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Co-Fund NI is part of Invest NI's Access to Finance suite of loan and equity funds and a partner of the Regional Angel Programme. Managed by Clarendon Fund Managers, it provides co-investment in deals typically valued between £150k and £2m.

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AMPLY Discovery

AMPLY Discovery develops therapeutic programmes using artificial intelligence and experimental testing.


Team

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Stuart Gaffikin

Investment Manager


Recent investments

Seed
£1.3M

Twin Path Ventures led the seed financing for the Belfast biotechnology firm to accelerate its preclinical discovery programmes.

"Ten years ago, I began combining financial modeling expertise with computational biology to create a drug discovery platform. Evolution has spent billions of years perfecting natural defense mechanisms, and now we’re using AI to unlock this wisdom. This isn’t just professional for me; my father died from a drug-resistant infection our healthcare system couldn’t treat. At Queen’s, I built AMPLY to tackle deadly diseases differently, creating technology that will save lives when current treatments fail."
— Ben Thomas, CEO
Seed
£900K

The Belfast biotechnology company raised the capital from investors including Co-fund NI, QUBIS, and the Halo Business Angel Network.

"It is exciting to be able to advance the commercial development of AMPLY Discovery thanks to the tremendous support of our investors and Queen’s University Belfast. The development of initial research in this domain started out almost a decade ago when I considered adopting AI and machine learning techniques I had worked with in financial markets for the computational biology domain."
— Ben Thomas, CEO