Mercia Ventures

givestar is a digital fundraising platform that helps individuals and charities create campaigns, collect donations and run event-linked fundraising.

Productive Machines makes SenseNC, software that helps manufacturers set up CNC machining operations for faster, more reliable production. It optimizes cutting conditions on existing machine tools to reduce trial runs, chatter and wasted material.

SCI Semiconductor develops ICENI, a family of microcontrollers that enforce memory safety and software compartmentalisation in hardware. Embedded-systems developers can build security-critical devices on the chips; hardware-enforced capability boundaries isolate components and constrain what code can access if a software flaw is exploited.