adaptors, networking equipment, fibre and copper network cables, workstations, and servers. It also sells hardware and software products online. It serves oil, aerospace, manufacturing, auto-racing, and pharmaceutical industries.

LM Technologies

Venture Round in 2008
LM Technologies Ltd designs, develops, and manufactures wireless modules and adapters. Its products are based on Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, sim Card, and modular technologies. The company offers wireless products, such as Bluetooth USB adapters and Bluetooth watches; and accessories, including SIM tools, converters, and meter antennas, as well as gadgets. It serves customers through distributors and retailers in Europe. The company has strategic partnership with Productive Electronics LLC. LM Technologies Ltd was incorporated in 2004 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Afternoonify

Seed Round in 2016
Afternoonify, Ltd develops an automated digital advertising audit tool, PERCEPT, that offers cost cutting, actionable solutions for brands and advertising agencies. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

MIP Diagnostics

Seed Round in 2015
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.

Voxpopme

Series A in 2017
Voxpopme is the world’s #1 video insight solution. We help customers build great brands, products, and experiences by connecting with consumers through real-time video feedback. The Voxpopme platform is where the action happens. Our best-in-class technology is intuitive, secure, and makes video infinitely scalable. We help market research and customer experience professionals capture customer-recorded videos at speed, analyze at scale, and share with ease - powering great decisions and customer-closeness. With Voxpopme, every data point used to make decisions can be backed up by the real human story.

Weedfree On Track

Venture Round in 2017
Weedfree On Track vision is to be the most environmentally viable treatment solution to the worlds railways.

BlackCurve

Seed Round in 2019
We are on a mission to help retailers across the world find hidden pockets of profit. BlackCurve helps retailers avoid pricing items too cheaply or too expensively, shift dead stock profitably, save time and increase their inventory. Our automated price testing increases profitability by 9%, achieve a 12% increase in revenue. After implementing BlackCurve, retailers typically achieve save on average 104 days per year, per channel, with BlackCurve pricing automation. Plus typically increase their inventory size by 5%. On average, we sell 5% of retailers previously static inventory.

Tungl

Seed Round in 2018
Tungl is on a mission to revolutionise how businesses assess, select, and ultimately hire tech talent. Our tech recruitment platform provides online assessments and is used by those hiring tech talent worldwide to validate a candidate's practical skills and knowledge. We empower recruitment teams to shortlist candidates with confidence and enable hiring managers to have insightful interviews. This means businesses can make quicker and data-driven hiring decisions. We have a range of ready-made assessments in all major technologies, and you can use your own questions to make bespoke assessments, shaped around your job spec. We're easy to use and saves your business time - streamlining your tech recruitment.

Kaido

Seed Round in 2016
Kaido will be stunning in its simplicity. Accessible via an easy to use app, it will use the very latest smart technology to serve up content endorsed by a global team of experts from the fields of sport, nutrition, education and psychology.

nanoTherics

Venture Round in 2010
nanoTherics gene transfection studies have shown a significant performance enhancement over the best non-viral techniques currently on the market, demonstrating high levels of transfection whilst, importantly, maintaining the viability of the transfected cells. These two key attributes afford a significant competitive advantage over currently available systems. nanoTherics’s mission is to position its novel gene transfection technology as the new “gold standard” for transfection, underpinning the research and development of current and future gene therapy programmes.

OneUp Sales

Seed Round in 2017
OneUp Sales is a sales management & motivation platform built for inside sales teams. The platform makes use of sales activity data from any source to drive gamified competitions, real-time TV leaderboards, and streamlined reporting for managers.

Ventive

Venture Round in 2013
Ventive Ltd. designs, develops, and installs heat recovery ventilation systems for use in homes with chimneys. Its products have applications in existing buildings and new build projects. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Adapttech

Seed Round in 2016
Adapttech LTD, a biomedical company, develops smart and wearable technologies to improve the quality of life of people with physical limitations. The company’s products include INSIGHT Scanner that creates a 3 dimensional model of the socket in less than 90 seconds, INSIGHT Wearable gathers bio data in real-time between the stump and the socket, and INSIGHT App that allows access to results anytime. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Relative Insight

Venture Round in 2015
Relative Insight Ltd offers a platform for brands to understand and resonate with audiences by turning language into data. It offers audience research tool, that uses comparative language analysis which is helpful for marketers to discover real insights. Relative Insight Ltd was formerly known as Isis Forensics Ltd. and changed its name to Relative Insight Ltd in October, 2014. Relative Insight Ltd was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Lancaster, United Kingdom with additional office in London, United Kingdom.

C7 Health

Seed Round in 2018
C7 Health Limited provides software and services that help clinicians deliver better care to their patients. It offers C7 AMP product, provides electronic referral, scheduling and workflow management including SLA management. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Henley-In-Arden, United Kingdom.

UFL

Seed Round in 2017
UFL is a social mobile game to play while watching live football. It builds real-time games around live sport, powered by advanced live player data. For the next generation fan, following sport will become an interactive experience led by personalized stats. Sohail Godall started the company in London, England in 2013.

WML Consulting

Acquisition in 2018
WML Consulting Limited provides civil and structural engineering consultancy services. The company was founded in 1983 and is based in Cheadle Hulme, United Kingdom.

ArcVehicle

Seed Round in 2018
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Irresistible Materials

Angel Round in 2018
Irresistible Materials Ltd, a materials technology company, develops and commercializes fullerene based photo-resist technology. It offers fullerene materials and processes for application in lithography, including EUV resists, spin-on-carbon, and e-beam resists. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Swansea, United Kingdom.

Particle Analytics

Seed Round in 2016
Particle Analytics Ltd. is a software company that provides a technology for the preparation, visualization, and analysis of discrete element method simulation data of particles and industrial bulk solids. The company offers post-processing technology that combines temporal and spatial averaging techniques and allows projecting the particle information to analyze the result; and pre-processing technology permits to create and modify geometries and meshes prior to simulation. It serves multinational organizations. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

STEPS Rehabilitation

Venture Round in 2017
STEPS Rehabilitation is a new and much needed facility set in the heart of South Yorkshire.

CYP Design

Seed Round in 2013
CYP Design Ltd. (CDL) is dedicated to supporting your research and development needs by offering you stabilised, highly active cytochrome P450 (CYP) products, presented in our unique 'Sacchrosomes™'. These products will satisfy your requirements for quality in early stage testing for new drug discovery, and provide greater convenience due to their stability at room temperature. We also offer reliable contract research services in metabolism and toxicity testing and in biocatalysis.

NuVision

Seed Round in 2015
NuVision™ is a spin-out company from the University of Nottingham, incorporated July 2014. The company was established to commercialise high quality and affordable biotherapies for treating ‘front of the eye’ disease and trauma. Dr Andrew Hopkinson, the Principal Research Fellow in Academic Ophthalmology, Division of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Nottingham, founded NuVision™. The business is co-owned by the founders, Dr Andrew Hopkinson (Chief Scientific Officer), Professor Harminder Dua (co-founder), the directors Mr Byran Lister (CEO) and Dr Helen Shaw (Chairman), and the University of Nottingham.

Expandly

Venture Round in 2018
Multi-Lingual sales channel management platform enabling sellers, manufacturers and retailers sell products across the world. Sellers upload their products and manage inventory across sales channels including eBay Amazon, Tmall and Etsy. Fulfil order via the order management system or use an integrate partner warehouse.

Celentyx

Seed Round in 2007
Celentyx Ltd is a CRO offering bespoke assay services in human immunology, including immuno-oncology, autoimmunity & inflammation, fibrosis and neuroinflammation. Drawing on the World-leading expertise of Celentyx personnel, along with our close association with the MRC Centre for Immune Regulation and the Centre for Translational Inflammation Research enables the human immune system in health and disease to be investigated at the highest levels of resolution.

Distil.ai

Seed Round in 2023
Distil.ai is a software platform that helps businesses to understand their customers’ behavior and identify buying signals.

Centuro Global

Seed Round in 2023
Centuro Global is your personal business growth concierge. We help startups, scaleups & SMEs from seed to expansion to exit. Come to us for services including; Pitch Deck Creation & Support, Legal, Immigration, Intellectual Property, Scaling & Expansion, New Market Entry, Raising Capital, Business Development and 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

CanSense

Seed Round in 2023
CanSense is a developer of an inexpensive and scalable blood test intended for early diagnosis of bowel cancer.

Sen

Seed Round in 2022
Sen's vision is to democratize space using video to inform, educate, inspire and benefit all humanity. Sen's mission is to stream real-time videos from space to billions of people, gathering news and information about Earth and space and making it universally accessible.

Haystack

Seed Round in 2022
Built for techies who are fed up with the age-old recruitment approach, Haystack is a data insights and careers marketplace that uncovers opportunities based on your interests, values and tech stack.

Nutshell Software

Seed Round in 2020
Nutshell Software Limited designs and develops online mobile applications. The company offers drag and drop mobile app development platform to develop applications for smart phone and tablet devices. It serves rail, construction, and healthcare sectors. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Gateshead, United Kingdom.

PBD Biotech

Venture Round in 2021
PBD Biotech Ltd develops novel phage-based diagnostic technology in the field of veterinary diagnostics. Its technology detects the presence of mycobacteria such as, Mycobacterium bovis (bovine TB) and Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) which causes morbidity and loss of productivity in the agricultural industry. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Thurston, United Kingdom.

Adapttech

Venture Round in 2022
Adapttech LTD, a biomedical company, develops smart and wearable technologies to improve the quality of life of people with physical limitations. The company’s products include INSIGHT Scanner that creates a 3 dimensional model of the socket in less than 90 seconds, INSIGHT Wearable gathers bio data in real-time between the stump and the socket, and INSIGHT App that allows access to results anytime. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Gentronix

Venture Round in 2021
gentronix provides services and solutions that help companies reduce attrition rates and ensure safer products across a wide range of chemistry driven industries. Their primary focus is on providing better hazard identification assays for genotoxicity through the use of their patented human cell GADD45a reporter assays GreenScreen® HC and BlueScreen HC.

Refract

Venture Round in 2018
Refract Software Ltd develops sales coaching software. It provides conversation intelligence and video coaching platform. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Stockport, United Kingdom.

Crowd Reactive Ltd

Seed Round in 2014
Crowd Reactive Ltd operates a web-based application for event organizers, providing them with real-time slideshows of photographs taken in events. It was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Sea Level Research

Venture Round in 2015
Sea Level Research Limited develops and markets cloud based software solutions for reducing shipping costs by predicting sea levels. The company's platform optimizes ship schedules, manages vessel traffic, and cargo loading on real time basis. The company uses cloud hosted systems on the basis of tidal frame to provide ship arrival times and berthing usage. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Adventoris

Venture Round in 2015
Adventoris Ltd. specializes in the development of mobile business software. It offers SwiftCloud, a cloud-based enterprise software application that ensures smooth communications between individuals and businesses. Its software as a service platform is accessible to tablet and smartphone devices. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Huddersfield, United Kingdom.

Watertronix

Seed Round in 2013
Watertronix Ltd develops water treatment solutions for swimming pools which eliminates chlorine and its disadvantages. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Ventnor, United Kingdom.

SleepCogni

Seed Round in 2016
SleepCogni is developing a product that delivers a unique wind down process to promote sleep. We deliver cognitive behaviorial therapy using biofeedback (through visual, auditory and tactile cues) to help you relearn sleep. The personalised biofeedback is based on the measurement of a range of physiological and behavioural measures related to sleep, to swiftly and effectively guide you towards sleep initiation.

Cyan Forensics

Series A in 2021
CYAN FORENSICS Ltd. develops and markets tools for digital forensics in law enforcement. Its tools are prepared to extract digital fingerprints from an existing database of contraband; and used to scan seized computers, hard drives, and media devices (or forensic images of them) for contraband, as well as deliver results from those devices. The company’s tools provide results that allow forensic analysts to focus their investigative efforts on devices that yield useful evidence; avoid wasting time on devices that do not contain anything incriminating; and detailed evidence for use in court. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

NuVision

Seed Round in 2018
NuVision™ is a spin-out company from the University of Nottingham, incorporated July 2014. The company was established to commercialise high quality and affordable biotherapies for treating ‘front of the eye’ disease and trauma. Dr Andrew Hopkinson, the Principal Research Fellow in Academic Ophthalmology, Division of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Nottingham, founded NuVision™. The business is co-owned by the founders, Dr Andrew Hopkinson (Chief Scientific Officer), Professor Harminder Dua (co-founder), the directors Mr Byran Lister (CEO) and Dr Helen Shaw (Chairman), and the University of Nottingham.

Kaido

Seed Round in 2022
Kaido will be stunning in its simplicity. Accessible via an easy to use app, it will use the very latest smart technology to serve up content endorsed by a global team of experts from the fields of sport, nutrition, education and psychology.

Aceleron

Venture Round in 2021
Aceleron Limited develops and transforms end-of-life batteries from electric cars into energy storage batteries. The company collects lithium battery wastes, tests and grades batteries for reuse, and offers modular battery assembly hardware. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Hayes, United Kingdom.

Allinea Software

Venture Round in 2009
Allinea Software Ltd. provides software development tools for high performance computing in commercial and research institutions across the world. It offers Allinea Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT), a graphical debugger for debugging MPI and multi-threaded codes; Allinea DDT with CUDA, a tool to debug hybrid MPI, OpenMP, and CUDA applications on a single workstation or GPU cluster; and Allinea OPT, an optimization and profiling tool. The company serves customers across multiple industry sectors, including cloud computing, aerospace, oil and energy, and weather/climate, as well as universities, and research and development laboratories. Allinea Software Ltd. was formerly known as Backnet Limited and changed its name to Allinea Software Ltd. in December 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Warwick, United Kingdom. As of December 16, 2016, Allinea Software Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of ARM Limited.

Dxcover

Series A in 2023
It is our mission to be a world leader in liquid biopsy and artificial intelligence for early detection of cancers and other diseases to improve survival and quality of life. Dxcover are an award-winning team, dedicated to developing liquid biopsies for early detection of cancer and other diseases. A University of Strathclyde spinout in 2019 under the name ClinSpec Diagnostics, and rebranded as Dxcover Limited in 2021. To date, Dxcover have secured £5.1m of funding, and have successfully completed two ground-breaking clinical studies on detection of brain cancer and are currently developing our platform for the detection of commonly occurring cancers.

Invizius

Series A in 2021
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.

Impression Technologies

Venture Round in 2014
Impression Technologies offer a fully tailored service according to your engineering needs from concept to production. We provide the knowledge and expertise to support HFQ® technology, empowering you to transform your project. Our facility, located in Coventry, UK, is fully equipped to carry out in-house prototyping and production runs to support our HFQ customers and partners.

Pubguard

Venture Round in 2017
Ad verification and malware detection for in-app, m-web and desktop publishers.

EventsTag

Seed Round in 2014
We are EventsTag, a rapidly growing start-up: passionate about connecting brands and customers through original, innovative and irresistibly shareable social media content, powered by our own advanced experiential tech platform.

Kwanji

Seed Round in 2013
Kwanji is an online FX comparison platform empowering businesses globally to trade more efficiently. Bridging both emerging and traditional markets, we’re partnered with FCA regulated brokers in the UK and beyond. Quickly compare and choose from multiple FX quotes in seconds, send funds and transact globally without being overcharged.

Winder Power

Venture Round in 2017
Winder Power (Winder) is a leading UK manufacturer of power and distribution transformers and generator equipment. Winder specialises in the design, manufacture, deployment and management of distribution transformers and power transformers up to 60MVA. Its rotating-machines division (Newton Derby), is the leading manufacturer of exciters and permanent magnet machines for the power generation industry.

Cyan Forensics

Venture Round in 2019
CYAN FORENSICS Ltd. develops and markets tools for digital forensics in law enforcement. Its tools are prepared to extract digital fingerprints from an existing database of contraband; and used to scan seized computers, hard drives, and media devices (or forensic images of them) for contraband, as well as deliver results from those devices. The company’s tools provide results that allow forensic analysts to focus their investigative efforts on devices that yield useful evidence; avoid wasting time on devices that do not contain anything incriminating; and detailed evidence for use in court. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Sarissa Biomedical

Angel Round in 2010
Sarissa Biomedical, Ltd. engages in the development and production of novel biosensors for the measurement of neuroactive chemicals during in vitro and in vivo studies for research and clinical diagnostic applications. It offers microelectrode electrochemical sensors for the measurement of the purines and other neurochemicals. The company sells products in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Japan. Sarissa Biomedical, Ltd. was founded in 2002 and is based in Coventry, the United Kingdom.

W2 Global Data

Series A in 2017
W2 provide a wide range of web-based, online screening tools and services to help organisations make quick, informed decisions about the people and organisations they are interacting with. The solutions and associated services that W2 provide enable organisations to achieve regulatory compliance by conducting Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Fraud prevention due diligence. W2 offers solutions including, but not limited to, Age & ID verification, PEP and Sanctions screening, Enhanced Due Diligence, device location and reputation management as well as a wide range of professional services. W2 have partnered with some of the world’s largest data providers to ensure that you get simple, real-time access to reliable, up to date information.

UD Group

Venture Round in 2016
UD Software Solutions Group Limited offers a cloud based price comparison platform for energy suppliers and brokers. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Manchester, United Kingdom. UD Software Solutions Group Limited operates as a subsidiary of POWWR.

Pertinax Pharma Ltd.

Seed Round in 2016
Pertinax Pharma Limited develops slow release technology for chlorhexidine for medical, dental, and veterinary use. The company's product is used as a filler for composite materials such as polyurethane, silicone, cements, and hydrogels, as a component of liquids, creams, and emulsions for topical application, and as a component of coatings for metals, polymers, and glasses. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Secure Empty Property

Venture Round in 2015
Secure Empty Property Limited provides physical security systems and support services for the empty property industry. It offers metal screens and doors, and ultra monitored alarm systems; and support services, such as property clearance and cleaning, waste removal, grounds maintenance, countering anti-social and nuisance problems, graffiti removal, fly tipping clearance, and abandoned vehicle removal services for landlords. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Haslingden, United Kingdom.

Qisoft

Venture Round in 2018
QiSOFT Limited designs and develops quality management software. The company collects data, monitors and analyzes it to provide critical information. QiSOFT Limited provides implementation support services which include importing data, database pre-configuration, on-site go-live support and training, and report writing services; training through courses, on-site training, and QiSOFT webinar; and all time support service. The company serves manufacturing industries. QiSOFT Limited was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Leyland, United Kingdom.

BlackCurve

Seed Round in 2018
We are on a mission to help retailers across the world find hidden pockets of profit. BlackCurve helps retailers avoid pricing items too cheaply or too expensively, shift dead stock profitably, save time and increase their inventory. Our automated price testing increases profitability by 9%, achieve a 12% increase in revenue. After implementing BlackCurve, retailers typically achieve save on average 104 days per year, per channel, with BlackCurve pricing automation. Plus typically increase their inventory size by 5%. On average, we sell 5% of retailers previously static inventory.