Congratulations to three extraordinary founders and scientists Michelle Lu, Ariane C. Gomes and Carmen Palacios-Berraquero on being recognised in the Founders Forum Group's 100 Women Founders to Watch report! We are so proud to partner with you. The report spotlights 100 exceptional women founders from three key markets—UK & Europe, the US and Southeast Asia—who are driving innovation across 20+ industries, from femtech to space tech. Collectively, these founders have raised over $1.1 billion. The report explores ways to increase representation and direct more investor capital towards women founders. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/eaN_D6Jb
IQ Capital
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Cambridge, Cams 9,589 followers
Supporting Deep Tech entrepreneurs, from Seed Stage to Exit.
About us
IQ Capital is a deep-tech early stage VC investing in companies capable of dominating global markets, focused on breakthrough technologies in computer science, energy, life sciences, fintech, space, and advanced engineering. Many of our investments have a strong link to innovation originating in Cambridge and we have made 30+ new investments in the last three years. The IQ Capital team has achieved over 20 exits, to companies including M&A to Apple, Google, Meta, Oracle and several IPOs. We are currently investing up to £10m per company from our fourth fund and we are actively seeking Seed and Series A investments with rich deeptech IP at the core. We make follow-on investments into our outperformers of up to £30m via our Growth Fund.
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- Venture Capital, Technology, Software, Machine Learning, AI, DeepTech, Seed, Robotics, SpaceTech, Advanced Engineering, Cleantech, Synbio, eHealth, Life sciences, FinTech, Heath Tech, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and ML
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Employees at IQ Capital
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Max Bautin
Deeptech VC @ IQ Capital | Investing Seed & Ser A UK/EU
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Derek Wise
Chief Product and Technology Officer at Civica (a Blackstone Portfolio Company)
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Pradeep Tagare
VC Investments to enable a safe, clean, affordable energy future and meet climate change goals
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Kirk Malloy
Founder and CEO at BioAdvisors, LLC
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Great to see Opteran recognised for having developed the breakthrough technology for autonomous navigation. David Rajan and the team's execution in such a broad range of challenging domains is always impressive!
Great feature on Opteran and Airbus Defence and Space European Space Agency - ESA Mars Rover in The Times and Katie Prescott for the feature online and in the print edition today 🚀 👨🚀 https://lnkd.in/eG8RARE7 #neuromorphic #NaturalIntelligence #space #robotics #autonomy #mobilerobots #universalAI
Robots powered by insect brains could be used on Mars
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This week, Kerry Baldwin joined Gavin Winbanks on his podcast, "Something Worthy", to discuss the evolving world of deep tech and venture capital. In this episode, they discussed: ➡ The founding vision behind IQ Capital and how we support groundbreaking deep tech companies ➡ The key role that venture capital plays in bringing breakthrough innovations to market ➡ The importance of directing pension fund investments into UK innovation and deep tech, as part of the BVCA’s Mansion House Reforms ➡ What advice Kerry would give to the government to encourage more investment and how our sector can demonstrate its value to society. A thought-provoking conversation with Gavin, offering insights on shaping the future of UK science and innovation through impactful investment! Listen here for insights into the intersection of finance, innovation, and societal value: https://lnkd.in/eBr22ngs #SomethingWorthy #DeepTech #VentureCapital #Investing #Innovation #BVCA #ImpactInvesting #PensionFunds
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Outstanding progress in bringing quantum sensing to the global semiconductor industry. Congratulations to Kevin Berghoff, Fleming Bruckmaier, and the whole team at QuantumDiamonds on the launch of their first product.
QuantumDiamonds Launches the World’s First Commercial Quantum Device for Semiconductor Failure Analysis 💎 We are proud to announce the launch of QD m.0—the world’s first commercial quantum sensing device designed for semiconductor failure analysis! This advanced system utilizes diamond-based quantum microscopy to deliver unprecedented precision in detecting and localizing faults in integrated circuits, meeting the increasing testing demands of 2.5D/3D chip stacks, advanced packaging, and heterogeneous integration in modern semiconductor fabrication. The launch event, held last Thursday, kicked off with an inspiring speech by Bavaria’s Minister of Digital Affairs, Dr. Fabian Mehring, followed by an engaging presentation from our CEO, Kevin Berghoff, and CTO, Fleming Bruckmaier, who shared QuantumDiamonds' journey over the past two years, unveiled the device, and talked about future plans. The event continued with a lively panel discussion moderated by Bartu Bisgin, our founders' associate: our panelists—Philipp Gerbert (CEO, TUM Venture Labs), Benedikt Kläs (Investment Manager, Zeiss), Axel Fischer (Former VP and GM, Samsung Semi Europe), and Inga vom Holtz (Investment Director, UnternehmerTUM)—shared their insights on Europe's strategic role in semiconductor manufacturing. We are deeply grateful to everyone who helped make this milestone a success, including our investors, partners, esteemed guests, and the incredible QuantumDiamonds team—a special thanks to Mey Maschinenbau, our strategic manufacturing partner. This launch marks a new chapter for QuantumDiamonds, and we can’t wait to see what the future holds! 💎 Want to learn more about the QD m.0? Connect with our CTO, Fleming Bruckmaier, at Semicon Europa (November 12-15) in Munich, Germany. — Jordan Billiald, Moritz von Klot, Mauricio Fleischer Acuña, Paolo Oppelt, Andrea Lenz, Christopher Trummer, David Meiborg, Michael Hinderer, Dr. Maximilian Ochs, Alois Eder, Jens Haertel, Soeren Jehmlich, Dieter Leikermoser Earlybird Venture Capital, IQ Capital, Onsight Ventures, First Momentum Ventures, Creator Fund, Munich Quantum Valley, UnternehmerTUM, SPRIND - Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen, Intel Ignite Venue credit: WERK1 – the most startup-friendly place in Munich Picture credits: Frame by Frame, © Munich Quantum Valley | Sascha Mehlhase
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The coming wave of embodied AI will be enabled by next-generation simulation and control software. Vsim 's technology is already enabling orders-of-magnitude performance increases in simulation and training RL policies. It has been great working with Concept Ventures, Koro Capital and Carles Reina since the pre-seed last year and we're thrilled to now welcome EQT Ventures, Factorial Funds, Samsung Next, Tru Arrow Partners and Xora Innovation to the team. Congratulations to Michelle Lu and Kier Storey! We’re excited to see you execute on your vision for a broader embodied AI platform. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ge64uFQy
Vsim, founded by Nvidia alums, raises $24M for robotics simulation tech | TechCrunch
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Catch Chris Magazzeni at this week's Resilience Conference, where he'll be moderating the Space panel alongside Blythe Crawford CBE, Ash Sharma, and Jeff Crusey. Reach out to Chris if attending!
This Resilience Conference panel will look at the emerging and growing role of space in defence and national security. What technologies are being developed, what is driving VC investment, and how are the private and public sector engaging? This conversation moderated by Chris Magazzeni from IQ Capital featuring, Blythe Crawford CBE from the UK Ministry of Defence, Ash Sharma from McKinsey & Company, and Jeff Crusey from 7percent Ventures will explore the main actors in this sector, and what opportunities are for investors and startups. There are just a few tickets left to attend Resilience Conference. Register for yours today before we sell out! https://lnkd.in/ewC77zUx
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We're looking forward to joining the ML4LMS Workshop @ [ICML] Int'l Conference on Machine Learning 2024 and awarding a prize for the most commercially exciting research from among the accepted papers. Drop us a message if you're going to be there in Vienna this summer: www.ml4lms.bio Alex Wilson Kushaal Desai Ed Stacey Jonno Evans OBE Bruno Trentini Charlie Harris
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🚀 IQC x Nucleate UK Event: Next Generation Sequencing Technologies 🚀 We are delighted to continue our support for Nucleate UK as they pursue their mission to develop leading biotechnology companies across the country We hold a particular interest in companies that are pushing the boundaries of sequencing, as one of the integral tools in the modern biology stack. We are proud investors in fantastic UK-based companies such as Wobble Genomics and Tagomics (whose CTO Debora Lucarelli will be speaking at this event). Get your tickets here: https://lu.ma/xfa8h525
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🚨 Deadline extended! Due to popular demand, we've extended the deadline for our Venture Insight Fellowship by an extra week. Get your applications in before next Monday, April 22nd! Any UK-based graduate students and those with significant research or industry experience are welcome to apply.
📢 Venture Insight Fellowship We are delighted to announce the launch of our first Venture Insight Fellowship, for PhD students / Postdocs across the UK. Following on from a successful pilot at the University of Cambridge, we are pleased to be recruiting our 2nd cohort from early-career researchers at top institutions around the country. Over the course of 12 weeks, participants will have the chance to learn the ins and outs of venture capital from members of the IQC investment team - learning everything from evaluating pitch decks to modelling cap tables and even having the opportunity to organise ecosystem events. We are looking for students and researchers working in any exciting areas of Deep Tech, such as semiconductor physics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience or synthetic biology! Anyone with an interest in VC or passion for entrepreneurship and startups should apply. Applications will be open until April 15th and reviewed on a rolling basis. Apply using the link in the comments! 🕐 12 weeks, 2 hr/week commitment 📅 May - July 2024 📍 Hybrid: IQC Offices + Remote
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Delighted to announce the acquisition of our portfolio company Foundries.io by Qualcomm. Founders George Grey and Ian Drew recognised early the growing gap in embedded systems cybersecurity and so built the Foundries platform to offer a radically more robust yet flexible approach to Linux security. Great to see Qualcomm recognising the value of the platform and the opportunity to scale up this approach. Massive congralulations to the whole Foundries team who we've been proud to work with since leading the Series A. H/t Krishna, Alex, Ed Stacey! https://lnkd.in/eHahCf2b
Qualcomm Announces Breakthrough Wi-Fi Technology and Introduces New AI-Ready IoT and Industrial Platforms at Embedded World 2024 | Qualcomm
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