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Old College Capital
Corporate VC · Edinburgh, United Kingdom · Europe
Old College Capital is the University of Edinburgh's venture investment fund, managing the university's early-stage investment activities and shareholdings. It is part of Edinburgh Innovations, the university's commercialisation service, and invests alongside founder and investor partners in companies emerging from the university.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsdeep techuniversity spinoutsbiotechnologyenergysustainabilitydata and ai
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Or find every investor that fitsOld College Capital lists 28 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 9 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 86% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (27%), AI & Machine Learning (18%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (16%). 75% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Scottish National Investment Bank, Eos and The Conduit Connect.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Old College 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 Old College Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 8 companies; its own site lists 28. 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 | 86% |
| Series A | 14% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 3 | 1 |
| '26 | 6 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 65th | 28 companies |
| Recent activity | 91th | 7 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 85th | 86% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 85th | 14% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 43th | 27% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 27% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 16% | 7% |
| Fintech | 9% | 12% |
| Education | 5% | 7% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 5% | 3% |
| Space & Defense | 2% | 3% |
| Climate & Energy | 2% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Scottish National Investment Bank | 4 |
| Eos | 3 |
| The Conduit Connect | 3 |
| Creator Fund | 2 |
| IQ Capital | 2 |
| Zero Carbon Capital | 2 |
| AlbionVC | 1 |
| Angel CoFund | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers28100%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Scottish National Investment Bank
Compare Old College 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 Old College Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Nov 2026 | Series A | |
| 19 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 21 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 9 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 12 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 17 Dec 2025 | Seed | |
| 9 Apr 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Old College Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Old College Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
28 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amiqus provides digital ID verification and client onboarding software | Legal & ComplianceFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aveni provides AI solutions for financial services, particularly for compliance and wealth management | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| BIOCAPTIVA develops and produces polymers for direct capture of nucleic acids from biological fluids | Healthcare & Biotech | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Bioliberty develops technology designed to support the sustainable delivery of high-repetition therapy for neurological recovery | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bioliberty develops technology designed to support the sustainable delivery of high-repetition therapy for neurological recovery | Healthcare & Biotech | Nov 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Blackford Analysis provides a platform for integrating and managing artificial intelligence applications in healthcare | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Carbogenics develops engineered biochar products to solve environmental challenges, including improving biogas production and supporting wastewater treatment | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Exergy3 develops and provides thermal energy storage solutions to decarbonize industrial processes | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Apr 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company turns CO2 into high value, carbon negative minerals. | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Dec 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Forth Therapeutics develops precision therapeutics that target the underlying mechanisms driving fibrosis. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| IONATE develops and manufactures hybrid intelligent transformers for power systems, including data centers and grids. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Javelo Health provides securement solutions for patients and healthcare providers to mitigate risks and improve care outcomes. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Krotos creates sound design software for creating sound effects | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Macomics develops therapies that direct macrophages to degrade large protein complexes that drive disease in tissue and circulation. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| MiAlgae produces fish-free, contaminant-free, DHA at scale using whisky by-products. | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| NetAI gives telecom, satcom, financial backbone, data centre, and energy networks real-time actionable insights to improve performance | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Neuranics develops custom semiconductor designs and AI-enabled hardware and software solutions for magnetic sensing using Tunneling Magnetoresistance (TMR) technology. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Apr 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| pureLiFi develops and provides LiFi technology and products for wireless communications through light. | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Resolution Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing regenerative macrophage therapies to transform outcomes for people with inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Rhizocore Technologies produces locally-adapted mycorrhizal fungi to enhance tree planting success. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- ed.ac.uk
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Jan 2025
- Companies checked
- 28
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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