# Top 45 Life Science Angel Investors in United Kingdom in June 2026 ## Jonathan Milner - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical 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. ## Nadav Rosenberg - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Software 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. ## Jeff Dean - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software Jeff Dean is the Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research. He joined Google in 1999 and has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technical foundations. He currently focuses on advancing AI and deep learning research across Google’s research teams.He co-founded and led the Google Brain team, helping drive innovations indeep learning for speech recognition, computer vision, natural language understanding, and a wide range of predictive applications. Over the years, he has co-designed and implemented several generations of Google's core systems, including its web search infrastructure, crawling and indexing pipelines, and advertising technologies such as AdSense for Content.He is also a key contributor to Google's distributed computing infrastructure, having co-designed and implemented systems like MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, Protocol Buffers, LevelDB, and TensorFlow—one of the most widely used open-source machine learning platforms.Jeff Dean earned his 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 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences and the Mark Weiser Award. ## Stefano Bernardi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence Stefano Bernardi is the Investment Director, Climate at Fondazione ENEA Tech. ## Aidan Gomez - Type: Angel - Location: Oxford, Arkansas, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology Aidan Gomez is based out of Toronto, Ontario and is the co-founder & CEO at Cohere. Aidan Gomez attended the University of Oxford. ## Mark Evans - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care 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. ## Robert Kopple - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Convertible Note - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Life Science Robert Kopple ## Jude Gomila - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden. ## Ian Hogarth - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence Ian Hogarth is based out of London, England, and is the Chairman of Phasecraft. Ian previously worked at Songkick as a Chairman. Ian Hogarth attended the University of Cambridge. ## Mati Staniszewski - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS Mati Staniszewski is the Co-Founder of ElevenLabs. ## Ed Parkinson - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Life Science Ed Parkinson ## Damien Lane - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Software, Health Care 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. ## Darrin Disley - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Big Data Darrin Disley is the CEO, Director & Investor at Mogrify. He attended University of Cambridge. ## Bradley Horowitz - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Jim Warwick - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Life Science, Biotechnology 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. ## Simon Galbraith - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Life Science 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. ## Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Type: Angel - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Nadav Ben-Chanoch ## Mark Gillespie - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Music, Video, Internet Mark Gillespie, born in Solihull, August 30th 1981, is a prominent music industry executive and entrepreneur, currently serving as the CEO of Three Six Zero, a global entertainment management company. With a career spanning over two decades, Gillespie has been instrumental in managing and guiding the careers of high-profile artists, producers,and creatives, including internationally acclaimed stars like Calvin Harris, Frank Ocean and Kid Cudi. Beyond his role at Three Six Zero, he owns the record label, Three Six Zero Recordings, Three Six Zero Music Publishing, and an interest in UK film distribution company, True Brit Entertainment. He is also credited as an executive producer on the movies Vox Lux (starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law) The Brutalist (starring Adrien Brody, Joe Alwyn and Felicity Jones) and Marching Powder (starring Danny Dyer).In 2023 he purchased the legendary SARM Recording Studios in London.Additionally Mark is an active investor in the technology space and holds a portfolio of investments in businesses such as Openai, SpaceX, Doordash, Figma, Stripe, OpenSea Gemini and Lyft. As well as being an LP at Andreessen Horowitz.He serves on the entertainment board of the charity Children In Conflict. His forward thinking vision and innovative approach to talent management have positioned Three Six Zero as a leading entity in the industry, known for representing leading talent in their respective fields of music, film, television and sports. ## Tim Davis - Type: Angel - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical 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. ## Keith Willey - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Gaming, Real Estate 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. ## Jon Oringer - Type: Angel - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock. ## Nicholas Edwards - Type: Angel - Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Life Science 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. ## Michail Eleftheriou - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Life Science, Biotechnology Michail Eleftheriou ## Huw Bishop - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: EdTech, Training, E-Learning Huw Bishop is an individual investor. ## Vishal Gulati - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Biopharma, Life Science 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. ## Fiona Pathiraja - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, Wellness Fiona is Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, an early stage healthtech VC fund based in London and Copenhagen. ## Johnathan Matlock - Type: Angel - Location: Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care Johnathan Matlock is Co-Founder Science Angel Syndicate. ## Duncan Grierson - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Water, Medical, CleanTech Duncan Grierson ## Michelle Tempest - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Cannabis, Life Science Michelle Tempest ## Edward Lando - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## Andrew Fisher - Type: Angel - Location: Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Medical, Life Science, Biotechnology 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. ## Matt Clifford - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Will Brooks - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures ## Naheed Kurji - Type: Angel - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Life Science, Biotechnology Naheed Kurji is the President and CEO of Cyclica, a Toronto-based biotechnology company that leverages artificial intelligence and computational biophysics to reshape the drug discovery process. Cyclica provides the pharmaceutical industry with an integrated, holistic, and end-to-end enabling platform that enhances how scientists design, screen,and personalize medicines for patients, and has recently been named by Deep Knowledge Analytics as one of the top 20 AI in Pharma companies globally. Naheed is passionate about how people interact with technology to make more informed and faster decisions, and is dedicated to advancing the responsible application of AI to healthcare problems. At Cyclica, he focuses on strategy and corporate development activities to affect change in the pharmaceutical industry, and strives to foster an environment where his team can solve the biggest challenges in human health through groundbreaking innovation. Naheed is a co-founder of The Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAIH), of which Naheed is 1 of 4 appointed Executive Officers. Naheed is an experienced professional specialized in strategic planning, corporate finance and entrepreneurship, having received an MBA from the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, and a Certificate from MIT on Artificial Intelligence and the Implication on Business Strategy. He has been featured in the Globe and Mail, CBC, Forbes, Vanity Fair, StartUp Health Magazine, WuXi Insider Perspective, and VentureBeat. Naheed is also a guest lecturer at various universities globally on the topic of entrepreneurship and AI in medicine. ## Jan Hruska - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Life Science Jan Hruska ## Rick Bernstein - Type: Angel - Location: North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, AgTech, Farming 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. ## David Evans - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series D, Series E - Focus: Rental, Medical, Software Principal at Apax Digital. ## John Anthony Knight - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Life Science, Biotechnology John Anthony Knight ## Maximilien Levesque - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Life Science, Biotechnology Maximilien Levesque - CEO and co-founder @ AQEMIA ## Sharaf Yamani - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Life Science Sharaf Yamani - Managing Director @ Windlesham Advisors ## Amar Shah - Type: Angel - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care Amar Shah is based out of London and is the Founder & Partner of Dhyan VC. Amar previously worked at Firstminute Capital as an Entrepreneur In Residence. Amar Shah attended the University of Cambridge. ## Irina Elena Haivas - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Sami Mikati - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Life Science 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. ## Patrick Pichette - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning Patrick Pichette is based out of London, England, and is the Partner of Inovia Capital and also Board Member of Cohere. Patrick Pichette previously worked at Twitter as a Board of Directors. Patrick Pichette attended the University of Oxford. ## David Lucas - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Life Science, Biotechnology David Lucas