| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.03.2026 | Cytotrait Secures £3M: Revolutionizing Crop Traits with MOSS Gene-Editing | Cytotrait, a cutting-edge biotech firm, secured £3M in seed funding. This capital fuels the advancement of their MOSS technology. MOSS is a proprietary plant gene-editing platform. It precisely modifies chloroplasts and mitochondria. This i... |
| 09.03.2026 | Cytotrait raises £3M for agricultural gene-editing technology | Cytotrait, a spinout from The University of Manchester focused on developing new traits for food and agricultural applications, has closed a £3 million seed funding round. The round was led by Northern Gritstone, with participation from the... |
| 23.01.2026 | Optalysys Secures £23M to Revolutionize Computing with Photonic Chips, Eyes U.S. Expansion | Optalysys, a UK pioneer, secured £23M in Series A extension funding. This capital fuels the commercialization of its groundbreaking photonic computing chips. The company plans aggressive expansion into the crucial U.S. market. Its technolog... |
| 22.01.2026 | Optalysys raises £23M to support photonic computing development | Leeds-based photonic computing company Optalysys has raised £23 million in a Series A extension round led by Northern Gritstone, with participation from imec.xpand, Lingotto Horizon, and the UK government’s National Security Strategic Inves... |
| 19.08.2025 | Manchester-based PhovIR secures €3.6 million to bring optical fingerprinting to everyday devices | PhovIR, a University of Manchester spinout developing advanced Near Infra-Red (NIR) optical sensor technology, has raised over €3.6 million (£4 million) in an oversubscribed seed round led by Northern Gritstone and SCVC. The funding marks a... |
| 27.06.2025 | Parkwalk and Northern Gritstone launch Northern Universities Venture Fund | We are delighted to announce the launch of the Northern Universities Venture Fund, in collaboration with Northern Gritstone, offering access to world-class university spinouts and deep science startups from the Northern Arc Universities of ... |
| 20.06.2025 | Northern Gritstone and Parkwalk: A New Dawn for UK Innovation | In the heart of the UK, a new venture is stirring the pot of innovation. Northern Gritstone, a Manchester-based investment firm, has joined forces with Parkwalk Advisors from London. Together, they are launching the Northern Universities Ve... |
| 19.06.2025 | Northern Gritstone and Parkwalk team up for new EIS fund – will it deliver the UK’s first trillion-euro startup? | Manchester-based investment company Northern Gritstone has partnered with London-based Parkwalk Advisors to launch the Northern Universities Venture Fund, an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund designed to offer investors early-stage ac... |
| 19.06.2025 | Northern Gritstone raises fund for UK Northern University science and technology investments | Northern Gritstone today announces the launch of the Northern Universities Venture Fund, a new Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund offering investors access to early-stage IP-rich science and deeptech investment opportunities from the U... |
| 15.04.2025 | Northern Gritstone: Fueling the Future of Life Sciences and DeepTech in the North of England | In the heart of the North of England, a financial powerhouse is emerging. Northern Gritstone, an investment firm rooted in the rich soil of academia, has just secured a significant £50 million in funding. This is not just a number; it’s a b... |
| 10.04.2025 | Investment firm Northern Gritstone secures €58 million for life sciences and DeepTech | Manchester-based Northern Gritstone, the life sciences and DeepTech investment firm, has announced its latest fundraise of €58 million from leading institutional investors bringing its total permanent capital to €422 million.
€40 million of... |
| 21.10.2024 | MicroLub Secures £3.5M to Commercialise Fat Replacement Tech for Low-Calorie Yet Delicious Plant-Based Foods | MicroLub, a deep-tech spinoff from the University of Leeds that produces a fat replacement for lower-calorie plant-based foods, has announced that it has successfully closed a £3.5 million seed investment round led by Northern Gritstone. Pr... |
| 26.02.2024 | adsilico – raises £3.5m funding round | Delighted to announce our investment into adsilico as part of a £3.5m seed funding round, as seen in The Times today. The University of Leeds spin-out is a ground-breaking computational medicine company, developing an end-to-end in-silico t... |
| 28.09.2023 | Pencil Biosciences raises £5.6M to advance gene editing for rare diseases | UK-based gene editing and modulation tech startup Pencil Biosciences has raised £5.6 million in Seed funding. Designed to assist the transformation of the gene editing landscape in therapeutic solutions for those with rare diseases and canc... |
| 31.08.2023 | Mimetrik Raises £2M for AI-driven dental technology | Today dental tech company Mimetrik raises £2 million in seed funding.
Mimetrik develops AI-driven digital dentistry products alongside participation from angel investors with decades of experience in the dental industry. The investment will... |
| 14.08.2023 | AssetCool raises £2.25m for photonic coating to boost power line efficiency | Developing a durable photonic materials-based coating, AssetCool wants to cool down overhead power lines. The coating is said to increase the performance of electricity networks as it reduces energy losses, costs and emissions. It has also ... |
| 17.07.2023 | Leeds-based photonic chip company Optalysys raises £21 million to unlock its Fully Homomorphic Encryption process | Photonic chip maker Optalysys has raised a £21 million Series A funding which will see it ‘advance its Enable photonic computing technology to unlock a new form of secure processing known as Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)’.
Backing the ... |
| 22.06.2023 | Northern Gritstone secures £50m with up to ‘£100m in the hopper’ | North of England-focused investor Northern Gritstone has closed a further £50m to support spinouts commercialising technology in the region, with “another £50m-£100m in the hopper”, UKTN can reveal.
Northern Gritstone CEO Duncan Johnson sai... |
| 05.04.2023 | LC AuxeTec makes a material that thickens when stretched and Northern Gritstone gets in on the funding action | University of Leeds spin-out LC AuxeTec is creating a material that thickens and is raising a £2 million Seed round to commercialise it. Northern Gritstone have announced they have added funds to the pot.
LC AuxeTec, is developing auxetic m... |
| 30.03.2023 | British Patient Capital invests £30 million in university spinout backer Northern Gritstone | 30 March 2023: British Patient Capital has made a £30 million investment into Northern Gritstone Limited, the investment company focused on university spinouts and R&D-intensive businesses across the North of England. |
| 10.01.2023 | UK-based QV Bioelectronics raises £2 million for potential brain tumour treatment | QV Bioelectronics, a Cheshire, UK-based medical device startup, has received £2 million in pre-series A funds.
QV is undertaking pre-clinical studies on an electric field therapy (EFT) implant, a kind of medical device that holds promise in... |
| 07.12.2022 | Aiming to eclipse silicon-based LIDAR chips, Phlux Technology raises £4 million in seed funds | Phlux Technology, a LIDAR sensor technology startup spun off from Sheffield University's research, today raised £4 million in seed funds led by London VC Octupus Ventures.
Phlux's concept aims to pioneer the use of a semi-metal element call... |
| 07.08.2022 | Accelerating a Tech Startup Ecosystem: Lessons Learned in South Yorkshire | The first time I heard the term “entrepreneur ecosystem” was in 2013 whilst establishing an Innovators Hub in Sendai, Japan, after the devastation caused by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami several years prior. At the time, there was littl... |
| 24.06.2022 | Opteran weaves in $12 million to develop AI driven by brain biomimicry inspired by insects | UK AI chip startup Opteran has raised $12 million in funding to further develop its optical flow AI technology into decision making. The round was led by Join Capital and backed by IQ Capital, Northern Gritstone, Seraphim, Episode 1 and Sch... |
| 20.05.2022 | Northern Gritstone rakes in £215 million to support university spin-outs in North England | Investment business focused on university spin-outs in the north of England, Northern Gritstone has announced the first close of a new fund with £215 million. The fund aims to raise up to £500 million to back early-stage businesses.
It will... |
| - | British Patient Capital invests £30m in Northern Gritstone | British Patient Capital has invested £30m into Northern Gritstone, a North of England venture capital firm.
British Patient Capital, a division of the state-owned British Business Bank, secured the new capital after its £215m raise, which i... |
| - | Opteran weaves in $12 million to develop AI driven by brain biomimicry inspired by insects | UK AI chip startup Opteran has raised $12 million in funding to further develop its optical flow AI technology into decision making. The round was led by Join Capital and backed by IQ Capital, Northern Gritstone, Seraphim, Episode 1 and Sch... |
| - | Northern Gritstone rakes in £215 million to support university spin-outs in North England | Investment business focused on university spin-outs in the north of England, Northern Gritstone has announced the first close of a new fund with £215 million. The fund aims to raise up to £500 million to back early-stage businesses.
It will... |
| - | For Keir Starmer’s in-tray: what UK business needs now | So long, then, to the UK election, and with it, the ceaseless polling predictions of landslides, comfortable majorities, or even super majorities. For a nation, and for its vital small business and startup sector, the carousel of leadership... |
