Jamie Macfarlane

Founder & CEO @CreatorFund

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

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: https://t.co/ItvF8Eqsgi

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

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.

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

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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@b_highmore Insightful stuff from a v. thoughtful investor.

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

1977 Sequoia investment memo for Apple. High valuation and questionable management.

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

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.

https://t.co/ViBrRRguTA

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

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.

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

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:

https://t.co/IenW8pzDlH

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

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: https://t.co/cd0zaQETjx

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

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?

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

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.

https://t.co/VeYDG2KSpR

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

Discussing my plateauing Strava pace with a 🇬🇧 legend @Founders_Forum

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

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. 😢

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

🇬🇧 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.

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

First @CreatorFund investment in the great city of Birmingham 🇬🇧. Awesome to visit the team at Nonvat developing industrial water generation solutions 💦 .

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

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

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

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.

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

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.

https://t.co/czrlZlv3TS

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

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: https://t.co/ykpjk6GL3U

[Jamie Macfarlane @MacfarlaneJamie]

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