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On not downclimbing: the state of the biotech market

UCLTF's Investment Director, Simon Goldman, looks at the state of the biotech market.
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UCLTF invests in Carbon Re, a spinout helping energy-intensive industries reach Net Zero

Carbon Re, a spinout from UCL and Cambridge University, has secured £1m of funding to progress its AI technology which helps...
Phasecraft
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Phasecraft improves Hamiltonian simulation algorithms for near-term quantum hardware

Phasecraft reveal their latest research in which they work one layer below the standard quantum circuit model to achieve a...
Tanel Ozdemir
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Bringing immuno-oncology cell therapies to the masses – are we (nearly) there yet?

Scientists and clinicians within the immuno-oncology field have spent the last three decades demonstrating the remarkable...
David Grimm
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David Grimm talks to Startup Dads podcast

David Grimm, UCLTF Investment Director, shares his experiences with podcast Startup Dads. He discusses how to be an empathetic...
UCLTF Showcase
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UCLTF Showcase 2021 - The Highlights
Simon Goldman
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A Window to the Past: Is the Biotech Investment Boom Going to Last?

The biotech industry has been going through a period of fast growth in recent years. To uncover whether the current biotech...
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UCL, Imperial College London and University of Cambridge are behind innovative industry university collaboration receiving £100m funding to rapidly advance cutting-edge science

Apollo Therapeutics, a unique collaboration between three leading universities (University College London, Imperial College and...
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NovalGen doses first patient in Phase I study in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia & Mantle Cell Lymphoma

– NVG-111 is the first-in-class T-cell engager that simultaneously binds CD3 on T-cell and ROR1 on tumor cells –
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NovalGen presents data at American Society of Clinical Oncology for novel ROR1xCD3 bispecific antibody for non-Hodgkin lymphoma

London, United Kingdom, May 20, 2021 – NovalGen Ltd (“NovalGen”), a biopharmaceutical company developing breakthrough cancer...
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UCL Technology Fund secures partnership with Viralgen, leading gene therapy manufacturer

The UCL Technology Fund and Viralgen Vector Core, a Spanish CDMO offering best-in-class manufacturing for gene therapy, have...
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NovalGen receives CTA approval to start a Phase 1/2 first in human study

NovalGen receives CTA approval to start a Phase 1/2 first in human study
Achilles
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Achilles Therapeutics Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering

London, UK 30 March 2021 – Achilles Therapeutics plc (NASDAQ: ACHL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing...
Simon Goldman
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Over the Hill and (still) far away for UK biotech companies

By Simon Goldman (pictured), Investment Director, UCL Technology Fund – This month’s Lord Hill review will do little to halt UK...
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MedNous interviews Professor Amit Nathwani

MedNous recently interviewed Professor Amit Nathwani, Chief Executive Officer of UCLTF portfolio company NovalGen. He shares his...
Memristor Wafer
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Intrinsic closes £1.35m seed funding round to prototype next generation memory devices

Memory innovator Intrinsic Semiconductor Technologies Ltd (“Intrinsic”) has announced the close of a £1.35m seed funding round...
David Grimm
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Want to build a deeptech startup? Throw out the VC playbook

Every startup founder needs a good dose of grit, stamina and endurance to take a startup from idea to the heights of unicorn...
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International Women’s Day 2021 – Meet Leigh Brody, UCLTF Investment Manager

To celebrate International Women's Day, we interviewed Leigh Brody, UCLTF Investment Manager.
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Renowned Geneticist Philip Beales Launches Axovia Therapeutics to Develop Transformative Medicines for Ciliopathies

Axovia, an innovative gene therapy company developing disease-transformative medicines for ciliopathies, is a majority-owned...
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NovalGen enters strategic partnership with HALIX B.V. to manufacture clinical trial materials

London, United Kingdom and Leiden, The Netherlands, February 22nd 2021 – NovalGen Ltd. (“NovalGen”), a biopharmaceutical company...
Cells
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Why you should consider manufacturing from the start of the biotech R&D process

Simon Goldman, February 2021 - One of the most important, yet under-appreciated aspects of biotech commercialisation is the...
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Quell Therapeutics Expands Series A Financing to $84 Million

Quell Therapeutics Ltd (“Quell”), a biotechnology company developing engineered T regulatory (Treg) cell therapies, today...
Targeting LRG-1 in ophthalmology
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UCL Technology Fund talks to the PanAngium team

UCL Technology Fund's Simon Goldman talks to Academic Co-Founders of PanAngium, Professors Steve Moss and John Greenwood.
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Platform technologies: going deep to go wide

Biomedical platform technologies are appealing because they can create impact (and therefore revenues) in multiple markets or...
Phasecraft
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Phasecraft announces largest seed funding round for a UK quantum computing company and new technology breakthroughs

On the back of new quantum algorithm breakthroughs, Phasecraft has today closed a record seed round for a quantum computing...
Echopoint Medical
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UCL Technology Fund talks to co-founders of Echopoint about all things startups, fundraising and VC

David Grimm, Director at the UCL Technology Fund talks to co-founders of Echopoint Malcolm Finlay and Adrien Desjardins.
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Third Space Learning raises £4.3m Series-A extension and announces a commercial partnership with China’s NetDragon to accelerate plans for international expansion.

Third Space Learning (TSL), the UK’s leading online tutoring company, has completed a £4.3m funding extension from existing...
Nozzle
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Nozzle.ai raises $2.6m to accelerate adoption of AI platform with brands and sellers on Amazon

Nozzle.ai, an eCommerce and advertising optimisation platform for Amazon, has raised $2.6 million (£2 million) in funding from...
Orchard Therapeutics
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UCL Technology Fund and Orchard Therapeutics: from idea to Nasdaq IPO and beyond

Dr Simon Goldman, interviews CEO of Orchard Therapeutics, Professor Bobby Gaspar.
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An evolution in early stage gene therapy funding models
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We are recruiting a Life Sciences Investor for the UCL Technology Fund

We are recruiting a new Investment Manager to join the Life Sciences team within UCL Technology Fund.
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Freeline Therapeutics makes its NASDAQ debut

Freeline Therapeutics Holdings plc (“Freeline”), a UCL Technology Fund portfolio company, has made its debut on NASDAQ in the...
Bramble Energy
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Bramble energy secures significant new capital to accelerate its unique fuel cell deployment

Bramble Energy, the world’s most scalable hydrogen fuel cell company has raised a £5m Series A round. BGF led the round and was...
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UCL Technology Fund announces first close of £100m Fund 2

UCL Technology Fund (UCLTF), managed by AlbionVC in collaboration with UCL Business (UCLB) (the university’s commercialisation...
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Humanloop raises funding to teach AI to learn from humans faster

Humanloop, a game changing UCL spinout, has attracted investment from UCL’s Technology Fund (UCLTF). Based on the world-leading...
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UCL engineering cancer antibody therapies for Covid-19

UCL’s Cancer Institute is repurposing a sophisticated antibody engineering approach, funded by the UCL Technology Fund (UCLTF),...
Epsilogen
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Epsilogen Announces £3m Series A2 financing and licences MOv18 IgE, an anti-folate receptor alpha IgE antibody from King’s College London

Epsilogen Ltd (formerly known as IGEM Therapeutics), a global leader in the development of immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies to...
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AstronauTx secures UCLTF investment for dementia therapeutics

AstronauTx Ltd, a biotech company developing new medicines designed to restore the normal behaviour of astrocytes for the...
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Portfolio company Astroscreen featured in the Evening Standard

As the UK gears up for a potential election, there are concerns over the role disinformation will play in democracy
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Quell Therapeutics makes FierceBiotech's 2019 Fierce 15

The list highlights biotech companies whose hard work and cutting-edge research aims to stop disease in its tracks.
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Echopoint raises £2.8m to address the ‘grey zone’ of heart disease treatment

Echopoint Medical Ltd, a spinout company from UCL, has raised £2.8m to develop optical sensing technology to help heart disease...
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Why we Invested in Quantum Computing start-up Phasecraft

There has been a leap in excitement about quantum computing in the last year thanks to the emergence of a new class of quantum...
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Achilles Therapeutics raises £100m in Series B

Achilles Therapeutics (“Achilles”), a bio-pharmaceutical company developing personalised cancer immunotherapies, today announces...
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Orchard Therapeutics Announces Update from POC Study of OTL-203

Orchard Therapeutics announced data from an ongoing proof-of-concept clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of OTL-203...
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UCL’s Centre for Amyloidosis and Acute Phase Proteins published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Ground-breaking work by Prof Alessandra Corazza, Prof Sir Mark Pepys, Prof Vittorio Bellotti and colleagues of the Wolfson Drug...
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Funding academic innovations in advanced therapies: an interview with Simon Goldman

Simon Goldman, Investment Manager for UCLTF, talks to RegMedNet about funding academic innovation
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2019 Brochure

Featuring fund highlights from the past year
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Andrew Elder on healthtech investing

Andrew Elder talks to HS. about his journey from brain surgeon to venture capitalist, the history of healthtech investing and how...
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UCL Technology Fund Showcase 2019

We would like to thank everyone who attended the 2019 UCL Technology Fund showcase. We hope the event provided some insight on...
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Hazy wins 'Best Innovation in Data Protection & Privacy'

Hazy wins 'Best Innovation in Data Protection & Privacy' at the 2019 CogX awards.
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Fund leads £750k investment in Phasecraft

The UCL Technology Fund led a £750k investment into Phasecraft, a pioneering quantum computing company, along with co-investors...
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UCLTF completes £1m investment into Quell Therapeutics as part of £35m Series A round

UCLTF £1m investment into Quell Therapeutics is part of a £35m Series A round led by Syncona
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UCLTF nominated for 'Investment Unit of the Year'

We are delighted to announce that the UCL Technology Fund has been nominated for Investment Unit of the Year by Global University...
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Odin Vision scales up its cancer detection technology

Innovative medtech company Odin Vision is to scale up its pioneering cancer detection technology thanks to an investment round...
Astroscreen
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Astroscreen raises $1m to detect social media manipulation

UK-based start-up Astroscreen has secured $1M in initial funding to progress its pioneering technology which identifies carriers...
Orchard Therapeutics
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Data Supports Achievement of Proof-of-Concept Milestone for OTL-300

Orchard Therapeutics has announced the achievement of clinical proof-of-concept based on data from the trial of OTL-300, for the...
Orchard Therapeutics
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Orchard Therapeutics achieves 100% survival rate during trial treatment for ADA-SCID

Orchard Therapeutics, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company, presented their two-year follow-up data in 20 patients from...
Hazy
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Hazy included in Forbes '15 Machine Learning Companies To Watch In Europe'

Hazy has been listed by Forbes as one of the Top 15 European Machine Learning companies to watch.
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IGEM Therapeutics Announces Final Close of £5m Series A Financing Round

New investors Alsa Holdings and UCL Technology Fund join Epidarex Capital Proceeds will allow IGEM to continue development of IgE...
Orchard Therapeutics
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Orchard Therapeutics announces closing of $225 Million Initial Public Offering

Orchard Therapeutics, a biotechnology company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with rare disorders through...
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UCL spin-out Hazy adds $1.8 million in seed funding

Hazy, the London-based AI company enabling ethical, effortless and GDPR-compliant data sharing for responsible businesses, has...
MeiraGTx
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UCL Technology Fund investment MeiraGTx raises $75m at IPO

MeiraGTx is its first UCLTF investment to IPO
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Bloomsbury AI joins the Facebook Team in London

UCL Technology Fund is very proud to have backed Bloomsbury AI and we are delighted that they are joining the Facebook team.
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Matr raises £4.75 million for AI teaching platform

Matr, the online teaching platform, has announced it has closed a £4.75 million Series A investment round led by the UCL...
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Freeline secures over £88 million of funding

Freeline Therapeutics announces today that it has raised over £88 million of new capital in a Series B financing round
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UCL Technology Fund Showcase 2018

The inaugural UCL Technology Fund Showcase, held at Digital Catapult, brought together two years of investing in world-leading...
Glialign
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UCL Technology Fund invests in cell therapy company Glialign

The UCL Technology Fund, UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, alongside support from Innovate UK, have invested in UCL spinout...
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UCL Technology Fund and ParkWalk invest in adtech machine learning company MediaGamma

The UCL Technology Fund has invested in MediaGamma, the predictive analytics software company, as part of a £2m round in...
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UCL Technology Fund has approved investment of up to £1m in the development of a gene therapy for p47-CGD

The UCL Technology Fund has approved an investment of up to £1m to support the development of a gene therapy for p47phox-...
Canbex
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UCLTF fund drug development platform Canbex for the treatment of multiple sclerosis

Canbex was established to develop the VSN compound series, a drug development platform with potential applications in a wide...
Orchard Therapeutics
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Orchard Therapeutics launches with £21-million series A funding round

Orchard Therapeutics has secured £21-million in Series A financing led by F-Prime with UCLTF. Orchard Therapeutics is a...
AlbionVC to manage UCLTF fund
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Albion to Manage the UCL Technology Fund

Albion Capital, one of the largest independent venture capital investors in the UK is to manage and administer the newly launched...