# University of Edinburgh

> University of Edinburgh is a VC fund backing Medical and Health Care. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-edinburgh
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/uniofedinburgh
- Website: http://www.ed.ac.uk
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/UniversityOfEdinburgh

University of Edinburgh is a VC fund in Edinburgh focused on Medical and Health Care. The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is the sixth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities. It was the fourth university to be established in Scotland and the sixth in the United Kingdom, and is regarded as one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for University of Edinburgh. Shizune tracks 10 team members at University of Edinburgh. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/the-university-of-edinburgh?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical | 3 | 50% |
| Health Care | 3 | 50% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 50% |
| Social | 1 | 17% |
| Charity | 1 | 17% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Grant | 1 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Catherine Martin | Vice Principal Corporate Services Group | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catherine-martin-dc3a |
| David Fergusson | Head of Research Services | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-fergusson |
| Iain Woodhouse | Professor of Applied Earth Observation | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iain-woodhouse-3fc6 |
| Joshua Ryan-Saha | Data Driven Innovation Lead for Tourism & Festivals | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joshua-ryan-saha |
| Kev Dhaliwal | Director of University of Edinburgh Healthcare Technology Accelerator Facility; Professor of Molecular Imaging & Healthcare Technology, Consulant in Respiratory Medicine | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kev-dhaliwal |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rhizocore Technologies | Rhizocore Technologies produces locally-adapted mycorrhizal fungi to enhance tree planting success. | $5.9M | Seed | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| MiChro | MiChro is an innovative app that empowers users to achieve optimal health. By leveraging cutting-edge principles of chronobiology, MiChro provides personalized recommendations tailored to each user’s health conditions, lifestyle, and goals.Our app integrates advanced data analytics and machine learning to continuously evolve, deliveringactionable insights into nutritional status and dietary habits. This ensures users can make sustainable, long-term improvements to their health while enjoying a seamless, engaging experience.Current nutrition apps often fail to deliver the personalization users need. They rely on tedious manual entry, overlook individual restrictions and preferences, and lack interactivity—leading to poor user retention and limited impact. MiChro revolutionizes the nutrition app experience with its intuitive design, personalized features, and dynamic engagement, ensuring every user feels supported on their health journey.Join us in redefining health empowerment through personalized nutrition and advanced technology.Key words: Personalized Nutrition, Chronobiology, HealthTech, AI-powered Health, Nutritional Optimization, Machine Learning for Health, Health Empowerment, Lifestyle Medicine | $4K | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2024 |  |
| Lentitek | Lentitek is a cell and gene therapy company that is finding solutions to make exceptional cures available to more people. Lentitek is working on strategies to increase viral yield by tenfold or more. | $310.3K | Seed | May 30, 2023 |  |
| National Biofilms Innovation Centre | The National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC) is the central hub where academia, industry, government, and public policy come together to tackle the grand challenges biofilms present, impacting ~$5 trillion in global economic activity, from food and health to ships, clean water and energy. Funded by the BBSRC, Innovate UK and Hartree Centre, ourmission is to establish a network of research and innovation capacity to catalyse partnerships with industry to achieve breakthrough innovations and impact – from industry products and solutions to services and spinouts. We aim to bring together researchers and industry to explore unmet needs and exchange ideas, problems and solutions through roadmaps, workshops and conferences. We plan to invest in future scientists through our PhD and Post-Doc programs, and entrepreneurial training, to grow their expertise, help them better understand the commercial environment and encourage new start-ups. | $27.8M | Grant | Nov 22, 2022 |  |
| BioCaptiva | BioCaptiva develops liquid biopsy technology devices to diagnose and monitoring to detect cancers. | $2.6M | Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Simon Community Scotland | Simon Community Scotland is a charitable social firm offering home and support to the homeless people. | $6.1M | Debt Financing | Jun 01, 2021 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Scottish Enterprise](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scottish-enterprise) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Apollo Informal Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apollo-informal-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Archangels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archangel-informal-investments-limited) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/biotechnology-and-biological-sciences-research-council-bbsrc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cancer Research Horizons](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cancer-research-technology) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gabriel Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabriel-investments-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does University of Edinburgh invest in?

University of Edinburgh invests primarily in Medical, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Grant stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact University of Edinburgh?

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### Who are the partners at University of Edinburgh?

The team at University of Edinburgh includes Catherine Martin (Vice Principal Corporate Services Group), David Fergusson (Head of Research Services) and Iain Woodhouse (Professor of Applied Earth Observation), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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