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# Ahren Innovation Capital
- URL: https://entrepreneurplus.co.uk/investors/ahren-innovation-capital/
- Published: 2026-10-15T13:50:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-15T13:50:46.000Z
- Description: Deep science investor backing brain and AI, genetics, space, robotics and energy companies.
- Author: Editorial Desk
- Tags: #ep-investor

Deep science investor backing brain and AI, genetics, space, robotics and energy companies.

- Venture capital
- London

Type

Venture capital

Based in

London

Stages

Series A, Series B+, Growth

Sector focus

AI & Data, Climate & Energy, Deeptech, Hardware & Robotics

Cheque size

Above €3M

Fund size

$253m

Founded

2017

Website

[ahreninnovationcapital.com](https://www.ahreninnovationcapital.com/?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk)

Ahren Innovation Capital is a deep tech venture firm set up in 2017 by Alice Newcombe-Ellis with a group of science partners whose work underpins technologies such as Illumina sequencing chemistry. It is based in Cambridge and London, and its first fund closed at about $253m with backers including Unilever, Aviva and Sky.

The firm invests in four domains: brain and AI, genetics and platform technologies, space and robotics, and planet and efficient energy. It describes itself as patient capital and both invests in and helps build companies, from early rounds through to later stages. Portfolio companies include Bicycle Therapeutics and Nu Quantum.

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