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.c... | - | United Kin... |
| 22.01.2023 | Pictura Bi... | pictura.bi... | - | - |
| 20.10.2022 | AmbiRoboti... | ambiroboti... | $101.1M | United Sta... |
| 15.08.2022 | Constructi... | constructi... | $15M | United Kin... |
| 12.07.2022 | AI21 Labs | ai21.com | $481.5M | - |
| 18.03.2022 | Heirloom | heirloomca... | $53M | - |
| 03.03.2022 | Phaidra | phaidra.ai | $25M | - |
| 22.02.2022 | Rubedo Lif... | rubedolife... | $12M | United Sta... |
| 22.02.2022 | Micropsi I... | micropsi-i... | $36.08M | Germany, B... |
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| 10.03.2024 | Sunfire's Green Hydrogen Revolution | Sunfire, a German electrolyzer manufacturer, has secured over €500 million in funding to boost Europ... | parsers.vc... |
| 05.03.2024 | Sunfire raises over €500M to boost European's green hydrogen... | German electrolyser manufacturer Sunfire announced today that it has raised €215 million in a Series... | tech.eu/20... |
| 02.12.2022 | Gut nutrition startup Zoe Health adds £25 million to its ser... | Zoe Health, a UK-based personalised nutrition testing app that's conducting a large-scale nutrition ... | tech.eu/20... |
| 15.08.2022 | Re-engineering biology, Constructive Bio scores $15 million ... | Cambridge-based biotech startup Constructive Bio has raised $15 million in funding to create technol... | tech.eu/20... |
| 12.05.2022 | Making intractable data interactable, Bitfount raises $5 mil... | London-based Bitfount has raised $5 million in a seed round led by Ahren and Speedinvest. The startu... | tech.eu/20... |
| 11.02.2022 | Blazing new frontiers in industrial robotic capabilities, Mi... | Berlin-based Micropsi has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round. The company produces AI-dr... | tech.eu/20... |
| 23.11.2021 | ADM, Kraft & Dr Oetker back bovine-free mozzarella maker... | US alt-dairy startup New Culture has raised $25 million in Series A funding to bring its bovine-free... | agfunderne... |
| 23.11.2021 | BREAKING: ADM, Kraft & Dr Oetker back bovine-free mozzar... | US alt-dairy startup New Culture has raised $25 million in Series A funding to bring its bovine-free... | agfunderne... |
| 22.11.2021 | New Culture Closes Oversubscribed $25M Round For “First Anim... | New Zealand-based animal-free cheese producer New Culture has raised $25 million in its Series A fun... | vegconomis... |
| 11.05.2021 | Personalized nutrition startup Zoe raises $20m Series B for ... | A new class of startups is taking Hippocrates’ creed of letting ‘food be thy medicine’ to heart. The... | agfunderne... |
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