Ahren Innovation Capital, co-founded by eight Cambridge, UK, researchers, has reached its final close, having attracted limited partners including Unilever, Sky and Aviva.
Ahren Innovation Capital, a UK-based investment firm co-founded by eight scientists from the Cambridge, UK ecosystem, yesterday closed its inaugural vehicle at more than £200m ($250m) with limited partners (LPs) including consumer goods conglomerate Unilever.
Mass media corporation Sky also backed the fund, as did individual investors André Desmarais, deputy chairman, president and co-chief executive of financial services group Power Corporation, and Peruvian billionaire businessman Carlos Rodriquez-Pastor.
Insurance provider Aviva had backed the initial $129m close in September 2018, together with the eight Cambridge researchers, diversified holding group Wittington Investments and unnamed US families.
Founded in 2017, Ahren Innovation Capital focuses on the areas of the human brain and artificial intelligence, genetics and biotechnology, space and robotics, and energy and environmental technologies.
The firm both invests in and helps build companies, offering access to the expertise of its founding science partners. It is particularly seeking…
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