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Ahren

Ahren

Venture Capital

Ahren is a deep tech and deep science investment firm established by Alice Newcombe-Ellis and science partners to provide long term capital. The firm maintains offices in Cambridge, London, and Boston with a portfolio that includes Graphcore and ZOE.

Portfolio

1

companies

AUM

£550M

under management


Portfolio companies

Bitfount

Bitfount

Federated AI platform enabling secure clinical research collaboration without data sharing.


Team

AN

Alice Newcombe-Ellis

Founding and General Partner


Recent investments

Seed
£4.0M

Ahren and Speedinvest co-led the seed round to help the data collaboration platform expand its engineering and design teams.

"Where traditionally the legal process behind sharing raw data between parties can take months or even years, Bitfount’s secure network instead allows algorithms to travel to datasets rather than the other way around, which means there needn’t be any disclosure of sensitive information. This new paradigm unlocks opportunities for both analysis and machine learning that were previously impossible – either because they required sharing of sensitive raw data, or because the contractual agreements were prohibitively complex."
— Blaise Thomson, CEO and Co-founder