Dr Ben Miles, Ph.D.’s Post

8 years ago, I finished my PhD As I stepped out into the ‘real world’ – I realised despite my (reasonably long by this point) scientific training – I was still missing the most important skill set, how to turn discovery into reality – a skill without which breakthrough languishes at publication 6 years ago, I was determined to rebuild the role of a scientist in society - to not just someone that discovers but also someone that implements that discovery First, I built Spin Up Science to introduce #PhDs and #Postdocs to entrepreneurship and innovation – we’ve now supported 4500 participants across 25 universities 4 years ago, when these academic teams asked for support to launch their companies, we built  Spin Up Ventures - our venture studio – that's now supported just over 200 ventures and directly cofounded 8, of which I’m immensely proud 3 years ago, when our deep science teams kept saying, “general investors are interested, they are waiting for a specialist investor to diligence our science” Johnathan Matlock and I, started Science Angel Syndicate, and united some of the most exceptional and passionate investors in scientific breakthroughs the UK has to offer Today, after we heard “we’re still waiting on a lead science investor” one too many times, we’re excited to announce Empirical Ventures – our first S/EIS fund and new home for all our activities - to lead deep tech investments into the best #deepscience founders at #preseed and #seed across the UK It’s been a long time in the making and we couldn’t have done it without the support of our fantastic team Claudia Fryer, Curran Kalha, Ph.D., Madeleine Nichols, PhD. Our exceptional Venture Partners Alexander Fink and Keith Lipman and all of our LPs in Fund 1. Thank you to all that are aligned with our vision and have supported us along the way. Thanks to the team at British Business Investments and British Business Bank Mark Barry and Luke W. for all the work you put in to helping us through the Regional Angel Fund process. Thanks to SFC Capital Partners Stephen Page, Marguerite Crossfield, Yosra El Hadri Aslah for your guidance and support getting the fund operational. Thanks to Hailey Eustace and Commplicated for supporting with this press release. Thank you to our partners Tom Turner at Abel + Imray and Marla Shapiro at HERMESA. We’ll be supporting capital investment into breakthrough science that links returns and positive impact for the world we live. If you want to know more get in touch or  you can read more here: https://lnkd.in/eiDSpHag #venture #venturecapital #investment #deeptech #deepscience #SEIS #EIS #preseed #seed *CAPITAL AT RISK. FOR PROFESSIONAL INVESTORS ONLY