Catalysing the Founding of Impactful Companies
Our mission began in Cambridge, an academic and entrepreneurial powerhouse, central to key scientific discoveries, home to 125 Nobel prizes and the birth place of more unicorns than any other city in Europe. Even in leading hubs, there remains a wealth of untranslated breakthroughs, with impact ready to be unlocked. Actively unlocking entrepreneurial potential and helping to build paradigm-shifting companies.
Cambridge NeuroWorks
Cambridge NeuroWorks is designed to rocket-boost progress on a new generation of neuro-technologies designed to treat conditions such as depression, dementia, chronic pain, epilepsy and injuries to the nervous system. Vellos focuses on driving the next generation of founders to ideate and develop impactful neurotech companies.
Vellos and leading partners in Cambridge, including: Cambridge University Healthcare Partners, University of Cambridge, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridge Network, as activation partners of the UK governments Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA)
Fifty Years Partners with Deep Tech Founders
Vellos has joined forces with the venture firm Fifty Years to support founders using technology to solve the world’s biggest problems. The team at Fifty Years has backed over 100 deep tech startups from the earliest days and helped them raise over $4.5B. Companies like Solugen (carbon-negative chemicals, now a $2B company), Astranis (internet to billions of people viasatellites, now a $1.4B company), and Opentrons (low-cost lab robots, now a $1.8B company).
