mercia technologies plc

Mercia is a national investment group focused on the creation, funding and scaling of innovative businesses with high growth potential from the UK regions. Its fund management business is one of the most active VCs in the country according to independent research from Beauhurst - https://about.beauhurst.com/blog/most-active-uk-venture-capital-funds/. Mercia employs more than 80 people across nine offices and it has one of the largest university networks in the UK with 19 university partnerships across the Midlands, the North of England and Scotland. These partnerships provide access to high quality, regional deal flow which accounts for approximately one third of Mercias investments. Mercias Complete Capital Solution enable it to scale businesses via its third party funds (with more than £400.0million under management) and then over time Mercia identifies its Emerging Stars which it can provide further capital to using its own balance sheet. Mercia focuses on sourcing and scaling businesses across four sectors: Digital & Digital Entertainment; Life Sciences and Bio-sciences; Software & the Internet and; Electronics, Materials & Manufacturing/Engineering. In addition to providing its direct investments with the required capital, Mercia also supports the management teams to build towards exits that will realise incremental value for Mercia shareholders over the medium term. The Mercia Group comprises Mercia Technologies PLC, Mercia Fund Management Ltd and Enterprise Ventures Group Ltd. Mercia is quoted on AIM with the epic MERC. For more information, visit www.merciatech.co.uk