IQ Capital Partners

About IQ Capital Partners

IQ Capital Partners is the UK's deepest deep-tech specialist venture capital firm with approximately $800 million (£630 million) of cumulative assets under management as of December 2024 across six funds (latest $400 million close in 2022 across Venture Fund V $200 million and Growth Fund II $200 million), headquartered in London with Cambridge presence. The firm was founded in 2005 and operates as a partner-owned FCA-authorised LLP with 20-year Cambridge ecosystem network heritage and 100 plus deep-tech founder backings including 1 unicorn (Thought Machine).

Investment thesis

IQ Capital deploys capital through six fund cycles (Venture Funds I-V plus Growth Fund I-II), targeting Pre-Seed through Series A venture capital with growth follow-on capacity up to $40 million via the Growth Fund. Sector focus spans intelligence and AI, energy, computation and quantum, biology and synbio, resilience and industrial innovation and frontier deep-tech themes. Geographic deployment is UK and European deep-tech anchored, drawing on the Cambridge ecosystem network. The 20-year Cambridge specialist heritage combines with platform infrastructure supporting 17 cumulative exits.

Recent activity

Recent realised exits include legal tech and SaaS (2025) plus prior-year exits across gaming and digital media and workflow software. Recent acquisitions include cybersecurity and AI reverse-engineering (June 2025), advanced manufacturing AI (recent) and quantum computing instrumentation (recent). The platform continues active deployment across the Venture and Growth fund vintages. Detailed buyer names and multiple data available on Pro at €29/month.