We’re prepared to invest early and help build a commercial team and proposition around a technology to attract additional investment needed to get to market. But we have some specific criteria which have to be met as follows:
1. Projects and companies arising from the world-class research carried out in our Partner laboratories across the UK, including those at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (STFC), Porton Down (Dstl) and Babraham Institute (BBSRC). See the full list of Partners here OR
2. UK companies based at our partners’ national science and innovation campuses in Oxford, Cambridge, Warrington and Norwich. Read more about our partner campuses here, OR
3.Companies working in the field of synthetic biology:Synthetic biology is an exciting new discipline based on the design and engineering of biologically-based parts, novel devices and systems and the redesign of existing, natural biological systems. Companies must be based in the UK.
The Rainbow Seed Fund is independently managed by Dr Andrew Muir and Mark White at Midven.
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