Cambridge Enterprise Ventures seed investment
Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds
Status not published
Rolling. Cambridge Enterprise assesses opportunities continuously, with investment committees held regularly.
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%.
Cambridge Enterprise Ltd, University of Cambridge
public · city
Deadline: rolling — Rolling. Cambridge Enterprise assesses opportunities continuously, with investment committees held regularly.
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.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Sectors: deeptech, health, ai, climate
- Stage: pre_seed, seed
- Locally registered entity required
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.
Source. https://www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk/ — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked