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Oxford Nanopore Technologies

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

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

Valuation

$1.16B

Market cap · May/2026

Revenue

$295M

Latest reported FY

Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Investors

20 investors on Oxford Nanopore Technologies's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. 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

Temasek

Nikon

Lansdowne Partners

Oracle

Illumina

GIC

Invesco Perpetual

Oxford University Innovation

RPMI Railpen

Top Technology Ventures

GT Healthcare

China Construction Bank

Wellington Management

Hostplus

Amgen

University of Oxford

M&G Investments

International Holding Company

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.

FitbiomicsEst. 2018

George ChurchUnited States

Signal score87

BristleEst. 2020

Danny GrannickUnited States

Signal score66

HoneycombEst. 2014

RCRichard CarterUnited Kingdom

Signal score61

Portal BiotechEst. 2021

Andrew HeronUnited Kingdom

Signal score58

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Global footprint

Where Oxford Nanopore Technologies has talent and traffic

AI talent share

2.1% of workforce is AI talent
(28 of 1,328 staff)

Core AI120.9%

Other AI161.2%

Non-AI workforce1,30097.89%

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

230K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States13.7%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom10.4%

🇳🇴 Norway10%

🇧🇷 Brazil6.2%

🇮🇳 India3.9%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$193M patent portfolio · 181 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$193M

16.6% of market cap · 17.7× the top peer Neuralink ($11M)

181 active patent families

Where Oxford Nanopore Technologies innovates PhysicsAnalyteNanoporeMaterials scienceMechanical engineering

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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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.

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

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