Northern Gritstone, the new investment business focused on university spin-outs based in the North of England, has completed its first three investments since announcing a first close of £215m, backing world-class science and innovation-based businesses. The fundraise and transactions position Read more…
Northern Gritstone, the university spin-out investment business based in the north of England, today announces the appointment of Alison Maughan as Investment Manager. Alison joins Northern Gritstone’s growing investment team, led by Chief Investment Officer, Marion Bernard, who joined the Read more…
Imperagen has developed a unique technology to accelerate the design, optimisation, and validation of novel enzymes for large molecular drug discovery. Northern Gritstone, along with IQ Capital, has led a £3.5 million Seed Round to fund the initial spin out Read more…
Northern Gritstone today announces its investment in Iceotope Technologies, the global leader in precision immersion cooling technology as part of a £30m funding round from a global investment syndicate led by Singapore impact private equity firm ABC Impact. Iceotope’s environmentally Read more…
Opteran Technologies is a University of Sheffield spin-out that has re-engineered insect brain patterns to power advances for autonomous machines. This is Northern Gritstone’s first investment since the close of its initial fundraising. Read more
Northern Gritstone, the new investment business focused on university spin-outs in the north of England, today announces a first close of £215m having seen strong interest from investors in its proposition. The company, chaired by Lord Jim O’Neill and Read more…
Sheffield’s Rinri Therapeutics is one of many ‘world-class’ firms in the North to benefit from Northern Gritstone’s new investment programme. Read more here.
Duncan Johnson, chief executive at Northern Gritstone, discusses how there is “a level playing field of science and a totally and utterly uneven level playing field of funding”. Listen here.
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The Government’s Levelling up White Paper is a very important step in outlining the Government’s much discussed strategy and after repeated delays, in my view, is one of first times this government has announced something stronger than anticipated. Given the underlying Read more…