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Top 50 Life Science VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Life Science VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in January 2025

Investor	Life Science United Kingdom investments
Parkwalk Advisors	17
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund	14
Oxford Science Enterprises	14
SOSV	13
Development Bank of Wales	8
Sofinnova Partners	7
24 Haymarket	7
Oxford Science Enterprises	7
Syncona Partners LLP	7
GM&C Life Sciences Fund	7
Selvedge Venture	6
Archangels	6
Future Planet Capital	6
Angels in MedCity	6
Newable Private Investing	6
Scottish Enterprise	6
Epidarex Capital	5
APEX Ventures	5
Scottish Investment Bank	5
Verve Ventures	5
APEX Ventures	5
Deepbridge Capital	5
Angels 5K	4
IQ Capital	4
Oxford Capital	4
Kindred Capital	4
Playfair Capital	4
Mercia Fund Managers	4
SR One	4
Dementia Discovery Fund	4
AlbionVC	4
11.2 Capital	4
IP Group	4
O2h Ventures	4
Formic Ventures	4
Octopus Ventures	4
Northern Gritstone	3
R42 Group	3
Praetura Ventures	3
Antler	3
Brandon Capital	3
Cambridge Angels group	3
Acequia Capital (AceCap)	3
Fifty Years	3
Bioeconomy Capital	3
Delin Ventures	3
Hoxton Ventures	3
Molten Ventures	3
Techstart Ventures	3
Creator Fund	3

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Parkwalk is a London-based fund management firm. Parkwalk invests in UK technology companies that have IP backing and freedom to operate, generally spun out of UK universities. Their funds seek to generate capital gains for their investors, enhanced by the attractive tax relief provided by EIS. Parkwalk entered this investment sector in 2009,anticipating a wave of tax-efficient incentives launched by the UK Government to stimulate innovative emerging technology companies and thereby help drive economic growth.Parkwalk utilises academic, technology transfer, venture capital and personal networks developed over many years to gain access to the highest calibre deal-flow. In 2017 Parkwalk joined forces with IP Group plc, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company that is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IPO. As at March 2019 the combined group has net assets of £1.2bn.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Diffblue — Diffblue Cover uses next generation autonomous AI to automate unit testing so that Java development teams can build better applications faster
Ikarovec — Ikarovec is developing novel gene therapies to treat major ophthalmic indications.
illumion — Illumion develops high-throughput optical tools to accelerate battery material development

UKI2S, formally the Rainbow Seed Fund, is an investment fund backed by the government, providing seed funding to science & technology start-ups and SMEs

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ikarovec — Ikarovec is developing novel gene therapies to treat major ophthalmic indications.
Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets
iFast Diagnostics — iFAST is addressing the Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing market, reducing the spread of antimicrobial resistance.

Oxford Science Enterprises is the university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companies taking onchallenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

natcap — We support the world's leading companies to prioritise, measure and act on nature impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities.
FluoRok — By employing our patented technology, we can produce fluorochemicals without the production of toxic and highly dangerous hydrofluoric acid
Iota Sciences — Discover automated single-cell handling tools and related services to accelerate your route to breakthrough discoveries in cell biology

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Amped PCR — Explore Amped PCR's advanced DNA amplification solutions for precise molecular diagnostics. Trusted by food safety authorities and biotech companies. Learn more
Coffi Lab — Dog friendly independent coffee shops, inspired by our love of coffee & labs. In Monmouth, Marlborough & Abergavenny. Proud Supporter of Guide Dogs UK.
Stable Resources — We are Stable. We pioneer new ways for teams to collaborate and innovate with technology being the enabler.

Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Based in Paris, London and Milan, the firm brings together a team of professionals from all over the world with strong scientific, medical and business expertise.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

nChroma Bio — nChroma Bio's integrated product engine allows for safe, accurate, and targeted in vivo administration, addressing major shortcomings of current genetic medicine techniques.
Noema Pharma — BEYOND SYMPTOM CONTROL Developing therapies to help both orphan and larger patient populations with conditions of the brain and nervous system live their li ...
Tenpoint Therapeutics — Tenpoint Therapeutics Ltd. is a global, clinical-stage biotech company developing groundbreaking treatments to rejuvenate vision in the aging eye.

24Haymarket is an investment network which included several highly-experienced private equity and venture capital investors, seasoned entrepreneurs, and senior operators. Investing up to £5 million in growth companies in the UK and Europe. They invested their own capital in direct alignment with entrepreneurs and actively support their growthagenda and join the board of the companies in which they invest. Since inception in 2011, 24Haymarket has invested in more than 50 high-growth businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

CyberOwl — Helping maritime fleet operators gain visibility, cybersecurity and cyber compliance of shipboard systems with IMO 2021.
Optalitix — Optalitix's data driven products and expertise allow you to move your models to the cloud and improve underwriting efficiency.
onHand — The volunteering and climate impact platform for businesses and individuals. Help your local communities and have global impact.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

natcap — We support the world's leading companies to prioritise, measure and act on nature impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities.
FluoRok — By employing our patented technology, we can produce fluorochemicals without the production of toxic and highly dangerous hydrofluoric acid
Iota Sciences — Discover automated single-cell handling tools and related services to accelerate your route to breakthrough discoveries in cell biology

Syncona is a FTSE250 company focused on founding, building and funding healthcare companies to deliver transformational treatments to patients in areas of high unmet need.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

iOnctura — Our mission is to develop high impact, low disruption therapies that extend healthspan. We do this by disrupting the dynamic interplay at the heart of the
Purespring Therapeutics — Purespring Therapeutics is an AAV gene therapy company focused on the kidney globally.
Resolution Therapeutics — Resolution Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company developing macrophage cell therapy to treat chronic diseases.

The GM&C Life Sciences Fund is a seed and early stage venture capital fund targeting life sciences businesses located in the Greater Manchester and Cheshire & Warrington region. The Fund is managed by Catapult Venture Managers ("Catapult Ventures").The Fund is based at Alderley Park, which is well recognised as a site ofnational importance, being the largest life sciences campus of its kind in the UK with more than 500,000 sq. ft. of top-end laboratory and related space and facilities. Until recently, the Park was the R&D headquarters for AstraZeneca.Since 2002, Catapult Ventures has backed a significant number of companies across a broad range of life sciences, including therapeutics (such as Abzena and Oxford BioTherapeutics), medical devices (such as Monica Healthcare and Probe Scientific), contract research organisations (such as R5 Pharmaceuticals and FDAS), diagnostics developers (such as Lumora and Biofortuna), as well as developers of technology used in healthcare applications (such as Oxford Cryosystems and Accutronics). The Fund is the result of a collaboration between Cheshire and Warrington Enterprise Partnership, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Cheshire East Council, and Manchester Science Partnerships.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ScubaTx — ScubaTx is a breakthrough organ preservation device organ transplant. The ScubaTx device will leverage world-leading expertise in software design to commercialise a proven but unexploited organ preservation technique, Persufflation. ScubaTx will offer healthcare providers significant net savings, an
Flynotes — Flynotes is a digital software platform helping dentists deliver personalised patient care
QV Bioelectronics — Manchester-based start-up QV Bioelectronics is developing innovative electrotherapy devices for the treatment of certain types of brain tumours.

Selvedge Venture operates as a venture capital firm investing for impact in age-related medical conditions.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Life Science
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mesh Bio — Mesh Bio is a digital health startup that is transforming chronic disease management through predictive analytics. Mesh Bio works with healthcare providers and stakeholders to provide innovative solutions that transform health screening and disease management. They translate clinical data and numbers into actionable insights that help patientsbetter manage their health, lifestyle and disease risks.
Ochre Bio — Ochre Bio is developing therapies for the biggest liver health challenges.
BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.

Established in 1992. Archangels is the oldest continuously operating business angel syndicate in the World. Investing in IP-rich tech & life sciences companies in Scotland, UK.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
1inhaler — 1inhaler operates as a developer of drug delivery device.
iGii — Integrated Graphene enable better products with a revolutionary design for manufacture process producing the world's highest quality pure 3D Graphene Foam, Gii.

Brilliant Ideas. Brilliant People. Brilliant Minds.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ikarovec — Ikarovec is developing novel gene therapies to treat major ophthalmic indications.
Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets
Wittaya Aqua — A better approach to aquaculture management

Angels in MedCity is a partnership between MedCity, London Business Angels and Angels4LifeSciences. The programme aims to introduce new people to investing and investing in the healthcare/life sciences sector via investor workshops and introduce business angels to investment opportunities from highly-selected and trained companies.With aparticular focus on drug therapies, digital health and medical device technologies, Angels in MedCity brings potential investors together with life sciences experts in a programme aimed at both people who are new to investing and experienced investors who have little or no experience in the life sciences sector. The aim is to build investor understanding in the life sciences sector and support life sciences companies to gain funding to commercialise their ideas.Angels in MedCity has created a community of investors supported through a programme of investor workshops. Using case studies and tips from experienced investors in the field, the workshops explain how to identify and structure a good deal in the life sciences sector, as well as provide expert advice on tax breaks and legal issues.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Atelerix — Discover Atelerix's hypothermic hydrogels for eco-friendly, reliable cell preservation and ambient temperature shipping. Ensure fresh, viable cell samples today.
Clustermarket — The intuitive lab management system for all academic research facilities and industrial laboratories that need to efficiently manage equipment bookings.
DynamX Medical — DynamX Medical has developed a reliable and inexpensive precancer screening system for rapid tissue biopsy analysis that can be operated point-of-care by nurses.

Newable: Helping over 20,000 businesses thrive annually with tailored financial products, advice, and flexible workspace solution

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Delta g — Delta g Limited is a quantum technology and gravity gradiometry company. A spin-out from the University of Birmingham our technology has applications in industries as varied as civil engineering, infrastructure, defence, rail, navigation and resource exploration. Experts from science, engineering an
Weldfast — Weldfast is a manufacturer and supplier of welding consumables, abrasives, chemicals, premium gas equipment, and safety products.
EarSwitch — Empowering new ways to control and connect with the world through in-ear biometric switch and sensor technology

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Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Bettii Pod — Bettii Pod is a pioneering FemTech start-up that creates a one-of-a-kind menstruation cup and disc washer for use in public restroom stalls.Bettii Pod's primary product, the menstrual cup/disc washer, is a step forward in normalizing discussions about menstruation and increasing availability to eco-friendly menstrual choices.
Kaly Group — KALY is like an intriguing group based on the description, it appears to be a collective of individuals with diverse interests and passions—innovators, sailors, and nature enthusiasts—coming together with a shared mission of exploration and discovery.
Concinnity Genetics — Concinnity designs unique RNA-based gene control systems that enable the precise control of gene therapies to improve safety.

Epidarex Capital invests in early-stage, high growth life science and health technology companies in under-ventured markets. Its international team is led by Sinclair Dunlop, Kyp Sirinakis and Liz Roper. With offices in the United States and United Kingdom Epidarex Capital’s investors represent a cross-section of leading universities, internationalcorporations, development agencies and financial institutions. Epidarex was created to meet the need for more sector-specific financial backing for young companies, including spin-outs from leading research universities.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Theolytics — Theolytics is a biotechnology company harnessing viruses to combat cancer. A step-change in the oncolytic viral therapy field, our phenotypic screening Platform enables the discovery and development of efficacious, targeted candidates suitable for intravenous delivery and optimised for a chosen patient population. In addition to advancing aninternal Pipeline of programs spanning both solid and liquid tumours, we are establishing select strategic partnerships to expand and accelerate pipeline development.
Curve Therapeutics — Curve has developed an innovative screening platform that is transforming the discovery of first-in-class therapeutics. The platform allows functional screening of diverse, genetically encoded Microcycle™ libraries against a broad range of disease-associated targets that are present in their native conformation inside a mammalian cell. Curve isdeploying this platform to build a pipeline of novel cancer drugs.
Enterprise Therapeutics — Enterprise Therapeutics is a drug discovery company dedicated to the researchand development of novel therapies for the treatment of respiratory diseases.In diseases such as cystic fibrosis, asthma and COPD the lungs become congested with mucus leading to difficulty in breathing. New disease modifying therapies that target the underlyingmechanisms of mucus congestion will reduce the frequency of lung infections and improve patient quality of life.

APEX Ventures is a deep-tech and medical-focused venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
HyperHeat — HyperHeat is a climate tech startup, that develops a breakthrough solution for zero-carbon industrial heat at very high temperatures.
TriLite Technologies — The world's smallest projection displays from TriLite take laser beam scanning technology to the next level, for augmented vision as light as the eyewear of today.

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Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
Administrate — Manage 100% of enterprise training operations with configurable training management software, designed to scale with your organization.

Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Switzerland, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
tozero — Truly bringing lithium-ion battery waste tozero by recovering all critical matierlas, like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

APEX Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in start-ups grounded in unique and protectable technology. They provide support and resources and aims to develop their start-ups in their respective field. Their initial focus areas include digital media, business intelligence, cybersecurity, fintech, and the future of work.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
HyperHeat — HyperHeat is a climate tech startup, that develops a breakthrough solution for zero-carbon industrial heat at very high temperatures.
TriLite Technologies — The world's smallest projection displays from TriLite take laser beam scanning technology to the next level, for augmented vision as light as the eyewear of today.

Deepbridge is a different kind of investment manager. They work closely with financial advisers and investors to design innovative products, ranging from investment in technology growth companies to asset-backed renewable energy projects. They also partner with innovative and committed management teams to help UK based companies realise theirpotential and become successful leading-edge businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AI-Sight — AI-Sight is a startup that is developing an AI diabetic retinal screening system to deliver WHO-recommended diabetic eye screening services.
Microplate Dx — Safeguarding against the spread of antimicrobial resistance worldwide.
GenoMe Diagnostics — GenoME Diagnostics - We are developing a blood test for an earlier and more accurate diagnosis of ovarian cancer.GenoME Diagnostics .

Southern Angel Investors Club, combining Surrey investors Club & Angels 5K, are entrepreneurs who understand what new businesses need.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Celixir — Celixir is a developer of regenerative medicines created to change the lives of patients in need. The company's medicines consists of iMP cells, platelet lysate and PML cells to treat patients with ischaemic heart disease, injured tendons near the surface of the skin and mild to moderate heart failure respectively, enabling medical researchersto discover breakthrough medicines that aim to change the standard of medical care for patients.
Novastone Media — With its unique asymmetric technology, novastone puts you directly where your clients want to talk to you.
Geektastic — Geektastic guarantees hiring teams only meet high calibre candidates. Our technical code challenges quickly identify the most talented software engineers.

IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London-based VC firm that invests in ‘deep tech’ companies capable of dominating their respective markets on a global scale. Initial investments at Seed and Series A range from £0.5m to £10m, with capacity for follow-on investment up to £30m through the Growth Fund. The team has achieved over 30 exits including toApple, Huawei, Google and Oracle.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Molyon — Molyon is creating the next-generation energy storage system: the lithium-sulfer battery. Molyon offers long-life lithium-sulfur batteries that have twice the energy density of existing lithium-ion batteries on the market.
Mindgard — Mindgard is an AI security company that helps enterprise to test, detect, and respond to cyber threats against their AI models.Given that businesses are increasingly focused on offering AI-driven services such as LLMs, securing this new way of conducting business is equally important. Mindgard ensures that your business can safely and securelymove into the new AI world and continue to protect your digital assets, brand and reputation.Our platform enables enterprise customers to determine, detect, and remediate against any adversarial attack vulnerabilities within all their AI models. This answers the “What is my AI risk?” and “How do I mitigate my AI risk?” questions that currently cannot be answered using traditional Cyber Security platforms. By designing our platform from the ground up to integrate with existing AI and Cyber Security operational tooling, Mindgard can be seamlessly added to your organization, providing repeatable and automated AI model vulnerability testing.The Mindgard platform has been in development for over 4 years based on cutting edge PhD-led, AI & cyber security research, also used by the global Intelligence Community. As well as providing a library of adversarial attacks based on deep research, leveraging our platform that can automate repeated security testing, detection, and response across the entire AI estate. By leveraging the Mindgard platform, our clients free up precious AI and cyber security resources and at the same time understand, detect, and mitigate risks across their entire AI model portfolio, which currently takes too long and is too expensive. Our platform ensures that business can rapidly embrace LLMs and other AI technologies whilst protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation within the new AI world.
Mindgard Ltd — Mindgard Ltd specializes in providing comprehensive AI security solutions to enterprises. Our operations center around a sophisticated platform designed to determine, detect, and remediate adversarial attack vulnerabilities within AI models. The platform is built on over four years of PhD-led research in AI and cyber security, ensuring advancedprotection that traditional Cyber Security platforms cannot offer.Our platform integrates seamlessly with existing AI and Cyber Security tools, enabling automated and repeatable vulnerability testing across the entire AI estate. This integration allows enterprises to efficiently assess and mitigate risks, optimizing their AI and cyber security resources.Key operational features include: - Automated Security Testing: Utilizing a library of adversarial attacks, our platform conducts thorough and repeated security tests to identify vulnerabilities. - Detection and Response: The platform continuously monitors AI models for threats and provides rapid detection and response capabilities to neutralize potential attacks. - Seamless Integration: Designed for compatibility with existing operational tools, our platform can be easily incorporated into current security infrastructures.Mindgard Ltd's operations ensure that businesses can securely adopt and innovate with AI technologies while protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation in the evolving AI landscape.

Helping individuals and institutions invest in Venture Capital, Infrastructure and Media companies since 1999.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Ittybit — Ittybit is a API that enables users to handle rich media in applications. It provides developers with basic techniques for uploading, storing, transforming, and extracting data from video, music, and image files.
Noggin HQ — The next generation of credit referencing is coming. Look busy.
FinCrime Dynamics — Our mission is to help make the world’s financial system safer through rapid deployment of effective AI for financial crime analytics, enabled by enriched synthetic data that captures the dynamics of fraud and money laundering and loads them into tailor-made scenarios that explore diverse threats that financial organisations are exposed to.Thisgoal has taken us to the forefront of Synthetic Data and Fincrime Analytics, and we are proud to have in our team people that have helped shape the state-of-the-art of these fields.Keywords: Finacial services, AML, Synthetic Data, Fintech, Machine learning, Big data, Simulation, Fraud Analytics, Compliance

A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cradle — Design better proteins
Inversion — Inversion Space is a privately held company driven to change how humanity utilizes space. Its builds affordable, high cadence return vehicle for the commercial and defense industries.
Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.

Playfair is a generalist VC fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Refute — Refute identifies and addresses misinformation on behalf of there businesses.
NetFabric — NetFabric is developing a next-gen network observability platform
Passionfruit — Join hundreds of the best startups around the world and use Passionfruit to hire freelance marketing specialists on-demand.

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

Kuano — Kuano provides innovative quantum and AI solutions for drug discovery and design. It offers a discovery platform that combines target quantum mapping and AI-led chemistry to enable the faster development of better drug candidates.
MGISS — Independently advising on the smarter use of Geospatial data, technology and the digital transformation of field operations.
Workbuzz — Give your Everyday Heroes a voice with employee surveys. Our flexible and simple survey platform reaches all employees, wherever they are. Book a demo now!

SR One Capital Management is a leading trans-Atlantic biotech venture capital firm that partners with top entrepreneurs, scientists and investment partners to seek to build elite biotechnology companies. Our mission is to translate ground-breaking technologies into next generation medicines to benef

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Antag Therapeutics — Antag Therapeutics operator of a biotechnology company intended to develop metabolic and anti-obesity therapeutic drugs.The company specializes in the development of peptide-based GIP receptor antagonist in order to monitor dietary-related metabolic diseases through the infusion, enabling the healthcare industry to decrease blood flow and lipiduptake in adipose tissue in an efficient manner.
Avenzo Therapeutics — Developing the next generation of oncology therapies for patients.
Kala Pharmaceuticals — Kala Pharmaceuticals is developing novel treatments for diseases that affect mucosal tissues. The company's proprietary mucus penetrating particle technology dramatically improves drug distribution and pharmacokinetics by uniformly coating the mucosal surface with biocompatible, drug-loaded particles. Kala's formulations achieve high,sustained local drug concentrations with reduced systemic exposure and are delivered in a patient-friendly format. The company's research efforts have demonstrated successful in vivo proof-of-concept in mucosal organs such as the respiratory tract, eye, and cervicovaginal tract, enabling diverse product opportunities that target significant clinical unmet need. Kala is focused on advancing an internal pipeline of products through human proof-of-concept while establishing R&D collaborations with select partners to improve products in their pipelines.

SV Health Investors is a specialist healthcare fund manager, investing across multiple stages and sectors. Our goal is to transform healthcare one investment at a time.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Sudo Biosciences — Sudo Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company committed to developing cutting-edge medications that are unmatched in their class.
LOQUS23 THERAPEUTICS — LoQus23 is a DDF-formed company focussing on targeting DNA damage repair pathways to treat Huntington’s disease and other triplet repeat diseases.
Montara Therapeutics — Montara Therapeutics is a precision-medicine neuroscience biotech startup improving safety and efficacy of therapies for people with neurological diseases

AlbionVC supports visionary founders with long-term capital and scale-up expertise. Founded in 1996, today we are partners to UK early-stage B2B software and healthcare companies. AlbionVC manages c. $1 billion of venture funds, currently invested in over 50 companies. AlbionVC is the technology investment arm of Albion Capital Group LLP, which isauthorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Diffblue — Diffblue Cover uses next generation autonomous AI to automate unit testing so that Java development teams can build better applications faster
tem. — In a few simple steps we can manage your renewable energy needs forever.
Infact Systems — Infact Systems is a company that focuses on bringing affordability and credit information into the 21st century. They facilitate the sharing of real-time, contextual data, primarily in the banking industry. Their mission is to increase responsible financial behavior by providing real-time data for modern credit. They offer integration andcustomization services for HPZone, particularly in terms of connecting with external laboratory systems. Infact Systems also provides services to help women take control of their finances.

In physics, 11.2 km/s is the escape velocity from Earth's gravity. They focus on emerging technologies such as AI, cybersecurity, robotics, quantum, new space, computational therapeutics, synthetic biology. They believe great people are leading indicators of a company's success. 11.2 Capital’s technical background, operationalexperience, and a strong network of amazing advisors and international partners particularly in Asia deliver a unique set of resources to entrepreneurs. While they are happy to help companies across the full range of early-stage company questions, areas where they concentrate include technical recruiting, partnerships (OEM and distribution partnerships for smart hardware companies, data partnerships for data-driven healthcare companies), customer introductions (CISO introductions for security companies, provider introductions for healthcare companies), and follow-on financings.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
Mantle — Mantle is an engineering and manufacturing company that has developed metal 3D printing technology to produce high-resolution parts that meet the critical needs of applications from automotive and aerospace to consumer product design and prototyping.
Coalesce Automation — Coalesce is the only data transformation tool built for scale. Evolve your transformations and empower your entire data team.

IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and createvalue out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Diffblue — Diffblue Cover uses next generation autonomous AI to automate unit testing so that Java development teams can build better applications faster
Microbiotica — Microbiotica is a developer of human microbiome therapeutics intended to discover and develop live bacterial therapeutics and biomarkers. The company's therapeutics identify gut bacteria linked to phenotype with unprecedented precision, enabling researchers to phenotype before testing of candidate bacteria in advanced human in vitro and invivo models.
MISSION Therapeutics — Deubiquitylating enzymes: multiple drug opportunities across therapeutic areas

Focused on seeding early stage biotech therapeutics and related AI opportunities. The fund will invest in companies qualifying under EIS and covering novel...

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
ViaNautis — Precision Solutions
Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool

Formic Ventures is a diversified venture capital firm that makes early-stage investments in biotechnology startups focused on human longevity as well as technology startups and companies that make human lives more meaningful.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

SonoThera — SonoThera is a biotechnology company that creates non-viral genetic therapies using ultrasound. Its mission is to develop genetic medicines that treat the root cause of human disease. SonoThera is expanding the possibilities of disease treatment with ultrasound-guided nonviral gene therapy for diseases with suboptimal or non-existent treatments. Itaims to improve the lives and health of millions of people.
cheMastery — Echo handles repetitive tasks with accuracy and precision, allowing your chemists to tackle high-value challenges.
Biogenesis — Clinical research platform tailored towards industry sponsors, clinical research sites & patients

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.
Forefront RF — Forefront RF tunable duplexer aims to expand the accessibility and global market reach of all mobile devices by simplifying RFFE design.

Northern Gritstone is an investment firm focused on investing in advanced materials, energy, health technology and cognitive computation.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Series A, Series D
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MicroLub — MicroLub produces a fat replacement for lower-calorie plant-based diets. It is cutting-edge innovation to the next generation of protein technology, creating exclusive ingredient solutions that significantly minimize molecular friction.
Cavero Quantum — A quantum-safe symmetric cryptographic key solution built to last
Exciting Instruments — Exciting Instruments Limited is a joint company founded in Sheffield that combines the software prowess of Bulldozer Limited with Dr. Timothy Craggs' knowledge of single molecules. Through the use of cloud connectivity and real-time data visualisation, we are a genuine science and software partnership on a mission to assist you in streamliningthe procedure for creating discoveries in biophysics, life sciences, drug discovery, and medical diagnostics.

R42 Group is a venture fund and an institute which invents, invests and informs covering AI, deep science, 5G mobile, biotech and fintech.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
Senisca — Developing a new generation of senotherapeutic interventions to target the diseases and aesthetic signs of ageing.

Praetura Ventures has been supporting entrepreneurs with more than money since 2011. Click to find out more about how we can help businesses and investors.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ScubaTx — ScubaTx is a breakthrough organ preservation device organ transplant. The ScubaTx device will leverage world-leading expertise in software design to commercialise a proven but unexploited organ preservation technique, Persufflation. ScubaTx will offer healthcare providers significant net savings, an
Cytix — Cytix is a vulnerability management software platform and cluster of dedicated pentesters to help you identify & resolve Vulnerabilities. Reach us & get a free trial of tool.
Ocula Technologies — Harness the power of advanced analytics with our sustainable growth platform enabling brands and retailers to outperform competitors.

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.

Brandon Capital invests in the most promising biomedical opportunities that have the potential to improve the lives of patients.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CatalYm — Catalym develops antibodies against a placental factor which is overexpressed by various tumour types.
Myricx Bio — Myricx Pharma is a small molecule drug discovery company engaged in developing novel proprietary inhibitors of human N-myristoyltransferases (NMT), with a primary focus in oncology but also exploring potential applications across other diseases.
Pheon Therapeutics — Pheon Therapeutics is an Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) specialist that creates ADCs for a variety of difficult-to-treat cancers. Its lead program is a first-in-class ADC against a novel target that is highly expressed in solid tumors across a broad range of hard-to-treat cancer types.The company was founded in 2022 and is based in London,England.

The Cambridge Angels are a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in internet, software, technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors in the Cambridge (UK) area and throughout the UK.Typical funding requirements thatthe Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £50,000 to £500,000 - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have received more than £1m in funding from their Members over several funding rounds.Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases
Monument Therapeutics — Monument Therapeutics is a biotechnology company intended to develop drugs to treat serious diseases of the central nervous system.

We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Sloyd — 3D modeling has never been easier. Select a generator, tweak it, done. Generate with realtime in the Sloyd Webapp or SDK.
Legion Health — Legion Health is building the infrastructure for health care organizations to scale their virtual mental health offerings.
ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression

WE BACK HEROES using technology to solve the world's biggest problems

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Gridware — Using remote telemetry and edge AI, Gridware wildfire prevention technology powers a grid that is smarter and more reliable than ever before.
Aalo Atomics — Creating abundant and dependable clean energy to power humanity for generations.
Waypoint Bio — Waypoint's proprietary spatial multi-omics platform enables us to solve critical issues around understanding how cell therapies navigate the three-dimensional tumor microenvironment and allow the measurement of cell-to-cell interactions.

Bioeconomy Capital invests in early-stage companies with the goal of accelerating the biotechnology revolution. Based on its startup operational expertise, product development experience, and globally recognized strategic analysis, it has developed a blueprint for building and deploying technological capabilities that will become a criticalinfrastructure of the 21st-century economy.The company's proprietary blueprint is the distillation of the fund managers' five decades of combined experience in synthetic biology and other engineering fields and cannot be readily duplicated. Prior investments include Zymergen, Riffyn, Synthace, RoosterBio, Arzeda, Bellwether Bio, EdenWorks, and Lumen Biosciences.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Life Science, Pharmaceutical
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MicroByre — MicroByre is a platform for bacterial domestication. Their automated characterization pipeline gathers the oft-overlooked data that highlights unleveraged bacteria that meet functional industrial criteria. That is, they rapidly find the bacteria with naturally unfussy eating habits and evolution-honed metabolisms that have the potential to convertunrefined biomasses into commodity chemicals at vastly improved efficiencies compared to extant fermentation processes. They select from these functionally de-risked bacteria those which can be directly genetically modified to improve their cost profiles — even if they have never been engineered before. The data from our unique characterization pipeline informs the minimally precise genetic modifications necessary to increase pliability and yield, eliminate nutritional additives, maximize feedstock utilization, and improve contamination tolerance & phage resistance. MicroByre gives biomass conversion a truly competitive edge against petrochemical synthesis.MicroByre’s platform bridges the gap between the promising and the profitable in synthetic biology and bioengineering. A unique combination of resources and skills makes MicroByre a valuable potential partner for companies of all sizes and industries. They collaborate to define project scope to match a mutually agreeable business model, which could be a fee for service, license agreement, or joint development agreement.
Tandem PV — Discover the future of sustainable energy with Tandem PV, a leader in perovskite solar technology and innovative solar energy solutions.
Parse Biosciences — Parse Biosciences is providing researchers with the ability to perform single cell sequencing with unprecedented scale and ease. Learn more about how you can use the most scalable single cell platform on the market without the need for custom instrumentation.

We are partnering with remarkable entrepreneurs and scientists on the mission of our lives: elevating humanity.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Hungary, United States

Portfolio highlights

Umedeor — uMed combines RWE with the power of patient generated data to address the evidence gaps in life science research
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.
Ori Biotech — Ori Biotech is a developer of a manufacturing platform used to help patients get access to lifesaving treatments. Ori has developed a proprietary, flexible manufacturing platform that closes, automates, and standardizes manufacturing allowing therapeutics developers to further develop and bring their products from pre-clinical process developmentto commercial-scale manufacturing. The company aims to speed up the innovation of cell and gene therapies through the manufacturing platform it is bringing to market.

Hoxton Ventures focuses on startups that either disrupt existing industries or invent entirely new market categories. Hoxton typically invests between $500,000 and $5 million into pre-seed, seed, and Series A stage companies, and follows its capital through the life of the company. The firm is based in London and invests all across Europe.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
CuspAI — CuspAI is a revolutionary AI startup that is developing a platform for next-generation materials to address global sustainability and renewable energy concerns. CuspAI uses cutting-edge generative AI, deep learning, and molecular simulation to accelerate the material design process. Their platform works similarly to a search engine for materials,allowing users to request certain properties for new materials on demand.
Malted AI — Malted AI is a developer of a low-code platform enables enterprises to build and deploy large language models-enabled applications at scale, using distillation to inject domain-specific knowledge into smaller, focused models, trained on proprietary data in a secure environment.

Molten Ventures is a venture capital company. They invest in software, telecoms, electronics, the internet, MedTech, and cleantech services. They support visionary entrepreneurs who will invent the future.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PocDoc — PocDoc is a pioneer in the field of smartphone-based fast disease testing.
FintechOS — FintechOS extends your core, letting you innovate banking and insurance products, digital journeys, and back-office workflows without the cost or risk.
SatVu — SatVu captures high resolution thermal data from space for a safer and more sustainable Earth.

Techstart Ventures is a leading investor of seed capital across Scotland and Northern Ireland. they are a trusted partner to ambitious founders on their journey to success.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
Sensoteq — We specialise in wireless sensor solutions for remote machine health monitoring. Sensoteq's technology enables predictive maintenance of industrial applications, preventing costly downtime and increasing efficiency.
Continuum Industries — Continuum Industries is a developer of Optioneer, the leading software for linear infrastructure optioneering.

We invest in founders building business on the frontier of what is possible. Creator Fund believes...

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Fairgen — Data-centric approach to debiasing machine learning models and artificial intelligence algorithms.
Malted AI — Malted AI is a developer of a low-code platform enables enterprises to build and deploy large language models-enabled applications at scale, using distillation to inject domain-specific knowledge into smaller, focused models, trained on proprietary data in a secure environment.
Helical — Helical is an intermediary platform that offers bioinformaticians free access to the technologies from AI and biological computation.

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