Current Portfolio
KEY PORTFOLIO STATS | ||||||
21 | 3,000+ | 5 | ||||
Years of operation | Jobs created | Female-led businesses |
Enterprise Software | MATERIAL SCIENCE | ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE | ||
Worldr | XAMPLA | AEROCLOUD SYSTEMS |
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Initial Investment 2021 | INITIAL INVESTMENT 2020 | INITIAL INVESTMENT 2020 | ||
Worldr has developed both an enterprise messaging platform and a Microsoft Teams ‘wrapper’ where clients hold their own encryption keys and host their own data entirely on their own servers. This is necessary for many regulated industries where customers are handling sensitive information on a daily basis. Amount raised to date: £2.2m |
Xampla is developing the world’s first plant protein replacement for microplastics. Targeting the global $12bn microencapsulation market, the company was also the first UK university spin-out to secure B Corp accreditation. Amount raised to date: £8.2m |
Aerocloud’s mission is to become the largest global provider of operation automation software for small to medium-sized airports. Amount Raised to date: £2.7m |
ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE | MEDTECH/DIGITAL HEALTH | ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE | ||
CHATTERMILL | VINEHEALTH | VENTRATA | ||
INITIAL INVESTMENT 2016 | INITIAL INVESTMENT 2019 | INITIAL INVESTMENT 2016 | ||
Chattermill has developed a unified, customer feedback analytics platform that is already used by the likes of Zappos (owned by Amazon) and Uber to fully understand their customers’ experience at scale and in real-time. Amount raised to date: £9m |
A game-changing mobile app empowering people with cancer and transforming delivery of cancer services. Multi-award winning and acclaimed by leading global and UK healthcare and cancer care organisations. Amount Raised to Date: £5.2m |
Ventrata is an omni-channel booking and ticketing system for the leisure and attractions industry. From its launch in 2017 it now processes >£500m in sales annually for global clients including Big Bus, Paramount Studios and Carristur. Amount Raised to Date: <£1m |
CONSUMER SERVICES | INSURTECH | ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE | ||
TROUVA | KOALA INSURANCE | CONTINUUM INDUSTRIES |
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INITIAL INVESTMENT 2013 | INITIAL INVESTMENT 2020 | INITIAL INVESTMENT 2020 | ||
Trouva is European-wide eCommerce platform helping independent retailers sell their curated homeware and accessory stock online more effectively than through their own dedicated websites. Amount raised to date: £25m |
Koala’s data-driven products are reinventing travel insurance; instantly and proactively alerting travellers to disruptions and pay-outs - no forms, no exclusions, no questions asked. Amount Raised to Date: €1.6m |
Continuum Industries is developing AI-based software tools that provide a step-change reduction in both the time and the cost required to plan major infrastructure building projects. Amount Raised to Date: £4m |
EDTECH | INSURTECH | ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE | ||
ONEDAY | REPOSIT | CARELINELIVE | ||
INITIAL INVESTMENT 2020 | INITIAL INVESTMENT 2018 | INITIAL INVESTMENT 2017 | ||
OneDay (previously Dorm) is an educational platform connecting influencers, aspiring entrepreneurs and creators to a community of mentors, fellow founders and all the content and tools they need. Amount raised to date: £3.25m |
Reposit’s mission is to improve the rental experience by providing a smart, insurance-backed alternative to initial rental deposits. A service that benefits everyone involved – letting agents, landlords and tenants. Amount Raised to Date: £2m |
CareLineLive is an award-winning software platform that helps care service-providers manage thousands of carers across the UK. Their platform helps improve efficiency, capacity - and thereby profitability - in the growing but fragmented home-carer agency market. Amount Raised to Date: £3m |
MEDTECH | OUTSOURCING | Material science | ||
CONCR | VIRTUAL IT | Epoch Biodesign |
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INITIAL INVESTMENT 2021 | INITIAL INVESTMENT 2002 | Initial investment 2021 | ||
ConcR is an early-stage precision medicine platform that is helping clinicians better identify cancer treatments for particular patient groups. Amount raised to date: <£1m |
Virtual IT provides IT outsourcing services to SMEs with 5-100+ users on a ‘per seat’ basis. It addresses common inadequacies in IT support (speed, reliability, security, configuration issues) and serves a wide range of industries, with particular focus on service-oriented organisations. Amount Raised to Date: <£1m |
Epoch is a BioDesign company developing natural solutions to unnatural problems. They are developing the first enzymes capable of transforming plastics into low carbon, circular chemicals. Amount Raised to Date: £14m |
SHOPIFY AGGREGATOR | ADTECH | |||
SHOP CIRCLE | PERMUTIVE | |||
INITIAL INVESTMENT 2021 | INITIAL INVESTMENT 2013 | |||
Shop Circle is a technology-driven company that acquires and grows e-commerce businesses, with a focus on the Shopify ecosystem. The Shopify partner ecosystem market has been growing rapidly, with partners earning $12.5bn in 2020, and growing 84% year on year. In a similar way to the ‘Fulfilment By Amazon’ market, there are significant advantages - best practice and economies of scale - for the most innovative of these businesses to benefit from of being part of a larger organisation. Amount raised to date: £18m |
Permutive is an audience platform for publishers and advertisers, which enables media to be traded in a privacy-safe way. Their on-device solution allows publishers to deliver personalised ads to customers without sacrificing their consented first-party data. In November 2021 Permutive announced a $75m funding round from Softbank at a $300m valuation. Amount raised to date: £105m |