Novo Ventures
novoventures.co.uk Direct investor
Novo Ventures is a UK venture finance firm that partners with and holds minority or majority shareholdings in SEIS/EIS-qualifying growth ventures. It also provides advisory and debt-financing support to early-stage and growth businesses.
Novo Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Birmingham, United Kingdom. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in legal tech, edtech, energy from waste and renewables.
“Novo operates as a partner to growth enterprise in the UK; providing the expertise, capital and people to help deliver the key objectives for the business.”
— Novo Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- UK
- Sectors
- legal tech, edtech, energy from waste, renewables, FMCG, media, sports tech, electric vehicles
Team, as Novo Ventures publishes it
- Iek Van Cruyningen Chairman & CIO
- Taj Heer CEO
- Carl Withers Managing Partner
- Christopher Richards Partner (Debt, Asset Financing)
- Abeed Janmohamed Partner (Corporate)
- Joe Turner Partner (Education, EdTech, Training & Sports)
- Philip Andrew Partner (Minerals, Mining and Carbon Sequestration Technologies)
- John Mathani Partner (Media & Digital)
- Glyn Brooke Partner (Energy from Waste, Renewables, Power Generation)
- Andrew Hopwood Partner (Logisitics)
Names and roles exactly as listed on novoventures.co.uk. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Novo Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://novoventures.co.uk/name, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_max, thesis_quote, description, status, confidence
- https://novoventures.co.uk/portfolio/is_investor, layer, sectors
- https://novoventures.co.uk/about/type, stage_min, people
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