Max Bautin

Managing Partner, co-founder

2006 - Current

IQCapital is a London/Cambridge based early stage deep-tech VC. We invest into 'deep tech' start-ups including Novel AI, confidential computing/cyber, tech-bio/syn-bio as well as hardware-driven innovation with next gen computing/ interfaces, new energy, robotics and space tech. UK and EU focus. IQ Capital has over $1B assets under management, including our latest $200m early stage fund, and is actively looking for new investment opportunities.

Member

2012

Cambridge Angels is a syndicate of highly successful tech entrepreneurs investing in deep tech start-ups. CA have backed some of the most successful tech companies in Cambridge and broader UK, several of which reached multi-$bn exits. Investments typically of £100k-£2m.

Board Member

2016

Cloud-native core banking system. First institutional investor, led pre-seed, seed/A and participated in every round since, with c £50m invested by IQC over life. Amazing journey with Paul Taylor, with a few bumps and challenges helping from seed to now scale up with a number of large banks and fintechs as customers.

Board Member

2020

AccelerComm is a semiconductor IP-core company that provides channel coding solutions for communication standards for 5G, Satellites, Drones etc. Its innovative turbo coding technology enables 10X throughput and 10X latency improvement over existing products. Led Ser A round.

Board Member

2019

Re-engineered the mortgage process using AI.. leading to legally binding offers within 24 hours. Co-led seed round, supported follow-on into Ser B and beyond.

Board Member

2021

Improving human performance by making experiential training affordable and accessible for everyone... using XR, artificial intelligence, gamification tech and decades of data

Treasurer

2023 - 2024

Audit & Finance Committee Member

2019 - 2024

Board Member

2019 - 2024

Invest Europe (ex EVCA) is the world’s largest association of private capital providers and investors. It represents Europe’s venture capital, private equity and infrastructure investment firms, as well as their investors, including some of Europe’s largest pension funds, insurers and family offices, with over 60% of EU managers as members and collectively over $1 trillion AUM.

VC Council Member

2015 - 2024

InvestEurope (EVCA) VC Council is the governing body for the association of European VCs.

Board Member

2015 - 2023

Led seed and Ser A round. Fluidic is proteomics / interactomics company revolutionising our understanding of disease by developing devices that enable easier, faster, more convenient and more accurate protein characterisation and protein-to-protein interactions, in near real time, in native environments.

Steering Committee Member

2019 - 2023

Since 1999, CUE has been supporting and accelerating entrepreneurship and providing grants and training for hundreds of students, staff and alumni at the University of Cambridge.

Board Member

2018 - 2023

An InsurTech company that developed Quest, an integrated behavioural analytics toolset, with multiple integrated IoT feeds, for the commercial insurance market. Quest applies ML techniques to live data to massively improve the pricing and loss ratios for insurers through superior risk pooling, real time management of loss and predictive risk & claim management. Sold to Applied Underwriters.