About Deeptech Labs
Deeptech Labs is a venture capital firm founded in 2020. It is primarily based out of Cambridge, United Kingdom. As of Oct 2025, Deeptech Labs is an active investor, having invested in 24 companies, with 1 new investment in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in United Kingdom based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from High Tech to Enterprise Applications and Environment Tech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of HTMS A lot of funds co-invest with Deeptech Labs, with names like University of Cambridge sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Deeptech Labs has team of 18 people including 5 partners.Key Metrics
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Deeptech Labs' List of Top Investments
Deeptech Labs has a portfolio of 24 companies. Their most notable investments are in Mind Tech and Perceptual Robotics.Their portfolio spans across United Kingdom, Germany, Israel and 3 more locations. They have invested in High Tech, Enterprise Applications, Environment Tech and 16 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by Deeptech Labs:
1. Nu Quantum
Developer of photonic quantum networking hardware that enables modular quantum computers to communicate through high-fidelity optical interconnects. Its networking units generate, distribute, and manage photonic entanglement to connect multiple quantum processing units (QPUs) over optical links. The company's technology enables distributed, modular quantum computing architectures and forms a key building block for future quantum data centres and the quantum internet
Key facts about Nu Quantum
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Cambridge (United Kingdom)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $72.1M
- Employee Count: 85 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: National Grid Partners, Start Capital and 20 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Dec 10, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
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2. Anaphite
Developer of dry coating precursor technology for battery electrode manufacturing. The technology facilitates dry material mixing and processing for battery manufacturers. It designs composite powders optimized for electrode film formation and electrochemical performance. The technology formulates powders containing active material, binder, and conductive additives. Powders are manufactured using scalable, energy-efficient chemical engineering approaches.
Key facts about Anaphite
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Bristol (United Kingdom)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $22.6M
- Employee Count: 47 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Maniv Mobility, University of Oxford and 79 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Dec 09, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Provider of autonomous drone inspections and AI-driven data processing for turbines. The company delivers actionable insights through autonomous drone technology and experienced UAV pilots. It offers data ingestion from various inspection methods for a complete overview. The company’s AI-driven data processing enables smarter maintenance decisions with damage detection and detailed reports.
Key facts about Perceptual Robotics
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Bristol (United Kingdom)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $8.21M
- Employee Count: 21 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Brookstreet Equity Partners, Ukri and 55 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jul 28, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Developer of optical circuit switches for artificial intelligence infrastructure networking. These switch chips address networking constraints, facilitating high bandwidth and low latency connectivity. The switches are designed for compatibility, reliability, and manufacturability. The company's optical switch enables all-optical networking between compute nodes. It allows for network resizing and provisioning with switch reconfiguration, flow routing, and synchronisation technologies.
Key facts about Salience Labs
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: Oxford (United Kingdom)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $45.3M
- Employee Count: 63 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Oxford Science Enterprises, Applied Materials and 11 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Dec 31, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. Xapien Tech
Online background verification platform for candidates. It enables users to look for individuals and the background information by browsing public records and databases. It also creates an aggregated report of social media profiles, and mugshots, featuring criminals and arrest records, etc. It automates online research that reads and analyzes information from online media, news articles, leak sites, corporate records, and more using artificial intelligence and natural language processing algorithms. The offering sectors include legal, finance, non profit, and education. It is a tool available on the subscription based pricing model.
Key facts about Xapien Tech
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: London (United Kingdom)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $18.1M
- Employee Count: 94 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: YFM Equity Partners, Founders Factory and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jul 17, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Deeptech Labs' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Deeptech Labs has invested in 24 companies over the last 5 years, with an average of 3 new investments annually in the last 5 years. In 2025, it made 1 investment. Its most recent first time investment was in HTMS and most recent follow-on round was in Perceptual Robotics.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2024 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2023 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
2022 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
2021 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
Deeptech Labs' Investments by Stage
Deeptech Labs has made 17 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $3.27M and 1 investment in Series A stage with an average round size of $5.5M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 17 |
Series A | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Deeptech Labs' Investments by Sector
Deeptech Labs has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the High Tech, Enterprise Applications, Semiconductors, Industrial Goods and Manufacturing and Vertical SaaS. Notably, it has invested in 23 Tech companies, 21 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 14 Software companies and at least 13 companies focusing on Tech hardware.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
High Tech | 9 |
Enterprise Applications | 7 |
Semiconductors | 7 |
Industrial Goods and Manufacturing | 3 |
Vertical SaaS | 3 |
Others | 21 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Deeptech Labs' Investments by Geography
Deeptech Labs has made most investments in United Kingdom (15), followed by Netherlands where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United Kingdom | 15 |
Netherlands | 1 |
Sweden | 1 |
Switzerland | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Deeptech Labs' recent investments
Deeptech Labs has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Deeptech Labs:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Oct 08, 2025 | United Kingdom | Seed | 9771 | ||
Nov 18, 2024 | United Kingdom | Seed | 5475 | [+3] | |
Jun 05, 2024 | Switzerland | Series A | 9317 | [+7] | |
Apr 04, 2024 | United Kingdom | Seed | 3624 | ||
Nov 03, 2023 | United Kingdom | Seed | 7535 | [+8] |
Team profile of Deeptech Labs
Deeptech Labs has a team of 18 members including 5 Partners and 1 Principal located in United Kingdom. Deeptech Labs' team sits on the board of 1 company.Here is a list of top team members in Deeptech Labs:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | - | - | ||
Partner | Cambridge | |||
Partner | Cambridge | - | ||
Partner | - | - | - | |
Partner | London | - | - | |
Principal | London | - |
Co-investors of Deeptech Labs
Over the past 5 years, 138 investors have co-invested in Deeptech Labs's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Deeptech Labs: Syndicate Room, Ukri and 37 others have invested in rounds before Deeptech Labs. There are 3 companies where Syndicate Room has invested before Deeptech Labs and 2 companies where Ukri has invested before Deeptech Labs.
- Top Co-investors of Deeptech Labs: 56 investors entered a company along with Deeptech Labs. These include investors like University of Cambridge (4 companies).
- Invested after Deeptech Labs: A total of 43 investors have invested in Deeptech Labs's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Ukri (3 companies), Gov (2 companies) and National Grid Partners (1 company).
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OctaiPipe raises £3.5M in Pre-Series A funding for edge AI platformTech.eu•Jan 23, 2024•OctaiPipe, Ukri, SuperSeed, Forward Partners and 4 others
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Nu Quantum raises GBP 7 million to develop quantum networking techTelecompaper•Nov 03, 2023•Nu Quantum, Amadeus Capital, Expeditions Fund, IQ Capital and 8 others
