Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Biotech & Life Sciences · Oxford, United Kingdom · Founded 2005 · IPO 2021

Developing a new generation of nanopore-based electronic systems for analysis of single molecules

Valuation $1.18B

Revenue $350M

Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Talent graph

Oxford Nanopore Technologies's talent

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Employees mapped 1,362 incl. 28 AI specialists

Founders /100 quality score

Key operators 21 quality /100

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia 4 alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

20 investors on Oxford Nanopore Technologies's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding and investor records. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage

IP Group

Series A 1 investor entered at this stage

Woodford Investment Management

Series B+ 18 investors entered at this stage

GIC

M&G

Invesco Perpetual

Oxford University Innovation

Oracle

University of Oxford

GT Healthcare

Nikon

China Construction Bank

Wellington Management

Lansdowne Partners

Top Technology Ventures

International Holding Company

Amgen

RPMI Railpen

Temasek

Hostplus

Illumina

Oxford Nanopore Technologies mafia

Startups founded by Oxford Nanopore Technologies alumni

Former Oxford Nanopore Technologies employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

Portal BiotechEst. 2021

Andrew HeronUnited Kingdom

Signal score92

BristleEst. 2020

Danny GrannickUnited States

Signal score68

HoneycombEst. 2014

RCRichard CarterUnited Kingdom

Signal score59

KnomeEst. 2007

George ChurchUnited States

Signal score58

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Global footprint

Where Oxford Nanopore Technologies has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

34 countries with
team presence

🇬🇧 United Kingdom67.3%

🇺🇸 United States14.8%

🇸🇬 Singapore3%

🇩🇪 Germany2.2%

🇫🇷 France1.7%

Top 5 of 34 shown

Web traffic by country

190K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States20.3%

🇩🇪 Germany7.9%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom6.7%

🇨🇦 Canada5.8%

🇫🇷 France5.4%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$198M patent portfolio · 174 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$198M

16.7% of market cap · 1.5× smaller than top peer Verily ($295M)

174 active patent families

Where Oxford Nanopore Technologies innovates AnalyteBiologyPhysicsCell biologyControl signal

Where Oxford Nanopore Technologies concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Oxford Nanopore Technologies and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Oxford Nanopore Technologies

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Oxford Nanopore Technologies on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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