Michael Dickens

Corporate Finance Advisor | Helping Business Owners Raise Capital, Buy, Sell & Scale | 200+ Transactions | Ex-VC & PE | Science PhD

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025
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Oct 2025
aXenic are leaders in the design, development and production of optical modulators for communications and sensing. ​Specialising in semiconductor design including GaAs and InP, packaging and test and measurement; aXenic ​​​​​are flexible enough to offer you everything from a custom device design and prototyping solution to a fully qualified production run. ​ Whatever your requiremen​​ts from a demanding defense or aerospace solution or a robust optical communication product contact aXenic for a solution…
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Mar 2025
An innovative C. elegans company, using our expertise and technology to provide quantified non-invasive assays of health outcomes for biotech, nutrition and other industries and research interests. - Prescreen compounds to reduce the number of experiments in mammals - Find effective and safe concentration ranges
 - Test mutants in signalling pathways - Screen libraries of mutants
 - Screen compound libraries 
 - Combine compounds and mutants
 - Adapt technology to address your questions We are a team of experts with a proven track record of: Designing customised C. elegans studies to provide answers to your specific ageing research questions Integrating C. elegans into drug discovery pipelines Working with innovative biotech and pharma companies Providing relevant, standardised, data rich assays
Board Observer
Sep 2023
At MarraBio we design, engineer and construct bacterial protein polymers, that contain the biological messages that cells need to grow, divide and behave properly. Cells grown on an industrial scale for research, agricultural or therapeutic use need to be supplied with the right signals. We provide a multi-functional, cost effective solution in a single, easy to use material. Find out more at https://www.marrabio.com/
Board Observer
Sep 2020
Solar power is a powerful ally in the fight against climate change. But limitations in existing solar technologies are preventing extensive use across the globe. We’re here to change that. We want to enable the production of solar power in all sorts of places, all over the world, without breaking the bank or causing harm to our planet or its people. We’re a bright collective of challengers pushing the perimeters of solar energy to make flexible solar film an irresistible green energy solution. We are Power Roll.
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Oct 2018
We envisage a day when precision membrane technology underpins circular economies and accelerates the transition to the new energy economy by harvesting critical minerals and drastically decarbonising desalination and the processing, treatment and recycling of liquids. #Decarbonise #Transform #Recover #Environment
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May 2015
By delivering enhanced threat intelligence, through a ground-breaking SaaS platform or API feed, we increase the volume, quality and accuracy of your data. Intelligence Fusion currently collects 5X more data than most other intelligence providers, utilising a broader range of sources and fusing together the speed and consistency of datamining AI with the precision and efficiency of our military trained analytical team. Our extensive customisation options also allow you and your team to cut through the noise, and focus solely on the incidents that are relevant to your operations. With no need to fact-check, our clients benefit from a faster response rate, less false alerts and higher ROI. Our services; Threat Intelligence Platform Subscription Intelligence Data Feed API Bespoke Intelligence Analysis and Consultancy Custom-Built Intelligence Platforms and Software Development
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2025
Board Observer
Oct 2025
aXenic are leaders in the design, development and production of optical modulators for communications and sensing. ​Specialising in semiconductor design including GaAs and InP, packaging and test and measurement; aXenic ​​​​​are flexible enough to offer you everything from a custom device design and prototyping solution to a fully qualified production run. ​ Whatever your requiremen​​ts from a demanding defense or aerospace solution or a robust optical communication product contact aXenic for a solution…
Board Observer
Mar 2025
An innovative C. elegans company, using our expertise and technology to provide quantified non-invasive assays of health outcomes for biotech, nutrition and other industries and research interests. - Prescreen compounds to reduce the number of experiments in mammals - Find effective and safe concentration ranges
 - Test mutants in signalling pathways - Screen libraries of mutants
 - Screen compound libraries 
 - Combine compounds and mutants
 - Adapt technology to address your questions We are a team of experts with a proven track record of: Designing customised C. elegans studies to provide answers to your specific ageing research questions Integrating C. elegans into drug discovery pipelines Working with innovative biotech and pharma companies Providing relevant, standardised, data rich assays
2023
Board Observer
Sep 2023
At MarraBio we design, engineer and construct bacterial protein polymers, that contain the biological messages that cells need to grow, divide and behave properly. Cells grown on an industrial scale for research, agricultural or therapeutic use need to be supplied with the right signals. We provide a multi-functional, cost effective solution in a single, easy to use material. Find out more at https://www.marrabio.com/
2022
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Jun 2022
Pragmatic is revolutionising semiconductor technology with ultra-low-cost, flexible integrated circuit (FlexIC) technology that makes it quick and easy to embed intelligence almost anywhere. #pragmaticsemiconductor #flexics
2020
Board Observer
Sep 2020
Solar power is a powerful ally in the fight against climate change. But limitations in existing solar technologies are preventing extensive use across the globe. We’re here to change that. We want to enable the production of solar power in all sorts of places, all over the world, without breaking the bank or causing harm to our planet or its people. We’re a bright collective of challengers pushing the perimeters of solar energy to make flexible solar film an irresistible green energy solution. We are Power Roll.
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