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Merian Chrysalis Investment Company

Venture Capital

Merian Chrysalis Investment Company is a Guernsey-domiciled investment company traded on the London Stock Exchange that targets late-stage private companies.

Portfolio

2

companies


Portfolio companies

Graphcore

Graphcore

Graphcore develops intelligence processing units and software for artificial intelligence workloads.

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Growth Street

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Team

NW

Nick Williamson

co-fund manager

RW

Richard Watts

co-fund manager


Recent investments

Series D+
£19.2M

Merian Chrysalis Investment Company has led a £19.2m Series D funding round for artificial intelligence processor firm Graphcore.

"We believe the machine intelligence market will show substantial growth in the coming years and that Graphcore is well positioned to generate material revenues,"
— Nick Williamson, co-fund manager
Series B
£10.0M

The round was led by Merian Chrysalis Investment Company and Arts Alliance.

"There’s no two ways about it – the banks are failing businesses: they have failed to innovate, failed to integrate and, fundamentally, failed to provide SMEs with sufficient capital to grow,"
— Greg Carter, CEO and co-founder