Finance

Increasing access to a range of funding mechanisms to support scale-up and translation.

Put world-leading, trusted and accessible healthcare and research data to work

Our progress so far:

  • New investment and talent into the ecosystem: ARIA, Automata, BioNtech, Novo Nordisk
  • Dedicated Investor Engagement Manager to facilitate relationships with global investors, hosting more than 20 USA venture capitalists
  • First UK investment by Flagship Pioneering of £50m into Quotient Therapeutics

What’s next?

  • Leverage government funding with charity, philanthropy and industrial partnerships, providing larger pools of seed and growth capital
  • Fill the gaps in current funding proposition by attracting new investors to the cluster and supporting investment of UK capital into life sciences
  • Increase commercial research and care delivery partnerships
  • Develop cross-institutional funding propositions for UK government, philanthropy, industry and venture capitalists

Key enabler:

100% accessibility of useable NHS data