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New Wave Ventures LLP is a UK-based investment firm founded in 2010. It manages two funds: the fully invested New Wave Ventures LLP and the newly established New Wave Venture Partners LLP, launched in 2025. The firm focuses on UK companies with significant growth potential and has realized multiple successful exits.
New Wave Ventures invests in UK-based companies that have the potential to dominate global markets. They provide capital through equity or loans and prefer to co-invest with like-minded partners. The firm emphasizes a people-centric investment philosophy, valuing the characteristics encapsulated in the acronym MIRACLES.
Current portfolio companies include Barista Verde, Atto, Sparkl, Surface Generation, and Surrey NanoSystems. Notable exits include Discuva, sold to Summit Therapeutics in 2017, Nanna Therapeutics, sold to Astellas in 2020, Merrifield Centre, sold to Life Science REIT in 2021, and Endomagnetics, sold to Hologic in 2024.
Email gareth.shilton@nwventures.co.uk with your deck to pitch New Wave Ventures.
New Wave Ventures typically prefers to co-invest with like-minded investors rather than leading rounds independently.
The firm supports its portfolio companies in achieving their strategic goals, which may include follow-on investments, depending on the specific circumstances and growth potential.
New Wave Ventures manages two funds, with the New Wave Venture Partners LLP fund established in 2025 actively seeking new investment opportunities.
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