Supernova Invest
Venture fund that co-led Moa Technology's Series C.
Supernova Invest co-led the £22.2m Series C that Moa Technology closed on 23 July 2026, backing, alongside Oxford Science Enterprises, an Oxford spinout screening compounds for new herbicide chemistry.
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Supernova Invest just co-led a herbicide round; why is agri-chemistry drawing UK venture money?
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Co-led Moa Technology's Series C
UK Startups and Innovation: Moa raises £22.2m to outrun resistanceBackground
Supernova Invest shared the lead on Moa Technology's Series c, a £22.2 million round closed 23 July 2026 with Oxford Science Enterprises, backing an Oxford Plant Sciences spinout that has screened over 900,000 compounds for new herbicide modes of action.
Supernova Invest's own contribution to the round was not disclosed, and no further public detail about the fund's focus, size or wider portfolio appears in Lowdown's coverage to date.
Series c money is scarce for agricultural-chemistry spinouts given the decade-long regulatory timelines the sector runs on; a specialist fund co-leading Moa Technology's round signals continued institutional appetite for that specific niche despite university spinout deal counts falling 33% by count last year.