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Cambridge Enterprise Ventures seed investment

Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds

Status

Status not published

Rolling. Cambridge Enterprise assesses opportunities continuously, with investment committees held regularly.

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Amount
Not published

GIVEN: seed and pre-seed equity investment into University of Cambridge spin-outs and student/alumni startups, usually alongside external co-investors. TAKEN: an equity stake, plus (for spin-outs licensing university IP) a separate founding stake under the university's spin-out policy. Ticket sizes are negotiated per deal and not published as a standard figure.

You must co-fund 0%.

Funder

Cambridge Enterprise Ltd, University of Cambridge

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Deadline: Open all year — Rolling. Cambridge Enterprise assesses opportunities continuously, with investment committees held regularly.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Company must have a University of Cambridge connection, typically as a spin-out based on university IP or a startup founded by Cambridge students, staff or recent alumni.

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Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk/ · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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