Our Investors

Founded in Cambridge in 2007, IQ Capital is a dedicated European deep  tech venture capital firm. With $1 billion in assets under management  across its venture and growth funds, IQ Capital has partnered with over  200 deep tech founders since its founding, backing IP-rich breakthrough  technologies from Seed and Series A through to global scale. Portfolio  exits include acquisitions by Apple, Google, Meta, and Oracle.

Founded by Bruce Beckloff and David Leftley - veterans of ARM and  Vodafone respectively - Bloc is a specialist deep tech investor and  permanent capital company backing ambitious entrepreneurs in cloud,  connectivity, data science, and security. With over £500m invested in  deep tech startups across their careers and exits totalling more than $6 billion, the Bloc team brings deep operational and technology expertise alongside their capital.

IP Group works closely with partner universities to evolve breakthrough  research into world-changing businesses. As one of the UK's most active  science and deep tech investors, IP Group has a long track record of  building companies from their earliest stages, with a particular focus  on IP-rich technologies emerging from leading research institutions.

Parkwalk is the UK's largest growth EIS fund manager, backing  world-changing technologies emerging from the country's leading  universities and research institutions. It manages enterprise and  innovation funds for the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Bristol and  Imperial College, and has invested in over 160 companies across its  funds, spanning life sciences, AI, quantum computing, cleantech, and  advanced engineering.

Swisscom Ventures is the venture capital arm of Swisscom, Switzerland's  leading telecommunications and ICT provider. Investing since 2007,  Swisscom Ventures backs technology companies at the intersection of  connectivity, digital infrastructure, and enterprise software, bringing  strategic value as well as capital to its portfolio companies.

Hostplus is one of Australia's largest industry superannuation funds, managing over $118 billion on behalf of 2.1 million members. As a long-term institutional investor in deep tech innovation, Hostplus has committed over $435 million to the IP Group Hostplus Innovation Fund, which backs high-potential technology companies emerging from leading research universities. Through this partnership with IP Group, Hostplus brings significant institutional depth and a mandate to support the transformative, IP-rich technology that companies like AccelerComm deliver.