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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Life Science startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
RebelBio | Early Stage Venture, Seed | London, England, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Mercia Fund Managers | Private Equity, Seed | Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Advent Venture Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | London, England, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
DigitalHealth.London Accelerator | Seed | London, England, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Angels 5K | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Life Science Seed investors in United Kingdom. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
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- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
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Top Life Science Investors & Funds (United Kingdom)
RebelBio
RebelBio is the London based team of the venture capital firm SOSV. RebelBio specializes in pre-seed investments in BioTech, HealthTech & Life Sciences. It invests broadly in science-based, tech-enabled early stage startups. RebelBio backs 16 companies per year through its 3 months investment programme. During that time founders receive pre-seed funding and hands-on support from the VC team, working closely to de-risk and fast track the growth of their companies. After the programme, startups can get follow-on investment from RebelBio’s fund SOSV, and support to its founders over the following years.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Biotechnology, Finance, Life Science, Venture Capital
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Mercia Fund Managers
Mercia Fund Managers is a venture capital fund manager with two funds totalling £12.8 million under management. Mercia Fund Managers focuses its efforts on the West Midlands region and benefits from a mixture of public- and private-sector fund investors. Mercia Fund Managers provides venture capital for early-stage technology start-ups that are located in the West Midlands. Potential investees must demonstrate their potential for rapid growth and will possess a strong proprietary position with respect to their technology, intellectual property, and products. Mercia Fund Managers is based in central Birmingham and is regulated by the Financial Services Authority. The company is also a member of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. Mercia Fund Managers will typically make an initial investment offer of between £50,000 and £250,000 of venture capital, but has the capacity to follow its money at subsequent investment rounds, up to an overall limit of £1 million of venture capital per company. Later rounds of financing will usually involve syndication with other venture capital investors, often from outside of the West Midlands.
Stages: Private Equity, Seed
Location: Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Life Science, Venture Capital
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Advent Venture Partners
Advent Venture Partners is one of Europe’s most successful growth and venture capital investors in market-leading tech and life sciences businesses. They have designed their strategy, teams and funds so they can focus on backing a select few companies. They pride their selves on establishing true partnerships with entrepreneurs in order to build valuable businesses together.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Life Science, Venture Capital
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Angels 5K
Angels 5K is a group of private investors based in the South of England. We focus on high growth business opportunities and have invested over £4 million of our own money to date in dozens of companies throughout the UK. We are entrepreneurs ourselves and are passionate about encouraging new businesses.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Life Science, Medical Device
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Deep Science Ventures
Deep Science Ventures is an accelerator that works with scientists to build companies, from scratch, across domains from biochemistry to nano-tech. They provide a basic salary to fund the first 3 months of the program, followed by a £30k investment into those teams that demonstrate the commercial and technical viability of their startup. It is based in London, United Kingdom.
Stages: Seed, Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Commercial, Industrial Engineering, Life Science, Mechanical Engineering, Venture Capital
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Accelerate@Babraham
The aim of Accelerate@Babraham is to support the development of science concepts and the creation of new companies by providing access to equipped communal laboratories on short-term agreements, as well as guidance from mentors and introductions to investors. The concept complements the Babraham Research Campus’ ongoing support of the Cambridge life science cluster through the provision of access to the campus community and infrastructure without the need to be an established occupier on site.
Stages: Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Biopharma, Biotechnology, Life Science, Medical
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Start Codon
Start Codon identifies the most disruptive and innovative life science start-ups worldwide, seed-funds them and leverages the exceptional resources of the Cambridge Cluster to de-risk and drive their success
Stages: Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Incubators, Life Science, Venture Capital
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Future Care Capital
In pursuance of its charitable mission, Future Care Capital (FCC) will use its resources to identify and support innovation through the launch of a dedicated Innovation Fund. The Innovation Fund aims to help address major healthcare needs, such as mental health, ageing and living with chronic medical conditions, by investing in innovative enterprises. It will also have an ethical investment policy that will drive its activities in compliance with the charity’s policies and aims. The Fund will invest in UK based, early-stage, high-tech, high-growth enterprises in the field of digital health (including machine learning and AI), assisted living, services and Class I medical devices.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Medical, Pharmaceutical
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