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Cambridge Enterprise Ventures

Venture Capital

Cambridge Enterprise Ventures is the investment arm of the University of Cambridge, supporting entrepreneurs by investing university capital into high potential early stage businesses.

Portfolio

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companies


Portfolio companies

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Trismik

Trismik builds adaptive evaluation infrastructure for artificial intelligence systems.

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52North

52North develops diagnostic tools and digital platforms to transform urgent care pathways in oncology.

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Wave Photonics

Wave Photonics develops on chip photonics designs for quantum technologies, sensors, and datacentre applications.

Echion Technologies

Echion Technologies

Echion Technologies supplies advanced niobium-based anode materials for high-performance lithium-ion batteries.


Team

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Chris Gibbs

Investment Director

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Christine Martin

Head of Ventures

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Amanda Wooding

Deputy Head of Ventures


Recent investments

Pre-Seed
£2.2M

The pre seed round was led by Twinpath Ventures with participation from a syndicate of institutional and angel investors.

"If we want to trust AI, our methods have to be as rigorous as our ideas. Benchmark saturation is creating problems in every domain, from general knowledge, to reasoning, math, and coding. Scientists, researchers and technical teams face mounting pressure as evaluation is exploding in importance and has become essential for tying AI to trust. We need an evaluation framework that scales and can support this."
— Nigel Collier, Chief Scientific Officer
Other
£4.7M

The funding round was co-led by KHP Ventures and Cedars-Sinai Intellectual Property Co.

"This round represents a significant leap forward for 52North. With support from both UK and US healthcare leaders, we can expand our product pipeline working with major strategic partners and appropriately leverage the latest tools including AI to reshape urgent care pathways for patients worldwide. The commitment from both KHP Ventures and Cedars-Sinai exemplifies the belief in our vision and the value of our solutions."
— Umaima Ahmad, CEO
Seed
£4.5M

The seed financing was co-led by UKI2S and Cambridge Enterprise Ventures to support the commercial deployment of photonic chip designs.

"The team has spent the past few years building and experimentally validating our design technology – it’s exciting to have the resources to begin deploying it to solve real industry problems."
— James Lee, CEO
Series B
£29.0M

The funding round was led by Volta Energy Technologies with backing from CBMM, BGF, and Cambridge Enterprise Ventures.

"Our ambition is to deliver the best fast-charging batteries to unlock the electrification of heavy-duty vehicles. The investment from our partners Volta Energy Technologies, CBMM, BGF and Cambridge Enterprise Ventures cements our ambition to achieve full-scale commercialisation and full production volume."
— Jean de La Verpilliere, Chief Executive Officer