• 180+

    The UK’s most active investor in UK university spin-outs

  • £500M

    Over £500m raised; invested into over 180 companies

  • £145M

    Cash returned to investors via exits

  • £1.2Bn

    Part of FTSE 250 sector specialist group with £1.2bn net assets

About Parkwalk

Parkwalk is one of the UK’s leading growth fund managers backing world-changing technologies emerging out of UK universities and research institutions with the aim of delivering world-class returns.

Performance

We back high potential, hard science technology companies that aim to shape the future by commercialising innovation in sectors of strategic importance to UK Plc, such as AI, big data, life science, materials, cleantech, future of mobility, medtech and quantum computing.

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Parkwalk Open Funds

Parkwalk offer early-stage investment funds, investing in high-growth, knowledge intensive companies spun out of the UK’s world-leading universities and providing tax benefits under the Enterprise Investment Scheme.

Opportunities EIS Fund

Our evergreen EIS Fund, investing in EIS-qualifying hard science and deep tech companies spun out of universities across the UK.
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Imperial College Enterprise Fund III

Our ICEF III invests in high-growth, IP-rich technologies linked to Imperial College.
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Meet the Parkwalk team

Combining our diverse range of skills and experience with integrity and transparency the Parkwalk team has an outstanding track record for supporting high-growth innovation that delivers returns.

Samiksha Rai
Anne Dobrée
Becky Amankwah
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Empowering Innovation

Parkwalk Funds invest in dynamic university spin-out companies seeking to commercialise intellectual property and technology. From investing in seed to later stage companies, we help fantastic management teams develop and build world-class successful businesses.

Diffblue

Diffblue is leading the automation of software creation through the power of AI. Founded by researchers from the University of Oxford, Diffblue Cover uses AI for code to write unit tests that help software teams and organizations efficiently improve their code coverage and quality and to ship software faster, more frequently and with fewer defects.

Carbon Re

Carbon Re is a University of Cambridge and UCL spin-out, which has developed AI-powered process optimisation software to enable energy efficiency and emission reduction in process industries. Carbon Re’s proprietary software platform, Delta Zero, uses deep reinforcement learning to enable reductions in energy consumption, cost and carbon emissions.

Cisiv

Cisiv is a pioneering developer of technology solutions for pharmaceutical companies, enabling customers to capture new levels of information on the use of their products and treatments in real world settings. Cisiv’s next generation web-based software platform enables pharmaceutical customers to capture, analyse and share phase IV (post approval) observational study patient data quickly, simply

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