Miles Kirby, former managing director at Qualcomm Ventures and Allianz's AV8 fund, has launched a UK-based accelerator and fund.
Miles Kirby, former managing director at Allianz-backed venture capital firm AV8, has set up DeepTech Labs as an accelerator and venture capital fund based in Cambridge, UK.
On his LinkedIn profile, Kirby said DeepTech would be focused on “building the world’s top deeptech companies utilising the unique academic and commercial capabilities offered by the Cambridge ecosystem”.
Until this summer, Kirby had run the UK side of AV8, with George Ugras, former head of IBM Ventures, as the US-based managing director…