Cambridge Fund Completes $196 Million New Capital Raise

Cambridge Innovation Capital plc (CIC), the venture capital investor focused on intellectual property rich technology and life science businesses in the Cambridge ecosystem, has completed a funding round of £150 million, bringing the total amount of capital raised to date to £275 million. The financing was supported by a geographically diverse range of new institutional and strategic investors, with the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Endowment Fund contributing the cornerstone investment. The financing is one of the largest private financing rounds in Europe this year and more than doubles the financial resources available to CIC.

The funds raised will be used to support CIC’s current portfolio of 25 companies and enable investment in new opportunities arising from both the University of Cambridge and the wider Cambridge ecosystem.

CIC currently has 13 healthcare companies in its portfolio. The companies span the spectrum including: first-in-class cancer treatments, next-generation robotic surgery and microbiome related therapies.

Victor Christou, CEO of CIC, commented, “The Cambridge ecosystem holds one of the richest seams of scientific knowledge and technological innovation in the world. Since our inception in 2013, CIC has invested over £125 million in IP-rich technology and life science companies among which are leaders in fields as diverse as surgical robotics, flexible electronics, microbiome science, genomic diagnosis and edge intelligence and AI decision making software.