Participated · Seed · Apr 2025

Ovo Labs is a London-based biotech developing a series of therapeutics that act on different molecular mechanisms related to egg cell division. Its programs aim to increase IVF success and potentially improve infertility treatments. The company was co-founded by Professor Melina Schuh, Dr Agata Zielinska and Dr Oleksandr Yagensky. Ovo Labs announced £4M in funding on April 28, 2025. It intends to use the funds to expand operations and its R&D efforts.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2025

Ignota Labs’ core product is SAFEPATH, a platform that applies deep learning, cheminformatics and bioinformatics to uncover the molecular and biological causes of drug toxicity and generate actionable fixes. The company focuses on identifying promising drug candidates abandoned for safety reasons—often 80–90% of the way to success—and re-engineering them to shorten development timelines and reduce costs. Ignota has in‑licensed a first-in-class metabolic health asset, resolved its safety concerns with SAFEPATH, and validated findings in rodent models. That asset is a PDE9A inhibitor the company plans to advance into early-stage clinical trials and which the company says could improve the lives of ~1.2 billion post‑menopausal women. Ignota’s approach targets a major industry problem—drug safety failures block over 56% of drugs from reaching patients—and aims to unlock multibillion-dollar value from rescued therapies. The company will use recent financing to expand its pipeline by acquiring additional distressed assets and progressing its lead program toward the clinic.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2024

tiun is a Zurich, Switzerland-based fintech startup that helps media providers attract, engage and convert younger audiences through alternative monetization models. The company offers a pay-for-what-you-use flow that lets users connect a preferred payment method (for example a digital wallet) to log in and pay on their favorite online services in a few clicks. This approach aims to lower entry barriers for younger consumers and increase platform engagement by eliminating the need to create new accounts or save payment details. tiun’s product focuses on frictionless payments and simplified access for media platforms’ users. The company plans to use the new capital to expand operations and accelerate development efforts. tiun was co-founded by Nikolaos Christoforakos, Sandro Zweig and Christian Heiduschke.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2024

Climate X provides a digital-twin platform that models climate risk for residential and commercial properties as well as road, rail and power infrastructure. The platform uses more than 500 trillion data points and a proprietary library of 1.5 billion assets and 44 million miles of infrastructure, with a Google Maps–like interface. Clients can view the effects of weather conditions, including extreme heat and flooding, over a 100-year time horizon and zoom to individual properties. The company already serves financial-services clients including Legal & General, CBRE and Virgin Money and assesses risk for clients with over $6.5 trillion in combined AUM. Founded by corporate risk veterans Lukky Ahmed and Kamil Kluza, Climate X is coming out of stealth. The startup plans to use new funding to expand in Europe, North America and APAC. It recently raised a fresh round of institutional capital to scale product and go-to-market efforts. Climate X's core product, Spectra, is an on-demand climate risk data analytics platform available via an online interface or API that delivers location-specific risk ratings and loss estimates for extreme weather events under multiple warming scenarios. Spectra is presented as a vertically integrated solution covering a comprehensive range of hazard types, achieving up to 95% performance accuracy and providing access to over one trillion data points tied to millions of UK locations. The platform is designed to help firms meet emerging regulatory disclosure requirements and to incorporate climate-related risks into pricing, investment and resilience planning. Climate X emphasizes a transparent ‘glass box’ approach to produce explainable insights for financial institutions and real-estate stakeholders. The company says it will use the new funding to service growing customer demand, expand the product offering and accelerate international expansion. To date Climate X has raised over £5.2M in total funding. Climate X is a London-based purpose-driven startup building climate intelligence data and analytics. The company combines physical risk models, remote sensing, a digital Earth twin and machine learning to project how extreme weather events linked to climate change could impact specific assets or locations up to 80 years into the future and to estimate impacts on asset values. It is building infrastructure to help tens of thousands of companies, governments and individuals assess climate risks and understand the data used to inform investments and business strategies. The solution is being designed to comply with incoming government climate-disclosure mandates and central bank requirements for scenario analysis and stress testing. Climate X was founded earlier this year; leadership highlighted in the article includes co-founder and CPO Kamil Kluza and CEO Lukky Ahmed. The company plans to release its final product to the UK market by the end of 2021 and pursue rapid international expansion in 2022; it has just completed a €1.3M pre-seed fundraising.

Led · Seed · Jul 2023

Space DOTs develops SKY-I, a software platform (backed by its own payload hardware) that generates proprietary in-orbit environmental data and fuses it with external sources for real-time attribution, nowcasting, and forecasting of orbital threats. The company owns both its hardware and software and says its decentralized software design improves resilience and scalability for future cislunar and multi-orbit operations. Space DOTs focuses on commercial and defense customers and on threats rather than only forecasting or space weather. The startup is already capturing data from its payload and plans additional data from future launches as it readies technology for upcoming space missions. Founder Bianca Cefalo launched the company in 2022 after decades in the industry, including work on NASA’s InSight mission and projects at Airbus Defence and Space. Financially, Space DOTs announced a $1.5M seed round and has now raised $3.2M in total. Space DOTS builds a smartphone-sized payload, the Barnacle DOT, that performs active testing of advanced materials in orbit and can rideshare on a variety of launchers. The Barnacle DOT is modular and scalable and is designed to reach any orbit, enabling testing beyond microgravity. The company has also developed an end-to-end logistical portal to accelerate on-orbit qualification of materials. Space DOTS says its solution reduces the time and expense of bringing materials for space technologies to market and intends to commercialise for the global space industry. The team is led by CEO Bianca Cefalo and CTO James Sheppard-Alden and is already working with customers including specialist materials supplier Goodfellow Cambridge. The company is based in London, UK and recently completed a pre-seed fundraise.