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# Wilbe
- URL: https://entrepreneurplus.co.uk/investors/wilbe/
- Published: 2026-10-15T15:16:44.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-15T15:16:44.000Z
- Description: London-based venture platform that writes first cheques into companies started by scientists and engineers.
- Author: Editorial Desk
- Tags: #ep-investor

![Wilbe logo](https://storage.ghost.io/c/05/a4/05a4a052-18ab-4836-8924-ec8b322c371c/content/images/2026/10/wilbe-logo.svg) 

London-based venture platform that writes first cheques into companies started by scientists and engineers.

- Venture studio
- London

Type

Venture studio

Based in

London

Stages

Pre-seed

Sector focus

Deeptech, Biotech & Life Sciences, Climate & Energy

Fund size

Undisclosed

Founded

2020

Website

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

Wilbe is a London-based venture platform for scientist founders, set up in 2020\. Through Wilbe Capital it provides first cheques to researchers and engineers turning scientific work into companies, typically before or around their pre-seed round. Founders also get access to weekly Build Weeks, fundraising and company-formation support, a community of scientist entrepreneurs and lab space. Its founders come from institutions including Cambridge, Imperial College London, Oxford and the Francis Crick Institute, working in fields such as renewable energy, novel materials, computing, genomics and synthetic biology.

## Team

- **Ale Maiano**, Co-Founder [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/apmaiano/?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk)

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