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    Old College Capital

    Edinburgh, United KingdomFounded 2011
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    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.

    They made 1 investments in the last 12 months. Average disclosed round size is $5.5M (across 5 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    16

    Fund Size

    —

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    3

    Team

    DA

    Dougal Adamson

    Senior Investment Manager

    EW

    Ellasaid Woodhouse

    Investment Manager

    HD

    Hannah Dent

    Investment Executive

    JH

    Jack Howley

    Investment Executive

    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

    16 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Exergy3 logoExergy3Seed—Apr 2026
    Verbaflo logoVerbafloSeed$7MJan 2026
    BBiolibertySeries A—Jan 2026
    Prothea logoProtheaSeries A—Apr 2024
    CConcinnity GeneticsSeed—Jan 2024
    Shot Scope Technologies logoShot Scope TechnologiesUnknown$8.5MJan 2022
    CCarcinotechPre-Seed—Jan 2021
    Invizius logoInviziusSeries A—Apr 2018
    MiAlgae logoMiAlgaeUnknown——
    NetAI logoNetAIPre-Seed$1M—
    Forth Therapeutics logoForth TherapeuticsUnknown——
    MMocean EnergyUnknown——
    Carbogenics logoCarbogenicsSeries A$3M—
    Alveogene logoAlveogeneSeed——
    Neuranics logoNeuranicsSeed$8M—
    DDanu RoboticsPre-Seed——

    Top Co-Investors

    Eos Advisory3 shared
    Techstart Ventures2 shared
    Scottish Investment Bank2 shared
    Axeleo Capital1 shared
    Bayern Kapital1 shared
    Zero Carbon Capital1 shared
    Kibo Invest1 shared
    Ascension Ventures1 shared
    Rabo Investments1 shared
    Rabobank1 shared
    Clay Capital1 shared
    Nauta Capital1 shared
    Founders Factory1 shared
    Earlybird Venture Capital1 shared
    NRW.BANK1 shared
    Sofinnova Partners1 shared
    Crowdcube1 shared
    Pi Labs1 shared
    Mercia1 shared
    Calculus Capital1 shared

    Last updated: 8 September 2026