Kelvin Capital is a Scottish private investment syndicate backed by over 300 UK-wide angel investors and a diverse portfolio of investee companies.
Portfolio
6
companies
Chromacity
Chromacity designs and manufactures advanced ultrafast pulsed fibre lasers for scientific and industrial research.
Ingenious Audio
Ingenious Audio develops patented Wi-Fi audio technology for live music and entertainment applications.
Dyneval
Dyneval builds portable instruments for semen analysis to improve farming efficiency.
Snappy Group
The Snappy Group provides technology platforms connecting consumers with local convenience stores and hospitality venues.
Sofant Technologies
Sofant Technologies builds energy efficient antenna technology platforms for 5G and satellite communications.
Logan Energy
Logan Energy provides hydrogen technology solutions and clean energy systems.
John McNicol
John is a founder and director at Kelvin Capital, alongside founding roles at Clyde Munro Dental Group and Ingenious Audio. He also brings board experience from LINC Scotland and Polaroid Contact Lens Solutions.
LinkedInSusie Fisher
The Scottish laser technology specialist has raised over £1m from existing investors and Innovate UK to fund healthcare product rollouts and emissions monitoring tools.
"Designing and manufacturing state-of-the-art ultrafast infra-red lasers brings huge value and efficiencies to the global healthcare market. Our new '920' builds on a decade of research and IP development to extend our product roadmap."
The funding will support the commercialisation of the firm's patented Wi-Fi audio technology.
"Steve brings the skillset and firsthand experience of generating demand in a very targeted manner which is critical to advance Fi-Live™ as we expand from being a product focused company in one niche to a broad technology provider"
The Edinburgh based agritech firm has raised over half a million pounds to accelerate manufacturing of its portable semen testing device.
"We are very proud to secure this additional round of funding which will help to rapidly increase our production meaning we can help even more farmers across Scotland, the UK and beyond."
The Edinburgh laser manufacturer has closed a £1.2m round backed by Kelvin Capital, EOS, Scottish Enterprise, and ESM Investments.
"This new funding will enable us to expand our team and accelerate Chromacity’s growth, both commercially and technologically. We are seeing significant traction with major industrial companies in China and Japan, who are very interested in the high average power and broad wavelength coverage of our systems, and it’s important we are funded to accelerate growth and capitalise on these opportunities."
PayPoint led the oversubscribed Series A round to fund team expansion and technology development.
EMV Capital led the pre-series A round to support product development and partnership activities in 5G and satellite communications.
"We are very pleased to have supportive investors who understand the value of semiconductor-based hardware. This funding will be used to complete the development of our core RF technology platform. It will also support our activities with an ecosystem of corporate partners who share Sofant’s belief that RF MEMS will disrupt the market for high frequency SatCom and 5G antenna applications. It is a very exciting time for Sofant, and we look forward to working with our partners to change the way high frequency antenna systems are designed and built."
The investment from Kelvin Capital will support a partnership with Henan Lanxing Power Equipment and fund new jobs.
"We are absolutely delighted that Lanxing have invested in Logan Energy. This demonstrates our standing in the industry and specifically the need for competent integration specialists in the rapidly expanding global hydrogen market."
The funding was led by Kelvin Capital alongside co-investors to support commercialisation and new licensing partnerships.
"In applications like mobile phones, with companies looking to remove headphone and power connectors, it’s increasingly difficult for musicians and other users to interact with these massively powerful and convenient devices, and with the developments in the next generation of Wi-Fi bringing massive data capability over huge physical areas, the future applications for real time audio streaming over Wi-Fi are vast across music, entertainment and communications"
Kelvin Capital and EMV Capital backed the Edinburgh-based antenna developer to finalise commercialisation of its core technology.
"We are very pleased to have EMV Capital on board and for their help in securing the capital that Sofant needed to finalize the commercialization of our leading-edge RF MEMS technology. Ilian and his team bring a great corporate and investor network, and experience in working with scale-ups. They are pragmatic and results oriented."
