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Ahren Innovation Capital

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Total investments 30
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$47M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 4.29
Lead investments 5
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 2
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Health Care
  • Machine Learning
  • Therapeutics
Summary

Ahren Innovation Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The main department of described VC is located in the Cambridge. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical Device, Biotechnology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cambridge Epigenetix, Mogrify, Bicycle Therapeutics.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. This Ahren Innovation Capital works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. Despite the Ahren Innovation Capital, startups are often financed by SV Health Investors, SR One, Syncona Partners LLP. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vertex Ventures, Cambridge Innovation Capital, 24 Haymarket. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vertex Ventures, University of Bristol Enterprise Fund, Tybourne.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Constructive Bio

Biotechnology
$58M24 Sep 2024 Essex, England, United Kingdom

ZOE

Nutrition
$16M29 Jul 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Mogrify

Big Data
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Therapeutics
$10M02 Oct 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

ZOE

Nutrition
$30M01 Dec 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ambi Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
E-Commerce
Robotics
$32M17 Oct 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

Constructive Bio

Biotechnology
$15M15 Aug 2022 Essex, England, United Kingdom

Phaidra

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$25M15 Jul 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

AI21 Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Software
$64M12 Jul 2022 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Bitfount

Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$5M12 May 2022 London, England, United Kingdom
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Edifice Health Raises $12M in Funding

– Edifice Health is a San Mateo, CA-based immunological health and personalized nutrition company.
– Company raised $12m in Series A funding led by Leaps by Bayer with participation from Paladin Capital Group, Vertical Venture Partners, Ahren Innovation Capital, Ataraxia Capital Partners, Shanda Grab Ventures, Alafi Capital, and Taisho Pharmaceutical.
– The funds will be used to grow its foundation of immunological science and add additional talent.

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Total investments 30
Average round size 47M
Rounds per year 4.29
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Constructive Bio

Biotechnology
$58M24 Sep 2024 Essex, England, United Kingdom

ZOE

Nutrition
$16M29 Jul 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Mogrify

Big Data
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Therapeutics
$10M02 Oct 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

ZOE

Nutrition
$30M01 Dec 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ambi Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
E-Commerce
Robotics
$32M17 Oct 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

Constructive Bio

Biotechnology
$15M15 Aug 2022 Essex, England, United Kingdom

Phaidra

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$25M15 Jul 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

AI21 Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Software
$64M12 Jul 2022 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Bitfount

Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$5M12 May 2022 London, England, United Kingdom
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