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Sandy McKinnon
Private Equity Investor at Pentech Ventures LLP
Profile
Sandy McKinnon is currently working as a member of the investment committee at Old College Capital.
He is also a partner at Pentech Ventures LLP and a venture partner at Edinburgh Technology Fund Ltd.
Dr. McKinnon has previously worked as a director at Sonaptic Ltd., director of knowledge transfer & technology at Heriot-Watt University, investment director at Rapid Mobile Media Ltd., non-executive director at SeeWhy Software Ltd.
and Metaforic Ltd., director at Mellanox Technologies Belfast Ltd.
and Acunu Ltd., and manager of the advanced technology group at Sagentia Ltd.
Dr. McKinnon holds a doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge and an undergraduate degree from the University of Dundee.
Sandy McKinnon active positions
Companies | Position | Start |
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Pentech Ventures LLP
![]() Pentech Ventures LLP Investment ManagersFinance Pentech Ventures LLP (Pentech Ventures) is a Venture Capital subsidiary of Pentech Capital LLP founded in 2001. The firm is headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland. | Private Equity Investor | 2001-05-31 |
Old College Capital
![]() Old College Capital Investment ManagersFinance Old College Capital (Old College Capital LP) is a venture capital division of the University of Edinburgh, founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Scotland. | Private Equity Investor | - |
Edinburgh Technology Fund Ltd.
![]() Edinburgh Technology Fund Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance Edinburgh Technology Fund Ltd ( Edinburgh Technology ) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999. The firm is headquartered in Edinburgh. | Private Equity Investor | - |
Former positions of Sandy McKinnon
Companies | Position | End |
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Mellanox Technologies Belfast Ltd.
![]() Mellanox Technologies Belfast Ltd. Tools & HardwareConsumer Durables Mellanox Technologies Belfast Ltd. supplies hardware engines for content and network processing. It offers regular expression processor for application awareness and security processing; and parallel string matcher for high performance network processing related search and lookup functions. The firm’s products are used in various applications, such as stateful packet classification, deep packet inspection, access control list execution, flow classification, TCP and IP header lookup and content and URL inspection and filtering. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Belfast, the United Kingdom. | Director/Board Member | 2018-11-15 |
Heriot-Watt University | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Acunu Ltd.
![]() Acunu Ltd. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Acunu Ltd. developed big data software solutions. The firm was a technology solutions provider helping businesses to derive new insights from Big Data. It made easy to build real-time Big Data solutions for reporting, monitoring and analyzing customer businesses. The company delivered a turn-key analytics, database and storage stack that is scalable, robust and cost-effective, on premise or in the cloud. Acunu was founded in 2009 by Timothy Daniel Moreton, Thomas Wilkie and Andrew Twigg and was headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. | Director/Board Member | - |
Sagentia Ltd.
![]() Sagentia Ltd. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Part of Science Group Plc, Sagentia Ltd. is a British company that provides business and technology consulting services. The company is based in Harston, UK. Sagentia was founded by Robert Martin Pettigrew. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
M UK Realisations Ltd.
![]() M UK Realisations Ltd. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services M UK Realisations Ltd. provides authentication and encryption software and services. It offers M-Pin, a strong authentication platform, the first software-based multi-factor authentication platform that replaces password-based authentication without the need for third party authentication devices. The firm's product can be embedded into software, hardware and can leverage trusted platform modules to provide the secure strong authentication available to any application on any device. The company was founded by Brian P. Spector and Michael Scott in 2008 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. | Chairman | - |
Training of Sandy McKinnon
University Of Dundee | Undergraduate Degree |
University of Cambridge | Doctorate Degree |
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Pentech Ventures LLP
![]() Pentech Ventures LLP Investment ManagersFinance Pentech Ventures LLP (Pentech Ventures) is a Venture Capital subsidiary of Pentech Capital LLP founded in 2001. The firm is headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland. | Finance |
SeeWhy Software Ltd.
![]() SeeWhy Software Ltd. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services SeeWhy Software Ltd. provides operational business intelligence software. It provides template solutions for various industrial problems including event based marketing, demand sensing, pricing & yield management, data validation, operational risk management, trading partner performance monitoring, fraud, and process policing in retail and other industries. The company was founded by Charles Nicholls in 2003 and is located in Windsor, UK | Technology Services |
Rapid Mobile Media Ltd.
![]() Rapid Mobile Media Ltd. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Rapid Mobile Media Ltd. provides software services. It offers mobile application and service delivery software platforms for automatic optimization, delivery, and installation of services, applications, and content on mobile phones. The firm’s Ad360 platform provides the management of mobile advertising campaigns, including the delivery of graphical and textual advertisements to the selected WAP, SMS, MMS, or application channels. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Edinburgh, the United Kingdom. | Technology Services |
Sonaptic Ltd.
![]() Sonaptic Ltd. Electronic Production EquipmentElectronic Technology Sonaptic Ltd. developed audio technologies for mobile devices. It provided micro-acoustic technologies that recreate natural listening experience for users of next-generation mobile devices. The company was founded in 2003 and was headquartered in High Wycombe, the United Kingdom. | Electronic Technology |
Metaforic Ltd.
![]() Metaforic Ltd. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Metaforic Ltd. provides anti-hacking products to protect software applications. It provides software security across a variety of markets, including embedded devices, application software, defense, games, content conditional access. The company was founded by Andrew Stewart McLennan, Linda MacKellar and Neil Stewart on March 10, 2006 and is headquartered in Glasgow, the United Kingdom. | Technology Services |
M UK Realisations Ltd.
![]() M UK Realisations Ltd. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services M UK Realisations Ltd. provides authentication and encryption software and services. It offers M-Pin, a strong authentication platform, the first software-based multi-factor authentication platform that replaces password-based authentication without the need for third party authentication devices. The firm's product can be embedded into software, hardware and can leverage trusted platform modules to provide the secure strong authentication available to any application on any device. The company was founded by Brian P. Spector and Michael Scott in 2008 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. | Technology Services |
Acunu Ltd.
![]() Acunu Ltd. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Acunu Ltd. developed big data software solutions. The firm was a technology solutions provider helping businesses to derive new insights from Big Data. It made easy to build real-time Big Data solutions for reporting, monitoring and analyzing customer businesses. The company delivered a turn-key analytics, database and storage stack that is scalable, robust and cost-effective, on premise or in the cloud. Acunu was founded in 2009 by Timothy Daniel Moreton, Thomas Wilkie and Andrew Twigg and was headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. | Technology Services |
Sagentia Ltd.
![]() Sagentia Ltd. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Part of Science Group Plc, Sagentia Ltd. is a British company that provides business and technology consulting services. The company is based in Harston, UK. Sagentia was founded by Robert Martin Pettigrew. | Commercial Services |
Mellanox Technologies Belfast Ltd.
![]() Mellanox Technologies Belfast Ltd. Tools & HardwareConsumer Durables Mellanox Technologies Belfast Ltd. supplies hardware engines for content and network processing. It offers regular expression processor for application awareness and security processing; and parallel string matcher for high performance network processing related search and lookup functions. The firm’s products are used in various applications, such as stateful packet classification, deep packet inspection, access control list execution, flow classification, TCP and IP header lookup and content and URL inspection and filtering. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Belfast, the United Kingdom. | Consumer Durables |
Old College Capital
![]() Old College Capital Investment ManagersFinance Old College Capital (Old College Capital LP) is a venture capital division of the University of Edinburgh, founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Scotland. | Finance |
Edinburgh Technology Fund Ltd.
![]() Edinburgh Technology Fund Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance Edinburgh Technology Fund Ltd ( Edinburgh Technology ) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999. The firm is headquartered in Edinburgh. | Finance |
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