Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd is a private company headquartered in Oxford, UK. The Company has raised £105.4 million to date in the following fundraising rounds, and is currently well funded for the next phase of corporate development.  The Company does not have traditional Venture Capital investment, instead the investor profile more closely mirrors that seen of publicly listed companies.

Funding rounds:
Seed funding was obtained in two rounds, from IP Group in 2005. In June 2006 the company raised £7.75m, and in March 2008 the company raised a further £10m.  

In January 2009 the Company announced an $18 million (£11.9 million) investment from Illumina and a separate commercialisation agreement with Illumina for the Company's exonuclease sequencing technology. In this round the Company also raised as additional £2.1 million in private investment from other sources.

In February 2010 Oxford Nanopore raised £17.4 million from existing investors and new, undisclosed US-based investors.
In April 2011 the Company raised £25 million from existing and new institutional and independent investors based in the UK and US.

In May 2012 the Company raised £34.1 million ($50.8 million), the majority of which was from existing investors.

Investment Opportunities
At this stage, Oxford Nanopore is not seeking additional investment. However if you are interested in receiving information at the next opportunity then please use our contact form.