Oxford Technology Management

Oxford Technology Management is a venture capital firm established in 1983, specializing in investments in startup and early-stage technology-based businesses in the UK. The firm's management team consists of former scientists and engineers, providing a deep understanding of the technology landscape. Oxford Technology Management focuses on unlisted companies located within 60 miles of Oxford, typically investing between £100,000 and £2 million per transaction. The firm aims to construct a diverse portfolio by allocating approximately half of its funds to early-stage companies that have achieved initial sales, while the remainder is directed towards earlier-stage startups. This strategy allows the firm to maintain a hands-on management approach, leveraging its proximity to the invested companies.

David Livesley

Non-Executive Chairman

Andrea Mica

Director

137 past transactions

Dataflow Ltd

Venture Round in 2002
Dataflow Ltd has produced mid-range accountancy software since 1981, and the purpose of the initial OT1 investment in March 1998 was to launch its new 32-bit software and to market through Resellers, as well as by direct sales. However, although some progress was made sales did not take off as hoped.

Scancell

Venture Round in 2004
Scancell is developing therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases based on its ImmunoBody® and Moditope™ technology platforms. Scancell’s first cancer vaccine SCIB1 is being developed for the treatment of melanoma and is in Phase 1/2 clinical trials. Preliminary evidence from Part 1 of the study showing that SCIB1 produced an immune response which might be associated with clinical benefit in patients with malignant melanoma was released in December 2012.

Astron Clinica

Venture Round in 2001
Astron Clinica develops and distributes skin imaging solutions to dermatologists and the healthcare industry.

Select Technology

Venture Round in 1999
Select Technology is a design and engineering company, provides software solutions for the copier and multi-function device industry. It offers PaperCut MF, a print, copy, fax, and scan management solution; KPAX Manage, a print fleet management solution for resellers; Presto, which enables users to publish existing Windows print queues to iOS device; EveryonePrint, a mobile print solution; Drivve Image, a scanning software; and selectSCAN, a scanning and capture solution for employees.

Caretek Medical

Venture Round in 2003
Caretek Medical has developed a needle-free injection technology. The system comprises a hand-held spring-powered reusable actuator plus a single-use disposable cassette which houses a splinter of drug in solid form. In use, the cassette is engaged with the actuator and then pressed against the skin. This pressure further charges an internal spring and, at the critical point, the internal components are brought into alignment, releasing the spring which then causes the drug splinter to be pushed to a controlled and repeatable depth within the skin. The basic idea is covered by a number of patent applications which have recently started to grant.

Azellon Limited

Venture Round in 2015
Azellon Limited develops and commercializes a platform technology using mesenchymal stem cells infused into a biological scaffold for tissue repair. The company offers Cell Bandage, a tissue repair technology that is used in the repair of tears of the avascular (white) zone knee meniscus. Its technology combines one’s own bone marrow stem cells with a special membrane that helps to deliver the cells into the injured site. Azellon Limited was incorporated in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Azellon Limited

Seed Round in 2009
Azellon Limited develops and commercializes a platform technology using mesenchymal stem cells infused into a biological scaffold for tissue repair. The company offers Cell Bandage, a tissue repair technology that is used in the repair of tears of the avascular (white) zone knee meniscus. Its technology combines one’s own bone marrow stem cells with a special membrane that helps to deliver the cells into the injured site. Azellon Limited was incorporated in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Animal Dynamics

Private Placement in 2018
At Animal Dynamics they know that nature’s evolved designs are more efficient, elegant and powerful than anything yet built by man. However, the last decade has seen revolutions in analytical technology that allow us to evaluate high-performance animals to a previously unachievable degree, and use cutting-edge science to understand the fundamental mechanisms underlying this performance. AnDy does not simply attempt to replicate the high-performance natural designs, but marries fine-engineering skills with a deep understanding of the fundamental mechanisms, to produce revolutionary machines that will change the shape of the future, taking inspiration from their environment in order to protect it, and capable of performance beyond anything currently found in nature or engineering.

curileum discovery Ltd

Seed Round in 2020
curileum discovery Ltd develops therapeutic solutions to treat gastrointestinal diseases. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Commerce Decisions

Series B in 2003
Commerce Decisions delivers proven software – AWARD, best practice knowledge and expert services to assist sourcing projects through-life; from preparation, qualification, evaluation, negotiation to continuous supplier performance review and contract compliance. AWARD software provides a central web-based information and process & infrastructure enabling project teams to collaboratively make major contract decisions and monitor subsequent performance. It is proven to significantly increase contract value and reduce risk and used in projects totalling over £150 billion to date. AWARD is available in the UK via a number of routes, including CCS frameworks. Commerce Decisions customers include the Department for Transport, DWP, Defra, Transport for London, NHS, the UK Olympic Delivery Authority, the British Broadcasting Corporation, defence contractors and the UK and Finnish MOD.

SVA Software Ltd.

Venture Round in 2001
SVA Software has develops software solutions. SVA softwares product Codetracer, enables someone who has written a large financial model to analyse the model in a logical way that is likely to reveal errors of detail, such as a mis-typed number on page 754, or errors in commercial logic. All large projects, such as to build and operate a power station for 30 years, will use financial models to determine whether to proceed and on what terms, and £bns will be riding on the decision. Experience has shown that such models often contain errors. Codetracer helps to reduce the chance of such errors. CodeTracer has been commercially marketed since June 2002, but has still not found wide acceptance. Active marketing to end-users and development ceased in 2005 at which point the company has focused primarily on the US and European patent application process.

Water Innovate

Venture Round in 2005
By bridging the research to industry innovation gap, Water Innovate overcomes major obstacles that have existed in the water and environmental industries for too long. Water Innovate has assembled a technology pipeline that is transferring ground-breaking environmental technologies from research labs into the marketplace. Water Innovate clearly identifies and exploits routes to market by evaluating new technologies and investing significant resources in their development. A range of exciting technologies developed by leading experts in water and wastewater treatment are available. These can be viewed in our Product Datacentre by selecting the links on the left or the drop down menu on the right.

Message Missile

Seed Round in 2013
It specialises in location based marketing solutions to help brands improve customer relationships and loyalty. Founded in 2013 by Thomas Young, the company has grown strength to strength working with some of the biggest brands to name.

Naked Objects Group

Seed Round in 2006
Naked Objects Group provides Java-based application development platforms.

Inscentinel

Venture Round in 2005
Inscentinel uses the exquisitely sensitive olfactory sense of bees to detect minute concentrations of volatile compounds such as explosives, drugs, or odours that indicate disease. The bees are held in a harness and can then be trained to recognize particular scents, in much the same way that sniffer dogs can be trained. In the presence of the odour for which they have been trained, the bees have a proboscis extension reflex, and this is then picked up by a camera and its associated software that then sends a signal to an operator or simply logs the data. A US patent has been granted and other patent applications are proceeding.

Pharma Engineering Ltd

Venture Round in 2007
Pharma Engineering has developed and patented a gentle method to remove tablets and capsules from blister packs without damaging them. The pharmaceutical industry is large and manufactures billions of blister-packaged tablets. It is common for 2-6% of this manufactured product to be stopped for quality reasons relating to the packaging. Recovering these tablets so that they can be re-packaged can yield easy savings.

LabMinds

Seed Round in 2010
LabMinds Limited provides an automating solution for preparation in liquid-handling laboratories worldwide. The company offers The Revo solution preparation system that is used for the drug development process. The company's product is connected to cloud-based platform to access remotely. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom with an additional office in Somerville, Massachusetts.

MicroVisk Limited

Venture Round in 2013
MicroVisk Limited develops CoagMax, a point-of-care PT/INR monitor that provides home patient testing for an INR blood test. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

BioAnaLab Ltd.

Venture Round in 2005
BioAnaLab Ltd. is a services provider that specializes in the analysis of biologic drugs and vaccines. BioAnaLab was spun out of the University of Oxford in 2002 to meet the unique requirements of the biopharmaceutical industry. The Company helps its customers better understand the safety and efficacy of biologic drugs and vaccines by providing a broad range of services to assist with evaluating and advancing these therapeutics from the drug development pipeline to the market

MicroVisk Limited

Venture Round in 2010
MicroVisk Limited develops CoagMax, a point-of-care PT/INR monitor that provides home patient testing for an INR blood test. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Atelerix

Private Placement in 2019
Atelerix Limited provides storage and transportation of cells and tissues at room temperature. The company provides suspended cells, planted cells, and tissues. It also discovers and tests new drugs, develops cell therapies, and stores stem cells. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Inspiration Matters

Venture Round in 2005
Inspiration Matters has developed a software and hardware system to drive high quality displays such as those used in car dealerships, estate agents and banks.

Scancell

Venture Round in 1999
Scancell is developing therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases based on its ImmunoBody® and Moditope™ technology platforms. Scancell’s first cancer vaccine SCIB1 is being developed for the treatment of melanoma and is in Phase 1/2 clinical trials. Preliminary evidence from Part 1 of the study showing that SCIB1 produced an immune response which might be associated with clinical benefit in patients with malignant melanoma was released in December 2012.

Electrowinning Technologies

Seed Round in 2017
Electrowinning Technologies has a method for controlling the very large currents which are used in metal winning operations. By controlling these currents, electrowinning plants would improve both the quality and the quantity of the metals produced and would also reduce energy consumption. There are also applications in electrorefining, the main copper refining method used in Europe.

Impact Applications Ltd.

Venture Round in 2005
Impact Applications Ltd has specializes in providing software to support mobile applications in a variety of industry sectors.

Abgentis

Seed Round in 2014
Abgentis Limited develops IV/oral antibacterial products to treat acute and chronic, life-threatening and drug-resistant infections. It focuses on re-engineering Abgentis, a previously marketed antibacterial by deploying a unique insight into the structure-activity relationships, microbiology, pharmacology, and efficacy of antibacterial DNA supercoiling inhibitors. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Abingdon, United Kingdom.

Incentec Ltd

Venture Round in 2006
Incentec Ltd has been developing a predictive diagnostic for pre-eclampsia, a poorly defined condition affecting approximately 6% of first pregnancies. The causes of pre-eclampsia are unknown, although a failure in placental development is thought to be a factor. There is no diagnostic test currently in use and at the moment, at-risk patients (or suspected cases of pre-eclampsia) are monitored and treated on the basis of observable and developing clinical symptoms.

Wright Fenn

Venture Round in 2005
Wright Fenn provides medicine pills are manufactured and packaged in blister packs. For many patients, such as those in residential or care homes, hospitals or other institutions, these pills are repackaged by the pharmacy into dosage specific monthly packs to save nursing time and reduce dosage errors. Pharmaceutical licenses typically specify the form of the packaging and so it is expensive for the manufacturers to make and package pills in bulk form for pharmacies to repackage them into dosage specific packs. During 2003, pharmacists in the UK alone deblistered and repackaged approximately 70 million packs of pills ' mostly by hand. The number of patients requiring these patient specific packs is increasing each year at about 10-15%.

Acunu

Series A in 2011
Acunu Analytics offers a platform for low-latency, continuous analytics on big data; powering dashboards and embedded applications to monitor and control environments in manufacturing, telecommunications, media, financial services and other industries where high-velocity data must be analysed in real time. The Cassandra NoSQL database is at the core of the Acunu offering and Acunu is a very engaged Cassandra contributor donating many of its innovations back to the community. Acunu was founded in 2009 and is backed by some of Europe’s top VC funds. Started by a unique mix of researchers and engineers from Cambridge and Oxford Universities, Acunu has offices in London (near Old Street, London’s “Silicon Roundabout”) and California.

Metal Nanopowders Ltd

Seed Round in 2002
Metal Nanopowders Limited is a spinout company from the University of Birmingham. The company specializes in the production and development of nanopowders in both small and large quantities from a range of materials including metal, oxide, nitride, and carbide with exceptional purity and physical properties using our patented process.

Inaplex

Venture Round in 2001
Provider of a technology platform intended to be used for customer data integration. The company's technology platform offers Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and enterprise integration services, enabling businesses to avail code-free integration and migration tools to make fully informed business decisions.

Hardide Coatings

Venture Round in 2004
Hardide plc manufactures and sells tungsten carbide-based coatings for external and internal surfaces in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, and internationally. The company offers custom coatings; and base material coatings for various steel and alloy materials, as well as coatings for seals. It provides its products for use in various industries and applications, including oil and gas, aerospace, valves, pumps, industrial diamond, power generation, motorsport, material processing, industrial tooling, and blades. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Bicester, the United Kingdom.

Azellon Limited

Venture Round in 2011
Azellon Limited develops and commercializes a platform technology using mesenchymal stem cells infused into a biological scaffold for tissue repair. The company offers Cell Bandage, a tissue repair technology that is used in the repair of tears of the avascular (white) zone knee meniscus. Its technology combines one’s own bone marrow stem cells with a special membrane that helps to deliver the cells into the injured site. Azellon Limited was incorporated in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

The IFM Company

Venture Round in 2002
The IFM Company develops and manufactures Illuminated Flexible Membrane.

Lightpoint Medical

Private Placement in 2018
Lightpoint Medical, Ltd., a medical device company, develops imaging technologies for cancer surgery. It develops Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging technology that detects cancer in real-time during surgery, and reduces the likelihood of cancer recurrence and the need for reoperation. Lightpoint Medical, Ltd. was formerly known as Artemis Diagnostics Ltd. and changed its name to Lightpoint Medical, Ltd. in January 2013. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Rickmansworth, United Kingdom.

ActiveNeedle

Seed Round in 2016
Active Needle Technology is an early-stage innovative medical device company dedicated to transforming treatment pathways through accurate image-guided interventional radiology. The company has a proprietary medical device platform technology for the accurate imaging and placement of needles in vivo. The technology represents a significant improvement over currently available technologies benefiting patients, clinicians and health-care providers.

Diamond Hard Surfaces

Venture Round in 2005
Diamond Hard Surfaces has developed a process to create amorphous diamond-like carbon coatings at lower temperatures (<50oC) and in thicker layers (up to 20 microns) than existing processes. Diamond Hard Surfaces coatings have the extreme surface characteristics of diamond such as low coefficient of friction and excellent wear properties. In addition, carbon is inert to almost everything and so is an excellent barrier against chemical corrosion.

Molecular Warehouse

Seed Round in 2016
Molecular Warehouse Ltd. develops proteins for diagnostics and therapeutics. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Twickenham, United Kingdom.

Acunu

Seed Round in 2009
Acunu Analytics offers a platform for low-latency, continuous analytics on big data; powering dashboards and embedded applications to monitor and control environments in manufacturing, telecommunications, media, financial services and other industries where high-velocity data must be analysed in real time. The Cassandra NoSQL database is at the core of the Acunu offering and Acunu is a very engaged Cassandra contributor donating many of its innovations back to the community. Acunu was founded in 2009 and is backed by some of Europe’s top VC funds. Started by a unique mix of researchers and engineers from Cambridge and Oxford Universities, Acunu has offices in London (near Old Street, London’s “Silicon Roundabout”) and California.

Inaplex

Venture Round in 2003
Provider of a technology platform intended to be used for customer data integration. The company's technology platform offers Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and enterprise integration services, enabling businesses to avail code-free integration and migration tools to make fully informed business decisions.

Prolysis

Seed Round in 2001
Prolysis is an antibacterial drug discovery and development company based in Oxford, UK. We are focused on creating new antibacterial drugs that are urgently needed to treat hospital-acquired and community-associated infections.

Oxis Energy

Seed Round in 2000
OXIS Energy Limited manufactures sulphur polymer rechargeable batteries. It develops technology around sulfur based cathode materials, highly stable electrolyte systems, and anode made of lithium metal and intercalation materials. The company offers stable cathode and electrolyte systems which are optimized for performance with different anodes including lithium-metal. Its products include cell components, standard pouch cells, customized cells, and batteries. The company was formerly known as Intellikraft Limited and changed its name to Oxis Energy Limited in July 2005. OXIS Energy Limited was founded in 2000 and is based in Abingdon, United Kingdom.

Gripable

Seed Round in 2021
Gripable is develops simple digital therapy tools, combining them with mobile games, motivating physically impaired patients. GripAble began during our research with stroke patients struggling to use their hands for simple activities. Everyday tasks - getting dressed in the morning, holding a glass of water - are a huge frustration for them. This is the reality for over 500 million people around the world suffering with impaired arm mobility. These patients need, and want, more therapy. GripAble's first product is a highly sensitive, portable hand-grip that connects wirelessly with a mobile-based app, allowing patients to play our fun therapy games. It is designed for low-cost, easy-access assessment and therapy of hand and arm disability, providing increased engagement and allowing for self-training in hospitals and at home.

Run3D

Seed Round in 2013
Run3D Limited operates clinics that provide musculoskeletal assessment to overcome persistent injuries. The company’s services include three-dimensional (3D) gait analysis for running injuries, biomechanical issues performance, triathletes, choosing footwear, and new runners. The company offers 3D gait analysis to identify underlying issues and to identify underlying issues. It offers services through its clinics in Surrey, Essex, Basingstoke, London, and Oxford, United Kingdom; and Dublin, Ireland. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Witney, United Kingdom.

Combat Medical

Seed Round in 2013
Combat Medical are a Spanish company that have developed a new treatment for bladder cancer, and are planning to start the business in the UK. The current treatment for bladder cancer involves surgery to cut the tumours out. This treatment results in a 78% recurrence rate, and so calls for more and more surgery. Combat Medical's treatment involves heating up chemotherapy chemicals and circulating them around the bladder. It currently boasts a recurrence rate of less than 20% - a marked improvement. It also offers great cost savings, as there is less of a chance of having to perform additional surgeries.

Ducentis BioTherapeutics

Seed Round in 2015
Ducentis is a pre-clinical stage company aiming to develop novel therapies for inflammation and autoimmune disease. Our target is the CD200/CD200R axis which imparts a deactivating signal to activated immune cells in both the innate and adaptive arms of the immune system. Potential therapeutic targets include transplant rejection and autoimmune and inflammatory disease affecting the lung, liver, kidney, eye, bone and cartilage.

Ibexis Technologies

Seed Round in 2013
IBEXIS TECHNOLOGIES is a leading provider of innovative sensory networking, remote data acquisition, monitoring and control products, systems and solutions. We have clients in a variety of industries including the Environmental, Building and Construction, Energy and Industrial sectors and they utilise our expertise to: Increase Customer Satisfaction Levels Significantly Reduce Operational Costs Improve Health and Safety in the Work Place Lower their Organisation’s Carbon Footprint Execute their CSR Strategies Ensure Regulatory Compliance Capable of supporting a variety of lead industry specific protocols, our solutions are used to remotely monitor and control industrial equipment (e.g. HMI’s and PLCs), sensors, probes as well as management and supervisory systems. Having an open systems approach enables our solutions to not only readily integrate into existing customer environments, but also extends (and often enhances) the capability of on-site systems to remote users who can securely access, control and monitor such systems using their laptop or smart device and also receive any relevant warnings and alerts. Our product and services portfolio is comprised of our IM SERIES Hardware and Systems product range, Enterprise Monitoring Software Suite, Managed Services, System Integration Services and Hardware and Software Product Development expertise.

Coralfoam

Venture Round in 2002
Coralfoam has developed a novel process for producing plastic moulded components in which part of the component is solid and part is foamed.

Gripable

Seed Round in 2017
Gripable is develops simple digital therapy tools, combining them with mobile games, motivating physically impaired patients. GripAble began during our research with stroke patients struggling to use their hands for simple activities. Everyday tasks - getting dressed in the morning, holding a glass of water - are a huge frustration for them. This is the reality for over 500 million people around the world suffering with impaired arm mobility. These patients need, and want, more therapy. GripAble's first product is a highly sensitive, portable hand-grip that connects wirelessly with a mobile-based app, allowing patients to play our fun therapy games. It is designed for low-cost, easy-access assessment and therapy of hand and arm disability, providing increased engagement and allowing for self-training in hospitals and at home.

Acunu

Venture Round in 2012
Acunu Analytics offers a platform for low-latency, continuous analytics on big data; powering dashboards and embedded applications to monitor and control environments in manufacturing, telecommunications, media, financial services and other industries where high-velocity data must be analysed in real time. The Cassandra NoSQL database is at the core of the Acunu offering and Acunu is a very engaged Cassandra contributor donating many of its innovations back to the community. Acunu was founded in 2009 and is backed by some of Europe’s top VC funds. Started by a unique mix of researchers and engineers from Cambridge and Oxford Universities, Acunu has offices in London (near Old Street, London’s “Silicon Roundabout”) and California.

Historic Futures

Venture Round in 2007
Historic Futures Ltd designs and develops supply-chain traceability solutions. It offers String3, an online platform for business networks to manage and share product and process information ranging from raw material to finished product and pinpoints the areas with highest risk where they should focus for solutions. The company’s String connects organizations to their supply chains, enabling them to receive and send complete and accurate traceability information, file attachments and detailed risk reports relating to any type of product on one universal platform. Historic Futures Ltd was founded in 2003 and is based in Witney, United Kingdom.

Metal Powder & Process

Seed Round in 2013
Metal Powders & Process is seeking to build an atomiser that will produce metal powders is high volumes, with no impurities. The hope is that this will allow more industries to begin using metal powders to craft their components. Currently, contaminants in metal powders cause weak points in components, which are negligible for most purposes, but unusable under high stress in environments such as Aerospace.

Innovative Materials Processing Technologies

Seed Round in 2000
Innovative Materials Processing Technologies is able to create thin or thick films of numerous material types on a variety of substrates.

SIME

Seed Round in 2014
Sime Diagnostics Ltd develops a neonatal Artificial Intelligence (AI) based software that delivers decisive data-driven results, discovers new disease biomarkers, and curates datasets based on data stored in a patient’s biological fingerprint. The company through its platform provides neonatal Lung Maturity Test (LMT), an AI data-tool that predicts Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS) and helps prevent morbidity and mortality in premature babies. Sime Diagnostics Ltd was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Scancell

Venture Round in 2005
Scancell is developing therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases based on its ImmunoBody® and Moditope™ technology platforms. Scancell’s first cancer vaccine SCIB1 is being developed for the treatment of melanoma and is in Phase 1/2 clinical trials. Preliminary evidence from Part 1 of the study showing that SCIB1 produced an immune response which might be associated with clinical benefit in patients with malignant melanoma was released in December 2012.

Glide Pharmaceutical

Venture Round in 2007
Glide Pharmaceutical Technologies is a clinical stage development company that focuses on solid dose formulations of therapeutics and vaccines. The company develops SDI, a solid dose injector system to improve compliance in patients self-administering long term therapy. Its pipeline of solid dose formulations includes octreotide, teriparatide, and anthrax and influenza vaccines. Glide Pharmaceutical Technologies was formerly known as Caretek Medical.

Telegesis

Venture Round in 2003
Telegesis is a supplier of wireless mesh networking modules based on Silicon Labs' technology

Atelerix

Seed Round in 2018
Atelerix Limited provides storage and transportation of cells and tissues at room temperature. The company provides suspended cells, planted cells, and tissues. It also discovers and tests new drugs, develops cell therapies, and stores stem cells. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

The Smarter Food Company Ltd

Private Placement in 2019
The Smarter Food Company Ltd engages in producing processed food to normalize and maintain blood sugar levels in individuals. It offers soup using broccoli ingredients. The Company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Norwich, United Kingdom.

Ciphergrid

Seed Round in 2001
Ciphergrid Ltd (previously Cipherware Ltd) has developed what it believes is a unique data access technology that, in its simplest form, enables enterprise applications (e.g. ERP, CRM, or stand alone applications such as MS Excel) to perform transactions with multiple, disparate, remote databases across the Internet in the same way (speed, functionality, security) as if the databases were local. Ciphergrid's uniqueness lies in the fact that it offers a reliably high transactional speed, that it is a 'plug & play' solution and that it offers significantly lower total cost of ownership than any alternative. Its built-in data encryption and security control mechanisms allow the use of the Internet instead of expensive, non scaleable, leased lines.

Commerce Decisions

Series A in 2001
Commerce Decisions delivers proven software – AWARD, best practice knowledge and expert services to assist sourcing projects through-life; from preparation, qualification, evaluation, negotiation to continuous supplier performance review and contract compliance. AWARD software provides a central web-based information and process & infrastructure enabling project teams to collaboratively make major contract decisions and monitor subsequent performance. It is proven to significantly increase contract value and reduce risk and used in projects totalling over £150 billion to date. AWARD is available in the UK via a number of routes, including CCS frameworks. Commerce Decisions customers include the Department for Transport, DWP, Defra, Transport for London, NHS, the UK Olympic Delivery Authority, the British Broadcasting Corporation, defence contractors and the UK and Finnish MOD.

Warwick Effect Polymers

Venture Round in 2009
Warwick Effect Polymers Limited manufactures and markets complex polymers using living controlled radical polymerization.

Oxwash

Seed Round in 2020
Oxwash operates as a laundry startup. Oxwash is re-engineering the laundry process from the ground up; our aim is for clinically-clean, net zero carbon emissions for the whole process, from collection, through washing and back to delivery.

Coralfoam

Venture Round in 1999
Coralfoam has developed a novel process for producing plastic moulded components in which part of the component is solid and part is foamed.

Usentric

Venture Round in 2006
Usentric develops online proxy solution for brands in the retail, financial services and telecommunication industries. The company's products and services include secure payment online solutions, email protection, and secure ID. It is based in Sutton, U.K.

Biocote

Venture Round in 1997
Biocote has successfully integrated antimicrobial technology into a broad range of product applications.We partner with global businesses to create distinctive, high value products that are verified resistant to the adverse effects of microbes such as bacteria and mould.

Power Oleds

Seed Round in 2013
Organic LED (OLED) displays represent the most promising new display technology to have emerged in the past 20 years; more efficient, powerful and cleaner than the prevailing LED, LCD and Plasma standards. OLEDs offer enhanced performance in terms of response time, viewing angle, contrast ratio and flexibility, and environmental advantages, with low power consumption, fewer materials, longer lifetime and no requirement for a backlight to drive them. Power OLEDs is at the forefront of developing world-class, high performance hole transporters, electron transporters, electron injectors, host and emitters for selected global manufacturers. Led by a strong team with over 60 years combined experience in the OLED space, the company holds a wide IP estate and a strong pipeline of new materials.

Prosurgics

Seed Round in 1998
Prosurgics has designs, manufactures and supplies surgical robots. Prosurgics works with surgeons throughout the world to provide improved surgical outcomes. Our robotic solutions enable more accurate, less invasive surgical approaches. Through a better understanding of our customers’ needs we assist them in providing better outcomes for their patients, and make the most effective use of valuable healthcare resources.

Lightpoint Medical

Seed Round in 2013
Lightpoint Medical, Ltd., a medical device company, develops imaging technologies for cancer surgery. It develops Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging technology that detects cancer in real-time during surgery, and reduces the likelihood of cancer recurrence and the need for reoperation. Lightpoint Medical, Ltd. was formerly known as Artemis Diagnostics Ltd. and changed its name to Lightpoint Medical, Ltd. in January 2013. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Rickmansworth, United Kingdom.

Ciphergrid

Seed Round in 2003
Ciphergrid Ltd (previously Cipherware Ltd) has developed what it believes is a unique data access technology that, in its simplest form, enables enterprise applications (e.g. ERP, CRM, or stand alone applications such as MS Excel) to perform transactions with multiple, disparate, remote databases across the Internet in the same way (speed, functionality, security) as if the databases were local. Ciphergrid's uniqueness lies in the fact that it offers a reliably high transactional speed, that it is a 'plug & play' solution and that it offers significantly lower total cost of ownership than any alternative. Its built-in data encryption and security control mechanisms allow the use of the Internet instead of expensive, non scaleable, leased lines.

Membrane Extraction Technology

Seed Round in 1998
Membrane Extraction Technology is a London-based chemical separations specialist supplying the pharmaceutical and fine chemicals industries.

Glide Pharmaceutical

Venture Round in 2005
Glide Pharmaceutical Technologies is a clinical stage development company that focuses on solid dose formulations of therapeutics and vaccines. The company develops SDI, a solid dose injector system to improve compliance in patients self-administering long term therapy. Its pipeline of solid dose formulations includes octreotide, teriparatide, and anthrax and influenza vaccines. Glide Pharmaceutical Technologies was formerly known as Caretek Medical.

Reviver Technologies

Seed Round in 2003
ReviveR Technologies Limited, (formerly known as PC Help Centre) is a UK based research and development company, which specialises in designing intelligent remote diagnostic tools for use within mission-critical PCs, servers and manufacturing control equipment. Today, ReviveR Technologies offer affordable diagnostic tools that provide advanced, yet simplified secure remote access, monitor and control management for mission-critical equipment 24/7/365. The essence of the technology is that a board or chip resides in a PC or server and reports back over the internet on the detailed status of the PC. If a fault develops, the fault is reported. If it cant be corrected remotely as is often possible with software faults, then an engineer is able to arrive with the necessary hardware module so that the fault may be fixed at a single visit.

Message Missile

Seed Round in 2014
It specialises in location based marketing solutions to help brands improve customer relationships and loyalty. Founded in 2013 by Thomas Young, the company has grown strength to strength working with some of the biggest brands to name.

Im-Pak Technologies

Seed Round in 2003
The Im-Pak technology has now been successfully demonstrated on three moulds, a water cup, a paint-can, and on a mould for a pre-form for PET bottles. In January 2006, Im-Pak agreed heads of terms by which a public company will take a licence for the Im-Pak process for use in certain market areas. At the time of writing, the deal has reached draft legal contract stage, and it is expected that the deal will be concluded in May. Im-Pak will receive both regular monthly payments, as advance royalties, plus two lump-sum payments, and will share in royalties generated by licensing the technology round the world. Im-Pak will continue to develop the technology for other applications.

Meciria

Venture Round in 2008
Meciria develops an oil well drilling tool for the oil industry.

Sasets.com

Seed Round in 2014
Sasets Ltd. operates Sasets.com, a Software as a Service mobile asset management and logistics platform. The company’s platform helps users in projects management, asset lifecycle management, staff rostering, health and safety automation, smart reporting, contract/site management, customer relationship management, and controlling and sharing documents. Sasets Ltd. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Henley on Thames, United Kingdom.

OrganOx

Series A in 2008
OrganOx Limited develops device known as Metra to store livers outside the body at normal body temperature. It engages in the research and study for test and transplant of livers. The company’s products are used to preserve the livers before transplantations. OrganOx Limited was incorporated in 2008 and is based in the Oxford, United Kingdom.

Concurrent Thinking

Venture Round in 2003
Concurrent Thinking is based in Warwick, UK, and has a long heritage in the design and implementation of large-scale computing infrastructures and software for High Performance Computing. Our background provides us with a unique perspective on holistic approaches for system management and the design of scalable computing products that can meet the requirements of the next-generation data centre.

Lightpoint Medical

Series C in 2021
Lightpoint Medical, Ltd., a medical device company, develops imaging technologies for cancer surgery. It develops Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging technology that detects cancer in real-time during surgery, and reduces the likelihood of cancer recurrence and the need for reoperation. Lightpoint Medical, Ltd. was formerly known as Artemis Diagnostics Ltd. and changed its name to Lightpoint Medical, Ltd. in January 2013. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Rickmansworth, United Kingdom.

MicroVisk Limited

Venture Round in 2010
MicroVisk Limited develops CoagMax, a point-of-care PT/INR monitor that provides home patient testing for an INR blood test. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

OxSonics Limited

Series B in 2017
OxSonics Limited develops and commercializes SonoTran, an oncological drug delivery platform and injectable sono-sensitive particles. Its SonoTran drug delivery platform delivers drugs throughout tumours, including to the areas that lie furthest from blood vessels. The company also develops a pipeline of therapies for the treatment of solid tumours, mCRC, and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. OxSonics Limited was founded in 2013 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

MicroVisk Limited

Series C in 2011
MicroVisk Limited develops CoagMax, a point-of-care PT/INR monitor that provides home patient testing for an INR blood test. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Oxtox

Series A in 2006
Oxtox is developing Drugsensorâ„¢, a device that uses novel and cost-effective technology to rapidly detect whether a person is currently 'under the influence' of specific drugs, all with a minimum of inconvenience.

Invro

Seed Round in 2004
Invro Limited operates as an electronic engineering company. The company focuses on the management of electrical energy by electronic means. It offers single earpiece radios, radio receiver sets, and FM radios. The company also provides high voltage power supplies for scientific and industrial applications; and instrumentation for power electronics applications. Invro Limited was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Bristol, the United Kingdom.

Dataflow Ltd

Venture Round in 1998
Dataflow Ltd has produced mid-range accountancy software since 1981, and the purpose of the initial OT1 investment in March 1998 was to launch its new 32-bit software and to market through Resellers, as well as by direct sales. However, although some progress was made sales did not take off as hoped.

Bodle Technologies

Series A in 2018
Bodle Technologies Limited provides advanced optoelectronic solutions for displays and smart windows. It offers zero-power reflective displays that are bi-stable reflective displays with ultra-high resolution; smart windows; and security coatings that change color under mechanical, optical or electrical probing techniques that result in unbreakable security features in currencies, ID cards, and official documentation. Its reflective displays are used in wearables, near-eye, and projection based displays. Bodle Technologies Limited was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Begbroke, United Kingdom.

MitoRx Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2022
MitoRx Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing novel therapeutics that reverse mitochondrial dysfunction.

Glide Pharmaceutical

Series D in 2010
Glide Pharmaceutical Technologies is a clinical stage development company that focuses on solid dose formulations of therapeutics and vaccines. The company develops SDI, a solid dose injector system to improve compliance in patients self-administering long term therapy. Its pipeline of solid dose formulations includes octreotide, teriparatide, and anthrax and influenza vaccines. Glide Pharmaceutical Technologies was formerly known as Caretek Medical.

Lupe Technology Limited

Seed Round in 2016
Lupe Technology is a new consumer technology brand designed to take cordless vacuum cleaning suction power and endurance to the next level. They intend to re-invest profits into a growing market share in the floorcare sector, as well as developing products in new verticals to establish the brand. The patented suction intensifier delivers the useful suction of any cordless out there. Through hundreds of prototypes, they honed its proprietary technology to deliver the highest performance possible and file their Patents. Lupe Technology was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Imagineer Systems

Venture Round in 2006
Imagineer Systems Limited offers research, development, and marketing services for visual effects solutions in film, video, and broadcast post production. Its products include monet, a tracking and compositing toolset and mokey, a toolset for removing wires, rigs, logos, scratches, and hairs for commercial, film, and corporate video post production. Additionally, the company provides mocha, a 2D tracking and rotoscoping tool that generates position, scale, rotation, shear, and perspective matched tracks for special effects in film and video production. Imagineer Systems also offers virtual product placement, lens distortion correction, noise reduction, grain management, and keying tools. Imagineer Systems Limited was founded in 2000 and is based in Guildford, United Kingdom.

Equitalk

Seed Round in 2000
Equitalk operates as a specialist landline telecom company. It offers phone services, such as landline savings plans, mobile calls, local and national rate services, and international landline calls. The company also provides broadband services, including high speed Internet access services.

Select Technology

Venture Round in 2011
Select Technology is a design and engineering company, provides software solutions for the copier and multi-function device industry. It offers PaperCut MF, a print, copy, fax, and scan management solution; KPAX Manage, a print fleet management solution for resellers; Presto, which enables users to publish existing Windows print queues to iOS device; EveryonePrint, a mobile print solution; Drivve Image, a scanning software; and selectSCAN, a scanning and capture solution for employees.

Inscentinel

Seed Round in 2003
Inscentinel uses the exquisitely sensitive olfactory sense of bees to detect minute concentrations of volatile compounds such as explosives, drugs, or odours that indicate disease. The bees are held in a harness and can then be trained to recognize particular scents, in much the same way that sniffer dogs can be trained. In the presence of the odour for which they have been trained, the bees have a proboscis extension reflex, and this is then picked up by a camera and its associated software that then sends a signal to an operator or simply logs the data. A US patent has been granted and other patent applications are proceeding.

Kinomi

Seed Round in 2005
Kinomi provides a better way of automatically archiving and indexing email, both by subject matter, sender and receiver groups, and by reading content, which then enables people and organisations to retrieve relevant emails much more easily, if ever they are needed at some point in the future.

Message Missile

Seed Round in 2013
It specialises in location based marketing solutions to help brands improve customer relationships and loyalty. Founded in 2013 by Thomas Young, the company has grown strength to strength working with some of the biggest brands to name.