Turner Pope Investments
Turner Pope Investments is a London-based boutique stockbroker and corporate broker that raises capital for small UK growth companies listed on AIM, London's junior stock market. Rather than running a fund, Turner Pope acts as broker and placing agent, and its water exposure sits in point-of-use water-testing companies. As of 2026, Turner Pope has backed 2 water companies.
Compiled by Antoine Walter, (don't) Waste Water, from official filings and direct intelligence in Leviathan.
The take
Turner Pope Investments is not a fund, and the distinction matters. Turner Pope is a boutique London stockbroker and corporate broker, set up in 2015 by Ben Turner and James Pope out of a shared frustration with how the City treated smaller companies. It raises equity capital for micro-cap and small-cap businesses, most of them listed on AIM, London's junior market, and by its own count has helped raise close to a billion pounds for its corporate clients since it opened.
Turner Pope's water exposure is narrow and consistent: both of the water companies it has backed sit in water-testing and toxicity monitoring, not pipes, pumps or treatment plants. Metir and Modern Water both build fast-response, point-of-use kit that measures water quality and flags contamination, and the two are now intertwined, with Modern Water's UK business folded into the Metir group. The thread is water as a measurement-and-safety problem, the kind of hardware story a small-cap broker can take to public-market investors.
Turner Pope was, as of January 2026, acting as joint broker to Metir on a fresh fundraise, which says the relationship is live rather than historical. I track this firm less as a water investor than as a tell: whether London's small-cap broking world keeps writing the cheques that get water-monitoring tech onto public markets, where most water money still will not go. On its small sample, (don't) Waste Water rates Turner Pope's water commitment Committed.
Water Commitment Score
Compiled from official filings, third-party records, and direct intelligence from investors and founders, in Leviathan · recomputed monthly · as of Jun 2026.
Portfolio · 2 water companies
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Frequently asked
- What does Turner Pope Investments do?
- Turner Pope Investments is a boutique London stockbroker and corporate broker. Rather than investing a fund, Turner Pope raises equity capital for small, AIM-listed UK companies as their broker, joint broker or placing agent, and distributes research. In water, Turner Pope has backed companies that make water-quality and toxicity testing technology.
- Is Turner Pope Investments a venture capital fund?
- No. Despite some directories tagging it as a VC, Turner Pope Investments does not run a fund or invest its own pooled capital. Turner Pope is an FCA-authorised stockbroker and corporate broker that raises money for listed small-cap clients, so it has no traditional assets under management or dry powder.
- Who runs Turner Pope Investments?
- Turner Pope Investments was founded in 2015 by Ben Turner and James Pope, the two directors whose surnames the firm carries, both career stockbrokers. The corporate broking side, which runs the fundraises, is led by Andrew Thacker, who joined in 2017, alongside head of corporate sales Guy McDougall.
- What water companies has Turner Pope Investments backed?
- Turner Pope Investments has backed 2 water companies, according to (don't) Waste Water's tracking: Metir and Modern Water, whose UK arm is now part of the Metir group. Both build fast-response, point-of-use water and environmental testing technology rather than physical treatment or pipe infrastructure.
- Where is Turner Pope Investments based?
- Turner Pope Investments is based in the City of London, United Kingdom, and is a member of the London Stock Exchange. Founded in 2015, Turner Pope focuses on smaller UK companies listed on AIM, London's market for growth companies, and serves professional and high-net-worth private clients.