Member Directory

Contact: Kavita Mahey

Contact: Luke Pulford Head of Minerva

Minerva is a business angel network with a focus on investing in early stage, high growth, companies across the East and West Midlands. We were founded in 1994 and are a not for profit owned by the University of Warwick Science Park.

Contact: Anil Arora Partner (Non Lawyer)

Contact: Lucy Collins Head of EIS

For twenty years, Molten has been backing the founders and innovators driving Europe’s technology transformation. We invest more than capital. We bring experience, energy, and partnership to help visionary companies scale faster and go further. Our mission is simple: to make more possible for the people building the future.

Contact: Patricia Reynolds CEO

Contact: Cheryl Percival Programme Officer

Northern Accelerator is an innovative collaboration between Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside Universities.

It has transformed research commercialisation in the North East, helping address regional imbalance and strengthening the region’s knowledge economy.

We support academics and business leaders to create promising spin-out businesses from their world-leading academic research. These businesses create high quality jobs and raise significant investment here in the North East and North Yorkshire.

Contact: Stephen Wilks Director

Accountant for startups

Contact: Reis Wasserman

Nyman Libson Paul are an established firm of accountants in London with over 80 years experience. Dave has structured and advised on many EIS and SEIS projects across a range of industries but has, in particular, made a significant impact in the Entertainment Industry sector, in which the firm is a significant player. Dave is a Chartered Accountant, Certified Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser and is also Chairman of the Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Entertainment and Media Group. Dave has specialised in tax for many years, has been published in Taxation magazine as well as many other publications and has previous ‘big firm’ experience. He also ran his own promotions business for several years, which could explain his empathy for entrepreneurs!

Contact: Sunil Shah

o2h Ventures, a specialist biotech fund manager based in the heart of the thriving biotech community in Cambridge, UK. We invest in early-stage biotech companies involved in novel drug discovery, enabling service tools, and AI/ML technologies. Currently, we have two tax-efficient human health funds open for investment: the Enterprise Investment Scheme and the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme.

To date, through our funds, we have invested over $10 million in 35+ early-stage biotech companies, empowering impactful research addressing unmet medical needs in areas such as cancer, depression, diseases of the ear and eye, psoriasis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, anti-ageing, and infectious diseases. For more details, please see – www.o2hventures.com

Contact: James Nash Founder / Director

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