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Ahren Innovation Capital
https://www.ahreninnovationcapital.com/Last activity: 24.06.2025
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Ahren is a deep tech and deep science investment firm set up by Alice Newcombe-Ellis alongside co-Founding Science Partners. Together, these Founders created companies and/or technologies that are today valued in excess of $100BN combined. The firm was established from first principles with a mission to be disruptive as an investment institution, with a new model – genuine partnership between the creators of deep technology and deep science, and commercially active, long-term capital, to harness tremendous global talent and build and exponentially accelerate the next generation of great enterprises. Ahren’s Portfolio companies include AI21 Labs, Graphcore, Zapata Computing, ZOE, Phaidra, Heirloom Carbon, and Bicycle Therapeutics among others. Ahren has >$800M AUM and has team members in Cambridge (UK), London, and Boston.
Location: United Kingdom, England, London
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2017
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed; Series A; Series B
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| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 12.09.2023 | Zapata AI | zapata.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 31.05.2023 | biomodal | biomodal.com | - | United Kin... |
| 22.01.2023 | Pictura Bi... | pictura.bio | - | - |
| 20.10.2022 | AmbiRoboti... | ambirobotics.com | $101.1M | United Sta... |
| 15.08.2022 | Constructi... | constructive.bio | $73M | United Kin... |
| 12.07.2022 | AI21 Labs | ai21.com | $781.5M | Israel, Te... |
| 18.03.2022 | Heirloom | heirloomcarbon.com | $203M | United Sta... |
| 03.03.2022 | Phaidra | phaidra.ai | $37M | - |
| 22.02.2022 | Rubedo Lif... | rubedolife.com | $52M | United Sta... |
| 22.02.2022 | Micropsi I... | micropsi-industries.com | $36.08M | Germany, B... |
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| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.06.2025 | OutSee Secures £1.8M Seed Funding to Revolutionize Drug Discovery | In the world of genomics and drug discovery, innovation is the lifeblood. OutSee, a Cambridge-based company, has just injected new energy into this field by securing £1.8 million in seed funding. This financial boost, led by Ahren Innovatio... |
| 24.06.2025 | OutSee raises £1.8M to expand therapeutic pipeline using predictive genomics | Cambridge-based OutSee has secured £1.8 million in seed funding. The company has previously received over £500,000 in precision medicine grants from Innovate UK to support technology extensions and to test their application on dementia case... |
| 05.12.2024 | Heirloom: Direct Air Capture Company Raises $150 Million (Series B) | Heirloom, a leading Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology provider, announced it has raised $150 million in Series B funding. The funding round was co-led by Future Positive, and Lowercarbon Capital – which also invested in Heirloom’s Series ... |
| 14.05.2024 | New Culture Partners with CJ CheilJedang to Streamline Costs of Animal-Free Mozzarella | Californian animal-free cheese producer New Culture announces a partnership with its previous investor, South Korean biotech giant CJ CheilJedang. New Culture develops casein from precision fermentation to make cow-free cheeses that melt, s... |
| 10.03.2024 | Sunfire's Green Hydrogen Revolution | Sunfire, a German electrolyzer manufacturer, has secured over €500 million in funding to boost Europe's green hydrogen economy. The funding includes a Series E equity financing round of €215 million and a term loan of up to €100 million fro... |
| 05.03.2024 | Sunfire raises over €500M to boost European's green hydrogen economy | German electrolyser manufacturer Sunfire announced today that it has raised €215 million in a Series E equity financing round, further complemented by a term loan of up to €100 million provided by the European Investment Bank (EIB). In addi... |
| 02.12.2022 | Gut nutrition startup Zoe Health adds £25 million to its series B raise | Zoe Health, a UK-based personalised nutrition testing app that's conducting a large-scale nutrition science study group, has announced a £25 million ($30.7 million) series B extension, bringing its total funding to $83.7 million. The fundin... |
| 15.08.2022 | Re-engineering biology, Constructive Bio scores $15 million to make new class of enzymes | Cambridge-based biotech startup Constructive Bio has raised $15 million in funding to create technology for producing synthetic genomes and reprogramming the genetic code of living organisms. This, in turn, will allow scientists to write en... |
| 12.05.2022 | Making intractable data interactable, Bitfount raises $5 million | London-based Bitfount has raised $5 million in a seed round led by Ahren and Speedinvest. The startup addresses the complexities around collaboration between two or more parties when working with highly sensitive data, e.g. moving algorithm... |
| 11.02.2022 | Blazing new frontiers in industrial robotic capabilities, Micropsi raises $30 million | Berlin-based Micropsi has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round. The company produces AI-driven systems for the controlling of industrial robots and enables automation services that previously required the work of humans. The new f... |
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