Highland Capital Partners

Highland Capital Partners is a Massachusetts-headquartered global venture capital firm that invests in seed, early and growth-stage consumer and enterprise technology companies. It maintains offices in Boston, Silicon Valley and Shanghai and has raised substantial capital and backed more than 225 companies across consumer and enterprise technology, supporting entrepreneurs with a focus on building lasting businesses. The firm also runs mentorship initiatives such as Summer@Highland. Its European presence, Highland Europe, founded in 2012, targets rapidly growing internet, mobile and software companies in Europe and works closely with the firm to pursue primary investments as well as acquisition finance or lead secondary transactions.

Bob Davis

Managing Partner

Eoghan Dorman

Senior Associate

Craig Driscoll

General Partner

Claire Fauquier

Principal

Ayna Hayden

Principal

Past deals in Scotland

Snappy Shopper

Venture Round in 2022
Snappy Shopper Ltd is an online food and grocery delivery service based in Dundee, United Kingdom, founded in 2017. The company specializes in offering a diverse range of products, including groceries, beverages, snacks, household items, baby care products, pet food, and magazines. Snappy Shopper partners with local convenience stores, allowing customers to order items from their inventories and receive deliveries in as little as 30 minutes. The platform promotes contact-free and same-day delivery, which has helped it gain popularity among consumers, amassing over 105,000 users. Customers typically spend an average of £27 per order, significantly higher than the average spend in traditional convenience stores. The service collaborates with well-known brands such as SPAR, Nisa, Co-Op, and Premier, alongside hundreds of independent retailers, providing an additional sales channel for these businesses. Top-performing stores on the platform can achieve home delivery retail sales exceeding £10,000 per week.

Snappy Shopper

Series A in 2021
Snappy Shopper Ltd is an online food and grocery delivery service based in Dundee, United Kingdom, founded in 2017. The company specializes in offering a diverse range of products, including groceries, beverages, snacks, household items, baby care products, pet food, and magazines. Snappy Shopper partners with local convenience stores, allowing customers to order items from their inventories and receive deliveries in as little as 30 minutes. The platform promotes contact-free and same-day delivery, which has helped it gain popularity among consumers, amassing over 105,000 users. Customers typically spend an average of £27 per order, significantly higher than the average spend in traditional convenience stores. The service collaborates with well-known brands such as SPAR, Nisa, Co-Op, and Premier, alongside hundreds of independent retailers, providing an additional sales channel for these businesses. Top-performing stores on the platform can achieve home delivery retail sales exceeding £10,000 per week.

Sunamp

Seed Round in 2016
Sunamp Ltd. specializes in designing, manufacturing, and selling heat batteries for various applications. Its products include UniQ Heat Batteries for hot water and heating systems, SunampPV for solar PV integration, SunampStack for optimizing renewable heat sources, and SunampCube for large-scale heat storage. Incorporated in 2005, the company is headquartered in Macmerry, United Kingdom.

Sunamp

Seed Round in 2015
Sunamp Ltd. specializes in designing, manufacturing, and selling heat batteries for various applications. Its products include UniQ Heat Batteries for hot water and heating systems, SunampPV for solar PV integration, SunampStack for optimizing renewable heat sources, and SunampCube for large-scale heat storage. Incorporated in 2005, the company is headquartered in Macmerry, United Kingdom.

Actual Analytics

Seed Round in 2010
Actual Analytics is a provider of behavior analysis solutions for scientific studies, offering automated video-based tools to monitor laboratory animals. Its products include ActualTrack, which automatically tracks movement of animals such as rodents, drosophila, and zebrafish, and Actual Home Cage Analysis, a non-invasive data collection and automated behavior analysis tool for group-housed rodents. The company serves pharmaceutical and academic research markets, delivering continuous monitoring and detailed locomotor and behavioral outputs to accelerate disease research, improve reproducibility, and reduce manual effort in preclinical studies. It operates through distributors in the United States, Spain, Taiwan, China, and Germany and is headquartered in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Actual Analytics was founded in 2009.
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