• 150+

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

  • £400M

    Over £400m raised; invested into over 150 companies

  • 19 wins

    Award winning manager with track record of delivering returns

  • £1.4Bn

    Part of FTSE 250 sector specialist group with £1.4bn 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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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.

John Pearson
Tom Hopkins
Ian Broadhurst
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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.

Xampla

Xampla is developing a novel class of plant-protein materials which provide natural alternatives to plastics. These materials can be manufactured in a wide variety of forms, including films, threads, gels and microbeads, and all have a high degree of biodegradability.

Versed AI

VersedAI, a University of Cambridge spin-out, is developing an advanced supervised deep learning solution that will allow companies to better understand significant business risk associated with their supply chains. The company’s technology uses advanced supervised deep learning methods combined with VersedAI’s own proprietary training data set to extract supply chain information from unstruct

Nyobolt

Nyobolt (formerly called CB2 Tech) has developed a proprietary process using niobium-based anode materials to create batteries that deliver record high power, ultrafast charge and high energy. The world-leading charge and discharge rate capability of Nyobolt batteries, extensively recorded in academic journals, presents a huge opportunity to supercharge the electric revolution. The batteries also

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