Portfolio News

Congratulations to portfolio company, Rock Extraction, on securing £500k to help them develop their Volt rock breaking tool, a cleantech alternative to explosives used in mining. Article taken from: https://www.irishnews.com/ Pictured above: Ian Dawson, Sian McLaughlin (Clarendon Fund Managers), Mervyn McCall , and Jon Houston. LISBURN engineering company Rock Extraction has secured £500,000 funding to […]

The biotech start-up is using AI and machine learning techniques to discover new drugs, with its flagship programme tackling bovine mastitis. Articles taken from: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/ Pictured above: Anne Dornan, Stuart Gaffikin (Clarendon Fund Managers), Dermot Tierney, Ben Thomas, Chris Creevey, Peter Alexander, Jurnorain Gani and Sharon Huws. Belfast biotech start-up Amply Discovery has raised £900,000

Congratulations to one of our portfolio company Modern Democracy on securing a £700k Investment! Article from: www.insidermedia.com A Derry/Londonderry-based election software company has secured a £700,000 investment which will facilitate further growth in the UK and international markets. Modern Democracy specialises in software designed to streamline the polling process. The team developed the Modern Polling

Big congratulations to portfolio company, VascVersa Ltd, and its CEO Christina O’Neill and Chairman Aidan Courtney on recently securing an equity funding round of £500k. This funding will allow the company to accelerate the development of its product, Angicyte, which helps the body’s healing process in chronic non-healing wounds by making new blood vessels, which leads to improved

A nice article from our very own Stuart Gaffikin on the continued demand for equity funding from local businesses – we don’t see this changing as the pipeline of opportunities into quality high growth Northern Irish companies remains strong. Article from: sync.ni Demand for funding from early-stage businesses in Northern Ireland remains strong, with more than 20

Congratulations to portfolio company, Sonraí Analytics Ltd, for securing its ‘Seed Plus’ round with new lead investor Forward Partners. Exciting times ahead for this company as it seeks to reach more companies globally to translate precision medicine’s complex multi-omics data into real insights leading to better-personalised treatments for patients. Article from: sonraianalytics.com Sonrai Analytics, an emerging global

Congratulations to pitchbooking.com and their management team of Shea O’Hagan, Fearghal Campbell and Chris McCann on recently securing a £500k investment round to help boost its online sports booking service. A Belfast tech company has secured £500,000 in funding to boost its online sports booking service. Pitchbooking, a 2018 start-up run by friends Shea O’Hagan, Fearghal Campbell and Chris McCann, is a

Well done to portfolio company, B-Secur, on launching its FDA approved Heartkey® 2.0 product, which should help to power the next generation of medical and consumer devices and platforms. Article from: https://b-secur.com/press/ekg-cloud-tech-improves-accuracy-in-heart-health-monitoring/ The new cloud-based software significantly reduces EKG signal noise, elevating EKG interpretation to new heights of efficiency and accuracy for clinicians and facilitating the

Congratulations to Dr Shannon Beattie, COO of GenoME Diagnostics Ltd, on being awarded a £50k mentoring and support package from Innovate UK‘s Women in Innovation Awards! Article from: syncni.com A leading female researcher at Queen’s University commercial spin-out, GenoME Diagnostics, has won £50,000 and a mentoring and support package after being named a winner at Innovate UK’s Women

Congratulations to Overwatch Research, and their co-founders Chris Armstrong, Graham Wilsdon & Paul Wilsdon, on being acquired by ‘US giant’, Benchling. (Pictured above from left, Overwatch Research co-founders Graham Wilsdon, Chris Armstrong and Paul Wilsdon) In addition, congratulations to local HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network) investors, who invested in the company following its pitch to the HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network) network in November 2019.