Sandy McKinnon is a Partner at Pentech Ventures, a role he has held since 2001, with a background including a Ph.D. See sector focus and contact routes.
Sandy McKinnon is a Partner at Pentech Ventures, a role he has held since 2001, with a background including a Ph.D. and first-class B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Dundee and a Research Fellowship in Nanotechnology at Cambridge University. His investment thesis targets early-stage machine learning and scalable technology companies, focusing on sectors such as security technology, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and microservices within the UK. McKinnon typically leads investments rather than following, having led deals in companies like Velocix, SeeWhy, Omniperception, Sonaptic, and Acunu. Notable portfolio companies include the edge-caching firm Velocix (sold to Alcatel-Lucent), the predictive analytics company SeeWhy (sold to SAP), and current board members nPlan, Lifebit, Stacker, and Eola. He maintains a distinctive focus on commercializing university technology, actively supporting Old College Capital at Edinburgh University and helping establish the micro-seed fund techstart^NI^ for Northern Ireland. While specific check sizes are not publicly detailed, Pentech Ventures generally focuses on seed- and early-stage funding for software c
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