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Top 50 Life Science VC Funds & Investors in United Kingdom (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in United Kingdom Life Science startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United Kingdom Life Science startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Venture - Series Unknown round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund
24 United Kingdom, United States, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $991k–$44M
Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund
17 United Kingdom, United States, Finland Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics $1.3M–$168M
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
VC Fund
16 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $582k–$5.9M
Future Planet Capital
VC Fund
13 United Kingdom, United States, Singapore Seed, Convertible Note Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $670k–$5.1M
SOSV
VC Fund
13 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Syncona Partners LLP
VC Fund
12 United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care $1.9M–$156M
IQ Capital
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $1.3M–$40M
Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Manufacturing $19k–$5.5M
24 Haymarket
VC Fund
11 United Kingdom, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $107k–$16M
Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
9 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $197k–$5.7M
Selvedge Venture
VC Fund
9 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $1.1M–$30M
Sofinnova Partners
VC Fund
9 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $7M–$105M
O2h Ventures
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom, Hungary Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical $603k–$25M
GM&C Life Sciences Fund
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom, Italy, Germany Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $94k–$5.8M
Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Private Equity Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $648k–$15M
Newable Private Investing
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $196k–$5.6M
Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $119k–$8.4M
Angels in MedCity
VC Fund
8 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $313k–$2.1M
Calculus Capital
VC Fund
7 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Biotechnology, Software, Medical $1.9M–$10M
Archangels
VC Fund
7 United Kingdom, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $867k–$6.3M
Google Ventures
VC Fund
7 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $1.1M–$121M
Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund
6 United Kingdom, United States, France Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $199k–$7.5M
Kindred Capital
VC Fund
6 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.4M–$73M
SR One
VC Fund
6 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $6M–$175M
IP Group
VC Fund
6 United Kingdom, United States, Australia Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $325k–$68M
Mercia Fund Managers
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, United States, Hungary Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $250k–$14M
Epidarex Capital
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $551k–$48M
Antler
VC Fund
5 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $46k–$10M
APEX Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, United Kingdom, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care $552k–$28M
Lima Ventures
VC Fund
5 Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $20k–$697k
Deepbridge Capital
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, Spain, Australia Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $142k–$15M
Cambridge Innovation Capital
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $2M–$73M
Formic Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical $958k–$61M
Verve Ventures
VC Fund
5 Switzerland, Germany, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $1.2M–$45M
Amadeus Capital Partners
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $800k–$56M
Beltrae Partners
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom Seed, Series A Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology
Northern Gritstone
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series D Software, Electronics, Health Care $2.4M–$229M
Brandon Capital
VC Fund
4 Australia, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $673k–$81M
Episode 1
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $951k–$18M
Pentech Ventures
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Analytics $1.3M–$60M
AlbionVC
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, France Series A, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2.4M–$19M
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2.1M–$43M
SFC Capital
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $131k–$2.2M
Molten Ventures
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $3.2M–$200M
Fifty Years
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$91M
Martlet Capital
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $193k–$9.5M
Dementia Discovery Fund
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $1.6M–$78M
Acequia Capital (AceCap)
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $500k–$25M
Playfair Capital
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $953k–$19M
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Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 24 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 337
  • Round size: Seed $991k–$4.9M; Series A $1.6M–$14M; Series B $1.8M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • K3 Metrology — K3 Metrology is a specialist metrology company commercialising laser‑based 3D coordinate measurement technology developed at the National Physical Laboratory. The company’s platform is designed to provide high‑accuracy, uncertainty‑aware dimensional data in large‑volume industrial environments, supporting inspection and assembly processes inadvanced manufacturing. Its systems integrate into production workflows where traceable measurements are required across complex geometries and large structures. The technology is applied in sectors such as aerospace, defence, and nuclear, where dimensional integrity and process control are critical.
  • MoA Technology — We harness the principles of natural selection to accelerate discovery for better, safer herbicides so farmers can continue to feed the world.
  • Quantum Motion — Quantum Motion delivers scalable silicon-based quantum computing using standard semiconductor manufacturing technology.
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Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 17 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 206
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $6.3M–$45M; Series B $9.1M–$168M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $299M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • ReEmerge — ReEmerge is a medical technology company that specializes in cognitive network restoration therapy.
  • MCatalysis — Manufacturing drop-in liquid commodities from distributed hydrocarbon feedstocks below commodity cost with small modular refining.
  • Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
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UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
VC Fund · Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 16 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 150
  • Round size: Seed $582k–$5.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

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
  • StandardX — StandardX is a deep-tech company building the isotope refinery powered by a scalable, compact particle accelerator platform.
  • INTELLIGENT MASS SPEC SOLUTIONS — Intelligent Mass Spec Solutions develops urine-based mass spectrometry and machine learning diagnostics for adrenal cancer.
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Future Planet Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 13 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

Brilliant Ideas. Brilliant People. Brilliant Minds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 287
  • Round size: Seed $670k–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $23M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Unloq AI — Unloq is a Decision Intelligence Platform that turns your company data and live market signals into governed strategic recommendations. Approved, tracked, measured.
  • Nourished — At Nourished we create innovative. personalised nutrition stacks that are truly unique to you. Vegan, waste-free and always made to order.
  • K3 Metrology — K3 Metrology is a specialist metrology company commercialising laser‑based 3D coordinate measurement technology developed at the National Physical Laboratory. The company’s platform is designed to provide high‑accuracy, uncertainty‑aware dimensional data in large‑volume industrial environments, supporting inspection and assembly processes inadvanced manufacturing. Its systems integrate into production workflows where traceable measurements are required across complex geometries and large structures. The technology is applied in sectors such as aerospace, defence, and nuclear, where dimensional integrity and process control are critical.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 13 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups, 75 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Syncona Partners LLP
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$17M; Series A $13M–$87M; Series B $29M–$156M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Apini Therapeutics — Apini is a creating novel small chemical two most prevalent types of inflammatory bowel disease.
  • Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
  • Re-Aim Therapeutics — Re‑Aim Therapeutics is a UK‑based biotech start‑up developing functional cures for T cell–mediated autoimmune diseases by selectively depleting pathogenic T‑cell subsets. Its lead asset, REA‑001, is a monoclonal antibody designed to potently and precisely eliminate disease‑causing type‑17 T cells, aiming to reset the immune system and achievedurable, treatment‑free remission in multiple autoimmune conditions.
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IQ Capital
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 214
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $4.7M–$40M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Mindgard — Mindgard is the leading provider of AI Red Teaming solutions.
  • Imperagen — Imperagen is a biotechnology research company focused on enzyme engineering, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology.
  • Nuclear Turbine — Delivering advanced nuclear generation for markets where the cost of electricity is a growth constraint.
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Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund · Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 294
  • Round size: Seed $279k–$3M; Debt Financing $19k–$3.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $383k–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • nisien.ai — Nisien.ai uses industry-leading AI for the detection, defence and resolution of online harm, for better online safety and digital wellbeing.
  • Design and Supply — Design and Supply are specialist manufacturers and suppliers of Industrial Steel Doors and Architectural Products.
  • MeOmics Technology — MeOmics Technology is a biotech company with a focus on improving the diagnosis and treatment of mental health illnesses. The company operates in the manufacturing industry and has a team of 9 employees. The team includes experts in Neuronal Cell Biology and Neuropsychopharmacology. The company's mission is to leverage technology to enhancethe understanding and treatment of mental health conditions.
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24 Haymarket
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 11 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $736k–$3.7M; Series A $1.8M–$16M; Venture - Series Unknown $107k–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WATR — WATR is the integrated system for real-time water or soil quality monitoring. Our products are robust, reliable, accurate, easy to use and benchmarked for accuracy.
  • pixlbio (formerly DefiniGEN) — Generate metabolic disease phenotypes in primary-like human cells using the best-in-class human iPSC differentiation platform. Find out more here!
  • Previsico — Live, property-level surface water and flash flood forecasting. Previsico gives insurers, brokers and large organisations 48-hour advance flood warnings - specific enough to act on, proven to mitigate losses.
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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 9 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 209
  • Round size: Seed $233k–$4M; Pre-Seed $197k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $477k–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Go Swag — Branded gifts for people you work with
  • 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.
  • Foresight — Foresight turns regulatory change into confident action. Compliance-critical teams see every change that affects their products across chemicals, sustainability, product safety, ESG, and HSE, with the evidence to act.
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Selvedge Venture
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.6M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$2.5M; Series A $3.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mesh Bio — We enable digital transformation of care delivery through clinical workflow automation and predictive analytics, built on gold standard clinical guidelines and best practices.
  • 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.
  • MultiOmic Health — AI-Enabled Precision Medicine for Metabolic Syndrome
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Sofinnova Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 9 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 353
  • Round size: Series A $7M–$70M; Series B $10M–$105M; Series C $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $755M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Odoo — From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.
  • HighLife — HighLife is driven by a mission to deliver innovative treatment options to patients suffering from heart valve diseases.
  • EnginZyme — Enzymatic chemistry for cleaner ingredients in personal care, food and pharma. Enginzyme's patented EziG platform makes enzymes work at industrial scale.
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O2h Ventures
VC Fund · 8 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

Transforming UK biotech breakthroughs into impact. o2h Ventures offers SEIS/EIS and growth-stage funds to back visionary teams from seed to clinical success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Hungary

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $603k–$7.3M; Series A $1.9M–$25M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
  • Atelerix — Discover Atelerix's hypothermic hydrogels for reliable cell preservation and ambient temperature shipping. Ensure fresh, viable cell samples.
  • Monument Therapeutics — Monument Therapeutics is a biotechnology company intended to develop drugs to treat serious diseases of the central nervous system.
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GM&C Life Sciences Fund
VC Fund · Alderley Edge, Cheshire, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $94k–$1.9M; Series A $1.9M–$4.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.3M–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow

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
  • Infex Therapeutics — Infex Therapeutics acquires, develops and licenses innovative drugs to treat pandemic infections
  • Monument Therapeutics — Monument Therapeutics is a biotechnology company intended to develop drugs to treat serious diseases of the central nervous system.
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Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

Maven is one of the UK's leading private equity and investment firms. We provide essential capital and expertise to help businesses unlock their potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Private Equity
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 227
  • Round size: Seed $783k–$5M; Private Equity $981k–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $648k–$8.3M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • KubeNet — We are KubeNet - a multi-award winning technology solutions provider based in Glasgow. Whether it's Managed IT, IT Support, Cloud, Connectivity, Voice or Cyber Security, we're by your side as your trusted technology partner.
  • Tixserve — Secure, Trackable, Interactive Digital Tickets for Live Events
  • ReadyGo Diagnostics — ReadyGo Diagnostics has invented a novel “Diagnostic Pen”. Low cost, intuitive to use from the raw sample, the ReadyGo Pen will be a game-changer in the newly emerging consumer diagnostics market, offering a yes/no answer in minutes, based on molecular analysis.
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Newable Private Investing
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

Newable exists to power business growth. Our strategy of Buy, Grow, Realise focuses on the regulated B2B market.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $196k–$3.1M; Series A $1.5M–$5.6M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

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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Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups, 35 in the past 12 months

Scotland's business advice, support and funding agency. Explore our products and services to find the right support for your business and apply online today.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 401
  • Round size: Seed $387k–$4.3M; Grant $119k–$4.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $681k–$8.4M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CSignum — Revolutionising underwater communications with electromagnetic technology for seamless data integration between surface & submerged devices.
  • Calterra — Calterra is an climate-tech firm that uses AI and satellite/drone data to monitor & verify carbon & biodiversity outcomes.
  • SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
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Angels in MedCity
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $482k–$2M; Angel $313k–$1.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Calira — Calira (formerly Clustermarket). Give researchers an easy way to book equipment, improve equipment utilisation, and get structured lab usage data.
  • Atelerix — Discover Atelerix's hypothermic hydrogels for reliable cell preservation and ambient temperature shipping. Ensure fresh, viable cell samples.
  • Clustermarket — The intuitive lab management system for all academic research facilities and industrial laboratories that need to efficiently manage equipment bookings.
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Calculus Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

At Calculus Capital they are specialists in creating and managing tax efficient private equity funds for the individual. Funds that are ideal for today's market - offering generous tax benefits, and significant growth potential within a sensible risk profile.They look to make £2-5 million investments in established companies with provenmanagement teams and a successful product or service. Their entrepreneurial flair, combined with their experience and sound commercial judgement has resulted in a diversified investment portfolio and an impressive track record. In June 2013 Calculus Capital was top ranked in the prestigious Martin Churchill Tax Efficient Review for the 6th year in a row. The Government has recently shown its support for EIS funds, by maintaining the five generous tax benefits and widening the scope of EIS investments. These changes benefit Calculus Capital's rigorous and proven strategy. As a result they are experiencing their strongest pipeline of prospective investments yet.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Medical
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.9M–$7.8M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Edify Systems — The Human-First AI platform for multi-site food and beverage operators. Tighter margins, less waste, more time on the floor.
  • Grateful — Grateful provides cashless tipping and trunk management software that integrates QR/NFC, EPOS systems, and compliance reporting.
  • Resurrect Bio — Resurrect Bio is a disease resistance trait discovery company. Using AI and our high-throughput in planta screening platform we provide traits for breeders.
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Archangels
VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 7 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $867k–$6.3M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CSignum — Revolutionising underwater communications with electromagnetic technology for seamless data integration between surface & submerged devices.
  • Earth Blox — Earth Blox provides a platform for analyzing geospatial data through a visual interface for environmental and land analysis. The system enables users to build workflows using satellite imagery and other earth observation datasets without requiring extensive coding knowledge. It supports applications such as deforestation tracking, carbonmonitoring, agriculture assessment, and land use analysis.The platform integrates data sources and processing tools to help users generate insights, automate analyses, and export results for reporting or further use. It also allows collaboration across teams by sharing workflows and outputs within a unified environment. Earth Blox supports organizations working with geospatial intelligence by simplifying access to large-scale environmental data and analysis tools.
  • iGii — Integrated Graphene enable better products with a revolutionary design for manufacture process producing the world's highest quality pure 3D Graphene Foam, Gii.
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Google Ventures
VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States · 7 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1508
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$16M; Series A $6M–$100M; Series B $15M–$121M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Tennr — Tennr is a custom AI assistant that accelerates research, answers complex questions, and generates custom reports.
  • ngmoco — ngmoco ("Next Generation MObile COmpany") is creating and producing games for the iPhone. CEO Neil Young is a former executive from Electronic Arts, where he oversaw the development of several hit titles. Another EA vet and partner at Kleiner Perkins, Bing Gordon, sits on the board. Kleiner is an investor through its iFund.
  • SolveAI —
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Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

Speak with our team, who can help you find sources of finance, engage with funders and secure investment to grow your business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 287
  • Round size: Seed $331k–$3.1M; Series A $1.7M–$7.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $199k–$4.1M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

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. Deploy, manage, and scale AI-driven, data-rich industrial systems at the edge with our open edge data platform.
  • Administrate — Manage instructor-led training with Administrate. Plan, schedule, communicate, resolve issues, and report on training operations from one platform.
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Kindred Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 128
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M; Series A $7.9M–$33M; Series B $8M–$73M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $8M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • ZML — ZML is a production inference stack, purpose-built to decouple AI workloads from proprietary hardware.
  • Bios Life — Bios Life is a technology-enabled healthcare company built to empower individuals to proactively manage their cancer risk, redefining personalized cancer screening and survivorship.
  • Fractile — Fractile is designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at 1/10th the cost.
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SR One
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 6 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 202
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$100M; Series B $15M–$114M; Series C $22M–$175M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $237M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • CalciMedica — CalciMedica is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing CRAC channel inhibitors for pulmonary hypertension and acute pancreatitis.
  • Windward Bio — Windward Bio is a clinical-stage, drug development company committed to improving outcomes for people living with serious immunological diseases.
  • Korsana Biosciences — Korsana Biosciences develops THETA-enabled antibody therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. The company focuses on shuttled monoclonal antibodies that cross the blood-brain barrier to reach central nervous system targets. Its lead program, KRSA-028, is an investigational anti-amyloid beta antibody for Alzheimer’s disease that uses a transferrinreceptor-based shuttle and Fc engineering to improve brain delivery and dosing. Korsana is also advancing additional THETA-based programs for undisclosed neurodegenerative indications.
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IP Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 231
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$7.6M; Series A $2.4M–$30M; Series B $7.9M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $50M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Eight19 — Eight19, located in Cambridge, UK, develops and manufactures plastic photovoltaics for energy harvesting, for the internet of things and for off-grid applications. Through the innovative use of industry-standard, high-volume, roll-to-roll processes and solution-based organic photoactive materials, the company has a highly cost-effective route forscaling-up its technology to supply the largest markets. Eight19 is currently producing modules on a small scale for commercial partners with applications in indoor energy harvesting for wireless sensor and controllers, signage and display, and outdoor power for portable electronics. Our plastic PV modules benefit from flexibility, thinness, light-weight and robustness.
  • MAKO — Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces.
  • Mach42 — Machine Discovery is a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing new machine learning technology. We leverage proprietary neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations — and we do it with minimal data and 99.9% fidelity.
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Mercia Fund Managers
VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Hungary

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2.1M; Series A $1.3M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $394k–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Ben — Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalise benefits and reward.Our secret? Marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee Mastercards and financial infrastructure. That’s how Ben instantly adds employee choice to your existing benefits, unlocks access to hundreds of additional options through Ben Card, all whilesaving you time and money.
  • Distil.ai — Distil.ai is a software platform that helps businesses to understand their customers’ behavior and identify buying signals.
  • MRC Engineering — MRC Engineering Providing a different option to the UK Rail Industry for Telecoms Design. Nationally renowned design specialists who provide extraordinary ...
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Epidarex Capital
VC Fund · Bethesda, Maryland, United States · 5 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $551k–$8.5M; Series A $2.6M–$38M; Series B $2.4M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $145M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Mironid — Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of www.mironid.com, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
  • RapidPulse — Explore RapidPulse for innovative stroke treatments and technologies. Book appointments or learn about our team and clinical trials.
  • Epsilogen — IGEM Therapeutics is a developer of an immuno-oncology company intended to develop immunoglobulin antibodies to treat cancer.The company's offerings include IgE-based drugs targeting solid tumors, enabling patients to kill parasites which reside in human tissue, also the home of the solid tumor.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 5 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2382
  • Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
  • myluigi.ai — Luigi is an AI-Powered Full-Stack Game Growth-as-a-Service platform designed to help mobile game studios scale user acquisition, engagement and lifetime value without adding headcount. Its dual-engine architecture automates and operates everything from ad campaign creation and real-time creative optimization to personalized in-game offers and LTVforecasting—delivered through a single, easy-to-integrate and unified dashboard. With a flexible per-title pricing model and powerful machine-learning insights, Luigi empowers mid-sized and indie developers to reduce CPI, boost retention and chart a clear path toward sustainable growth and seven-figure ARR.
  • RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund · Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 270
  • Round size: Seed $46k–$1.6M; Series A $295k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $261k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • OneClickComply — Automate SOC 2, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, and 10+ frameworks. OneClickFix remediates 1,000+ controls automatically. Trusted by 30+ organisations.
  • Land Digital — Land Digital is a tech, web design, web creation, content marketing, digital marketing, SEO, and mobile application agency.
  • Magnitude Biosciences — Magnitude Biosciences is a biotechnology firm combine experience in ageing research, the nematode C. elegans and automation.
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APEX Ventures
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 5 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

APEX Ventures is a deep-tech and medical focused venture capital firm, run by founders with complimentary backgrounds driven by the same mission.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8M; Pre-Seed $552k–$9.1M; Series A $5.7M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Quibim — Quibim builds AI tools that turn MRI, CT and PET data into actionable predictions for hospitals and biopharma. Trusted in 230+ centers worldwide.
  • iPremom — iPremom is a healthcare technology company that develops molecular diagnostic solutions for the early detection and prediction of pregnancy complications, particularly preeclampsia.
  • Jago Coffee — Jago Coffee serves freshly brewed coffee beverages wherever you are through a fleet of fully electric mobile cafes.
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Lima Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 5 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

Collaboration with outstanding initiators with exceptional insights, from inception through all levels of progress. Lima Ventures supports visionary founders as well as provides certain services to early startups. We seek innovative technology-driven entrepreneurs who generate and lead companies that will inspire millions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$697k; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shippn — International package forwarding service. Shop from Amazon, Shein, Macy's worldwide. Fast shipping with DHL & FedEx. Trusted by 50,000+ customers.
  • heybooster — heybooster is the creator of a platform for marketing analysis that aids e-commerce managers in finding chances for revenue growth and in making better choices. It provides clients with digital reporting, online meetings, online communication, an online project management system, and an online playbook that helps them discover problems, findpossibilities for revenue growth, and cut expenses.
  • Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios
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Deepbridge Capital
VC Fund · Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Spain, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $142k–$2.4M; Series A $2M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $259k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • upLYFT — upLYFT creates next-generation wearable technology that continuously analyses biomechanics and movement biomarkers, giving athletes, clinicians and physiotherapists precise insight into performance, recovery and injury risk.
  • GeneralPractice.AI — GeneralPractice.AI - Infusing Artificial Intelligence into the Fabric of General Practice
  • Spotlight Pathology — Spotlight Pathology develops decision support tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to help in the diagnosis of blood cancers.
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Cambridge Innovation Capital
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

As a team, we have a passion for science and its potential to drive change. Through our expertise and our position in one of the country's most powerful science and technology ecosystems, we're able to identify and support the most promising entrepreneurs in knowledge intensive businesses and help them achieve their vision.With our financial backing and expert guidance, we're excited to enable the pioneers in life sciences and deep tech to create world-leading companies whose unique ideas bring financial success and global impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$31M; Series A $2.6M–$73M; Series B $8.2M–$61M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $332M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Immutrin — Immutrin is a biotechnology company developing next‑generation antibody therapies designed to clear systemic amyloid deposits and reverse amyloidosis, this company lead asset targets ATTR cardiomyopathy, a severe and progressive form of amyloidosis, and its antibody represents a potential best‑in‑class treatment engineered to selectively andspecifically remove established amyloid fibrils.
  • Trent AI — Trent AI creates AI applications and agent security management software. It aids in risk assessment and mitigation in systems utilizing autonomous or semi-autonomous software agents. The company's technology monitors agent activity across APIs, tools, and workflows. It continuously assesses security posture via iterative scanning andcontextual understanding of system architectures.
  • TRIMTECH Therapeutics — Transformative treatments for CNS and inflammatory disorders by selectively destroying disease-causing protein aggregates
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Formic Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $958k–$9M; Series A $17M–$61M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.4M–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SonoThera — Explore therapeutic ultrasound for non-invasive, targeted genetic medicine delivery that improves precision and biodistribution. Learn more.
  • 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
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Verve Ventures
VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland · 5 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Switzerland, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 304
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Series A $2.1M–$18M; Series B $3.9M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $61M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Piomic — Non-invasive treatment with minimal staff supervision to produce a durable structural, functional and cosmetic closure of hard-to-heal wounds.
  • Aylight — Aylight develops semiconductor laser and photonics platforms designed to improve optical connectivity in AI datacenters and related infrastructure. The company focuses on frequency modulated comb laser technology that generates multiple stable wavelengths from a single InP-based laser cavity. Its architecture produces an equidistant, RF-lockedwavelength grid that aligns with dense wavelength-division multiplexing requirements and reduces control complexity and power consumption. Aylight targets use cases in AI datacenter interconnects, quantum computing hardware, precision metrology, and communication equipment. Its products aim to integrate with terabit optical links and wavelength-division multiplexing systems while remaining compatible with existing fabrication processes.
  • Atana Elements — Atana is accelerating the exploration and development of flowing critical minerals and industrial gases. Atana uses a proprietary tech stack to identify and mature mineral resources quickly and effectively.
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Amadeus Capital Partners
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 5 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Amadeus Capital Partners, Venture Capital For Technology Companies. We Back Entreprenuers To Win. Contact Our Experienced Team Of Investors Today

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 277
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$9.2M; Series A $2.6M–$30M; Series B $7.2M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • iPremom — iPremom is a healthcare technology company that develops molecular diagnostic solutions for the early detection and prediction of pregnancy complications, particularly preeclampsia.
  • Slamcore — Positioning, mapping and perception | State-of-the-art visual SLAM turns sensor data into actionable, spatial understanding for your vehicles.
  • Respiro Diagnostics — Respiro is harnessing insights from the breath to detect lung cancer earlier, non-invasively, and without scans or radiation. Built for use in everyday care settings.
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Beltrae Partners
VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

Independent Corporate Finance Advisors & Private Equity Investors

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neurovalens — Neurovalens delivers innovative solutions in the field of neuroscience, bioscience and neurophysiology.Neurovalens has received support from Invest NI under the European Union’s Investment for Growth and Jobs Programme. The project, recorded on the ERDF beneficiaries’ website, will be implemented over the next one year, undertaking research anddevelopment activities aimed at improving the competitiveness of the business.
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Northern Gritstone
VC Fund · Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Electronics, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series D
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$7.3M; Series A $2.5M–$27M; Series D $42M–$229M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

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  • Iceotope — Iceotope has developed technology with a blank drawing board and an open mind. So when we look at conventional problems, we find unconventional solutions.Built around our liquid-cooling approach and shaped by an extensive portfolio of patents, we’ve proven what our technology can do for HPC and data centre applications - dramatically reducingenergy consumption, space and noise. But it’s just the start. We’re going to keep innovating, working toward a day when wasteful, inefficient air-cooling is a thing of the past. We have created a business to look forward, but we’re also proud of the heritage that British engineering is built on. Iceotope is delighted to own the Made in Sheffield mark to show our dedication to the area’s tradition of engineering excellence. With decades of technical, design and engineering experience, we’ve established Iceotope as a trusted partner at the forefront of liquid-cooling technology. Now we’re investing to make sure we stay there: refining our designs, improving performance and engineering new applications.
  • Imperagen — Imperagen combines AI, QM/physics-based simulations, and high throughput lab testing to deliver true, verified enzyme improvements faster with lower cost.
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Brandon Capital
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 4 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $673k–$9.7M; Series A $5.2M–$81M; Series B $6.4M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $290M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Ena Respiratory — Ena Respiratory is a biotechnology company seeking to transform the treatment and prevention of respiratory infections and the effectiveness of vaccines.Ena Respiratory novel, synthetic Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) receptor agonists have been shown to activate the innate immune system in the respiratory tract and prevent viral and bacterialdissemination to the lungs.
  • Lumonus — Hello, we are Lumonus! We empower oncology care teams through software solutions and services.
  • OncoRes Medical — OncoRes Medical develops an imaging technology to provide intraoperative information available to surgeons to assist with the identification of tumor and healthy tissue.OncoRes Medical is an early-stage medical device company located in Perth, Western Australia and is developing the patent-protected technology in collaboration with leadingresearchers at the University of Western Australia and the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and breast cancer surgeons at the Western Australian public health system.With funding provided by the Medical Research Commercialisation Fund (MRCF), OncoRes Medical aims to develop the technology for use in clinical applications that require the real-time assessment of tissue microstructure.
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Episode 1
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

We build relationships early, make decisions quickly, but engage with you for the long term. Our focus is getting B2B software companies at Pre-Seed and Seed to a successful Series A.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 184
  • Round size: Seed $951k–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $3.2M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $96M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Veridue — Veridue uses AI to automate M&A due diligence and project finance for renewable energy.
  • SimplyCook — SimplyCook offers home recipe kits with easy step-by-step guides to cook restaurant-quality food in less than 20 minutes.SimplyCook boxes contain 4 easy to follow recipes and 4 ingredient kits. Each kit is designed to provide perfect taste-containing ingredient blends devised by professional chefs.
  • Mantic — Mantic is a world-class technical team on a mission to solve the next AI grand challenge: predicting global events with superhuman accuracy, and deploying this capability to power radically improved decision-making in business and government.
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Pentech Ventures
VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

Pentech Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on finding category defining software companies. Their passion is helping founders develop their startup into an internationally successful organisation. They have done this multiple times, partnering with leading VCs, corporations and investment banks along the way. They consider any opportunitycapable of becoming a market leader but are most comfortable being the first venture investor, supporting founders through the early stages of proving product and market fit. Their initial investment is likely to be £500K to £2M, with up to £10M invested over the lifetime of the investment.They invest in founders who are ambitious to build a global company, have the passion and ability to attract the best team and who are focused on the data and understand the key drivers in proving and building their business. They support the founders they invest in to develop and grow with their business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Analytics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$17M; Series B $3.7M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $114M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • nPlan — AI that forecasts project outcomes, creates scenarios of the future and helps mitigate risk across single projects and portfolios. Trained on over 750,000 past programmes.
  • Causaly — Causaly is the fastest way to find evidence, explore hidden connections and make new predictions in biomedical science
  • Deep Render — Deep Render Ltd. is a spin-out from the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. We are a London based AI start-up that is developing the next generation of media compression algorithms. Our proprietary and patented technology is at the forefront of machine learning research. Furthermore, our Biological Image Compression results arestate-of-the-art, providing at least a 50% efficiency gain over the previous standards
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AlbionVC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

AlbionVC supports visionary founders and technologies with long-term capital and scale-up know-how. Founded in 1996, it was amongst the first to back leading global success stories such as Booking.com, Egress, Quantexa and Oviva. With £1bn in AUM and over 100 exits successfully realised, it funds venture breakthroughs that drive real outcomes forfounders, investors and society. AlbionVC is the technology investment arm of Albion Capital Group, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. For more information please visit: https://albion.vc/

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$12M; Series A $3.9M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oshen — Oshen is a technology enterprise that creates miniature autonomous sailboats designed for persistent, wide-area ocean tracking.
  • Outerlimit — Outerlimit provides AI security and governance for agentic AI systems, with controls for identity, access, risk assessment, and activity.
  • Gravitee — Open Source API Management Platform - Gravitee
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 440
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.8M–$22M; Series B $8M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
  • Metris Energy — The AI-native operating system for renewable energy.
  • Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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SFC Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups, 60 in the past 12 months

Discover the UK's leading SEIS Fund, offering tax-efficient investments in innovative startups. Join thousands of savvy investors and raise capital for your business with SFC Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 578
  • Round size: Seed $131k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $173k–$846k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Keylr — Services partner for property managers. Book reliable, top-rated professionals for your properties with e-props.
  • Furbnow — Furbnow - Your companion for home improvements for the future
  • Checkboard — Complete your identity verification and payments without the paperwork. Checkboard handles your ID, open banking, and payments from one app.
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Molten Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

Molten Ventures is a leading British venture capital firm backing Europe’s highest-growth private technology companies. Our expert investment team stay ahead of the curve, identifying transformative trends and next-generation companies before they break through. We combine multiple pools of capital to invest at all stages of the businesslifecycle—from seed and early stage to growth and late stage—focusing on disruptive sectors like Spacetech, Fintech, and AI. Our strategy is simple: back bold ideas, scale them with capital and expertise, and unlock high-value exits—whether through strategic acquisitions, trade buy-outs, or IPOs. Since our 2016 IPO, we’ve delivered strong realised returns, reinvesting into the next wave of innovation—creating a virtuous cycle of growth and value.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 232
  • Round size: Series A $3.2M–$31M; Series B $7.9M–$60M; Series C $11M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $7M in 2011

Portfolio highlights

  • XMOS — In 2005, a small team assembled to create a fast and flexible microcontroller that would enable designers to respond quickly to diversifying market demand. The first (XS1) and second (xcore-200) generation processors put unprecedented I/O capability (available through software for the first time) alongside significant DSP and controlprocessing – establishing XMOS as a name in the audio sector.The vision quickly shifted towards AI. Caught between two very different technical and commercial models, Graphcore was formed to focus on server-side AI, and XMOS continued the quest towards low-cost embedded intelligence (edge-AI). Most recently XMOS enabled voice to become mainstream, releasing the XVF3510 – a disruptive high-performance, low cost far-field 2-mic voice interface. This was followed up with xcore.ai – a new crossover processor for the AIoT that brings AI, DSP, control and I/O together in a single device.
  • MAIA Technology — MAIA is a cloud native, API-first platform that unifies mission-critical data, Portfolio Management, Trading & Compliance, Risk & Performance, IBOR and Middle Office workflows into one architecture.
  • Mobile Travel Technologies — Mobile Travel Technologies (MTT) is the leading mobile travel technology specialist for airlines, hotels and travel intermediaries with an extensive customer base across the global travel industry.MTT’s advanced mobile travel platform powers some of the most successful and highest revenue generating mobile channels in the travel industry. As apioneer in this space having first launched mobile bookings for airlines in 2006, MTT has remained a first mover in mobile travel and has picked up many awards along the way for its successful, customer focused travel apps & mobile sites. MTT offers its clients unrivalled travel industry expertise, world-class mobile development, creative design, mobile usability expertise and a sophisticated mobile travel platform. MTT clients include Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), the flag carrier for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, LAN Airlines in Chile and TAM Airlines in Brazil (the LATAM Airlines Group), easyJet, transavia.com of the Air France KLM Group, Flybe, Jumeirah Group and Atlantis The Palm, Dubai.
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Fifty Years
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 184
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Series A $8.5M–$37M; Series B $16M–$91M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $90M in 2021

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.
  • Onepot.ai — Search 2.7 billion make-on-demand analogs from onepot CORE, get a quote, and we synthesize and QC them in our US-based lab. AI-powered custom synthesis CRO.
  • Adaption Labs — Adaptation creates AI systems that adjust to changing real-world circumstances.
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Martlet Capital
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

Martlet Capital is an early-stage investor based in Cambridge, providing patient capital to deep technology and life science startups with high growth potential. Investing in the future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $637k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $193k–$1.2M; Series A $1M–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Xampla — Xampla's natural plant polymer technology is the innovative technology powering materials to change the world with plastic-free replacements and more.
  • Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives
  • AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
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Dementia Discovery Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $4.8M–$20M; Series A $7M–$78M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $269M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Leal Therapeutics — Leal Therapeutics develops novel therapeutics for patients.
  • Violet Therapeutics — Violet Therapeutics is a healthcare company that operates in stealth mode.
  • TRIMTECH Therapeutics — Transformative treatments for CNS and inflammatory disorders by selectively destroying disease-causing protein aggregates
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Acequia Capital (AceCap)
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 4 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 415
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.3M; Series A $3.3M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $2.9M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Rapidata — Fast and reliable data labeling that powers your AI. Define your label needs now and get the results in minutes.
  • Devplan — Devplan turns customer feedback into ranked, ready-to-build specs for your engineers and AI agents.
  • Applied Atomics, Inc. — Powering the next 1,000 years of advanced industry with co-located nuclear power plants.
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Playfair Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in United Kingdom Life Science startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Playfair is a sector agnostic fund focused exclusively on pre-seed investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making six investments a year out of its third $70m fund and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Our 78% Series Agraduation rate is ~3x industry average. Playfair has backed 100+ companies since 2013, including Thought Machine, Orca AI, Protex AI, StackOne and Nory.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $953k–$3.7M; Series A $3M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Navifare — Navifare is an AI-powered travel price optimization and metasearch platform that focuses on flight, hotel, and car rental price comparison. The platform analyzes flight offers users already found and searches for lower fares from online travel agencies and airlines. Users can upload screenshots, paste flight details, or use a Chrome extension thatoverlays a “Find Better Fare” button on major booking sites. Navifare exposes its price discovery capabilities via a web app, a REST API, and an MCP server for integration into AI assistants. It redirects users to partner sites to complete bookings and does not handle payments directly.
  • Zerolook — Zerolook provides a flight-shopping API for online travel agencies, airlines, metasearch services, and AI travel applications. Its machine-learning model predicts flight prices and itineraries using historical fare data instead of recomputing every fare combination through a global distribution system or airline system. The API returns predicteditineraries, prices, and confidence scores for exploratory search, while customers route completed bookings through their existing distribution channels. Zerolook supports REST and MCP integrations and provides booking links to external airlines and online travel agencies.
  • Fusionality — Fusionality is a Swiss fusion-technology company focused on measurement, control, and data systems for fusion devices.They combine expertise in fusion physics, control engineering, AI/ML, simulation, diagnostics, and real-time software.Their goal is to help fusion companies and research labs operate devices more efficiently and accelerate thedevelopment of commercial fusion energy.
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Life Science VC funding in United Kingdom at a glance

Stats across 712 deals from 709 investors.

709
investors
in United Kingdom Life Science startups
712
deals
in United Kingdom Life Science startups
$3M
median round
in United Kingdom Life Science startups
43%
lead investors
lead at least one round
25%
Seed
most common funding stage

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