Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund
Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford Science Enterprises is a VC fund in Oxford focused on Biotechnology and Health Care. 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.
- Total investments:
- 119
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 34%
- Fund size:
- $337M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Oxford Science Enterprises invests in
Stages Oxford Science Enterprises invests in
Countries Oxford Science Enterprises invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$11M
- Series A
- $6.3M–$42M
- Series B
- $9.1M–$100M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 24 (20%)
- Health Care 23 (19%)
- Software 12 (10%)
- Artificial Intelligence 12 (10%)
- Medical 10 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 39 (33%)
- Seed 29 (24%)
- Series B 18 (15%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 8 (7%)
- Funding Round 5 (4%)
Country
- United Kingdom 66 (55%)
- United States 3 (3%)
- The Netherlands 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alexis Dormandy
Chief Executive Officer
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Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Alexis Zervoglos
Senior Partner (Technology)
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Senior Partner (Technology) | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Claire Brown
Partner ( Life Sciences)
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Partner ( Life Sciences) | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
David Norwood
Chairman
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Chairman | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jim Wilkinson
Chief Financial Officer
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Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high-throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designedto exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and the University of Münster, Germany. | $30M / Series A / Feb 07, 2025 | ||
| Neu Health enables clinicians, caregivers, and patients to tackle this growing challenge with cutting-edge digital technologies. | $2M / Seed / Jan 29, 2025 | ||
| FluoRok is revolutionizing the way fluorochemicals are produced globally. | $10.3M / Seed / Sep 23, 2024 | ||
| Iota Sciences is develops technologies with unique capabilities to advance discovery into cell biology. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 31, 2024 | ||
| natcap is a nature intelligence company that provides report and act on impacts and dependencies on nature. | $10M / Series A / Jul 03, 2024 | ||
| Formed as a spinout of the University of Oxford by cryptography researchers and specialists, PQShield has unrivalled domain expertise in the design and implementation of quantum-resistant cryptography for software and hardware applications. PQShield is a major contributing participant to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)Post-Quantum Standardisation Process. At PQShield, we help customers transition their product lines from legacy RSA and Elliptic Curve cryptography to quantum-secure standards by offering ready-made and tailored IP for secure elements, IoT firmware, PKI and server technologies, and end-user applications." | $37M / Series B / Jun 20, 2024 | ||
| Fractile is building chips to run large language models two orders of magnitude faster. Existing hardware is good for training LLMs, but very poorly suited to subsequent inference of the trained model, which is increasingly the dominant workload. A network’s weights need to be moved onto a chip once per word generated, and this movement takes a fewhundred times longer than the subsequent computations themselves. Fractile’s revolutionary approach to fusing computation with memory eliminates this bottleneck, and can scale to allow running the world’s largest models at a global scale. | $14.8M / Seed / Jun 18, 2024 | ||
| Amber Therapeutics develops the next-generation of bioelectrical therapies that can sense and adapt as well as stimulate, with the potential to radically improve clinical outcomes in patients with functional disorders of the peripheral nervous system. | $101.8M / Series A / Jun 09, 2024 | ||
| Beacon Therapeutics is an ophthalmic gene therapy company that restores and improves vision and rare retinal diseases that result in blindness. | $170M / Series B / Jun 03, 2024 | ||
| Many cancers and other diseases are caused, or resist treatment, because T cells can't recognize or target cells correctly.We're progressing first-in-class antigen modulators through the clinic, developed to treat disease by controlling T cell activation. Our technology modulates antigen presentation, flicking a switch inside cells toalter their appearance to the immune system.This approach marks a fundamental shift in how we treat people living with autoimmune disorders, cancers and infectious diseases. | $50M / Series B / May 23, 2024 | ||
| See all 119 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Oxford Science Enterprises invest in?
Oxford Science Enterprises invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 119 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Oxford Science Enterprises invest in?
Oxford Science Enterprises typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$11M at Seed, $6.3M–$42M at Series A and $9.1M–$100M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Oxford Science Enterprises's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Oxford Science Enterprises took part in.
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Who are the partners at Oxford Science Enterprises?
The team at Oxford Science Enterprises includes Alexis Dormandy (Chief Executive Officer), Alexis Zervoglos (Senior Partner (Technology)) and Claire Brown (Partner ( Life Sciences)), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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