Investing in science, innovation and real estate

Europe’s leading network of science and innovation clusters at the leading edge of major knowledge economies like Oxford and London.

Our passion is supporting science and innovation businesses to thrive. Our clusters create the best possible environments for innovation to make a difference in the world.

An alternative lender specialising in real estate investment, development and construction in the UK across multiple sectors.

Wentworth Capital based in Sydney, Australia identify and acquire high-quality real estate opportunities and execute investment strategies to provide value for their investors.

Mitheridge is a London based alternative investment firm focused on designing and developing innovative long-term “Living Sector” solutions

Nebu-Flow is developing a new generation of nebulisers to enable inhalation delivery of life changing treatments.

Creating precise Glucose Binding Molecules to develop ground breaking glucose-responsive insulins, revolutionizing diabetes treatment.

Cytoseek delivers transformative cell therapies for cancer patients using the firm’s precision membrane engineering platform technology.

A deep tech company building robust, portable gravity gradient sensors to accurately detect ‘buried’ features

ForeFront RF’s tunable duplexer empowers OEMs to reduce the component count in smartphones, smartwatches and other mobile devices.

Imophoron has created novel vaccines to provide protection against infectious disease wherever it affects human health across the world.

Kelpi tackles plastic pollution and the issues of climate change and is working to deliver innovative solutions to the world’s plastic packaging problems.

Open Bionics develops medical devices that enhance the human body.

Pictura-Bio is creating a universal testing platform to provide accurate, digital imaging-based identification of infectious disease

Using proteins to catalyse the proteomics revolution. Drive breakthroughs in health and biology, and accelerate drug development timelines.

Scarlet Therapeutics is developing a pioneering platform that generates novel red blood cell-based therapeutics (tRBCs) to potentially treat a wide range of diseases.

InferSens has developed a breakthrough AI-enabled flow and temperature sensor, addressing the high unmet need of automating manual Legionella Risk Monitoring – a regulation-driven global multi billion market. Their low cost, scalable solution enables reductions in manual water testing and flushing, saving cost, water, energy and CO2.

Hexigone Inhibitors manufactures high-performance corrosion inhibitors for the coatings industry. The smart, patented technology is used to completely replace existing inhibitors or co-blend with phosphate inhibitors for synergistic results. Intelli-ion® has won numerous awards and offers key sectors – such as energy, marine, aerospace – a sustainable solution to corrosion protection.

Bitrobius is the only platform that enables therapeutic genes to reach most of the cells in an affected tissue and will make gene therapy applicable to a wide variety of genetic diseases.

IsomAb is taking a different approach to identify, evaluate and develop isoform specific antibodies to treat disease where patients currently have limited or no treatment options.

CYJAX develops technologies to detect and analyse cyber threats worldwide, monitoring data from various sources like social media, the internet, and the darknet. Their platform uncovers threats to brands, technology infrastructure, and employees across sectors such as finance, law enforcement, healthcare, and more, empowering leaders to mitigate risks and safeguard their enterprises.

Aura is reinventing how funerals are planned and delivered with simple, direct cremations. Funerals are planned using Aura’s digital planning tools and are served anywhere in mainland GB. At a quarter of the price of an average funeral, customers arrange meaningful memorial or celebration of life services.

VyperCore is a processor startup delivering a new paradigm in data centre computing performance and security.

Interpac is disrupting the cardboard manufacturing industry by building a cold corrugation machine. The cold corrugation process means there’s no need for steam, which causes a drastic cut in the cost and equipment required to corrugate cardboard, without any compromise on quality. It is also more environmentally friendly.

Deep Planet are an Al company from Oxford, building a climate tech platform and starting with transforming the wine industry. They use satellite imagery, Al and 80,000 hectares of ground data to build their machine learning) model. Their customers – wine makers, farmers and grower associations are saving on logistics and productivity (yield, harvest dates) and sustainability (soil carbon, disease, fertilisers and irrigation). They are working with over
80 customers, and have 300 growers trialling in US, France and Australia.

The global composites market today is worth over $91B and its growth is being driven by both environmental concerns as well as defence. Plyable is ideally set to capitalise on this trend through its unique software enabled manufacturing marketplace that today serves the biggest names in aerospace, defence and automotive enabling them to bring lightweight composite solutions to market.

Oxford Space Systems’ vision is to become the global leader in deployable antennas for Space, providing effective solutions today for the space based services of the future. Oxford Space Systems offers a portfolio of antennas aimed at improving performance, maximising stowage efficiency and minimising mass.

Mirico provide best-in-class measurement of planet-harming emissions, using their unique laser sensors to gather high-quality data and their cloud analytics to provide actionable insights. Through this, they help owners of regulated energy infrastructure meet their sustainability goals, by quantifying their methane emissions and identifying the best route to mitigating them.

Oxford Innovation Finance is a specialist in providing growth and development capital for ambitious and innovative businesses.

Science Creates Ventures backs game-changing deep tech companies with investment and qualified mentorship. Our focus is on early-stage UK-based deep tech companies that want to improve healthcare, quality of life, and the environment around us.

With sustainability at its core, and in care of earth’s limited and finite resources, LIT is creating deployable technologies that will contribute and enable a more environmentally conscious future.

Low Impact Technologies Inc (LIT) proprietary Concentrated Solar Thermal technology creates cost effective, efficient ways to utilize the heat from the sun. To enable adoption of the Concentrated Solar Thermal technology it is imperative that the technologies are easily deployable as complete solutions.

We are a collective of entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists. A peer-to-peer community of action-oriented builders driving change in the world. Focusing on challenges facing industries central to our sustainable future