Investors

Reinforced Ventures An early stage investment firm backing founders who break market narratives. We partner with founders who target transformative societal or market impact through novel engineering and scientific approaches. Learn more: https://birthingofgiants.com

Birthing of Giants We believe in entrepreneurial capitalism. Business owners who create, nurture and scale companies are the most dynamic and impactful contributors to domestic and global economies; their companies, teams and supply chains represent the purest form of innovation and capitalism. Learn more: https://birthingofgiants.com

Maven Maven is a leading private equity and property manager, with over 100 executives based across our UK office network. We partner with ambitious, entrepreneurial management teams to accelerate growth, and serve thousands of investors with the goal of delivering exceptional returns. Learn more: https://www.mavencp.com

HAX HAX is the world’s first and most active program focused on pre-seed, hard tech startups working on sustainability across climate, industrial automation and human health. With a flagship 35,000 square foot facility in Newark and also offices in Shenzhen, San Francisco, Pune and Tokyo, our program provides 6-month collaborative residency, hands-on engineering support, and an initial investment package of $500,000. We excel at teaching founders how to tap into the world’s premier ecosystems for real-world product development, [...]

Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin Ventures makes strategic investments in companies that are developing cutting edge technologies in core businesses and new markets important to Lockheed Martin. More than a source of capital, Lockheed Martin Ventures provides portfolio companies with access to our world-class engineering talent, state-of-the-art technologies, and research and access to the company’s international business relationships and supply chain. For more information visit: lockheedmartin.com

UK CPI CPI works with partners to translate inventions into products and processes that enhance health and wellbeing, protect and improve our environment and increase productivity across industries. With a deep understanding of technology foresighting, innovation processes and funding, outstanding technical expertise and industry-relevant assets, we enable the accelerated development of transformational products and processes that have the potential to disrupt and revolutionise markets. We also engage in incremental technological innovation that allows established products and processes to [...]

UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) UKI2S is a national seed capital fund backed by UKRI, Dstl and other public bodies that nurtures innovative businesses from great UK science to leverage private investment and grow jobs. The Fund provides patient, long-term committed capital and strategic advice to help these companies flourish. Over the past decade and more, the fund has built a substantial track record of companies that between them have attracted over £600m of later stage [...]

Chrysalix Venture Capital Chrysalix is a technology focused venture capital firm that builds, mentors and connects high growth companies. Founded in Vancouver, Canada in 2001, and with offices also in Delft, Netherlands, Chrysalix has built its reputation on bringing disruptive innovation to the world’s largest industries by focusing on where technology meets physical science. The firm’s investments include breakthrough technologies like smart mining, 3D printing of steel, fast charging electric vehicle infrastructure, battery intelligence, CO2 capture, wastewater management, [...]

SOSV SOSV is a global venture capital firm that operates early stage startup development programs: HAX (Newark/San Francisco/Shenzhen/Tokyo) for hardware, IndieBio (San Francisco/NYC) for life sciences, Chinaccelerator (Shanghai) and MOX (Taipei) for cross-border internet, and dlab (NYC) for blockchain. The five programs work with 135 new companies each year. As of January 2022, SOSV had more than 1,000 portfolio companies and $1B billion in assets under management. More information: sosv.com