Martin Glen

Martin Glen is an Investment Director at Parkwalk Advisors, where he focuses on funding early-stage technology opportunities and university spinouts. Before transitioning to the private venture capital sector, he spent 15 years working as a hedge fund manager, developing extensive financial expertise and institutional portfolio management skills. In his current capacity, he evaluates and executes equity investments in deep tech and scientific enterprises emerging from premier research facilities across the United Kingdom. Parkwalk Advisors is recognized for its enterprise investment schemes and partnerships with major academic centers, including the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and Imperial College London. Glen leverages his decade and a half of public market experience to assess the commercial viability of complex academic research, maintaining a primary focus on scaling early-stage university spinouts into commercially viable and sustainable technology businesses.