Portfolio News

B-Secur collaborates with Texas Instruments

Congratulations to our portfolio company, B-Secur, on securing a key strategic partnership and collaboration with Texas Instruments. This collaboration will help provide high-performing sensing capabilities for wearable devices, like premium smartwatches and Wi-Fi-connected optical heart-rate monitors, and enables advanced features for identification, wellness and health monitoring in next generation IOT devices.  From B-Secur.com Belfast, Northern […]

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Cookstown firm Decom Engineering signs foreign deals after investment

Well done to Sean Conway and the rest of the DECOM Engineering team on securing new business wins in Germany, Holland and Malaysia. This comes after the company has invested over £700k in research and development to speed up its decommissioning of old oil and gas plants. From The Belfast Telegraph: A Co Tyrone engineering

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Belfast’s GenoMe raises £300,000 for its ovarian cancer test

Congratulations to our new portfolio company, GenoME Diagnostics Ltd, on securing a £300k seed round. This investment will help the company develop its award winning ovarian cancer diagnostic! Great to partner with QUBIS Ltd and Deepbridge Capital in the round. Congratulations to the whole team! From Silicon Republic: The medtech start-up said its blood test

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Belfast’s VascVersa raises funding round for its cell therapy

Congratulations to our new portfolio company, VascVersa Ltd, and it’s CEO, Christina O’Neill, for securing its first round of investment. Lots of hard work ahead now on disrupting the vascular regeneration space! Great to see HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network) investors and QUBIS Ltd participating too! From Silicon Republic: The medtech start-up, spun out from

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Cumulus Neuroscience Announces £6 million Funding Round Led by the Dementia Discovery Fundand joinedby LifeArc and UK Future Fund

Congratulations to our portfolio company, Cumulus Neuroscience, on securing a £6m investment from industry specialists to help further accelerate the development of its central nervous system therapies. Cumulus Neuroscience (Cumulus, The Company), formerly known as BrainWaveBank, announces a £6m financing round led by the Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF) joined by LifeArc, a medical research charity,

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Irish inventors aim to make self-insulating clip a staple for electricians

A nice write up in the The Irish Times for our portfolio company, GRAYS CLIP LIMITED – the article gives some really insightful background to Julie Gray and David Gray’s entrepreneurial story and how they intend to make their self-insulating product, ViperClip, the staple choice for electricians. Well worth a read! From the Irish Times

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FURTHER.SPACE secures £1.25 million investment from Foresight.

Congratulations to our portfolio company,FURTHER.SPACE, for securing a £1.25m investment from Foresight Group. This investment will help the company’s senior management team to scale the business through additional hires in the business development team and to increase the pace of pod manufacture. From Insider Media Limited: “Infrastructure and private equity investment manager Foresight Group has

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