UK-based commercialisation firm Frontier IP’s portfolio value registered a 49% rise year-on-year to hit £8m ($11.3m) by the end of December 2017.

Frontier’s latest half-year update showed the company had increased its pre-tax profit by 67% year-on-year to $741,000, a result the firm attributed to its appreciating investments.

Frontier portfolio companies include Heriot-Watt University foodtech spinout Nandi Proteins, which raised $1.3m in July 2017, and Dundee pharmaceutical spinout Exscientia, which secured its first strategic investment of $17.7m in…