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Delighted to welcome Molyon to the IQ Capital portfolio, co-leading their first funding round with Plural! Ismail Sami, Zhuangnan, and Prof. Chhowalla's breakthrough cathode technology allows sulphur to remain stable and provide high energy density over hundreds of cycles—revolutionising the lithium-sulphur battery field. This is based on 15 years of materials science research in the Chhowalla Group at the University of Cambridge and enables lithium-sulphur batteries to be designed and scaled safely. With demonstrated pouch cell energy density of 500 Wh/kg — over 2x typical Li+ — Molyon will unlock battery markets in drones, robotics, EVs, and storage, and they’re just getting started on performance. Further, Molyon's batteries use readily available and environmentally friendly materials, breaking the Li+ dependence on rare earth metals including nickel, manganese, and cobalt. It’s been fantastic to see the speed this team operates at during their progression out of the lab, and it's a pleasure to continue working with Sai Shivareddy. Congratulations to the whole Molyon crew! More details here: https://lnkd.in/egu2f92g Jordan Billiald Jonno Evans OBE Max Bautin

We are thrilled to announce our investment in Trogenix as they emerge from stealth! Trogenix has developed a novel approach to tackle difficult-to-treat cancers, including glioblastoma, liver, lung, and colorectal cancers, with their Synthetic Super-Enhancer (SSE) platform, Odysseus. Their preclinical research demonstrates potential to selectively target aggressive cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue. It has been a pleasure to work with Steve Pollard, Ken Macnamara, and the Trogenix team on their journey so far, and we’re excited to support them as they develop this ambitious platform. Congratulations to the entire team - this is just the beginning! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ePrWj3wt

Congratulations to three extraordinary founders and scientists Michelle Lu, Ariane C. Gomes and Carmen Palacios-Berraquero on being recognised in the Founders Forum Group's 100 Women Founders to Watch report! We are so proud to partner with you. The report spotlights 100 exceptional women founders from three key markets—UK & Europe, the US and Southeast Asia—who are driving innovation across 20+ industries, from femtech to space tech. Collectively, these founders have raised over $1.1 billion. The report explores ways to increase representation and direct more investor capital towards women founders. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/eaN_D6Jb

Great to see Opteran recognised for having developed the breakthrough technology for autonomous navigation. David Rajan and the team's execution in such a broad range of challenging domains is always impressive!

This week, Kerry Baldwin joined Gavin Winbanks on his podcast, "Something Worthy", to discuss the evolving world of deep tech and venture capital. In this episode, they discussed: ➡ The founding vision behind IQ Capital and how we support groundbreaking deep tech companies ➡ The key role that venture capital plays in bringing breakthrough innovations to market ➡ The importance of directing pension fund investments into UK innovation and deep tech, as part of the BVCA’s Mansion House Reforms ➡ What advice Kerry would give to the government to encourage more investment and how our sector can demonstrate its value to society. A thought-provoking conversation with Gavin, offering insights on shaping the future of UK science and innovation through impactful investment! Listen here for insights into the intersection of finance, innovation, and societal value: https://lnkd.in/eBr22ngs #SomethingWorthy #DeepTech #VentureCapital #Investing #Innovation #BVCA #ImpactInvesting #PensionFunds

Outstanding progress in bringing quantum sensing to the global semiconductor industry. Congratulations to Kevin Berghoff, Fleming Bruckmaier, and the whole team at QuantumDiamonds on the launch of their first product.

The coming wave of embodied AI will be enabled by next-generation simulation and control software. Vsim 's technology is already enabling orders-of-magnitude performance increases in simulation and training RL policies. It has been great working with Concept Ventures, Koro Capital and Carles Reina since the pre-seed last year and we're thrilled to now welcome EQT Ventures, Factorial Funds, Samsung Next, Tru Arrow Partners and Xora Innovation to the team. Congratulations to Michelle Lu and Kier Storey! We’re excited to see you execute on your vision for a broader embodied AI platform. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ge64uFQy

Catch Chris Magazzeni at this week's Resilience Conference, where he'll be moderating the Space panel alongside Blythe Crawford CBE, Ash Sharma, and Jeff Crusey. Reach out to Chris if attending!

We're looking forward to joining the ML4LMS Workshop @ [ICML] Int'l Conference on Machine Learning 2024 and awarding a prize for the most commercially exciting research from among the accepted papers. Drop us a message if you're going to be there in Vienna this summer: www.ml4lms.bio Alex Wilson Kushaal Desai Ed Stacey Jonno Evans OBE Bruno Trentini Charlie Harris

🚀 IQC x Nucleate UK Event: Next Generation Sequencing Technologies 🚀 We are delighted to continue our support for Nucleate UK as they pursue their mission to develop leading biotechnology companies across the country We hold a particular interest in companies that are pushing the boundaries of sequencing, as one of the integral tools in the modern biology stack. We are proud investors in fantastic UK-based companies such as Wobble Genomics and Tagomics (whose CTO Debora Lucarelli will be speaking at this event). Get your tickets here: https://lu.ma/xfa8h525