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VV

Vertical Venture Partners

Venture Capital

Portfolio

2

companies

Investment by month

By category

  • Uncategorised£55.9M

By location

  • Oxford£55.2M
  • London£761K

Portfolio companies

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ONI

ONI develops desktop super-resolution microscopes for cellular and molecular research.

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Planet Smart

Planet Smart develops naturally biodegradable superabsorbent polymers for hygiene products.


Recent investments

Pre-Seed
$1.0M

General Inception and Vertical Venture Partners back Planet Smart to support research and product trials.

"Every parent knows the guilt of throwing away nappies. The first thing we do to babies the moment they’re born is wrap them in plastic. I want to change that by creating smarter biomaterials that my daughter won’t have to clean up in thirty years’ time,"
— Gerald Marin, Co-founder
Series B
$75.0M

The Oxford biotech spinout secured $75m to expand international operations and scale its microscopy platform.

"ONI’s technology democratises cutting-edge science, enabling researchers to develop new angles to explore and understand the complexity of biological systems at super-resolution,"
— Keith Crandell, Co-founder and Managing Director