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Top 45 Life Science Angel Investors in United Kingdom

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 45 angel investors that invest in Life science startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Life science companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Life Science Angel Investors in United Kingdom

Investor	Life Science United Kingdom investments
Jonathan Milner	7
Nadav Rosenberg	4
Stefano Bernardi	3
Nicholas Edwards	2
Mark Evans	2
Darrin Disley	2
Ed Parkinson	2
Jude Gomila	2
Jan Hruska	2
Ian Hogarth	2
Will Martin	1
Michail Eleftheriou	1
Bradley Horowitz	1
Simon Galbraith	1
David Evans	1
John Anthony Knight	1
Michelle Tempest	1
Damien Lane	1
Andrew Fisher	1
Will Brooks	1
Jon Oringer	1
Tim Davis	1
Edward Lando	1
Jon Oringer	1
Sophia Bendz	1
Jon Oringer	1
Sami Mikati	1
Johnathan Matlock	1
Huw Bishop	1
David Lucas	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Sharaf Yamani	1
Patrick Pichette	1
Vishal Gulati	1
Jeff Dean	1
Fiona Pathiraja	1
Robert Kopple	1
Rick Bernstein	1
Jim Warwick	1
Mark Gillespie	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Matt Clifford	1
Keith Willey	1
Duncan Grierson	1
Irina Elena Haivas	1

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Having worked in the life sciences industry for over ten years as an academic researcher, Jonathan identified the market opportunity for supplying high quality antibodies to support protein interaction studies and, in 1998, founded Abcam with David Cleevely and Professor Tony Kouzarides. Jonathan is a Non-Executive Director of Horizon DiscoveryGroup plc, The Evolution Education Trust, GeoSpock Ltd and Sydicate Room Group Ltd. He is also Chairman of Axol Bioscience Ltd, PhoreMost Ltd, Repositive Limited, Definigen Limited and Cambridge Allergy Ltd. Jonathan holds an executive director position at Meltwind Limited, being a designated member of Meltwind Advisory LLP. Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur and investor and is passionate about supporting UK life science and high-tech start-ups. He has provided considerable investment and support to over 30 companies and has assisted three AIM IPOs.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mogrify — Mogrify is pioneering a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapy and transforming the development of ex vivo cell therapy.
Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool
Relation Therapeutics — Relation uses machine learning to develop drugs for pressing unmet need.

Nadav leads Taboola’s expansion and operations in Europe and Australia.Prior to joining Taboola, Nadav was a member of the founding team of Groupon UK & IR, taking part in building and managing Groupon’s business in the UK.Before joining Groupon, Nadav worked as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company in London.Nadav isbased in London and holds an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Pharmaceutical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

thymia — Making mental health as objectively measurable as physical health.
Exogene — Exogene is a biotechnology company accelerating the discovery of T-cell-receptor(TCR)-based cancer immunotherapies for solid tumours by combining deep learning and high-throughput TCR-antigen screening. Exogene is building a computational platform to quickly and inexpensively identify new tumour targets shared across cancer patients, as well assafe and effective TCRs against these tumour targets for therapeutic application. Their mission is to develop better TCR-based immunotherapies, faster and at a fraction of the cost.
Loops — Loops is a no-code analytics platform that provides product and data teams with growth opportunities hidden in their data.

Stefano Bernardi is the Investment Director, Climate at Fondazione ENEA Tech.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Italy, France, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Freatic — We bridge the gap between individuals with untapped knowledge and actors who can take advantage of these opportunities.
Eden Bio — Eden Bio is a biotech using machine learning to guide the genetic engineering of microorganism strain optimisation, improving protein yield.
CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration

Nick serves as the Chairman of Prescient’s Board of Directors. He holds a degree in physiological sciences from The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, and completed his training in clinical medicine (BM, BCh) at Green College (now Green Templeton College), University of Oxford. Nick practiced in the areas of cardiology and general surgerybefore joining Andersen Consulting (now known as Accenture), eventually becoming the global leader of Accenture’s pharmaceutical R&D business during his 18-year tenure. In 2005, he founded Kinapse to provide consulting and outsourcing services to the pharmaceutical industry. Nick served as Kinapse’s Chairman until the company was sold to HgCapital in early 2016.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Life Science
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oxford Medical Products — Oxford Medical Products is a UK-based biotechnology start-up revolutionising the weight-loss treatment space with its hydrogel-based technology.

Mark is currently a Founding Partner and LP and Investment Committee member at Kindred Capital, a European Seed-Stage Venture fund, based in London. He was a General Partner at Balderton Capital/ Benchmark Europe from 2002 through 2015, and an EIR at Benchmark Capital in 1999/2000.He spent the prior 15 years @ Goldman Sachs, where hewas a General Partner and Management Committee member. He studied Economics at both University of Oxford and Queen's University in Canada.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

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Ufonia — Ufonia is replacing routine patient healthcare interactions with next-generation automated phone calls.
Arctoris — Arctoris is a platform company headquartered in Oxford, with its US operations based in Boston and its APAC operations based in Singapore. Arctoris developed and operates a unique drug discovery platform powered by advanced robotics and data science combined with an experienced team of biotech & pharma veterans. Arctoris actively pursuesseveral drug discovery programs in oncology and neuro, while also providing access to its platform to select biotech and pharma partners. Arctoris' approach of data-driven drug discovery leads to higher chance of success, and an accelerated progression of programs towards the clinic.

Darrin Disley is the CEO, Director & Investor at Mogrify. He attended University of Cambridge.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Big Data
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

bit.bio — Bit.bio specializes in the fields of coding and biology that determine the identity of every human cell. Their mission is coding cells for health. To do so, we apply the principles of computation to biology. Bit.bio's current focus is to develop a scalable technology platform capable of producing consistent batches of every human cell. Thishas the potential to unlock a new generation of medicine: it will enable research and drug discovery to move on from inappropriate models and work with the cells that actually are affected by the human disease. A scalable platform of consistent cells will also be the basis for a new generation of cell and tissue therapies. To achieve our goals, we have assembled a team of pioneers in stem cells, cellular reprogramming, mathematical modeling, and cell therapy. Collaboration is at the heart of bit.bio. We are empirical, highly ambitious, and driven by a common purpose.
Mogrify — Mogrify is pioneering a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapy and transforming the development of ex vivo cell therapy.
Desktop Genetics — Desktop Genetics is an international biotechnology company established in 2012 to help researchers discover and treat the root genetic causes of human disease. Today, Desktop Genetics is a recognised leader in genome editing technology, staffed by dedicated team of genome editing experts, bioinformaticians and data scientists, driven by thereal-world impact of CRISPR technology.They have invested four years developing their core technology, DESKGEN AI, trained on the largest database of genome editing data in the world. DESKGEN AI powers their flagship DESKGEN CRISPR Library product range, which enables the work of their pharma, biotech and academic customers working in drug discovery and functional genomics. Desktop Genetics' tools and technologies are used by over 1800 organisations all over the world, and their projects contribute directly to several key partnerships to bring CRISPR into the clinic. The company has received awards from Fast Company, Kairos 50 and SxSW Interactive.

Ed Parkinson

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Life Science
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets

Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
HockeyStack — HockeyStack is the only SaaS analytics tool that can natively integrate with your tech stack and unify your marketing, sales, revenue, and product data to uncover what drives revenue. Using HockeyStack, you can answer questions, such as the LTV of a campaign, churn rate of each marketing channel, or the exact MRR a blog post brings.
Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.

Jan Hruska

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Life Science
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oxford Medical Products — Oxford Medical Products is a UK-based biotechnology start-up revolutionising the weight-loss treatment space with its hydrogel-based technology.

Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
Fabric — A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. Your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links and files automatically gathered into one intelligent home. The world's first AI-native universal storage.

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Michail Eleftheriou

Investment focus

Software, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Synthace — The Synthace Experiment Platform lets you design powerful experiments, run them in your lab, & gather automatically structured datasets. No code necessary.
2Go Mobile Now —

Bradley Horowitz is an Advisor and Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google's incubator for internally-sourced innovation. He's led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google - including Google for Startups, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, blogger, and GoogleNews.Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo's vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

CUR8 — CUR8 is committed to establishing a global market for carbon reduction. Carbon removal methods include increased rock weathering, direct air capture, forests, construction, soil, biomass, oceans, and new technologies.
Mill — Meet the cleanest, easiest way to prevent food waste at home. Mill recycles your peels, bones, stalks, and forgotten leftovers.
Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.

Simon is the joint founder and CEO of Redgate Software. Over the past 15 years, Simon has been part of Redgate’s growth from a 2 person firm operating out of a spare room to today’s 300 person outfit with hundreds of thousands of users. Although Simon’s responsibilities are primarily strategic, his background is technical with qualificationsincluding a PhD in physics from Cambridge University and former employment with Shell and ThornEMI.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Life Science
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Croatia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BoobyBiome — BoobyBiome harnesses breast milk microbiome science to develop products to improve infant health
SysKit — Syskit is a software development company specialized in enterprise tools for Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Windows Server, Remote Desktop Services, Citrix.

Principal at Apax Digital.

Investment focus

Rental, Medical, Software
Series A, Series D, Series E
Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Guesty — Guesty simplifies the way property managers work.
MIP Diagnostics — MIP Diagnostics develop and manufacture molecularly imprinted polymers (nanoMIPs) that act as synthetic alternatives to antibodies for IVD and other industries.

John Anthony Knight

Investment focus

Software, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Synthace — The Synthace Experiment Platform lets you design powerful experiments, run them in your lab, & gather automatically structured datasets. No code necessary.

Michelle Tempest

Investment focus

Health Care, Cannabis, Life Science
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Daye — Daye is setting a new standard in period care and gynae health. We offer period products, vaginal microbiome screenings, and a period pain clinic.
Medwise.ai — Medwise.ai is the Google for doctors.

Damien Lane has spent the last 20 years investing in private companies, both in Private Equity where he was a partner with Electra Partners, then at Octopus Ventures where he was a senior member of the investment team. Having made a number of angel investments, Damien co-founded Episode 1 with Simon and Adrian in 2012. While at Episode 1,Damien has led investments in Carwow, Scurri, Touch Surgery, Attest and Zipcube and loves working with early stage teams of entrepreneurs; helping them develop their early stage startup into a fast growth enterprises capable of raising more funding from later stage investors. When he is not trying to help businesses to implement an optimal approach to growth, Damien can mostly be found running around Hampstead Heath or the Coastal paths of Great Britain. Having trained obsessively to run a 2:52 Marathon in 2015, he is now trying to dip below 2:50, in the spirit of continuous improvement. Damien has an MBA from Cambridge University and a Masters degree in PE from Oxford University.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
Surgery Hero — We combine expert human care, individually-tailored content and cutting edge tech to empower people to take control of their health so they can conquer their surgery.
Surgery Hero — We combine expert human care, individually-tailored content and cutting edge tech to empower people to take control of their health so they can conquer their surgery.

As an Executive Vice President at Wesley Clover, Andrew currently manages a portfolio of ICT and Digital Media companies globally. In addition he also acts as a business prime for the Wesley Clover affiliate program.Andrew connects teams of new graduates with tier one Network Operator, Service Provider and Communications EquipmentManufactures globally. These partnerships provide invaluable customer insight and a route to market for each of the Affiliates. Through these partnerships, each party realizes time to revenue, time to market and engine for innovation advantage.Andrew serves on the Board of Directors for March Entertainment, Benbria and Teldio Corporations. He is also a member of the Advisory board for the Canadian Digital Media Network and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Information and Communications Technologies.Andrew is an honors graduate from the University of British Columbia, with an academic background in Computer Science, Engineering and Economics.

Investment focus

Medical, Life Science, Biotechnology
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MIP Diagnostics — MIP Diagnostics develop and manufacture molecularly imprinted polymers (nanoMIPs) that act as synthetic alternatives to antibodies for IVD and other industries.

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Timothy T Davis, MD is Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Physiatry) and Pain Medicine. The founder of Source Healthcare, Source Surgery Center, Alpha Diagnostics and he is an expert in spine and musculoskeletal disorders as well as interventional pain management to treat neck, back and sports injuries. Dr. Davis hasperformed extensive clinical research using biological therapies such as stem cells and other biologics for spine and joint injuries. He has consulted and invested in SaaS, medical device, biologics, cannabis, and psychedelics sectors.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bryn Pharma —
Beckley Psytech — Our mission is to help people suffering from neurological and psychiatric conditions by developing our pipeline of psychedelic compounds.
MycoMedica Life Sciences, PBC — Psychedelic Medicines

Edward Lando is the Founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a Co-Founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

mayk — Mayk sounds. Mayk music. Mayk noise. Mayk it... In an app.
Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Sami Mikati is a Director of Synthace Ltd. Investor and commercial executive with deep experience and network across energy and engineering industries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Life Science
Seed
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CyGenica — CyGenica uses a non-viral, non-toxic platform to develop in vitro and in vivo delivery solutions for drugs, gene editing components, and antibiotics.
Synthace — The Synthace Experiment Platform lets you design powerful experiments, run them in your lab, & gather automatically structured datasets. No code necessary.

Johnathan Matlock is Co-Founder Science Angel Syndicate.

Investment focus

Medical, Robotics, Biopharma
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zentraxa — NATURE ENGINEERED FOR PURPOSE Through millions of years of evolution, nature has found solutions to the most difficult problems. Inspired by the diversity of nature, we precision engineer bespoke biomaterials to meet the toughest challenges across
EnsiliTech — EnsiliTech is a biotechnology start-up developing ensilication, a platform technology, to remove the need for refrigeration when transporting and storing vaccines and biologicals
Halo Therapeutics — Halo Therapeutics is based in England. Develops safe pan coronavirus antiviral drugs for Covid-19 that can be administered by patients.

Huw Bishop is an individual investor.

Investment focus

EdTech, Training, E-Learning
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

clear_pixel VR — Virtual reality training platform that helps increase your laboratory skills and reduces laboratory breakages and costs

David Lucas

Investment focus

Software, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Synthace — The Synthace Experiment Platform lets you design powerful experiments, run them in your lab, & gather automatically structured datasets. No code necessary.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.

Sharaf Yamani - Managing Director @ Windlesham Advisors

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Life Science
Seed
India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CyGenica — CyGenica uses a non-viral, non-toxic platform to develop in vitro and in vivo delivery solutions for drugs, gene editing components, and antibiotics.
Synthace — The Synthace Experiment Platform lets you design powerful experiments, run them in your lab, & gather automatically structured datasets. No code necessary.

Patrick Pichette currently Board Member at LightSpeed and Twitter. He is a former Google's chief financial officer, where he started in June of 2008. He has nearly 20 years of experience in financial operations and management in the telecommunications sector, including seven years at Bell Canada, which he joined in 2001 as executive vicepresident of planning and performance management.During his time at Bell Canada, he held various executive positions, including CFO from 2002 until the end of 2003, and was instrumental in the management of the most extensive communications network in Canada and its ongoing migration to a new national IP-based infrastructure.Prior to joining Bell Canada, Patrick was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a lead member of McKinsey's North American Telecom Practice. He also served as vice president and chief financial officer of Call-Net Enterprises, a Canadian telecommunications company.Patrick earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from UniversitA© du Quebec A MontrA©al. He holds a master's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He also serves on the board of Engineers Without Borders (Canada).

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Germany, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Mobai — Provider of attack detection, image manipulation detection and authentication. Strong and successful research team on biometrics.
Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.

Vishal Gulati: Vishal serves as a venture partner specialising in digital health at DFJ Esprit, Europe's leading Silicon Valley style venture capital firm with over $1b under management. Since 2012, Vishal has been Europe’s leading promoter of investment into the emerging digital health sector and chairman of Digital Health Forum, whichsupports the best in class digital health companies to grow into global enterprises. Vishal serves on several boards including Horizon Discovery Group PLC (Cambridge, UK), a gene editing company; Fluidics Analytics (Cambridge, UK), a next gen protein discovery engine, Frameshift a healthcare information flow platform (London, UK) and EcoEos (San Francisco, USA), a consumer genomics business. His previous investments include Napo Pharmaceuticals, Glenmark, Renovo and Phagenesis.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Biopharma, Life Science
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

Arctoris — Arctoris is a platform company headquartered in Oxford, with its US operations based in Boston and its APAC operations based in Singapore. Arctoris developed and operates a unique drug discovery platform powered by advanced robotics and data science combined with an experienced team of biotech & pharma veterans. Arctoris actively pursuesseveral drug discovery programs in oncology and neuro, while also providing access to its platform to select biotech and pharma partners. Arctoris' approach of data-driven drug discovery leads to higher chance of success, and an accelerated progression of programs towards the clinic.
evonetix — Spearheading a radical new approach to gene synthesis to improve access to high-quality, gene-length DNA. Redefine possible.
Turbine — Turbine builds a platform to understand the inner mechanisms of cancer, enabling the discovery of novel protein targets, precision biomarkers, and better translation to patients. Turbine uses its proprietary Simulated Cell technology in combination with Artificial Intelligence to build a faster and deeper biological understanding of therapeutictargets or indications, untangling the complexity of cancer.

Jeff Dean joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Senior Fellow in Google's Research Group, where he leads the Google Brain team, Google's deep learning research team in Mountain View, working on systems for speech recognition, computer vision, language understanding, and various predictive tasks. He has co-designed /implemented five generations of Google's crawling, indexing, and query serving systems, and co-designed / implemented major pieces of Google's initial advertising and AdSense for Content systems. He is also a codesigner and coimplementor of Google's distributed computing infrastructure, including the MapReduce, BigTable and Spanner systems, protocol buffers, LevelDB, and TensorFlow, a popular open-source system for machine learning.Jeff received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1996. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Mark Weiser Award and the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Japan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lutra AI — Lutra AI is to simplify complex tasks that specializes in workflows, created by the platform.
Sakana AI — We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.
DatologyAI — DatologyAI optimize training efficiency, maximize performance and reduce compute costs with expert curation.

Fiona is Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, an early stage healthtech VC fund based in London and Copenhagen.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Wellness
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Armenia

Portfolio highlights

Unfabled — Menstrual care and wellness products for your cycle. Organic period products in sustainable packaging. Curated brands for skincare, sleep, cravings, cramping, mood swings, and relaxation. For all your self-care needs, we have you covered.
Bloom Money — Bloom Money is a savings club app designed to help growing communities in migrant communities and use technology to promote community, safety, and convenience.
Storia — Capture your thoughts and unleash your inner voice

Robert Kopple

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Life Science
Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tradier — Tradier is a financial services cloud provider that offers a groundbreaking solution to serve platform providers, developers and investors. The Tradier solution features an innovative set of fully hosted APIs, modules, and "out of the box" tools that are leveraged by a growing list of providers.
ILC Therapeutics — ILC Therapeutics Ltd is an early-stage biotechnology company focused on modulating the Innate Immune System through the development of novel peptide therapeutics for the treatment of Covid-19, Cancer, Atopic Dermatitis, and Psoriasis.

Rick Bernstein is the Chief Commercial Officer for MedNet responsible for the development of the commercial infrastructure and strategy for MedNet, a healthcare technology company specializing in eClinical solutions for the global life sciences industry. Rick is currently leading the development of an optimized sales, business development, anddistribution strategy to drive aggressive growth across key market segments, including CROs and pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology sponsors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, AgTech, Farming
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
Phytoform Labs — Phytoform Labs is improving crops to make agriculture more sustainable and nutritious

Jim started work at Analysys Limited, a Cambridge-based telecommunications consultancy, heading up its IT, software and web development initiatives. Jim then joined Abcam as a Technical Director, and took over the operational management of the UK office as Managing Director in June 2004, working on both cost saving and efficiency improvementprojects. In 2009, Jim became Chief Operating Officer, with the responsibility for overseeing the operational strategy of the Group. Jim is a Director of Chesterton Community College, Chesterton Sports Centre Limited and Cambridge Nutraceuticals Limited. He has also taken up a non-executive position at Quartix Holdings Plc. Jim had over 15 years’ experience in developing and implementing IT systems and strategy before moving into a broader operational management role within Abcam.Here his skills have been particularly focused on developing a scalable operating model for Abcam which, supported by IT systems, has underpinned Abcam’s rapid growth over the past decade.

Investment focus

Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Qkine — Growth Factors made for stem cells Animal-free We control every step of protein manufacture ensuring all our products are completely animal-free Total transparency Stringent purity and bioactivity testing data for all proteins - know what you are giving your cells Protein innovation Our R&D team

Recently named as one of Billboard’s 2021 Change Agents, as well as one of the World's Greatest Managers by Music Business Worldwide, Mark Gillespie is a world-class British CEO, manager, and producer whose vision and drive have led him to build Three Six Zero into the global entertainment powerhouse that it is today. Widely recognized as oneof the industry's preeminent executives, Gillespie has been instrumental in guiding the careers of Frank Ocean and Calvin Harris, most recently closing a deal in excess of $100MM for his publishing catalogue. With offices in Los Angeles, Miami, and London, Gillespie provides the leadership necessary to ensure that Three Six Zero and its clients remain at the forefront of the music, film, television, and digital content landscapeFueled by a lifelong passion for music, Gillespie launched his career in his hometown of Birmingham, UK, where he proved to be an invaluable asset for superclub Godskitchen. Since then, he has established himself as a visionary in the entertainment industry, having worked in partnerships with Sony Music Entertainment, Jay-Z and Roc Nation, and most recently Westbrook Entertainment, whose talent roster includes Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, and the entire Smith Family.A relentless pioneer and entrepreneur, Gillespie has joined forces with Pete Tong MBE to run Three Six Zero Recordings, his own in-house record label, while continuing to expand an already successful presence in film and television. Along with several other projects in the pipeline, the company's first feature film – prestige drama, VOX LUX – starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law, including an original soundtrack by Sia, was released in 2018.With a passion for innovation at the intersection of media, technology, and apparel, Gillespie has invested in companies such as Outdoor Voices, Stance, Ember Technologies, Stem Disintermedia, and Saavn. Committed to giving back and continuously fostering artistic talent, Gillespie has also remained a longtime philanthropist and advocate, sitting on both the Music Committee of Children in Conflict and the core screening panel of the Recording Academy. In his downtime, Gillespie enjoys following Manchester United and is an avid collector of modern art.

Investment focus

Music, Internet, Video
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Bkstg — Bkstg was founded by tech and music entrepreneurs to reinvent the way artists and fans connect by creating a new form of direct relationship that’s never existed before.
Hyperice — HyperIce is a recovery and movement enhancement technology company specializing in vibration, percussion, and thermal technology. Its technology is used by the athletes in professional and collegiate training rooms and fitness facilities globally.The company is driven by a mission to provide everyone with the innovative technology in acceleratingrecovery time, preventing injury, and enhancing the body’s ability to move efficiently. HyperIce was founded in 2010 by Anthony Katz.
Biosceptre — A Promise Beyond Cancer Envisioning the future of targeted therapeutics Biosceptre is driving innovation to bring new and progressive therapies to a wide range of cancer patients. Our focus is a multiple-targeted universal CAR T system with the potential to improve the lives of millions of patients across the world who are suffering from

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.

Matt co-founded EF after being a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Prior to EF Matt spent his time studying at MIT fuelled by an obsession with R, Python and unusual datasets. EF is the best place for Europe’s top technical individuals to meet and build world-changing startups in London.They select purely on the basis of technical talent, so youcan apply before you have a team or an idea. The intensive 6-month programme is designed to give you the best possible support in the first 200 days of your startup’s life.They have created over 40 startups now worth over $300 million. The startups are funded by some prestigious investors including Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Octopus Investments and Y Combinator.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Koos — KOOS is a simple legal and technological solution for motivating and rewarding your community. Boost your growth by sharing success.
Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative

Keith is an associate professor of strategic and international management and entrepreneurship at London Business School as well as a senior lecturer at University College London. He also holds various non-executive directorships and advisory roles. His career has spanned academia, consulting, investing and hands-on operational roles withinindustry and the venture capital world.

Investment focus

Software, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
NumberEight — Privacy-friendly mobile app monetization and analytics for app publishers, ad suppliers and SSPs. Know your users with intelligent first party data: specialized mobex AI for contextual advertising.
Connected — Connected is a startup that offers affordable connecting humans, unleashing a new wave of IoT-based business models and contributing to bridge the digital gap.

Duncan Grierson

Investment focus

Water, Medical, CleanTech
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030
Moixa Technology — Moixa Technology develops the Maslow intelligent energy storage solution, enabling homes to store energy and benefit from revenue streams generated by trading energy through GridShare, an SaaS platform that aggregates energy from groups of Maslow energy storage systems. . The company develops smart DC technologies to power DC lighting, computing,electronics from grid-shifted storage or local PV from smart DC hubs, variable DC networks and sockets. The technology and IPR reduces grid peak by shifting DC device load and powering DC devices efficiently without inverters or AC/DC adaptors, together with providing smart control and energy management. The technology aims to address the 1 trillion kwh + lost annually in power conversion, and the significant growing DC demand in homes, offices from ICT, LED lighting and the rise in internet connected devices.

Irina Haivas is a Principal. Based in London, she works on sourcing and due diligence of global investment opportunities.Irina focuses on businesses that use advanced technologies such as machine intelligence or robotics and automation, to transform large industries. She also focuses on the intersection of science and technology, including nextgeneration biology, as well as on companies in healthcare.Before joining Atomico, Irina was a growth and PE investor at GHO Capital Partners, where she invested, among others, in enterprise software and AI/ML businesses and focused on the intersection of science, healthcare and technology. Before that, Irina was part of the leadership team of Bain & Co. in Europe and the U.S., where she worked directly both with private equity firms on investment diligence, as well as with corporates on Innovation and Product, Go-to-Market, BD and acquisitions, and organisation scale-up. While at Bain she seconded in an operational role at Medtronic, one of the world’s largest medical engineering companies.Irina is a former surgeon, having studied medicine at Freiburg University in Germany and Iasi Medical University in Romania. She was a surgical fellow at Harvard Medical School before completing an MSc (Dist) in International Health Policy at London School of Economics.Irina speaks Romanian, English, advanced German, and conversational French.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Estonia, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Y42 — Y42's Turnkey Data Orchestration Platform gives you a unified space to build, monitor and maintain a robust flow of data to power your business
Daye — Daye is setting a new standard in period care and gynae health. We offer period products, vaginal microbiome screenings, and a period pain clinic.
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