About us
Our performance highlights
The infographics below present some of our performance highlights for the financial year 1 August 2023 to 31 July 2024.
‘Investment in numbers’ includes highlights from our Ventures team, and includes some cumulative data.
‘Technology and knowledge transfer in numbers’ summarises our performance across our knowledge transfer activities: academic consultancy, IP protection and development, and licensing.
Investment in numbers
28
Pre-seed investments (2023-24)
£6.47m
Invested in 37 spinouts (2023-24)
25
New companies formed (2023-24)
£1.2m
Returned to Cambridge Enterprise and University of Cambridge (2023-24)
3.35x
Multiple across realised investments
£290m
Total amount raised by portfolio companies across all holdings
£74.8m
Current portfolio value
Impact
Notable spin-outs: BlueGnome, Centessa, Gyroscope, Solexa and VocalIQ
334
Total investments made in 195 companies
£3.29bn
In follow-on funding raised by portfolio companies since 1995
£49.9m
Invested over fund lifetime
Technology and knowledge transfer in numbers
469
Patent applications filed
778
132 Commercial and 646 Research licenses signed
£1.8m
Invested in patents and proof of concept
£13m
In translational funding won with our support
474
Consultancy contracts signed, including extensions
357
Consultancy clients
£14.8m
In operating income generated from licensing and consulting
2,580
Researchers supported
709
Total number of disclosures
