Loughborough Venture Investor Network (LVIN)
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Connecting startups and spinouts with
pre-seed investors
Connecting startups and spinouts with
pre-seed investors
LVIN brings together founders emerging from Loughborough's innovation community with alumni and supporters seeking high potential businesses.
Founders can access help to build credibility and confidence before approaching investors, and then pitch for pre-seed investment via LVIN.
Investors can connect with talented founding teams whilst contributing to development of Loughborough's fast-growing startup ecosystem.
Loughborough University helps a wide range of businesses to launch, grow and succeed.
Here are a selection of the founders we work with:
Act Medical
CEO Joseph Bentley
ACT Medical is a MedTech business revolutionising the standard of care for penetrative trauma aiming to reduce the mortality rates associated with violent crime. Founder, Joseph, developed the REACT device at University. He won the Dyson International MedTech Award and was awarded a Royal Society Fellowship.
Moti Me
CEO Katie Michaels
An innovative physiotherapy-focused product to help children with learning and movement disabilities. Moti Me has already supported 100+ children across 30+ healthcare organisations in the UK, including Alder Hey Hospital and Birmingham Children's Hospital. Founder, Katie, received the Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award in 2025.
Adclear
CEO Joe Jordan
Industries like banking and investing must comply with strict regulations around marketing. Adclear automates compliance checks on promotional marketing, websites, and product interfaces. Their platform offers real-time, policy-tailored feedback cutting approval times by around 88%. Adclear closed an oversubscribed £2.1 million seed-funding round in 2025.
TransHumanity
CEO Zhenzhen Wang
Complex transport data simplified for smarter human decision-making.TransHumanity is helping transport authorities to more quickly analyse transport data and models, turning days of analysis into seconds. A Loughborough spinout company, the business was recognised as a top-10 finalist in the Manchester Prize, the UK government’s leading award for AI for public good and was highlighted as a Top 40 UK start-up at London Tech Week by UK Department for Business and Trade.
