# Kerry Baldwin

> Kerry Baldwin is a seed investor at IQ Capital (Cambridge) backing Software and SaaS. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [IQ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iq-capital-partners)
- Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kerry-baldwin/6/7a0/309

Kerry Baldwin is a seed investor at IQ Capital in Cambridge focused on Software and SaaS. Co-founder/Managing Partner of IQ Capital, a Cambridge based, deep tech focused, early stage venture capital investor, which invests in Machine Learning, AI, Data Science and Data-based propositions and IP based on disruptive algorithms.IQ Capital invests £1-5m in the first round and subsequently adds further capital through follow-oninvestments, IQ Capital is actively seeking Series A with rich deep tech IP at the core.Kerry has 20 years in early stage Venture Capital both in the UK and Europe starting with VTL in 1997 (the first investor in Autonomy), KVS amongst other deep tech investments and had numerous successful exits including to Yahoo, Sun Microsystems and other secondary sales. In 2006 she co-founded IQ Capital raising a £25m fund, followed by a £50m fund in 2015 with British Business Bank as a key investor. The fund has enjoyed exits to Google, Huwaei and Becton Dickinson. She specialises in Competitive Intelligence, Product, Strategic Marketing and team dynamics.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 17% |
| SaaS | 3 | 13% |
| Analytics | 2 | 8% |
| Compliance | 2 | 8% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 8% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 25% |
| Series A | 5 | 21% |
| Series B | 4 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nu Quantum | Nu Quantum is a telecommunications company that develops end-to-end quantum cryptography systems.It secures communications within and between cities through urban and satellite free-space optical links. The system helps with the realization of commercial deliverable photonic technologies by combining novel materials and semiconductor technology.This enables clients to secure the exchange of cryptographic keys for the ultra-sensitive detection of light.Yuri Andersson, Mete Atatüre, and Carmen Berraquero founded Nu Quantum in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire in 2018. | $71.1M | Series A | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Valarian Technologies | We’re on a mission to help enterprises ensure their communication tools are secure, compliant and efficient.Valarian’s software allows multinational organisations to make the communication tools they already use compliant with data sovereignty, protection and privacy laws across jurisdictions worldwide. Valarian’s resilient, scalable platform canbe deployed into any environment (on-prem, cloud, or hybrid) and easily integrates with existing business collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and WhatsApp, harmonising compliance, security and efficiency. | $7M | Seed | May 08, 2025 |  |
| BMLL Technologies | BMLL Technologies Ltd. operates cloud based technology platform that offers machine learning and inference framework for common limit order book problems. | $21.4M | Series B | Sep 30, 2024 |  |
| Nu Quantum | Nu Quantum is a telecommunications company that develops end-to-end quantum cryptography systems.It secures communications within and between cities through urban and satellite free-space optical links. The system helps with the realization of commercial deliverable photonic technologies by combining novel materials and semiconductor technology.This enables clients to secure the exchange of cryptographic keys for the ultra-sensitive detection of light.Yuri Andersson, Mete Atatüre, and Carmen Berraquero founded Nu Quantum in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire in 2018. | $8.5M | Seed | Nov 02, 2023 |  |
| CyberSmart | CyberSmart is an automated compliance platform that helps you to identify, fix, certify and protect against security incidents to your business. CyberSmart provides a cybersecurity platform that enables small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to combat the constant threat of cyber-attacks and increasing regulation in an ever-evolving technologicallandscape and increasingly connected digital operating space. | $15.3M | Series B | Feb 23, 2023 |  |
| Risilience | Risilience provides an analytics and SaaS platform for corporate businesses to assess their climate change risks and manage their transformation to reach net zero emissions. | $26M | Series B | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Apperio | Apperio’s legal spend management software provides real-time visibility to help control and optimise your external spend with law firms. Data is gathered automatically, structured consistently and presented simply for analysis to help you make informed business decisions. Our unique approach of connecting directly with law firms’ practicemanagement systems provides ongoing and historical data at the touch of a button. This gives you complete cost certainty on both billed matters and work-in-progress legal fees. Apperio helps in-house teams to stay in control of their legal spend and build trust with external counsel by offering a collaborative, rather than adversarial approach to legal spend management. | $7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 09, 2023 |  |
| Worldr | Worldr is a private, secure and compliant team communication app. While the user experience was designed to be extremely simple and effective, the back-end was architected to be deployable as if it were an in-house application.Worldr is a solution for larger companies, and especially regulated ones, who may not able to use third-partycollaboration applications because of 1) the threat to their data security and 2) lack of Compliance transparency.With 150 companies already signed up for our Beta, ranging from small startups to teams within major banks, Worldr is fully publicly launching in 2021.Please find the landing page at worldr.com | $12.7M | Seed | Nov 07, 2022 |  |
| Valarian Technologies | We’re on a mission to help enterprises ensure their communication tools are secure, compliant and efficient.Valarian’s software allows multinational organisations to make the communication tools they already use compliant with data sovereignty, protection and privacy laws across jurisdictions worldwide. Valarian’s resilient, scalable platform canbe deployed into any environment (on-prem, cloud, or hybrid) and easily integrates with existing business collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and WhatsApp, harmonising compliance, security and efficiency. | $9.3M | Seed | Oct 24, 2022 |  |
| Risilience | Risilience provides an analytics and SaaS platform for corporate businesses to assess their climate change risks and manage their transformation to reach net zero emissions. | $8.3M | Series A | Oct 21, 2021 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Notion Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/notion-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Molten Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-esprit) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Playfair Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/playfair-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [MD ONE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/md-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sistema_VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sistema-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amadeus Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amadeus-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About IQ Capital

VC Fund · Cambridge, United Kingdom

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.

5 contacts available at IQ Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrey Kessel | Entrepreneur in Residence / Hands on work with startups | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrey-kessel |
| Daniel Carew | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-carew |
| Daniil Shcherbakov | MBA Consultant | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniil-shcherbakov |
| Edward Stacey | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-stacey |
| Kerry Baldwin | Managing Partner, co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kerry-baldwin |

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## FAQ

### What does Kerry Baldwin invest in?

Kerry Baldwin invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Kerry Baldwin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kerry Baldwin closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 24 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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