UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund

The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund is backed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Fund’s partners are 9 publicly funded research bodies, including STFC, BBSRC, NERC and Dstl. The Fund is independently managed by venture capital specialist Midven. They help build companies from great science developed in laboratories, science and technology campuses and synthetic biology. They hold investments in some of the UK’s most innovative companies, in areas as diverse as novel antibiotics, research into Alzheimer’s disease, “green” chemicals and airport security.

White, Richard Kelvin Mark

Investment Director

Past deals in Laser

MIRICO

Funding Round in 2022
MIRICO Ltd. is a UK-based laser spectroscopy instrumentation company formed in 2015 as a spin-out from the Science and Technology Facilities Council. The technology underpinning MIRICO was developed by the RAL Space Laser Spectroscopy Team, led by Dr. Damien Weidmann. The laser spectroscopy team consists of 8 senior scientists who carry out cutting edge research and development. Over the years they have developed a range of spectroscopy techniques that overcome the major downfalls of current technologies. The company was formed to commercialise and take these technologies to market.

Vector Photonics

Seed Round in 2021
Vector Photonics is a spin-out company from the University of Glasgow and is based in Glasgow, Scotland, one of the UK and world’s Optical and Photonics centres of excellence.

MIRICO

Venture Round in 2018
MIRICO Ltd. is a UK-based laser spectroscopy instrumentation company formed in 2015 as a spin-out from the Science and Technology Facilities Council. The technology underpinning MIRICO was developed by the RAL Space Laser Spectroscopy Team, led by Dr. Damien Weidmann. The laser spectroscopy team consists of 8 senior scientists who carry out cutting edge research and development. Over the years they have developed a range of spectroscopy techniques that overcome the major downfalls of current technologies. The company was formed to commercialise and take these technologies to market.

MIRICO

Seed Round in 2016
MIRICO Ltd. is a UK-based laser spectroscopy instrumentation company formed in 2015 as a spin-out from the Science and Technology Facilities Council. The technology underpinning MIRICO was developed by the RAL Space Laser Spectroscopy Team, led by Dr. Damien Weidmann. The laser spectroscopy team consists of 8 senior scientists who carry out cutting edge research and development. Over the years they have developed a range of spectroscopy techniques that overcome the major downfalls of current technologies. The company was formed to commercialise and take these technologies to market.

Agilent Raman Spectroscopy

Seed Round in 2008
Agilent Raman Spectroscopy’s proprietary technologies use novel variants of Raman spectroscopy. Their instruments can rapidly and accurately identify materials hidden inside objects or through opaque barriers such as plastic, coloured glass, paper and skin, or can measure the concentrations of materials in mixtures, with a high degree of accuracy. Agilent Raman Spectroscopy is formerly known as Cobalt Light Systems and is part of Agilent.