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Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie

Founder & CEO @CreatorFund

Joined September 2011
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We have raised the world's largest student VC of its kind. Because we believe the defining 🇬🇧 and 🇪🇺 companies of the next decade will be built by Scientific Founders who operate on the edge of human knowledge. @CreatorFund in @ObserverUK shorturl.at/aNnQy
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Robots lack data to operate reliably in the natural world. We've backed LatentWorlds from @tudelft to allow robots to reliably capture from the edge. Full story of our second Dutch 🇳🇱🇳🇱 deal here @CreatorFund: youtube.com/watch?v=2Xtin60O…
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We think that when the world's best technical talent comes to 🇬🇧🇪🇺 universities to study. And has done so for centuries. Our single best route of staying ahead in the 🌍 is to harness that talent to found Deep Tech companies. @CreatorFund.
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One of the best parts of Deep Tech investing is playing with our founders products for the first time. This is one of the world's most advanced lenses - keeping the object always in focus - no matter how bad your eyesight. Trialling in a pub in Cambridge with @allfocaloptics.
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1977 Sequoia investment memo for Apple. High valuation and questionable management.
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Major shift from Innovate UK to funnel money into fewer 🇬🇧 Deep Tech winners. And stop spray and pray small cheques. This is an overdue shift. 🇩🇪🇫🇷use grants much better than we do to create National Champions. digit.fyi/innovate-uk-launch…

Innovate UK Launches New Strategy for Deep Tech Business Support

Innovate UK has announced a new approach aiming to back the nation's most promising deep tech businesses and startups

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Love to see a Glaswegian company raising a $50 million round led by @insightpartners. On the banks of the Clyde 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, the pioneering chemist @leecronin has built the first autonomous chemistry laboratory with @ChemifyX . Series B announced today. Proudly backed by @CreatorFund.
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Excited to announce the $41 million early close of our new fund. @CreatorFund backs the most ambitious PhD Founders across Europe. Scientific discovery out of universities is 🇬🇧🇪🇺most powerful asset for startup creation: techfundingnews.com/uk-based…

UK-based Creator Fund raises $41M to back Europe’s deep tech PhD founders — TFN

Creator Fund dedicated to supporting PhD founders has announced a $41 million raise for its first European institutional fund.

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Team at @apianhealth_ planning to expand to 12 hospitals across London 🔥✈️. Other than happy patients & doctors, hardly anyone in world's busiest city has noticed dozens of daily flights over Southwark since start of year: telegraph.co.uk/business/202…

NHS drones to fly over Kensington Palace and Hyde Park

Plans for more frequent flights would make autonomous vehicles a frequent sight over the capital

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Get rid of the physically mailed activation code that gets lost / takes weeks to arrive… before you can pay tax online. Has anyone at @HMRCgovuk tried their own systems?
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21,000 square foot... £12 mm... world leading automated factory for chemistry opens today. And best of all - based in the heart of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Love seeing Scottish innovation from the inimitable @leecronin @ChemifyX. uk.news.yahoo.com/lab-aiming…
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Discussing my plateauing Strava pace with a 🇬🇧 legend @Founders_Forum
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Why as a UK company do I have a different #⃣Company Number, #⃣Corporate Tax Number, #⃣VAT Number, #⃣ PAYE Number, #⃣(physically mailed) Activation Code to pay taxes online... Government makes it so hard to actually pay it. 😢
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🇬🇧 needs to be careful with clamping down on how long (genuine) foreign students can stay post studying. 74% of our 🇬🇧 companies have an immigrant founder. World's best come to 🇬🇧 to do a PhD... let them stay, build, and create jobs.
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First @CreatorFund investment in the great city of Birmingham 🇬🇧. Awesome to visit the team at Nonvat developing industrial water generation solutions 💦 .
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Great to see @Malted_AI 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @iain_with_2is going to meet Keir Starmer today to tell PM not to forget AI innovation outside of London. At @CreatorFund, Central Belt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is where we see strongest AI startups outside of Golden Triangle. In @thetimes
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Great story for 🇬🇧 tech. Army Major Will Blyth sees in the field a need to build software to connect military robots. Founds @AronditeTech (tapping another great 🇬🇧 institution @UniofOxford for talent). And today raises $12mm seed @IndexVentures. Proudly backed by @CreatorFund.
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Excited to announce the £4mm seed round & launch of @OvoLabsGmbH 🥚🚀. Brings together world leading 🇬🇧🇩🇪 scientists to address the reasons why it becomes harder to get pregnant as women get older. Led by @MissMeiosis, @SchuhLab and @yagensky. techfundingnews.com/rewritin…

Rewriting reproduction: London-based Ovo Labs lands £4M to extend women’s fertility window — TFN

UK-based biotech startup Ovo Labs has launched with £4 million seed funding. The round was co-led by Creator Fund and LocalGlobe.

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Testing drugs on millions of animals is something humanity will look back on & ask "How could we have done that?" 90% of drugs fail on humans post animal trial. Animals undergo huge suffering. Tech offers better solutions, good to see regulators catch up: edition.cnn.com/2025/04/10/h…

FDA says it will phase out animal testing requirement for monoclonal antibodies and drugs | CNN

The US Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will be phasing out a requirement that monoclonal antibodies and other drugs be tested on animals, saying in a news release that there...

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Today we are delighted to announce the sale of Loci to @EpicGames in a great result for investors & founders. Loci was born out of a @Cambridge_Uni computer science thesis & grew to become a leading solution for searching 3D assets. Proudly backed from the start by @CreatorFund
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