Tern

Tern is a London-based investment company that takes stakes in UK businesses developing disruptive technology. It describes its portfolio as companies that start local but aim to grow globally, with holdings across healthcare, cybersecurity and the internet of things. Current investments include Talking Medicines, which builds patient advocacy and pharmaceutical intelligence tools; FundamentalVR, a provider of virtual-reality surgical training; and Device Authority, which secures identity and data for connected devices. As a quoted company it gives public market investors exposure to a concentrated portfolio of growing private technology companies.