BACKING
Founders
Disruptors
Growth
Potential
Technology
Science
Oxford
The UK
Startups
SINCE 1999
Partners to exceptional founders and high-potential scale-ups across the UK, we invest from pre-seed to growth and beyond.
WHO WE ARE
Based in Oxford – one of the greatest knowledge clusters in the world – we invest across the UK, and support early-stage founders and companies to reach their full potential.
Over 25 years, we’ve invested over £500m into over 100 companies, and are proud to have enabled entrepreneurial successes from the earliest stages to later growth.
We pioneered, and continue to offer, products and services that enable individuals, families and institutions the ability to participate in and benefit from these investment opportunities.
Best Investor Return Winner 2022
Best Investment Platform Finalist 2022
Best Journalist or Advocate Finalist 2022
EISA Impact Award Finalist 2022
Best Investment Platform Finalist 2021
Exit of the Year Finalist 2021
Backing Founders
from Pre-seed to Series A
Investing in early-stage UK-based technology startups, from Pre-seed to Series A.
Backing
Growth
from series a onwards
Investing in later-stage UK-based science and technology startups and scaleups, from Series A onwards.
We believe that capital is the key to realizing a scaleup’s potential, and look to faciliate this.
We invest in companies that have demonstrated clear product-market fit, and have the potential to rapidly scale and realize market opportunities.
We invest only in companies with whom we have an existing relationship, either directly, through our Backing Founders fund, or indirectly, through partner early stage VC funds.
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Celebrating 30 Years of the Enterprise Investment Scheme driving UK innovation and growth
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The boom in the Oxford cluster
With our base at the heart of Oxford, between the Engineering Department and the new Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, we are privileged to operate in one of the great knowledge clusters of the world. The University of Oxford has been ranked the #1 research …