| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.08.2022 | Downing LLP supports growth at surgical augmented intelligence company Cydar Medical | Investment manager Downing LLP is supporting growth at surgical augmented intelligence company Cydar Medical with a £1.3 million investment through its healthcare ventures team.
The company, based in Barrington, Cambridgeshire, uses leadin... |
| 11.08.2022 | FundamentalVR Raises $20M for VR Surgical Simulation Platform
| What You Should Know:
Founded in 2018, FundamentalVR is the world’s first scalable medical simulation platform to combine virtual reality (VR) and haptics through data, artificial intelligence, and multimodal learning. FundamentalVR’s paten... |
| 01.07.2022 | Freelance software developer platform Distributed raises £8 million | UK-based platform that gives companies access to a pool of freelance software developers, Distributed has secured £8 million in fresh funding. The follow-on round was led by Downing Ventures and Guinness Ventures and backed by Fuel Ventures... |
| 23.04.2022 | Curating creativity: why we invested in BBC Maestro | Cultivating creativity
Covid-19 brought about significant challenges in several sectors, none more so than the arts. Various lockdowns ensured the public had limited opportunities to experience them and even shut some productions down alto... |
| 17.03.2022 | How to hit a home run: all you need to know about VCTs | 1. What is your investment approach?
We concentrate on being thematically focused investors, looking at Healthcare, DeepTech and Enterprise. In my view, by looking at these specialisms we can drive additional insight, access and value add ... |
| 26.02.2022 | Maths to the masses: Why we invested in Third Space Learning | Additional tuition has traditionally only been preserved for the fortunate minority. Children who need it most, whether academically or socially, often lack access to it. Third Space Learning, set up in 2013, is addressing this imbalance.
... |
| 07.02.2022 | Why we invested in CS Pharmaceuticals | Despite China having one billion more people than the USA, healthcare spending in China equaled about 7.1% of the GDP compared to 19.7% in the US. But China is now set on improving its healthcare system by investing in the latest medicinal ... |
| 03.02.2022 | Why we invested in e.fundamentals | What do consumer packaged goods (CPG) giants such as Nestlé, Proctor & Gamble and PepsiCo have in common? They are all in a race to optimise how they sell to consumers as buying habits have shifted online. The pandemic has accelerated m... |
| 03.11.2021 | LifeArc invests in company developing personalised drug and digital combination treatments | The deal was led by Ananda Impact Ventures and BGF, and involved a strong syndicate of investors including LifeArc, |
| 03.11.2021 | LifeArc invests in company developing personalised drug and digital combination treatments | Closed Loop Medicine today announced they have completed a £13 million financing deal to advance their personalised drug and digital therapy combination products to enable precision dosing.
The deal was led by Ananda Impact Ventures and BG... |
| 03.11.2021 | LifeArc invests in company developing personalised drug and digital combination treatments | The deal was led by Ananda Impact Ventures and BGF, and involved a strong syndicate of investors including LifeArc, Longwall, Meltwind, IQ Capital, Downing Ventures and Cambridge Angels.
This new investment will enable the company to devel... |
| 24.02.2021 | UK’s StorageOS raises €8.2M to grow its cloud-native software-defined storage solution; here’s how | London-based cloud-native storage management startup, StorageOS, has raised $10M (approx €8.2M) in its Series B round of funding. With this investment, the startup has raised a total of $20M (approx €16.4M) in funding, to date.Investors in ... |
| 10.09.2020 | London VCs launch joint initiative to expand funding opportunities for underrepresented founders | UK investors have come together to create a new virtual pitching event designed to address the problems with the current startup ecosystem that can lead to inequalities and “warm intros” made only between privileged classes and ethnicities.... |
| 05.09.2019 | London-based Spirable raises €6.7 million to grow its personalised video advertising platform | Since launching in 2014, London-based Spirable has created and distributed over 100 million personalised videos in over 50 countries.
Its platform automatically creates and optimises tailored video ads across social, CRM, messenger and disp... |
| 21.01.2019 | JLL Spark Leads Series A in Hubble | Hubble, the online platform for flexible office space, has secured £4 million in Series A financing from a group of industry-leading investors, spearheaded by JLL Spark Global Venture Fund.
The London headquartered platform was founded in 2... |
| 21.01.2019 | JLL Spark Leads Series A in Hubble | Hubble, the online platform for flexible office space, has secured £4 million in Series A financing from a group of industry-leading investors, spearheaded by JLL Spark Global Venture Fund.
The London headquartered platform was founded in 2... |
| 13.11.2016 | Your business summary is in the wrong order | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When it comes to pitches, everyone’s a critic. Ju... |
| 13.11.2016 | Your business summary is in the wrong order | When it comes to pitches, everyone’s a critic. Just the order that information is presented can be the difference between holding someone’s attention or losing it. Here’s a scientifically-based formula to help you craft a winning business s... |
| 21.10.2016 | 2017 will be the year of interactive email | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Three years ago I started a mobile app business. ... |
| 21.10.2016 | 2017 will be the year of interactive email | Three years ago I started a mobile app business. At that time, apps were a novelty and smartphone owners tried out new apps on a regular basis.
Today, the market is oversaturated with new apps, and to make things worse, many smartphone user... |
| - | Downing Ventures leads $10 million in Series B funding round in StorageOS | StorageOS, a leader in cloud native storage management, has today announced a $10 million Series B funding round to build on growth, which has seen more than 4,000 customers globally implement its software-defined storage solution. Led by D... |
| - | AI-powered software testing platform Virtuoso raises $13.3 million | London-based automated software testing platform Virtuoso has raised $13.3 million in a Series A funding round. Employing machine learning and robotic process automation, Virtuoso helps software quality assurance teams squash bugs and error... |
| - | Exonar builds momentum to enable enterprises to tackle data deluge | Exonar, the world leading data indexing and discovery platform, has today announced that it has secured further funding from Downing Ventures, Beringea, Winton Ventures, and angel investors. The continued backing of its investors reflects b... |
| - | Cambridge Touch – oversubscribed $10 million Series B funding round | CTT set for rapid expansion following oversubscribed $10M Series B round |
| - | Downing Ventures Closes First Round of Series A Investment in Leading Omni-Path Business |
Cornelis Networks, Inc., a provider of purpose-built interconnects focused on high performance computing (HPC), high performance data analytics (HPDA), and artificial intelligence (AI), announced the first close today of its Series-A fund... |
| - | Downing Ventures co-leads $35m series B investment in Ayar Labs: solving critical computing challenges through Optical I/O | Downing Ventures announces the completion of a $35 million Series B funding round in Ayar Labs as the co-lead investor. Ayar Labs is a Deep Tech organisation that is solving semiconductor interconnect (I/O), bandwidth and power bottlenecks ... |
| - | Close the science learning gap, caused by school closures, for only £1 per child | Over the last year, the education system has had to face an unprecedented overhaul, as teaching swiftly moved from the classroom to the home with the global pandemic causing schools to shut for most children.
Whilst maths and english conti... |
| - | FundamentalVR rakes in $20M for its VR, haptics platform | FundamentalVR, a startup that sells virtual reality and haptic software for medical simulation, announced Thursday it has closed a $20 million Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to more than $30 million.
The round was led by... |
| - | Downing Ventures portfolio creating positive impact through the pandemic | This has been an unprecedented year on every level with the appearance of Covid-19. Individuals, families, countries, institutions, companies, big and small, have all been impacted and the world has had to pull together to get through one o... |
| - | How to survive and thrive in 2021 as a VC firm according to Downing Ventures | In 2021, it has never been more important for venture capital firms to be able to differentiate.
The success of a VC fund is based on their ability to successfully identify and gain access to the highest quality companies and crucially, th... |
| - | Downing Ventures Leads $15m Series A Funding Round for Carbice: Definers of This Generation’s Material Age | Downing Ventures is pleased to announce the first closing of the $15 million Series A funding round for Carbice Corporation with additional funding provided by Toyota AI Ventures. Carbice produces Carbice® Carbon, a product that lowers devi... |
| - | Downing Ventures leads BBC Maestro’s second funding round after successful launch | Following the launch of BBC Maestro in October 2020, Downing Ventures is delighted to announce it has led the second £2.05 million funding round with a first investment close confirmed today, with additional funding supported by Great Point... |
| - | Freelance software developer platform Distributed raises £8 million | UK-based platform that gives companies access to a pool of freelance software developers, Distributed has secured £8 million in fresh funding. The follow-on round was led by Downing Ventures and Guinness Ventures and backed by Fuel Ventures... |
| - | Downing Ventures Participates in $50m Series C Funding Round to Advance Clinical Genomic Analysis Software and Data Platform | Downing Ventures is delighted to announce its participation in the Series C funding round in Congenica, the digital health company enabling rapid and accurate analysis of complex genomic data to transform people’s lives. Downing Ventures we... |
