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Development Bank of Wales

Development Bank of Wales

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The Development Bank of Wales provides equity and loan financing to support business growth and technological innovation across Wales.


Recent investments

£1.6M

The funding round includes backing from strategic and regional investors to support the rollout of Female Hormone Mapping.

"Today, more and more people are realising that understanding and measuring your body’s biochemistry is key for a long and healthy life. For women in particular, gaining unique insight into how their hormone levels fluctuate throughout their unique cycle can give women the support they have been lacking and help to close the gender health gap"
— Sarah Bolt, CEO and Co-founder
Seed
£1.0M

The investment round was led by Alliance Fund Managers with participation from the Development Bank of Wales.

"We’ve worked hard over the last few years to develop Tahdah as a secure online feature-packed management system that can be tailored to meet the bespoke needs of our customer base."
— Neil Rylance, Chief Executive
£2.9M

The funding round was led by Praetura Ventures with participation from the Development Bank of Wales and Perscitus.

"It’s been a landmark year for Reacta, and we continue to go from strength-to-strength as a business, developing new diagnostic products and expanding our capabilities. The number of people experiencing food allergies is increasing, so it’s vital that technologies to accurately and safely test for allergies are developed. We’re committed to providing excellence in the development of a suite of OFC products, and revolutionising the way food allergies are diagnosed worldwide."
— Paul Abrahams, Chief Executive Officer
Seed
£1.7M

A syndicate of 15 angel investors led by Andrew Diplock and the Development Bank of Wales backed the round.

"We are now working at full-scale and this represents the final stage of our testing programme before we are in a position to deliver commercial devices to our customers. The business is already creating significant traction in the market and we have a number of revenue generating pre-commercial projects in the pipeline that will further prove the effectiveness of our technology ahead of delivering our devices into first utility scale commercial arrays both here in the UK and overseas."
— Gareth Stockman, Co-founder
Other
£1.3M

The Development Bank of Wales and Wealth Club backed the round to fund commercial growth.

"Utility businesses are facing increased governmental and regulatory pressure to provide accurate meter readings and improve their environmental credentials. We’ve spent the time developing and patenting our innovative technology that now provides real-time accurate meter reads to meet regulatory requirements, remotely and at half the cost."
— Craig Mellor, Chief Executive