Publicly backed UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) is expanding its patient capital fund by £37m to support spinouts in fields like synthetic biology, fusion energy and defence.
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July 25, 2022
UKI2S gets £37m top up to support British energy, defence, biology spinouts
The fund has 52 active portfolio companies that have attracted over £730m of later stage investment
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