Featured Holdings

MaxCyte advanced instrumentation

Over more than 2 decades, MaxCyte has developed and commercialized a proprietary Flow Electroporation® platform which facilitates complex engineering of a wide variety of cells. Electroporation is a method of transfection, or the process of deliberately introducing molecules into cells, that involves applying an electric field in order to temporarily increase the permeability of the cell membrane. The precisely controlled increase in permeability allows the intracellular delivery of molecules, such as genetic material and proteins, that would not normally be able to cross the cell membrane as easily.

Maxcyte’s blue-chip drug discovery and development client base includes the 10 top global pharmaceutical companies and 20 of the top 25 ranked by revenue. In addition, MaxCyte has established strategic partnerships with a broad range of leading cell therapy companies which provide non-exclusive clinical and commercial rights to use MaxCyte’s Flow Electroporation® technology and ExPERT™ platform. In return, MaxCyte is entitled to receive platform licensing fees and program-related milestone payments (with a maximum potential value in excess of $1.25bn subject to clinical success) and unspecified commercial royalties for partnership programmes that successfully make it to commercial launch.

Product schematic for Journeo

With over 25 years’ experience in the transport industry, Journeo specialises in providing innovative technology solutions that improve the passenger experience and provide operational benefits to fleet and network operators through its Fleet Systems and Passenger Systems operations and strives to connect the two in order to create the complete connected journey.

Fleet solutions include video surveillance to improve passenger & driver safety, vehicle & driver performance monitoring and automatic passenger counting.

Passenger information solutions include the necessary hardware and software for real time information estates, off-vehicle smart ticketing and way-finding.

True Position Robotics a Mercia Ventures investment through the British Business Bank funded Midlands Engine Investment Fund II

Mercia is a specialist alternative asset manager focused on supporting regional SMEs to achieve their growth aspirations. Mercia provides capital across its four asset classes of venture, private equity, debt and proprietary capital: the Group’s ‘Complete Connected Capital’. The Group has a strong UK footprint through its regional offices, university partnerships and extensive personal networks, providing it with access to high-quality deal flow.

During more than thirty years in business, D4t4 Solutions has constantly evolved to embrace the importance of data in delivering benefit to a business. The company has developed pioneering technology that pushes the boundaries of accuracy and completeness in data collection, while further augmenting its data expertise by collaborating with industry-leading partners that specialise in data management and analysis. D4t4 Solutions’ current portfolio of partners and tools includes:

Behavioural data collection: Celebrus

Data processing and blending: Talend, Alteryx

Analytics platforms and solutions: SAS, Hadoop, Apache Spark

Analysis and visualisation: RStudio, Tableau

Data democratisation, BI and dashboards: Qlik, ThoughtSpot

Digital analytics: Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics

Additionally, D4t4 Solutions has its own datacentres and provides ongoing data management and support, enabling the customer to outsource its entire data infrastructure if it desires.

Brownhills Glass a Duke Capital Partner

Duke Capital is a leading provider of hybrid capital solutions for SME business owners in Europe and North America, combining features of both equity and debt. Since 2017, Duke has provided unique long-term financing which largely eliminates re-financing risk and necessity for a short-term exit by providing a unique ‘corporate mortgage’ while also aligning its returns to grow with the success of the business.

Duke is focused on generating attractive risk-adjusted returns for shareholders. It’s three investment pillars are capital preservation, attractive dividend yield, and to provide upside upon exits.

Getech Globe facilitates the location of critical subsurface resources

Getech applies its world-leading geoscience data and unique geospatial software products to accelerate the energy transition by locating and developing geoenergy and green hydrogen projects. The company’s clients include government authorities, blue-chip energy companies, metals & mining companies, consumer goods and any other company looking to decarbonise. Getech seeks to monetise its proprietary technology through a recurring revenue, SaaS business model.

Touchstar electronic proof of delivery

TouchStar plc has been supplying turnkey data collection and mobile computing solutions for industrial and commercial applications since 1982 and has a base of over 500,000 installations. The group’s Software as a Service (SaaS) activities are growing strongly and provide the visbility of recurring annual revenues. Key areas of expertise include Fuel Proof of Delivery (POD) specialising in the design & supply of ATEX certified mobile devices. ATEX is the common name for the European Directives for controlling combustible, generally petrochemical, products or ‘atmospheres explosive’. Electronic Proof of Delivery (PODStar) an electronic proof of delivery solution for fleet managers scalable to thousands of vehicles. Access Control with a suite of products able to capture and control activity by regulating site access, recording time and attendance and, as appropriate, capturing high quality CCTV images.