Rockley Portfolio
Since 2004, The Rockley philosophy is to target businesses in large and timely markets and dedicate significant management time in guiding their development, ensuring a supportive investor base and aiding access to international markets.
BelGaN
BelGaN was once a manufacturing facility for a well known IDM and its products are focused in automotive, industrial and medical applications. Now the vision is to become a leading, independent, automotive qualified foundry for GaN and other wide band gap semiconductors.
CHAIN Biotech
CHAIN Biotechnology, is a human biome company using Clostridium
bacteria for the delivery of a wide range of therapies. The Company
was founded in 2014 and is based in Nottingham.
NSIG
The National Silicon Industry Group (NSIG, 688126:SH) is the largest wafer manufacturer in China with three wholly owned subsidiaries: Zing Semi, the first commercialized Chinese 12” wafer manufacturer; Simgui, a leading 8” EPI and SOI supplier based in Shanghai, and; Okmetic, a Finnish wafer manufacturer, acquired in
2016. NSIG is also one of the largest shareholders of Soitec, the French world leading SOI supplier.
Rockley Photonics
Rockley Photonics was founded in mid 2013 by a team with the leading commercial track record in silicon photonics; the optical analogy of silicon microelectronics. In August 2021, Rockley Photonics announced a successful closing of business combination with SC Health Corp to begin trading under ticker “RKLY”
Exits
Oxitec
Oxitec was sold to NYSE listed Intrexon for $160m in August 2015 providing a 6x invesment return to Rockley investors.
Kotura Inc
Kotura Inc., a leader in the field of silicon photonics for fibre optic communications, high performance computing and sensing applications was acquired by Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX for $82 million on 15 August 2013
Bookham Inc
Dr Rickman founded Bookham Inc., the first silicon photonics company
in the world, and grew it from a startup to a FTSE 100 company.
Bookham’s investor group achieved more than a ten times return from
Bookham Technology’s Nasdaq IPO.