Mercia Fund Management (MFM) is pleased to announce Razorbill Instruments, a spin-out from the University of St Andrews that specialises in nanopositioning technology, as the winner of its 2015 Q1 Business Plan Competition. The announcement further enhances Mercia’s support of technology driven growth enterprise in Scotland. The Razorbill team, who presented their pitch to the
Mercia Fund Management (MFM), one of the leading UK technology investors, announces the launch of its quarterly start-up competition, The Pitch, with the chance for the winner to receive £3000. This quarter’s competition focuses on businesses within the Life Sciences sector. Mercia is currently inviting applications from the life science sector, specifically biotechnology, medical devices
In the UK, Science Warehouse (SWL) is a leading provider of e-marketplace solutions which deliver year-on-year savings for their clients and provides a fast, intuitive, user-friendly interface. SWL has an extensive client base across the UK public sector, including higher education and the NHS, as well as corporate clients such as in the construction sector.
PsiOxus Therapeutics Ltd. (PsiOxus), an Oxford, UKbased biotechnology company developing innovative oncolytic immuno-oncologytreatments for cancer, has expanded two of its on-going phase I studies using its anti-cancer treatment candidate, enadenotucirev (EnAd), an oncolytic Ad11/Ad3 chimeric group B adenovirus. The expanded studies, introduce a number of additional cancer types into the programme, as a result of
PsiOxus Therapeutics Ltd. (PsiOxus), an oncolyticimmunoncology company, has announced that it will present data highlighting theprogress of its next generation “Antibody Armed EnAd” (AbEnAd) anti-cancertherapeutic platform at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)Annual Meeting 2015 in Philadelphia, PA April 19-22, 2015. AbEnAd is the antibodyarmed series from the “Armed EnAd Platform” which is based
Mercia Technologies PLC, a Midlands based leader in the funding and commercialisation of technology businesses in the UK, has invested a further £3.5 million in Science Warehouse Ltd (“Science Warehouse”) to increase its stake from 45% to 63%. Established in 2000 as a spinout from the University of Leeds, Science Warehouse delivers a cloud-based procurement,
Mercia Technologies PLC, a Midlands-based leader in the funding and commercialisation of technology businesses in the UK, announces that it has made a £1m investment in Soccer Manager Ltd, a Preston-based developer of online football management games. Soccer Manager Ltd will use the investment to fund the development of its latest title, Soccer Manager 2015,
Mercia Technologies PLC, a Midlands based leader in the funding and commercialisation of technology businesses in the UK, is pleased to announce that Matt Mead has been appointed Chief Investment Officer with effect from 26 May 2015. Matt has over 20 years’ experience in the investment industry and is a seasoned board executive, having been
It’s now been just over a month since we listed Mercia Technologies on AIM on the London Stock Exchange and raised £70m. Following more than seven years of developing our model, and just one month into our journey as a PLC, Mercia now finds itself with nine university partnerships, a portfolio of some 38 companies
Mercia Technologies PLC, a Midlands-based leader in the funding and commercialisation of technology businesses in the UK, confirms that portfolio company VirtTrade Ltd has secured an agreement with Panini Group, the world leader in sports and entertainment collectibles, to provide digital trading technology, further to its announcement on 27 January 2015 of a ‘notable partnership’