UK Innovation Zones

Investor · Cambridge

Ahren Innovation Capital

Deep science investor founded by scientists and entrepreneurs, investing across long-horizon technologies.

Investment profile

Stage

  • Seed
  • Series A
  • Series B

Investment type

  • Venture capital

Geographic mandate

Global

Typical cheque size is shown only where the investor publishes it. Where it is absent, it is not published rather than estimated.

Connected ecosystem

Companies in the same place and sectors

  • Arm

    Processor architecture and semiconductor IP company whose designs are licensed into the majority of the world's mobile devices.

  • Paragraf

    Manufactures graphene-based electronic devices using a contamination-free production process.

  • Nyobolt

    Develops fast-charging battery systems based on niobium tungsten oxide anode materials.

  • Bicycle Therapeutics

    Develops bicyclic peptide therapeutics, with research operations on the Cambridge biomedical campus.

  • Congenica

    Clinical genomics software used to interpret genomic data in diagnostic settings.

  • AstraZeneca

    Global pharmaceutical company with its strategic research centre and headquarters in Cambridge.

  • Darktrace

    Cambridge-founded cyber security company applying machine learning to network defence, now under international private ownership.

  • Quantinuum

    Quantum computing company with significant Cambridge software and research operations within an international group.

Universities in Cambridge

Relevant proposed UKIZ missions

Listing does not imply participation. No investor here is a UKIZ participant unless stated on the UKIZ people page.

Proposed by UKIZ · not a government designation

Sources

  • Organisation's own published material

Last verified: 15 August 2026