Old College Capital
Edinburgh, United KingdomFounded 2011
Old College Capital (OCC) is the University of Edinburgh's in-house venture investment fund, managing early-stage investment activities and shareholdings for spinouts, startups, and spin-ins emerging from the University. It invests across deep-tech sectors including advanced materials, biotechnology, energy, space technologies, and AI.
Average disclosed round size is $5.9M (across 10 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
27
Fund Size
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Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
1
Team
KF
Katharine Fox PhD
Head of Investment
ZQ
Zainab Qasim
Portfolio and Platform Manager
ET
Emily Thompson
Investment Executive
KF
Katharine Fox
Venture Capital Investor
LM
Louis Marlow
Deep-Tech Investor
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
34 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Exergy3 | Seed | — | Apr 2026 |
 Verbaflo | Seed | $7M | Jan 2026 |
 Bioliberty | Series A | — | Jan 2026 |
 Singular Photonics | Unknown | $2.1M | Jan 2026 |
 Bioliberty | Series A | $8.2M | Jan 2026 |
 Aveni | Growth | — | Jan 2026 |
| UuFraction8 Limited | Unknown | — | Feb 2025 |
| Singular Photonics | Unknown | — | Jan 2025 |
| PProthea Technologies | Series A | — | Apr 2024 |
 Concinnity Genetics | Seed | — | Jan 2024 |
| PProthea Technologies | Series A | — | Jan 2024 |
 Trogenix | Seed | — | Jan 2023 |
| KKrotos | Seed | — | Feb 2022 |
 MiAlgae | Series A | — | Jan 2022 |
 Shotscope | Unknown | $8.5M | Jan 2022 |
 Carcinotech | Pre-Seed | — | Jan 2021 |
| MiAlgae | Unknown | — | Jan 2020 |
 Invizius | Series A | — | Apr 2018 |
 pureLiFi | Seed | $18M | Jan 2015 |
 Net AI | Pre-Seed | $1M | — |
 Forth Therapeutics | Unknown | — | — |
| RRhizocore Technologies | Growth | — | — |
| MMocean Energy | Unknown | — | — |
 Carbogenics | Series A | $3M | — |
 AlveoGene | Seed | — | — |
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Top Co-Investors
Eos Advisory5 shared
IQ Capital4 shared
Zero Carbon Capital3 shared
Kibo Invest2 shared
Ascension Ventures2 shared
Hillhouse Investment2 shared
Foresight Ventures2 shared
Techstart Ventures2 shared
Earlybird Venture Capital2 shared
NRW.BANK2 shared
Mercia Asset Management2 shared
Calculus Capital2 shared
Cambridge Angels2 shared
Cycle Capital2 shared
In-Q-Tel2 shared
4BIO Capital2 shared
Cancer Research Horizons2 shared
Eli Lilly and Company2 shared
Last updated: 20 October 2026