Portfolio News

Congratulations to our portfolio company, DECOM Engineering, on securing a “pipeline of multi-million-pound global contracts.” This follows the completion of previous investment rounds, which included support from private investors and HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network) amongst others and R&D grant support from Invest Northern Ireland Keep up the good work Sean Conway and team! From the Belfast Telegraph: Co Tyrone engineering […]

Funding rounds: Brian Cummings, investment director at Clarendon Fund Managers and Alan Foreman, chief executive of portfolio company B-Secur From the Belfast Telegraph: Early-stage businesses in Northern Ireland have been drawing an average of £2.9m in Series A funding rounds, double the figure of the year before, it has emerged. But Co-Fund NI, an equity fund

Great to see our portfolio company, DECOM Engineering, that specialises in decommissioning oil and gas facilities, expanding as it opens up a new office and test centre in Aberdeen. Keep up the good work Sean Conway! From the Belfast Telegraph: Company invests £200k to showcase products to North Sea customers Cutting edge: From left, Decom Engineering’s new

Great news as our portfolio company, Zymplify, invests £1.5m into its business with plans to create 26 new jobs with the support of Invest Northern Ireland. Keep up the good work Michael Carlin and team. From investni.com Pictured (L-R) are Des Gartland, North West Regional Manager, Invest NI with Alan McKeown, Executive Director of Regional

Congratulations to our portfolio company, Cirdan Ltd, and its local Northern Irish partners on securing a £42.4m grant (which is helping to leverage additional funding of £21.6m) from the UK Research and Innovation Strength in Places fund. This grant will be used by the consortium to help develop new technology for medical devices, communication and

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

Congratulations to new portfolio company, Haru, and its Co-Founders Jacques Hill and Sam Lynas on recently raising a £450k round. This investment will allow the company to strengthen its digital offering and help them to help charities sell their goods more effectively. The Haru platform allows the charities to pick-up, process, store and sell high

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

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

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