A specialist accelerator for health-focussed tech startups has been launched in Leeds by Dotforge. The Dotforge Health + Data program is investing up to £20,000 into ten companies which use or create data for health applications and are developing products for use by doctors, clinicians, patients and carers. Emma Cheshire, Managing Director, CEO and Co-Founder
InoCardia, a Coventry University spinout that combines technical excellence and biological understanding to increase the safety of new drugs, has received £300,000 from Mercia Fund Management, a leading technology investor with a focus on the Midlands, North and Scotland. The funding, which follows on from an SEIS investment made by Mercia in 2013, will be
Mercia Technologies PLC (AIM: Merc, “Mercia”), a Midlands-based investment group building, funding and commercialising technology businesses in the UK, has completed the second tranche of a total £1.5m investment into Edge Case Games (“Edge Case”), the developer and publisher of the PC-based tactical space combat game, Fractured Space. At the same time, Edge Case has
At Mercia, a listed investment business, we initially look at companies at start-up or university spin-out level, and then typically support them for a further seven to 15 years to investment exit. During this time, we take a hands-on and patient approach to accelerating their development into cash generative enterprises over the medium to long
[Photo by Malcolm Cochrane] Mercia Technologies PLC (AIM: Merc, “Mercia”), a Midlands-based investment group building, funding and commercialising technology businesses across the UK, has opened an Edinburgh office and secured partnerships with Abertay University and the University of Strathclyde, to reinforce its support for early stage Scottish businesses. The office will be headed by Paul
Big business is used to it, smaller enterprises not so much. But the gathering of data (particularly ‘Big Data’) is becoming as important as branding and marketing for smaller companies. As an SME, the chances are you’re collecting massive amounts of data every day for your organisation, but what are you doing with it all?
Paul Blackburn, Executive Chairman of Aston Eyetech, discusses why China is his business’ next step. It’s a warm day in Beijing and I’m sitting in a Starbucks, watching the world go by. I might look like any tourist on a quick coffee break but really, I’m on a mission. China is very topical at the
Mercia Technologies won the Industry Game Changer award at the inaugural Growth Investor Awards on Thursday 22nd October, which recognises impact beyond investment in the UK SME finance indusrty. The Industry Game Changer award, sponsored by MICAP, recognises a product, service, platform or model that has demonstrably changed pratice, perception or engagement in the tax-efficient
Mercia Technologies PLC (AIM: Merc, “Mercia”), a Midlands-based investment group building, funding and commercialising technology businesses across the UK, has completed a £1.2m follow on investment as part of a total funding syndicate of £1.5m into Smart Antenna Technologies (“SAT”), a spinout from the University of Birmingham. SAT has developed a global antenna system for
Mercia Fund Management, one of the leading investors in UK technology and the wholly-owned subsidiary of Mercia Technologies PLC, has committed £300,000 of early stage development capital to Intelligent Health, a company dedicated to combatting inactivity through behavioural science and technology. Mercia’s capital will be used to continue scaling the business nationally and internationally, as