Ahren Innovation Capital, co-founded by eight Cambridge, UK, researchers, has reached its final close, having attracted limited partners including Unilever, Sky and Aviva.

Ahren Innovation Capital, a UK-based investment firm co-founded by eight scientists from the Cambridge, UK ecosystem, yesterday closed its inaugural vehicle at more than £200m ($250m) with limited partners (LPs) including consumer goods conglomerate Unilever.
Mass media corporation Sky also backed the fund, as did individual investors André Desmarais, deputy chairman, president and co-chief executive of financial services group Power Corporation, and Peruvian billionaire businessman Carlos Rodriquez-Pastor.
Insurance provider Aviva had backed the initial $129m close in…