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TechStart Ventures

Venture Capital

TechStart Ventures is a seed stage venture capital investor for entrepreneurial teams in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Portfolio

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companies


Portfolio companies

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Sensoteq

Sensoteq designs and manufactures wireless industrial sensors for remote equipment monitoring.

ChilliConnect

ChilliConnect

ChilliConnect provides a live game management platform for developers and publishers.


Recent investments

Other
£3.1M

Maven VCTs lead a fresh financing round to support international expansion and product development at Sensoteq.

"Sensoteq has developed and launched a market leading product, giving clients access to previously unobtainable data that is invaluable in ensuring the health and ongoing performance of key production equipment. We have been hugely impressed by the global reach of the company and demand for the technology, and we are aware that customers greatly value and rely upon the technical expertise and support of the entire Sensoteq team. We look forward to working with Idir and Alan to further grow the business."
— Alan Robertson, Partner
Seed
£343K

The seed round was led by TechStart Ventures and supported by Ascension Ventures alongside angel investors.

"We are delighted to close this Seed round. Not only will this investment allow us to accelerate the development of the ChilliConnect platform, developing innovative live operations and game backend features, but we can now market the platform to an even larger range of potential customers. Having access to the knowledge and networks of both TechStart Ventures and Ascension Ventures is a massive benefit. We’re looking forward to working with these top drawer early-stage funds."
— Paul Farley, CEO and Co-founder