Touchstone Innovations

Touchstone Innovations

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Overview

Touchstone Innovations create, build and invest in pioneering technology companies and licensing opportunities developed from outstanding scientific research focusing on the ‘Golden Triangle’ of London, Cambridge and Oxford.

Their robust strategy and fully integrated business model, proven over many years, begins with original idea and extends through intellectual property (IP) protection, company formation, seed funding, incubation, scale-up and supportive investment.

This provides us with a unique insight into leveraging early-stage research and turning it into substantial, high-quality, well-managed and well-funded commercial businesses.

They help scientists and entrepreneurs to commercialise their idea by protecting and licensing intellectual property, leading the formation of new companies, recruiting high-calibre management teams and providing and supporting investment.

They provide continuity of funding from start-up to scale-up, with initial investments from seed stage onwards. They remain an active investor throughout the lifetime of their portfolio companies, with the majority of their investment each year going into businesses they have lived with and understood for some time. This strategy substantially de-risks investment scale-up in their portfolio companies.

Touchstone Innovations is at the forefront of UK early-stage technology investment. Alongside their co-investors they have leveraged over £1.5 billion to help drive high technology innovation in the UK.

Highlights

Founded

2001

Industry

Financial Services

Employees

11-50

Investment

20

Lead Investment

13

Exits

6

Stages

Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed

Investor Type

Venture Capital

Location

Europe

Contact Information

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Profile Resume

Touchstone Innovations, established in 2001 and headquartered in Europe., specializes in Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed investments across Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Therapeutics, Financial Services, Venture Capital, Finance, Intellectual Property, Semiconductor, Life Science. The organization boasts a portfolio of 20 investments, with an average round size of $15.2M and 6 successful exits. Their recent investments include Storm Therapeutics, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Imperial Innovations, M Ventures, Pfizer Venture Investments. The highest investment round they participated in was $18.1B. Among their most notable exits are Storm Therapeutics and Cambridge Innovation Capital. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.

Employees

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Investment portfolio

Touchstone Innovations has made 20 investments. Their most recent investment was on Apr 11, 2023, when AccelerComm raised $26.7M.

investments

20

Diversity investments

0

Lead investments

13

Number of exits

6

Investments

20

Annouced DateOrganization NameIndustryMoney Raised
Oct 10, 2017
Oxford Biotrans Oxford Biotrans
Biotechnology2.8M
Nov 14, 2017
SAM Labs SAM Labs
Education6.7M
Feb 19, 2018
Re:infer Re:infer
Big Data3.5M
Apr 11, 2023
AccelerComm AccelerComm
Semiconductor26.7M

Exits

6

Funding Timeline

Funding rounds

20

Investors

0

Funds

0

Funding Rounds

20

Touchstone Innovations has raised 20 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Apr 11, 2023 from a Series B - AccelerComm round.

Annouced DateTransaction NameNumber of InvestorsMoney RaisedLead Investor
Oct 10, 2017
Series B - Oxford Biotrans Series B - Oxford Biotrans
-2.8M-
Nov 14, 2017
Series A - SAM Labs Series A - SAM Labs
-6.7M-
Feb 19, 2018
Venture Round - Re:infer Venture Round - Re:infer
-3.5M-
Apr 11, 2023
Series B - AccelerComm Series B - AccelerComm
-26.7M-

Investors

0

There is no funding round available on this profile

Fund raised

2

Susa Ventures has raised a total of $590M across 6 funds, their latest being Susa Ventures Opportunities II. This fund was announced on Aug 30, 2021 and raised a total of $250M.

Annouced DateFund NameMoney Raised
May 10, 2013
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1.0M
May 11, 2013
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1.0M

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