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HERmesa

Venture Capital

Portfolio

7

companies

Investment by month

By category

  • BioTech£4.5M
  • Uncategorised£3.4M
  • SaaS£3.2M
  • RecruTech£2.3M
  • CleanTech£1.2M
  • Other£350K

By location

  • London£6.9M
  • Bristol£4.5M
  • United Kingdom£3.6M

Portfolio companies

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Auralytica

Auralytica develops holographic hydrogel sensors that make food spoilage visible in real time.

CC

Carbon Cell

Carbon Cell manufactures a plastic-free foam material derived from biochar.

D

Deployed

Deployed provides software for writing project scopes.

E

EnsiliTech

EnsiliTech develops room temperature stabilisation technology for vaccines and biologics.

Flexa

Flexa

Flexa provides a transparent platform that connects job seekers with verified flexible employers.

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Flexa Careers

Flexa Careers runs a transparent platform for flexible working policies and job opportunities.

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Team

Marla Shapiro

Marla Shapiro

Managing Partner

Marla serves as managing partner at HERmesa. Her background includes commercial leadership roles at Jamatto and Voddler, alongside business development experience at PRS for Music.

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Recent investments

Other
£350K

The funding follows co-development agreements with major food and packaging producers.

"Food safety shouldn’t be a guessing game. We’ve built a sensor that does the sniff test for you — turning an invisible chemical signal into something anyone in the supply chain can read at a glance. When you can read the quality of every pack, you can build intelligence about the whole supply chain that has never existed before. With HERmesa’s backing, we can move faster from co-development to commercial rollout and get our technology into the hands of the manufacturers and retailers who need it most."
— Anna Winter, Co-founder & CEO
£1.1M

The funding round was led by industry figures including Fabienne Viala and will support product development and team expansion.

"The industry thrives on collaboration, yet the way teams communicate is structured for failure. On-site teams have the most amount of knowledge, yet it’s largely untapped. We are solving one of the industry’s biggest productivity problems by making it easy for on-site and office-based teams to communicate and report in real time. This funding allows us to accelerate product development and scale across the sector."
— Sarah Crawley, Co-founder
Seed
£4.5M

The Bristol based biotech startup secured £4.5m from Eos Advisory, Calculus Capital, and HERmesa to expand manufacturing and drive commercial validation.

"The founding team of EnsiliTech is not just a team of collaborators. There is deep respect between all members of the team… created as a result of aligned values, respect for each other’s personalities, diversity of thought and backgrounds…"
— Asya Sartbaeva, CEO
Seed
$4.0M

The round was co-led by Amrock Ventures and M12 to support product development and team growth.

"It’s empowering to be part of the “2% of the 2%” (only 2% of VC investment goes to majority female founders and of that, less than 2% is in Enterprise SaaS). With most corporate work now globally distributed, project based and delivered by third parties, we need a new way to engage for services. We started Deployed to help everyone define work better and align on clear objectives early on"
— Emma Rees, CEO