Bruce is the chief executive officer of Bloc Ventures and YellowDog. He also serves as a non-executive director at Helix Geospace and YellowDog, alongside a board role at Yordex.
David brings venture capital and technology leadership experience as co-founder and CTO of Bloc Ventures. He also holds director and chairman roles across several technology companies.
Andrew brings corporate development and financial experience from Modulr and Bloc Ventures. He also serves as a non-executive director at BrightMinded.
Mike serves as chief commercial officer at Bloc Ventures and commercial advisor at Molten Ventures. He also holds non-executive director roles at Yordex and mindtrace.ai.
Parkwalk led the Series B financing round to support the company in scaling its connectivity technology globally.
"From LEO satellite to terrestrial 5G deployments, the challenges of how to maximize the performance of the network, and in particular efficient use of energy and radio spectrum, are universal. Over the past few years, AccelerComm has continually demonstrated its position at the forefront of this technology, working with mobile operators, telecoms equipment vendors and the satellite industry to help supercharge communications. We’re thrilled to receive this backing from a range of industry-leading investors combined with the continued backing ongoing support of our existing shareholders and look forward to the company’s continued rapid growth and innovative development."
The seed round was led by Bloc Ventures with participation from UKI2S and private backers.
"We started manufacturing DielectriX antennas using state of the art laser/robotics equipment developed in-house, and we are now set to scale up rapidly through partnerships with electronics manufacturing service providers in the UK. Future manufacturing growth plans will roll out our 'factory-in-a-box' to deliver global capability required to meet the expected demands for autonomous vehicles and systems where absolute resilience and precision of location data is essential for safety."
The telephone payment compliance provider has raised £1.2m in a pre-series A round led by Bloc Ventures to scale its teams.
"We are delighted to be joining the Bloc Ventures portfolio. Bloc’s team has unparalleled expertise in deep technology and we are convinced it is the right partner to support us on the next stage of this journey. Our technology has the ability to radically lower the high cost of entry that is prevalent in the telephone payment segment, and with Bloc’s financial and strategic supportwe are confident that we can build on the strong momentum we have generated over the last four years."
The funding round was led by IDC Ventures and Simon Eyers to support international expansion and product development.
"COVID-19 has made supply chain transparency and visibility absolutely crucial, not only in retail categories such as apparel, pharma and consumer goods, but in healthcare, government and other sectors as well,"
The University of Southampton spinout secured Series A backing from IQ Capital, Bloc Ventures, and the IP Group to scale its operations.
"From gaming and VR to automated robotic manufacturing lines and telemedicine, the use cases on the road to 5G appear almost limitless. But a critical roadblock remains – latency. For more than 15 years a research team led by Prof. Maunder, first at the University of Southampton and now at AccelerComm, has been working to solve the challenge to deliver on the 5G promise of a low latency, high throughput experience. We are delighted to have closed our Series A funding round, which will help us further develop and deploy our already market leading technology to help improve the efficiency of networks for many years to come."
