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IQ Capital
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
IQ Capital is a European deep tech venture capital firm that has partnered with deep tech founders since 2005. It leads investment rounds and supports companies through to acquisition by larger technology companies.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsdeep techb2bfrontier technologyenergycomputationbiology
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Or find every investor that fitsIQ Capital lists 59 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 24 funding rounds, 9 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 52% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (32%), Healthcare & Biotech (19%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (12%). 75% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Martlet Capital, EMV Capital and Seedcamp.
Counts come from funding rounds that name IQ Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not IQ Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 23 companies; its own site lists 59. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 26% |
| Series A | 52% |
| Series B | 4% |
| Growth | 17% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 1 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 1 |
| '25 | 9 | 3 |
| '26 | 12 | 5 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 87th | 57 companies |
| Recent activity | 97th | 13 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 60th | 26% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 98th | 37% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 56th | 32% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 32% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 19% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 12% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 8% | 4% |
| Fintech | 8% | 12% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 5% | 8% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 5% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Martlet Capital | 6 |
| EMV Capital | 5 |
| Seedcamp | 5 |
| Mercia Ventures | 4 |
| AlbionVC | 3 |
| BGF | 3 |
| East X Ventures | 3 |
| Expeditions | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers59100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare IQ Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with IQ Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Oct 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 12 Aug 2026 | Series A | |
| 27 Jul 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 9 Jul 2026 | Series A | |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 27 May 2026 | Series A | |
| 21 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 6 May 2026 | Series C+ |
Round details for IQ Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in IQ Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
59 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AccelerComm delivers high-performance, error-resilient physical layer solutions for 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN). | Space & DefenseCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and provides AI-powered software for engineering, including tools for converting 2D drawings to 3D CAD and thermomechanical simulation. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| AiM Medical Robotics is a neurosurgical robotics company that is working to bring high levels of precision, automation, and efficiency, to the complex environment of neurosurgery. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Alpine Eagle provides scalable defence capabilities against autonomous threats | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Baseimmune is pioneering the next generation of active immunotherapies by combining cutting-edge computational design with advanced protein engineering. | Healthcare & Biotech | Feb 2024Series A | Page + round | |
| Boltzbit builds artificial general intelligence that learns from user data and adapts to their needs | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Cambridge GaN Devices develops and produces gallium nitride transistors and semiconductors | Industrial & Manufacturing | Feb 2025Series C+ | Page + round | |
| causaLens creates digital workers that automate knowledge work across systems and deploy them anywhere | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| CyberSmart provides cyber security products and services for SMEs | CybersecurityEducation | Feb 2023Series B | Page + round | |
| CybSafe provides a human risk management platform that uses AI to change security behaviors and prove the effectiveness of these changes. | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a decision engine platform for drug discovery using artificial intelligence and human expertise. | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Dreamfold develops generative AI models to unlock more effective therapies for cancer, immune diseases, and other serious conditions. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| FNA builds the core technology that safeguards and optimises the global financial system. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Focal Point provides a procurement orchestration platform for enterprises to automate and manage procurement activities | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Gravis Robotics retrofits construction machines with technology to augment existing crews for safer sites and increased productivity. | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Imandra enables AI to understand, verify, and justify the real behavior of the systems it builds and runs | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company delivers improved and production-ready enzyme designs by rapidly retraining problem-specific AI models with real world data. | Healthcare & Biotech | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company analyzes the immune system in high definition to help predict its behavior | Healthcare & Biotech | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| IONATE develops and manufactures hybrid intelligent transformers for power systems, including data centers and grids. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- iqcapital.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 29 Nov 2021
- Companies checked
- 59
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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