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Cambridge Future Tech SPV

The Bradfield Centre, 184 Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB4 0GA, United Kingdom

Overview

Facilitating The Next Generation Of Deep Technology Innovation. Cambridge Future Tech is a venture builder for deep tech startups. We work with extraordinary human capital from source to turn fantastic inventions into commercially successful ventures, facilitating the next generation of Deep Tech Innovation. We have established a commercialisation engine building bleeding-edge ideas into successful High Growth Ventures. We take an active role, directly operating our portfolio ventures, acting as both co-founder and investor. We help founders and innovators establish a world-class team, with direct access to customers and investors through our network.

Total investments
1
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
1

Sector focus

  • Advanced Materials
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Neuroscience
  • Quantum Computing
  • Robotics
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Literal Labs

    Participated · Seed · Jun 2025

    Literal Labs develops logic-based AI models (inspired by the Tsetlin machine) that the company says are orders of magnitude faster, more energy-efficient, and more explainable than neural networks. Benchmarking cited in the article reports 54x faster inferencing and 52x less energy consumption than equivalent neural networks, and 250x faster performance than XGBoost on some tasks. The company was spun out of Newcastle University by Dr. Alex Yakovlev and Dr. Rishad Shafik and is headquartered in Newcastle, England. Noel Hurley, a former Arm VP, was appointed CEO in 2023; Leon Fedden joined as CTO and the team doubled headcount from 6 to 12 in 2024. Literal Labs targets EdgeAI customers that need to replace GPU-heavy models, operate in regulated/explainability-sensitive environments, or require more efficient models for battery-powered products. The company plans to bring its first commercial product to market later in 2025 and to grow its engineering team using the newly raised capital.

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