Investing with impact
The University of Cambridge is a place of fresh, bold ideas. A place where innovations spark, and new futures begin. These ideas need support, they need the benefit of commercial expertise and investment.
University of Cambridge talent is renowned for delivering life-changing innovations with global impact. At Cambridge Enterprise Ventures we invest University of Cambridge capital into high impact, high growth Cambridge spin-outs and start-ups. We are here to enable the entrepreneurial academics, students, graduates, and recent alumni from Cambridge by providing early-stage equity investment and support.
Leveraging the many benefits of the Cambridge ecosystem, we accelerate the journey by making investments across the breadth of the University: helping build ventures, introducing NED talent, developing business models and providing access to our co-investor community. We are Cambridge, investing in Cambridge, supporting future generations of early-stage companies.
Investment in numbers
Actual cash invested from funds between 1 August 2023 and 31 July 2024.
Investing in Women code
We are proud to be a signatory to the Investing in Women Code, a commitment backed by the UK Government to support the advancement of women entrepreneurs in the UK by improving access to the tools, resources and finance they need to achieve their goals.
We are driven in our support for female entrepreneurship, supporting women founders in navigating the venture building and investment process.
