Andrew Williamson

Chair, Venture Capital Committee

2021 - Current

Managing Partner

2019

Cambridge Innovation Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in intellectual property rich companies from the University of Cambridge and the wider research and business community around the Cambridge region, known as the Cambridge Cluster. As Managing Partner I oversee the funds' investment strategy and manage our relationships with shareholders, limited partners and strategic partners.

Investment Director

2016 - 2019

Partner

2014 - 2016

True North Venture Partners invests in and supports early stage businesses that have the potential to transform global industries. We focus on industries such as energy, materials, water, agriculture and waste, where the need for disruptive innovation is great. I focused on identifying disruptive technologies in the energy and materials sectors and assisting entrepreneurs in creating rapidly scalable, global businesses based on those technologies.

Managing Director

2007 - 2016

At Physic Ventures I led the fund's investments in the field of Sustainability. Physic's Sustainability investments spanned the fields of materials, energy, water and big data. I led the following investments at Physic Ventures; Novomer, EnergyHub, Gazelle,WaterSmart Software, Recyclebank, Impinj and Chromatin.

Managing Director

2012 - 2014

MalibuIQ is an investment fund co-located with HRL Laboratories in Malibu, CA. The MalibuIQ team combines scientists and engineers with investors and entrepreneurs to commercialize technology in the fields of materials science, microelectronics, electromagnetics and information sciences. MalibuIQ has established a partnership with HRL Laboratories to commercialize HRL inventions originally developed for the defense, aerospace and automotive industries. This partnership combines the extensive intellectual property assets developed at HRL with the entrepreneurial business expertise at MalibuIQ and a pool of committed private capital to rapidly advance these disruptive technologies into new markets. While at MalibuIQ I worked on the commercialization of technologies that became MalibuIQ portfolio companies; Architected Materials, Inc., Mission Microwave, Inc., Malibu Integrated Circuits, LLC, and Navitas Semiconductor, Inc..

Project Leader

2000 - 2007

Project leader of a materials science research group focused on materials for clean energy and technology.

Research Fellow

1996 - 2000

I worked on in-silico design of novel materials for synthesizing solar cells.