Peter Dines

Chief Operating Officer @mercia_PLC @mercia_Group

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

I'm pleased to share that Mercia Ventures has led a £3.8million follow-on investment into Eventum Orthopaedics.

The medtech company whose device could revolutionise knee replacement surgery will use the funding to build stocks of its product followin... https://t.co/kvr0169yLs

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

Mercia Ventures has led a £3.8million investment round into Scalpel AI.

The investment will enable Scalpel AI to scale its global operations and roll out its technology with major players in the healthcare supply chain, including sterile services, hos... https://t.co/tT2VHTz4Zj

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

Pure Pet Food has raised £15million from Felix Capital and existing investor Mercia Ventures, which has supported its Co-founders Mat Cockroft and Daniel Eha since 2019.

The latest investment will support the further expansion of the Yorkshire-based b... https://t.co/QXONhoA5Tv

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

Mercia Ventures has co-led a £8million funding round into Promethean Particles alongide Aramco Ventures.

Promethean Particles is a chemical manufacturing company specialising in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a class of materials composed of metal i... https://t.co/IQWrj5B6VL

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

Mercia Ventures recently co-led a £8million investment into CultureAI.

Investment Manager, Adam Lovell pens all the details into why Mercia Ventures has backed this Manchester-based business headed by James Moore, and why the Human Risk Management se... https://t.co/el7TYyEGPl

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

A big congratulations to the Mercia Ventures-backed, Gentronix Limited, who has been awarded the King's Award for Enterprise after achieving a triple-figure revenue growth following rapid expansion in international markets.

They recorded total growth ... https://t.co/5ZuEMjQTCJ

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

Mercia Ventures has led on an oversubscribed £9.2million raise into the pioneering orthobiologics company, Locate Bio Ltd.

The proceeds will fund a clinical study of LDGraft, a bone graft substitute for spinal fusion.

This funding and the clinical ... https://t.co/W2qRIfhctC

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

🔬 The University of Edinburgh spin-out, Wobble Genomics, has raised £8.5m to help commercialise its revolutionary technology.

Wobble, which is currently operating in stealth mode, has found a way to detect previously invisible 'full length' RNA. The t... https://t.co/MpeIuh50nk

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

📖 Earlier this year Mercia Ventures' Lee Lindley and Marina Fuentes led a $10m investment into Camena Bioscience from Mercia Ventures.

Camena have developed a ground-breaking, proprietary DNA synthesis platform which we think will revolutionise the sy... https://t.co/ztyv8FFNTx

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

👏 Once again, members of our Sheffield and Nottingham teams proudly donated their time to help out at the S6 Foodbank in Sheffield - a truly great cause.

S6 Foodbank is Sheffield's busiest foodbank, feeding 1400 people a week, from 11 locations across... https://t.co/Q9dHytJplp

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

We're delighted to welcome Jocelyne Bath as the Group's new Chief Operating Officer.

Jo has an extensive background working in a variety of high-growth businesses in executive and senior roles focussed on product differentiation, marketing, revenue ma... https://t.co/Qy5xvcQK2v

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

📢 Mercia's EIS and VCT teams have been shortlisted for just not 2...but 3 awards at the upcoming Growth Investor Awards.

I'm pleased to share that we've been chosen as finalists in the Exit of the Year category!

🔹 Exit of the Year
🔹 Best EIS Investment Manager
🔹 Best ...

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

🔬 Camena Bioscience, a Cambridge-based company which provides synthetic genes to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, has completed a £7.8m ($10m) Series A funding round led by Mercia Ventures.

The new funding will be used to scale operati... https://t.co/Q5owqT8HAw

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

📚 Texere Publishing Limited – the Knutsford-based business which is one of the world's fastest-growing scientific publishers – has been acquired by US-based healthcare media company BroadcastMed.

The deal provides an exit for Texere's investors Mercia... https://t.co/YXL2ePijv1

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

🎮 Mercia Asset Management PLC is pleased to provide an update on its investments in the mobile and digital gaming sector.

As at 30 September 2022, mobile and digital gaming investments accounted for c.33% of Mercia's direct investment portfolio by val... https://t.co/owmnTybmbw

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

📣 Mercia is delighted to share the news that it has been recognised and shortlisted in three categories at this year's West Midlands Rainmaker's Awards 2023.

Deals (Small cap under £15m)
🔹 InHealth acquisition of the Mercia-backed C7 Health (Midland... https://t.co/cSoynqnggf

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

🖥 London-based Centuro Global has raised £3.3m from Mercia to support its rapid growth and further develop its AI-powered platform that helps companies to expand overseas.

The platform covers over 150 different countries and provides a cost-effective ... https://t.co/xjoQC4dPGZ

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

♻️ Social Value Portal has secured £8.5m in a Series B funding round led by Mercia with support from existing investor Beringea.

This investment will enable SVP to tap into growing demand from the public and private sectors, and launch a new Social Va... https://t.co/ZLoHOOpfcz

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

Congratulations to the award-winning Middlesbrough games developer SockMonkey Studios who have been acquired by Canada's largest video games studio, Behaviour Interactive, for an undisclosed sum.
The deal provides an exit for the Northern Powerhouse Inv... https://t.co/Zqnv26Ojsj

[Peter Dines @peterdinesc7]

According to Sifted Intelligence's 2022 tech review report (based on deals closed between January to November), it was great to read that Mercia has been named as one of the most active investors at Series A in Europe; placing joint 6th.
#SeriesA #Inves... https://t.co/7tzPPwiRaV