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What does IQ Capital invest in?
IQ Capital invests most often at Series A and Seed (57% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Bioimaging, Deeptech and Nanotech.
IQ Capital highlights
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41 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series A and Seed: 57% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 13 rounds, median $3.5M
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2 exits from the portfolio
What they do
We are a dedicated deep tech venture capital firm.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $700K – $14M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- BioimagingDeeptechNanotech
- Based in
- London, United Kingdom
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first165 appearances
- 2026
34 rounds
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- 2025
33 rounds
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An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration2 named
KKKatja Kristiina WaringdirectoriCompany registersince 2022
OFOliver Frank Howard WaringdirectoriCompany registersince 2022
We also hold 26 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the UK company register, which it must file accurately by law
5+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
- Companies House
- 14178557, since 2022
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in IQ Capital's funds
- Funds
- 1
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: an LP list.
KPN Ventures1 fundFund Vintage Committed IQ Capital - -
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 1 we have independently watched raise
Media assets
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed2 in all
Spectral EdgeBought by AppleUndisclosedDec 2019
NeulBought by Huawei Technologies$25MSept 2014
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.