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Description£50million Tech focused VC Fund

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NESTA Investments £50M

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London, GBR
NESTA Investments
1 Plough Place
London, EC4A 1DE, GBR

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NESTA Investments

£50million Venture Capital fund focused on early stage technology companies in Digital / Software, Hardware / microelectronics, Lifesciences and Cleantech.

NESTA is a genuinely unique Venture Capitalist with a privileged position at the heart of the UK Investment scene. Our £50million evergreen fund allows us to work with teams and portfolio companies to build a close, supportive relationship over a number of years.

Our team brings a host of expertise and support to our portfolio companies ranging from access to our Investment Committee chaired by Mike Lynch (Founder and Chief Exec of Autonomy), to support from our Venture Partners and connections to NESTA’s wider contacts, events and research.

We have co-invested with virtually every major UK based Venture Fund and have made investments in five funds giving us an exceptional reach in to sources of further funding and the wider expertise of the Venture Capital community.

Our house style is to align interests and build great companies so we aim to work with teams to build a close supportive relationship over a number of years.

Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
CellNovo 2/11Series B£30M8
Light Blue Optics 10/10Series A$13M6
eoSemi 6/10Unattributed$4.49M4
BaseKit Platform 6/10Unattributed$2.6M2
Aquapharm Biodiscovery 4/10Series C$6.4M4
Veryan Medical 4/10Series B$5.4M4
Skimlinks 12/09Series A$1.5M3
Light Blue Optics 7/09Series A$15M5
Skimlinks 2/09Unattributed$1.02M3
Camrivox 2/09Unattributed2
MMIC Solutions 5/08Series A$5.25M4
Micrima 4/08Unattributed$3.99M3
Gnodal 4/08Seed$2.19M2
ProVision Communications 1/08Seed$1.46M3
Light Blue Optics 10/07Series A$26M4
Aquapharm Biodiscovery 7/07Series B£4M5
Symetrica 5/07Series C$1.2M5
MMIC Solutions 10/06Seed£1M3
Light Blue Optics 7/06Unattributed$3.5M3
Micrima 3/06Unattributed£475k3
Symetrica 10/05Series B$420k2
Water Innovate 6/05Unattributed$1.02M4
Tideway 12/02Seed3

Videos

Sources

  1. www.nesta.org.uk/investments (nesta.org.uk) [edit]
  2. CELLNOVO SECURES £30 MILLION IN SERIES B FINANCING (cellnovo.com) [edit]
  3. Light Blue Optics raises US$13 million to realise growing list of new applications for Light Touchâ„¢ (lightblueoptics.com) [edit]
  4. Funding Round For EoSemi (growthbusiness.co.uk) [edit]
  5. BaseKit Attracts $2.6 Million To Turn Images In To Websites (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  6. Aquapharm Biodiscovery, Ltd.: Series C $6.4M (coursework.stanford.edu) [edit]
  7. Veryan Holdings, Ltd.: Series B $5.4M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
  8. Affiliate marketing platform Skimlinks secures $1.5M Series A funding (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Light Blue Optics Raises US$15 Million in Series ‘A’ Extension (freshnews.com) [edit]
  10. Skimlinks secures first round investment (uk.techcrunch.com) [edit]
  11. Camrivox secures new venture funding to accelerate delivery of fixed and mobile Unified Communications (UC) applications (camrivox.com) [edit]
  12. Cap Funding Report [edit]
  13. Capital Funding Report [edit]
  14. Capital Funding Report [edit]
  15. ProVision Communications Secures Venture Capital Funding for a Bright Future in Wireless Video (businesswire.com) [edit]
  16. lightblueoptics.com [edit]
  17. Aquapharm Secures Second Round Investment of £4M (talentscotland.com) [edit]
  18. Cap Funding Report [edit]
  19. MMIC Solutions secures £1M Seed Round Funding (mmicsolutions.com) [edit]
  20. Cap Funding Report [edit]
  21. Micrima secures £475k from VC syndicate (unquote.com) [edit]
  22. Cap funding Report [edit]
  23. Cap Funding Report [edit]
  24. Tideway Investor Information (tideway.com) [edit]
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