Henley-in-Arden, 13 June 2013 – Venture capital fund manager Mercia Fund Management (MFM) is pleased to announce that Ventive has been named national runner up in the Shell Springboard awards 2013. The awards were highly contested with 150 finalists from across the UK. In May, MFM announced that it participated in an equity raise of
Birmingham, UK, 21 May 2013, Irresistible Materials (IM), a UK materials technology company spun-out from the University of Birmingham, is pleased to announce £290,000 of further support from its investing shareholder Mercia Fund Management and new business angels from the US and UK, coupled with the appointment of Stuart McIntosh as its new Chairman. Stuart
Henley-in-Arden, 9 May 2013 – Venture capital fund manager Mercia Fund Management (MFM) has participated in an equity raise of more than £900,000 for Ventive Ltd. MFM joined an angel funding round which was also supported by the Angel Co-fund. Ventive, recently named as a regional winner in the prestigious Shell Springboard 2013 competition, develops
Experienced CMO to Oversee and Advance Clinical Oncology and Cachexia Programs OXFORD, UK – 8th May 2013 – PsiOxus Therapeutics, Ltd. (PsiOxus), a development stage biotechnology company, today announced that Dr. Christine Wilkinson Blanc has joined the company’s management team as Chief Medical Officer. In her new role, Dr. Wilkinson Blanc will focus her efforts
Henley-in-Arden, 15 April 2013 – Venture capital fund managers Mercia Fund Management (MFM) and Catapult Venture Managers have announced the appointment of Carlton Jones as CEO of nanoTherics, effective immediately. Formerly Global Head of Sales at ThalesNano, Carlton brings over 27 years’ experience in the life sciences sector to his new role, and has been
Open House event seeks to identify innovative start-ups looking for funding Henley-in-Arden, 09 April 2013. Venture capital fund manager Mercia Fund Management (MFM) has announced its first SEIS Fund investments as part of its Mercia Growth Fund 1. With six further SEIS investments rapidly progressing towards investment completion, MFM is pleased to announce its first
Urges start-ups to attend Mercia Fund Management Open House Oxford, 2 April 2013. Oxford-based The Native Antigen Company (NAC) has received new investment from the Mercia Growth Fund 1 and NAC’s existing shareholders. The new investment will accelerate the continued expansion of this now profitable operation which seeks to expand into key markets within the
Henley in Arden, 26 March 2013. Venture capital fund manager Mercia Fund Management has announced its first EIS Fund investments as part of its Mercia Growth Fund 1. Warwick Audio Technologies and nanoTherics will receive investment alongside syndicate investors. Warwick Audio Technologies develops a unique Flat Flexible Loudspeaker technology, which is fundamentally a flat and
What Mercia Fund Management says: “The budget was set in the context for every one job lost in the public sector, 6 are created in the private sector and that a majority of this job growth is within SMEs. The budget was set as a budget for the ‘Aspiration Nation’. We have campaigned hard for
Henley-in-Arden, 15 March 2013. Venture capital fund manager Mercia Fund Management (MFM) has announced that its first Open House event aimed at companies seeking Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) start-up investment or EIS (expansion capital for growing businesses) investment is taking place on 16 April 2013 at Forward House in Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire. Collectively with Mercia