Mercia Technologies PLC, a Midlands-based leader in the funding and commercialisation of technology businesses in the UK, announces a £1m investment in Crowd Reactive Limited, a user-generated content platform for events and venues. The investment will be spread across two tranches of £500,000 each. It follows on from an early stage SEIS investment made by
They join The University of Leicester, Coventry University, Birmingham City University and Staffordshire University as investors in Mercia Technologies, which floated on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) on 18th December 2014. The six are among the nine UK universities and research centres with which Mercia Technologies has collaborative relationships. They provide a consistent pipeline of
Peter brings with him two decades’ experience of the healthcare sector, having founded and run a number of successful healthcare technology businesses. Notable successes during his career include turning around obstetrics equipment firm Surgicraft, a company that saw sales quadruple under his leadership. It was subsequently sold to ISIS Equity Partners. Mr Dines founded spinal
The ceremony took place at the House of Lords as part of the annual EISA Chairman’s Reception and was attended by senior figures in the industry. The judging panel included former managing director of Sainsbury’s Justin King and Lord Lee of Trafford, a regular Financial Times contributor who writes about investing in smaller companies. Mark
Mercia Technologies PLC, a Midlands based leader in the funding and commercialisation of technology businesses in the UK, has acquired the remaining 80% interest in the Mercia Fund 2 Limited Partnership (MF2), for a total consideration of £3.3m, as envisaged when the Group listed in December 2014. MF2 is a 10 year early stage investment
Mercia Technologies PLC, a Midlands based leader in the funding and commercialisation of technology businesses in the UK, announces today that it has acquired a 21% stake in VirtTrade Ltd, the digital card trading platform technology business, for £1.5m. VirtTrade is the first direct investment made into a new ’emerging star’ from the Group’s third
Mercia Technologies PLC, a Midlands based leader in the funding and commercialisation of technology businesses in the UK, announces that Mercia Fund Management (“MFM”), its wholly owned subsidiary and a regulated fund management company, will hold its Annual General Meeting in respect of its third party funds under management at 6:30pm today, 22 January 2015
Extracted from Insider Media (insidermedia.com), 19th January 2015. Mercia’s £70m flotation on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market has clinched Insider’s Deal of the Month for December 2014. The specialist technology investor started trading on the 18 December. It set up new company Mercia Technologies plc, which has become the parent of Mercia Fund Management
Mercia Technologies PLC, a Midlands based leader in the funding and commercialisation of technology businesses in the UK, is pleased to announce that it has made a £450,000 investment in nDreams Limited (“nDreams”). This is the second of an agreed three tranche investment of a total £1.75m. The final instalment is due for payment towards
THE PITCHStartup competitionQ1 2015To kick off 2015, we will be holding our first quarterly startup Business plan competition with a rotating sector focus.We therefore formally invite applications from startups in the sectors of ‘Electronics and Hardware’, ‘Advanced Materials’, ‘Engineering’ and ‘Specialised Manufacturing’.Companies applying should be no older than 2 years old and will not have