Northstar Ventures

Northstar Ventures has been supporting entrepreneurs in the North East of England since 2004. It is looking for strong teams with great ideas – ideas that will drive high growth, scalable businesses. As the North East’s leading early stage investor, Northstar makes and manage investments into a wide range of innovative ventures, and its investment managers have a wealth of experience supporting new and growing businesses. Northstar was a launch partner to Accelerated Digital Ventures, a £150m UK-wide venture platform backing digital technology businesses. Aside from these funds, Northstar Ventures also manages the North East Social Investment Fund, investing in social enterprises working across the North East.
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Naomi Allen

Investment Manager

Khadija Ashfaq

Investment Manager

PB

Paul Barrett

Investment Manager

Alex Buchan

Investment Director

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Rick Charnley

Investment Manager

Richard Charnley

Investment Manager

Alison Collins

Investment Manager

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Dominic Endicott

Director

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Zara Ford

Investment Manager

Peter Gilson

Investment Manager

Alasdair Greig

Director

Sean Kelly

Investment Manager

Caitlin May

Investment Manager

Thomas O'Neill

Investment Manager

Emma O’Rourke

Finance Director

Ian Richards

Director

Julie Wake

Investment Manager

Past deals in Utilities

Audacious

Seed Round in 2011
Audacious, a Middlesbrough, UK-based start up developer of a new application that allows users to personalize their online search results

Low Carbon Lighting

Seed Round in 2013
Low Carbon Lighting Limited manufactures and sells lighting products. It offers street lighting products that are used in road lighting, pedestrian route, cycle route, recreational area, sports lighting, outdoor area lighting, car parking, and ornamental applications; and industrial lighting products for factories, warehouses, logistics and distribution, retail, exhibition spaces, and other applications. The company also offers exterior lighting solutions for industrial, logistics and distribution, petrol station forecourts, car parks, retail, swimming pools, ports/harbors, conflict areas, prisons, and high mast applications; and commercial lighting products. Low Carbon Lighting Limited was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Cramlington, United Kingdom.

Applied Graphene Materials

Seed Round in 2010
Applied Graphene Materials plc produces and sells graphene products primarily in the United Kingdom. It offers graphene nanoplatelets; and graphene powder in a range of polymer matrices, including thermoset and thermoplastic, as well as adhesives, elastomers, oils, and aqueous and non-aqueous solutions. The company provides its products for use in advanced composites and polymers; thermal management solutions; coatings; barriers and impermeable films; functional fluids, such as oils and lubricants; display materials and packaging; capacitors and batteries; and inks and 3D printed materials. Applied Graphene Materials plc was founded in 2010 and is based in Redcar, the United Kingdom.

SpecifiedBy

Seed Round in 2014
SpecifiedBy started out as a 'CAD library' trying connect architects, designers and other specifiers with building product manufacturers using CAD models and has naturally developed into a 'Specification Library', with all the relevant data required to make a decision about a building product. They also aim to make marketing building products much easier for companies who are not particularly web-orientated, but who realise that the modern specifier is now doing their research online. The long-term goal is to make finding the best building product for a particular project, regardless of brand or reputation, as simple and quick a process as possible. To do this, they are creating online tools to connect building product manufacturers with specifiers and specifiers with other specifiers. They believe that through innovation and embracing modern technologies the construction industry can become a more open and collaborative place, to the benefit of everyone.

Love Your Larder

Seed Round in 2011
Love Your Larder is foodie heaven - an online marketplace where you can buy from lots of great producers on one site! Tweets by @tristanwatson and @pollylouiser

amBX

Venture Round in 2011
amBX is a software company that is revolutionising lighting and digital entertainment markets by taking video and audio content out of the screen and into the room. In lighting entirely new levels of ambient control are now possible while amBX transforms the entertainment experience through immersing the viewer or player in the content and significantly increasing the enjoyment of digital audio, video and gaming content.

Deminos Consulting Ltd

Series C in 2012
Deminos Consulting Ltd provides subscription-based human resource and employment law compliance services to a range of SMEs in the United Kingdom. Deminos Consulting Ltd was formerly known as Casnb Ltd and changed its name to Deminos Consulting Ltd in August 2016. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Deminos Consulting Ltd operates as a subsidiary of Law At Work.

amBX

Seed Round in 2015
amBX is a software company that is revolutionising lighting and digital entertainment markets by taking video and audio content out of the screen and into the room. In lighting entirely new levels of ambient control are now possible while amBX transforms the entertainment experience through immersing the viewer or player in the content and significantly increasing the enjoyment of digital audio, video and gaming content.

ievo

Seed Round in 2013
ievo is a UK based biometric manufacturer, distributing their renowned biometric fingerprint products throughout the world. Their fingerprint readers are unique and reliable, integrating into commonly used access control systems and work within many environmental conditions including rain, snow and direct sunlight. The ievo biometric devices will also function with levels of creams, powders, grease, oil, dirt and cosmetics present on the skin as well as with some types of latex gloves worn by the user. This is enabled to due the robust multispectral imaging sensor and quality components used within the products.

4th aspect

Seed Round in 2010
The complexity and breadth of online media has reached a level where it is virtually impossible to manage your online marketing without clever software to help you. 4th aspect provides marketing professionals with tools that: measure, optimize and promote your content in virtually any form, across multiple content platforms and allows your marketing team to engage with advocates, influencers and of course customers. 4th aspect frees up your marketing resources and allows your team to create the content that your audience really cares about. Promote your brand on a global scale, while reducing costs and increasing control. Place your Brand ahead of your competitors and in front of your customers!

Clixifix

Seed Round in 2016
clixifix Limited develops a Web-based defect and repair resolution software for housebuilders and commercial contractors. It helps clients to track companies’ performances in responding to defects and repairs, as well as solves customer care problems. clixifix Limited was formerly known as JCCO 301 Limited and changed its name to clixifix Limited in June 2012. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Spennymoor, United Kingdom.

WorkCast

Seed Round in 2009
WorkCast is a leading provider of cloud-based online event products for webinars, webcasting and virtual events serving over 250 Global Organisations. WorkCast's Award Winning Platform drives revenue through; Sponsored online events, marketing lead generation, employee communications, stakeholder relations, certified training and product launches.

Low Carbon Lighting

Seed Round in 2012
Low Carbon Lighting Limited manufactures and sells lighting products. It offers street lighting products that are used in road lighting, pedestrian route, cycle route, recreational area, sports lighting, outdoor area lighting, car parking, and ornamental applications; and industrial lighting products for factories, warehouses, logistics and distribution, retail, exhibition spaces, and other applications. The company also offers exterior lighting solutions for industrial, logistics and distribution, petrol station forecourts, car parks, retail, swimming pools, ports/harbors, conflict areas, prisons, and high mast applications; and commercial lighting products. Low Carbon Lighting Limited was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Cramlington, United Kingdom.

PB Bioscience

Seed Round in 2011
PB Bioscience works with leading international and national industries operating in the health and wellness.

EthicalSuperstore.Com

Series C in 2008
Ethical Superstore is a one stop shop specialising in ethical gifts, gadgets and groceries: from organic wine to Fairtrade coffee, from vegetarian food to cosmetics free from animal cruelty, they offer the widest range with over 4,500 products just a mouse click away.

IEEG

Seed Round in 2011
IEEG

Esellution

Seed Round in 2012
eSellution software is the leading multi-channel ecommerce solution, allowing potential buyers to find your products on major online entities such as eBay, Facebook and Amazon Marketplace, dramatically increasing your potential market reach by listing your items to millions of potential consumers. The eSellution software is able to scale from small hobbyist ecommerce websites to large Fortune 500 companies.

CCE Engineering

Seed Round in 2011
CCE is a business which was established in 2010 and is focussed on providing new plant enhancing concepts & technologies, which will improve heat rate, power output, start reliability and/or flexibility of gas turbine combined cycle power plants.

I-Pocaust

Seed Round in 2011
I-Pocaust

Re Pet

Seed Round in 2011
Re Pet is a Sunderland, UK-based newly formed manufacturer of recyclable plastic sheeting for food companies and supermarkets.

Asteya

Series A in 2021
Asteya operates as an income insurance startup. Asteya launched with a product for individuals such as gig economy workers, who can take protecting their income with monthly plans.

Papertrail.io

Seed Round in 2014
Ensure inspections are never missed. Save time, money and reduce risk.

iResources

Seed Round in 2014
iResources is a digital marketing agency that focuses on the development of e-commerce, digital strategy, and custom applications. Its online marketing services includes search engine optimization, PPC, and web designing. iResources was founded by Jon Leighton in January 2010. It is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Audacious

Seed Round in 2011
Audacious, a Middlesbrough, UK-based start up developer of a new application that allows users to personalize their online search results

LyraChem

Seed Round in 2011
Founded in 2008 as a Durham University spinout business by CEO Carl Thirsk and Newcastle University’s Allen Wright, LyraChem provides software designed to help its clients improve their drug and chemical making processes. It uses a multidisciplinary workflow to characterize the client’s target process in chemical, physical and chemical engineering terms.

Earsoft

Seed Round in 2012
EarSoft is a software company whose algorithms enhance the quality and audibility of audio on playback devices.

iResources

Seed Round in 2015
iResources is a digital marketing agency that focuses on the development of e-commerce, digital strategy, and custom applications. Its online marketing services includes search engine optimization, PPC, and web designing. iResources was founded by Jon Leighton in January 2010. It is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Spark Etail

Venture Round in 2006
Spark Etail formerly PointOV is To be the UK's leading full service online retailer enabled by Spark's innovative ecommerce and fulfilment solutions.

Papertrail.io

Seed Round in 2013
Ensure inspections are never missed. Save time, money and reduce risk.

Amplience

Seed Round in 2013
Amplience is an API-first, headless content management platform for enterprise retail. Our content and experience solutions for headless commerce, enable teams to do more, better, faster. Amplience serves more than 350 of the world’s leading brands including Crate & Barrel, Tumi, Traeger Grills,Tom Ford, Argos, OTTO Group, Primark, Very Group, and Boohoo.

Screach

Seed Round in 2014
Screenreach Interactive is the developer of the Screach Interactivity platform. Screach enables a user to engage with content on other platforms - such as digital signage, TV, radio, print or even in-app through phone to phone interactions - all through the Screach smart device app. Screach is built on an open platform, giving creatives and developers the option to create their own Screach experiences using our unique ScreachML language. Screach allows advertisers and brands to engage with consumers like never before, generating more revenue and profiling interactions. Screach users are able to explore the Screach app as a social and location based network that makes their whole world interactive. Screach acts as a discovery engine that opens a whole new dimension to the things you love.

Antix Labs

Seed Round in 2010
Antix Labs Limited designs media software platforms for game manufacturers and developers, games publishers, media portals, handset and other device manufacturers, mobile operators, chipset designers and manufacturers, technology enablers, system integrators, compiler companies, and silicon design houses in the United Kingdom and internationally. It offers Antix Game Player, a software player for running single SKU, 2-D casual, 3-D AAA title, and P2P games on phones, televisions, personal computers, and other connected devices; Antix Game Development Kit, a toolkit for pervasive development of games on Windows; and Antix Developer Program to provide access to resources, support, and communities to engineers developing content for the Antix Game Player and those porting the Antix Game Player onto client platforms. Antix Labs was founded in 2007 and is based in Reading, the United Kingdom with regional offices in Stocksfield, the United Kingdom.

Recite Me

Seed Round in 2012
Recite Me Limited develops software which helps dyslexic and visually-impaired Web users to adapt Websites to fit their preferences, translating text into legible fonts, changing the colour contrast, and reading out the content on the page. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Gateshead, United Kingdom.

Reframed.tv

Seed Round in 2014
Reframed.tv is changing the way the world consumes, interacts with and shares video for the better. The company’s mission is to make video truly social. Users can create contextual conversations with time-specific comments in video, share them with deep links, follow users and favourite comments. It’s about building a community, moment by moment. Comments are synced to a video with a time-stamp so anyone can join the conversation with one tap, whether it’s an hour, a week, a year after the initial video release. It’s been referred to as “second-chance twitter.” Founded on 6th August 2013 by Jo York and Kev Price, who are based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, the idea was taken from concept to market trial in three months as part of the tech accelerator programme Ignite100. Reframed allows people to comment on, share and discuss moments in video. Our mission is to improve the experience and depth in which audiences connect with video content, generating engaging relationships between people who are moved by or resonate with the messages at specific moments. The Reframed interface timestamps comments at the exact moment the user starts typing. This information is used to display the comment at the relevant time in the video, giving them context. The comment activity is displayed visually in graph form over the timeline so users can instantly see the points in the video that are gaining interest and jump straight into those moments. Users often discuss this activity away from the video on social media sites, which are displayed in the order of the time and date they were made, not at the point in the video to which they refer. So, joining in the conversation becomes more difficult. Reframed syncs the conversation to the video so whether it’s an hour, a week or a month later, people can join in the conversation - in context. In this way Reframed gathers text that describes the content of a video at a specific point. This is very useful for the content owners and also allows Reframed to deliver specific moments within a video in search results. So rather than just displaying the videos that include certain content in the search results, Reframed can deliver the exact moments. Live chat style discussion Comments also facilitate further discussions, which are displayed outside of the flow of the video due to their size. This provides the functionality to publicly discuss the moments within the video in much more detail. Users can participate in multiple discussion threads at the same time. And all of the activity around each video is available in “real time”, which means other people’s comments are added to the page without having to refresh it. Comments can be tweeted and a link provided to bring more viewers to the exact point in the video at which the comment was made, known as “deep linking’. Our integration with Twitter goes further, as the entire video also appears in the Twitter timeline and plays from the moment the comment references. This functionality is known as “Twitter Player Cards” and in order to get them you have to apply to Twitter through a very long process. Twitter worked closely with us to speed u p the process and we are in discussion with them about how we can become more deeply integrated, This could include adding replies and retweets around the video and becoming a media partner on their Amplify programme. Platform independent Reframed works with many different video formats, including YouTube, Vimeo, Video.js and self-hosted video. This allows users to comment on and store comments on videos across all these platforms. So whether it’s a TED Talk on YouTube or a documentary on Vimeo, users can keep track of all their comments made on all the videos they have viewed using Reframed. This feature has been described as “Pinterest for moments in video”. Reframed acts as the glue between video, which can be archived and distributed throughout the web and social media platforms. So it’s all abuout what’s current and what’s relevant. Reframed increases engagement, audience reach and monetisation. Channels Channels are a way to group a user’s videos in one place with full moderation tools, which allows the channel owner to promote, hide and edit comments, enabling them to curate interesting videos and influence the conversation. Embeddable player The embeddable player brings all the functionaliy of the Reframed player to any website. The interface can be customised to match the look and feel of any website. Just like the channels, the website owner has full moderation tools to promote, hide and edit comments. Certain accounts can be given “Featured User” priveleges, which allows their comments to take centre stage.
Poptop is a markeplace of curated event packages and entertainment ideas for planners of private events, who do not want to hire event agencies.

Recruitment Force

Seed Round in 2012
Recruitment Force best content for Hiring Managers and Recruiters. Share your blogs, tips & advice.

Cogenta Systems

Venture Round in 2010
Cogenta is the market leading retail and pricing intelligence provider, supporting top UK retailers and brands. Cogenta's retail intelligence platform delivers complete, current and clear market information helping businesses and consumers make best pricing decisions. Tracking consumer shopping behaviour allows Cogenta to connect business with mobile consumers in a unique and exciting way.

Geneius Laboratories

Seed Round in 2010
Geneius Laboratories

SmoothGroove

Seed Round in 2012
SmoothGroove prevents the embarrassing problem that some ladies get with gym and swimwear.

Atlas Cloud Limited

Seed Round in 2015
Atlas Cloud are a leading provider of cloud IT services based in Newcastle upon Tyne with offices in Leeds, Sheffield & London. The Atlas Cloud team were early adopters of cloud technologies and with the expertise gained working with global, multi-national companies such as Acxiom, American Express, BT, Barclays, Cap Gemini, Siemens and Brewin Dolphin, are transforming the way that IT is provided to SMEs.

Recruitment Force

Seed Round in 2010
Recruitment Force best content for Hiring Managers and Recruiters. Share your blogs, tips & advice.

Car 2 U

Seed Round in 2011
Car 2 U are a vehicle hire company based in Sunderland, we specialise in the supply of short & medium term replacement vehicle rental services in the UK. We utilise industry leading technology for our hires for corporate and consumer clients. If you require a hire vehicle we are the team to call, especially if you require a dual control or 4x4.

Technically Compatible

Seed Round in 2016
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.

Odimax

Seed Round in 2012
Social sales leads: Identified – Nurtured – Delivered. Our proprietary technology identifies sales leads from social conversations, and analyses each individual to inform our teams’ communications with them. Our social engagement experts then gently but effectively nurture leads to the point of purchase for you to convert. You only pay for the qualified sales leads delivered to you for conversion! Odimax Ltd was founded in 2011 as a social media analytics company, and graduated from the ignite100 accelerator programme later that year. Since inception we’ve developed advanced natural language processing (text analytics) and intent-analysis technologies to take advantage of the opportunities presented to businesses by the spread of social media. We do one thing, and we believe we do that best - We combine our innovative technology with the expertise of our social media engagement team to help organisations generate sales from social media.

Whispering Gibbon

Seed Round in 2016
Whispering Gibbon Ltd, a game company, develops console games and media applications. The company specializes in bringing virtual content to reality through 3D printing. It offers RenderFab 3D, a cloud based asset processing service to automate the process of creating perfect 3D print-ready models from 3D data; and Grabit, a user generated merchandising solution. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.

Givey

Seed Round in 2012
Givey is a social donation platform seeking emphasise the power of giving a little every day. It is completely free to use for both users and charities. Givey make it easy for users to claim Gift Aid on all of their donations, and their partnership with the Paypal Giving Fund makes giving simple and instantaneous. Through 'Givey For Business', businesses can increase employee engagement by choosing to match the money their employees raise and donate to charity. All of this information is stored on a public Givey page, for employees, and the world, to see. Givey currently support over 8,000 charities.

One Utility Bill

Venture Round in 2020
One Utility Bill Limited develops software that enables letting agents to create, quote, and sell bill packages for their properties and residential tenants. It serves various energy providers, such as electricity, gas, and water providers; and TV license and broadband providers. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

amBX

Seed Round in 2012
amBX is a software company that is revolutionising lighting and digital entertainment markets by taking video and audio content out of the screen and into the room. In lighting entirely new levels of ambient control are now possible while amBX transforms the entertainment experience through immersing the viewer or player in the content and significantly increasing the enjoyment of digital audio, video and gaming content.

AMLo Biosciences Ltd

Venture Round in 2022
AMLo Biosciences Ltd develops a diagnostic kit to accurately predict melanomas. The company develops AMBLor which is prognostic test for early AJCC Stage I and Stage II melanoma to better identify a patient’s true risk of disease progression. It identifies 2 proteins (AMBLor) in the skin overlying the primary tumour that are lost in high-risk melanomas. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Arnia

Seed Round in 2011
Arnia Limited provides hive monitoring technology solutions for beekeepers. Its tool measures the daily activity and strength/health of the bees; and record key temperatures and rainfall. The company also engages in the process of interfacing a hive scale for remote weight monitoring; and a Web interface that allows users to login remotely and check their colonies for swarm/supersedure intent, strength, health, and activity. Arnia Limited was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Chadex

Seed Round in 2012
Chadex

Bounce It

Seed Round in 2016
Bounce it is a social media app that allows anyone to track media's journey around the world.

Activaeon

Seed Round in 2010
Established in 2004, activAeon is the leading provider of automated Microsoft SPLA reporting and compliance tools. Its products give service providers an efficient and cost effective alternative to manually gathering data, interpreting complex licensing rules and satisfying impossible reporting deadlines. With a worldwide customer and reseller base, it continues to lead the industry in Microsoft SPLA reporting solutions.

BMS Home

Seed Round in 2011
BMS Home

Smart Money People

Seed Round in 2015
Smart Money People Limited provides customer reviews about financial services companies online. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom.

Arcus Studio

Seed Round in 2014
Arcus Studios Limited provides 2D animation services. It operates a 2D animation studio that creates broadcast animation, promotional videos, video installations, inhouse original content, and develops new IP solutions. The company also provides animation based art installations. It offers its animation services to TV, the Internet, music videos, games, apps, and projections. Arcus Studios Limited was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Gateshead, United Kingdom.

CANDDi

Seed Round in 2012
CANDDi (Campaign and Digital Intelligence) is a Newcastle and Manchester based Internet start-up. The company has pioneered a new type of web tracking software called Prospect Analytics: a technology which combines the identity and behaviour of website visitors in order to provide rich profiles of prospects to businesses. Prospect Analytics tells you who is on your website, not just how many people. Tracking visitors across time and multiple devices becomes simple. CANDDi’s software allows clients to customise interactions with their web visitors, even if they’re anonymous, based on the browsing history and identity information CANDDi collects on each visitor. CANDDi lets businesses make the right real-time interactions with prospects for the best results. For example, CANDDi sends customised automated emails via any email system you use to different web visitors fitting specified behaviour or/and identity criteria. The CANDDi USP is its ability to combine behavioural data with social profile information of online visitors. This provides insight that brings value to firms in so many unique and distinct ways. To name just a few, CANDDi enables clients to: - Follow-up warm leads they would never have known existed - Nurture existing clients by analysing their online behaviour - Up-sell, cross-sell and re-sell their offerings

Recite Me

Seed Round in 2016
Recite Me Limited develops software which helps dyslexic and visually-impaired Web users to adapt Websites to fit their preferences, translating text into legible fonts, changing the colour contrast, and reading out the content on the page. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Gateshead, United Kingdom.

Ridee Ltd

Seed Round in 2013
Ridee Ltd. provides food delivery services in the United Kingdom. The company enables consumers to browse menus and order foods from various restaurants and stores through its Website or Jinn mobile application; and buys and delivers the food ordered by them. Its mobile application is available for iPhones and Android phones. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom. As of December 5, 2017, Ridee Ltd operates as a subsidiary of Rico Logistics Ltd.

Gecko Engage

Seed Round in 2012
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.

Kykloud

Seed Round in 2011
Kykloud is the leading mobile first saas solution of its kind. Over 100 million m2 (1 billion sq ft) has been surveyed and inspected with Kykloud (that's the same as the land area of Manhattan NY). Clients include Fortune 500 and FTSE 500 corporates who require Kykloud to make sure their critical property assets remain in good condition and meet health & safety standards. Other tools include capital and maintenance planning giving asset owners a real time picture of the future investment required across their portfolios.

Femeda

Venture Round in 2007
Femeda Ltd. develops and manufactures medical devices to treat incontinence. It offers Pelviva, a device for electro stimulation of the pelvic floor and provides a pro-active treatment of bladder leakage. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Cramlington, United Kingdom.

SenseLogix

Series B in 2012
SenseLogix Limited provides energy monitoring and control software solutions for commercial, industrial, education, public, retail, and energy service company sectors. The company offers automatic monitoring and targeting, industrial sub-metering, sub-metering, water monitoring, energy dashboard, small power control, industrial energy management, and estate management solutions. It provides an enterprise solution with modular applications; an intuitive and interactive dashboard for active energy management; an off-site storage vault of energy data; energy meters; metering enclosures; and energy nodes. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom.

Threesixty app

Seed Round in 2013
Threesixty app a Website that allows users to get involved in student life at universities.

Kykloud

Seed Round in 2012
Kykloud is the leading mobile first saas solution of its kind. Over 100 million m2 (1 billion sq ft) has been surveyed and inspected with Kykloud (that's the same as the land area of Manhattan NY). Clients include Fortune 500 and FTSE 500 corporates who require Kykloud to make sure their critical property assets remain in good condition and meet health & safety standards. Other tools include capital and maintenance planning giving asset owners a real time picture of the future investment required across their portfolios.

GoRaise

Seed Round in 2016
GoRaise is a customer loyalty platform, the reward being a donation to the customers chosen good cause. The good cause can be a anything from a national charity to a local PTA, sports club, girl guiding unit etc. Via the affiliate channels, over £750m in donations are available every year from partner retailers. So far only a fraction of this lands in the accounts of the thousands of amazing causes in the UK. GoRaise is on a mission to generate at least £10m in donations by the end of 2017.

DroneLab

Seed Round in 2014
DroneLab is a UK-based company specialising in software applications for the UAV industry.

Moltin Limited

Seed Round in 2013
Moltin Limited develops and delivers a cloud based eCommerce platform for developers. Its eCommerce platform provides APIs for building an online store and a mobile application, and creating virtual reality retail experience. The company’s APIs help to manage inventory, categorization, imagery, brands, and collections; secure cross-platform shopping carts and streamline checkout flow; integrate payments process; extend and create new data models; and more. The company’s platform also offers Forge, an administration dashboard to manage stores. It serves developers and store owners. Moltin Limited was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. As of January 13, 2020, Moltin Limited operates as a subsidiary of Elastic Path Software Inc.

Venture Stream

Seed Round in 2013
Venture Stream offers a range of e-commerce services and solutions to its clients. Venture Stream’s range of services include we design and development, digital marketing, e-commerce technology, and strategy and consulting. Web design and development includes web design consultancy, user acceptance testing, user experience design, and WordPress development. E-commerce technology consists of shopify and magento design and development. Marketing services consist of PPC management, SEO, content marketing, social media management, online PR, email marketing, conversion rate optimization, affiliate marketing, and branding and design. Strategy and consultancy consists of analysis and reporting, business strategy, e-commerce management, and training and workshops. Venture Stream was founded in 2012 and is based in Newcastle.

amBX

Seed Round in 2011
amBX is a software company that is revolutionising lighting and digital entertainment markets by taking video and audio content out of the screen and into the room. In lighting entirely new levels of ambient control are now possible while amBX transforms the entertainment experience through immersing the viewer or player in the content and significantly increasing the enjoyment of digital audio, video and gaming content.

Natural Technology Developments

Seed Round in 2015
Natural Technology Developments a young and dynamic company with an enthusiastic and experienced management team.

Cruise Compare

Seed Round in 2011
The UK's first Cruise Comparison site which allows you to compare the price of your next cruise from multiple agents in seconds online saving you time. We work with many of the major cruise agents to help you find the lowest price for your next cruise holiday.
Magnitude Biosciences Limited provides drug discovery solutions and services. It develops healthspan machine, which uses small computers each linked to a camera to monitor various nematodes under multiple conditions. The company’s solution assists the ageing research industry and academic researchers in testing compounds, such as food additives and drugs. It focuses on serving the global field of ageing research and drug discovery sector. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Durham, United Kingdom.

MindMate Ltd.

Pre Seed Round in 2015
MindMate Inc. designs and develops a mobile application for patients suffering from Alzheimer's and dementia. It offers insight on mental stimulation; puzzles, games, and other mentally invigorating tasks; recipes and nutrition advice; exercises; and reminiscence therapy to store memories. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Videojuicer

Seed Round in 2011
Squeeze more value from your video with Videojuicer's simple live streaming and advanced in-video apps. Videojuicer is a cloud-based video platform with a difference. We offer all the features you'd expect from any video solution, some of the best value live streaming available... and unique interactive in-video marketing tools.  Videojuicer has the power to turn any video into a sales and lead generation machine that works on desktop, tablet and mobile. Using our platform you can add almost ANY kind of functionality to your videos – interactive sponsor messages, shops, overlays, Twitter feeds, sign-ups, forms, slideshows, chat clients – and serve that functionality wherever the video appears. And because viewers are in control of our apps, they really like them! In-video apps get on average 10 times more clicks than pre-roll. So don't just put your video on the web. Put the web in your video!

One Utility Bill

Pre Seed Round in 2015
One Utility Bill Limited develops software that enables letting agents to create, quote, and sell bill packages for their properties and residential tenants. It serves various energy providers, such as electricity, gas, and water providers; and TV license and broadband providers. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Green Marine

Seed Round in 2014
Green Marine is an environmental certification program for the North American marine industry.

OrderHarmony

Seed Round in 2013
OrderHarmony is a SaaS product for wholesalers and distributors to manage their back-offices. Sales order processing Inventory control Purchase order management We help businesses escape their broken spreadsheet systems and scale up as they become multi-channel

Agile Group

Seed Round in 2013
Agile Group is a collection of businesses that are designed to assist and support your business to function. Our markets include outsourcing and logistic, ICT and telecoms systems, network infrastructure and business software. Our businesses fit together to provide a comprehensive and cohesive solution, tailored to your requirements.Agile Group, a Stockton, UK-based IT and communications service provider, received a six figure investment.Set up in 2009 and led by CEO Simon Scotchbrook, Agile Group provides ICT services to North-Eeast SMEs and is expanding its offering to offer broadband and telecoms to mobile platforms, such as ships. Markets include outsourcing and logistic, ICT and telecoms systems, network infrastructure and business software.

Givey

Seed Round in 2014
Givey is a social donation platform seeking emphasise the power of giving a little every day. It is completely free to use for both users and charities. Givey make it easy for users to claim Gift Aid on all of their donations, and their partnership with the Paypal Giving Fund makes giving simple and instantaneous. Through 'Givey For Business', businesses can increase employee engagement by choosing to match the money their employees raise and donate to charity. All of this information is stored on a public Givey page, for employees, and the world, to see. Givey currently support over 8,000 charities.

ReInnervate

Series A in 2010
ReInnervate Limited, a biotechnology company, engages in the development of enabling technologies that facilitate research into cell growth and function in vitro, primarily in the field of stem cell biology. Its technologies control the differentiation of stem cells and the formation of specific tissue types, as well as offers tools to develop diagnostics and treatments for neuro-degenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Durham, the United Kingdom.

Changing Health

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Built on a robust base of scientific evidence, our programmes empower people with the tools and knowledge to make lasting lifestyle changes. We’ve combined health coaching rooted in behavioural psychology with engaging digital education, delivering outcomes that stand up to rigorous evaluation. This approach enables healthcare organisations around the world to deliver game-changing support at scale, making the most of scarce time and resources.

Recite Me

Venture Round in 2013
Recite Me Limited develops software which helps dyslexic and visually-impaired Web users to adapt Websites to fit their preferences, translating text into legible fonts, changing the colour contrast, and reading out the content on the page. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Gateshead, United Kingdom.

TechM8

Seed Round in 2010
TechM8

Live & Kicking

Seed Round in 2011
Live & Kicking® is a unique online resource about to revolutionise the exhibition, conference and live event sectors where everything associated with these industries can be found in one place; improving productivity and

Bizpora

Seed Round in 2013
Bizpora (formerly Startup Stay) is a platform that helps a trusted community of entrepreneurs & business people: 1) Stay with a like-minded member instead of a hotel 2) Gain local insights, expand your network 3) Make money hosting other members We help our international business community: Build meaningful face-to-face connections : Make new friends/business contacts. Meet new potential colleagues or partners in every trip or at home. Gain valuable local insights : Save time and money by following the advice from your local business host. Bizpora also lets you rent out your own place to those looking for a place to stay. Listing is obviously free, and allows any local host worldwide to make money from their extra space whilst helping others business professionals like you.

RentMama

Seed Round in 2011
RentMama is the universal tool for global & local car hire market. RentMama.com brings together small and medium sized car hire providers and the renters. It’s a website where car hire providers from all around the world offer cars that suit your needs. Now imagine you want to hire a car for a weekend in London. Wouldn't it be nice to get the best offer from the whole market? Of course! There are more than 200 local lessors in this city. But you can't reach them in easy way. RentMama significantly simplify the way how you can get offers from multitude of small and medium car rental companies anywhere in the world. They really can help you to find the best car rental deals!

I-Spy Digital

Seed Round in 2014
I-Spy Digital

Electron Solar Wind

Seed Round in 2011
Electron Solar Wind

OrderHarmony

Seed Round in 2012
OrderHarmony is a SaaS product for wholesalers and distributors to manage their back-offices. Sales order processing Inventory control Purchase order management We help businesses escape their broken spreadsheet systems and scale up as they become multi-channel

Grey Matters

Seed Round in 2011
Grey Matters dedicated to supporting those who suffer from long-term conditions such as dementia, hypertension and heart disease.

Footy.com

Seed Round in 2020
The Footy Club Limited operates a website for comparing football products and merchandise. It operates FOOTY.COM, a football price comparison site for finding cheapest prices on various products and football merchandise. The company’s site is used to compare prices of football boots, kits, trainers, clothing, equipment, and other products. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Houghton-le-Spring, United Kingdom.

Atlas Cloud Limited

Seed Round in 2012
Atlas Cloud are a leading provider of cloud IT services based in Newcastle upon Tyne with offices in Leeds, Sheffield & London. The Atlas Cloud team were early adopters of cloud technologies and with the expertise gained working with global, multi-national companies such as Acxiom, American Express, BT, Barclays, Cap Gemini, Siemens and Brewin Dolphin, are transforming the way that IT is provided to SMEs.

onHand

Seed Round in 2021
onHand is an on-demand volunteering app, that makes employee volunteering as easy as ordering a takeaway.

Eutechnyx

Venture Round in 2013
Eutechnyx Limited operates as a driving game developer in the United Kingdom. It offers game consoles; and publishes titles and original intellectual properties. The company was formerly known as Merit Studios (Europe) Ltd. and changed its name in 1997. Eutechnyx Limited was founded in 1987 and is based in Gateshead, the United Kingdom with additional offices in the north east of England and Hong Kong.

WordPlay

Seed Round in 2017
Wordplay is a simple game that makes it really easy to learn and remember Spanish words and phrases.

Westfield Publishing

Seed Round in 2013
Westfield Publishing

CatalySystems

Seed Round in 2015
CatalySystems provides photocatalytic decontamination systems for industrial water and wastewater treatment.

Shuttlecook

Seed Round in 2014
We answer "What's for dinner tonight?" - everything you need for a fresh meal, delivered same day to your work in time to take home and cook! No subscription; we provide daily inspiration and you just order on your phone in 3 taps - never worry about dinner again!

Brock Fine Chemicals

Seed Round in 2011
Brock Fine Chemicals develops, manufactures, and supplies fluorinated, chlorinated, brominated, and iodinated products.

Eco Plastics

Venture Round in 2008
ECO Plastics Ltd is the UK's leading and highest quality reprocessor of recyclable materials. We currently operate Europe’s largest and most technically advanced Mixed Plastic Bottle sorting facility. This plant sorts 140,000t of plastics each year, sourced primarily from Waste contractors and Local Authorities throughout the UK and Ireland, we are also increasing volumes sourced within Western Europe. Having sorted the plastics by colour and polymer ECO Plastics Ltd then washes and extrudes the PET into PurePET78® (Food Grade rPET pellet). PurePET78® is used to replace virgin plastics in the production of new UK food and beverage packaging.

mylearnadfriend

Seed Round in 2013
mylearnadfriend creates health and safety specific e-learning software for direct sale to businesses and organisations across all sectors. These e-learning solutions are interactive training systems; containing immersive content with integrated Health and Safety products.

Curar Animal Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2011
Curar Animal Therapeutics specialises in treating pets and horses, providing safe therapies that help restore normal activity after injury.

I3 Profiling

Seed Round in 2012
The i3 profile is a tool that has been developed to identify people’s individual instinctive indicators. Initially delivered manually to over 15,000 people worldwide, the assessment is now carried out online and takes 20 - 30 minutes to complete. What the i3 profile delivers is simple, yet groundbreaking. Most of the profiling or personality assessment tools available place people into predetermined personality types or quadrants. But as you know, we are all different. What makes i3 profiling different is that every person’s i3 profile is unique to them and the report-back is delivered verbally.

BMS Home

Seed Round in 2013
BMS Home

ReInnervate

Venture Round in 2013
ReInnervate Limited, a biotechnology company, engages in the development of enabling technologies that facilitate research into cell growth and function in vitro, primarily in the field of stem cell biology. Its technologies control the differentiation of stem cells and the formation of specific tissue types, as well as offers tools to develop diagnostics and treatments for neuro-degenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Durham, the United Kingdom.

Questus Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Questus Inc. is a digital advertising agency. It offers insights, strategy, social media, mobile, digital experience, broadcast, and development services. Additionally, it offers digital advertising, UX design, web development, analytics, and optimization studies. Questus Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Jacwicks Designs

Seed Round in 2019
Jacwicks Designs is an innovative products for outdoor use

LyraChem

Seed Round in 2011
Founded in 2008 as a Durham University spinout business by CEO Carl Thirsk and Newcastle University’s Allen Wright, LyraChem provides software designed to help its clients improve their drug and chemical making processes. It uses a multidisciplinary workflow to characterize the client’s target process in chemical, physical and chemical engineering terms.

Screach

Seed Round in 2016
Screenreach Interactive is the developer of the Screach Interactivity platform. Screach enables a user to engage with content on other platforms - such as digital signage, TV, radio, print or even in-app through phone to phone interactions - all through the Screach smart device app. Screach is built on an open platform, giving creatives and developers the option to create their own Screach experiences using our unique ScreachML language. Screach allows advertisers and brands to engage with consumers like never before, generating more revenue and profiling interactions. Screach users are able to explore the Screach app as a social and location based network that makes their whole world interactive. Screach acts as a discovery engine that opens a whole new dimension to the things you love.

Femeda

Venture Round in 2016
Femeda Ltd. develops and manufactures medical devices to treat incontinence. It offers Pelviva, a device for electro stimulation of the pelvic floor and provides a pro-active treatment of bladder leakage. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Cramlington, United Kingdom.

Deltasight

Seed Round in 2013
Deltasight is a data company that develops a data platform for analyzing, visualizing, and predicting global innovation and IP. It offers practical and easy-to-use tools for global innovation and intellectual property analysis and visualization. The said platform generally collects data from 90 countries. Its products visually map trends and connections between companies, people, and inventions, giving businesses, R&D and technology transfer professionals a better understanding of global innovation. Its platform builds upon Deltasight’s proprietary Innovation Graph, which provides easy exploration of Innovation Profiles for inventions, people, organizations, and sectors. Its main customers include: private equity firms, technology companies, IP firms, and universities. Deltasight was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It is currently in private beta.

Biomass CHP

Venture Round in 2012
Biomass CHP, a Teesside, UK-based renewable energy company.

Givey

Seed Round in 2012
Givey is a social donation platform seeking emphasise the power of giving a little every day. It is completely free to use for both users and charities. Givey make it easy for users to claim Gift Aid on all of their donations, and their partnership with the Paypal Giving Fund makes giving simple and instantaneous. Through 'Givey For Business', businesses can increase employee engagement by choosing to match the money their employees raise and donate to charity. All of this information is stored on a public Givey page, for employees, and the world, to see. Givey currently support over 8,000 charities.

Orchid Software

Venture Round in 2014
Orchid Software is an intranet software development house and consultancy based in the North-East of England, UK; the company focuses on the development and provision of its proprietarily-developed Orchidnet intranet software. Orchidnet is a suite of intranet applications that includes traditional business processes as well as contemporary social media functionality. Orchid Software serves a client base including a wide range of companies over diverse sectors including: financial services, retail, publishing, media, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, government agencies, policing and law enforcement, commercial and social housing, educational instituitions, software/tech, logisitics and transport. Clients include Pizza Express, Go Compare, Ford Retail, The Southern Co-operative and 2 Sisters Food Group.

Donr

Seed Round in 2019
Donr Ltd. designs and develops a digital fundraising platform and tools for charities. The company offers mobile donation technology solutions that allow supporters to donate. Donr Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Caspian Learning

Venture Round in 2008
Caspian Learning use 3D games and simulations technology for education, training and engagement. Caspian focus on educative software both within the serious games sector and the web3D movement. Caspian has created over 50 engaging applications for sectors as diverse as entertainment, publishing, pharmaceuticals, defence and education. Many of these applications have been delivered through the web and have scooped many industry accolades and awards. This is made possible by their core technology platform - Thinking Worlds™. Thinking Worlds delivers highly immersive ‘performance simulations’ within engaging 3D worlds and is tightly integrated with Adobe’s Shockwave player meaning deployment across the internet, within intranets and links to learning management systems are simple.

Knocker

Seed Round in 2015
Knocker is a mobile application that enables its users to search and purchase properties in their local area. The application uses GPS to locate properties based on their current location. Furthermore, it enables its users to view and compare the prices of properties with others. Knocker was launched in 2015 by Sam Easterby-Smith.

CrowdIPR

Seed Round in 2011
CrowdIPR LTD. owns and operates an online crowd-sourced intellectual property research platform. It enables startups and other enterprises to evaluate the novelty of their new product ideas; investors to determine the uniqueness of their potential investment projects; research and development intensive companies, engineers, designers, scientists, inventors, and other authors to map relevant solutions in their technology domain; patent applicants and patent attorneys to prepare patent applications of higher quality; patent owners to monitor potential competitors and patent infringers; and to collect evidences for third party observations.

CrowdIPR

Seed Round in 2013
CrowdIPR LTD. owns and operates an online crowd-sourced intellectual property research platform. It enables startups and other enterprises to evaluate the novelty of their new product ideas; investors to determine the uniqueness of their potential investment projects; research and development intensive companies, engineers, designers, scientists, inventors, and other authors to map relevant solutions in their technology domain; patent applicants and patent attorneys to prepare patent applications of higher quality; patent owners to monitor potential competitors and patent infringers; and to collect evidences for third party observations.

Humble Angel Records

Seed Round in 2019
Streaming only record label

Thrive

Seed Round in 2011
We design and build beautiful online tools for the world's creators and innovators, freeing them from distractions so they can flourish and grow. Our apps replace a combination of existing products (think Basecamp, Freshbooks and Toggl). Streamlining the day-to-day tasks that can often get in the way of creativity – like quotes, invoicing, staff management, organising workload and filling in time sheets. They elegantly output real-time business and market intelligence, providing founders, managers and professionals the transparency they need to maximise their potential, giving them the freedom to continue producing great creative work.

Fantoo

Seed Round in 2012
Fantoo Ltd. develops an online platform for prioritizing emails and messages through data analysis and artificial intelligence. It enables users to connect with people, files, messages, and information feeds. It brings tasks into a single actionable list. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Bracknell, United Kingdom.

Spontly

Seed Round in 2014
Spontly Limited develops and delivers applications for sports teams. Its applications enable users to be part of the community in their own club app; discuss the game with other fans; and get the latest news, live scores, and commentary. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

amBX

Seed Round in 2014
amBX is a software company that is revolutionising lighting and digital entertainment markets by taking video and audio content out of the screen and into the room. In lighting entirely new levels of ambient control are now possible while amBX transforms the entertainment experience through immersing the viewer or player in the content and significantly increasing the enjoyment of digital audio, video and gaming content.

One Utility Bill

Venture Round in 2021
One Utility Bill Limited develops software that enables letting agents to create, quote, and sell bill packages for their properties and residential tenants. It serves various energy providers, such as electricity, gas, and water providers; and TV license and broadband providers. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

MyMoneyPA

Seed Round in 2011
MY | MONEY is a pioneering web portal providing employers who want to attract and retain the best people with a resource for employees to take control of their personal finances. MY | MONEY is the brainchild of Liam Croke MD of Harmonics Financial www.harmonicsfinancial.ie and John Fitzgerald MD Harmonics Career Crafting www.harmonics.ie. Harmonics have been retained by corporate organisations such as GSK, Diageo, O2, Baxter Healthcare, University of Limerick,Cuisine De France, PWC to provide transformational financial and career management programmes to their staff.

Ignis Red

Seed Round in 2011
Ignis Red

Shine Interview Ltd

Seed Round in 2016
Shine Interview is a SaaS-based recruitment technology, incorporating next generation video interviewing, values-based recruitment, psychometric, and more.

Booly Limited

Seed Round in 2014
We are creating an exciting new technology where users can find and save great products from the sites they love, and get notified about the important stuff such as price-drops, coupon savings, and stock availability. We have a strong B2B intent marketing platform and are currently looking to raise an investment round of £150k. Stop guessing what your customers want and convert today's "just browsing" into tomorrow's sales

FLFTec

Seed Round in 2010
FLFTec

Limeco

Seed Round in 2012
Limeco delivers high-quality LIME products and consultancy services to complement our product range. If you are looking for HYDRATED or SLAKED LIME, CHEMICAL LIME, or OXIDES, STABILIZING LIME, or SORBACAL SPS - The most effective calcium sorbent on the market. Limeco can assist in all your LIME requirements. Limeco pays great attention to the quality of our products and services.

Yippee

Seed Round in 2012
Yippee

Ricochet Technologies Ltd

Convertible Note in 2019
Ricochet Technologies Ltd develops and delivers sales platform powered by machine-learning and NLP(neuro-linguistic programming). Its platform helps salespeople find and engage sales leads. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. As of December 15, 2020, Ricochet Technologies Ltd operates as a subsidiary of Cognism Limited.

IOTech Systems Limited

Series A in 2019
The growth in IoT is explosive, impressive and unsustainable under current architectural approaches. Many IoT deployments face challenges related to latency, network bandwidth, reliability and security, which cannot be addressed in cloud-only models.

Venture Stream

Debt Financing in 2018
Venture Stream offers a range of e-commerce services and solutions to its clients. Venture Stream’s range of services include we design and development, digital marketing, e-commerce technology, and strategy and consulting. Web design and development includes web design consultancy, user acceptance testing, user experience design, and WordPress development. E-commerce technology consists of shopify and magento design and development. Marketing services consist of PPC management, SEO, content marketing, social media management, online PR, email marketing, conversion rate optimization, affiliate marketing, and branding and design. Strategy and consultancy consists of analysis and reporting, business strategy, e-commerce management, and training and workshops. Venture Stream was founded in 2012 and is based in Newcastle.

Blooie

Seed Round in 2014
Blooie Limited operates an intelligent conversation platform that enables Websites to host conversations. It offers Blooie, a platform that connects individuals who share a passion for the content they consume online; and allows them to chat with each other about its clients’ content. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

amBX

Seed Round in 2013
amBX is a software company that is revolutionising lighting and digital entertainment markets by taking video and audio content out of the screen and into the room. In lighting entirely new levels of ambient control are now possible while amBX transforms the entertainment experience through immersing the viewer or player in the content and significantly increasing the enjoyment of digital audio, video and gaming content.
Poptop is a markeplace of curated event packages and entertainment ideas for planners of private events, who do not want to hire event agencies.

Screach

Seed Round in 2014
Screenreach Interactive is the developer of the Screach Interactivity platform. Screach enables a user to engage with content on other platforms - such as digital signage, TV, radio, print or even in-app through phone to phone interactions - all through the Screach smart device app. Screach is built on an open platform, giving creatives and developers the option to create their own Screach experiences using our unique ScreachML language. Screach allows advertisers and brands to engage with consumers like never before, generating more revenue and profiling interactions. Screach users are able to explore the Screach app as a social and location based network that makes their whole world interactive. Screach acts as a discovery engine that opens a whole new dimension to the things you love.

MobiCart

Seed Round in 2012
MobiCart is a simple way to build and manage your m-commerce store as a native or web app. MobiCart is a startup that is taking m-commerce to a new level of personalization by enabling anyone to quickly deploy a native storefront application on iOS and Android devices as well as HTML5. Launched in 2010 at the renowned DEMO conference in Silicon Valley California, MobiCart has gone from strength to strength. To date, it has secured just under $1million investment and achieved significant traction powering over 14,000 merchants.

Smoothshield

Seed Round in 2011
Smoothshield

Atlas Cloud Limited

Seed Round in 2014
Atlas Cloud are a leading provider of cloud IT services based in Newcastle upon Tyne with offices in Leeds, Sheffield & London. The Atlas Cloud team were early adopters of cloud technologies and with the expertise gained working with global, multi-national companies such as Acxiom, American Express, BT, Barclays, Cap Gemini, Siemens and Brewin Dolphin, are transforming the way that IT is provided to SMEs.

Tagorize

Seed Round in 2010
Advertag is a jobs listing site using Tagorize at its core. Using Tagorize, we can offer a better user experience, more accurate search and conversion rates over five times better than other recruitment sites..

Deminos Consulting Ltd

Seed Round in 2010
Deminos Consulting Ltd provides subscription-based human resource and employment law compliance services to a range of SMEs in the United Kingdom. Deminos Consulting Ltd was formerly known as Casnb Ltd and changed its name to Deminos Consulting Ltd in August 2016. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Deminos Consulting Ltd operates as a subsidiary of Law At Work.

SimpliDrive

Seed Round in 2015
SimpliDrive

Grid

Seed Round in 2015
Grid connects city businesses, services, people and technology.

amBX

Seed Round in 2014
amBX is a software company that is revolutionising lighting and digital entertainment markets by taking video and audio content out of the screen and into the room. In lighting entirely new levels of ambient control are now possible while amBX transforms the entertainment experience through immersing the viewer or player in the content and significantly increasing the enjoyment of digital audio, video and gaming content.

Refract Software Ltd

Seed 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.

One Third Stories

Seed Round in 2015
One Third Stories makes learning a language as simple as reading a story, one that start in English and end in a different language by utilising their innovative Clockwork Methodology®. These are delivered as part of a monthly subscription box for parents and their kids to embark on a language learning adventure.

WorkCast

Seed Round in 2010
WorkCast is a leading provider of cloud-based online event products for webinars, webcasting and virtual events serving over 250 Global Organisations. WorkCast's Award Winning Platform drives revenue through; Sponsored online events, marketing lead generation, employee communications, stakeholder relations, certified training and product launches.

Plan My food

Seed Round in 2010
Plan My food

Thrive

Seed Round in 2013
We design and build beautiful online tools for the world's creators and innovators, freeing them from distractions so they can flourish and grow. Our apps replace a combination of existing products (think Basecamp, Freshbooks and Toggl). Streamlining the day-to-day tasks that can often get in the way of creativity – like quotes, invoicing, staff management, organising workload and filling in time sheets. They elegantly output real-time business and market intelligence, providing founders, managers and professionals the transparency they need to maximise their potential, giving them the freedom to continue producing great creative work.

ThinkLab

Seed Round in 2015
ThinkLab is a platform to publish its users’ research openly, online, and in real-time while collaborating with a worldwide network of their peers. Researchers can get feedback on their grant proposals, participate in open peer review, and lead entirely open research projects. It intends to partner with science funders to create new incentives and replace academic reward system. It accelerates scientific progress, amplifies the voices of intelligent, reasoned, and experts, and helps reduce existential risks. ThinkLab is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2014 by Jesse Spaulding.

Pogo.com

Seed Round in 2016
Pogo.com is a free online gaming website that offers over 100 casual games from brands like Hasbro and PopCap Games. It offers a variety of card and board games like First Class Solitaire and Monopoly to puzzle, sports and word games like Scrabble. It is owned by Electronic Arts and is based in Redwood Shores, CA.

Verticly

Seed Round in 2015
Verticly provides a SaaS based platform that exchanges data and delivers personalized engagement to FMCG brands, retailers, and manufacturers. The company connects the dots between online and offline customer data, and delivers real-time content for consumers. It provides solutions for omni-channel landscape, channel attribution, vouchering, Twitter to store, omni-channel retargeting, and personalized messaging cloud. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Screach

Seed Round in 2014
Screenreach Interactive is the developer of the Screach Interactivity platform. Screach enables a user to engage with content on other platforms - such as digital signage, TV, radio, print or even in-app through phone to phone interactions - all through the Screach smart device app. Screach is built on an open platform, giving creatives and developers the option to create their own Screach experiences using our unique ScreachML language. Screach allows advertisers and brands to engage with consumers like never before, generating more revenue and profiling interactions. Screach users are able to explore the Screach app as a social and location based network that makes their whole world interactive. Screach acts as a discovery engine that opens a whole new dimension to the things you love.

LandTrader

Seed Round in 2017
Land Trader is purpose-built to help make deals happen quickly and securely. It lets anyone buy and sell land without fuss. And frequent, expert advice helps best connect landowners with buyers and tenants. Land Trader wants to make buying and selling land accessible to everyone. It aims to cut the time spent trawling through irrelevant listings and checking different places. It wants you to only have to speak to genuine would-be buyers or sellers. As well as being able to talk to agents and service providers, in the same place.

Skip a Blink

Seed Round in 2011
Skip a Blink

Recruitment Force

Seed Round in 2011
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mylearnadfriend

Seed Round in 2013
mylearnadfriend creates health and safety specific e-learning software for direct sale to businesses and organisations across all sectors. These e-learning solutions are interactive training systems; containing immersive content with integrated Health and Safety products.

Odimax

Seed Round in 2011
Social sales leads: Identified – Nurtured – Delivered. Our proprietary technology identifies sales leads from social conversations, and analyses each individual to inform our teams’ communications with them. Our social engagement experts then gently but effectively nurture leads to the point of purchase for you to convert. You only pay for the qualified sales leads delivered to you for conversion! Odimax Ltd was founded in 2011 as a social media analytics company, and graduated from the ignite100 accelerator programme later that year. Since inception we’ve developed advanced natural language processing (text analytics) and intent-analysis technologies to take advantage of the opportunities presented to businesses by the spread of social media. We do one thing, and we believe we do that best - We combine our innovative technology with the expertise of our social media engagement team to help organisations generate sales from social media.

amBX

Seed Round in 2012
amBX is a software company that is revolutionising lighting and digital entertainment markets by taking video and audio content out of the screen and into the room. In lighting entirely new levels of ambient control are now possible while amBX transforms the entertainment experience through immersing the viewer or player in the content and significantly increasing the enjoyment of digital audio, video and gaming content.

MobiCart

Seed Round in 2012
MobiCart is a simple way to build and manage your m-commerce store as a native or web app. MobiCart is a startup that is taking m-commerce to a new level of personalization by enabling anyone to quickly deploy a native storefront application on iOS and Android devices as well as HTML5. Launched in 2010 at the renowned DEMO conference in Silicon Valley California, MobiCart has gone from strength to strength. To date, it has secured just under $1million investment and achieved significant traction powering over 14,000 merchants.

Newcells Biotech

Seed Round in 2018
Newcells Biotech are experts in the production of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and their differentiation into a wide range of reliable and reproducible cell and tissue types. Their focus is to provide customers engaged in drug discovery, pre-clinical development and disease mechanism investigation, with the best quality cells and services.

Orchid Software

Seed Round in 2013
Orchid Software is an intranet software development house and consultancy based in the North-East of England, UK; the company focuses on the development and provision of its proprietarily-developed Orchidnet intranet software. Orchidnet is a suite of intranet applications that includes traditional business processes as well as contemporary social media functionality. Orchid Software serves a client base including a wide range of companies over diverse sectors including: financial services, retail, publishing, media, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, government agencies, policing and law enforcement, commercial and social housing, educational instituitions, software/tech, logisitics and transport. Clients include Pizza Express, Go Compare, Ford Retail, The Southern Co-operative and 2 Sisters Food Group.

Fit Gurus

Seed Round in 2015
Fit Gurus Ltd. owns and operates an online platform which allows users to access training plans from personal trainers and celebrities. The company also provides online gym subscription services. It also engages in online retail of gym products and apparel. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in South Shields, United Kingdom.

Clixifix

Venture Round in 2020
clixifix Limited develops a Web-based defect and repair resolution software for housebuilders and commercial contractors. It helps clients to track companies’ performances in responding to defects and repairs, as well as solves customer care problems. clixifix Limited was formerly known as JCCO 301 Limited and changed its name to clixifix Limited in June 2012. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Spennymoor, United Kingdom.

The Wood Heating Company

Seed Round in 2011
The Wood Heating Company is a multi-award winning, trusted provider of affordable heating solutions and biomass boiler servicing specialist.

Thrive

Seed Round in 2012
We design and build beautiful online tools for the world's creators and innovators, freeing them from distractions so they can flourish and grow. Our apps replace a combination of existing products (think Basecamp, Freshbooks and Toggl). Streamlining the day-to-day tasks that can often get in the way of creativity – like quotes, invoicing, staff management, organising workload and filling in time sheets. They elegantly output real-time business and market intelligence, providing founders, managers and professionals the transparency they need to maximise their potential, giving them the freedom to continue producing great creative work.

Vibetrace

Seed Round in 2011
Vibetrace is a suite of e-commerce tools. It offers SaaS-based solutions for e-commerce companies to increase sales and conversion rates on their individual websites. Vibetrace's solutions personalize websites and automate their clients' marketing communications in a way similar to Amazon's. Vibetrace services can be integrated with any e-commerce platform. It offers four main products: customer intelligence engines, e-commerce analytics, shop personalization, and e-mail automation. Vibetrace was founded by Alexandru Rada and Alexandru Topliceanu in 2011 and is currently based in Bucharest, Romania.

Screach

Seed Round in 2013
Screenreach Interactive is the developer of the Screach Interactivity platform. Screach enables a user to engage with content on other platforms - such as digital signage, TV, radio, print or even in-app through phone to phone interactions - all through the Screach smart device app. Screach is built on an open platform, giving creatives and developers the option to create their own Screach experiences using our unique ScreachML language. Screach allows advertisers and brands to engage with consumers like never before, generating more revenue and profiling interactions. Screach users are able to explore the Screach app as a social and location based network that makes their whole world interactive. Screach acts as a discovery engine that opens a whole new dimension to the things you love.

Fairstone

Venture Round in 2015
Fairstone is a national financial advisory and wealth management group. We combine market knowledge, specialist expertise and the very latest technology to produce the highest quality outcomes for our clients in a cost-effective manner. Fairstone incorporates the UK's largest Chartered Financial Planning firm and has a number of dedicated business channels that include financial advisory, Discretionary Fund Management, wealth management, property finance and estate planning. Launched in 2008 Fairstone is very much a ‘new model’ financial services business operating across both retail and corporate sectors. Our head office is based in Newcastle, and with 36 regional locations and management hubs in both London and Bristol, we have a truly national presence. Fairstone's rate of growth is consistently beyond 20% for each financial year and our annualized revenues exceed £40 million. Across the UK we now have over 300 financial advisers servicing 41,000 clients who collectively hold £7 billion in investment and pension assets. Our ultimate objectives across the group are to deliver annual revenues in excess of £100 million, EBITDA margin of above 10% and to oversee client funds of £15 billion.

Eutechnyx

Venture Round in 2014
Eutechnyx Limited operates as a driving game developer in the United Kingdom. It offers game consoles; and publishes titles and original intellectual properties. The company was formerly known as Merit Studios (Europe) Ltd. and changed its name in 1997. Eutechnyx Limited was founded in 1987 and is based in Gateshead, the United Kingdom with additional offices in the north east of England and Hong Kong.

skignz

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
skignz brings Precise Location Augmented Reality to the People, Places, and Things you love. Simple. Fun. Useful. If you are looking at a using skignz commercially through our API please get in touch. Alternately we offer a Free App

Rock Flower Networks

Seed Round in 2010
Rock Flower Networks

Whispering Gibbon

Seed Round in 2014
Whispering Gibbon Ltd, a game company, develops console games and media applications. The company specializes in bringing virtual content to reality through 3D printing. It offers RenderFab 3D, a cloud based asset processing service to automate the process of creating perfect 3D print-ready models from 3D data; and Grabit, a user generated merchandising solution. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.

Usable HQ

Seed Round in 2012
Usable builds exceptionally usable online project management tools. We want to change the way people think about projects, stop projects failing, and save companies time and money. Usable’s first product, Usable Requirements, is an easy-to-use tool that makes teams focus on what their project really is. Requirements is an application that enables every stakeholder in a project to communicate and collaborate around a set of requirements that will then keep goals at the centre of the project, eliminate “scope creep”, and drive day-to-day tasks.
Magnitude Biosciences Limited provides drug discovery solutions and services. It develops healthspan machine, which uses small computers each linked to a camera to monitor various nematodes under multiple conditions. The company’s solution assists the ageing research industry and academic researchers in testing compounds, such as food additives and drugs. It focuses on serving the global field of ageing research and drug discovery sector. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Durham, United Kingdom.

Molplex Ltd.

Seed Round in 2011
Molplex Ltd. specializes in delivering drug discovery on demand. It enables small drug discovery teams to design drugs, screen against the target, and order them online; and integrates drug design, compound dispensing, and screening into a single Web–based platform. The company offers online tools to develop a shortlist of compounds with right physical, chemical, and biological properties; and on demand chemistry cloud computing, assay development and screening, hit and lead finding, and lead optimization services. It also provides medicinal chemistry online with chemical searches, chemical supply, drug design, high content screening, and other preclinical drug discovery services; and assay-ready chemical compounds through its online ordering portal. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Screach

Seed Round in 2011
Screenreach Interactive is the developer of the Screach Interactivity platform. Screach enables a user to engage with content on other platforms - such as digital signage, TV, radio, print or even in-app through phone to phone interactions - all through the Screach smart device app. Screach is built on an open platform, giving creatives and developers the option to create their own Screach experiences using our unique ScreachML language. Screach allows advertisers and brands to engage with consumers like never before, generating more revenue and profiling interactions. Screach users are able to explore the Screach app as a social and location based network that makes their whole world interactive. Screach acts as a discovery engine that opens a whole new dimension to the things you love.

Logincident

Seed Round in 2015
Logincident is a mobile application with dashboard which acts as both a risk management and claims management tool for businesses operating in heightened health and safety risk environments.

WhatUsersDo Limited

Seed Round in 2012
WhatUsersDo provide usability testing as an online service. Clients get to tap into a pan-European panel of internet users and watch videos of their screens and hear their spoken thoughts as they give feedback on websites. Founded in 2008 the firm includes large brands like TUI, BT and Comet amongst its clients as well as thousands of SMEs.

AC Innovations

Seed Round in 2010
AC Innovations is making products that work and perform as stated.

Screach

Seed Round in 2015
Screenreach Interactive is the developer of the Screach Interactivity platform. Screach enables a user to engage with content on other platforms - such as digital signage, TV, radio, print or even in-app through phone to phone interactions - all through the Screach smart device app. Screach is built on an open platform, giving creatives and developers the option to create their own Screach experiences using our unique ScreachML language. Screach allows advertisers and brands to engage with consumers like never before, generating more revenue and profiling interactions. Screach users are able to explore the Screach app as a social and location based network that makes their whole world interactive. Screach acts as a discovery engine that opens a whole new dimension to the things you love.

Palringo

Series B in 2010
Chat and community gaming app that allows you to connect, chat and play games with others around the world

Lifebox

Seed Round in 2015
Lifebox is a web and Android app that helps its users explore their lives and connect in various ways through Q&A. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Changing Health

Seed Round in 2018
Built on a robust base of scientific evidence, our programmes empower people with the tools and knowledge to make lasting lifestyle changes. We’ve combined health coaching rooted in behavioural psychology with engaging digital education, delivering outcomes that stand up to rigorous evaluation. This approach enables healthcare organisations around the world to deliver game-changing support at scale, making the most of scarce time and resources.

Lytespark

Seed Round in 2015
LyteSpark is a video conferencing platform for business. Our vision is to make all businesses more efficient by removing location as a barrier to quality communication and collaboration. LyteSpark unifies the communication in a single intuitive platform. The software is hosted in the cloud and delivered within the web browser so that no installation is necessary for the host or attendees. We provide meeting rooms, interview rooms, webinar and presentation rooms, screenshare and live document editing. The interface delivers a dedicated, customisable interface for your company use.

ConstruQtive

Seed Round in 2011
ConstruQtive develops mobile applications that mine company data in order to spot trends and insightful information.

Wurk

Convertible Note in 2019
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.

Videojuicer

Seed Round in 2010
Squeeze more value from your video with Videojuicer's simple live streaming and advanced in-video apps. Videojuicer is a cloud-based video platform with a difference. We offer all the features you'd expect from any video solution, some of the best value live streaming available... and unique interactive in-video marketing tools.  Videojuicer has the power to turn any video into a sales and lead generation machine that works on desktop, tablet and mobile. Using our platform you can add almost ANY kind of functionality to your videos – interactive sponsor messages, shops, overlays, Twitter feeds, sign-ups, forms, slideshows, chat clients – and serve that functionality wherever the video appears. And because viewers are in control of our apps, they really like them! In-video apps get on average 10 times more clicks than pre-roll. So don't just put your video on the web. Put the web in your video!

Skip a Blink

Seed Round in 2012
Skip a Blink

Cambfix

Seed Round in 2011
Cambfix has developed a platform technology to provide a comprehensive trauma fixation system.

MathChat Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
MathChat Inc. operates a mobile collaboration platform that enables students to study math using the communication tools on smartphones. Its platform allows students and their friends to take photos of a math problem and collaborate in real time through drawing, typing math, and messaging. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Vertical Wind Energy

Venture Round in 2010
Vertical Wind Energy, a Horsham, UK-based designer, producer and installer of vertical axis, small wind systems. The company is leveraging the introduction of the "Feed-in-Tariffs" in April 2010, which will enable homes and businesses to generate income from producing their own renewable electricity and selling the surplus to the national grid.

Exuru!

Seed Round in 2011
Exuru takes every product, deal and offer in your email, removes the original email and serves your deals together, personalised in your browser, phone or tablet. If you suffer from deal overload or have tired of certain group buying emails and their no-longer-funny tone but still want to get deals, Exuru is for you. Sign up takes about a minute to connect your email account. Exuru then scans for deal and product emails. When it finds one, the system extracts all the information for each deal and removes the email so it never bothers your inbox. All of your deals can then be viewed at exuru.com, on your tablet or mobile phone. Using a proprietary personalisation system, Exuru gradually learns your preferences so you see fewer carp pedicures and more track days at Laguna Seca (or vice versa). Exuru takes away the annoyance of email deal overload, the mass of deals you are never interested in and gives you only great deals you want. Wherever you are.

Wind Drive

Seed Round in 2013
Wind Drive

Deminos Consulting Ltd

Seed Round in 2010
Deminos Consulting Ltd provides subscription-based human resource and employment law compliance services to a range of SMEs in the United Kingdom. Deminos Consulting Ltd was formerly known as Casnb Ltd and changed its name to Deminos Consulting Ltd in August 2016. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Deminos Consulting Ltd operates as a subsidiary of Law At Work.

IBEX Innovations Limited

Seed Round in 2012
IBEX Innovations Limited develops and commercializes an X ray detector technology for generating high sensitivity materials information from standard X-ray detectors. It offers IBEX multi absorption plate (MAP) technology that integrates detectors and adds materials information while retaining the speed, signal to noise, spatial resolution, and imaging area characteristics of the underlying sensors. The company’s IBEX is equipped into X ray detectors for classifying materials and thickness changes in a sample. Its solution is used in various applications, such as bone mineral density, electronics inspection, food inspection, and security applications. IBEX Innovations Limited was formerly known as Eshtech Ltd. and changed its name to IBEX Innovations Limited in November 2012. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Sedgefield, United Kingdom.

Lifebox

Seed Round in 2014
Lifebox is a web and Android app that helps its users explore their lives and connect in various ways through Q&A. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Natural Hero

Seed Round in 2012
Natural Hero develops and manufactures feel-good sports and wellbeing products for individuals. It provides sports body care for warm-up, training, and recovery. The muscle rub, spray, and soak is developed with the help of sports physiotherapists and plant scientists. The blends of active botanic combats muscle fatigue and conditions the skin. It is available in sports stores, physiotherapy clinics, and healthy living stores. Natural Hero is a U.K.-based company that was founded in 2011 by Louise Vincent.

amBX

Seed Round in 2013
amBX is a software company that is revolutionising lighting and digital entertainment markets by taking video and audio content out of the screen and into the room. In lighting entirely new levels of ambient control are now possible while amBX transforms the entertainment experience through immersing the viewer or player in the content and significantly increasing the enjoyment of digital audio, video and gaming content.

mylearnadfriend

Seed Round in 2012
mylearnadfriend creates health and safety specific e-learning software for direct sale to businesses and organisations across all sectors. These e-learning solutions are interactive training systems; containing immersive content with integrated Health and Safety products.

Able2Fly

Seed Round in 2014
Able2fly Limited provides precision runway monitor (PRM) management software solution. The product can be used to process PAL, CAL and PSM notifications and it provides updates with the latest estimated flight times. Additionally it can be used for EMA recording, quick passenger feedback, and to create standard reports. Able2fly Limited was founded in 2012 and is based in Gateshead, United Kingdom.

Evince Technology Ltd

Seed Round in 2008
Evince Technology Ltd develops diamond-based semiconductor devices that reduce carbon dioxide emissions. It offers diamond power semiconductor devices, including diodes, electron field emission triodes, and directional field emission transistors that connect power electronic systems to a mains electricity grid. The company’s products are used to improve the performance wind turbines and fuel cells and reduce the energy requirement of motors. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Durham, United Kingdom.

Steelyard

Seed Round in 2012
Steelyard is the connection point between vetted brands and commercial designers who crave inspiration and a streamlined way to complete their projects. As the industry's only exclusive product research and specification platform, we help leading professional designers find, organize and execute great ideas that thrill clients and set them apart. For our professional design members, Steelyard provides a secure and vetted community of leading manufacturers and vendors whose interest is to serve the diverse needs of designers, architects, builders, and facility managers. Our unique online platform is a sourcing and inspiration center that enables our members to deliver inspired and profitable projects. We streamline the design process by helping designers and architects manage projects and digitally search, spec, organize, and order appropriate items more quickly and efficiently than ever before. For our manufacturer brands, Steelyard provides an effective sales channel to reach tens of thousands of professional trade buyers in a diverse and lucrative B2B furnishings & fixtures market. And because we provide manufacturers insight into the designer-driven sales pipeline and the behavioral analytics they need to view and track deamnd, they are better able to connect with the right audiences, convert viewers to buyers, and market their product lines more successfully and profitably.

Audacious

Seed Round in 2013
Audacious, a Middlesbrough, UK-based start up developer of a new application that allows users to personalize their online search results

Arnia

Seed Round in 2013
Arnia Limited provides hive monitoring technology solutions for beekeepers. Its tool measures the daily activity and strength/health of the bees; and record key temperatures and rainfall. The company also engages in the process of interfacing a hive scale for remote weight monitoring; and a Web interface that allows users to login remotely and check their colonies for swarm/supersedure intent, strength, health, and activity. Arnia Limited was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Citadel

Seed Round in 2012
Citadel is a leading investor in the world’s major financial markets. In markets around the world, we work relentlessly to uncover and capture new opportunities. Across a diverse range of investment strategies, we deploy our capital with the goal of generating consistently high risk-adjusted investment results for our investors and capital partners. At our core, Citadel is built to deliver excellence. We have some of the most talented and focused minds in the industry, and we activate their ideas and strategies through a robust range of proven technologies and execution capabilities.

Yen

Seed Round in 2015
Yen is a mobile application that enables its users to transfer money with others. The application enables its users to make payments and receive money by integrating their bank account. It features payment notifications, debit/credit card management, and friend invites. Yen was launched in 2015 by Henri Cammiade and Jae Woong Ryoo.

Verticly

Venture Round in 2016
Verticly provides a SaaS based platform that exchanges data and delivers personalized engagement to FMCG brands, retailers, and manufacturers. The company connects the dots between online and offline customer data, and delivers real-time content for consumers. It provides solutions for omni-channel landscape, channel attribution, vouchering, Twitter to store, omni-channel retargeting, and personalized messaging cloud. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Weekend Box

Seed Round in 2015
Weekend Box delivers creative and fun activities by post for children aged 3-8. Activities included are something to make, bake, explore and More. The Weekend Box Club is a membership organization created to provide high quality activities parents and children to enjoy together. By providing with the things they need when they need them. The Weekend Box Club allows anyone to spend quality time getting to know the children and watching them develop key life skills as you spend time together.

Kykloud

Seed Round in 2011
Kykloud is the leading mobile first saas solution of its kind. Over 100 million m2 (1 billion sq ft) has been surveyed and inspected with Kykloud (that's the same as the land area of Manhattan NY). Clients include Fortune 500 and FTSE 500 corporates who require Kykloud to make sure their critical property assets remain in good condition and meet health & safety standards. Other tools include capital and maintenance planning giving asset owners a real time picture of the future investment required across their portfolios.

Blooie

Seed Round in 2013
Blooie Limited operates an intelligent conversation platform that enables Websites to host conversations. It offers Blooie, a platform that connects individuals who share a passion for the content they consume online; and allows them to chat with each other about its clients’ content. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

ReInnervate

Series B in 2011
ReInnervate Limited, a biotechnology company, engages in the development of enabling technologies that facilitate research into cell growth and function in vitro, primarily in the field of stem cell biology. Its technologies control the differentiation of stem cells and the formation of specific tissue types, as well as offers tools to develop diagnostics and treatments for neuro-degenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Durham, the United Kingdom.

Palringo

Venture Round in 2009
Chat and community gaming app that allows you to connect, chat and play games with others around the world

Websand

Seed Round in 2015
Websand gives marketing professionals the platform they need to create Clever Communication. By creating 'marketing as a process' Websand links email marketing to customer behaviour. That means relevant effective marketing that is on-brand and personalised based on your customers activity. Based on over 15 years building loyalty programmes for corporates. Websand is a software as a service platform that links customer data management, marketing activity and business reporting into a single solution. Holding all customer information in a single platform helps clients to easily a) Drive targeted relevant marketing communications. b) Focus on retaining your most profitable customers. c) Increase revenues through cross selling activities. d) Increase revenues through reducing missed opportunities. e) Create new opportunities relevant to previously un-identified needs. Websand functions Single customer view for each of your customers Automatic customer segmentation driven by flexible business rules Marketing automation triggered by customer behaviour (email) - (SMS and APP coming soon) Tailored business reporting

Weekend Box

Seed Round in 2016
Weekend Box delivers creative and fun activities by post for children aged 3-8. Activities included are something to make, bake, explore and More. The Weekend Box Club is a membership organization created to provide high quality activities parents and children to enjoy together. By providing with the things they need when they need them. The Weekend Box Club allows anyone to spend quality time getting to know the children and watching them develop key life skills as you spend time together.

Atlas Cloud Limited

Seed Round in 2011
Atlas Cloud are a leading provider of cloud IT services based in Newcastle upon Tyne with offices in Leeds, Sheffield & London. The Atlas Cloud team were early adopters of cloud technologies and with the expertise gained working with global, multi-national companies such as Acxiom, American Express, BT, Barclays, Cap Gemini, Siemens and Brewin Dolphin, are transforming the way that IT is provided to SMEs.

Venstr

Seed Round in 2014
Venstr

Washbox

Seed Round in 2014
Washbox offers its clients washed, ironed, and folded laundry which is delivered in 24 hours. It allows its clients to schedule any pick-up and delivery time for their laundry and dry cleaning, using Washbox mobile or web app. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in London.

Komodo Design

Seed Round in 2012
We believe digital products that deliver significant positive impact are created when there is a strong alignment of culture and values within and between the teams that build them. Over the years, we've built up an enviable list of clients and friends: Citizens Advice, College of Policing, I Am Property, Newcastle University, Legrand, Onward Homes, Elanders, Northumbria Police, Orchard Information Systems, GICHD, Durham University, ITV, Beamish Living Museum, and many more.

Websand

Seed Round in 2013
Websand gives marketing professionals the platform they need to create Clever Communication. By creating 'marketing as a process' Websand links email marketing to customer behaviour. That means relevant effective marketing that is on-brand and personalised based on your customers activity. Based on over 15 years building loyalty programmes for corporates. Websand is a software as a service platform that links customer data management, marketing activity and business reporting into a single solution. Holding all customer information in a single platform helps clients to easily a) Drive targeted relevant marketing communications. b) Focus on retaining your most profitable customers. c) Increase revenues through cross selling activities. d) Increase revenues through reducing missed opportunities. e) Create new opportunities relevant to previously un-identified needs. Websand functions Single customer view for each of your customers Automatic customer segmentation driven by flexible business rules Marketing automation triggered by customer behaviour (email) - (SMS and APP coming soon) Tailored business reporting

Spontly

Seed Round in 2012
Spontly Limited develops and delivers applications for sports teams. Its applications enable users to be part of the community in their own club app; discuss the game with other fans; and get the latest news, live scores, and commentary. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

The Wood Heating Company

Seed Round in 2013
The Wood Heating Company is a multi-award winning, trusted provider of affordable heating solutions and biomass boiler servicing specialist.

Aframe

Series A in 2012
Collaborative video platform. Original broadcast footage is uploaded into the private cloud and made accessible to anyone

Powerhouse Software

Seed Round in 2016
Powerhouse Software is a studio based in Newcastle upon Tyne that creates web, iOS and android software. Since foundation, the company has aimed to create and develop beautifully practical applications, that arm small businesses, accountants and bookkeepers with the tools to drive ease and efficiency into their everyday business. To date, the company has designed and developed two products. The first product ins+outs is currently available, and the second product called the MileEyes was launched on Q2 2017. MileEyes is an easy-to-use yet powerful business mileage tracking platform.

Pocketo

Seed Round in 2014
Pocketo is a mobile hardware platform that enables users to build an internet of things and wearable devices with or without using physical components. It is a Bluetooth and WiFi development board that enables users to develop an internet of things and wearable devices. Users can code, test, wear, and even sell their developments. Pocketo is headquartered in Bucharest, Romania.

Spark Etail

Series B in 2007
Spark Etail formerly PointOV is To be the UK's leading full service online retailer enabled by Spark's innovative ecommerce and fulfilment solutions.

Natural Technology Developments

Seed Round in 2013
Natural Technology Developments a young and dynamic company with an enthusiastic and experienced management team.

TryLife

Seed Round in 2014
TryLife is the first of eight websites aimed at young people under the Try brand. It is an interactive, online drama designed by some of the best in UK talent from the Youth, Education, Health, Media and Creative industries.

NotesNote

Seed Round in 2015
NotesNote LTD is developing screen sheet music reader specially designed for professional musicians and world's largest music sheet collection for all musicians. NotesNote one-stop marketplace for sheet music brings all the publishers under one roof and provide the musicians possibility to sell and share their sheet music. The NotesNote sheet music reader is the professional tool for classical musicians which has two 13,3” format E-ink screens suitable with touchscreen and stylus. The gadget is bi-foldable with long lasting battery and using WIFI for downloading the sheet music. Our sheet music reader is un-named yet. Please take part of the name competition www.notesnote.com

Screach

Seed Round in 2016
Screenreach Interactive is the developer of the Screach Interactivity platform. Screach enables a user to engage with content on other platforms - such as digital signage, TV, radio, print or even in-app through phone to phone interactions - all through the Screach smart device app. Screach is built on an open platform, giving creatives and developers the option to create their own Screach experiences using our unique ScreachML language. Screach allows advertisers and brands to engage with consumers like never before, generating more revenue and profiling interactions. Screach users are able to explore the Screach app as a social and location based network that makes their whole world interactive. Screach acts as a discovery engine that opens a whole new dimension to the things you love.

Websand

Seed Round in 2014
Websand gives marketing professionals the platform they need to create Clever Communication. By creating 'marketing as a process' Websand links email marketing to customer behaviour. That means relevant effective marketing that is on-brand and personalised based on your customers activity. Based on over 15 years building loyalty programmes for corporates. Websand is a software as a service platform that links customer data management, marketing activity and business reporting into a single solution. Holding all customer information in a single platform helps clients to easily a) Drive targeted relevant marketing communications. b) Focus on retaining your most profitable customers. c) Increase revenues through cross selling activities. d) Increase revenues through reducing missed opportunities. e) Create new opportunities relevant to previously un-identified needs. Websand functions Single customer view for each of your customers Automatic customer segmentation driven by flexible business rules Marketing automation triggered by customer behaviour (email) - (SMS and APP coming soon) Tailored business reporting

Kykloud

Seed Round in 2011
Kykloud is the leading mobile first saas solution of its kind. Over 100 million m2 (1 billion sq ft) has been surveyed and inspected with Kykloud (that's the same as the land area of Manhattan NY). Clients include Fortune 500 and FTSE 500 corporates who require Kykloud to make sure their critical property assets remain in good condition and meet health & safety standards. Other tools include capital and maintenance planning giving asset owners a real time picture of the future investment required across their portfolios.

iComunico

Seed Round in 2014
iComunico is an easy-to-use enterprise wide server or cloud based software application.

ArtSpotter

Seed Round in 2011
ArtSpotter Ltd. develops an interactive art map mobile application that enables users to discover and engage with exhibitions, venues, and street art all over the world. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

CellulaREvolution

Pre Seed Round in 2019
high expertise in the designing and testing of self-assembling peptides providing different benefits when culturing adherent cells in vitro.

ArtSpotter

Seed Round in 2012
ArtSpotter Ltd. develops an interactive art map mobile application that enables users to discover and engage with exhibitions, venues, and street art all over the world. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Spontly

Seed Round in 2011
Spontly Limited develops and delivers applications for sports teams. Its applications enable users to be part of the community in their own club app; discuss the game with other fans; and get the latest news, live scores, and commentary. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Arquer Diagnostics

Seed Round in 2014
Arquer Diagnostics Ltd. is engaged in the design, development, and commercialization of a non-invasive immunoassay diagnostic test for bladder and prostate cancer. It offers ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), a laboratory test for measuring small amounts of a substance in body fluids; and CE-marked an ELISA kit for Mcm5 for use in hospital path lavatories. The company also provides point of care system that comprises a robust reader instrument and disposable cartridges. It offers its ELISA and point-of-care urine tests for cancer for use in urology clinic, hospital laboratory, and the GP’s surgery. Arquer Diagnostics Ltd. was formerly known as UroSens Ltd. and changed its name to Arquer Diagnostics Ltd. in July 2015. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Sunderland, United Kingdom.

Ignite Accelerator

Seed Round in 2015
Ignite provides accelerator, incubator, and education programs for technology startups. Ignite is funded primarily through commercial activity, and has also raised investment from Northstar Ventures through the FBNE Accelerator Fund, managed by North East Finance as part of the £125m FBNE program. Founded in 2011 by Colin Willis, Jon Bradford, and Paul Smith, Ignite was expected to be a one-off, three month program. Instead, Ignite grew into an independent co-working space and venue that span off as Newcastle's tech centre Campus North. In 2016, Ignite expanded operations to London and Manchester, running accelerator programmes in both cities. In May 2016, Ignite MD Tristan Watson took over as CEO.

Low Carbon Lighting

Seed Round in 2012
Low Carbon Lighting Limited manufactures and sells lighting products. It offers street lighting products that are used in road lighting, pedestrian route, cycle route, recreational area, sports lighting, outdoor area lighting, car parking, and ornamental applications; and industrial lighting products for factories, warehouses, logistics and distribution, retail, exhibition spaces, and other applications. The company also offers exterior lighting solutions for industrial, logistics and distribution, petrol station forecourts, car parks, retail, swimming pools, ports/harbors, conflict areas, prisons, and high mast applications; and commercial lighting products. Low Carbon Lighting Limited was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Cramlington, United Kingdom.

See-R

Seed Round in 2015
See-R is a user friendly environment to generate free high-quality forecasts quickly and automatically.

JAM Technology

Seed Round in 2010
Jam Technology is a multi-disciplined team of business and product development specialists. Their purpose is to enable businesses and organisations develop and realise their business goals and profit potential. Organisations and businesses can develop their ideas and expansion opportunities by tapping into their experience and expertise in a wide spectrum of business and product orientated disciplines, combining global experience with specialist technology and product development & design skills.

The Broadband Computer Company

Venture Round in 2007
The Broadband Computer Company Ltd. develops hardware and software for personal computers. The Broadband Computer Company Ltd. is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

My Help At Home

Seed Round in 2015
My Help At Home are revolutionising the homecare system by making it easy to find and keep the perfect #carer for you and your loved ones.

Cogenta Systems

Venture Round in 2009
Cogenta is the market leading retail and pricing intelligence provider, supporting top UK retailers and brands. Cogenta's retail intelligence platform delivers complete, current and clear market information helping businesses and consumers make best pricing decisions. Tracking consumer shopping behaviour allows Cogenta to connect business with mobile consumers in a unique and exciting way.

SoPost Limited

Seed Round in 2015
SoPost Limited operates an online platform that lets people to share their favorite brands by sending physical and digital gifts to their friends via social media. Its platform also helps brands and their customers to send real gifts, as well as to run product sampling campaigns. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

WorkCast

Seed Round in 2012
WorkCast is a leading provider of cloud-based online event products for webinars, webcasting and virtual events serving over 250 Global Organisations. WorkCast's Award Winning Platform drives revenue through; Sponsored online events, marketing lead generation, employee communications, stakeholder relations, certified training and product launches.

Velo-Trainer

Seed Round in 2013
Velo-Trainer is a training partner and social cycling app, allowing users to cycle with or against friends using their indoor cycle trainer. The app enables its users to schedule events for a real-time cycling experience or allow participants to complete the event anytime within 7 days. It stores session data and event results in its users’ history and synchronize with training logs such as Strava & TrainingPeaks. Velo-Trainer was launched in 2013..

Green Marine

Seed Round in 2013
Green Marine is an environmental certification program for the North American marine industry.

Twinklr

Seed Round in 2013
Twinklr, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe of Facebook Facebook is the place where approximately a billion users and thousands of media brands mingle. How do people find the exact information that they’re looking for in this vast maze of complicated connections? Do you feel like you are missing out on something when exploring Facebook with limited information and friends? <Discover your star> Before embarking on your travels, you need to find or create your own star in the Facebook Universe. After you select five current interests, Twinklr will guide you to a new or existing star made from your selected interests. There you can meet new friends who have same interests as you. It is also easy to start a conversation with others who live on different stars but have a common interest. <Explore the Universe of Facebook> Now once you’re ready to venture out and explore the universe, you will find yourself amongst thousands of stars created from others’ interests. Nearby stars may contain information of immediate interest to you. You can find out simply by visiting a star and meeting the new friends and viewing the new information. Based on your current interests, Twinklr will give you a chance to open your eyes to all new experiences and expand the boundaries of your interests. You will discover entirely new interests and people that you are unaware of but will like immediately once you are introduced. With this new way of searching, you can uncover a lot of valuable information that was previously buried and inaccessible to the keyboard-centric search style of current search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo, Bing etc.). < SUPERFAN in the Universe> Every brand and media page has a lot of real fans. We call them 'SUPERFAN' on Twinklr. How to discover superfans on facebook page? We helps you can discover superfans on theirs star. Superfans promote your brand, share your brand on facebook via twinklr and be a consumer. Twinklr helps you enter new markets and reach new target audiences. This is an effective way to surprise your customers and to attract new ones. <Big data meets Big Bang> In the Twinklr universe, the big bang will start once the accumulated information reaches a critical mass. The Big Bang will re-organize the universe in a way that helps users easily keep track of people’s trends , how their interests change, and also suggestions such as where they should go or eat. For businesses, you can find business opportunities and use this as a marketing tool to engage your customers and enhance your brand. We invite you to join Twinklr as a new user and explore the Twinklr universe.

Redu

Seed Round in 2014
Redu is a distant learning platform which is built on a social networking structure. It enables users to create, share, and discuss content for educational purposes.

WhatUsersDo Limited

Seed Round in 2016
WhatUsersDo provide usability testing as an online service. Clients get to tap into a pan-European panel of internet users and watch videos of their screens and hear their spoken thoughts as they give feedback on websites. Founded in 2008 the firm includes large brands like TUI, BT and Comet amongst its clients as well as thousands of SMEs.

WhatUsersDo Limited

Seed Round in 2011
WhatUsersDo provide usability testing as an online service. Clients get to tap into a pan-European panel of internet users and watch videos of their screens and hear their spoken thoughts as they give feedback on websites. Founded in 2008 the firm includes large brands like TUI, BT and Comet amongst its clients as well as thousands of SMEs.

Berenco

Seed Round in 2013
Berenco are a market leading Utility Cost Management Consultancy, specialising in Utility procurement services, Energy and Water cost recovery and reduction services. Berenco currently works on behalf of hundreds of UK organisations helping them to make significant savings in their Utility bills, through well informed procurement decisions, by eliminating and recovering over payments, and by helping those customers manage and reduce their energy consumption through their Energy Saving Projects (ESPs), ongoing invoice analysis and their Cost Recovery Services.

Ignite Accelerator

Seed Round in 2014
Ignite provides accelerator, incubator, and education programs for technology startups. Ignite is funded primarily through commercial activity, and has also raised investment from Northstar Ventures through the FBNE Accelerator Fund, managed by North East Finance as part of the £125m FBNE program. Founded in 2011 by Colin Willis, Jon Bradford, and Paul Smith, Ignite was expected to be a one-off, three month program. Instead, Ignite grew into an independent co-working space and venue that span off as Newcastle's tech centre Campus North. In 2016, Ignite expanded operations to London and Manchester, running accelerator programmes in both cities. In May 2016, Ignite MD Tristan Watson took over as CEO.

Beyond Digital Solutions

Seed Round in 2015
Beyond Digital Solutions specialises in providing digital communication systems for companies wishing to communicate in a dynamic and innovative way with their audience. This could be employees, visitors, customers or the public. They are pure play digital communication integrators. They are impartial and specialise in designing the right solutions for our clients. They offer end-to-end solutions and provide all the components of a successful digital signage system in-house, including content design, software, hardware and ongoing support.

WhatUsersDo Limited

Seed Round in 2015
WhatUsersDo provide usability testing as an online service. Clients get to tap into a pan-European panel of internet users and watch videos of their screens and hear their spoken thoughts as they give feedback on websites. Founded in 2008 the firm includes large brands like TUI, BT and Comet amongst its clients as well as thousands of SMEs.

Arnia

Seed Round in 2012
Arnia Limited provides hive monitoring technology solutions for beekeepers. Its tool measures the daily activity and strength/health of the bees; and record key temperatures and rainfall. The company also engages in the process of interfacing a hive scale for remote weight monitoring; and a Web interface that allows users to login remotely and check their colonies for swarm/supersedure intent, strength, health, and activity. Arnia Limited was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Fairstone

Venture Round in 2014
Fairstone is a national financial advisory and wealth management group. We combine market knowledge, specialist expertise and the very latest technology to produce the highest quality outcomes for our clients in a cost-effective manner. Fairstone incorporates the UK's largest Chartered Financial Planning firm and has a number of dedicated business channels that include financial advisory, Discretionary Fund Management, wealth management, property finance and estate planning. Launched in 2008 Fairstone is very much a ‘new model’ financial services business operating across both retail and corporate sectors. Our head office is based in Newcastle, and with 36 regional locations and management hubs in both London and Bristol, we have a truly national presence. Fairstone's rate of growth is consistently beyond 20% for each financial year and our annualized revenues exceed £40 million. Across the UK we now have over 300 financial advisers servicing 41,000 clients who collectively hold £7 billion in investment and pension assets. Our ultimate objectives across the group are to deliver annual revenues in excess of £100 million, EBITDA margin of above 10% and to oversee client funds of £15 billion.

Curar Animal Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2015
Curar Animal Therapeutics specialises in treating pets and horses, providing safe therapies that help restore normal activity after injury.

Big Head Games

Seed Round in 2012
BHG are developers and publishers of video games across multiple platforms. Already having success on iPhone/iPad/Mac, Sony PSP, Android/Windows Mobile and now about to publish titles on Microsoft XBLA, Sony PS3 PSN, Sony Vita and PC Browser. Our games are sold around the world 24/7 on 'app' stores. Titles developed for third parties include Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for iPhone/iPad and Grease for Nintendo DS. International Snooker is our key own IP, selling close to 500,000 copies to date.

Papertrail.io

Seed Round in 2016
Ensure inspections are never missed. Save time, money and reduce risk.

CrowdIPR

Seed Round in 2012
CrowdIPR LTD. owns and operates an online crowd-sourced intellectual property research platform. It enables startups and other enterprises to evaluate the novelty of their new product ideas; investors to determine the uniqueness of their potential investment projects; research and development intensive companies, engineers, designers, scientists, inventors, and other authors to map relevant solutions in their technology domain; patent applicants and patent attorneys to prepare patent applications of higher quality; patent owners to monitor potential competitors and patent infringers; and to collect evidences for third party observations.

Earsoft

Seed Round in 2014
EarSoft is a software company whose algorithms enhance the quality and audibility of audio on playback devices.

Pickwatch Ltd

Venture Round in 2019
Pickwatch Ltd offers an online platform for sports relate advice. The company tracks all the experts from ESPN, CBS, Profootballfocus and more and compare them for accuracy. Pickwatch Ltd was founded in 2015 and is based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.

4th aspect

Seed Round in 2011
The complexity and breadth of online media has reached a level where it is virtually impossible to manage your online marketing without clever software to help you. 4th aspect provides marketing professionals with tools that: measure, optimize and promote your content in virtually any form, across multiple content platforms and allows your marketing team to engage with advocates, influencers and of course customers. 4th aspect frees up your marketing resources and allows your team to create the content that your audience really cares about. Promote your brand on a global scale, while reducing costs and increasing control. Place your Brand ahead of your competitors and in front of your customers!

Natural Nutrients

Seed Round in 2016
Natural Nutrients, based on the Drum Industrial Estate in Durham, has developed a range of completely natural nutritional supplements to support customers’ healthy lifestyles. The company was established in 2013 when Personal Trainer and Nutritionist Liam Sherriff became frustrated with the lack of natural supplements available to his clients.

Revelation

Venture Round in 2010
Revelation creates cutting edge web applications for conducting qualitative market research. Launched in 2007, Revelation Project dramatically extends the reach of qualitative research, enabling researchers to spend more time with consumers wherever they are and get a truer picture of the consumer experience. Researchers can collect more data faster at a fraction of the cost.

M14 Industries Ltd.

Seed Round in 2015
M14 Industries is the world’s first white label dating platform that allows both mobile first websites and apps — there’s no infrastructure to buy, set up, or manage — individuals and brands simply sign up, bring their branding and idea, and M14 does the rest. M14 is most known for creating Bristlr, a dating app "Connecting those with beards to those who want to stroke beards."

Velo-Trainer

Seed Round in 2014
Velo-Trainer is a training partner and social cycling app, allowing users to cycle with or against friends using their indoor cycle trainer. The app enables its users to schedule events for a real-time cycling experience or allow participants to complete the event anytime within 7 days. It stores session data and event results in its users’ history and synchronize with training logs such as Strava & TrainingPeaks. Velo-Trainer was launched in 2013..

Caspian Learning

Venture Round in 2014
Caspian Learning use 3D games and simulations technology for education, training and engagement. Caspian focus on educative software both within the serious games sector and the web3D movement. Caspian has created over 50 engaging applications for sectors as diverse as entertainment, publishing, pharmaceuticals, defence and education. Many of these applications have been delivered through the web and have scooped many industry accolades and awards. This is made possible by their core technology platform - Thinking Worlds™. Thinking Worlds delivers highly immersive ‘performance simulations’ within engaging 3D worlds and is tightly integrated with Adobe’s Shockwave player meaning deployment across the internet, within intranets and links to learning management systems are simple.

Deltasight

Seed Round in 2012
Deltasight is a data company that develops a data platform for analyzing, visualizing, and predicting global innovation and IP. It offers practical and easy-to-use tools for global innovation and intellectual property analysis and visualization. The said platform generally collects data from 90 countries. Its products visually map trends and connections between companies, people, and inventions, giving businesses, R&D and technology transfer professionals a better understanding of global innovation. Its platform builds upon Deltasight’s proprietary Innovation Graph, which provides easy exploration of Innovation Profiles for inventions, people, organizations, and sectors. Its main customers include: private equity firms, technology companies, IP firms, and universities. Deltasight was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It is currently in private beta.

Arquer Diagnostics

Venture Round in 2015
Arquer Diagnostics Ltd. is engaged in the design, development, and commercialization of a non-invasive immunoassay diagnostic test for bladder and prostate cancer. It offers ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), a laboratory test for measuring small amounts of a substance in body fluids; and CE-marked an ELISA kit for Mcm5 for use in hospital path lavatories. The company also provides point of care system that comprises a robust reader instrument and disposable cartridges. It offers its ELISA and point-of-care urine tests for cancer for use in urology clinic, hospital laboratory, and the GP’s surgery. Arquer Diagnostics Ltd. was formerly known as UroSens Ltd. and changed its name to Arquer Diagnostics Ltd. in July 2015. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Sunderland, United Kingdom.

Recite Me

Seed Round in 2011
Recite Me Limited develops software which helps dyslexic and visually-impaired Web users to adapt Websites to fit their preferences, translating text into legible fonts, changing the colour contrast, and reading out the content on the page. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Gateshead, United Kingdom.

Tasty Development

Seed Round in 2012
Tasty Development specializes in design and development of web and mobile apps. The company builds compelling products (from concept through completion) while maintaining simplicity and usability.

Kontainers

Seed Round in 2015
Kontainers is as Enterprise SAAS Provider providing e-commerce capabilities to Freight Forwarders and Shipping Lines

Treatment Saver

Seed Round in 2014
TreatmentSaver is a comparison site for health & beauty clinics to help you find the best clinics at the best price.

TryLife

Seed Round in 2011
TryLife is the first of eight websites aimed at young people under the Try brand. It is an interactive, online drama designed by some of the best in UK talent from the Youth, Education, Health, Media and Creative industries.

Rock Flower Networks

Seed Round in 2011
Rock Flower Networks

ievo

Seed Round in 2010
ievo is a UK based biometric manufacturer, distributing their renowned biometric fingerprint products throughout the world. Their fingerprint readers are unique and reliable, integrating into commonly used access control systems and work within many environmental conditions including rain, snow and direct sunlight. The ievo biometric devices will also function with levels of creams, powders, grease, oil, dirt and cosmetics present on the skin as well as with some types of latex gloves worn by the user. This is enabled to due the robust multispectral imaging sensor and quality components used within the products.

Publification Ltd

Seed Round in 2011
Publification is a platform for creating, promoting and selling cloud-based ebooks that open on over 2 billion device. Browser books deliver an app-like reading experience on browsers. No files to download, no software to install, no dedicated e-reader devices. All it takes is just one click on a book URL and you can start reading instantaneously. The HTML5 based Browserbook reader automatically fits any screen size, can handle rich media, is social media friendly and supports offline reading. For authors, browser books give direct access to their customers and ensure that marketing budget is not spent on the right channels.

Intogral

Seed Round in 2020
Intogral Limited develops image analysis software based on artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technology. The company provides services, such as data annotation, for images, video, audio, and text, including outlining objects, tagging, tracking, and marking; crowdsourcing, provide a service that bridges companies to global crowdsourcing solutions; deep learning; and data analytics, includes pattern recognition, geographic mapping, clustering, and trend prediction. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Durham, United Kingdom.

Whispering Gibbon

Seed Round in 2015
Whispering Gibbon Ltd, a game company, develops console games and media applications. The company specializes in bringing virtual content to reality through 3D printing. It offers RenderFab 3D, a cloud based asset processing service to automate the process of creating perfect 3D print-ready models from 3D data; and Grabit, a user generated merchandising solution. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.

Newcells Biotech

Seed Round in 2015
Newcells Biotech are experts in the production of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and their differentiation into a wide range of reliable and reproducible cell and tissue types. Their focus is to provide customers engaged in drug discovery, pre-clinical development and disease mechanism investigation, with the best quality cells and services.

Beyond Digital Solutions

Seed Round in 2012
Beyond Digital Solutions specialises in providing digital communication systems for companies wishing to communicate in a dynamic and innovative way with their audience. This could be employees, visitors, customers or the public. They are pure play digital communication integrators. They are impartial and specialise in designing the right solutions for our clients. They offer end-to-end solutions and provide all the components of a successful digital signage system in-house, including content design, software, hardware and ongoing support.

Geneius Laboratories

Seed Round in 2011
Geneius Laboratories

Aframe

Venture Round in 2013
Collaborative video platform. Original broadcast footage is uploaded into the private cloud and made accessible to anyone

Yak Hub

Seed Round in 2015
Instant setup call centres for SMEs

One Utility Bill

Pre Seed Round in 2016
One Utility Bill Limited develops software that enables letting agents to create, quote, and sell bill packages for their properties and residential tenants. It serves various energy providers, such as electricity, gas, and water providers; and TV license and broadband providers. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Invisotech

Seed Round in 2015
INVISOTECH = INSPECTION TECHNOLOGIES The fusion of the Latin word inviso [to look, to watch, to inspect] and technology. They fuse the very latest in access and assessment technologies to provide safer, superior, quicker and cost-effective inspections for high-value assets, such as wind turbine towers and blades. aq_block_3-image By combining Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV’s) - to gain safe and efficient access to your asset; with a variety of inspection tools - such as HD cameras and Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) equipment; they can find the right combination to deliver the precise inspection, data and analytical service you need to best manage your assets and finances. Based in Newcastle Upon Tyne they cover the UK, with plans to expand into Europe and beyond in due course.

Rock Flower Networks

Seed Round in 2011
Rock Flower Networks

Blooie

Seed Round in 2012
Blooie Limited operates an intelligent conversation platform that enables Websites to host conversations. It offers Blooie, a platform that connects individuals who share a passion for the content they consume online; and allows them to chat with each other about its clients’ content. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Belford Hoist

Seed Round in 2011
Belford Hoist

Hotchkiss Super Deltic

Seed Round in 2010
Hotchkiss Super Deltic is a mechanical or industrial engineering company.

ACAL Energy

Venture Round in 2008
ACAL Energy is a developer of Fuel Cell systems, modules and consumable chemicals for a range of uses including stationary, residential and automotive applications requiring larger than 1 kW of power. Its innovative designs will deliver substantial cost savings in Fuel Cell systems and performance improvements in PEM ('Proton Exchange Membrane') that will accelerate the adoption of PEM Fuel Cell technologies in key markets.

Ricochet Technologies Ltd

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Ricochet Technologies Ltd develops and delivers sales platform powered by machine-learning and NLP(neuro-linguistic programming). Its platform helps salespeople find and engage sales leads. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. As of December 15, 2020, Ricochet Technologies Ltd operates as a subsidiary of Cognism Limited.

eWowBooks

Seed Round in 2011
eWowBooks is a new space on the iPad where young readers can immerse themselves in rich, interactive, multimedia books.

IBEX Innovations Limited

Venture Round in 2013
IBEX Innovations Limited develops and commercializes an X ray detector technology for generating high sensitivity materials information from standard X-ray detectors. It offers IBEX multi absorption plate (MAP) technology that integrates detectors and adds materials information while retaining the speed, signal to noise, spatial resolution, and imaging area characteristics of the underlying sensors. The company’s IBEX is equipped into X ray detectors for classifying materials and thickness changes in a sample. Its solution is used in various applications, such as bone mineral density, electronics inspection, food inspection, and security applications. IBEX Innovations Limited was formerly known as Eshtech Ltd. and changed its name to IBEX Innovations Limited in November 2012. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Sedgefield, United Kingdom.

Reframed.tv

Seed Round in 2014
Reframed.tv is changing the way the world consumes, interacts with and shares video for the better. The company’s mission is to make video truly social. Users can create contextual conversations with time-specific comments in video, share them with deep links, follow users and favourite comments. It’s about building a community, moment by moment. Comments are synced to a video with a time-stamp so anyone can join the conversation with one tap, whether it’s an hour, a week, a year after the initial video release. It’s been referred to as “second-chance twitter.” Founded on 6th August 2013 by Jo York and Kev Price, who are based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, the idea was taken from concept to market trial in three months as part of the tech accelerator programme Ignite100. Reframed allows people to comment on, share and discuss moments in video. Our mission is to improve the experience and depth in which audiences connect with video content, generating engaging relationships between people who are moved by or resonate with the messages at specific moments. The Reframed interface timestamps comments at the exact moment the user starts typing. This information is used to display the comment at the relevant time in the video, giving them context. The comment activity is displayed visually in graph form over the timeline so users can instantly see the points in the video that are gaining interest and jump straight into those moments. Users often discuss this activity away from the video on social media sites, which are displayed in the order of the time and date they were made, not at the point in the video to which they refer. So, joining in the conversation becomes more difficult. Reframed syncs the conversation to the video so whether it’s an hour, a week or a month later, people can join in the conversation - in context. In this way Reframed gathers text that describes the content of a video at a specific point. This is very useful for the content owners and also allows Reframed to deliver specific moments within a video in search results. So rather than just displaying the videos that include certain content in the search results, Reframed can deliver the exact moments. Live chat style discussion Comments also facilitate further discussions, which are displayed outside of the flow of the video due to their size. This provides the functionality to publicly discuss the moments within the video in much more detail. Users can participate in multiple discussion threads at the same time. And all of the activity around each video is available in “real time”, which means other people’s comments are added to the page without having to refresh it. Comments can be tweeted and a link provided to bring more viewers to the exact point in the video at which the comment was made, known as “deep linking’. Our integration with Twitter goes further, as the entire video also appears in the Twitter timeline and plays from the moment the comment references. This functionality is known as “Twitter Player Cards” and in order to get them you have to apply to Twitter through a very long process. Twitter worked closely with us to speed u p the process and we are in discussion with them about how we can become more deeply integrated, This could include adding replies and retweets around the video and becoming a media partner on their Amplify programme. Platform independent Reframed works with many different video formats, including YouTube, Vimeo, Video.js and self-hosted video. This allows users to comment on and store comments on videos across all these platforms. So whether it’s a TED Talk on YouTube or a documentary on Vimeo, users can keep track of all their comments made on all the videos they have viewed using Reframed. This feature has been described as “Pinterest for moments in video”. Reframed acts as the glue between video, which can be archived and distributed throughout the web and social media platforms. So it’s all abuout what’s current and what’s relevant. Reframed increases engagement, audience reach and monetisation. Channels Channels are a way to group a user’s videos in one place with full moderation tools, which allows the channel owner to promote, hide and edit comments, enabling them to curate interesting videos and influence the conversation. Embeddable player The embeddable player brings all the functionaliy of the Reframed player to any website. The interface can be customised to match the look and feel of any website. Just like the channels, the website owner has full moderation tools to promote, hide and edit comments. Certain accounts can be given “Featured User” priveleges, which allows their comments to take centre stage.

Sourcely

Seed Round in 2015
Sourcely offers its users with e-textbooks and academic journals that allows students to rent study material content for shorter period of time. Sourcely was founded in 2015 by Fraser Williams.

Curar Animal Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2013
Curar Animal Therapeutics specialises in treating pets and horses, providing safe therapies that help restore normal activity after injury.

Spontly

Seed Round in 2013
Spontly Limited develops and delivers applications for sports teams. Its applications enable users to be part of the community in their own club app; discuss the game with other fans; and get the latest news, live scores, and commentary. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Quick TV

Seed Round in 2008
Quick.tv has become Quicktvpro > the evolution of interactive video: Quicktvpro allows users to create professional interactive video quickly and effortlessly within minutes, using an innovative web-based video management system. The Quicktvpro platform allows users to gain control of their online video. Co-founded by music industry mogul Tod Yeadon and leading UK entrepreneur Nick Bell in November 2007, Quicktvpro is the first company to bring a unique approach to interactive video, media library management, personalized distribution and campaign analytics. The Quicktvpro platform and service is targeted at every tier of online media publishers, agencies and e-commerce businesses. _Currently in private **BETA**. Due for full launch in August 2012_

Moltin Limited

Seed Round in 2014
Moltin Limited develops and delivers a cloud based eCommerce platform for developers. Its eCommerce platform provides APIs for building an online store and a mobile application, and creating virtual reality retail experience. The company’s APIs help to manage inventory, categorization, imagery, brands, and collections; secure cross-platform shopping carts and streamline checkout flow; integrate payments process; extend and create new data models; and more. The company’s platform also offers Forge, an administration dashboard to manage stores. It serves developers and store owners. Moltin Limited was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. As of January 13, 2020, Moltin Limited operates as a subsidiary of Elastic Path Software Inc.

Inquirely

Seed Round in 2012
Managing important enquiries from customers inside your email inbox is dangerous. Your inbox is completely independant from the rest of your team, it’s full of emails from colleagues, friends, family, spam and scams so it’s easy for important emails to get lost. If you’re on holiday, at a meeting, forget, or even forward it onto a colleague and they forget to respond, the result is the same, a lost opportunity potentially worth hundreds if not thousands of pounds. So how do you solve this? Perhaps you try setting things up so that the enquiry is emailed to multiple people at the same time? But then the customer often receives multiple responses from different people often with different answers, it’s a nightmare. Meet Inquirely. Having suffered from the afore mentioned problems out founding team set out to make things easier. The result is powerful lead management software made simple.

Leaf.fm

Seed Round in 2015
Leaf Grow is a simple, powerful automation and insights platform for Facebook & Instagram ads. It reduces campaign management time from hours to minutes whilst delivering a better return on ad spend using smart setups, interest-based audience targeting and campaign budget optimization. Since launch, Leaf Grow has gone to power major and indie labels, gaming companies, and crypto startups, events and membership organizations, retail and e-commerce; from clients like Universal Music to 300 Entertainment, Kartel and MDDN to high-street titans like FootAsylum and Pizza Express. On average, their customers have seen an uplift of 2x in their Return On Ad Spend within the first couple weeks of making the switch, increased the quality of the audiences they reach and in some cases, open a whole new channel for revenue. Leaf Grow builds on the foundation they laid for Leaf Music, only expanding its power to businesses of all shapes and sizes, giving them a much better chance to succeed online.

amBX

Seed Round in 2016
amBX is a software company that is revolutionising lighting and digital entertainment markets by taking video and audio content out of the screen and into the room. In lighting entirely new levels of ambient control are now possible while amBX transforms the entertainment experience through immersing the viewer or player in the content and significantly increasing the enjoyment of digital audio, video and gaming content.

SoPost Limited

Seed Round in 2014
SoPost Limited operates an online platform that lets people to share their favorite brands by sending physical and digital gifts to their friends via social media. Its platform also helps brands and their customers to send real gifts, as well as to run product sampling campaigns. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Oak

Seed Round in 2020
Oak is a simple, cloud-based software solution designed to create the ultimate employee experience and help employers get the most out of their people. Oak is used across a variety of industries by businesses and organisations looking to connect their workforce. They work with some of the world’s biggest brands to help them achieve record levels of employee engagement and business connectivity. From Five Guys to Aldi, ITV to River Island, Oak's enterprise collaboration software has given their clients the tools they need to bring their teams together and work better as one.

CatalySystems

Seed Round in 2013
CatalySystems provides photocatalytic decontamination systems for industrial water and wastewater treatment.

amBX

Seed Round in 2016
amBX is a software company that is revolutionising lighting and digital entertainment markets by taking video and audio content out of the screen and into the room. In lighting entirely new levels of ambient control are now possible while amBX transforms the entertainment experience through immersing the viewer or player in the content and significantly increasing the enjoyment of digital audio, video and gaming content.

eWowBooks

Seed Round in 2013
eWowBooks is a new space on the iPad where young readers can immerse themselves in rich, interactive, multimedia books.

Femeda

Venture Round in 2013
Femeda Ltd. develops and manufactures medical devices to treat incontinence. It offers Pelviva, a device for electro stimulation of the pelvic floor and provides a pro-active treatment of bladder leakage. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Cramlington, United Kingdom.

Daista

Seed Round in 2010
Daista

Arquer Diagnostics

Seed Round in 2012
Arquer Diagnostics Ltd. is engaged in the design, development, and commercialization of a non-invasive immunoassay diagnostic test for bladder and prostate cancer. It offers ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), a laboratory test for measuring small amounts of a substance in body fluids; and CE-marked an ELISA kit for Mcm5 for use in hospital path lavatories. The company also provides point of care system that comprises a robust reader instrument and disposable cartridges. It offers its ELISA and point-of-care urine tests for cancer for use in urology clinic, hospital laboratory, and the GP’s surgery. Arquer Diagnostics Ltd. was formerly known as UroSens Ltd. and changed its name to Arquer Diagnostics Ltd. in July 2015. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Sunderland, United Kingdom.

Plan My food

Seed Round in 2011
Plan My food

CatalySystems

Seed Round in 2014
CatalySystems provides photocatalytic decontamination systems for industrial water and wastewater treatment.

VEO

Seed Round in 2015
VEO

ReInnervate

Venture Round in 2014
ReInnervate Limited, a biotechnology company, engages in the development of enabling technologies that facilitate research into cell growth and function in vitro, primarily in the field of stem cell biology. Its technologies control the differentiation of stem cells and the formation of specific tissue types, as well as offers tools to develop diagnostics and treatments for neuro-degenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Durham, the United Kingdom.

Websand

Seed Round in 2014
Websand gives marketing professionals the platform they need to create Clever Communication. By creating 'marketing as a process' Websand links email marketing to customer behaviour. That means relevant effective marketing that is on-brand and personalised based on your customers activity. Based on over 15 years building loyalty programmes for corporates. Websand is a software as a service platform that links customer data management, marketing activity and business reporting into a single solution. Holding all customer information in a single platform helps clients to easily a) Drive targeted relevant marketing communications. b) Focus on retaining your most profitable customers. c) Increase revenues through cross selling activities. d) Increase revenues through reducing missed opportunities. e) Create new opportunities relevant to previously un-identified needs. Websand functions Single customer view for each of your customers Automatic customer segmentation driven by flexible business rules Marketing automation triggered by customer behaviour (email) - (SMS and APP coming soon) Tailored business reporting

Spontly

Seed Round in 2015
Spontly Limited develops and delivers applications for sports teams. Its applications enable users to be part of the community in their own club app; discuss the game with other fans; and get the latest news, live scores, and commentary. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

LASU

Seed Round in 2015
LASU is an app that lets you to discover, browse and buy the very latest fashion on your phone. Download the app today to receive your daily dose of new products, curated by the UK's finest independent stores and online retailers.

Humble Angel Records

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Streaming only record label

Quick TV

Venture Round in 2008
Quick.tv has become Quicktvpro > the evolution of interactive video: Quicktvpro allows users to create professional interactive video quickly and effortlessly within minutes, using an innovative web-based video management system. The Quicktvpro platform allows users to gain control of their online video. Co-founded by music industry mogul Tod Yeadon and leading UK entrepreneur Nick Bell in November 2007, Quicktvpro is the first company to bring a unique approach to interactive video, media library management, personalized distribution and campaign analytics. The Quicktvpro platform and service is targeted at every tier of online media publishers, agencies and e-commerce businesses. _Currently in private **BETA**. Due for full launch in August 2012_

Solvert

Seed Round in 2010
Solvert is quickly establishing itself as a leader in the global chemical market.

Atlas Cloud Limited

Seed Round in 2010
Atlas Cloud are a leading provider of cloud IT services based in Newcastle upon Tyne with offices in Leeds, Sheffield & London. The Atlas Cloud team were early adopters of cloud technologies and with the expertise gained working with global, multi-national companies such as Acxiom, American Express, BT, Barclays, Cap Gemini, Siemens and Brewin Dolphin, are transforming the way that IT is provided to SMEs.

MathChat Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
MathChat Inc. operates a mobile collaboration platform that enables students to study math using the communication tools on smartphones. Its platform allows students and their friends to take photos of a math problem and collaborate in real time through drawing, typing math, and messaging. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

MyGenomics

Seed Round in 2011
MyGenomics offers DNA tests for determining optimum diet and exercise plan for weight management and fitness.

Recruitment Force

Seed Round in 2014
Recruitment Force best content for Hiring Managers and Recruiters. Share your blogs, tips & advice.

Freerunner

Seed Round in 2010
Freerunner was formed in 2009 and has rapidly become one of the largest providers of WiFi in the UK. The company is backed by venture capital from North Star Ventures, our software partner Hildebrand Technology and a core group of enthusiastic private investors. The Freerunner Wi-Fi service is low-cost to you and Free-of-Charge to your customers. Recent developments have seen Freerunner expand their networks in over 30 shopping cenres throughout the UK helping drive the launch of our PIP (People In Places) Analytics which is becoming the strategic benchmark for many of our clients.

Nutriss

Seed Round in 2015
Nutriss

Flux

Seed Round in 2015
Flux is a Dutch design studio that manufactures and commercializes foldable furniture. Flux offers the Flux Chair, which looks like a giant envelope that can be folded out in just 10 seconds into a sculptural chair. The studio creates flexible, inventive, and sustainable concepts, designed and produced in the Netherlands. Flux was founded by Tom Schouten and Douwe Jacobs in 2009.
Poptop is a markeplace of curated event packages and entertainment ideas for planners of private events, who do not want to hire event agencies.

Komodo Design

Seed Round in 2013
We believe digital products that deliver significant positive impact are created when there is a strong alignment of culture and values within and between the teams that build them. Over the years, we've built up an enviable list of clients and friends: Citizens Advice, College of Policing, I Am Property, Newcastle University, Legrand, Onward Homes, Elanders, Northumbria Police, Orchard Information Systems, GICHD, Durham University, ITV, Beamish Living Museum, and many more.

Brand Ami

Seed Round in 2015
My Little Explorer alerts parents to wandering children; the vision is to use the IoT and Beacons to create connected environments that relocate lost children.

Durham Graphene Science

Seed Round in 2012
DGS is an R&D company that specialises in the synthesis of Graphene. The company uses a unique and scalable 'bottom-up' approach to prepare Graphene that is protected by a patent application. The company was founded by Dr. Karl Coleman (Durham University) who has over 12 years experience working in the field of nanocarbons where he has published extensively.

CV Easy

Seed Round in 2011
CV Easy

Social Rithmic

Seed Round in 2012
Social Rithmic

Sumo Drinks

Seed Round in 2011
SUMO Drinks refreshing calorie killer! Revolutionary new drink full of natural functional ingredients that increase your metabolism.

Cogenta Systems

Venture Round in 2013
Cogenta is the market leading retail and pricing intelligence provider, supporting top UK retailers and brands. Cogenta's retail intelligence platform delivers complete, current and clear market information helping businesses and consumers make best pricing decisions. Tracking consumer shopping behaviour allows Cogenta to connect business with mobile consumers in a unique and exciting way.

Scarlett of Soho

Seed Round in 2014
Scarlett of Soho is a designer eyewear subscription service. For £10 a month, subscribers can change their designer prescription glasses whenever they want and are promised speedy replacements if they lose, damage, or break them. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Orchid Software

Venture Round in 2018
Orchid Software is an intranet software development house and consultancy based in the North-East of England, UK; the company focuses on the development and provision of its proprietarily-developed Orchidnet intranet software. Orchidnet is a suite of intranet applications that includes traditional business processes as well as contemporary social media functionality. Orchid Software serves a client base including a wide range of companies over diverse sectors including: financial services, retail, publishing, media, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, government agencies, policing and law enforcement, commercial and social housing, educational instituitions, software/tech, logisitics and transport. Clients include Pizza Express, Go Compare, Ford Retail, The Southern Co-operative and 2 Sisters Food Group.

ZeroLight

Convertible Note in 2019
ZeroLight is an automotive visualisation specialist which empowers brands to redefine customer experience and media production through digitisation. Integrating cutting-edge technologies like #VR, #AR, 4K, the #cloud, and personalised media into one market-leading platform, ZeroLight delivers highly engaging and scalable deployments which are proven to drive both engagement and higher specification sales. Working alongside the biggest names in both automotive and tech, including Audi, Pagani, Porsche, VW, Toyota, Nissan, and more, ZeroLight has garnered recognition from several national and international awards houses.

CellulaREvolution

Seed Round in 2021
high expertise in the designing and testing of self-assembling peptides providing different benefits when culturing adherent cells in vitro.

TalkBe

Seed Round in 2015
TalkBe is an internet marketing service provider that distributes its clients' content and manages its audience on messaging platforms. It allows small businesses to easily communicate with their customers over existing messaging apps. TalkBe was launched in 2015 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

SpecifiedBy

Seed Round in 2013
SpecifiedBy started out as a 'CAD library' trying connect architects, designers and other specifiers with building product manufacturers using CAD models and has naturally developed into a 'Specification Library', with all the relevant data required to make a decision about a building product. They also aim to make marketing building products much easier for companies who are not particularly web-orientated, but who realise that the modern specifier is now doing their research online. The long-term goal is to make finding the best building product for a particular project, regardless of brand or reputation, as simple and quick a process as possible. To do this, they are creating online tools to connect building product manufacturers with specifiers and specifiers with other specifiers. They believe that through innovation and embracing modern technologies the construction industry can become a more open and collaborative place, to the benefit of everyone.

TryLife

Seed Round in 2012
TryLife is the first of eight websites aimed at young people under the Try brand. It is an interactive, online drama designed by some of the best in UK talent from the Youth, Education, Health, Media and Creative industries.

Refract Software Ltd

Series A in 2019
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.

Recruitment Force

Seed Round in 2013
Recruitment Force best content for Hiring Managers and Recruiters. Share your blogs, tips & advice.

SenseLogix

Seed Round in 2010
SenseLogix Limited provides energy monitoring and control software solutions for commercial, industrial, education, public, retail, and energy service company sectors. The company offers automatic monitoring and targeting, industrial sub-metering, sub-metering, water monitoring, energy dashboard, small power control, industrial energy management, and estate management solutions. It provides an enterprise solution with modular applications; an intuitive and interactive dashboard for active energy management; an off-site storage vault of energy data; energy meters; metering enclosures; and energy nodes. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom.

Talivest

Seed Round in 2013
Talivest optimises an intelligent ecosystem for hi-tech, high-growth companies by gathering insights throughout the employee lifecycle. Talivest’s solution uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help companies measure, build and maintain high performance.

Blooie

Seed Round in 2013
Blooie Limited operates an intelligent conversation platform that enables Websites to host conversations. It offers Blooie, a platform that connects individuals who share a passion for the content they consume online; and allows them to chat with each other about its clients’ content. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Eutechnyx

Venture Round in 2011
Eutechnyx Limited operates as a driving game developer in the United Kingdom. It offers game consoles; and publishes titles and original intellectual properties. The company was formerly known as Merit Studios (Europe) Ltd. and changed its name in 1997. Eutechnyx Limited was founded in 1987 and is based in Gateshead, the United Kingdom with additional offices in the north east of England and Hong Kong.

Palringo

Series A in 2007
Chat and community gaming app that allows you to connect, chat and play games with others around the world

Sightlab Communications

Seed Round in 2010
Sightlab Communications

Screach

Seed Round in 2015
Screenreach Interactive is the developer of the Screach Interactivity platform. Screach enables a user to engage with content on other platforms - such as digital signage, TV, radio, print or even in-app through phone to phone interactions - all through the Screach smart device app. Screach is built on an open platform, giving creatives and developers the option to create their own Screach experiences using our unique ScreachML language. Screach allows advertisers and brands to engage with consumers like never before, generating more revenue and profiling interactions. Screach users are able to explore the Screach app as a social and location based network that makes their whole world interactive. Screach acts as a discovery engine that opens a whole new dimension to the things you love.

Amplience

Series A in 2013
Amplience is an API-first, headless content management platform for enterprise retail. Our content and experience solutions for headless commerce, enable teams to do more, better, faster. Amplience serves more than 350 of the world’s leading brands including Crate & Barrel, Tumi, Traeger Grills,Tom Ford, Argos, OTTO Group, Primark, Very Group, and Boohoo.

Audacious

Seed Round in 2012
Audacious, a Middlesbrough, UK-based start up developer of a new application that allows users to personalize their online search results

Rymote

Seed Round in 2013
Rymote offer Cisco services on a remote service only charging by the hour, making sure our customers get access to the best engineers at a quality price.

Atlas Cloud Limited

Venture Round in 2014
Atlas Cloud are a leading provider of cloud IT services based in Newcastle upon Tyne with offices in Leeds, Sheffield & London. The Atlas Cloud team were early adopters of cloud technologies and with the expertise gained working with global, multi-national companies such as Acxiom, American Express, BT, Barclays, Cap Gemini, Siemens and Brewin Dolphin, are transforming the way that IT is provided to SMEs.

Fairstone

Private Equity Round in 2016
Fairstone is a national financial advisory and wealth management group. We combine market knowledge, specialist expertise and the very latest technology to produce the highest quality outcomes for our clients in a cost-effective manner. Fairstone incorporates the UK's largest Chartered Financial Planning firm and has a number of dedicated business channels that include financial advisory, Discretionary Fund Management, wealth management, property finance and estate planning. Launched in 2008 Fairstone is very much a ‘new model’ financial services business operating across both retail and corporate sectors. Our head office is based in Newcastle, and with 36 regional locations and management hubs in both London and Bristol, we have a truly national presence. Fairstone's rate of growth is consistently beyond 20% for each financial year and our annualized revenues exceed £40 million. Across the UK we now have over 300 financial advisers servicing 41,000 clients who collectively hold £7 billion in investment and pension assets. Our ultimate objectives across the group are to deliver annual revenues in excess of £100 million, EBITDA margin of above 10% and to oversee client funds of £15 billion.

Plan My food

Seed Round in 2011
Plan My food
Magnitude Biosciences Limited provides drug discovery solutions and services. It develops healthspan machine, which uses small computers each linked to a camera to monitor various nematodes under multiple conditions. The company’s solution assists the ageing research industry and academic researchers in testing compounds, such as food additives and drugs. It focuses on serving the global field of ageing research and drug discovery sector. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Durham, United Kingdom.

Receptive Software Ltd

Seed Round in 2015
Receptive Software Ltd develops product demand intelligence solutions for software companies. It provides software that helps in making data-driven product decisions by translating demand from customers, internal teams and the market into actionable insights. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Sheffield, United Kingdom. As of April 30, 2019, Receptive Software Ltd operates as a subsidiary of Pendo.io, Inc.

Alcyomics Ltd

Seed Round in 2016
Alcyomics Ltd develops human skin explants assay technology for testing immune-modulating drugs. The company offers Skimune, a platform focusing on the assessment of monoclonal antibodies and drugs. Additionally, it provides immune monitoring and investigation and biologics and cellular therapeutics services. The company caters to biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic sectors. Alcyomics Ltd was founded in 2007 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

SpecifiedBy

Seed Round in 2014
SpecifiedBy started out as a 'CAD library' trying connect architects, designers and other specifiers with building product manufacturers using CAD models and has naturally developed into a 'Specification Library', with all the relevant data required to make a decision about a building product. They also aim to make marketing building products much easier for companies who are not particularly web-orientated, but who realise that the modern specifier is now doing their research online. The long-term goal is to make finding the best building product for a particular project, regardless of brand or reputation, as simple and quick a process as possible. To do this, they are creating online tools to connect building product manufacturers with specifiers and specifiers with other specifiers. They believe that through innovation and embracing modern technologies the construction industry can become a more open and collaborative place, to the benefit of everyone.

CRESS Limited

Seed Round in 2016
CRESS Limited designs and manufactures energy storage systems for industrial applications. Its energy storage systems are used in container cranes; buses, trains, and metro; and wind turbines. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Redcar, United Kingdom.

AMLo Biosciences Ltd

Seed Round in 2018
AMLo Biosciences Ltd develops a diagnostic kit to accurately predict melanomas. The company develops AMBLor which is prognostic test for early AJCC Stage I and Stage II melanoma to better identify a patient’s true risk of disease progression. It identifies 2 proteins (AMBLor) in the skin overlying the primary tumour that are lost in high-risk melanomas. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Palringo

Seed Round in 2006
Chat and community gaming app that allows you to connect, chat and play games with others around the world

Social Rithmic

Seed Round in 2013
Social Rithmic

Wireless Dynamics

Venture Round in 2006
Wireless Dynamics Ltd. develops multi-platform mobile application. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, the United Kingdom.

Recite Me

Seed Round in 2010
Recite Me Limited develops software which helps dyslexic and visually-impaired Web users to adapt Websites to fit their preferences, translating text into legible fonts, changing the colour contrast, and reading out the content on the page. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Gateshead, United Kingdom.

Aframe

Seed Round in 2011
Collaborative video platform. Original broadcast footage is uploaded into the private cloud and made accessible to anyone

Chadex

Seed Round in 2013
Chadex

Videojuicer

Seed Round in 2013
Squeeze more value from your video with Videojuicer's simple live streaming and advanced in-video apps. Videojuicer is a cloud-based video platform with a difference. We offer all the features you'd expect from any video solution, some of the best value live streaming available... and unique interactive in-video marketing tools.  Videojuicer has the power to turn any video into a sales and lead generation machine that works on desktop, tablet and mobile. Using our platform you can add almost ANY kind of functionality to your videos – interactive sponsor messages, shops, overlays, Twitter feeds, sign-ups, forms, slideshows, chat clients – and serve that functionality wherever the video appears. And because viewers are in control of our apps, they really like them! In-video apps get on average 10 times more clicks than pre-roll. So don't just put your video on the web. Put the web in your video!

LyraChem

Seed Round in 2010
Founded in 2008 as a Durham University spinout business by CEO Carl Thirsk and Newcastle University’s Allen Wright, LyraChem provides software designed to help its clients improve their drug and chemical making processes. It uses a multidisciplinary workflow to characterize the client’s target process in chemical, physical and chemical engineering terms.

Screach

Seed Round in 2014
Screenreach Interactive is the developer of the Screach Interactivity platform. Screach enables a user to engage with content on other platforms - such as digital signage, TV, radio, print or even in-app through phone to phone interactions - all through the Screach smart device app. Screach is built on an open platform, giving creatives and developers the option to create their own Screach experiences using our unique ScreachML language. Screach allows advertisers and brands to engage with consumers like never before, generating more revenue and profiling interactions. Screach users are able to explore the Screach app as a social and location based network that makes their whole world interactive. Screach acts as a discovery engine that opens a whole new dimension to the things you love.

yourClass Education

Seed Round in 2015
yourClass is a marketplace for live online learning where anyone in the world can take or teach a live class on just about any topic. At yourClass, live classes are always free and students can purchase forever-access for a fee set by the teacher. Teachers earn a majority of revenue generated from class sales. yourClass was founded in 2013 in Reston, VA by Jacob Ruytenbeek, Matt Stock, and Paul Flynn.

Eutechnyx

Series A in 2010
Eutechnyx Limited operates as a driving game developer in the United Kingdom. It offers game consoles; and publishes titles and original intellectual properties. The company was formerly known as Merit Studios (Europe) Ltd. and changed its name in 1997. Eutechnyx Limited was founded in 1987 and is based in Gateshead, the United Kingdom with additional offices in the north east of England and Hong Kong.

Sonik Sports

Seed Round in 2010
Sonik Sports dynamic company with a big vision. One which aims to provide anglers all over the world with superbly designed fishing.

Quick TV

Seed Round in 2007
Quick.tv has become Quicktvpro > the evolution of interactive video: Quicktvpro allows users to create professional interactive video quickly and effortlessly within minutes, using an innovative web-based video management system. The Quicktvpro platform allows users to gain control of their online video. Co-founded by music industry mogul Tod Yeadon and leading UK entrepreneur Nick Bell in November 2007, Quicktvpro is the first company to bring a unique approach to interactive video, media library management, personalized distribution and campaign analytics. The Quicktvpro platform and service is targeted at every tier of online media publishers, agencies and e-commerce businesses. _Currently in private **BETA**. Due for full launch in August 2012_

Evince Technology Ltd

Seed Round in 2011
Evince Technology Ltd develops diamond-based semiconductor devices that reduce carbon dioxide emissions. It offers diamond power semiconductor devices, including diodes, electron field emission triodes, and directional field emission transistors that connect power electronic systems to a mains electricity grid. The company’s products are used to improve the performance wind turbines and fuel cells and reduce the energy requirement of motors. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Durham, United Kingdom.

I-Spy Digital

Seed Round in 2013
I-Spy Digital

CANDDi

Seed Round in 2011
CANDDi (Campaign and Digital Intelligence) is a Newcastle and Manchester based Internet start-up. The company has pioneered a new type of web tracking software called Prospect Analytics: a technology which combines the identity and behaviour of website visitors in order to provide rich profiles of prospects to businesses. Prospect Analytics tells you who is on your website, not just how many people. Tracking visitors across time and multiple devices becomes simple. CANDDi’s software allows clients to customise interactions with their web visitors, even if they’re anonymous, based on the browsing history and identity information CANDDi collects on each visitor. CANDDi lets businesses make the right real-time interactions with prospects for the best results. For example, CANDDi sends customised automated emails via any email system you use to different web visitors fitting specified behaviour or/and identity criteria. The CANDDi USP is its ability to combine behavioural data with social profile information of online visitors. This provides insight that brings value to firms in so many unique and distinct ways. To name just a few, CANDDi enables clients to: - Follow-up warm leads they would never have known existed - Nurture existing clients by analysing their online behaviour - Up-sell, cross-sell and re-sell their offerings

Evince Technology Ltd

Seed Round in 2010
Evince Technology Ltd develops diamond-based semiconductor devices that reduce carbon dioxide emissions. It offers diamond power semiconductor devices, including diodes, electron field emission triodes, and directional field emission transistors that connect power electronic systems to a mains electricity grid. The company’s products are used to improve the performance wind turbines and fuel cells and reduce the energy requirement of motors. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Durham, United Kingdom.

Cogenta Systems

Venture Round in 2011
Cogenta is the market leading retail and pricing intelligence provider, supporting top UK retailers and brands. Cogenta's retail intelligence platform delivers complete, current and clear market information helping businesses and consumers make best pricing decisions. Tracking consumer shopping behaviour allows Cogenta to connect business with mobile consumers in a unique and exciting way.

MathChat Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
MathChat Inc. operates a mobile collaboration platform that enables students to study math using the communication tools on smartphones. Its platform allows students and their friends to take photos of a math problem and collaborate in real time through drawing, typing math, and messaging. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Antix Labs

Venture Round in 2009
Antix Labs Limited designs media software platforms for game manufacturers and developers, games publishers, media portals, handset and other device manufacturers, mobile operators, chipset designers and manufacturers, technology enablers, system integrators, compiler companies, and silicon design houses in the United Kingdom and internationally. It offers Antix Game Player, a software player for running single SKU, 2-D casual, 3-D AAA title, and P2P games on phones, televisions, personal computers, and other connected devices; Antix Game Development Kit, a toolkit for pervasive development of games on Windows; and Antix Developer Program to provide access to resources, support, and communities to engineers developing content for the Antix Game Player and those porting the Antix Game Player onto client platforms. Antix Labs was founded in 2007 and is based in Reading, the United Kingdom with regional offices in Stocksfield, the United Kingdom.

Intogral

Seed Round in 2018
Intogral Limited develops image analysis software based on artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technology. The company provides services, such as data annotation, for images, video, audio, and text, including outlining objects, tagging, tracking, and marking; crowdsourcing, provide a service that bridges companies to global crowdsourcing solutions; deep learning; and data analytics, includes pattern recognition, geographic mapping, clustering, and trend prediction. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Durham, United Kingdom.

Natural Technology Developments

Seed Round in 2011
Natural Technology Developments a young and dynamic company with an enthusiastic and experienced management team.

Durham Graphene Science

Seed Round in 2011
DGS is an R&D company that specialises in the synthesis of Graphene. The company uses a unique and scalable 'bottom-up' approach to prepare Graphene that is protected by a patent application. The company was founded by Dr. Karl Coleman (Durham University) who has over 12 years experience working in the field of nanocarbons where he has published extensively.

Rentecarlo

Seed Round in 2014
Rentecarlo is a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace that enables car owners to rent out their cars. Owners can share their cars at their own hourly rates and schedules to make a better use of their idle cars. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Hexis Lab

Seed Round in 2016
Hexis Lab is a technology company working at the forefront of raw material innovation. Hexis Lab produce ground-breaking ethnically targeted skincare products to protect and repair sun-damaged skin and improve life well-being. The company's discovery platform utilizes big data cloud computing approaches and in-silico computer modelling to screen a huge database of natural plant derived compounds for activity against our selected cellular targets.

Cornerways Consulting Ltd

Seed Round in 2016
Cornerways was founded with the aim of helping business leaders develop their vision, where unique or bespoke software sits at the heart of the business model.They take a pragmatic, and value led approach, which allows our clients to obtain market feedback and results quickly.

Incuto

Seed Round in 2019
incuto is a socially profitable, technology partner to Credit Unions and Community Banks. We provide state-of-the-art technology, supporting Credit Unions to reduce costs, be digital, offer more and go faster. The incuto platform allows Credit Unions to offer banking services, including an on-balance-sheet debit card, bank account and sort-code. The platform also enables Credit Unions to compete with high-cost, short-term "payday" lenders, being accessible 24*7 on any device, with loans completing in less than 5 minutes.

One Utility Bill

Pre Seed Round in 2015
One Utility Bill Limited develops software that enables letting agents to create, quote, and sell bill packages for their properties and residential tenants. It serves various energy providers, such as electricity, gas, and water providers; and TV license and broadband providers. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

MathChat Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
MathChat Inc. operates a mobile collaboration platform that enables students to study math using the communication tools on smartphones. Its platform allows students and their friends to take photos of a math problem and collaborate in real time through drawing, typing math, and messaging. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

UC&C

Seed Round in 2014
UC&C simplify business communications. Tweet about efficiency, collaboration and communication.

Clink Together

Seed Round in 2014
Clink Together

Point Software

Seed Round in 2014
Point Software
Adept Professional Services Ltd. provides recruitment services. It also offers consulting and risk-management services. The company provides recruitment services in the areas of accountancy and finance, business and management, engineering, executive, human resources, information technology, marketing, purchasing/procurement, sales, and support. It serves businesses in various industrial sectors. Adept Professional Services Ltd. was founded in 2006 and is based in Hartlepool, United Kingdom.

Kompani Group

Seed Round in 2015
Kompani Group empowers leaders and their companies with effective business and brand development strategies.

Canny

Seed Round in 2015
Canny is a natural flavored milk. Canny milkshakes are born and bred in Newcastle and started on a farm in Northumberland.

Graviton Lite

Seed Round in 2010
Graviton Lite

Wordnerds

Seed Round in 2019
Wordnerds teach computers to understand language, make decisions, and find actionable insights. Using AI and advanced linguistics, they are turning the internet into the world’s biggest focus group.

Car 2 U

Seed Round in 2012
Car 2 U are a vehicle hire company based in Sunderland, we specialise in the supply of short & medium term replacement vehicle rental services in the UK. We utilise industry leading technology for our hires for corporate and consumer clients. If you require a hire vehicle we are the team to call, especially if you require a dual control or 4x4.

Givey

Seed Round in 2011
Givey is a social donation platform seeking emphasise the power of giving a little every day. It is completely free to use for both users and charities. Givey make it easy for users to claim Gift Aid on all of their donations, and their partnership with the Paypal Giving Fund makes giving simple and instantaneous. Through 'Givey For Business', businesses can increase employee engagement by choosing to match the money their employees raise and donate to charity. All of this information is stored on a public Givey page, for employees, and the world, to see. Givey currently support over 8,000 charities.

Papertrail.io

Seed Round in 2014
Ensure inspections are never missed. Save time, money and reduce risk.

Tasty Development

Seed Round in 2011
Tasty Development specializes in design and development of web and mobile apps. The company builds compelling products (from concept through completion) while maintaining simplicity and usability.

ZeroLight

Seed Round in 2014
ZeroLight is an automotive visualisation specialist which empowers brands to redefine customer experience and media production through digitisation. Integrating cutting-edge technologies like #VR, #AR, 4K, the #cloud, and personalised media into one market-leading platform, ZeroLight delivers highly engaging and scalable deployments which are proven to drive both engagement and higher specification sales. Working alongside the biggest names in both automotive and tech, including Audi, Pagani, Porsche, VW, Toyota, Nissan, and more, ZeroLight has garnered recognition from several national and international awards houses.

Ignis Red

Seed Round in 2010
Ignis Red

Blooie

Seed Round in 2011
Blooie Limited operates an intelligent conversation platform that enables Websites to host conversations. It offers Blooie, a platform that connects individuals who share a passion for the content they consume online; and allows them to chat with each other about its clients’ content. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Orange Bus Limited

Seed Round in 2012
Orange Bus Limited provides marketing and digital agency services. It offers strategic planning, Websites and applications design and development, branding and design, corporate identity, advertising and strategic marketing campaign, interactive development, print design, concept development, user experience design, usability testing, digital marketing, pay per click marketing, search engine optimization, social media, and ecommerce development services. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom. As of March 22, 2016, Orange Bus Limited operates as a subsidiary of The G2G3 Group Ltd.

Caspian Learning

Venture Round in 2014
Caspian Learning use 3D games and simulations technology for education, training and engagement. Caspian focus on educative software both within the serious games sector and the web3D movement. Caspian has created over 50 engaging applications for sectors as diverse as entertainment, publishing, pharmaceuticals, defence and education. Many of these applications have been delivered through the web and have scooped many industry accolades and awards. This is made possible by their core technology platform - Thinking Worlds™. Thinking Worlds delivers highly immersive ‘performance simulations’ within engaging 3D worlds and is tightly integrated with Adobe’s Shockwave player meaning deployment across the internet, within intranets and links to learning management systems are simple.

Footy.com

Venture Round in 2020
The Footy Club Limited operates a website for comparing football products and merchandise. It operates FOOTY.COM, a football price comparison site for finding cheapest prices on various products and football merchandise. The company’s site is used to compare prices of football boots, kits, trainers, clothing, equipment, and other products. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Houghton-le-Spring, United Kingdom.

SenseLogix

Venture Round in 2015
SenseLogix Limited provides energy monitoring and control software solutions for commercial, industrial, education, public, retail, and energy service company sectors. The company offers automatic monitoring and targeting, industrial sub-metering, sub-metering, water monitoring, energy dashboard, small power control, industrial energy management, and estate management solutions. It provides an enterprise solution with modular applications; an intuitive and interactive dashboard for active energy management; an off-site storage vault of energy data; energy meters; metering enclosures; and energy nodes. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom.

EvaluAgent

Seed Round in 2012
EvaluAgent is the first Workforce Engagement solution for call centres. We provide the software and services today’s call centres need to truly engage, motivate and empower their staff. Our mission is to make the call centre home to great customer experience through: - Motivating agents with a cutting-edge gamification platform designed specifically for call centres - A unique approach to quality and coaching focused on staff development and what really matters to your business - Capturing multi-channel customer insight to help improve the overall customer experience

MyGenomics

Seed Round in 2012
MyGenomics offers DNA tests for determining optimum diet and exercise plan for weight management and fitness.

WhatUsersDo Limited

Seed Round in 2014
WhatUsersDo provide usability testing as an online service. Clients get to tap into a pan-European panel of internet users and watch videos of their screens and hear their spoken thoughts as they give feedback on websites. Founded in 2008 the firm includes large brands like TUI, BT and Comet amongst its clients as well as thousands of SMEs.

Screach

Seed Round in 2015
Screenreach Interactive is the developer of the Screach Interactivity platform. Screach enables a user to engage with content on other platforms - such as digital signage, TV, radio, print or even in-app through phone to phone interactions - all through the Screach smart device app. Screach is built on an open platform, giving creatives and developers the option to create their own Screach experiences using our unique ScreachML language. Screach allows advertisers and brands to engage with consumers like never before, generating more revenue and profiling interactions. Screach users are able to explore the Screach app as a social and location based network that makes their whole world interactive. Screach acts as a discovery engine that opens a whole new dimension to the things you love.

Spontly

Seed Round in 2016
Spontly Limited develops and delivers applications for sports teams. Its applications enable users to be part of the community in their own club app; discuss the game with other fans; and get the latest news, live scores, and commentary. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Poptop is a markeplace of curated event packages and entertainment ideas for planners of private events, who do not want to hire event agencies.

Adludio Limited

Seed Round in 2012
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.

ScreachTV

Venture Round in 2013
ScreachTV is made with love and lots of care and coffee by Screenreach Interactive who is headquartered in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Reframed.tv

Seed Round in 2013
Reframed.tv is changing the way the world consumes, interacts with and shares video for the better. The company’s mission is to make video truly social. Users can create contextual conversations with time-specific comments in video, share them with deep links, follow users and favourite comments. It’s about building a community, moment by moment. Comments are synced to a video with a time-stamp so anyone can join the conversation with one tap, whether it’s an hour, a week, a year after the initial video release. It’s been referred to as “second-chance twitter.” Founded on 6th August 2013 by Jo York and Kev Price, who are based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, the idea was taken from concept to market trial in three months as part of the tech accelerator programme Ignite100. Reframed allows people to comment on, share and discuss moments in video. Our mission is to improve the experience and depth in which audiences connect with video content, generating engaging relationships between people who are moved by or resonate with the messages at specific moments. The Reframed interface timestamps comments at the exact moment the user starts typing. This information is used to display the comment at the relevant time in the video, giving them context. The comment activity is displayed visually in graph form over the timeline so users can instantly see the points in the video that are gaining interest and jump straight into those moments. Users often discuss this activity away from the video on social media sites, which are displayed in the order of the time and date they were made, not at the point in the video to which they refer. So, joining in the conversation becomes more difficult. Reframed syncs the conversation to the video so whether it’s an hour, a week or a month later, people can join in the conversation - in context. In this way Reframed gathers text that describes the content of a video at a specific point. This is very useful for the content owners and also allows Reframed to deliver specific moments within a video in search results. So rather than just displaying the videos that include certain content in the search results, Reframed can deliver the exact moments. Live chat style discussion Comments also facilitate further discussions, which are displayed outside of the flow of the video due to their size. This provides the functionality to publicly discuss the moments within the video in much more detail. Users can participate in multiple discussion threads at the same time. And all of the activity around each video is available in “real time”, which means other people’s comments are added to the page without having to refresh it. Comments can be tweeted and a link provided to bring more viewers to the exact point in the video at which the comment was made, known as “deep linking’. Our integration with Twitter goes further, as the entire video also appears in the Twitter timeline and plays from the moment the comment references. This functionality is known as “Twitter Player Cards” and in order to get them you have to apply to Twitter through a very long process. Twitter worked closely with us to speed u p the process and we are in discussion with them about how we can become more deeply integrated, This could include adding replies and retweets around the video and becoming a media partner on their Amplify programme. Platform independent Reframed works with many different video formats, including YouTube, Vimeo, Video.js and self-hosted video. This allows users to comment on and store comments on videos across all these platforms. So whether it’s a TED Talk on YouTube or a documentary on Vimeo, users can keep track of all their comments made on all the videos they have viewed using Reframed. This feature has been described as “Pinterest for moments in video”. Reframed acts as the glue between video, which can be archived and distributed throughout the web and social media platforms. So it’s all abuout what’s current and what’s relevant. Reframed increases engagement, audience reach and monetisation. Channels Channels are a way to group a user’s videos in one place with full moderation tools, which allows the channel owner to promote, hide and edit comments, enabling them to curate interesting videos and influence the conversation. Embeddable player The embeddable player brings all the functionaliy of the Reframed player to any website. The interface can be customised to match the look and feel of any website. Just like the channels, the website owner has full moderation tools to promote, hide and edit comments. Certain accounts can be given “Featured User” priveleges, which allows their comments to take centre stage.

Recruitment Force

Seed Round in 2013
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EvaluAgent

Venture Round in 2013
EvaluAgent is the first Workforce Engagement solution for call centres. We provide the software and services today’s call centres need to truly engage, motivate and empower their staff. Our mission is to make the call centre home to great customer experience through: - Motivating agents with a cutting-edge gamification platform designed specifically for call centres - A unique approach to quality and coaching focused on staff development and what really matters to your business - Capturing multi-channel customer insight to help improve the overall customer experience

Technically Compatible

Seed Round in 2015
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.

Fotospin

Seed Round in 2011
Fotospin

Masher

Venture Round in 2011
Masher is an internet based application that lets its users mix photos, videos, music and digital effects together to create new videos or presentations that can then be shared online via email, social networks or embedded in blogs. Masher includes access to some of the world's largest video archives, including BBC Motion Gallery, and music content, allowing users to mix together their own content with professionally shot footage. The service can be acessed from any web browser and is free to use.

Illumix

Series A in 2008
Illumix develops augmented reality games. Kirin Sinha, Marianne Dang, and Alex Fu founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Redwood City in California.

TalkBe

Seed Round in 2015
TalkBe is an internet marketing service provider that distributes its clients' content and manages its audience on messaging platforms. It allows small businesses to easily communicate with their customers over existing messaging apps. TalkBe was launched in 2015 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

TripIQ Systems

Seed Round in 2015
TripIQ Systems

I Sunk Your Battleship

Seed Round in 2014
I Sunk Your Battleship is an independent streetwear brand inspired by Britain’s rich naval heritage. They strive to build all their apparel right here in the UK, with the help of local craftspeople and the best-quality materials.

Femeda

Venture Round in 2012
Femeda Ltd. develops and manufactures medical devices to treat incontinence. It offers Pelviva, a device for electro stimulation of the pelvic floor and provides a pro-active treatment of bladder leakage. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Cramlington, United Kingdom.

Verticly

Seed Round in 2013
Verticly provides a SaaS based platform that exchanges data and delivers personalized engagement to FMCG brands, retailers, and manufacturers. The company connects the dots between online and offline customer data, and delivers real-time content for consumers. It provides solutions for omni-channel landscape, channel attribution, vouchering, Twitter to store, omni-channel retargeting, and personalized messaging cloud. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

amBX

Series A in 2019
amBX is a software company that is revolutionising lighting and digital entertainment markets by taking video and audio content out of the screen and into the room. In lighting entirely new levels of ambient control are now possible while amBX transforms the entertainment experience through immersing the viewer or player in the content and significantly increasing the enjoyment of digital audio, video and gaming content.

Low Carbon Lighting

Seed Round in 2012
Low Carbon Lighting Limited manufactures and sells lighting products. It offers street lighting products that are used in road lighting, pedestrian route, cycle route, recreational area, sports lighting, outdoor area lighting, car parking, and ornamental applications; and industrial lighting products for factories, warehouses, logistics and distribution, retail, exhibition spaces, and other applications. The company also offers exterior lighting solutions for industrial, logistics and distribution, petrol station forecourts, car parks, retail, swimming pools, ports/harbors, conflict areas, prisons, and high mast applications; and commercial lighting products. Low Carbon Lighting Limited was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Cramlington, United Kingdom.

Fit Gurus

Seed Round in 2014
Fit Gurus Ltd. owns and operates an online platform which allows users to access training plans from personal trainers and celebrities. The company also provides online gym subscription services. It also engages in online retail of gym products and apparel. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in South Shields, United Kingdom.

Cogenta Systems

Venture Round in 2012
Cogenta is the market leading retail and pricing intelligence provider, supporting top UK retailers and brands. Cogenta's retail intelligence platform delivers complete, current and clear market information helping businesses and consumers make best pricing decisions. Tracking consumer shopping behaviour allows Cogenta to connect business with mobile consumers in a unique and exciting way.

Biotoloomics

Seed Round in 2011
Biotoolomics offers a broad range of process chromatography media, which is manufactured in their clean and purpose built facility. The pore structure and particle size of each adsorbent is tailored to best suit its targeted purification applications. They have the capacity to produce thousands of litres of adsorbents p.a. For those cGMP purification applications, they provide full regulatory support files.

Graphicly

Series A in 2010
The Graphicly platform offers automated self-publishing by converting, distributing and promoting image-based digital content across the most popular consumer mobile and eBook marketplaces including the Apple iOS Newsstand and iBookstore, Barnes & Noble NOOK Color, Amazon Kindle store, Facebook and many others, while streamlining the work flow, reducing production costs significantly and providing authors and publishers detailed real-time analytics. As the only platform that optimizes image-based content, Graphicly is uniquely poised to take advantage of the $23 billion publishing market, including the more than 300,000 self-published authors expected to produce a graphical work this year.

RT Analytics

Seed Round in 2012
RT Analytics, Inc. was started because they wanted to give SMB companies a fair opportunity to implement a quality BI solution that was multi-platform, affordable, uncomplicated, easy to license, install & maintain--that simple! Their primary goal is to provide companies with a product that can be up and running quickly, making your ROI available in months rather than years. They are committed to helping companies combine, visualize and analyze their data to help them understand their business more clearly. Their founders have over 40+ years of combined experience in data analysis software and design. They have worked with many companies that have been down the arduous road of trying to find a product that will transform their raw data into meaningful and useful information. They found that more and more companies want to help key people in their organization spend less time trying to find and sort through this tremendous amount of data, and more time actually analyzing it. They felt they could take their experiences and software design qualifications and provide a BI tool that will do just that--multi-platform data access for the masses .

Fit Gurus

Seed Round in 2016
Fit Gurus Ltd. owns and operates an online platform which allows users to access training plans from personal trainers and celebrities. The company also provides online gym subscription services. It also engages in online retail of gym products and apparel. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in South Shields, United Kingdom.

amBX

Seed Round in 2010
amBX is a software company that is revolutionising lighting and digital entertainment markets by taking video and audio content out of the screen and into the room. In lighting entirely new levels of ambient control are now possible while amBX transforms the entertainment experience through immersing the viewer or player in the content and significantly increasing the enjoyment of digital audio, video and gaming content.

Streamline Tools

Seed Round in 2011
Streamline Tools

Screach

Seed Round in 2016
Screenreach Interactive is the developer of the Screach Interactivity platform. Screach enables a user to engage with content on other platforms - such as digital signage, TV, radio, print or even in-app through phone to phone interactions - all through the Screach smart device app. Screach is built on an open platform, giving creatives and developers the option to create their own Screach experiences using our unique ScreachML language. Screach allows advertisers and brands to engage with consumers like never before, generating more revenue and profiling interactions. Screach users are able to explore the Screach app as a social and location based network that makes their whole world interactive. Screach acts as a discovery engine that opens a whole new dimension to the things you love.

Kykloud

Seed Round in 2014
Kykloud is the leading mobile first saas solution of its kind. Over 100 million m2 (1 billion sq ft) has been surveyed and inspected with Kykloud (that's the same as the land area of Manhattan NY). Clients include Fortune 500 and FTSE 500 corporates who require Kykloud to make sure their critical property assets remain in good condition and meet health & safety standards. Other tools include capital and maintenance planning giving asset owners a real time picture of the future investment required across their portfolios.

Grey Matters

Seed Round in 2011
Grey Matters dedicated to supporting those who suffer from long-term conditions such as dementia, hypertension and heart disease.

Solar Capture Technologies

Seed Round in 2014
The Solar Capture Technologies Photovoltaic Technology Centre (PVTC) is an independent, world leading, crystalline silicon solar cell manufacturing, contract research and product development centre. Solar Capture Technologies research and development, cell and module production and consultancy services for photovoltaics are dedicated to meeting the demands of this rapidly growing and highly competitive industry.

Thrive

Seed Round in 2011
We design and build beautiful online tools for the world's creators and innovators, freeing them from distractions so they can flourish and grow. Our apps replace a combination of existing products (think Basecamp, Freshbooks and Toggl). Streamlining the day-to-day tasks that can often get in the way of creativity – like quotes, invoicing, staff management, organising workload and filling in time sheets. They elegantly output real-time business and market intelligence, providing founders, managers and professionals the transparency they need to maximise their potential, giving them the freedom to continue producing great creative work.

Fairstone

Venture Round in 2013
Fairstone is a national financial advisory and wealth management group. We combine market knowledge, specialist expertise and the very latest technology to produce the highest quality outcomes for our clients in a cost-effective manner. Fairstone incorporates the UK's largest Chartered Financial Planning firm and has a number of dedicated business channels that include financial advisory, Discretionary Fund Management, wealth management, property finance and estate planning. Launched in 2008 Fairstone is very much a ‘new model’ financial services business operating across both retail and corporate sectors. Our head office is based in Newcastle, and with 36 regional locations and management hubs in both London and Bristol, we have a truly national presence. Fairstone's rate of growth is consistently beyond 20% for each financial year and our annualized revenues exceed £40 million. Across the UK we now have over 300 financial advisers servicing 41,000 clients who collectively hold £7 billion in investment and pension assets. Our ultimate objectives across the group are to deliver annual revenues in excess of £100 million, EBITDA margin of above 10% and to oversee client funds of £15 billion.

Arquer Diagnostics

Series B in 2019
Arquer Diagnostics Ltd. is engaged in the design, development, and commercialization of a non-invasive immunoassay diagnostic test for bladder and prostate cancer. It offers ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), a laboratory test for measuring small amounts of a substance in body fluids; and CE-marked an ELISA kit for Mcm5 for use in hospital path lavatories. The company also provides point of care system that comprises a robust reader instrument and disposable cartridges. It offers its ELISA and point-of-care urine tests for cancer for use in urology clinic, hospital laboratory, and the GP’s surgery. Arquer Diagnostics Ltd. was formerly known as UroSens Ltd. and changed its name to Arquer Diagnostics Ltd. in July 2015. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Sunderland, United Kingdom.

Caspian Learning

Venture Round in 2016
Caspian Learning use 3D games and simulations technology for education, training and engagement. Caspian focus on educative software both within the serious games sector and the web3D movement. Caspian has created over 50 engaging applications for sectors as diverse as entertainment, publishing, pharmaceuticals, defence and education. Many of these applications have been delivered through the web and have scooped many industry accolades and awards. This is made possible by their core technology platform - Thinking Worlds™. Thinking Worlds delivers highly immersive ‘performance simulations’ within engaging 3D worlds and is tightly integrated with Adobe’s Shockwave player meaning deployment across the internet, within intranets and links to learning management systems are simple.

Amplience

Series B in 2015
Amplience is an API-first, headless content management platform for enterprise retail. Our content and experience solutions for headless commerce, enable teams to do more, better, faster. Amplience serves more than 350 of the world’s leading brands including Crate & Barrel, Tumi, Traeger Grills,Tom Ford, Argos, OTTO Group, Primark, Very Group, and Boohoo.

MobiCart

Seed Round in 2012
MobiCart is a simple way to build and manage your m-commerce store as a native or web app. MobiCart is a startup that is taking m-commerce to a new level of personalization by enabling anyone to quickly deploy a native storefront application on iOS and Android devices as well as HTML5. Launched in 2010 at the renowned DEMO conference in Silicon Valley California, MobiCart has gone from strength to strength. To date, it has secured just under $1million investment and achieved significant traction powering over 14,000 merchants.

Protein Fit

Seed Round in 2012
Protein Fit

Dubble Me Limited

Seed Round in 2014
Dubble Photos Limited develops Dubble, a mobile app that allows users to shoot a picture, mix it randomly with anyone in the world, and connect. It also develops Studio MX, an app to create double exposures with own photos using a blending algorithm; and dubble print, an app to print favorite photos onto a range of products. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

ievo

Seed Round in 2012
ievo is a UK based biometric manufacturer, distributing their renowned biometric fingerprint products throughout the world. Their fingerprint readers are unique and reliable, integrating into commonly used access control systems and work within many environmental conditions including rain, snow and direct sunlight. The ievo biometric devices will also function with levels of creams, powders, grease, oil, dirt and cosmetics present on the skin as well as with some types of latex gloves worn by the user. This is enabled to due the robust multispectral imaging sensor and quality components used within the products.

Usable HQ

Seed Round in 2011
Usable builds exceptionally usable online project management tools. We want to change the way people think about projects, stop projects failing, and save companies time and money. Usable’s first product, Usable Requirements, is an easy-to-use tool that makes teams focus on what their project really is. Requirements is an application that enables every stakeholder in a project to communicate and collaborate around a set of requirements that will then keep goals at the centre of the project, eliminate “scope creep”, and drive day-to-day tasks.

Arnia

Seed Round in 2013
Arnia Limited provides hive monitoring technology solutions for beekeepers. Its tool measures the daily activity and strength/health of the bees; and record key temperatures and rainfall. The company also engages in the process of interfacing a hive scale for remote weight monitoring; and a Web interface that allows users to login remotely and check their colonies for swarm/supersedure intent, strength, health, and activity. Arnia Limited was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Re Pet

Venture Round in 2011
Re Pet is a Sunderland, UK-based newly formed manufacturer of recyclable plastic sheeting for food companies and supermarkets.
Hadrian Electrical Engineering Ltd is a family owned company based in Hexham, Northumberland and services the North of England.

Weigh Ahead

Seed Round in 2010
Weigh Ahead are the original innovators of the Pre-check-in luggage weighing system.

Hexis Lab

Seed Round in 2015
Hexis Lab is a technology company working at the forefront of raw material innovation. Hexis Lab produce ground-breaking ethnically targeted skincare products to protect and repair sun-damaged skin and improve life well-being. The company's discovery platform utilizes big data cloud computing approaches and in-silico computer modelling to screen a huge database of natural plant derived compounds for activity against our selected cellular targets.

Mustachio

Seed Round in 2015
Mustachio provides creative design consultancy and art works.

CatalySystems

Seed Round in 2012
CatalySystems provides photocatalytic decontamination systems for industrial water and wastewater treatment.

Whizzbang3D

Seed Round in 2015
Whizzbang3D

Earsoft

Seed Round in 2013
EarSoft is a software company whose algorithms enhance the quality and audibility of audio on playback devices.

Donr

Seed Round in 2020
Donr Ltd. designs and develops a digital fundraising platform and tools for charities. The company offers mobile donation technology solutions that allow supporters to donate. Donr Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

Streamline Tools

Seed Round in 2010
Streamline Tools

LyraChem

Seed Round in 2011
Founded in 2008 as a Durham University spinout business by CEO Carl Thirsk and Newcastle University’s Allen Wright, LyraChem provides software designed to help its clients improve their drug and chemical making processes. It uses a multidisciplinary workflow to characterize the client’s target process in chemical, physical and chemical engineering terms.

SpecifiedBy

Seed Round in 2015
SpecifiedBy started out as a 'CAD library' trying connect architects, designers and other specifiers with building product manufacturers using CAD models and has naturally developed into a 'Specification Library', with all the relevant data required to make a decision about a building product. They also aim to make marketing building products much easier for companies who are not particularly web-orientated, but who realise that the modern specifier is now doing their research online. The long-term goal is to make finding the best building product for a particular project, regardless of brand or reputation, as simple and quick a process as possible. To do this, they are creating online tools to connect building product manufacturers with specifiers and specifiers with other specifiers. They believe that through innovation and embracing modern technologies the construction industry can become a more open and collaborative place, to the benefit of everyone.

Belford Hoist

Seed Round in 2011
Belford Hoist

CANDDi

Seed Round in 2011
CANDDi (Campaign and Digital Intelligence) is a Newcastle and Manchester based Internet start-up. The company has pioneered a new type of web tracking software called Prospect Analytics: a technology which combines the identity and behaviour of website visitors in order to provide rich profiles of prospects to businesses. Prospect Analytics tells you who is on your website, not just how many people. Tracking visitors across time and multiple devices becomes simple. CANDDi’s software allows clients to customise interactions with their web visitors, even if they’re anonymous, based on the browsing history and identity information CANDDi collects on each visitor. CANDDi lets businesses make the right real-time interactions with prospects for the best results. For example, CANDDi sends customised automated emails via any email system you use to different web visitors fitting specified behaviour or/and identity criteria. The CANDDi USP is its ability to combine behavioural data with social profile information of online visitors. This provides insight that brings value to firms in so many unique and distinct ways. To name just a few, CANDDi enables clients to: - Follow-up warm leads they would never have known existed - Nurture existing clients by analysing their online behaviour - Up-sell, cross-sell and re-sell their offerings

Femeda

Venture Round in 2015
Femeda Ltd. develops and manufactures medical devices to treat incontinence. It offers Pelviva, a device for electro stimulation of the pelvic floor and provides a pro-active treatment of bladder leakage. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Cramlington, United Kingdom.

Molplex Ltd.

Seed Round in 2010
Molplex Ltd. specializes in delivering drug discovery on demand. It enables small drug discovery teams to design drugs, screen against the target, and order them online; and integrates drug design, compound dispensing, and screening into a single Web–based platform. The company offers online tools to develop a shortlist of compounds with right physical, chemical, and biological properties; and on demand chemistry cloud computing, assay development and screening, hit and lead finding, and lead optimization services. It also provides medicinal chemistry online with chemical searches, chemical supply, drug design, high content screening, and other preclinical drug discovery services; and assay-ready chemical compounds through its online ordering portal. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

mylearnadfriend

Seed Round in 2013
mylearnadfriend creates health and safety specific e-learning software for direct sale to businesses and organisations across all sectors. These e-learning solutions are interactive training systems; containing immersive content with integrated Health and Safety products.

Recruitment Force

Seed Round in 2014
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Femeda

Venture Round in 2016
Femeda Ltd. develops and manufactures medical devices to treat incontinence. It offers Pelviva, a device for electro stimulation of the pelvic floor and provides a pro-active treatment of bladder leakage. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Cramlington, United Kingdom.

Guroo

Venture Round in 2008
Guroo uses a mixture of on-line and off-line learning resources including videos to engage students in the learning tasks, podcasts which are great for revision, test questions to re-inforce learning and provide instant feedback and a great range of learning tasks with solutions and learning feedback, all based on real life themes.