Old College Capital
edinburgh-innovations.ed.ac.uk Direct investor
Old College Capital is the University of Edinburgh's venture investment fund, managed within Edinburgh Innovations, the University's commercialisation service. It invests in early-stage startups and spinouts emerging from the University and holds a portfolio of over 100 companies.
Old College Capital is a public fund headquartered in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in deep-tech, biotechnology, energy and data and AI. 100 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest from pre-seed to Series A stages, to accelerate the journey of startups and spinouts looking to make a positive impact on people and our planet.”
— Old College Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Public fund
- Headquarters
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Sectors
- deep-tech, biotechnology, energy, data and AI, medical technologies, photonics, sustainability
- Portfolio
- 100 companies
Team, as Old College Capital publishes it
- Katharine Fox PhD Head of Investment
- Dougal Adamson Senior Investment Manager
- Ellasaid Woodhouse Investment Manager
- Hannah Dent Investment Executive
- Jack Howley Investment Executive
- Louis Marlow Investment Executive
- Zainab Qasim Portfolio and Platform Manager
- Hamish Mair Board Director and Advisor
- Dr Catherine Martin Vice-Principal Corporate Services, UoE
- Conrad Chin Tech Business Advisor
- Mary Gunn Board Director and Advisor
- Andrea Young OCC Director and Non-Profit Trustee
Names and roles exactly as listed on edinburgh-innovations.ed.ac.uk. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Old College Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://edinburgh-innovations.ed.ac.uk/venture-investmentname, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, description, portfolio_count, status
- https://edinburgh-innovations.ed.ac.uk/venture-investment/university-portfoliosectors
- https://edinburgh-innovations.ed.ac.uk/venture-investment/meet-the-occ-teampeople
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