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Ahren Innovation Capital
https://www.ahreninnovationcapital.com/Last activity: 12.01.2026
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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
Portfolio 27
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 13.01.2026 | OutSee | outsee.co.uk | $5.82M | England |
| 10.12.2025 | Nu Quantum | nu-quantum.com | $74.85M | United Kin... |
| 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 | $3.78B | Israel |
| 18.03.2022 | Heirloom | heirloomcarbon.com | $203M | United Sta... |
| 03.03.2022 | Phaidra | phaidra.ai | $87M | United Sta... |
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| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.01.2026 | OutSee Secures £2.5M, Propels AI Genomics for Drug Discovery | OutSee secured a significant £2.5M seed funding round. Ahren Innovation Capital spearheaded the investment. This capital fuels OutSee's groundbreaking AI-powered Nomaly platform. Nomaly uses a "genomics-first" approach. It predict... |
| 12.01.2026 | OutSee: £2.5 Million Seed Round Completed And Partnership With o2h Discovery | OutSee, an AI-enabled genomics and drug discovery company, has closed a £2.5 million seed funding round and signed a strategic agreement with o2h discovery to begin a collaborative drug discovery programme around OutSee’s lead drug target c... |
| 10.12.2025 | Nu Quantum Raises $60M Series A in Largest Financing Round for Quantum Computer Networking | New investors, including National Grid Partners, Gresham House Ventures and Morpheus Ventures, validate growing demand for modular, scaling networking technologies within quantum computing. The oversubscribed funding round will accelerate N... |
| 17.09.2025 | Hiverge Raises $5M in Seed Funding | Hiverge, a Cambridge, UK-based company enabling businesses access to algorithms that continually adapt to changing environments, raised $5M in Seed funding. The round was led by Flying Fish Ventures with Ahren Innovation Capital and Jeff De... |
| 24.07.2025 | Bitfount Secures $8M to Revolutionize Clinical Research with Federated AI | Bitfount secured $8 million in Series A funding. This capital fuels its privacy-preserving federated AI platform. It revolutionizes clinical research collaboration. The technology eliminates raw data sharing. It brings algorithms directly t... |
| 24.07.2025 | Bitfount raises $8m in Series A funding round | LONDON, UK, July 23, 2025 – Bitfount, the federated AI platform transforming clinical research collaboration, has secured $8 million in Series A funding to scale its privacy-preserving network across healthcare systems globally. Parkwalk Ad... |
| 23.07.2025 | London’s Bitfount raises €6.8 million to break down clinical research data silos with federated AI network | HealthTech platform Bitfount, a British federated AI platform innovating clinical research collaboration, has secured €6.8 million in Series A funding to scale its privacy-preserving network across healthcare systems globally. Parkwalk Advi... |
| 23.07.2025 | Bitfount raises $8M to unlock clinical research data with federated AI | London-based Bitfount, the federated AI platform transforming clinical research collaboration, has secured $8 million in Series A funding to scale its privacy-preserving network across healthcare systems globally. Bitfount removes the data-... |
| 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... |
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