When was Kelvin Capital founded?

Kelvin Capital was founded in 2009.

Where is Kelvin Capital's headquarters located?

Kelvin Capital's headquarters is located in Glasgow ( United Kingdom ).

How big is Kelvin Capital's investment team?

Kelvin Capital has a team of 11, including 4 partners.

How many companies has Kelvin Capital invested in?

Kelvin Capital has invested in 36 companies, including Broadcom & Snappy Shopper.

Which companies has Kelvin Capital invested in lately?

Aurora Avionics & Biotangents are the latest investments by Kelvin Capital.

What sectors does Kelvin Capital focus on for investments?

Top sectors in Kelvin Capital's portfolio are Life Sciences (8 investments) and High Tech (8 investments).

What stages of companies does Kelvin Capital typically invest in?

Kelvin Capital primarily invests in Seed and Series A stages.

How many exits has Kelvin Capital been involved in?

Kelvin Capital's portfolio has seen 1 IPO.

Kelvin Capital - 2025 Investor Profile, Portfolio, Team & Investment Trends - Tracxn

1. Broadcom

Platform offering data center fiber optic networks. It offers network, server, and storage connectivity. Its product portfolio includes cable modems, semiconductors for PON, DSL, NICs, filters and amplifiers, ASIC, wireless connectivity solutions, embedded processors, HDD, SSD controllers, enterprise fiber channel connectivity, data center switches, and routers. It offering includes storage, cybersecurity, mainframe solutions, and more.

Key facts about Broadcom

Founded Year: 1991
Location: California (United States)
Annual Revenue: $1.9B as on Oct 31, 2024
Stage: Public
Employee Count: 61 as on Sep 30, 2024
Investors: Silver Lake, The Carlyle Group and 25 Others
Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Jul 08, 2019
Highlight: Public

2. Snappy Shopper

Snappy Shopper is an online marketplace for grocery products. It connects the buyers with local grocers on the platform. Users can select the preferred grocery store, browse the products and place the orders on the platform. The orders are sent directly to the partnered stores that fulfill the orders. Some of the offered product categories include groceries, soft drinks, snacks, baby care, household, pet food, etc. The app is available for Android and IOS.

Key facts about Snappy Shopper

Founded Year: 2013
Location: Dundee (United Kingdom)
Stage: Series A
Total Funding till date: $43.4M
Employee Count: 88 as on Apr 30, 2021
Investors: Mercia, Scottish Enterprise and 37 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series A, Dec 13, 2022
Highlight: Editors' Pick

3. Biotangents

Developer of veterinary diagnostics products. The company offers bovine viral diarrhea testing that detects defined sections of RNA unique to the BVD virus. The company's diagnostics products are based on Moduleic Sensing technology that uses a modular target-amplifier-reporter construct to build nucleic acid detectors.

Key facts about Biotangents

Founded Year: 2015
Location: Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
Stage: Series A
Total Funding till date: $5.62M
Employee Count: 13 as on Dec 31, 2021
Investors: Gov.uk, British Business Investments and 43 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series A, Nov 28, 2024, $2.9M
Highlight: Editors' Pick

4. Novosound

Provider of ultra-sound sensors for pipeline monitoring. It offers a range of probes which provides information regarding cracks and physical faults in the pipeline and can operate at a high temperature. It can also be used for NDT imaging, dental imaging, and medical imaging.

Key facts about Novosound

Founded Year: 2018
Location: Glasgow (United Kingdom)
Stage: Series A
Total Funding till date: $6.24M
Employee Count: 35 as on Mar 31, 2023
Investors: Scottish Enterprise, BioCity and 8 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series A, Dec 16, 2019, $4.4M
Highlight: Editors' Pick

5. Dyneval

Key facts about Dyneval

Founded Year: 2020
Location: Roslin (United Kingdom)
Stage: Series A
Total Funding till date: $3.03M
Employee Count: 2 as on Apr 30, 2022
Investors: Gov.uk, Scottish Enterprise and 6 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jan 15, 2025, $610K
Highlight: Editors' Pick

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Kelvin Capital has invested in 36 companies over the last 13 years, with an average of 2 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2024, it made 5 investments, while as of Mar 2025, it has made 1 investment in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Aurora Avionics and most recent follow-on round was in Aurora Avionics.

Here are Kelvin Capital's Year-on-Year Investment Trends:

Year	No. of Investments
Year	1^st Round	Follow-on	Total
2025 (YTD)	0	1	1
2024	2	3	5
2023	0	2	2
2022	3	6	9
2021	1	3	4
2020	3	2	5
2019	1	4	5
2018	1	2	3
2017	2	1	3
2016	1	1	2

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Kelvin Capital has made 22 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.03M and 4 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $2.13M.

Here are Kelvin Capital's investments by stage:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Stage of entry	No. of Investments
Seed	22
Series A	4

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Kelvin Capital has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the High Tech, Life Sciences, Sustainability Tech, Consumer and Energy Tech. Notably, it has invested in 23 Tech companies, 20 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 6 Tech hardware companies and at least 5 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).

Here are Kelvin Capital's investments by sector:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Sector	No. of Investments
High Tech	6
Life Sciences	5
Sustainability Tech	4
Consumer	3
Energy Tech	3
Others	27

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Kelvin Capital has made most investments in United Kingdom (25), followed by United States where it has made 1 investment.

Here are Kelvin Capital's investments by geography:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Country	No. of Investments
United Kingdom	25
United States	1

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Kelvin Capital has made 1 investments in 2025 so far - Aurora Avionics.

Here are the most recent investments by Kelvin Capital:

Date	Company	Location	Round Details	Round Amount	Co-Investors
Mar 28, 2025	Aurora Avionics	United Kingdom	Seed	Undisclosed	Scottish Enterprise [+1]
Nov 28, 2024	Biotangents	United Kingdom	Series A	$2.9M	Eos Advisory [+2]
Jul 31, 2024	Chromacity	United Kingdom	Seed	$1.28M	Eos Advisory [+1]
Jun 06, 2024	Sofant Technologies	United Kingdom	Series A	$4.34M	EMV Capital [+1]
May 27, 2024	Aurora Avionics	United Kingdom	Seed	$645K	Gabriel [+2]

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1 of Kelvin Capital's portfolio company became public - Broadcom. It got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Apr 1998 at marketcap of $1.04B

Here are Kelvin Capital's portfolio companies that went public:

Company	IPO Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Broadcom	Apr 17, 1998	-	-	-

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Kelvin Capital has a team of 11 members including 4 Partners and 1 Principal located in United Kingdom and Scotland. Kelvin Capital's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.

Here is a list of top team members in Kelvin Capital:

Name	Designation	Location	Board Memberships	Contact details
John McNicol	Partner	Glasgow	-	1 Email
Angus Hay	Partner	Dundee	-	1 Email
Stuart McKee	Partner	Harrogate	-	1 Email
Yuxuan Zhang	Partner	Edinburgh	-	1 Email
Lynn Hall	Principal	Glasgow	-	1 Email
Simon Russell	Advisor	London	Scott Dunn	1 Email
Colin Robertson	Advisor	United Kingdom	-	1 Email
John Thomson	Advisor	Scotland	-	1 Email
Lynn Nathan	Associate	United Kingdom	-	1 Email
Gary Weir	Associate	Glasgow	-	1 Email
Lewis Hall	Analyst	Glasgow	-	1 Email

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Over the past 13 years, 133 investors have co-invested in Kelvin Capital's portfolio companies.

Invested before Kelvin Capital: Gov.uk, Allen Strauss and 63 others have invested in rounds before Kelvin Capital. There are 1 company where Gov.uk has invested before Kelvin Capital and 1 company where Allen Strauss has invested before Kelvin Capital.
Top Co-investors of Kelvin Capital: 19 investors entered a company along with Kelvin Capital. These include investors like Scottish Enterprise (18 companies).
Invested after Kelvin Capital: A total of 49 investors have invested in Kelvin Capital's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Scottish Enterprise (3 companies), Eos Advisory (2 companies) and Gov.uk (2 companies).